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Author:

Zhang, Yifan

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF FUNCTION AND REGULATORY MECHANISM OF GENES CONTROLLING TISSUE GROWTH IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

Graduate Program:

Genetics

Keywords:

growth control
cell apoptosis
ER stress
JNK signaling
Hippo signaling

File:

Download Yifan_Zhang_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhi-Chun Lai, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yanming Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Paulson, Committee Member
Richard W Ordway, Committee Member
Wendy Hanna-Rose, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Xiaomei

Title:

Efficient and Quality-Aware Data Access in Mobile Opportunistic Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Mobile Opportunistic Networks
Data Transmission
Transient Community
Truth Analysis
Mobile Crowdsourcing
Task Allocation
Mobile Opportunistic Networks
Social Networks
Data Transmission
Transient Community
Truth Analysis
Mobile Crowdsourcing
Task Allocation

File:

Download Xiaomei-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Zhang, Miao

Title:

ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIR PERFORMANCE DURING EARLY-TRANSIENT MULTI-PHASE FLOW CONDITIONS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Analytical Solution
Unconventional Reservoirs
Multiphase Flow

File:

Download PhD_dissertation_manuscript_MZhang_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Luis F. Ayala H., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Luis F. Ayala H., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima T. Karpyn, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Mathieu Stienon, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Qingtian

Title:

Uniqueness and singularities of weak solutions to some nonlinear wave equations

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Camassa-Holm
Singularity
Uniqueness
weak solution
p-system
variational wave equation
well-posedness

File:

Download Qingtian_Zhang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Alberto Bressan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alberto Bressan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chun Liu, Committee Member
Anna L Mazzucato, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Outside Member
Toan Nguyen, Committee Member
Yuxi Zheng, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yao

Title:

Mechanics in erythrocytes and multicellular structures

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

red blood cell
deformability
coarse-grained modeling
traction force
multicellular structures
epithelium dispersion

File:

Download YaoZhang_dissertation_2016.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

Author:

Zhang, Guangxuan

Title:

Making Sense of Conflict in Distributed Teams: A Design Science Approach

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Conflict
Design Science
CM2
Conflict Management System
Argument Detection
Text Mining
Machine Learning
Distributed Team
Open-source Software Development

File:

Download Dissertation_20161127.pdf

Committee Members:

Heng Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heng Xu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Zhenhui Li, Committee Member
Daniel Cardoso Llach, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Lu

Title:

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS OF MULTIVARIATE REGIME SWITCHING COVARIANCE MODEL

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

dynamic covariance
state space model
Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)
bayesian analysis
stochastic volatility
time series analysis

File:

Download Lu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Liechty, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Timothy Simin, Committee Member
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yao

Title:

RETINOIC ACID-INDUCED MAFB EXPRESSION DURING MYELOID CELL DIFFERENTIATION IN CULTURE AND BONE CHONDROGENESIS IN VIVO

Graduate Program:

Nutrition

Keywords:

chondrocytes
bone
THP-1 cells
transcription factor
retinoic acid
differentiation

File:

Download Dissertation_Yao_Zhang_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

A. Catharine Ross, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Penny Kris-Etherton, Committee Member
Okhee Han, Committee Member
Andrea M. Mastro, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Zhenzihao

Title:

Predicting Petrophysical Properties From Rate-Transient Data: An Artificial Intelligence Application

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Relative Permeability
Capillary Pressure
Permeability
Artificial Neural Network
Rate-Transient Data
Petrophysical Properties

File:

Download Dissertation_ZhenzihaoZhang_20170713.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Yilin Wang, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Ming Xiao, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Wenlin

Title:

Predicting molecular properties and phase behaviors for conjugated polymers

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Conjugated Polymers
Molecular Simulations

File:

Download WenlinZhang_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott Thomas Milner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Thomas Milner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Member
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Member
William George Noid, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Yuhe

Title:

Microscopic Study of Statistics, Spin and Excitons in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

FQHE
composite fermion
braid statistics
spin
exciton
microscopic study
Monte Carlo

File:

Download YuheZhang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Nathan David Gemelke, Committee Member
Ismaila Dabo, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Lei

Title:

Correlated metals as transparent conductors

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Transparent Conductors
Perovskite Oxide
Complex Oxide
Molecular Beam Epitaxy

File:

Download 170627_Lei_Zhang_Dissetation_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Roman Engel-Herbert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Outside Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yajie

Title:

Transmission Problems for Parabolic Equations and Applications to the Finite Element Method

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Well-posedness
Neumann-Neumann vertex
non-smooth interface
transmission problem
broken weighted Sobolev space
semigroup theory
finite element method with graded mesh

File:

Download psu_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Anna L Mazzucato, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anna L Mazzucato, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Victor Nistor, Committee Member
Kris Jenssen, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Jian

Title:

