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Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Perceptual Consequences And Neural Mechanisms Of Auditory Adaptation, Chris F. Angeloni
Low Blood Lead Levels, Parental Education, Physiological Stress, And Neurocognition: A Cohort Study, Olivia Arnold
Statistical Methods For Paired Transplant Genetic Data, Victoria Arthur
“the Target Doesn’t Matter If The Journey Wasn’t Fun”: A Multimodal Exploration Of Multiplicity And Success With Transnational Youth And Their Tutors At A Community-Based Organization, Gordon Divine Ntso Asaah
Controlled Levitation Of Nanostructured Thin Films For Sun-Powered Near-Space Flight, Mohsen Azadi
Photoredox-Mediated Dual Catalysis, 1,2-Difunctionalizations, And Reaction Development For Dna-Encoded Library Technology, Shorouk Badir
The Politics Of Misinformation In India: Prevalence, Mechanisms, Solutions, Sumitra Badrinathan
Gay Rites: Interaction Rituals And The Social Construction Of Sexual Reality In The Philadelphia Gayborhood, Tyler Baldor
Radiant Ephemera: Abolition In The Archives Of Atlantic Slavery, 1785–1865, Ajay Kumar Batra
Trpc3 Antagonizes Contact Dermatitis-Induced Pruritus, Katherine Beattie
Uncovering Constraints On Organoid Morphologies, Lauren Elise Beck
Economics Of Buyouts, Alexander Belyakov
Quantitative Methods For Guiding Epilepsy Surgery From Intracranial Eeg, John Bernabei
Characterizing The Outer Solar System With The Dark Energy Survey, Pedro Henrique Bernardinelli
Performance As Public Work: Youth As Civic Actors For Policy And Practice In Liberia, Jasmine L. Blanks Jones
Politics And Prosthetics: 150 Years Of Disability In Japan, Mark Ross Bookman
Essays On Firm-Level Distortions And Aggregate Productivity, Gorkem Bostanci
Semantic Simultaneous Localization And Mapping, Sean L. Bowman
Gnas Inactivation In Heterotopic Ossification, Niambi Brewer
Caring For Actively Dying Children And Their Parents In The Pediatric Icu:a Mixed Methods Study, Elizabeth Glyde Broden
Pbaf-Associated Circadian Lncrna Adirf-As1 Regulates Renal Clear Cell Tumorigenesis, Rebekah C. Brooks
However Provisional: Labor And Politics In Contemporary Central American Literature And Film, Veronica Brownstone
Modeling Genetic, Neural And Behavioral Correlates Of Substance Use Disorders In Mice, Julia Katherine Brynildsen
Algorithmic Analysis And Statistical Inference Of Sparse Models In High Dimension, Zhiqi Bu
Glial Contributions To Traumatic Brain Injury, China Nicole Byrns
The Role Of Active Dna Demethylation In Mammalian Epigenetic Reprogramming, Blake Alexander Caldwell
P2x7 Receptor Stimulation And Elevated Intraocular Pressure Rapidly Alter Microglia Morphology, State Markers, And Cytokine Release, Keith Campagno
Hexosamine Salvage In Pancreatic Cancer, Sydney Lauren Campbell
The Immediacy Of Linguistic Computation, Spencer Philip Caplan
Targeting Endogenous Homeostatic Mechanisms For The Treatment Of Cocaine Use Disorder: Contribution Of Nr4a1 And Target Gene Expression, Marco Carpenter
Unfolding Musicking Archives At The Northwest Amazon, Juan Carlos Castrillón
None Of Your Business Ethics: Essays In Secrecy, Ethics, And Commerce, Matthew Thomas Caulfield
Turkish Tv Series In Bulgaria And Russia: The Terribly Charming Turk In The Global Media Matrix, Yasemin Yusufoff Celikkol
Imaging Glutamate In The Human Brain At Ultra-High Magnetic Field: Advances And Applications, Abigail Talya Jordan Cember
Developmental Role Of H19 And Igf2 In Mouse And Human, Suhee Chang
The Rational Design, Synthesis, And Biological Evaluation Of Small Molecule Cd4 Mimetic Families For Hiv-1 Viral Entry Inhibition, Cheyenne Chaplain
Mechanisms Of Axon Guidance Receptor Regulation And Signaling During Midline Crossing, Karina Chaudhari
Contending With Coloniality Through Speculation, Storytelling, And Sound Performance, David Chavannes
Lightweight Structures Enabled By Microfabrication, Wujoon Cha
Dynamic Behavior Of Periodic Media And Elastic Metamaterials, Bryan Gonnara Chem
Versican/collagen Interactions In Tissue Structure And Mechanics, Dongning Chen
Capacity Investment And Market Power In The Electricity Market, Bo Cheng
Leveraging Systems Immunology To Understand The Molecular Underpinnings Of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy, Gregory Chen
Theoretical And Computational Studies Of Heat Transport Processes In Molecular Systems, Renai Chen
Selective Hydrodeoxygenation Of Biomass-Derived Model Compounds Over Bifunctional Catalysts, Tianqi Chen
Computational Imaging Biomarkers For Precision Medicine: Characterizing Heterogeneity In Breast Cancer, Rhea Chitalia
