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Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Evaluating Protein Structure And Dynamics Using Co-Solvents, Photochemical Triggers, And Site-Specific Spectroscopic Probes, Rachel Marie Abaskharon
Novel Cell Surface Anchoring Mechanism Of Prokaryotic Secreted Protein, Mohd Farid Abdul Halim
Three Essays On Early Childhood Development In Chile, Alejandra Abufhele Milad
Three Essays On Interfirm Interdependence And Firm Performance, Shiva Agarwal
Force Transmission Mechanisms In Fibrous Biological Structures, Hossein Ahmadzadeh
Effective Field Theory On Manifolds With Boundary, Benjamin I. Albert
The Nursing Practice Environment And Job Outcomes In Saudi Hospitals, Zainab Ahmad Ambani
Making Waves: An Exploration In Learning Through Art, Science, And Making, Emma Jane Anderson
The Idea Of A Realistic Utopia, Collin Anthony
Improving Network Performance Through Endpoint Diagnosis And Multipath Communications, Behnaz Arzani Arzani
Late Third Millennium Bce Religious Architecture At Tell Al-Hiba, Ancient Lagash, Darren Poehlein Ashby
Impact Of Host Factors On The Adaptive Immune Response To Aav Gene Therapy, Scott N. Ashley
Extracellular Matrix Regulates Fibroblast Heterogeneity And Tumorigenesis, Diana Leigh Avery
Essays In The Economics Of Human Capital, Rodrigo Azuero Melo
The Gemin2 Complex: An Evolving View Of Smn Mediated Snrnp Assembly, Eric Steven Babiash
Parameterising Germanic Ditransitive Variation: A Historical-Comparative Study, Hezekiah Akiva Bacovcin
The Role Of Lnk Adaptor Protein In Hematopoietic Stem Cell Genome Stability And Self-Renewal, Joanna Balcerek
Drivers And Consequences Of Non-Market Decision-Making: Evidence From Global Corporate Disaster Giving, Luis Ballesteros
Structural And Functional Studies Of Two Bacterial Terpene Cyclases: Geosmin Synthase And Epi-Isozizaene Synthase, Golda Harris Barrow
The Human Heterochromatin Landscape: Genomic Subtypes, Bound Proteins, And Contributions To Cell Identity, Justin S. Becker
The Genetic Architecture Underlying Rapid Seasonal Evolution In Natural Populations Of Drosophila Melanogaster, Emily Louise Behrman
Tumor Interferon Signaling Initiates And Sustains A Multigenic Resistance Program To Immune Checkpoint Blockade, Joseph Lawrence Benci
Biophysical And Biomolecular Components Of Dendritic Cell Chemokinesis, Amy Chevalier Bendell
An Examination Of Medical Technology Disadoption And Its Relation To Technology Adoption And Physician Organization, Henry Bergquist
Blame, Desert, And Termination, Vikram R. Bhargava
The Design And Engineering Of An Artificial Protein Magnetosensor, Chris Bialas
Detecting And Controlling Insect Vectors In Urban Environments: Novel Bayesian Methods For Complex Spatial Data, Erica Billig
The Network Structure Of Collective Innovation, Devon Brackbill
Transcriptome-Wide Analysis Of Hypoxic Cancer Cells Identify Alternative Splicing As A Mechanism To Inhibit Translation, Lauren Kathleen Brady
Obligato / Obligé: A Musical Etymology, Suzanne Anita Bratt
Breast Cancer Survivors And Medication Adherence: The Role Of Health Beliefs, Perceptions Of Aging, And Partner Support, Moriah Julia Brier
Proteolytic Activation By Adamts3 Defines Distinct Mechanisms Of Lymphangiogenesis Mediated By Vegfc And Vegfd, Hung Manh Bui
Mending A Broken Chain: Continuous History And Literary Form In England And Wales, 1125-1450, Jacqueline Marie Burek
Redundant Information And Predictable Stock Price Returns, Michael P. Carniol
The Neural Mechanisms Of Conformity Across Socioeconomic Status And Development, Christopher N. Cascio
Technology For Improving Early Reading In Multilingual Settings: Evidence From Rural South Africa, Nathan M. Castillo
The Architects And Architecture Of Knowledge: The Formation And Circulation Of Social Identities In Higher Education Research, Andres Castro Samayoa
Histone Variant Macroh2a In The Gut And Beyond: A Study Of Intestinal Fortitude, Ryan James Cedeno
Marketplaces Of The Modern: Egypt As Marketplace In Twentieth-Century Anglo-Egyptian Literature, Nesrine Chahine
Semiparametric Approaches To Developing Models For Predicting Binary Outcomes Through Data And Information Integration, Xinglei Chai
Out Of Place: Stone Architecture And Pastoral Nomadism In Prehistoric Inner Asia, Annie Chan
The Impact Of Attitudes Toward Science And Core Self-Evaluation On Science Achievement And Career Outcomes: A Trajectory-Based Approach, Jessica Lena Chao
Language And The Gentrifying City: An Ethnographic Study Of A Two- Way Immersion Program In An Urban Public School, Sofia Chaparro
Exploring Financial Incentives To Promote Adherence To Anti-Retroviral Medications In People Living With Hiv/aids, Sambuddha Chaudhuri
Secure Diagnostics And Forensics With Network Provenance, Ang Chen
Unifying Static And Runtime Analysis In Declarative Distributed Systems, Chen Chen
Designing Plasmonic Materials And Optical Metasurfaces For Light Manipulation And Optical Sensing, Wenxiang Chen
Thioamides In Protease Studies: Many Applications For A Single-Atom Substitution, Xing Chen
Design And Synthesis Of Gold Nanoparticle Contrast Agents For Atherosclerosis Imaging With Computed Tomography, Peter Chhour
