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Author:

Wang, Na

Title:

UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL APPLICATIONS' DATA PRACTICES AND PRIVACY NOTICES ON SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Third-party applications (apps)
information privacy
privacy notice and consent
privacy awareness and control
default settings
SNS

File:

Download Thesis-NaWang-07022018.pdf

Committee Members:

Heng Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lee, Younhee

Title:

University students’ school mathematics understanding and its growth in their learning of collegiate mathematics: Through the lens of a transformative transition framework

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Mathematical connections
Double discontinuity
Characteristics/qualities of mathematical understanding
Qualitative levels of mathematical understanding
Growth in mathematical understanding
Transformative transition
Teaching interview
Factorization
Polynomial equation
Unique factorization theorem
Prospective secondary mathematics teachers
Mathematics-intensive majors

File:

Download Younhee_Lee_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Kathleen Heid, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Depenbusch, Nathan Thomas

Title:

Development and Field Testing of an Autonomous Soaring System

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

autonomous soaring
aerial robotics
thermal soaring
soaring
unmanned aerial vehicle
UAV

File:

Download Depenbusch-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Sean N Brennan, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Outside Member

Author:

Erten, Sema

Title:

BROADBAND OPTICAL RESPONSES OF CHIRAL SCULPTURED THIN FILMS DEPOSITED ON PLANAR AND NON-PLANAR SUBSTRATES

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

chiral sculptured thin films

File:

Download SemaErten_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Dinesh Agrawal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Jian Xu, Committee Member
Dr. Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Committee Member
Dr. Thomas Mallouk, Outside Member

Author:

Gaskin, Byron Jerrod

Title:

Coupled biophysical simulations of cell-cell interaction and drug delivery microrobots

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

computational mechanics
personalized medicine
computational fluid dynamics
computational structural mechanics
biochemistry
fluid dynamics
solid mechanics
continuum mechanics
blood flow
blood cells
drug delivery
drug targeting
microrobotics
flowing bodies
hyperelasticity
rigid body motion

File:

Download BJG_PhD_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Francis Kunz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cheng Dong, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Robert Lee Campbell, Outside Member
Sean Michael Mcintyre, Special Member

Author:

Basu, Kaushik

Title:

Rigid Body Satellite Time-Optimal Attitude Control Using Inversion

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Time Optimal Control
Particle Swarm Optimization
Spacecraft Attitude Control
Pseudospectral Method
Rigid Body Dynamics

File:

Download Ko_Basu-Phd_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Robert Melton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Robert Melton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr David Spencer, Committee Member
Dr Joseph Horn, Committee Member
Dr Joseph Cusumano, Outside Member

Author:

Zaleski, Michelle

Title:

SALIR CONSIGO: JESUIT RHETORICAL EDUCATION IN INDIA, 1542-1623

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Jesuit
rhetorical education
india
translingualism

File:

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Committee Members:

Xiaoye You, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaoye You, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cheryl Glenn, Committee Member
Richard Doyle, Committee Member
Suresh Canagarajah, Outside Member

Author:

Premi, Amandeep

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADAPTIVE, MULTISCALE, NONLINEAR DISTURBANCE EQUATIONS SOLVER

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

NLDE
gust modeling
Transition
Pressure-velocity coupling
wavelets
multiscale
AMR
adaptive mesh refinement

File:

Download Thesis_apremi.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Mark D. Maughmer, Committee Member
Dr. Phillip J. Morris, Committee Member
Dr. Michael P. Kinzel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Michael P. Kinzel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amanda D Hanford, Outside Member

Author:

Li, Liwei

Title:

EFFECT OF HYSTERESIS AND HETEROGENEITY ON GAS FLOODING PERFORMANCE

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Enhanced oil recovery
Carbon storage
Gravity-enhanced process
Multiphase flow and hysteresis
Well injectivity

File:

Download Dissertation_Liwei_Li_VFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Russell T. Johns, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell T. Johns, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Kiser, Kathleen Anne

Title:

Art Integration: Exploring a Transdiscplinary Practice in Rural Art Education

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

: art integration
transdisciplinary
place-based
rural education

File:

Download KKiser_Dissertation_Final_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Kimberly Anne Powell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kimberly Anne Powell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine M Thompson, Committee Member
Mary Ann Stankiewicz, Committee Member
Scott P Mcdonald, Outside Member

Author:

Mostavi, Ehsan

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING INSTRUMENT IN DESIGNING OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Building energy performance
building design optimization
occupants' behavior
harmony search algorithm
building envelope design tool
multiobjective optimization

File:

Download Ehsan_Mostavi.pdf

Committee Members:

Somayeh Asadi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Somayeh Asadi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Freihaut, Committee Member
Lisa Domenica Iulo, Committee Member
Ute Poerschke, Outside Member
Chimay Anumba, Committee Member

Author:

Palmore, Christopher C

Title:

THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF CRIME: SELF-CONTROL, ALCOHOL USE, AND DISPUTE-RELATED VIOLENCE

Graduate Program:

Criminology

Keywords:

crime
opportunity
violence
routine activities
alcohol

File:

Download full_dissertation_4_palmore.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Felson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Felson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffery T. Ulmer, Committee Member
Corina Graif, Committee Member
H. Harrington Cleveland, Outside Member

Author:

Yuill, Matthew Buchanan

Title:

FUNCTIONAL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN OPIOIDS AND A CANNABINOID RECEPTOR 2 AGONIST IN INFLAMMATORY PAIN.

