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Author:

Varaksa Jr, Alexander

Title:

Assessing Grapevine Leafroll Disease Impact in Commercial Vineyards throughout Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology (MS)

Keywords:

grapevine leafroll disease
GLD
grapevines
Cabernet Franc
vineyards
virus
impact
yield
juice chemistry
growth
weather

File:

Download Master_s_Thesis_-_Alexander_Varaksa.pdf

Committee Members:

Carolee Bull, Program Head/Chair
Cristina Rosa, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul David Esker, Committee Member
Michela Centinari, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Beth Krueger Gugino, Committee Member
Richard P Marini, Committee Member
Flor E Acevedo, Committee Member

Author:

Tran, Linh

Title:

THREE ESSAYS IN HEALTH ECONOMICS: UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECTS OF HEALTH POLICIES AND INSURANCE COVERAGE ON CANCER OUTCOMES

Graduate Program:

Health Policy and Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

cancer
mammography
breast cancer
renal cell carcinoma
Medicare
insurance
dense breast notification

File:

Download Dissertation-formatted-revised-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Douglas Leslie, Outside Unit & Field Member
David Vanness, Major Field Member
Chris Hollenbeak, Major Field Member
Joel Segel, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chris Hollenbeak, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Saghaian Nejad Esfahani, Sayed

Title:

Service Management: Resource Allocation and Security

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Resource Allocation
Security
Mission-oriented Security Model
Service Placement
Clustering Algorithm
Wireless Networks

File:

Download SayedSaghaian_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Thomas La Porta, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Patrick Mcdaniel, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Outside Unit & Field Member
Daniel Kifer, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Stark, Cassie

Title:

Habitat and flora associated with two ramp/leek species (Allium tricoccum and A. burdickii) in Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Forest Resources (MS)

Keywords:

ramps
Allium tricoccum
Allium burdickii
Forest farming
Soil moisture
Population discovery

File:

Download Thesis_CS_Ramp_Habitat.pdf

Committee Members:

Bradley Cardinale, Program Head/Chair
Eric Paul Burkhart, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan M Duncan, Committee Member
Douglas Alan Miller, Committee Member
Sarah E Nilson, Committee Member

Author:

Chavez Caliz, Ana

Title:

TOPICS IN PROJECTIVE GEOMETRY OF POLYGONS: CONFIGURATION THEOREMS AND SELF-DUALITY

Graduate Program:

Mathematics (PHD)

Keywords:

Projective geometry
Configuration theorems
Polygons
Poncelet
Self-duality

File:

Download AnaChavezCaliz_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jack Huizenga, Major Field Member
Mark Levi, Major Field Member
Donald Richards, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sergei Tabachnikov, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alexei Novikov, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Cheon, Seong Ik

Title:

EMERGING BEHAVIORS FROM PARTICLES AT LIQUID INTERFACES

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Pickering emulsions
Active emulsions
Oil-oil Emulsions
Particle adsorption at interface

File:

Download Supplemental_videos.zipDownload Seong_Ik_Cheon-Final_Thesis_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Hickey, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christine Keating, Major Field Member
Miriam Freedman, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hayworth, Benjamin

Title:

Atmosphere and Climate Evolution on Earth and Earth-like Planets

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

planetary habitability
habitability
early mars
mars
martian climate
limit cycling
carbon cycle
abiogenesis
origin of life
hadean
exoplanets
weathering
space weather

File:

Download Dissertation_wVita.pdf

Committee Members:

Bradford Foley, Major Field Member
William Brune, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christopher House, Major Field Member
Guillaume Gronoff, Special Member
James Kasting, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rajabpour, Siavash

Title:

EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF TUNABLE 2-DIMENSIONAL GROUP-III ALLOYS AND CARBON FIBERS

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

2D Materials
Intercalation
Carbon Fibers
ReaxFF

File:

Download Siavash__Dissertation_Feb18.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Outside Unit Member
Joshua Robinson, Co-Chair, Outside Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Raymond Schaak, Major Field Member
Michael Janik, Major Field Member
Adri van Duin, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Seong H. Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Soule, Brian

Title:

Golf and the Experience Economy: Understanding Dedicated Golfers' Motivations and Future Intentions at Golf Alternative Experiences

Graduate Program:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management (PHD)

Keywords:

Experience Economy
golf
golf alternatives
motivation
achievement motivation
social motivation
future intentions
leisure constraints
participant sport
golf motivation
Topgolf
Drive Shack

File:

Download B._Soule_Final_Dissertation_2022.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Newman, Co-Chair of Committee
Andrew Wiesner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Pete Allison, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jen Agans, Major Field Member
Brendan Taff, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Farhadi, Vaji

Title:

Resource allocation for edge cloud and smart grid

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

DC-QSS
cascading failure
blackouts
preventive control
SCADA
PLCC
Mobile edge computing
workload scheduling
service placement
complexity analysis
algorithm design
Resource Allocation

File:

Download Thesis-VF.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas La Porta, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mort Webster, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ting He, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mcatee, Patrick D

Title:

Sculptured Thin Films as a Platform for Machine-Learning Based Optical Sensing of Analytes

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Sensing
Plasmonics
Machine Learning
Sculptured thin films

File:

Download McAtee_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Catchmark, Outside Unit & Field Member
Osama Awadelkarim, Major Field Member
Mark Horn, Major Field Member
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Qi, Huiting

Title:

Power in Collaborative Governance: Contingencies of Power Sharing, Relationships between Power and Trust, and Approaches to Enhancing Power Sharing

Graduate Program:

Public Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

Power
Power Sharing
Trust
Collaborative Governance

File:

