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Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Reproductive Health Disparities in Latin America, Emily Mae Vala-Haynes
The Effects of Changes in the Hospital Nursing Workforce and Practice Environment on the Outcomes of Surgical Oncology Patients: A Two-Stage Panel Study, Jill Marie Vanak
Essays in Corporate Finance, Dieter Patrick Vanwalleghem
Recombinant Surfactants Derived From the Naturally Occurring Protein Oleosin, Kevin Vargo
Neural Representations of a Real-World Environment, Lindsay Katherine Vass
Identification of Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Development of Barrett's Esophagus, Maria Eugenia Vega
Expanding the Functionality and Applications of Nanopore Sensors, Kimberly E. Venta
Variation in Organizational Resources and Nurse & Patient Outcomes at Hospitals Serving Economically Disadvantaged Patients, Mary Kreider Viscardi
Roles for the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor in the Immune Response to Toxoplasma Gondii, Sagie Wagage
Symmetric Edit Lenses: A New Foundation for Bidirectional Languages, Daniel Wagner
Regulation of Cell Signaling by Mig6 and Sprouty2 in Cancers With Egfr Mutations, Alice Macdonald Walsh
Pathogenic Mechanisms underlying the Early Epileptic Encephalopathy CDKL5 Disorder, I-Ting Judy Wang
Rethinking Chinese Territorial Disputes: How the Value of Contested Land Shapes Territorial Policies, Ke Wang
Is the It Revolution Over? An Asset Pricing View, Colin Ward
Multifunctionalization of Proteins: Strategies for Combining Semi-Synthetic and Bioorthogonal Techniques, John Blaine Warner
Cellular and Circuit Level Responses to Neural Stem Cell Transplantation in the Rodent Cortex, Tanya Weerakkody
Light-Enabled Identification of the Neuronal Substrates of Alkylphenol Anesthetics, Brian Weiser
Variations in Antigen Presentation Define Regulatory T Cell formation and Activity in Vivo, Katherine Ann Weissler
Scattering and Lens Rigidity, Haomin Wen
Rational Synthesis and Characterization of Tetravalent Cerium Coordination Compounds, Ursula Jane Williams
Microtubule Motors Drive Nuclear Dynamics and Positioning in Developing Skeletal Muscle Cells, Meredith Hayley Wilson
Potassium Organotrifluoroborates: Reliable Cross-Coupling Partners and Stepping Stones to Functionalized Azaborine Cores, Steven Wisniewski
Interactive Medical Image Registration With Multigrid Methods and Bounded Biharmonic Functions, Baohua Wu
Function and Regulation of Bin1 in Membrane Remodeling, Tingting Wu
Mutual Reinforcement Between Telomere Capping and Canonical Wnt Pathway Activity in the Intestinal Stem Cell Niche, Ting-Lin Yang
Resistance Switching Devices Based on Amorphous Insulator-Metal Thin Films, Xiang Yang
Capillary Assembly of Anisotropic Particles, Lu Yao
Riemannian Orbifolds with Non-Negative Curvature, Dmytro Yeroshkin
Intervertebral Disc Structure and Mechanical Function Under Physiological Loading Quantified Non-invasively Utilizing MRI and Image Registration, Jonathon H. Yoder
Combinatorial Species and Labelled Structures, Brent Yorgey
High Resolution Measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in Galaxy Clusters at 90 GHz, Alexander Hewitt Young
Three Dimensional Dirac Semimetals, Saad Zaheer
Fast, Distributed Optimization Strategies for Resource Allocation in Networks, Michael Zargham
Survival Analysis With Uncertain Endpoints Using an Internal Validation Subsample, Jarcy Zee
Essays in Consumption, Behavioral and Applied Microeconomics, Christina Yiwei Zhang
Palladium-Catalyzed C-C Bond Forming Reactions With Weakly Acidic C(sp3)-H Bonds, Jiadi Zhang
Understanding T Cell Recovery Following Thymus Injury, Shirley Zhang
Regulation of Zygotic Transcription and Cell Cycle Checkpoints in Early Embryogenesis, Xiang Maomao Zhang
Performance Modeling and Resource Management for Mapreduce Applications, Zhuoyao Zhang
Inversion of the Star Transform, Fan Zhao
Exploring Linguistic Constraints in Nlp Applications, Qiuye Zhao
The Role of the Exocyst in Membrane Deformation, Cell Migration and Exocytosis, Yuting Zhao
Novel Regulators in the Germline Stem Cell Niche of Drosophila Testis, Qi Zheng
Effect of Cyclosporin a on the Tumor Microenvironment, Yao Zhou
Membrane Curvature Sorting And Generation By The Bar Domain Proteins Endophilin And Syndapin, Chen Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Change and Impact of MicroRNA Modification With Age in Drosophila Melanogaster, Masashi Abe
Genomic Imprinting: Establishment, Maintenance and Stability of DNA Methylation Imprints, Lara Kimberly Abramowitz
Abnormal Smooth Muscle Contraction Alters Gut Motility and Propagates Epithelial invasion in the Larval Zebrafish Intestine, Joshua Abrams