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

CB2R
morphine
pain
tolerance
formalin
JWH-133
opioid
cannabinoid agonist

File:

Download Yuill_Thesis_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel James Morgan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patricia Sue Grigson-Kennedy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert G Levenson, Committee Member
John Ellis, Committee Member
Jossee Guindon, Outside Member

Author:

James, Brittany L

Title:

Identifying predictors of success and valid measures of eating behavior and diet satisfaction in a portion-control weight loss trial

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

weight loss
obesity treatment
adults
eating behavior
diet

File:

Download Dissertation_BrittanyJames-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Barbara Jean Rolls, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barbara Jean Rolls, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Penny Margaret Kris-Etherton, Committee Member
Kathleen Loralee Keller, Committee Member
Eric Loken, Outside Member
Rena Wing, Special Member

Author:

Dhanker, Rijul

Title:

INJECTION AND BIPOLARONIC CHARGE SPECIES AT METAL-ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR CONTACT INTERFACES

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

injection
internal photoemission
surface plasmons
OMAR
Bipolarons
charge modulation spectroscopy
organic magentic field effects
organic semiconductors

File:

Download Dissertation_-_R_Dhanker.pdf

Committee Members:

Noel Christopher Giebink, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Xingjie Ni, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Outside Member

Author:

Panganiban, Ronaldo L

Title:

The Role of Posttranscriptional Regulation in the Pathogenesis of Allergic Asthma

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

postranscriptional regulation
tristetraprolin
miRNA
HuR
asthma
IL-13

File:

Download panganibanthesis2018final.pdf

Committee Members:

Faoud T Ishmael, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Faoud T Ishmael, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy John Craig, Committee Member
Judie Ann Howrylak, Committee Member
Aron Eliot Lukacher, Outside Member
Gregory Steven Yochum, Committee Member

Author:

Davidoff, Beth Ellen

Title:

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SPOKEN LANGUAGE INTERACTIONS OF YOUNG BEGINNING COMMUNICATORS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER AND THEIR MOTHERS: A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Keywords:

characteristics
spoken language interactions
beginning communicators
autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

File:

Download B_E_Davidoff_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Janice Catherine Light, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janice Catherine Light, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn D R Drager, Committee Member
Carol Anne Miller, Committee Member
Karen Lynn Miller, Outside Member

Author:

Mcfalls, Ashley Jane

Title:

The complex interplay of heroin, reward and gene expression

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

gene expression
heroin
reward devaluation
laterality
saccharin
self administration
environmental enrichment

File:

Download McFalls_dissertation_4.16.18.FINALv3.pdf

Committee Members:

Kent Eugene Vrana, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kent Eugene Vrana, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andras Hajnal, Committee Member
Patricia Sue Grigson-Kennedy, Committee Member
Kirsteen Nairn Browning, Outside Member

Author:

Lee, Sheng Hsun

Title:

Learning Chinese in and Beyond Study Abroad: Two Longitudinal Case Studies of Language Learning Processes

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

study abroad
Chinese
sociocultural theory
foreign language learning and teaching

File:

Download Dissertation-Final_Version-Sheng-Hsun_Lee.pdf

Committee Members:

Celeste S Kinginger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ning Yu, Committee Member
James Lantolf, Committee Member
Xiaoye You, Outside Member

Author:

Dahl, Julia L

Title:

Women's Under-Confidence and Men's Over-Confidence in STEM

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Gender
Longitudinal
STEM
Affirmation
Confidence

File:

Download Julia_Diss_Thesis__8_.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan Emdin Cook, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan Emdin Cook, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephanie A Shields, Committee Member
Melvin Michael Mark, Committee Member
Joshua Morrison Smyth, Outside Member

Author:

Hofstetter, Daniel William

Title:

MANURE PIT-SAFETY VENTILATION DESIGN INFLUENCE ON HYDROGEN SULFIDE GAS CONTAMINATION IN ATTACHED BARNS

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

manure pit-safety ventilation
hydrogen sulfide
barn air contamination
CFD
computational fluid dynamics
concentration scaling
transient gas measurement
ventilation simulation

File:

Download Hofstetter_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Virendra M. Puri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis J. Murphy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eileen E. Fabian, Committee Member
Harvey B. Manbeck, Committee Member
Justin K. Watson, Outside Member

Author:

Karamchandani, Apoorva

Title:

Microscale Mechanical Characterization for Macroscale Quality Assessment of Densified Biomass Assemblies

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

characterization
switchgrass
coordination number
contact area
pellet
diametral tensile strength

File:

Download Dissertation_AK_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Virendra M Puri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Virendra M Puri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jude Liu, Committee Member
Daniel Edward Ciolkosz, Committee Member
Md Amanul Haque, Outside Member
Hojae Yi, Special Member

Author:

Abraham, Yewande Sonayon

Title:

INTEGRATING OCCUPANT VALUES AND PREFERENCES WITH BUILDING SYSTEMS IN CONDITIONED ENVIRONMENTS

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Occupant values
Indoor Environmental Quality
Building energy consumption
Occupant behavior
Occupant comfort

File:

Download Dissertation_Yewande_Abraham_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Chimay Anumba, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Somayeh Asadi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Freihaut, Committee Member
Chimay Anumba, Committee Member
Conrad S Tucker, Outside Member
Lisa Domenica Iulo, Special Member
Nora El-Gohary, Special Member
Somayeh Asadi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Vashisth, Aniruddh

Title:

MULTI-SCALE CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELLING OF NANOSILICA REINFORCED CARBON/EPOXY COMPOSITES FOR FILAMENT WOUND STRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Ballistic impact
carbon epoxy composite
molecular dynamics
filament winding
nanosilica

File:

Download Phd_Thesis_Aniruddh_Vashisth_final_draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Charles E. Bakis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Charles E. Bakis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Clifford J. Lissenden, Committee Member
Dr. Kevin Koudela, Committee Member
Dr. Adri van Duin, Outside Member
Dr. Thomas Juska, Committee Member

Author:

Vitko, Lauren Frances

Title:

PREDICTIVE MAPPING OF SOIL RESTRICTIVE LAYERS USING TOPOGRAPHIC RELATIONSHIPS AND GEOPHYSICAL TOOLS

Graduate Program:

Soil Science

Keywords:

soil-landscape modeling
digital soil mapping
ground penetrating radar
electromagnetic induction
soil depletions

File:

Download Vitko_submitted_4_6_18.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Joseph Drohan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Joseph Drohan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Charles Stehouwer, Committee Member
Peter Kleinman, Committee Member
Douglas Alan Miller, Outside Member
James Hamlett, Outside Member
Anthony Buda, Special Member

