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Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Exploring Income Volatility And Financial Health Among Middle-Income Households, Mina Addo
(implicit) Argument Introduction, Voice And Causatives, Faruk Akkus
Nuclear Pore Component Mtor Regulates Levels Of Dosage Compensated Gene Expression In Drosophila, Jennifer R. Aleman
Cryptographic Foundations For Control And Optimization: Making Cloud-Based And Networked Decisions On Encrypted Data, Andreea Beatrice Alexandru
The Politics Of Misinformation In India: Prevalence, Mechanisms, Solutions, Sumitra Badrinathan
Uncovering Constraints On Organoid Morphologies, Lauren Elise Beck
Economics Of Buyouts, Alexander Belyakov
Characterizing The Outer Solar System With The Dark Energy Survey, Pedro Henrique Bernardinelli
Performance As Public Work: Youth As Civic Actors For Policy And Practice In Liberia, Jasmine L. Blanks Jones
Politics And Prosthetics: 150 Years Of Disability In Japan, Mark Ross Bookman
Essays On Firm-Level Distortions And Aggregate Productivity, Gorkem Bostanci
Gnas Inactivation In Heterotopic Ossification, Niambi Brewer
Caring For Actively Dying Children And Their Parents In The Pediatric Icu:a Mixed Methods Study, Elizabeth Glyde Broden
Modeling Genetic, Neural And Behavioral Correlates Of Substance Use Disorders In Mice, Julia Katherine Brynildsen
Targeting Endogenous Homeostatic Mechanisms For The Treatment Of Cocaine Use Disorder: Contribution Of Nr4a1 And Target Gene Expression, Marco Carpenter
Unfolding Musicking Archives At The Northwest Amazon, Juan Carlos Castrillón
Turkish Tv Series In Bulgaria And Russia: The Terribly Charming Turk In The Global Media Matrix, Yasemin Yusufoff Celikkol
Imaging Glutamate In The Human Brain At Ultra-High Magnetic Field: Advances And Applications, Abigail Talya Jordan Cember
Contending With Coloniality Through Speculation, Storytelling, And Sound Performance, David Chavannes
Selective Hydrodeoxygenation Of Biomass-Derived Model Compounds Over Bifunctional Catalysts, Tianqi Chen
Elucidation Of Cancer Therapy Resistance Mechanisms Due To Altered Endoplasmic Reticulum-Mitochondria Tethering, Jorida Coku
Interactions Of Highly Pathogenic Human Coronaviruses With Dsrna-Induced Innate Immune Pathways, Courtney Elizabeth Comar
New Latinx Feelings: Race, Affect, And Form In Queer Latinx Literature, Thomas Conners
Investigating The Role Of Histone H2a Proteolysis During Stem Cell Differentiation, Mariel Coradin
Death And Empire: The Genesis And Expression Of Imperial Identity Via Assyrian Mortuary Contexts, Petra Maria Creamer
Urban "voids": Picturing Light, Air, And Open Space In New York, 1890–1935, Lee Ann W. Custer
Entanglement Structure And The Emergence Of Spacetime, Matthew P. Decross
The Molecular And Regulatory Mechanism Of Multi-Subunit N-Terminal Acetyltransferases, Sunbin Deng
The Mexican Experimental In The Contemporary Novel And Film, Dustin Allen Dill
The Development Of A Fingertip Implantable Mems Tactile Sensing System, Lin Du
Search For Trilepton Resonances From R-Parity Violating Chargino Decays In The B−l Mssm, George Ian Dyckes
The Anxiety Of Evolution: Biological And Cultural Adaptation From Marcel Proust To Peter Greenaway, Tomas Elliott
Parents’ Perceptions Of Safety In Public Space And Adolescent Well-Being In Ethiopia, Peru, And Vietnam, Lauren Ferreira Cardoso
Essays On Student Loans, Higher Education And Inequality, Marc Folch Cordoncillo
Creation And Control Of Quantum States In Layered Materials, Nathan Frey
Elucidating The Role Of The African-Centric P47s Variant Of Tp53 In Metabolism And Ferroptosis, Keerthana Gnanapradeepan
Machine Learning Econometrics, Philippe Goulet Coulombe
Empirical Analyses Of Regulation And Negotiated Prices, Joao Vitor Granja De Almeida
Scale-Dependent Coupling Between Aeolian Form And Flow, Andrew Lewis Gunn
Health, Environment, And Inequality In India, Aashish Gupta
Learning To Compositionally Reason Over Natural Language, Nitish Gupta
Marriage, Kinship, And Political Hierarchy In The Evolution Of The Hoysala Family, Samana Gururaja
Suetonius’ Organizational Craft, Wesley Joseph Hanson
Secure Multi-Party Computation In Practice, Marcella Hastings
Desmin And Microtubules Maintain Nucear Shape And Chromatin Organization In The Adult Cardiomyocyte, Julie Heffler
Essays On Economic Behavior Under Uncertainty, Youngsoo Heo
Essays On Firm, Worker And Consumer Decision-Making In On-Demand And Health Care Markets, Michal Hodor
Investigating The Downstream Effectors Of The Ccm Pathway: A Role For Adamts Proteases And Versican Cleavage, Courtney Hong