Download Qi_Doctoral_Dissertation_Final_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Triparna Vasavada, Major Field Member
John Haddad, Outside Unit & Field Member
Odd Stalebrink, Major Field Member
Odd Stalebrink, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Bing Ran, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Kang, Sangkyoo

Title:

School Accountability and Student Wellbeing: Evidence from PISA 2018 in Finland, South Korea, and the United States

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy (PHD)

Keywords:

accountability
school climate
wellbeing
psychological cost
meritocracy
Finland
South Korea
the United States

File:

Download Kang__S._2022_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Soo-yong Byun, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Baker, Major Field Member
Gerald Letendre, Outside Field Member
Rebecca Tarlau, Outside Unit Member
Gerald K Letendre, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Erlichman, Sara

Title:

Role Models: Conceptualization and Scale Development

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications (PHD)

Keywords:

role models
character attachment
scale development
media

File:

Download MRM.Final.Final.Dissertation.Edits.2022.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Schmierbach, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Fuyuan Shen, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Oliver, Major Field Member
Jessica Myrick, Major Field Member
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Garcia, Miguel

Title:

Insights on the use of Machine Learning to Predict Retention of Career Soldiers in the United States Army

Graduate Program:

Data Analytics (MS)

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
AI
Deep Learning
Decision Tree
Logistic Regression
Random Forest
XGBoost
Artificial Neural Network
Deep Neural Network
U.S. Army
Military
Attrition
Retention
Person-Event Data Environment
PDE
Department of Defense
DoD
Army Analytics Group
AAG
Naive Bayes
Active Duty
Enlistment
Commissioned Officers
Soldiers
Area Under the Curve
AUC
Data Analytics
Retirement
MEDPROS
PHA
MEPCOM
DTMS
ATMS
ROC Curve
Variable Importance
Preprocessing
Data Quality

File:

Download Insights_on_the_use_of_AI_to_Predict_Retention_of_Career_Soldiers_in_the_US_Army.pdf

Committee Members:

Colin Neill, Program Head/Chair
Partha Mukherjee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guanghua Qiu, Committee Member
Youakim Badr, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ghosh, Amartya

Title:

Reliability Studies in Silicon Carbide and Silicon Power MOSFETs

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Wide Band Gap
SiC
Reliability
Device Physics
Interface Traps
Border Traps

File:

Download Final-Revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Samia Suliman, Major Field Member
Jian hsu, Major Field Member
Osama Awadelkarim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jifa Hao, Special Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Rongming Chu, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Zhang, Kaida

Title:

Essays on Market Competition with New Entrants

Graduate Program:

Economics (PHD)

Keywords:

Charter School
School Competition
Industrial Organization
Automobile
Moment Inequality

File:

Download KaidaZhang-Dissertation-0306.pdf

Committee Members:

Guangqing Chi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michael Gechter, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Marc Henry, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Kala Krishna, Major Field Member
Peter Newberry, Special Member
Paul Grieco, Major Field Member

Author:

Roessler, Arya

Title:

Resin Film Infusion Process for Carbon Fiber/Epoxy Composite Plates

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

carbon fiber reinforced plastics
OOA
out-of-autoclave
B-staging
epoxy
short beam shear
ILSS
DSC
carbon fiber
composites

File:

Download Roessler_MS_Thesis_May_22.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Namiko Yamamoto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member
Xin Ning, Committee Member

Author:

Weitsman, Daniel

Title:

Theoretical and experimental study of the effects of cyclic pitch variations on rotor noise

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

eVTOL Noise
eVTOL
Helicopter Noise
Acoustics
Cyclic Pitch
Rotorcraft

File:

Download Weitsman_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Eric Greenwood, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Chien Hua

Title:

On surjectivity of adelic Galois representation for Drinfeld modules

Graduate Program:

Mathematics (PHD)

Keywords:

Drinfeld modules
Galois representations

File:

Download Chien-Hua_Chen-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Martin Fürer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mihran Papikian, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yuriy Zarkhin, Major Field Member
Wen-Ching Li, Major Field Member
Alexei Novikov, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Oliver, William

Title:

The Influence of Isomorphism on HBCU Music (Performance and Teacher Training) Programs and the Alignment of Broader Institutional Mission

Graduate Program:

Music Education (PHD)

Keywords:

HBCUs
Music Education
Isomorphism
Program Alignment

File:

Download woliver_diss_full_final22.pdf

Committee Members:

John Cheslock, Minor & Outside Field Member
Velvet Brown, Special Member
Darrin Thornton, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
R J David Frego, Co-Chair & Major Field Member
Alicia Dowd, Outside Unit & Minor Member
Linda Carol Porter Thornton, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Coleman, Kiana

Title:

Anti-inflammatory effects of cocoa supplementation in a mice model of inflammatory bowel disease

Graduate Program:

Food Science (MS)

Keywords:

Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Ulcerative colitis
Inflammation
Dose-response
Cocoa
In vivo

File:

Download KianaColeman_FinalVersion_Thesis_Spring22.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Roberts, Program Head/Chair
Joshua D Lambert, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ramaswamy C Anantheswaran, Committee Member
Greg Ziegler, Committee Member

Author:

Moon, Zachary Leland

Title:

Improving modeled light transfer within plant canopies: scheme comparisons and implications

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (PHD)

Keywords:

plant canopies
land modeling
photolysis
canopy radiative transfer
actinic flux
isoprene
monoterpenes
air quality
spectral resolution
NOx
GOAmazon
Amazon rainforest
canopy-chemistry
optical properties
reflectance

File:

Download ZacharyMoon-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jerry Harrington, Major Field Member
William Brune, Major Field Member
Jose Fuentes, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Miriam Freedman, Outside Unit & Field Member
David Stensrud, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Traub, Julia

Title:

How Schoolyard Renewal Can Impact Wellness in Elementary Schools: an analysis of post-2000s literature

