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4. EFFECTS OF LARGE-SCALE CLIMATE ON AVIAN POPULATION DYNAMICS ACROSS SPECIES' NORTH AMERICAN BREEDING DISTRIBUTIONS

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Author:
Anders, Angela Dawn
Title:
EFFECTS OF LARGE-SCALE CLIMATE ON AVIAN POPULATION DYNAMICS ACROSS SPECIES' NORTH AMERICAN BREEDING DISTRIBUTIONS
Graduate Program:
Ecology
Keywords:
North Atlantic Oscillation
climate change
Breeding Bird Survey
population dynamics
landbird
El Nino Southern Oscillation
File:
Download Anders_Formatted_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Eric S Post, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Duane R Diefenbach, Committee Member
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member
Christopher Barry Goguen, Committee Member
Matthew Marshall, Committee Member

6. WOMEN IN ENGINEERING: THE GENDERED EFFECTS OF PROGRAM CHANGES, FACULTY ACTIVITIES, AND STUDENT EXPERIENCES ON LEARNING

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Author:
Lambert, Amber D.
Title:
WOMEN IN ENGINEERING: THE GENDERED EFFECTS OF PROGRAM CHANGES, FACULTY ACTIVITIES, AND STUDENT EXPERIENCES ON LEARNING
Graduate Program:
Higher Education
Keywords:
engineering education
gender differences
design skills
group skills
women in engineering
File:
Download Amber_Lambert_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Patrick T Terenzini, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lisa R Lattuca, Committee Member
Duane Francis Alwin, Committee Member
Gul Kremer, Committee Member

8. MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY AND INCREASES OF YIELD AND THE ANTIOXIDANTS SELENIUM AND ERGOTHIONEINE IN BASIDIOMATA OF PLEUROTUS ERYNGII

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Author:
Rodriguez Estrada, Alma Edith
Title:
MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY AND INCREASES OF YIELD AND THE ANTIOXIDANTS SELENIUM AND ERGOTHIONEINE IN BASIDIOMATA OF PLEUROTUS ERYNGII
Graduate Program:
Plant Pathology
Keywords:
Pleurotus eryngii
phylogeny
mushroom cultivation
antioxidants
selenium
ergothioneine
File:
Download RodriguezEstradaDissertation2008.pdf
Committee Members:
Daniel J Royse, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maria Del Mar Jimenez Gasco, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles Peter Romaine, Committee Member
Gary William Moorman, Committee Member
Robert Bruce Beelman, Committee Member

9. Understanding Mixed Conifer Forests in Yosemite National Park: An Historical Analysis of Fire Regimes and Vegetation Dynamics

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Author:
Scholl, Andrew E
Title:
Understanding Mixed Conifer Forests in Yosemite National Park: An Historical Analysis of Fire Regimes and Vegetation Dynamics
Graduate Program:
Geography
Keywords:
fire climate interactions
forest dynamics
vegetation change
fire history
carbon sequestration
fire suppression
File:
Download Scholl_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Alan H Taylor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert P Brooks, Committee Member
Andrew Mark Carleton, Committee Member
Eric S Post, Committee Member

10. LEAN INFORMATION FLOW IN COMPLEX HEALTHCARE PROJECTS AND THE ROLE OF THE “INTEGRATOR” ROLE AS INFORMATION FLOW MANAGER

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Author:
Phelps, Andreas Floros
Title:
LEAN INFORMATION FLOW IN COMPLEX HEALTHCARE PROJECTS AND THE ROLE OF THE “INTEGRATOR” ROLE AS INFORMATION FLOW MANAGER
Graduate Program:
Architectural Engineering
Keywords:
healthcare facilities
Construction
integration
lean
information flow
social factors
ethnography
sustainability
File:
Download AFPhelps_Dissertation_2008.pdf
Committee Members:
Michael Horman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Horman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David R Riley Ii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Messner, Committee Member
Madhu Reddy, Committee Member

11. Increasing Regulatory Capacity: the Role of the Region in Shaping National ICT Policy in Southern Africa

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Author:
van Gorp, Annemijn Fleur
Title:
Increasing Regulatory Capacity: the Role of the Region in Shaping National ICT Policy in Southern Africa
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
regional economic community
regulators association
telecommunications policy
Africa
regionalization
regulation
File:
Download VanGorp_Dissertation_2008_04_14.pdf
Committee Members:
Carleen Frances Maitland, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Watson Bagby, Committee Member
Andrea H Tapia, Committee Member
Richard Denny Taylor, Committee Member

12. The relationship between alumni giving and receipt of institutional scholarships among undergraduate students at a public, land-grant institution

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Author:
Diehl, Abigail G.
Title:
The relationship between alumni giving and receipt of institutional scholarships among undergraduate students at a public, land-grant institution
Graduate Program:
Higher Education
Keywords:
scholarships
giving
alumni
university
File:
Download ThesisMaster_Final_Diehl.pdf
Committee Members:
Robert M Hendrickson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald Heller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lisa Lattuca, Committee Member
Jon F Nussbaum, Committee Member

14. RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY IN THE ULTRAVIOLET USING A TUNABLE LASER

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Author:
Willitsford, Adam Henry
Title:
RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY IN THE ULTRAVIOLET USING A TUNABLE LASER
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
ultraviolet
uv
benzene
toluene
spectroscopy
raman
resonance
File:
Download Willitsford_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
C Russell Philbrick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member
Sven G Bilen, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Hampton Nelson Shirer, Committee Member
Dr Hans Hallen, Committee Member
Stewart Kendall Kurtz, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member

15. Fundamental physics underlying polymer drag reduction from DNS of homogeneous shear and isotropic turbulence with the FENE-P model

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Author:
Robert, Ashish
Title:
Fundamental physics underlying polymer drag reduction from DNS of homogeneous shear and isotropic turbulence with the FENE-P model
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
Homogeneous isotropic turbulence
Homogeneous shear turbulence
Polymer drag reduction
DNS
File:
Download PhD_Thesis_of_Ashish_Robert.pdf
Committee Members:
James Gordon Brasseur, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
Vigor Yang, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member

16. Terrain-Based Road Vehicle Localization Using Attitude Measurements

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Author:
Dean, Adam
Title:
Terrain-Based Road Vehicle Localization Using Attitude Measurements
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
vehicle
terrain-based
estimation
kalman filter
particle filter
localization
File:
Download Adam-Dean-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Sean Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member
Karl Martin Reichard, Committee Member
Jack W Langelaan, Committee Member

17. AN ANALYSIS OF THE INFLUENCE OF HUMAN INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES ON WEB SEARCHING BEHAVIOR AMONG BLACKS AND WHITES: A CASE OF HEALTH INFORMATION SEARCHING

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Author:
Morgan, Allison Janeice
Title:
AN ANALYSIS OF THE INFLUENCE OF HUMAN INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES ON WEB SEARCHING BEHAVIOR AMONG BLACKS AND WHITES: A CASE OF HEALTH INFORMATION SEARCHING
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
Human information behavior
Individual differences
Race
Health information
Web searching
Diversity
Human variation
File:
Download MorganDissertation_vFinal2008.pdf
Committee Members:
Eileen M Trauth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eileen M Trauth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lynette Kvasny, Committee Member
Bernard James Jansen, Committee Member
Dr. Ronald Jackson II, Committee Member

18. Percolation Segregation in Multi-Size and Multi-Component Particulate Materials: Measurement, Sampling, and Modeling

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Author:
Jha, Anjani Kumar
Title:
Percolation Segregation in Multi-Size and Multi-Component Particulate Materials: Measurement, Sampling, and Modeling
Graduate Program:
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Keywords:
Modeling
Sampling
Coarse and Fines Sizes
Primary Segregation Shear Cell
Segregation
Continuous Mixtures
Particulate Materials
File:
Download Dissertation-Anjani_Jha.pdf
Committee Members:
Virendra Puri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eileen Wheeler, Committee Member
Douglas Brian Beegle, Committee Member

19. Weathering Advance Rates in Basalt: Prediction and Comparison Across Scales

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Author:
Sitchler, Alexis K
Title:
Weathering Advance Rates in Basalt: Prediction and Comparison Across Scales
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
chemical weathering
basalt
porosity
diffusion
scaling
reactive transport modeling
weathering rinds
File:
Download ANS_final_thesis2.pdf
Committee Members:
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Kirby, Committee Member
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

20. The Effects of Alcohol and Illegal Drug Use on Initial Family Formation

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Author:
Ryan, Andrea Kay
Title:
The Effects of Alcohol and Illegal Drug Use on Initial Family Formation
Graduate Program:
Rural Sociology
Keywords:
childbearing
premarital cohabitation
illegal drug use
adolescent alcohol use
fertility
premarital parenthood
File:
Download ARyan_drug_use_and_family_formation_dissertation2008.pdf
Committee Members:
Diane K Mc Laughlin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fern Kaley Willits, Committee Member
Leif Jensen, Committee Member
Darrell J Steffensmeier, Committee Member