The 2-Core of a Random Inhomogeneous Hypergraph, Omar Abuzzahab
Modeling the Anisotropic Resolution and Noise Properties of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis, Raymond Joseph Acciavatti
Approaches to Mitigate Metal Catalyst Deactivation in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SofC) Fuel Electrodes, Lawrence Adijanto
Shattering Fragility: Illness, Suicide, and Refusal in Fin-De-Siècle Viennese Literature, Melanie Jessica Adley
The Multifunctional Protein Daxx: Studies of its Biology and Regulation, and Discovery of a Novel Function, Trisha Agrawal
Analyzing Massive Graphs in the Semi-streaming Model, Kook Jin Ahn
A Family-Based Sexual Health Communication Intervention With Sex Worker Mothers in Kolkata, india, Samira Ali
Part I: The Confluence of Steric and Electronic Effects in N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Catalyzed Processes Part II: Studies Toward the Asymmetric Oxidative Coupling of Phenols, Scott Edward Allen
Total Synthesis of (-)-Irciniastatin B; Design and Synthesis of Analogues, Chihui An
The Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (Blast-Pol), Francesco "Elio" Angilè
Influences on Children's Human Capital in Rural Malawi, Shirley Afua Appiah-Yeboah
Asymmetric B Cell Division in the Germinal Center Reaction, Burton Earle Barnett
Mental Illness and Prison Reentry in a High Risk Context, Stacey Barrenger
Democratic Exclusion: The Right to Vote in the United States, United Kingdom, and France, David Alexander Bateman
Empirical Studies in Hospital Emergency Departments, Robert Johnson Batt
Perspectives of Family Management from School-Aged Children with Chronic Health Conditions: Through the Eyes of the Children, Barbara Lynne Beacham
Challenging the Assumption of Rationality in Performance-Based Accountability Systems: A Comparative Case Study of School and District Decision-Making Approaches, Jessica K. Beaver
Long Live the Revolutions: Fighting for France's Political Future in the Long Wake of the Commune, 1871-1880, Heather Marlene Bennett
Word Learning in 6-16 Month Old Infants, Elika Bergelson
The Development of New Routes to Half-Sandwich Metallatricarbadecaborane Complexes, Triflate-Functionalized Polyboranes and Carboranes, and Ammonia Borane Hydrogen Release, Emily Robyn Berkeley
Black Sophists: A Critique of Demagoguery, Garry Bertholf
Dying Tt Save Your Colon? Changing the Way We Look at Ulcerative Colitis, Meenakshi Bewtra
Racial Disparities in Schooling: Evidence From Cape-Town, South Africa, Moran Blueshtein
Heirs of the Round Table: French Arthurian Fiction from 1977 to the Present, Anne N. Bornschein
The Reform of Drawing and the Natural Act of Painting: Lodovico Cigoli and His Florentine Circle c. 1600, Lisa Bourla
The Power Of Locality In Network Algorithms, Michael Brautbar
Fringe Benefits, Catherine Brinkley
Worry at Work: How State Anxiety Influences Negotiations, Advice, Reappraisal, and Performance, Alison Wood Brooks
Valuing Family Medicine: Historical Journey, Institutional Hostility, and Individual Narratives, Joanna Veazey Brooks
Granular Drag and the Kinetics of Jamming, Theodore Anthony Brzinski
Musica Celestis: Mystical Song In Late Medieval England, Tekla Bude
Morphologies of Precise Polyethylene-Based Acid Copolymers and Ionomers, Francisco Buitrago
Effects of Uncertainty on Perceived and Physiological Stress and Psychological Outcomes in Stroke-Survivor Caregivers, Eeeseung Byun
Cyclic Cellular Automata on Networks and Cohomological Waves, Yiqing Cai
Dissecting Molecular Pathways That Underlie Disease-Causing Gata1 Mutations, Amy Erin Campbell
Potassium Organotrifluoroborates: Chemistry Beyond Cross-Coupling, Livia Cavalcanti
Essays on Family Structure and Marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa, Sophia Chae
Mechanics of Micro-Structured Soft Materials and Their Applications in Adhesion and Wetting, Chi-Mon Chen
Computational Modeling of Geometry Dependent Phonon Transport in Silicon Nanostructures, Drew Cheney
Essays on Unconventional Monetary Policy, Han Chen
Imagining the City: Ritual and Conflict in the Urban Art Democracy, Carolyn Chernoff
Cellular Basis of Antibody Maintenance: Heterogeneity of the Bone Marrow Plasma Cell Pool, Irene Chernova
Molecular Mechanisms of Alternative Splicing Regulation: An Investigation of the Spliceosome Repressed by Hnrnp L on Cd45 Exon 4, Ni-Ting Chiou
Evasion of host recognition by phase variation in Haemophilus influenzae, Sarah Clark
While Rome Burned: Fire, Leadership, and Urban Disaster in the Roman Cultural Imagination, Virginia Margaret Closs
Morphological and Phonological Structure in Zulu Reduplication, Toni Cook