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.
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Copyright Law Inadequacies in the Case of Digital Sampling: Adding Color to a Grey Area, Andre Sirois
Endocrine Disruption in Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) Exposed to Pesticides, Benjamin W. Spaulding
Field and Laboratory Evaluation of the Portable Falling Weight Deflectometer, Bryan Christopher Steinert
An Investigation of False Discovery Rates in Multiple Testing under Dependence, Hui Tao
Oxygen Delignification for Southern Softwood Kraft Pulps with High Lignin, Li Tao
High Temperature LGX Acoustic Wave Devices and Application for Gas Sensors, Jeremy Allan Thiele
Conflict Management Skills in Women who Work Outside Home and Homemakers, Sandra Caceres Tijerina
Assessing Selected Lifestyle Behaviors Indicative of General Health Status for University of Maine Cooperative Extension Employees, Andrea Urbanek
Climatic and Lithogenic Controls on Soil Organic Matter-Mineral Associations, Rota Wagai
Differences Among Athletes and Non-Athletes in Sex Role Orientation and Attitudes Towards Women: Comparing Results from 1982 and 2005, Marcus D. Walton
Age-related Trends in Red Spruce Needle Anatomy and their Relationship to Declining Productivity, Margaret H. Ward
Work Spillover and its Affects on Home Life, Kristina M. Wegner
Correlations between Arsenic in Maine Groundwater and Microbial Populations as Determined by Fluorescent In-Situ Hybridization, Jennifer M. Weldon
Fantasy and Imagination: Discovering the Threshold of Meaning, David Michael Westlake
Girls in the Woods: An Exploration of the Impact of a Wilderness Program on Adolescent Girls' Constructions of Femininity, Anja Whittington
Childhood Gender Nonconformity, Parent-Child Relationships, and the Development of Internalized Homophobia in Gay Men, Jeffrey A. Wickersham
Digital Vertical Aerial Camera System for High-resolution Site Inspections in Conservation Easment Monitoring, Kenton Williams
The Effects of Social Anxiety on the Development of Romantic Relationships in Adolescence, Karen R. Zeff
Hierarchies for Event-Based Modeling of Geographic Phenomena, Rui Zhang
Ecological Modeling of American Lobster (Homarus americanus) Population in the Gulf of Maine, Yuying Zhang
Enhanced Growth of the Scleractinian Coral Porites rus through Elevated Alkalinity, Craig John Zievis
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
MFK Fisher: Food and Feminist Identity, Diane F. Allen
Biology and Ecology of Larval Lobsters (Homarus americanus): Implications for Population Connectivity and Larval Transport, Eric R. Annis
Civil War Photographs Considered, Daniel Ashley
The Economic Impact and Importance of Microbusinesses to the New England Economy, Sibel Atasoy
Violence as (Masculinist) Epistemic Rhetoric: A Case for Memento, Robert Avery
Mercy and the Misericord in Late Medieval England, Paulette Elaine Barton
The Effects of Microprocessor Architecture on Speedup in Distrbuted Memory Supercomputers, Glen L. Beane
Assessing College Students' Mathematical Disposition, Richard W. Beveridge
Beauty in Bronzeville, Lori Bird
Is MWP 1A Real and Could It have Originated in the Northern Hemisphere in Response to Bolling Warming, Sean D. Birkel
Permeability of Base Material for Maine Roads, Michel Bouchedid
Quantitative and Qualitative Measures of Activity in Seasonal Affective Disorder, Nina E. Boulard
Radionuclide Fluxes in Glaciers and Seasonal Snowpack, Daniel James Breton
Associations Among Stress, Work Overload, Role Conflict, and Self-Efficacy in Maine Principals, Donald A. Buckingham
Exploring the Role of Public Awareness in Household Response to Hemlock Woolly Adelgid: An Averting Behavior Model, Brenna Shawn Byrne
A Data Model for Exploration of Temporal Virtual Reality Geographic Information Systems, Jorge Alberto Prado de Campos
Wetland and Nest Scale Habitat Use by the Four-toed Salamander (Hemidactylium scutatum) in Maine, and a Comparison of Survey Methods, Rebecca J. Chalmers
Late-Glacial Climate as Inferred fom Chironomid Assemblages in Lake Sediments from Aroostook County, Northeastern Maine, Geneva Erin Chase
Application of Numerical Model CGWAVE for Wave Prediction at Ponce de Leon Inlet, Florida, USA, Nishchey Chhabra
Application Development Using Client-Server Technology, Evan Chowdhury
Gloss Development of Spray-coated Systems, Aaron W. Clark
Was MtBE a Costly Mistake? The Evidence from Maine, Cecilia Merete Clavet
Environmental Conservation on Agricultural Working Land: Assessing Policy Alternatives Using a Spatially Heterogeneous Land Allocation Model, Kelly M. Cobourn
Energy Transfer and Optical Memory Studies of d10 Closed Shell Homo and Heterometallic Dicyanide Systems, Julie Clarissa F. Colis
Phosphorus Cycling in Maine Lakes: A Sedimentary Analysis, Kyle Marvin Coolidge
Landsat Spectral Analysis, Waveband Selection and Classification Accuracy Assessment of Coffee Plantation in Central America, Silvia Cordero-Sancho
Effect of Shear Rate and Mixing Time on Starch/Polyacrylamide Gels as Retention Aids, Benedict Cracolici
The Role of Right Intentions in Humanitarian Military Interventions, Jovana Davidovic
Behavior of Pile-Supported Integral Abutments at Bridge Sites with Shallow Bedrock, John Gordon DeLano
Continuous Digital Calibration of Pipelined A/D Converters, Alma Delić-Ibukić
Leaf Area Index - Relative Density Relationships in Even-Aged Abies Balsamea - Picea Rubens Stands in Maine, Robert Justin DeRose
Immigration Advertising and the Canadian Government's Policy for Prairie Development, 1896 to 1918, Laura A. Detre
Pressure Distribution and Transfer in Rolling Nips, Suresh K. Devisetti
Ion Channel Dynamics in Interneuron Models of the Cricket Cercal Sensory System, Carrie Elizabeth Diaz Eaton
A 200-year Sulfate Record from 16 Antarctic Ice Cores and Associations with Southern Ocean Sea Ice Extent, Daniel A. Dixon
Preparation and Support of Professional Counselors Who Work in Rural Settings, Deborah L. Drew
Discovering the Loire Castles: Where History, Art and Architecture Intermingle, Andrew Anthony Dumont
Self-Reported Field Dependent/Independent Characteristics in Immigrant Adult Learners, Jean A. Dyer
Aesthetic Values of Five Primary Wood Transporting Methods Common to Northern New England, Michael C. Eckley
Grobner Bases and an Algorithm to Find the Monomials of an Ideal, Thomas Enkosky
The Relationship between Cognitive Avoidance and Attentional Bias for Snake-Related Thoughts, Tamer I. Fawzy
Statistical Mechanics of Farey Fraction Spin Chain Models, Jan Fiala
Nesting Success as an Indicator of Habitat Quality for Forest Songbirds, Carol Rolfe Foss
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Natural Disturbance in Old-Growth Forests of Northern Maine, USA, Shawn Fraver
Estimating the Economic Recreational Value of Paracas National Reserve in Ica Peru: A Fair Fee Implementation Approach, Jaqueline Garcia-Yi
The Effects of Physical Activity on Bone Density in Adolescent Females, Beth Gluck
Experiences of the Stigmatized: Discrimination Likelihood, Stigma Consciousness, Attributions to Prejudice, Coping Strategies and Psychological Well-Being, Jeffrey A. Goodman
Measuring and Modeling Exposure from Environmental Radiation on Tidal Flats, Travis J. Gould
Relationships between Potential Rooting Depth, Tree Growth, and White Pine (Pinus Strobus L.) Decline in Southern Maine, Gregory Granger
Examining the Reversibility of Hypothyroidism and Developmental Changes in HYT/HYT Mice versus BALB/CBYJ Euthyroid Controls, Sarah E. Guilmain
Generating Linear Orders of Events for Geospatial Domains, Suzannah Hall
The Use of Chitosan to Preserve and Extend Atlantic Salmon Quality, Melissa D. Hammond
Investigation of Properties of Polyamido Amine (PAMAM) Dendrimers by Flourescence Spectroscopy, Hongling Han
"The Paths to be United:" A Postcolonial Critical Retorical Reading of Korean Reunification Rhetoric, Min Wha Han
Place Needs and Client Outcomes of Wilderness Experience Programs in Maine: A Descriptive-Interpretive Approach, James G. Hannon
The Effects of Brassica Cover Crops on Weed Dynamics, Erin R. Haramoto
Interrogating Discourses of Gun Culture in Bowling for Columbine, Michelle Hart
Nest Success and Chick Survival of Black Terns in Maine: Effects of Predation on Breeding Productivity, Shane R. Heath
Structuring a Wayfinder's Dynamic and Uncertain Environment, Michael D. Hendricks
Development and Application of a Bioassay to Characterize the Innate Immune Respone of Zebrafish, Andrea Hermann
Characterization of the Void Content of Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composite Materials Fabricated by the Composites Pressure Resin Infusion System (COMPRIS), Benjamin J. Herzog
A Small Discovery, Leonore S. Hildebrandt
Exercise and the Elderly, Ardelle Hollrock
Alternative Controls for Helicoverpazea on Sweet Corn: Phytotoxicity and Pollination Inhibition from Direct Silk Applications, Tori Lee Jackson
Climate Variability in West Antarctica Derived from Accumulation and Marine Aerosol Records from ITASE Firn/Ice Cores, Susan Kaspari
Conservation Genetics of Two Rare Freshwater Mussels: The Tidewater Mucket (Leptodea ochracea) and the Yellow Lampmussel (Lampsils cariosa), Morgan W. Kelly
NRAGE Regulates Life and Death of Neural Progenitors, Stephen E. Kendall
Estimation of Standardized Mortality Ratio in Geographic Epidemiology, Anna Kettermann
Helen Knothe Nearing: A Biography, Margaret O'Neal Killinger
Gas-liquid Mass Transfer in Oxygen Delignification Systems, Deep Krothapalli
Examination of Abell Clusters of Galaxies in Local Supercluster Environments, Karl Simon Krughoff