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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Plasticity Against Plastic: Synthetics In The Practice, Theory, And Conservation Of Art Since The 1960s, Roksana Filipowska
Synaptic Dysregulation Of Inhibition In The Dentate Gyrus After Traumatic Brain Injury, Kaitlin Folweiler
Contribution Of Non-Classical Antigen Presentation To Cd4+ T Cells During Orthopoxvirus Infection, Katherine Shona Forsyth
Exploring Novel Biophysical Mechanisms In Evolved Optical Systems, Dillion Fox
Rhotic Emphasis And Uvularization In Moroccan Arabic, Aaron Freeman
Problems In Nonlinear Homogenization: Bounds, Estimates, Macroscopic Instabilities, And Post-Bifurcation Response, Joshua Robert Furer
The Prevention Of Depression: A Machine Learning Approach, Ashley Ann Fuss
(when) Do Consumers Prefer Uncertainty? Consumers' Reactions To Uncertain Advice And Uncertain Promotions, Celia Gaertig
The Design And Synthesis Of Inhibitors Of Hiv-1 Viral Entry And Photoaffinity Labeled Probes For Structural Elucidation Of The Hiv-1 Env, Althea Erica Gaffney
Trecento Variations In The Epic Tradition: Dante's Commedia, Boccaccio's Teseida, And Petrarch's Africa, Andrea Gazzoni
A Heterogeneous And Multiscale Modeling Framework To Develop Patient-Specific Pharmacodynamic Systems Models In Cancer, Alokendra Kumar Ghosh
Identity In The Wake Of The State: Local, National, And Supranational Dynamics Of The Syrian Conflict, Victoria Gilbert
Using Data To Optimize The Fulfillment And Location Decisions Of An Online Grocery Retailer, Chloe Kim Glaeser
Faith And Doubt At The Doctor’s: Class, Race, And The Role Of Community In Medical Decision Making, Lindsay Wood Glassman
Innate Immune Antagonism By Diverse Coronavirus Phosphodiesterases, Stephen Goldstein
Unraveling The Beta Cell Translatome: Elucidation Of An Erk/hnrnpk/jund Axis, Austin Lewis Good
Factors That Mediate Expression Of Unique Ggggcc Repeat Expansions In C9orf72-Associated Als/ftd., Lindsey D. Goodman
Information And Democracy: Lessons From The Hacktivists, Ashley Elizabeth Gorham
Molecular Roles Of Regulatory Proteins In N-Terminal Protein Acetylation, Leah Gottlieb
Exploring The Use Of Transition Metals In The Synthesis Of Novel Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds, Azide Complexes, And Unprecedented Reactivity With The Phosphaethynolato Reagent, Lauren Nicole Grant
Design, Synthesis And Biological Evaluation Of Small Molecules That Inhibit Hiv-1 Entry And Sensitize Hiv-1 Infected Cells To Immune Responses, Melissa Carey Grenier
Roles Of Euchromatin And Heterochromatin In Hepatocyte Maturation And Liver Fibrosis, Jessica Mae Grindheim
Resiliency In Robot Formations With Non-Cooperative Robots, Luis Guerrero Bonilla
Event Structure In Vision And Language, Alon Hafri
Family Matters: Concubines And Illegitimate Children In The Japanese Empire, 1868–1945, Jooyeon Hahm
Assembling States: Community Formation And The Emergence Of The Inca Empire, Thomas John Hardy
Harnessing The Pro-Apoptotic Function Of Myc To Improve Therapeutic Responses In Chemoresistant B-Cell Lymphoma, Colleen Harrington
Essays In Causal Inference: Addressing Bias In Observational And Randomized Studies Through Analysis And Design, Raiden Berte Hasegawa
Robert Adam's Revolution In Architecture, Miranda Jane Routh Hausberg
States And Group Rights: Legal Pluralism And The Decentralization Of Judicial Power, Emma Hayward
More Than Words: Extra-Sylvian Networks Support Pragmatic Language Processing In Focal Dementia, Meghan L. Healey
Understanding Donor-Advised Funds: The Behavioral Economics, Macroeconomics, And Public Policies Relating To An Emerging Trend In Philanthropy, H. Daniel Heist
The Role Of The Central Glp-1 System In Cocaine-Seeking Behavior, Nicole Sachi Hernandez
Adenovirus Strategies For Altering The Cellular Environment In Favor Of Infection, Christin Herrmann
Targeting Natural Supersymmetry With Top Quarks, Theodor Christian Herwig
Design, Synthesis, And Evaluation Of C2-Symmetric Diamines For Asymmetric Synthesis, Tyler Higgins
Bilingual Ionic Column Capitals: Perceptions Of The Past In Greek Architecture, 6th–3rd Century Bce, Samuel Holzman
Preparing And Measuring Single Spins In Diamond At Room Temperature, David Allen Hopper
Aspects Of Nucleation: Fluctuations, Nonuniform Order, And Curved Surfaces, Eric Michael Horsley
Vive, Superstes: Survivors And Problems Of Survival In Statius' Thebaid, Alice Chu-Lin Hu
Fructose-1,6-Bisphosphatase 2 Inhibits Sarcoma Progression By Restraining Mitochondrial Biogenesis, Yangpeiwei Huang
Essays In Experimental Economics, Zheng Jai Jennie Huang
The Pentecostal Construction Of Race: Churches Of God In The American Religious Frontier 1884—1955, Andrew Hudson
Trpv5: Structure, Function And Drug Discovery, Taylor Hughes
Learning Probabilistic Generative Models For Fast Sampling-Based Planning, Jinwook Huh
Constructing Royal Identity In The Old Kingdom Pyramid Texts, Leah Rachel Humphrey
