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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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

Download Feurtado_Dissertation_Final.pdf

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:

Download Dissertation_for_eTD_submission.pdf

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:

Download JinjieWang_Dissetation_20161212.pdf

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:

Download Jenney_Dissertation_Revised_08-16-17.pdf

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:

Download Girer_Dissertation.pdf

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:

Download SLG_Dissertation_Final.pdf

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:

Download BanerjeeThesis.pdf

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:

Download main.pdf

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:

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:

Download S_J_Boehm_Chemistry_Dissertation_2017.pdf

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:

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:

Download YY-Dissertation_0103.pdf

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:

Download Thesis_MASC_Final.pdf

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:

Download Feng_Wang_Dissertation.pdf

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:

Download JOHNES_PMRI.pdf

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:

Download MehdiThesis--_Final_version.pdf

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:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Samita2017.pdf

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:

Download Fndz_Diss_2017_3_22.pdf

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:

Download Weile_Chen_PhD_Dissertation_Ver_4.pdf

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:

Download Dissertation_Pawnprapa_Pitakjakpipop.pdf

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:

Download Matthew_Brandsema_-_Dissertation.pdf

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:

Radville, Laura

Title:

Root phenology in a changing world

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

root phenology
climate change
phenology
roots
carbon exchange
root turnover

File:

Download Dissertation_Radville.pdf

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:

Download Three_Investigations_of_Phonological_Awareness_and_Music_Aptitude_-_Final_-_Culp_-_7.10.17.pdf

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:

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:

Download LiviaSouzaFreireGrion-Dissertation.pdf

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:

Download HoffmanFinal.pdf

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:

Download Ali_Alkhalaf_Dissertation_April_2_2017.pdf

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:

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:

Download Hyunji_Kwon-Dissertation_Final.pdf

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:

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:

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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:

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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

Author:

Brawner, Thomas W

Title:

The Diffusion of Instability in Authoritarian Regimes

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Diffusion
Authoritarian Regimes
Democratic Transition
Regularization
Machine Learning
Prediction
Coups

File:

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Committee Members:

Joseph Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donna Bahry, Committee Member
Bumba Mukherjee, Committee Member
Johannes Fedderke, Outside Member

Author:

Chindam, Chandraprakash

Title:

MULTIFUNCTIONAL PARYLENE-C MICROFIBROUS THIN FILMS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

microfibrous thin films
Parylene C
multifunctionality
microfibers
phononic crystals
photonic crystals
wettability

File:

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Committee Members:

Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Osama O. Awadelkarim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Committee Member
Michael T. Lanagan, Committee Member
M. Amanul Haque, Outside Member

Author:

Allaway, Heather Christina

Title:

THE ROLE OF URINE COLLECTION PROCEDURES AND NON-TRADITIONAL DXA MEASURES OF BODY COMPOSITION ON REPRODUCTIVE HORMONES

Graduate Program:

Physiology

Keywords:

Reproductive Health
Reduced Sample Collection Frequency
Combined Oral Contraception
Contraceptive Vaginal Ring
IGF-1 Generation Test
Functional Hypothalamic Amenorrhea
Resumption of Menses
Insulin-like Growth Factor-1
Estrone-1-Glucuronide
Pregnanediol Glucuronide
Body Composition
Dual X-Ray Absorptiometry

File:

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Committee Members:

Mary Jane De Souza, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane De Souza, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nancy I. Williams, Committee Member
Connie J. Rogers, Committee Member
Lorah D. Dorn, Outside Member

Author:

Rohrer, Sheila Ann

Title:

Frontiers of Refinement: Border Crossings in the Early Republic Travel Narrative of Sally Hastings

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Early Republic
Women's studies
American Literature
Travel
Travel Narrative
American history
American West
Frontier
Early American history
Gender Studies

File:

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Committee Members:

John Haddad, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Haddad, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anne A. Verplanck, Committee Member
Michael L. Barton, Committee Member
Mary Napoli, Outside Member

Author:

Podolsky, Michael Adam

Title:

Disparate Activation And Function of B Cells in Benign And Malignant Tumors of the Skin: Implications for Cancer Immunotherapy

Graduate Program:

Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Keywords:

Squamous Cell Carcinoma
B-Cell
CD40
T-Cell
Ras
Immunotherapy

File:

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Committee Members:

Adam Glick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adam Glick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Na Xiong, Committee Member
Andrea Mastro, Committee Member
Connie Rogers, Outside Member

Author:

Gibbs, Eric Bryant

Title:

THE EFFECTS OF MULTI-SITE PHOSPHORYLATION ON THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE CARBOXYL-TERMINAL DOMAIN OF THE RNA POLYMERASE II LARGE SUBUNIT

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

IDP
RNAPII
CTD
Intrinsically Disordered Protein
NMR
SAXS
P-TEFb
Ssu72

File:

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Committee Members:

Scott A. Showalter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott A. Showalter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member
William G. Noid, Committee Member
David Gilmour, Outside Member

Author:

Mendoza Galvis, Sergio Andres

Title:

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON THE VALUE OF INFORMATION IN LITHIUM-ION BATTERY STATE AND PARAMETER ESTIMATION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

lithium ion batteries
identifiability
parameter identification
SOC estimation
optimal experiments
Fisher Analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Hosam Fathy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zoubeida Ounaies, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris Rahn, Committee Member
Donghai Wang, Committee Member
Constantino Lagoa, Outside Member

Author:

Weiss, Anne E

Title:

SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO?: EDUCATOR (MEMBER) RETENTION IN AN ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITY FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

teacher professional development
online learning communities
STEM education
retention
goodness-of-fit

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. Kyle Peck, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Roger Geiger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. John Cheslock, Committee Member
N/A, Committee Member
Dr. Peggy Van Meter, Outside Member

Author:

Swenson, Eric R

Title:

VALUE-BASED PAYMENT IN TOTAL JOINT ARTHROPLASTY: A HEALTHCARE MARKET SEGMENTATION METHODOLOGY TO IMPROVE VALUE

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Healthcare Market Segmentation
Data Analytics
Total Joint Replacement
Value Based Payment

File:

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Committee Members:

Harriet B. Nembhard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harriet B. Nembhard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ravi Ravindran, Committee Member
Conrad Tucker, Committee Member
Naleef Fareed, Outside Member

Author:

Khodayari, Ali

Title:

KINETIC MODELING IN GENOME-SCALE METABOLIC MODELS: PARAMETERIZATION AND STRAIN DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Kinetic modeling
Ensemble modeling
Model parameterization
Computational strain design
Succinate overproduction
Bilevel optimization

File:

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Committee Members:

Costas D. Maranas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janna Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Howard Salis, Committee Member
Andrew Patterson, Outside Member

Author:

Wornell Seregow, Emily Joy

Title:

Immigrant Integration In New US Destinations: The Prevalence, Function, And Networks Of Informal Work

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

livelihood strategies
informal work
new immigrant destinations
immigrant assimilation
social networks

File:

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Committee Members:

Leif Jensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leif Jensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ann R. Tickamyer, Committee Member
Shannon Monnat, Committee Member
Lise Nelson, Outside Member

Author:

Minkenberg, Bastian

Title:

MULTIPLEX TARGETED MUTATION AND ANALYSIS OF RICE MAP KINASE GENES WITH CRISPR/CAS9

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

genome-editing
CRISPR/Cas9
rice
Oryza sativa
off-target prediction
mitogen-activated protein kinases
essential genes
multi-gene family
multiplex

File:

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Committee Members:

Yinong Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yinong Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David R. Huff, Committee Member
Claude dePamphilis, Committee Member
Gabriele Monshausen, Outside Member

Author:

Mansor, Muammar

Title:

Isotopic and trace metal geochemistry of calcite, gypsum, and pyrite as proxies for ancient life and environments

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Achromatium
pyrite
Fe isotope
biosignature
sulfur isotope
molybdenum
biofilms
reactive transport modeling
gypsum
calcite

File:

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Committee Members:

Matthew Fantle, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher House, Committee Member
Christopher House, Committee Member
Li Li, Outside Member

Author:

Murray, Alison Kristine

Title:

RESIDENT ATTITUDES TOWARD TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN A RURAL, AMENITY RICH AREA

Graduate Program:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management

Keywords:

Rural Tourism
Interactional field theory
Community development
amenity migration

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. Deborah Kerstetter, PhD, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Alan Graefe, PhD, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Andrew Mowen, PhD, Committee Member
Dr. Albert Luloff, PhD, Committee Member
Dr. Albert Luloff, PhD, Outside Member

Author:

Pitas, Nicholas A

Title:

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FUNDING FOR LOCAL PUBLIC PARK AND RECREATION SERVICES: ATTITUDES, IDEOLOGIES, AND VALUES

Graduate Program:

Recreation and Parks

Keywords:

Parks and recreation
Values
Ideology
Attitudes
Privatization

File:

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Committee Members:

Andrew Mowen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Mowen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan Graefe, Committee Member
B. Derrick Taff, Committee Member
Rama Radhakrishna, Outside Member
Benjamin Hickerson, Special Member

Author:

Liang, Shuang

Title:

SIMULATING THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, WILDFIRE AND FUEL TREATMENT ON SIERRA NEVADA FORESTS

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Sierra Nevada
Forest
Carbon
climate change
wildfire
modeling
LANDIS-II

File:

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Committee Members:

Matthew D. Hurteau, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew D. Hurteau, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Margot W. Kaye, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan H. Taylor, Committee Member
Katriona Shea, Outside Member

Author:

Raman, Balaji

Title:

DEPOSITION OF MAGNETITE IN HIGH TEMPERATURE BOILER ENVIRONMENTS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Deposition
fouling
magnetite
boilers
DLVO interaction energy

File:

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Committee Members:

Serguei N Lvov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Serguei N. Lvov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sarma V. Pisupati, Committee Member
Zuleima T. Karpyn, Committee Member
James Adair, Outside Member

Author:

Welliver, Michele Carol

Title:

Sales Manager Perceptions of Employer Branding Strategies for Entry-level Salesperson Recruitment in Select Business-to-Business Companies

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

employer branding
salesperson recruitment

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. William J. Rothwell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. William J. Rothwell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Judith A. Kolb, Committee Member
Dr. Wesley Donahue, Committee Member
Dr. Glen Kreiner, Outside Member

Author:

Fukai, Hiroki

Title:

Theoretical Investigations of Partnership Turnover and of Money

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

partnership
turnover
money
essentiality of money

File:

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Committee Members:

Neil Wallace, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Neil Wallace, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Russell Cooper, Committee Member
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Member
Anthony Kwasnica, Outside Member

Author:

Gutworth, Melissa Beth

Title:

Context for Creativity: Leader-Follower Fit and the Creative Process

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

creativity
leadership
mindsets
fit

File:

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Committee Members:

Samuel Hunter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Samuel Hunter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James LeBreton, Committee Member
Susan Mohammed, Committee Member
Linda K. Treviño, Outside Member

Author:

Ramcharan, Amanda Maria

Title:

Multidisciplinary Applications of U.S. Soils Datasets: Machine Learning Models, Data Mining, and Land Use Analyses

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

soil
machine learning
agroecosystem modeling
digital soil mapping
soil pedotransfer functions
random forest
data mining

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas L. Richard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas L. Richard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Heather Gall, Committee Member
Douglas Miller, Committee Member
Tomislav Hengl, Outside Member

Author:

McCreary, Amber Dawn

Title:

INVESTIGATING AND TUNING THE PROPERTIES OF 2-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS VIA DOPING, STRAIN, AND OPTICAL TECHNIQUES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

two-dimensional materials
graphene
transition metal dichalcogenides
photoluminescence
Raman spectroscopy

File:

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Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E. Mallouk, Committee Member
Eric Hudson, Committee Member
Joshua Robinson, Outside Member

Author:

Kwon, Ki Bum

Title:

THE LONGITUDINAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE IN KOREAN COMPANIES

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

Human capital
Training and development investment
Financial performance
Latent growth modeling

File:

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Committee Members:

David L. Passmore, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David L. Passmore, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William J. Rothwell, Committee Member
Wesley E. Donahue, Committee Member
Soo-yong Byun, Outside Member

Author:

Owiny, Sylvia A

Title:

Adult Education as a Strategy to Engage People-Centered Social Development in Uganda and Tanzania

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Adult Education
Uganda
Tanzania
Development
People-Centered Approach
Education in Africa

File:

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Committee Members:

Ladislaus M. Semali, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ladislaus M. Semali, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fred Schied, Committee Member
Adnan Qayyum, Committee Member
Sinfree Makoni, Outside Member

Author:

Kamel Hedayat Abad, Mohammad Ehsan

Title:

INTEGRATION AND INTEROPERABILITY OF BUILDING ENVELOPE INFORMATION AND ENERGY MODELING

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Energy Modeling
Building Envelope Information
Building Information Modeling
Energy Smart Home
Building Energy Retrofit
gbXML
EnergyPlus
OpenStudio
BIM

File:

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Committee Members:

Ali Memari, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali Memari, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Member
James Freihaut, Committee Member
José Duarte, Outside Member
David Riley, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Ruoxu

Title:

READING NEWS ON SMARTPHONES: HOW DO MOOD, MODALITY INTERACTIVITY, AND NEWS STORY LENGTH INFLUENCE USER ENGAGEMENT?

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

smartphone news reading
mood
modality interactivity
news story length
user engagment
persuasion
user experience
human computer interaction

File:

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Committee Members:

Michel M. Haigh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fuyuan Shen, Committee Member
Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Member
James Dillard, Outside Member
Michel M. Haigh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Vrana, Laura Elizabeth

Title:

Writing Transgressions: Publication Contexts and the Politics of Recognition in Contemporary Black Women's Poetry

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

African American literature
Poetry
Textual studies
American literature
Race
Critical race theory
Gender studies

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Committee Members:

Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shirley Moody-Turner, Committee Member
Linda Ferguson Selzer, Committee Member
Judith Sierra-Rivera, Outside Member

Author:

Bhimanapati, Ganesh Rahul

Title:

Scalable Synthesis of Graphene Based Heterostructures and their use in Energy Sensing, Conversion and Storage

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

graphene
molybdenum disulfide
heterostructures
radiation
hydrogen evolution reactions
HERs
lithium ion batteries
LiBs
transition metal dichalcogenides
tungsten diselenide

File:

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Committee Members:

Joshua A Robinson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joshua A Robinson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Adair, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Outside Member

Author:

Flarend, Alice Marie

Title:

Identifying and Supporting Productive Collaborative Teacher Talk

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

science teaching
teacher professional development
teacher learning
teacher discourse

File:

Download Alice_Flarend_Dissertation_March_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott P. McDonald, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott P. McDonald, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephanie L. Knight, Committee Member
Julia Plummer, Committee Member
Susan Strauss, Outside Member

Author:

Abraham, Michael

Title:

ENGINEERING OHMIC CONTACTS TO III-V, III-N AND 2D DICHALCOGENIDES: THE IMPACT OF ANNEALING AND SURFACE PREPARATION ON CONTACT RESISTANCE

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

MoS2
GaN
InGaAs
Ohmic contacts
surface preparation
annealing
alloyed
silver
TiAl
Ni
silicide
self-aligned
MoS2 FETs
intercalation
Nickel
Titanium Aluminum
GaN HEMTs

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_170507_MAbraham.pdf

Committee Members:

Suzanne E. Mohney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suzanne E. Mohney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
S. Ashok, Committee Member
Joan Redwing, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Member

Author:

Xie, Jinyu

Title:

INTELLIGENT ARTIFICIAL PANCREAS INCORPORATED WITH MEAL DETECTION SYSTEM AND RECOMMENDER SYSTEM FOR TYPE-1 DIABETES SELF-MANAGEMENT

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Diabetes
Type 1
Meal Detection
Estimation
Recommender System
Adaptive Control
System Identification
Insulin
Exercise
Kalman Filter

File:

Download PhD-Dissertation-Jinyu-Xie-03-09-2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Qian Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qian Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Bo Cheng, Committee Member
Peter Molenaar, Outside Member

Author:

Griffith, Kelly

Title:

Beating the Odds: A Multi-Site Case Study of College Preparation in Rural, Western New York

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

college preparation
college readiness
college access
qualitative research
rural schools
education policy
education reform

File:

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Committee Members:

Mindy L. Kornhaber, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mindy L. Kornhaber, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dana Mitra, Committee Member
Erica Frankenberg, Committee Member
Diane McLaughlin, Outside Member

Author:

Zheng, Xiaofei

Title:

STUDIES ON THE LOCAL TIMES OF DISCRETE-TIME STOCHASTIC PROCESSES

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

local time
discrete stochastic processes
discrete fractional Brownian motion
Mittag-Leffler distribution
Infinite ergodic theory
almost sure central limit theorem
pointwise dual ergodicity

File:

Download Xiaofei_Zheng-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Manfred Denker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Manfred Denker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alexei Novikov, Committee Member
Anna Mazzucato, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Outside Member

Author:

Miller, Simon W

Title:

Design as a Sequential Decision Process: A Method for Reducing Set Space Using Models to Bound Objectives

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

design
decision-making
sequential decision
bounding model
interval dominance
discriminatory
model
set-based design
fidelity

File:

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Committee Members:

Timothy W Simpson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy W Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Frecker, Committee Member
Michael A Yukish, Committee Member
Gordon Warn, Outside Member
Mark Traband, Committee Member

Author:

Lindstrom, Rachel Anne

Title:

Biological Cohabiting Families and Adolescent Wellbeing

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Cohabitation
Family structure
Child wellbeing
Adolescence

File:

Download Rachel_Lindstrom_Dissertation_4-4-17_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Valarie King, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Valarie King, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Johnson, Committee Member
Molly Martin, Committee Member
David Eggebeen, Outside Member
Paul Amato, Special Member

Author:

Shen, Yufei

Title:

Spontaneous emission control and nanoscale transport in optoelectronic devices

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Spontaneous emission
Kinetic Monte Carlo
OLED
Upper-excited state emission
Luminescent solar concentrator
Device simulation
Hyperbolic metamaterial

File:

Download Dissertation_Yufei_Shen_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Noel C. Giebink, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Noel C. Giebink, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kristen A. Fichthorn, Committee Member
Nathan D. Gemelke, Committee Member
Thomas E. Mallouk, Outside Member

Author:

Yetming, Kristen Dominique

Title:

BHLF1, a Lytic-Cycle Gene Encoding a Long Non-Coding RNA Contributes to Epstein-Barr Virus Latency

Graduate Program:

Microbiology and Immunology

Keywords:

Epstein-Barr virus
EBV
BHLF1
long non-coding RNA
lncRNA
latency

File:

Download Kristen_D_Yetming_-_Dissertation_-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffery T. Sample, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffery T. Sample, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clare E. Sample, Committee Member
Todd D. Schell, Committee Member
Gregory S. Yochum, Outside Member
David J. Spector, Committee Member

Author:

Biber, Benjamin Michael

Title:

DIRECTED SELF-ASSEMBLY OF INORGANIC REDOX COMPLEXES AND THE FORMATION OF CHARGE SEPARATED STATES

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Photosynthetic mimics
coordination chemistry
artificial photosynthesis
electron transfer

File:

Download Biber_Thesis_Final_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Elizabeth Williams, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Elizabeth Williams, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E. Mallouk, Committee Member
Benjamin J. Lear, Committee Member
John Golbeck, Outside Member