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Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Preparing For Use Of A Computerized Battery To Identify Neurocognitive Impairments Among Children And Adolescents Affected By The Human Immunodeficiency Virus In Botswana, Amelia Elizabeth Van Pelt
Enrollment, Labor, And Effort: An Analysis Of The Educational Choices Of Students In Mexico, Gabrielle Vasey
Diverse Roles Of Nuclear Intermediate Filaments In Proliferating Cells, Manasvita Vashisth
Reactive Planning With Legged Robots In Unknown Environments, Vasileios Vasilopoulos
Development And Evaluation Of Next Generation Tomosynthesis, Trevor Lewis Vent
Essays On Financial Crises, Sergio Villalvazo Martin
Mechanisms Of Early Arterial Stiffening And Reduced Smooth Muscle Contractility In The Premature Aging Disease Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome, Ryan Von Kleeck
Neurobehavioral Mechanisms Contributing To Alterations In Food Intake Driven By Caudal Hindbrain Acting Signals, Hallie Sage Wald
Like When You Look: For Orchestra, Jacob Tyler Walls
A Cornucopia Of Labeled Diagrams And Their Generating Polynomials, George Wang
Discovery And Application Of Cytosine Carboxymethylation, Tong Wang
Essays In Urban And Real Estate Economics, Xiao Betty Wang
Investigation Of Rna-Protein Interactions In Prc2 Function, Robert Warneford-Thomson
Investigating The Impacts Of Internal Electrostatic Fields On Homogeneous Transition Metal Complexes, Alexander Bent Weberg
Advancing Immunotherapy Through Proteogenomics: Identification And Validation Of Dlk1 As A Target In Neuroblastoma, Amber Kathryn Weiner
Where Life Is Precious: The Terrains Of Criminalization, Violence, And Freedom In Trinidad, Leniqueca Annah Welcome
The Integrator Complex: A Multi-Tool For Metazoan Transcription, Sarah A. Welsh
The Processing And Mental Representation Of Ing Variation, Yosiane Zenobia White
Entitled Imaginings: Tristan Tzara, Dada, And The Idea Of Africa, Hilary Whitham
Neuronal Codes And Circuits Underlying Audiovisual Integration, Aaron Williams
Human Olfaction And Mate Choice, Megan Nicole Williams
Elucidating The Pathological Mechanism Of Histone H3.3 Mutations In Neurodevelopment, Khadija Deniece Wilson
Some Results On Two-Dimensional Lattice Random Field Models, Mateo Wirth
Relationship Between Structure And Properties In Liquid-Quenched And Vapor-Deposited Organic Glasses, Sarah Wolf
Material Point Methods For Simulating Material Fracture, Joshuah A. Wolper
Enrollment And Finance: An Exploration Of The Community College Baccalaureate, Jeremy Wright-Kim
Towards The Efficient Use Of Fine-Grained Provenance In Datascience Applications, Yinjun Wu
Essays In Urban And Regional Economics, Hongyu Xiao
Enhancing Electronic Health Record Data For Population Health Studies, Sherrie Xie
The Effects Of Racial Segregation And Isolation On Teacher Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence From Pennsylvania, Haisheng Yang
Language And Brain Development In Autism, Lisa Diane Yankowitz
Ion Management And Mass Transport For (photo-) Electrochemical Conversions, Zhifei Yan
Embedded Energy Landscapes In Soft Matter For Micro-Robotics And Reconfigurable Structures, Tianyi Yao
Mixed Carlitz Motives And Colored Multizeta Values In Characteristic P, Yao-Rui Yeo
The Role Of Interleukin-4 Receptor Signaling In Neonatal Adipocyte Precursors, Tammy Ying
Consumer Behavior And Firm Marketing Strategy Under Assortment Expansion, Qi Yu
Contributions To Multivariate Matching In Observational Studies, Ruoqi Yu
Investigating The Role Of Chaperone-Mediated Autophagy In Glioma Stem Cells, Sixiang Yu
Birational Geometry Of Genus One Fibrations And Stability Of Pencils Of Plane Curves, Aline Zanardini
Mechanistic Insight Into The Partial Oxidation Of Methane To Methanol Using Platinum And Palladium Complexes, Hannah Elizabeth Zeitler
Derived Lie Infinity-Groupoids And Algebroids In Higher Differential Geometry, Qingyun Zeng
Manipulating Glass Structure And Properties Through Surface Mediated Equilibrium, Aixi Zhang
Machine Learning For Robot Motion Planning, Clark June Zhang
Automating Program Analysis For Differential Privacy, Hengchu Zhang
Essays On Individual Health Insurance Market: Adverse Selection, Subsidy Design And Provision, Hongyu Zhang
Essays In Online Platform Operations, Jiding Zhang
Understanding Patterns In Nature, Mingjun Zhang
Do Managers Learn From Institutional Investors Through Direct Interactions?, Rachel Zhang
Rv-Enabled Framework For Self-Adaptive Software, Teng Zhang
Understanding The Dynamic And Mechanical Properties Of Polymers Under Nanoconfinement, Tianren Zhang
