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2021

Direct Single Molecule Imaging of Enhanced Diffusion for Enzymes and Enzyme-conjugated Dna origami, Mengqi Xu

Experience-driven Control for Networking and Computing, Zhiyuan Xu

Experience-driven Control For Networking And Computing, Zhiyuan Xu

The Conditional Mode Estimator of Technical Efficiency: Theory and Application to NYC Public Schools, Yi Yang

The Conditional Mode Estimator Of Technical Efficiency: Theory And Application To Nyc Public Schools, Yi Yang

The Phase Behavior of Ubqln Proteins and Implications for Protein Quality Control, Yiran Yang

Iconic Books, Design, and Gender, Duygu Yeni Cenebasi

Coordination Geometries in Metallobundles Enforcing Oxidative and Hydrolytic Catalysis and Designing Biomaterials for Use As Antimicrobials, Jennifer Yoon

Board Members That Tie: Three Essays on Antecedents and Consequences of Nonprofit Board Interlock, Nara Yoon

Mitigate Negative Effects in Spillover Crises, Jun Zhang

Effects Of Air Pollution, Temperature And Moisture Content On Copper And Silver Corrosions And The Reliability Of Data Center Equipment, Rui Zhang

Effects of Air Pollution, Temperature and Moisture Content on Copper and Silver Corrosions and the Reliability of Data Center Equipment, Rui Zhang

Mathematical Optimization Algorithms for Model Compression and Adversarial Learning in Deep Neural Networks, Tianyun Zhang

Children in Families With Intimate Partner Violence: Developmental Trajectories and Longitudinal Mediation Effects of Behavioral Self-regulation for Risky Behaviors in Adolescence, Ying Zhang

A Variable Stiffness Energy Dissipation Device for Vibration Control of Steel Frames, Tie Zheng

Characterizing Multivalent Interactions Between Folded Protein Domains and Intrinsically Disordered Regions or Peptide Substrates, Tongyin Zheng

Person Re-identification and an Adversarial Attack and Defense for Person Re-identification Networks, Yu Zheng

Person Re-identification And An Adversarial Attack And Defense For Person Re-identification Networks, Yu Zheng

Three Essays on the Housing Market, Tianyun Zhu

Three Essays On The Housing Market, Tianyun Zhu

2020

SECURING USER INTERACTION CHANNELS ON MOBILE PLATFORM USING ARM TRUSTZONE, Amit Ahlawat

Metric Geometry of Finite Subset Spaces, Earnest Akofor

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEXT: INVESTIGATING IN-SERVICE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FOR SYRIAN TEACHERS OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE DURING TIMES OF MILITARY CONFLICT, Fadi Al-Issa

EXPANDING THE POTENTIAL PRENYLOME: PRENYLATION OF SHORTENED TARGET SUBSTRATES BY FTASE AND DEVELOPMENT OF FRET-BASED SYSTEM FOR DETECTING POTENTIALLY “SHUNTED” PROTEINS, Sudhat Ashok

Properties of the Toric Rings of a Chordal Bipartite Family of Graphs, Laura Ballard

Prison Sights: Carceral Counter-Visions in Documentary Film, Christopher R. Barnes

The Good Italian, the Bad German, and the Survivor: Narratives and Counter-Narratives of the Shoah in Italy, John Barruzza

Effects of Differential Reinforcer Magnitude for an Alternative Response on the Resurgence of Academic Responding, Emily Lynn Baxter

Black Women and the Struggle for Education as the Practice of Freedom: Embodying an Ethic and Pedagogy of Liberation, Camilla J. Bell

CONTROLLING THE MORPHOLOGY OF POLYMER BLENDS USING THE NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF LIGHT, Saeid Biria

The Diffusion of Cyber Forces: Military Innovation and the Dynamic Implementation of Cyber Force Structure, Jason Blessing

Job Satisfaction of the Entrepreneurial Workforce, James Bort

Teachers’ Perceptions of Evaluation Feedback Conferences: A Mixed Methods Study, Danielle R. Brain

Stress and alcohol use: An experimental investigation of cognitive mechanisms, Katherine Anne Buckheit

