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Author:

Safari, Maliheh

Title:

PERSISTENT VIRUSES IN PEPPERS: THEIR EVOLUTION AND BENEFICIAL EFFECTS

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology

Keywords:

Virus evolution
plant persistent viruses
Endornavirus
Partitivirus
aphid behavior

File:

Download MUS303-PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Marilyn J Roossinck, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marilyn J Roossinck, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cristina Rosa, Committee Member
David M. Geiser, Committee Member
Andrew G. Stephenson, Outside Member
Craig Eugene Cameron, Outside Member

Author:

Carroll, Samuel N

Title:

Managing Stable Waterways at Bridges in the Mid-Atlantic

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

stream crossings
stream stability
channel stability
bridge crossings
bridges
stream assessments

File:

Download CarrollSThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Peggy Johnson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Alfonso Mejia, Committee Member

Author:

Kakumanu, Akshay

Title:

COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING OF SEQUENCE FEATURES DRIVING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BINDING IN NEURONAL REPROGRAMMING

Graduate Program:

Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

discriminative features
transcription factor binding sites
DNaseI hypersensitive sites
motif discovery
cellular reprogramming
transcription factor binding
spinal motor neurons
Ngn2
Ascl1
Lhx3
Isl1

File:

Download AkshayKakumanu_Dissertation_FINAL_11_22_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Shaun A Mahony, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shaun A Mahony, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benjamin Franklin Pugh, Committee Member
Ross Cameron Hardison, Committee Member
Yu Zhang, Outside Member
Esteban O. Mazzoni, Committee Member

Author:

Zheng, Yuanxia

Title:

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION OF HIGH-K DIELECTRICS ON GERMANIUM AND TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDE

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Germanium
atomic layer deposition
transition metal dichalcoginide

File:

Download Yuanxia_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Roman Engel-Herbert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Committee Member
Adri van Duin, Committee Member
Adri van Duin, Outside Member

Author:

Dudhbhate, Gauravi Uday

Title:

AN API FOR AUTHOR NAME DISAMBIGUATION

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

API
Disambiguation
Author Name Disambiguation
Machine Learning
Web service information extraction
scholarly big data
Web service
information extraction
Web Service
Information Extraction
Random Forest
Clustering

File:

Download Dudhbhate-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Lee Giles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Leonard, Emma Jane

Title:

Explaining Violence in African Civil Wars: Sierra Leone and Liberia in Comparative Perspective

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Africa
Civil War
Violence against civilians
Sexual violence
Sierra Leone
Liberia

File:

Download Leonard_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

James A Piazza, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James A Piazza, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kidane Mengisteab, Committee Member
Douglas William Lemke, Committee Member
Kevin J Thomas, Outside Member
Donna L Bahry, Committee Member

Author:

Kitto, Lisa Dorene

Title:

EFFECT OF CORN PARTICLE SIZE MILLING ON BROILER, PULLET, AND LAYER GROWTH, PERFORMANCE, AND DIGESTIBILITY

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

poultry
corn particle
particle size
broiler
layer
pullet
digestibility
milling

File:

Download Kitto_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul H Patterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
R. Michael Hulet, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan L. Johnson, Committee Member
Gregory W. Roth, Committee Member

Author:

Wei, Wei

Title:

CHINESE AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT: THE ROLE OF NEIGHBORHOOD AND PARENTING

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Neighborhood
Chinese American
Parenting
Parental involvement in education
Achievement
Depressive Symptoms

File:

Download Wei_Master_thesis_2017_fianlsubmission.pdf

Committee Members:

Dawn Paula Witherspoon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kristin Ann Buss, Committee Member
Jose Angel Soto, Committee Member

Author:

Venkatesan, Umesh Meyyappan

Title:

Functional connectivity within posterolateral parietal cortex and its alteration in traumatic brain injury

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

traumatic brain injury
fmri
functional connectivity
resting state
graph theory
neuroplasticity
parietal
default mode
neuropsychology
TBI
frontoparietal

File:

Download UVenkatesan_Dissertation_formatrev-FINAL-12-17.pdf

Committee Members:

Frank Gerard Hillary, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Frank Gerard Hillary, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nancy Anne Coulter Dennis, Committee Member
Stephen Jeffrey Wilson, Committee Member
Charles Geier, Outside Member

