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Author:

Liu, Huacong

Title:

How do Affirmative Action Bans Affect Student Racial and Socio-economic Composition?

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

affirmative action
student-body composition
low-income students
synthetic control analysis

File:

Download Liu_072017.pdf

Committee Members:

Liang Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Liang Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Jesse Cheslock, Committee Member
Alicia C Dowd, Committee Member
Mark John Roberts, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Shih Hsien

Title:

Shape-Selective Syntheses of Gold and Copper Nanostructures: Insights from Density-Functional Theory and Molecular Dynamics

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

hexadecylamine
copper
nanostructure
force field
molecular dynamics
hexadecylamine
copper
nanostructure
density-functional theory
force field
molecular dynamics
polyvinylpyrrolidone
gold
reconstruction

File:

Download Shih-Hsien_Liu_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Yuqin

Title:

Lattice Structure: Modeling, Design, and Simulation

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Lattice structure
Homogeneous
Safety Factor
Truss

File:

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Committee Members:

Sanjay Joshi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Liu, Wenpeng

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF IMPROVED ALGORITHMS FOR DETECTION OF JOINTS AND ESTIMATION OF ROCK STRENGTH IN ROCK STRUCTURES BY USING DRILLING PARAMETERS OF THE INSTRUMENTED ROOF BOLTER

Graduate Program:

Mining Engineering

Keywords:

Joint Detection
Rock Strength Estimation
Drilling Parameters
Roof Bolter
Pattern Recognition Algorithms
Wavelet Analysis
Ground Support Optimiztion
Ground Control
Composite Parameters
Mining Health and Safety
Roof Bolts

File:

Download PhD_THESIS-Wenpeng_Liu.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Jeremy M. Gernand, Committee Member
Asok Ray, Outside Member
Jamal Rostami, Special Member

Author:

Liu, Sha

Title:

A PRIVACY-RESPECTING SYSTEM FOR MOBILE CAMERAS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

mobile cameras
privacy protection
Bluetooth
BLE broadcast
face matching

File:

Download Sha_Liu-Thesis-Graduation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Qi

Title:

Quantum Engineering of Fractional Hall Physics in an Atom-Optical Laughlin-Pump Oscillator

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Quantum Simulation
Topological Order
Laughlin's Quantum Pump
Driven Oscillator
Sagnac Interferometer

File:

Download QiLiu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nathan David Gemelke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nathan David Gemelke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Scott Weiss, Committee Member
Kenneth O'Hara, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Yunzhi

Title:

Magnetic and Metallic Metalattices: A Transferrable Nanocasting by Confined Supercritical Fluid Chemical Deposition

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

3D artificial lattices
inverse opal
supercritical fluid chemical deposition
chemical fluid deposition
spin-engineered meta-materials
plasmonic meta-materials
metalattices
nanocasting

File:

Download Y.Liu_PhD_Thesis_Final_Version.pdf

Committee Members:

John V Badding, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John V Badding, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Miriam Arak Freedman, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Shushu

Title:

SENSING MECHANISM AND REAL TIME (SMART) COMPUTING FOR GRANULAR MATERIALS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Railroad
Geotechnical Engineering
Ballast
SmartRock

File:

Download Shushu_PhD_Dissertation_1031.pdf

Committee Members:

Hai Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hai Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ming Xiao, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tong Qiu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Liu, Yaru Grace

Title:

A GIS Imagery Based Woody Biomass Biorefinery Location Model for Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Woody biomass
Pennsylvania
Facility location
GIS
NAIP imagery
Mixed integer linear programming

File:

Download Yaru_Liu_Dissertation_2019_v9.pdf

Committee Members:

Evelyn Ann Thomchick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Alexander Novack, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Saurabh Bansal, Committee Member
Thomas Lehman Richard, Committee Member
Thomas Lehman Richard, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Meng

Title:

Design Anywhere Manufacture Anywhere: A Novel Distribution Manufacturing Framework

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Manufacturing process
Shape descriptor
Do-It-Yourself

File:

Download Liu_Meng_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Saurabh Basu, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Jing

Title:

THE INFLUENCE OF TEACHER EMPOWERMENT ON TEACHER INTENTION TO LEAVE: AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

TEACHER EMPOWERMENT
INTENTION TO LEAVE
TEACHER ATTRITION

File:

Download 190311_Jing_Liu_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Deborah L. Schussler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Deborah L. Schussler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gerald K. LeTendre, Committee Member
Soo-yong Byun, Committee Member
Bernard J. Badiali, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Ke

Title:

Cellulose nanocomposites production through co-culture fermentation

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

Bacterial cellulose
Exopolysaccharides
Escherichia coli
Hyaluronic acid
Lactococcus lactis
Co-culturing
Bioreactor
Biofilm
Ribbon assembly
Crystallinity

File:

Download Dissertation_Ke_Liu_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey M Catchmark, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Demirci, Committee Member
Cibin Raj, Committee Member
Edward G Dudley, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Yushuang

Title:

When Adults Learn Novel Word With Meanings: The Role Of Consolidation In Word Learning And Memory Retention

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

word learning
ERP
semantic integration

File:

Download MS_Thesis_submitted_for_format_review_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Adriana Van Hell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ping Li, Committee Member
Rick Owen Gilmore, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Pei Hsuan

Title:

Understand the link between early exposure to family violence and later involvement in school bullying: How can school connectedness help?

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

Family Violence
Domestic Violence
Child Maltreatment
Bullying
Peer Victimization
Trauma
FFCWS
Moderation
Counselor Education
School Connectedness
Trauma-Informed School

File:

Download Patty_s_dissertation_final_update_071719.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. SeriaShia J. Chatters, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. SeriaShia J. Chatters, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. JoLynn V. Carney, Committee Member
Dr. Carlomagno Panlilio, Committee Member
Dr. Amy Marshall, Outside Member
Dr. Peggy Lorah, Special Member

Author:

Liu, Rui

Title:

Production Data Analysis in Complex Fractured Gas Reservoirs: Reserves Estimation and Diagnostics

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

production data analysis
rate transient analysis
reserve estimation
density-based approach

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Luis F. Ayala H, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Wanjun

Title:

New Statistical Tools for High-dimensional Data Modeling

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

High-dimensional data
Hypothesis testing
Feature screening
Regularized method

File:

Download Wanjun_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Xi

Title:

Quantifying cities through user-generated geosocial content with GeoAI

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

GIScience
GeoAI
Cities
Computational Social Science
Machine Learning
Data Mining

File:

Download Xi_Liu_dissertation_revised_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Clio Maria Andris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clio Maria Andris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan M Mac Eachren, Committee Member
Donna Peuquet, Committee Member
Bruce A Desmarais, Jr., Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Peng

Title:

Monostatic and Bistatic Ice-Penetrating Radars Based on Software-Defined Radio Technology

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Bistatic Ice-Penetrating Radar
Software-Defined Radio

File:

Download PengLiu_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven G Bilen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
John Mathews, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Ning

Title:

DATA-DRIVEN MODELING AND INTERPRETABLE MACHINE LEARNING WITH APPLICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Data-Driven Modeling
Interpretable Machine Learning
Healthcare Analytics
Drug-Drug Interactions
Patient Satisfaction

File:

Download NingLiu-Dissertation-FinalVersion.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guodong Pang, Committee Member
Eunhye Song, Committee Member
Terry Harrison, Outside Member
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Chang

Title:

THE STATIC CO-OCCURRENCE AND DYNAMIC CO-DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN EXTERNALIZING AND INTERNALIZING BEHAVIORS FROM AGES 1.5 TO 8 YEARS AT BETWEEN-PERSON AND WITHIN-PERSON LEVELS: DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES AND HERITABLE AND REARING ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

externalizing and internalizing behaviors
between-person and within-person perspectives
co-occurrence
dynamic co-development
parent-offspring adoption design
integrative data-analytic techniques
heritable and rearing environmental influences

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Committee Members:

Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ginger A Moore, Committee Member
Koraly Elisa Perez-Edgar, Committee Member
Sy-Miin Chow, Outside Member
Melvin Michael Mark, Program Head/Chair