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Author:

Sun, Xiaoran

Title:

MATERNAL AND PATERNAL RESOURCES ACROSS CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE AS PREDICTORS OF YOUNG ADULT ACHIEVEMENT

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

parental warmth
educational achievement
occupational achievement
childhood
adolescence
young adulthood
parental warmth
educational achievement
occupational achievement
childhood
adolescence
young adulthood

File:

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Committee Members:

Susan M. McHale, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eva S. Lefkowitz, Committee Member
Lisa Gatzke-Kopp, Committee Member

Author:

Kang, You Jung

Title:

MIMICKING AND TARGETING BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES USING GIANT PROTEOLIPOSOME AND POLYMERIC NANOPARTICLES

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Giant Unilamellar Vesicles
Hydrogel
Nanoparticles
Nanoprecipitation
Electroformation

File:

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Committee Members:

William O Hancock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William O Hancock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sheereen Majd, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Committee Member
James R Connor, Outside Member
Sheereen Majd, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Park, Hyewon

Title:

Learning lives of young adult North Korean defectors: Identity reconstruction within everyday life

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Keywords:

Young adult North Korean defectors
Identity reconstruction
Cultural-Historical Activity Theory
Adult education

File:

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Committee Members:

Fred M. Schied, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fred M. Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Davin J. Carr-Chellman, Committee Member
Adnan A Qayyum, Committee Member
Soo-Yong Byun, Outside Member

Author:

Cecala, Rebecca Karoline

Title:

CREATING A NARRATIVE OF LIFE: PUBLIC HEALTH THROUGH THE EYES OF DR. SARA JOSEPHINE BAKER

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Sara Josephine Baker
public health
infant welfare
new york city
history of science

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles David Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Simon Josef Bronner, Committee Member
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Anne Carver Rose, Outside Member

Author:

Yuan, Xiao

Title:

A Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Approach to Temporary Structures Monitoring

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Cyber-Physical Systems
Temporary Structural Monitoring
Virtual and Physical World
Bi-directional Information Communication

File:

Download Ph.D._Thesis_Xiao_Yuan.pdf

Committee Members:

Chimay J. Anumba, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chimay J. Anumba, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
M.Kevin Parfitt, Committee Member
Stephen Treado, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Member
M.Kevin Parfitt, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
M.Kevin Parfitt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Suchyta, Mark Edward

Title:

UNDERSTANDING SENSE OF PLACE IN PENNSYLVANIA’S MARCELLUS SHALE

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

Marcellus Shale
Sense of Place
Community Development
Natural Resources
Environmental Attitudes

File:

Download Suchyta_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kathryn J. Brasier, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Diane K. McLaughlin, Committee Member
Shannon M. Monnat, Committee Member

Author:

Matzko, Paul Edward

Title:

Creating the Silent Majority: State Censorship and the Radio Right in the 1960s

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

conservatism
New Right
New Christian Right
radio
broadcasting
Walter Reuther
National Council of Churches
United Church of Christ
John F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Federal Communications Commission
Internal Revenue Service
Carl McIntire
Billy James Hargis
H. L. Hunt
Fairness Doctrine
censorship
Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC
WLBT
WXUR
Everett C. Parker
E. William Henry
Ronald Reagan
Radio Right

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Committee Members:

Philip Jenkins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy S Greenberg, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Scott Cross, Committee Member
Philip Jenkins, Committee Member
Roger Kent Finke, Outside Member
Amy S Greenberg, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Janisch, Corey Thomas

Title:

Two Dimensional Materials: New Oppertunities in Photonics

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Two Dimensional Materials
Nonlinear Optics
Second Harmonic Generation
Sum Frequency Generation
Microresonators
Raman Sptectroscopy
Optical Resonators

File:

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Committee Members:

Zhiwen Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Iam-Choon Khoo, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Outside Member

Author:

Xi, Xiaoning

Title:

NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION OF PLANT CELL WALL ARCHITECTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AT MICRO AND NANO LEVEL

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Mechanical properties
Elastic modulus
Atomic force microscopy
Nanoindentation
Scanning acoustic microscopy
Plant cell wall

File:

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Committee Members:

Bernhard R.Tittmann, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernhard R.Tittmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sulin Zhang, Committee Member
Samia A. Suliman, Committee Member
Seong H. Kim, Outside Member

Author:

McKay, Vernecia Sharae

Title:

Numerical Simulation of Conditionally Turbulent Oscillatory Boundary Layers in Thermoacoustic Devices

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

intermittent turbulence
oscillatory flow
thermoacoustics

File:

Download VSMcKay-Dissertation_21Nov2016good.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Philip Morris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Kenneth Brentner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Lyle Long, Committee Member
Dr. Victory Sparrow, Committee Member
Dr. Anthony Atchley, Outside Member

Author:

Hsu, Vicki Chenyi

Title:

Dynamic Disclosures: Personal Writing, Relational Rhetoric, and Institutional Narratives

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Rhetoric
Composition
Diversity
Personal
Narratives
Multiculturalism

File:

Download Hsu_Dynamic_Disclosures_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Debra Hawhee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debra Hawhee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suresh Canagarajah, Committee Member
Ebony Coletu, Committee Member
Rosemary Jane Jolly, Outside Member

Author:

Kamel, Bishoy Samir

Title:

Homology, Homoplasy and The Holobiont: A Comparative Genomics Approach

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Biomineralization
Homology
Evolution
Genome
Metabolic Networks
Corals
Orbicella faveolata
Mollusks

File:

Download homology-homoplasy-holobiont__4_.pdf

Committee Members:

Monica Medina, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles Fisher, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roberto Iglesias-Prieto, Committee Member
Kazuhiko Kawasaki, Committee Member
Jennifer L. Macalady, Outside Member

Author:

Esposito, Tony

Title:

MODELING COLOR RENDITION AND COLOR DISCRIMINATION WITH AVERAGE FIDELITY, AVERAGE GAMUT, AND GAMUT SHAPE

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

color rendering
color discrimination
fidelity
gamut area
best-fit ellipse
transposition
Rdt
preference
naturalness
vividness
skin preference

File:

Download EspositoTony_PsuDoctoralDissertation2016_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Kevin William Houser, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kevin William Houser, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard George Mistrick, Committee Member
Stephen James Treado, Committee Member
James Landis Rosenberger, Outside Member

Author:

Kim, Sang-Ah

Title:

STRUCTURAL AND BIOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF LSD1/COREST HISTONE DEMETHYLASE COMPLEX ON THE NUCLEOSOME

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

nucleosome
chromatin
structural biology
gene regulation
histone demethylase
lsd1

File:

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Committee Members:

Song Tan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrey S. Krasilnikov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lu Bai, Committee Member
David S. Gilmour, Committee Member
Scott Showalter, Outside Member

Author:

Polim, Rico

Title:

Real-Time Supply Chain Analytics - Shipment Duration Prediction

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Logistics
Data Mining
Forecasting

File:

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Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hui Zhao, Committee Member
Robert Voight, Committee Member

Author:

Pino San Martin, Felipe Humberto

Title:

FACTORS THAT AFFECT RUMEN FERMENTATION AND TOTAL TRACT DIGESTION IN PRECISION FEEDING DAIRY HEIFERS

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

Heifers
precision feeding
starch
passage rate
digestibility
rumen fermentation

File:

Download Thesis_final3.pdf

Committee Members:

Arlyn Judson Heinrichs, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arlyn Judson Heinrichs, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chad Daniel Dechow, Committee Member
Kevin John Harvatine, Committee Member
Gregory Wayne Roth, Outside Member

Author:

Mcclain, Jonathan Michael

Title:

AN EXAMINATION OF THE CULTURAL VALIDITY OF THE COUNSELING CENTER ASSESSMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS-62

Graduate Program:

Counseling Psychology

Keywords:

CCAPS
Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Hayes, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathleen Bieschke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benjamin D Locke, Committee Member
Louis Georges Castonguay, Committee Member
n/a, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Zi

Title:

First-Order Methods for Large Scale Convex Optimization

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

first-order methods
convex optimization
distributed optimization
convex regression
multi-agent consensus optimization

File:

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Committee Members:

Necdet S Aybat, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Necdet S Aybat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Member
Enrique del Castillo, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Outside Member

Author:

Breon, Amy

Title:

THE PRINCIPAL’S ROLE IN LEADING INSTRUCTIONAL CHANGE A CASE STUDY IN NEW PROGRAM ADOPTION

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

Instructional Leadership
Principal's Role
Program Adoption
Instructional Change

File:

Download Amy_Breon.pdf

Committee Members:

Nona Prestine, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nona Prestine, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward J Fuller, Committee Member
Roger C Shouse, Committee Member
Jacqueline Edmondson, Outside Member

Author:

Braun, Summer S

Title:

Predicting Elementary Teachers' Efforts to Manage Social Dynamics from Teacher Characteristics and the Early Year Peer Ecology

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

Elementary Teachers
Teacher Characteristics
Social Dynamics Management
Peer Ecology

File:

Download SSB_Manuscript_Grad_School_2016.12.1.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott David Gest, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Linn Bierman, Committee Member
Lisa Michelle Kopp, Committee Member

Author:

Maas, Megan Keely

Title:

A PERSON-CENTERED APPROACH TO ONLINE SEXUAL EXPERIENCES AND OFFLINE SEXUAL AND SUBSTANCE USE BEHAVIORS AMONG FEMALE ADOLESCENTS

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

social media; teen dating violence; sexual assault; female adolescents; maltreatment; sexting; pornography; HIV risk; substance use

File:

Download Maas.Dissertation.FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Jennie G Noll, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennie G Noll, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eva S Lefkowitz, Committee Member
Bethany Cara Bray, Committee Member
Patricia Barthalow Koch, Outside Member

Author:

Mao, Yi

Title:

SUSPENSION PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE NUMERICAL MODEL DEVELOPMENT AND LOAD CASE SIMULATION

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Suspension pedestrian bridge
numerical model
dynamic behavior
load case simulation

File:

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Committee Members:

JEFFREY A. LAMAN, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
ALI MEMARI, Committee Member
GORDON WARN, Committee Member

Author:

Choe, Katherine Naeun

Title:

HUWE1 Interacts with PCNA to Alleviate Replication Stress

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

DNA replication
Genomic instability
H2AX
DNA Damage
HUWE1
PCNA
Replication stress

File:

Download Choe_thesis_v9_26-10-17.pdf

Committee Members:

George Lucian Moldovan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Lucian Moldovan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Riley Broach, Committee Member
Ralph Lauren Keil, Committee Member
Kent Eugene Vrana, Outside Member
Cristina I Truica, Special Member

Author:

Crayne, Matthew Philip

Title:

The Power of Many: A Follower-Centric Concept of Leader Error and Influence

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Leadership
Laboratory
Historiometric
Followers

File:

Download Dissertation_Format_Review_12.5.Finals.pdf

Committee Members:

Samuel Todd Hunter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Samuel Todd Hunter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Mohammed, Committee Member
Rick R Jacobs, Committee Member
Vilmos Fosnocht Misangyi, Outside Member

Author:

Poepsel, Timothy John

Title:

The Influence of Bilingualism on Statistical Learning With Multiple Inputs

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Statistical learning
language acquisition
bilingualism
speech segmentation
word learning

File:

Download Poepsel_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dan Weiss, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dan Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Judith Kroll, Committee Member
Matthew Carlson, Committee Member
Kristin Buss, Outside Member

Author:

Price, Matthew Burroughs

Title:

Of Minor Spaces: Spatial Narratologies of the Modern British Novel

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Victorian
Modernist
Novel
Space
Narratology
Setting

File:

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Committee Members:

Eric Robert Hayot, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Member
Robert Lawrence Caserio Jr., Committee Member
Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Outside Member

Author:

Landgraf, Bradley James

Title:

MECHANISTIC STUDIES OF THE METHYLTHIOLATION REACTION CATALYZED BY THE RADICAL SAM ENZYME RIMO

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

S-adenosylmethionine
Radical SAM
Methylthiotransferase
Enzymology
5'-deoxyadenosyl radical
S-adenosylhomocysteine
Post-translational modification

File:

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Committee Members:

Squire J. Booker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Squire J Booker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carsten Krebs, Committee Member
Amie Kathleen Boal, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Outside Member

Author:

Thomas, Tori Lashan

Title:

Exploring the Relationships between High School Racial Composition and Long-Term Educational Outcomes

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

school racial composition
college aspirations
educational attainment
race/ethnicity
high school

File:

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Committee Members:

Michelle Frisco, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
S. Michael Gaddis, Committee Member
Erica Frankenberg, Committee Member

Author:

Fedor, Christopher Leon

Title:

ADDING FEATURES TO DIRECT REAL TIME SEMI-DENSE MONOCULAR SLAM

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping;SLAM;Lie Algebra;Image Alignment

File:

Download cfedorSUBMIT161129.pdf

Committee Members:

Aldo W Morales, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sedig Salem Agili, Committee Member
Seth Wolpert, Committee Member

Author:

Bernhardt, Jase Eric

Title:

A COMPARISON OF DAILY TEMPERATURE AVERAGING METHODOLOGIES: UNCERTAINTIES, SPATIAL VARIABILITY, AND SOCIETAL IMPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Climatology
Climate Change
Human Impacts on Climate
Atmospheric Science
Land Use - Land Cover
Synoptic Climatolgoy

File:

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Committee Members:

Andrew Mark Carleton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Mark Carleton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jon Michael Nese, Committee Member
Brent Yarnal, Committee Member
Martin Tingley, Outside Member

Author:

Conaway, Steven Andrew

Title:

THE ROLE OF HOST-PATHOGEN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS IN SUCCESSFUL BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF CIRSIUM ARVENSE WITH THE RUST FUNGUS PUCCINIA PUNCTIFORMIS

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology

Keywords:

biological control
invasive weeds
canada thistle
rust fungus
cirsium arvense
puccinia puntiformis

File:

Download Conaway_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott Alan Isard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Alan Isard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald Durwood Davis, Committee Member
Katriona Shea, Committee Member
David A Mortensen, Outside Member
Gary W Moorman, Committee Member

Author:

Szkodny, Lauren Elizabeth

Title:

(DE)CONSTRUCTING TRAUMA: DEVELOPMENT OF IDIOSYNCRATIC STRUCTURAL AND DYNAMIC ORGANIZATIONS OF POSTTRAUMATIC SYMPTOMS TO EXAMINE MECHANISMS OF SYMPTOM MAINTENANCE

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

PTSD
person-specific
P-technique
ecological momentary assessment
intensive repeated measures

File:

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Committee Members:

Michelle Gayle Newman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michelle Gayle Newman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pamela Marie Cole, Committee Member
Amy Dyanna Marshall, Committee Member
Peter Cm Molenaar, Outside Member

Author:

Lee, Chris Songjin

Title:

DATA DEPENDENT OPTIMIZATION VISION ARCHITECTURE

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Image processing
Region of interest
Object detection
Computer architecture
Vision pipeline
Accelerator

File:

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Outside Member
Kevin Irick, Special Member

Author:

Schwartz, Brandon

Title:

THE EFFECT OF THERMAL CYCLING ON THE PERMEABILITY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SHALE

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Permeability
Bulk Modulus
Shale
Thermal Cycling

File:

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Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris J Marone, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Raja, Faisal Z.

Title:

DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION OF FUEL ROD GAS GAP CONDUCTANCE MODEL IN CTF AS A FUNCTION OF REACTOR POWER AND BURNUP

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

COBRA-TF
CTF
FRAPCON
BISON
GAP CONDUCTANCE
REACTOR POWER
FUEL BURNUP
FUEL EXPOSURE
NUCLEAR
FUEL ROD
SUBCHANNEL CODE
FUEL CENTERLINE TEMPERATURE
FUEL SURFACE TEMPERATURE
UO2
ZIRC4
ZIRC CLADDING
LIGHT WATER REACTOR

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. Maria Avramova, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Maria Avramova, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Kostadin Ivanov, Committee Member
Dr. Jack S. Brenizer, Committee Member
Dr. John M. Regan, Outside Member

Author:

Garvin, Alexandra M

Title:

Mitochondria as Central Mediators of Cardiac Cell Death with Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury in Aged Female Rats

Graduate Program:

Physiology

Keywords:

heart
ischemia/reperfusion
mitochondria
aging
female
cell death

File:

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Committee Members:

Donna Hope Korzick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donna Hope Korzick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Connie Jo Rogers, Committee Member
Joshua D Lambert, Committee Member
Gregory C Shearer, Outside Member
Chee Lim, Special Member

Author:

Grasser, Nicholas Jared

Title:

DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF THE MXS-R WINGLETS AND AIRFOILS TO IMPROVE AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE IN THE RED BULL AIR RACES

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Aircraft Design
Aerodynamics
Airplane Simulation
Winglets
Airfoils
Red Bull
Air Racing
MXS-R
Airplane Performance
Airplane Design

File:

Download Grasser_-_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark David Maughmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member

Author:

Grimaldi, Elizabeth Mary

Title:

IMPLICIT COGNITIVE BIASES, RACIAL ATTITUDES, AND THREAT DETECTION

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

implicit personality
cognitive biases
signal detection
racial biases
implicit attitudes
threat detection

File:

Download Final_Thesis_Document_Grimaldi.pdf

Committee Members:

James Marshall Lebreton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kisha Shannon Jones, Committee Member
Richard Alan Carlson, Committee Member

Author:

Shah, Meet M

Title:

A Methodology for Development of Design Permit Vehicles

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Influence Lines
Bridge
Bridge Analysis
Permit Vehicle
Design Live Load

File:

Download Thesis_MMS.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey A. Laman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Committee Member
Ali M Memari, Committee Member

Author:

Xiaoli, Lingzi

Title:

The development of a Shiga toxin 2a quantification method and application to study the enhanced toxin production of Escherichia coli O157:H7 by nonpathogenic E. coli

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

E. coli O157:H7
Shiga toxin
commensal E. coli
ELISA
virulence

File:

Download Thesis_Final_Lingzi_Xiaoli_20161117.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward G. Dudley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward G. Dudley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roberts F. Roberts, Committee Member
Chitrita DebRoy, Committee Member
James L. Rosenberger, Outside Member
Subhashinie Kariyawasam, Committee Member

Author:

Belton, Kerry R

Title:

ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR ACTIVATION DISRUPTS MOUSE MAMMARY GLAND AND LIVER FUNCTION DURING LACTATION

Graduate Program:

Molecular Toxicology

Keywords:

AHR
Mammary gland
Metabolism
Lactation
NMR

File:

Download 161207_Kerry_Thesis-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew D. Patterson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary H. Perdew, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
K. Sandeep Prabhu, Committee Member
Andrew D. Patterson, Committee Member
Connie J. Rogers, Outside Member

Author:

Davis, Jennifer Marguerite

Title:

MILITARY SPOUSE ONLINE AUTISM RELOCATION READINESS (MILSOARR) TRAINING AND MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Keywords:

autism
military family
peer mentor

File:

Download Davis_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Erinn Heer Finke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erinn Heer Finke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn D R Drager, Committee Member
Carol Anne Miller, Committee Member
Daniel Francis Perkins, Outside Member

Author:

Yang, Jung In

Title:

Reliability and Aging in Patterned Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3 Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ferroelectric
Reliability
Aging
HALT
Conduction mechanism
Patterned PZT thin film

File:

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Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Outside Member

Author:

John, Christian Lee

Title:

Against the Spring Wave: Ungulate Migration Phenology in a Changing Arctic

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Migration
Phenology
Arctic
Climate Change
Caribou
Remote Sensing

File:

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Committee Members:

Eric Post, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Alan Miller, Committee Member
Erica A H Smithwick, Committee Member

Author:

Imonighavwe, Goodness Oghenetega

Title:

Comparative Analysis of Three Equations of State in the prediction of Liquid Properties and the introduction of a new approach to Phase Behavior Modelling

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Thermodynamics
Phase modelling
Equation of state

File:

Download Thesis_by_Goodness.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Adebola Adewumi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
unkown, Committee Member
Unknown, Committee Member

Author:

Cronk, Stephanie Sarah

Title:

Soil Organic Carbon Protection in the Presence of Iron Oxides

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Climate change
peatlands
ferrihydrite
soil dissolved organic carbon
Mossbauer
TEM
STEM-EDS
coprecipitation
iron oxides

File:

Download Cronk_FINALFINAL__2_.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Aaron Gorski, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William D Burgos, Committee Member
Nathaniel Richard Warner, Committee Member

Author:

Worth, Rachel J

Title:

Dynamics of Life: Large-Scale Simulations of the Behavior of Small Bodies in Systems of Multiple Large Bodies

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

astrophysics
astronomy
astrodynamics
n-body simulations
Alpha Centauri
lithopanspermia
astrobiology
planet formation

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Committee Members:

Steinn Sigurdsson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Member
Eric B Ford, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Outside Member

Author:

Quesenberry, Krista Dawn

Title:

Reading at the Intersection of Modernist, Feminist, and Lifewriting Studies

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

American literature
modernism
modernist
lifewriting
autobiography
feminism
feminist
gender
sexuality
interdisciplinary
cross-disciplinary
feminist science studies
feminist ethics
disability studies

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Committee Members:

Dr. Susan Squier, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Susan Squier, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Robert Caserio, Committee Member
Dr. Sandra Spanier, Committee Member
Dr. Sarah Clark Miller, Outside Member

Author:

Nayak, Roshan Kumar

Title:

IMPLEMENTATION OF GOOD AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES FOOD SAFETY STANDARDS ON MID-ATLANTIC STATES AND NEW YORK PRODUCE FARMS

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Extension Education

Keywords:

Food Safety Standards
GAPs
Mid-Atlantic States
Extension
Produce Growers

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Committee Members:

John Ewing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Ewing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member
Connie Devine Baggett, Committee Member
Luke F Laborde, Outside Member

Author:

Benson, Lizbeth Erin

Title:

Fusing biodiversity metrics into investigations of daily life and healthy aging: Illustrations and recommendations with emodiversity

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

longitudinal analysis
emotion
diversity
intraindividual variability

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Committee Members:

Nilam Ram, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Almeida, Committee Member
Lisa Michelle Kopp, Committee Member