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Author:: Qin, Jianqi
Title:: Numerical modeling of the inception, morphology and radio signals of sprites produced by lightning discharges with positive and negative polarity
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: Lightning
Sprites
Halo
Streamers
Inception
Morphology
Radio signals
Modeling
File:: Download QinPhD2013.pdf
Committee Members:: Victor P Pasko, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Victor P Pasko, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John David Mathews, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Deborah A Levin, Committee Member
Sebastien Celestin, Special Member

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Author:: Gleicher, Simone Claire
Title:: Turbulent Dispersion of Pathogenic Spores Within and Above a Maize Canopy: Field Experiments and Lagrangian Modeling
Graduate Program:: Meteorology
Keywords:: Canopy Turbulence
Turbulence
Spore Dispersal
Maize
Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Field Experiment
Lagrangian Modeling
File:: Download Gleicher_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Marcelo Chamecki, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Alan Isard, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jose Dolores Fuentes, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Nangia, Shivangi
Title:: Monte Carlo simulations of enzyme catalyzed single and multistep reactions
Graduate Program:: Chemistry
Keywords:: Monte Carlo
enzyme catalyzed reactions
activation energy
temperature
diffusion
colocalization
File:: Download Shivangi_Nangia_dissertation_final.pdf
Committee Members:: James Bernhard Anderson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member

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Author:: Orr, Leah Rose
Title:: Did the Novel Rise? Fiction and Print Culture in England, 1690-1730
Graduate Program:: English
Keywords:: Eighteenth-Century Fiction
the Novel
Book History
Print Culture
Textual Studies
Literary History
File:: Download Full_Draft_for_Final_Submission_2.pdf
Committee Members:: Robert Hume, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Hume, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Thomas Harwood, Committee Member
Laura Lunger Knoppers, Committee Member
John Philip Jenkins, Special Member

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Author:: Thiry, Elizabeth Ann
Title:: Scenario-based design of a digital reminiscing system for older adults
Graduate Program:: Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:: design guidelines
artifacts
memory
legacy
reminiscing
older adults
File:: Download ThiryDissertation-FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Mary Beth Rosson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Millar Carroll, Committee Member
Erika S Poole, Committee Member
Matthew Samuel Kaplan, Committee Member
Siân Lindley, Committee Member

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Author:: Magill, Clayton R
Title:: Molecular and isotopic perspectives on early human habitats at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: biomarker
isotope
evolution
Africa
biogeochemistry
File:: Download Magill2013_FinalDissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Katherine Haines Freeman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lee Kump, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
MARK E PATZKOWSKY, Committee Member
Nina G Jablonski, Committee Member

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Author:: Johnson, Brian
Title:: The Effects of Subconcussive Head Trauma in Athletics
Graduate Program:: Kinesiology
Keywords:: concussion
subconcussive
neuroimaging
File:: Download b_johnson_dissertation_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Semyon Slobounov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl Maxim Newell, Committee Member
Wayne Joseph Sebastianelli, Committee Member
Thomas Neuberger, Committee Member

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Author:: Liu, Xingjie
Title:: Social-enriched Data Analysis and Processing Tools
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Social Network Analysis
Recommendation System
Distributed System
File:: Download Xingjie-Dissertation-final.pdf
Committee Members:: Wang Chien Lee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Piotr Berman, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Jia Li, Committee Member

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Author:: Nelson, Shakira Melissa
Title:: The Essential Role of Selenoproteins on Macrophage phenotype switching in Helminth clearance
Graduate Program:: Pathobiology
Keywords:: Selenium
macrophages
helminths
PPARgamma
NSAIDS
small intestines
Nippostrongylus brasiliensis
File:: Download Dissertation_Nelson_FINAL_4.11.13.pdf
Committee Members:: Kumble Sandeep Prabhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kumble Sandeep Prabhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Margherita Teresa Anna Cantorna, Committee Member
Connie Jo Rogers, Committee Member
Pamela Hankey Giblin, Committee Member

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Author:: Park, Jihye
Title:: Phylogenomic Variations and Host Adaptations of the Classical Bordetellae
Graduate Program:: Integrative Biosciences
Keywords:: Bordetella
Genomes
Host adaptation
Bacterial diversity
Horizontal gene transfer
Virulence
File:: Download JihyePark_dissertation_FINAL.pdfDownload Appendix_B.xlsDownload Appendix_C.xlsDownload Appendix_I.xls
Committee Members:: Eric Thomas Harvill, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Thomas Harvill, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ross Cameron Hardison, Committee Member
Webb Colby Miller, Committee Member
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Committee Member
Edward G Dudley, Committee Member

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