Publicly accessible Penn Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
UTILIZING GENETICALLY ENGINEERED MOUSE MODELS OF PANCREATIC CANCER: EVALUATING THE ROLE OF CATHEPSIN B AND THE EFFICACY OF FARNESYL THIOSALICYLIC ACID, Aarthi Gopinathan
On Educational Outcomes in an Urban School District, Michael A. Gottfried
Opacity and Transparency in Phonological Change, Jonathan Gress-Wright
Language, Education, and Empowerment: Voices of Kumauni Young Women in Multilingual India, Cynthia Groff
VITAMIN A METABOLISM AND COMMENSAL STIMULATION IN THE PROMOTION OF MUCOSAL IMMUNITY, Jason A. Hall
THE EFFECT OF ETFS ON STOCK LIQUIDITY, Sophia J. W. Hamm
FAN-SHAPED BRACKET SETS AND THEIR APPLICATION IN RELIGIOUS TIMBER ARCHITECTURE OF SHANXI PROVINCE, Alexandra Harrer
BEYOND PARENT MANAGEMENT: THE ROLE OF STUDENTS AND SCHOOLS IN PHILADELPHIA'S HIGH SCHOOL "CHOICE" PROCESS, Clarisse Haxton
Jamming Phase Diagram, Effective Temperature, and Heterogeneous Dynamics of Model Glass-Forming Liquids, Thomas K. Haxton
INSIGHTS INTO THE CYTOTOXIC POTENTIAL OF HUMAN CD8+ T CELLS: IMPLICATIONS FOR VIROLOGIC CONTROL OF HIV, Adam R. Hersperger
Energy Efficient Load Latency Tolerance: Single-Thread Performance For The Multi-Core Era, Andrew D. Hilton
HYDROGEN RELEASE FROM AMMONIA BORANE, Daniel W. Himmelberger
Bankruptcy and Transaction Costs in General Financial Models, Matthew Hoelle
DECONVOLUTING THE ENGINEERING AND ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLEX III ACTIVITY, Sarah C. Hokanson
Exploring the Relationship between Middle School Children’s Body Mass Index and the Home Food Environment within the Contextual Process of Food Choice, Joanna E. Holsten
Towards a Socio-Cultural Model of Food Cravings: Evidence from the Case of Perimenstrual Chocolate Craving, Julia M. Hormes
Essays in Financial Econometrics, Jian Hua
ENHANCING MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL CHONDROGENESIS FOR CARTILAGE TISSUE ENGINEERING, Alice H. Huang
HIV IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS: INHIBITION OF CD4+ T CELL ACTIVATION, Haitao Hu
TERRORISM IN PAKISTAN: INCIDENT PATTERNS, TERRORISTS’ CHARACTERISTICS, AND THE IMPACT OF TERRORIST ARRESTS ON TERRORISM, Syed Ejaz Hussain
ADENOVIRUS SPECIFIC T-CELL RESPONSES IN HUMANS FOLLOWING NATURAL INFECTION AND VACCINATION, Natalie A. Hutnick
Acellular and Radically Polymerized Biodegradable Materials to Control Tissue Interactions After Myocardial Infarction, Jamie l. Ifkovits
Hysterographies: Writings on Women's Reproductive Body Image in Contemporary French Fiction, Jessica R. Jensen
HIGH-THROUGHPUT ENGINEERING AND ANALYSIS OF CLASS II MHC/PEPTIDE BINDING BY YEAST CO-DISPLAY, Wei Jiang
Landscapes of Achaemenid Paphlagonia, Peri Johnson
Regulation of CD8+ T cell responses to Toxoplasma gondii, Kimberly A. Jordan
DYNAMIC LABOR SUPPLY AND SAVING INCENTIVES UNDER A PRIVATIZED PENSION SYSTEM: EVIDENCE FROM CHILE, Clement Joubert
INVESTOR OVERLAP AND DIFFUSION OF DISCLOSURE PRACTICES, Michael J. Jung
ESSAYS IN FAVOR-TRADING, Simo J. Kalla
Evaluating the Use of Engineered Nervous Tissue Constructs in the Repair of Peripheral Nerve Lesions and Amputations, Niranjan Kameswaran
The Influence of CEO Decision-making and Corporate Strategy on Corporate Social Performance, Jingoo Kang
MULTISCALE MODELING AND SIMULATIONS OF DEFECT CLUSTERS IN CRYSTALLINE SILICON, Sumeet S. Kapur
