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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Activatable Probes For The Imaging Of Biological Parameters Using Cerenkov Radiation, Alejandro David Arroyo Pacheco
The Emerging Involvement Of Glia In Sleep: Insights From Drosophila Melanogaster, Gregory Artiushin
Uncovering Biophysical Determinants Of Oxidoreductase Function Through De Novo Protein Design, Dirk Auman
The Role Of Mentalizing In Information Propagation, Elisa C. Baek
Assessing Credibility In Subjective Probability Judgment, Joshua Daniel Baker
The Role Of P120catenin In The Initiation And Dissemination Of Pancreatic Cancer, Basil Bakir
Internal Contingencies To The Value Of Firms’ External Relationships: Evidence From Corporate Venture Capital, Sarath Balachandran
Freedom, Society, And The Individual In Early Modern Women's Thought, Patrick Leon Ward Ball
The Method Of Dense Cycle Conditioning, Its Application, Computation And A Result On Concentration, Debapratim Banerjee
Neighborhoods, Stress, And Cvd Risk Among Women With Hiv In Chicago Wihs, Jacqueline Anne Bannon
Probing The Unimolecular Decay Of Atmospherically Important Criegee Intermediates, Victoria Paige Barber
Deformations Of G2-Structures, String Dualities And Flat Higgs Bundles, Rodrigo De Menezes Barbosa
Development Of Kinetic Inductance Detectors For Far-Infrared Spectroscopy In Astrophysics, Alyssa Colleen Marie Barlis
Further Defining Epidermal Function Through Deciphering Host-Microbe Interactions In The Skin, Casey Brennan Bartow-Mckenney
Pathways To Pathologic Retinal Iron Accumulation: Blood, Guts, And The Immune System, Bailey Hannah Baumann
Development Of Human Brain Network Architecture Underlying Executive Function, Graham Leigh Baum
Insight Into Acetyl-Coenzyme A Regulation Through The Molecular Mechanism Of Atp-Citrate Lyase, Gleb Bazilevsky
The Subject In Question: Subjectivity In The Fiction Of José Revueltas, Hilda Hilst, And Clarice Lispector, Derek Warren Beaudry
Data-Driven Modeling, Analysis And Design Of Networked Dynamical Systems With Applications In Neuroscience, Cassiano Becker
The Narrative Of The Iliad: Time, Space, And Story, William Robert Beck
Essays In Marketing, Law, And Ethics, Suneal Bedi
A Drosophila Model Of Sleep Restriction Therapy For Insomnia And Neurodegenerative Disease, Samuel Belfer
The Regulation Of Myeloid Inflammatory Responses By Runx1: Roles In Normal And Malignant Hematopoiesis, Dana Christine Bellissimo
Nonadiabatic Dynamics With Spin-Orbit Coupling, Nicole Bellonzi
Embodied Visual Perception Models For Human Behavior Understanding, Gediminas Bertasius
The Association Between Nursing And Burn Patient Outcomes, Amanda Page Bettencourt
The Mitochondrial Protein Card19 Regulates Membrane Integrity And Terminal Lysis Downstream Of Caspase Activation And Gasdermin Cleavage, Elisabet Laura Bjanes
Cortical And Subcortical Mechanisms For Sound Processing, Jennifer Blackwell
Crystallographic Studies Of Terpene Synthases: Important Enzymes That Synthesize Antibiotic And Biofuel Precursors, Aromatic Essential Oil Compounds And Anti-Cancer Derivatives, Patrick Neil Blank
Extending Topological Data Analysis In Biological Systems., Ann Sizemore Blevins
Fibroblast Activation Protein And Collagen Remodeling In The Intersection Between Obesity And Breast Cancer, Rachel Katherine Blomberg
Landscapes Of Salvation: Architecture And Memory In The Latin Kingdom Of Jerusalem, Megan Boomer
Getting The Best Of Us: Multinational Corporate Networks And The Diffusion Of Skill-Selective Immigration Policies, Vivienne Born
Miss Amerike: The Yiddish Press’s Encounter With The United States, 1885-1924, Ayelet Rose Brinn
Measuring Cosmic Acceleration And Constraining Dark Energy Models With Transients Discovered In The Dark Energy Survey, Dillon Brout
Factors Affecting Transmission Mode Evolution In Symbioses, Alexandra Lynne Brown
Examining The Choice To Seek Non-Urgent Urinary Tract Infection Treatment At Emergency Departments, Jason R. Brown
A Multilevel Factor Analytic Investigation Of The Learning-To-Learn Scales: A More Child-Centered Look At Dimensionality, Benjamin Pratt Brumley
Expanding Peptide Stapling With S-Tetrazine, Matthew Henry Bunner
Materializing Political Violence: Segregation, War, And Memory In Quintana Roo, Mexico, Tiffany Cherelle Cain
Addressing Disparities In Pertussis Epidemiology, Tirza Areli Calderon
Genetic And Epigenetic Modifiers Of C9orf72 Expression In Neurodegenerative Disease, Christopher Cali
Continuum Modeling Of Cell-Extracellular Environment Interaction, Xuan Cao
Great Power, Arms, And Alliances, Keith Lambert Carter
Half A Century Of Migration And Family Formation In Latin America And The Caribbean, Andrés Felipe Castro Torres
Measurement Error And Missing Data Methods In Biomarker Research, Carrie Caswell
Representations Of Samaritans In Late Antique Jewish And Christian Texts, Matthew J. Chalmers
Language Profiles Of Thai Children With Autism: Lexical, Grammatical, And Pragmatic Factors, Nattanun Chanchaochai
