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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Michelangelo Antonioni And The Rites Of Adaptation: The Impure Cinema Of An Adaptive Auteur, Peter Lesnik
Making Sense Of Language: How Representations Of Language Inform Teachers' Work, Mark Lewis
Fabrication Of Superhydrophilic Nanostructured Membranes For Oil/water, Zhiwei Liao
The Role Of Calcineurin/nfat Signaling In Fibroblast Homeostasis And Activation, Allyson Elizabeth Lieberman
Roles Of Vegfc And Vegfr3 In Lymphangiogenesis And Angiogenesis, Lillian Lim
Anisotropy And Aggregation In Self-Assembled Polymer Nanocomposites, Benjamin Joseph Lindsay
Establishment And Regulation Of Epithelial Enhancers By P63, Enrique Lin Shiao
Information And International Conflict, Christopher Liu
Nonlinear Optical Responses In Type-Ii Weyl Semimetals, Gerui Liu
Essays In Market Efficiency And Empirical Asset Pricing, Jianan Liu
Gender Differences In Stem Education: A Comparative Perspective, Ran Liu
On Closed Six-Manifolds Admitting Metrics With Positive Sectional Curvature And Non-Abelian Symmetry, Yuhang Liu
Writing Verdicts: French And Francophone Narratives Of Race And Racism, Andrea Lloyd
Balancing Pollyanna And Plato: Exploring The Complementary Self-Presentation Strategies Of Skepticism And Enthusiasm, Nicholas Lobuglio
Synthetic Dna Technology As A Tool To Generate Vaccine Immunity In The Skin, Lumena Louis
Engineering Protein Disaggregases To Counter Alpha-Synuclein And Amyloid-Beta Neurotoxicity, Korrie Lynne Mack
Measuring Behavioral Phenotypes From Complex Social Interactions In Non-Human Primates, Seth Madlon-Kay
The Intersection Of Proteomics And Pathology For Translational Cancer Epigenetics Research, Dylan M. Marchione
Additive Manufacturing And Mechanical Properties Of Cellulose Nanofibril Materials, Lisa Mariani
Bridled Tigers: The Military At Korea’s Northern Border, 1800–1863, Alexander Thomas Martin
From ‘disengaged’ To Digital: Latino Boys As Emergent Technology Experts, Carlos Ricardo Martínez
Measurement Of 8b Solar Neutrinos In The Sno+ Water Phase And A Model Of Vacuum-Enhanced Neutrino Mixing, Eric Marzec
Pediatric Acute Pain Management Practices In Botswana, Samuel Thopho Matula
Automated Analysis Of Experience-Dependent Sensory Response Behavior In Caenorhabditis Elegans, Patrick McClanahan
The Effects Of Cationic Charges In Metal-Ligand Cooperativity, Samuel Mccollom
A City Built On Debt: Federal Retrenchment, Municipal Finance, And Inequality In Dallas Since The 1960s, Colin Mcgrath
The Ipn Regulates Anxiety Independently Of Drug Addiction, Ian Alexander Mclaughlin
Systems Biology Of Gene Regulation Across Scales: From Single Molecules To Cellular Identities, Ian Alexander Mellis
Empirical Investigations Into The Causal Impact Of Healthcare Provider Behavior On Patient Care, Lesley Meng
Drug-Drug Interactions And Kidney Disease In Hospitalized Patients, Todd Anthony Mianno
Percolation On Galton-Watson Trees, Marcus Michelen
Black Muslim Cosmopolitanism: The Global Character Of New York City’s Black Muslim Movements, 1929-1990, Rasul Hanif Miller
Damned If You Do: Judas Iscariot And The Invention Of Medieval Literary Character, Mariah Min
Developing The Next Generation Of Universal Immune Receptors, Nicholas G. Minutolo
Genetic Insights Into Latent Autoimmune Diabetes In Adults, Rajashree Mishra
Seeing The Light (higgs): Searches And Measurements Of Higgs Boson Decays To Photons, Khilesh Pradip Mistry
Mechanisms Underlying Alcohol-Mediated Cellular Injury In Esophageal Keratinocytes, Prasanna Venkata Ramanan Modayur Chandramouleeswaran
Bayesian Approaches For Modeling Variation, Gemma Elyse Moran
The Post-1960s Development Of Urban Institutions And The Production Of Racial Justice Activism, James Evans Morone
On The Compatibility Of Derived Structures On Critical Loci, Antonijo Mrcela
Development Of Unnatural Amino Acid Based Spectroscopic Probes For Chemical And Biological Applications, Debopreeti Mukherjee
Small, Safe Quadrotors For Autonomous Flight, Yash Mulgaonkar
Surface Polysaccharides Promote Innate Immune Evasion By The Pediatric Pathogen Kingella Kingae, Vanessa Lynne Munoz
“up From The Dirt”: Racializing Refuge, Rupture, & Repair In Philadelphia, Michelle Rungamirai Munyikwa
Cultivating Reproductive Citizens: State And Fertility Practices In Turkey, Genevra F. Murray
The Role Of Aldo-Keto Reductases And Nrf2 Signaling In The Metabolic Activation Of Nitrated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Jessica Rose Murray
Speech Labs: Language Experiments, Early Poetry Audio Archives, And The Poetic Record, Chris Mustazza
Elucidating The Mechanism Of Nonsense Suppressor-Induced Premature Stop-Codon Readthrough In Eukaryotes, Martin Yu-Hin Ng
The Problems Of Moral Psychology, Thomas Noah
Methods For Robust Quantification Of Rna Alternative Splicing In Heterogeneous Rna-Seq Datasets, Scott Simon Norton