Author:

Ross, Andrew Charles

Title:

Modeling the impacts of climate variability and change on circulation and salinity in Chesapeake and Delaware Bays

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

Chesapeake Bay
Delaware Bay
Tides
Climate change
Uncertainty

File:

Download AndrewRoss-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Raymond Najjar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raymond Najjar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Mann, Committee Member
David Titley, Committee Member
Klaus Keller, Outside Member
Ming Li, Special Member

Author:

Janis, Rebecca Ann

Title:

Prediction of Psychotherapy Treatment Utilization

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

psychotherapy
treatment utilization

File:

Download Rebecca_Janis_masters_thesis_final_formatting.pdf

Committee Members:

Louis Georges Castonguay, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Hayes, Committee Member
James Marshall Lebreton, Committee Member

Author:

Lin, Yu Chuan

Title:

PROPERTIES OF SYNTHETIC TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS AND HETEROSTRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Materials Science and Engineering
Thin Film Techniques
Material Process
Applied Physics
Electronic Materials
Two-dimensional Materials
Graphene
Transition Metal Dichalcogendies
Chemical Vapor Deposition
Surface Characterizations
Field-Effect Transistors
Diodes
Electrical Phenomena
Electronic Devices
Nanomaterials
Growth Mechanism
Proximity Effect
Atomically Thin Membranes
van der Waals Solids

File:

Download Yu-Chuan_Lin_Dissertation_Final_ver5.pdf

Committee Members:

Joshua Alexander Robinson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Md Amanul Haque, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Outside Member

Author:

Bray, Brandon A

Title:

Dyadic Interaction Patterns During Infancy and Early Childhood

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

dyadic interaction
parenting
dyadic regulation
Hidden Markov Model

File:

Download Brandon_Bray_Thesis_Final_Revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Ginger A Moore, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Pamela Marie Cole, Committee Member
Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Committee Member

Author:

Caldwell, Tierra Ajanai

Title:

Examining Multicultural Competence and Overall Satisfaction and Effectiveness in Clinical Supervision

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

Culture
Rehabilitation Counseling
Multicultural Competence
Multiculturual Supervision
Clinical Supervision
Competence

File:

Download Caldwell__T._Grad_School_Version_11.30.17._.pdf

Committee Members:

James Taylor Herbert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Taylor Herbert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jolynn Carney, Committee Member
Jason Elliott Gines, Committee Member
Catherine Augustine, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Yuqin

Title:

Lattice Structure: Modeling, Design, and Simulation

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Lattice structure
Homogeneous
Safety Factor
Truss

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sanjay Joshi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ross, Austin Joseph

Title:

A THERMODYNAMICS BASED GUIDE TO ADDING HF TO A NI-SUPERALLOY TO IMPROVE OXIDATION RESISTANCE

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Oxidation
Superalloys
Bond-coat
HfO2
Hafnium
external scale
TGO

File:

Download Austin-Dissertation-Final-v3.pdf

Committee Members:

Zi-Kui Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hojong Kim, Committee Member
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
Vincent Crespi, Outside Member

Author:

Ferreira F Sessim, Marina

Title:

MESOSCALE SIMULATIONS OF THERMAL TRANSPORT IN W-UO2 CERMET FUEL FOR NUCLEAR THERMAL PROPULSION

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
CERMET
Thermal Conductivity
Heat Conduction
Tungsten
Uranium Dioxide
W-UO2
Nuclear Fuel

File:

Download MarinaSessim-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Tonks, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Member
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member

Author:

Foley, Thomas Thomassen

Title:

Statistical Mechanics of Coarse-Graining

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Coarse-graining
Modeling
Renormalization
Statistical Mechanics
Gaussian Network Model
Complex Networks
Community Detection
Model Selection
Phase Transitions

File:

Download ThomasFoley.pdf

Committee Members:

William George Noid, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Reka Z Albert, Committee Member
Lu Bai, Committee Member
Lu Bai, Outside Member

Author:

Khayat, Zakariya Radwan

Title:

THE IMPACT OF IRON CONCENTRATION ON THE PROPERTIES OF AN ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED SOLID SOLUTION STRENGTHENED NICKEL BASE ALLOY

