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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Jones Polynomial Obstructions for Positivity of Knots, Lizzie Buchanan

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Quantifying the Economic Costs of Global Warming, Christopher W. Callahan

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Rhodium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis of P-P and P-C Bonds, Sarah T. Chachula

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High Throughput Cellular Screening Technologies for Engineering Enhanced-Solubility and Deimmunized Biologics, Andrew Y. Chang

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OLIGODENDROCYTE 2PHATAL REVEALS DYNAMICS OF MYELIN DEGENERATION AND REPAIR, Timothy W. Chapman

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Enabling the Integration of Sustainable Design Methodological Frameworks and Computational Life Cycle Assessment Tools into Product Development Practice, Tejaswini Chatty

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Anillin and Dunk: The Conserved and Non-conserved Players Regulating Myosin Dynamics in Drosophila Cleavage, Jiayang Chen

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GENOME-SCALE METHYLATION ANALYSIS IN BLOOD AND TUMOR IDENTIFIES IMMUNE PROFILE, AGE ACCELERATION, AND DNA METHYLATION ALTERATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH BLADDER CANCER OUTCOMES, Ji-Qing Chen

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Fermion encodings and algorithms for quantum simulation, Riley W. Chien

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Oh the Places Snow Blows: Observations and Impacts of Snow Redistribution on Arctic Sea Ice, David Clemens-Sewall

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PIEZOELECTRIC AND CONDUCTIVE POLYMER BASED FLEXIBLE DEVICES ENABLING CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH SENSING AND ENERGY HARVESTING, Andrew Closson

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DEEP LEARNING METHODS FOR PREDICTION OF AND ESCAPE FROM PROTEIN RECOGNITION, Bowen Dai

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Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of Serotonin Modulation of Impulsivity and Reward, Stephanie S. Desrochers

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Novel mechanistic insight into ciliary regulation: old pathways yield new mechanisms, Larissa L. Dougherty

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Triangular modular curves of low genus and geometric quadratic Chabauty, Juanita Duque Rosero

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Developing Strategies for the Integration of Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) into E-Textiles for Chemical Sensing, Filtration, and Detoxification, Aileen Mary Eagleton

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Encoding permanent records of transcription in the genome, Francesco Ettore Emiliani

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Tectonic Evolution of the Northern Margin of North America, Karol Faehnrich

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Rough Numbers and Variations on the Erdős--Kac Theorem, Kai Fan

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Mycorrhizal fungi mediate aboveground – belowground interactions in forest ecosystems, Amelia A. Fitch

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Effective Non-Hermiticity and Topology in Markovian Quadratic Bosonic Dynamics, Vincent Paul Flynn

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IDENTIFYING SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY IN AND POTENTIAL BIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF RIVER THERMAL ENVIRONMENTS, Keith Jeffrey Fritschie

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The Discovery, Characterization, and Engineering of Autolytic Enzymes as Antimicrobials, Jacob M. Furlon

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Inhibition of CAL PDZ domain via non-canonical and allosteric interactions reveals new targeting sites and strategies, Nicholas Paul Gill

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Epistemic Mentalizing and Causal Cognition Across Agents and Objects, Bryan S. Gonzalez

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Brill--Noether theory via K3 surfaces, Richard Haburcak

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Intraoperative Quantification of Bone Perfusion in Lower Extremity Injury Surgery, Xinyue Han

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The Molecular and Cellular Response to ACAT1/SOAT1 Inhibition, Taylor C. Harned

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PROTEOMIC APPROACHES TO IDENTIFY UNIQUE AND SHARED SUBSTRATES AMONG KINASE FAMILY MEMBERS, Charles Lincoln Howarth

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ZINC OXIDE BASED NANOMATERIALS AND DEVICE DESIGNS - FOR BIOENERGY HARVESTING, SENSING AND WATER PURIFICATION, Congran Jin

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Optimizing Mn-Al permanent magnet performance through control of the phase transformation, ternary element addition, and advanced processing, Thomas R. Keller

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Airborne Sound and Substrate-borne Vibration in Orthopteran Communication, Ciara E. Kernan

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Molecular mechanisms governing the generation of tissue resident memory CD8 T cells in the setting of cancer, nikhil khatwani

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Tracing Evolution of Gene Transfer Agents Using Comparative Genomics, Roman Kogay

