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Author:

Briceno, Mia E

Title:

Engendering the Pageant: Rhetorical Constructions of Identity and Citizenship Through Drama and Contest, 1900-present

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

pageant
identity
citizenship

File:

Download BricenoFinalDissDraft_03Apr.pdf

Committee Members:

Rosa A Eberly, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member

Author:

Lizardi, Ryan

Title:

Playlist Pasts: New Media, Constructed Nostalgic Subjectivity and the Disappearance of Shared History

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

nostalgia
melancholia
remake
postmodern
historical representations
playlist

File:

Download Lizardi_-_Nostalgia_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Frank Jordan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Mc Allister, Committee Member
Marie Hardin, Committee Member
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member

Author:

Sacher, Joshua Ryan

Title:

Progress Toward a Total Synthesis of the Lycopodium Alkaloid Lycopladine H

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

organic
synthesis
lycopodium
lycopladine
quinone ketal
oxidative dearomatization
hydroaminomethylation
Henry reaction

File:

Download Sacher_-_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Steven M Weinreb, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raymond Lee Funk, Committee Member
Gong Chen, Committee Member
Ryan John Elias, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Zhenfeng

Title:

Ecophysiology and Metabolism of Green Bacteria Inferred from -omics Studies

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

Green Bacteria
Chlorobi
Genomics
Metagenomics
Metatranscriptomics
Bacteriochlorophyll

File:

Download Liu_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Bryant, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarah Ellen Ades, Committee Member
Stephan Schuster, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member

Author:

Terando, Adam James

Title:

Quantifying the effects of climate change on crop yields.

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

climate change
crop yields
agro-climate indices
uncertainty

File:

Download AJTerando_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

William Ewart Easterling Iii, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Petra Tschakert, Committee Member
Denice Heller Wardrop, Committee Member
Klaus Keller, Committee Member

Author:

Kestur Vyasa Prasanna, Srinidhi

Title:

Domain-specific Accelerators on Reconfigurable Platforms

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

accelerators
NuFFT
FPGA
N-body problem
matrix vector
sparse
saliency
HMAX
attention
recognition
neuromorphic
vision

File:

Download 1-SrinidhiKestur-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member
John D Davis, Special Member

Author:

Merino, Stephen Miguel

Title:

Social Resources and Influence in Religious Networks: Consequences for Social Support, Volunteering, and Intergroup Contact

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

sociology of religion
social networks
social support
volunteering
intergroup contact

File:

Download Merino_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Kent Finke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roger Kent Finke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Marylee Carmel Taylor, Committee Member
Barrett Alan Lee, Committee Member
Eric Plutzer, Committee Member

Author:

Faryad, Muhammad

Title:

Propagation and Excitation of Multiple Surface Waves

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

surface plasmon-polariton waves
Kretschmann
grating
solar cell
sculptured thin film
rugate filter

File:

Download 11v_Thesis_Faryad.pdf

Committee Members:

Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Osama O Awadelkarim, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Special Member

Author:

Gilmour, Timothy

Title:

Signal Processing Applications to Electrophysiology of Continuous Dopaminergic Stimulation Therapy in Preclinical Parkinson's Disease Models

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Parkinson's Disease
Cell Transplantation
Signal Processing
Transfer Entropy
FVM
RPE
Levodopa
6-OHDA
Bursts

File:

Download TG_thesis_draft10.pdf

Committee Members:

Thyagarajan Subramanian, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Thomas Wichmann, Special Member
David Carl Swanson, Committee Member
Vishal Monga, Committee Member

Author:

Koslicki, David Mark

Title:

Substitution Markov chains with applications to molecular evolution

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Random Substitution
Substitution Markov chain
molecular evolution
topological entropy
topological pressure
symbolic dynamic

File:

Download DavidKoslicki-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Manfred Heinz Denker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Manfred Heinz Denker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Omri Sarig, Committee Member
Yakov B Pesin, Committee Member
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Special Member