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Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Essays on Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice, Hsin-hung Tsai
Mechanics of Interactions and Atomic-Scale Wear of Tips ian Amplitude Modulation Atomic Force Microscopy, Vahid Vahdat
Novel Roles for the Tumor Suppressor APC Through Regulation of GSK-3, Alexander James Valvezan
Broad-Based Equity Compensation, Employee Turnover, And Unit Performance, Marshall Vance
Millimeter-Scale Epileptiform Spike Propagation Patterns and Their Relationship to Seizures, Ann Vanleer
Interrogation of Single Asperity Electrical Contacts Using atomic force Microscopy With Application to Nems Logic Switches, Graham E. Wabiszewski
N-Terminal Protein Modification by Aminoacyl Transferase: Enzymology and Applications., Anne Wagner
Large Protein Folding and Dynamics Studied by Advanced Hydrogen Exchange Methods, Benjamin Thomas Walters
Automated Formal Analysis of Internet Routing Configurations, Anduo Wang
The Role of the Hippocampus in Representations of Emotional Memory, Melissa Eveline Wang
Study of Image Local Scale Structure Using Nonlinear Diffusion, Yan Wang
Genre and Empire: Historical Romance and Sixteenth-Century Chinese Cultural Fantasies, Yuanfei Wang
A Three Layered Framework for Annual Indoor Airflow CFD Simulation, Yue Wang
Issues in Group Sequential/Adaptive Designs, Hong Wan
The Horse in Pre-Imperial China, Xiang Wan
Multiple Conserved Enhancers of the Osteoblast Master Transcription Factor, Runx2, Integrate Diverse Signaling Pathways to Direct Expression to Developing Bone, Christopher Weber
Enabling More Accurate and Efficient Structured Prediction, David Joseph Weiss
Damage Detection and Mitigation in Open Collaboration Applications, Andrew Granville West
Raising the Volume: Media and the Rise of the 21st Century Tea Party, Khadijah Lorraine White
Cocaine Self-Administration: Adaptations to the Glutamatergic System and Consequences for Offspring Emotional Control, Samantha Louise White
Forkhead Transcription Factors Foxp1 and Foxp4 Regulate T Cell Development and Function, Karla Rose Wiehagen
Nonlinear Structural Functional Models, Michael Ryan Wierzbicki
The Role of Arx in Specification and Maintenance of Pancreatic Islet α-Cells, Crystal Ley Wilcox
Towards a Better Understanding of Nonstructural Carbohydrate Storage and Carbon Limitation in Trees, Erin Taylor Wiley
Total Synthesis of (+)-18-Epi-Latrunculol A, Brett Daniel Williams
Innovation Tournaments: Improving Ideas through Process Models, Joel O. Wooten
Statistical Methods for Analysis of Multi-Sample Copy Number Variants and ChIP-seq Data, Qian Wu
High Performance Optical Transmitter Ffr Next Generation Supercomputing and Data Communication, Xiaotie Wu
Cellular Mechanisms of Mammalian Liver Regeneration, Kilangsungla Yanger
The Decline of the Rust Belt: A Dynamic Spatial Equilibrium Analysis, Chamna Yoon
Redundant Neuromodulatory Mechanisms That Control Fear Memory Consolidation, Matthew Young
Local Cytoskeletal and Organelle Interactions Impact Molecular Motor-Driven Early Endosomal Trafficking, Allison Lorraine Zajac
Association of Protein Helices and Assembly of Foldamers: Stories in Membrane and Aqueous Environments, Shaoqing Zhang
A Sharper Ratio, Xingtan Zhang
Arithmetic Constructions Of Binary Self-Dual Codes, Ying Zhang
Formalizing the SSA-based Compiler for Verified Advanced Program Transformations, Jianzhou Zhao
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The Egf-Ras-Erk Pathway and the Nkx-5/hmx Homeodomain Protein Mls-2 Promote Tube Development in the C.elegans Excretory System, Ishmail Abdus-Saboor
Essays in Online Advertising, Vibhanshu Abhishek
Commensal Bacterial Communities Regulate Antiviral Immunity, Michael Christopher Abt
The Application of Geoarchaeological and Micromorphological Perspectives to Issues of Hominin Behavior in the Late Pleistocene, Vera Lúcia Dias Aldeias
Outlandish Fictions: The Eighteenth-Century French Novel and Marriage on Women's Terms, Ekaterina R. Alexandrova
Efficacy and Mechanistic Evaluation of Tic10, A Novel Antitumor Agent, Joshua Edward Allen
Essays in Problems of Optimal Sequential Decisions, Alessandro Arlotto
Molecular Evolution of Vasopressin and Oxytocin Receptor Genes in Owl Monkeys (aotus Azarai) of Northern Argentina, Paul Longley Babb
Engineering Patterns to Study Vascular Biology, Jan Baranski
Shear Deformation in Polymer Gels and Dense Colloidal Suspensions, Anindita Basu
Silec: A New Tool to Study Mitochondrial and Metabolic Disease, Sankha Subhra Basu
Generative-Discriminative Low Rank Decomposition for Medical Imaging Applications, Nematollah Kayhan Batmanghelich
Men at Work: Public Construction, Labor, and Society at Middle Republican Rome, 390-168 B.C., Seth G. Bernard
Genetic and Pharmacological Approaches to Preventing Neurodegeneration, Marco Boccitto
The Use of the Internet for Alternative Views on Health, Angel Bourgoin
Synergy Between Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I (igf-I) E-Peptides and Igf-I Signaling Alters Growth in Skeletal Muscle, Becky Kathleen Brisson
The Function of Hedgehog and Wnt Signaling Pathways in Otic Development, Alexander Brown
Digital Youth in Digital Schools: Literacy, Learning, and all That Noise, Mary Frances Buckley
H.D.: The Politics and Poetics of the Maternal Body, Aliki Sophia Caloyeras
The Political Economy of War Finance, Rosella Cappella
Monstruos, Maniobras y Mundos: Lo Fantástico En La Narrativa Cubana, 1910-2010, Sandra M. Casanova-Vizcaíno
Statistical Methods for Human Microbiome Data Analysis, Jun Chen
Essays on Learning Under Ambiguity, Hongseok Choi
Asymmetric T Cell Division and the Self-renewal of Specific Immunity, Maria L. Ciocca
PhoQ: Structural and Mechanistic Investigations into an Important Bacterial Sensor Kinase, Graham David Clinthorne
Theaters of Power: Inka Imperial Performance, Lawrence S. Coben
Icp-Ms Analysis of Lanthanide-Doped Nanoparticles: A Quantitative and Multiplexing Approach to Investigate Biodistribution, Blood Clearance, and Targeting, Samuel Henry Crayton
Investigating the Role of Microtubules in Glut4 Vesicle Trafficking and the Kinetics of Membrane Attachment by the Myosin Myo1c, Jennine Dawicki McKenna
Higher-Order Chromatin Organization in Hematopoietic Transcription, Wulan Deng
Defeat and Resurrection: A Political History of the Pan-Albanian National Revolutionary Movement, 1912-2010, Alexandra Rachael De Renzy Channer
Measuring Biomarkers of Friedreich Ataxia: Implications for Clinical Research, Eric Christopher Deutsch
Lysine Post-Translational Modifications of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Chromatin Proteins, Christopher Richard Edwards
Dynamics of Endogenous Cardiac Repair and Methods for Enhanced Post-Injury Cell Therapy, Jeremy Alan Elser
The Vietnamese Vowel System, Giang Huong Emerich
Disease Diagnosis from Immunoassays with Plate to Plate Variability, Oliver Entine
Cardiovascular Effects and Enjoyment of Exer-Gaming in Older Adults, Michael John Fachko
Identification and Characterization of Small Molecule Antagonists of the Human Papillomavirus Oncoproteins, Daniela Fera
Non-Linear Homogenization of Magnetorheological Elastomers at Finite Strain, Evan Galipeau
The Evolution of a High Mutation Rate and Declining Fitness in Asexual Populations, Christopher Francis Gentile
Sallust's Histories and Triumviral Historiography, Jennifer Gerrish
From Print to Pixel: Visual Media and The Fate of Nonviolent Social Movement Activism, Ksenia O. Gorbenko
Essays on Consumer Default, Richard Grey Gordon
Israeli Environmental NGOs and Philanthropic Foundations: Donor Dependence, Organizational Characteristics, and Selection Mechanism, Itay Greenspan
The Casualization of Intimacy: Consensual Non-Monogamy and the New Sexual Ethos, Brittany Griebling
Evaluating the Effects of Child Care Policies on Children's Cognitive Development and Maternal Labor Supply, Andrew Griffen
Services in Manufacturing Industries: Contributions to Quality and Competition, Jose Guajardo
Impact of HAART on T Cell activation in HIV-Infected Adolescents, Danielle Haney
Chemical Genetic Approaches for Elucidating Protease Function and Drug-Target Potential in Plasmodium Falciparum, Michael Harbut
Object Rivalry: Competition Between incompatible Representations of the Same Object, Nicholas Hindy
Conceptual Flexibility: Behavioral and Neural Variations in Semantic Memory Retrieval, Nina Hsu
Mri Based Quantification of Global Cerebral Metabolism, Varsha Jain
Lytic Granule Convergence to the Microtubule Organizing Center in Natural Killer Cells, Ashley Mentlik James
Molten Metal Anodes for Direct Carbon-Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Abhimanyu Jayakumar
Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Polymeric Hybrid Nanomaterials, Amanda C. Kamps