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Author:

Juntarapaso, Yada

Title:

SIMULATIONS FOR INVESTIGATING THE CONTRAST MECHANISM OF BIOLOGICAL CELLS WITH HIGH FREQUENCY SCANNING ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

scanning acoustic microscopy
transducer simulation

File:

Download Final_ETD_Dissertation__Yada.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Laurence Tutwiler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wolyniak, Brian John

Title:

Conserving natural resources through local land use decisions: knowledge and attitudes of planning commissioners

Graduate Program:

Forest Resources

Keywords:

land use planning
municipal government
zoning ordinances
northeastern Pennsylvania

File:

Download Wolyniak_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

William F. Elmendorf, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sendagi, Stella Maris

Title:

FRACTIONAL ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN LOSS FROM TALL FESCUE HAY SPRAY-IRRIGATED WITH MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER EFFLUENT

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

Agricultural wastewater reuse
water reuse
nitrogen-based wastewater irrigation rates
nitrogen balance
DNDC modeling
tall fescue hay.
design nitrogen-based wastewater irrigation rates
atmospheric nitrogen loss
wastewater irrigation

File:

Download Stella_Maris_Sendagi_Ph.D._Dissertation_May_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Herschel Adams Elliott, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lind, Amanda Blair

Title:

Auralizing Impulsive Sounds Outdoors Among Buildings

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

Sonic Boom
Auralization
BTM
Biot Tolstoy Mediwn
Diffraction
Edge Diffraction
Impulsive
Low Frequency
Outdoor
Sound Propagation

File:

Download Lind_Dissertation_Dec4_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Victor Ward Sparrow, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Briand, Cedric B

Title:

Hermeneutics of the Lake: Lancelot's Masculinities and Hybridities in 12th- and 13th-Century Arthurian Romance

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

Lancelot
Arthurian Studies
Medieval Studies
Arthurian Romance
French

File:

Download Dissertation_corrections.pdf

Committee Members:

Norris Joiner Lacy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Barry, Chloe Yh

Title:

Can a Short Video Module Teach Stereotype Threat and Methods of Prevention to White, Women, Pre-Service Teachers?

Graduate Program:

School Psychology

Keywords:

Stereotype threat
Education
prevention
video module
professional development

File:

Download C._Barry__Dissertation_5.28.2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Beverly Vandiver, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Libardoni, Alex Gordon

Title:

Improving Constraints on Climate System Properties with Additional Data and New Methods

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

Climate sensitivity
Ocean diffusivity
Aerosol forcing
Transient climate response
Climate models
Climate change
Internal climate variability
Climate model evaluation
Climate model calibration
Uncertainty quantification
Radial basis functions
Climate sensitivity
Ocean diffusivity
Aerosol forcing
Transient climate response
Climate models
Climate change
Internal climate variability
Climate model evaluation
Climate model calibration
Uncertainty quantification
Radial basis functions

File:

Download AGLibardoni-Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris Eliot Forest, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Awani, Awani

Title:

Nicotinamide is a TRPV channel agonist in Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

TRPV
ION CHANNEL
C ELEGANS
NICOTINAMIDE
CELL DEATH

File:

Download Revised_Dissertation__Awani__12.13.16.pdf

Committee Members:

Wendy Hanna Rose, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Browning, Paul Nathan

Title:

Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Refractory Metal Alloys Formed by Field Assisted Sintering Technique (FAST)

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Refractory Metals
Field Assisted Sintering
Spark Plasma Sintering
Mechanical Properties

File:

Download Compiled_Thesis__Browning_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jogender Singh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anil Kulkarni, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Todd Palmer, Committee Member
Ivica Smid, Committee Member
Ivica Smid, Outside Member

Author:

Mohammadzadeh Jasour, Ashkan

Title:

Convex Approximation of Chance Constrained Optimization Problems: Application in System and Control

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Chance Constrained
Convex Optimization
Semidefinite Programming
Measure and Moments
Polynomials
Sum of Squares Optimization
Duality

File:

Download Ashkan-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Necdet S Aybat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Antonios Armaou, Outside Member
Alexei Novikov, Committee Member

Author:

Oi, Katsuya

Title:

Three Papers on Health, Aging, and Employment in the United States

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

work
ageing population inequality US

File:

Download Katsuya_oi_Dissertation_Master.pdf

Committee Members:

Melissa Hardy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melissa Hardy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steven Andrew Haas, Committee Member
Jason Ramone Thomas, Committee Member
Patricia Y Miranda, Outside Member

