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Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Neural Synchrony In Successful Communication, Kristin Shumaker
Self-Censorship And Strategic Omission In Moral Communication, Ike Silver
Lying, Cheating, And The Social Dynamics Of Ethical Decision Making, Samuel Elliot Skowronek
Social Robot Augmented Telepresence For Remote Assessment And Rehabilitation Of Patients With Upper Extremity Impairment, Michael Joseph Sobrepera
The Hard-To-Measure Aspects Of Firms, Jason Adam Sockin
On The Orbital Rigidity Conjecture And Sustained P-Divisible Groups, Tao Song
Three Essays In The Sociology Of Violence: Repertoire Paralysis, Localized Diffusion, And Emotional Interventions In De-Escalation, David C. Sorge
Elucidating The Role Of Hepatic Foxo1 Signaling In The Regulation Of Adipose Tissue Biology, Jaimarie Sostre
The Design Of A Community-Informed Socially Interactive Humanoid Robot And End-Effectors For Novel Edge-Rolling, Andrew Specian
Synthesis And Reactivity Of Dicobalt And Diiron Complexes Supported By Binucleating Ligand Scaffolds, Ariana Z. Spentzos
Mechanical Properties Of Fibrous Network Materials, Russell Spiewak
Safe Programming Over Distributed Streams, Caleb Stanford
Gravitational Imagination: Picturing Suspension From Eadweard Muybridge To The Space Age, Miriam Ashkin Stanton
From Meditation To Information: Reading After Unigenitus, Andrew Elliot Starling
The Shadows Of The Sensorium: Synesthesia And Intermediality In German Romantic Literature, Margaret Strair
Some Investigations Of Phase Transitions In Rod-Like Macro-Molecules And Fibrous Gels, Chuanpeng Sun
Essays In Macro-Finance, Dominik Supera
Time's Deep Rhythms: Models, Mechanisms, And Narratives In Historical Explanation, Daniel Glyn Swaim
City Mutable: The United States Census Bureau's Quest To Define The City, 1850-1930, Kristian Erickson Taketomo
Un/making The City: Politics Of Urban Infrastructural Construction In Pakistan, Fatima Tassadiq
Electronic Structure Theory, Electronic Friction, And Berry Curvature: An Important Frontier Between Chemistry And Physics, Hung-Hsuan Teh
Functional Brain Network Development: Shifting Boundaries & Environmental Influences, Ursula A. Tooley
Música Y Crisis En Una Isla En Cambio: Cultura Punk En Cuba, Carmen Torre Perez
Understanding The Relationship Between Clot Contraction And Platelet Biology Under Hemodynamic Conditions, Kevin Timothy Trigani
Statistical Learning For System Identification, Estimation, And Control, Anastasios Tsiamis
Rethinking Modern Agriculture: Essays On Farmers, Productivity And The Environment, Canberk Ucel
Injectable Hydrogels To Deliver Extracellular Vesicles For Treatment After Myocardial Infarction, Selen Uman
L2 Decay Of Certain Bilinear Oscillatory Integral Operators, Ellen Urheim
A Book For All Seasons: Reading Habits And Material Reception Of Dante’s “divina Commedia” In Early Modern Italy ., Natale Vacalebre
Enhancing Strength And Toughness Via Reinforcement With Nanocellulose Fibers, Gnana Saurya Vankayalapati
Polymer Dynamics In Disordered Nanoparticle Packings: Effect Of Confinement, Interfaces, And Humidity, R Bharath Venkatesh
Through The Doors - An Opera In One Act For Mixed Ensemble With Electronics, Anh Dang Minh Vu
Inference Of Shared Genetic Architecture With Genome-Wide Association Data, Jianqiao Wang
Metal-Air Power Sources With Hydrogel Electrolytes For Long Endurance Robots, Min Wang
Essays On Inequality And Frictions In The Labor Market, Ni Wang
Topics In Differentially Private Statistical Inference, Yichen Wang
Barba: A History Of Facial Hair As Cultural Symbol In The Roman World, Timothy Michael Warnock
Beyond Classical Statistics: Optimality In Transfer Learning And Distributed Learning, Hongji Wei
X-Ray Scattering Investigations Into Nanoporous Gold's Kinetic Behavior During Dealloying And Coarsening For Applications In 3d Energy Storage, Samuel Scott Welborn
Aristotle On Rhetoric, Stephanie Wesson
Opportunities For Engaging Planning's Core Values And Skills To Improve Maternal And Child Health In Rural U.s. Communities, Jennifer Rae Whittaker
Single Molecule Approaches To Studying Tau Function And Dysfunction, Sanjula Wickramasinghe
Nebulous Figures: A Cultural History Of An American Riotocracy, 1848-1929, Clinton Bryce Williamson
Essays On College Investment And Income Inequality, Yaacov Wittman
The Effect Of Source Credibility On Promising Belief Messages: A Message Pretesting Study To Address Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Black Americans, Chioma Laura Woko
Multi-Omics Integration Through Single-Cell Copy Number Analysis In Cancer, Chi-Yun Wu
Topic Modeling: Optimal Estimation, Statistical Inference, And Beyond, Ruijia Wu
Deciphering The Heterogeneity Of Hiv Reservoir Immunology: A Single-Cell Perspective, Vincent Huang Wu
