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Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

UTILIZING LARGE SCALE DATASETS TO EVALUATE ASPECTS OF A SUSTAINABLE BIOECONOMY, GwanSeon Kim

ILLUMINATING DNA PACKAGING IN SPERM CHROMATIN: HOW POLYCATION LENGTHS, UNDERPROTAMINATION AND DISULFIDE LINKAGES ALTERS DNA CONDENSATION AND STABILITY, Daniel Kirchhoff

CONSUMING APPALACHIA: AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF COMPANY COAL TOWNS, Zada Komara

Making Experts: An Ethnographic Study of “Makers” in FabLabs in Japan, Vaughn M. Krebs

MINERAL EXPLORATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY IN THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH SUDAN, Cosmas Pitia Kujjo

NEUROPROTECTIVE STRATEGIES FOLLOWING EXPERIMENTAL TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY: LIPID PEROXIDATION-DERIVED ALDEHYDE SCAVENGING AND INHIBITION OF MITOCHONDRIAL PERMEABILITY TRANSITION, Jacqueline Renee Kulbe

CARBAPENEM-RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE: EPIDEMIOLOGY, GENETICS, IN VITRO ACTIVITY, AND PHARMACODYNAMIC MODELING, Brandon Kulengowski

BARRIERS AND FACILITORS OF HEALTHCARE USE AMONG PEOPLE WHO INJECT DRUGS, C. Brooke Kuns-Adkins

THREE ESSAYS ON WELFARE POLICIES IN AMERICAN STATES: EXPLAINING AMERICAN WELFARE STATES IN THE POST-WELFARE REFORM ERA, Hyokyung Kwak

ESTIMATION OF TRANSMISSION LINE PARAMETERS USING LINEAR METHOD WITH SYNCHRONIZED AND UNSYNCHRONIZED DATA, Mustafa Lahmar

PYOCYANIN, A VIRULENCE FACTOR PRODUCED BY SEPSIS-CAUSING PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA, PROMOTES ADIPOSE WASTING AND CACHEXIA, Nika Larian

THE INFLUENCE OF PATIENT-PROVIDER INTERACTION, SELF-CONCEPT, AND THE SOCIO-PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ON PELVIC EXAM SEEKING BEHAVIOR, ANXIETY, AND THE HEALTH CARE EXPERIENCE, Julie Lasslo

INVESTIGATION OF FACTORS INFLUENCING PROTEIN STABILITY IN LYOPHILIZED FORMULATIONS USING SOLID-STATE NMR SPECTROSCOPY, Ashley Lay-Fortenbery

SEEDS OF SUSPICION: THE PERPETUAL CYCLE OF ANTI-MUSLIM STEREOTYPES, MIDDLE EAST INTERVENTION, AND TERRORISM, Christopher Ledford

THE DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL PROTEASOME INHIBITORS FOR THE TREATMENT OF MULTIPLE MYELOMA AND ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, Min Jae Lee

DISCOVERY OF NOVEL PHARMACOTHERAPEUTICS FOR SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS, Na-Ra Lee

EVALUATING THE EFFICACY OF SYSTEMATIC PATIENT FEEDBACK IN AN INTEGRATED MENTAL HEALTH AND PRIMARY CARE SETTING, Alex Lengerich

ASSESSING THE MODEL FIT OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL ITEM RESPONSE THEORY MODELS WITH POLYTOMOUS RESPONSES USING LIMITED-INFORMATION STATISTICS, Caihong Rosina Li

WELD PENETRATION IDENTIFICATION BASED ON CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK, Chao Li

Nanomaterials for Double-Stranded RNA Delivery, Stuart Lichtenberg

EFFECTS OF A SYSTEMIC HIGH UREA CONCENTRATION ON THE ENDOMETRIAL AND EMBRYONIC TRANSCRIPTOMES OF THE MARE, Yatta Linhares Boakari

RESPONSES OF BOVINE PITUITARY TRANSCRIPTOME PROFILES TO CONSUMPTION OF TOXIC TALL FESCUE AND FORMS OF SELENIUM IN VITAMIN-MINERAL MIXES, Qing Li

DIFFERENTIAL ITEM FUNCTIONING AMONG ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ON A LARGE-SCALE MATHEMATICS ASSESSMENT, Ruixue Liu

CHARACTERIZATION OF NANOSTRUCTURE, MATERIALS, AND ELECTRON EMISSION PERFORMANCE OF NEXT-GENERATION THERMIONIC SCANDATE CATHODES, Xiaotao Liu

QUANTIFICATION OF MYOCARDIAL MECHANICS IN LEFT VENTRICLES UNDER INOTROPIC STIMULATION AND IN HEALTHY RIGHT VENTRICLES USING 3D DENSE CMR, Zhan-Qiu Liu