Development of Automated Neuro-Simulation Protocols for Pressure and Rate Transient Analysis Applications

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Neuro-Simulation
Machine Learning
Neural Network
Numerical Reservoir Simulation
Pressure Transient Analysis
Rate Transient Analysis

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Hongxuan

Title:

ALGEBRAIC MULTIGRID METHODS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Algebraic Multigrid
Numerical Linear Algebra
Numerical Analysis

File:

Download HongxuanZhang-Disseration.pdf

Committee Members:

Jinchao Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jinchao Xu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov, Committee Member
James Joseph Brannick, Committee Member
Yilin Wang, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Chenji

Title:

NOVEL OPTICAL DEVICES FOR BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPY

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Optics
Optical spectroscopy
Biomedical
Ultrafast Optics
Nonlinear Optics
Optical fiber
Optical imaging
Bio-sensing

File:

Download dissertation_Chenji_Zhang_finalversion.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhiwen Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Iam-Choon Khoo, Committee Member
Chris Giebink, Committee Member
Siyang Zheng, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Chenchen

Title:

EXPLORING NOVEL GLASS MICROFABRICATION TECHNIQUES FOR SENSOR APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

glass etching
on-chip glass microspherical shell
WGM resonator
glass microbubble ensulation

File:

Download Ph.D_thesis_Chenchen_Zhang_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Weihua Guan, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, 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:

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:

Zhang, Zhifeng

Title:

Modeling of fluid flow in capillary channels

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Capillary blockage
Constricted channel
Capillary exchange
Leaky channel
Droplet dynamics
Fluid mechanics
Thermodynamics
VEG method
Mathematical modeling

File:

Download Zhifeng_Zhang_Ph.D_thesis_Engineering_Science_and_Mechanics_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Corina Stefania Drapaca, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Corina Stefania Drapaca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Member
Christian Peco Regales, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Ruixing

Title:

Topological States in Solids: A Song of Symmetry and Interactions

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Symmetry Protected Topological State
Topological Crystalline Insulator
Topological Semimetal
Majorana Physics

File:

Download Ruixing_Zhang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chaoxing Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Moses H. W. Chan, Committee Member
Jason Ryder Morton, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Rui

Title:

Investigation of Pore Structure and Sorption Behavior for Unconventional Gas Reservoir Rocks

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

pore structure
adsorption
small-angle neutron scattering
coalbed methane
shale gas
unconventional natural gas

File:

Download PhD_dissertation_Rui_Zhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Outside Member
Lilin He, Special Member

Author:

Zhang, Kehao

Title:

LARGE SCALE SYNTHESIS, DOPING OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES AND THEIR HETEROSTRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

2D Materials
Synthesis
Doping
Heterostructures

File:

Download LARGE_SCALE_SYNTHESIS_DOPING_OF_TWO-DIMENSIONAL__2D__TRANSITION_METAL_DICHALCOGENIDES_AND_THEIR_HETEROSTRUCTURES_Kehao_Zhang_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Joshua Alexander Robinson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Jianxiao

Title:

Quantum Transport in two-dimensional topological systems

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Quantum transport
topological system
topological superconductor
Quantum anomalous Hall
Green's function

File:

Download JianxiaoZhang-Dissertation-Quantum_Transport_in_two-dimensional_topological_systems.pdf

Committee Members:

Chaoxing Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Moses H. W. Chan, Committee Member
Zi-Kui Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Haoyun

Title:

EXPLORING THE CONTRIBUTION OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS TO LANGUAGE PRODUCTION IN OLDER ADULTS

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Language production
Executive functions
Cognitive aging
fMRI

File:

Download Haoyun_Zhang_Dissertation_06102019.pdf

Committee Members:

Michele T. Diaz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michele T. Diaz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Judith F. Kroll, Committee Member
Koraly E. Perez-Edgar, Committee Member
Chaleece W. Sandberg, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Xiaotian

Title:

METALORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL LAYERED CHALCOGENIDES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Two-dimensional Materials
Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
2D Layered Chalcogenides
Chemical Vapor Deposition
Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition
Thin Film Deposition
2D Materials
CVD
MOCVD
WSe2
In2Se3

File:

Download Xiaotian_Zhang_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joan M. Redwing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joan M. Redwing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joshua A. Robinson, Committee Member
Thomas N. Jackson, Committee Member
Susan B. Sinnott, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Ying

Title:

A MULTI-LEVEL MIXED-EFFECTS MODEL FOR INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANT DATA META-ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Biostatistics

Keywords:

meta-analysis
individual participant data
longitudinal data
mixed-effects model
multi-level model
exponential family outcome

File:

Download Dissertation-Ying_Zhang_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vernon M. Chinchilli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vernon M. Chinchilli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lan Kong, Committee Member
David T. Mauger, Committee Member
Christopher N. Sciamanna, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Bo