Asymptotic Properties Of Disordered Systems, Jiaming Xia
Executable Denotational Semantics With Interaction Trees, Li-Yao Xia
Essays On Machine Learning And Labor Economics, Jianhong Xin
Applications Of Advanced Statistical Modeling Techniques For Understanding Depression, Colin Xu
Kat6a Initiates An Epigenetic Transcriptional Control Module To Drive Oncogene Expression In Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Fangxue Yan
Role Of Structure In Mechanics: Glassy Polymer Nanocomposites Under Active Deformation, Entao Yang
Deep Learning And Uncertainty Quantification: Methodologies And Applications, Yibo Yang
High Throughput Immunospecific Detection And Analysis On Subcellular Nanomaterials At Single Particle Level, Zijian Yang
Network-Wide Monitoring And Debugging, Nofel Yaseen
Essays On Corporate Governance And Shareholder Activism, Begum Ipek Yavuz
Of Rice And Men: Nationalist Military Grain Procurement And Transport Policies In Wartime China (1937-1945), Jennifer Yuk Lum Yip
Essays In Urban Economics And Public Finance, Rui Yu
Hygiene And Daily Life In Republican China, 1911—1945, Sarah Xia Yu
Rapid, Site-Specific Labeling Of 'off-The-Shelf' And Native Serum Autoantibodies With T Cell-Redirecting Domains, Fabiana Zappala
Tracking The Summary Statistics In Long-Term Memory, Haiyun Zeng
Observational Data With A Continuous Exposure: Study Design And Outcome Analysis, Bo Zhang
Exploring The Genetic Architecture Of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Jing Zhang
Hyperscale Data Processing With Network-Centric Designs, Qizhen Zhang
Music After The Cultural Revolution: Transnational Precarity For China's One-Child Generation, Shelley Zhang
Iron-Based Microstructures For Biodegradable And Non-Biodegradable Applications, Tao Zhang
The Effects Of Platelet Signaling Inhibitors On Clot Development Under Flow, Yiyuan Zhang
Virtualizing Reconfigurable Architectures: From Fpgas To Beyond, Yue Zha
Geometry And Topology: Building Machine Learning Surrogate Models With Graphic Statics Method, Hao Zheng
Characteristics Of The U.s. Digital News Landscape: Trends And Patterns In Audience Behavior, Alvin Zhou
Regulation Of Genome Topology In Notch-Mutated Cancers, Yeqiao Zhou
Causal Inference Methods For Addressing Positivity Violations And Bias In Observational And Cluster-Randomized Studies, Angela Yaqian Zhu
Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver, Ningfeng Zhu
Role Of Type Ii Phosphatidylinositol 4-Kinases In Endosomal Tubule Dynamics During Melanosome Biogenesis, Yueyao Zhu
Remote Force Guided Assembly Of Complex Orthopaedic Tissues, Hannah Marie Zlotnick
Etf Primary Market Structure And Its Efficiency, Ewelina Anna Zurowska
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Using Machine Learning And Natural Language Processing To Improve Scientific Processes, Titipat Achakulvisut
Development And Use Of Spectroscopic Methods And Probes To Elucidate Structure, Dynamics, And Functions Of Biomolecules, Arusha Acharyya
Exploring Income Volatility And Financial Health Among Middle-Income Households, Mina Addo
Microtissue Engineered Neural Networks As Optically-Controlled Living Electrodes For Circuit Modeling And Neuroprosthetics, Dayo Adewole
On Connections Between Machine Learning And Information Elicitation, Choice Modeling, And Theoretical Computer Science, Arpit Agarwal
The Characterization Of Visual Evoked Feedforward-Feedback Travelling Waves In Mice During Waking And Anesthetized States, Adeeti Aggarwal
Imagining Italy, Surviving America: Opera, Italian Immigrants, And Identity In Philadelphia, 1870-1924, Siel Agugliaro
(implicit) Argument Introduction, Voice And Causatives, Faruk Akkus
Nuclear Pore Component Mtor Regulates Levels Of Dosage Compensated Gene Expression In Drosophila, Jennifer R. Aleman
Horticulture Into Landscape: The Career Of Warren Manning, Konstantinos Alexakis
Cryptographic Foundations For Control And Optimization: Making Cloud-Based And Networked Decisions On Encrypted Data, Andreea Beatrice Alexandru
Educational Trajectories Of Indigenous Students: Vertical And Horizontal Stratification In The Chilean Educational System, Andrea Paz Alvarado Urbina
An In Situ Study Of Resistance Degradation And Switching Of Bulk Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia And Strontium Titanate Single Crystals, Ana Isabel Alvarez
Divine Matter-Energy In Mesopotamia: Visualizing The Numinous In Political Context Ca. Ninth–sixth Centuries Bce, Anastasia Amrhein
A New Era In The Fight For Nursing Civil Rights: Mercy-Douglass Hospital School Of Nursing, Hafeeza Anchrum
Lived Botany: Settler Households, Ecological Adaptation, And Knowledge Formation In Early British North America, Hannah Elizabeth Anderson
Replication In Massive Open Online Course Research Using The Mooc Replication Framework, Juan Miguel Limjap Andres-Bray