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Author:

Sapelly, Laura Elizabeth

Title:

Pedagogies of Historical and Contemporary American Sewing Circles

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

sewing circle
united states
quilting
sewing
knitting
temperance
abolition
civil war
19th century
intergenerational
quilting bee
knitting group
sanitary commission
activism
textile activism
embroidery
sampler
colonial new england
antebellum
anti-slavery
needlework
social practice
philadelphia female antislavery society
US History
hand sewing
hand quilting
teaching
transformative learning theory
everyday ordinary aesthetics
living aesthetics
interracial
republican motherhood
cult of true womanhood
cult of domesticity
underground railroad
contraband relief association
slave quilting
authenticity
house slaves
gendered task assignment
slave seamstress
self-actualization
activist sewing circle
friendship quilts
american revolution
soldiers aid society
elizabeth keckley
WCTU
crusade quilt

File:

Download LauraSapellyDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yvonne Madelaine Gaudelius, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lu, Xin

Title:

Visual Characteristics for Computational Prediction of Aesthetics and Evoked Emotions

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Image Aesthetics Assessment
Emotion Prediction
Deep Learning

File:

Download phd_dissertation_xinlu.pdf

Committee Members:

James Z Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Z Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
Reginald Adams Jr., Committee Member
Michelle Gayle Newman, Committee Member
Jia Li, Committee Member

Author:

Rivers, Ariel N

Title:

Effects of Management on Arthropod Communities in Organic and Conservation Agricultural Systems in Pennsylvania and Mexico

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

cover crops
arthropods
organic agriculture
conservation agriculture
biological control
Mexico
reduced tillage
corn

File:

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Committee Members:

Mary Ellen Barbercheck, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edwin George Rajotte, Committee Member
John Frazier Tooker, Committee Member
William Curran, Committee Member

Author:

Folda, Tamara Sandra

Title:

Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of (-)-gilbertine

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

gilbertine
total synthesis
allenyl azide
cyclization cascade
photochemistry
indole alkaloid
organic

File:

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Committee Members:

Ken S Feldman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexander Thomas Radosevich, Committee Member
Przemyslaw Maslak, Committee Member
Joshua D Lambert, Committee Member

Author:

Sun, Tianyanxin

Title:

The Roles of Hippo Signaling Pathway in Mouse Ovarian Function

Graduate Program:

Physiology

Keywords:

Hippo Signaling
Follicular Development
Ovulation
YAP1
LATS1
Mouse

File:

Download Dissertation_Tian_Sun_20160413.pdf

Committee Members:

Francisco Javier Diaz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan Leslie Johnson, Committee Member
Kevin John Harvatine, Committee Member
Ramesh Ramachandran, Committee Member
Zhi Chun Lai, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Yuchao

Title:

acoustofluidics in biomedical applications

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Acoustic wave
Microfluidics
Biomedical applications
Cell separation

File:

Download Thesis_Yuchao_Chen_revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Bruce Gluckman, Committee Member
Siyang Zheng, Committee Member
Corina Stefania Drapaca, Committee Member

Author:

Poyton, Matthew Forrest

Title:

Metallomembranes: Characterizing Transition Metal Ion-Lipid Complexes

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Lipid Bilayers
Microfluidics
Lipid Oxidation
Fluorescence Quenching
Supported Lipid Bilayer Electrophoresis

File:

Download MattsThesisFromMacFinalApril5.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul S Cremer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tom Mallouk, Committee Member
Ayusman Sen, Committee Member
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member

Author:

Worley, Sarah Clare

Title:

Comparing the Coverage of Virtual Marches and Hacktivism Over Sixteen Years: A Qualitative Frame Analysis of News Discourse

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

hacktivism
virtual march
news discourse
framing
public sphere
public screen
online direct action tactic

File:

Download final_document_worley_diss_2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Robert Parsons, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Robert Parsons, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Elavsky, Committee Member
Michelle Rodino Colocino, Committee Member
John David Mccarthy, Committee Member

Author:

Biryukov, Sergei S

Title:

Complement and Antibody-mediated Enhancement of Red Blood Cell Invasion by Plasmodium falciparum

Graduate Program:

Microbiology and Immunology

Keywords:

Malaria
Complement
Plasmodium falciparum
Innate immunity
Erythrocytes

File:

Download Sergei_Biryukov_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose A Stoute, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Joseph Spector, Committee Member
Neil David Christensen, Committee Member
Todd Schell, Committee Member
Channe D Gowda, Committee Member

Author:

Chonde, Seifu John

Title:

A Methodology of Machine Learning in Automated Entity Summarization

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

text mining
network science
diversity
science of science
entity summarization

File:

Download SeifuChonde-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl Todd Mueller, Committee Member
Joey W Storer, Special Member
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Member
Paul M, Griffin, Committee Member
Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Committee Member