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Thesis: The King is Dead: A Comparative Analysis of European Revolutionary Regicides
Thesis: The Role of the Dorsomedial Striatum In Stable Information Seeking Behavior
Thesis: Perceptual Learning of Sine-Wave Speech: Exploring, Generalization, Efficiency, and Individual Differences
Thesis: Exploring Individual Differences in the Information Preferences of Rats
Thesis: A Complex Situation: Towards Structural Characterization of MntR-DNA-RNAP
Thesis: Changing of the Guards/Changing of the House: Nationalism and Memory at Berlin's Neue Wache
Thesis: The Detachable Pocket
Thesis: Road to Nowhere: The Impact of Wage Inequality on Interstate Labor Migration
Thesis: The CFA Franc and ECOWAS: A case for economic sovereignty
Thesis: Hot /tʉ/ /go͡ʉ/: Queer Women's Participation in Back Vowel Fronting
Thesis: Jorge Luis Borges: Refashioning the Argentine Literary Tradition
Thesis: Peptide Power: Effects of Exendin-4 on Transitive Inference Learning in Rodents
Thesis: Ouch! My Wound! — Interrogating The Effects of Microtubule Polarity Regulators on Cellular Migration in Drosophila
Thesis: The Rhetoric of Sex and Gender in Politics: A Close Reading of Aeschines’ Against Timarchos and Apollodoros’ Against Neaira
Thesis: Why is Fentanyl so Deadly? The Non-MOR Mediated Effects of Fentanyl at α₂-Adrenergic Receptors
Thesis: “In the most humblest way possible, it’s not me”: The role of addressee and the indexicality of creaky voice on Love Island
Thesis: Enacting Debater: Style-Shift(ing) Practices in High School Competitive Deba/t/e
Thesis: A Feminist Art History of Horror
Thesis: COVID-19 Safety Precautions: Self-Interest and Communal Orientation
Thesis: Characterizing Eating Disorders in Treatment-Seeking Older Adults
Thesis: Expanding Majesty: Exploring Bacterial Control Over Endoreduplication in the Soybean-Bradyrhizobium Endosymbiosis
Thesis: Playing Privileged: Examining Subversive Casting as a Tool for Marking White Patriarchy in Matt & Ben
Thesis: Gone to Market: Arendt, Debt, and Community
Thesis: You BATcha, Minnesotans BOUGHT a TOTE BAG: Supralocal sound change, local ideology, and the indexical construction of geographical identity
Thesis: Language-Independent Concept Spaces Found in Large Language Models
Thesis: Turbulent Flow: The Role of State Capacity in Transboundary Hydropolitics
Thesis: The Stripes of Optic Morphogenesis: Gene Expression Patterning in Zebrafish Development
Thesis: Influences of Gender Dynamics and Sexual Orientation on Alcohol Offer Acceptance in Emerging Adults
Thesis: Transgressive Rejoicing: Re-incorporating the Dionysiac into Aeschylus' Agamemnon on the Contemporary Stage
Thesis: A Study in Wishful Thinking: A Feminist Reading of the Conjunction of Affect and Magical Realism in One Hundred Years of Solitude and The House of the Spirits
Thesis: Utilizing Environmental DNA to Investigate the Effects of Hypoxia on Copepod Abundance
Thesis: Class in the Maelstrom: Class Conflict and Nationalism on the Lebanese Campus from the Six-Day War to the Civil War (1967–1975)
Thesis: Examining the Validity and Prevalence of Mastery Avoidance in Higher Education Settings
Thesis: Testing for Inefficient Spreads: An Analysis of Relative Accuracy of Spreads in the National Football League Betting Market
Thesis: Butch Blues: Solidarity, Community, and Oppression as Explored through a Literary Analysis of Intersectionality
Thesis: Students and “The Scars of a Democracy": Political Possibilities at the West German Campus from 1967-1969
Thesis: Still Life with Warm Beer and Cold Regards
Thesis: Grief Brought to Numbers: The Phenomenology of Grief in Contemporary Lyric Poetry
Thesis: Democratic Backsliding in El Salvador
Thesis: At the Threshold of Consciousness: Investigating the Patterns of Neuronal Activity Events in an EEG No-Report Paradigm
Thesis: A Topological Analysis of Neurodegeneration in MR Images
Thesis: "Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of des(dimethyl)-ɑ-CPA"
Thesis: Running Towards Oblivion: Examining the Conditions of Capitalist Accumulation that Construct the Anthropocene
Thesis: Compliance Versus Support: Competing Priorities Affecting Peer Campus-Based Advocacy Programs in an Era of Increased Legal Regulations
