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2018 2018

The Oath Keepers: Patriotism, Dissent, and the Edge of Violence, Sam Jackson

THREE ESSAYS IN URBAN AND REGIONAL ECONOMICS, Boqian Jiang

Tribal Margins: Dalit Belonging and State Recognition in the Western Himalayas, Steven Christopher Johnson

Shock Tube and Mid-IR Laser Absorption Study of Combustion Kinetics, Shirin Jouzdani

STRUGGLES OF KOREAN AMERICANS LABELED WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES TO CLAIM ADULT STATUS, Eun Young Jung

Production, efficiency and managerial selection of workers into peer networks, Hyunseok Jung

THE THIRD WORLD WOMEN’S ALLIANCE: HISTORY, GEOPOLITICS, AND FORM, Ariane Vani Kannan

The Bio-Nano Interface: Investigating the Roles of Nanoparticle Morphology, Microstructure, Optoelectronic Properties, and Surface Chemistry for Biological Applications, Liliana Karam

Local Bureaucrats and Climate Change Adaptation, Bridget K. Kelley

Village Doctors and Vulnerable Bodies: Gender, Medicine, and Risk in North India, Jocelyn Killmer

Structure-Property Relationships in Novel Electrospun Composites for Advanced Applications, Melodie Lawton

Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Cognitive and Cerebrovascular Function in Hypertensive Adults, Wesley Lefferts

Effects of Trade and FDI Policies: Evidence from the U.S. and China, Yang Liang

Three Essays on Occupational Safety and Labor Market Outcomes, Ling Li

On Classification in Human-driven and Data-driven Systems, Qunwei Li

Efficient Online Scheduling in Distributed Stream Data Processing Systems, Teng Li

Implicit Fixed-point Proximity Framework for Optimization Problems and Its Applications, Xiaoxia Liu

The balance of poly(U) polymerase activity ensures germline identity, survival, and development in Caenorhabditis elegans, Yini Li

A Smart Products Lifecycle Management (sPLM) Framework - Modeling for Conceptualization, Interoperability, and Modularity, Yunpeng Li

Efficient machine learning: models and accelerations, Zhe Li

From Religious Freedom to Indigenous Sovereignty: The Case of Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association (1988), Dana Lloyd

Three Essays on the Management of Local Government Cash Flows, Michelle Lynn Lofton

Body Force Modeling for Engine Inlet Fan System, Yinbo Mao

COMPARATIVE ECOPHYSIOLOGY OF NATIVE AND INVASIVE PLANTS ACROSS POPULATIONS, SPECIES, AND CONTINENTS, KELSEY ANNE MARTINEZ

Dispersive Transport and Drift Mobilities in Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskites, Brian Maynard

Religion in Contemplative Studies, Daniel J. Moseson

WE KNOW, NOW WHAT? TEACHING, LEARNING, (UN)KNOWING AND EDUCATING TOWARD EPISTEMIC JUSTICE, Azam Wendy Nastasi

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY ON THE STRUCTURE, DYNAMICS AND STRESS RESPONSE OF DILUTE MICELLAR SYSTEMS IN UNIAXIAL EXTENSIONAL DEFORMATION, Kelechi Okoroafor

Middle Grades Mathematics Teachers’ Learning through Designing Structured Exercises and Learner Generated Examples, AnnMarie H. O'Neil

The role of approximate negators in modeling the automatic detection of negation in tweets, Norma E. Palomino

THE EFFECT OF URBAN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS ON EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES AND TRAFFIC CONGESTION, Jindong Pang

Motility-induced phases: out-of-equilibrium droplets, surfaces, and survival, Adam Edward Patch

DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF STAINLESS-STEEL NANOPARTICLES: OXIDATION BEHAVIOR AND MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION, Laxmikant Pathade

The Detection of ADHD and Malingering in Young Adults, Heather Potts

PARENTAL WARMTH AND PHYSICAL PUNISHMENT AND THEIR ASSOCIATIONS WITH CHILDREN’S SOCIAL AND ACADEMIC SKILLS IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, Mark Andre Primus

