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Theses from 2008
Spectral and Hydrodynamic Modeling of X-Ray Photoionization Experiments, Michael J. Rosenberg , '08
Effects of a desaturase inhibitor on the tissue lipid composition and dietary preference of Djungarian hamster (Phodopus sungorus), Barry Zee , '08
Theses from 2007
Monte Carlo Methods for Sampling Classical and Quantum Particles, Jennifer Barry , '07
Desegregation Diluted: Integration Under the Busing Order in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1965-2001, Katherine A. Chamblee , '07
High Time Resolution Spectroscopic Measurements of Electron Temperature in the SSX plasma, Vernon H. Chaplin , '07
Growing into Politics: Schools, Community Organizations, and the Development of Political Youth, Sarah Cotcamp , '07
LDW Small-Molecule Organic Luminophores for OLED and OPV device fabrication, Ethan R. Deyle , '08
Ferroelectricity in Amphiphilic Monolayers, Jacob D. Eccles , '07
Aggregation Properties of the Chromonic Liquid Crystal Benzopurpurin 4B, Nathaniel Erb-Satullo , '07
Imaging of Ultracold Atomic Populations in Magneto-optical Traps, Daniel Forman , '07
Finding the Energy Spectrum of the Quantum Hindered Rotor by the Lanczos Method, George Hang , '07
Flow Measurements on Single and Merging Spheromaks at SSX, Jason Horwitz , '07
At the intersections of body and culture: How adolescent girls construct their bodies through multiple discourses, Tanya Nikiforova , '07
Genuine Fortuitousness, Relational Blockworld, Realism, and Time, Daniel J. Peterson , '08
Watershed Moments in the Lives of Seventh Graders: The Influence of Classroom Social Contexts on Student Engagement, Sabrina J. Stevens , '07
The Aggregation and Liquid Crystal Properties of Bordeaux Dye, Michelle Tomasik , '07
Theses from 2006
Toward an Ethnographic Analysis of Federal Education Policy: The Effects of the No Child Left Behind Act on Language and Culture Education in Navajo Public Schools, Allison Balter , '06
Possible roles of trunk neural crest cells in bone formation of the Trachemys scripta shell, as examined by HNK-1 antibody staining and DiI injections, Erin A. Betters , '06
Biofilm formation as a selectable phenotype for functionality of universal stress protein A in Escherichia coli, Meagan Bolles , '06
Transcriptional regulation of stress responses by the Universal stress proteins A and C in Escherichia Coli, Charlie G. Buffie , '06
The Spider and the Fly: Life history traits in Drosophila melanogaster differ after five years under predation by Pholcus phalangioides, Anisha Chandra , '06
Path Integral Monte Carlo Simulation of Positronium in Cylindrical Pore Spaces, Timothy W. Cronin , '06
Pulsed Accretion in the Young Binary UZ Tauri East, Saurav Dhital , '06
Observations on the breeding biology, nest characteristics, and nest insulation of the Arctic Warbler (Phylloscopus borealis kennicotti) in interior Alaska, Benjamin S. Ewen-Campen , '06
High Resolution Flow and Ion Temperature Measurements with Ion Doppler Spectroscopy at SSX, Jerome Fung , '06
Determining the Phase Diagram and Aggregate Size of a Chromonic Liquid Crystal, Jessica Gersh , '06
Characterization of the universal stress protein A paralog uspE of Escherichia coli: survival and stress response, Alexander F. Glick , '06
Sediment characteristics and interspecific interaction influence the distribution of Emerita talpoida and Donax variabilis in swash, Micah J. Horwith , '06
Trees pumping iron: Modeling stress distributions and material properties of branch wood in bur oak and sugar maple, James M. Kreft , '06
The Evolution of Lyme Disease: Determining the Nature of Genetic Linkage in Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto via Index of Association and Information Theory Calculations, Jessica L. Larson , '06
An assemblage of baenid turtles from the Hell Creek Formation: intraspecific variation, two new taxa, and a phylogenetic analysis of the Baenidae, Tyler R. Lyson , '06