Thesis: Invisible Lines & Hands that Bind: The Social Lives and Power of Maps in the Pacific Northwest
Thesis: Death and Divine Order: Religion and Prosocial Responsibility in Presbyterian Communities
Thesis: Progress Towards the Solid Supported Total Synthesis of 6-Deoxyerythronolide B
Thesis: Tiling Space by Translation
Thesis: “I Give You My Word, A Permanent Impermanence”: Promises for an Unreliable World in Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being
Thesis: Quantifying Historic Drought Tolerance in the White fir (Abies concolor) x Grand fir (Abies grandis) Hybrid Complex
Thesis: We Are Not Your Jezebels: The Impact of the Jezebel Stereotype on College Aged Black Women
Thesis: Verification of a Nitric Acid Permeation Source for Use in Calibrating a Continuous Analyzer for Total Oxidized Nitrogen in Air
Thesis: A Continuum Model for Physical Billiards
Thesis: Bacteria in the Mix: Exploring Microbial Recycling of Post-Consumer Plastic Waste
Thesis: Intraspecific Variation in Fitness Under Acid Stress in Daphnia magna
Thesis: "I am the enemy you killed, my friend": Trauma and Moral Injury in the Great War Poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon
Thesis: "Normal is a Myth": An Examination and Guide to Accommodating Performers with Invisible Disabilities in Theatre
Thesis: Decoding Neural Dynamics in Inattentional Blindness: A Temporal Generalization Approach
Thesis: Insight or Inference? A Modern Look at Transitive Inference in Rats
Thesis: Listening to Trauma and Memory in Science Fiction/Horror Cinema: The Soundscapes of Paul W. S. Anderson’s Event Horizon and Alex Garland’s Annihilation
Thesis: Some Mathematical Foundations of Convolutional Neural Networks
Thesis: Walkabiltiy in Portland Oregon
Thesis: Do you understand logging well enough for automation? A comprehensive introductory survey on logging
Thesis: The Poison is in the Medicine: Illness, Refuge, and Humanitiarianism in Paris, France
Thesis: The Effects of Estradiol on Xenopus laevis Vocal Behavior
Thesis: Genre, Gender, Performance, and Power in the Music of BABYMETAL
Thesis: Contortion: A Collection of Short Fiction
Thesis: Maybe Retroflex is Kinda Retro: Exploring the Status of Sibilant Production in Taiwan Mandarin
Thesis: My Life in U+2588
Thesis: A New Drosophila Activity Monitor: Image-Based Video Tracking of D. melanogaster Allows for Circadian Rhythm and Social Behavior Characterization
Thesis: Japanese-American Postwar Literature and Wartime Incarceration from the 1940s-1970s
Thesis: The Life and Legacy of Andreas Vesalius's Fabrica and Being an Author in the Renaissance
Thesis: Old Growth, Hot Topic: Investigating Crown Fuels and Epiphyte Fire Risk in Douglas-fir Forests
Thesis: 11-Ketotestosterone and Aggressive Behavior in Julidochromis transcriptus
Thesis: The Myth of Mining as Sustainable Development: Mining Conflict in the Andes Mountains, 1992-2018
Thesis: There Is No Future Here: Drug War Violence and Depeasantization in Cold War Mexico
Thesis: An Unserious Epic? Sexual Violence in Statius's Achilleid
Thesis: OPC-Ya Later! Investigating the Role of Precursor Cells in Response to Neurodegenerative Injury
Thesis: Hooked on Reed Lake: Competitive interactions between non-native pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus) and native threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) with consideration of barriers to establishment
Thesis: Tick, Tick, BOOM! The Doomsday Clock, Environmental Catastrophe, and the Cold War, 1939-1991
Thesis: Bioeffect Modeling of the Response of Cancer Cells to Targeted Alpha Therapy Using OpenTOPAS
Thesis: Many Birds, No Stones: Abandonment, Value, and Care in a Maltese Horse Sanctuary
Thesis: Genetic Regulators in Plastic Degrading Bacteria
Thesis: Is Seeing, Perceiving? A Look at Visual Awareness Using Dichoptic Color Fusion
Thesis: Notebooks That Bear Witness to Life: Writing, History-Making, and the Marvelous Real in Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits and Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
Thesis: Communication and Affective Responsiveness: Examining the Influence of Family Functioning on Adolescent Eating Disorder Severity
Thesis: Modulated Signal Filtering: Wouldn’t it be Noise?
