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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

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

Author:

Sung, Kiseok

Title:

EFFECTS OF GRIP SPAN IN ONE-HANDED THUMB INTERACTION WITH A SMARTPHONE

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Product Design
Ergonomics

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Kiseok_Sung_EFFECTS_OF_GRIP_SPAN_IN_ONE-HANDED_THUMB_INTERACTION_WITH_A_SMARTPHONE.pdf

Committee Members:

Andris Freivalds, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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

Author:

Lind, Amanda Blair

Title:

Auralizing Impulsive Sounds Outdoors Among Buildings

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

Sonic Boom
Auralization
BTM
Biot Tolstoy Mediwn
Diffraction
Edge Diffraction
Impulsive
Low Frequency
Outdoor
Sound Propagation

File:

Download Lind_Dissertation_Dec4_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Victor Ward Sparrow, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Briand, Cedric B

Title:

Hermeneutics of the Lake: Lancelot's Masculinities and Hybridities in 12th- and 13th-Century Arthurian Romance

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

Lancelot
Arthurian Studies
Medieval Studies
Arthurian Romance
French

File:

Download Dissertation_corrections.pdf

Committee Members:

Norris Joiner Lacy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Cho, Jae Hyun

Title:

USING AN UNDER DESK BIKE IN THE OFFICE WORKPLACE: A PILOT STUDY

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Active Workstation

File:

Download JaeHyunCho-MasterThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Andris Freivalds, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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

Author:

Palmer, Joshua David

Title:

Quantifying Sonic Boom Metric Variability

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

Sonic Boom
Acoustics
Sonic boom metrics

File:

Download Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Victor Ward Sparrow, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhou, Xinyu

Title:

Evaluating Drivers’ Stop-line Violation Behavior at Signalized Intersections

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

stop line violation
driver behaviors

File:

Download Xinyu_Zhou_Evaluating_Drivers__Stop-line_Violation_Behaviors_at_Signalized_Intersections.pdf

Committee Members:

Xinyu Zhou, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lu, Yang

Title:

Error Characterization of EOS M280 Additive Manufacturing Machine

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
GD&T
Metrology
Powder Bed Fusion

File:

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Committee Members:

Yang Lu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Han, Xiao

Title:

TOWARDS A SOFT-MOLD BASED HYBRID FIBER FORM DEFINING APPROACH

Graduate Program:

Architecture

Keywords:

soft mold
reconfigurable
form-force
undulating surface
pre-tensioned fibers

File:

Download Han_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Felecia Ann Davis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Liu, Shengshi

Title:

liquid crystal waveguide-based non-mechanical beam steering

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Beam steering
liquid crystal waveguide

File:

Download fffinal_dissertation-Shengshi_Liu.pdf

Committee Members:

Jian Xu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Osama O. Awadelkarim, Committee Member

Author:

Cameron, Zachary A

Title:

Examination of Critically Loaded Bearings in the Pericyclic Transmission

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Nutational Gearing
Pericyclic Transmission
Rotorcraft
Bearings
Dynamic Moment

File:

Download Pericyclic_Thesis_Cameron.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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

Author:

Rosado, Alexander O

Title:

Ultra-low power ZnO TFT based Ozone Sensors

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Sensor
Low-power
TMD Etching
Thin-film Transistor

File:

Download Rosado__Alexander__FINAL_THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Feinberg, Mandi Alysson

Title:

SINGLE PARTICLE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION: 2D TO 3D IN CRYO-EM

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Cryo-electron microscopy
Acetyl-CoA decarbonylase/ synthase
Canine Parvovirus
Virus-like Particle
Cryo-EM
CDH
CPV

File:

Download Feinberg_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Hafenstein, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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

Author:

Karnawat, Darshan Nitin

Title:

Power Optimization in Bluetooth Low Energy implemented through a System on Chip NRF51 and Apple Notification Center Services

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

BLE
Wireless Communication
Power Optimization

File:

Download Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sedig Salem Agili, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Tsuji, Kosuke

Title:

CHARACTERIZATION OF LOCALIZED ELECTRONIC STRUCTURES ENABLING COLOSSAL PERMITTIVITY CERAMIC CAPACITORS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ceramic capacitors
Grain boundaries
Schottky barriers
Tunneling

File:

Download Tsuji_Thesis-final_reviced.pdf

Committee Members:

Clive A Randall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Frederick, Tyler James

Title:

A High-Performance System for Anonymity in Peer-to-Peer File Transfer Networks

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

BitTorrent
Tor
P2P
Peer-to-Peer
Entanglement
DC Net
Dining Cryptographers
Bandwidth
File Sharing
File Transfer

File:

Download Master_s_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Awani, Awani

Title:

Nicotinamide is a TRPV channel agonist in Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

TRPV
ION CHANNEL
C ELEGANS
NICOTINAMIDE
CELL DEATH

File:

Download Revised_Dissertation__Awani__12.13.16.pdf

Committee Members:

Wendy Hanna Rose, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Liu, Yande

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF A CONTROLLER AND INDOOR FLIGHT TEST EXPERIMENT FOR RESEARCH ON QUADROTOR GUST RESPONSE

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

quadrotor
control

File:

Download Thesis_Yande_Liu.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

Author:

Fang, Zhicheng

Title:

Summer graduation

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Permeability
Pulse-decay experiment
Analytical solution
Numerical simulation
History-matching method
Pressure-dependent gas properties

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chaopeng Shen, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author:

Sakpal, Aniket Sunil

Title:

IMAGE-GUIDED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Defects
Simulation
Multifractals
UMPCA

File:

Download FinalThesis_AniketSakpal.pdf

Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell Richard Barton, Committee Member
Janis P Terpenny, Committee Member

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author:

Nichols, Stephen Matthew

Title:

Properties of Low Frequency Underwater Ambient Noise in the Ocean Sound Channel

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

Ambient noise
CTBTO
Correlation matrices
Array shape estimation

File:

Download Dissertation_August_2017_final.pdf

Committee Members:

David Bradley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Bradley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles Holland, Committee Member
Thomas B Gabrielson, Committee Member
Diane Marie Henderson, Outside Member

Author:

Dunn, Alexandra Marie

Title:

Non-dominant arm training improves functional performance and modifies spontaneous arm selection.

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology

Keywords:

handedness
handedness training
hand function
arm selection

File:

Download Dunn_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert L Sainburg, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Latash, Committee Member
Stephen Jacob Piazza, Committee Member

Author:

Loc, Welley Siu

Title:

Encapsulation of phosphorylated chemotherapeutics in calcium phosphosilicate nanoparticles and the translational perspective to nanoparticle drug delivery

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

nanomedicine
drug delivery
nanoparticles
CPSNPs
chemotherapeutics
phospho-drug
gold

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_Loc_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

James Hansell Adair, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hansell Adair, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
David D Boehr, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Outside Member

Author:

Wilhelm, Kyle Jacob

Title:

Development and Operation of a Li6F:ZnS(Ag) Scintillating Plastic Capture-Gated Detector

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Neutron scintillation
Composite detector
Capture-gated spectroscopy
Fast neutron detection
Pulse shape discrimination
Li6F:ZnS(Ag) scintillator

File:

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Committee Members:

Igor Jovanovic, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marek Flaska, Committee Member
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Member

Author:

Feurtado, Philip Andrew

Title:

Quiet Structure Design Using Acoustic Black Holes

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

Structural Acoustics
Acoustics
Acoustic Black Holes
Damping
Vibration
Noise Control

File:

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Committee Members:

Steve Conlon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steve Conlon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steve Hambric, Committee Member
John Fahnline, Committee Member
Ed Smith, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Yifan

Title:

Evaluating Design Review Meetings And The Use Of Virtual Reality For Post-Occupancy Analysis

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Virtual Reality
BIM
Architectural Design
Design Review
Grounded Theory

File:

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Committee Members:

John Messner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Messner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Michael Leicht, Committee Member
Chimay J. Anumba, Committee Member
Scarlett R. Miller, Outside Member
Craig Richard Dubler, Special Member

Author:

Wang, Jinjie

Title:

EXCHANGE TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND HOW THEIR EXPERIENCES IN THE USA AND CHINA INFLUENCE THEIR GLOBAL TEACHER IDENTITY

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

China
USA
exchange teachers
professional development
global teacher identity

File:

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Committee Members:

Ladislaus M. Semali, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ladislaus M. Semali, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Davin Carr-Chellman, Committee Member
Jamie Myers, Committee Member
Wei-Fan Chen, Outside Member

Author:

Jenney, Christopher

Title:

DEVELOPING AN ANIMAL MODEL FOR PREDICTION OF INDIVIDUAL VULNERABILITY TO ADDICTION-LIKE BEHAVIOR FOR HEROIN

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

addiction
drugs of abuse
rat model
self-administration
heroin
individual vulnerability

File:

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Committee Members:

Patricia Sue Grigson-Kennedy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patricia Sue Grigson-Kennedy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Robert Connor, Committee Member
Andras Hajnal, Committee Member
Robert G Levenson, Outside Member

Author:

Girer, Nathaniel Gabriel

Title:

AN EXAMINATION OF THE ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR IN LIVER METABOLISM

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor
Fibroblast growth factor 21
Liver Metabolism

File:

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Committee Members:

Gary Perdew, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary Perdew, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Patterson, Committee Member
Jeffrey Peters, Committee Member
Connie Rogers, Outside Member
Ross Hardison, Committee Member
Ross Hardison, Committee Member

Author:

Getz, Sara Marie

Title:

Improved Skeletal Age-at-Death Estimation and its Impact on Archaeological Analyses

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

Transition Analysis
age-at-death estimation
skeletal aging
biological profile
paleodemography
forensic anthropology
adult skeleton

File:

Download SMGetz2017_PennStateAnthroDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

George R. Milner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George R. Milner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James W. Wood, Committee Member
Joan T. Richtsmeier, Committee Member
Neil A. Sharkey, Outside Member
Jesper L. Boldsen, Special Member

Author:

Gelsinger, Sonia Lynne

Title:

Effects of colostrum heat treatment on immune development in the neonatal calf

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

calf
colostrum
heat treatment
immunity

File:

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Committee Members:

Arlyn Judson Heinrichs, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arlyn Judson Heinrichs, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joy L. Pate, Committee Member
Gabriella A. Varga, Committee Member
Robert J. Van Saun, Outside Member

Author:

Banerjee, Siddhartha

Title:

AUTHORING CONTENT AUTOMATICALLY USING ABSTRACTIVE SUMMARIZATION

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Abstractive summarization
Automatic authoring
Text summarization
Text-to-text generation

File:

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Committee Members:

Prasenjit Mitra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member
David Reitter, Outside Member

Author:

Pu, Yu

Title:

Towards Models of the Economic Value of Interdependent Privacy in Social App Adoption Scenarios

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Third-party Social Apps
App Data Collection Context
Interdependent Privacy
Value of Privacy
Conjoint Analysis
Structural Equation Modeling
Online Survey Study
Sharing Anonymity

File:

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Committee Members:

Jens Grossklags, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jens Grossklags, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
Peng Liu, Committee Member
S. Sundar Shyam, Outside Member

Author:

Pooler, Rick Kevin

Title:

AN ANALYSIS OF SPECTRUM SHARING FOR RADAR APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Spectrum Sensing
Cognitive Radar
Spectrum Sharing
Optimal Sub-band

File:

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Committee Members:

Ram Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Kane, Committee Member
Anthony Martone, Committee Member

Author:

Boehm, Sarah Jane

Title:

Electric Field Directed Nanowire Assembly: Towards Reconfigurable Materials with Switchable Properties

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

gold
silica
dielectrophoresis
metamaterial
electrohydrodynamics
polarizer
lattice

File:

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Committee Members:

Christine D. Keating, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine D. Keating, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Paul S. Cremer, Committee Member
Douglas H. Wener, Outside Member

Author:

Mazzone, Jennie Diehl

Title:

Responding to growers' needs: Evaluation of management strategies for onion center rot, caused by Pantoea ananatis and Pantoea agglomerans

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology

Keywords:

onion
Pantoea ananatis
Pantoea agglomerans
center rot
cultivar
nitrogen
transplant
bactericide
management
integrated pest management
Allium cepa
bacteria
disease
Honduras
horticultural production guide
Rhizoctonia solani
tomato
tomato foliar blight
Pennsylvania

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. Beth K. Gugino, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. María del Mar Jiménez Gasco, Committee Member
Dr. Kari A. Peter, Committee Member
Dr. William Lamont, Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Yan, Yixin

Title:

Sub-wavelength Modulation of Complex Refractive Index and X(2) Optical Nonlinearity in Organic Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

organic semiconductors
photonic materials and devices
nanotechnology
nonlinear optics
parity-time symmetry

File:

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Committee Members:

Noel C. Giebink, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Noel C. Giebink, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas N. Jackson, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member

Author:

Morgart, James Ashley

Title:

HAUNTED REGIONS: EXHUMING MARGINALIZED NARRATIVES IN POSTWAR AMERICAN GOTHIC FICTION

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Gothic
Regionalism
American Literature
Postwar
The Uncanny
Abjection
Gothic Literature
William Styron
Chester Himes
Shirley Jackson
Ray Bradbury
Ross Macdonald
Gothic Science Fiction
Detective Fiction
Southern Gothic

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Committee Members:

Sanford Schwartz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sanford Schwartz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Berube, Committee Member
Mark Morrisson, Committee Member
Jonathan Eburne, Outside Member

Author:

Santiago Cordoba, Miguel A

Title:

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF NANOSTRUCTURED SURFACES FOR ENHANCED OPTICAL SENSING

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Biosensors
Optical Sensing
Enhanced Sensing
Nanostructured Surfaces
SERS
Whispering Gallery Mode

File:

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Committee Members:

Melik C. Demirel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melik C. Demirel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John. V. Badding, Committee Member
Benjamin J. Lear, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Outside Member
Christine D. Keating, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher E. Hamilton, Special Member

Author:

Wang, Feng

Title:

GENOME-WIDE ANALYSIS OF PLANT HETEROCHROMATIC SHORT-INTERFERING RNAS

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

small RNA modifications
small RNA sequencing
Arabidopsis thaliana
AGO4
heterochromatic siRNA accumulation
secondary heterochromatic siRNAs
slicing ability

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael J. Axtell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael J. Axtell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Teh-hui Kao, Committee Member
Charles T. Anderson, Committee Member
Surinder Chopra, Outside Member

Author:

Obungoloch, Johnes

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF ULTRA LOW FIELD MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING FOR DIAGNOSIS OF HYDROCHEPHALUS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

MRI
PMRI
SUSTAINABILITY
HYDROCEPHALUS
LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. Steven J schiff, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Steven J Schiff, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Igor M Savukov, Committee Member
Dr. Srinivas Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Dr. Thomas Newberger, Outside Member
Dr. Nanyin Zhang, Committee Member
Dr. Michael Lanagan, Committee Member

Author:

Kamali Shahri, Seyed Mehdi Mehdi

Title:

STUDY OF AMINOSILICA ADSORBENTS FOR CO2 CAPTURE: EXPERIMENTAL STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

CO2 adsorption
Kinetics
thermodynamics
heat of adsorption
efficiency
aminosilica material
type I adsorbent
surface chemistry
surface modification
CO2 adsorption modeling

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Rioux, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Caroline Clifford, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chunshan Song, Committee Member
Xiaoxing Wang, Committee Member
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Outside Member

Author:

Limbu, Samita

Title:

EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE ON DEVELOPMENT AND FITNESS OF ASIAN GYPSY MOTH AND THE BIOCONTROL AGENT OF HEMLOCK WOOLLY ADELGID, SCYMNUS CAMPTODROMUS

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Hemlock woolly adelgid
Scymnus camptodromus
Asian gypsy moth
Temperature
Development time
Degree-day
Host range specificity

File:

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Committee Members:

Kelli Hoover, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kelli Hoover, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Melody Keena, Committee Member
Edwin G Rajotte, Committee Member
Jim Sellmer, Outside Member
Mary Barbercheck, Committee Member

Author:

Fernandez, Frank J

Title:

DOCTORAL EDUCATION OF LATINAS AND LATINOS IN THE UNITED STATES: EXAMINATIONS OF (SUB)BACCALAUREATE ORIGINS, THE ROLE OF HISPANIC SERVING INSTITUTIONS, AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOURCES OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND POST-GRADUATION PLANS

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

Survey of Earned Doctorates
Hispanic
Carnegie Classification of Institutions
Community Colleges
Doctoral Universities

File:

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Committee Members:

Leticia Oseguera, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Liliana M. Garces, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roger L. Geiger, Committee Member
David P. Baker, Committee Member
Christopher Fariss, Outside Member

Author:

Chen, Weile

Title:

MYCORRHIZAL-MEDIATED NUTRIENT FORAGING STRATEGIES OF TEMPERATE TREE SPECIES

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Mycorrhizal fungi
Soil heterogeneity
Root trait
Forest
Root proliferation
Species diversity

File:

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Committee Members:

David M. Eissenstat, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David M. Eissenstat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew D. Hurteau, Committee Member
John E. Carlson, Committee Member
Kathleen M. Brown, Outside Member
Roger T. Koide, Special Member

Author:

Pitakjakpipop, Pawnprapa

Title:

EFFECT OF SUPPORT FOR Ni2P CATALYSTS ON HYDRODEOXYGENATION OF BIO-OIL USING ANISOLE AND GUAIACOL AS MODEL COMPOUNDS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrodeoxygenation
Nickel Phosphide
TiO2-CeO2
Support effect
Bio-oil

File:

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Committee Members:

Chunshan Song, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chunshan Song, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Randy L. Vander Wal, Committee Member
Xiaoxing Wang, Committee Member
Michael J. Janik, Outside Member

Author:

Brandsema, Matthew J

Title:

Formulation and Analysis of the Quantum Radar Cross Section

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Quantum Radar
QRCS
Radar Cross Section
Photon Scattering

File:

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Committee Members:

Ram Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ram Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Iam Choon Khoo, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Marcos Rigol, Outside Member
Marco Lanzagorta, Special Member

Author:

Poore, Ryan James

Title:

EXTENDING A BIOLOGICAL CELL TRACKING SYSTEM TO TRACK RANGE DATA OF PEDESTRIANS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

LIDAR range data
topological constraints
geometric active contour
Interacting Multiple Model

File:

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Committee Members:

William Higgins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Tutwiler, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member

Author:

Radville, Laura

Title:

Root phenology in a changing world

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

root phenology
climate change
phenology
roots
carbon exchange
root turnover

File:

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Committee Members:

David Eissenstat, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Eissenstat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Post, Committee Member
Margot Kaye, Committee Member
Kathleen Brown, Outside Member

Author:

Culp, Mara Elizabeth

Title:

Three Investigations of Phonological Awareness and Music Aptitude

Graduate Program:

Music Education

Keywords:

phonological awareness
music
special needs
speech and language impairments
speech therapy
reading

File:

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Committee Members:

Joanne Rutkowski, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joanne Rutkowski, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Linda Thornton, Committee Member
Ann C. Clements, Committee Member
Hoi K. Suen, Outside Member
Barbara Roberts, Special Member

Author:

Akkullu, Monica Roy

Title:

Distribution of La and O Vacancies in Bulk and Surface Models of Ceria

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Lanthanum doped Ceria
Ceria
DFT plus U
Dopant and O vacancy distribution

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael Janik, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kristen Fichthorn, Committee Member
Xueyi Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Souza Freire Grion, Livia

Title:

CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELING OF ATMOSPHERIC FLOW WITHIN AND ABOVE PLANT CANOPIES

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

canopy flows
atmospheric boundary layer
atmospheric turbulence

File:

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Committee Members:

Marcelo Chamecki, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris E. Forest, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jose D. Fuentes, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
NA, Outside Member

Author:

Huang, Ying Tzu

Title:

STRUCTURAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF PURE AND K-DOPED C60 ON THE PB(100) SURFACE

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

LEED
STM
alkali metals
fullerene
KxC60

File:

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Committee Members:

Renee D. Diehl, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Renee D. Diehl, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Hudson, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Member
Miriam A. Freedman, Outside Member

Author:

Argondizza, Thomas Gregory

Title:

Learning Among Higher Education Instructional Designers in an Enterprise Social Network Group

Graduate Program:

Instructional Systems

Keywords:

social learning
social network groups
professional development
adult learning
informal learning
qualitative
phenomenology
instructional design
instructional designers
higher education
online social network
reciprocity

File:

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Committee Members:

Allison Carr-Chellman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Allison Carr-Chellman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Heather Toomey-Zimmerman, Committee Member
William Rothwell, Committee Member
Ed Yoder, Outside Member

Author:

Hoffman, Sarah Christine

Title:

Academic Unionization: Influential Environmental and Organizational Factors

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

collective bargaining
faculty unions
graduate student unions
right-to-work states

File:

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Committee Members:

John Cheslock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Cheslock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Liang Zhang, Committee Member
Mike Dooris, Committee Member
John Christman, Outside Member

Author:

Alkhalaf, Ali H

Title:

Identifying Employee Engagement Factors in the Oil and Energy Industry in Saudi Arabia

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

Work engagement
oil and energy
Job Performance in oil and energy
Job Resources
Saudi Arabia

File:

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Committee Members:

William J. Rothwell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. William J. Rothwell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Judith A. Kolb, Committee Member
Dr. Susan E. Cromwell, Committee Member
Dr. Edgar P. Yoder, Outside Member

Author:

Gebhardt, Evan Thomas

Title:

Mimo Radar Through the Wall Imaging Techniques

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Radar
Through-Wall-Radar
Wall Mitigation
Target Detection
SAR
MIMO
Virtual Array

File:

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Committee Members:

Ram M Naraynan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James K Breakall, Committee Member
Ram M Naraynan, Committee Member

Author:

Alstadt, Valerie Jo

Title:

ICE NUCLEATION EFFECTS OF SOOT AND MINERAL DUST AEROSOL PARTICLES

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

atmospheric chemistry
ice nucleation
heterogeneous chemistry
DRIFTS

File:

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Committee Members:

Miriam Freedman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Miriam Freedman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine Keating, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Johannes Verlinde, Outside Member

Author:

Wood, Michael C

Title:

Using Narrative Inquiry to Investigate Persistence Challenges for African American Males in Education

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

African American Males
Anti Deficit Thinking
Persistence
Non-Cognitive Development
PWI's
HBCU's
Narrative Inquiry

File:

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Committee Members:

Edgar I. Farmer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith A. Kolb, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edgar P. Yoder, Committee Member
Mark D. Threeton, Committee Member
N/A, Outside Member

Author:

Kwon, Hyunji

Title:

PERFORMING WITNESSING: ART, SEXUAL TRAUMA, AND FEMINIST PEDAGOGY

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

sexual trauma
feminist pedagogy
bearing witness
trauma art

File:

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Committee Members:

Karen Keifer-Boyd, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Keifer-Boyd, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles Garoian, Committee Member
Kimberly Powell, Committee Member
Rosemary J. Jolly, Outside Member

Author:

Fine, Julia Diane

Title:

THE TOXICODYNAMICS OF “INERT” AND “ALTERNATIVE” AGROCHEMICALS AND THEIR IMPACTS ON HONEY BEES

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Apis mellifera
adjuvant
pesticide
insect growth regulator
honey bee
larvae
Black Queen Cell Virus
N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone
inert

File:

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Committee Members:

Christopher A. Mullin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher A. Mullin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edwin G. Rajotte, Committee Member
Rudolf J. Schilder, Committee Member
Jeffrey M. Peters, Outside Member
Diana Cox-Foster, Special Member

Author:

Ajayi, Oluwaseyi Adebola

Title:

Testing the Viability of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide as a Fracking Fluid by Computing its Chemical Interaction with Illite

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

molecular modeling
fracking
hydraulic fracturing
marcellus shale
supercritical CO2
illite
density functional theory
molecular dynamics
DFT
DFT-MD
scCO2
interfacial tension
interfacial energy
interaction energy
VASP
energy minimization

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. James Kubicki, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Michael Arthur, Committee Member
Dr. Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Dr. Demian Saffer, Committee Member

Author:

Afzal, Sayed Amin

Title:

Leaf thickness and electrical capacitance as measures of plant water status

Graduate Program:

Agronomy

Keywords:

plant-based sensor
irrigation scheduling
leaf sensor
water stress
photosynthesis
soil water
leaf water

File:

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Committee Members:

Sjoerd W. Duiker, Jack Watson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sjoerd W. Duiker, Jack Watson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jack Watson, Committee Member
Dawn Luthe, Committee Member
Paul Heinemann, Outside Member

Author:

Koubek, Emily Jean

Title:

The Role of an ARF1 and ARF6 Signaling Pathway in HGF-Stimulated Epithelial Cell Migration

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

ARF6
ARF1
Cytohesin
Rac1
HGF Signaling
Cell Migration

File:

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Committee Members:

Lorraine Santy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lorraine Santy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Melissa Rolls, Committee Member
Wendy Hanna-Rose, Committee Member
Pamela Hankey Giblin, Outside Member
Ying Gu, Committee Member

Author:

Abdalla, Reham Mohamed

Title:

THE USE OF GRAFTING FOR IMPROVING SALINITY TOLERANCE IN TOMATO PLANTS

Graduate Program:

Horticulture

Keywords:

Salinity
Tomato
Grafting
Xylem sap
Salt tolerance
Sodium
Potassium

File:

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Committee Members:

Kathleen Brown, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Orzolek, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathleen Brown, Committee Member
Elsa Sánchez, Committee Member
Jack Watson, Outside Member

Author:

Ricketts, Amy Rene

Title:

Conversations Around Practice: Mediating Opportunities to Learn About Teaching Science

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Professional Learning Communities
Professional Development
Teacher Education
Discourse Analysis
Microethnography
Science Education

File:

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Committee Members:

Jim Nolan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Greg Kelly, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jim Nolan, Committee Member
Anne Whitney, Committee Member
Stephanie Knight, Outside Member

Author:

Fost, Brooks Ashley

Title:

PH PREFERENCE AND AVOIDANCE OF ADULT BROOK TROUT AND BROWN TROUT: INFLUENCE ON MOVEMENTS AND INTERACTIONS

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

pH
brook trout
brown trout
distribution
interactions

File:

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Committee Members:

C. Paola Ferreri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
C. Paola Ferreri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tyler Wagner, Committee Member
Victoria Braithwaite, Committee Member
Rachel Brennan, Outside Member

Author:

Yorke, April M

Title:

The Effects of Explicit Instruction in Letter-sound Correspondences with Children with Complex Communication Needs in Pairs with Peers

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Keywords:

complex communication needs
augmentative and alternative communication
autism spectrum disorder
reading
ALL curriculum
explicit instruction
letter-sound correspondences
literacy
intellectual disability
developmental delay
cortical visual impairment

File:

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Committee Members:

Janice C. Light, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janice C. Light, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn D.R. Drager, Committee Member
Carol A. Miller, Committee Member
David B. McNaughton, Outside Member

Author:

Hubbard, Troy David

Title:

Ligand Selectivity and Evolutionary Divergence of the Human Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

aryl hydrocarbon receptor
AHR
Evolution
Ligand selectivity
PAHs
Toxicity

File:

Download Troy_Hubbard_Thesis_Final_Version.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Gary Perdew, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Andrew Patterson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Jeffrey Peters, Committee Member
Dr. Ming Tien, Committee Member
Dr. Edward Dudley, Outside Member

Author:

McCarthy, Sean M

Title:

Bond Activation by Geometrically Distorted P(III) Compounds

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Bond Activation
Main group chemistry
Organophosphorus chemistry
Physical organic chemistry
Mechanistic chemistry

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Raymond L. Funk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raymond L. Funk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steven M. Weinreb, Committee Member
Scott T. Phillips, Committee Member
Robert M. Rioux, Outside Member
Alexander T. Radosevich, Special Member