Title:

Three essays on applied microeconomics

Graduate Program:

Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics

Keywords:

House Prices
Marriage Behaviors
Food Demand
Diet Quality
Budget Constraint
Time Constraint

File:

Download Thesis_Bo.pdf

Committee Members:

Douglas Harvey Wrenn, II, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Harvey Wrenn, II, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Jaenicke, Committee Member
Yizao Liu, Committee Member
Peter William Newberry, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Kaiqiang

Title:

THERMAL DECOMPOSITION MECHANISM OF AQUEOUS HYDROXYLAMMONIUM NITRATE

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Energetic Material
Computational Chemistry
Molecular Dynamics
Hydroxylammonium Nitrate
Thermal Decomposition

File:

Download HAN_decomposition_Dissertation_Kaiqiang_Zhang_V6.pdf

Committee Members:

Stefan Thynell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stefan Thynell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Michael Matthew Micci, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Ling

Title:

Procedures for Feature Screening and Interaction Identification in High-dimensional Data Modelling

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Sure Joint ScreeningFeature Screening
Interaction Identification
``King'' Variable
Interaction Types
Iteratively Kings' Forests
Feature Screening
Interaction Identification
Iteratively Kings' Forests
Sure Joint Screening
Cox Model

File:

Download Dissertation_of_Ling_Zhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Yanyuan Ma, Committee Member
Rongling Wu, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Bo

Title:

INTEGRATIVE OMICS FOR DISCOVERING NOVEL MECHANISMS OF IKAROS’ GENE REGULATORY FUNCTIONS IN LEUKEMIA

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics

Keywords:

Ikaros
Leukemia
omics
epigenetic regulation

File:

Download Dissertation_for_PhD_in_Boinformatics_and_Genomics_Bo_Zhang_funding.pdf

Committee Members:

James Riley Broach, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sinisa Dovat, Committee Member
Vladimir S Spiegelman, Committee Member
Ross Cameron Hardison, Outside Member
James Riley Broach, Program Head/Chair
James Riley Broach, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Feng Yue, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Feng Yue, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Zhang, Tian

Title:

THE APPLICATION OF DIELECTRIC AND ELECTROCALORIC COOLING DEVICES BASED ON DIELECTRIC POLYMERS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Dielectric
nanocomposite
electrocaloric

File:

Download Ph.D_thesis-Tian_Zhang_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Qiming Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qiming Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Fu

Title:

Defect Engineering of Two-Dimensional Electronically Functional Materials

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Two-dimensional materials
Material synthesis
Transmission electron microscopy
Defect engineering
Optical and electronic properties

File:

Download PhD_thesis_Fu_Zhang_final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan B Sinnott, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Wenlong

Title:

Carbon Nanotube Integrated Microdevices for Virus Enrichment And Detection

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Engineering

Keywords:

Infectious disease
Carbon nanotubes
Influenza
microdevice
nano martierials

File:

Download Dissertation_Wenlong_Zhang_Final_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Siyang Zheng, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Siyang Zheng, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pak Kin Wong, Committee Member
Jian Yang, Committee Member
Huaguang Lu, Outside Member
Daniel J Hayes, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Huiting

Title:

phylogenetic and functional studies on parasitism genes in Orobanchaceae and Convolulaceae

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Parasitic plants
cell wall
phylogenomics
transcriptome
molecular biology
host-induced-gene-silencing

File:

Download Huiting_Zhang_umi_agreement_papersub_submit.pdfDownload CertificateOfCompletion.pdfDownload Huiting_Zhang_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Claude Walker Depamphilis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Axtell, Committee Member
Charles T Anderson, Committee Member
Yinong Yang, Outside Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Wei

Title:

Finite Element Analysis and A Two-Stage Design Optimization Procedure of Multifield Origami-Inspired Structures

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

finite element analysis
design optimization
multifield origami
smart materials

File:

Download Dissertation_Wei_Zhang_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Zoubeida Ounaies, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zoubeida Ounaies, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paris R von Lockette, Committee Member
Timothy W. Simpson, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Outside Member
Mary I Frecker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary I Frecker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen Ann Thole, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Haibo

Title:

Optimizing Video Processing for Next-Generation Mobile Platforms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Mobile Platform
Video Processing
Memory
Caching

File:

Download HaiboZhang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Miaosi

Title:

Taken from Nature: Sino-British Medical Encounters in the Early Modern Period

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

cultural encounters
exotic remedies
botanical commodities
commodification of medicine
consuming experience
medical knowledge

File:

Download Taken_from_Nature__Miaosi_Zhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Chapin Beaver, Committee Member
Kathlene T Baldanza, Committee Member
Erica Fox Brindley, Outside Member
Michael Edward Kulikowski, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Likun

Title:

Topics on Statistical Inference for Extreme Values

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Global maximum
Profile likelihood
Noninformative
Objective Bayes
Asymptotic dependence
Censored likelihood

File:

Download Likun_s_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Benjamin Shaby, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin Shaby, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Lin Lin, Committee Member
Eric B Ford, Outside Member
Martin Tingley, Special Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Xiaoqiao

Title:

COMPARING TWO GENERATIONS OF CHINESE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS STUDYING IN THE UNITED STATES

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Keywords:

International Student
Chinese Student
Acculturation Stress
Generational Differnece
Social Support
Situated Learning

File:

Download Qiao_Dissertation_Final_07072020.pdf

Committee Members:

Adnan Qayyum, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adnan Qayyum, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Craig A. Campbell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roger C Shouse, Committee Member
Weifan Chen, Outside Member
Susan Mary Land, Program Head/Chair
Craig A. Campbell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Xinyang

Title:

Toward Secure Deep Learning Systems

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

deep learning
computer security
attack
defense
privacy

File:

Download Final_Thesis-85.pdf

Committee Members:

Ting Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ting Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xinyu Xing, Committee Member
Suhang Wang, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Outside Member
Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Special Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Kaixuan

Title:

A Representation-based Approach to Connect Regular Grammar and Deep Learning

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Deep Leaning
Regular Grammar
Adversarial Machine Learning
Model Extraction
Topological Analysis

File:

Download KZ_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Shomir Wilson, Major Field Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kenneth Huang, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Ningxiao

Title:

New Fabrication and Metrology Methods for Blazed, Radially-ruled Gratings

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics (PHD)

Keywords:

X-rays
accretion disks
absorption lines
quasars
diffraction grating
customized groove patter
period
mapping
metrology

File:

Download Thesis_NingxiaoZhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Douglas Cowen, Outside Unit & Field Member
Fabien Grise, Major Field Member
Michael Eracleous, Major Field Member
Randy McEntaffer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rebekah Ilene Dawson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Junxian

Title:

THE ROLE OF WRITING IN INTERNATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION STUDENTS’ LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction (PHD)

Keywords:

the role of writing
international undergraduate education students
learning experiences

File:

Download JunxianZhang-Dissertation-final_submission_file.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrea Vujan Mccloskey, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Suresh Canagarajah, Outside Unit & Field Member
Anne Whitney, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Charlotte Land, Major Field Member
Jamie Myers, Major Field Member

Author:

Zhang, Teng

Title:

An Improved Measurement of Cesium Ground State Tensor Polarizability

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Precision Measurement
Cold atoms

File:

Download TZhang_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
Mikael Rechtsman, Major Field Member
David Weiss, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joan Redwing, Outside Unit & Field Member
Martin Bojowald, Major Field Member

Author:

Zhang, Kaida

Title:

Essays on Market Competition with New Entrants

Graduate Program:

Economics (PHD)

Keywords:

Charter School
School Competition
Industrial Organization
Automobile
Moment Inequality

File:

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Committee Members:

Guangqing Chi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michael Gechter, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Marc Henry, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Kala Krishna, Major Field Member
Peter Newberry, Special Member
Paul Grieco, Major Field Member

Author:

Zhang, Yicheng

Title:

Studies of one-dimensional models of ultra-cold quantum gases

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

One-dimensional quantum many-body system
Ultracold quantum gas
Quantum entanglement
Generalized hydrodynamics
Emergent eigenstate solution
Generalized thermalization
Rapidity
Integrable model

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Committee Members:

Marcos Rigol, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Vincent Crespi, Major Field Member
Xiantao Li, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
David Weiss, Major Field Member

Author:

Zhang, Chen

Title:

Essays on identification in linear IV models

Graduate Program:

Economics (PHD)

Keywords:

linear IV regression
invalid instrument
set identification
Wald test
weak IV
Kronecker product
heteroskedasticity

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Committee Members:

Keisuke Hirano, Major Field Member
Patrik Guggenberger, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joris Pinkse, Major Field Member
Jingzhi Huang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Marc Henry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Xinyuan

Title:

Diet and nutrition in the progression of Parkinson disease

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Diet quality
Nutrition
Metabolomics
Parkinson disease
Epidemiology

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Committee Members:

Gregory C Shearer, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Penny Kris-Etherton, Major Field Member
Xiang Gao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Laila Al-Shaar, Outside Unit & Field Member
A Ross, Major Field Member
Alberto Ascherio, Special Member

Author:

Zhang, Wei

Title:

Nonlinear Poroelastic Solutions for the Pore Fluid Flow and Sorption in Deformable Rocks

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Adsorption
Poroelasticity
Nonlinear solution
Constitutive modeling
Geomechanics

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Committee Members:

Luis Ayala H, Major Field Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Major Field Member
Albert Segall, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amin Mehrabian, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mort Webster, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies