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Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Fantastic Beasts Of The Eurasian Steppes: Toward A Revisionist Approach To Animal-Style Art, Petya Andreeva
Making History: Spanish Migrants In Middle Class Lima, Diego Arispe-Bazan
Interfacial Wave Dynamics Of Core-Annular Flow Of Two Fluids, Mohammed Asaduzzaman
Direction-Dependent Responses To Traumatic Brain Injury In Pediatric Pigs, Lorre S. Atlan
Pattern Formation By Cells On Curved Surfaces, Nathan Donald Bade
Pain In Active Duty Military Members: The Relationship Of Persistent Acute And Chronic Pain With Physical, Mental, And Social Health, Christine E. Bader
Selective Exposure To Misleading Information In The New Media Environment By At-Risk Youth: A Study Of Pro-Smoking Youtube Videos, Rosie Eungyuhl Bae
Seeing Race And Erasing Slavery: Media And The Construction Of Blackness In Iran, 1830-1960, Beeta Baghoolizadeh
A Search For Nothing: Dark Matter And Invisible Decays Of The Higgs Boson At The Atlas Detector, William Balunas
Enhancement Of Ebola Virus Infection By Seminal Amyloid Fibrils, Stephen Michael Bart
The Network Dynamics Of Social Influence In The Wisdom Of Crowds, Joshua Becker
Detailing Worlds: A History Of Architectural Particulars, 1755-1899, Eric Bellin
An Act-Focused Theory Of Political Legitimacy, Justin Bernstein
Biological Research On Behavior As Extra-Legal And Discretionary Factors In Sentencing And Punishment, Colleen Margaret Berryessa
Trafficking In Anti-Blackness: The Political Stakes Of “Modern Day Slavery” Discourse In Global Campaigns To End Human Trafficking, Lyndsey Beutin
The Interpersonal Consequences Of Humor, Thomas Bradford Bitterly
Mechanisms Underlying Oxidative Stress-Induced Chromatin Association Of Cockayne Syndrome Protein B (csb), Erica Lee Boetefuer
Nonlinear Physician Performance Contracts, Amelia Mcfadden Bond
Working Alone, Together: Coworking, Community, And Cultural Flow, Madeline Ann Boyer
Out Of Focus: Competitive Dynamics Of Partial Substitutability, Andrew Boysen
Riemannian Geometry Of The Curvature Tensor, Thomas Gunnison Brooks
Approaches To Learning In The Ecls-K: Measurement And Growth From Kindergarten To Grade 2, Kathy Buek
Migrant Indigeneity: Transnational Health Policy Implementation Structuring The Body, Identity, & Belief, Diana A. Burnett
Modeling Monogenic Diabetes Mody3 Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells, Fabian Leonardo Cardenas
All The Right Noises: Causes And Consequences Of Stochastic Trimethylamine Oxide Reductase Expression In Escherichia Coli, Jeffrey Carey
The Bolshevik Afterlife: Posthumous Rehabilitation In The Post-Stalin Soviet Union, 1953-1970, Samuel Arthur Casper
Measurement And Implications Of Reading Motivation For Diverse Subgroups Of Students, Wendy Castillo
Intergenerational Mechanisms Of Paternal Stress Transmission, Jennifer C. Chan
The Role Of Insulin-Like Growth Factor-2 Mrna Binding Protein 1 (imp1) In Intestinal Epithelial Homeostasis, Priya Chatterji
Opinion Broadcasting Model, Chenchao Chen
Tone Sandhi Phenomena In Taiwan Southern Min, Mao-Hsu Chen
Paying To Stay: Effects Of Vertical Integration And Competition In A Post-Acute Care Setting, Vicki Chen
Essays In Corporate Finance, Xingyi Chen
Essays On Referral Programs And Preference Estimation, Yupeng Chen
Improving Signal To Noise Ratio And Time Resolution For Solid-State Nanopore Measurements, Chen-Chi Chien
Cross-Talk Between Protein Degradation And Mrna Decay In Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma, Jaewoo Choi
Essays On Human Capital And Altruism, Amanda Chuan
Contested Majority: The Representation Of The White Working Class In Us Politics From The 1930s To The 1990s, Christopher Cimaglio
Investigating Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Mild Phenotype In Friedreich Ataxia Patients With G130v Missense Mutation, Elisia Clark
Doing It Ourselves: The Networked Practices Of Feminist Media Activism, Rosemary Clark-Parsons
Diffuse Optical Biomarkers Of Breast Cancer, Jeffrey Martin Cochran
Landscapes Of Power In The South Caucasus (1500-600 Bce): Gis And Phenomenological Approaches, Rachel Cohen
Treatment Selection: Understanding What Works For Whom In Mental Health, Zachary Daniel Cohen
Misguided Benevolence: How ‘moments Of Need’ Came To Motivate American Journalism, David Conrad
Night On Earth: The Nocturnal Sensorium In World Cinema, Cesar Ignacio Ruiz Cortez
Essays In Corporate Finance, Adrian Aycan Corum
