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Author:

Brawner, Thomas W

Title:

The Diffusion of Instability in Authoritarian Regimes

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Diffusion
Authoritarian Regimes
Democratic Transition
Regularization
Machine Learning
Prediction
Coups

File:

Download brawner_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donna Bahry, Committee Member
Bumba Mukherjee, Committee Member
Johannes Fedderke, Outside Member

Author:

Chindam, Chandraprakash

Title:

MULTIFUNCTIONAL PARYLENE-C MICROFIBROUS THIN FILMS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

microfibrous thin films
Parylene C
multifunctionality
microfibers
phononic crystals
photonic crystals
wettability

File:

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Committee Members:

Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Osama O. Awadelkarim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Committee Member
Michael T. Lanagan, Committee Member
M. Amanul Haque, Outside Member

Author:

Allaway, Heather Christina

Title:

THE ROLE OF URINE COLLECTION PROCEDURES AND NON-TRADITIONAL DXA MEASURES OF BODY COMPOSITION ON REPRODUCTIVE HORMONES

Graduate Program:

Physiology

Keywords:

Reproductive Health
Reduced Sample Collection Frequency
Combined Oral Contraception
Contraceptive Vaginal Ring
IGF-1 Generation Test
Functional Hypothalamic Amenorrhea
Resumption of Menses
Insulin-like Growth Factor-1
Estrone-1-Glucuronide
Pregnanediol Glucuronide
Body Composition
Dual X-Ray Absorptiometry

File:

Download Allaway_Dissertation_Final_Combined_3.29.2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Jane De Souza, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane De Souza, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nancy I. Williams, Committee Member
Connie J. Rogers, Committee Member
Lorah D. Dorn, Outside Member

Author:

Rohrer, Sheila Ann

Title:

Frontiers of Refinement: Border Crossings in the Early Republic Travel Narrative of Sally Hastings

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Early Republic
Women's studies
American Literature
Travel
Travel Narrative
American history
American West
Frontier
Early American history
Gender Studies

File:

Download Sheila_Rohrer_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Haddad, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Haddad, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anne A. Verplanck, Committee Member
Michael L. Barton, Committee Member
Mary Napoli, Outside Member

Author:

Podolsky, Michael Adam

Title:

Disparate Activation And Function of B Cells in Benign And Malignant Tumors of the Skin: Implications for Cancer Immunotherapy

Graduate Program:

Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Keywords:

Squamous Cell Carcinoma
B-Cell
CD40
T-Cell
Ras
Immunotherapy

File:

Download Michael_Podolsky_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Adam Glick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adam Glick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Na Xiong, Committee Member
Andrea Mastro, Committee Member
Connie Rogers, Outside Member

Author:

Gibbs, Eric Bryant

Title:

THE EFFECTS OF MULTI-SITE PHOSPHORYLATION ON THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE CARBOXYL-TERMINAL DOMAIN OF THE RNA POLYMERASE II LARGE SUBUNIT

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

IDP
RNAPII
CTD
Intrinsically Disordered Protein
NMR
SAXS
P-TEFb
Ssu72

File:

Download Eric_Bryant_Gibbs_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott A. Showalter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott A. Showalter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member
William G. Noid, Committee Member
David Gilmour, Outside Member

Author:

Mendoza Galvis, Sergio Andres

Title:

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON THE VALUE OF INFORMATION IN LITHIUM-ION BATTERY STATE AND PARAMETER ESTIMATION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

lithium ion batteries
identifiability
parameter identification
SOC estimation
optimal experiments
Fisher Analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Hosam Fathy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zoubeida Ounaies, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris Rahn, Committee Member
Donghai Wang, Committee Member
Constantino Lagoa, Outside Member

Author:

Weiss, Anne E

Title:

SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO?: EDUCATOR (MEMBER) RETENTION IN AN ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITY FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

teacher professional development
online learning communities
STEM education
retention
goodness-of-fit

File:

Download Weiss_Dissertation_Final_Version.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Kyle Peck, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Roger Geiger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. John Cheslock, Committee Member
N/A, Committee Member
Dr. Peggy Van Meter, Outside Member

Author:

Swenson, Eric R

Title:

VALUE-BASED PAYMENT IN TOTAL JOINT ARTHROPLASTY: A HEALTHCARE MARKET SEGMENTATION METHODOLOGY TO IMPROVE VALUE

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Healthcare Market Segmentation
Data Analytics
Total Joint Replacement
Value Based Payment

File:

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Committee Members:

Harriet B. Nembhard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harriet B. Nembhard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ravi Ravindran, Committee Member
Conrad Tucker, Committee Member
Naleef Fareed, Outside Member

Author:

Grossman Leopard, Jennifer Bernice

Title:

Student Organization Advising and its Impact on Individual Student Leaders, Student Organizations, and Student Organization Advisors

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

Student organizations
Student organization advisor
Student organization leader
Student affairs

File:

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Committee Members:

Neal Hutchens, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Neal Hutchens, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrea Dowhower, Committee Member
Margaret Lorah, Committee Member
Mindy Kornhaber, Outside Member

Author:

Khodayari, Ali

Title:

KINETIC MODELING IN GENOME-SCALE METABOLIC MODELS: PARAMETERIZATION AND STRAIN DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Kinetic modeling
Ensemble modeling
Model parameterization
Computational strain design
Succinate overproduction
Bilevel optimization

File:

Download Ali_Khodayari_thesis_01-26-2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D. Maranas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janna Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Howard Salis, Committee Member
Andrew Patterson, Outside Member

Author:

Wornell Seregow, Emily Joy

Title:

Immigrant Integration In New US Destinations: The Prevalence, Function, And Networks Of Informal Work

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

livelihood strategies
informal work
new immigrant destinations
immigrant assimilation
social networks

File:

Download Wornell__dissertation__final.pdf

Committee Members:

Leif Jensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leif Jensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ann R. Tickamyer, Committee Member
Shannon Monnat, Committee Member
Lise Nelson, Outside Member

Author:

Minkenberg, Bastian

Title:

MULTIPLEX TARGETED MUTATION AND ANALYSIS OF RICE MAP KINASE GENES WITH CRISPR/CAS9

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

genome-editing
CRISPR/Cas9
rice
Oryza sativa
off-target prediction
mitogen-activated protein kinases
essential genes
multi-gene family
multiplex

File:

Download Bastian_Minkenberg_PhD_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yinong Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yinong Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David R. Huff, Committee Member
Claude dePamphilis, Committee Member
Gabriele Monshausen, Outside Member

Author:

Mansor, Muammar

Title:

Isotopic and trace metal geochemistry of calcite, gypsum, and pyrite as proxies for ancient life and environments

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Achromatium
pyrite
Fe isotope
biosignature
sulfur isotope
molybdenum
biofilms
reactive transport modeling
gypsum
calcite

File:

Download Final_thesis_Muammar_revised_April2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Fantle, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher House, Committee Member
Christopher House, Committee Member
Li Li, Outside Member

Author:

Ayub, Ali

Title:

An Adaptive Markov Process for Deceptive Robotics

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Deception
Robotics
Probability Theory
HRI
Markov Process
Entropy

File:

Download PS-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Aldo Morales, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seth Wolpert, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amit Banerjee, Committee Member

Author:

Singh, Madhu

Title:

Density-based rescaled exponential model for gas-condensate reservoirs during boundary-dominated flow

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

density-based
rescaled exponential
gas-condensate
boundary dominated flow
variable bottomhole pressure
multiphase flow
analytical model

File:

Download MadhuSingh_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
John Yilin Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Murray, Alison Kristine

Title:

RESIDENT ATTITUDES TOWARD TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN A RURAL, AMENITY RICH AREA

Graduate Program:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management

Keywords:

Rural Tourism
Interactional field theory
Community development
amenity migration

File:

