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Author:

Moore, Amy JoAnna

Title:

Latino/as with Disabilities: Do gender and race influence vocational rehabilitation?

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

hispanic
latino
latina
disability
gender
race
vocation
rehabilitation

File:

Download RC_Master_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Brandon Hunt (Thesis: Keith Wilson), Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Keith B Wilson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lind, Amanda Blair

Title:

Modeling specular reflections and post boom noise to augment synthesized outdoor sonic boom signatures

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

synthesized sonic boom specular reflections terrai

File:

Download Lind_Thesis_Final_ETD_Uploaded.pdf

Committee Members:

Victor Ward Sparrow, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Victor Ward Sparrow, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Barreto, Alejandro César

Title:

ASSOCIATION CONTROL IN VEHICULAR WIRELESS NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

cross-layer interaction
vehicular ad-hoc networks
wireless networking

File:

Download Association_Control_in_Vehicular_Wireless_Networks.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Rau, Andrew Charles

Title:

Design of a Multifunctional Forceps for use in Endoscopic Surgery

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

endoscopic surgery
endoscopic tools
NOTES
natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery
minimally invasive surgery
forceps
medical devices surgical tools

File:

Download AndrewRau-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary I Frecker, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary I Frecker, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Colletti, Alexander E.

Title:

IGNITION PROCESSES AND FLAME SPREADING IN A GRANULAR SOLID PROPELLANT BED

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

granular bed
flame spreading
interior ballistics
solid propellant

File:

Download colletti_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth K Kuo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth K Kuo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kaintz, Anne Elizabeth

Title:

Mechanistic Studies in Water Splitting Systems

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

hydrogen reduction catalysts
RDE
niobium electrodes
fabrication
homemade
UME
ultramicroelectrodes
photodeposition
degradation
hexaniobate nanoscrolls

File:

Download masters_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mallouk/Maroncelli, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Mallouk, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wray, Amanda Ellen

Title:

LIFE-LONG VITAMIN A SUPPLEMENTATION HAS NO DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS ON TRABECULAR AND CORTICAL BONE OR BONE STIFFNESS

Graduate Program:

Nutrition

Keywords:

Bone
Vitamin A
VA
Mechanical Testing
Longitudinal
Murine
Trabecular
Cortical
Bone Mineral Density
BMD
Physiology

File:

Download Amanda_Wray_MS_Thesis_May_2010.pdf

Committee Members:

A Catharine Ross, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
A Catharine Ross, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Caporuscio, Abby

Title:

THE ROAD TO BROOK TROUT RECOVERY: CRAB-SHELL RESTORES ALKALINITY TO WATERSHEDS IMPACTED BY ACID DEPOSITION

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

acid deposition; acid rain; crab shell; chitin; br

File:

Download Caporuscio_MS_Thesis_Nov_30_2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Rachel Alice Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rachel Alice Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Butler, Allison Jane

Title:

A Case Study of Body Image and Aspirational Identity in Girlhood

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

body image
adolescence
tweens
pre-teens
girlhood
clothing
clothing styles

File:

Download Thesis_Final_Copy-Allison_Butler.pdf

Committee Members:

Christine M Thompson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine M Thompson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacqueline J A Reid Walsh, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kramer, Angela J

Title:

Modeling the Behavior of the Dielectric Properties in Low Formation Voltage Electrolytic Tantalum Capacitors

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

electric field
Poole-Frenkel effect
specific charge
dielectric
tantalum pentoxide
tantalum
electrolytic capacitors
Schottky emission

File:

Download Kramer-Thesis-12.pdf

Committee Members:

Sarah Elizabeth Dickey, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth C Dickey, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Choudhary, Abhinav Krishna

Title:

AUTOMATED CONCEPT GENERATION USING BRANCHED FUNCTIONAL MODELS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

conceptual design
functional models
design tools
design repository

File:

Download Abhinav_thesis_07202010_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Cari Bryant Arnold, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cari R Bryant Arnold, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Barnette, Anna Lorraine

Title:

ADSORPTION ISOTHERM AND AVERAGE ORIENTATION OF ADSORBED ALCOHOL AND WATER LAYERS ON SiO2 IN AMBIENT CONDITIONS

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

orientation
adsorption isotherm
water
alcohols

File:

Download Barnette_Final_Master_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Seong H Kim, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seong H Kim, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Schwartzberg, Audrey L.