Vestures Of The Past: The Other Historicisms Of Victorian Aesthetics, Timothy Chandler
Essays In Heterogeneity In Macroeconomics, Minsu Chang
Birds With Words: How Talking Parrots Expand Our Knowledge Of Cognition, Shereen Chang
From The Sand They Rise: Post-Storm Foredune Plant Recolonization And Its Biogeomorphic Implications, Bianca Reo Charbonneau
Stress And Survival Of Enterobacteriaceae: Studies Of Dehydration Tolerance And Polymyxin Resistance, Annie Chen
Improving Performance Of Infiltrated Sofc Cathodes Via Scaffold Engineering And Catalyst Surface Engineering, Yuan Cheng
Affiliation With Aggressive Peer Groups, Autonomy, And Adjustment In Chinese Adolescents, Lingjun Chen
Injectable Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels For The Delivery Of Cell-Based Therapeutics To The Heart, Minna Chen
Heterogeneous Agent Model With Real Business Cycle With Application In Optimal Tax Policy And Social Welfare Reform, Peiran Chen
Analysis And Control Of Networked Systems Using Structural And Measure-Theoretic Approaches, Ximing Chen
Essays On The Economics Of Networks, Yiran Chen
Cardiac Effects Of Huntington’s Disease In Murine Models, Daniel David Child
Negative Regulation Of Nk Cell Activation By Cbl-B And Tam Receptors, Leilani Marie Chirino
Three Essays On Diabetes And Mortality In The United States, Daesung Choi
Paraphrase-Based Models Of Lexical Semantics, Anne O'donnell Cocos
Exploiting Acquired Resistance Mechanisms To Mek Inhibition In Ras-Activated Neuroblastoma, Grace E. Coggins
Establishing A Molecular Basis For Rare Earth Separations: Progress Towards Rare Earth Recycling Through Coordination And Redox Chemistry, Bren Ezekiel Cole
School District Consolidation And Its Academic And Financial Effects, Gregory Collins
Experimentation In Early-Stage Ventures, Andrea Contigiani
Sinister Intersectionality: A Left-Handed History Of Neuro-Centrisms, 1865–2017, Tabea Cornel
Cell-To-Cell Heterogeneity In Transcription And Splicing, Allison Cote
Privilege And Promise: Organizations As Brokers Of Power And Social Mobility, Amanda Barrett Cox
Daedala Tecta: Architectural Terracottas And Cultural Memory In Republican Italy, Sophie Crawford-Brown
Attributions Of Mental State Control: Causes And Consequences, Corey Cusimano
Structure And Function Of A Disease Associated Tau Disaggregase, Nabil Darwich
Essays In Housing Markets And Public Finance, Matthew Davis
The Influencer Industry: Constructing And Commodifying Authenticity On Social Media, Emily Dean Hund
The Mechanism Of Caspase-8-Mediated Gene Expression And Its Integral Role In Host Defense, Alexandra Delaney
Engineering Novel Nanomaterials From Ultrasmall Gold Clusters For Use In Cancer Therapy, Elizabeth Marie Higbee Dempsey
Nucleobase, Nucleoside, And Neighboring Nucleotides: Intrinsic Preferences For Tet Enzyme-Mediated Oxidation Of 5-Methylcytosine, Jamie Elizabeth Denizio
Identification Of A Molecular Basis For The Juvenile Sleep State, Leela Chakravarti Dilley
Uncovering The Sources: Historical Characters In Dante's Divine Comedy, Vanessa Dimaggio
Factive And Assertive Attitude Reports, Kajsa Djarv
Reliable Witnesses, Crackpot Science: Ufo Investigations In Cold War America, 1947-1977, Kate Dorsch
A Sticky Pursuit Of The Threshold Channel: The Effect Of Cohesion On Alluvial River Channel Geometry, Kieran Bernard Jiamin Dunne
Affordances And Control Of A Spine Morphology For Robotic Quadrupedal Locomotion, Jeffrey Duperret
High-Dimensional Design Evaluations For Self-Aligning Geometries, Nicholas Edward Eckenstein
Pirandello Through The Eyes Of Cinema: Authorial Texts And Intermedial Film Adaptations, Michael John Edwards
Comunidades De Cuidados: Dar La Vida, Curar El Cuerpo Y Preparar La Muerte En La América E Iberia Premodernas (1400-1650), Diana Eguia Armenteros
Learning Optimal Resource Allocations In Wireless Systems, Mark Randall Eisen
Non-Native Grounds: Jewish Writers In American Empire, Alexander Eisenthal
Great Idea, Now What? Three Essays Examining The Relationship Between Organization Design And Commercialization Of Knowledge, John Charles Eklund
Teacher Education For Racial Knowledge: Institutional And Pedagogical Challenges For Developing Racial Knowledge, Lisette Nnenna Enumah
Excavating Radical Futures: Puppets, Robots, And The Fight For Technology, Jasmine Erdener
Mapping Media Bias In China, Kecheng Fang
Essays On Foreign Exchange Rates, Xiang Fang
The Neural Computations In The Caudate Nucleus For Reward-Biased Perceptual Decision-Making, Yunshu Fan
Mechanism Of Nucleosome Targeting By Pioneer Transcription Factors, Meilin Mary Fernandez Garcia
The Technological Imaginaries Of Social Movements: The Discursive Dimension Of Communication Technology And The Fight For Social Justice, Elisabetta Ferrari
Combining Computational And Experimental Approaches To Study Disordered And Aggregation Prone Proteins, John Joseph Ferrie
A Tale Of Two Ligases: Itch And Cul5 Limit T Cell-Mediated Inflammation, Natania S. Field