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Author:

Zhang, Xiao

Title:

Route Extraction, Road Name Disambiguation and Efficient Spatial Query Processing under Location Constraints

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

human generated route descriptions
route information extraction
road name disambiguation
spatial query processing

File:

Download XiaoZhang_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Prasenjit Mitra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Robert Collins, Committee Member
Alan Maceachren, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Chengzhu

Title:

A Unified Theory for Ice Vapor Growth Suitable for Cloud Models: Testing and Implications for Cold Cloud Evolution

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

Ice Crystal Growth
Surface Kinetics
Deposition Coefficient
Cirrus
Cold Cloud

File:

Download Chengzhu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jerry Y Harrington, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Johannes Verlinde, Committee Member
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Member
Andrew Mark Carleton, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Hedan

Title:

Effects of turbulence-chemistry interactions in direct-injection compression-ignition engines

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

turbulence-chemistry interactions
probability density function
diesel engine
NOx
n-heptane

File:

Download thesis_Hedan_fina.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Connell Haworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
James Gordon Brasseur, Committee Member
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yu

Title:

Keeping Retailer's Cycle Service Level Under VMI Strategy -- A Regression Model

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

VMI
cycle service level
days of supply
regression

File:

Download thesis_Yu_Zhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Griffin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Haolun

Title:

High Frequency Mri Rf Coil Design

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

high frequency
mri
rf coil

File:

Download GraduationThesis_haolunzhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael T Lanagan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Neuberger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jian Xu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Yan

Title:

Molecular Evolutionary Analysis of Plastid Genomes in Nonphotosynthetic Angiosperms and Cancer Cell Lines

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Plastid genome
parasitic plant
molecular evolution
cancer cell lines

File:

Download 1-Zhang.Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Claude W De Pamphilis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hong Ma, Committee Member
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Sheng

Title:

Tuning geometries and interactions of artificial frustrated nanomagnets

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Geometrical frustration
Artificial spin ice
Nanomagnetism

File:

Download Dissertation_Sheng_Zhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter E Schiffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Special Member

Author:

Zhang, Jingyan

Title:

Shrinking Dimer Dynamics and its Application in Saddle Point Search

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Saddle point search
transition state
Shrinking Dimer Dynamics
dimer method
nucleation
constrained Shrinking Dimer Dynamics

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Qiang Du, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov, Committee Member
Xiantao Li, Committee Member
Alexei Novikov, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Zikui Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Can

Title:

Enhanced Electrophoresis Based On Redox Electrochemistry Of Electroactive Electrode Materials And Fabrication Of A Self-powered Electrophoresis System Based On Discharging A Battery.

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Supercapacitor
Electrophoresis.

File:

Download Masters_Final_Thesis_Can_Zhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Ayusman Sen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Ying

Title:

A Trade Space Exploration Process to Optimize Advanced Energy Retrofit Design for Buildings

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Trade Space Exploration
Energy Retrofit Design
Building System
Data Visualization

File:

Download ZHANG_Ying_Master_Thesis_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Zhang, Ying

Title:

New Models For Conditional Covariance Matrix

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

covariance estimation
smoothing spline
Cholesky decomposition
local linear regression
semi-parametric regression

File:

Download Thesis_Ying.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Jianing

Title:

Essays on Mutual Funds and Bond Markets

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

mutual fund
corporate bond
TIPS
industry timing
institutional trade

File:

Download Zhang_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joel Matthew Vanden, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joel Matthew Vanden, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Quanwei Cao, Committee Member
Heber Farnsworth, Committee Member
N Edward Coulson, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Hongsong

Title:

Three Essays on Firm Productivity in Industrial Organization and International Trade

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

heterogeneous productivity
industrial organization
international trade
import

File:

Download HZhang_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark John Roberts, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark John Roberts, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James R. Tybout, Committee Member
Paul L E Grieco, Committee Member
Spiro E Stefanou, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Bo

Title:

Dynamic Games and Robust Models for Transportation and Service Networks

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Urban Freight Transportation
Truckload Service Procurement
Dynamic Stackelberg Game
Two-Stage Robust Optimization

File:

Download Dissertation_Bo_Zhang_v3_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Tao Yao, Terry L Friesz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tao Yao, Terry L Friesz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Griffin, Committee Member
Susan H Xu, Special Member

Author:

Zhang, Lei

Title:

Thermodynamic investigation of transition metal oxides via CALPHAD and first-principles methods

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

CALPHAD
transition metal oxides
phase stability
first-principles
defect

File:

Download Lei-MSThesis-v6.pdf

Committee Members:

Zi Kui Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Liwen

Title:

The relationship between job resources and work engagement in an international context

Graduate Program:

Human Resources and Employment Relations

Keywords:

work engagement
job resources
power distance
uncertainty avoidance
work engagement
job resources
power distance
uncertainty avoidance
work engagement
job resources
power distance
uncertainty avoidance

File:

Download Correct_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Elaine Farndale, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ryan Lamare, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Weichun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Shang-min

Title:

Oral Cancer Induced by The Tobacco Carcinogen Dibenzo[a,l]pyrene in Mice

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

Oral Cancer
Tobacco Carcinogen
DB[a
l]P
DNA adducts
LC-MS/MS
p53 mutations
epigenetics
alcohol
chemoprevention

File:

Download Final_thesis_shangmin_zhang_hershey_July_30.pdf

Committee Members:

Karam E El Bayoumy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kristin Ann Eckert, Committee Member
John Peter Richie Jr., Committee Member
Thomas E Spratt, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Lu

Title:

Decipher the menu: The impact of language barriers on decision-making

Graduate Program:

Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Management

Keywords:

Language barrier
preference fluency
power
and choice

File:

Download 1-Dissertation_Lu_final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Anna S Mattila, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Allen Cranage, Committee Member
Hubert Van Hoof, Committee Member
Margaret Grace Meloy, Committee Member
Yu Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yang

Title:

Decentralized Interactions In Networks

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

network
game theory
behavioral experiment
operations research

File:

Download Yang_Zhang_dissertation_7_go.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Bolton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Xu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elena Katok, Committee Member
Anthony Mark Kwasnica, Committee Member
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yeting

Title:

Horizontal Gene Transfer Studies in Parasitic Plants of the Orobanchaceae

Graduate Program:

Genetics

Keywords:

Horizontal gene transfer
Parasitic plants
Orobanchaceae

File:

Download yetingDissertationOri.pdf

Committee Members:

Claude W De Pamphilis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tomas Carlo, Committee Member
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
John Edward Carlson, Committee Member