The University of Maine Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) project is a joint effort of Fogler Library and the Graduate School. Our goals are "to improve graduate education, increase sharing of knowledge, help universities build their information infrastructure, and extend the value of digital libraries," in keeping with those of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, a national initiative of which the University of Maine is a member.

This online collection features the final theses and dissertations approved by the Graduate School of the University of Maine.

For more information about finding additional theses and dissertations or obtaining copies of those not available electronically, see Fogler Library's Subject Guide on Theses & Dissertations.

Questions can also be directed to Fogler Library's Special Collections Department by phone at (207) 581-1686 or email at um.library.spc@maine.edu.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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[Re]Doing Christianity: An Ideological and Rhetorical Critique of The 700 Club and God's Politics, Sarita Joyce Field

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Hidden Wheel, Michael T. Fournier

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Land Use Planning and Vernal Pool Conservation in a Southern Maine Town, Robert Carlton Freeman

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Mechanical Processing of European Green Crab (Carcinus maenas), the Development of a Value-Added Product and the Use of Restructuring Additives to Increase the Functional Properties of Green Crab Patties, Joseph A. Galetti

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Multi-layer Micro Coils in Parylene for Wireless Biomedical Sensing, James Galipeau

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Distribution and Abundance of Fishes in Relation to Barriers: Implications for Monitoring Stream Recovery after Barrier Removal, Cory Gardner

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Late Spring and Summer Phytoplankton Community Dynamics on Georges Bank with Emphasis on Diatoms, Alexandrium SPP., and other Dinoflagellates, Rachel Gettings

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Postpartum Depression: Screening Practices in Rural Maine, Melissa Goodwin

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Multiscale Investigation of Random Heterogenous Media in Materials and Earth Sciences, Andrew J. Goupee

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Comparing the Reading Behaviors in Three Groups of First Grade Students - Students Who Discontinued from Reading Recovery, Students Who Did Not Discontinue from Reading Recovery, and Students Who Never Needed Reading Recovery, Sharon Greaney

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The Virtual World of Social Support: Communicating in Second Life, Sara Green-Hamann

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Effect of Soil Amendments on Pest Insects in Potatoes, Serena D. Gross

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Language and Area: Influences on Student Understanding of Integration, William Lloyd Hall

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Women Who Gather: An Investigation into the Meanings of Membership in Women's Small, Shared-Leadership Groups, Barbara R. Harvey

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Consumer Interest and Compost Substrate Management of Organic and Sustainable Plant, Matthew Ryan Hawkins

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An Experimental Design for Insurance Approved Equine-Assisted Therapies for Veterans with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Amy E. Hofmann

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Wild Turkey Foraging Behavior and Crop Depredation on Wild Blueberry Farms in Maine, Janice A. Huebner

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Utilization of Fish Oils for Omega-3 Fatty Acid Fortification of Soft Cheeses, Brianna H. Hughes

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Developing a Model for Bacterial Kidney Disease in the Zebrafish, Danio rerio, Veronica A. Hulbig

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Acquiring Research Access: Perspectives from Gatekeepers and Parents of Children with Anorexia Nervosa, Tamara Jo-Lynne Hunt

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The Removal of Wood Components from Hardwood by Hot Water, Rory Jara

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To Love What Is Easy, Amy Jirsa

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Dormancy and Dispersal in a Population Model with Correlated Landscape Disturbances, Andrew Bryant Johnson

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A Qualitative Analysis Exploring Explanatory Models of Aggression and Violence in a Small Cohort of Rural Psychiatrically Hospitalized Adolescents, Their Parents, and Selected Hospital Staff, Daniel C. Johnson

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Influences of Dissolved Organic Carbon, Iron, and Aluminum Photochemistry on Phosphorus Cycling in Fresh Surface Waters, Dustin J. Johnson

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Natural Selection and Its Interactions with Migration and Population Demography: Experiments in Wild Guppy Populations, Dylan Jones Weese

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Shuttling of Heterotrimeric G Proteins: Activity Dependent Pathways of Gα2 Subunit in Dictyostelium discoideum, Yusuke Kageyama

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The Narrative behind the Narrative, Sheridan Kelley

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Quality Assurance and Quality Control Methods for Resin Infusion, Jonathan E. Kenerson

