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Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Statistical Models to Predict Popularity of News Articles on Social Networks, Ziyi Liu
Emotion Dysregulation and Functional Connectivity in Children With and Without a History of Major Depressive Disorder, Katherine Lopez
Conscientiousness and Responses to Failure, Alexandra Noelle Lord
Metabolic Modulation of Bacterial Resistance to Alpha-Defensins, Christine Tzy-Yuh Luo
Statistical Analysis of Markovian Queueing Models of Limit Order Books, Yiyao Luo
Mass Spectrometry-Based Structural Analysis of Photosynthetic Protein Assemblies, Yue Lu
Mapping Analyte-Signal Relations in LC-MS Based Untargeted Metabolomics, Nathaniel Guy Mahieu
Against the Grain: How the Delineation of Mechanisms Affects Scientific Practices, Sarah Malanowski
Discovery and Characterization of Rv0004 as a Novel and Essential Part of the Mycobacterial DNA Replication Machinery, Katherine Mann
Examining the Lumbar Movement Pattern During Functional Activities in People With Low Back Pain, Andrej Vincent Marich
The Role of VIP SCN Neurons in Circadian Physiology and Behavior, Cristina Mazuski
Designing Epigenome Editing Tools to Understand the Functional Role of DNA Methylation Changes in Cancer, James Mcdonald
Mental Health and Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents in South Korean Orphanages, Hollee Ann Mcginnis
‘La Poesía de la Plaza Pública’: Escritura Poética, Visualidad y el Espacio de lo Político. Chile,1972-1988, Gonzalo Montero
Beta-Diversity Patterns and Community Assembly across Latitudes, Emma Moran
Seeds as Artifacts of Communities of Practice: The Domestication of Erect Knotweed in Eastern North America, Natalie Graham Mueller
Intimate Partner Violence among South Asian Women in the United States: Prevalence and Help-Seeking Behaviors, Vithya Murugan
All the Things We Never Talked About: Memoir of a Pastor's Daughter, Katharine Grace Nakaue
What Makes a Happy Relationship? Distinguishing the Associations Between Partner Similarity (Personality Similarity and Value Similarity) and Relationship Quality, Phuong Linh Nguyen
The Development and Characterization of New Models of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection, Valerie Phoebe O'brien
Novel Insights into Yersiniabactin Biosynthesis in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli, Shannon Ileen Ohlemacher
Coexistence of Confamilial, Folivorous Indriids, Propithecus diadema and Indri indri, at Betampona Strict Nature Reserve, Madagascar, Lana Kerker Oliver
Environmentalism and the Music of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Karen Olson
The Nets of Style: Shaping Modernist Literary Narrative, Kelly Lynn Oman
The Role of Histidine Rich Protein II in Cerebral Malaria, Priya Pal
Topics in QCD at Nonzero Temperature and Density, Kamal Pangeni
Connectivity Bounds and S-Partitions for Triangulated Manifolds, Alexandru Ilarian Papiu
DNA Replication Challenges: Telomeres and R loops, Shankar Parajuli
Temporal and Causal Dynamics between the Economy and Presidents, Taeyong Park
Mechanisms and Regulation of Resection in DNA Damage Response, Sharad C. Paudyal
Sins of the Father: An Investigation into Judgments and Processes Involved in Within-family Tainting, Stephanie Allison Peak
The Last Unkillable Thing, Emily Pittinos
Identification and Characterization of an Interferon Stimulated Gene That Restricts Alphavirus Infection and Pathogenesis, Subhajit Poddar
Model and World: Generalizing the Ontic Conception of Scientific Explanation, Mark Povich
Transitional Care for Older Adults with Dementia: Variation Across Patients and Providers, Patricia Prusaczyk
Metabolic regulation of CD8 T cell functions in the tumor microenvironment, Jing Qiu
Structured Illumination Diffuse Optical Tomography for Mouse Brain Imaging, Matthew Reisman
Troubling Truth in the Auchinleck Manuscript, Amy Elizabeth Reynolds
Antiviral Nucleoside Inhibitors of Leishmania RNA Virus 1: Discovery and Mechanism, John Isaac Robinson
Identification of Novel Variants Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease Using Quantitative Traits, Yuetiva Karenina Robles
A Generalized Biophysical Model of Transcription Factor Binding Specificity and Its Application on High-Throughput SELEX Data, Shuxiang Ruan
Determining the Molecular Mechanisms of Huntington’s Disease through Multi-Scale Modeling, Kiersten Ruff
Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of Mononuclear Palladium Complexes Bearing Nitrogen and Carbon-Donor Ligands, Nicholas Patrick Ruhs
Biophysical studies of the intracellular domains of the EGFR family of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases, Kwabena A N Sarpong
Modeling Complex Patterns of Differential DNA Methylation That Associate with Expression Change, Christopher E. Schlosberg
Understanding the paradox of genetic diversity in uropathogenic E. coli: the uncommon evolution of a common pathogen, Henry Louis Schreiber