Silver Sulfide Nanoparticles For Breast Cancer Imaging With Dual Energy Mammography And Other Modalities, Jessica Hsu
Mri Assessment Of Maternal Uteroplacental Circulation In Pregnancy, Eileen Hwuang
Biomechanical & Biochemical Contributions Of Matrix Metalloproteinases In Joint Pain: Models, Mechanisms, & Patients, Meagan E. Ita
Global Gatekeepers: How Institutions Regulate And Constrain Migration Flows, Elizabeth Jacobs
Nonlocal Optoelectronics In Topological Semimetals, Zhurun Ji
Molecular Determinants Of Immunogenicity Of The Nontypeable Haemophilus Influenzae Hmw1 And Hmw2 Adhesins, Nadia Abdelrazak Kadry
Is It Worth My Time And Effort To Help Others? Prosocial Behaviors As Consequential And Risky Decisions., Polly Kang
Comm-Bots - Distributed Coordination Of Mobile Robot Swarms To Support Message Communication, Cem Karan
Integrin Crosstalk In The Upstream Migration Of Cd4+ T Lymphocytes, Hyun Ji Kim
Trailblazing Motivation And Marginalized Group Members: Defying Expectations To Pave The Way For Others, Karren Knowlton
Essays In Urban And Public Economics, Jacob Allen Krimmel
The Online Adjustment Of Speaker-Specific Phonetic Beliefs In Multi-Speaker Speech Perception, Wei Lai
The Ecophysiological Significance Of Vegetative Phase Change, Erica H. Lawrence
Mapping Spaces, Signatures, And Data, Darrick Lee
Insights Into Functional Noncoding Rna Elements Through The Analysis Of Human Genetic Variation, David Sheng Ming Lee
Essays On Local Governance In India, Hae Nim (sunny) Nim Lee
Essays On Heterogeneity In Macroeconomics, Hanbaek Lee
Topics In Higgs Bundles And Modules Over Even Clifford Algebra, Jia-Choon Lee
Topics In Mirror Symmetry For Fano Varieties And Meromorphic Ddp Correspondence, Sukjoo Lee
Confronting The System: How Local Cross-Sector Education Collaborations Address Barriers To Postsecondary Access & Attainment, Elaine W. Leigh
Empirical Investigations Into The Impact Of Step-Down Unit Admission And Health Information Technology On Patient Outcomes, Suparerk Lekwijit
On The Interaction And Motion Of Inclusions In Lipid Membranes, Xinyu Liao
Investigation Of High-Surface-Area Titanate (atio3) Thin Films Prepared By Atomic Layer Deposition, Chao Lin
Essays On Housing Markets And Mortgage Finance, Desen Lin
Essays On Methods Of Demand And Production Function Estimation, Ruizhi Ma
Investigating The Effect Of Individual-Level And Neighborhood-Level Exposures On Delivery Outcomes, Jessica Rose Meeker
Reading And Writing A Garden, Materials Of A Garden Made In Germantown, Pennsylvania (1683–1719), Miranda Elizabeth Mote
Limit Theorems For Dependent Combinatorial Data, With Applications In Statistical Inference, Somabha Mukherjee
Loss Of Tbx3 Enhances Pancreatic Progenitor Generation From Human Pluripotent Stem Cells, Somdutta Mukherjee
Enhanced Nonlinearity Enabled Via Doped Enz Metastructures: Theory & Potential Applications, Ehsan Nahvi
Classical Reception And The Problem Of The Color Line In Early Modern English Literature, 1519-1804, Divya Nair
Breath-Controlled Instrument Design for Ecological Crises, Andrew Niess
Recruitment And Functions Of Myeloid Cells At The Intersection Of Inflammation & Remodeling, Mailyn Nishiguchi
Cellular Plasticity And Heterogeneity: Implications In Tumor Cell Invasion And Metastasis, Robert Joseph Norgard
Bayesian Nonparametric Models For Causal Inference And Clustering Under Dirichlet Process Priors, Arman Oganisian
Accelerated Risk Assessment And Domain Adaptation For Autonomous Vehicles, Matthew O'kelly
Urban Geochemistry In A Pb-Contaminated Environment: Analysis Of Roadside Hazards In Philadelphia, Pa, Michael Joseph O'shea
Socio-Culutural Factors Influencing Self-Care Among African Immigrants Living With Chronic Illness In The United States, Onome Henry Osokpo
A Contingent Theory Of Governance For The Global Project Organization: The Effect Of Uncertainty And Diversity On Order And Conflict, Rachel Pacheco
Identifying And Targeting Mechanisms Of Immune Cell Activation In Imcd-Tafro, Ruth-Anne Langan Pai
Life On The Border: Constructing The México/u.s. Borderlands, 1961-1971., German Pallares
Exploring Relationships Between Structure, Dynamics And The Effects Of Local Perturbations In Networks, Lia Papadopoulos
Experimentos De Politización. La Vanguardia Y El Devenir Del Populismo En Argentina, Uruguay Y Brasil, María Pape
Essays In Quantitative Marketing, Vladimir Pavlov
Progressive Reliance On Epithelial Plasticity Governs Lung Development, Homeostasis, And Regeneration, Ian Penkala
Learning Representations For Matching, Stephen Phillips