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Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Transparency And Safe Debt Creation, Tanya S. Paul
Essays In Quantitative Marketing, Vladimir Pavlov
Balancing Fit And Complexity In Learned Representations, Maria Peifer
Cultural Influences On Social Norm Development, Perception And Conformity, Rui Pei
Progressive Reliance On Epithelial Plasticity Governs Lung Development, Homeostasis, And Regeneration, Ian Penkala
The Hidden Forms And Functions Of Courtship In The Brown-Headed Cowbird (molothrus Ater), Ammon Perkes
Development Of Late Transition Metal Complexes To Enable Sustainable Organic Oxidations, Alexander Scott Phearman
Learning Representations For Matching, Stephen Phillips
Teacher Collaboration And Learner Categories In Bilingual Special Education: An Exploration Of Race, Language, And Disability, Jennifer Phuong
A New “what About The Children” Question: Examining The Experiences Of Second-Generation Black-White Multiracials, Haley Pilgrim
Innovation And Inclusion In The Armed Forces, Shira Eini Pindyck
Are Variations In Baccalaureate Nursing Education Pathways Associated With Patient Outcomes?, Joshua Porat-Dahlerbruch
Cultivating Communities On The Eastern Frontier: Agrarian Landscapes And Life In Downeast Maine (1760–1860), Megan Postemski
Parp-1 In Parkinson’s Disease: From Molecular And Cellular Mechanisms To Therapeutic Strategies, Laura Puentes
The Role Of Morphological Structure In Phonetic Variation, Ruaridh Keith Purse
Functional Characterization Of Trib1, A Gene Associated With Multiple Cardiometabolic Traits, Katherine Quiroz-Figueroa
Tangled Fates: Casting Racial And Economic Equality In Twentieth Century America, Katherine Lee Rader
Scaling Naïveté: Deep Time And The Slow Bourgeoisie, Kaushik Ramu
Structures Formed By Colloids By Capillarity On Curved Interfaces, Alismari Read
Structures Formed By Colloids By Capillarity On Curved Interfaces, Alismari Read
Language And Reality In Early Greek Thought, Isabella Reinhardt
Language And Reality In Early Greek Thought, Isabella Reinhardt
Becoming Party Activists: Grassroots Progressive Activism And The Democratic Party, John Remensperger
Investigating The Role Of Pi3k Signaling In Cerebral Cavernous Malformation Pathogenesis, Aileen Anne Ren
Essays On The Political Economy Of Development, Jonah Matthew Rexer
Alternation-Sensitive Phoneme Learning: Implications For Children's Development And Language Change, Caitlin Laura Richter
Structure, Dynamics, And Elasticity In Amorphous Systems, Sean Alexander Ridout
Neutron Cross Section Measurement In The Protodune-Sp Experiment, David Orlando Rivera
Alternative Mrna Splicing Redefines The Landscape Of Commonly Dysregulated Genes Across The Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patient Population., Osvaldo Daniel Rivera
Politicas De Lo Visual En México Colonial, Amelia R. Manas
Radical Energy Narratives In Argentina And Brazil, Nancy Lee Roane
Recapitulation Of Hiv-1 V2 Apex Envelope-Antibody Coevolution In Rhesus Macaques, Ryan Scott Roark
Lymphocyte Egress Signal Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Promotes Erm-Guided, Bleb-Based Migration, Tanner Ford Robertson
Experimental Methods To Support Robot Behavior Design For Legged Locomotion On Granular Media, Sonia Roberts
Response To Stress By The Tumor Microenvironment, Kerry Carl Roby
Geometric Approaches To Quantum Fields And Strings At Strong Couplings, Thomas Rochais
From Deployments Of Elder Care Service Robots To The Design Of Affordable Low-Complexity End-Effectors And Novel Manipulation Techniques, Caio Cesar Carlos Rodrigues Mucchiani
Falling Out Of History: Gender In Representations Of Police Violence In Post-45 African American Novels, Elias Rodriques
Policy Implementation And Engineering For Tagged Architectures, Nicholas Roessler
Vicinitas In Urbe: Neighborliness And Urban Community In Mid-Republican Rome, Jordan Reed Rogers
Recording Resistance: Indigenous Literacy, Archives, And Narrative Power In Twentieth-Century Ecuador, Marlén Rosas
Continuing The Search For Nothing: Invisible Higgs Boson Decays And High Luminosity Upgrades At The Atlas Detector, Benjamin John Rosser
A Scalable, Point-Of-Care, Microfluidic Approach For Assessing Thrombosis And Hemostasis, Jason M. Rossi
Facing Freedom: African American Emancipation In Antebellum Portraiture, Jillian Vaum Rothschild
Aerobic Oxidation Of Hydrocarbons With Ir(iii) Pincer Complexes, Sophie Rubashkin
Family Structure And Women’s Experiences Of Intimate Partner Violence, Angelina Kathleen Ruffin
Netrin-Independent Frazzled Functions In Oogenesis And Axon Guidance, Samantha A. Russell
Hearing Power, Sounding Freedom: Black Practices Of Listening, Ear-Training, And Music-Making In The British Colonial Caribbean, Maria Theresa Norma Ryan
Kingella Kingae Pilc1 And Pilc2 Are Adhesins With Distinct Roles In Type Iv Pilus-Mediated Processes, Alexandra Louise Sacharok