Download Murray_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Deborah Kerstetter, PhD, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Alan Graefe, PhD, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Andrew Mowen, PhD, Committee Member
Dr. Albert Luloff, PhD, Committee Member
Dr. Albert Luloff, PhD, Outside Member

Author:

Pitas, Nicholas A

Title:

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FUNDING FOR LOCAL PUBLIC PARK AND RECREATION SERVICES: ATTITUDES, IDEOLOGIES, AND VALUES

Graduate Program:

Recreation and Parks

Keywords:

Parks and recreation
Values
Ideology
Attitudes
Privatization

File:

Download Pitas_Revised_Dissertation_6.20.17.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Mowen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Mowen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan Graefe, Committee Member
B. Derrick Taff, Committee Member
Rama Radhakrishna, Outside Member
Benjamin Hickerson, Special Member

Author:

Liang, Shuang

Title:

SIMULATING THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, WILDFIRE AND FUEL TREATMENT ON SIERRA NEVADA FORESTS

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Sierra Nevada
Forest
Carbon
climate change
wildfire
modeling
LANDIS-II

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Ecology_Shuang_Liang_2017Spring_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew D. Hurteau, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew D. Hurteau, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Margot W. Kaye, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan H. Taylor, Committee Member
Katriona Shea, Outside Member

Author:

Raman, Balaji

Title:

DEPOSITION OF MAGNETITE IN HIGH TEMPERATURE BOILER ENVIRONMENTS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Deposition
fouling
magnetite
boilers
DLVO interaction energy

File:

Download Balaji_Raman-Dissertation-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Serguei N Lvov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Serguei N. Lvov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sarma V. Pisupati, Committee Member
Zuleima T. Karpyn, Committee Member
James Adair, Outside Member

Author:

BARBERI, DANIELA

Title:

RACIALIZATION OF CRIME: A TEST OF CITIZENSHIP STATUS ON CRIMINAL PERCEPTIONS

Graduate Program:

Criminal Justice

Keywords:

Racialization of crime
Racial prejudice
Citizenship
News
Contact theory
Gender

File:

Download Barberi___D._Master_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Eileen M. Ahlin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donald C. Hummer, Committee Member
Shaun L. Gabbidon, Committee Member

Author:

Welliver, Michele Carol

Title:

Sales Manager Perceptions of Employer Branding Strategies for Entry-level Salesperson Recruitment in Select Business-to-Business Companies

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

employer branding
salesperson recruitment

File:

Download Michele_Welliver_Dissertation_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. William J. Rothwell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. William J. Rothwell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Judith A. Kolb, Committee Member
Dr. Wesley Donahue, Committee Member
Dr. Glen Kreiner, Outside Member

Author:

Fukai, Hiroki

Title:

Theoretical Investigations of Partnership Turnover and of Money

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

partnership
turnover
money
essentiality of money

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Hiroki_Fukai.pdf

Committee Members:

Neil Wallace, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Neil Wallace, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Russell Cooper, Committee Member
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Member
Anthony Kwasnica, Outside Member

Author:

Laurent, Jean Emile

Title:

Cross-Functional Project Teams in Construction: A Case Study

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Integrated Project Delivery
IPD
Lean
Cross-functional teams
cross-functional project teams
cluster
case study
interviews

File:

Download Master_Thesis__-_Jean_Laurent_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert M. Leicht, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Riley, Committee Member
John R. Bechtel, Committee Member

Author:

Gutworth, Melissa Beth

Title:

Context for Creativity: Leader-Follower Fit and the Creative Process

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

creativity
leadership
mindsets
fit

File:

Download Dissertation_Final_Edits_3_22_17.pdf

Committee Members:

Samuel Hunter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Samuel Hunter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James LeBreton, Committee Member
Susan Mohammed, Committee Member
Linda K. Treviño, Outside Member

Author:

Ramcharan, Amanda Maria

Title:

Multidisciplinary Applications of U.S. Soils Datasets: Machine Learning Models, Data Mining, and Land Use Analyses

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

soil
machine learning
agroecosystem modeling
digital soil mapping
soil pedotransfer functions
random forest
data mining

File:

Download Ramcharan_Dissertation.4-12-17..pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas L. Richard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas L. Richard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Heather Gall, Committee Member
Douglas Miller, Committee Member
Tomislav Hengl, Outside Member

Author:

Fetter, Molly Elizabeth

Title:

EFFECTS OF AN EXTRUDED FLAXSEED SUPPLEMENT ON TRANSITION COW IMMUNE FUNCTION AND EFFECTS OF A METHANE INHIBITOR ON TRANSITION COW OVARIAN ACTIVITY

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

Dairy cattle
Transition period
Periparturient diseases
Flaxseed
Methane inhibitor
Negative energy balance (NEB)

File:

Download Fetter._Masters_Thesis._04.02.17.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Troy L. Ott, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Alauddin, Nursabrina Binti

Title:

From Dress Shoes to Flip-Flops: A Study on the Shifting of Imperialism and Cultural Identity in Malaysia

Graduate Program:

Humanities

Keywords:

Media imperialism
cultural identity
Hybridity
Hyperreality
Participatory Culture

File:

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Committee Members:

Nakho Kim, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

McCreary, Amber Dawn

Title:

INVESTIGATING AND TUNING THE PROPERTIES OF 2-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS VIA DOPING, STRAIN, AND OPTICAL TECHNIQUES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

two-dimensional materials
graphene
transition metal dichalcogenides
photoluminescence
Raman spectroscopy

File:

Download McCreary-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E. Mallouk, Committee Member
Eric Hudson, Committee Member
Joshua Robinson, Outside Member

Author:

Kottmeyer, Alexa Marie

Title:

The Role of Symbolic System in Relational Reasoning

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

Relational Reasoning
Analogy
Anomaly
Antinomy
Antithesis
Symbolic system
Factor analysis
multitrait-multimethod matrix

File:

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Committee Members:

Peggy Van Meter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonna Kulikowich, Committee Member

Author:

Kwon, Ki Bum

Title:

THE LONGITUDINAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE IN KOREAN COMPANIES

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

Human capital
Training and development investment
Financial performance
Latent growth modeling

File:

Download Kibum__Dissertation_Final_Updated.pdf

Committee Members:

David L. Passmore, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David L. Passmore, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William J. Rothwell, Committee Member
Wesley E. Donahue, Committee Member
Soo-yong Byun, Outside Member

Author:

Owiny, Sylvia A

Title:

Adult Education as a Strategy to Engage People-Centered Social Development in Uganda and Tanzania

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Adult Education
Uganda
Tanzania
Development
People-Centered Approach
Education in Africa

File:

Download Sylvia_Owiny_Dissertation_Final_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Ladislaus M. Semali, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ladislaus M. Semali, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fred Schied, Committee Member
Adnan Qayyum, Committee Member
Sinfree Makoni, Outside Member

Author:

Kamel Hedayat Abad, Mohammad Ehsan

Title:

INTEGRATION AND INTEROPERABILITY OF BUILDING ENVELOPE INFORMATION AND ENERGY MODELING

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Energy Modeling
Building Envelope Information
Building Information Modeling
Energy Smart Home
Building Energy Retrofit
gbXML
EnergyPlus
OpenStudio
BIM

File:

Download INTEGRATION_AND_INTEROPERABILITY_OF_BUILDING_ENVELOPE_INFORMATION_AND_ENERGY_MODELING.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali Memari, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali Memari, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Member
James Freihaut, Committee Member
José Duarte, Outside Member
David Riley, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Ruoxu

Title:

READING NEWS ON SMARTPHONES: HOW DO MOOD, MODALITY INTERACTIVITY, AND NEWS STORY LENGTH INFLUENCE USER ENGAGEMENT?

