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Author:: Rathbun, Andrew Paul
Title:: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF FRICTIONAL AND HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES OF SHEAR ZONES, WITH APPLICATION TO EARTHQUAKE FAULTS AND GLACIAL TILL
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: Shear
Localization
Earthquakes
Friction
File:: Download ThesisFinal.pdf
Committee Members:: Chris Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member

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Author:: Barnard, Andrew Robert
Title:: Development of Supersonic Intensity in Reverberant Environments (SIRE) with applications in underwater acoustics
Graduate Program:: Acoustics
Keywords:: Nearfield Acoustic Holography
NAH
Acoustics
Sound Power Measurement
Directivity
Supersonic Intensity
Reverberant tank
Reverberation Room
signal separation
underwater intensity
acoustic vector sensors
File:: Download ARB_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Stephen A Hambric, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen A Hambric, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dean Capone, Committee Member
Anthony A Atchley, Committee Member
Julian Decatur Maynard Jr., Committee Member
Stephen Clarke Conlon, Committee Member

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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

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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

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Author:: Mihalache, Andreea Stefania
Title:: Gambling on Conflict: Foreign Direct Investors and Political Violence in Developing Countries
Graduate Program:: Political Science
Keywords:: multinational corporations and conflict
political risk management
political risk
industry-level FDI
conflict
political violence
Foreign direct investment
civil conflict
location substitutability
intensity of non-physical assets
File:: Download MihalacheDissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: D Scott Bennett, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
D Scott Bennett, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Quan Li, Committee Member
Douglas William Lemke, Committee Member
Subhanan Mukherjee, Committee Member
Andres Rodriguez Clare, Committee Member

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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

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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

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Author:: Yanamandra, Aditya
Title:: Exploring Power Reliability Tradeoffs in On-Chip Networks
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Electromigration
Soft Errors
Reliability
Network on chip
Router Cache
Iso-reliable
File:: Download AdityaYanamandra-dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Mary Jane Irwin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member

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Author:: Verderosa-Ishakarah, Ashanti Tashi
Title:: A SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF THE MISSISSIPPI... BELIEVE IT! CAMPAIGN POSTERS: GEO-BRANDING AND IMAGE REPAIR STRATEGIES
Graduate Program:: Media Studies
Keywords:: image
stereotypes
posters
semiotic analysis
Mississippi
geo-branding
rhetorical analysis
tourism
File:: Download ultimatethesis21.pdf
Committee Members:: Kevin J Hagopian, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kevin J Hagopian, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anthony Olorunnisola, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell Frank, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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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

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