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Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

What Does it Mean to be White: Investigating White Culture, White Privilege and Allyship Through the Lens of Aspiring White Allies, Brett Kirkpatrick

The Direct Scattering Map for the Intermediate Long Wave Equation, Joel Klipfel

Responding to Students Experiencing Emotional Distress: An Action Research Study of Professional Learning Experiences for Faculty and Staff, Christopher Taylor Lakes

IONIC BONDING CURRICULUM UNIT: AN ELECTROSTATIC FRAMEWORK, Mary Frank Lamar

Selective Electron Beam Etching of Materials Using Liquid Reactants, Sarah Lami

Terminal Youth: The Failure Narrative of the Dysfunctional Family as the Non-Viability of Capitalist Economic Liberalism in Contemporary Latin American Film, Sharrah Lane

KINSHIP CARE PROVIDERS: EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP OF CHILD TEMPERMENT, COMBINED FACTORS OF PROVIDER’S RELATIONSHIP TO PRIMARY PARENT AND REASON FOR PLACEMENT, AND INTENSITY OF PARENTING TASKS TO PARENTING STRESS, Shelagh Larkin

Essays on Economic Development Policies, Hakyeon Lee

AN UNDERSTANDING OF STYLE OF BAROQUE ORNAMENTATION IN HANDEL’S OPERATIC ARIAS: A STUDY OF SELECTED RECORDINGS (1950s – 2010s), Junghyun Lee

COMPLEX ECOLOGIES AND UNRULY BODIES IN ROSA MONTERO’S SPECULATIVE FICTION, Kiersty Lemon-Rogers

Essays on Corporate Finance and Institutional Investors, Ang Li

Multi-Modal Medical Imaging Analysis with Modern Neural Networks, Gongbo Liang

HEART TISSUE RECONSTRUCTION BY LIGHT-CONTROLLED CELL ADHESION, PATTERNING AND ALIGNMENT ON DECELLULARIZED SCAFFOLDS, Cong Li

RESPONSES TO SYMPTOMS AMONG PATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE, Chin-Yen Lin

RECONSIDERING MORAL PERCEPTION: THE DIALECTICAL EMERGENCE OF MORAL PERCEPTUAL CONTENTS DURING EXPERIENCE VIA COGNITIVE PENETRATION AND OPPRESSIVE SOCIALIZATION’S SUPPRESSION OF OUR ABILITY TO ‘SEE’ MORAL REASONS FOR HUMANIZATION AND LIBERATION, James William Lincoln

IT MATTERS WHO YOU LIVE WITH. THE RELATIONSHIP OF LIVING ARRANGEMENT AND MEDICATION ADHERENCE IN PATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE, Rana Lindsay-Rahman

Multiscale Modeling of Structure-Function Relationships of Organic Semiconductors, Shi Li

CHARACTERIZING THE ROLES OF PIPECOLIC ACID AND REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES METABOLIC ENZYMES IN PLANT SYSTEMIC IMMUNITY, Ruiying Liu

Development and Application of Novel Sound Absorbers, Weiyun Liu

Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods for Comparing Biomarker Levels between Groups, Yuntong Li

AN EVALUATION OF POSTURAL CONTROL AND BALANCE AFTER ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION, Kathryn Lucas

Characterization and Engineering of Interrupted Adenylation Domains, Taylor A. Lundy

ROLE OF PANCREATIC AMYLIN IN ALZHEIMER’S AND BRAIN MICROVASCULAR PATHOLOGIES, Han Gia Ly

Elucidating the Complex Signaling Events Driving Intestinal Stem Cell Plasticity Following Injury, Evan Lynch

A MULTI-METHOD INVESTIGATION OF THE MODERN SEDIMENTATION AND LATE HOLOCENE PALEOLIMNOLOGY OF JUNE LAKE (MONO COUNTY, CA), AND A SURVEY-BASED ANALYSIS OF NINTH GRADERS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS GEOLOGY, Eva Lyon