Understanding The Role Of The Il-1 Family Cytokines Il-18 And Il-33 In Protective And Pathological Responses To Toxoplasma Gondii, Joseph Thomas Clark
Slavery And Freedom On The Fringes Of France: Historical Archaeology At Habitation La Caroline, French Guiana, Elizabeth Clay
Elucidation Of Cancer Therapy Resistance Mechanisms Due To Altered Endoplasmic Reticulum-Mitochondria Tethering, Jorida Coku
Interactions Of Highly Pathogenic Human Coronaviruses With Dsrna-Induced Innate Immune Pathways, Courtney Elizabeth Comar
New Latinx Feelings: Race, Affect, And Form In Queer Latinx Literature, Thomas Conners
Investigating The Role Of Histone H2a Proteolysis During Stem Cell Differentiation, Mariel Coradin
Investigating The Role Of Histone H2a Proteolysis During Stem Cell Differentiation, Mariel Coradin
Prioritizing Infrastructure Investments For Inter-Metropolitan Mobility, Laurent Corroyer
Fabrication And Study Of Microstructure, Solid-Electrolyte Interphase, And Phase Evolution Of Nanoporous Metals Used As Li-Ion Battery Alloy Anodes, John Spafford Corsi
A Differential Homogenization Framework For Elasto-Viscoplastic Particulate Composites, Jose Emilio Cotelo
Vertical Contracting In The Us Health Care Industry, Stuart Vincent Craig
Death And Empire: The Genesis And Expression Of Imperial Identity Via Assyrian Mortuary Contexts, Petra Maria Creamer
Discovery Of A Human Mitochondrial Protein Disaggregase, Skd3, Ryan Richard Cupo
Urban "voids": Picturing Light, Air, And Open Space In New York, 1890–1935, Lee Ann W. Custer
In The Time Of Disaster: Representations Of Hurricane Katrina In African American Literature And Culture, Dana Cypress
The Decades Of Disillusionment: Essays On Indian Literature And Cinema After Nehru, Vikrant Dadawala
Lyric Witness: Intergenerational (re)collection Of The Holocaust In Contemporary American Poetry, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
Human Capital And Startup Financing, Mauricio Da Silva Medeiros Junior
The Effect Of Nursing Resources On Older Hispanic Surgical Patient Readmissions, Marguerite M. Daus
Molecular Control Of Synaptic Efficacy Within Striatal Circuits, Felicia Felicia Davatolhagh
Forms Of Writing, Forms Of War: England, Scotland, France C. 1300-1450, Daniel John Davies
Entanglement Structure And The Emergence Of Spacetime, Matthew P. Decross
Service Boosters: Library Operating Systems For The Datacenter, Henri Maxime Demoulin
The Molecular And Regulatory Mechanism Of Multi-Subunit N-Terminal Acetyltransferases, Sunbin Deng
From '-Omics' To Biomarkers And Mechanisms In Parkinson's Disease: Growth Hormone Receptor And Gpnmb, Maria Eugenia Diaz Ortiz
The Mexican Experimental In The Contemporary Novel And Film, Dustin Allen Dill
Bijels For Continuous Reactive Separations, Giuseppe Di Vitantonio
Antigen Specific Cd4+ T Cell Responses Against A Gastrointestinal Nematode, Bonnie Douglas Douglas
Empire Of Dust: Egyptian Archaeology And Archaeological Labor In Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Wendy Doyon
Synthetic Studies Toward Citrofulvicin – Synthesis Of The Core Ring System, Kalina Doytchinova-Weil
The Development Of A Fingertip Implantable Mems Tactile Sensing System, Lin Du
Cryptosporidium Parvum Exports Proteins To The Epithelial Host Cell, Jennifer Elizabeth Dumaine
The Beginning And The End Of All Music: Archival Aurality And Cultural Heritage On The Mississippi Blues Trail, Benjamin Dupriest
Search For Trilepton Resonances From R-Parity Violating Chargino Decays In The B−l Mssm, George Ian Dyckes
Privacy-Preserving Distributed Regression Algorithms For Analysis Of Multi-Site Real-World Data, Mackenzie John Edmondson
Disentangling T Cell Heterogeneity In Human Ovarian Cancer: A Focus On Tumor Specific And Early Memory T Cells., Monika Aleksandra Eiva
The Anxiety Of Evolution: Biological And Cultural Adaptation From Marcel Proust To Peter Greenaway, Tomas Elliott
Neurologic And Metabolic Safety Of Fluoroquinolones, Darcy Ellis
Three Essays On Migration And Family Change, Jeylan Erman
In The Eyes Of The Beholder: Cribra Orbitalia, Status, And Burial Practice In Late Bronze And Iron Age Iranian Subadults, Stacey O'neill Espenlaub
Learning About Others Dynamically Changes Behavior And The Brain, Ariana Familiar
Marketing Applications Of Bayesian Nonparametric Methods, Yuhao Fan
Investigating The Mechanisms Of Corneal Maintenance And Regeneration By 2-Photon Live Imaging, Olivia Farrelly
Structural Biology Of Oligomeric Assembly-Line Terpene Synthases, Jacque Faylo