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Author:

Ahmad, Aiman

Title:

INTRAOPERATIVE RADIOFREQUENCY HEATING DEVICE TO TREAT INFECTED METAL FRACTURE FIXATION IMPLANTS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Induction Heating of Metal Implants

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Committee Members:

Rick Ciocci, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Anilchandra Attaluri, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew R. Garner, Committee Member
Ma'Moun A. Abu Ayyad, Committee Member
Sheikh Fahad Ferdous, Committee Member

Author:

Alvarado, Charles

Title:

Exploring the Effects of Early Childhood Adversity and Sustained Attention on Reading Outcomes

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

Sustained Attention
Reading Comprehension
Achievement
Childhood Adversity

File:

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Committee Members:

Carlomagno Del Carmen Panlilio, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peggy Noel Van Meter, Committee Member
Matthew McCrudden, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Baik, Seung Yeon

Title:

The effects of worry and rumination on response to daily events in depression and generalized anxiety disorder: Application of the contrast avoidance model

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

generalized anxiety disorder
major depressive disorder
contrast avoidance
worry
rumination

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Committee Members:

Michelle Gayle Newman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Louis Georges Castonguay, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Jonathan Emdin Cook, Committee Member

Author:

Beyda, Sophia

Title:

The Impact of the Organizational Structure of Android Third Party Libraries

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Smartphone Privacy

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Trent Ray Jaeger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Syed Rafiul Hussain, Committee Member

Author:

Gundermann, Kathleen

Title:

Ungulate space-use and movement in response to changes in reproductive status and hunting pressure

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science (MS)

Keywords:

space-use
movement
ungulates

File:

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Committee Members:

Bradley Cardinale, Program Head/Chair
Frances E Buderman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Duane R Diefenbach, Committee Member

Author:

Hennessey, Gavin

Title:

Domain Wall Motion In Polycrystalline Ferroelectric Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Polarization
PFM
Grain Boundary
EBSD
Ferroelectrics
Domain Wall Motion
Nonlinearity
Rayleigh

File:

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Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier-Mc Kinstry, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jon-Paul Maria, Committee Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Darren C Pagan, Committee Member

Author:

Griffin, Megan

Title:

Growing Resistance: An Ecofeminist Analysis of Seed Sovereignty in Xoy, Yucatan

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology (MS)

Keywords:

agrobiodiversity
seed sovereignty
ecofeminism
science and technology studies
Yucatan
maize

File:

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Committee Members:

Kathleen J D Sexsmith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mariana J Ortega, Committee Member
Brian Thiede, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Robert Magneson Chiles, Committee Member
Leif Jensen, Committee Member

Author:

Isaacson, Ashley

Title:

Warmer and more variable temperatures influence both crop yield and weed seedbank longevity in a perennial forage system

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Environmental Plant Science (MS)

Keywords:

open-top chambers
climate change
perennial forage
forage production
weed seedbank
seedbank longevity
increased temperatures
weed seed mortality
alfalfa productivity
temperature fluctuations
winter injury

File:

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Committee Members:

Erin Connolly, Program Head/Chair
Carolyn Lowry, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John M Wallace, Committee Member
Richard Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Grosswiler, Kate

Title:

A U-Pb CA-ID-TIMS date (230.964 Ma ± 0.077 Ma) for the Maple Creek Gabbro, Wrangellia Large Igneous Province, Kluane Range, the Yukon

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (MS)

Keywords:

Wrangellia
zircon
CA-IDTIMS
large igneous province
carnian
triassic
extinction

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Committee Members:

Brian Kelley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Jesse R Reimink, Committee Member

Author:

Gonzalez, Cristina

Title:

How do new safety practices contribute to service workers' turnover intentions? A Self-Determination perspective

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

COVID-19
Turnover Intention
Service Work
Safety Climate
Autonomy

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Committee Members:

Alicia Ann Grandey, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Gasper, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Hanyi Min, Committee Member

Author:

Hagopian, Victoria

Title:

Updates to the Godiva-IV Model with Experimental Improvements to K-eff Values

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Godiva IV
k-eff
ICSBEP Benchmark
MCNP
ENDF/B-VII.1
ENDF/B-VIII.0
HEU-MET-FAST-086