Thesis: Obstructive Sleep Apnea is a risk factor for Parkinson’s Disease and CPAP mitigates risk of PD: an EHR- based cohort study in military Veterans
Thesis: Dyanmic Volatility in Financial Markets: An Evaluation of the GARCH Model
Thesis: Decoding EEG Bifurcation Dynamics Around Visual Detection Threshold in No-Report
Thesis: A Naïve Realist Theory of Perception
Thesis: Brahmagupta and Bhaskara II's solution to Pell's Equation
Thesis: The Personal is Political: Autobiographical Performance in Contemporary Dance
Thesis: Understanding Undergraduate College Admissions: A Causal Framework
Thesis: The Effect of Gender & Transness on the Self- & Peer-Directed Protective Behavioral Strategies of Emerging Adults
Thesis: “Society has no clue what to do with my gender”: The mediating effect of transgender/gender non-conforming pride/shame on passing beliefs and mental health outcomes
Thesis: Hilbert-Kunz Functions of Powers of Diagonal Hypersurfaces
Thesis: Reassessing the DHS Wealth Index as a Proxy for Socioeconomic Status: Insights from Large-Scale Surveys in the Middle East and North Africa
Thesis: Constrained Reinforcement learning using Lagrange Multipliers
Thesis: The Board is Set, and the Pieces Are About to Move: Evangelical Apocalyptic Thinking, QAnon, and the Sense of an Ending
Thesis: The Slipping
Thesis: Unnamed House Story
Thesis: Mere Moral Stability or Moral Imperviousness? --- Stability of Virtue in Aristotle's Ethics
Thesis: Layers of Allegory: Interpretation and Meaning Within The Faerie Queene
Thesis: Bit by Bit: Implementing the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol
Thesis: Effects of Psychological Affect on Tipping
Thesis: Home is Where the Sun Crosses the Horizon: A Collection About a Mixed-Asian Experience
Thesis: Model-free learning activity in the lateral intraparietal (LIP) area in Rhesus macaques
Thesis: Keeping It Cool: Effects of Spatial Variation on Thermal Tolerance Evolution in Phytoplankton
Thesis: Branching Out: Phylogenetic Tree Construction and the Method of Invariants
Thesis: Linguistic Shifts and Emotion Regulation Across Languages: The Case of "Estar" in Spanish
Thesis: Surprising Song: Music in Tolkien's Legendarium
Thesis: Indians At Work: The Civilian Conservation Corps “Indian Division” as Federal Reform in Depression-Era Washington State
Thesis: The Book of (Neuro)genesis: Exploring Interactions Among BMP, MAPK, and RA Signaling Pathways During Eye Development
Thesis: Extending Zero-Knowledge PCPs Beyond NP
Thesis: A Tale of Two Species: Uncovering the Interactions Between Bacillus and Pseudomonas on PET Plastics
Thesis: An Unstoppable Labor Force Meets an Immovable Political Machine: The 1886 Electoral Battle Between Organized Labor and the Tammany Hall Machine in New York City
Thesis: I Can Feel The Echoes Reaching
Thesis: Education's Role in the Conservation of Southern Resident Killer Whales
Thesis: Landlord & Context Switches
Thesis: Blank Spaces: Poetry and History in Baudelaire, Valéry, and Char
Thesis: "Our History, Our Way": The Dynamics of Race and Ethnicity in the Social Movements of the Hawaiian Renaissance
Thesis: Post from the Aimless Road
Thesis: Indonesian and Malaysian Mak Yong: Making and Remaking Culture, Ritual, and Identity
Thesis: First Impressions Matter? How Initial Exposure to a Film Sequence Shapes Subsequent Understanding of Cause and Effect
Thesis: From the Screen to the Self: How Feminist Video Transforms the Spectator
Thesis: In Pursuit of the Saffron Gatherers: Developing a “Complete” Understanding of Minoan Women
Thesis: "Against Forgetting:" Care, Performance, and Dissensus in "Comfort Women" Memorials
Thesis: Investigating the Role of the SPECC1L Homolog, Split Discs, in Non-Muscle Myosin II Contractility Dynamics in Drosophila
