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Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The Italian Library Of Cyrano De Bergerac (1619-1655), Joseph Bruno-Chomin
Dichotomous Engagement Of Hdac3 Catalytic Activity Governs Inflammatory Responses, Hoang Chuong Bui Nguyen
Future Forests: A Biogeography Of An Industry-University Forest Science In The American South, Kevin Burke
Regulation Of Selection And Central Tolerance By The N-Terminal Region Of Rag1, Thomas Niels Burn
Implantable Micro-Tissue Engineered Nerve Grafts To Maintain Regenerative Capacity And Facilitate Functional Recovery Following Nervous System Injury, Justin C. Burrell
Attalid Networks: Seeking Status And Acquiring Authority Beyond State Capacity, Gregory J. Callaghan
En Busca Del Macho Y Otras Ficciones: Representaciones Contemporáneas De Masculinidades Latinoamericanas., Nelson Cardenas
Pushing The Limits Of The Double Copy, Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez
The Effects Of Vertebral Morphology And Composition On Stem-Tetrapod Intervertebral Joint Functional Behavior, Aja M. Carter
Journalism And Activism Anew: Participatory Movements With Adolescents Writing For Change, Emily Claire Plummer Catena
Functionalism, Lexical Contrast And Sound Change, Andrea Ceolin
Ideals From A Distance: Assessing Objections To Idealization Within Moral And Political Theory, Chetan Cetty
Communal Lyricisms And The Lyricization Of English Poetry, 1650–1790, Christopher Chan
Diversity As Impression Management, Edward Chang
Winning Silver: Continental Great Powers And Naval Development, Brian C. Chao
Geometry, Anisotropy And Heterogeneity -- A Study Of Modulated Nematics, Ecology And Evolution., Nandita Chaturvedi
Grain Boundary Mobility Tensor And Topological Phase Transitions, Kongtao Chen
The Monasteries Of Altan Khan: Genesis Of A Distinctive Architecture For Mongolian Buddhism, Wei Chen
Dissecting Transcriptional Control Of Cd8 T Cell Responses, Zeyu Chen
“the Littlest Victims”: Pediatric Aids And The Urban Ecology Of Health In The Late-Twentieth-Century United States, Jason M. Chernesky
Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin Induces Adipose Loss Through Sebum Hypersecretion, Ruth Choa
Protective Potential Of H1n1 Influenza Hemagglutinin Stalk Domain Antibodies: Implications For A Universal Influenza Vaccine, Shannon Renee Christensen
Pharmacological Stimulation Of The Human Hsp70 Protein Disaggregase System, Edward Chuang
Phenotypic And Genotypic Heterogeneity In Autism Spectrum Disorder, Caitlin Crosley Clements
Leveraging The First Comprehensive Measure Of Primal World Beliefs To Further Discussions In Political, Developmental, And Positive Psychology, Jeremy Clifton
The Other Kids On The Rug: An Examination Of Academic-Based Peer Effects In Kindergarten, Kristen Michelle Laws Coe
Pipe Dreams: Luminal Matrices And Tube Shaping, Jennifer Dara Cohen
Restorying Painful Histories: Critical Literacy, The Imagination Gap, And The Affective Lives Of Queer Educators, James Joshua Coleman
Gender Differences In Colonoscopy Screening Behavior And Implications For Public Policy, Brian Michael Collopy
Network Spreading Dynamics In Cognition And Neurodegeneration, Eli J. Cornblath
Navigation In Depth Images, Anthony Cowley
Searching For Supersymmetry In Boosted Fully-Hadronic Final States With B-Jets And Calibrating B-Jet Identification Using Spatially Matched Muons At The Atlas Detector, Rachael Ann Creager
Morphological Processing And The Effects Of Semantic Transparency, Ava Creemers
Vertex-Weighted Generalizations Of Chromatic Symmetric Functions, Logan Taylor Crew
Synthesis Of Bruceantin Analogs And Progress Toward Metal Catalyzed Intramolecular Cyclizations Of Strained Rings, Katherine Crocker
The Emergence Of Phonological Categories, Aletheia Cui
“nobody Expects The Spanish Revolution”: Imaginación Política De La Narrativa Gráfica En España, Xavier Dapena
Analytical Homogenization Estimates For The Transient And Steady-State Response Of Elasto-Viscoplastic Polycrystals, Shuvrangsu Das
Identifying A Novel Vulnerability At The Intersection Of Copper Homeostasis And Glycolytic Metabolism In Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Caroline Ines Davis
Strategies For Overcoming Resistance To Targeted Therapy In Glioblastoma, Evan Karl Day
Essays In Corporate Finance, Paul Decaire
Regulators Of G Protein Signaling Modulate Platelet Function To Impact Normal Physiology And The Hemostatic Response, Daniel John Dehelian
Criminal Spirit: Formations Of Race And Religion In The Americas, Lucas De Lima
Scattered Supremacies: Locating Whiteness In Modernist Fiction, Micah Kuuini Del Rosario
Constrained Learning And Inference, Luiz Fernando De Oliveira Chamon
Planning And The Politics Of Informal Urbanization, Chandan Deuskar
Tumor-Derived Retinoic Acid Regulates Intratumoral Monocyte Differentiation To Promote Immune Suppression, Samirkumar S. Devalaraja
Planos, Curvos Y Quebrados: La No-Ficción Como Espejo De Realidad En La Escritura Mexicana Del Siglo Xxi, Isabel Díaz Alanís
