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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The Human Lung Viral Microbiome In Health And Disease, Arwa Abbas
Asserting Sovereignty: An Indigenous Archaeology Of The Pueblo Revolt Period At Tunyo, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, Joseph R. Aguilar
The Development Of Unnatural Amino Acid-Based Probes And Methods For Biological Studies, Ismail Abd Al Azim Ahmed
Contested Boundaries Of Digital Work, Opeyemi Akanbi
The Effect Of Abstinence From Smoking On Stress Reactivity, Cheyenne Allenby
Essays In Immigration Economics And Education, Gloria Allione
Inhuman Power: Infrastructural Modernism And The Fiction Of Social Form, Natalie Amleshi
The Biophysics Of Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency, Nicholas Roy Anderson
Post-Transcriptional Regulation Of The Eulkaryotic Transcriptome By The Covalent Rna Modicication N6-Methyladenosine, Stephen J. Anderson
Collaborative Careers: Exploring The Consequences Of Colleague Mobility For Knowledge Workers, Tracy Anderson
Credit Constrained? How The Cost Of Capital Affects District Resources And Student Achievement, James Cameron Anglum
Medical Device Interoperability With Provable Safety Properties, David Eric Arney
Factors Influencing The Receipt Of Discharge Pain Treatment By Injured Black Patients, Shoshana Violette Aronowitz
The Emerging Involvement Of Glia In Sleep: Insights From Drosophila Melanogaster, Gregory Artiushin
Uncovering Biophysical Determinants Of Oxidoreductase Function Through De Novo Protein Design, Dirk Auman
The Role Of Mentalizing In Information Propagation, Elisa C. Baek
Assessing Credibility In Subjective Probability Judgment, Joshua Daniel Baker
The Role Of P120catenin In The Initiation And Dissemination Of Pancreatic Cancer, Basil Bakir
Internal Contingencies To The Value Of Firms’ External Relationships: Evidence From Corporate Venture Capital, Sarath Balachandran
Freedom, Society, And The Individual In Early Modern Women's Thought, Patrick Leon Ward Ball
The Method Of Dense Cycle Conditioning, Its Application, Computation And A Result On Concentration, Debapratim Banerjee
Neighborhoods, Stress, And Cvd Risk Among Women With Hiv In Chicago Wihs, Jacqueline Anne Bannon
Deformations Of G2-Structures, String Dualities And Flat Higgs Bundles, Rodrigo De Menezes Barbosa
Development Of Kinetic Inductance Detectors For Far-Infrared Spectroscopy In Astrophysics, Alyssa Colleen Marie Barlis
Further Defining Epidermal Function Through Deciphering Host-Microbe Interactions In The Skin, Casey Brennan Bartow-Mckenney
Pathways To Pathologic Retinal Iron Accumulation: Blood, Guts, And The Immune System, Bailey Hannah Baumann
Insight Into Acetyl-Coenzyme A Regulation Through The Molecular Mechanism Of Atp-Citrate Lyase, Gleb Bazilevsky
The Narrative Of The Iliad: Time, Space, And Story, William Robert Beck
Essays In Marketing, Law, And Ethics, Suneal Bedi
Nonadiabatic Dynamics With Spin-Orbit Coupling, Nicole Bellonzi
Embodied Visual Perception Models For Human Behavior Understanding, Gediminas Bertasius
The Association Between Nursing And Burn Patient Outcomes, Amanda Page Bettencourt
The Mitochondrial Protein Card19 Regulates Membrane Integrity And Terminal Lysis Downstream Of Caspase Activation And Gasdermin Cleavage, Elisabet Laura Bjanes
Cortical And Subcortical Mechanisms For Sound Processing, Jennifer Blackwell
Getting The Best Of Us: Multinational Corporate Networks And The Diffusion Of Skill-Selective Immigration Policies, Vivienne Born
Miss Amerike: The Yiddish Press’s Encounter With The United States, 1885-1924, Ayelet Rose Brinn
Measuring Cosmic Acceleration And Constraining Dark Energy Models With Transients Discovered In The Dark Energy Survey, Dillon Brout
A Multilevel Factor Analytic Investigation Of The Learning-To-Learn Scales: A More Child-Centered Look At Dimensionality, Benjamin Pratt Brumley
Expanding Peptide Stapling With S-Tetrazine, Matthew Henry Bunner
Materializing Political Violence: Segregation, War, And Memory In Quintana Roo, Mexico, Tiffany Cherelle Cain
Continuum Modeling Of Cell-Extracellular Environment Interaction, Xuan Cao
Great Power, Arms, And Alliances, Keith Lambert Carter
Half A Century Of Migration And Family Formation In Latin America And The Caribbean, Andrés Felipe Castro Torres
Representations Of Samaritans In Late Antique Jewish And Christian Texts, Matthew J. Chalmers
Vestures Of The Past: The Other Historicisms Of Victorian Aesthetics, Timothy Chandler
Essays In Heterogeneity In Macroeconomics, Minsu Chang
Birds With Words: How Talking Parrots Expand Our Knowledge Of Cognition, Shereen Chang
Stress And Survival Of Enterobacteriaceae: Studies Of Dehydration Tolerance And Polymyxin Resistance, Annie Chen
Improving Performance Of Infiltrated Sofc Cathodes Via Scaffold Engineering And Catalyst Surface Engineering, Yuan Cheng
Affiliation With Aggressive Peer Groups, Autonomy, And Adjustment In Chinese Adolescents, Lingjun Chen
