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Author:: Martin, Heath Thomas
Title:: Assessment of the Performance of Ablative Insulators under Realistic Solid Rocket Motor Operating Conditions
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: solid rocket motor
ablation
ablative
heat flux measurement
thermal radiation
radiometer
x-ray radiography
File:: Download Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Gita Talmage, Committee Member
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Deborah Levin, Committee Member

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Author:: Yomchinda, Thanan
Title:: Real-time Path Planning and Autonomous Control for Helicopter Autorotation
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Autorotation
Path Planning
Helicopter Control
Dynamic Inversion
Trajectory Tracking
File:: Download ThananYomchindaDissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Joseph Francis Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Special Member

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Author:: Yu, Bo
Title:: Designing For Awareness Promotion In Complex, Distributed Collaborative Activities
Graduate Program:: Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:: CSCW
Collaboration
Activity Awareness
Dependency
Event-based Systems
File:: Download BoYu-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Guoray Cai, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guoray Cai, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan Maceachren, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Member

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Author:: Louw, Enette
Title:: Structure and combustion reactivity of inertinite-rich and vitrinite rich South African coal chars: quantification of the structural factors contributing to reactivity differences
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Coal
char
reactivity
structure
molecular modeling
South Africa
File:: Download Final_Thesis_Enette_22July.pdf
Committee Members:: Jonathan P Mathews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Sarma V Pisupati, Committee Member
Semih Eser, Committee Member

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Author:: Cintron, Lorna Raquel
Title:: The Impact of Obesity through Increased Body Fat, Added Girth and Added Weight on Lifting Capacity
Graduate Program:: Industrial Engineering
Keywords:: Ergonomics
Obesity
BMI
NIOSH
RWL
Lifting Capacity
MAWL
L5S1
File:: Download Lorna_Cintron-Gonzalez_Dissertation-2013.pdf
Committee Members:: Andris Freivalds, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Paul Griffin, Committee Member
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member
Dr Samuel Oyewole, Committee Member
Diane Marie Spokus, Special Member

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Author:: Solmeyer, Neal Eldrich
Title:: Progress towards an electron electric dipole moment measurement with laser-cooled atoms
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: Precision measurement
laser-cooling
fundamental symmetry
File:: Download Solmeyer_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: David Scott Weiss, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth O'hara, Committee Member
Murat Gunaydin, Committee Member
Sergei Tabachnikov, Committee Member

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Author:: Guha Thakurta, Abhradeep
Title:: Differentially Private Convex Optimization For Empirical Risk Minimization And High-dimensional Regression
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Data Privacy
Differential Privacy
Machine Learning
High-dimensional Statistics
Sparse Regression
File:: Download AbhradeepThakurta-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Adam Davison Smith, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adam Davison Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Sofya Raskhodnikova, Committee Member

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Author:: Titchenell, Paul Michael
Title:: Targeting Atypical Protein Kinase C Isoforms for the Prevention of Blood-Retinal Barrier Dysfunction in Ophthalmic Disease
Graduate Program:: Physiology
Keywords:: vegf
drug discovery
PKC
blood-retinal barrier
vascular permeability
macular edema
phosphoproteomics
kinase inhibitor
TNF
File:: Download Titchenell_PM_Thesis_v2.pdf
Committee Members:: Charles H Lang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles H Lang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Spratt, Committee Member
David Antonetti, Special Member
Yuguang Shi, Committee Member
Christopher Martin Yengo, Committee Member

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Author:: Farrokh, Ebrahim
Title:: Study of Utilization Factor and Advance Rate of Hard Rock TBMS
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: TBM
Hard Rock
Advance Rate
Utilization
Cutter Life
Learning Phase
File:: Download Thesis-rev3.pdf
Committee Members:: Jamal Rostami, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jamal Rostami, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr R Larry Grayson, Committee Member
Antonio Nieto, Committee Member
Dr Prasenjit Basu, Special Member

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Author:: Grassie, Oonagh C
Title:: Environmental Stress Shapes the Neurobiology and Behavior of Fish
Graduate Program:: Wildlife and Fisheries Science
Keywords:: animal behavior
spatial learning
brain plasticity
behavioral ecology
environmental enrichment
File:: Download OCGRASSIE_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Victoria Anne Braithwaite Read, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
C Paola Ferreri, Committee Member
Tyler Wagner, Committee Member
Tracy Lee Langkilde, Special Member

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