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Author:: Prakash, Keerti
Title:: MODELING FOR POLYMER/ CARBON NANOTUBE NANOCOMPOSITE TO ESTIMATE STRUCTURAL DAMPING IN A ROTOCRAFT BLADE
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: nanocomposite
damping
carbon nanotubes
interfacial slip
stick-slip
randomly oriented
rotor blade
rotorcraft
File:: Download MS_Thesis_Keerti_Prakash.pdf
Committee Members:: Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles E Bakis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

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Author:: Fortiz, Victoria
Title:: OCEANIC ANOXIA EVENT 2 (93.9 MA) IN THE U.S. WESTERN INTERIOR SEAWAY: HIGH RESOLUTION CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL RECORD OF THE TROPIC SHALE FORMATION
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: OAE2; Calcareous nannofossils; Paleoclimate; Paleoceanography
File:: Download VF_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Timothy J. Bralower, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Michael A. Arthur, Committee Member

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Author:: Marple, Daniel Robert
Title:: Understanding Lithium Plating in Lithium-Ion Batteries and Exploring Mitigation Strategies by Self-Heating
Graduate Program:: Chemical Engineering
Keywords:: Lithium ion battery
lithium plating
self-heating
low temperature
cycle life
pulse heating
large-format battery
File:: Download Marple_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Chao-Yang Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chao-Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Outside Member

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Author:: Gavazzi, Lia Michelle
Title:: Variation in Pisiform Growth-Plate Morphology
Graduate Program:: Anthropology
Keywords:: pisiform
growth plate
evolution and development
xenarthran
lorisine
forelimb
autopod
File:: Download Gavazzi_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Timothy Michael Ryan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip Reno, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Zhang, Chenchen
Title:: EXPLORING NOVEL GLASS MICROFABRICATION TECHNIQUES FOR SENSOR APPLICATIONS
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: glass etching
on-chip glass microspherical shell
WGM resonator
glass microbubble ensulation
File:: Download Ph.D_thesis_Chenchen_Zhang_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Weihua Guan, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member

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Author:: Bubash, Connie Kathleen
Title:: Contagious Texts Embodied: Melancholy Hermeneutics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Graduate Program:: English
Keywords:: melancholy
contagion
self-help book
embodiment
the passions
medieval literature
early modern literature
Sidney
Shakespeare
Chaucer
Gower
therapeutic reading
vernacular medical treatise
File:: Download Bubash_Complete_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert R. Edwards, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Cheney, Committee Member
Mary Floyd-Wilson, Committee Member
Bradford Bouley, Outside Member

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Author:: Nuckols, Lauren Elizabeth
Title:: On Beauty and Ambivalence: The Complexity of Aesthetic Experience
Graduate Program:: Philosophy
Keywords:: Semiotics
Aesthetics
Beauty
Ambivalence
Ethics
Justice
Peirce
Pragmatism
Psychoanalytic Theory
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Committee Members:: Vincent Colapietro, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Colapietro, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Philip Christman, Committee Member
Sarah Clark Miller, Committee Member
Anne Carver Rose, Outside Member
John Philip Christman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Philip Christman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Mcdonald, Ashley
Title:: Understanding Family and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Risk for Internalizing and Externalizing in Adolescents: A Person-Centered Approach
Graduate Program:: Psychology
Keywords:: socioeconomic disadvantage
adolescents
internalizing
externalizing
File:: Download McDonald_Thesis_FINAL_Dec.pdf
Committee Members:: Martha Ellen Wadsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dawn Paula Witherspoon, Committee Member
Bethany Cara Bray, Committee Member

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Author:: Kim, Gloria Bora
Title:: CITRATE-BASED BIOMATERIALS FOR NERVE TISSUE ENGINEERING AND BRAIN DRUG DELIVERY
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: citric acid
biomaterials
nerve tissue engineering
brain cancer
drug delivery
File:: Download Thesis-final_eTD_upload.pdf
Committee Members:: Jian Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheng Dong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jian Yang, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Kevin Douglas Alloway, Outside Member

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Author:: Gould, Timothy Walker
Title:: Coarse Woody Debris in Riparian Corridors of Central Pennsylvania: How Abundance, Characteristics, and Dynamics Vary with Anthropogenic Disturbance
Graduate Program:: Ecology
Keywords:: ecology
coarse woody debris
riparian
disturbance
habitat quality
File:: Download TWG_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Robert P Brooks, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan H Taylor, Committee Member
Michael Quinn Nassry, Committee Member

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