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Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The Social Network Dynamics Of Category Formation, Douglas Richard Guilbeault
Design And Fabrication Of Colloidal Nanocrystal Based 3d Metamaterials For Chiroptical Applications, Jiacen Guo
Out Of Compass: English Women’s Writing And The Cultures Of Travel, 1604-1680, Meghan Elizabeth Hall
Laplacians Of Cellular Sheaves: Theory And Applications, Jakob Hansen
High Throughput Identification Of Rare Cell Populations By Functional Phenoyping, Syung Hun Han
An Experimental Study Of Atomic Scale Friction And Adhesion For 2d And Layered Materials: The Effects Of Interfacial Contact, Compliance, And Commensurability, Kathryn Rose Hasz
Networks Of Knowledge: Metallurgical Technologies In Early Iron Age Cyprus And Crete, Olivia Eve Hayden
Covering Scientific Uncertainty In Ongoing Research, Natalie Herbert
Morbid Sensations: Intimacy, Coercion, And Epidemic Disease In Philadelphia, 1793-1854, Timothy Kent Holliday
Essays On Consumer Behavior And Retail Regulation, Ethan Mallick Hossain
3d Porous High Areal Capacity Lithium-Ion Micro-Batteries, Chenpeng Huang
Bayesian Balance Regression And Mediation Analysis For Microbiome Compositional Data, Lu Huang
A Statistical Framework For Denoising Single-Cell Rna Sequencing Data, Mo Huang
Immune Dysregulation In Pancreatic Cancer, Austin Huffman
Microscale Robotic Wetware For Synthetic Biology, Elizabeth Hunter
Modulating Physical Interactions In Human-Assistive Technologies, Siyao Hu
Unruly Mountains: Competing Visions For China’s Inner Asian Highland, 1368-1600, Xiaobai Hu
Learning Image Segmentation With Relation-Centric Loss And Representation, Jyh-Jing Hwang
Early Risk Factors And Patterns Of Kindergarten Readiness: A Latent Class Analysis Utilizing Head Start Administrative Data, Nneka Renee Ibekwe-Okafor
Exploring The Mechanisms Of Basal And Stimulated Endothelial Fatty Acid Uptake And Transport, Ayon Ibrahim
Towards Large-Scale Integrated Electronic-Photonic Systems, Mohamad Hossein Idjadi
Spectral Networks And Non-Abelianization For Reductive Groups, Matei Ionita
Narratives Of The New Diaspora: Migration And Transnationalism In Contemporary African Literature, Augusta Atinuke Irele
Dynamics And Mechanics Of Glasses In Bulk And Confined Materials, Robert Joseph Spence Ivancic
Endocannabinoids Protect Against Seizures In Drosophila Melanogaster, Jack Aw Jacobs
Methods For Data-Driven Model Predictive Control, Achin Jain
The Development Of Multivalent Nano-Self Peptides As Antagonists For Antibody-Dependent Macrophage Phagocytosis, Abdelaziz Jalil
Mass Spectrometry Methods For Enhanced Analysis Of Epigenetic And Epitranscriptomic Modifications, Kevin Janssen
Sexual And Reproductive Health Care Access For Young Adults In Nepal, Joshua Nishan Jayasinghe
Aerobic Oxidation Of Phenols And Other Arenes By Transition Metal Catalysis, Adriana Jemison
Off-Policy Temporal Difference Learning For Robotics And Autonomous Systems, Heejin Jeong
Assembling The Building Blocks For A Unified Splicing Code, Anupama Jha
Licensing Of Cell Fate Reprogramming Via Leafy Transcription Factor Pioneering Activity, Run Jin
The Effect Of Thickness And Interface Interactions On Stability Of Molecular Glasses, Yi Jin
Shaping Shell Strength: Testing The Influence Of Shell-Crushing Predators On Shell Shape Over Geologic Time, Erynn Johnson
Pharmacologic Reversal Of Drp1-Dependent Mitochondrial Fragmentation, A Homeostatic Mechanism In Friedreich Ataxia, Joseph Edward Johnson
Cellular Localization Of Inflammatory Signaling As A Determinant Of Tumor-Immune Biology, Lexus Johnson
The Literate Meaning-Making Practices, Sociopolitical Knowledge, And Racial Awareness Of First-Grade African American Children In An Urban Community School, Wintre Foxworth Johnson
Variation In African American English: The Great Migration And Regional Differentiation, Taylor Jones
Differential Privacy Beyond The Central Model, Matthew Joseph
More Than Jewels: An Investigation Into The Administration Of Semiprecious Stones In Egypt's Middle And New Kingdoms, Shelby Justl
Empirical Analyses Of Queues With Applications To Elections And Healthcare, Dawson Kaaua
Socioeconomic Status In Pediatric Health Research And Its Association With Critical Illness And Outcomes, Alicia G. Kachmar