Author:

Bloom, Anna Nichole

Title:

Single-Cell Imaging of Exogenous Compounds Using Cluster Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
Single Cell Imaging
Chemical Imaging
Nanoparticles
Pharmaceutical Compounds

File:

Download Bloom_DissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Nicholas Winograd, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicholas Winograd, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barbara Jane Garrison, Committee Member
Joseph M Bollinger Jr., Committee Member
Esther Winter Gomez, Outside Member

Author:

Nandi, Tarak Nath

Title:

EFFECTS OF BLADE BOUNDARY LAYER TRANSITION AND DAYTIME ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE ON WIND TURBINE PERFORMANCE ANALYZED WITH BLADE-RESOLVED SIMULATION AND FIELD DATA

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Fluid Mechanics
CFD
turbulence
transition
atmospheric boundary layer
actuator line method
RANS
LES
Wind Energy

File:

Download Penn_State_University_Dissertation_forSubmission.pdf

Committee Members:

James Brasseur, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Brasseur, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Eric G. Paterson, Outside Member
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Eric G. Paterson, Special Member

Author:

Jiang, Runkun

Title:

Design Strategies and Experimental Validation of High-Performance Logging-While-Drilling Piezocomposite Transducers

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

LWD acoustic transducer
COMSOL design and optimization
extreme-environment fabrication
transducer testing protocol

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Runkun_Jiang_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Qiming Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qiming Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Bernhard R. Tittmann, Outside Member

Author:

Rajashekhar, Adarsh

Title:

Pulsed-Laser Crystallization of Ferroelectric/Piezoelectric Oxide Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ferroelectric Thin Films
Piezoelectric Thin Films
Laser Annealing
Pulsed-Laser Heating
Pulsed Laser Deposition
Laser Crystallization
Integration with polymeric substrates
Low Substrate Temperature Processing
In situ Laser Annealing
PZT Thin Films

File:

Download Adarsh_Rajashekhar_PhD_Dissertation_Penn_State.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Outside Member

Author:

Kitt-Lewis, Erin Ann

Title:

Caregiving at the end of life: A discursive analysis of agency

Graduate Program:

Nursing

Keywords:

Discourse analysis
secondary analysis
qualitative
informal family caregiving
end of life

File:

Download Kitt-Lewis_Dissertation_3.23.17_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Janice Lee Penrod, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janice Lee Penrod, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Jayne Loeb, Committee Member
Susan G Strauss, Committee Member
Robert William Schrauf, Outside Member

Author:

Qiu, Yijun

Title:

Identification of Regions in Drosophila Spt5 That Are Involved in Promoter Proximal Pausing

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

transcription elongation
RNA polymerase II
promoter proximal pausing
Spt5
KOW domain
gene regulation

File:

Download Yijun_Qiu_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

David Scott Gilmour, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Scott Gilmour, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph C. Reese, Committee Member
Benjamin Franklin Pugh, Committee Member
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Outside Member
Song Tan, Committee Member

Author:

Masko, Jeffrey A

Title:

NEOLIBERAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF “WHITE MASCULINITY” IN CINEMATIC MEDIA - 1970-2015

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Keywords:

whiteness
masculinity
working class
film cycle
media studies
mass communications
Marxist communications
film theory
cinema studies
political subjectivities
bromance
reality television
romantic comedy
trucking films
film genre

File:

Download Masko-Jeffrey_Dissertation_Master_04162017.pdf

Committee Members:

Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kevin Hagopian, Committee Member
Matt McAllister, Committee Member
Greg Eghigian, Outside Member

Author:

Luthra, Tarun

Title:

Seismic Investigation of Sediments Beneath Antarctic Ice Streams

Graduate Program:

Earth Sciences

Keywords:

Glaciology
Ice Streams
Geophysics
Reflection seismology
geosciences
Antarctica
West Antarctic Ice Sheet

File:

Download Luthra_dissertation_17thApril.pdf

Committee Members:

Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
Byron Richard Parizek, Committee Member
Charles Holland, Outside Member

Author:

Motevalian, Seyed Pouria

Title:

Simulations of Reactive Species Transport in the Respiratory Tract

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Dosimetry Modeling
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Mass Trasnport
Respiratory Tract

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_Seyed_Pouria_Motevalian.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali Borhan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali Borhan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Member
James Ultman, Committee Member
Rebecca Bascom, Outside Member