Author:

Mrowczynski, Oliver D

Title:

Exosomes and their Implications in Glioblastoma

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

exosomes
glioblastoma
radiation
glioma stem cell
neuroblastoma
HFE

File:

Download Oliver_Mrowczynski_Thesis_Exosomes_and_Their_Implications_in_Glioblastoma__01042018_.pdf

Committee Members:

James Robert Connor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brad Zacharia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barbara Ann Miller, Committee Member
Jong Kak Yun, Committee Member
Achuthamangalam B Madhankumar, Outside Member

Author:

Rana, Sachin

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF AN ASSISTED HISTORY MATCHING AND UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION TOOL BASED ON GAUSSIAN PROCESSES PROXY MODELS AND VARIOGRAM BASED SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Assisted History Matching
Gaussian Processes
Sensitivity Analysis
Uncertainty Quantification
Bayesian Optimization

File:

Download Sachin_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gregory R King, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Jing Yang, Outside Member

Author:

Wei, Qiong

Title:

The role of cellular forces in regulating epithelial morphogenesis and drug delivery

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

cellular force
drug delivery
wound healing
epithelial morphogenesis

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Qiong_Wei.pdf

Committee Members:

Sulin Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sulin Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R. Tittmann, Committee Member
Patrick James Drew, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Outside Member
Yong Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Salimifard, Parichehr

Title:

Indoor aerosol sensing and resuspension dynamics

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Indoor air quality
Particulate matter
Particle resuspension
Indoor allergens
Bioaerosol
Dust mite
Cat fur
Dog fur
Pollen
Bacillus thuringiensis
Anthrax
Monodisperse particles
Low-cost sensor
Optical particle counter
Aerodynamic equivalent diameter
Sensor calibration.

File:

Download Parichehr_Salimifard_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Donghyun Rim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donghyun Rim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James D. Freihaut, Committee Member
William P. Bahnfleth, Committee Member
Rui Ni, Outside Member

Author:

Charepalli, Venkata Rohit

Title:

POLYPHENOL-RICH FOODS AS INHIBITORS OF COLON CANCER STEM CELLS

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

Cancer stem cells
polyphenols
purple-fleshed potatoes
cancer prevention
resveratrol
grape seed extract
β-catenin
colon cancer

File:

Download Dissertation_Charepalli.pdf

Committee Members:

Jairam Kp Vanamala, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jairam Kp Vanamala, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joshua D Lambert, Committee Member
Gregory Ray Ziegler, Committee Member
Mary J Kennett, Outside Member

Author:

Raposoda Silva De Castro E Cos, Eduardo

Title:

MANAGING COMPLEXITY IN MASS CUSTOMIZATION THROUGH DESIGN SPACE SUBDIVISION: A CASE STUDY IN CERAMIC TABLEWARE DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Architecture

Keywords:

mass customization
ceramic tableware
generative design systems
shape grammars
parametric modeling
digital fabrication

File:

Download castroecosta_phdDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose M Pinto Duarte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jose M Pinto Duarte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jose M Pinto Duarte, Committee Member
Loukas N Kalisperis, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Outside Member
Conrad S Tucker, Outside Member
Thomas Arthur Lauerman, Special Member
Joaquim Jorge, Special Member

Author:

Wu, Qian

Title:

COMMUNICATING EMOTIONS IN L2 CHINESE: A MIXED-METHODS MULTIPLE CASE STUDY OF AMERICAN LEARNERS OF CHINESE STUDYING ABROAD IN CHINA

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

study abroad
Chinese as a second language
emotion language
Vygotskian sociocultural theory
mixed-methods research
case study

File:

Download QianWu_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Celeste Kinginger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Celeste Kinginger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert W. Schrauf, Committee Member
Ning Yu, Committee Member
Mari Haneda, Outside Member

Author:

Enab, Khaled Ahmed

Title:

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK BASED DESIGN PROTOCOL FOR WAG IMPLEMENTATION IN CO2 INJECTION USING FISHBONE WELLS IN LOW PERMEABILITY Oil RESERVOIRS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Enhanced Oil Recovery
WAG
CO2 Injection
Unconventional Oil Reservoirs
Tight Oil Reservoirs
Artificial Neural Network
Machine Learning

File:

Download Khaled_Enab_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Member
Gregory R King, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Outside Member

Author:

Schall, Megan Victoria

Title:

A multidisciplinary approach to evaluating population status and disease dynamics of smallmouth bass

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

smallmouth bass
fish ecology
fish health

File:

Download Schall_dissertation_19_December_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Tyler Wagner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tyler Wagner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vicki S. Blazer, Committee Member
W. David Walter, Committee Member
Val Richard Beasley, Outside Member

Author:

Garbrick, Amy Hughes

Title:

Factors Influencing Student Engagement in an Online Asynchronous Discussion Forum Measured by Quantity, Quality, Survey, and Social Network Analysis

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology

Keywords:

Discussion Forum
Social Network Analysis
Push Notification
Engagement
Asynchronous
Distance Education
Modularity
Interaction
Mobile Apps
Technology
Learning Management Systems
Online Learning
Content Analysis

File:

Download dissertation_garbrick_03_08_18.pdf

Committee Members:

Roy Clariana, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roy Clariana, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kyle Peck, Committee Member
Simon Richard Hooper, Committee Member
Peter Kent Forster, Outside Member

Author:

Kramer, Adrienne Katherine

Title:

Defining Derecho Intensity and Impacts Through Physical Properties, FEMA Assistance, and an Emergency Management Impact Scale and GIS Response Tool

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

derecho
Northern Tier
FEMA assistance
GIS tool

File:

Download dissertChs_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Mark Carleton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Mark Carleton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Douglas Alan Miller, Committee Member
Robert George Crane, Committee Member
Yvette Pamela Richardson, Outside Member

Author:

Dodson, Brittany Lee

Title:

IT’S THE LITTLE THINGS: EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF BACTERIA ON MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUSES

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

mosquito
microbiome
bacteria
viruses
infectious diseases
wolbachia

File:

Download Dodson_Dissertation2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Jason Rasgon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jason Rasgon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Brian Thomas, Committee Member
Kelli Hoover, Committee Member
Marilyn J Roossinck, Outside Member

Author:

Fallon, Lochran Christopher

Title:

Myspedagogy: Applications of Mystherory in Secondary English and Language Arts Education and Teacher Education

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Teacher Education
Secondary Education
English Language Arts
Mystheory
Coherence
Inversion
Mys-
Semi-Actuality
Poststructuralism
Secondary English Education
Language Arts
English
Language Arts Education
Curriculum and Instruction
Education Philosophy
Education Theory
Myspedagogy

File:

Download Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Angiline Louisa Whitney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rose Mary Zbiek, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gail Louise Boldt, Committee Member
Jamie Myers, Committee Member
Charles Richard Garoian, Outside Member
Mari Haneda, Committee Member

Author:

Zhou, Yijing

Title:

Interactome analysis reveals ZNF804A, a schizophrenia risk gene, as a novel component of protein translational machinery critical for embryonic neurodevelopment

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

schizophrenia

File:

Download Dissertation_Yijing_Zhou_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Yingwei Mao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yingwei Mao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy J Jegla, Committee Member
Gong Chen, Committee Member
Wendy Hanna-Rose, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Yiou

Title:

OPTIMAL CONTROL, DIFFERENTIAL VARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES, AND THEIR APPLICATION TO TRAFFIC SCIENCE, REVENUE MANAGEMENT AND SUPPLY CHAINS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Optimal Control
DVI
DTA
Revenue Management
Supply Chain

File:

Download Yiou_Wang_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Terry L. Friesz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Terry L. Friesz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Uday V. Shanbhag, Committee Member
Alberto Bressan, Outside Member

Author:

Noel, Olivier Francois

Title:

BILE ACID SIGNALING AND THE REGULATION OF THE COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3 ALTERNATIVE ACTIVATION PATHWAY PROTEINS

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Bile acids
FXR
RYGB
Bariatric surgery
Complement pathway
Complement C3 Alternative pathway
Diabetes Mellitus
C5L2
ASP

File:

Download OlivierNoel_Thesis_RevisedFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

James Riley Broach, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Riley Broach, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Keith C Cheng, Committee Member
Charles H Lang, Committee Member
Diane M Thiboutot, Outside Member
Glenn S Gerhard, Special Member

Author:

Anderson, Cavil Sybil

Title:

HOW DOES ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE INFLUENCE COLLABORATIVE LEARNING AND INTEGRATED SERVICES IN THE NON-ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES IN THREE DIFFERENT TYPES OF UNIVERSITIES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: A MULTIPLE CASE STUDY

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

Organization Development
Change Management
Organizational Structure
Human Resources
Student Affairs
Organizational Silos
Training and Development
Higher Education Hierarchies
Boundaryless Organizational Structures
Cross-functional Structure
Collaboration

File:

Download Cavil_S_Anderson_Ph.D._Dessertation_01312018_.pdf

Committee Members:

William J. Rothwell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William J. Rothwell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cynthia Pellock, Committee Member
Wesley Edward Donahue, Committee Member
Nicole Sheree Webster, Outside Member

Author:

Black, Adam James

Title:

Characterization of the high-fat diet-induced effects on pre-mRNA alternative splicing in skeletal muscle: a focus on fatty acids and troponin T3

Graduate Program:

Physiology

Keywords:

alternative splicing
fatty acids
Tnnt3
high-fat diet
fast skeletal muscle troponin T
skeletal muscle
ceramide

File:

Download Black_dissertation_010318.pdf

Committee Members:

Scot R Kimball, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scot R Kimball, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leonard Shelton Jefferson Jr., Committee Member
Charles H Lang, Committee Member
Ralph Lauren Keil, Outside Member
Lisa M Shantz, Committee Member

Author:

Gamrat, Christopher Wagner

Title:

DIGITAL BADGING SYSTEMS AS A SET OF CULTURAL TOOLS FOR PERSONALIZED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology

Keywords:

digital badging
digital badges
teacher professional development
professional development
independent professional development
cultural tools
wayfinding
planning

File:

Download Gamrat_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Heather A Zimmerman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heather A Zimmerman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Mary Land, Committee Member
Kyle L Peck, Committee Member
Edward J Glantz, Outside Member

Author:

Ji, Xiaoyu

Title:

Semiconductor Fabrics and Single Crystal Fibers for Optoelectronic Applications

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Optical fiber
Silicon Photonics
Chemical vapor deposition
Laser crystallization
Crystal growth
Optoelectronics
Hydrogenated amorphous silicon
Photovoltaics
Flexible electronics

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_Xiaoyu_Ji.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suzanne E. Mohney, Committee Member
Joan M. Redwing, Committee Member
Zhi-Wen Liu, Outside Member
John V. Badding, Committee Member

Author:

Xu, Wei

Title:

Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Properties of Strongly-Interacting Bosons in Optical Lattices

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Optical Lattice
Path Integral Monte Carlo
Worm Algorithm
Lieb-Liniger Model
Tonks-Girardeau Gas
Bose-Hubbard Model
Fermionization
Quasicondensation
Inverse Confined Scattering Analysis
Ultracold Atoms
Condensed Matter Physics
Computational Physics

File:

Download Thesis_WX.pdf

Committee Members:

Marcos Antonio Rigol, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marcos Antonio Rigol, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Scott Weiss, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Outside Member

Author:

Kinsman, Brian J

Title:

HYPERTONIC SODIUM CHLORIDE SENSING BY THE ORGANUM VASCULOSUM OF THE LAMINA TERMINALIS

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

blood pressure
salt
NaCl
NaCl-sensing
osmoreceptor
sympathetic
hypothalamus
hypertension
salt-sensitive
sodium
ENaC
epithelial sodium channel
benzamil
OVLT

File:

Download KINSMAN_DISSERTATION_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Kirsteen Nairn Browning, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kirsteen Nairn Browning, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles H Lang, Committee Member
Urs Leuenberger, Committee Member
Leslie Joan Parent, Outside Member
Sean D. Stocker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sean D. Stocker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yang, Gang