Gating Mechanism Comparison Between The Trkah And Mthk Ion Channels, Valentina Simeonova Dimitrova
Organized Crime In Strong States: Vote Buying, Migrants' Exploitation And Public Funds Misappropriation, Gemma Dipoppa
Polypharmacy: Patterns And Policy Propositions, Duy Hoang Do
Essays On Macroeconomics With Heterogeneity And Public Finance, André Victor Doherty Luduvice
The Effect Of Traumatic Stressful Events On Schizotypal Symptoms In Community-Based Us Adolescents, Fanghong Dong
Gaussian Differential Privacy And Related Techniques, Jinshuo Dong
A Philadelphia Ride-Share Story: An Investigation Of Ride-Share’s Impact On Transit, Xiaoxia Dong
Building And Validating Next-Generation Neurodevices Using Novel Materials, Fabrication, And Analytic Strategies, Nicolette Driscoll
Ehr Data+x: Expanding The Reach Of Ehr Through Data Integration, Rui Duan
Statistical Techniques For Addressing The Clinico-Radiological Paradox In Multiple Sclerosis, Jordan Dworkin
Black Urban Revolution: A Cultural History Of Move And The Radical Everyday In West Philadelphia, Tajah Ebram
Worth The Fight? Teachers' Collective Bargaining Agreements And Student Outcomes, Adam Kirk Edgerton
Structural And Biochemical Studies Of Hiv-1 Integration And Inhibition, Grant Eilers
Dendron Design, Synthesis, And Application In Nanocrystal Assembly, Katherine C. Elbert
A Cross-Sectional fMRI Study Of Risk Factors Of Obesity In Emerging Adult Women And The Moderating Role Of Childhood Maltreatment, Jaclynn Elkind
Essays On Algorithms, Markets, And Society, Hadi Elzayn
Uncovering The Origins Of Rare-Cell Phenomena, Benjamin Emert
Essays In Optimization Methods For Resource Allocation, Markos Spyridon Epitropou
Chromatin Accessibility And Histone Acetylation In The Regulation Of Competence In Early Development, Melody Esmaeili Ghahfarokhi
Learning Equivariant Representations, Carlos Esteves
The Grammar Of Kinship: Black And Native Intimacies In The Nineteenth Century, Eve Eure
Statistical Methods For Allele-Specific Expression Analysis By Rna Sequencing, Jiaxin Fan
Community Grantmaking Committees: Pravalence, Conceptualization, And Funding Decisions, Megan M. Farwell
Community Grantmaking Committees: Pravalence, Conceptualization, And Funding Decisions, Megan M. Farwell
Examining Teacher Performance In Ghana, Syeda Farwa Fatima
Landscapes Of Extraction: Capital And Nature In 21st Century Latin America, Julio Sebastián Figueroa
China And The Iranian Left: Transnational Networks Of Social, Cultural, And Ideological Exchange, 1905-1979, William Andrew Figueroa
Teasing Apart The Immune Response To A Virus-Derived Adjuvant: Insights Into Type 1 Immunity Inducing Vaccine Development, Devin Fisher
Transformative Relations In Early Modern Philosophy, Allauren Samantha Forbes
Merchants, Ministers, And Monks: Making Buddhist Power And Place In Medieval Sri Lanka, Philip Carroll Friedrich
Weak Lensing And Cosmology In The Dark Energy Survey, Lucas Frozza Secco
Multiscale Predictions Of Mechanical Response And Computational Circuit Dynamics After Traumatic Brain Injury, David John Gabrieli
The Evolution Of Genetic Systems: The Influence Of Recombination, Mutation Rate, And Mutational Load, Benjamin Galeota-Sprung
Graph Neural Networks, Fernando Gama
Operations Management In The Presence Of Strategic Agents, Jingxing (rowena) Gan
Geometry And Topology Of Optimal Flow Networks, Tatyana Gavrilchenko
Impacts Of Intracellular Localizations Of Full-Length And Defective Viral Genomes On Paramyxovirus Particle Production, Emmanuelle Genoyer
Higgs Triples And Ruled Surfaces, Michail Gerapetritis
“the Worst Kind Of Prison In The World”: The Executive Power To Detain And Exclude Non-Citizens, 1950-1996, Smita Ghosh
Development And Application Of Computational Tools For Unraveling The Structure Of The 3d Genome, Thomas Grzegorz Gilgenast
Heterogenous Trajectories Of Depressive Symptoms From Adolescence To Young Adulthood: Non-Cognitive Risk Factors And Labor Market Outcomes, Jessica Nicole Gladstone
Investigations Into The Properties Of Cdse-Based Nanocrystals Via Manipulation Of The Size, Shape, And Surface Chemistry, Natalie Gogotsi
The Evaluation Of Policy Measures To Reduce Police Use Of Force, Li Sian Goh
Moduli Spaces Of Riemannian Metrics With Positive And Nonnegative Ricci And Sectional Curvature, Mcfeely Jackson Goodman
Essays In Urban And Real Estate Economics, Caitlin S. Gorback
Core Components Of The Nuclear Pore Bind Unique States Of Chromatin And Mediate Polycomb Repression, Alejandro Luis Gozalo
Labor's Avant-Garde: Painting The Urban Working Class In France From The First International To The Anarcho-Syndicalist Decades, Lindsay Virginia Grant
Dismantling The Art Of Deception: Using "inoculation" To Combat Misinformation From Misleading Cigarette Advertising, Stefanie Kristen Gratale
Interpretation Of The Bmp Morphogen Gradient During Dorsal-Ventral Axial Patterning, Hannah Greenfeld
Analysis Of The Role For Antioxidant Enzyme Heme Oxygenase-1 In Brain Regional Hiv Neuropathogenesis And Blood-Brain Barrier Function, Analise L. Gruenewald