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Arts & Sciences Theses and Dissertations

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Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Quantum Information Processing via Dissipation Engineering in Superconducting Circuit Platform, Yunzhao Wang

Discounting of Delayed and Probabilistic Outcomes Across the Adult Lifespan, Haoran Wan

The Historical Ecology of Late Archaic Mound Building in the Lower Mississippi Valley, Grace M. V. Ward

Desorientierung, Vertikalisierung und zerfallende Konturen: Ein Vergleich der literarischen Welten Kazuo Ishiguros, W. G. Sebalds, Peter Weiss’ und Franz Kafkas, Sandra Weber

The Role of NS1 in Flavivirus Immunity and Pathogenesis, Alex W. Wessel

Spectro-Polarimetric and Time Domain Characteristics of Dynamically Evolving Accretion Flows from the General Relativistic Raytracing of General Relativistic Magneto-Hydrodynamical Simulations, Andrew West

Music and Mind Games: Disability and Genre in the Psychonauts Series, Sophia Wetzel

Sleep, Cognition, and Alzheimer’s Disease: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study, Hannah Wilks

Discrimination and Health Disparities: Sense of Purpose as a Mitigating Factor, Megan Elizabeth Wilson

The influence of the gut microbiota on asthma in school-aged children and adults, Naomi Grace Wilson

Immunity to Emerging RNA Viruses, Emma Winkler

T-bet and Eomes Are Required for Mature NK Cell Homeostasis and Function, Pamela Wong

A multiproxy approach to deciphering the geochemical evolution of cold seep environments, Robert Seth Wood

Modeling Variability in Personality Development: Quantifying, Explaining, and Examining the Predictive Utility of Person-Specific Variance Around Personality Trajectories, Amanda Jo Wright

Improving Neoantigen Prioritization Methods for Personalized Cancer Vaccines, Huiming Xia

Consistent Across Situations? A Person Specific Approach to Examining a Long-standing Paradox., Muchen Xi

TFEB degradation is regulated by an IKK/β-TrCP2 phosphorylation-ubiquitination cascade, Yan Xiong

Lepton Flavor Violation and Lepton Flavor Universality Violation: Opportunity for New Physics Beyond the Standard Model, Fang Xu

Subgroup Identification via Interaction Tree and Mixed Model for Repeated Measures with Application to Alzheimer’s Disease, Zhichen Xu

Hydrolysis-directed Vapor-phase Synthesis and Solution Processing of Nanostructured Conducting Polymers, Haoru Yang

Biosynthetic Strategies for Microbial Siderophore Assembly, Jinping Yang

Essays on Firms, Debt Contracts and Equity Market, Rusi Yan

Investigating Disease Progression and Therapeutic Targets in Multiple Myeloma Using Single-cell Technologies, Lijun Yao

Essays on Market Reallocation and Economic Growth, Lei Ye

Physiological Heterogeneity and Pain-Associated Plasticity in Human Sensory Neurons, Jiwon Yi

Using In Situ Single-Particle Imaging to Understand the Role of Structural Distortions during Anion Exchange in Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals, Dongyan Zhang

Structural Basis of Gating in MSL Channels, Jingying Zhang

Using Monocopper-Superoxo Complexes in Reactions with Mono- and Dicopper(I) Complexes, Xinzhe Zhong

Essays on Statistical Inference, Nonconvex Optimization and Machine Learning, Yanjie Zhong

Mechanisms of transcription regulation by CarD in Mycobacterium, Dennis Xiaoqian Zhu

Essays on Macroeconomics, Zheliang Zhu

Abundances of Ultra-Heavy Cosmic Ray Nuclei with CALET, Wolfgang Vaughn Zober

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

The Effects of NMDA Antagonism on Neuronal Activity and Neurovascular Coupling in Non-Human Primate Cortex, Benjamin Thomas Acland

System shock: Using -omics data to characterize biological remodeling in the microbiome, resistome, and transcriptome of bacteria, Winston Eugene Anthony

The Relationship Between Inflammation, Metabolism and Oxidative Stress in Chondrocytes: Drivers of Osteoarthritic Changes, Manoj Arra

Protecting Native Motherhood: A Longitudinal Investigation of Interpersonal Violence Among Alaska Native Women, Autumn Asher

Playing with the Music: Ecologies of Attention and Understanding in the Classical Music Education Project of Sesame Street or The Bird, The Worm, and the Mushroom: Three Stories of Listening, Eden Attar

Tissue Resident Macrophages Drive Fibrosis During Pancreas Inflammatory Injury and Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma, John Baer

Electronic, Optical, and Thermal Probes of the Layered Mott Insulator α-RuCl3 in the Atomically Thin Limit, Jesse Balgley

A Nonconforming Finite Element Method for the 2D Vector Laplacian, Mary Barker

Validation, Categorizing, and Prediction of Upper Limb Outcomes after Stroke, Jessica Barth

A Personalized Intervention to Increase Regulatory Capacity for Anti-Racist Action, Jennifer Frances Beatty

Literary Decadence and Critical Decay, Kevin David Beverage

Antigen Presentation in Central Nervous System Antitumor Immunity, Jay Aaron Bowman-Kirigin

Worlds of Their Own: Narrative World-Making in Eighteenth-Century British Women’s Literature, Lisa Renee Brune

Characterizing complex affective processing across age and in relation to social anxiety symptoms, M. Catalina Camacho

DEI without Equity: Lab Coat Culture and Persistent Racism in Bioengineering Laboratories, Janet Canady

Bounding Projective Hypersurface Singularities, Benjamin Castor

Essays on Market Structure, Business Cycles and Monetary Economics, Ke Chao

The role of the neurodevelopmental disorder gene Myt1l in mammalian brain development, Jiayang Chen