Title:

Network Control and Damage Mitigation in Complex Networked System

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Network Control
Network Dynamics
Boolean Network
Damage Mitigation
Logical Modelling

File:

Download GangYang-Dissertation_20180109_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Réka Albert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Réka Albert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dezhe Jin, Committee Member
Tim Reluga, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Haitian

Title:

GROWTH AND FUNCTIONALITIES OF VANADATE THIN FILMS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Molecular beam epitaxy
Thin film
Strongly correlated oxides
Transition metal oxides
Metal to insulator transition
VO2
LaVO3

File:

Download HaiTian_Zhang_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Roman Engel-Herbert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Chris Giebink, Outside Member

Author:

Sarmiento, Daniel Perez

Title:

Urban land-surface impacts on atmospheric processes for Indianapolis, Indiana

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

Land-surface interactions
Urban meteorology
WRF

File:

Download Sarmiento_PhDDissertation_v3.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth James Davis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth James Davis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David R Stauffer, Committee Member
Fuqing Zhang, Committee Member
Andrew Mark Carleton, Outside Member

Author:

Kan, Chen

Title:

Dynamic Network Modeling and Analysis of Large-scale Internet of Things with Manufacturing and Healthcare Applications

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Internet of Things
Process monitoring
Dynamic network
Cardiovascular diseases
Parallel computing
Control chart
Statistical process control
ultraprecision machining
Medical automation
Smart and connected health

File:

Download Dissertation_ChenKan_20180105.pdf

Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hui Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Jingjing Li, Committee Member
Lin Lin, Outside Member

Author:

Falvo, Kathryn Rose

Title:

“Free Him Wholly from the Lusts of the Flesh Pots”: Vegetarianism and the Body in Nineteenth Century America

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

vegetarianism; nineteenth century; reform

File:

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Committee Members:

Lori D Ginzberg, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lori D Ginzberg, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Amy S Greenberg, Committee Member
Bryan Lee Mcdonald, Committee Member
Nancy A Tuana, Outside Member

Author:

Basile, Anna Okula

Title:

CONTINUING TO SEARCH FOR THE MISSING HERITABILITY USING BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED AND DATA-DRIVEN APPROACHES

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

human genetics
complex disease
machine learning
informatics
pattern recognition
rare variants
missing heritability

File:

Download Basile_PhD_Dissertation_Revisions_Final_022118.pdf

Committee Members:

Marylyn Deriggi Ritchie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marylyn Deriggi Ritchie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Santhosh Girirajan, Committee Member
Ross Cameron Hardison, Committee Member
George H Perry, Outside Member

Author:

Talalai, Gregory A

Title:

Theory of Electromagnetic Waves in Anisotropic, Magneto-Dielectric, Antenna Substrates

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Magnetic Materials
Antennas
Electromagnetic Theory

File:

Download Talalai-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

James Kenneth Breakall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Kenneth Breakall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Victor P Pasko, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member

Author:

Song, Sujin

Title:

MOTIVATION OF INTERNATIONALIZATION AND ITS OUTCOME IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY

Graduate Program:

Hospitality Management

Keywords:

Internationalization
Hospitality Industry
Upper Echelons Theory
Neoinstitutional Theory
Environment dimensions
Top Executives
Firm performance

File:

Download Dissertation_final_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Seoki Lee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seoki Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Amit Sharma, Committee Member
Anna S Mattila, Committee Member
Donald C Hambrick, Outside Member

Author:

Weinert, David J

Title:

BROADCASTING, THE FCC, AND PROGRAMMING REGULATION: A NEW DIRECTION IN INDECENCY ENFORCEMENT

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

Broadcasting
Enforcement
Federal Communications Commission
Indecency
Programming
Regulation

File:

Download DJW_PHD_Diss_MASTER.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert D. Richards, J.D., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert D. Richards, J.D., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert M. Frieden, J.D., Committee Member
Matt Jackson, Ph.D., Committee Member
Thomas M. Place, J.D., Outside Member

Author:

Lee, Sanghack

Title:

Causal Discovery from Relational Data: Theory and Practice

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Causality
Causal Model
Graphical Models
Relational Data
Relational Model

File:

Download sanghack-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clyde Lee Giles, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Haoshu

Title:

Critical Concentration of Lecithin Phospholipids Synergistically Improves the Antimicrobial Activity of Eugenol against Escherichia coli

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

lecithin
essential oil
e. coli
synergistic

File:

Download Final_dissertation-Haoshu_Zhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Federico Miguel Harte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Federico Miguel Harte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward G Dudley, Committee Member
John Neil Coupland, Committee Member
Yong Wang, Outside Member

Author:

Coffey, Alissa Ann

Title:

Sleep and Circadian Disruption as as Aspect of Opioid Addiction in Rats and Humans

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

Addiction
Sleep
Circadian rhythms
Opioids
Self-administration

File:

Download Final_Coffey_Dissertation_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Patricia Sue Grigson-Kennedy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patricia Sue Grigson-Kennedy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jidong Fang, Committee Member
Scott C Bunce, Committee Member
Kent Eugene Vrana, Outside Member

Author:

Lee, Chanyoung

Title:

A COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF BONE FORMATION IN THE CRANIAL VAULT USING A REACTION-DIFFUSION-STRAIN MODEL

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

computational morphogenesis
finite volume method
skull growth
developmental biology
mechanobiology
intramembranous ossification

File:

Download Thesis_Chanyoung_Lee.pdf

Committee Members:

Reuben H Kraft, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reuben H Kraft, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Zachary Moore, Committee Member
Jing Du, Committee Member
Joan Therese Richtsmeier, Outside Member

Author:

Chen, Yunsi

Title:

Three Essays on Demand Analysis with Food Spoilage

Graduate Program:

Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics

Keywords:

Demand Analysis
Food Waste
Shopping Frequency
Duration Analysis
Store Format Choice
Food Spoilage
Demand System

File:

