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Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Inventing a Moralist Self: The Moral Experiences of Drug Users in China's State-run Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program, Chaoxiong Zhang
The Role of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells and Classical Dendritic Cells in the Maintenance and Regulation of the Bone Marrow Niche, Jingzhu Zhang
Preschool Children's Knowledge and Use of Their Writing System, Lan Zhang
Essays on Entrepreneurship, Yvonne (Yinghong) Zhang
Essays on Macroeconomics and Economic Development, Lijun Zhu
NMR Studies of Metal Hydrides in Carbon Scaffolds, Hongyang Zou
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Brain Enriched microRNAs Open the Neurogenic Potential of Adult Human Fibroblasts, Daniel Gene Abernathy
Understanding the Relationship Between Hosts and their Microbiome, Boahemaa Adu-Oppong
Essays on Firms and Human Behavior, Nicolas Aguelakakis
Consuming Bodies: Countercultural Citizens of Mexican Capitalism in the 20th Century, Ivan Eusebio Aguirre Darancou
New Ventures in Amidine-Based Catalyst Design, Nicholas Alan Ahlemeyer
Knowledge Driven Approaches and Machine Learning Improve the Identification of Clinically Relevant Somatic Mutations in Cancer Genomics, Benjamin John Ainscough
Developing a spatial navigation screening tool for preclinical Alzheimer’s disease, Samantha Lynn Allison
Evaluating a Targeted, Universal Middle School Program for Childhood Overweight and Obesity: StayingFit, Myra Altman
Quizzing and Restudy Dynamics in a TST Paradigm: The (Null) Effect of Feedback and the (Significant) Effects of Metacognition, Francis Anderson
The Impact of Delay on Retrieval Success in the Parietal Memory Network, Nathan Anderson
Michelangelo Moving Time, James Philip Anno
Mechanism of Gene Regulation by Coding PolyA Tracks, Laura Lea Arthur
GOD BLESS THE WHOLE WORLD NO EXCEPTIONS, Claire Askew
For One Drop of Blood: Virginity, Sexual Norms and Medical Processes in Hymenoplasty Consultations in the Netherlands, Sherria Ayuandini
Developing Girls, Developing Economies: A Transnational History of the Girls’ Rights Movement in Nairobi, 1975 – Present, Sarah Bellows-Blakely
Genetic and Biological Studies on Solanum Plants: Insights into the Leaf Wax Alkane Paleoclimate Proxy, Amanda Lorraine Dorothy Bender
To Laugh or Cry: Examining Intergroup Attitudes through Humor, Katlin Bentley
Die Verzauberung der Welt - eine Studie zur transgressiven Sakralität an Beispielen der zeitgenössischen Serienkultur, Christine Bernshaus
How Do Environmental Changes and Shared Cultural Experiences Impact the Health of Indigenous Peoples in South Louisiana?, Shanondora M. Billiot
Participation in Governance and Well-Being in the Yukon Flats, Jessica Charlene Black
Feasibility Testing of a Complex Intervention for Motor and Activity Limitations in Persons with Stroke, Anna Boone
Native Roots and Foreign Grafts: The Spiritual Quest of Uchimura Kanzō, Christopher Andrew Born
Mitochondrial damage accumulation in oocytes – a potential link between maternal obesity and increased cardiometabolic disease risk in offspring., Anna Louise Boudoures
The Role of RNA Interference in the Control of Leishmania RNA virus 1 Infection, Erin Acino Brettmann
Mitochondrial Dynamics Controls T Cell Fate Through Metabolic Programming, Michael Buck
Synthesis, characterization, and biological activity of spherical nucleic acid (SNA) constructs for cancer therapy and imaging, Colin Calabrese
Neurogenetics of the Externalizing Spectrum, Caitlin E. Carey
Quantitative profiling of cooperative transcription factors pairing on hundreds of sequences in parallel, Yiming Chang
Crossing Upstream, Rachel Chapman
Bringing Raised Fists to a Gun Fight: Exploring the Strategic Choice & Persistence of Violent Dissent over Civil Resistance, Ambreen Chaudhri
Essays on Development, Growth, and Human Capital, Wan-Jung Cheng
Regulation of Early Zebrafish Embryogenesis by Calcium Signaling and Dachsous1b Cadherin, Jiakun Chen
Exploring Host-Virus Interactions in Caenorhabditis Nematodes, Kevin Chen
Market Risk Management for Financial Institutions Based on GARCH Family Models, Qiandi Chen
Population Genomics of a Baboon Hybrid Zone in Zambia, Kenneth Lyu Chiou
Better Off Dead: Suicide in Plato's Philosophy, Anna Christensen
Folk Epistemology of Factual, Political, and Religious Beliefs, John Christner
Beyond the Chicago School: Literature, Gender, and Modernist Sociology in America, 1892-1930, Claire Marie Class
Effects of Regolith Properties on UV/VIS Spectra and Implications for Lunar Remote Sensing, Ecaterina Ioana Coman
Regulation of gene expression by RNA binding proteins and microRNAs, Kyle Cottrell
What is Opposition Good For?, Betul Demirkaya
Characterization of ZIP genes responsible for zinc homeostasis in C. elegans, Nicholas Dietrich