Publicly accessible Penn Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
ENTROPIC ELASTICITY OF POLYMERS AND THEIR NETWORKS, Tianxiang Su
TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS AND SUPERCONDUCTORS, Chi Yan Jeffrey Teo
MICROBEAD-BASED BIOSENSING IN MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES, Jason A. Thompson
Shape Representations for Object Recognition, Alexander Toshev
Conceptions of the Poetic in Classical Greek Prose, Alison Traweek
Retail Demand Management: Forecasting, Assortment Planning and Pricing, Ramnath Vaidyanathan
Efficient Learning and Inference for High-dimensional Lagrangian Systems, Paul N. Vernaza
Role of Rap Signaling in the Regulation of ERK Activation and Cell-Cell Adhesion, Lisa A. Vuchak
ON THE FOLDING AND CONFORMATION OF PEPTIDES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL METHODS FOR THEIR STUDY, Matthias M. Waegele
Portfolio Considerations in Automobile Purchases: An Application to the Japanese Market, Naoki Wakamori
HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF ADENO-ASSOCIATED VIRUS TYPE 2 TRANSDUCTION, Alexis J. Wallen
How Novice Teachers Talk about Teaching Writing, Tamara Warhol
Liquid Chromatography – Mass Spectrometry for Protein Biomarker Discovery in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma, Angela Y. Wehr
Essays on Market Dynamics in the Presence of Learning, Xi Weng
MINIATURIZATION METHODS FOR MODULAR ROBOTICS: EXTERNAL ACTUATION AND DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER ACTUATION, Paul J. White
Distinct Neuromuscular Patterns from a Single Motor Network, Rachel S. White
Innate signals in the macrophage determine the severity of Toxoplasma gondii infection, Ryan J. Whitmarsh
HIV Transmission, Entry, and Gene Therapy, Craig B. Wilen
Hadwiger Integration of Definable Functions, Matthew Wright
The molecular mechanism for vegetative phase change: regulation of miR156 expression and action, Li Yang
Essays in Macroeconomic Dynamics and the Financial Market, Wen Yao
THE ROLE OF SONIC HEDGEHOG IN THE HYPOTHALAMUS, Solsire E. Zevallos
INTERACTION OF FERRITIN WITH TRANSITION METAL IONS AND CHELATES, Lei Zhang
The C-infinity jet of non-concave manifolds and lens rigidity of surfaces, Xiaochen Zhou
SHAPE DETECTION BY PACKING CONTOURS AND REGIONS, Qihui Zhu
Design and Fabrication of Photonic Microstructures by Holographic Lithography and Pattern Transformation, Xuelian Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Structure, Function and Applications of Metal-Requiring Enzymes: Carbonic Anhydrase and epi-Isozizaene Synthase, Julie A. Aaron
Messages In The Medium: The Relationships Among Black Media Images, Racial Identity, Body Image, And The Racial Socialization Of Black Youth, Valerie N. Adams
MECHANICAL STIFFNESS AND DISSIPATION IN ULTRANANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND FILMS, Vivek P. Adiga
ON MACROSCOPIC CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONS AND MICROSTRUCTURE EVOLUTION IN MULTI-SCALE VISCOPLASTIC COMPOSITES, Michalis Agoras
HIV CAN ESTABLISH LATENCY BY DIRECT INFECTION OF RESTING CD4+ T CELLS, Luis M. Agosto
Essays on the Information Acquisition of Doubt-Prone Decision Makers, larbi alaoui
Human Capital in the Inner City, Dionissi Aliprantis
Know How, Know Whom, Know Where: A Global Analysis of Investor Experience and Startup Performance, Elisa Álvarez-Garrido
Phenomenology of Heterotic String Theory: With Emphasis on the B-L/EW Hierarchy, Michael Ambroso
A STUDY OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND STRESS AMONG NORTH AMERICAN MUSICIANS, Emmanuel Angel
Meniscus Tissue Engineering with Nanofibrous Scaffolds, Brendon M. Baker
JAGGED1 Missense Mutations in Disorders of the Liver and Heart, Robert C. Bauer
Predictors of Cardiovascular Health Promotion, Viola G. Benavente
Receptor Utilization and Antiviral CD8 T Cell Responses during Central Nervous System Infection with a Murine Coronavirus, Susan J. Bender
THE ŚŪDRĀCĀRAŚIROMAN&#;I OF KR&#;&#;S&#;N&#;A ŚES&#;A: A 16th Century Manual of Dharma for Śūdras, Theodore Benke
"We Are the Revolutionaries": Visibility, Protest, and Racial Formation in 1970s Prison Radicalism, Dan Berger
Abstractions, Analysis Techniques, and Synthesis of Scalable Control Strategies for Robot Swarms, Spring Melody Berman
Chasing Shadows in the Outer Solar System, Federica Bianco
Youth Returning to School: Identities Imposed, Enacted, Resisted, and Explored, Susan Bickerstaff
INVESTIGATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF SOFC COMPOSITE CATHODES, Fred Bidrawn
ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT DETERMINES THE EFFECTS OF AGONISTIC SOCIAL STRESS ON RAT BEHAVIOR AND LOCUS COERULEUS PHYSIOLOGY, Brian C. Bingham
Gravitational Lensing with a Large Deflection Angle as a Probe of General Relativity and the Galactic Center, Amitai Yisrael Bin-Nun
UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION OF HIGH-FREQUENCY OSCILLATIONS IN NEOCORTICAL EPILEPSY AND CONTROL PATIENTS, Justin A. Blanco
Mechanisms for Unbounded, Conflict-Robust Hardware Transactional Memory, Colin Blundell
Other-Regarding Preferences and Consequentialism, Abhinash Borah
Narrative “Flow”: A model of narrative processing and its impact on information processing, knowledge acquisition and persuasion, Jean M. Brechman
BALANCED METRICS AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HETEROTIC COMPACTIFICATIONS, Tamaz Brelidze
COMBINATORIAL POLYMER SYNTHESIS AND HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING TECHNOLOGY TO IDENTIFY OPTIMAL APPROACHES FOR MINERALIZED TISSUE ENGINEERING, Darren M. Brey
THE ROLE OF THE UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE REGULATOR BIP IN HCMV VIRION ASSEMBLY AND EGRESS, Nicholas J. Buchkovich
PAIN IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE: CHARACTERISTICS AND RESPONSES IN AMBULATORY CARE PATIENTS, Lisette Bunting-Perry
EFFECTS OF THE BCR-ABL ONCOGENE ON DNA DAMAGE AND REPAIR, Beth A. Burke
Causal Inference with Two-Stage Logistic Regression - Accuracy, Precision, and Application, Bing Cai
CHARACTERIZATION OF B CELL DEVELOPMENT AND ACTIVATION IN THE ABSENCE OF AKT OR PRESENILIN, Marco Calamito
AGENCY PROBLEMS IN CORPORATE FINANCE, Indraneel Chakraborty
Microrheology of Soft Matter, Daniel T.N. Chen
Tradition and Transformation: Cataloguing Chinese Art in the Middle and Late Imperial Eras, YEN-WEN CHENG
ONLINE RETAILING IN SPATIALLY DISPERSED OFFLINE MARKETS, Jeonghye Choi
THE DUALITIES OF ENDURANCE: A COLLABORATIVE HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF ETHNOGENESIS AT BROTHERTOWN, 1780-1910, Craig N. Cipolla
Soil organic carbon content and quality in post-agricultural northern hardwood forests, John D. Clark
ART FRONTS: VISUAL CULTURE AND RACE POLITICS IN THE MID-TWENTIETH-CENTURY UNITED STATES, Erin P. Cohn
MID-CENTURY ROMANCE: MODERNIST AFTERLIVES OF THE HISTORICAL NOVEL, John T. Connor
Extracurricular Activities and Wage Differentials, Cristiano M. Costa
GENETIC DETERMINANTS OF VIRULENCE FOR THE A59 AND JHM STRAINS OF MOUSE HEPATITIS VIRUS, Timothy J. Cowley
DELIBERATION IN ARISTOTLE’S ETHICS AND THE HIPPOCRATIC CORPUS, Anna M. Cremaldi
GENDER (IN)QUERY: YOUNG ADULTS LEARNING, UNLEARNING, AND RELEARNING GENDER IN A QUEER MAJORITY SPACE, Erin G. Cross
Air-Fluidized Grains as a Model System: Self-Propelling and Jamming, Lynn J. Daniels
EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF THE HOME ENVIRONMENT AS A MODERATOR IN SCHOOL PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES OF LOW-BIRTH-WEIGHT SURVIVORS: A SOCIAL-EPIDEMIOLOGIC PERSPECTIVE, Ashley Erin Darcy
Socioecology, acoustic communication and demography of Asian elephants in Sri Lanka, Shermin de Silva
The Birational Geometry of Tropical Compactifications, Colin Diemer
Control of Denticle Diversity in the Drosophila Embryo, Stacie A. Dilks
Regulatory Conformance Checking: Logic and Logical Form, Nikhil Dinesh
Characterizing Connectivity In Brain Networks Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Jeffrey T. Duda
ISOLATED HYPERSURFACE SINGULARITIES AS NONCOMMUTATIVE SPACES, Tobias Dyckerhoff
SEA-LEVEL CHANGES ALONG THE U.S. ATLANTIC COAST: IMPLICATIONS FOR GLACIAL ISOSTATIC ADJUSTMENT MODELS AND CURRENT RATES OF SEA-LEVEL CHANGE, Simon E. Engelhart
MODELING VIRUS-HOST NETWORKS, James P. Evans
GENOMIC METHODS FOR STUDYING THE POST-TRANSLATIONAL REGULATION OF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, Logan J. Everett
6- AND 5-HALODECABORANES: SELECTIVE SYNTHESES FROM closo-B10H10(2-) AND USE AS POLYBORANE BUILDING BLOCKS, William C. Ewing
REVOLUTIONS WITHOUT REVOLUTIONARIES? SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS AND REGIME RESPONSE IN EGYPT, David Faris
A study of the Ebola virus glycoprotein: Disruption of host surface protein function and evasion of immune responses, Joseph R. Francica
PATTERNING OF ALLOY PRECIPITATION THROUGH EXTERNAL PRESSURE, Jack A. Franklin
Equilibrium Tuition, Applications, Admissions and Enrollment in the College Market, Chao Fu
Financial Frictions, Propagation of Shocks, and Macroeconomic Volatility, Cristina Fuentes-Albero
DEVELOPING NOVEL PLATELET-BASED TARGETING STRATEGIES FOR THROMBOLYTICS, Rudy E. Fuentes
Null Element Restoration, Ryan Gabbard
Passive Variable Compliance for Dynamic Legged Robots, Kevin C. Galloway
Posterior Regularization for Learning with Side Information and Weak Supervision, Kuzman Ganchev
Requirements for Catalysis in Cre Recombinase, Bryan P S Gibb
The Effects of Sanction Intensity on Criminal Conduct: A Randomized Low-Intensity Probation Experiment, Charlotte E. Gill
UTILIZING GENETICALLY ENGINEERED MOUSE MODELS OF PANCREATIC CANCER: EVALUATING THE ROLE OF CATHEPSIN B AND THE EFFICACY OF FARNESYL THIOSALICYLIC ACID, Aarthi Gopinathan