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Author:

Arneson, Henry

Title:

FORCE CHARACTERIZATION OF MICRO GRINDING IN ZIRCONIA

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

zirconia
grinding force
force characterization
micro grinding

File:

Download hdadoc1.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric R. Marsh, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Durrant, Chad Bredthauer

Title:

CHEMICAL SIGNATURES FOR UNKNOWN AND INTERDICTED SAMPLES IN THE ENVIRONMENT FOR NUCLEAR FORENSIC ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Radiochemistry
Sorption
Desorption
Cesium
Plutonium
Rapid Separations

File:

Download Chad_PhD_Thesis_VFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Kenan Unlu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Jack Brenizer, Committee Member
Dr. Marek Flask, Committee Member
Dr. Peter Heaney, Outside Member
Dr. Annie Kersting, Special Member
Dr. Dawn Shaughnessy, Special Member

Author:

LYU, Youngsun SUN

Title:

EFFECTIVENESS OF LEARNER-GENERATED DRAWINGS IN BIOLOGY COMPREHENSION

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

learner-generated drawing
drawing strategy
strategy instruction

File:

Download Youngsun_Thesis_May_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Peggy VanMeter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rayne Sperling, Committee Member

Author:

Rodriguez Ramirez, Angelica Rocio

Title:

DESIGN FEATURES IN COMMUNAL SPACES: IMPACT ON QUALITY AND SATISFACTION IN SOCIAL HOUSING PROJECTS

Graduate Program:

Architecture

Keywords:

Social Housing
Affordable Housing
Patterns
Evaluation
Communal Spaces
Colombia
Free housing
Jan Gehl
Christopher Alexander

File:

Download COMMUNAL_SPACES_QUALITY_AND_SATISFACTION_IN_SOCIAL_HOUSING_BY_ANGELICA_RODRIGUEZ.pdf

Committee Members:

José Pinto Duarte, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexandra Staub, Committee Member
Mallika Bose, Committee Member

Author:

Jones, Justin Adam

Title:

COMPLIANT MEDICAL TOOL DESIGN FOR SOFT TISSUE CUTTING

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Compliant Mechanism
Soft Tissue Cutting
Needle Design
Finite Element Method

File:

Download Jones_Justin_Masters_Thesis_revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Jason Z. Moore, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Gosik, Kirk D

Title:

STATISTICAL MODELS FOR HIGH DIMENSIONAL SCREENING OF GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC EFFECTS

Graduate Program:

Biostatistics

Keywords:

variable-selection
gene-expression
eQTL
genetic-architecture
epigenetics

File:

Download Dissertation_KirkGosik.pdf

Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rongling Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vernon Chinchilli, Committee Member
Lan Kong, Committee Member
James Broach, Outside Member

Author:

Munden, Regina Lynn

Title:

A Murine Model of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Characterization of Alterations to the Enteric Nervous System

Graduate Program:

Laboratory Animal Medicine

Keywords:

type 2 diabetes
NONcNZO
vertical sleeve gastrectomy

File:

Download 09AUG2017.THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Tiffany Whitcomb, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kirsteen Browning, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andras Hajnal, Committee Member

Author:

Kumru, Hanife Tugba

Title:

EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL STUDY OF PARAMETRIC EFFECTS ON THE TRANSITION BOILING REGIME FOR FLOW BOILING IN A ROD BUNDLE UNDER LOSS OF COOLANT CONDITIONS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

minimum film boiling temperature
transition boiling regime
RBHT
spacer grid
heat transfer

File:

Download Hanife_Tugba_Kumru_MSc_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Fan-Bill Cheung, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kessler, Joshua C

Title:

Fluid Dynamic Study of the FDA Benchmark Model under Pulsatile Flow

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFD
Laser Doppler Velocimetry
LDV
FDA Benchmark Nozzle Model
FDA Critical Path Initiative
Hemolysis
Sudden Expansion
Conical Diffuser
Turbulence

File:

Download Thesisv9.pdf

Committee Members:

Keefe Manning, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Hancock, Committee Member

Author:

Motalebi, Nasim

Title:

FLOOR LIVING: ACTIVATING AN EVOCATIVE ARCHITECTURE BY COMPUTATION AND BODILY INTERACTION

Graduate Program:

Architecture

Keywords:

Virtopia
DreamSpace
Ephemeral Architecture
Interactive Architecture
Computation
Bodily Interaction.

File:

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Committee Members:

Marcus Shaffer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jose Pinto Duarte, Committee Member
Andrew Hieronymi, Committee Member

Author:

Jovanovic, Tijana

Title:

Scaling, complexity, and stochasticity of urban watersheds

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

urban hydrology
urbanization
temporal scaling
spatial scaling
complexity
entropy
stochasticity
land use land cover change

File:

Download TJovanovic_PhDDissertation_Final_07252017.pdf

Committee Members:

Alfonso Mejia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alfonso Mejia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peggy Johnson, Committee Member
Christofer Duffy, Committee Member
Heather Gall, Outside Member

Author:

Wilczynski, Zachary Ryan

Title:

Synthesis and Optimized Laundering of Calcium Phosphosilicate Nanoparticles for Imaging and Treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Nanoparticle
Nanomedicine
Breast Cancer
Chemotherapeutics
Chemotherapy
Calcium Phosphate
Calcium Phosphosilicate Nanoparticle

File:

Download 07262017_ZRW5022_MS_THESIS_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

James H. Adair, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Henrichsen, Aaron Peter

Title:

Essays in Predictive Empirical Finance

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Exchange Traded Funds
Market Prediction
Commodities
Diversification
Governance

File:

Download Aaron_Henrichsen_Dissertation_10APR17.pdf

Committee Members:

Jingzhi Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jingzhi Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tim Simin, Committee Member
David Haushalter, Committee Member
John Liechty, Outside Member

Author:

Cartier, Charles Antoine

Title:

Contact Charge Electrophoresis: An Electrostatic Motor for Microfluidics and Active Matter Systems

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

electrophoresis
microfluidics
active matter
syncrhonization
droplet generation
mixing
electrostatic motor
collective motion
droplet microfluidics
portable
charge transfer
colloids
electrohydrodynamic
transport

File:

Download Cartier-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kyle Bishop, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kyle Bishop, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member
Scott Milner, Committee Member
Ayusman Sen, Outside Member

Author:

Schloss, Benjamin J

Title:

Predicting Concept Evolution during Naturalistic Reading with Simultaneous Eye-tracking and fMRI

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Multiband fMRI
eye-tracking
fixation related fMRI
conceptual representation
multivoxel pattern anlaysis
distributed semantics
word2vec
BEAGLE
semantic representation
naturalistic reading

File:

Download Master_s_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Ping Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yazujian, Tyler J

Title:

A COMPARATIVE SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS OF THE 2008 MUMBAI, 2015 PARIS, and 2016 BRUSSELS TERRORIST NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

counterterrorism
social network analysis
social networks
comparative analysis

File:

Download Yazujian_MastersThesis_FinalDraft.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Forster, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jess Kropczynski, Committee Member
Don Shemanski, Committee Member

Author:

Ellison, Jason J

Title:

IN SITU STRIPLINE LAMINATE PROPERTY EXTRACTION ACCOUNTING FOR EFFECTIVE SURFACE ROUGHNESS LOSSES

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Surface Roughness
Calibration
Propagation Constant
TRL
AFR
2x Thru
permittivity
tangent delta
dielectric
stripline

File:

Download Composite_Draft_20171208.pdf

Committee Members:

Sedig Agili, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Fadaei, Shahrzad

Title:

HOW ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THE MARKETING OF SUSTAINABLE HOUSING THE CASE OF AMERICA’S SINGLE FAMILY HOUSING

Graduate Program:

Architecture

Keywords:

Sustainable housing
Sustainable architecture
Sustainable real estate

File:

Download Thesis_-2017-11-30.pdf

Committee Members:

Lisa D. Iulo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Wing, Committee Member
Jiro Yoshida, Committee Member
Ali Memari, Committee Member

Author:

Zhou, Qiumei

Title:

ANALYSIS OF NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION AND FRACTURE FLUIDS FLOWBACK IN MARCELLUS SHALE USING DATA MINING APPROACHES

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Marcellus Shale
Data Mining
Fracture Flowback

File:

Download PS_Thesis_template_version_19_Qiumei_Zhou.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yilin Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yilin Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Andrew Kleit, Committee Member
Terry Engelder, Outside Member
Yitian Xiao, Special Member

Author:

Wang, Dailin

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF THE DEGRADATION MECHANISMS OF PARTICULATE REINFORCED EPOXY COATINGS AND ZINC-RICH COATINGS UNDER AN EROSION AND CORROSION ENVIRONMENT FOR OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Erosion-corrosion
EIS
Filler
Barrier properties
Sacrificial properties
Coatings

File:

Download Dissertation_Dailin_Wang.pdf

Committee Members:

Barbara Shaw, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barbara Shaw, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elzbieta Sikora, Committee Member
Cliff Lissenden, Committee Member
James Runt, Outside Member

Author:

Vashaw, Shawn Joshua

Title:

EXPLORING THE NARRATIVES OF EXPERIENCED MALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS WHO VOLUNTARILY DECIDED TO LEAVE THE PROFESSION OF TEACHING

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology

Keywords:

elementary school teachers
male teachers
masculinity
career leavers
narrative analysis

File:

Download Vashaw_Dissertation_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Kyle Peck, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kyle Peck, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Threeton, Committee Member
Allison Carr-Chellman, Committee Member
Edgar Yoder, Outside Member

Author:

Kumar, Akhil

Title:

Elucidation and Synthetic Design of Biochemical Pathways using novoStoic

Graduate Program:

Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

retrosynthesis
biochemical pathways
metabolic pathways
biochemical
metabolic
database
reaction rules

File:

Download Akhil_K_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D. Maranas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D. Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ross C. Hardison, Committee Member
Andrew Patterson, Committee Member
Reka Albert, Outside Member

Author:

Baldin, Michel

Title:

Effect of Dietary Interventions on Ruminal Biohydrogenation and Milk Fat Depression in Lactating Holstein Cows

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

biohydrogenation
linoleic acid
milk fat depression

File:

Download Michel_s_Dissertation_Final_Reviewed_.pdf

Committee Members:

Kevin J. Harvatine, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kevin J. Harvatine, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alexander Nikolov Hristov, Committee Member
W. Burton Burt Staniar, Committee Member
Michael Green, Outside Member

Author:

Buckwalter, Jenna Mae

Title:

Role of Linker DNA Conformation and Linker Histone in Regulating Higher-Order Chromatin Folding

Graduate Program:

Genetics

Keywords:

Linker DNA
Nucleosome
Chromatin
Adenine-tracts
Linker histone H1
Chromatin structure

File:

Download Thesis_Final_Version_-_Jenna_M._Buckwalter_4-5-2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Sergei Grigoryev, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sergei Grigoryev, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gregory Yochum, Committee Member
Kristin Eckert, Committee Member
Sarah Bronson, Outside Member
Ira Ropson, Committee Member

Author:

Olsen, Maxwell Henry

Title:

Understanding the role of built and natural features within person-place bonding at a local nature center

Graduate Program:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management

Keywords:

setting attachment
person-place bonding
human-place bonding
place attachment
place
outdoor recreation
nature center
Shaver's Creek Environmental Center

File:

Download Maxwell_Olsen.pdf

Committee Members:

Alan Graefe, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Mowen, Committee Member
Pete Allison, Committee Member

Author:

Kennedy, Curtis Ross

Title:

Near-Surface Geophysical Investigation of Karstic Controls on Localized Hillslope Hydrology

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Hydrogeophysics
Hydrogeology
Hydrology
Geology
Karst
Resistivity
Agronomy
Agriculture
Lysimetry
Carbonate

File:

Download Kennedy_Thesis_-_May_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Tess Russo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anthony Buda, Committee Member
Andrew Nyblade, Committee Member
Casey Kennedy, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Yooneun

Title:

Robust planning and execution

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Data Envelopment Analysis
Productivity index
Feedback algorithm
Prevention programs
Healthcare engineering
Operating room scheduling
Robust optimization

File:

Download YooneunLEE_dissertation_final3.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas V. Prabhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vittaldas V. Prabhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Uday V. Shanbhag, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Mort D. Webster, Outside Member

Author:

Aurite, William Robert

Title:

GENETIC TESTING SERVICE ADOPTION BY USERS AND THEIR DATA SHARING PREFERENCES

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Genetic Data
Genetic Privacy
Interdependent Privacy
Data Sharing With Third Parties
Personal Privacy

File:

Download Aurite_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Andrea Tapia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Jessica Kropczynski, Committee Member
Dr. Jens Grossklags, Committee Member

Author:

Jethva, Janak Prakashchandra

Title:

Nano-scale Simulation of Gold Nanoparticle Tracking of Kinesin-1

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

kinesin
motor protein
computational modelling
simulation
MATLAB

File:

Download Graduate_School_Thesis__Final__-_Janak_Jethva.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. William O. Hancock, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Quinhentos, Maria

Title:

SOCIAL NETWORKS AND FARMERS’ WILLINGNESS TO ADOPT NEW AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES: THE CASE OF A NEW PHOSPHORUS-EFFICIENT BEAN VARIETY IN RURAL MOZAMBIQUE

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

social capital
willingness
phosphorus efficient
bean
Mozambique

File:

Download MScThesis_Maria_Quinhentos.pdf

Committee Members:

Leland Glenna, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jill Findeis, Committee Member
Carolyn Sachs, Committee Member

Author:

Jackson, Morgan A

Title:

Impact of age-associated estrogen deficiency on innate immune responses to myocardial ischemic injury in the female rat heart

Graduate Program:

Physiology

Keywords:

heart
aging
estrogen
inflammation
macrophage
ischemia reperfusion injury

File:

Download Final_Revision_Jackson_Masters_Thesis__1_.pdf

Committee Members:

Donna Korzick, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kumble Sandeep Prabhu, Committee Member
Catharine Ross, Committee Member

Author:

Kroft, Christopher Donald

Title:

PUBLIC SPEAKING COMMUNICATION APPREHENSION AMONG ADULT LEARNERS WITH BIPOLAR SPECTRUM DISORDER

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

public speaking
communication apprehension
bipolar disorder
adult education

File:

Download my-combined-file__1_.pdf

Committee Members:

Robin Redmon Wright, Ph.D., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Redmon Wright, Ph.D., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward W. Taylor, Ed.D., Committee Member
Marissa Harrison, Ph.D., Committee Member
Steve Backels, Ph.D., Outside Member

Author:

Spencer, Maria Theresa

Title:

UNINTENDED OUTCOMES OF LEADERSHIP SENSEMAKING IN A CONTINUOUSLY RECONFIGURED BUSINESS MODEL CHANGE INITIATIVE

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

Continuous reconfiguration
business model change
sensemaking perspective
unintended outcomes
workforce education
organization development

File:

Download Maria_Spencer_FINAL_DRAFT_05_16_17.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Maureen Jones, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. William Rothwell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Judith Kolb, Committee Member
Dr. Wesley Donahue, Committee Member
Dr. Ed Yoder, Outside Member

Author:

Kim, Kyung

Title:

VISUALIZING READING COMPREHENSION: UNDERSTANDING THE INFLUENCE OF TEXT STRUCTURES ON READERS’ KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology

Keywords:

Knowledge Structure
Text Structure

File:

Download Dissertation_Kyung_Kim.pdf

Committee Members:

Roy B. Clariana, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roy B. Clariana, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Simon Hooper, Committee Member
Priya Sharma, Committee Member
Ping Li, Outside Member

Author:

Cooper, Brian C

Title:

NOVEL SYNTHETIC METHODS AND CHARACTERIZATION STUDIES OF NIOBIUM-DISULFIDE IN MULTIPLE GEOMETRIES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

NbS2
Layered Transition Metal Dichalcogenide

File:

Download BrianCCooperDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Outside Member

Author:

Gregerson, Annette L

Title:

COGNITIVE CRITICISM AND AFFECTIVE ENGAGEMENT: A STUDY OF YOUNG CHILDREN’S EMOTIONAL ENGAGEMENT WITH PICTUREBOOKS AND PICTUREBOOK CHARACTERS

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Cognitive Criticism
Children's Literature
Picturebooks
Emotional Engagement
Characters

File:

Download ALGregersonDissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel D. Hade, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel D. Hade, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Committee Member
Jamie Myers, Committee Member
Christine Marmé Thompson, Outside Member

Author:

Koglin, Johnathon David

Title:

Measurement of Plutonium-240 Angular Momentum Dependent Fission Probabilities Using the Alpha-Alpha' Reaction

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Fission Fragment
Surrogate Reaction
Angular Distribution
Plutonium-240
Angular Momentum
Fission Probability

File:

Download JohnKoglin-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Igor Jovanovic, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jack Brenizer, Committee Member
Jason Burke, Committee Member
Mark Strikman, Outside Member

Author:

Blum, Jillian Brooke

Title:

“IF HE DIDN’T HAVE ME RIGHT NOW, I WOULD BE REALLY FEARFUL FOR HIM”: AN ANALYSIS OF NARRATIVES OF CISGENDER MEN WHO ARE FATHERS OF CHILDREN WHO IDENTIFY AS TRANSGENDER

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

fathers of transgender children
fathers
transgender children
families of transgender children

File:

Download jillianblumfinaldisseration2017.pdf

Committee Members:

JoLynn Carney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
JoLynn Carney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Hazler, Committee Member
Katie Kostohryz, Committee Member
Allison Kootsikas, Outside Member

Author:

Gholizadeh Vayghan, Asghar

Title:

CHARACTERIZATION OF THE RHEOLOGICAL AND SWELLING PROPERTIES OF SYNTHETIC ALKALI SILICATE GELS IN ORDER TO PREDICT THEIR BEHAVIOR IN ASR DAMAGED CONCRETE

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Alkali-silica reaction
Alkali-silicate gels
Swelling properties
Rheological properties

File:

Download A._Gholizadeh-Vayghan__Revised_PhD_dissertation_manuscript_.pdf

Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William D. Burgos, Committee Member
Carlo G. Pantano, Committee Member
James L. Rosenberger, Outside Member

Author:

Okafor, Ikenna J

Title:

Hardware Acceleration of Visual Object Search

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Computer Vision
Sliding Window
ROI
Hardware Acceleration
FPGA

File:

Download Hardware_Acceleration_of_Visual_Object_Search_THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Walsh, Alison Lee

Title:

THE EFFECT OF HEART FAILURE ON HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE DURING CRITICAL TRANSITIONS IN THE LIFE COURSE

Graduate Program:

Nursing

Keywords:

Heart failure
CHF
HF
Quality of Life
Health-Related Quality of Life
HRQoL
QoL
Lifespan
Young adult
Middle aged adult
Mixed methods

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Lisa Ann Kitko, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lisa Ann Kitko, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Judith E Hupcey, Committee Member
Ying-Ling Jao, Committee Member
Linda Ann Wray, Outside Member

Author:

Gill, Manpreet Singh

Title:

Essays on the Causal Analysis of Strategic Marketing Actions

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Customer Engagement
Alumni Donations
Firm Exit
Online Customer Reviews
Causal Effects
Social Multiplier of Marketing
Strategic Marketing Actions

File:

Download MANPREET_DISSERTATION_FINAL_SUBMITTED.pdf

Committee Members:

Min Ding, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Min Ding, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary L Lilien, Committee Member
Shrihari Sridhar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark John Roberts, Outside Member
Rajdeep Grewal, Special Member
Shrihari Sridhar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Shapiro, Zvi Raphael

Title:

TIMING IN CHILDREN WITH ADHD

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

ADHD
Timing
Interval Timing
Diffusion Modeling
DDM

File:

Download Zvi_Shapiro_Thesis_format_review_05082017.pdf

Committee Members:

Cynthia L Huang-Pollock, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bradley Paul Wyble, Committee Member
Frank Gerard Hillary, Committee Member

Author:

Weaver, Kayla B

Title:

Full disclosure: An examination of the work experiences and disclosure motives of employees with depression

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

depression
employees with mental illness
identity management
stigma
disclosure

File:

Download Weaver_Dissertation_-_FINAL_10July17.pdf

Committee Members:

Kisha Shannon Jones, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kisha Shannon Jones, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Samuel Todd Hunter, Committee Member
Alicia Ann Grandey, Committee Member
Stanley Morris Gully, Outside Member

Author:

Cheema, Manpreet Kaur

Title:

ASSOCIATION OF LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HYDROPHOBIC COMPOUNDS WITH NATIVE BOVINE CASEIN MICELLES

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

Casein micelle
hydrophobic
sphingomyelin
phosphatidylcholine

File:

Download Phd_Dissertation_Manpreet_Cheema_053017_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Federico M. Harte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Federico M. Harte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. John Coupland, Committee Member
Dr. Ryan J.Elias, Committee Member
Dr. Alex Hristov, Outside Member

Author:

Handley, Meredith Holland

Title:

An Interpersonal Behavioral Framework for Early-Career Engineers Demonstrating Engineering Leadership Characteristics Across Three Engineering Companies

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

Leadership
Engineering
Emotional Intelligence
Interpersonal
Engineering Leadership
Professional Skills
Engineering Management
Early-Career Engineers
Interpersonal Framework

File:

Download Handley_Dissertation_6_21_17_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

William J Rothwell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William J Rothwell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member
Wesley Edward Donahue, Committee Member
Albert Vicere, Outside Member

Author:

Araujo, Joao Paulo

Title:

Diversity, Ecology and Evolution of Myrmecophilous Ophiocordyceps

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Ophiocordyceps
Formicidae
Ants
Neotropics
Taxonomy
Evolution
Hosts-pathogens
Hypocreales

File:

Download AraujoJPM_PhD_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

David Peter Hughes, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Harold Marden, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Michael Geiser, Committee Member
Benoit A Dayrat, Committee Member
n/a, Outside Member

Author:

Shahidi, Narges

Title:

Flash Translation Layer Design in Solid State Drives

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

SSD
NAND Flash Memory
Solid State Drives
Flash Translation Layer
Storage System

File:

Download thesis-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut T. Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Shan, Wenyu

Title:

THERMAL AND VENTILATION PERFORMANCE OF COMBINED PASSIVE CHILLED BEAM – DISPLACEMENT VENTILATION SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

air conditioning
mixing ventilation
displacement ventilation
computational fluid dynamics
ventilation effectiveness
thermal comfort

File:

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Committee Members:

Donghyun Rim, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William P Bahnfleth, Committee Member
James Freihaut, Committee Member

Author:

Nisic, Merisa

Title:

PHENOTYPIC AND GENETIC CHARACTERIZATION OF NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

Circulating Tumor Cell
Enrichment
Microfiltration
Lung Cancer

File:

Download Merisa_Nisic_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Siyang Zheng, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Siyang Zheng, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jian Yang, Committee Member
Zhi-Chun Lai, Committee Member
Andrea Marie Mastro, Outside Member

Author:

Yuan, Shaojie

Title:

Cooling Energy Saving Performance of Exterior Greenery System on Department of Energy Reference Buildings

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Keywords: exterior greenery system
cooling energy saving
DOE reference buildings
EnergyPlus
latent heat
Exterior greenery system
Cooling energy saving
Energyplus
Latent heat

File:

Download Shaojie_Yuan_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Donghyun Rim, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Freihaut, Committee Member
David R Riley II, Committee Member

Author:

Sebring, Ryan L

Title:

Establishment of Kentucky bluegrass inoculated with the novel nitrogen fixing bacterial endophyte, Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus

Graduate Program:

Agronomy

Keywords:

Bacterial nitrogen fixation
bnf
poa pratensis
gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus
G. diaz
nitrogen fixation

File:

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Committee Members:

Maxim J Schlossberg, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ray Bryant, Committee Member
John Michael Regan, Committee Member

Author:

Banerjee, Shilpak

Title:

REAL-ANALYTIC ABC METHOD ON THE TORUS

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Dynamical systemsAbC
Ergodic Theory
AbC
Real-Analytic

File:

Download PSUThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Anatoly Katok, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anatoly Katok, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Svetlana Katok, Committee Member
Federico Juan Rodriguez Hertz, Committee Member
Martin Bojowald, Outside Member

Author:

Ha, Yerheen

Title:

Exploring the disproportionate persuasive impact of melodrama on hostile (vs. favorable) audiences

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

persuasion
narrative
narrative processing
hostile audiences
melodrama
resistance

File:

Download Yerheen_Ha_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

James P. Dillard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James P. Dillard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Denise H. Solomon, Committee Member
Lijiang Shen, Committee Member
Mary Beth Oliver, Outside Member

Author:

Kennan, Shannon Stevens

Title:

When Morality Matters Most: Interviewing children at the scene of a school shooting

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

Journalism
Ethics
Trauma
Child Development
School Shooting

File:

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Committee Members:

Patrick Robert Parsons, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell Frank, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yael Warshel, Committee Member
Amy Dyanna Marshall, Committee Member
Carlomagno Del Carmen Panlilio, Outside Member

Author:

Kidacki, Michal A

Title:

COOPERATION OF P120-¬CATENIN DOWNREGULATION AND PIK3CA MUTATIONS IN PROGRESSION OF HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

p120-catenin
pik3ca
hnscc
invasion
migration
anchorage-independent growth
MMP1

File:

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Committee Members:

Douglas Stairs, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Stairs, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Diane Thiboutot, Committee Member
Lisa Shantz, Committee Member
Todd Schell, Outside Member
Edward Gunther, Committee Member

Author:

Van Lidth De Jeude, Peter

Title:

Bureaucratic Occupations: Career, Ambition and Ideology in Germany’s World War I Occupations

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

World War I
Occupation
Belgium
Poland
Generalgouvernement
Wilhelmine Germany
Bureaucracy
Zivilverwaltung
WWI
Generalgouvernement Belgien
Generalgouvernement Warschau

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Committee Members:

Sophie C De Schaepdrijver, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sophie C De Schaepdrijver, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carol A Reardon, Committee Member
Jens-Uwe Guettel, Committee Member
Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Outside Member

Author:

Kwon, Bora

Title:

Analysis of the mechanisms linking employee voice practices to employee voice perceptions

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

Employee voice
Employee voice practices
Employee voice perceptions
Participative climate
Cultural values

File:

Download Dissertation_BORA_KWON_20170515.pdf

Committee Members:

David Lynn Passmore, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Lynn Passmore, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elaine Farndale, Committee Member
Cynthia Pellock, Committee Member
Soo-Yong Byun, Outside Member

Author:

Walker, Roger Craig

Title:

Effects Of Ionizing Radiation On The Layered Semiconductor Tungsten Diselenide

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

two-dimensional materials
tungsten diselenide
radiation
X-ray
proton
ion
plasma
radiation materials science
nanomaterials
semiconductors
silicon carbide
layered materials
space electronics
radiation tolerance

File:

Download MS_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Joshua Alexander Robinson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Committee Member

Author:

Cooke, Tanner Ryan

Title:

BEYOND BOUNDARIES: GLOBALIZATION, SOCCER, AND TRANSLOCAL FANDOM

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

Globalization
Sport
Media Studies
MediaSport
Ethnography
City
Branding

File:

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Committee Members:

Matthew Paul Mcallister, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles Elavsky, Committee Member
Marie Hardin, Committee Member
Mark Dyreson, Outside Member

Author:

Martinez, Brittany Elizabeth

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF AN INNATE OLFACTORY-VISUAL FUNCTIONAL CONNECTION IN THE HUMAN BRAIN USING FMRI

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

olfaction
fMRI
vision

File:

Download Martinez_OVAL_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Qing X. Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qing X. Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark David Meadowcroft, Committee Member
Prasanna Rasika Karunanayaka, Committee Member
Paul Eslinger, Outside Member
Patricia Sue Grigson-Kennedy, Committee Member

Author:

Yu, Mo

Title:

UNDERSTANDING USER INTERACTIONS THROUGH LINK ANALYSIS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

social network analyses
link analysis
data mining
recommender system
cold start
classification

File:

Download Dissertation_Mo_Yu.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaolong Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dongwon Lee, Committee Member
Guoray Cai, Committee Member
Derek Allen Kreager, Outside Member

Author:

Liang, Xiaoying

Title:

Functional characterization of a Puf protein family member in malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Puf
RNA-binding protein
malaria
translational regulation

File:

Download Dissertation-xiaoying.pdf

Committee Members:

Liwang Cui, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Liwang Cui, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Felton, Committee Member
Diana Cox-Foster, Committee Member
Scott E. Lindner, Outside Member
Channe Gowda, Committee Member

Author:

King, Kyle R

Title:

Sports Spectacle, Athletic Activism, and the Rhetorical Analysis of Mediated Sport

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

rhetoric
rhetoric and sport
sport media
rhetorical genre
athlete activism
Billie Jean King
coming out narratives
sport documentary
Black Lives Matter
spectacle

File:

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Committee Members:

Debra Hawhee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debra Hawhee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Member
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Member
Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Outside Member
Jessica Lynn Schultz, Outside Member

Author:

Sabrina, Syeda

Title:

Shape-directed Actuation and Collective Dynamics of Spinners

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

acoustic micro-rotors
ultrasound
active rotation
active particles
active liquid

File:

Download SS_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Darrell Velegol, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Darrell Velegol, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member
Anthony A Atchley, Outside Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Outside Member
Kyle J M Bishop, Special Member

Author:

Chen, Ling

Title:

Performance Analysis of Photocontrol Systems Across Shade Settings

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Photocontrol System
Shade Settings
Daylight
System Performance
Five-Phase Radiance Simulation

File:

Download Ling_Aug_Dis.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard George Mistrick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard George Mistrick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Freihaut, Committee Member
Kevin William Houser, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Outside Member

Author:

Le, Thao Thi

Title:

Essays on the Role of Soft Data and Spillover Effects in Real Estate

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Mortgage-backed securities
Loan modification
soft information
MBS servicer
peer effect
herding
sentiment
homebuilders
spillover
REIT correlation
Financials sector

File:

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Committee Members:

Brent William Ambrose, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brent William Ambrose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Austin Jay Jaffe, Committee Member
Liang Peng, Committee Member
Peter G Iliev, Outside Member
Jiro Yoshida, Committee Member
Keith John Crocker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Lim, Linda

Title:

Impact of Adult Support and Friends' Beliefs on Student Self-Perceptions across Race/Ethnic Groups

Graduate Program:

School Psychology

Keywords:

self-perceptions
race
achievement
parent support
teacher support
peer support

File:

Download Lim_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Barbara Schaefer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barbara Schaefer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cristin Marie Hall, Committee Member
Pui-Wa Lei, Committee Member
Jose Angel Soto, Outside Member

Author:

Garg, Astha

Title:

Zeta Potentials and Mineral Replacement at Surfaces in Saturated Salt Solutions

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

zeta potential
mineral replacement
saturated salt
dissolution
precipitation
janus particles
fluid transport
porosity generation
pseudomorphic mineral replacement
enhanced oil recovery
chemical microfracking
micro-fracking
micro fracking
drug delivery
hydroxyapatite
high ionic strength
dye penetration
electrophoresis
high speed microscopy
fourier transform

File:

Download 2017_05_23_AsthaGarg_PhDThesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Darrell Velegol, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Darrell Velegol, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Manish Kumar, Committee Member
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Outside Member
Ayusman Sen, Outside Member

Author:

Newman, Thomas Michael

Title:

Ankle bracing and its effects on dynamic balance and functional performance measures in a Reserve Officers' Training Corp

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology

Keywords:

Military Medicine
Prophylactic Bracing
Injury
Prevention
Bracing
Lower Extremity

File:

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Committee Members:

William E Buckley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William E Buckley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sayers John Miller III, Committee Member
Wayne Joseph Sebastianelli, Committee Member
Peter Lawrence Bordi Jr., Outside Member
Giampietro Luciano Vairo, Committee Member
Theodore Croy, Special Member

Author:

Pinter, Anthony Thomas

Title:

"The image is a girl, so the poster must be too": Understanding how visual media affects gender perception online

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

identity
self-presentation
online spaces
experimental

File:

Download apintermsthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Lynette Marie Yarger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eileen M Trauth, Committee Member
Steven Michael Gaddis Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Nation, Haley Leigh

Title:

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM REGULATION OF BODY FLUID HOMEOSTASIS

Graduate Program:

Anatomy

Keywords:

Body Fluid Homeostasis
Subfornical organ
Organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis
central nervous system

File:

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Committee Members:

Sean Stocker Ph.D, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean Stocker Ph.D., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kirsteen Browning Ph.D., Committee Member
Patricia McLaughlin D.Ed., Committee Member
Alaa Awad M.D., Outside Member

Author:

Popczun, Nicholas James

Title:

FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES OF MOLECULAR SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY IONIZATION PROBABILITY MEASURED WITH FEMTOSECOND, INFRARED LASER POST-IONIZATION

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

secondary ion mass spectrometry
secondary neutral mass spectrometry
mass spectrometry
time-of-flight
ionization
laser post-ionization
femtosecond
organic
surface science
ionization probability

File:

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Committee Members:

Nicholas Winograd, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicholas Winograd, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barbara Jane Garrison, Committee Member
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Themis Matsoukas, Outside Member

Author:

Randhawa, Puneet Kaur

Title:

EFFECT OF COVER CROPS AND SOIL CHARACTERISTICS ON THE OCCURRENCE OF METARHIZIUM ROBERTSII IN AN ORGANIC CROPPING SYSTEM

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

cover crops
soil characteristics
Metarhizium robertsii
organic feed grain system

File:

Download Puneet-Thesis-May-21-2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Ellen Barbercheck, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Maria Del Mar Jimenez Gasco, Committee Member
Dawn S Luthe, Committee Member
Nina Ellen Jenkins, Committee Member

Author:

Shivprasad, Aditya Prahlad

Title:

The role of nickel in hydrogen pick-up during in-reactor corrosion of zirconium alloys

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

zirconium alloys
Zircaloy-2
hydrogen pick-up
XANES
oxidation state
X-ray diffraction
zirconium oxide
precipitate oxidation
in-reactor corrosion
water rods
BWR
nickel
high burn-up

File:

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Committee Members:

Arthur Thompson Motta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nicholas Robert Brown, Committee Member
Seong Han Kim, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Outside Member
Igor Jovanovic, Special Member
Aylin Kucuk, Special Member

Author:

Zhou, Chanjing

Title:

Optical and Vibrational Properties of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Homo- and Heterostructures with Twisted Orientations

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Heterostructure
Moire pattern
Electronic band engineering

File:

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Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Outside Member

Author:

Sturm, Derek R

Title:

DIFFUSIVITY AND SOLUBILITY OF SOLVENTS IN SEMI-CRYSTALLINE AND GLASSY POLYMERS

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Solubility
Diffusion
diffusivity
glass transition
polymer
solvent
semi-crystalline
HPMCAS
polyethylene
Spray Drying

File:

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Committee Members:

Ronald P. Danner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ronald P. Danner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert M. Rioux, Committee Member
James S. Vrentas, Committee Member
James P. Runt, Outside Member
Robert M. Rioux, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Follmer, Dan Jacob

Title:

Contributions to Expository Text Comprehension: Executive Function, Strategy Use, and Text Characteristics

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

reading comprehension
executive function
self-regulated learning
metacognitive monitoring
text cohesion

File:

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Committee Members:

Rayne A. Sperling, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rayne A. Sperling, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bonnie J. F. Meyer, Committee Member
Hoi K. Suen, Committee Member
Ping Li, Outside Member

Author:

McManus, John B

Title:

Mechanistic Studies into Bacterial Cellulose Synthesis

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

cellulose
acetobacter
bacteria
enzymology
biochemistry
microbiology

File:

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Committee Members:

Ming Tien, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hemant P Yennawar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
B Tracy Nixon, Committee Member
Franklin Lewis Dorman Jr., Committee Member
Squire J Booker, Outside Member

Author:

Kim, Ji Eun

Title:

MODELING, ESTIMATION, AND OPERATIONAL POLICIES FOR HUMAN PERFORMANCE WITH TEMPORAL MOTIVATION

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Time-pressure reactivity
time management
human factors
temporal motivation

File:

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Committee Members:

David Nembhard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Nembhard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andris Freivalds, Committee Member
Gul E. Kremer, Committee Member
Stanley Gully, Outside Member

Author:

Harrison, Michael A

Title:

Skew Flat Fibrations and Totally Convex Immersions

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

skew flat fibrations
great sphere fibrations
totally convex immersions
totally skew embeddings
nonsingular bilinear maps
immersions of projective spaces

File:

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Committee Members:

Sergei Tabachnikov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sergei Tabachnikov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Levi, Committee Member
Federico Juan Rodriguez Hertz, Committee Member
Emily Rolfe Grosholz, Outside Member

Author:

Nadermann, Kristen Marie

Title:

Work Values: Examining Opportunities for Integration and Differences Across Generation, Race, and Between Gender

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

Atlas Model
Work Values
Generation
Race
Gender

File:

Download Dissertation.KMC.Final.8.4.17_1_.pdf

Committee Members:

Jolynn Carney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jolynn Carney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Diandra Janelle Prescod, Committee Member
Allison R Fleming, Committee Member
Daniel Max Crowley, Outside Member

Author:

Schempp, Patricia Lynne

Title:

L2 Learners' Processing of Grammatical Gender Varies According to Cognate Status and Proficiency: An ERP Study

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

German
Grammatical Gender
ERP
L2 Learners
Cognate Status
Second Language Acquistion
SLA
L2
Cognate
Gender
Psycholinguistics
Cognitive Psychology
Linguistics
Language Learning
Bilingual
Bilingualism

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Committee Members:

Carrie Neal Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carrie Neal Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Member
Michael Travis Putnam, Committee Member
Adriana Van Hell, Outside Member

Author:

Cartier, Kimberly Michelle

Title:

Photometric Exoplanet Characterization and Multimedia Astronomy Communication

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Exoplanets
Photometric Techniques
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Kepler
Astronomy Communication
Science Writing
Atmospheres
Transit Follow-up
Exoplanet Characterization

File:

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Committee Members:

Jason Thomas Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member
Kevin Luhman, Committee Member
Jennifer Macalady, Outside Member
Katherine Haines Freeman, Outside Member
Ronald Gilliland, Special Member

Author:

Challenger, Clewiston Dwaine

Title:

Perception of college adjustment and institutional attachment among student-athletes of color at a predominantly white institution and its relation to academic motivation

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

college adjustment
self-efficacy
academic motivation
academic buoyancy
student-athletes of color
sense of belonging

File:

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Committee Members:

Jolynn Carney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jolynn Carney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rayne Audrey Sperling, Committee Member
Katie Kostohryz, Committee Member
Kyle Leonard Peck, Outside Member

Author:

ZHOU, HAONAN

Title:

RAPID SILICON CARBIDE CRYSTAL GROWTH WITH HIGH POWER LASER HEATING METHOD

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

High power laser
silicon carbide

File:

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Committee Members:

Shizhuo Yin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Weihua Guan, Committee Member

Author:

Shu, Lele

Title:

Impacts of urbanization and climate change on the hydrological cycle: A case study in modern and ancient land use change

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrology
land use change
urbanization
climate chnge
hydrologic modeling
PIHM
water availability
Maya
Tikal
Conestoga
Lancaster

File:

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Committee Members:

Christopher Duffy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Duffy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Alfonso Mejia, Committee Member
Kirk French, Outside Member

Author:

Chatt, Robert R

Title:

ESSAYS ON MERGER AND ACQUISITION ACTIVITY AND IMPLICATIONS THEREOF

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Mergers and Acquisitions
Retirement Asset Management
Business Connections
Firing Frictions

File:

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Committee Members:

Peter G Iliev, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter G Iliev, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Laura C Field, Committee Member
Matthew Todd Lange Gustafson, Committee Member
Karl A Muller III, Outside Member
George David Haushalter, Committee Member

Author:

Xu, Zhanxiong

Title:

Efficient parameter estimation methods using quantile regression in heteroscedastic models

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

quantile regression
heteroscedastic models
optimal weighting
composite quantile regression

File:

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Committee Members:

Zhibiao Zhao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Outside Member

Author:

Ebert, Claire E

Title:

Preclassic Maya Social Complexity and Origins of Inequality at Cahal Pech, Belize

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

Formative Mesoamerica
Ancient Maya
Social Complexity
Trade and Exchange
Household Archaeology
Radiocarbon Dating
Human-Environment Interactions
Stable Isotope Geochemistry
Dietary Reconstruction
Geochemical Souring

File:

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Committee Members:

Douglas James Kennett, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas James Kennett, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Gale Hirth, Committee Member
Sarah Barbara Mcclure, Committee Member
Timothy Michael Murtha Jr., Outside Member
Jaime Jose Awe, Special Member

Author:

Abrahamson, Joseph Peter

Title:

Pulsed Laser Annealing of Carbon

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

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

File:

Download Abrahamson-Dissertation-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Lee, Kevin Haeseung

Title:

Statistical Learning of Complex Large-Scale Dynamic Systems

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

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

File:

Download Kevin_Lee_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Harman, Chester Ervin

Title:

Oxygen as a Biosignature on Terrestrial Planets

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

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

File:

Download Harman_dissertation_05312017.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Boylan, Christopher Ian

Title:

Speaking On Our Behalf: Essays On Political Representation

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Political representation
Legislative behavior
Computational social science

File:

Download BoylanDIssertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Shen, Chaohai

Title:

ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMICS OF COLLUSION

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Timber auction
Leniency policy
Bidder collusion
Collusion detection
Procurement

File:

Download Dissertationfinal_Cshen.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Oakes, Rosemary Louise

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

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

File:

Download ROakes_phddissertation_final_micdrop.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Rajakovich, Lauren Julia

Title:

Exploring the functional and mechanistic diversity of diiron oxidases and oxygenases

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

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

File:

Download Dissertation_RajakovichLJ.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Sreenivasan, Akshaya

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

Social Media
Facebook
Netnography

File:

Download Akshaya_Sreenivasan_Dissertation_August2017.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Miller, Amanda Joy

Title:

Blood Flow Regulation During Exercise in Peripheral Arterial Disease

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

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

File:

Download Thesis-_Miller_final-7.19.17.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Izquierdo Miranda, Maria Lourdes

Title:

Adaptable Debility: Becoming Human Under Biocapitalism

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

debility
mental illness
disability
neoliberalism
biopolitics
performance

File:

Download Dissertation_June_2017_PDF_Izquierdo_.pdf

Committee Members:

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