Graduate Program:

Landscape Architecture (MS)

Keywords:

Well-being
Youth
Green-space
Cognitive development

File:

Download TraubJulia_THESIS_FINAL_corr.pdf

Committee Members:

Stuart Echols, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Stephen Paul Mainzer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leann Andrews, Committee Member
James Ewald Johnson, Committee Member
Roxi Thoren, Committee Member

Author:

Mejia, Austin

Title:

Wolbachia densities in the mosquito Aedes aegypti

Graduate Program:

Entomology (MS)

Keywords:

Wolbachia
density
Aedes aegypti
mosquito
symbiont
Wolbachia
density
Aedes aegypti
mosquito
symbiont
artificial selection
inbreeding
biocontrol

File:

Download Thesis_Final_Austin.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Elizabeth Ann Mcgraw, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jason Laurence Rasgon, Committee Member
Todd C Lajeunesse, Committee Member

Author:

Shyam Kumar, Prashanth

Title:

Wearable Devices for ECG and Heart Sound: Design Considerations to Support Digital Health and Remote Monitoring

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Digital health
remote patient monitoring
wearable devices
ECG lead transformation
wearable phonocardiogram
deep learning
personalization

File:

Download Dissertation_-_Prashanth_Shyam_Kumar.pdf

Committee Members:

Judith Todd Copley, Major Field Member
Vijay Varadan, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Zoubeida Ounaies, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Harbaugh, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Green, Brett

Title:

Memory Function Formalism for the Electrical Conductivity of Periodic Systems

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

conductivity
transport
condensed matter
memory function

File:

Download BrettGreenDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chaoxing Liu, Major Field Member
Jun Zhu, Major Field Member
Lasse Jensen, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Jorge Sofo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Callahan, Katherine

Title:

Do-Not-Resuscitation Orders Among Elderly Patients with Heart Failure

Graduate Program:

Health Policy and Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

advance care planning
end-of-life care
do-not-resuscitate orders
heart failure
elderly

File:

Download Callahan_Dissertation_Final_Edits.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris Hollenbeak, Program Head/Chair
Chris Hollenbeak, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lisa Kitko, Outside Unit & Field Member
Yubraj Acharya, Co-Chair of Committee
Melissa Hardy, Major Field Member

Author:

Alam, Md Mahabubul

Title:

Resilient Quantum Computing and Machine Learning

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Quantum Computing
QAOA
Quantum Machine Learning
QML
QNN
Quantum Neural Network
Variational Quantum Algorithm
VQA

File:

Download mahabubul_alam_phd_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Kandemir, Major Field Member
Swaroop Ghosh, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Morteza Kayyalha, Major Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Newmaster, Kyra

Title:

HIGH RESOLUTION 3D MAPPING OF THE OXYTOCIN SYSTEM ACROSS TIME AND SPACE IN THE MOUSE BRAIN

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience (PHD)

Keywords:

Oxytocin
Development
Brain Mapping
Oxytocin Receptor

File:

Download Kyra_Dissertation_v7_formatting.pdf

Committee Members:

Kirsteen Browning, Major Field Member
Yongsoo Kim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Salvatore Stella, Major Field Member
Paul Eslinger, Outside Unit & Field Member
Patricia Grigson Kennedy, Major Field Member
Alistair Barber, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Leibfreid, Patricia G.

Title:

Employer's Decision to Hire Secondary Career and Technical Education Completers Based Upon the Pennsylvania Skills Certificate

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development (PHD)

Keywords:

Pennsylvania Skills Certificate
Credentials
Secondary CTE
Employers' perception
Experimental study
CTE Assessment

File:

Download PLeibfreid_Dissertation_Defense_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Heather Zimmerman, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Wesley Donahue, Major Field Member
Mark Threeton, Major Field Member
John Ewing, Outside Unit & Field Member
Cynthia Pellock, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Choi, Eunjung

Title:

The Chronotope: Performing the Novelized Museum

Graduate Program:

Art Education (PHD)

Keywords:

Mikhail Bakhtin
chronotope
novel
novelized museum
time and space
art pedagogy
museum learning
embodiment
difference
centripetal
centrifugal
language
utterance
simultaneity
celadon
Korean art
Asian art
objects
subjectivity
experimentation
contingency
situated learning
embodied learning
co-creative learning
novelized learning

File:

Download Eunjung_Choi_DISSERTATION.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles Garoian, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joseph Valente, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Booker Carpenter, Major Field Member
Karen Keifer-Boyd, Program Head/Chair
Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis, Major Field Member
Christopher Schulte, Special Member

Author:

Leng, Rui

Title:

DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MAGNETIC FIELD ACTUATED MULTILAYERED POLYMERS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Smart materials
Magneto-active elastomers
Magneto-active polymer-based materials
Shape memory polymers
Polymer actuation
Polymer Characterization
Additive manufacturing
Printability
Unimorph
Biomedical field

File:

Download Thesis_RuiLeng.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Frecker, Program Head/Chair
Zoubeida Ounaies, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member

Author:

Pei, Gen

Title:

A MODELING AND MEASUREMENT FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING TRANSPORT, FATE, AND CONTROL OF INDOOR AIR POLLUTANTS

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Indoor air quality
Building ventilation
Pollutant exposure assessment
Indoor chemistry
Airborne disease transmission
Low-cost particle sensor
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Energy-efficient building

File:

Download Gen_Pei-PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xuan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Donghyun Rim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Greg Pavlak, Major Field Member
James Freihaut, Major Field Member
Somayeh Asadi, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Dooley, Anne

Title:

For Better or Worse?: The Effects of Interactivity and Perspective on Identification, Social Comparison, and Self-Esteem in Video Games

Graduate Program:

Media Studies (MA)

