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Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Orbital Stability Results for Soliton Solutions to Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations with External Potentials, Joseph B. Lindgren

DISCOVERING A NOVEL ANTIFUNGAL TARGET IN DOWNSTREAM STEROL BIOSYNTHESIS USING A SQUALENE SYNTHASE FUNCTIONAL MOTIF, Kristin Brooke Linscott

EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE, ORIENTATION, LOAD LEVEL AND INDENTER SHAPE ON THE INDENTATION RESPONSE OF NITI-BASED SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS, Peizhen Li

THE IMPACT OF OWNER PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECT SAFETY PERFORMANCE, Huang Liu

Global Well-posedness for the Derivative Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation Through Inverse Scattering, Jiaqi Liu

A PREDICTIVE PROBABILITY INTERIM DESIGN FOR PHASE II CLINICAL TRIALS WITH CONTINUOUS ENDPOINTS, Meng Liu

NONPARAMETRIC COMPOUND ESTIMATION, DERIVATIVE ESTIMATION, AND CHANGE POINT DETECTION, Sisheng Liu

IMPROVEMENTS IN INVERTER MODELING AND CONTROL, Xiao Liu

PHOTOLUMINESCENCE MECHANISM AND APPLICATIONS OF GRAPHENE QUANTUM DOTS, Yiyang Liu

Data-Driven Adaptive Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes k - ω Models for Turbulent Flow-Field Simulations, Zhiyong Li

PROTECTION FROM AORTIC ANEURYSM BY BMAL1 DELETION FROM SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS, Jenny Lutshumba

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELECTIVE ATTENTION AND GLOBAL COHERENCE IN NARRATIVE DISCOURSE FOLLOWING RIGHT HEMISPHERE STROKE, Katherine McComas Maddy

INSULIN ACTIONS ON HIPPOCAMPAL NEURONS, Shaniya Maimaiti

PROFILING THE ACTION OF ACETYLCHOLINE IN THE DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER LARVAL MODEL: HEART, BEHAVIOR, AND THE DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF SENSORIMOTOR CIRCUITS, Cole A. Malloy

(B)ordering Texas: The Representation of Violence, Nationalism, and Masculine Archetypes in U.S.-Mexico Borderland Novels (1985-2012), Joshua D. Martin

AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF INCAPACITATED PERSONS WITH CRIMINAL BEHAVIORS SERVED BY KENTUCKY’S PUBLIC GUARDIANSHIP PROGRAM, Karen Martin

A Theory of Veteran Identity, Travis L. Martin

CHARACTERIZATION AND APPLICATION OF HYBRID NANOSTRUCTURES FOR ENHANCED BIOLOGICAL IMAGING USING FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY TECHNIQUES, William E. Martin

THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG ACCULTURATION ORIENTATION, PERCEIVED DISCRIMINATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING AND GENDER AMONG SOUTH ASIAN AND SOUTH EAST ASIAN INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Dia Mason

“TO NURTURE SOMETHING THAT NURTURES YOU”: CARE, CREATIVITY, CLASS, AND THE PRODUCTION OF URBAN ENVIRONMENTS IN DEINDUSTRIAL MICHIGAN, Megan L. Maurer

THREE ESSAYS ON POPULATION DYNAMICS, TRADE AND GROWTH, Anna Maximova

Prediction of Acute and Recurrent Ankle Sprains in Athletes, Ryan S. McCann

NOVEL ROLE OF PROSTATE APOPTOSIS RESPONSE-4 TUMOR SUPPRESSOR IN B-CELL CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA, Mary Kathryn McKenna

THE CELLO WORKS OF ERNST VON DOHNÁNYI, William Joseph Meyer

LIVING ON THE EDGE: SMALLHOLDER GROWERS’ RESPONSES TO A CHANGING TOBACCO ECONOMY IN MALAWI, Tony S. Milanzi