Characterization Of Charge Carrier Behaviors In Ii-Vi And Iv-Vi Nanocrystal Assemblies, Qinghua Zhao
Fine-Grained Provenance And Applications To Data Analytics Computation, Nan Zheng
3d-Stiffness Microenvironment Leads To Nuclear Envelope Rupture, Dna Damage, And Genome Variation, Kuangzheng Zhu
Understanding Gene Regulation In Development And Differentiation Using Single Cell Multi-Omics, Qin Zhu
Essays On Networks In Macroeconomics And Finance, Wu Zhu
Chasing Recovery: Labor, Governance, And Mobility In Philadelphia’s Drug Treatment Network, Tali Rosenman Ziv
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Spatially Dispersive Electrodynamics And Quantum Geometry In Semimetals, Zachariah Addison
Single Cell Mechanical Trauma And Recovery Across Scales, Modupe Alexandra Adegoke
Dating In The Digital Age: Race, Gender, And Inequality, Sarah Adeyinka-Skold
Striatal Computations In Health And Psychiatric Dysfunction, Opeyemi Alabi
Type 1 Interferon: A Negative Regulator Of Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells Function In Cancer, Kevin M. Alicea-Torres
Saba George Shiber's Kuwaitopolis And The Emergence Of The Arab Urban-Architect, Aminah H. Alkanderi
Leveraging Symmetric Structure For Improved Learning In Convolutional Neural Networks, Christine Allen-Blanchette
Madam, Witch, And Narca: Celestinesque Go-Betweens In Mexican Cinema, 1932-1992, Ana Samary Almeyda-Cohen
Essays On Firm Dynamics, Innovation And Growth, Harun Alp
Essays In Mortgage Markets And Public Investment Cycles, Sumedh Ambokar
All-Passive Hardware Architectures For Neuromorphic Computation, Akshay Ananthakrishnan
Urbanity And The Architectural Project: The Case Of Sverre Fehn, Stephen Michael Anderson
Transcriptional Control And Development Of Energy Burning Adipocytes, Anthony Angueira
The Promise Of Language Planning In Indigenous Early Childhood Education In Mexico, Aldo Anzures Tapia
Integrated Electronic-Photonic Systems: From High-Resolution Synthesis To Compact Phased Arrays, Farshid Ashtiani
Prescription Opioids And Adolescents: Factors Associated With Nonmedical Use And Prescribing Practices, Sydney Alexandra Axson
Nollywood And Popular Religion: Productions Of Prosperity, Gender, And The Supernatural In Nigerian Cinema, Chijioke A. Azuawusiefe
A Multi-Methods Study Of Social Determinants And Self-Care In Adults With Heart Failure, Foster Osei Baah
Cyberdreams Of The Information Age: Learning With Machines In The Cold War United States And The Soviet Union, Ekaterina Babintseva
An Experimental Evaluation Of A Brief Self-Compassion Training With First-Year Teachers, Rebecca Nyquist Baelen
Multiscale Polymer And Nanoparticle Dynamics In Polymer Nanocomposites, Eric Joseph Bailey
Pushing The Limits Of Ground-Based Exoplanet Characterization Surveys, Ashley Baker
Cognition In Nature: Information, Explanation, And Embodiment, Todd Ben Baker
Matrix Factorization Under Contamination, Peter Lewis Ballen
Bayesian Nonparametric Analysis Of Spatial Variation With Discontinuities, Cecilia Balocchi
Functional And Structural Remodeling Of The Meniscus With Growth And Injury, Sonia Bansal
Strategic Human Capital And Entrepreneurship, Jiayi Bao
The Effects Of Content Ephemerality On Information Processing, Uri Barnea
Engaging Nurses In Impelementation Strategies And Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines For Infection Prevention And Control To Support Ebola Preparedness In Sierra Leone, Amy Elizabeth Barrera-Cancedda
Thioamides And Proteolysis: Examining The Effects And Applications Of A Single-Atom Substitution, Taylor Mallory Barrett
The Model Kitchen: Domesticating Modernism In The American Home, 1942-1966, Juliana Rowen Barton
Elucidating Human Inflammasome Responses To Legionella Pneumophila And Lipopolysaccharide Variants, Antonia Ronalda Bass
Development And Validation Of Novel Transmitted/founder Shivs For Hiv-1 Persistence And Cure Research, Anya Margaret Bauer
Elucidating The Regulatory Role Of 3d Genome Folding During Neural Differentiation And Synaptic Activation, Jonathan Adams Beagan
The Right To Refuge, And What Happens Next, Eilidh Mackie Beaton
Foundations Of Inequality: Construction, Political Economy, Race, And The Body In Palestine/israel, 1918-1973, Nimrod Ben Zeev
Light-Inducible Control Of Microtubule Organization In Cell-Like Compartments, Jessica G. Bermudez
Adolf Behne's Writings On Architecture, 1912-1933: 'neues Bauen,' Socialism, And The Question Of Agency, Kevin M. Berry
Recruitment & Career Experiences Of Diverse Faculty Couples At Aau Universities, Daniel Jerome Blake