Download Yunsi_Chen_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott J Colby, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott J Colby, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Jaenicke, Committee Member
Yizao Liu, Committee Member
M. Jeya Chandra, Outside Member

Author:

Seavers, Michael Lee

Title:

CITIZEN’S PERCEPTION AND USE OF GOVERNMENTAL TRANSPARENCY: EFFECTS ON CITIZEN TRUST AND PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT

Graduate Program:

Public Administration

Keywords:

Governmental transparency
Citizen trust
Citizen participation
Transparency

File:

Download Transparency_Dissertation_-_Michael_Seavers_-_Final_Version.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Jeremy F. Plant, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Steven A. Peterson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Stephen P. Schappe, Committee Member
Dr. Bing Ran, Committee Member
Dr. Neil Boyd, Outside Member

Author:

Riley, Elliot Jay

Title:

Application of Unidirectional Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced-Polymer Laminas in Circuit-Analog Absorbers

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Circuit-analog absorbers
Unidirectional carbon fiber
Radar-absorbing structures

File:

Download EJRDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
James Kenneth Breakall, Committee Member
Kevin L Koudela, Outside Member
Erik Henry Lenzing, Special Member

Author:

Garner, Timothy Joseph

Title:

Time-Domain Electromagnetic Scattering by Objects Moving Uniformly at Relativistic Speeds

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

scattering
relativity
forward-scattering theorem
electromagnetics

File:

Download Timothy_Garner_Dissertation_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

James K. Breakall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James K. Breakall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John D. Mathews, Committee Member
Ram Narayanan, Committee Member
Alexander Wolszczan, Outside Member
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Craig F. Bohren, Special Member

Author:

Xiong, Sihan

Title:

BAYESIAN NONPARAMETRIC MODELING OF CATEGORICAL DATA WITH APPLICATIONS TO DYNAMIC DATA-DRIVEN SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Bayesian nonparametric
Causal inference
Panel Data
Variational Inference
Sequential Classification
Information fusion

File:

Download thesis_submit.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Christopher D. Rahn, Committee Member
Mark Levi, Outside Member

Author:

Harper, Michael T

Title:

The Use of Sorghum, Oat, Wheat, Triticale, and Pearl Millet Silages in Lactating Dairy Cow Diets

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

forage brown midrib
dairy cow
sorghum silage
oat silage
wheat silage
triticale silage
pearl millet silage
forage
brown midrib

File:

Download MTH.Dissertation.SP2018.4_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Alexander Nikolov Hristov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexander Nikolov Hristov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gregory Wayne Roth, Committee Member
Kevin John Harvatine, Committee Member
Marvin H Hall, Outside Member

Author:

Aupperle, Anna Grace

Title:

Teen Queens and Adrenaline Dreams: A History of The CW Television Network

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

television history
The CW Television Network

File:

Download Aupperle_Dissertation_w_Formatting_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Paul Mcallister, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Robert Parsons, Committee Member
James Ford Risley, Committee Member
Gary Cross, Outside Member

Author:

Yang, Yi

Title:

Energy Optimization for Wireless Communications on Mobile Devices

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Wireless network
Energy optimization
Mobile devices

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Member

Author:

Harvey, Robert Jonathon

Title:

Evaluation of two Sustainable Practices for Plant Pathogen Eradication

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology

Keywords:

boxwood blight
plant pathology
Calonectria
mycology
constructed wetlands
composting
compost
eradication
ammonia

File:

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Committee Members:

John Andrew Pecchia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Andrew Pecchia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Michael Geiser, Committee Member
Maryann Victoria Bruns, Committee Member
Rachel Alice Brennan, Outside Member
Donald Durwood Davis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Srikrishnan, Vivek Anand

Title:

Markov-Switching Models for Probabilistic Solar Resource Assessment and Forecasting

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Solar resource assessment
solar forecasting
Bayesian statistics
Markov-switching models
probabilistic modeling

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Brownson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Spencer Young, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Committee Member
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Outside Member

Author:

Murillo, Lloydia Krystal

Title:

Conditions and Conceptualizations of Preschool Teachers' Use of Play in Two Belizean Classrooms

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Belizean education
Play pedagogy
Belizean preschool
Play perceptions
Cultural studies in education
Developmentally and culturally appropriate practice (DCAP)

File:

Download Krysta_Murillo_Dissertation2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. James E. Johnson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. James E. Johnson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Committee Member
Dr. Esther Prins, Committee Member
Dr. Allison Henward, Outside Member

Author:

Mealy, Todd Michael

Title:

WAR SEASONS: GLENN KILLINGER, SERVICE FOOTBALL, AND THE BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN HERO IN POSTWAR AMERICAN CULTURE

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Glenn Killinger
William Glenn Killinger
Penn State
Penn State Football
Penn State Basketball
Penn State Baseball
Million Dollar Infield
Killy
World War I
First World War
Pre-Flight School
Charlie Way
Hinkey Haines
Hugo Bezdek
American Heroes
Celebrities
Mass Media
Golden Age of Sports
Roaring Twenties
1920s
Walter Camp
Grantland Rice
Red Scare
Prohibition
Nittany Lions
Dutch Hermanns
Babe Ruth
Jim Thorpe
Harrisburg
Allison Hill
Harrisburg Technical School
Pop Warner
John Heisman
Popular Press
New York Yankees
Dickinson
West Chester
College Football Hall of Fame

File:

Download Mealy_Dissertation_-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles David Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Simon Bronner, Committee Member
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Raffy Reinaldo Luquis, Outside Member
Peter Jones Kareithi, Special Member

Author:

Luqiu, Lu Wei

Title:

State Propaganda and Counter-Propaganda: Two Case Studies on Nationalist Propaganda in Mainland China and Hong Kong

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

propaganda
China
Hong Kong
counter-propaganda
framing

File:

Download DissertationFinalPDF.pdf

Committee Members:

Bu Zhong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bu Zhong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Member
Patrick Robert Parsons, Committee Member
John David Mccarthy, Outside Member

Author:

Hulbert, Azalea Marie

Title:

Inspiring Integrity: An Exploration Of Academic Integrity Behaviors in Undergraduate Business Students

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

academic integrity
academic dishonesty
honor code
grounded theory
ethnography
higher education
academic honesty

File:

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Committee Members:

David S Guthrie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David S Guthrie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Jesse Cheslock, Committee Member
Karen Paulson, Committee Member
Glen Kreiner, Outside Member
Neal Hutchens, Special Member

Author:

Abu Bakr, Sarah W

Title:

Strange/rs Together: Arab Women Art, Displacement, and Narrative

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

Arab
Arab Women
contemporary art
Displacement
Palestine
Arab identity
Women of Color
Feminist Theory
Postcolonial
Decolonial
Women's Studies
Mona Hatoum
Ghada Amer
Ghadah Alkandari
Hanaa Malallah
Bahia Shehab
Muslim Women
Exile
Refugee
Death
Narrative Inquiry
Autobiography
Storytelling

File:

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Committee Members:

Karen Treat Keifer-Boyd, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Treat Keifer-Boyd, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles Richard Garoian, Committee Member
Kimberly Anne Powell, Committee Member
Gabeba Baderoon, Outside Member

Author:

Haydt, Shane Elliott

Title:

A Detailed Investigation of the Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer Related to Injection from a Compound Angled Shaped Film Cooling Hole

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

film cooling
heat transfer
fluid dynamics
gas turbines
turbomachinery
heat transfer augmentation
particle image velocimetry
ir thermography

File:

Download Shane_Haydt_-_Dissertation_v3.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen P Lynch, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline Antonia O'Connor, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Outside Member

Author:

Girard, Fanny Apine

Title:

INSIGHTS FROM LONG-TERM MONITORING OF DEEP-SEA CORAL COMMUNITIES IMPACTED BY THE DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILL

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Deep-sea corals
Octocoral
Image analysis
Monitoring
Resilience
Oil spill

File:

Download Thesis_FGirard_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles R. Fisher, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katriona Shea, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Todd C. LaJeunesse, Committee Member
Keith Shapiro, Committee Member
Keith Shapiro, Outside Member

Author:

Tang, Cheng

Title:

Progress Towards a Measurement of the Electron Electric Dipole Moment Using Cold Cesium

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Electron electric dipole moment
cold cesium

File:

Download CTang032918.pdf

Committee Members:

David Scott Weiss, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Scott Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nathan David Gemelke, Committee Member
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member

Author:

Kauffman, Justin A

Title:

An Overset Mesh Framework for the Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Overset Mesh Methods
Hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin
HDG
Finite Element Method
Pseudo-compressibility
Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian
Navier-Stokes
Elasticity

File:

Download Kauffman-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan S Pitt, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan S Pitt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Corina Stefania Drapaca, Committee Member
James Joseph Brannick, Outside Member
Scott Miller, Special Member

Author:

Verma, Shefali Setia

Title:

INVESTIGATING COMPUTATIONAL METHODS TO MODEL THE GENOTYPIC AND PHENOTYPIC COMPLEXITY OF ADVERSE HEALTH OUTCOMES: UNDERSTANDING UNDERCOVER HERITABILITY

Graduate Program:

Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

Association Studies
GWAS
Rare Variants
Common Variants
Epistasis
Genetic Etiology
Complex Traits
Heritability

File:

Download Shefali_Thesis_Revised_FinalETDVersion.pdf

Committee Members:

Marylyn Deriggi Ritchie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shaun A Mahony, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Committee Member
Cooduvalli S Shashikant, Committee Member
William S. Bush, Outside Member

Author:

Chae, Chungil

Title:

TYPOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE SHARING INTENTION IN MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES: CROSS-NATIONAL COMPARATIVE RESEARCH WITH LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

Knowledge Sharing
Latent Class Analysis
International Comparative Education

File:

Download ChungilChae-Dissertation-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

David Lynn Passmore, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kyle Peck, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Wesley Edward Donahue, Committee Member
Edgar P. Yoder, Committee Member
Seong Won Yoon, Outside Member

Author:

Lawless, Martin Stephen

Title:

Assessing the auditory and reward responses to room acoustics and music using functional magnetic resonance imaging

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

room acoustics
functional neuroimaging
music
concert hall
reverberation
psychoacoustics

File:

Download Lawless_-_Auditory_and_Reward_Response_to_Room_Acoustics_-_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Michelle Celine Vigeant, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michelle Celine Vigeant, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member
Daniel Allen Russell, Committee Member
Nanyin Zhang, Outside Member
Pamela Marie Cole, Outside Member
Charles Limb, Special Member

Author:

Achleitner, Stefan

Title:

SECURITY IN SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING - AN ANALYSIS OF NEW ATTACK AND DEFENSE VECTORS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Network Security
Software Defined Networking
Cyber Security
Computer Networks

File:

Download StefanAchleitner-PhD-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas F Laporta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Committee Member
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Outside Member

Author:

Mahdinia, Ehsan

Title:

VITAMIN K2 (MENAQUINONE-7) PRODUCTION BY BACILLUS SUBTILIS NATTO IN A BIOFILM REACTOR

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

MK-7
Menaquinone-7
Vitamin K
Biofilm reactor
Bacillus subtilis natto
Biofilm Reactor

File:

Download Ehsan-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali Demirci, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali Demirci, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Virendra M. Puri, Committee Member
Jeffrey M. Catchmark, Committee Member
Ryan J. Elias, Outside Member
Aydin Berenjian, Special Member

Author:

Snyder, Pamela Claire

Title:

Pedagogical Perspectives of Faculty Who Gamify: A Grounded Therory Approach

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

gamification
pedagogy
grounded theory

File:

Download Snyder__P_-_Dissertation_FINAL_DRAFT.pdf

Committee Members:

David S Guthrie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David S Guthrie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kevin Paul Kinser, Committee Member
Karen Paulson, Committee Member
Gabriela T Richard, Outside Member

Author:

Campbell, Angela Gale

Title:

Marriage and Health: Questions of Selection and Causality

Graduate Program:

Health Policy and Administration

Keywords:

marriage
selection
divorce
self-rated health
general health
disability

File:

Download ACampbell_Dissertation_revision_feb27_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Patricia Y Miranda-Hartsuff, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patricia Y Miranda-Hartsuff, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Marianne Messersmith Hillemeier, Committee Member
John Raymond Moran Jr., Committee Member
David R Johnson, Outside Member

Author:

Erchenko, Alena

Title:

Flexibility of some dynamical and geometric data

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

dynamical systems
geodesic flow
entropy
flexibility

File:

Download AErchenko_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Anatole Katok, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anatole Katok, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Federico Rodriguez Hertz, Committee Member
Alexei Novikov, Committee Member
Eric Hudson, Outside Member

Author:

Rui, Yue

Title:

BALANCING STRENGTH AND FLEXIBILITY: FUNCTIONAL ANALYSES OF GUARD CELL WALLS THAT UNDERLIE STOMATAL DEVELOPMENT AND DYNAMICS

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

stomata
plant cell walls
dynamics

File:

Download Yue_Rui_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles T Anderson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles T Anderson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sarah Mary Assmann, Committee Member
Gabriele Brigitte Monshausen, Committee Member
Virendra Puri, Outside Member

Author:

Yang, Manda

Title:

development of efficient modeling and diffusion control approaches of nonlinear spatially distributed processes

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

distributed parameter system
nonlinear control
model reduction

File:

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Committee Members:

Antonios Armaou, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Antonios Armaou, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Outside Member

Author:

Koch, Sandra Lynn

Title:

Variation in Human Hair Morphology and Microstructure

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

hair
microscopical analysis
forensic
anthropology
TEM

File:

Download Koch_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Nina G Jablonski, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nina G Jablonski, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Shriver, Committee Member
Timothy Michael Ryan, Committee Member
Joy Lee Pate, Outside Member
philip reno, Committee Member

Author:

Keller, Ross Richard

Title:

Elucidating Evolutionary Constraints of Mouse Mammary Cancer Using Adenomatous Polyposis Coli Mutations

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Cancer
Evolution
Genetics

File:

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Committee Members:

Edward Joseph Gunther, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Joseph Gunther, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kristin Ann Eckert, Committee Member
Lisa M Shantz, Committee Member
James Riley Broach, Outside Member
Sarah Bronson, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Yuchen

Title:

CONVERSION OF REACTIVE GLIA INTO FUNCTIONAL NEURONS AS A NOVEL THERAPY FOR STROKE

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

NeuroD1
ischemic injury
brain repair
astrocyte-to-neuron conversion
motor function

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_Yuchen_20180414.pdf

Committee Members:

Gong Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yingwei Mao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy J Jegla, Committee Member
Bernhard Luscher, Committee Member
Ian Alexander Simpson, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Wanyan

Title:

GENOMICS OF GENOTYPE-BY-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS IN SHRUB WILLOW (SALIX SPP.): INSECT HERBIVORY AND SOIL MICROBIOMES

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Bioenergy
Bioinformatics
Shrub Willow
Pest-resistance
Soil Microbiome
Genomics
Genotype-by-environment Interaction

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Wanyan_Wang.pdf

Committee Members:

John Edward Carlson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Edward Carlson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yinong Yang, Committee Member
Mary Ann Victoria Bruns, Committee Member
Surinder Chopra, Outside Member

Author:

Guan, Pinwen

Title:

Study of phase equilibria and defect chemistry of the Cu-Zn-Sn-S system from first-principles and computational thermodynamics towards photovoltaic applications

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Thermodynamics
DFT
CALPHAD
Solar materials
Defect
Semiconductors

File:

Download Pinwen-Thesis-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Zi-Kui Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zi-Kui Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
John B. Asbury, Outside Member
Vincent Crespi, Committee Member

Author:

Kislal, Orhan Memduh

Title:

Hardware-Aware Computation Reorganization for Memory Intensive Applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

memory
performance
compiler
approximate computing

File:

Download omk_diss_submit.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Conrad S Tucker, Outside Member

Author:

Karnezos, Julia Lb

Title:

THE EFFECT OF A CHECKLIST ON SCHOOL TEAMS’ PLANS FOR AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION ASSESSMENTS

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Keywords:

AAC
augmentative and alternative communication
assessment
school
checklist

File:

Download Karnezos_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Janice Catherine Light, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janice Catherine Light, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn D R Drager, Committee Member
Carol Anne Miller, Committee Member
David Brent Mcnaughton, Outside Member

Author:

Ferchaud, Arienne Marie

Title:

Binge and bingeability: The antecedents and consequences of binge watching behavior

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

binge watching
experiment
television
media effects
engagement

File:

Download Ferchaud_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Beth Oliver, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Committee Member
Fuyuan Shen, Committee Member
Anne M Hoag, Outside Member
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Wu, Yibo

Title:

Resource-Aware Crowdsourcing in Wireless Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Crowdsourcing
Mobile Devices
Photo
Video
Wireless Networks

File:

Download yibo_wu_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Collins, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Zhenhui Li, Outside Member

Author:

Ong, Yann Shiou

Title:

DEVELOPING SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS' EPISTEMIC PRACTICES THROUGH STUDENT-CENTERED CRITIQUE IN SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

epistemic practices
argumentation
productive disciplinary engagement
scientific inquiry
discourse analysis
critique
epistemic cognition
secondary school

File:

Download Dissertation_Final__YSO_.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Alan Duschl, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Alan Duschl, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Julia Diane Plummer, Committee Member
William Carlsen, Committee Member
Marcela Borge, Outside Member

Author:

Ruiz, Salvador

Title:

EFFECTS OF THE FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS CELERATION CHART ON DECISION MAKING FOR BOARD CERTIFIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSTS

Graduate Program:

Special Education

Keywords:

functional analysis
visual analysis
and functional analysis chart

File:

Download SR_Dissertation__032218.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard M. Kubina Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard M. Kubina Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles A. Hughes, Committee Member
Jonte Charez Taylor, Committee Member
David S Guthrie, Outside Member