• Parcel-scale development and landscaping actions affect vegetation, bird, and fungal communities on office developments 

  Dyson, Karen

  Habitat loss and degradation are primary drivers of extinction and reduced ecosystem function in urban social-ecological systems. While creating local reserves and restoring degraded habitat are important, they are incomplete ...

• Planning for community resilience: A spatial planning approach to New Orleans’ Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard 

  Green, Timothy Paul

  In the face of dramatic environmental and economic change, society must shift its approach to infrastructure investment. No longer can engineering and segregation of land uses and systems solve a city’s problems. We must ...

• Topics in Statistics and Convex Geometry: Rounding, Sampling, and Interpolation 

  Gustafson, Adam Marc

  We consider a few aspects of the interplay between convex geometry and statistics. We consider three problems of interest: how to bring a convex body specified by a self-concordant barrier into a suitably “rounded” position ...

• Preferential sampling and model checking in phylodynamic inference 

  Karcher, Michael D

  Estimating population size fluctuations is one of the key tasks in Ecology. Traditional sampling based approaches to this task have limitations when populations of interest are extinct or are hard to reach, as is the case ...

• Becoming an Expert Cannabis Connoisseur: Toward a Theory of Moralizing Labor 

  Cadigan, Michele

  Economic sociologists have shown that legitimacy is an important part of market success (Fourcade and Healy 2007; Meyer and Rowan 1977) and that workers play a central role in establishing a contested trade as legitimate ...

• Souvenirs and Travel Guides: The Cognitive Sociology of Grieving Public Figures 

  Nolan, Daniel Andrew

  The deaths of public figures can produce a variety of emotional reactions. While bereavement research has explored mourning family or close friends, this literature does little to address the experience of grief for public ...

• Gender Structures, Strategies, and Expectations during Nepal’s Labor Migration 

  Reisman, Andrea Robin

  Temporary migratory work has long been an adaptive response to concentrated material deprivation. As technological advances make transnational labor movements more accessible, and uneven economic development and growing ...

• The (Inter)Professional Identity of Hospital Social Workers: Integration and Operationalization of Profession-Specific Knowledge, Skills, and Values with Boundary-Spanning Competencies 

  Brazg, Tracy Nicole

  Purpose: This dissertation examines the professional identity narratives of hospital social workers in a way that is conceptually grounded and relevant to efforts to engage with interprofessional collaborative practice. ...

• Representations of Spanish emigration in films from 2005-2015: the use of a shared history to open conversations about contemporary immigration 

  Pelz, Delany Elise

  This paper examines the cinematic representation of Spanish emigration in three films released between 2005-2015. The analysis is focused on Un franco, 14 pesetas (2006) directed by Carlos Iglesias, Las chicas de la sexta ...

• Third-party interpretation of personal genetic data: the tools, users, and implications for policymaking 

  Nelson, Sarah Catherine

  Individuals have unprecedented access to their “raw” or uninterpreted genetic data through direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing, research participation, or clinical sequencing. Raw data can be transferred to a growing ...

• Predicting Rape Events: The Influence of Intimate Partner Violence History, Condom Use Resistance, and Heavy Drinking 

  Gulati, Natasha Katrine

  Sexual aggression perpetration is a public health epidemic, and burgeoning research aims to delineate risk factors for individuals who perpetrate completed rape. The current study investigated physical and psychological ...

• Cueing effects for simple detection can be accounted for by a decision model of selective attention 

  Johnson, Miranda

  Visual cues help observers detect a target when it appears at the cued location. One hypothesis for this cueing effect, called spatial selective perception, is that spatial attention directed to the cued location enhances ...

• Pilot Evaluation of a Brief Emotion Regulation Intervention for Secondary School Students in Post-Earthquake Nepal 

  Ramaiya, Megan K

  Background: Child and adolescent mental health problems are major contributors to the global burden of disease, with the majority of the mental health burden concentrated in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) settings. ...

• Optimization of Muon Injection and Storage in the Fermilab g-2 Experiment: From Simulation to Reality 

  Froemming, Nathan Seth

  The anomaly of the muon magnetic dipole moment, $a_\mu \equiv (g_\mu - 2)/2$, is a sensitive probe into the Standard Model~(SM) of particle physics because it can be calculated with high precision and also measured with ...

• Searching for Dark Matter with Boosted Higgs Decays in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector 

  Whallon, Nikola Lazar

  If Dark Matter particles interact with Standard Model particles, it could be possible to pair produce Dark Matter particles in association with a detectable Standard Model particle at a collider such as the LHC. If this ...

• Neural Mechanisms of Trial and Error Learning: a Study from Bird Song 

  Duffy, Alison Guidry

  In this dissertation I examine how variation is generated, shaped and controlled in the brain during trial-and-error learning. The first part of this dissertation concerns the mathematical modeling of networks of neurons ...

• Quantum Dynamics in Rugged Energy Landscapes, and Additional Topics in Disordered Systems 

  Baldwin, Christopher

  This thesis concerns the interplay of quantum mechanics with strong disorder, and the novel dynamical phases that are unique to disordered quantum systems. The results that we present apply to systems ranging from spin ...

• Axion-like Dark Matter Detection with Mercury-199 Atoms 

  Chen, Yi

  The objective of this dissertation is to search for axion dark matter through the coupling between the axion field and the electric dipole moment(EDM) of mercury-199 atoms. If the axion is the significant fraction of dark ...

• Depletion of dAKAP1 signaling complexes accompanies pathological changes in mitochondrial dynamics during breast cancer progression 

  Aggarwal, Stacey

  The dual-specificity A-kinase anchoring protein 1 (dAKAP1) is a mitochondrial anchoring protein responsible for recruiting protein kinase A (PKA), along with other signaling molecules, to the outer mitochondrial membrane ...

• Uncovering pathogenesis of the DNAJ-PKAc fusion in fibrolamellar carcinoma 

  Turnham, Rigney Elizabeth

  Fibrolamellar carcinoma (FLC) is a rare liver cancer that occurs in healthy adolescents and young adults. FLCs uniquely produce DNAJ-PKAc, a de novo chimeric enzyme consisting of a chaperonin-binding domain fused to the ...

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