“Because I did what she told me to do.” Understanding the Identity Work of Elementary Students of Color in the Science Classroom and how a Teacher’s Positionality Impacts Student Learning, Terrance Burgess

Interactive Whiteboard-Supported Social Studies Instruction: Case Studies Exploring Current Practices of Middle School History Teachers, MONICA BURRIS

Gendered Civil Society Context, Local Party Strength, and Candidate Emergence: Explaining Female Representation across the US State Legislatures, Colleen Dougherty Burton

NONPARAMETRIC IDENTIFICATION AND ESTIMATION OF STOCHASTIC FRONTIER MODELS, Jun Cai

Structural and Functional Insights into Ghrelin Acylation by Ghrelin O-Acyltransferase, Maria Campana

Modeling and Simulation of Morphological Instabilities in Thin Elastic Solids, Junbo Chen

#METOO: NETWORKED CELEBRITY ADVOCACY AS CAPITAL PERFORMANCE, Li CHEN

A Model of Scaffolded Encoding, Yanxiu Chen

China's Participation in UN Peacekeeping Operations, Sunghee Cho

Depositional constraints on lacustrine carbonates from the Winnemucca Dry Lake Basin, Nevada, USA, Laura Michelle DeMott

Merging neutron star and black hole binaries: Inference of their parameters and simulations of their formation and fate, Soumi De

How the classroom schools: A focused ethnography exploring the built classroom environment and its inhabitants in one kindergarten, Meredith Devennie

Koszul Homology and Resolutions over Commutative Rings, Rachel Nicole Diethorn

The Economic Impact of Government Regulations on Marijuana and Immigration, Xiuming Dong

Evolution Acceptance, Religiosity, and Nature of Science in an Undergraduate Population, Ryan D.P. Dunk

Neuromodulation by endogenous Interlukin-1β in hippocampus of the murine brain: Regulation of neuronal excitation, Spandita Seouli Dutta

Examining the Mediational Role of Writing Motivation in the Writing Development of Elementary-Aged Students, Brittany Eggleston

SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF ICES WITH ASTROPHYSICAL INTEREST, Shahnewaz M. Emtiaz

Autonomous Path Planning, Geometric Nonlinear Control and Estimation, and Their Application to Underactuated Vehicles, Hossein Eslamiat

Spectroscopy versus turbidity: non-invasive in vivo monitoring of living systems, Seth Fillioe

THE CLASSROOM AS INQUIRY LEARNING COMMUNITY: A PRACTITIONER STUDY OF ADOLESCENTS’ DEVELOPING CRITICAL LITERACIES, Sarah M. Fleming

Loss-Framed Messages to Reduce Sexual Risk Compensation associated with Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, Jacklyn Foley

THE PERCEIVED CREDIBILITY OF PROFESSIONAL PHOTOJOURNALISM COMPARED TO USER-GENERATED CONTENT AMONG AMERICAN NEWS MEDIA AUDIENCES, Gina Gayle

Investigating Middle School Students’ Mathematical Reasoning in a Connected In-school and Out-of-School Context, Joash M. Geteregechi

Investigating the parameters affecting the sensitivity of a protein nanopore sensor, Motahareh Ghahari Larimi

“Why you always so political?” The Experiences and Resiliencies of Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx Students at a Predominantly White University, Martn Alberto Gonzalez

THREE ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED, Emily Gutierrez

Discrete-time Stable Geometric Controller and Observer Designs for Unmanned Vehicles, Reza Hamrah

Mobilizing Affect: The Rhetoric and Circulation of Popular Political Satire News Shows, Crystal Hendricks

ROLE OF TRANSNATIONAL LIVING ON RELATIONSHIP QUALITY AMONG GHANAIAN IMMIGRANT COUPLES, Rodlyn Remina Hines

Cardiac organoid technology and computational processing of cardiac physiology for advanced drug screening applications, Plansky Hoang

Elucidating Dopant Migration Mechanism for the Controlled Dopant Locations/Distribution within Core/Shell Nanocrystals, Elan Hofman

Crossroads of Conversion: Intersections of Bodies, Materials, and Histories in Early Medieval Bohemia, Lauren Hosek