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A Framework and Approach for Leveraging Unsteady Response in Turbocompressor Flowfields, Eric M. Krivitzky

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LIGNOCELLULOSE CONVERSION VIA CONSOLIDATED BIOPROCESSING: HIGH SOLID LOADINGS, BIOREACTOR DEVELOPMENT, AND TECHNOECONOMIC ANALYSIS, Matthew R. Kubis

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Characterization of cell type-specific molecular heterogeneity in cancer using multi-omic approaches, Min Kyung Lee

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Complement system in multiple sclerosis: its role in disease course and potential as a therapeutic target, Michael R. Linzey

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MITOCHONDRIAL DIVISION: SYNERGIZING IN MITOCHONDRIAL DIVISOME, Ao Liu

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The immune modulation on innate immunity, from pathogen recognition to fungal clearance., Ko-Wei Liu

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AN ADAPTIVE MULTIPLE-OBJECT TRACKING ARCHITECTURE FOR LONG-DURATION VIDEOS WITH VARIABLE TARGET DENSITY, Joachim Lohn-Jaramillo

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Design and Synthesis of Chiral, Conformationally Constrained Fatty Acid Mimetics, Lauren Elizabeth Markham Ph.D.

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Interactomics and targeted protein degradation for kinase substrate discovery, Juan C. Mercado del Valle

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UNDERSTANDING THE IMPLICATIONS OF LINEAGE PLASTICITY IN BREAST CANCER EVOLUTION AND CHEMOTHERAPY RESPONSE, Gadisti Aisha Mohamed

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Counting elliptic curves with a cyclic m-isogeny over Q, Grant S. Molnar

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CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF LASR MUTANT SELECTION IN PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA POPULATIONS, Dallas L. Mould

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TOWARDS SCALABLE MENTAL HEALTH: LEVERAGING DIGITAL TOOLS IN COMBINATION WITH COMPUTATIONAL MODELING TO AID IN TREATMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, Matthew D. Nemesure

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Population-based estimates of children with congenital heart disease and quantifying their burden of care, Devin M. Parker

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Measuring how kinetochore-microtubule detachment contributes to chromosome movement and the correction of attachment errors, Melissa K. Parks

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Self-Supervised Pretraining and Transfer Learning on fMRI Data with Transformers, Sean Paulsen

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ADVANCED TOOLS FOR TIME-RESOLVED IMAGING OF TISSUE METABOLISM, Arthur Petusseau

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Design of Next-Generation Neural Interfaces for Decoding the Brain, Yi Qiang

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MODELING THE BIDIRECTIONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SHARED-PATIENT PHYSICIAN NETWORKS AND PATIENT LONGITUDINAL TREATMENT PATTERNS: APPLICATION TO PHYSICIAN RISKY-PRESCRIBING, Xin Ran

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How plants cope with stress, Nabila Riaz

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New Physics in the Age of Precision Cosmology, Vivian I. Sabla

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Cell-Typing and Interaction Analysis of the Immune Compartment of the Tumor Microenvironment using High-Resolution Omics Modalities, Courtney Taylor Schiebout

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Design of ASIC Based Electrical Impedance Tomography Microendoscopic System for Prostate Cancer Surgical Marginal Assessment, Mohsen Shahghasemi

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Role of Peripheral Contacts in Structure and Function of c-Type Cytochromes, Dong Woo Shin

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Stranger IgGs: Beneficial and Detrimental Sides of Immunoglobulin G Subclasses, Sweta Shrestha

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Uncovering the Role of Fat-Infiltrated Axillary Lymph Nodes in Obesity-Related Diseases with Statistical and Machine Learning Analyses, Qingyuan Song

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Regulation of the Wnt/Wingless receptor LRP6/Arrow by the deubiquitylating complex Usp46, Zachary T. Spencer

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Accelerated Forgetting in People with Epilepsy: Pathologic Memory Loss, Its Neural Basis, and Potential Therapies, Sarah Ashley Steimel PhD

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Do species matter? Examining the niche of white ash (Fraxinus americana L.) and estimating potential subcanopy effects of its loss in north-temperate forests, Elizabeth Anne Studer

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Urban Public Transportation Planning with Endogenous Passenger Demand, Yifei Sun

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Supramolecular design of 3D-printable hydrogels for functional materials, Miao Tang

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What Makes Conversation Good? How Responsivity, Topics, and Insider Language Predict Feelings of Connection, Emma M. Templeton

