Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Understanding Adolescent Physical Activity in the Early Nutrition Transitioning Country of Haiti, Haley V. Becker
Simulation of Black Hole Inner Accretion Disk-Corona and Optimization of the Hard X-ray Polarimeter, X-Calibur, Banafsheh Beheshtipour
Preventing Extinction of At-Risk Plant Species in a Complex World, Holly Lee Bernardo
Selections from the Seedbed of Cultural Creativity: Where “the Religious” and “the Secular” Converge. or How We Went from Antebellum Post-millennialism to Cold War “Armageddon Theology.”, Mary Bigham-Bartling
Effects of Resistance Exercise on Postprandial Metabolism in Obese Men with Prediabetes, Adam Bittel
Functional and Skeletal Muscle Impairments In Progressive Diabetic CKD, Daniel Bittel
We are a Fantasia: Violence, Belonging, and Potentiality in Transgender Latina Sexual Economies, Andrea Bolivar
Transcriptional Regulation of Dendritic Cell Function, Carlos Briseno
Almost There, Elizabeth Brown
Lattice Scales from Gradient Flow and Chiral Analysis on the MILC Collaboration's HISQ Ensembles, Nathan Joseph Brown
Mapping Sterol Binding Sites in Integral Membrane Proteins using Mass Spectrometry, Melissa Marie Budelier
The Essential Roles of the Chromatin Factor Gon4l in Heart Development, Terin Elise Budine
Kinship and Religious Identities in Medieval Central Asia (8th-13th c. CE): Tracing Communities of Mortuary Practice and Biological Affinity, Elissa Anne Bullion
A Mechanism of Antimicrobial Resistance and a Mitigation Strategy, Christopher Bulow
Seismic Structure near the Mariana Trench and Deep Earthquake Triggering in the Tonga Flat Slab, Chen Cai
Algorithmic Trading with Prior Information, Xinyi Cai
Cancer genomics approaches elucidate tumor mutational and microenvironmental landscapes and dynamics, Katie Campbell
Advanced Methods in Comparative Politics: Modeling Without Conditional Independence, David George Carlson
CD4 T Cell Interaction with Intestinal Microbes under Homeostasis and Inflammation, Jiani Chai
Integration of Local and Regional Regulatory Information in the Human Genome, Hemangi Govind Chaudhari
A Mouse Model of Börjeson-Forssman-Lehmann Syndrome reveals a potential link with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Cheng Cheng
Index Theory for Invariant Elliptic Operators on Manifolds with Proper Cocompact Group Actions, Gong Cheng
Levels of processing and the parietal memory network, Hung-Yu Chen
Essays on Applied Economics with Machine Learning Approach, Tzai-Shuen Chen
Project Supply Chains and Applied Research, Xingxing Chen
Essays on Macroeconomic Development, Ting Yuen Terry Cheung
Tuning in and Tuning Out: Deliberative Citizenship and Democracy’s Epistemic Potential, Matthew Bryan Chick
Attachment Orientations and Relationship Maintenance in College Friendships, Samuel Chung
Correlated Variability and Adaptation in Orbitofrontal Cortex during Economic Choice, Katherine E. Conen
Host Determinants of Protection and Pathogenesis during Chikungunya Virus Infection, Lindsey Elaine Cook
Large-scale Multiple Hypothesis Testing with Complex Data Structure, Xiaoyu Dai
The Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration, Intervention and Faith, Maxine Davis
Biological and behavioral mechanisms underlying childhood physical abuse and age-related disease: Borderline personality pathology and inflammation, Christina Rae Di Iorio
Essays on Empirical Analysis of Economic Policy in Electricity and Labor Markets, Xiaoxiao Dong
Ming China As A Gunpowder Empire: Military Technology, Politics, And Fiscal Administration, 1350-1620, Weicong Duan
Does Privatization Matter? An Exploration of Foster Care Permanency Outcomes, Allison Early Dunnigan
Calm, Cool, but Distant: Why Hiding Your Emotions Might be a Double-Edged Sword, Lameese Eldesouky
Deuterium MAS NMR Studies of Mg-Ti Deuteride Formed During High Pressure Ball Milling, Samuel Emery
The Role of Membrane Excitability in Insulin Regulation, Christopher Howard Emfinger
Anodic Cyclization Reaction: Manipulation of Reaction Pathway and Efforts to Radical Cation and Radical Intermediate, Ruozhu Feng
Samuel Pepys, Honor, and Emergent Bureaucracy in Later Seventeenth Century England, Michael Fitzhugh
The Impact of Small Organic Acids on Iron and Manganese Mineral Transformations and the Fate of Trace Metals, Elaine Denise Flynn
Prospective Memory Impairment in Parkinson Disease without Dementia: Cognitive Mechanisms and Intervention, Erin R. Foster
Tunable Electronic and Optical Properties of Low-Dimensional Materials, Shiyuan Gao
Mechanistic characterization of resistome and microbiome dynamics across diverse microbial habitats, Andrew John Gasparrini
Microbiota-Directed Therapeutic Foods for the Treatment of Childhood Undernutrition, Jeanette Lynn Gehrig