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Theses/Dissertations from 2010
MANAGING CATASTROPHIC RISK BY ALTERNATIVE RISK TRANSFER INSTRUMENTS, Chieh Ou Yang
Interplay of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Cues in Cell-Fate Decisions, Santhosh Palani
Characterization of THAP10 and THAP11 as Transcriptional Repressors in DNA Damage and Colon Cancer Progression, James B. Parker
Fiscal Policy, Default and Emerging Market Business Cycles, Omer K. Parmaksiz
The Role of Altered Loading in Pathological Changes in the Long Head of the Biceps Tendon Following Rotator Cuff Tears in a Rat Model, Cathryn D. Peltz
Incomplete Information and Robustness in Strategic Environments, Antonio Penta
Building Bridges to Promote Educational Well-Being: A Population-Based Study of the Impact and Timing of Out-of-Home Placement, Child Maltreatment & Homelessness, Staci M. Perlman
On the Random Cluster Model, Neil Peterman
Probabilistic Protein Design, Comparative Modeling, and the Structure of a Multidomain P53 Oligomer Bound to DNA, Thomas John Petty II
Naturbeziehung und Ökologie im Werk von Ernst Kreuder, Alexander E. Pichugin
Evaluating Preschoolers’ Comprehension of Educational Television: The Role of Viewer Characteristics, Stimuli Features, and Contextual Expectations, Jessica T. Piotrowski
Essays in Sovereign Credit Risk, Thomas J. Plank
Essays in Information Economics, Jonathan T. Pogach
The Content of Instruction Under Standards-Based Reform, Morgan S. Polikoff
Understanding and Improving Platelet-Delivered Factor (F) VIII Hemostatic Efficacy in Hemophilia A Mice, Teshell Kimoy Ponteen Greene
Looking Through the Lens of Individual Differences: Relationships Between Personality, Cognitive Control, Language Processing, and Genes, Ranjani Prabhakaran
The Demand for Preventive Activities Among Older Adults and its Association With Medicare Expenditures, Andrea Puig de la Parra
Children's Sensitivity to Pitch Variation in Language, Carolyn Quam
Integrating Electrophysiological, Mechanical, and Optical Methods to Define the Mechanisms of Painful Facet Joint Injury, Kyle P. Quinn
Linear and Nonlinear Auditory Response Properties Of Interneurons In A High Order Avian Vocal Motor Nucleus During Wakefulness, Jonathan N. Raksin
COMMUNICATING CANCER PREVENTION INFORMATION TO U.S. LATINOS: THE MODERATING ROLE OF ACCULTURATION, A Susana Ramirez
Studies of DJ-1, Parkin and Alpha-Synuclein Give Insights into Plausible Mechanisms for Parkinson's Disease Pathogenesis., Chenere P. Ramsey
The Intelligible Creator-God and the Intelligent Soul of the Cosmos in Plato’s Theology and Metaphysics, Jason G. Rheins
Dendritic Cell Migration and Traction Force Generation in Engineered Microenvironments, Brendon Guenther Ricart
Peer Effects in Sexual Initiation: Separating Social Norms and Partner Supply, Seth O. Richards
The Basis of VCP-Mediated Degeneration: Insights From a Drosophila Model of Disease, Gillian P. Ritson
Lentiviral Integration Site Targeting: Host Determinants and Consequences, Keshet Ronen
Clinical Importance of the Drug interaction Between Statins and CYP3A4 Inhibitors, Christopher G. Rowan
Factorizations in the Irreducible Characters of Compact Semisimple Lie Groups, Andrew Rupinski
God's Law or State's Law: Authority and Islamic Family Law Reform in Bahrain, Sandy Russell Jones
MicroBioRobots for Single Cell Manipulation, Mahmut Selman Sakar
Computational Study of DNA-Directed Self-Assembly of Colloids, Raynaldo Theodore Scarlett
The Evolution of Platelet Responses to Collagen Under Conditions of Hemodynamic Flow, Alec A. Schmaier
Antibodies Directed against the Extracellular Region of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Adopt Distinct Modes of Binding and Inhibition, Karl R. Schmitz
"The World Is Upside Down": Women's Participation in Religious Movements in Mozambique, Christy K. Schuetze
Speaking and Sensing the Self in Authentic Movement: The Search for Authenticity in a 21st Century White Urban Middle-Class Community, Seran E. Schug
Philadelphia Foodways Ca. 1750-1850: An Historical Archaeology of Cuisine, Teagan A. Schweitzer
On the Nature of the Hydrogen Bond and Biomolecular Solvation, James N. Scott
Making Space for Capital: The Production of Global Landscapes in Contemporary India, Llerena Searle
Your Ad Here: The Cool Sell of Guerrilla Marketing, Michael Serazio
Identity, Identification, and Media Representation in Video Game Play: An audience reception study, Adrienne Shaw
Mammary Epithelial Metastatic Phenotype Forced Through the Extracellular Matrix, Olga Shebanova
Regulation of Angiogenesis by Adhesive and Mechanical Cues from the Extracellular Matrix, Colette Shen
Criticism and Social Support in Intimate Relationships, Rachel A. Simmons
The Role of preMBT Transcription in Xenopus Development, Jennifer N. Skirkanich
Malebranche's Augustinianism and the Mind's Perfection, Jason Skirry