MINDFULNESS, SELF-COMPASSION AND THREAT RELATED ATTENTIONAL BIAS: IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIAL ANXIETY AND LONELINESS IN LATE ADOLESCENT COLLEGE STUDENTS., Kimberly Raymond

The Effect of Fetal Programming on Physical Activity Behaviors, Jessica Garay Redmond

Experiential Journalism: Presence, Emotion, and Sharing Behaviors in News Delivered by Virtual Reality, Television, and Internet in Korea and the United States, Sung Yoon Ri

A PHENOMENOLOGICAL LOOK AT THE LIFE HACKING-ENABLED PRACTICES OF INDIVIDUALS WITH MOBILITY AND DEXTERITY IMPAIRMENTS, JERRY ROBINSON

Auslander-Reiten Sequences over Gorenstein Rings of Dimension One, Robert Roy

Three Essays on Labor and Public Economics, Fabio Augusto Rueda De Vivero

Perceptions of Public and Private Partnerships in Costa Rica, Alvaro Andres Salas Castro

Three Essays on Public Policy and Health, Jessica E. Sauve-Syed

STRUCTURALLY SUPPORTED CELL-LADEN SCAFFOLDS FOR BONE TISSUE REGENERATION, Stephen William Sawyer

Regulation of in vivo excitatory/inhibitory balance by the cystine/glutamate exchanger system xc-, Sheila Marie Shahidzadeh Sears

Cosmological Perturbations in the Early Universe, Gizem Sengor

How Military Service Influences the Transition to Adulthood Among Post-911 Young Adult Female Veterans with Service Related Disabilities, Gary Shaheen

STUDIES ON HOUSING MARKET DYNAMICS AND COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS WITH LATENT FACTORS, Shulin Shen

Post-Orogenic Thermal History and Exhumation of the Northern Appalachian Basin: Low-Temperature Thermochronologic Constraints, Chilisa Marie Shorten

Gaseous State: A Historical Geography of Natural Gas and the Capitalist State in an Age of Climate Change, Carlo Sica

Narrating Political Disability Identity, Steven J. Singer

Consensus Messaging Using Scholarly Literature: Impacts on Students' Conceptions of Global Climate Change, Jeremy David Sloane

SCHOOLING AT THE INTERSECTION OF REFUGEE IDENTITY AND (DIS)ABILITY: IMPLICATIONS FROM NORTH KOREAN STUDENTS WITH REFUGEE BACKGROUNDS, Yosung Song

Sustainability Benefits Analysis of CyberManufacturing Systems, Zhengyi Song

Losing home: Housing, displacement, and the American Dream, Jessie Speer

Photolysis Kinetics of Aromatic Pollutants in Liquid and Solid Environmental Condensed Phases, Alexa Stathis

To Plow a Lonely Furrow: Indigenismo and Mapuche Politics in Chile, 1920-1960, Henry John Stegeman

Adapting Proteins for Clinical and Industrial Use, Michelle Takacs

Microcelebrity Practices: A Cross-Platform Study Through a Richness Framework, Sikana Tanupabrungsun

Inclusive Education in Practice: District-Level Special Education Administrators' Leadership, Chelsea P. Tracy-Bronson

Characterizing ancient chemoclines through the use of pigment biomarkers and sedimentary stable isotope signatures, Benjamin T. Uveges

An Investigation of Practices, Resources, and Challenges in Mathematical Word Problem Solving among Swahili-speaking African High School Bi-/Multilingual Students in the United States, Victoria Mwia Wambua

Fabrication and Characterization of Superconducting Metamaterial Resonators, Haozhi Wang

MODELING AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN MOBILE WIRELESS NETWORKS, Jing Wang

Putting Forts in their Place: The Politics of Defense in Antigua, 1670-1785, Christopher Kurt Waters

Hybrid Electric Distributed Propulsion for Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft, Andrew Voss Welles

History's Perilous Pleasures: Experiencing Antiquity in the Postwar Hollywood Epic, Thomas Jefferson West III

Lemons Into Lemonade: Black Undergraduate Women's Embodiment of Strength and Resilience at a PWI, Jordan Shelby West

Peer-Led Team Learning: The Effect of Peer Leader and Student Interactions on Student Learning Gains and Course Achievement in Introductory Biology, Christina Winterton

