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Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Beyond Landscape: Imagining Place In Later Edo Print Culture, Quintana Roo Irigon Heathman
In Tune With The Cosmos: Tuning Theory, Cosmology, And Concepts Of Sound In Early China, Noa Hegesh
Transpacific Foundations For Growth: Migrant Brokers And Japan’s Rise As A World Power, 1868-1964, Robert Alan Hegwood
A Microfluidic Approach For Investigating The Role Of Blood Flow In Thrombosis, Bradley Andrew Herbig
Personified Preaching: Black Feminist Sermonic Practice In Literature And Music, Melanie R. Hill
Building The Hive: Corporate Personality Testing, Self-Development, And Humanistic Management In Postwar America, 1945-2000, Matthew J. Hoffarth
On The Total Curvature And Betti Numbers Of Complex Projective Manifolds, Joseph Ansel Hoisington
Capillary Rise Infiltration (cari) Of Polymer In Nanoparticle Packings, Jyo Lyn Hor
Essays On Public Corruption And Social Norms, Sterling Horne
Networked Data Analytics: Network Comparison And Applied Graph Signal Processing, Weiyu Huang
Matching: The Search For Control, Colman Hubert Humphrey
Statistical Methods For Alternative Splicing Using Rna Sequencing, Yu Hu
Essays In Public Economics And International Trade, Benjamin Hyman
Autonomous Behaviors With A Legged Robot, Berkay Deniz Ilhan
Recasting The Coolie: Racialization, Caste, And Narratives Of Asian Indentureship, Najnin Islam
Learning, Moving, And Predicting With Global Motion Representations, Andrew Coulter Jaegle
Young Children’s Understanding Of Learning And Its Relation To Their Own Learning, Jeein Jeong
Molecular Recognition At Dna Damage Sites, Qinqin Jiang
Spectral Data For L^2 Cohomology, Xiaofei Jin
Platelet Factor 4 And Von Willebrand Factor Form An Immunogenic, Prothrombotic Complex In Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia, Ian Johnston
Essays On Wage Inequality Using The Search Framework, Kory Dimitri Kantenga
Elucidation Of Histone Modifications And Nucleosomal Structure Using Novel Mass Spectrometry Approaches, Kelly Karch
Becoming A King Of Islam: The Imperial Project Of Qadi Burhan Al-Din Of Sivas (1345-1398 Ce), Ali Karjoo-Ravary
Examining Factors Associated With Early, Post-Discharge, Acute Healthcare Utilization In Older Adults, Susan K. Keim
Anchoring The Cognitive Map To The External World, Alexandra Thomas Keinath
Characterizing Knh: A Multifunctional Kingella Kingae Adhesin, Brad Kern
Musical Imaginaries And Nationalism In The Arab World, Hanna Khuri
The Labor Market Effects Of Foreign Direct Investment And Institutional Changes In The United States, Eunbi Kim
Essays On Accounting Issues Related To Technology Transactions, Jessica Kim-Gina
On Frustration: Toward A Theory Of A Democratic Politics Of Perseverance, Juman Kim
Transcriptional Control Of Circadian Rhythms, Yong Hoon Kim
Neural Circuits Controlling Circadian Rhythms, Anna King
Impact Of The Future Project On Student Motivation: Meeting Basic Psychological Needs To Improve Academic Dispositions, Jessica Koehler
Outer Space And Fourier Space: Understanding Foregrounds For Neutral Hydrogen Epoch Of Reionization Measurements, Saul Aryeh Kohn
Diagnosing Disease Using High Throughput Parallelized Nanofluidics And Machine Learning, Jin A Ko
Health Services Utilization Among Older Asian Americans, Dexia Kong
From Exposure To Effects: Examining The Cognitive Processes Underlying Effects Of "the Real Cost" Youth-Targeted Anti-Smoking Media Campaign, Elissa Claire Kranzler
A Synthetic Circuit For Control Of The Bacterial Dna Damage Response Without Dna Damage, Jeffrey Kubiak
The Development Of Glide Deletion In Seoul Korean: A Corpus And Articulatory Study, Soohyun Kwon
Random Testing For Language Design, Leonidas Lampropoulos
Handel As Arranger And Producer: Listening To Pasticci In Eighteenth-Century London, Carlo Giorgio Lanfossi
“what God Gave To Us”: Digital Habitus And The Shifting Social Imaginary Of American Evangelicalism, Corrina Laughlin
Prophylactic Fictions: Immunity And Biosecurity, Travis Chi Wing Lau
Mechanistic Contributions To Geomorphic Changes Of State, Dylan Bentley Lee
Hidden Cities: Reinventing The Non-Space Between Street And Subway, Jae Min Lee
Atomic Force Microscopy-Based Investigation Of Plastic Deformation Mechanisms In Disordered Nanoparticle Packings, Joel Allen Lefever
Three Essays On The Estimation Of Average Treatment Effects In Quasi-Experimental Panel Data, Kathleen Tina Li
