Publicly accessible Penn Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Dendritic Cell Migration and Traction Force Generation in Engineered Microenvironments, Brendon Guenther Ricart
Peer Effects in Sexual Initiation: Separating Social Norms and Partner Supply, Seth O. Richards
The Basis of VCP-Mediated Degeneration: Insights From a Drosophila Model of Disease, Gillian P. Ritson
Lentiviral integration site targeting: host determinants and consequences, Keshet Ronen
CLINICAL IMPORTANCE OF THE DRUG INTERACTION BETWEEN STATINS AND CYP3A4 INHIBITORS, Christopher G. Rowan
FACTORIZATIONS IN THE IRREDUCIBLE CHARACTERS OF COMPACT SEMISIMPLE LIE GROUPS, Andrew Rupinski
GOD'S LAW OR STATE'S LAW: AUTHORITY AND ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW REFORM IN BAHRAIN, Sandy Russell Jones
MicroBioRobots for Single Cell Manipulation, Mahmut Selman Sakar
Computational Study of DNA-Directed Self-Assembly of Colloids, Raynaldo Theodore Scarlett
THE EVOLUTION OF PLATELET RESPONSES TO COLLAGEN UNDER CONDITIONS OF HEMODYNAMIC FLOW, Alec A. Schmaier
Antibodies Directed against the Extracellular Region of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Adopt Distinct Modes of Binding and Inhibition, Karl R. Schmitz
"THE WORLD IS UPSIDE DOWN": WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN MOZAMBIQUE, Christy K. Schuetze
Speaking and Sensing the Self in Authentic Movement: The Search for Authenticity in a 21st Century White Urban Middle-Class Community, Seran E. Schug
PHILADELPHIA FOODWAYS CA. 1750-1850: AN HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF CUISINE, Teagan A. Schweitzer
ON THE NATURE OF THE HYDROGEN BOND AND BIOMOLECULAR SOLVATION, James N. Scott
Making Space for Capital: The Production of Global Landscapes in Contemporary India, Llerena Searle
Your Ad Here: The Cool Sell of Guerrilla Marketing, Michael Serazio
Identity, Identification, and Media Representation in Video Game Play: An audience reception study, Adrienne Shaw
Regulation of Angiogenesis by Adhesive and Mechanical Cues from the Extracellular Matrix, Colette Shen
CRITICISM AND SOCIAL SUPPORT IN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS, Rachel A. Simmons
Malebranche's Augustinianism and the Mind's Perfection, Jason Skirry
THE ROLE OF SLP-76 PHOSPHOTYROSINES IN TCR SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION AND T CELL DIFFERENTIATION, Jennifer E. Smith-Garvin
AFFILIATIVE BEHAVIORS IN PAIRBONDED RED TITI MONKEYS (CALLICEBUS DISCOLOR), Andrea Spence-Aizenberg
Reaching Up: The influence of gender, status, and relationship type on men's and women's network preferences, Monica M. Stallings
ESSAYS ON THE MACROECONOMICS OF LABOR MARKETS, Sergiy Stetsenko
STATISTICAL MEDIAL MODEL FOR CARDIAC SEGMENTATION AND MORPHOMETRY, Hui Sun
Strategic and Secure Interactions in Networks, Jinsong Tan
Learning [voice], Joshua Ian Tauberer
A Distributed Storage and Query Subsystem for Collaborative Data Sharing, Nicholas E. Taylor
SORTING OF AMPHIPHILE MEMBRANE COMPONENTS IN CURVATURE AND COMPOSITION GRADIENTS, Aiwei Tian
Pim kinases are required for short lived plasma cell responses by murine B cells, John F. Treml
Cultivating Knowing and Relationships: A Grounded Theory of Quality of Death in the Nursing Home, Rebecca L. Trotta
Before We Were Chicanas/os: The Mexican American Experience in California Higher Education, 1848-1945, Christopher Tudico
