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Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Are Variations In Baccalaureate Nursing Education Pathways Associated With Patient Outcomes?, Joshua Porat-Dahlerbruch
Parp-1 In Parkinson’s Disease: From Molecular And Cellular Mechanisms To Therapeutic Strategies, Laura Puentes
Language And Reality In Early Greek Thought, Isabella Reinhardt
Essays On The Political Economy Of Development, Jonah Matthew Rexer
Lymphocyte Egress Signal Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Promotes Erm-Guided, Bleb-Based Migration, Tanner Ford Robertson
Response To Stress By The Tumor Microenvironment, Kerry Carl Roby
Geometric Approaches To Quantum Fields And Strings At Strong Couplings, Thomas Rochais
Falling Out Of History: Gender In Representations Of Police Violence In Post-45 African American Novels, Elias Rodriques
Policy Implementation And Engineering For Tagged Architectures, Nicholas Roessler
Vicinitas In Urbe: Neighborliness And Urban Community In Mid-Republican Rome, Jordan Reed Rogers
Recording Resistance: Indigenous Literacy, Archives, And Narrative Power In Twentieth-Century Ecuador, Marlén Rosas
A Scalable, Point-Of-Care, Microfluidic Approach For Assessing Thrombosis And Hemostasis, Jason M. Rossi
Family Structure And Women’s Experiences Of Intimate Partner Violence, Angelina Kathleen Ruffin
Hearing Power, Sounding Freedom: Black Practices Of Listening, Ear-Training, And Music-Making In The British Colonial Caribbean, Maria Theresa Norma Ryan
Essays On Peer Effects And Network Econometrics, Alejandro Sánchez Becerra
Distributed, Scalable And Resilient Information Acquisition For Multi-Robot Teams, Brent Schlotfeldt
Are Consumption Taxes Better Than Labor Income Taxes? Theoretical And Quantitative Implications Of The Choice Of Tax Base, Kristin Shaw
Applications Of Random Matrix Theory In Statistics And Machine Learning, Yue Sheng
Essays On The Economics Of Health And Optimal Taxation, Seung-Ryong Shin
Mechanistic Studies Of Membrane Remodeling Induced By Membrane Asymmetry, Sankalp Shukla
Managing The Gig Economy Via Behavioral And Operational Lenses, Wichinpong Park Sinchaisri
A Microwell-Based Impedance Sensor In Microneedle Shape For Cytokine Detection, Naixin Song
Towards More Automated Statistical Inference And Machine Learning, Matteo Sordello
Dissecting The Melanization Immune Response In The Malaria Vector Anopheles Gambiae, Gregory Lee Sousa
Don’t Mind The Formalization Gap: The Design And Usage Of Hs-To-Coq, Antal Spector-Zabusky
Relationship Characteristics And Self-Care In Adults With Heart Failure, Michael A. Stawnychy
Data-Based And Theory-Based Network Models Of Perturbations To Neural Dynamics, Jennifer Ann Stiso
On Optimizing The Radio Side-Channel For Application Modeling, Kyle Super
The Politics Of Naive Integrationism: Community Integration For Disabled People And The Promises Of Olmstead, Heather Ann Swadley
Mutant P53 Mechanisms And Functions In Esophageal Cancer, Qiaosi Tang
Development Of Transition Metal Cluster Complexes With Macrocyclic Redox-Active Ligands Of Increasing Pocket Size, Laura M. Thierer
Low-Dimensional Material Devices For Atomic Defect Engineering, Ionic And Molecular Transport, Jothi Priyanka Thiruraman
Scalable Learning In Distributed Robot Teams, Ekaterina Tolstaya
A Computational Approach To The Study Of Trauma, Evangelos Tsiklidis
Differential Essential Dimension, Man Cheung Kevin Tsui
The Stigmatized Consumer: Role Of Language And Diversity On Consumer Behavior, Esther Uduehi
Enrollment, Labor, And Effort: An Analysis Of The Educational Choices Of Students In Mexico, Gabrielle Vasey
Reactive Planning With Legged Robots In Unknown Environments, Vasileios Vasilopoulos
Essays On Financial Crises, Sergio Villalvazo Martin
A Cornucopia Of Labeled Diagrams And Their Generating Polynomials, George Wang
The Integrator Complex: A Multi-Tool For Metazoan Transcription, Sarah A. Welsh
Entitled Imaginings: Tristan Tzara, Dada, And The Idea Of Africa, Hilary Whitham
Some Results On Two-Dimensional Lattice Random Field Models, Mateo Wirth
Material Point Methods For Simulating Material Fracture, Joshuah A. Wolper
Enrollment And Finance: An Exploration Of The Community College Baccalaureate, Jeremy Wright-Kim
Enhancing Electronic Health Record Data For Population Health Studies, Sherrie Xie
The Effects Of Racial Segregation And Isolation On Teacher Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence From Pennsylvania, Haisheng Yang
Ion Management And Mass Transport For (photo-) Electrochemical Conversions, Zhifei Yan
Mixed Carlitz Motives And Colored Multizeta Values In Characteristic P, Yao-Rui Yeo
Consumer Behavior And Firm Marketing Strategy Under Assortment Expansion, Qi Yu