Novel Optical Techniques For Probing Orbital And Spin Angular Momentum In Solids, Mehmet Ali Noyan
Vodou En Vogue: Fashion, Ritual And Spiritual Innovation In Haitian Vodou, Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha
Generating The Other: An Exploration Of The Relationship Between Item Response And Immigrant Generational Status In A Sample Of Black And Latinx Children, Ama Nyame-Mensah
The Allies Of Others: How Stakeholders’ Relationships Shape Non-Market Strategy, Katarzyna D. Odziemkowska
Multiple Feedback Mechanisms Fine-Tune Rho Signaling To Regulate Morphogenetic Outcomes, Katy Lauren Ong
Visual Perception For Robotic Spatial Understanding, Jason Lawrence Owens
Theorizing Film Quotation: Re-Membering Classical Hollywood Film In Contemporary American Cinema, Eleni Palis
Safe Planning And Control Of Autonomous Systems: Robust Predictive Algorithms, Yash Vardhan Pant
Sounding Nostalgia In Post-World War I Paris, Tristan Paré-Morin
Post Black Paradoxes: Colorblind Racism And The Real Absurd In Twenty-First Century African American Satire, Keyana Parks
Regulating Access Or Costs? Two Approaches To Regionalizing Health Care, Lindsey J. Patterson
The Molecular Basis For Rapid Ca2+ Transport Across The Inner Mitochondrial Membrane, Riley J. Payne
Identification And Functional Characterization Of Novel Determinants Of The Somatotropes And Lactotrope Lineages In The Anterior Pituitary, Michael Thomas Peel
Identifying Media Bias With Computer Vision, Yilang Peng
Efficient Precise Dynamic Data Race Detection For Cpu And Gpu, Yuanfeng Peng
Insights For Catalyst Design: A Systematic Investigation Of The Morphological Dependence Of Catalytic And Photocatalytic Activity For Nanostructured Titania, Paul Andrew Pepin
Code-Switching And Bilingualism In Saturis Lucilii, Marcie Persyn
From Bench To Bedside And Back Again: Car T Cell Signaling And Survival, Benjamin Philipson
The Complexity Of Being Me: Understanding The Perks And Perils Of Cultivating Authentic Impressions At Work, Julianna Pillemer
Ramification In The Inverse Galois Problem, Benjamin David Pollak
Selective Inhibition Of Histone Deacetylases, Nicholas John Porter
Refinancing The American Dream: The Consequences Of Targeted Financial Policy For Political And Racial Inequality In The United States, Patricia Posey
Expressions Of Passion And Status Conferral: A Longitudinal Study Of U.s. Congress Members, Jaime Potter
Metabolic Imaging Of Acute Lung Injury Using Hyperpolarzied 13c Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Mehrdad Pourfathi
A Computational And Experimental Study Of Polymer Conformation And Diffusion Under Confinement, James F. Pressly
Cerium Photocatalysis And Progress Toward The Isolation Of Tetravalent Lanthanide Complexes, Yusen Qiao
Surface Patterns On Single Cells: A Consequence Of A Phase Transition To Modulated Phases, Asja Radja
The Judgeship And The Twelver Shīʿī Adab Al-Qāḍī Genre, 11-14th Centuries C.e., Raha Rafii
Sensor-Based Topological Coverage And Mapping Algorithms For Resource-Constrained Robot Swarms, Rattanachai Ramaithitima
Egalitarian Liberalism And Economic Freedom, Pierce Randall
Early Islamic Ghur, 10th-12th Centuries Ce: Rereading The Tabaqat-I Nasiri, Jawan Shir Rasikh
Vertical Block Copolymer Cylinder-Nanorod Self-Assembly, Boris Rasin
Essays On Dynamic Games And Contracts With Learning, Nishant Ravi
Self-Mastery In Plato, Brian Reese
Electron Identification, Electronics Upgrades, And Electroweak Supersymmetry At Atlas, Joseph Patrick Reichert
Home Tongue Earthquake: The Radical Afterlives Of Yiddishland, Ariel Yeshoshua Resnikoff
Electroweak Physics At The Large Hadron Collider With The Atlas Detector: Standard Model Measurement, Supersymmetry Searches, Excesses, And Upgrade Electronics, Elodie Resseguie
The Political Economy Of Amazon Deforestation: Subnational Development And The Uneven Reach Of The Colombian State, Javier Revelo-Rebolledo
Investigating The Role Of The Human Naip/nlrc4 Inflammasome In Host Defense Against Gram-Negative Bacterial Infection, Valeria M. Reyes Ruiz
Investigating The Dysregulation And Therapeutic Potential Of Neuroprotective Stress Response Proteins In Huntington’s Disease, Julianne M. Rieders
Polymer Infiltration Under Extreme Confinement, David Ring
Security With Solvency: Retrenchment And Strategic Reorientation, Travis E. Robison
Allosteric Functionality In Mechanical And Flow Networks, Jason William Rocks
Skins Of Commerce: An Epidermal Tour Through American Medicine And Markets, 1900–1970, J. Maxwell Rogoski
Essays In Macroeconomics With Financial Frictions, Eugenio Rojas
Tribbles Homologue 1 Controls Antiviral Immunity By Restraining T Cell Effector Programming And Function, Kelly Rome
Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, And The Emotional Politics Of Race And Blackness In The U.s., Shantee Rosado
Learning Transferable Knowledge Through Embedding Spaces, Mohammad Rostami