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Inconel 625
directed energy deposition
powder feedstock
Nickel base alloys
HIP
materials science
alloying elements

File:

Download KhayatZakariya_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Todd Palmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member
Jingjing Li, Committee Member

Author:

Davidson, Kimberly Marie

Title:

Testing an Interactionist Theory of Treatment Engagement in a Prison-Based Therapeutic Community

Graduate Program:

Criminology

Keywords:

substance use
therapeutic community
symbolic interactionism

File:

Download Davidson_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Kreager, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeremy Staff, Committee Member
Jeffery Ulmer, Committee Member

Author:

Yang, Xiyu

Title:

ENLARGED CORTICAL CELLS AND REDUCED CORTICAL CELL FILE NUMBER IMPROVE MAIZE GROWTH UNDER SUBOPTIMAL NITROGEN, PHOSPHORUS AND POTASSIUM AVAILABILITY

Graduate Program:

Horticulture

Keywords:

Zea mays
Root cortical cell size
Root cortical cell file number
Root cortical aerenchyma
Nutrient acquisition efficiency
SimRoot
Functional-structural
plant model

File:

Download Master_s_Thesis_-_Xiyu_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan Lynch, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katheleen Brown, Committee Member
Armen Kemanian, Committee Member
Tom Richard, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Wenpeng

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF IMPROVED ALGORITHMS FOR DETECTION OF JOINTS AND ESTIMATION OF ROCK STRENGTH IN ROCK STRUCTURES BY USING DRILLING PARAMETERS OF THE INSTRUMENTED ROOF BOLTER

Graduate Program:

Mining Engineering

Keywords:

Joint Detection
Rock Strength Estimation
Drilling Parameters
Roof Bolter
Pattern Recognition Algorithms
Wavelet Analysis
Ground Support Optimiztion
Ground Control
Composite Parameters
Mining Health and Safety
Roof Bolts

File:

Download PhD_THESIS-Wenpeng_Liu.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Jeremy M. Gernand, Committee Member
Asok Ray, Outside Member
Jamal Rostami, Special Member

Author:

Simon, Pierre Clement

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF A PHASE FIELD MODEL OF HYDRIDE MORPHOLOGY IN ZIRCONIUM ALLOY NUCLEAR FUEL CLADDING

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Zirconium
Zirconium Hydrides
Phase Field Model
Grand Potential Model
Modeling
Nuclear Material
Nuclear Engineering
MOOSE
Verification
Validation
Nuclear Fuel Cladding

File:

Download Simon-MS_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Arthur Thompson Motta, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael R. Tonks, Committee Member
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Sha

Title:

A PRIVACY-RESPECTING SYSTEM FOR MOBILE CAMERAS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

mobile cameras
privacy protection
Bluetooth
BLE broadcast
face matching

File:

Download Sha_Liu-Thesis-Graduation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member

Author:

Bandyopadhyay, Anindita

Title:

ONLINE LIVESTREAM CAMERA CALIBRATION FROM CROWD SCENE VIDEOS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

pedestrian detector
ground truth

File:

Download Anindita_Bandyopadhyay_MS_Thesis_CSE.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Chita Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Robert Collins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Rogers, Erica Morgan

Title:

PENNSYLVANIA POULTRY MANURE MASS, NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS, AND NUTRIENTS PER BIRD IN THE CHESAPEAKE BAY WATERSHED

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

Chesapeake Bay TMDL
Poultry Manure
Poultry Litter
Manure Nutrients
Litter Nutrients
Laying Pullets
Laying Hens
Broilers
Turkeys
Layer and Broiler Breeders

File:

Download Erica_Rogers_Final_Thesis_1.1.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Paul Patterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. R. Michael Hulet, Committee Member
Dr. Douglas Beegle, Committee Member

Author:

Kally, James Cameron

Title:

TOPOLOGICAL INSULATOR/MAGNETIC INSULATOR HETEROSTRUCTURES: SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Topological insulator
ferromagnetic insulator
MnAl

File:

Download J_Kally_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Member

Author:

Lei, Shiming

Title:

COUPLED PHENOMENA IN DOMAINS AND DOMAIN WALLS IN COMPLEX POLAR OXIDES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

domains
domain walls
complex oxides
polar
ferroelectrics
polar metals
magnetoelectric coupling