Title:

Practices and Perspectives in Farm Labor Management: A Qualitative Study of Small-Scale Growers in Central Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

qualitative research
small farms
farm labor

File:

Download Schwartzberg_Final_Thesis_Nov22_2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Cynthia Clare Hinrichs, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Clare Hinrichs, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hyde, Amanda L.

Title:

Experimentally-manipulated achievement goal states regulate self-conscious emotional responses to feedback

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology

Keywords:

motivation
pride
intraindividual
shame
achievement goals

File:

Download Hyde_thesis_11222010_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

David E Conroy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David E Conroy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wisse, Ashley L

Title:

PROCESS-BASED POLICY DEVELOPMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE IMPLEMENTATION ON PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY RENEWAL PROJECTS

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Sustainability
Design
Construction
Renewal Projects
Renovation
LEED
Policy Development
OPP

File:

Download Ashley_Wisse_Final_Thesis_07.2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr David Riley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr David Riley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bobuk, Aaron Michael

Title:

A Design Method For Product Family Trade Studies Utilizing GVI and PFPF Metrics With Application to Robotic Ground Vehicles

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

design
product
family
trade studies
GVI
generational variety index
PFPF
product family penalty function
robot
robotic
ground
vehicle
ATSV
genetic algorithm
Simulink
Matlab
mathematical model
commonality
platform
optimization

File:

Download Aaron_Bobuk_M.S_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Fields, Allison Michelle

Title:

THE ROLE OF THE POLLEN S-LOCUS F-BOX GENE IN S-RNASE-MEDIATED SELF- INCOMPATIBILITY IN PETUNIA INFLATA

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

Petunia inflata
Self-incompatibility
PiSLF

File:

Download Fields_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Teh Hui Kao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Teh Hui Kao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jain, Avanti

Title:

A SYSTEMATIC PROCESS FOR PRODUCT FAMILY DISSECTION AND BENCHMARKING

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Product Line Commonality Index (PCI)
Design Structure Matrix (DSM)
Bill of Materials (BOM)
Benchmarking
Dissection
Product Family
Generational Variety Index (GVI)
Market Segmentation Grid

File:

Download MS_thesis_IE_Avanti_.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lancos, Allison

Title:

ANALYSIS OF EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT BEST PRACTICES THROUGH SIMULATION MODELING

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

emergency department
simulation
best practices

File:

Download AllisonLancos_MastersThesis_12_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Deborah Jean Medeiros, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Deborah Jean Medeiros, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Valadez, Angela

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF A MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION ASSAY FOR THE DETECTION OF ESCHERICHIA COLI SEROGROUPS O103, O91, O113, O145, O111, O157, AND O26 IN BEEF CARCASS SWABS, BEEF TRIM, AND GROUND BEEF

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

beef products
Escherichia coli O-antigen serogroups
Shiga toxins
detection

File:

Download Final_MS_thesis_Angela_Valadez_Penn_State_2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Cutter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Catherine Nettles Cutter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward G Dudley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitrita Debroy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Giordano, Andrea Nicole

Title:

Artificial Assembly of Precise Functional Nanostructures

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

scanning tunneling microscopy
self-assembled monolayers

File:

Download Finalthesis7202010.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul S Weiss, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul S Weiss, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Leggett, Amanda Noel

Title:

CAREGIVER STRESS, BURDEN, AND ASSOCIATED DIFFICULTIES AS A RESULT OF LEWY BODY DEMENTIA

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

Activities of Daily Living
Medical Care
Behavioral and Emotional Problems
Burden
Caregiving
Lewy Body Dementia
Zarit Burden Interview

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_Amanda_Noel_Leggett_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Steven Howard Zarit, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven Howard Zarit, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Raja, Anand

Title:

TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE IN VIDEOS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

visual storyboard
action recognition
tracking
people detection
computer vision
character matching

File:

Download AnandRaja-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Robert Collins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert T Collins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Jenkins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yanxi Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Fernandez, Alisha Rachel

Title:

EVALUATING ECOSYSTEM AND WIND-FOLLOWING SERVICES FOR HYDRO-ELECTRIC DAMS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

energy policy
hydro-electric power
wind generation
ancillary services
ecosystem services
sensitivity analysis
drought

File:

Download MastersThesis_vs04122011.pdf

Committee Members:

Seth Adam Blumsack, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick M Reed, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seth Adam Blumsack, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Guzzetta, Ashley Susan

Title:

MODELING THE EFFECTS OF FUEL ROD CRUD FORMATION ON BOILING HEAT TRANSFER IN A PRESSURIZED WATER REACTOR USING EULERIAN TWO-FLUID CFD