Behavioral And Neural Correlates Of Graph Learning, Ari Emanuel Kahn
Neural Mechanisms For Learning In Dynamic Environments, Chang-Hao Kao
The Effect Of Lighting And Building Security On Crime, Jacob Kaplan
Reactor Antineutrinos In The Sno+ Water Phase And Detector R&d For Large-Scale Neutrino Detectors, Tanner Kaptanoglu
Complexity And Entanglement In Quantum Gravity, Arjun Kar
Design, Synthesis, Structural Studies, & Applications Of Synthetic Collagen Peptides, Alexander Jon Kasznel
Three Essays On Racial Reclassification: Racial Reclassification In The U.s., Latino Racialization, And Racialized Ethnic Classification, Andrea Marie Kauffman-Berry
Characterizing And Manipulating Neuronal Plasma Membrane Mechanoporation In Traumatic Brain Injury, Carolyn Elizabeth Keating
Combinatorial Roles Of Skeletal Cell Yap And Taz In Bone Growth, Remodeling, And Repair, Christopher Daniel Kegelman
Volatile Organic Compound Detection And Disease Diagnostics Using Dna-Functionalized Carbon Nanotube Sensor Arrays, Christopher Erkki Kehayias
Tumor Suppressive Role Of Urea Cycle Enzymes In Renal Carcinoma, Sanika Vinayak Khare
Spillover Effects Of Financial Reporting On Public Firms' Corporate Investment, Chongho Kim
The Role Of Midbrain Chloride Ion Dysregulation In Escalated Alcohol Consumption, Blake Kimmey
The Role Of For-Profit Education In Social Stratification And Social Inequality In The United States, David Kirui
The Penetrance Of Pancreas Agenesis Caused By Gata6 Mutations Is Modified By A Non-Coding Snp, Siddharth Kishore
Language Acquisition In The Past, Jordan A. Kodner
Essays On Public Economics And Microeconomic Theory, Hideto Koizumi
In Defense Of Home: The Politics Of Ecological Belonging, Gregory Koutnik
Life After Transcription: Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation And Non-Coding Rnas During Stress And Development, Marianne Catherine Kramer
Unified Framework For Post-Selection Inference, Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla
Effective Program Reasoning Using Bayesian Inference, Sulekha Raghavendra Kulkarni
Smad4 With R361 Hotspot Mutations Retains The Ability To Bind To Lef1 And Boosts Wnt Signaling In Colorectal Cancer Cells, Claudia B. Lanauze
Developing Adeno-Associated Viral Vectors As A Gene Editing Platform, Jonathan Frederick Lang
Antimicrobial Use And Resistance: Intersections Of Companion Animal And Public Health, Sondra Hope Calhoun Lavigne
How The Public Perception Of Political Polarization Affects American Social Life, Hye-Yon Lee
Metal And Metal Oxide Nanocrystals For Catalysis And Magnetic Applications, Jennifer D. Lee
Intelligence, Social Competence, And School Adjustment In Chinese Children, Jinsol Lee
Brain Decoders, Sangil Lee
Novel Insights Into The Cellular Basis Of Pigmentation Using Mouse Models Of Albinism, Linh Le
Aristophanes And The Poetics Of Low Comedy, Amy Susanna Lewis
The Psychology Of Improvements, Joshua Lewis
Morally Speaking: Assertion, Blame, And Conversation, Max Lewis
Identifying Complex Trait-Related Genes Via Regulation-Informed Gene-Based Analyses, Binglan Li
Robust And Accurate Simulation Of Elastodynamics And Contact, Minchen Li
Essays On China's Land Market, Ming Li
Essays In Consumer Choice Dynamics And Their Implications On The Design Of Firm Strategies, Minshen Li
Machine Learning For The Diagnosis Of Lung Disease, William Lindsay
Polymer Mechanics And Dynamics In Polymer Nanoparticle Composites, Emily Lin
The Etiology And Treatment Of Antisocial Behavior: A Biopsychosocial Approach, Shichun Ling
Type 1 Conventional Dendritic Cells Are Systemically Dysregulated Early In Pancreatic Carcinogenesis, Jeffrey Howard Lin
Roles Of Tnfaip8 In Cell Migration And Phosphoinositide Signaling, Mei Lin
Statistical Estimation And Inference For Permutation Based Model, Shaokun Li
New Machine Learning Methods For Genomics And Metagenomics Applications, Mingyang Liu
Essays In Information Economics, Zhenqi Liu
Community Membership Testing And Missing Value Imputation: Theory And Methods, Yezheng Li
Essays In Asset Pricing, Jose Alejandro Lopez Lira Y Ramirez
Social Stratification In The Mortgage Market Post The Great Recession, Jose Carlos Loya
Statistical Inference For High Dimensional Models In Genomics And Microbiome, Jiarui Lu