The roles of gustatory receptor neuron populations in modulation of Drosophila melanogaster naive courtship and courtship conditioning, Makiko Mizutani , '06
The Problem with The Good Parsi: Contesting the Intrusion of Colonialism on Consciousness, Ariana N. E. Nash , '06
Effects of low water potentials on the growth and mechanical properties of young maize (Zea mays) roots, Adam B. Roddy , '06
Silenced gustatory inputs reveal new populations of pheromone detection cells involved in Drosophila courtship and support a non-associative basis for courtship conditioning, Arpiar B. Saunders , '06
Measurement Theories in Quantum Mechanics, Cortland M. Setlow , '06
Circumstellar Disk Modeling with Bayesian Statistics and Marginal Probabilities, Andrew Skemer , '06
Patterns of heterotrophic nitrogen fixation in a lowland tropical rainforest, Aaron L. Strong , '06
Polarization sensitivity in the red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii enhances the detection of a moving transparent object, John C. Tuthill , '06
A Good Neighbor, In Print: Politics, propaganda, and the consumption of Selecciones del Reader's Digest in Buenos Aires (1940-1960), Lisa Ubelaker Andrade , '06
Establishment and characterization of a reliable long-term memory courtship conditioning paradigm in Drosophila melanogaster, Lauren E. Ullrich , '06
September 11th, Violence and Interpretation: Power and the Production of Truth in the War on Terror, Marissa A. Vahlsing , '06
Path Integral Monte Carlo Simulation of Positronium within a Dielectric Spherical Cavity, Zachary Wolfson , '06
Theses from 2005
The Optical and Physical Properties of a Photosensitive Nematic Liquid Crystal, Dina Aronzon , '05
Transnational Nonviolent Empowerment, Ivan Boothe , '05
"Scorners of Goodenss": Quaker and Puritan Dissent From The Seventeenth-Century Anglican Church in Virginia, Sarah P. Bryan , '05
Voices Worth Hearing: Priorities of the Black Community in the Midst of the Mandate to Desegregate Philadelphia Public Schools, Ja'Dell R. A. Davis , '06
Long-term suppression of courtship behavior in Drosophila melanogaster, Jeffrey M. Donlea , '05
"Your Children Belong to Us Already...": Nazi Family and Youth Policy and the role of the Hitler Youth, Erin Dwyer-Frazier , '05
Deep Understanding of Mathematics in an Elementary Classroom, Rebecca Galaski , '05
Surface Gravity as a Diagnostic of Stellar Youth, Cameron Higby-Naquin , '05
Fundamental Measurements on an Aggregated Dye Liquid Crystal, Viva R. Horowitz , '05
Identification of bacteria associated with the tangerine scent of the Crested Auklet, M. Jawaad Hussain , '05
Behavior of nocturnally migrating birds near communication towers in Philadelphia, PA, Jennifer E. Johnson , '05
Plumage odor predicts social rank in a captive population of Crested Auklets (Aethia cristatella), Lauren R. Kett , '05
Explorations in reducing bacterial viability through the use of ultrasound and oxidative stress, Aparna Kishor , '05
Signal assessment in Photinus greeni fireflies, Constantinos I. Michaelidis , '05; K. Demary; and S. M. Lewis
Ion Temperature and Flow Velocity Measurements on SSX-FRC, Aongus Ó. Murchadha , '05
A Political Philosophy of Democratic Multicultural Education, Celia Paris , '05
Paracrine Signaling in the Carapacial Ridge of the Red-Eared Slider Turtle, Trachemys scripta, Paul N. Riccio , '05
Identifying Young Stars far from Giant Molecular Clouds, Katie Schlesinger , '05
Modeling Studies of Photoionization Experiments Driven by Z-pinch X-rays, Nathan C. Shupe , '05
Measuring Weak Lensing of a Multiply Imaged Quasar, Lauren J. Willis , '05
The Pervasive Maxwell Demon, Dan Yue , '05
Theses from 2004
A Question of Genocide: The Sterilizations of Native American Women in the 1960's and 1970's by the Indian Health Service and Contract Physicians, María C. Alvarez , '04
Audacia Dangereyes, Ester Bloom , '04
Characterization of androgen receptor interactions and mobility in vivo, Stephen L. Cook , '04
From Mountain Homeland to National Playground: A History of Perceptions of Landscape in Estes Park, Colorado, Amanda E. Cravens , '04