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

nuclear
pressurized water reactors
crud model
subcooled boiling
heat transfer
CFD
crud formation

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Guzzetta.pdf

Committee Members:

Maria Nikolova Avramova, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Maria Nikolova Avramova, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Francis Kunz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Norton, Andrew Scott

Title:

AN EVALUATION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA SEX-AGE-KILL MODEL FOR WHITE-TAILED DEER

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

temporal variability
spatial variability
harvest rate
bootstrapping
Sex-Age-Kill
ecology
wildlife
population modeling
white-tailed deer
Odocoileus virginianus
deer
sensitivity
robustness
Pennsylvania
precision

File:

Download Final_draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Duane R Diefenbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Duane R Diefenbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Vadvadgi, Aneesh Sridhar

Title:

CALCULATION OF TEMPERATURES IN GAS TURBINE ROTOR-STATOR CAVITIES USING CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
Conjugate heat transfer
gas turbine

File:

Download Calculation_of_Temperatures_in_Gas_Turbine_Rotor_Stator_Cavities_Using_Conjugate_Heat_Transfer.pdf

Committee Members:

Savash Yavuzkurt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Savas Yavuzkurt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Myer, Adam Timothy

Title:

Team Temporal Leadership: Construct Development and Validation

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Scale Validation
Time
Teams
Leadership

File:

Download Adam_Myer_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Mohammed, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Mohammed, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Church, Alyssia

Title:

CONSERVING WILDLIFE HABITATS WITH LANDSCAPE CORRIDORS IN THE SCHOODIC REGION OF MAINE, USA

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

habitat corridor
wildlife conservation
fragmentation
landscape ecology
connectivity
habitat loss
Schoodic Maine
Circuitscape
Least-cost

File:

Download Church_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Brooks, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert P Brooks, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chakrabarty, Anjan

Title:

FLIGHT PATH PLANNING OF UAV BASED ON ATMOSPHERIC ENERGY HARVESTING

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

path planning
UAV
energy harvestation

File:

Download Chakrabarty_MS.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Nairizi, Ali

Title:

BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACIDS SUPPLEMENTATION OF DRINKING WATER AND DIET INDUCED OBESITY

Graduate Program:

Physiology

Keywords:

BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO AICDS
OBESITY

File:

Download nairizithesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Christopher J Lynch, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher J Lynch, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Premi, Amandeep

Title:

QUALIFICATION OF AIRFOIL TRANSITION MEASUREMENTS TAKEN IN THE PENN STATE LOW-SPEED, LOW-TURBULENCE WIND TUNNEL

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

hot film
hot wire
wind-tunnel
transition
freestream spectrum
receptivity

File:

Download Amandeep-Premi_Masters-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark David Maughmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark David Maughmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Rothenberg-Cunningham, Alek

Title:

Children’s Age-Related Performance in Striking Moving Targets

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology

Keywords:

coincidence-anticipation
interception
spatiotemporal

File:

Download Rothenberg-Cunningham_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Karl Maxim Newell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl Maxim Newell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kaucher, Amy V

Title:

MECHANISMS OF SPERMATOGONIAL STEM CELL DIFFERENTIATION

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

SPERMATOGONIAL STEM CELL
SIGNAL TRANSDUCER AND ACTIVATOR OF TRANSCRIPTION 3
NEUROGENIN 3
DIFFERENTIATION

File:

Download KaucherThesisFINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Jon Oatley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jon M Oatley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ghasemi, Amirreza

Title:

STUDY OF CERCHAR ABRASIVITY INDEX AND POTENTIAL MODIFICATIONS FOR MORE CONSISTENT MEASUREMENT OF ROCK ABRASION

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

excavation
rock
cerchar
abrasivity
abrasion
tunnel

File:

Download Amirreza_Ghasemi.pdf

Committee Members:

Jamal Rostami, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jamal Rostami, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hariharan, Aditya

Title:

Optimization of Conformal Low Profile Dipole Antennas

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Low profile dipoles
Open sleeve antennas

File:

Download Thesis-Text.pdf

Committee Members:

James Kenneth Breakall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Kenneth Breakall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Anil Philip, Sebastian K

Title:

ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS OF PALLETS USING LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS AND MULTI-OBJECTIVE DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

LCA
Life Cycle Analysis
Pallets
Dynamic Programming
Environmental Analysis
Multi Objective Dynamic Programming

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Sebastian.pdf

Committee Members:

Gul Kremer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gul Kremer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Ray Sr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Krishnasamy Bharathi, Arvind