Keywords:

video games
text-based games
interactivity
identification
social comparison
self-esteem
media effects

File:

Download Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Michael Grant Schmierbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Member
Frank Dardis, Committee Member

Author:

Agnihotri, Devanshi

Title:

Assessing mHealth Motivational Pathways Among Hispanic Individuals Through Technological Affordances

Graduate Program:

Informatics (MS)

Keywords:

Technological affordances
self determination theory
motivational technology model

File:

Download FINALAgnihotri_MS.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Saeed M Abdullah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yunfeng Shi, Committee Member
Xinning Gui, Committee Member

Author:

Mcfeaters, Tyler

Title:

Field-Scale Spatial Distribution and Genotypic Diversity of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in Soybeans

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology (MS)

Keywords:

Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
white mold
soybean
field-scale
spatial distribution
genotypic diversity

File:

Download TylerMcFeaters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Carolee Bull, Program Head/Chair
Paul David Esker, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Beth Krueger Gugino, Committee Member
David Michael Geiser, Committee Member
Mary Ann Victoria Bruns, Committee Member

Author:

Tallon, Aubrey

Title:

Parks in Praxis: Perspectives on the Frontlines of the Racial Justice Movement in America

Graduate Program:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management (MS)

Keywords:

race
justice
racial justice
parks
recreation
protests

File:

Download Parks_in_Praxis_Final_Draft_-_APRIL_7_Appendix_Edit.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Newman, Program Head/Chair
Alan R Graefe, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew J. Mowan, Committee Member
Kathryn J. Brasier, Committee Member

Author:

Jian, Ni

Title:

Longitudinal Associations Between Family Relationships During Adolescence And Romantic Relationships In Young Adulthood

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

Romantic relationships
Family relationships
Young adults
Parental differential treatment
Family systems

File:

Download Dissertation_04.15.21.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan McHale, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Valarie King, Outside Unit & Major Field Member
Hobart Cleveland, Major Field Member
Peter Molenaar, Outside Field Member
Charles Geier, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Werkheiser, Nathan

Title:

Backpropagation Analysis of Swirling Isothermal Dump Combustor Data

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Neural Networks
Backpropagation
fluid flow
CFD
Swirling Flow
Activation Functions

File:

Download Thesis_Werkheiser_2022.pdf

Committee Members:

Rick Ciocci, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Brian Allen Maicke, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anilchandra Attaluri, Committee Member
Seth Wolpert, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Tongzhou

Title:

THEORETICAL STUDY OF FRACTIONAL QUANTUM HALL EFFECT UNDER REALISTIC CONDITIONS

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Fractional quantum Hall effects
Composite fermion theory
fixed-phase diffusion Monte Carlo

File:

Download Tongzhou-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chad Hanna, Major Field Member
Joshua Robinson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ying Liu, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Davis, Brian

Title:

Late-Stage Evolution of Low- and Intermediate-Mass Stars

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics (PHD)

Keywords:

Planetary nebulae
Post-AGB
PAGB stars
Stars
Stellar evolution

File:

Download phd_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Robin Ciardullo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Fuentes, Outside Unit & Field Member
Randy McEntaffer, Major Field Member
Caryl Gronwall, Major Field Member
Rebekah Ilene Dawson, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Belbasi, Mahdi

Title:

FPT Aglorithms for NP-complete Graph Problems Parameterized by Treewidth and Tree-depth

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Computer Science
Graph Theory
Tree Decomposition
Algorithm Design
Approximation Algorithms
Hamiltonian Cycle
Dominating Set
Algebraization

File:

Download Mahdi_Belbasi_-_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Martin Fürer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Antonio Blanca, Major Field Member
Jan Reimann, Outside Unit & Field Member
Paul Medvedev, Major Field Member

Author:

Mc Mahon, Elyse

Title:

Connectivity and plasticity of physiological mechanisms and temperament

Graduate Program:

Ecology (PHD)

Keywords:

temperament
animal behavior
physiology
behavioral traits
glucocorticoids
physiological profiles

File:

Download EMcMahon_Dissertation_final.3.21.22.pdf

Committee Members:

James Marden, Co-Chair of Committee
Sonia Cavigelli, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Toews, Major Field Member
Margherita Cantorna, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jason Kaye, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sayyah Ensan, Sina

Title:

Security and Resilience of Non-Volatile Memories Based on In-Memory Computing

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

In-Memory Computing
Resiliency
Security
RRAM
Floating Point

File:

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Committee Members:

Swaroop Ghosh, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joseph Najem, Outside Unit & Field Member
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member
Morteza Kayyalha, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cui, Limeng

Title:

Understanding and Detecting Online Misinformation with Auxiliary Data

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Misinformation detection
Graph neural networks
Knowledge graph
Social media
Fraud detection
Active learning

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Beth Rosson, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Dongwon Lee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lin Lin, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amulya Yadav, Major Field Member
Anna Squicciarini, Major Field Member

Author:

Paz Soldan Palma, Jorge

Title:

Thermodynamic modeling of alkaline and rare earth metal with antimonides for applications in power generation

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

CALPHAD
Density Functional Theory
Modified Quasichemical Model
Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
Nuclear waste recycling

File:

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Committee Members:

Zi-Kui Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristen Fichthorn, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Major Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cornwall, Jeffrey M

Title:

The third-grade classroom is leaking: Children, affect, and the mundane

Graduate Program:

Art Education (PHD)

Keywords:

Mundane
Childhood Art
Post-Development
Deleuze & Guattari
Elementary Art Education

File:

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Committee Members:

Yvonne Gaudelius, Major Field Member
Christopher Mark Schulte, Special Member
Karen Keifer-Boyd, Program Head/Chair
Kimberly Powell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Allison Henward, Minor & Outside Field Member
Booker Carpenter, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Koehle, Allison