File:

Download Thesis_Shiming_20171001_v6.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Wenwu Cao, Committee Member
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Moses H. W. Chan, Outside Member
Thomas E. Mallouk, Committee Member
Zhiqiang Mao, Special Member

Author:

Doebler, William J

Title:

The Minimum Number of Ground Measurements Required for Narrow Sonic Boom Metric 90% Confidence Intervals

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

sonic boom
SCAMP
NASA
FAA
ICAO
confidence interval
metric
certification
noise
sound
supersonic
90% confidence interval

File:

Download Doebler_MS_thesis_rev10__.pdf

Committee Members:

Victor Ward Sparrow, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Carl Swanson, Committee Member
Stephen Thompson, Committee Member

Author:

Kotra, Jagadish Babu

Title:

HARDWARE SOFTWARE CO-DESIGN FOR OPTIMIZING MEMORY HIERARCHY IN MANY-CORE AND MULTI-SOCKET SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Hardware-software co-design
memory hierarchy
manycore processors
memory
caches

File:

Download Jagadish-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Member

Author:

Browning, Amelia Kathleen

Title:

PROJECT REDEMPTION: "THIS IS MORE THAN JUST A REDEMPTION CENTER"

Graduate Program:

Health Policy and Administration

Keywords:

vulnerable populations
informal workers
health status
health care access
informal economy
project redemption
wastepicker
canners
waste pickers
trash collectors
bottle bill

File:

Download browning_ameliaHPAMS.pdf

Committee Members:

Caprice Knapp, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lankes, Jane Louise

Title:

RELATIVE ASSETS AND CONFORMITY IN ATTITUDES: A TEST OF BARGAINING THEORY ON NEWLY MARRIED INDONESIAN WOMEN

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

bargaining theory
attitudes
identity
religion
Indonesia

File:

Download Lankes_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Kent Finke, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Valarie Elizabeth King, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nancy Kay Luke, Committee Member

Author:

Hantsoo, Kalev Griffin

Title:

Tracking the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the North Atlantic: A shelf-to-basin analysis with a terrain-following ocean model

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

biogeochemistry
Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum
ROMS
Regional Ocean Modeling System
Paleogene
Salisbury Embayment
ocean acidification
calcite saturation
paleoceanography
paleoclimatology

File:

Download hantsoo_pennstate_thesis_dec2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Lee Kump, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Kasting, Committee Member
Timothy Bralower, Committee Member
Bernd Haupt, Committee Member

Author:

Powell, Alexis A

Title:

THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION: AN ANALYSIS OF STUDY ABRAOD PROGRAMMING AT THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSIRTY AND THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

Higher Education
Internationalization
Study Abroad
Education
Experiential Learning
Enrollment
Participation Rates
Learning Outcomes

File:

Download Alexis_A._Powell_M.A._Thesis_EDTHP_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Maryellen Schaub, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David P Baker, Committee Member

Author:

Roostaeian, Yasaman

Title:

BRANDING LEED® TO MILLENNIALS : A CONSUMER-ORIENTED APPROACH TO THE MARKETING OF GREEN BUILDING CERTIFICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Architecture

Keywords:

Consumer-based brand equity
Marketing
LEED
USGBC
Millennials

File:

Download Branding_LEED_to_Millennials-_A_Thesis_by_Y._Roostaeian.pdf

Committee Members:

Ute Poerschke, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ralph Angelo Oliva, Committee Member
Loukas N Kalisperis, Committee Member
Lisa Domenica Iulo, Committee Member

Author:

Moriarty, Peter Mcphillps

Title:

The Acoustics of Emotion: Creation and Characterization of an Emotional Speech Database

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

affective prosody
emotion
speech
acoustics
voice
vocal tract
emotion recognition
voice production
communication
affect
prosody

File:

Download PMoriarty_Masters_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Michelle Celine Vigeant, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Pamela Marie Cole, Committee Member
Karl Martin Reichard, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Jiayi

Title:

PART DESIGN AND TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION FOR RAPID SAND AND INVESTMENT CASTING

Graduate Program:

Engineering Design

Keywords:

additive manufacturing
3D Sand Printing
material extrusion
topology optimization
rapid casting
sand casting
investment casting
cast part design