File:

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Committee Members:

Leigh Winfrey, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jean Paul Allain, Program Head/Chair
Xing Wang, Committee Member
Arthur Thompson Motta, Special Signatory

Author:

Watson, Nate

Title:

Concrete Additive Manufacturing System Design for Earth and Mars

Graduate Program:

Additive Manufacturing and Design

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
3D Printing
concrete
additive construction
robot
mars

File:

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Committee Members:

Sven G Bilen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicholas Alexander Meisel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy W. Simpson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Goodling, Devin

Title:

Compositional Dependence of Ferroelectric Properties in Thin Film Zn1-xMgxO

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

ZnO
ferroelectric
ZnMgO
RF sputtering

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Committee Members:

Jon-Paul Maria, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Mokhtar, Yossra Maged

Title:

Trace Metals Concentrations in Dust from Gravel Roads Treated with Oil and Gas Produced Water

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Oil and gas produced water
Radium
Lead
Dust suppression
Trace metals
Unpaved roads
Beneficial reuse
OGPW
Gravel roads

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Committee Members:

Nathaniel Richard Warner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William D Burgos, Committee Member
Jay Regan, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Khatri, Ashutosh Anand

Title:

EFFECTS OF BREAST CANCER-RELATED LYMPHEDEMA ON SHOULDER MOMENT GENERATION: A MODEL BASED ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Lymphedema
Biomechanics
WISER Trial
ANSUR2
BCRL
Shoulder Moment
Shoulder Injuries
OpenSim
joint mechanics

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Committee Members:

Meghan Vidt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Spencer Szczesny, Committee Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
Matt Parkinson, Committee Member

Author:

Dong, Yicheng

Title:

Exploring The Migration of CAR-Jurkat cells Expressing MicroRNA in an In Vitro Blood-Brain Barrier Model

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

In vitro BBB model
Glioblastoma
CAR-Jurkat cell
Cell Migration

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Committee Members:

Cheng Dong, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel J Hayes, Committee Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
Justin R Pritchard, Committee Member

Author:

Joshi, Deeksha

Title:

Transformer based semi-supervised learning for misinformation classification

Graduate Program:

Data Analytics (MS)

Keywords:

Machine learning
Transformers
NLP
Semi-supervised learning
Label Propagation
Label Spreading
DistillBERT
Misinformation Classification

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Committee Members:

Raghu Sangwan, Program Head/Chair
Youakim Badr, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adrian Sorin Barb, Committee Member

Author:

Mishra, Ankush

Title:

mmCaliper: High resolution sensing of distances using mmWave Radars

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

wireless sensing
radars
high-resolution
waves
chirps

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Committee Members:

Mahanth Gowda, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Abutalib Aghayev, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Niu, Zhenyuan

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF PVA MICRONEEDLE FABRICATION TECHNIQUES AND THEIR POSSIBLE INTEGRATION WITH LASER INDUCED GRAPHENE FOR GLUCOSE SENSING

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Microneedle
Wearable Device
Electrochemical
PVA
noninvasive glucose sensor

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Committee Members:

Larry Cheng, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jian Hsu, Committee Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Sahin K Ozdemir, Committee Member

Author:

Kannan, Adithya Krishnan

Title:

OPTIMIZING PRIVACY PRESERVING NEURAL NETWORKS EMPLOYING HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Privacy Preserving Machine Learning
Homomorphic Neural Networks

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member

Author:

Alves, Joelson

Title:

Recovery of Base and Precious Metals from Waste Printed Circuit Boards

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

E-Waste
Recycling
Physical Separation
WPCB
Metals
Liberation
Characterization

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeremy Gernand, Program Head/Chair
Mohammad Rezaee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barbara J Arnold, Committee Member
Sarma V Pisupati, Committee Member

Author:

Hur, Keon Wong

Title:

Studies on the acoustic far-field distance of urban air mobility aircraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Multirotor
UAM
sUAS
eVTOL
Aeroacoustic
Far-field
OpenVSP
VSP2WOPWOP
CHARM
PSU-WOPWOP
Noise prediction

File:

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Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Greenwood, Committee Member
James George Coder, Committee Member

