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Author:

Tang, Hao

Title:

Prediction of clean-bed head loss in crumb rubber filters

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

filtration
clean-bed head loss
Kozeny equation
crumb rubber
Ergun equation

File:

Download Hao_Tang_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuefeng F Xie, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuefeng F Xie, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Michael Regan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Tang, Kaizhi

Title:

MULTI-AGENT AND MARKET BASED DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION AND ITS EXTENSIONS TO DISTRIBUTED SUPPLY CHAIN PROCUREMENT PLANNING PROBLEMS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

double auction
market mechanism
supply chain procurement
transportation planning
multi-agent system
contingency planning
reinforcement learning
meta-heuristic
variable neighborhood search
dynamic optimization
distributed heuristic
multi-stage game
evolutionary method
fictitious playing
evolutionary stable strategy

File:

Download PhDThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Member
Natarajan Gautam, Committee Member
Ernest Emory Enscore Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Tang, Mingzhe

Title:

Empirical Studies on Local Competition, Regulation and Broadband Diffusion in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

dynamic programming
local competition
broadband diffusion
nested pseudo-loglikelihood estimation

File:

Download Mingzhe-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark John Roberts, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
N Edward Coulson, Committee Member
Coenraad Arnout P Pinkse, Committee Member
Krishna Prasad Jayakar, Committee Member

Author:

Tang, Xiaochao

Title:

A STUDY OF PERMANENT DEFORMATION BEHAVIOR OF GEOGRID-REINFORCED FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS USING SMALL SCALE ACCELERATED PAVEMENT TESTING

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

pavements
geogrid
soft soil subgrade
accelerated testing
instrumentation
mechanistic empirical design
finite element

File:

Download Dissertation_Tang.pdf

Committee Members:

Angelica Palomino, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Angelica M Palomino, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maria Lopez De Murphy, Committee Member
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member

Author:

Tang, Ying

Title:

CHRISTA WOLF: THE MAKING OF AN INTELLECTUAL WOMAN

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

Christa Wolf
women intellectuals
feminism and socialism

File:

Download dissertation_Ying_June06.pdf

Committee Members:

Cecilia Novero, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Committee Member
Joan Landes, Committee Member
Hartmut Heep, Committee Member

Author:

Tang, Yong

Title:

ADVANCING HYDROLOGIC MODEL EVALUATION AND IDENTIFICATION USING MULTIOBJECTIVE CALIBRATION, SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS, AND PARALLEL COMPUTATION

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrologic model
model calibration
sensitivity analysis
multiobjective optimization
evolutionary algorithm
parallel computation

File:

Download Dissertation_Yong_Tang_02_02_07_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick M Reed, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member
Thorsten Wagener, Committee Member
Hangsheng Lin, Committee Member

Author:

Tang, Zhihui

Title:

THREE TOPICS ON DIMENSION REDUCTION

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

invariant aggregation
central space
dimension reduciton

File:

Download tang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Member
Hongyuan Zha, Committee Member

Author:

Tang, Yong

Title:

Chinese Freedom of Information: An Evaluation of the Legislative History, Rationales, Significance and Efficacy of Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Open Government Information

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

OGI Regulations
China
Government Transparency
Freedom of Information
Secrecy and Transparency

File:

Download Penn_State_Dissertation_Final_Third_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Martin Halstuk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Martin Halstuk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Ford Risley, Committee Member
Gretchen G Casper, Committee Member
Anthony Olorunnisola, Committee Member
Marie Hardin, Special Member

Author:

Tang, Donghuan

Title:

Essays on Retail Analytics and Material Information Modeling

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Retail Analytics
Clustering
Association Rules
Material Information Modeling
Sustainability Metrics Computational Platform

File:

Download Master_Thesis_IE_Donghuan_Tang-2014-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Christopher Saldana, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Akhil Kumar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Tang, Xin

Title:

Use of Human induced-pluripotent Stem Cells to Understand Molecular Mechanisms of Autism

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Human iPSC
astrocyte
neuron
functional maturation
synapse
KCC2
GABA functional switch
MeCP2
REST
Rett syndrome
Autism

File:

Download Xin_Tang_Dissertation_The_Final_Version_20140409.pdf

Committee Members:

Gong Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Cavener, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard Luscher, Committee Member
Melissa Rolls, Committee Member
Yingwei Mao, Committee Member