Weathering Heights: The Emergence of Aeronautical Meteorology as an Infrastructural Science, Roger Turner
β-Hetero Vinylzinc Reagents: Versatile Precursors for a Broad Spectrum of High Impact Chemicals, Petr Valenta
MECHANISMS OF THE DOWNREGULATION OF PROLACTIN RECEPTOR AND THEIR ROLE IN CELL PROLIFERATION, Bentley J. Varghese
EMOTION REGULATION IN CONSUMPTION: ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES, Nicole M. Verrochi
MAPPING TRABECULAR BONE FABRIC TENSOR BY IN VIVO MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, Michael J. Wald
QUANTITATIVE MOLECULAR MRI OF INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION, CHENYANG WANG
CAUSAL EFFECT ESTIMATION UNDER LINEAR AND LOG-LINEAR STRUCTURAL NESTED MEAN MODELS IN THE PRESENCE OF UNMEASURED CONFOUNDING, Chia-Hao Wang
THE C1 DOMAIN IN CANCER SIGNALING MOLECULES: REGULATION BY LIPIDS AND PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS, HONGBIN WANG
MORPHOLOGY OF ION-CONTAINING POLYMERS: CORRELATIONS BETWEEN STRUCTURE, DYNAMICS, AND ION CONDUCTION, Wenqin Wang
MINDFUL LEARNING: CHILDREN’S DEVELOPING THEORY OF MIND AND THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONCEPT OF LEARNING, Zhenlin Wang
THE ACQUISITION OF HUMAN B CELL MEMORY IN RESPONSE TO PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM MALARIA, Gretchen E. Weiss
GAMMA OSCILLATIONS IN THE MOUSE PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX AS AN ENDOPHENOTYPE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA, Cristin G. Welle
THE INTEGRATIVE FUNCTIONS OF POST-INDUSTRIAL U.S. LABOR MARKET FOR MARRIAGE FORMATION: THREE ESSAYS, Lijun Yang
THE ROLE OF THE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ATF4 IN TUMOR PROGRESSION UNDER NUTRIENT DEPRIVATION AND HYPOXIA, Jiangbin Ye
FUNCTIONS OF DNA DAMAGE RESPONSE FACTORS IN LYMPHOCYTE DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFORMATION, Bu Yin
Endings in Short Biblical Narratives, Susan B. Zeelander
Resources, Institutional Environments and Firm Scope: Evidence from an Emerging Economy, Nan Zhou
Mechanisms of Hdac2 function in the regulation of adult cardiac hypertrophy and embryonic myocyte proliferation, Wenting Zhu
From Jiangnan to Sichuan: Yuan Architecture Along the Yangtze River, Lala Zuo
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
MASKS: Maintaining Anonymity by Sequestering Key Statistics, James Michael Alexander
Single-Molecule Biophysical Assays With Electrokinetics, Mark Arsenault
Aspects of Experiences: The Role of Novelty in Retrospective Summary Assessments, Rajesh Prakash Bhargave
TRANSCRIPTIONAL POISING PRIOR TO THE MIDBLASTULA TRANSITION UNDERLIES DORSAL CELL FATE SPECIFICATION BY THE WNT/BETA-CATENIN PATHWAY, Shelby A. Blythe
COSMOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF MODIFIED GRAVITY: SPHERICAL COLLAPSE AND HIGHER ORDER CORRELATIONS, Alexander Borisov
STRUCTURE AND MECHANICS OF PROTEINS FROM SINGLE MOLECULES TO CELLS, Andre E. Brown
MECHANISMS OF NOTCH-MEDIATED INHIBITION OF SKELETAL MYOGENESIS, Matthew F. Buas
INVESTIGATING THE ENVIRONMENT OF MG II ABSORPTION LINE SYSTEMS WITH THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY, Michelle A. Caler
Role and regulation of the actin-regulatory protein HS1 in TCR signaling, Esteban Carrizosa
Capillary Force in High Aspect-Ratio Micropillar Arrays, Dinesh Chandra
TRANSCRIPTIONAL AND TRANSLATIONAL CONTROL OF ZEBRAFISH MESODERMAL DEVELOPMENT, Lisa L. Chang