Author:

Ibasitas, Matthew

Title:

Application of Thrust-Drag and Power Balance Accounting to a Canonical Boundary Layer Ingesting Configuration

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Boundary Layer
Boundary Layer Ingestion
Ingestion
CFD
Fluid Dynamics
Canonical
Canonical Configuration
Power balance
Performance accounting
Thrust
drag
bookkeeping
performance bookkeeping
accounting
exergy
exergy analysis
exergy accounting
accounting system
performance accounting system
interference drag
dissipation
propulsion system integration
propulsion airframe interaction
interaction effects
BLI
ingestion

File:

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Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
David K Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Mark A Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Ostasz, Mateusz

Title:

Computational Design Approach for Microchannel Cold Plate cooled with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Carbon Dioxide
Cold Plate
Optimization
Heat Transfer
Thermal Management

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Alexander S Rattner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bladimir Ramos Alvarado, Committee Member

Author:

Stimson, Emily

Title:

An Experimental Exploration Study of Acoustic Black Holes in Thick Plates

Graduate Program:

Acoustics (MS)

Keywords:

Acoustic Black Holes
Thick plates
Multi-grid panels
Inherent damping
Structural acoustics
Embedded Structures
Local modes
Global modes
Mixed modes
Mode classification

File:

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Committee Members:

Andrew Barnard, Program Head/Chair
Amanda D Hanford, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tyler Patrick Dare, Committee Member
Micah Shepherd, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hillstrom, Alexander

Title:

Study of Solid Propellant Combustion and Aluminum Particles at High Pressure

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Solid Propellant
Ammonium Perchlorate
Composite Propellant
High Pressure
Combustion
High Pressure Combustion
Aluminum
Aluminum Particles
Aluminum Combustion
AP
APCP

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Francis Kunz, Program Head/Chair
Richard A Yetter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Samuel Grauer, Committee Member

Author:

Petrie, Daniel

Title:

Associations Between Early Nicotine Exposure and Household Chaos on Effort Tolerance During Adolescence

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies (MS)

Keywords:

household chaos
nicotine exposure
effort tolerance
adolescence

File:

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Committee Members:

Douglas Teti, Program Head/Chair
Charles Geier, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lisa Michelle Kopp, Committee Member

Author:

Shaw, Emma

Title:

Using High-Fidelity Weather Data to Improve Impedance and Absorption Adjustment Values in Airport Noise Level Predictions

Graduate Program:

Acoustics (MS)

Keywords:

noise propagation
aedt
atmospheric absorption
acoustic impedance
outdoor noise
aviation noise

File:

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Committee Members:

Andrew Barnard, Program Head/Chair
Victor Ward Sparrow, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Barnard, Committee Member
Dan Russell, Committee Member

Author:

Klinger, Grant

Title:

A SPLINE-BASED METHOD FOR SOLVING THE INVERSE HEAT CONDUCTION PROBLEM IN SLABS AND THICK-WALLED CYLINDERS UNDER COMPLEX THERMAL LOADING

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Inverse Heat Conduction Problem
Spline
Piecewise
Plate/Slab
Cylinder

File:

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Matt Lear, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Corina Stefania Drapaca, Committee Member

Author:

Marchhart, Trevor

Title:

Developments Towards Hybrid Liquid Metal Plasma-Facing Components for Future Long-Pulse Fusion Energy Reactors

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Nuclear fusion
Plasma-facing components
Liquid metals
Spark plasma sintering
Porous tungsten
UHV instrumentation

File:

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Committee Members:

Arthur Motta, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jean Paul Allain, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mr. Martin De Jesus Nieto-Perez, Committee Member
Xing Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Bradley, Lawrence

Title:

Improving residual stress and heat transfer in shape memory alloy actuation

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

shape memory alloy
residual stress
actuation
recoverable strain
NiTi

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Francis Kunz, Program Head/Chair
Md Amanul Haque, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jing Du, Committee Member

Author:

Gonzalez, Karen

Title:

The Role of Phonological Skills in Nonword Repetition and Reading Tasks in Children Diagnosed with Developmental Learning Disorders

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders (MS)

Keywords:

phonological processing
Exploratory study
nonword reading
phonemic awareness
remote administration

File:

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Committee Members:

Diane Williams, Program Head/Chair
Carol Anne Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicole Etter (She/Her), Committee Member

Author:

Beyer, Jessica

Title:

Individual Blade Pitch Control (IBC) for Vibration Reduction of Lift-offset Coaxial Rotor Vehicles with Auxiliary Propulsion

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

individual blade pitch control
compound rotor vehicle
rotorcraft
vibration reduction
XH-59
lift-offset coaxial rotor

File:

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Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member

Author:

Rogers, Kristina

Title:

Does smoking buffer against stress-induced reduction in cognitive performance?

Graduate Program:

Anatomy (MS)

Keywords:

stress
smoking
cigarette cravings

File:

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Committee Members:

Patricia Mclaughlin, Program Head/Chair
Andrea Hobkirk, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles Geier, Committee Member

Author:

Crump, Morgan

Title:

Understanding Visitor Perception of Artificial Light at Night in Natural Areas: A Study of Visitor Experience in Determining a Light Level Threshold

Graduate Program:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management (MS)

Keywords:

artificial light at night
visitor experience
protected areas
lighting levels

File:

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Committee Members:

Peter Newman, Program Head/Chair
Brendan Derrick Taff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan R Graefe, Committee Member
Peter Newman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Boon, Olivia

Title:

Pathways for Just Indigenous Futures: Exploring Indigenous-Based Collaboration Frameworks in Climate Change Adaptation

Graduate Program:

Landscape Architecture (MS)

Keywords:

Indigenous
Climate change
Justice
Collective Capacity
Framework
Community Engagement
Adaptation

File:

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Committee Members:

Stuart Echols, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Stephen Paul Mainzer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Stempel, Committee Member
Leann Andrews, Committee Member

Author:

Hedrick, Sally

Title:

How Support Affects the Risk-Taking Behaviors of Graduate Women in STEM

Graduate Program:

Human Resources and Employment Relations (MS)

Keywords:

STEM
Risk-taking
Risk
Women
Support
Graduate Student

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Committee Members:

Paul Clark, Program Head/Chair
Dorothea Roumpi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hee Man Park, Committee Member
Mark David Gough, Committee Member

Author:

Frost, Joshua

Title:

BOKO HARAM – A GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS OF A TERRORIST GROUP USING SPATIAL DATA SCIENCE AND GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE

Graduate Program:

Spatial Data Science (MS)

Keywords:

Boko Haram
Geospatial Intelligence
Spatial Data Science
Terrorism
Geospatial
GIS
G function
Africa
West
Central
Nigeria
Niger
Cameroon
Chad
Lake Chad
Distance-based functions
Descriptive spatial statistics
terrorist
Global Terrorism Database
START
RStudio
GeoDa
ArcGIS
proximity
Islamic State of West Africa
ISWA
al-Qaeda
Taliban
ISIS

File:

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Committee Members:

Daniel Steiner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fritz Connor Kessler, Committee Member
Anthony Robinson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Martin, Leigh

Title:

Measuring plasma volume in women of reproductive age – a comparison study of hydroxyethyl starch to other methods of plasma volume measurements

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences (MS)

Keywords:

plasma volume
women's health
nutrition
biomarkers
hydroxyethyl starch
indocyanine green

File:

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Committee Members:

Alison D Gernand, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lacy Marie Alexander, Committee Member
Meg Bruening, Program Head/Chair
Maria Rita Castro, Committee Member

Author:

Reed, Bridget

Title:

The Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Wine Consumer Behavior in the Mid-Atlantic U.S. Region

Graduate Program:

Food Science (MS)

Keywords:

wine
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania wine
COVID-19
pandemic
COVID-19 pandemic
consumer ethnocentrism

File:

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Committee Members:

John Hayes, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Helene Hopfer, Committee Member
Robert Roberts, Program Head/Chair
Sarah Kirkmeyer, Committee Member

Author:

Sengupta, Agnimitra

Title:

Evaluating the Reliability of Automatically Generated Pedestrian and Bicycle Crash Surrogates