Speaking for Americans: Modernist Voices and Political Representation, 1910-1940, Sarah Kerman
UNDERSTANDING ANTICIPATORY TIME PERCEPTION IN CONSUMERS’ TIME-RELATED DECISIONS, B. Kyu Kim
Medicaid Crowd-Out of Long-Term Care Insurance with Endogenous Medicaid Enrollment, Geena Kim
Fatty Acid Metabolism Mediated by 12/15-Lipoxygenase is a Novel Regulator of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Function and Myelopoiesis, Michelle Kinder
Tribochemical Studies of Hard Carbon Films as a Function of Load and Environment, Andrew R. Konicek
ESSAYS IN ESTIMATION OF DYNAMIC STOCHASTIC GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODELS, Maxym Kryshko
Using Structural Bioinformatics to Model and Design Membrane Proteins, Dan Kulp
Till Death Do Us Part or the Lease Runs Out: A Reassessment of Cohabitation and Marriage in the United States, Arielle T. Kuperberg
The Role of Akt2 in Hepatic Lipid Metabolism, Karla F. Leavens
POLYMERSOMES: MULTI-FUNCTIONAL TOOLS FOR IN VIVO CANCER THERANOSTIC APPLICATIONS, Dalia H. Levine
Keeping Children Healthy - How the Effects of Normative Messages on Parent Intentions vary with Social Normative Beliefs and Personality, Nehama Lewis-Persky
An Overview of the Geometry and Combinatorics of the Macdonald Polynomial and q-t Catalan Number, Tian Liang
A NEW APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF QUINONE ELECTROCHEMISTRY, Bruce R. Lichtenstein
Activation of the Integrated Stress Response in HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder, Kathryn A. Lindl
Essays on International Finance and Risk Sharing, Edith X. Liu
The role of the exocyst in exocytosis and cell migration, Jianglan Liu
A MICROFABRICATION APPROACH TO MULTICELLULAR MECHANICS, Zhijun Liu
STATISTICAL MODELING OF DATA FROM SMOKING CESSATION CLINICAL TRIALS, Yimei Li
REGULATION OF CCR5 USE ON PRIMARY CD4+ LYMPHOCYTES BY R5X4 HIV-1, Lamorris M. Loftin
Profiles of Large Combinatorial Structures, Michael T. Lugo
The Significance of Interactions: Understanding Gender, Ethnicity/race, and Socioeconomic Status as Related to the Likelihood of Bachelor’s Degree Completion, Valerie Cyrina Lundy
Cash-Flow Risks, Financial Leverage and the Cross Section of Equity Returns, Marcelo V. Maia
The tumor suppressor protein p53 and the antagonizing oncoprotein E6 from human papillomavirus type 16, Kimberly A. Malecka
Microfluidic Focal Injury Models of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Sean F. Maloney
Field Effect and Magnetically Induced Capacitive Tuning in Hole Doped La1-xSrxMnO3, Zsolt Marton
STRUCTURAL, BIOCHEMICAL, AND CELL BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF RAB7 MUTANTS THAT CAUSE PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY, Brett A. McCray
Machine Learning Methods with Time Series Dependence, Blakeley B. McShane
Essays on the Macroeconomics of Incomplete Information, Leonardo Melosi
EVALUATING RISKS FROM ANTIBACTERIAL MEDICATION THERAPY, Sharon B. Meropol
THE PHYSICS OF MEMBRANE EMULSIFICATION AND APPLICATIONS FOR CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY, Robert F. Meyer
ESSAYS IN DYNAMIC CORPORATE FINANCE, Michael Michaux
Mechanisms of Astrocytic Calcium Wave Propagation and In Vitro Hippocampal Cell Death Are Determined By The Magnitude Of Mechanical Injury, William Miller
Affective Consequences of Sleep Deprivation, Jared D. Minkel
