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1. SIMULATIONS FOR INVESTIGATING THE CONTRAST MECHANISM OF BIOLOGICAL CELLS WITH HIGH FREQUENCY SCANNING ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY

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Author:
Juntarapaso, Yada
Title:
SIMULATIONS FOR INVESTIGATING THE CONTRAST MECHANISM OF BIOLOGICAL CELLS WITH HIGH FREQUENCY SCANNING ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY
Graduate Program:
Acoustics
Keywords:
scanning acoustic microscopy
transducer simulation
File:
Download Final_ETD_Dissertation__Yada.pdf
Committee Members:
Richard Laurence Tutwiler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

2. Conserving natural resources through local land use decisions: knowledge and attitudes of planning commissioners

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Author:
Wolyniak, Brian John
Title:
Conserving natural resources through local land use decisions: knowledge and attitudes of planning commissioners
Graduate Program:
Forest Resources
Keywords:
land use planning
municipal government
zoning ordinances
northeastern Pennsylvania
File:
Download Wolyniak_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
William F. Elmendorf, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

4. FRACTIONAL ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN LOSS FROM TALL FESCUE HAY SPRAY-IRRIGATED WITH MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER EFFLUENT

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Author:
Sendagi, Stella Maris
Title:
FRACTIONAL ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN LOSS FROM TALL FESCUE HAY SPRAY-IRRIGATED WITH MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER EFFLUENT
Graduate Program:
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Keywords:
Agricultural wastewater reuse
water reuse
nitrogen-based wastewater irrigation rates
nitrogen balance
DNDC modeling
tall fescue hay.
design nitrogen-based wastewater irrigation rates
atmospheric nitrogen loss
wastewater irrigation
File:
Download Stella_Maris_Sendagi_Ph.D._Dissertation_May_2017.pdf
Committee Members:
Herschel Adams Elliott, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

8. Evaluating the effect of intelligent tutoring of structure strategy on students' reading ability using a cognitive diagnostic modeling approach

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Open Access
Author:
Jiang, Xiaoli
Title:
Evaluating the effect of intelligent tutoring of structure strategy on students' reading ability using a cognitive diagnostic modeling approach
Graduate Program:
Educational Psychology
Keywords:
reading comprehension
structure strategy
ITSS
cognitive diagnostic modeling
subskill
G-DINA model
File:
Download Xiaoli_Jiang_Master_Thesis_Final_Version_2017.pdf
Committee Members:
Pui Wa Lei, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

15. Can a Short Video Module Teach Stereotype Threat and Methods of Prevention to White, Women, Pre-Service Teachers?

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Author:
Barry, Chloe Yh
Title:
Can a Short Video Module Teach Stereotype Threat and Methods of Prevention to White, Women, Pre-Service Teachers?
Graduate Program:
School Psychology
Keywords:
Stereotype threat
Education
prevention
video module
professional development
File:
Download C._Barry__Dissertation_5.28.2018.pdf
Committee Members:
Dr Beverly Vandiver, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

18. Improving Constraints on Climate System Properties with Additional Data and New Methods

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Author:
Libardoni, Alex Gordon
Title:
Improving Constraints on Climate System Properties with Additional Data and New Methods
Graduate Program:
Meteorology
Keywords:
Climate sensitivity
Ocean diffusivity
Aerosol forcing
Transient climate response
Climate models
Climate change
Internal climate variability
Climate model evaluation
Climate model calibration
Uncertainty quantification
Radial basis functions
Climate sensitivity
Ocean diffusivity
Aerosol forcing
Transient climate response
Climate models
Climate change
Internal climate variability
Climate model evaluation
Climate model calibration
Uncertainty quantification
Radial basis functions
File:
Download AGLibardoni-Dissertation_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:
Chris Eliot Forest, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

25. Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Refractory Metal Alloys Formed by Field Assisted Sintering Technique (FAST)