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

smartphone news reading
mood
modality interactivity
news story length
user engagment
persuasion
user experience
human computer interaction

File:

Download Wang_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michel M. Haigh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fuyuan Shen, Committee Member
Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Member
James Dillard, Outside Member
Michel M. Haigh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Vrana, Laura Elizabeth

Title:

Writing Transgressions: Publication Contexts and the Politics of Recognition in Contemporary Black Women's Poetry

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

African American literature
Poetry
Textual studies
American literature
Race
Critical race theory
Gender studies

File:

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Committee Members:

Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shirley Moody-Turner, Committee Member
Linda Ferguson Selzer, Committee Member
Judith Sierra-Rivera, Outside Member

Author:

Backer, Penina Miriam

Title:

Implications of Mother-Infant Dyadic Regulation for Emotion Self-Regulatory Development across Infancy

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

dyadic regulation
emotion regulation
infant-caregiver interaction
infant development

File:

Download Penina_s_Master_s_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Cynthia Stifter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory Fosco, Committee Member
Timothy Brick, Committee Member

Author:

Pardede, Fabiola Marella

Title:

TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF UTILIZATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE AS A HEAT TRANSFER MEDIUM FOR GEOTHERMAL ENERGY EXTRACTION IN INDONESIA BASED ON SIMULATION STUDIES

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

geothermal
carbon dioxide
supercritical
Indonesia
IGCC
utilization
sequestration
simulation

File:

Download Pardede_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Sarma Pisupati, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bhimanapati, Ganesh Rahul

Title:

Scalable Synthesis of Graphene Based Heterostructures and their use in Energy Sensing, Conversion and Storage

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

graphene
molybdenum disulfide
heterostructures
radiation
hydrogen evolution reactions
HERs
lithium ion batteries
LiBs
transition metal dichalcogenides
tungsten diselenide

File:

Download Final_Thesis_V2.pdf

Committee Members:

Joshua A Robinson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joshua A Robinson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Adair, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Outside Member

Author:

Flarend, Alice Marie

Title:

Identifying and Supporting Productive Collaborative Teacher Talk

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

science teaching
teacher professional development
teacher learning
teacher discourse

File:

Download Alice_Flarend_Dissertation_March_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott P. McDonald, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott P. McDonald, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephanie L. Knight, Committee Member
Julia Plummer, Committee Member
Susan Strauss, Outside Member

Author:

Fry, Richard Wayne

Title:

Data-Driven Decision-Making and the Challenges Facing Pennsylvania School Administrators, Compliance vs. Conviction

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

Data Driven Decision Making
Strategic Planning
Administrative Goal Setting

File:

Download Dissertation_Proposed_Manuscript_-170210final2.pdf

Committee Members:

Kai A. Schafft, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kai A. Schafft, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Marsha E. Modeste, Committee Member
Ed Fuller, Committee Member
Karen E. Eppley, Outside Member

Author:

Abraham, Michael

Title:

ENGINEERING OHMIC CONTACTS TO III-V, III-N AND 2D DICHALCOGENIDES: THE IMPACT OF ANNEALING AND SURFACE PREPARATION ON CONTACT RESISTANCE

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

MoS2
GaN
InGaAs
Ohmic contacts
surface preparation
annealing
alloyed
silver
TiAl
Ni
silicide
self-aligned
MoS2 FETs
intercalation
Nickel
Titanium Aluminum
GaN HEMTs

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_170507_MAbraham.pdf

Committee Members:

Suzanne E. Mohney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suzanne E. Mohney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
S. Ashok, Committee Member
Joan Redwing, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Member

Author:

Xie, Jinyu

Title:

INTELLIGENT ARTIFICIAL PANCREAS INCORPORATED WITH MEAL DETECTION SYSTEM AND RECOMMENDER SYSTEM FOR TYPE-1 DIABETES SELF-MANAGEMENT

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Diabetes
Type 1
Meal Detection
Estimation
Recommender System
Adaptive Control
System Identification
Insulin
Exercise
Kalman Filter