Essays on Macroeconomics and Labor Markets: Understanding Idiosyncratic and Aggregate Shocks, Se Kyu Choi
DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PHOTOCROSSLINKABLE HYALURONIC ACID HYDROGELS FOR CARTILAGE REGENERATION, Cindy Chung
POST-CONVERSION EXPERIENCES OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALE SUNNI MUSLIMS: COMMUNITY INTEGRATION AND MASCULINITY IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY PHILADELPHIA, Brian L. Coleman
Shortest Geometric Paths Analysis In Structural Biology, Ryan G. Coleman
Sensorimotor Integration in a Small Motor Circuit, Nicholas D. DeLong
Overcoming the Empty Years: the Role of Philosophy and the Humanities in West Germany after 1945, Nicholas E. Di Liberto
Dialect Boundaries and Phonological Change in Upstate New York, Aaron J. Dinkin
Niche Partitioning Among Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Consequences for Host Plant Performance, Jennifer H. Doherty
Structural Studies of Two Related Metallohydrolases: Human Histone Deacetylase 8 and Malarial Arginase, Daniel P. Dowling
The permeability of dialect boundaries: a case study of the region surrounding Erie, Pennsylvania, Keelan Evanini
SUSPECT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY, A PROBLEMATIZATION OF STATE DOSSIER SYSTEMS VIA TWO CASE STUDIES: THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA, Kenneth N. Farrall
Bidirectional Programming Languages, John Nathan Foster
Optimization of Multidimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, for Resolution and Sensitivity, through Application of Radial Sampling, John M. Gledhill
Mass Spectrometry-based Proteomics Reveals Distinct Mechanisms of Astrocyte Protein Secretion, Todd M. Greco
Collaborative Data Sharing with Mappings and Provenance, Todd J. Green
Are Teachers Prepared? Predictors of Teachers’ Readiness to Serve as Mandated Reporters of Child Abuse, Emily A. Greytak
Organizational Form and Niche Overlap: The Dynamics of Surgery Center Entry and Exit, Michael G. Housman
MECHANISMS OF SYNAPSE FORMATION AND MAINTENANCE: INSIGHTS FROM THE DEVELOPING AND DISEASED NERVOUS SYSTEM, Ethan G. Hughes
Probing the Structure and Function of Biopolymer-Carbon Nanotube Hybrids with Molecular Dynamics, Robert R. Johnson
Energy Landscapes: Coal Canals, Oil Pipelines, Electricity Transmission Wires in the Mid-Atlantic, 1820-1930, Christopher F. Jones
Online clustering and citation analysis using Streemer, Vasileios Kandylas
Structural studies of large integral membrane proteins in reverse micelles by solution nuclear magnetic resonance, Joseph Kielec
Positive Affect and Project Team Development and Effectiveness, Andrew P. Knight
Single Molecule Studies of Myosin-Ib, Joseph M. Laakso
Effects of Messages about Genetics, Race, and Health on Public Opinion about Personalized Medicine and Health Policy, Jocelyn Landau
Modular Organization and Composability of RNA, Miler T. Lee
ROLES OF THE ION CHANNEL NALCN IN NEURONAL EXCITABILITY CONTROL, Boxun Lu
Permuted Inclusion Criterion: A Variable Selection Technique, Shaun Lysen
Molecular Mechanisms of a Retinal Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Channel, Juan R. Martinez-Francois
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS IN MODIFIED GRAVITY MODELS, Matthew C. Martino
Specific, Common, and Unintended Factors in Psychotherapy: Descriptive and Correlational Approaches to What Creates Change, Kevin S. McCarthy
Spillover Effects of the Uninsured, Stacey McMorrow