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Author:
Browning, Paul Nathan
Title:
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Refractory Metal Alloys Formed by Field Assisted Sintering Technique (FAST)
Graduate Program:
Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Refractory Metals
Field Assisted Sintering
Spark Plasma Sintering
Mechanical Properties
File:
Download Compiled_Thesis__Browning_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Jogender Singh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anil Kulkarni, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Todd Palmer, Committee Member
Ivica Smid, Committee Member
Ivica Smid, Outside Member

26. Convex Approximation of Chance Constrained Optimization Problems: Application in System and Control

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Open Access
Author:
Mohammadzadeh Jasour, Ashkan
Title:
Convex Approximation of Chance Constrained Optimization Problems: Application in System and Control
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Chance Constrained
Convex Optimization
Semidefinite Programming
Measure and Moments
Polynomials
Sum of Squares Optimization
Duality
File:
Download Ashkan-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Necdet S Aybat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Antonios Armaou, Outside Member
Alexei Novikov, Committee Member

27. Quantifying the Uniaxial High Cycle Fatigue Life of Laminated Composites with a Resonant Beam Test

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Open Access
Author:
Kupchella, Chester Alan
Title:
Quantifying the Uniaxial High Cycle Fatigue Life of Laminated Composites with a Resonant Beam Test
Graduate Program:
Acoustics
Keywords:
FRP
Fatigue
High Frequency
Composites
Temperature Controlled
Viscoelasticity
Fiber Reinforced Polymer
Fiberglass
Vibration
File:
Download ChesterKupchella-MSThesis-final.pdf
Committee Members:
Robert Lee Campbell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen A Hambric, Committee Member
Kevin L Koudela, Committee Member

28. Mechanical Properties and Deformation Behaviors of Nanoporous Anodic Aluminum Oxide Membrane

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Open Access
Author:
Dai, Jingyao
Title:
Mechanical Properties and Deformation Behaviors of Nanoporous Anodic Aluminum Oxide Membrane
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
Ceramics
Fracture
Nanoporous
Anodic Aluminum Oxide
Nanoindentation
File:
Download JingyaoDai-MSThesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Namiko Yamamoto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jogender Singh, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member

29. EVIDENCE FOR DISSIMILATORY NITRATE REDUCTION TO AMMONIA BY AQUEOUS BIOFILMS IN THE SULFIDIC CAVES OF FRASASSI, ITALY

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Open Access
Author:
Labrado, Amanda Leane
Title:
EVIDENCE FOR DISSIMILATORY NITRATE REDUCTION TO AMMONIA BY AQUEOUS BIOFILMS IN THE SULFIDIC CAVES OF FRASASSI, ITALY
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
Metagenomics
Elemental sulfur
Biofilms
File:
Download LabradoMSThesis3.26.17.pdf
Committee Members:
Dr. Jennifer Macalady, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Katherine Freeman, Committee Member
Dr. Christopher House, Committee Member

30. Three Papers on Health, Aging, and Employment in the United States

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Open Access
Author:
Oi, Katsuya
Title:
Three Papers on Health, Aging, and Employment in the United States
Graduate Program:
Sociology
Keywords:
work
ageing population inequality US
File:
Download Katsuya_oi_Dissertation_Master.pdf
Committee Members:
Melissa Hardy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melissa Hardy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steven Andrew Haas, Committee Member
Jason Ramone Thomas, Committee Member
Patricia Y Miranda, Outside Member

31. Single-Cell Imaging of Exogenous Compounds Using Cluster Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry

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Open Access
Author:
Bloom, Anna Nichole
Title:
Single-Cell Imaging of Exogenous Compounds Using Cluster Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
Graduate Program:
Chemistry
Keywords:
Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
Single Cell Imaging
Chemical Imaging
Nanoparticles
Pharmaceutical Compounds
File:
Download Bloom_DissertationFinal.pdf
Committee Members:
Nicholas Winograd, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicholas Winograd, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barbara Jane Garrison, Committee Member
Joseph M Bollinger Jr., Committee Member
Esther Winter Gomez, Outside Member

