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Author:

Mullaney, Emma

Title:

Working with Maize: Livelihood, Agrobiodiversity, and Uneven Development in Mexico’s Central Highlands

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

geography
women's studies
political ecology
gender
maize
Mexico
ethnography
agrobiodiversity
farmer livelihoods
agricultural extension
CGIAR
agriculture
feminist
diverse economies
uneven development

File:

Download EGM_Dissertation__Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Brian King, Program Head/Chair
Leland Glenna, Outside Unit & Field Member
Melissa Wright, Major Field Member
Carolyn Sachs, Co-Chair of Committee
Karl Zimmerer, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Muthumanickam, Naveen Kumar

Title:

Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Framework For Multi-Phase Building Design Process - Technology Demonstration Using Design Of Office Building And Robotically 3D Printed Habitat

Graduate Program:

Architecture (PHD)

Keywords:

Building Design Optimization
Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
Concurrent Engineering
Model and Simulation-Based Engineering
Metamodelling
Multifidelity modelling
Surrogate Modelling
Building Information Modelling (BIM)
Energy Modelling
Daylighting Simulation
Robotic Constructability
3D Printing
Additive Concrete deposition
Machine Learning

File:

Download Muthumanickam__NaveenKumar_Architecture_PhD_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy Simpson, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Pinto Duarte, Co-Chair & Major Field Member
Lisa Iulo, Major Field Member
Gordon Warn, Outside Unit & Field Member
Loukas Kalisperis, Major Field Member
Somayeh Asadi, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Amy

Title:

Novel methods and application of Bayesian hierarchical regression models

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Bayesian models
Bayesian hierarchical regression
Approximate cross-validation
Information pooling
Statistics

File:

Download Thesis_AZhang_1005.pdf

Committee Members:

David Hunter, Major Field Member
Xiaoyue Niu, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Outside Unit & Field Member
Le Bao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair
Michael J. Daniels, Special Member

Author:

D'Amico, Rebecca

Title:

Engineering Allostery in Tryptophan Synthase

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

Enzymes
Allostery
NMR
Tryptophan Synthase
Allosteric Networks
Amino Acid Networks
Protein Engineering

File:

Download Damico_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

David Boehr, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Wayne Curtis, Outside Unit & Field Member
Scott Showalter, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Timothy Meredith, Major Field Member
Wendy Hanna-Rose, Program Head/Chair
C Okafor, Major Field Member

Author:

Prieto, Victor

Title:

The Role of Electrostatic Interactions in Disordered Protein Binding Mechanisms

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

intrinsically disordered proteins
NMR
Fcp1
Rap74
fluorescence anisotropy
paramagnetic relaxation enhancement

File:

Download Victor_Prieto_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Xin Zhang, Major Field Member
David Boehr, Major Field Member
Scott Showalter, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Song Tan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Xiong, Yu

Title:

Vibroacoustics of Lightweight Structures with Embedded Acoustic Black Holes

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Vibroacoustics
Noise and Vibration Control
Acoustic Black Holes
Noise Reduction
Sound Transmission Loss
Structural Acoustics

File:

Download YuXiongDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Namiko Yamamoto, Major Field Member
John Fahnline, Outside Field Member
Edward Smith, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Conlon, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Dan Russell, Outside Unit & Minor Member

Author:

Mwangi, Margaret

Title:

Effects of Drought on Nomadic Pastoralism: Impacts and Adaptation among the Maasai of Kajiado District, Kenya

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Maasai
Kenya
Drought
Adaptations
Impacts
Climate Change
Africa

File:

Download Mwangi_N_Margaret_PhD_Dissertation_GradSch__Dept_Nov_16_2012.pdf

Committee Members:

Alan H Taylor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan H Taylor & C Gregory Knight, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karl Stephen Zimmerer, Committee Member
Michael Gregory Jacobson, Special Member

Author:

Yu, Mingzhao

Title:

Discriminative brain image analysis via geometrically inspired deep networks

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

neuroimaging
AI
hydrocephalus
attention regularization
brain volume estimation
ultrasound
CT
MRI
classification

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Mahanth Gowda, Major Field Member
Nanyin Zhang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mehdi Kiani, Major Field Member
Steven J. Schiff, Special Member
Vishal Monga, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Kate, Emily

Title:

BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS OF EPICLASSIC (A.D. 550-900) HILLTOP SETTLEMENTS FROM THE TULA REGION OF HIDALGO, MEXICO

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

Cerro Magoni
La Mesa
Tula
Tula Grande
Isotope
Radiocarbon
Diet
Paleodiet
Coyotlatelco

File:

Download EKate_Final2.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Gale Hirth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Gale Hirth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Robert Milner, Committee Member
Douglas Kennett, Special Member
Stephen Augustus Matthews, Outside Member
Mary Katherine Shenk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tim Ryan, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhu, Jia

Title:

STRETCHABLE ANTENNAS AND RECTENNAS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION AND AMBIENT RF ENERGY HARVESTING

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Stretchable wideband dipole antennas
Stretchable wideband rectennas
RF energy harvesting
Self-powered systems
Laser-induced graphene-based electronics
Structural design
Wavy serpentine networks

File:

Download Jia_Zhu_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Larry Cheng, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Larry Cheng, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Xin Ning, Outside Member
Judith Todd Copley, Program Head/Chair
Jian Hsu, Committee Member