Title:

Smart Tillage and the Regulation of Nitrous Oxide Emission in Organic Agriculture

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Environmental Plant Science (MS)

Keywords:

nitrous oxide
cover crop
manure
organic agriculture
denitrification
tillage

File:

Download AlliKoehle_AEPSMastersThesis_-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Erin Connolly, Program Head/Chair
Armen R. Kemanian, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jason Philip Kaye, Committee Member
Liana T Burghardt, Committee Member

Author:

Millward, Andrew

Title:

L2-UniFrac

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

UniFrac
Bioinformatics
Comparative Metagenomics
Representative Microbiome
Distance Metric
Differential Abundance

File:

Download L2_Unifrac-Andrew_Millward.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
David Koslicki, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Medvedev, Committee Member

Author:

Williams, Colin

Title:

Ultrasonic Methods for Characterization of Additively Manufactured Materials: Experiments and Numerical Simulations

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

ultrasonic testing
numerical modeling
additive manufacturing
materials characterization
nondestructive evaluation
finite element simulations

File:

Download MS_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Parisa Shokouhi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeremy M. Shreiber, Committee Member
Matt Lear, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lopez Londono, Tomas

Title:

Light availability along depth gradients: a key driver of niche partitioning and biodiversity patterns in reef building corals

Graduate Program:

Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

Coral reefs
physiology
ecophysiology
depth gradient
biodiversity patterns
species-energy
productivity-biodiversity
habitat specialization
turbidity
water optical properties
light gradient
Symbiodiniaceae

File:

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Committee Members:

Roberto Iglesias-Prieto, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Jonathan Lynch, Outside Unit & Field Member
Todd Lajeunesse, Major Field Member
Monica Medina, Chair of Committee
Elizabeth Mcgraw, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tiwari, Sonia

Title:

Across and Beyond the Screens: Investigating Children's Joint Engagement with Educational Media and Related Activities

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Children's Media
Making
Transmedia

File:

Download SoniaTiwari_Dissertation_SP22.pdf

Committee Members:

Mari Haneda, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ty Hollett, Major Field Member
Susan Land, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tanner Vea, Major Field Member
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Emani, Rahul

Title:

Small Unmanned Aerial Systems Detection and Classification Using IEEE 802.11 Signals

Graduate Program:

Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations (MS)

Keywords:

sUAS
UAVs
Cybersecurity
Drones
IEEE 802.11
Signals
Network Traffic Analysis
Drone Detection
Drone Classification

File:

Download RahulEmani_Thesis_Final_Final_Revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward Glantz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Nick Giacobe, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Committee Member
Edward J Glantz, Committee Member
Timothy E. Kohler, Special Signatory

Author:

Caudill, Hannah

Title:

Conceptualizations of Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation: A Case Study of the Daniel Boone National Forest

Graduate Program:

Geography (MS)

Keywords:

Appalachia
Eastern Kentucky
Coal Mining
Abandoned Mine Land
Reclamation
Daniel Boone National Forest

File:

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Committee Members:

Brian H. King, Program Head/Chair
Jennifer E Baka, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl Zimmerer, Committee Member
Trevor Birkenholtz, Committee Member

Author:

Grede, Alex

Title:

Microscale Concentrated Photovoltaics and Soft Matter Lasers

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

photovoltaics
non-imaging optics
organic semiconductors
organic laser diodes

File:

Download Grede-Dissertation-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Tom Jackson, Major Field Member
Xingjie Ni, Major Field Member
Noel Giebink, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Vincent Crespi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Webber, Hudson

Title:

Benjamin Britten's Evolving Style as Seen Through His Fugues for Solo Cello

Graduate Program:

Music (MA)

Keywords:

Britten
Britten Cello Suites
Fugue
Fugues
Benjamin Britten
Suite for Cello
Second Suite for Cello
Third Suite for Cello

File:

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Committee Members:

Rachel Copeland, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Taylor Aitken Greer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric John Mckee, Committee Member

Author:

Mc Connell, Ryan

Title:

Acoustic Analysis of an Ultra-Efficient Commercial Transport Aircraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Acoustics
Noise
SNLF
Commercial Aircraft
ANOPP

File:

Download R.McConnell_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip John Morris, Committee Member

Author:

Bao, Rui

Title:

Equivariant K-theory, C*-algebras and Localization at the Standard Trace

Graduate Program:

Mathematics (PHD)

Keywords:

C*-algebra
Equivariant K-theory
KK-theory
Index Theory

File:

Download finaldraft_20220208.pdf

Committee Members:

Chaoxing Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mathieu Stienon, Major Field Member
Nigel Higson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nathanial Brown, Major Field Member
Alexei Novikov, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Winslow, Joshua

Title:

Design and Implementation of an FPGA-based OFDM System

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

OFDM
FPGA
QAM

File:

Download Winslow_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Rafic Bachnak, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Nashwa Nabil Elaraby, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xinwei Niu, Committee Member
Aldo W Morales, Committee Member

Author:

Pannebaker, Jeremy

Title:

Development of Empirically-Driven Axisymmetric Turbulence Models Using a Symmetry-Based Approach

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

symmetry scaling
turbulence
axisymmetric turbulence
Lie theory
PIV
symmetries

File:

Download JPannebaker_Master_s_Thesis_2022__Grad_School_Edits_.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Lester Jonson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David K Hall, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Zachary P Berger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ryan Murray, Special Signatory

Author:

Oyama, Kohei

Title:

COMSOL simulation of CNT assembly in an epoxy matrix under static magnetic fields for polymer nanocomposite applications

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Carbon nanotube
Composites
Epoxy
FEM
COMSOL
MATLAB
Magnetic field
Nickel