The Role of Slp-76 Phosphotyrosines in TCR Signal Transduction and T Cell Differentiation, Jennifer E. Smith-Garvin
Affiliative Behaviors in Pairbonded Red Titi Monkeys (Callicebus Discolor), Andrea Spence-Aizenberg
Reaching Up: The Influence of Gender, Status, and Relationship Type on Men's and Women's Network Preferences, Monica M. Stallings
Essays on the Macroeconomics of Labor Markets, Sergiy Stetsenko
Statistical Medial Model dor Cardiac Segmentation and Morphometry, Hui Sun
Strategic and Secure Interactions in Networks, Jinsong Tan
Learning [Voice], Joshua Ian Tauberer
A Distributed Storage and Query Subsystem for Collaborative Data Sharing, Nicholas E. Taylor
Sorting of Amphiphile Membrane Components in Curvature and Composition Gradients, Aiwei Tian
Pim Kinases are Required for Short Lived Plasma Cell Responses by Murine B Cells, John F. Treml
Cultivating Knowing and Relationships: A Grounded Theory of Quality of Death in the Nursing Home, Rebecca L. Trotta
Before We Were Chicanas/Os: The Mexican American Experience in California Higher Education, 1848-1945, Christopher Tudico
Weathering Heights: The Emergence of Aeronautical Meteorology as an Infrastructural Science, Roger Turner
β-Hetero Vinylzinc Reagents: Versatile Precursors for a Broad Spectrum of High Impact Chemicals, Petr Valenta
MECHANISMS OF THE DOWNREGULATION OF PROLACTIN RECEPTOR AND THEIR ROLE IN CELL PROLIFERATION, Bentley J. Varghese
Emotion Regulation in Consumption: Antecedents and Consequences, Nicole M. Verrochi
Mapping Trabecular Bone Fabric Tensor by in Vivo Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Michael J. Wald
Quantitative Molecular MRI of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration, Chenyang Wang
Causal Effect Estimation Under Linear and Log-Linear Structural Nested Mean Models in the Presence of Unmeasured Confounding, Chia-Hao Wang
The C1 Domain in Cancer Signaling Molecules: Regulation by Lipids and Protein-Protein Interactions, Hongbin Wang
Structure-Based Design of Inhibitors Targeting Influenza A Virus M2 Proton Channel (A/M2), Jun Wang
Wang Yuanqi and the Orthodoxy of Self-Reflection in Early Qing Landscape Painting, Shen Wang
Morphology of Ion-Containing Polymers: Correlations Between Structure, Dynamics, and Ion Conduction, Wenqin Wang
Mindful Learning: Children’s Developing Theory of Mind and Their Understanding of the Concept of Learning, Zhenlin Wang
The Acquisition of Human B Cell Memory in Response to Plasmodium Falciparum Malaria, Gretchen E. Weiss
Gamma Oscillations in the Mouse Primary Visual Cortex as an Endophenotype of Schizophrenia, Cristin G. Welle
The Integrative Functions of Post-industrial U.S. Labor Market for Marriage Formation: Three Essays, Lijun Yang
The Role of the Transcription Factor atF4iin Tumor Progression Under Nutrient Deprivation and Hypoxia, Jiangbin Ye
Functions of DNA Damage Response Factors in Lymphocyte Development and Transformation, Bu Yin
Endings in Short Biblical Narratives, Susan B. Zeelander
Resources, Institutional Environments and Firm Scope: Evidence from an Emerging Economy, Nan Zhou
Mechanisms of HDAC2 Function in the Regulation of Adult Cardiac Hypertrophy and Embryonic Myocyte Proliferation, Wenting Zhu
From Jiangnan to Sichuan: Yuan Architecture Along the Yangtze River, Lala Zuo
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Masks: Maintaining Anonymity by Sequestering Key Statistics, James Michael Alexander
Single-Molecule Biophysical Assays with Electrokinetics, Mark Arsenault
Aspects of Experiences: The Role of Novelty in Retrospective Summary Assessments, Rajesh Prakash Bhargave
Transcriptional Poising Prior to the Midblastula Transition Underlies Dorsal Cell Fate Specification by the Wnt/Beta-Catenin Pathway, Shelby A. Blythe
COSMOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF MODIFIED GRAVITY: SPHERICAL COLLAPSE AND HIGHER ORDER CORRELATIONS, Alexander Borisov
Structure and Mechanics of Proteins from Single Molecules to Cells, Andre E. Brown
MECHANISMS OF NOTCH-MEDIATED INHIBITION OF SKELETAL MYOGENESIS, Matthew F. Buas
Investigating the Environment of Mg II Absorption Line Systems With the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Michelle A. Caler
Role and Regulation of the Actin-Regulatory Protein Hs1 in Tcr Signaling, Esteban Carrizosa
Capillary Force in High Aspect-Ratio Micropillar Arrays, Dinesh Chandra
TRANSCRIPTIONAL AND TRANSLATIONAL CONTROL OF ZEBRAFISH MESODERMAL DEVELOPMENT, Lisa L. Chang
Essays on Macroeconomics and Labor Markets: Understanding Idiosyncratic and Aggregate Shocks, Se Kyu Choi
Development and Characterization of Photocrosslinkable Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels for Cartilage Regeneration, Cindy Chung
"Millions of Luxurious Citizens": Consumption and Citizenship in the Urban Northeast, 1800-1865, Joanna Cohen