Analysis And Control Of Networked Systems Using Structural And Measure-Theoretic Approaches, Ximing Chen
Essays On The Economics Of Networks, Yiran Chen
Cardiac Effects Of Huntington’s Disease In Murine Models, Daniel David Child
Three Essays On Diabetes And Mortality In The United States, Daesung Choi
Paraphrase-Based Models Of Lexical Semantics, Anne O'donnell Cocos
Establishing A Molecular Basis For Rare Earth Separations: Progress Towards Rare Earth Recycling Through Coordination And Redox Chemistry, Bren Ezekiel Cole
School District Consolidation And Its Academic And Financial Effects, Gregory Collins
Experimentation In Early-Stage Ventures, Andrea Contigiani
Sinister Intersectionality: A Left-Handed History Of Neuro-Centrisms, 1865–2017, Tabea Cornel
Privilege And Promise: Organizations As Brokers Of Power And Social Mobility, Amanda Barrett Cox
Daedala Tecta: Architectural Terracottas And Cultural Memory In Republican Italy, Sophie Crawford-Brown
Attributions Of Mental State Control: Causes And Consequences, Corey Cusimano
Essays In Housing Markets And Public Finance, Matthew Davis
The Mechanism Of Caspase-8-Mediated Gene Expression And Its Integral Role In Host Defense, Alexandra Delaney
Nucleobase, Nucleoside, And Neighboring Nucleotides: Intrinsic Preferences For Tet Enzyme-Mediated Oxidation Of 5-Methylcytosine, Jamie Elizabeth Denizio
Uncovering The Sources: Historical Characters In Dante's Divine Comedy, Vanessa Dimaggio
Reliable Witnesses, Crackpot Science: Ufo Investigations In Cold War America, 1947-1977, Kate Dorsch
A Sticky Pursuit Of The Threshold Channel: The Effect Of Cohesion On Alluvial River Channel Geometry, Kieran Bernard Jiamin Dunne
Comunidades De Cuidados: Dar La Vida, Curar El Cuerpo Y Preparar La Muerte En La América E Iberia Premodernas (1400-1650), Diana Eguia Armenteros
Learning Optimal Resource Allocations In Wireless Systems, Mark Randall Eisen
Non-Native Grounds: Jewish Writers In American Empire, Alexander Eisenthal
Great Idea, Now What? Three Essays Examining The Relationship Between Organization Design And Commercialization Of Knowledge, John Charles Eklund
Excavating Radical Futures: Puppets, Robots, And The Fight For Technology, Jasmine Erdener
Mapping Media Bias In China, Kecheng Fang
Essays On Foreign Exchange Rates, Xiang Fang
The Technological Imaginaries Of Social Movements: The Discursive Dimension Of Communication Technology And The Fight For Social Justice, Elisabetta Ferrari
Plasticity Against Plastic: Synthetics In The Practice, Theory, And Conservation Of Art Since The 1960s, Roksana Filipowska
Synaptic Dysregulation Of Inhibition In The Dentate Gyrus After Traumatic Brain Injury, Kaitlin Folweiler
Exploring Novel Biophysical Mechanisms In Evolved Optical Systems, Dillion Fox
Rhotic Emphasis And Uvularization In Moroccan Arabic, Aaron Freeman
The Prevention Of Depression: A Machine Learning Approach, Ashley Ann Fuss
(when) Do Consumers Prefer Uncertainty? Consumers' Reactions To Uncertain Advice And Uncertain Promotions, Celia Gaertig
Identity In The Wake Of The State: Local, National, And Supranational Dynamics Of The Syrian Conflict, Victoria Gilbert
Using Data To Optimize The Fulfillment And Location Decisions Of An Online Grocery Retailer, Chloe Kim Glaeser
Faith And Doubt At The Doctor’s: Class, Race, And The Role Of Community In Medical Decision Making, Lindsay Wood Glassman
Innate Immune Antagonism By Diverse Coronavirus Phosphodiesterases, Stephen Goldstein
Unraveling The Beta Cell Translatome: Elucidation Of An Erk/hnrnpk/jund Axis, Austin Lewis Good
Factors That Mediate Expression Of Unique Ggggcc Repeat Expansions In C9orf72-Associated Als/ftd., Lindsey D. Goodman
Molecular Roles Of Regulatory Proteins In N-Terminal Protein Acetylation, Leah Gottlieb
Exploring The Use Of Transition Metals In The Synthesis Of Novel Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds, Azide Complexes, And Unprecedented Reactivity With The Phosphaethynolato Reagent, Lauren Nicole Grant
Design, Synthesis And Biological Evaluation Of Small Molecules That Inhibit Hiv-1 Entry And Sensitize Hiv-1 Infected Cells To Immune Responses, Melissa Carey Grenier
Roles Of Euchromatin And Heterochromatin In Hepatocyte Maturation And Liver Fibrosis, Jessica Mae Grindheim
Resiliency In Robot Formations With Non-Cooperative Robots, Luis Guerrero Bonilla
Event Structure In Vision And Language, Alon Hafri
Family Matters: Concubines And Illegitimate Children In The Japanese Empire, 1868–1945, Jooyeon Hahm
Assembling States: Community Formation And The Emergence Of The Inca Empire, Thomas John Hardy
Essays In Causal Inference: Addressing Bias In Observational And Randomized Studies Through Analysis And Design, Raiden Berte Hasegawa
Robert Adam's Revolution In Architecture, Miranda Jane Routh Hausberg
States And Group Rights: Legal Pluralism And The Decentralization Of Judicial Power, Emma Hayward