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2021

Computational Algorithms for Predicting Membrane Protein Assembly From Angstrom to Micron Scale, Nandhini Rajagopal

The Effect of Mindfulness on Adolescent Self-compassion, Self-regulation, and Stress: Exploring the Association Between Individual Factors and Markers of Well-being, Staceyann Reid

Legislative Effectiveness in Brazil: the Role of Legislative Member organizations in the Chamber of Deputies, Beatriz Rey

Vitamin D Modulates Rett Syndrome Phenotypes and Underlying Cellular Pathways in an Mecp2-mutant Mouse Model, Mayara de Cassia Ribeiro

Beyond the Standard Models of Particle Physics and Cosmology, Gabriele Rigo

Beyond The Standard Models Of Particle Physics And Cosmology, Gabriele Rigo

Buckling Patterns and Mechanics of Thin Interfacial Polymer Films, Monica M. Ripp

Pluralistic Ignorance Of Attitudes Toward Mental Health Services Among College Students, Rikki Hope Sargent

Pluralistic Ignorance of Attitudes Toward Mental Health Services Among College Students, Rikki Hope Sargent

The Impact of the Classroom Climate in Introductory Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Courses on the Persistence Desires and Academic Outcomes of White Women and Women of Color in Engineering, Shannon Hitchcock Schantz

"You Always Have That One:" a Critical Analysis of the Conceptualizations of Educators Around Classroom Community and Challenging Behavior, Sara Scribner

"you Always Have That One:" A Critical Analysis Of The Conceptualizations Of Educators Around Classroom Community And Challenging Behavior, Sara Scribner

A Graduatte Level Immersive-Simulattion Program for Teaching and Assessing Fundamental Skills in Entry Level Clinical Perfusionists., Bruce Searles

Contesting Erasure: The Museu Da Maré and the Right to the City in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Pamela Katia Sertzen

Effects of Acid Deposition and Changing Climate on the Hydrochemistry and Critical Loads of Watersheds in the Adirondack Region of New York, Shuai Shao

Some New Results in Distributed Tracking and Optimization, Pranay Sharma

Inference and Learning in Spiking Neural Networks for Neuromorphic Systems, Amar Shrestha

Inference And Learning In Spiking Neural Networks For Neuromorphic Systems, Amar Shrestha

Dalit Women, Anti-caste Aesthetics, and the Politics of Representation, Ruma Sinha

The Impacts of Climate and Landscape Change on Catchment Scale Material Transport in High Mountain and Seasonally Cold Regions, John R. Slosson

Sexual Consent on Social Media: How College Students' Exposure to Sexualized and Party-related Content on Social Media Relates to Their Sexual Consent Beliefs, Attitudes, and Intentions, Andrea Marie Smith

Multi-Label/Multi-Class Deep Learning Classification of Spatiotemporal Data, Natalie Sommer

Multi-label/multi-class Deep Learning Classification Of Spatiotemporal Data, Natalie Sommer

Mitigating Insider Threat Risks in Cyber-physical Manufacturing Systems, Jinwoo Song

Sharing Hearts: Buddhist Charity and Urbanization in Vietnam, Sara Ann Swenson

Adsorption of organic Iodides on Reduced Silver Functionalized Silica Aerogel, Siqi Tang

Understanding And Improving Adhd Symptom Recall: An Investigation of Temperament And Childhood Symptom Recall Over Time, Lea Elizabeth Taylor

Peptide Corrination for the Mitigation of Nausea and Emesis in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes, Ian Tinsley

Immigrant and U.S. Born Early Head Start Families: Exploring the Relationship Between Parenting Stress, Attachment Behaviors, Primary Caregiver Depressive Symptoms, and Parent-child Attachment in a Nationally-representative Sample, Shaelise Marie Tor

Conflict, Consensus And Modernizing Trajectories In Sub-saharan Africa, Charles Themba Tuthill

Conflict, Consensus and Modernizing Trajectories in Sub-saharan Africa, Charles Themba Tuthill

Urban Economics, Commercial Activity, and Crime, Joaquin A. Urrego

Self-organization in Models of Cyclically Sheared Suspensions, Jikai Wang

How Do Immigrant Older Adults in the United States Fare in Later Life? Examining Differences in Immigrant Status and Life-course Timing of Migration on Late-life Disablement and Mortality, Rebecca Wang

Performance Analysis and Learning Algorithms in Advanced Wireless Networks, Xueyuan Wang

First-Generation College Student Baccalaureate Attainment: Investigation of a Psychological Model of College Student Retention, Timothy Wasserman

First Measurement of B(ξc0 → Π−λ+c ), Michael Kent Wilkinson

Tests of Sample-recovery Models of Cued Recall, Jack Harvey Wilson

Tests Of Sample-recovery Models Of Cued Recall, Jack Harvey Wilson

Optical Printing of Multiscale Hydrogel Structures, Zheng Xiong

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