Contributions To Multivariate Matching In Observational Studies, Ruoqi Yu
Birational Geometry Of Genus One Fibrations And Stability Of Pencils Of Plane Curves, Aline Zanardini
Manipulating Glass Structure And Properties Through Surface Mediated Equilibrium, Aixi Zhang
Essays On Individual Health Insurance Market: Adverse Selection, Subsidy Design And Provision, Hongyu Zhang
Understanding Patterns In Nature, Mingjun Zhang
Do Managers Learn From Institutional Investors Through Direct Interactions?, Rachel Zhang
Fine-Grained Provenance And Applications To Data Analytics Computation, Nan Zheng
Essays On Networks In Macroeconomics And Finance, Wu Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Spatially Dispersive Electrodynamics And Quantum Geometry In Semimetals, Zachariah Addison
Single Cell Mechanical Trauma And Recovery Across Scales, Modupe Alexandra Adegoke
Dating In The Digital Age: Race, Gender, And Inequality, Sarah Adeyinka-Skold
Striatal Computations In Health And Psychiatric Dysfunction, Opeyemi Alabi
Type 1 Interferon: A Negative Regulator Of Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells Function In Cancer, Kevin M. Alicea-Torres
Saba George Shiber's Kuwaitopolis And The Emergence Of The Arab Urban-Architect, Aminah H. Alkanderi
Essays On Firm Dynamics, Innovation And Growth, Harun Alp
Essays In Mortgage Markets And Public Investment Cycles, Sumedh Ambokar
All-Passive Hardware Architectures For Neuromorphic Computation, Akshay Ananthakrishnan
Urbanity And The Architectural Project: The Case Of Sverre Fehn, Stephen Michael Anderson
Transcriptional Control And Development Of Energy Burning Adipocytes, Anthony Angueira
The Promise Of Language Planning In Indigenous Early Childhood Education In Mexico, Aldo Anzures Tapia
Integrated Electronic-Photonic Systems: From High-Resolution Synthesis To Compact Phased Arrays, Farshid Ashtiani
Prescription Opioids And Adolescents: Factors Associated With Nonmedical Use And Prescribing Practices, Sydney Alexandra Axson
Nollywood And Popular Religion: Productions Of Prosperity, Gender, And The Supernatural In Nigerian Cinema, Chijioke A. Azuawusiefe
A Multi-Methods Study Of Social Determinants And Self-Care In Adults With Heart Failure, Foster Osei Baah
Cyberdreams Of The Information Age: Learning With Machines In The Cold War United States And The Soviet Union, Ekaterina Babintseva
An Experimental Evaluation Of A Brief Self-Compassion Training With First-Year Teachers, Rebecca Nyquist Baelen
Multiscale Polymer And Nanoparticle Dynamics In Polymer Nanocomposites, Eric Joseph Bailey
Pushing The Limits Of Ground-Based Exoplanet Characterization Surveys, Ashley Baker
Cognition In Nature: Information, Explanation, And Embodiment, Todd Ben Baker
Matrix Factorization Under Contamination, Peter Lewis Ballen
Bayesian Nonparametric Analysis Of Spatial Variation With Discontinuities, Cecilia Balocchi
Strategic Human Capital And Entrepreneurship, Jiayi Bao
The Effects Of Content Ephemerality On Information Processing, Uri Barnea
Engaging Nurses In Impelementation Strategies And Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines For Infection Prevention And Control To Support Ebola Preparedness In Sierra Leone, Amy Elizabeth Barrera-Cancedda
Thioamides And Proteolysis: Examining The Effects And Applications Of A Single-Atom Substitution, Taylor Mallory Barrett
The Model Kitchen: Domesticating Modernism In The American Home, 1942-1966, Juliana Rowen Barton
Elucidating Human Inflammasome Responses To Legionella Pneumophila And Lipopolysaccharide Variants, Antonia Ronalda Bass
Development And Validation Of Novel Transmitted/founder Shivs For Hiv-1 Persistence And Cure Research, Anya Margaret Bauer
Elucidating The Regulatory Role Of 3d Genome Folding During Neural Differentiation And Synaptic Activation, Jonathan Adams Beagan
Foundations Of Inequality: Construction, Political Economy, Race, And The Body In Palestine/israel, 1918-1973, Nimrod Ben Zeev
Light-Inducible Control Of Microtubule Organization In Cell-Like Compartments, Jessica G. Bermudez
Adolf Behne's Writings On Architecture, 1912-1933: 'neues Bauen,' Socialism, And The Question Of Agency, Kevin M. Berry
Recruitment & Career Experiences Of Diverse Faculty Couples At Aau Universities, Daniel Jerome Blake
Computational Design And Modeling Of Helical Peptide Bundles In One-Dimensional Nanomaterials, Jacquelyn Blum
Pediatric Palliative And Hospice Care At Home: Development Of A Measure Of Family-Reported Experiences, Jackelyn Yu-Kui Boyden
The Contribution Of Neighborhood Characteristics To Psychological Outcomes After Serious Injury In A Cohort Of Black Men: A Multi-Methods Study, Marta Maria Bruce