A Model of Community College Students’ Self-Regulated Language Learning, Christopher David Hromalik

Challenging Our Sense of Ourselves: Teacher Leaders' Transformative Learning Experiences, Karen Marie Humphrey

Natural and Synthetic Ligand-Binding Induce Different Pilin Assemblies in vitro and Control P. aeruginosa Bioactivities in vivo, and Development of Bacterial-Motility Enabled Binding Assays, Arizza Chiara Siwa Ibañez

MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY OF BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER TIGHT JUNCTIONS, Flaviyan Jerome Irudayanathan

DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF A BISTABLE APTAMER BASED THREE-SEGMENT SWITCH AS A DIAGNOSTIC INDICATOR FOR HIV-1 NCp7 DETECTION, Raghuvaran Mani Iyer

Access Washing at the Imperial University: Militarism, Occupation, and Struggles Toward Disability Justice, Laura Jaffee

Issues in the Metaphysics of Material Objects, Amir Arturo Javier Castellanos

Expanding the Role of Proteins and Peptides for Biochemical and Therapeutic Applications, Megha Jayachandran

Uncertainty Modeling of Wind Power Generation for Power System Planning and Stability Study, Wolf Peter Jean Philippe

Reinforcement Learning for Mobile Robot Collision Avoidance in Navigation Tasks, Zilong Jiao

Seasonality in a changing climate: Insights from the modern ocean with application to the Eocene Epoch, Emily J. Judd

USER AUTHENTICATION ACROSS DEVICES, MODALITIES AND REPRESENTATION: BEHAVIORAL BIOMETRIC METHODS, Amith Kamath Kamath Belman

Kim Dae-Jung's Leadership as Relevant to the Sunshine Policy (1998-2003), Shin Yon Kim

MATERNAL COMMUNICATION AT MENARCHE: EVALUATING DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS ON AGE AT FIRST SEXUAL INTERCOURSE IN YOUNG ADULT WOMEN, Jennifer Horne King

CHARACTERIZATION OF CRYSTALLINE PIGMENTS WITH LOW-FREQUENCY VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY AND SOLID-STATE DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY, Elyse M. Kleist

Amplifier Architectures for Wireless Communication Systems, Mehmet Kok

Visual Processing Across Space and Time in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Justin Kopec

MEDICAL CANNABIS USE AMONG CHRONIC PAIN PATIENTS AND ASSOCIATIONS WITH PRESCRIPTION OPIOID USE: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY, Jesse Kosiba

Atmospheric Chemistry of Outdoor and Indoor Environments: Physical and Chemical Characterization of Urban Grime and Measurements of Oxidants in Vehicle Cabins, Corey Richard Kroptavich

RURAL POLITICAL AGENCY AND LOCAL POLITICS IN GLOBALIZED MARKET, Ranitya Kusumadewi

The Resilience of k-Cores in Graphs, Ricky Laishram

SECONDARY TEACHERS’ DISCOURSES OF CONTENT AREA LITERACY REFORM: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, Sara C. Ledwith

Effects of Surface Topography on Bacterial Biofilm Formation, Sang Won Lee

On the Plurality of Existences, Isaiah Lin

The Strategic Balance between the Public and Allies: A Theory of Authoritarian Distribution in China, Dongshu Liu

Rigidity in Frictional Particle Packings and Dynamics in Living Polymeric Packings, Kuang Liu

Three Essays on Regulation in Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Markets, Lu Liu

Multi-function RF for Situational Awareness, Yang Liu

Advancing software evaluation rubrics in the era of big data: The value of genre and activity theories, Mary Martha Lorber

GPU Resource Optimization and Scheduling for Shared Execution Environments, Ryan Seamus Luley

Earth’s oceanic oxygen history from Phanerozoic to Pleistocene glacial cycles: insights from the carbonate iodine-to-calcium proxy, Wanyi Lu

Column Footings Strengthened with External Prestressing and External Wrapping Systems, Xingji Lu

HUMAN ACTIVITY RECOGNITION FROM EGOCENTRIC VIDEOS AND ROBUSTNESS ANALYSIS OF DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS, Yantao Lu