Microstructures And Mechanical Metamaterials For Energy Conversion And Other Applications, Chen Lin
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Beyond Wealth And Status At Archanes-Phourni, Sarah R. Linn
Dynamic Behavior Of Elastic Metamaterials: Multiscale Modeling, Simulation, And Design, Chenchen Liu
A Pictorial Vision Of Space: Looking At Modern Architecture In China Through Landscape Painting, Linfan Liu
Towards Real-Time Simulation Of Hyperelastic Materials, Tiantian Liu
Exotic Allies: Mongol Alterity And Racial Formation In The Global Middle Ages, 1220-1400, Sierra Lomuto
Toward A More Perfect Rebellion: The Multiracial Roots And Fruit Of Ucla's Ethno-Communications Program, Josslyn Jeanine Luckett
Essays On Dynamic Updating Of Consumer Preferences, Tong Lu
The Effect Of Dynamic Pricing And Revenue Management On Agent Behavior And Customer Perception, Xingwei Lu
Essays On Universal Health Coverage In Indonesia, Caroline Ly
Home Recovery In New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina, Chenyi Ma
Anyone Anywhere: Narrating African Innovation In A Global Community Of Practice, Eleanor Rosalind Marchant
Patrons And Personnel: The Determinants Of Military Recruitment Policies, Max Margulies
Desperately Seeking The Producer: Audiences, Identity, And The Margins Of The Internet, Elena Rosa Maris
Reverse Micelle Encapsulation And Its Use In Examining The Interplay Between Hydration And Protein Dynamics, Bryan Stephen Marques
Body, Camera, Action: Understanding The Metamorphosis Of Performance Art In Japan, Daria Melnikova
Measuring Preferences For Uncertainty, Robert Mislavsky
Essays In Health Economics, Zahra Mohammadi
A Moveable Feast: Production, Consumption, And State Formation At Early Phrygian Gordion, Kathryn Rebecca Morgan
Response Inhibition In Obsessive Compulsive Disorder And Co-Occuring Psychopathology, Sarah Morris
The Organization Of Halakhic Knowledge In Early Modern Europe: The Transformation Of A Scholarly Culture, Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg
American Imprints: Disability And The Material Text, 1861-1927, Clare Mullaney
Bodies, Technologies, Viruses: Music And Social Immunity In Bio-Pop, New York City, 1980s, Maria Elaine Murphy
Mothers, Daughters, Wives, And Widows: The Politics Of India's Social Programs For Women, 1985-2015, Prakirti Nangia
Nonclassical Sex Hormone Signaling In Melanocytes And Melanoma, Christopher Anthony Natale
Null Models For Cultural And Social Evolution, Mitchell Newberry
Health And Nutrition In The Context Of Developing Countries, Carmen Ng
Design, Synthesis, And Characterization Of Dimeric Lysosomal Inhibitors And Their Effect On Cancer Biology, Michael Nicastri
Making Innovation: Literacy And Technoscience In Urban Public School Reform, T. Philip Nichols
Beyond Silk: A Re-Evaluation Of Jin Painting (1115 - 1234), Gabrielle J. Niu
Beyond The Emperor’s Disgrace: Reconstructing The Architectural, Topographical, And Landscape Design Of Domitian’s Rome, Daira Nocera
Properties And Mechanisms: Physical And Chemical Investigations Of Bis(imino)pyridine Ruthenium Complexes, Michael Noss
Essays On Random Forest Ensembles, Matthew Olson
Somatotopic Organization Of The Mammalian Pain System And Developmental Mechanisms, William Paul Olson
Preparation Of Active And Stable High-Surface Area Catalysts By Atomic Layer Deposition, Tzia Ming Onn
The Effect Of Trade In Demand For Skill In Emerging Economies, María José Orraca Corona
Essays On Innovation, Gokhan Oz
Internet Markets: Exchange Relations On Craigslist, Ebay, And Silk Road, Jonathan Pace
Adenovirus Strategies To Regulate The Association Of Cellular Proteins With Viral Genomes, Neha J. Pancholi
Optical Spectroscopy Of Defects In Two-Dimensional Materials And Applications For Dna Sequencing, William Parkin
Automatic Verification Of Linear Controller Software, Junkil Park
Linear/non-Linear Types For Embedded Domain-Specific Languages, Jennifer Paykin
Three Essays On Family, Gender, And Educational Change Across Low- And Middle-Income Countries, Luca Maria Pesando
Strategies For Improving Epistasis Detection And Replication, Elizabeth Piette
Essays In Empirical Asset Pricing, Irina Pimenova
The Cent Ballades D’amant Et De Dame Of Christine De Pizan: A Critical Introduction And Literary Translation, Samantha Spotswood Weil Pious
Should Corporate Bond Trading Be Centralized? Theory And Evidence, Sebastien Plante
Unnormal Sisterhood: Girls Of Color Writing, Reading, Resisting, And Being Together, Grace D. Player