The Protest Song: Bridge Leadership, Sonic Innovation, And The Long Civil Rights Movement, Julia Cox
How Beliefs Are Like Colors, Devin Sanchez Curry
American Jewish Medical Activism, 1945-1955, Rebecca Cutler
Two-Dimensional Nanopore And Nanoporous Devices For Molecular Sensing And Ion Selectivity, Gopinath Danda
Structural Remodeling Of Alpha-Synuclein By Small Molecules: A Novel Path To Neuroprotective Therapeutics, Malcolm James Daniels
Re-Engineering Risk: A Portraiture Of Black Undergraduate Engineering Persistence In Higher Education, Kendrick Barnett Davis
Essays On Banking And Asset Pricing, Tetiana Davydiuk
Impacts Of Pharmaceutical Price Controls On Pricing, Sales, And Market-Level Quality: Evidence From India, Emma Claire Boswell Dean
Aspects Of Phenomenology And Cosmology In Heterotic M-Theory, Rehan Deen
Saving Tradition: Genres Of Islamic Knowledge In Senegal And The Western Sahel, Jeremy Dell
Strong Memory Consistency For Parallel Programming, Christian Delozier
Becoming Diasporically African: The Cultural Politics Of West African Capoeira, Celina De Sa
Bayesian Model Selection And Estimation Without Mcmc, Sameer Deshpande
The Impact Of Hospital Nursing On Postsurgical Sepsis, Andrew Michael Dierkes
Investigating The Molecules And Circuits Underlying Somatosensation, Peter Yi Dong
Tailoring Big Genes To Small Capsids: Developing Pre-Mrna Trans-Splicing Therapies To Treat Genetic Retinal Diseases, Scott Joseph Dooley
Modeling Nonadiabatic Dynamics At Molecule-Metal Interfaces, Wenjie Dou
Planning For Non-Player Characters By Learning From Demonstration, John Drake
Use Of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Models To Elucidate Retinal Disease Pathogenesis And To Develop Gene-Based Therapies, Thu Thi Duong
From Alienated To Connected: An Examination Of Religion In The Literature Of Su Xuelin, Bing Xin, And Xu Dishan, Gina M. Elia
Induction Of Antibodies To Hiv-1 Envelope Using Simian Adenovirus Vaccines, Kristel Lucie Emmer
Les Chercheurs D’histoire: The Historical Investigator In The Contemporary French Novel, Marla Epp
2d Materials For Energy Applications, Dequan Er
Working Off-Track: Adjunct Labor In Higher Education, Chad Gregory Evans
Examining The Archaeology of ‘Antik’-quity: The Eastern Caucasus Beyond Rome And Parthia, Lara Fabian
Two-Point Statistics For Testing Models Of Cosmic Structure, Yuedong Fang
Control Theoretic Methods In Analysis And Design Of Optimization Algorithms, Mahyar Fazlyab
Variation And Change In Past Tense Negation In African American English, Sabriya Fisher
Analysis Of Rhythm Generation In The Caenorhabditis Elegans Motor Circuit, Anthony Demharter Fouad
Gene Therapy Approaches To Immune Tolerance Induction In Canine Hemophilia, Robert French
Essays On Empirical Operations Management In Retail Sales And Service, Youran Fu
Political Economy Of Transparency, Raphael Galvao
Engineering Bioactive Materials From Recombinant Oleosin Towards Drug Delivery Applications, Chen Gao
Immunological And Biochemical Evaluation Of The Aav Capsid To Advance Next-Generation Gene Therapy Vector Design, April Giles
Spectroscopic Analysis Of Stellar Rotational Velocity At The Bottom Of The Main Sequence, Steven Gilhool
Essays In Health Economics, Qing Gong
Morphological Representations In Lexical Processing, Amy J. Goodwin Davies
The Marathon And On: Disability, Endurance, Aspiration, Kevin Gotkin
Epigenetic Mechanisms Governing Behavioral Reprogramming In The Ant Camponotus Floridanus, Riley John Graham
Punishment And Privilege: The Politics Of Class, Crime, And Corporations In America, Anthony Grasso
Development And Characterization Of Novel Raf Dimer Inhibitors To Target Brafv600e Inhibitor Resistance, Michael Joseph Grasso
A Potential Role For Sap97 In Psychiatric Disorders, Preetika Gupta
Marble And Munificence: Reassessing The Basilica Of Junius Bassus At Rome, Stephanie Hagan
Being And The Good: Natural Teleology In Early Modern German Philosophy, Nabeel Hamid
Visualizing Coregency: An Exploration Of The Link Between Royal Image And Co-Rule During The Reign Of Senwosret Iii And Amenemhet Iii, Lisa Saladino Haney
Rethinking Prophecy In Late Antique Syria, Jae Hee Han
Grain-Boundary Kinetics And Nonequilibrium Grain-Boundary Structure, Jian Han
Essays On Economic Growth And The Economics Of Innovation, Pengfei Han
The Art Of The Question In Late Medieval England, Erika Dawn Harman
Intentions Lost In Translation: An Ethnographic Examination Of Recognition Of Adolescent Cultural Capital, Rita Harvey