Deconvolution of Membrane Protein-Detergent Complex Interactions, Aaron Wolfe

BEHAVIORAL INTERDEPENDENCE IN PROJECT TEAM COLLABORATION: STUDY OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS’ COLLABORATIVE BEHAVIORS IN HIGH LEVELS OF INTERDEPENDENT TASK SETTINGS, Yiyan Wu

Reducing cell wall recalcitrance in poplar through overexpression of cell wall degrading enzymes, Yao Xiao

Characterization of interplay among DNA repair, histone H3 lysine 9 dimethylation and small interfering RNA pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans, BING YANG

multimedia transmission over wireless networks: performance analysis and optimal resource allocation, Chuang Ye

INNOVATION IN DECLINING AND DISTRESSED FIRMS, Yang Ye

ADHD SYMPTOMS, IMPULSIVITY AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTION THREE ESSAYS, Wei Yu

Evaluation of Thermal Effects and Lattice Vibrations in Molecular Crystals, Adam Joseph Zaczek

A Knowledge Enriched Computational Model to Support Lifecycle Activities of Computational Models in Smart Manufacturing, Heng Zhang

The Associations Between Parental Involvement and Science Achievement via Children's Perceived Academic Competence and Academic Effort, Yue Zhang

Chimera Ligand for Pili and Lectin A Protein Controls Antibiotic-Promoted Biofilm Formation, Swarming Motility, Tolerance and Persister Formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Hewen Zheng

Multi-type Fair Resource Allocation for Distributed Multi-Robot Systems, Qinyun Zhu

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HEALTHY IMMIGRANTS? EXPLORING COUNTRY OF ORIGIN, PRE-IMMIGRATION EXPERIENCES, AND ACCULTURATION IN RELATIONSHIP TO U.S. IMMIGRANTS’ HEALTH, Ynesse Abdul-Malak

Facilitating High Performance Code Parallelization, Maria Abi Saad

Trichloroacetimidates as Alkylating Reagents and Their Application in the Synthesis of Pyrroloindoline Natural Products and Synthesis of Small Molecule Inhibitors of Src Homology 2 Domain- Containing Inositol Phosphatase (SHIP), Arijit Anand Adhikari

Stretching the Circle: First-Generation College Students Navigate Their Educational Journey, Nicole Zervas Adsitt

Efficient Implementation of Stochastic Inference on Heterogeneous Clusters and Spiking Neural Networks, Khadeer Ahmed

Sporting Bodies: The Rhetorics of Professional Female Athletes, Lindsey Banister

Synthesis of heteroaromatic ruthenium dyes for use as electron reservoirs in dye-sensitized solar cells, Andrew David Basner

All the King's Men: Slavery and Soldiering at the Cabrits Garrison (1763-1854), Zachary James McCray Beier

Whiteness Interrupted: Examining the Impact of Racialized Space on White Racial Identity, Marcus Bell

Investigating the Interaction of a Supersonic Single Expansion Ramp Nozzle and Sonic Wall Jet, Matthew Berry

The interacting hydrologic responses to changing climate, watershed physical characteristics, river regulation, and land development in the northeastern United States, Rouzbeh Berton

Endogenous RNAi pathways are required in neurons for dauer formation in Caenorhabditis elegans, Pallavi Bharadwaj

The detection and parameter estimation of binary black hole mergers, Christopher Michael Biwer

A Structural and Intersectional Analysis of High School Students’ STEM Career Development Using a Social Cognitive Career Theory Framework, Tashera Bolds

Isotopic characterization of bedrock, sediments, and minerals as provenance tools: Examples from an inselberg in the Mojave Desert of SE California, Mariana Belen Bonich-Wissink

Evolution, epistasis, and the genotype-to-phenotype problem in Myxococcus xanthus., Michael Bradley

“IN OUR OWN WORDS”: THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPLORATION INTO THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE OF RELATIONAL THERAPY WITH WHITE THERAPISTS, Melody Michele Brown

SCHOOLED: Hiphop Composition at the Predominantly White University, Tessa Rose Brown

Elementary Reading Specialists' Perspectives Towards Their Work, Wendy Woods Bunker