A Novel Learning Model for Pheromonally Dependent Suppression of Courtship in Drosophila melanogaster, Stephanie A. Cross , '04
XMM-Newton X-Ray Spectroscopy of the B2 Bright Giant ε Canis Majoris, Geneviève de Messières , '04
Determinants and consequences of handedness in twining vines, Emily S. Ford , '04
Cancer-Specific Therapy: Atorvastatin, an HMG CoA Reductase Inhibitor, Suppresses Proliferation and Induces Apoptosis in a Model for T cell Lymphoma, Matthew J. Goldstein , '04
A Sailor's Eye View: Victimization and the Lives of English Merchant Seamen in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Evan Hensleigh , '04
Behavioral and physiological responses to a putative alarm odor in European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), Elizabeth C. Leininger , '04
Possibility and Liberation in "Card Captor Sakura" Through the Subversion of Normative Sex, Gender, and Social Expectation, Lan Xuan Le , '04
The Troubles By Our Women: The Urban Male Perspective on Independent Women in Independent Nigeria, Lulu Miller , '05
Applications of Photospheric Spot Temperature Models to the Study of Stellar Angular Momentum Evolution in the Orion Nebula Cluster, Matthew Miller , '04
"For it is not light that is needed, but fire": Race, Riot, and Citizenship in Philadelphia, 1834-1844, Mariah Montgomery , '04
Loss and Replenishment of Germline Stem Cells in Aging Drosophila melanogaster Testes, Renuka R. Nayak , '04
America's first public library: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1929-1966, Elisabeth Oppenheimer , '05
Structure-Function Analysis of the Periplasmic Domain of the VirA Sensor Kinase from Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Wonjae Benjamin Rhee , '04
Regulation of the extent of re-differentiation around a vascular wound in Coleus blumei, Seeta A. Sistla , '04
Taking Refuge: Buddhist Ethics Regarding Intimate Violence, Sarah St. Vincent , '04
Carapacial Ridge and Costal Bone Formation in the Carapace of the Red-eared Slider Turtle, Trachemys Scripta, Fraser E. Tan , '04
Mapping dominant suppressors of a temperature-sensitive mutation in SID2/CDTl in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Jessica A. Tashjian , '04
An American Dystopia: The Impact of U.S. Domestic Anti-Terrorism Policy on Muslims, Arab Americans, Immigrants, and Others, Nathan F. Wessler , '04
Theses from 2003
Identification and characterization of myo1 alleles affecting cytokinesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Kirstin L. Bass , '03
"Oughta Be A Woman": Black Womanhood and Care Work, 1880-1996, Chela Delgado , '03
Dynamics of Field-Reversed-Configuration in SSX, Abram Falk , '03
Formation and Stability of Spheromak/Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) Hybrids in SSX-FRC, Andrew Fefferman , '03
Oxidative Stress Response of Escherichia coli subjected to Optical Traps as Reported by a katG'::luxCDABE Fusion, Joanne C. Gaskell , '03
Modeling O-Star X-Ray Emission-Line Profiles: Fitting a Parameterized, Spherically-Symmetric Wind Model to Chandra Spectra, Roban H. Kramer , '03
The Three-Dimensional Structure of Magnetic Reconnection in SSX, Matt Landreman , '03
A Study of Langmuir Monolayers to Find a Template for Two-Dimensional Porphyrin Aggregation, Michael Loeb , '03
"The Strengths that They Have": In Search of new discourses of adolescent girlhood—A case study of women mentors at Higher Ground, a summer program for adolescent girls in North Philadelphia, Jennifer Lunstead , '03
Analysis of Potential Transcriptional Regulators of the Universal Stress Protein A (UspA) Gene of Escherchia coli, Jeanne M. McFalls , '03
Positronium: A Theoretical lifetime calculation and a Path Integral Monte Carlo simulation in an Electric field, Melaku Muluneh , '03
Thermal Fluctuations in the Isotropic Phase of Nematic Liquid Crystals, Mark Romanowsky , '03
Photon Echo and Single Molecule Fluorescence Measurements of Organic Dyes in Thin Polymer Films, Robin Smith , '03
Reducing Escherichia coli Viability through Ultrasound Exposure, Matthew J. So , '03