Caught My Eye: Recent GIS Theses/Dissertations

There has been a load of new theses/dissertations released, and of course I am able to keep up with them using the GIS News: Publications feed aggregator.

Here are some of the published theses/dissertations that have caught my eye:

• A GIS model for predicting potential "high risk" areas of West Nile virus by identifying ideal mosquito breeding habitats [ PDF Text ]
  by Wallis, Robert Charles, M.S., Mississippi State University, 2005, 118 pages


• Essays on neighborhood effects and spatial diffusion: Evidence from online grocery retailing
  by Song, Sangyoung, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2005, 146 pages


• The choreography of community: Italian ethnicity in postwar Toronto and Philadelphia
  by Stanger-Ross, Jordan, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2005, 221 pages


• A spatial analysis of disaggregated commuting data: Implications for excess commuting, jobs-housing balance, and accessibility
  by Lee, Wook, Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2005


• Characterizing differences between categorical maps as functions of composition and configuration: A hierarchical spectra approach
  by Remmel, Tarmo Kaarel, Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2005


• Evaluating input data for DEM-based environmental analysis and classification
  by Deng, Yongxin, Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2005


• Geopolitical analysis of terror in selected United States media sources
  by Goodman, Aaron, M.A., Marshall University, 2005, 35 pages