32. Seizure-Associated Spreading Depolarization, Autonomic Dysfunction, and Epileptogenesis in a Murine Model of Post-Cerebral Malaria Epilepsy

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Author:
Bahari, Fatemeh
Title:
Seizure-Associated Spreading Depolarization, Autonomic Dysfunction, and Epileptogenesis in a Murine Model of Post-Cerebral Malaria Epilepsy
Graduate Program:
Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:
SUDEP
Epilepsy
Spreading Depolarization
Cardiac Abnormalities
Seizure
Cerebral Malaria
File:
Download MasterDraft_FatemehBahari.pdf
Committee Members:
Bruce J. Gluckman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick J. Drew, Committee Member
Steven J. Schiff, Committee Member

34. Sedimentary record of the evolution of the Kumano Forearc Basin, offshore southwest Japan

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Author:
Xu, Yang
Title:
Sedimentary record of the evolution of the Kumano Forearc Basin, offshore southwest Japan
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
Kumano
basin
forearc
sequencestratigraphy
basinanalysis
nankai
sedimentology
iodp
File:
Download YangXu_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Elizabeth Ann Hajek, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Donald Myron Fisher, Committee Member

35. Identify the Response of Forest Songbirds to Local Scale Forest Features and Complexity

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Author:
Barenblitt, Abigail Cohen
Title:
Identify the Response of Forest Songbirds to Local Scale Forest Features and Complexity
Graduate Program:
Wildlife and Fisheries Science
Keywords:
Forest bird communities
Forest bird species richness
Occupancy Models
Local Forest Features
Forest Complexity
File:
Download AbigailBarenblitt_MastersThesis1.12.16_.pdf
Committee Members:
Margaret Brittingham-Brant, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Andrew Miller, Committee Member
Matthew Marshall, Committee Member

36. EFFECTS OF BLADE BOUNDARY LAYER TRANSITION AND DAYTIME ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE ON WIND TURBINE PERFORMANCE ANALYZED WITH BLADE-RESOLVED SIMULATION AND FIELD DATA

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Author:
Nandi, Tarak Nath
Title:
EFFECTS OF BLADE BOUNDARY LAYER TRANSITION AND DAYTIME ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE ON WIND TURBINE PERFORMANCE ANALYZED WITH BLADE-RESOLVED SIMULATION AND FIELD DATA
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
Fluid Mechanics
CFD
turbulence
transition
atmospheric boundary layer
actuator line method
RANS
LES
Wind Energy
File:
Download Penn_State_University_Dissertation_forSubmission.pdf
Committee Members:
James Brasseur, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Brasseur, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Eric G. Paterson, Outside Member
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Eric G. Paterson, Special Member

37. Design Strategies and Experimental Validation of High-Performance Logging-While-Drilling Piezocomposite Transducers

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Open Access
Author:
Jiang, Runkun
Title:
Design Strategies and Experimental Validation of High-Performance Logging-While-Drilling Piezocomposite Transducers
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
LWD acoustic transducer
COMSOL design and optimization
extreme-environment fabrication
transducer testing protocol
File:
Download PhD_Dissertation_Runkun_Jiang_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Qiming Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qiming Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Bernhard R. Tittmann, Outside Member

38. The Influence of Neighborhood Risk, Parental Control, and Fearful Temperament on the Development of Internalizing Problems in Young Children

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Open Access
Author:
Mc Doniel, Meghan E
Title:
The Influence of Neighborhood Risk, Parental Control, and Fearful Temperament on the Development of Internalizing Problems in Young Children
Graduate Program:
Psychology
Keywords:
Fearful temperament
parental control
neighborhood risk
internalizing
File:
Download McDonielThesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Kristin Buss, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dawn Paula Witherspoon, Committee Member
Ginger A Moore, Committee Member