Essays On Search, Timothy Hursey
Studies On Fractionalization And Topology In Strongly Correlated Systems From Zero To Two Dimensions, Yichen Hu
Transpacific Modernity And The Challenge Of Belonging: Negotiating Race, Music, And Faith In Seoul, Bo Kyung Blenda Im
Learning From Positive Evidence: The Acquisition Of Verb Argument Structure, Ava Irani
Reclaiming Appalachia: Mountain Reform And The Preservation Of White Citizenship, 1890-1929, Tina A. Irvine
Fairness And Feedback In Learning And Games, Shahin Jabbari
Depression In Mothers Of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Mixed-Methods Study Of Prevalence, Correlates, And The Lived Experience, Stefanie Zavodny Jackson
Haplotype-Based Approaches For The Study Of Human Evolution, Kelsey Johnson
Bringing The Receipts: Black Feminist Theory And Intellectual Capital In The Age Of Social Media, Leslie Kay Jones
In Praise Of Shahul Hamid Historicizing An Islamic Tamil Hagiographical Tradition, 1650-1950, Samira Junaid
Developing Transnational Repertoires: Adolescents’ Language And Literacy Practices In A Digitally Mediated Network, Jin Kyeong Jung
Rational Design And Facile Synthesis Of Novel Fluorescent Scaffolds For Biological Studies In Live Cells, Joomyung Jun
Unequal Hours: The Jewish Reception Of Timekeeping Technology From The Bible To The Twentieth Century, David Zvi Kalman
Certain Systems Arising In Stochastic Gradient Descent, Konstantinos Karatapanis
Subheap-Augmented Garbage Collection, Benjamin Karel
Evidence Factors For Observational Studies: Design, Analysis And Computation, Bikram Karmakar
Synthetic Studies Towards The Bastimolide Family Of Natural Products, Alex Andrew Kellum
Modeling And Control For Robotic Assistants: Single And Multi-Robot Manipulation, Monroe David Kennedy
Private Communication Among Competitors And Public Disclosure, John David Kepler
Soweto, The “storybook Place”: Tourism And Feeling In A South African Township, Sarah Marie Kgagudi
The Regulation Of Egfr Signaling And Kras Tumorigenesis By Receptor Palmitoylation, Akriti Kharbanda
Reasoning-Driven Question-Answering For Natural Language Understanding, Daniel Khashabi
Responses To Positive Events In Depression: When, How, And Why?, Gabriela Kattan Khazanov
Testing Infection Graphs, Justin Turner Khim
Healthy Placemaking: How Do Immigrant Food Entrepreneurs Contribute To Community Wellbeing In A Multiethnic Community?, Maryam Khojasteh
Seeking Ourselves Onscreen: Brand Personality, Self-Congruence, And Media Preferences, Da Eun Kim
Essays In Corporate Finance, Daniel Kim
Entertaining Beliefs In Economic Mobility, Eunji Kim
A Novel Perspective On The Role Of Β-Catenin In Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Eunsun Kim
Engendering Power: Dynastic Women And Visual Culture In The Hellenistic World (fourth-First Centuries Bce), Patricia Eunji Kim
"the Laboratory Of The Mind's Eye": Nineteenth-Century Science And The Emergence Of Science Fiction, Anastasia Klimchynskaya
Mitochondrial Dna Regulation Of The Nuclear Epigenome, Piotr Karol Kopinski
Essays On Macroeconomics And Finance, Alexandr Kopytov
Developmental And Signaling Mechanisms Of Touch Neurons, Kim Kridsada Chu
Ricci Flow On Cohomogeneity One Manifolds, Anusha Mangala Krishnan
Alignment And Morphological Effects Of Nanoplates In Lamellar Diblock Copolymer Thin Films, Nadia Krook
Nuclear Pore Proteins In Regulation Of Chromatin State And Gene Expression, Terra Kuhn
Youth Bilingualism, Identity And Quechua Language Planning And Policy In The Urban Peruvian Andes, Frances Julia Kvietok Dueñas
Engineering The Interface: Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels That Mediate Msc Chondrogenesis For Cartilage Tissue Engineering, Mi Young Kwon
Afflictions Of The Tropics' Brink: Medicine, Meteorology, And The Cultivation Of Place In The Antebellum Gulf South, Elaine Lafay
Physician Organization And Incentives In Childbirth: Evidence From Physician Practice Management Companies, Ambar La Forgia
Assyrian Entropy: City Sieges And Cosmic Dissolution In The Palace Relief Programs, Breton Adam Langendorfer
The Affiliative Social Relations Of Free-Ranging Rhesus Macaques In The Context Of Instability, Sam Larson
Probabilistic Online Learning Of Appearance And Structure For Robotics, Bhoram Lee
The Role Of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (pah) Metabolites In Endometrial Cancer, Isabelle Grace Lee
Hepatocyte-Driven Regulation Of Liver Metastasis, Jae Won Lee
Essays On Labor Markets With Search And Information Frictions, Joonbae Lee
Longitudinal And Cross-Country Measurement Invariance Of The Pisa Home Possessions Scale, Selene S. Lee
A Mendelian Disease Of Autoimmunity Reveals Gimap5 As A Novel Member Of The Ragulator Complex, Michael Alexander Leney-Greene
Collaborative Perception From Data Association To Localization, Spyridon Leonardos
Signs Of Success In Italian Schooling, Andrea Renee Leone-Pizzighella