File:

Download PhD-Dissertation-Jinyu-Xie-03-09-2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Qian Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qian Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Bo Cheng, Committee Member
Peter Molenaar, Outside Member

Author:

Griffith, Kelly

Title:

Beating the Odds: A Multi-Site Case Study of College Preparation in Rural, Western New York

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

college preparation
college readiness
college access
qualitative research
rural schools
education policy
education reform

File:

Download Dissertation_KGriffith_FINAL_3.27.17.pdf

Committee Members:

Mindy L. Kornhaber, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mindy L. Kornhaber, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dana Mitra, Committee Member
Erica Frankenberg, Committee Member
Diane McLaughlin, Outside Member

Author:

Zheng, Xiaofei

Title:

STUDIES ON THE LOCAL TIMES OF DISCRETE-TIME STOCHASTIC PROCESSES

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

local time
discrete stochastic processes
discrete fractional Brownian motion
Mittag-Leffler distribution
Infinite ergodic theory
almost sure central limit theorem
pointwise dual ergodicity

File:

Download Xiaofei_Zheng-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Manfred Denker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Manfred Denker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alexei Novikov, Committee Member
Anna Mazzucato, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Outside Member

Author:

Miller, Simon W

Title:

Design as a Sequential Decision Process: A Method for Reducing Set Space Using Models to Bound Objectives

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

design
decision-making
sequential decision
bounding model
interval dominance
discriminatory
model
set-based design
fidelity

File:

Download SimonWMiller-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy W Simpson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy W Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Frecker, Committee Member
Michael A Yukish, Committee Member
Gordon Warn, Outside Member
Mark Traband, Committee Member

Author:

Gockley, Brian David

Title:

A Study of Faculty Teaching Activities at the Undergraduate Level

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

teaching activities
adoption rates
undergraduate teaching
faculty teaching
teaching surveys
pedagogy
teaching methods
teaching practices
activities
adoption
teaching
faculty
methods
practices

File:

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Committee Members:

Dorothy Evensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dorothy Evensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Cheslock, Committee Member
Leticia Oseguera, Committee Member
Kyle Peck, Outside Member

Author:

Hammett, Erin Elizabeth

Title:

TXT2STAYQUIT: A PILOT RANDOMIZED TRIAL OF BRIEF AUTOMATED SMOKING CESSATION TEXTING INTERVENTION FOR INPATIENT SMOKERS DISCHARGED FROM THE HOSPITAL

Graduate Program:

Public Health Sciences

Keywords:

smoking cessation

File:

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Committee Members:

Jonathan Foulds, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Sciamanna, Committee Member
Vernon Chinchilli, Committee Member

Author:

Mckinney, Samantha Rene

Title:

Investigation of food safety parameters for fermented semi-dry and dry sausage products

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

E. coli O157:H7
Salmonella
L. monocytogenes
fermented sausages

File:

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Committee Members:

Jonathan Campbell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Catherine Cutter, Committee Member
Nancy Ostiguy, Committee Member

Author:

Lindstrom, Rachel Anne

Title:

Biological Cohabiting Families and Adolescent Wellbeing

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Cohabitation
Family structure
Child wellbeing
Adolescence

File:

Download Rachel_Lindstrom_Dissertation_4-4-17_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Valarie King, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Valarie King, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Johnson, Committee Member
Molly Martin, Committee Member
David Eggebeen, Outside Member
Paul Amato, Special Member

Author:

Hoorn, Megan Elizabeth

Title:

“IF YOU USE YOUR AAC FROM THE BEGINNING OF A RELATIONSHIP, IT WILL BE NORMAL FOR YOU AND YOUR PARTNER, EVEN DURING SEX”: PEOPLE WHO USE AAC AND SEXUALITY

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Keywords:

sexuality
sex
AAC
augmentative and alternative communication
complex communication needs
speech-language pathology
disability
relationships

File:

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Committee Members:

Janice Light, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jessica Gosnell Caron, Committee Member