Microtubule Post-Translational Detyrosination Coordinates Network Stability And Mechanics In The Cardiomyocyte, Alexander Koizumi Salomon
Essays On Peer Effects And Network Econometrics, Alejandro Sánchez Becerra
Understanding And Predicting The Chemical Properties Of Complex Oxides Using First-Principles Methods, Abhinav Sankara Raman
Distributed, Scalable And Resilient Information Acquisition For Multi-Robot Teams, Brent Schlotfeldt
State-Dependent Olfactory Processing In Freely Behaving Mice, Mary Schreck
Algorithmic Processes And Social Values, Zachary Schutzman
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy For Adults With Panic Disorder: Who Does Not Benefit, And Why?, Rachel Ann Schwartz
Pre-Rate My Professor: Predicting Course Ratings And Response Rates From Lms Activity In College Courses, Richard T. Scruggs
Tissue Specific Immunity: A Study Of Antiviral Defenses And The Influence Of The Microbiota, Elisha Segrist
Analysis Of Matched Primary And Recurrent Brca1/2 Mutation-Associated Tumors Identifies Recurrence-Specific Drivers, Jennifer Brady Shah
Novel Theories Of Dark Matter, Anushrut Sharma
Are Consumption Taxes Better Than Labor Income Taxes? Theoretical And Quantitative Implications Of The Choice Of Tax Base, Kristin Shaw
New Bicyclo[1.1.1]pentanes Via Anionic Reactivity Of 2-Azaallyl Anions And Metal Hydride Hydrogen Atom Transfer Reactions To [1.1.1]propellane, Russell Andrew Shelp
Applications Of Random Matrix Theory In Statistics And Machine Learning, Yue Sheng
Essays On The Economics Of Health And Optimal Taxation, Seung-Ryong Shin
Intimate Reception: Reading Ordinary Queerness In American Women's Literature, Jess Shollenberger
State Transitions Within The Cortex Are Strongly Influenced By Local Interactions Under General Anesthesia, Brenna Shortal
Mechanistic Studies Of Membrane Remodeling Induced By Membrane Asymmetry, Sankalp Shukla
Exploring Variation In How Media Depictions Of Tobacco Use Affect Norm Perceptions: The Roles Of Group Identity And Behavioral Similarity, Leeann Nicole Siegel
Single-Cell Lineage Tracing Of Cancer Metastasis, Kamen Simeonov
Managing The Gig Economy Via Behavioral And Operational Lenses, Wichinpong Park Sinchaisri
Running An Empire, Building A Nation: Korean Bureaucrats And The Manchukuo Legacy, 1931–1961, Rolf Isaac Siverson
Campesinos, Punks Y Charnegos. Luchas Autónomas Por La Descolonización Del Pasado Y Del Territorio En Las Periferias Urbanas De Barcelona (1970-1992), Alba Sola-Garcia
A Microwell-Based Impedance Sensor In Microneedle Shape For Cytokine Detection, Naixin Song
Towards More Automated Statistical Inference And Machine Learning, Matteo Sordello
Dissecting The Melanization Immune Response In The Malaria Vector Anopheles Gambiae, Gregory Lee Sousa
Don’t Mind The Formalization Gap: The Design And Usage Of Hs-To-Coq, Antal Spector-Zabusky
Mir-34 Regulates Brain Aging And Susceptibility To Neurotoxicity In Drosophila Melanogaster, Ananth Srinivasan
The Eighteenth Brumaire Of Louis Bonaparte In The United States, Germany, And France, 1852-1932, Sam Stark
Relationship Characteristics And Self-Care In Adults With Heart Failure, Michael A. Stawnychy
Innate Immunity In Degenerative Diseases Of The Retina And Brain, Jacob Sterling
Data-Based And Theory-Based Network Models Of Perturbations To Neural Dynamics, Jennifer Ann Stiso
Let Some Genius Write A Poem: The Radical Tendency In Reform-Era Russian Literature, Helen R. Stuhr-Rommereim
Stochastic Motion Planning For Mobile Robots, Ke Sun
On Optimizing The Radio Side-Channel For Application Modeling, Kyle Super
The Politics Of Naive Integrationism: Community Integration For Disabled People And The Promises Of Olmstead, Heather Ann Swadley
Mutant P53 Mechanisms And Functions In Esophageal Cancer, Qiaosi Tang
Investigating Quantitative Autism Spectrum Behaviors In A Family-Based Genetics Study, Sara C. Taylor
Flying Modular Robots: From Self-Assembling Structures In Midair To Embedding Grasping Capabilities, Bruno Teles Gabrich
Development Of Transition Metal Cluster Complexes With Macrocyclic Redox-Active Ligands Of Increasing Pocket Size, Laura M. Thierer
Low-Dimensional Material Devices For Atomic Defect Engineering, Ionic And Molecular Transport, Jothi Priyanka Thiruraman
Scalable Learning In Distributed Robot Teams, Ekaterina Tolstaya
A “tick”-Ing Threat: The Surveillance And Ecology Of The Lyme Disease System, Tam M. Tran
Copper Metabolism Directly Influences Kinase Functionality To Modulate Signal Transduction In Cancer, Tiffany Tsang
A Computational Approach To The Study Of Trauma, Evangelos Tsiklidis
Mechano-Regulation Of Meniscus Development And Maturation, Tonia Tsinman
Differential Essential Dimension, Man Cheung Kevin Tsui
The Stigmatized Consumer: Role Of Language And Diversity On Consumer Behavior, Esther Uduehi
Structural Insights On Tfiih In Transcription And Dna Repair, Trevor Van Eeuwen