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Author:

Smith, Karen Elizabeth

Title:

Exogenous and Endogenous Sources of Organic Compounds on the Early Earth: Investigating Carbonaceous Meteorites and Plausibly Prebiotic Complex Mixtures by Liquid Chromatography-mass Spectrometry

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

analytical chemistry
meteorites
mass spectrometry
liquid chromatography
geochemistry

File:

Download Smith_FINAL_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Howard House, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James David Kubicki, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Kasting, Committee Member
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Special Member

Author:

Smith, Hiram L

Title:

Patterns of variable tense-aspect marking in Palenquero creole

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

creole languages
grammaticalization
Palenquero
San Basilio de Palenque
Spanish-based creoles
tense and aspect marking

File:

Download 2-Dissertation_final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Rena Torres Cacoullos, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Lipski, Committee Member
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Member
Karen Lynn Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Jason Daniel

Title:

The role of host plant chemistry and light-spectral traits in host-finding and self-defense by parasitic plants in the genus Cuscuta (Convolvulaceae)

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

chemical ecology
parasitic plant
plant defense
Cuscuta
aphid
glucosinolate
Myzus persicae
epilinum
gronovii
Arabidopsis

File:

Download Dissertation_Smith_2014_final_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Consuelo M De Moraes, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark C Mescher, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan Paul Lynch, Committee Member
Gary Felton, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, William Clem

Title:

The global expansion of the testing culture: National testing policies and the reconstruction of education.

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

Testing
Accountability
World Culture
Hierarchical Linear Modeling
PISA

File:

Download Smith_Dissertation_Expansion_of_Testing_Culture.pdf

Committee Members:

David P Baker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David P Baker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katerina Bodovski, Committee Member
Soo Yong Byun, Committee Member
Molly Martin, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Jordan Cesar

Title:

Tailoring and Scaling Energetic Aluminum Clusters into Cluster Assembled Materials

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

aluminum
cluster
reactivity
matrix isolation
cavity ring down spectroscopy

File:

Download Dissertation_For_Final_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicholas Winograd, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Special Member

Author:

Smith, Russell William

Title:

Therapeutic potential of ligand-activated peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor beta/delta in pancreatic cancer

Graduate Program:

Molecular Toxicology

Keywords:

Pancreatic cancer
Inflammation
Metastasis
PPARbeta
BCL6
GW501516
GW0742

File:

Download RWS_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

John Patrick Vanden Heuvel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Curtis John Omiecinski, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kumble Sandeep Prabhu, Committee Member
Andrew David Patterson, Committee Member
Karam E El Bayoumy, Special Member

Author:

Smith, Brandon Howard

Title:

ENHANCED CHARGE TRANSPORT IN POLYMER THIN-FILM TRANSISTORS THROUGH STRUCTURAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL OPTIMIZATION

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Organic Thin-Film Transistor
Organic Semiconductor
Poly(3-hexylthiophene)
P3HT
Grazing-Incidence Wide Angle X-Ray Scattering
GIXRD
GIWAXS
Ferrocene
Neutron Detector
X-ray Detector
Zone Refining
P3HT-b-PFTBT
PBnDT-FTAZ
Block Copolymer
Polymorphism
Charge Mobility
Charge Transport

File:

Download Brandon_Smith_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Enrique D. Gomez, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Enrique D. Gomez, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael J. Janik, Committee Member
Seong H. Kim, Committee Member
N. Christopher Giebink, Outside Member

Author:

Smith, Kayla Jo

Title:

THE ROLE OF THE ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR IN MODULATING SKIN AND INTESTINAL EPITHELIAL PHYSIOLOGY

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

aryl hydrocarbon receptor
skin
intestine
inflammation
keratinocyte

File:

Download Smith_Kayla_J_Dissertation_2017_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Perdew, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary Perdew, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey Peters, Committee Member
Robert Paulson, Committee Member
Edward Dudley, Outside Member
Richard Frisque, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Maurice Devoe

Title:

Exploring African American High School Age Males’ Perceptions of Agricultural-related Youth Programs in Urban Settings

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Extension Education

Keywords:

Agricultural-related
4-H Youth Development
perceptions
ethnic identity
community involvement

File:

Download PhDDissertation_mds_11_14_17_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Nicole Sheree Webster, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicole Sheree Webster, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark A Brennan Jr., Committee Member
Connie Devine Baggett, Committee Member
Jonte Charez Taylor, Outside Member

Author:

Smith, William Thomas

Title:

Scheduling Analysis of Stored Combat Load Retrieval Using Monte Carlo Sampling

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Scheduling
Monte Carlo
Ammunition
Stored Combat Load
Parallel Machine Scheduling
Army
Military

File:

Download Smith_William__IndEng_PhDV2_August2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Guodong Pang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guodong Pang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Outside Member
Michael Andrew Yukish, Special Member