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The American Multi-modal Energy System: Model Development with Structural and Behavioral Analysis using Hetero-functional Graph Theory, Dakota John Thompson

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Combating Fake News: A Gravity Well Simulation to Model Echo Chamber Formation In Social Media, Jeremy E. Thompson

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Synthetic, Catalytic, and Mechanistic Studies of Supermesityl Phosphiranes and Phosphines, Ryan M. Tipker

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Cosmological Vector Fields and Constraining the Neutrino Masses, Avery J. Tishue

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GABAergic interneurons and prenatal ethanol exposure: from development to aging, Adelaide R. Tousley

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Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Prometaphase and Metaphase States for Faithful Chromosome Segregation, Sarah Yvette Valles

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Molecular Mechanisms of Wild-type and Mutant Prion Formation, Daniel J. Walsh

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The Extremes of Galaxy Formation & Evolution, Kelly E. Whalen

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The Multiset Partition Algebra: Diagram-Like Bases and Representations, Alexander N. Wilson

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Spectral Sequences and Khovanov Homology, Zachary J. Winkeler

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Sensitive and Makeable Computational Materials for the Creation of Smart Everyday Objects, Te-yen Wu Mr

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System-Characterized Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Cardiac cellular systems and Molecular Signature analysis, Ziqian Wu

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Unraveling the neural basis of emotions: Advancing understanding with ecologically valid paradigms and high-resolution intracranial EEG, Tiankang Xie

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PREDICTING HIV VACCINE-MEDIATED PROTECTION LEVEL TO IDENTIFY IMMUNE CORRELATES USING POSITIVE UNLABELED LEARNING, Shiwei Xu

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Machine Learning for Electronic and Atomistic Simulations, Jun Yang

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Exploring Communication in Healthcare Through Decision-Making Interventions and a Novel Measure of Clinician Spoken Plain Language, Renata W. Yen

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CHARACTERIZING HOW FOOD ADVERTISING AND GENETIC OBESITY RISK FACTORS AFFECT NEURAL REWARD REACTIVITY AND EATING IN THE ABSENCE OF HUNGER IN CHILDREN, Dabin Yeum

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DESIGN OF A BURST MODE ULTRA HIGH-SPEED LOW-NOISE CMOS IMAGE SENSOR, Xin Yue

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Development of Single-Crystalline and 3D-Printable Porous Organic Materials, Mingshi Zhang

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Electrolyte Synthesis and Engineering for Alkali Metal Batteries, Yiwen Zhang

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DNA METHYLATION-BASED EPIGENETIC BIOMARKERS IN CELL-TYPE DECONVOLUTION AND TUMOR TISSUE OF ORIGIN IDENTIFICATION, Ze Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Expanding Cherenkov Imaging Applications in Radiotherapy: Clinic-Wide In Vivo Treatment Monitoring and MR-Linac Quality Assurance, Daniel A. Alexander

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Protecting Systems From Exploits Using Language-Theoretic Security, Prashant Anantharaman

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Links between electrophilic stress and antifungal resistance in pathogenic Candida species, Amy R. Biermann

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Novel functions for Arp2/3 complex-mediated actin networks discovered in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Brae M. Bigge

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Correlations and Reuse for Fast and Accurate Physically Based Light Transport, Benedikt Bitterli

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Communicating Clinic Visit Information to Family Caregivers, Reed WR Bratches

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DECIPHERING PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE SIGNALING NETWORKS USING PROTEOMICS APPROACHES, Brooke Brauer

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THE ROLES OF EPITHELIAL–MESENCHYMAL PLASTICITY IN TUMOR HETEROGENEITY, METASTASIS, AND PATIENT SURVIVAL IN BREAST CANCER, Meredith Septer Brown

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Advancing fluorescent contrast agent recovery methods for surgical guidance applications, Brook Kennedy Byrd

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Genetic Heterogeneity in Schizophrenia And Contribution of Context to Vowel Recognition, Eva Childers

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Engineering Order-Disorder Transitions for High-Performance Thermoelectric Fe2VAl Heusler Alloys, Cory T. Cline

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Ecology and Evolution of Social Information Use, Clare T. M. Doherty

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MECHANISMS AND ROLES OF DYNAMIC ACTIN ASSEMBLY AROUND DYSFUNCTIONAL MITOCHONDRIA, Tak Shun Fung