Thesis: Chemogenetic Inhibition of the Basolateral Amygdala in a Modified Risky Decision Task: A Model of Gambling Disorder
Thesis: Examining Model Robustness for Treatment Efficacy Prediction in Major Depressive Disorder
Thesis: Baile Seanáchaí / Ballyshanachie
Thesis: Exploration of Xenopus laevis Vocal Evolution using Computational Modeling
Thesis: Whatever You Say, Say Nothing: A Discourse Analysis of Plural Voting in Northern Ireland
Thesis: Peering into the End of the World: Time Travel Science Fiction
Thesis: Illuminating Neutrons: Investigation of Quantum Dot-Based Scintillators for Full Spectrum Neutron Detection
Thesis: Aristotle's Empeiria in Legislation
Thesis: “Whut ‘n Gawd’s name’re yew sayin’?” : Exploring Ideas of Race, Gender, and Labor in the Dialect of Early Twentieth-Century Southern Short Fiction
Thesis: Dammed If You Do, Dammed If You Don’t: The Clash of Coalitions Over the Lower Snake River Dams.
Thesis: Cultural Life, Cultural Death: Ritual, Tourism, and Indigenous Revival in Yucatán, Mexico
Thesis: Overgrown: How Colonial Perception Affects our Valuation of Illustrated Graphic Media
Thesis: Storytime! Congress and the Little AI That Could
Thesis: Towards reCYPlable PE plastic: Isolation and Characterization of a putative PE-degrading enzyme from B.thuringiensis
Thesis: Metafiction (And Its Many Uses)
Thesis: A New Age of Technology and Flexible Intellectual Property Protections: An Economic Analysis of the Developing Discord Between Generative AI and Copyright Law
Thesis: High Dysfunction, Low Trust: Federalism, Political Trust and COVID-19 Policy in Four US States
Thesis: A Formal Synthesis of Corynoxine
Thesis: The Politics of Fatness and its Influence on Voting Preferences Among White Men in Rural Wisconsin
Thesis: Creativity Entangled: A Posthumanist Perspective on AI Art
Thesis: The Color of the Kit: Football Supporters and the Politics of Identity in Late 20th and Early 21st Century Europe
Thesis: Camas and Carbon: Collaboration, Comparative Collections, and Using Archaeology for Good
Thesis: I Like Us but You Might Not: Local Partial Coreference in Mexican Spanish
Thesis: The Cyborg at the End of the World: A Theory of the Gendered Grotesque, from Female Oppression to Queer Liberation
Thesis: WARPing Environmental Preferences: Green Nudges and Rationality
Thesis: "The 73ʼ Chevy Impala of Rivers:" Ruin, Restoration, and Indigenous Futures Along Johnson Creek
Thesis: Taking a Lichen-ing to Heavy Metals: A Comparison of the Biosorption Efficacies of Two Lichen Species Towards Heavy Metals
Thesis: Culture and Compliance: Identifying Reed's Coupling Processes with its Alcohol and Other Drug Policy
Thesis: The Role of Solitary Cannabis Use and Coping Motives in Depression and Anxiety Among Emerging Adults: A Longitudinal Study
Thesis: Icelandic Formations of National Identity through the Ownership of Material Culture in a Post Colonial Context
Thesis: CRISPR/Cas9 Targeted Disruption of tshz1a Reveals New Role in Axial Patterning and Extension
Thesis: The CUBE: Using Virtual Reality to Visualize Electromagnetic Fields in Real-Time
Thesis: [Dancing] with Dance: Investigating Liminality Through the Lens of Butoh
Thesis: Dollars and Saints: Mormon Articulations of Shifting Economic Ideology at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Thesis: Statistical Modeling of atoh7 in the Developing Zebrafish Retina
Thesis: "When Philoi clash with Philoi in Strife": Familicide in Greek Tragedy and Fragility of the Family in Athens
Thesis: "Your riches rot, your clothes are moth-eaten": The Letter of James's Use of Wisdom Literature to Spur Social Upheaval
Thesis: Community Owned Community Solar in the United States: Emergence and Organizational Strategies for Success