Dark Matter Halo Mergers and Quasars, Jorge Moreno
Enhanced High-Resolution Imaging through Multiple-Frequency Coarray Augmentation, Jeannie L. Moulton
MOLECULAR AND STRUCTURAL INSIGHTS INTO NUCLEAR HORMONE RECEPTOR REPRESSION MEDIATED BY THE COREPRESSOR NCOR, Caroline A. Murphy
Shape Representation in Primate Visual Area 4 and Inferotemporal Cortex, Thomas M. Murphy
Youth and Status in Tamil Nadu, India, Constantine V. Nakassis
Native Functions of the Androgen Receptor are Essential to Pathogenesis in a Drosophila Model of Spinobulbar Muscular Atrophy, Natalia B. Nedelsky
INTEGRATING THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL METHODS FOR MULTI-SCALE TISSUE ENGINEERING OF THE ANNULUS FIBROSUS OF THE INTERVERTEBRAL DISC, Nandan L. Nerurkar
The Science of Error: Mesmerism and American Fiction, 1784-1890, Emily Ogden
THE EFFECT OF T CELL RECEPTOR SPECIFICITY ON CD4+CD25+ REGULATORY T CELL FUNCTION IN AN AUTOIMMUNE SETTING, Soyoung Oh
MANAGING CATASTROPHIC RISK BY ALTERNATIVE RISK TRANSFER INSTRUMENTS, Chieh Ou Yang
INTERPLAY OF EXTRINSIC AND INTRINSIC CUES IN CELL-FATE DECISIONS, Santhosh Palani
CHARACTERIZATION OF THAP10 AND THAP11 AS TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSORS IN DNA DAMAGE AND COLON CANCER PROGRESSION, James B. Parker
FISCAL POLICY, DEFAULT AND EMERGING MARKET BUSINESS CYCLES, Omer K. Parmaksiz
THE ROLE OF ALTERED LOADING IN PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES IN THE LONG HEAD OF THE BICEPS TENDON FOLLOWING ROTATOR CUFF TEARS IN A RAT MODEL, Cathryn D. Peltz
INCOMPLETE INFORMATION AND ROBUSTNESS IN STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTS, Antonio Penta
BUILDING BRIDGES TO PROMOTE EDUCATIONAL WELL-BEING: A POPULATION-BASED STUDY OF THE IMPACT AND TIMING OF OUT-OF-HOME PLACEMENT, CHILD MALTREATMENT & HOMELESSNESS, Staci M. Perlman
On the Random Cluster Model, Neil Peterman
PROBABILISTIC PROTEIN DESIGN, COMPARATIVE MODELING, AND THE STRUCTURE OF A MULTIDOMAIN P53 OLIGOMER BOUND TO DNA, Thomas John Petty II
Naturbeziehung und Ökologie im Werk von Ernst Kreuder, Alexander E. Pichugin
Evaluating Preschoolers’ Comprehension of Educational Television: The Role of Viewer Characteristics, Stimuli Features, and Contextual Expectations, Jessica T. Piotrowski
Essays in Sovereign Credit Risk, Thomas J. Plank
Essays in Information Economics, Jonathan T. Pogach
The Content of Instruction under Standards-Based Reform, Morgan S. Polikoff
UNDERSTANDING AND IMPROVING PLATELET-DELIVERED FACTOR (F) VIII HEMOSTATIC EFFICACY IN HEMOPHILIA A MICE, Teshell Kimoy Ponteen Greene
Looking Through the Lens of Individual Differences: Relationships Between Personality, Cognitive Control, Language Processing, and Genes, Ranjani Prabhakaran
THE DEMAND FOR PREVENTIVE ACTIVITIES AMONG OLDER ADULTS AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH MEDICARE EXPENDITURES, Andrea Puig de la Parra
Children's Sensitivity to Pitch Variation in Language, Carolyn Quam
Linear and Nonlinear Auditory Response Properties Of Interneurons In A High Order Avian Vocal Motor Nucleus During Wakefulness, Jonathan N. Raksin
COMMUNICATING CANCER PREVENTION INFORMATION TO U.S. LATINOS: THE MODERATING ROLE OF ACCULTURATION, A Susana Ramirez
Studies of DJ-1, parkin and alpha-synuclein give insights into plausible mechanisms for Parkinson's disease pathogenesis., Chenere P. Ramsey