Essays In Public Economics, Michael Chirico
Persuasive Technologies In Hiv Prevention: A Structural Intervention For African American Young Adults, Deepti Chittamuru
The Effect Of Market Expansions On Provider Behavior In Dentistry, Shulamite S. Chiu
Continuity In Enriched Categories And Metric Model Theory, Simon Seamoon Cho
Development Of Pitch Contrast And Seoul Korean Intonation, Sunghye Cho
Understanding Antisocial Behavior Through Autonomic Arousal, Nutrition, And Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, Olivia Choy
Pre-Clinical Development Of Aav Mediated Gene Therapy For Familial Lecithin Cholesterol Acyltransferase Deficiency, Devin Mae Christopher
Longitudinal Studies Of Caenorhabditis Elegans Aging And Behavior Using A Microfabricated Multi-Well Device, Matthew Alexander Churgin
The Impact Of Immigration Policies On Local Enforcement, Crime And Policing Efficiency, Alberto Ciancio
In The Eye Of The Selector: Ancient-Style Prose Anthologies In Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) China, Timothy Robert Clifford
A Longitudinal Study Of Maternal Style, Young Adult Temperament And Cognition, And Program Outcome In Guide Dogs, Emily Elizabeth Bray Cohen
Recalling Democracy: Electoral Politics, Minority Representation, And Dalit Assertion In Modern India, Michael Adrian Collins
Leaving Home: Demographic, Endocrine, And Behavioral Correlates Of Dispersal In Monogamous Owl Monkeys (aotus Azarae) Of Argentina, Margaret Kimberly Corley
Engineering Complex Microenvironments To Manipulate And Study Cellular Mechanobiology, Brian Cosgrove
Iron-Carbon Associations In Tropical Soils Of The Luquillo Critical Zone, Elizabeth Katherine Coward
Elucidating The Role Of Type I Interferon Signaling In Adipocyte Biology, Megan Coyle
The Elusive Equalizer: How Racial, Class, And Gender Inequality Persists Among College Educated Millennials, Charlene Erika Cruz-Cerdas
Child Maltreatment, Behavior Problems, And Neurocognition: Main And Mediation Effects, Naixue Cui
"Citizens In The Making": Black Philadelphians, The Republican Party And Urban Reform, 1885-1913, Julie Davidow
Assembly, Elasticity, And Structure Of Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals And Disordered Colloids, Zoey Samuel Davidson
Azaborines: Unique Isosteres Of Aromatic And Heteroaromatic Systems, Geraint H. M. Davies
Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer Imaging Of Endogenous Metabolites For Monitoring Oxidative Phosphorylation And Glycolysis In Vivo, Catherine Debrosse
Child Welfare Caseworkers: A Pivotal Role In The Uptake Of Evidence-Based Practices, Christina Denard
Normal And Epilepsy-Associated Pathologic Function Of The Dentate Gyrus, Christopher Dengler
Studying Indigenous Brazil: The Xavante And The Human Sciences, 1958-2015, Rosanna Dent
Transcript Diversity In The Protozoan Parasite Toxoplasma Gondii, Maria Alejandra Diaz-Miranda
From Civic Lessons To Everyday Democracy: Democratic Habits, Video Games, And Collaborative Game Making, Gideon Dishon
Essays On Dynamic Incentive Design, Mustafa Dogan
Third Nature: Landscape And Ethics In The Early Modern Iberian World, Steve Dolph
Cation Kinetics And Electric Field Effect In Zirconia, Yanhao Dong
Nano/biosensors Based On Large-Area Graphene, Pedro Jose Ducos
The Aesthetics Of Waste: Michel Tournier, Agn�s Varda, Sabine Macher, Melissa Dunlany
Predicting And Characterizing The Health Of Individuals And Communities Through Language Analysis Of Social Media, Johannes Christopher Eichstaedt
In This Place Called Prison: How Religion Structures The Social World Of Incarcerated Women, Rachel Hannah Ellis
Essays In Macro-Finance And Asset Pricing, Amr Elsaify
Design, Structure, And Action Of An Artificial Photosynthetic Reaction Center, Nathan Marshall Ennist
Amyloid Fibril Nucleation In Reverse Micelles, Gozde Eskici
Forging Christianity: Jews And Christians In Pseudo-Ignatius, Phillip Joseph Augustine Fackler
Unimolecular Decay Dynamics Of Atmospherically Important Criegee Intermediates, Yi Fang
Epigenomic And Nuclear Architectural Insights Into Rett Syndrome, Maria Danielle Fasolino
Josephus As Political Philosopher: His Concept Of Kingship, Jacob Douglas Feeley
Reforming The Cold War State: Economic Thought, Internationalization, And The Politics Of Soviet Reform, 1955-1985., Yakov Feygin Feygin
Understanding Dewetting Transitions On Nanotextured Surfaces: Implications For Designing Surfaces With Improved Wettability, Suruchi Fialoke
What A Polygon Can't Tell You: Shifting From Area-Level To Point-Level Investigation Of Residential Segregation Patterns, Ross William Fineman
Dna Double Strand Breaks Suppress Expression Of The Rag Recombinase: Mechanisms And Consequences, Megan Rose Fisher
Ceramic Entanglements In The Urartian Periphery: Technology As The Nexus Of Politics And Practice, Susannah Goldblum Fishman
Design And Evaluation Of Interactive Hand-Clapping Robots, Naomi T. Fitter
The End Of The Line: The Nature And Politics Of Resilience In Galveston, Norfolk, And New York City, William Fleming
Genomics-Based Studies Identify Cis And Trans Acting Post-Transcriptional Regulators, Shawn W. Foley