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Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Mechanisms And Modifiers Of Protein Misfolding And Toxicity Associated With Multisystem Proteinopathy, Alice Flynn Ford
Witnessing Domestic Violence: Measuring The Effects In Adolescence, Adulthood, And In The Next Generation Of Children, Christine Forke Young
Species Sadness: Race, Gender, And Animality In Twentieth-Century Mexico And Central America, Carolyn Fornoff
Multiscale Mechanical, Structural, And Compositional Response Of Tendon To Static And Dynamic Loading During Healing, Benjamin Freedman
Regulation Of Natural Killer Cell Development And Function By Activating Receptor Signaling Pathways, Jacquelyn Elizabeth Freund
Locomotion At Low Reynolds Number: Dynamics In Newtonian And Non-Newtonian Systems With Biomedical Applications, David A. Gagnon
Genetic Regulation Of Tmem106b In The Pathogenesis Of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration, Michael Gallagher
Three Essays In Population Process, Romeo Jacky Gansey
Omnichannel Operations Management, Fei Gao
The Hospitable South: Religion, Politics, And Belonging In A Southern Community, Betsie Garner
Towards Precision Psychiatry: gray Matter Development And Cognition In Adolescence, Efstathios Dimitrios Gennatas
Regulating Immune Mediated Pathology In Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: Roles For Il-22 And Skin Microbiota, Ciara Gimblet-Ochieng
Essays On Applied Microeconomics: Airline Networks And Job Search, Kristijan Gjorgjevik
Bioinformatics Discovery And Functional Characterization Of Lipid-Binding Lov Photoreceptors, Spencer Glantz
Rewriting Professional Development: Professional Learning Communities In An Urban Charter School, Gregory John Glasheen
The Role Of Skin Resident Cd4 T Cells In Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Nelson D. Glennie
Integration Of Fermentation And Organic Synthesis: Studies Of Roquefortine C And Biosynthetic Derivatives, Claire Marie Gober
The Design And Synthesis Of Allosteric Effectors Of Carbon Monoxide Binding To Hemoglobin, Sara Rebecca Goldstein
Harmonious Instability: (mixed) Dancing And Partner Choice In German-Jewish And Yiddish Literature, Sonia Gollance
Obstetric History And Sexual Health Screening Among Sexual Minority Women, Madelyne Zuehlke Greene
Engineering Plasmonic Nanocrystal Coupling Through Template-Assisted Self-Assembly, Nicholas J. Greybush
Neuromuscular Synaptic Proteins In Development And Regeneration, Katherine Diane Gribble
Statistical Inference For High-Dimensional Linear Models, Zijian Guo
From Frugality To Exuberance: Architecture And The City In Israel 1923-1977, Daphna Edie Half
The Democratic Standard Of Care In Tort Law, Gregory Jay Hall
Essays On The U.S. Electricity Sector, Jin Soo Han
Interfacial Assembly In Aqueous Two Phase Systems, Sarah Danielle Hann
Learning From Strategically Controlled Information, Daniel N. Hauser
Essays In Algorithmic Market Design Under Social Constraints, Hoda Heidari
Developmental Functions Of Mir156 And Mir157 In Arabidopsis, Jia He
Matroids And Canonical Forms: Theory And Applications, Gregory Henselman
Essays In Macroeconomics With Financial Frictions, Juan Manuel Hernandez
Characterization Of The Nanci-Nkx2.1 Locus: A Novel Role For Lncrnas In Buffering Transcription Factor Expression, Michael Herriges
Death Rites And Imperial Formations In Sudan, 1865-1935, Katie J. Hickerson
On The Development, Characterization, And Use Of Protein Fluorescence And Infrared Spectroscopic Probes, Mary Rose Mintzer Hilaire
Improving Vaccine Design For Viral Diseases Using Modified Antigens And Vectors, Michael John Hogan
"Who Are The True Conservatives?": A Critical History Of American Conservatism in The Nineteenth Century, Danielle Meryn Holtz
Coloureds Performing Queer, Or Queer Coloureds Performing?: Asserting Belonging Through Queer Behavior In Cape Town, South Africa, Glenn Holtzman
“UNE RÉALITÉ PLUS RÉELLE QUE LE RÉEL”: THE PERSISTENCE OF MYTH IN POSTWAR FRENCH AND ITALIAN FICTION, Alison Marie Howard
Becoming Owners: African American Property Ownership, Berean Building And Loan, And The City Of Philadelphia, 1890 To 1920, Ricardo Orlando Howell
Clothing As Culture: Delineating National Character In Costume Prints, C. 1600-1650, Heather Hughes
Developing Models To Investigate Mechanisms Of Genomic Imprinting, Stellar Kim Hur
Experimental Investigation Of Polymer Adhesion Mechanics Using A Blister Contact Test, Nathan Ip
Exploring Home Health Nurse Decision Making: Development And Implementation Of The Visit Plan, Elliane Irani
The Animate Object Of Kinetic Art, 1955-1968, Marina C. Isgro
Context-Aware Sensor Fusion For Securing Cyber-Physical Systems, Radoslav Svetlozarov Ivanov
Determinants Of Hiv-1 Transmission Fitness, Shilpa Iyer
The Development Of Black Girl Critical Literacies Of Race, Gender, And Class In Independent Schools: Awareness, Agency, & Emotion, Charlotte E. Jacobs