File:

Download KoheiOyama_msthesis_sp22.pdf

Committee Members:

Namiko Yamamoto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xin Ning, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Anqi

Title:

Oppositions and Reconciliations in Representative Piano Works by Charles Tomlinson Griffes

Graduate Program:

Music (MA)

Keywords:

Griffes
American composer
The White Peacock
The Fountain of the Acqua Paola
The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan
Sonata for Piano

File:

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Committee Members:

Taylor Aitken Greer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Perez Benitez, Jr., Committee Member
Rachel Copeland, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Kwan, Jamie

Title:

a study on the effect of inflammatory cytokines on platelet-endothelial adhesion and activation in the parallel plate flow chamber

Graduate Program:

Integrative and Biomedical Physiology (MS)

Keywords:

platelet
endothelial cell
endothelium
inflammation
cytokine
flow chamber
thrombosis

File:

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Committee Members:

Keefe B Manning, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lacy Marie Alexander, Committee Member
Donna Korzick, Program Head/Chair
Peter Butler, Committee Member

Author:

Cottle, Rachel

Title:

The Progressive Heat Stress Protocol

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology (MS)

Keywords:

global warming
heat balance
psychrometric limits
repeatability
uncompensable heat stress

File:

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Committee Members:

William Lawrence Kenney, Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lacy Marie Alexander, Committee Member
Jonathan Dingwell, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Gwendolyn A Thomas, Committee Member

Author:

Cummings, Christine

Title:

Using a Gaussian based model to upcycle seaweed waste into bioplastics with tunable mechanical and material properties

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

bioplastic
gaussian process
regression
optimization
seaweed
mechanical property
water absorption
elastic modulus

File:

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Committee Members:

Tak Sing Wong, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiang Yang, Committee Member
Daniel Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

James, Derek

Title:

Why Ag Sci

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Extension Education (MS)

Keywords:

Agricultural Science
diversity
underrepresented students
influence

File:

Download WHY_AG_SCI_Thesis_MS_DJames.pdf

Committee Members:

Patreese Donette Ingram, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rama B Radhakrishna, Committee Member
Mark Brennan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Julia A Green Bryan, Committee Member

Author:

Drewniak, David

Title:

Study of Piezoelectricity Applications in Solid Propellants

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

piezoelectric
energetic composite
PVDF
nanoaluminum

File:

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Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Daniel Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Cholakis-Kolysko, Kate

Title:

One Neighbor's Curb Garden, Another's Weedy Pit: Municipal and Designer Perspectives on Public Perception of Green Street Rain Garden Appearance

Graduate Program:

Landscape Architecture (MS)

Keywords:

green stormwater infrastructure
aesthetics
rain garden
ecological literacy
yard norm
social values
green street
streetscape
residential yard
environmental behavior

File:

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Committee Members:

Eliza Pennypacker, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stuart Patton Echols, Committee Member
Roxi Thoren, Program Head/Chair
Matthew B Royer, Committee Member

Author:

Strong, Emily

Title:

A Joint Model for Total and Age-Structured Negative Binomial Counts with Application to the COVID-19 Epidemic in Rhode Island

Graduate Program:

Statistics (MS)

Keywords:

COVID-19
Negative Binomial Counts

File:

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Committee Members:

Ephraim Mont Hanks, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Berg, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Eason, Jessica

Title:

Genetic Regulation of Qrr1 in the Marine Symbiont Vibrio Fischeri While Inside its Host the Hawaiian Bobtail Squid

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences (MS)

Keywords:

Quorum Sensing
Symbiosis
Quorum Regulated RNA

File:

Download MS_PSU_Upload_4-7-22.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy Iwao Miyashiro, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Monica Medina, Committee Member
Melissa Rolls, Program Head/Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Edward G Dudley, Committee Member

Author:

Chung, Dongyoun

Title:

Changes in crystal structures of metal oxide/ hydroxide minerals during dissolution and heating: An In-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction study

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (MS)

Keywords:

Time-resolved X-ray diffraction
Mineral dissolution
Hematite
Goethite
Thermal expansion
Heating
Rutile structure
Pyrolusite
Rutile

File:

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Committee Members:

Peter J Heaney, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair
Matthew S Fantle, Committee Member

Author:

La Fond, Julia

Title:

Efficient Maintenance and Distribution of the Comprehensive SETI Bibliography on the Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (MS)

Keywords:

SETI
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Extraterrestrial Intelligence
NASA ADS
Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Comprehensive SETI Bibliography
Database Curation

File:

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Committee Members:

Christopher Howard House, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kate Freeman, Committee Member
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Member
Jason Wright, Committee Member
Julie Cosmidis, Special Signatory

Author:

Nicholson, Duncan

Title:

Scaled Experiments in Vision-Based Approach and Landing in High Sea States

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Ship
Deck
Landing
UAV
UAS
Fiducial
Control
Estimation
Precision Landing
shipboard
sUAS

File:

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Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Eric Norman Johnson, Committee Member

Author:

Shy, Sarah

Title:

Assessing Classification Uncertainty On Astronomical Objects With Measurement Error

Graduate Program:

Statistics (MS)

Keywords:

Bayesian posterior predictive distribution
catalog data
quasar
random forest
support vector machine

File:

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Committee Members:

Hyungsuk Tak, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric D Feigelson, Committee Member
Ephraim Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
G. Jogesh Babu, Committee Member

Author:

Mc Kelvey, Kyle

Title:

The Prediction of Steady-State Vibration Due to Rhythmic Activity in a Multi-Story Structure

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Rhythmic Activity
Vibrations
FEM
ETABS
Multi-Story Vibrational Response
Servicability
Modeling
Human Induced Excitation

File:

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Committee Members:

Linda Morley Hanagan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ryan Levi Solnosky, Committee Member
Somayeh Asadi, Program Head/Chair
Thomas E Boothby, Committee Member

Author:

Brennan, Jennifer Bracken

Title:

Manufacturing fixation in design: Measurement and mitigation strategies for its impact on additive manufacturing use

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Design for manufacturing
additive manufacturing
DfAM
Design for additive manufacturing
part identification for additive manufacturing

File:

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Committee Members:

Nicholas Meisel, Outside Unit & Field Member
Timothy Simpson, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chris McComb, Major Field Member
Kathryn Jablokow, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

De Priest, Miranda

Title:

The effect of environmental heterogeneity on bacteria within an agricultural soil community

Graduate Program:

Ecology (MS)

Keywords:

environmental heterogeneity
generalist
specialist
microbe
microbiome
biodiversity
bacteria
soil

File:

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Committee Members:

Terrence Hugh Bell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Emily R Davenport, Committee Member
Jason Kaye, Program Head/Chair
Michela Centinari, Committee Member
Paul David Esker, Committee Member

Author:

Wade, Lucas

Title:

Investigation of 3-Dimensional Caustic Generation with Application to Off-track Sonic Boom Focusing

Graduate Program:

Acoustics (MS)

Keywords:

Sonic Boom
Sonic Boom Focusing
Acoustics
Supersonic Aircraft
Geometrical Acoustics
Boundary Layer Theory
Caustics
Tricomi Equation
Nonlinear Tricomi Equation
Superboom

File:

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Committee Members:

Victor Ward Sparrow, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Diane Marie Henderson, Committee Member
Andrew Barnard, Program Head/Chair
Yun Jing, Committee Member
Alexandra Loubeau, Special Signatory

Author:

Rahimian, Mina

Title:

A Data Mining Model and a Real-Time Predictive Software Prototype for the Spatial Design and Planning of High Energy Performance Solar Community Microgrids

Graduate Program:

Architecture (PHD)

Keywords:

Data Mining
Machine Learning
Community Microgrid
Energy Consumption
Urban Scale
Energy Performance
Predictive
Software

File:

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Committee Members:

Jose Pinto Duarte, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Seth Blumsack, Outside Unit Member
Lisa Iulo, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Guido Cervone, Outside Field Member
Ute Poerschke, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Troncoso Aldas, Nelson Daniel

Title:

AIGuide: An Augmented Reality Hand Guidance Application for People with Visual Impairments

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

assistive technology augmented reality
mixed reality
mobile computing
assistive technology
augmented reality

File:

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Taylor, Samuel

Title:

The Effect of Thickness and Surface Roughness on Ferroelectric Behavior of Lead Magnesium Niobate-Titanate and Lead Indium Niobate-Magnesium Niobate-Titanate Single Crystal

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Ferroelectric
Piezoelectric
Ultrasound
Characterization
Single Crystal
PMN-PT
PIN-PMN-PT

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael T Lanagan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wenwu Cao, Committee Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Richard Joseph Meyer, Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Runa, Ferdousy

Title:

Relationship Between Green and Red Occupancy Ratios and Pedestrian Delays

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

High-resolution Data
Pedestrian Delay
Split Failure
Traffic Operation
ATSPM

File:

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Committee Members:

Vikash V. Gayah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
S. Ilgin Guler, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Joseph Fox, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Xianbiao Hu, Committee Member

Author:

Vargas Venegas, Carlos

Title:

Physics-Infused Reduced-Order Modeling of Aerothermal Loads for Fluid-Thermal-Structural Interactions

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

hypersonic
fluid-thermal-structural
aerothermoelasticity
data-driven
physics-driven
physics-based
reduced-order modeling
machine learning
field inversion
aerothermal
turbulent viscous-inviscid interactions
neural ordinary differential equations
direct collocation
optimization
kriging
proper-orthogonal decomposition
latin hypercube sampling
thermoelastic
hypersonic vehicle
RANS
skin-panel
two-dimensional
gaussian process regression
computational fluid dynamics
supported panel
augmentation
augmented
model augmentation
surrogate
POD-kriging
POD
algebraic
differential
algebraic augmentation
differential augmentation
NODE
PIROM
analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Daning Huang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member

Author:

Bhattacharyya, Suparno

Title:

Physics-informed model reduction of dynamical systems subjected to impacts and discontinuity

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Physics-informed model reduction
reduced order modeling
model reduction
structural vibration
nonlinear dynamics
impulsive loading
kicked oscillator
data-driven methods
dimension reduction
POD
PCA
Proper orthogonal decomposition
Energy-closure criterion
vibration
structural dynamics
simulation
beam theory
solid mechanics
dynamical systems
chaos
bifurcation

File:

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Committee Members:

Joseph Cusumano, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Corina Drapaca, Major Field Member
Francesco Costanzo, Major & Minor Field Member
George Lesieutre, Outside Unit & Field Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tian, Chao

Title:

Mean-Field Models and Nonlocal Problems

Graduate Program:

Mathematics (PHD)

Keywords:

Nonlocal-in-Time
Nonlinearity
Semigroup
Nonlocal noise
Mean-field

File:

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Committee Members:

Anna Mazzucato, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Zhibiao Zhao, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Wenrui Hao, Major Field Member
Qiang Du, Special Member
Xiantao Li, Major & Minor Field Member
Alexei Novikov, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Ochoa Lleras, Nicolas

Title:

Control Systems and Human Factors for the Prevention of Tractor Overturn

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Control systems
Tractor
Rollover
ADAS
Human Factors
Simulated environments

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Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henry Joseph Sommer, III, Committee Member
Dennis Murphy, Committee Member
Yiqi Zhang, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ren, Jerry

Title:

MOUSE BREAST CANCER MODELING: CELL CYCLE ARREST, RADIATION MUTAGENESIS, AND TRANSPOSON-BASED CANCER GENE DISCOVERY

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Transposon
Mutagenesis
Breast Cancer
c-Myc
Radiation Mutagensis
CDK4/6 inhibitor
Ras
Mammary gland development
Cell cycle inhibition
PI3K
AKT
Oncogene
Oncogene Cooperation
Mutagenesis Screen

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Committee Members:

Edward Joseph Gunther, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Joseph Gunther, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David James Degraff, Committee Member
George Lucian Moldovan, Committee Member
Aron Eliot Lukacher, Outside Member
Hong-Gang Wang, Committee Member
Ralph Lauren Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ancic, Ivana

Title:

At The Limits of the Human Rights Regime: Perpetrator Perspectives in Contemporary Literatures and Visual Cultures

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature (PHD)

Keywords:

World Literature
Human Rights
Global South
Perpetrator
Race
Global Capitalism

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Committee Members:

Rosemary Jolly, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Magali Armillas-Tiseyra, Major Field Member
Sarah Townsend, Outside Unit & Field Member
Emmanuel Jean-Francois, Major Field Member
Charlotte Eubanks, Major Field Member
Charlotte Eubanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Nolte, Hannah

Title:

Cognitive stress and engineering design: Investigating the effect of state mindfulness-based interventions on the experience of introductory engineering students

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Engineering design
mental stress
mindfulness
mental workload
creativity
Engineering Design
mental stress
mindfulness
mental workload
creativity

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Steven Landry, Major Field Member
Chris McComb, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Catherine Berdanier, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jessica Menold, Major Field Member

Author:

Ravida, Nigel

Title:

The Effects of Novel Drug Compounds on Glioblastoma As An Indicator For Therapeutic Intervention

Graduate Program:

Anatomy (MS)

Keywords:

Glioblastoma
Hypoxia
Cytotoxicity

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Patricia Mclaughlin, Program Head/Chair
James Robert Connor, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seyed Alireza Mansouri, Committee Member

Author:

Khandare, Sujata

Title:

Mechanical response of tendons to common therapies and the effects of tendon injury progression

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Dry needling
Focused ultrasound
Tendon
Mechanical properties
Mechanical testing
Rotator cuff
Computational model
Glenohumeral joint
Muscle activation
Force couple
Tear severity
Rotator cuff tear

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Stephen Piazza, Outside Unit & Field Member
Spencer Szczesny, Major Field Member
Meghan Vidt, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Julianna Simon, Major Field Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rife, Jared Sorensen

Title:

The Faith That Matters Most: LDS Youth Folklore and Culture in the 21ST Century

Graduate Program:

American Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

Mormon
LDS
Folklore
Youth
Digital

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John Haddad, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Anthony Buccitelli, Major Field Member
Simon Bronner, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Haddad, Major Field Member
Chris Hollenbeak, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Clares Pastrana, Ana Paula

Title:

Fundamental Understanding into Bimodal Powder Size Distributions in Binder Jetting Additive Manufacturing Process

Graduate Program:

Additive Manufacturing and Design (MS)

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Binder Jetting
bimodal distributions

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Allison Beese, Program Head/Chair
Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy W. Simpson, Committee Member
Edward William Reutzel, Committee Member

Author:

Patel, Aditya

Title:

Software Support For Offloading off-the-shelf applications to PIM Cores

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

PIM
BLIMP
Compiler
LLVM

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Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member

Author:

Yu, Tongguang

Title:

Hardware Functional Obfuscation With Ferroelectric Active Interconnects

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

FeFET
Hardware Security
Reverse Engineering
Ferroelectric

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Sumitha George, Committee Member
Kai Ni, Committee Member

Author:

Yocum, Rebeka

Title:

Socialization of Safety: An Investigation into the Impact Socioeconomic Factors Have on Crash Frequency, Severity, Risk, and Cost in Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

transportation safety
crash frequency
crash severity
crash risk
crash cost
statistical analysis
socioeconomics

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Committee Members:

Eric Donnell, Major Field Member
S. Ilgin Guler, Major Field Member
John Hughes, Outside Unit & Field Member
Vikash Gayah, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rathbun, Molly

Title:

Herpes simplex virus 1 ecology and evolution in natural infections

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

Herpes simplex virus type 1
genital herpes
virus genomics
transmission
host20 pathogen evolution
oligonucleotide enrichment
within-host diversity
virus transmission
host-pathogen evolution
neurovirulence
comparative transcriptomics
virus evolution

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Moriah Szpara, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Shaun Mahony, Major Field Member
Kateryna Makova, Outside Field Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Outside Unit Member
Wendy Hanna-Rose, Program Head/Chair
Timothy Miyashiro, Major Field Member

Author:

Yanich, Daniel

Title:

POLICE BODY-WORN CAMERAS IN SMALL AND RURAL PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENTS

Graduate Program:

Criminal Justice (MA)

Keywords:

Police Body-Worn Cameras (BWC)

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Committee Members:

Jennifer Gibbs, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jennifer Catherine Gibbs, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Lindmar Schally, Committee Member
Daniel Andrew Howard, Committee Member

Author:

Abrams, Alyssa

Title:

Comparing Heavy Episodic Drinking and High-Intensity Drinking: Effects on Academic Achievement Across Adolescence

Graduate Program:

School Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

alcohol
adolescence
heavy episodic drinking
high-intensity drinking
time varying effect model
academic achievement
time-varying effect model

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Committee Members:

Cristin Hall, Major Field Member
Jennifer Frank, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Robert Turrisi, Outside Unit Member
Elizabeth Hughes, Outside Field Member
Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Outside Field Member
James Diperna, Program Head/Chair