Beginning in 2009 (for degrees awarded in August, 2009) all theses and dissertations completed at Washington University were required to be submitted in electronic form. Print submissions are no longer accepted. Dissertations are submitted directly in electronic form to UMI / Proquest Dissertation Services. Master’s theses are locally submitted in electronic form directly into the Washington University Open Scholarship Repository. Please contact your academic department document for information on the preparation and formatting requirements of the thesis itself.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Real-Time and Energy-Efficient Routing for Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks, Chengjie Wu

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Single CuO Nanowires Electrical Properties and Application on Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting, Junnan Wu

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Characterizing the fitness landscapes of gut symbionts in defined community and diet contexts, Meng Wu

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Commentary, Illustration, and Cross-Generic Writing in Paired Editions of Xixiang ji and Pipa ji, Yinghui Wu

Studies in Advanced Oxy-combustion Technologies, Fei Xia

Discovery and Characterization of Small Noncoding RNAs and Their Regulatory Networks in Complex Diseases, Jing Xia

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A Study of Drug Distribution in Pharmaceutical Supply Chain, Yixuan Xiao

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Engineering Biosensors for Short-chain Alcohols, Yu Xia

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Applications of Nonlinear Optimization, Yao Xie

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Real-Time Virtualization and Cloud Computing, Sisu Xi

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Modeling and Development of Iterative Reconstruction Algorithms in Emerging X-ray Imaging Technologies, Jiaofeng Xu

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Becoming a Moral Child: Morality, Culture, and Mind in Contemporary China, Jing Xu

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Large-scale Cellular Imaging of Neuronal Activity: a Study of Neural Individuality and a Method for Imaging Mouse Cortex, Pei Sabrina Xu

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Phosphorylation Regulation of T-Lymphocyte Migration, Xiaolu Xu

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Design and Implementation of Position-Encoded Microfluidic Microsphere-Trap Arrays, Xiaoxiao Xu

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Accelerating Heuristic Search for AI Planning, You Xu

Essays on the Microeconomic Theory of Behavioral Heterogeneity and Information Aggregation, Youzong Xu

Seeking Redemption and Sanctity: Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian Literati and their Self-Writing, Yunjing Xu

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Supervised Machine Learning Under Test-Time Resource Constraints: A Trade-off Between Accuracy and Cost, Zhixiang Xu

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Intracellular Water Preexchange Lifetime in Neurons and Astrocytes, Donghan Yang

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Power System State Estimation and Renewable Energy Optimization in Smart Grids, Peng Yang

Spatially Distinct Functions of Rho1 during Adherens Junction Maintenance in Remodeling Epithelia, Hanako Yashiro

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Leadership Vacillation as a Pattern of CEO Succession: Existence, Antecedents, Boundary Conditions, and Performance Implications, Chieh-Chung James Yen

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Optical Resonators and Fiber Tapers as Transducers for Detection of Nanoparticles and Bio-Molecules, Huzeyfe Yilmaz

Molecular Simulations of Diffusion-Tensor MRI, Xiaoxian Sherry Yin

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A Study of Upgrading in Capacity Management, Yueshan Yu

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Tunisian Theater at the Turn of the Century: "Hammering the Same Nail" in Jalila Baccar and Fadhel Jaïbi's Theater, Rafika Zahrouni

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Ästhetische Grenzgänge. Das weiblich Erhabene in Schillers 'Jungfrau von Orleans' und Kleists 'Penthesilea', Miriam Zeh

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Restoring Upper Extremity Mobility through Functional Neuromuscular Stimulation using Macro Sieve Electrodes, Erik R. Zellmer

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Submicron-resolution Photoacoustic Microscopy of Endogenous Light-absorbing Biomolecules, Chi Zhang

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What Do Children Know Before Spelling Phonologically? Prephonological Spellers’ Knowledge of Writing, Lan Zhang

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Real-time Image Processing on an FPGA for an Intraoperative Goggle Device, Yiyi Zhang

Using the Wavelet Transformation to Analyze Cross-Sectional MRI Data, Yuyang Zhang

Cross-sectional MRI Data Analysis Based on Shearlet Transformation, Hao Zhao

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Real-time Temperature Imaging Using Ultrasonic Change in Backscattered Energy, Weiyuan Zhao

Neuronal Functions of the Drosophila DEG/ENaC Channel ppk29, Xingguo Zheng

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Principles of Epigenome Evolution, Jia Zhou

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Mechanisms for the Function and Regulation of the Arabidopsis FRA1 Kinesin during Cell Wall Formation, Chuanmei Zhu

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Optimal Control and Synchronization of Dynamic Ensemble Systems, Anatoly Zlotnik

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Art, Ideology, and Politics at El Achiotal: A Late Preclassic Frontier Site in Northwestern Petén, Guatemala, Mary Jane Acuña

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Representación de Raza y Género en la Poesía de las Poetas Negras y Mulatas Cubanas (1960s-1980s), Lídice Alemán

Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance, Shashwat Alok

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Coloring Catastrophe: De/Coding Color in Representations of the Holocaust, Russell Alt-Hakker

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The Impact of the Built Environment and At-Home Calorie Consumption on Family-based Behavioral Weight Loss Treatment Outcomes, Myra Altman

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The Relationship between Household Economic Resources and Youth Academic Performance in Ghana: A Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling, David Ansong

Enhancing Biological Insights Through Statistical Inferences, Tae-Hwi An

Synthesis, Structure, Spectroscopy, and Reactivity of Azapentadienyl-M-Phosphine Complexes (M = Co, Rh, Ir), Wipark Anutrasakda

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The Enhancing Effect of Retrieval on Subsequent Encoding: Understanding Test-Potentiated Learning, Kathleen Marie Arnold

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Concentration Coding in the Accessory Olfactory System, Hannah Ada Arnson

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Combining Attentional Control and Semantic Memory Retrieval: A Sensitive Marker for Early Stage AD and AD-related Biomarkers in Healthy Older Adults, Andrew Jacob Aschenbrenner