Essays On Social Norms, Nicholas Janetos
Essays On Labor And Corporate Finance, Jessica S. Jeffers
Efficient Baseline Utilization In Crossover Clinical Trials Through Linear Combinations Of Baselines: Parametric, Nonparametric, And Model Selection Approaches, Thomas Jemielita
Statistical Methods For Whole Transcriptome Sequencing: From Bulk Tissue To Single Cells, Cheng Jia
Topics In Statistical Inference For Treatment Effects, Yang Jiang
Adhesion And Wear Of Nanoscale Polymer Contacts, Yijie Jiang
Statistical Methods For Genomic And Transcriptomic Sequencing, Yuchao Jiang
The Exploding Globe: Scale And Catastrophe In Contemporary Anglophone Literature, Chris D. Jimenez
Essential Genes And Their Role In Autism Spectrum Disorder, Xiao Ji
Serum Micronutrient Status, Sleep And Neurobehavioral Function In Early Adolescents: A Cohort Study, Xiaopeng Ji
Causal Inference Using Variation In Treatment Over Time, Xinyao Ji
Dedifferentiation Of Cytotoxic Lymphocytes Into Central Memory Cd8+ T Cells: Lessons From Antiviral T Stem Cells On The Architecture Of Aging & Immunotherapy, Jonathan Johnnidis
Implementing Botwana's National Cervical Cancer Prevention Programme: Providers' Fidelity To The See-And-Treat Algorithms, Lauren Gabrielle Johnson
Anchoring The Cognitive Map To The Visual World, Joshua Benjamin Julian
Translating, Adapting, And Performing Opera In Eighteenth-Century Cosmopolitan Europe: Lorenzo Da Ponte At The King's Theatre, Lily Tamara Kass
"Faire Un Cinéma": Marcel Duchamp And The Moving Image, Alexander Benjamin Kauffman
Factors Influencing Intention To Meet The Recommended Daily Intake Of Fruits And Vegetables In Black Emerging Adult Women, Terri-Ann Kelly
Modulation Of Transcription In The Murine Gut Epithelium In Development, Differentiation, And Disease, Julia Elise Kieckhaefer
Essays In Asset Pricing And Labor Markets, Mete Kilic
Perception And Utilization Of Telehealth Services Among Home Health Care Agencies: A National Survey, Eun Hae Kim
Exploring Surrogates' Experiences Of Polst Discussions For Individuals With Advanced Dementia, Hyejin Kim
Assessing Civic Competence Against The Normative Benchmark Of Considered Opinions, Jin Woo Kim
The Determinants And Implications Of Firms' Workforce Configuration: The Case Of Home Health, Kunhee Kim
Multi-Cellular And Multi-Scale Approaches For Cartilage Repair, Minwook Kim
The Role Of Chronic Stress In Age Gradients Of Preterm Birth Among Racial/ethnic Groups, Sangmi Kim
Under The Hood: Revealing Patterns Of Motor Vehicle Fatalities In The United States, Monica King
Lords Of The Seven Parishes: Neighbourhood, Guild, And Revolt In Early Modern Seville, 1520-1652, Igor Knezevic
R-Spondin-2 Modulates Osteoblastogenesis And Bone Accrual, Meghan Noelle Knight
Essays On Health Care Markets, Ami Ko
The Illusion Of Inclusion: Curricular Possibilities Amidst A Homonational Project, Michael J. Kokozos
Stochastic Optimization For Multi-Agent Statistical Learning And Control, Alec Koppel
Privacy In Multi-Agent And Dynamical Systems, Fragkiskos Koufogiannis
Understanding Innovation And Imitation In Evolution, Karen Kovaka
Understanding Chronic Kidney Disease: Genetic And Epigenetic Approaches, Yi-An Ko Ko
Factors Associated With Family Violence By Persons With Serious Mental Illness: A National Online Survey, Travis Labrum
Biography of a City: Art, Urbanization, and Shifting Structures of Power in Carrion de los Condes, 1050-1200, Elizabeth Anne Lastra
Ndfip1 Regulates The Identity And Pathogenicity Of Th17 And Treg Cells To Promote Normal Immune Homeostasis, Awo Akosua Kesewa Layman
Defining The Difficult-To-Sedate Clinical Phenotype In Critically Ill Children, Ruth Lebet
Resource-Efficient Scheduling Of Multiprocessor Mixed-Criticality Real-Time Systems, Jaewoo Lee
3 Essays On Markets, Hierarchies, And Morality, Jooho Lee
Causal Inference Beyond Estimating Average Treatment Effects, Kwonsang Lee
The Message As A Seed: Predicting The Diffusion Of Anti-Smoking Arguments From Message Construal, Stella Lee
Engineering Chimeric Antigen Receptors For Durable Control Over Hiv-1 Replication, Rachel Leibman
Inference And Learning: Computational Difficulty And Efficiency, Tengyuan Liang
Mechanics Of Fluctuating Elastic Plates And Fiber Networks, Xiaojun Liang
Optical Modeling And Analysis Of Disordered Plasmonic Nanoparticle Ensembles, Chen Li
From Discourse Structure To Text Specificity: Studies Of Coherence Preferences, Junyi Li
Land, Water, Infrastructure And People: Considerations Of Planning For Distributed Stormwater Management Systems, Theodore Chao Lim
Differential Requirements For Mitochondria During Neuronal Migration, Erika G. Lin-Hendel
Colloids On Lipid Bilayers: Deformations, Interactions And Migration, Ningwei Li
Slc39a8/zip8 Influences Complex Traits By Regulating Metal Ion Metabolism, Wen Lin