39. SHORT-TERM VEGETATION RESPONSES FOLLOWING NATURAL DISTURBANCE ON PRESERVED FOREST LANDS

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Open Access
Author:
Manning, Douglas Richard
Title:
SHORT-TERM VEGETATION RESPONSES FOLLOWING NATURAL DISTURBANCE ON PRESERVED FOREST LANDS
Graduate Program:
Ecology
Keywords:
Disturbance
Forest Dynamics
Invasives
Invasive species
Invasive plants
Preserved lands
Windthrow
Understory vegetation
Natural disturbance
File:
Download DouglasRManning_Final_Thesis_edited.pdf
Committee Members:
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Durland Laurence Shumway, Committee Member
David A Mortensen, Committee Member

40. Pulsed-Laser Crystallization of Ferroelectric/Piezoelectric Oxide Thin Films

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Author:
Rajashekhar, Adarsh
Title:
Pulsed-Laser Crystallization of Ferroelectric/Piezoelectric Oxide Thin Films
Graduate Program:
Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Ferroelectric Thin Films
Piezoelectric Thin Films
Laser Annealing
Pulsed-Laser Heating
Pulsed Laser Deposition
Laser Crystallization
Integration with polymeric substrates
Low Substrate Temperature Processing
In situ Laser Annealing
PZT Thin Films
File:
Download Adarsh_Rajashekhar_PhD_Dissertation_Penn_State.pdf
Committee Members:
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Outside Member

41. Caregiving at the end of life: A discursive analysis of agency

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Author:
Kitt-Lewis, Erin Ann
Title:
Caregiving at the end of life: A discursive analysis of agency
Graduate Program:
Nursing
Keywords:
Discourse analysis
secondary analysis
qualitative
informal family caregiving
end of life
File:
Download Kitt-Lewis_Dissertation_3.23.17_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:
Janice Lee Penrod, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janice Lee Penrod, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Jayne Loeb, Committee Member
Susan G Strauss, Committee Member
Robert William Schrauf, Outside Member

42. EXCESS FEED CONSUMPTION DURING GROWTH CAUSES CHANGES IN EXPRESSION OF STEROIDOGENIC ENZYMES AND NEUROACTIVE RECEPTORS IN OVARIES OF PREPUBESCENT BROILER BREEDER HENS

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Open Access
Author:
Anthony, Kate Lordan
Title:
EXCESS FEED CONSUMPTION DURING GROWTH CAUSES CHANGES IN EXPRESSION OF STEROIDOGENIC ENZYMES AND NEUROACTIVE RECEPTORS IN OVARIES OF PREPUBESCENT BROILER BREEDER HENS
Graduate Program:
Animal Science
Keywords:
ovary
follicle
chicken
broiler breeder hen
microarray
DAVID
steroidogenesis
neural
prepubescent
feed
gene expression
VIP
vasoactive intestinal polypeptide
File:
Download Final_Version_with_no_blank_page.pdf
Committee Members:
Francisco Javier Diaz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan Leslie Johnson, Committee Member
Ramesh Ramachandran, Committee Member

43. Developmental Trends, Processes, and Associations between Children's Gender Understanding and Felt Pressure to Conform to Gender Roles

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Open Access
Author:
Schroeder, Kingsley Manning
Title:
Developmental Trends, Processes, and Associations between Children's Gender Understanding and Felt Pressure to Conform to Gender Roles
Graduate Program:
Psychology
Keywords:
gender development
felt pressure
parent socialization
gender understanding
gendered peer relations
File:
Download SchroederMastersThesis_KMS_16Apr2017.pdf
Committee Members:
Lynn Susan Liben, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan Emdin Cook, Committee Member
Dawn Paula Witherspoon, Committee Member

44. Identification of Regions in Drosophila Spt5 That Are Involved in Promoter Proximal Pausing

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Open Access
Author:
Qiu, Yijun
Title:
Identification of Regions in Drosophila Spt5 That Are Involved in Promoter Proximal Pausing
Graduate Program:
Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology
Keywords:
transcription elongation
RNA polymerase II
promoter proximal pausing
Spt5
KOW domain
gene regulation
File:
Download Yijun_Qiu_Thesis_final.pdf
Committee Members:
David Scott Gilmour, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Scott Gilmour, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph C. Reese, Committee Member
Benjamin Franklin Pugh, Committee Member
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Outside Member
Song Tan, Committee Member

45. DESIGN OF A MULTI-SITE, MULTI-REGION MICRODRIVE NEURAL RECORDING SYSTEM

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Open Access
Author:
Billard, Myles William
Title:
DESIGN OF A MULTI-SITE, MULTI-REGION MICRODRIVE NEURAL RECORDING SYSTEM
Graduate Program:
Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:
Neurophysiology
Microdrive
Sleep
Wake
Circuits
Systems
Electrophysiology
Neural Recordings
Brainstem
File:
Download BillardMyles_MS_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Bruce Gluckman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kevin Douglas Alloway, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member

46. NEOLIBERAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF “WHITE MASCULINITY” IN CINEMATIC MEDIA - 1970-2015

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Author:
Masko, Jeffrey A
Title:
NEOLIBERAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF “WHITE MASCULINITY” IN CINEMATIC MEDIA - 1970-2015
Graduate Program:
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Keywords:
whiteness
masculinity
working class
film cycle
media studies
mass communications
Marxist communications
film theory
cinema studies
political subjectivities
bromance
reality television
romantic comedy
trucking films
film genre
File:
Download Masko-Jeffrey_Dissertation_Master_04162017.pdf
Committee Members:
Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kevin Hagopian, Committee Member
Matt McAllister, Committee Member
Greg Eghigian, Outside Member

47. Seismic Investigation of Sediments Beneath Antarctic Ice Streams

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Open Access
Author:
Luthra, Tarun
Title:
Seismic Investigation of Sediments Beneath Antarctic Ice Streams
Graduate Program:
Earth Sciences
Keywords:
Glaciology
Ice Streams
Geophysics
Reflection seismology
geosciences
Antarctica
West Antarctic Ice Sheet
File:
Download Luthra_dissertation_17thApril.pdf
Committee Members:
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
Byron Richard Parizek, Committee Member
Charles Holland, Outside Member

48. Design of Brine Disposal Wells in Depleted Gas Reservoirs via Artificial Intelligence Protocols

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Open Access
Author:
Shang, Bin
Title:
Design of Brine Disposal Wells in Depleted Gas Reservoirs via Artificial Intelligence Protocols
Graduate Program:
Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:
ANN
Brine Disposal
Depleted Gas Reservoirs
File:
Download Bin_Shang_Masters_Thesis_July_26_2017.pdf
Committee Members:
Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Member
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Member

49. Lithological Controls on Soil Properties of Temperate Forest Ecosystems in Central Pennsylvania

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Open Access
Author:
Hill, Lillian Z
Title:
Lithological Controls on Soil Properties of Temperate Forest Ecosystems in Central Pennsylvania
Graduate Program:
Ecology
Keywords:
Lithology
Nutrient Cycles
Critical Zone
Soil Gas
Soil Properties
Temperate Forest
File:
Download Lillian_Hill_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Jason Philip Kaye, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roman Alexander Dibiase, Committee Member
David Eissenstat, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Drohan, Committee Member

50. Simulations of Reactive Species Transport in the Respiratory Tract

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Open Access
Author:
Motevalian, Seyed Pouria
Title:
Simulations of Reactive Species Transport in the Respiratory Tract
Graduate Program:
Chemical Engineering
Keywords:
Dosimetry Modeling
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Mass Trasnport
Respiratory Tract
File:
Download PhD_Thesis_Seyed_Pouria_Motevalian.pdf
Committee Members:
Ali Borhan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali Borhan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Member
James Ultman, Committee Member
Rebecca Bascom, Outside Member