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Author:

Abrahamson, Joseph Peter

Title:

Pulsed Laser Annealing of Carbon

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

carbon
carbonization
graphitization
graphitizable
graphitizability
odd membered carbon rings
laser annealing
microscopy
electron microscopy
carbon annealing
kinetics of graphitization
carbon black
coke
char
mesophase

File:

Download Abrahamson-Dissertation-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Randy Lee Vander Wal, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Semih Eser, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Adri van Duin, Outside Member

Author:

Lee, Kevin Haeseung

Title:

Statistical Learning of Complex Large-Scale Dynamic Systems

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Statistical learning
Model-based clustering
Dynamic networks
Graphical model
EM algorithm
Variational inference

File:

Download Kevin_Lee_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David R. Hunter, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Nanyin Zhang, Outside Member
Mark S. Handcock, Special Member

Author:

Harman, Chester Ervin

Title:

Oxygen as a Biosignature on Terrestrial Planets

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

oxygen
sulfur
mass independent fractionation
false positive
Archean
atmospheric chemistry
planetary science

File:

Download Harman_dissertation_05312017.pdf

Committee Members:

James F. Kasting, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James F. Kasting, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christelle Wauthier, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Outside Member

Author:

Boylan, Christopher Ian

Title:

Speaking On Our Behalf: Essays On Political Representation

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Political representation
Legislative behavior
Computational social science

File:

Download BoylanDIssertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Burt Monroe III, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Burt Monroe III, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sona Nadenichek Golder, Committee Member
Matthew Richard Golder, Committee Member
John W Gastil, Outside Member
Marie Hojnacki, Committee Member

Author:

Shen, Chaohai

Title:

ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMICS OF COLLUSION

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Timber auction
Leniency policy
Bidder collusion
Collusion detection
Procurement

File:

Download Dissertationfinal_Cshen.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Clifford Marshall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Clifford Marshall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sung Jae Jun, Committee Member
Vijay Krishna, Committee Member
Anthony Mark Kwasnica, Outside Member

Author:

Oakes, Rosemary Louise

Title:

Towards understanding the impact of ocean acidification on the shell condition of thecosome pteropods

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Pteropods
Ocean acidification
Micro-CT
Nano-SEM
Taphonomy
Plankton
Preservation
Biological oceanography
Chemical oceanography
Climate change

File:

Download ROakes_phddissertation_final_micdrop.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy Bralower, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Bralower, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Allan Arthur, Committee Member
Lee Kump, Committee Member
Timothy Michael Ryan, Outside Member
Matthew S Fantle, Committee Member

Author:

Rajakovich, Lauren Julia

Title:

Exploring the functional and mechanistic diversity of diiron oxidases and oxygenases

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

enzyme
iron oxygenase
gene annotation
organophosphonate
HD-domain
biofuel
alkane
ferritin-like
diiron
peroxyl radical
PetF
alkene

File:

Download Dissertation_RajakovichLJ.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph M Bollinger Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carsten Krebs, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Squire J Booker, Committee Member
Amie Kathleen Boal, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Outside Member

Author:

Sreenivasan, Akshaya

Title:

TOGETHER WHEN APART: EXPLORING SOCIAL MEDIA INTERACTIVITY AND EMPOWERMENT AMONG REFUGEES

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

Social Media
Facebook
Netnography

File:

Download Akshaya_Sreenivasan_Dissertation_August2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Colleen Connolly-Ahern, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Colleen Connolly-Ahern, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Marie Hardin, Committee Member
Anthony Olorunnisola, Committee Member
Carleen Frances Maitland, Outside Member

Author:

Miller, Amanda Joy

Title:

Blood Flow Regulation During Exercise in Peripheral Arterial Disease

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

peripheral arterial disease
blood pressure
exercise physiology
coronary blood flow
Near-infrared spectroscopy

File:

Download Thesis-_Miller_final-7.19.17.pdf

Committee Members:

Lawrence Isaac Sinoway, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Christine Arnold, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kirsteen Nairn Browning, Committee Member
Charles H Lang, Committee Member
Urs Andreas Leuenberger, Outside Member

Author:

Izquierdo Miranda, Maria Lourdes

Title:

Adaptable Debility: Becoming Human Under Biocapitalism

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

debility
mental illness
disability
neoliberalism
biopolitics
performance

File:

Download Dissertation_June_2017_PDF_Izquierdo_.pdf

Committee Members:

John Andres Ochoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Andres Ochoa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew J Marr, Committee Member
Judith Sierra-Rivera, Committee Member
Michael Francis Berube, Outside Member
Rosemary Jane Jolly, Committee Member