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Higher-Order Physic for Modeling Ice Streams in Ice Sheets, Debra A. Kenneway

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Thin Liquid Film Behavior in a Printing Nip, Muddasir Khan

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Monitoring Vegetation Change by Using Remote Sensing: An Examination of Visitor-Induced Impact at Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park, Min Kook Kim

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Neurodevelopmental Vulnerability for Pedophilia: A Taxometric Investigation of Its Latent Structure, Matthew W. King

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Taxonomic and Population Status of the Clayton's Copper Butterfly (Lycaena dorcas claytoni), Emily Sarah Knurek

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The Relative Importance of Dietary Fiber and Whole Grain Label Claims for Consumers, Sarah R. Lash

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Not Quite "Every Bit the Fantasy": Sex and Consequences on Teen Television, Christina G. LeBlanc

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High Value Antioxidants from Softwood Bark and Foliage, Regan LeBlanc

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Framing a Killing: The Stuart Murder Hoax, the Boston News Media, and the Politics of Modern Racism, Brian Lepine

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The Impacts of a Large-Scale Offshore Wind Energy Project in Maine on the New England Wholesale Electricity Price, Catherine Lessard

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Is This England? Exploring National Identity in This Is England (2007), Anastasia Bernadette Lima

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Improving Parallel I/O Performance Using Interval I/O, Jeremy Logan

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Lignin-Based Carbon Fiber, Jie Luo

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The Setting of Water-Based Inks on Uncoated Substrates, Wing T. Luu

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The Effects of Client Disabled Appearance on Therapist Alliance Ratings, Heather L. MacDuffie

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Inside the Gap: Innovative Uses of Technology and Student Teachers, Maryellen Mahoney-O'Neil

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Genomic Characterization of Quinic Acid-Induced Responses and Their Potential Roles in the Expression of Hypovirulence in Rhizoctonia solani RHS 1AP, Harish Manmathan

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Interactions among Metamorphism, Deformation, and Chemical Transport Processes in High Strain Crustal Rocks, Jeffrey Hayden Marsh

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Assessing Sleep Quality in Young Adult College Students, Aged 18 - 24 in Relation to Quality of Life and Anthropometrics, Douglas Mathews

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A Monolithic Spiral Coil Acoustic Transduction Sensor for Chemical and Biological Analytes, Donald F. McCann

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The Perceived Needs of Maine Parents of Premature Children for Services and Supports: A Retrospective Longitudinal Study, Karen Boulos McPhee

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Oxidative Pretreatment of Spruce to Facilitate Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Polysaccharides, Dylan Montgomery

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Pimps, Pushers, and Politics, A Historical Examination of the Blaxploitation Genre from 1971-1976, Barry Morgan

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A Lattice Model for the Prediction of the Mechanical Properties of Certain Softwoods, Edwin Nagy

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Spatial Ecology and Compositional Management of American Beech and Sugar Maple Regeneration in Maine, Andrew S. Nelson

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The Palliative Role of Meritocracy in Women's Reaction to Impending Discrimination, Ellen E. Newell

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Diversions of Pleasure: Singing Slave Girls and the Politics of Music in the Early Islamic Courts (661-1000CE), Lisa Emily Nielson

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Forest Change and Cover Type Monitoring and Evaluation of Disturbance Influences in Maine: 2000 to 2007, Matthew David Noone

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Alteration of Nucleotide Excision Repair by Estrogens: Implications for Carcinogenesis, Emily Glynn Notch

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Seeking the "Mother of Exiles": A Cultural and Political History of American Refugee Policy in the Twentieth Century, Katherine M. O'Flaherty

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An Environmental Audit of the University of Maine Campus to Identify Supports for Healthful Lifestyles, Leslie Anne Ouellette

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Factors Related to High Ratings on the Implied Latent Trait of Incompetence in Maine Archival Competency Evaluations, Lindsay R. Owings

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Behavior of FRP-Coated Wood Panels under Dynamic Loading, Nicholas Jon Parlin

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Modeling and Characterization of Hollow and Concrete-Filled FRP Piles, Matthew R. Pellerin

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Spluttered Birds, Rachel Perry

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Search for the Other: National Geographic's Search of the Afghan Girl as Neocolonial Discourse, Shane Perry

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Measuring Strand Dynamics during Oriented Strand Composite Mat Formation, Spencer A. Perry

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Hedgehog Signaling and Laminin Play Unique and Synergistic Roles in Muscle Development, Matthew T. Peterson

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You Know Me Al(ger): The Evolution of American Culture through Baseball Fiction and Journalism, Scott D. Peterson

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Zebrafish MDA5 is Essential for a Vigorous Antiviral Response to Rhabdovirus Infection, Matthew J. Pietraszewski

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The Greenland Ice Sheet: Reconstruction under Modern-Day Conditions and Sensitivity to the North Atlantic Oscillation, Katherine A. Pingree

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Narrative and Expository Writing of Ninth Grade Students: The Relationship between Syntactic Complexity and Quality Ratings, Whitney Plourde

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Consumer Perception of Potato Health Benefits, Mallory A. Poole

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Prime Modulo and Pascals Triangle as Seen with Fractal Geometry, Matthew Potter

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A Numerical Solution Method for the Inverse Robotic Kinematics Problem Using Particle Swarm Optimization, Scott Prince

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Structural Behavior of Wood I-Joist/OSB Roof Panel Assemblies, Derek Gerard Rancourt

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Anaerobic Fermentation of Hemicellulose Present in Green Liquor and Hot Water Extracts to Carboxylic Acids, Rakhi Reddy Baddam

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Comparative Analysis of Putative Virulence Gene Expression in Two Rhizoctonia solani Pathosystems, Renee A. Rioux

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A Variation on Geometric Constructions, James Robertson

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Dependency of Neurotrophin Receptor-Interacting Melanoma Associated Antigen Protein in Bone Morphogenetic Protein-Mediated Apoptosis, Jennifer A. Rochira

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A Characterization of Maine Blueberry Growers in 2010, Anya Rose

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Mightier than the Pen: A Combination Framing Analysis of the Mission Accomplished Speech Coverage in Five Major Dailies, Joshua Gerry Sammer

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Five Modules on Immigration for Third-Year College Level and AP Spanish Classes: A Model for Other Languages and Multiculturalism, Maria D. Sandweiss

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Accelerometer Based Impact Localization and Scaling for Inflatable Space Structures, Kale W. Schrader

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Cripping the Workspace: Performing Physically Disabled Professional Identity in Personal Narrative, Julie-Ann Scott

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Have Some Self Respect!: A Critical Analysis of 30 Rock's Neoliberal Discourse, Eleanor Joyce Seitz

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Hydrologic Variability and Change in the New England Region, USA, Avirup Sen Gupta

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The Effects of Negative Social Processes on Depression and Friendship Quality in Adolescent Females, Agnieszka K. Serwik

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Detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 with Gold Nanoparticles Sandwich Hybridization Method, Jingjing Shen

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Effectiveness of Eco-marketing on Green Vehicle Purchase Behavior in Maine: A Nested-Logit Model Approach, Shyamani Dilantha Siriwardena

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The Symbiotic Relationship between the Judson Memorial Church and Postmodern Dance, Heinrick Jason Snyder

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Making the Theory Work: How the Spruce Run Association Used Radical Feminist Theory in Their Organizational Practice, 1972-1992, Margaret A. Solic

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Addressing the Age-Related Growth Decline in Red Spruce Productivity: Integrating Physiological and Genomic Approaches, Katherine J. Spencer

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Applying Cluster Analysis to Physics Education Research Data, R. Padraic Springuel

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Safety on Winter Roads: Adverse Winter Weather and Vehicle Crashes in Maine, Adam Stern

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Assessment of Factors Affecting Healthful Food Access for Low-Income Populations in Maine, Emily M. Stiles

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Applications of Network Theory to Frustrated Spin Systems and Transitions in Models of Disease Spread, Thomas E. Stone

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Game Theoretic Power Allocation for Sparsely Distributed Clusters of Wireless Sensor Networks, Robert A. Strauss

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Genetic Diversity, Micro Propagation, and Cold Hardiness of Ilex glabra (L.) A. Gray, Youping Sun

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Assessment of Benthic Flux of Dissolved Organic Carbon in Estuaries Using the Eddy Correlation Technique, Michael P. Swett

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Strain Rate-Dependent Behavior of Laminated Strand Lumber, William Donald Syron