File:

Download JW_Masters_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilen, Committee Member

Author:

Ho, Chien Hsiu

Title:

Investigation of Beamed-Microwave Plasma Generation in Supersonic Flow

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Beamed-Energy propulsion
Beamed-Microwave
Plasma

File:

Download Master_thesis_Ho_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Matthew Micci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bennett, Heather Nicole

Title:

A TALE OF TWO DISTRICTS: HOW POLICY PERPETUATES AND PROLIFERATES DE FACTO SEGREGATION BETWEEN SUBURBAN SCHOOL DISTRICTS

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

Housing Policy
Education Policy
De Facto Segregation
Demographic Shifts
Metropolitan Fragementation
Suburban Jurisdictions
Zoning
Housing
Desegregation

File:

Download Heather_N._Bennett_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Erica Frankenberg, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erica Frankenberg, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Alexander Gamson, Committee Member
Maria M Lewis, Committee Member
Daniel L Letwin, Outside Member

Author:

Trampush, Sheila Marie

Title:

HOW LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS CAN ALTER THE PRESERVATION AND INTERPRETATION OF PALEOENVIRONMENTAL SIGNALS IN FLUVIODELTAIC ENVIRONMENTS

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

stratigraphy
geology
Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
autogenic sedimentation

File:

Download Trampush_dissertation_final_draft_2017_11_21.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth Ann Hajek, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Ann Hajek, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Lee Kump, Committee Member
Benjamin Adam Shaby, Outside Member

Author:

Gu, Xin

Title:

CHARACTERIZING STRUCTURE AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF SHALE PORES BY NEUTRON SCATTERING

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

neutron scattering
shale
weathering
microfracture
porosity
Marcellus shale

File:

Download PS-Thesis-Xin_20171105.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan L. Brantley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan L. Brantley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter J. Heaney, Committee Member
Terry Engelder, Committee Member
Jason Kaye, Outside Member

Author:

Feng, Simin

Title:

SYNTHESIS OF GRAPHENE AND TWO DIMENSIONAL TRANSITIONAL METAL DICHALCOGENIDES AND THEIR OPTICAL PROPERTIES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Two-dimensional materials
Graphene
Transition metal dichalcogenide
Raman spectroscopy
Graphene enhanced Raman scattering
Chemical vapor deposition

File:

Download thesis-Simin_Feng-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Outside Member

Author:

Rivera, Minerva

Title:

Survival of Acid-adapted Escherichia coli O157:H7 and non-O157:H7 Shiga Toxin-Producing E. coli (STEC) During Processing of Dry, Fermented Sausages

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

fermented sausages
E. coli O157:H7
non-O157 STEC
acid adaptation

File:

Download Rivera_Dissertation_Nov_2017_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Catherine Nettles Cutter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Catherine Nettles Cutter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward G Dudley, Committee Member
Sara Milillo, Committee Member
Jonathan Alexander Campbell, Outside Member

Author:

Talele, Nirupama Ramesh

Title:

Vulnerability Detection using Static Taint Analysis

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Static Taint Analysis
Authentication bypass
security vulnerabilities

File:

Download NirupamaTalele_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Trent Jaeger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Almudhhi, Turki Khalid

Title:

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF HEAT TRANSFER DURING QUENCHING OF A HEATED ROD

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Pool boiling
Heat transfer
Quenching
critical heat flux

File:

Download Almudhhi_Turki_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Fan-Bill B Cheung, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Adise, Shana

Title:

NEURAL MECHANISMS OF FOOD AND MONETARY REWARDS AND THEIR RELATION TO OVEREATING IN CHILDREN

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

fmri
decision-making
childhood obesity
obesity
eating behavior
reward
inhibitory control
reward processing
reward sensitivity
cognitive control

File:

Download Adise_dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Kathleen L. Keller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathleen L. Keller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles Geier, Committee Member
Barbara Jean Rolls, Committee Member
Corey White, Outside Member
Rebecca Corwin, Committee 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:

Jing, Shan

Title:

SCHOOL BULLYING: A STUDY OF RELATED FACTORS IN CHINA

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

School Bullying
Student Characteristics
China

File:

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Committee Members:

David Post, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Leininger, Sarah Elizabeth

Title:

Co-translationally folding proteins generate tensile forces that are determined by the stability and topology of the domain

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

tensile force
cotranslational folding

File:

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Committee Members:

Edward Patrick O'Brien Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William George Noid, Committee Member
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member

Author:

Feroz, Hasin Maksura

Title:

TRANSPORT KINETICS OF OPTOGENETICALLY RELEVANT MEMBRANE PROTEINS: PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Membrane protein
detergent
transport rate of opsins
vesicle/oocyte-based rate
extraction / purification
ultrafiltration

File:

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Committee Members:

Manish Kumar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Manish Kumar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Phillip E Savage, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Outside Member

Author:

Prakash, Keerti

Title:

MODELING FOR POLYMER/ CARBON NANOTUBE NANOCOMPOSITE TO ESTIMATE STRUCTURAL DAMPING IN A ROTOCRAFT BLADE

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

nanocomposite
damping
carbon nanotubes
interfacial slip
stick-slip
randomly oriented
rotor blade
rotorcraft

File:

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Committee Members:

Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles E Bakis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Fortiz, Victoria

Title:

OCEANIC ANOXIA EVENT 2 (93.9 MA) IN THE U.S. WESTERN INTERIOR SEAWAY: HIGH RESOLUTION CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL RECORD OF THE TROPIC SHALE FORMATION

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

OAE2; Calcareous nannofossils; Paleoclimate; Paleoceanography

File:

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Committee Members:

Timothy J. Bralower, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Michael A. Arthur, Committee Member

Author:

Marple, Daniel Robert

Title:

Understanding Lithium Plating in Lithium-Ion Batteries and Exploring Mitigation Strategies by Self-Heating

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Lithium ion battery
lithium plating
self-heating
low temperature
cycle life
pulse heating
large-format battery

File:

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Committee Members:

Chao-Yang Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chao-Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Outside Member

Author:

Gavazzi, Lia Michelle

Title:

Variation in Pisiform Growth-Plate Morphology

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

pisiform
growth plate
evolution and development
xenarthran
lorisine
forelimb
autopod

File:

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Committee Members:

Timothy Michael Ryan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip Reno, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

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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:

Bubash, Connie Kathleen

Title:

Contagious Texts Embodied: Melancholy Hermeneutics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

melancholy
contagion
self-help book
embodiment
the passions
medieval literature
early modern literature
Sidney
Shakespeare
Chaucer
Gower
therapeutic reading
vernacular medical treatise

File:

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Committee Members:

Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert R. Edwards, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Cheney, Committee Member
Mary Floyd-Wilson, Committee Member
Bradford Bouley, Outside Member

Author:

Nuckols, Lauren Elizabeth

Title:

On Beauty and Ambivalence: The Complexity of Aesthetic Experience

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Semiotics
Aesthetics
Beauty
Ambivalence
Ethics
Justice
Peirce
Pragmatism
Psychoanalytic Theory

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Committee Members:

Vincent Colapietro, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Colapietro, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Philip Christman, Committee Member
Sarah Clark Miller, Committee Member
Anne Carver Rose, Outside Member
John Philip Christman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Philip Christman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Mcdonald, Ashley

Title:

Understanding Family and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Risk for Internalizing and Externalizing in Adolescents: A Person-Centered Approach

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

socioeconomic disadvantage
adolescents
internalizing
externalizing

File:

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Committee Members:

Martha Ellen Wadsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dawn Paula Witherspoon, Committee Member
Bethany Cara Bray, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Gloria Bora

Title:

CITRATE-BASED BIOMATERIALS FOR NERVE TISSUE ENGINEERING AND BRAIN DRUG DELIVERY

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

citric acid
biomaterials
nerve tissue engineering
brain cancer
drug delivery

File:

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Committee Members:

Jian Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheng Dong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jian Yang, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Kevin Douglas Alloway, Outside Member

Author:

Gould, Timothy Walker

Title:

Coarse Woody Debris in Riparian Corridors of Central Pennsylvania: How Abundance, Characteristics, and Dynamics Vary with Anthropogenic Disturbance

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

ecology
coarse woody debris
riparian
disturbance
habitat quality

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert P Brooks, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan H Taylor, Committee Member
Michael Quinn Nassry, Committee Member