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

traffic safety
transportation engineering
vulnerable road user
pedestrian safety
bicycle safety
machine learning
statistical modeling
imbalanced data
surrogate safety measures
traffic conflict analysis
Bayesian optimization

File:

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Committee Members:

S. Ilgin Guler, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vikash V. Gayah, Committee Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Xianbiao Hu, Committee Member

Author:

Cramer, Madeline

Title:

Defining a Taxonomy for Construction Digital Twin Use Cases

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Construction
Digital Twin
Technology
Cyber-Physical System

File:

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Committee Members:

John Messner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuqing Hu, Committee Member
James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair
Rob Leicht, Committee Member

Author:

Walter, Natalie

Title:

Mycelium-Based Composites as Acoustic Architectural Components

Graduate Program:

Architecture (MS)

Keywords:

Biodesign
Biofabrication
Mycelium-Based Composites
Sound Absorption Materials
Shape Grammars
Acoustic Simulation

File:

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Committee Members:

Benay Gursoy Toykoc, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Andrew Pecchia, Committee Member
Ute Poerschke, Program Head/Chair
Nathan Brown, Committee Member
Rahman Azari, Committee Member

Author:

Gupta, Shantanu

Title:

Predicting Driver's Takeover Decisions in a Conditionally Automated Vehicle with Gaze Based Deep Learning Architectures

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Conditionally Automated Vehicles
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Situational Awareness
Takeover Performance

File:

Download Shantanu_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Yiqi Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhuang, John

Title:

An Exploratory Study of the Information Security Behavior of Gamers

Graduate Program:

Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations (MS)

Keywords:

security behavior
video games
protection motivation theory
cybersecurity
gamers

File:

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Committee Members:

Yubo Kou, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ting Wang, Committee Member
Edward Glantz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Xinning Gui, Committee Member
Michael Keith Hills, Special Signatory

Author:

Bello, Nicholas

Title:

Comparative Review Of 3D Printed Walls and the Methods Used by Companies in the Industry

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

3D Printing
Concrete
Structural Analysis
Thermal Analysis

File:

Download Nick_Bello_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali M Memari, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Yuqing Hu, Committee Member

Author:

White, Keith

Title:

Comparative Studies of α- & δ- Plutonium Allotropes & Plutonium Oxidation Mechanisms by Photoemission Spectroscopy

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

XPS
photoemission
surface science
plutonium
surface
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
Auger
f-electron
actinide
oxide

File:

Download KWhite-MS-Thesis-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick M Lenahan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Amanda M. Johnsen, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cunningham, Devin Marie

Title:

EFFECTS OF AN EXTRUDED FLAXSEED SUPPLEMENT ON PLASMA HAPTOGLOBIN, NON-ESTERIFIED FATTY ACIDS, BETA-HYDROXYBUTYRATE, AND COMPLETE BLOOD COUNT IN TRANSITION DAIRY COWS AND HEIFERS

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

Dairy
Omega-3
Immune
Health
Inflammation
Flaxseed
Energy Balance
Nutrition

File:

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Committee Members:

Troy Ott, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joy Lee Pate, Committee Member
Kevin John Harvatine, Committee Member
Adele Marie Turzillo, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bolotsky, Adam

Title:

Development and Application of a Novel Organic Crystal for Reagent-Free, In-Situ Electrochemical Sensing of Bacterial Viability

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Biosensor
Bacterial viability
Electrochemical sensor
Redox-active
Organic crystal
Rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing
Reagent-free
Metabolic activity

File:

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Committee Members:

Seyedehaida Ebrahimi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Morteza Kayyalha, Committee Member
Larry Cheng, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

La Salle, Richard

Title:

Advanced Shape Memory Metal-Matrix Composites: Relating Nano-fiber Reinforcement Structure to Bulk Composite Shape Memory Properties

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

NiTiNb
Shape memory alloy
Martensitic phase transformation
Differential Scanning Calorimetry
Pre-strain deformation
Deformation Processing
Microstructure Characterization
Thermo-mechanical Characterization
Stress-induced Martensite

File:

Download LaSalle_MS_Thesis_May2021_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Reginald Felix Hamilton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Todd Palmer, Committee Member
Richard Gordon, Committee Member
Judith Todd Copley, Program Head/Chair
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member