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Author:: Shahid, Saima
Title:: Discovery of endogenous plant small RNAs and their role in trans-species gene regulation
Graduate Program:: Plant Biology
Keywords:: miRNA
siRNA
plant small RNAs
Amborella
Physcomitrella
Triphysaria
Cuscuta
Parasitic plants
trans-species gene regulation
File:: Download Dissertation_Saima_Shahid_final_111717.pdf
Committee Members:: Michael Axtell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Axtell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Member
Gabriele Brigitte Monshausen, Committee Member
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Outside Member

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Author:: Pandey, Shaileshachandra V
Title:: TECHNIQUES FOR DESIGNING MICROWAVE AND MILLIMETER WAVE ANTENNAS AND COMPONENTS USING ARTIFICIALLY ENGINEERED MATERIALS AND METASURFACES
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: FSS
Artificial Engineered material
Lens
Variable phase-shifter
Space-qualifiable Lens
Metal-only Reflectarray
Dielectric-only Reflectarray
DaD Lens
Dual-band Metal-only reflectarray
File:: Download Final_Thesis_SP.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr. Raj Mittra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Ram Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Jim Breakall, Committee Member
Dr. MICHAEL T LANAGAN, Committee Member
Dr. MICHAEL T LANAGAN, Outside Member

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Author:: Rathod, Yogesh
Title:: EVALUATION OF SEISMIC STRUCTURAL FRAGILITY METHODOLOGIES USING NON-STATIONARY SIMULATED GROUND MOTIONS
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: Fragility
IDA
Cloud Method
Softmax Regression
File:: Download Yogesh_Rathod_MS_Thesis_Civil_Engineering_Department.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr. Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Karamchandani, Neeraj
Title:: MUTATION BASED PROTOCOL FUZZER FOR IOT
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Fuzzer
Android Things
HomeKit
IoT
Internet of Things
Security of Internet of Things
File:: Download Thesis_draft3.4.2.pdf
Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Chittlangia, Vedant Rajiv
Title:: Implementation of High FST Turbulent Kinetic Energy Diffusion Model in OpenFOAM Code for Simulation of Heat Transfer over a Gas Turbine Blade
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: turbulence
high FST
OpenFOAM
C3X
turbine blade
heat transfer
low reynolds number model
Launder Sharma model
diffusion
File:: Download Chittlangia_Vedant_MasterThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Savas Yavuzkurt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Yu, Shih Ying
Title:: Electron Microscopy and Analytical Spectroscopy of Silicon and Germanium Metalattices
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: 3D artificial lattices
Inverse opal
Ordered nanostructures
Silicon
Germanium
Metalattice
Transmission electron microscopy
Electron energy loss spectroscopy
Electron tomography
Quantum confinement
File:: Download PhD_Dissertation_ShihYingYu_Finalv5.pdf
Committee Members:: Suzanne E. Mohney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suzanne E. Mohney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John V. Badding, Committee Member
Chris Giebink, Committee Member
Nasim Alem, Outside Member

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Author:: Moran, Peter L
Title:: The Evolution of the Legal Relationship between Penn State and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Graduate Program:: Higher Education
Keywords:: higher education
governance
legal
File:: Download Moran_Dissert_1116_2017_1.pdf
Committee Members:: Neal Hutchens, Special Member
Dorothy Evensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fred Loomis, Committee Member
David S Guthrie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Hopsicker, Outside Member

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Author:: Hagen, Lea May
Title:: Swift/UVOT Observations of Star Formation and Dust Attenuation in both Local and High Redshift Galaxies
Graduate Program:: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Keywords:: star formation
dust
Swift
ultraviolet
UVOT
galaxies
astronomy
Small Magellanic Cloud
M33
M31
File:: Download Lea_Hagen_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Caryl Ann Gronwall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Caryl Ann Gronwall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Hiram Siegel, Committee Member
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Member
Sarah Elizabeth Shandera, Outside Member
John Andrew Nousek, Committee Member

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Author:: Hagen, Alex Richard
Title:: A Study in Lyman-alpha
Graduate Program:: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Keywords:: Astronomy
Astrophysics
File:: Download thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Caryl Ann Gronwall, Committee Member
Sarah Elizabeth Shandera, Committee Member
Donald P Schneider, Outside Member

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Author:: Joos, Celina Maria
Title:: The Role of Puberty in the Development of Coping
Graduate Program:: Psychology
Keywords:: puberty
adolescence
stress
development of coping
File:: Download Joos_Masters_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Martha Wadsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kristin Buss, Committee Member
Lorah Dorn, Committee Member

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