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.
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
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
Supervised Machine Learning Under Test-Time Resource Constraints: A Trade-off Between Accuracy and Cost, Zhixiang Xu
Intracellular Water Preexchange Lifetime in Neurons and Astrocytes, Donghan Yang
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
Leadership Vacillation as a Pattern of CEO Succession: Existence, Antecedents, Boundary Conditions, and Performance Implications, Chieh-Chung James Yen
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
A Study of Upgrading in Capacity Management, Yueshan Yu
Tunisian Theater at the Turn of the Century: "Hammering the Same Nail" in Jalila Baccar and Fadhel Jaïbi's Theater, Rafika Zahrouni
Ästhetische Grenzgänge. Das weiblich Erhabene in Schillers 'Jungfrau von Orleans' und Kleists 'Penthesilea', Miriam Zeh
Restoring Upper Extremity Mobility through Functional Neuromuscular Stimulation using Macro Sieve Electrodes, Erik R. Zellmer
Submicron-resolution Photoacoustic Microscopy of Endogenous Light-absorbing Biomolecules, Chi Zhang
What Do Children Know Before Spelling Phonologically? Prephonological Spellers’ Knowledge of Writing, Lan Zhang
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
Real-time Temperature Imaging Using Ultrasonic Change in Backscattered Energy, Weiyuan Zhao
Neuronal Functions of the Drosophila DEG/ENaC Channel ppk29, Xingguo Zheng
Principles of Epigenome Evolution, Jia Zhou
Mechanisms for the Function and Regulation of the Arabidopsis FRA1 Kinesin during Cell Wall Formation, Chuanmei Zhu
Optimal Control and Synchronization of Dynamic Ensemble Systems, Anatoly Zlotnik
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Art, Ideology, and Politics at El Achiotal: A Late Preclassic Frontier Site in Northwestern Petén, Guatemala, Mary Jane Acuña
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
Coloring Catastrophe: De/Coding Color in Representations of the Holocaust, Russell Alt-Hakker
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
The Enhancing Effect of Retrieval on Subsequent Encoding: Understanding Test-Potentiated Learning, Kathleen Marie Arnold
Concentration Coding in the Accessory Olfactory System, Hannah Ada Arnson
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
The Genetic Architecture and Evolution of Brain Cortical Folding in a Pedigreed Primate Population, Elizabeth Grace Atkinson
The Craft of Fiction: Teaching Technique, 1850-1930, Mary Stewart Atwell
Organizational Strategic Processing: A Latent Variable Analysis, Priya Banerjee
SNP Interactions in the Genetic Architecture of Blood Pressure, Jacob John Basson
Thermophysical and Structural Measurements of Liquid Metallic Alloys Using Electrostatic Levitation, James Christopher Bendert
Cargo and Carrier Effects of Rapamycin-Loaded Perfluorocarbon Nanoparticles, Kristin Page Bibee
Several Problems Concerning Multivariate Functions and Associated Operators, Kelly Ann Bickel
An Investigation into Peripersonal Space Representations in Older Adults, Emily K. Bloesch
An Exploration of the Lives of Young, African American Women with Triple-Negative Breast Cancer, Sarah Bollinger
The Space to Lead, Mack A. Bradley
The Box C/D SnoRNA U60 Regulates Intracellular Cholesterol Trafficking, Katrina Adelle Brandis
The Development of the Architectural Styles of New France, Jennifer Brazier
Visions of Judicial Review: Theory and Evidence, Benjamin Bricker
The Foreign Ear: Elizabeth Bishop's Proliferal Wit & the Chances of Change, Kelly Barrett Brown
Ladue Found, Charlene S. Bry
Novel Structural and Physiological Functions of High Conductance K+ Channels of the Slo Family, Gonzalo Budelli