Author:

Baleshzar, Roksana

Title:

UNATENESS TESTING

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Sublinear-time algorithm
property testing
unateness
monotonicity

File:

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Committee Members:

Sofya Raskhodnikova, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Medvedev, Committee Member

Author:

Dick, David Avi

Title:

A New Metric to Predict Listener Envelopment Based On Spherical Microphone Array Measurements and Higher Order Ambisonic Reproductions

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

Concert hall acoustics
Architectural acoustics
Ambisonics
Spherical microphone array
Loudspeaker array
Listener envelopment

File:

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Committee Members:

Michelle Celine Vigeant, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michelle Celine Vigeant, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Allen Russell, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member
John F Doherty, Outside Member
Bill Rabinowitz, Special Member

Author:

Shahid, Saima

Title:

Discovery of endogenous plant small RNAs and their role in trans-species gene regulation

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

miRNA
siRNA
plant small RNAs
Amborella
Physcomitrella
Triphysaria
Cuscuta
Parasitic plants
trans-species gene regulation

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael Axtell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Axtell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Member
Gabriele Brigitte Monshausen, Committee Member
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Outside Member

Author:

Pandey, Shaileshachandra V

Title:

TECHNIQUES FOR DESIGNING MICROWAVE AND MILLIMETER WAVE ANTENNAS AND COMPONENTS USING ARTIFICIALLY ENGINEERED MATERIALS AND METASURFACES

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

FSS
Artificial Engineered material
Lens
Variable phase-shifter
Space-qualifiable Lens
Metal-only Reflectarray
Dielectric-only Reflectarray
DaD Lens
Dual-band Metal-only reflectarray

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. Raj Mittra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Ram Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Jim Breakall, Committee Member
Dr. MICHAEL T LANAGAN, Committee Member
Dr. MICHAEL T LANAGAN, Outside Member

Author:

Rathod, Yogesh

Title:

EVALUATION OF SEISMIC STRUCTURAL FRAGILITY METHODOLOGIES USING NON-STATIONARY SIMULATED GROUND MOTIONS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Fragility
IDA
Cloud Method
Softmax Regression

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Karamchandani, Neeraj

Title:

MUTATION BASED PROTOCOL FUZZER FOR IOT

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Fuzzer
Android Things
HomeKit
IoT
Internet of Things
Security of Internet of Things

File:

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Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chittlangia, Vedant Rajiv

Title:

Implementation of High FST Turbulent Kinetic Energy Diffusion Model in OpenFOAM Code for Simulation of Heat Transfer over a Gas Turbine Blade

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

turbulence
high FST
OpenFOAM
C3X
turbine blade
heat transfer
low reynolds number model
Launder Sharma model
diffusion

File:

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Committee Members:

Savas Yavuzkurt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Garrido, Carlos Oswaldo

Title:

Reasoning motivated by prejudice as a determinant of top-down influences on the face-processing system: An unexplored channel leading to outgroup bias

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

top-down influences
face-processing
cross-group impressions
visual perception
prejudice
stereotyping
categorization

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Committee Members:

Reginald B. Adams, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reginald B. Adams, Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephanie A. Shields, Committee Member
Jose A. Soto, Committee Member
Mary Beth Oliver, Outside Member

Author:

Yu, Shih Ying

Title:

Electron Microscopy and Analytical Spectroscopy of Silicon and Germanium Metalattices

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

3D artificial lattices
Inverse opal
Ordered nanostructures
Silicon
Germanium
Metalattice
Transmission electron microscopy
Electron energy loss spectroscopy
Electron tomography
Quantum confinement

File:

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Committee Members:

Suzanne E. Mohney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suzanne E. Mohney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John V. Badding, Committee Member
Chris Giebink, Committee Member
Nasim Alem, Outside Member

Author:

Moran, Peter L

Title:

The Evolution of the Legal Relationship between Penn State and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

higher education
governance
legal

File:

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Committee Members:

Neal Hutchens, Special Member
Dorothy Evensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fred Loomis, Committee Member
David S Guthrie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Hopsicker, Outside Member

Author:

Hagen, Lea May

Title:

Swift/UVOT Observations of Star Formation and Dust Attenuation in both Local and High Redshift Galaxies

