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Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Roles of a Positively Selecting Self-peptide in the Thymus and in the Periphery, Wan-Lin Lo
Quantification of Conformational Heterogeneity and its Role in Protein Aggregation and Unfolding, Nicholas J. Lyle
“I’ll Be Your Mirror” : The Appropriation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Philosophy of Self-Construction in Seneca’s Oedipus, Theodore MacDonald
The Efficiency of Retrieval Practice as a Function of Spacing and Intrinsic Value in Young and Older Adults, Geoffrey B. Maddox
Characterization of the Placenta-Specific 8.1 Gene Function during Zebrafish Embryogenesis, Haiting Ma
Reading, Travel, and the Pedagogy of Growing Up in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany, M. Stanley Majors
The Biomechanics of Spear Throwing: An Analysis of the Effects of Anatomical Variation on Throwing Performance, with Implications for the Fossil Record, Julia Marie Maki
The Functions of Autophagy Genes and Interferon Regulatory Factor 1 in Interferon Gamma Mediated Control of Murine Norovirus Infection, Nicole Maloney
On the Orientation Dependence of the Casimir Force, Christopher David Markle
Batf3-Deficient Mice: Susceptibility to Toxoplasma gondii and Responses to IL-12 Treatment in vivo, Mona Mashayekhi
Essays on Price Dynamics and Market Selection, Filippo Massari
The Role of Melanocyte Differentiation in Uveal Melanoma Progression, Katie A. Matatall
Constructions of Childhood on the Funerary Monuments of Roman Athens, Grizelda McClelland
Structural Mechanism of Orthopoxvirus Sabotage of MHCI Antigen Presentation, William Howard McCoy IV
Modernist Orientalisms: Klee, Matisse, and North Africa, c. 1906-1930, Sarah Ann McGavran
Boy with Thorn, Rickey Laurentiis McGhee
Characterization of Human Gut Microbiota Dynamics Using Model Communities in Gnotobiotic Mice, Nathaniel Patrick McNulty
Well and Other Stories, Gwyneth A. Merner
Gravitational Waves and Inspiraling Compact Binaries in Alternative Theories of Gravity, Saeed Mirshekari
Frequent False Hearing by Older Adults: The Effects of Predictive Context in Speech Perception, John Ryan Morton
The Influence of Diet on the Mammalian Gut Microbiome, Brian David Muegge
The Curse of Windfall Income: How Foreign Aid and Natural Resource Dependence Constrains Growth, Adams Bailey Nager
Testing Promote Transfer with Authentic Educational Materials, Khuyen Nguyen
Changes in Marriage, Fertility, and Female Labor Participation in the Twentieth Century, Wung Lik Ng
Novel Mechanisms of G Protein-Coupled Receptors, Andrea Nichols
Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Progenitors in Murine Autoimmune Arthritis, Kwadwo Asare Oduro Jr.
Allele-Specific Effects of U2AF1 Mutations on Alternative Splicing, Theresa Okeyo-Owuor
Three Papers on Electoral Geography, Santiago Olivella
Winning the Waiting Game: Senatorial Delay in Executive Nominations, Ian Ostrander
Preschoolers' Differentation of Writing and Drawing: Comparisions of US and Chinese Children, Shoko Otake
Volatization of Extraterrestrial Materials as Determined by Zinc Isotopic Analysis, Randal Christopher Paniello
Phospho-regulation of the Wnt/β-cat Pathway by VEGFR-1, Mei-Hsiu Pan
Essays on Nonlinearities and Structural Breaks in the Relationships between Macroeconomic Variables, Irina B. Panovska
The Nutrition Transition in Colombia: Underweight, Overweight and the Dual Burden of Malnutrition, Diana Celmira Parra Perez
Dealing with Death: On the Consequences of Loss on Relationship Appraisal, Stephanie Allison Peak
Modernist Frequencies: Literature, Music, Philosophy, May Peckham
Heterocycle-Amide Isosteres: Application in the Development of Receptor-Based Imaging Agents for PET, Xin Peng
Fictional Selves: Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography, Heidi L. Pennington
The Politics of Compensation for Expropriation, Noel Pereyra-Johnston
The Strategic Significance of Afghanistan: Geopolitics, the Trans-Afghan Pipeline, and the Struggle for Eurasia, Faisel Ahmed Pervaiz
Biomechanical and Neural Factors Associated with Gait Dysfunction and Freezing in People with Parkinson Disease, Daniel Peterson
The Paradox of Obstruction: Agenda Power Under Open Rules in the U.S. Senate, Christopher Pope
Explaining Subnational Variation in Voter Coordination and Party Entry in Electoral Competition, Joshua David Potter
Disturbing Muses: Gender, Technology and Resistance in Mexican Avant-Garde Cultures, Sara Anne Potter
The Effects of Invasive Plants on Biodiversity Across Spatial Scales, Kristin Irene Powell
Personality Pathology, Health-related Stress, and General Functioning in Later Adulthood, Abigail D. Powers
On the (Co)Homology of Non-Commutative Toroidal Orbifold, Safdar Quddus
I Saw the Soul in Everyday Clothes and Stories, Ross Young Rader