Title:

ANALYSIS OF THE THERMAL PROPERTIES OF ZINC OXIDE USING THE ReaxFF REACTIVE FORCE FIELD

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

nanowire
Zinc Oxide
ReaxFF

File:

Download Final_Draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Adrianus C Van Duin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adrianus C Van Duin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bontempo, Brian

Title:

CONDUCTION MECHANISMS IN AMORPHOUS AND CRYSTALLINE TANTALUM OXIDE THIN FILMS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science

Keywords:

pulsed-ed reactive sputtering
tantalum oxide
conduction mechanisms

File:

Download BontempoMastersThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Micheal Lanagan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael T Lanagan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Oliveira Vieira, Bernardo A

Title:

An Investigation of the Aerodynamics of Miniature Trailing-Edge Effectors Applied to Rotorcraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

wind tunnel testing
active devices
Gurney flaps
unsteady aerodynamics

File:

Download MS_Thesis_MiTEs_Vieira.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark David Maughmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark David Maughmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hasek, Bradley

Title:

THERMODYNAMIC MODELING AND FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATIONS OF THE CR-HF-Y TERNARY SYSTEM

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

CALPHAD
SQS
Cr
Hf
Y

File:

Download Brad_Hasek_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Zi Kui Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Zi Kui Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lorson, Benjamin D.

Title:

DISTRIBUTION AND THE PUTATIVE ORIGIN OF FISHES IN THE ALLEGHENY RIVER, PENNSYLVANIA

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

fishes
fish distribution
zoogeography
Allegheny River
benthic trawl

File:

Download Benjamin_D_Lorson_Masters_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jay Richard Stauffer Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jay Richard Stauffer Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wallace, Brian David

Title:

Development and Validation of a Wind Generator Field Testing Methodology

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

field testing
wind generator
wind turbine

File:

Download B_Wallace_Thesis_V10.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Basom, Blair J.

Title:

Inviscid Wind-Turbine Analysis Using Distributed Vorticity Elements

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

wind turbine
horizontal axis
vortex lattice
wake modeling
relaxed wake
inviscid analysis
prescribed wake
Goldstein rotor

File:

Download basom_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark David Maughmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Day, Benjamin J

Title:

TURBULENCE MEASUREMENTS IN SUPERSONIC JETS WITH OPTICAL DEFLECTOMETRY

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Jet Noise
Turbulence
supersonic
optical deflectometry
BBSAN
broadband shock associated noise
measurements
turbulence measurements

File:

Download BJD-Thesis-Aug3.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis K Mc Laughlin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Stiehler, Brian James

Title:

APOE ε4 Effects in Midlife and Old Age: Links to Developmental Change in Cognitive Abilities, Flexibility and Well-Being

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

APOE
Cognitive decline

File:

Download Stiehler_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Denis Gerstorf, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Denis Gerstorf, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Duane Francis Alwin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jones, Brian Keith

Title:

Flame Response Mechanisms and their Interaction in a Lean Premixed Swirl-Stabilized Gas Turbine Combustor

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

premixed
flame
instabilities
lean
combustion
gas turbine

File:

Download Brian_Jones_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Domenic Adam Santavicca, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Domenic Adam Santavicca, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

DeCesar, Brennan Lawrence

Title:

Investigation of Process Parameter Optimization of Laser-Fired Back Contact Silicon Solar Cells

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science

Keywords:

Laser-Fired Contacts
LFC
LFCs
Solar Cells
Silicon Solar Cells
Silicon Photovoltaics

File:

Download DeCesar_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Ted Reutzel, Dr S Ashok, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward William Reutzel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
S Ashok, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wolfgang, Brian Matthew

Title:

Hygro-Thermal Performance of Imperfectly Protected Below-Grade Walls with Interior Insulation

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

basement
below-grade
insulation
damp-proofing
water vapor
dew-point method
concrete masonry unit
permeability
vapor-retarder

File:

Download BWolfgangFinalThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Bo Kasal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Bohumil Kasal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Scarino, Benjamin Raymond

Title:

AN ASSESSMENT OF BOUNDARY LAYER AND DRYLINE MOISTURE AND CLOUD VARIABILITY ON 15 JUNE 2002 DURING IHOP

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

boundary layer
dryline
horizontal convective rolls
numerical modeling
parcel trajectories
objective analysis
Doppler-radar

File:

Download benjamin_scarino_MS_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Yvette Pamela Richardson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yvette Pamela Richardson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth James Davis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Markowski, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Conrad Ziegler, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor