Browsing Theses and Dissertations (2018-present) by Issue Date
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We'll Help Ourselves: The English Working-Class Struggle to Remake Itself, ca. 1968-1985
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)“We’ll Help Ourselves: The English Working-Class Struggle to Remake Itself, 1968-1985” analyzes the changing nature of working-class activism in the United Kingdom in the second half of the twentieth century. I argue that ... -
The Associations of Injury and Stress with Temporomandibular Disorders
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) are complex musculoskeletal pain conditions that affect the orofacial region. Injury, compared to other known risk factors, is closely related to pain through a nociceptive pathway that ... -
A Sound Body in a Socialist Nation: Family, Work, and Disability in Polish Young Adult Literature and Disability Memoirs, 1954-1991
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)My dissertation, A Sound Body in a Socialist Nation: Family, Work, and Disability in Polish Young Adult Literature and Disability Memoirs, 1954-1991, analyzes literary representations of disability in Polish socialist-era ... -
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN BACTERIA, EXACERBATIONS, AND HOSPITALIZATIONS IN CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Bacteria within the lower respiratory tract plays a critical role in the clinical course and pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Evidence suggests that acute exacerbations are attributable to ... -
Health Promotion at Work: A System-Oriented Exploration of Workplace Wellness Programs
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)By utilizing the workplace as a platform for health promotion, workplace wellness interventions have taken the responsibility of worker’s health care since the mid-1970s. Such interventions target various modifiable health ... -
The relationship between reasons for leaving teaching and intention to return
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)This study examined teacher intentions to return to teaching after leaving. Two overarching questions were posed: (1) Are there differences in the odds of return when examining ethnicity, age of the teacher, gender, and ... -
Concerto for Prepared Piano and Ensemble
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Concerto for Prepared Piano and Ensemble is a chamber concerto in one movement for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, 2 percussion, solo prepared piano, 2nd piano, 2 violins, viola, violoncello, ... -
X60: A Programmable Testbed for Wideband 60 GHz WLANS with Phased Array
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)This thesis discusses the development of X60, a cross-layer 60 GHz wideband testbed with reconfigurable physical (PHY), medium access control (MAC), and network layer. It provides multi-Gbps rates and has a 24-element ... -
Living with the Aftermath of Conflict: How Young Protestants Construct Personal Identity and Critique Concepts of Group Identity amidst Trauma, Political Crises, and Divisive Discourse in Northern Ireland
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)While April 2018 marked the twentieth anniversary of the end of Northern Ireland’s violent conflict known as the Troubles, the British territory still struggles with reconciliation. The two biggest ethnoreligious groups, ... -
Working in the Diminutive: Women Professionals in Postbellum U.S. Literature (1861-1905)
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Around the time of the American Civil War, middle-class women began entering full-time employments outside the home at greater rates than ever before. In order to be perceived positively by men and non-working women, these ... -
“Past the Point of Messing with it”: Exploring the Digital Video Composing Processes of an After-School Film Club
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)This ethnographic case study explores the experiences of the Rolling Hills High (RHH) after-school Film Club as they engaged with film both as consumers and creators. Created by the students of RHH, the Film Club was a ... -
Nanocavity enhanced light-matter interaction within ultra-thin films
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)A fundamental strategy is developed in this dissertation to enhance the light-matter interaction of ultra-thin films based on a strong interference effect in planar nanocavities, and overcome the limitation between the ... -
CRIME, THREAT, AND SECURITY: IMMIGRANTS AS LABORERS, ENTREPRENEURS, AND GOOD NEIGHBORS
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Using in-depth interview data from 48 native-born whites and content analysis data from 170 newspaper articles, I examine how immigrants are perceived and portrayed in two communities in Western New York (one rural, the ... -
Terahertz Band Communications: System Architecture and Physical Layer Solutions
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Growing demand for wireless spectrum has motivated research and development in underutilized or unused frequency bands such as the Terahertz frequencies (0.1-10 THz). With tens to hundreds of GHz-wide available bandwidth, ... -
Blockchain Application for Disaster Management and National Security
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Natural phenomena such as floods, storms, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, landslides have affected our planet in an unpredictable way. However, these phenomena are merely classified as a hazard ... -
Enlarging the Place: Adapting the Community Theatre Rehearsal Process for Elderly Persons, Persons with Mobility Impairment, and Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Every civilization on the planet has some form of theatre. Musical theatre is primarily an American art form. It can be enjoyed by everyone. Enjoyment of any art form is increased by knowledge of and participation in the ... -
Permutation Equivalence of Quartic 2-Rotation Symmetric Boolean Functions
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)A Boolean function is considered to be rotation symmetric if it is invariant under cyclic rotation, ρ, of the input variables, and is considered to be 2-rotation symmetric if it is invariant under ρ2. A 2−rotation symmetric ... -
A Mad Critique of Anti-Neoliberalism: Sanism in Contemporary Left Thinking On Political Economy
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)This dissertation offers a materialist feminist crip of color critique of the current academic (re)turn to political economy by critically examining how the recent focus on neoliberalism registers from the perspective of ... -
MULTI-SOURCED INFORMATION TRUSTWORTHINESS ANALYSIS: APPLICATIONS AND THEORY
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)In the era of Big Data, data entries, even describing the same objects or events, can come from a variety of sources. There are some sources that typically provide accurate information, but due to various reasons such as ... -
Wave Motion in 1-D Viscoelastic Phononic Crystals: A Comprehensive Analytical, Numerical and Experimental Study
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Phononic crystals are engineered materials which exhibit unique wave motion properties due to periodic arrangement of multiple homogeneous constituents. Over the last decade, metallic phononic crystals have been thoroughly ...