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

star formation
dust
Swift
ultraviolet
UVOT
galaxies
astronomy
Small Magellanic Cloud
M33
M31

File:

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Committee Members:

Caryl Ann Gronwall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Caryl Ann Gronwall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Hiram Siegel, Committee Member
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Member
Sarah Elizabeth Shandera, Outside Member
John Andrew Nousek, Committee Member

Author:

Hagen, Alex Richard

Title:

A Study in Lyman-alpha

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Astronomy
Astrophysics

File:

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Committee Members:

Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Caryl Ann Gronwall, Committee Member
Sarah Elizabeth Shandera, Committee Member
Donald P Schneider, Outside Member

Author:

Joos, Celina Maria

Title:

The Role of Puberty in the Development of Coping

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

puberty
adolescence
stress
development of coping

File:

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Committee Members:

Martha Wadsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kristin Buss, Committee Member
Lorah Dorn, Committee Member

Author:

Jones, Quentin M

Title:

A Newly Discovered Compositional Approach to Birdsong: La Fauvette Passerinette of Olivier Messiaen

Graduate Program:

Music

Keywords:

Olivier Messiaen
Quentin Jones
Birdsong
La Fauvette Passerinette
Music theory

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. Vincent Benitez, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wen, Hang

Title:

CARBONATE DISSOLUTION IN POROUS AND FRACTURED MEDIA

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Upscaling
Mineral dissolution kinetics
Chemical weathering
Heterogeneous media
Reactive transport
Carbonate

File:

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Committee Members:

Li Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima T. Karpyn, Committee Member
Jeffrey R. S. Brownson, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Hanrath, Lily Savannah

Title:

MORE THAN JUST MONEY: HOW THE BAIL PROCESS CREATES UNINTENDED RACIAL DISPARITY

Graduate Program:

Criminology

Keywords:

Bail
Focal Concerns
Race
Pennsylvania
Judges
Disparity

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Todd Ulmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric P Baumer, Committee Member
Darrell J Steffensmeier, Committee Member

Author:

Vallee, Eric James

Title:

States of Insensibility: The Uncommon Sense of Perceptual Disorders in Antebellum Literature and Medicine

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

American Literature
African American Literature
Disability Studies
Literature and Science
History of Medicine
Insensibility
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Martin Delany
Oliver Wendell Holmes

File:

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Committee Members:

Christopher Dean Castiglia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Dean Castiglia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carla Mulford Conklin, Committee Member
Hester Maureen Blum, Committee Member
Jonathan Paul Eburne, Outside Member

Author:

Steiner, Troy Garrett

Title:

The Role of Expectations in the Encoding and Retrieval of Faces

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Face Memory
Encoding and Retrieval
Stereotypes
Expectations
Memory

File:

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Committee Members:

Reginald B. Adams, Jr. , Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Theresa K. Vescio , Committee Member
Nancy A. Dennis , Committee Member

Author:

Tang, Yin

Title:

HIDDEN RNA CODES REVEALED FROM THE PLANT IN VIVO RNA STRUCTUROME

Graduate Program:

Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

RNA structure
Arabidopsis thaliana
oryza sativa
high-throughput sequencing

File:

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Committee Members:

Sarah M. Assmann, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarah M. Assmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Anton Nekrutenko, Committee Member
Yu Zhang, Outside Member

Author:

Bishop, Derron Gary

Title:

FIGHTING FOR AN ORGANIZATION’S HEART: SELF-TRANSCENDENCE VALUES, MORAL EMOTIONS, AND COLLECTIVE VOICE

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

self-transcendence values
moral pride
moral elevation
gratitude
voice
collective action
grounded theory
self-transcendence values
moral pride
moral elevation
gratitude
voice
collective action
grounded theory

File:

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Committee Members:

Linda Klebe Treviño, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Linda Klebe Treviño, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis A. Gioia, Committee Member
Glen E. Kreiner, Committee Member
Margaret (Meg) Meloy, Outside Member

Author:

Kirk, Gerald

Title:

3D Printing of a Thermoset, Citrate Base Polymer

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

3D Printing
Additive Manufacturing
Citrate Base Polymers
Thermoset
Skin Scaffold
Tissue Engineering

File:

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Committee Members:

Jian Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor