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Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The Impact Of Host Phenology On Parasite Transmission And Evolution, Hannelore Macdonald
Synthesis And Characterization Of Functional Materials Using Silica Colloidial Crystals, Their Inverse Replicas, And Layered Double Hydroxides, Pratibha Mahale
Special Obligations And Emergency Conditions, Dylan Nicol Manson
Development Of Novel Vaccination Strategies Against Emerging Bunyaviruses, Tomaz Manzoni
Organizational Change, Payment Reform, And The Value Of Hospital Care, Joseph Martinez
Improvements In Interferometric Data Modeling For The New Era Of Radio Cosmology, Zachary Egan Martinot
Four Essays On Virgin Islands Literature, Amrey Mathurin
El Modo Melodramático Y Los Problemas Socioeconómicos De La Región Sur-Andina (1848-1906), Mercedes Victoria Mayna Medrano
Essays On Economic Growth And Inequality, Yueyuan Ma
Will And Capability: Western Governments' Response To Russian Disinformation Since 2013, Brian Mcdowell
Lifelong Machine Learning Of Functionally Compositional Structures, Jorge Mendez
Understanding The Role Of Nuclear Acetyl-Coa Synthetase 2 In Maintaining Histone Acetylation, Mariel Grace Reyes Mendoza
Pedagogies Of Power: Gender, Race, And Bridewell Hospital On The Early Modern Stage, Alicia Jordan Meyer
Essays On The Use Of A/b Testing Among E-Commerce Practitioners, Alex Miller
Romance Auctoritas In Le Livre Du Cuer D’amours Espris And Jehan De Saintré, Jared Scott Miller
Developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge For Stem Integration Through Data Literacy: A Case Study Of High School Science Teachers, Katherine M. Miller
Novel Mechanisms Of Braf-V600e Regulation Of Inflammation In Dendritic Cells Of Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis, Danielle E. Minichino
Reinventing Poetry: Popular Audiences And Polyphonic Space During The Song-Jin-Yuan Transition (1050–1300), Xiuyuan Mi
Accelerated Design Of Architected Materials With Geometric Heterogeneity For Enhanced Failure Characteristics, Chengyang Mo
Low Energy Order-To-Disorder Transition Pathways In Phase-Change Nanowires, Gaurav Modi
Effects Of Inter-Molecular And Intra-Molecular Factors On The Properties Of Simulated Glasses, Alex Moore
Thinking, Seeing, Practicing Architecture: From The Smithsons To Scott Brown And Venturi, Taryn Mudge
Essays On The Economics Of Disaster Risk, Philip Cook Mulder
Enhancing Academic Persistence And Progress Through A Cognitive Remediation Intervention (fast) For College Students With Psychiatric Conditions, Michelle G. Mullen
Early Childhood Development Implementation Research In Humanitarian Settings, Kathleen Maeve Murphy
Rust And Ferns: Work, Value, And The Politics Of Everyday Security In Kudremukh, South India, Pooja Nayak
Design, Synthesis And Reactivity Of 2,5-Bis(-Pyridyl)pyrrolate-Ligated Platinum And Palladium Complexes, Drew C. Newman
Synthetic Studies Toward The Total Synthesis Of Nahuoic Acids Cii And Dii, Minh Dai Nguyen
Understanding The Trade-Offs In Scaling Back Sentencing Practices, Viet H. Nguyen
Unmasking The Language Of Science Through Textual Analyses On Biomedical Preprints And Published Papers, David Nicholson
Reorienting Sonic Creativity Amid Ecological Disorientation, Andrew Niess
Exploring Novel Materials To Be Used As Dual-Energy Mammography Contrast Agents For Breast Cancer Detection, Lenitza Nieves Lopez
Probing The Dark Universe From Galactic To Cosmological Scales, Farnik Nikakhtar
Fragments Of The Concrete: Ecology And Technical Media In German Romanticism, Bryan Norton
Three Essays In Economics, Education Policy, And Inequality, Taylor Kincaid Odle
Racialized Patterns Of Inequality In United States Birth Outcomes, 1990-2018, Hannah Olson
Cosmology Via The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect, John Orlowski-Scherer
Surface Modification Of Solid Oxide Cell Electrodes To Improve The Electrochemical Performance, Julian Paige
Disentangling The Reciprocal Causal Relationship Between Political Efficacy And Sharing Traditional And Humorous Political Information, Prateekshit Pandey
Cosmology And Astrophysics From Small Scales, Shivam Pandey
Morphologies, Phase Behavior, And Applications Of Precise Ion-Containing Multiblock Copoylmers, Jinseok Park
Optical And Spin Dynamics Of Quantum Emitters In Hexagonal Boron Nitride At Room Temperature, Raj Nanalal Patel
The Novel Innate Immune-Antagonistic Effects Of The Ectromelia Virus C15 Protein, Elise Marie Peauroi
On The Ethics Of Neuroenhancements And The Use Of Race Theory In Biomedical Ethics, Ian Shane Peebles
Three Essays On Mental Health And Pain In The United States, Morgan Peele
Archipelagic "potentials": Infrastructures, Education, And Labor In Indonesia, Jessica H. Peng
Cellular And Mechano-Active Material Approaches To Improve Disc Repair After Herniation, Ana Paula Peredo Nery
Regulation Of The Tubulin Code In Cardiac Hypertrophy And Failure, Sai Aung Phyo
Honey Over Vinegar: Alignment Decisions Of Smaller States And U.s.-China Competition For Influence In Southeast Asia, William Piekos
Layers Of Maturation In Cortical Hierarchies, Adam Pines
Preparing One’s Act: Performance Supports And The Question Of Human Nature In Early China, Maddalena Poli
Unlocking New Odd-Electron Pathways Via Photoactive Catalysis, Viktor Christian Polites
Multiscale Models Of Interfacial Mechanics In Low Dimensional Systems, Christopher Price
Negotiating Between Shell And Paper: Wampum Belts As Agents Of Religious Diplomacy, Lise Puyo
Additively Fabricated Laminated Inductors For Miniaturized Switching Power Converters, Jun Beom Pyo
Understanding The Fracture Behavior Of Polymer-Infiltrated Nanoparticle Films, Yiwei Qiang
Deep Basis Fitting For Depth Completion, Chao Qu
Preclinical Investigations Of Genetic Correlates Of Alcohol Use Disorder, Natalia Amaris Quijano Cardé
Unions And Social Capital In The United States, Isaac Jonathan Rabbani
Preaching Prosperity: Pentecostals And The Transformation Of American Evangelicalism, 1946 – 1988, Gabriel Raeburn
Covenantal Connections: Visualizing Mosaic Law In The Middle Ages, Abigail S. Rapoport
Chronic Pain Outcomes In Veterans With Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Bruno Ratier Saconi De Almeida
Characterizing Medial Temporal Lobe Neurodegeneration Due To Tau Pathology In Alzheimer's Disease Using Postmortem Imaging, Sadhana Ravikumar
Marriage And Family In India, Megan Nicole Reed
Localizing Seizure Onset With Diffusion Models, Andrew Y. Revell
Women Prepare More Than Men In Competitive And Non-Competitive Environments, Which Aligns With Gender Stereotypes, Keana Richards
Control Of Thermogenesis By Nuclear Receptor Corepressors And Rev-Erbs In Brown Adipose Tissue, Hannah Joy Richter
A Melting Fossil: Constituting Planetary Time In The Cryosphere, 1815-1980, Alexis Rider
Writing And Wronging: Prerogatives Of The Self-Translator, Trask Roberts
Development Of A Ph-Sensitive Probe For In Vivo Cerenkov Imaging Of The Tumor Microenvironment, Andrea Estefania Rodríguez-Ríos
Feeling And Judgment In Kant, John Roman
Effect Of Probe Characteristics And Hydrogel Structure On Single Nanoparticle Dynamics, Katie Anne Rose
Property And Distributive Justice: A Theory Of Moral Property Rights, Meir Itamar Rosensweig
Private Federated Analytics At Scale, Edo Roth
Machine Learning On Large-Scale Graphs, Luana Ruiz
Immigrant Volunteering And Integration, Anne Stefanie Ruiz Sportmann
Regulation Of Anterior Gene Expression In The Caenorhabditis Elegans Embryo, Jonathan Douglas Rumley
"it's Only Fellow Refugees Who Assist:" Social Capital, Social Institutions, And Self-Reliance In Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, Blair Sackett
Clays, Ceramic Production, And Landscape At Archaic And Classical Eleon, Janelle Marie Sadarananda
Extracting Generalizable Hierarchical Patterns Of Functional Connectivity In The Brain, Dushyant Sahoo
Learning Environmental Models With Multi-Robot Teams Using A Dynamical Systems Approach, Tahiya Salam
Politics In The Time Of Race, Isaac Gabriel Salgado
The Islamic State: Discursive Articulations Of Identity, Subjectivity, Community, And Statehood, Mohammed Amin Abdulqadir Salih
Prevotella Phylogeny: Genomic And Molecular Insights Into The Role Of The Human Commensal Prevotella In Cystic Fibrosis, Prioty Ferheen Sarwar
Ancient Solutions Of The Ricci Flow On Compact Homogeneous Spaces, Sammy Sbiti
Algebraic And Geometric Properties Of Big Mapping Class Groups, Anschel Montana Schaffer-Cohen
A Critical Role For Mrgprb4 Touch Neurons In A Skin-Brain Pathway For Stress Resilience, Melanie Schaffler
The Role Of Working Memory In Implementing Computational Elements Of Visuo-Spatial Decision-Making, Kyra Schapiro
Selection Bias In Lung Allocation: Influence On Lung Allocation Score And Physician Decision-Making, Erin Schnellinger
Like A Snake In Difficult Mountains: A Historical And Archaeological Analysis Of The Character And Origin Of The Iron Age Kingdom Of Musasir, Marshall Wheeler Schurtz
Inequalities In The Structure And Delivery Of U.s. Health Care, Rebecca Anna Schut
Dovish Reputation Theory: When Fighting To Demonstrate Resolve Backfires, Joshua Adam Schwartz
The Nation And Its Deviants: Global Sexology And The Racial Grammar Of Sex In Colonial India, 1870-1940, Rovel Sequeira
Ethical Machine Learning: Fairness, Privacy, And The Right To Be Forgotten, Saeed Sharifimalvajerdi
Trust Fund Families: The Organization Of Elite Families And Persistence Of Wealth Inequality, Doron Raoul Shiffer-Sebba
Practical Network Programming Automation, Lei Shi