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Author:: Qi, Xue
Title:: ULTRASONIC GUIDED WAVES FOR DEFECT CHARACTERIZATION IN COMPOSITE STRUCTURES
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:: Graphite epoxy laminate
Structural health monitoring
Finite element method
Guided waves
Composite
Ultrasonic NDE
File:: Download Xue_Qi_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Joseph Lawrence Rose, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member

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Author:: Shen, Xiangyou
Title:: ADULT PLAYFULNESS AS A PERSONALITY TRAIT: ITS CONCEPTUALIZATION, MEASUREMENT, AND RELATIONSHIP TO PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING
Graduate Program:: Recreation, Park and Tourism Management
Keywords:: adult playfulness
play
personality trait
measurement
psychological well-being
File:: Download Shen_Playfulness_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Garry Chick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harry C Zinn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Garry Chick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Linda L Caldwell, Committee Member
Melvin Michael Mark, Committee Member

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Author:: Xiao, Xiaoqiang
Title:: PARAMETRIC MODEL BASED SPEECH ENHANCEMENT
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: Speech Enhancement
File:: Download XiaoqiangXiao-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Jolene Marie Nickel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert M Nickel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member
Jia Li, Committee Member

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Author:: Zhang, Xuqing
Title:: VACCINE-INDUCED-IMMUNITY-MEDIATED COMPETITION BETWEEN ENDEMIC BORDETELLAE AND HOST IMMUNITY AGAINST THEM
Graduate Program:: Genetics
Keywords:: Bordetella
interleukin
sigma factor
vaccine
File:: Download Xuqing_Zhang_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Eric Thomas Harvill, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Thomas Harvill, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Paulson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Avery August, Committee Member
Mary J Kennett, Committee Member
Sarah Ellen Ades, Committee Member

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Author:: Kelkar, Yogeshwar Dinkar
Title:: EVOLUTION OF MICROSATELLITES IN PRIMATE GENOMES: DEFINITION OF MICROSATELLITES, CAUSES OF VARIATION, AND THE MICROSATELLITE LIFE CYCLE
Graduate Program:: Integrative Biosciences
Keywords:: transposable elements
indel
mutability
microsatellite life cycle
microsatellites
primates
multiple regression analysis
File:: Download YDK_thesis_Nov17_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Member
Ross Cameron Hardison, Committee Member
Kristin Ann Eckert, Committee Member
Mark Shriver, Committee Member

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Author:: Cai, Yihuai
Title:: Contested Space, Conflicting Desires: "Becoming" "Girls" in Urbanizing Rural China
Graduate Program:: Curriculum and Instruction
Keywords:: girlhood studies
feminist ethnography
poststructuralism
subjectivity
rural urbanization
privatized vocational schooling
File:: Download Yihuai_Cai_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Patrick Willard Shannon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Marnina Gonick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline Edmondson, Committee Member
Jacqueline J A Reid Walsh, Committee Member
Dr Mrinalini Sinha, Committee Member

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Author:: Ding, Yang
Title:: Dynamic Resource Management for Energy-efficiency and Quality-of-Service in Chip Multiprocessors
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: dynamic resource management
runtime system
Chip Multiprocessors
energy-efficiency
QoS
File:: Download YangDing-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member

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Author:: Hong, Yoojin
Title:: A Computational Framework For Inferring Structure, Function, and Evolution of Proteins
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Proteins
Sequence Alignments
Twilight zone of Sequence Similarity
Position Specific Scoring Matrix
File:: Download 2010-PhD_dissertation_Yoojin_Hong.pdf
Committee Members:: Webb Colby Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Webb Colby Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Randen L Patterson, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member
Damian B Van Rossum, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

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Author:: Hong, Yiying
Title:: 1. Self-Propelled Synthetic Particles— From Microscopic Randomness to Macroscopic Control. 2. Selective Heterogeneous Catalytic Hydrogenation by Recyclable Poly(allylamine) Gel-Supported Palladium(0) Nanoparticles
Graduate Program:: Chemistry
Keywords:: micromotor
nanomotor
self-propulsion
phototaxis
diffusiophoresis
catalysis
titanium dioxide
File:: Download Ch4.zipDownload Ch3.zipDownload 2-1.zipDownload Thesis.pdfDownload Ch1.zip
Committee Members:: Ayusman Sen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ayusman Sen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Alan James Benesi, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member

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Author:: Jhi, Yoon-Chan
Title:: A STUDY OF SELECTED SECURITY MEASURES AGAINST NON-LEGITIMATE USE OF CODE
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: code detection
software plagiarism detection
proactive worm containment
code identification
code characterization
File:: Download YoonchanJhi-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Zan Huang, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

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