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Author:: Varshney, Amit
Title:: Optimization and control of multiscale process systems using model reduction: Application to thin-film growth
Graduate Program:: Chemical Engineering
Keywords:: Carleman Linearization
System Identification
Optimization
Dynamic Optimization
Modeling
Multiscale
Stochastic
Model Predictive Control
Receding Horizon Control
Thin film growth
Epitaxy
File:: Download mythesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Antonios Armaou, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Costas D Maranas, Committee Member
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member

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Author:: Loubeau, Alexandra
Title:: Nonlinear propagation of high-frequency energy from blast waves as it pertains to bat hearing
Graduate Program:: Acoustics
Keywords:: nonlinear acoustics
blast wave
explosion
outdoor sound propagation
high frequency
bat
File:: Download alexandra_loubeau_phdthesis2006.pdf
Committee Members:: Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas B Gabrielson, Committee Member
John Stephen Lamancusa, Committee Member
Anthony A Atchley, Committee Member

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Author:: Deak, Atila
Title:: BENEFITS OF FORAGE SPECIES DIVERSITY IN GRAZING SYSTEMS IN PENNSYLVANIA
Graduate Program:: Agronomy
Keywords:: DIVERISTY
PASTURES
GRAZING
WEED SUPRESSION
GRAZING ECONOMIC ANALYIS
File:: Download Deak_PhD_Tesis_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Marvin H Hall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matt A Sanderson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gregory Wayne Roth, Committee Member
Harold William Harpster, Committee Member
Clarence Alan Rotz, Committee Member

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Author:: Gayasen, Aman
Title:: Implications of Future Technologies on the Design of FPGAs
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: field programmable gate array
power
thermal
three-dimensional stacking
three-dimensional integration
nanotechnology
interconnect
File:: Download gayasen-thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member

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Author:: Jabbour, Aref
Title:: Instrumentality, Reactivity and Psychopathy in Sexual Offenses against Children: An Exploratory Analysis
Graduate Program:: Psychology
Keywords:: psychopathy
sexual offenses
instrumentality
reactivity
File:: Download Final_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Peter Andrew Arnett, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sandra T Azar, Committee Member
Eric Silver, Committee Member
Richard Hazler, Committee Member

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Author:: Natarajan, Ajay
Title:: MULTI-CRITERIA SUPPLY CHAIN INVENTORY MODELS WITH TRANSPORTATION COSTS
Graduate Program:: Industrial Engineering
Keywords:: Multi-Criteria optimization
Single Objective optimization
Inventory policies
Transportation
Inventory
Supply Chain
Stochastic modelling
Supply chain Case Study
File:: Download Thesis_Report.pdf
Committee Members:: Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
John Eugene Tyworth, Committee Member

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Author:: Edge, Brian A.
Title:: An Analytical and Numerical Study of Cavitation Scale Effects in High-Reynolds Number Circular Jet Flows
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Cavitation Inception
Detached-eddy simulation
circular jet
round jet
cavitation scale effects
File:: Download B_Edge_PhD.pdf
Committee Members:: Eric G Paterson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Laura Pauley, Committee Member
Mario F Trujillo, Committee Member

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Author:: Bray, Bethany Cara
Title:: Examining Gambling and Substance Use: Applications of Advanced Latent Class Modeling Techniques for Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Data
Graduate Program:: Human Development and Family Studies
Keywords:: gambling
substance use
latent class models
longitudinal
File:: Download BethanyCaraBray-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Linda Marie Collins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward A Smith, Committee Member
Jennifer Lianne Maggs, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Schafer, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Committee Member
Helene R White, Committee Member

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Author:: Zellers, Brian Christopher
Title:: AN ACOUSTIC SUPERPOSITION METHOD FOR COMPUTING STRUCTURAL RADIATION IN SPATIALLY DIGITIZED DOMAINS
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: ACOUSTICS
MESHLESS
COMPUTATIONAL
DIGITAL
ELEMENT FREE
SUPERPOSITION
File:: Download Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Gary Hugo Koopmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Lester Jonson, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member
Martin Wesley Trethewey, Committee Member

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Author:: Hollingshead, Brett David
Title:: In vitro and in vivo analysis of aryl hydrocarbon receptor regulation by the hepatitis B virus X-associated protein 2
Graduate Program:: Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology
Keywords:: aryl hydrocarbon receptor
XAP2
HSP90
gene regulation
chaperone proteins
AIP
File:: Download Hollingshead_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Gary H Perdew, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey Maurice Peters, Committee Member
Ross Cameron Hardison, Committee Member
Ming Tien, Committee Member
Scott Trent Feldman, Committee Member

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