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Author:

Wang, Na

Title:

UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL APPLICATIONS' DATA PRACTICES AND PRIVACY NOTICES ON SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Third-party applications (apps)
information privacy
privacy notice and consent
privacy awareness and control
default settings
SNS

File:

Download Thesis-NaWang-07022018.pdf

Committee Members:

Heng Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lee, Younhee

Title:

University students’ school mathematics understanding and its growth in their learning of collegiate mathematics: Through the lens of a transformative transition framework

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Mathematical connections
Double discontinuity
Characteristics/qualities of mathematical understanding
Qualitative levels of mathematical understanding
Growth in mathematical understanding
Transformative transition
Teaching interview
Factorization
Polynomial equation
Unique factorization theorem
Prospective secondary mathematics teachers
Mathematics-intensive majors

File:

Download Younhee_Lee_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Kathleen Heid, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Depenbusch, Nathan Thomas

Title:

Development and Field Testing of an Autonomous Soaring System

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

autonomous soaring
aerial robotics
thermal soaring
soaring
unmanned aerial vehicle
UAV

File:

Download Depenbusch-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Sean N Brennan, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Outside Member

Author:

Erten, Sema

Title:

BROADBAND OPTICAL RESPONSES OF CHIRAL SCULPTURED THIN FILMS DEPOSITED ON PLANAR AND NON-PLANAR SUBSTRATES

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

chiral sculptured thin films

File:

Download SemaErten_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Dinesh Agrawal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Jian Xu, Committee Member
Dr. Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Committee Member
Dr. Thomas Mallouk, Outside Member

Author:

Gaskin, Byron Jerrod

Title:

Coupled biophysical simulations of cell-cell interaction and drug delivery microrobots

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

computational mechanics
personalized medicine
computational fluid dynamics
computational structural mechanics
biochemistry
fluid dynamics
solid mechanics
continuum mechanics
blood flow
blood cells
drug delivery
drug targeting
microrobotics
flowing bodies
hyperelasticity
rigid body motion

File:

Download BJG_PhD_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Francis Kunz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cheng Dong, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Robert Lee Campbell, Outside Member
Sean Michael Mcintyre, Special Member

Author:

Basu, Kaushik

Title:

Rigid Body Satellite Time-Optimal Attitude Control Using Inversion

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Time Optimal Control
Particle Swarm Optimization
Spacecraft Attitude Control
Pseudospectral Method
Rigid Body Dynamics

File:

Download Ko_Basu-Phd_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Robert Melton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Robert Melton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr David Spencer, Committee Member
Dr Joseph Horn, Committee Member
Dr Joseph Cusumano, Outside Member

Author:

Zaleski, Michelle

Title:

SALIR CONSIGO: JESUIT RHETORICAL EDUCATION IN INDIA, 1542-1623

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Jesuit
rhetorical education
india
translingualism

File:

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Committee Members:

Xiaoye You, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaoye You, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cheryl Glenn, Committee Member
Richard Doyle, Committee Member
Suresh Canagarajah, Outside Member

Author:

Premi, Amandeep

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADAPTIVE, MULTISCALE, NONLINEAR DISTURBANCE EQUATIONS SOLVER

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

NLDE
gust modeling
Transition
Pressure-velocity coupling
wavelets
multiscale
AMR
adaptive mesh refinement

File:

Download Thesis_apremi.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Mark D. Maughmer, Committee Member
Dr. Phillip J. Morris, Committee Member
Dr. Michael P. Kinzel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Michael P. Kinzel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amanda D Hanford, Outside Member

Author:

Li, Liwei

Title:

EFFECT OF HYSTERESIS AND HETEROGENEITY ON GAS FLOODING PERFORMANCE

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Enhanced oil recovery
Carbon storage
Gravity-enhanced process
Multiphase flow and hysteresis
Well injectivity

File:

Download Dissertation_Liwei_Li_VFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Russell T. Johns, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell T. Johns, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Kiser, Kathleen Anne

Title:

Art Integration: Exploring a Transdiscplinary Practice in Rural Art Education

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

: art integration
transdisciplinary
place-based
rural education

File:

Download KKiser_Dissertation_Final_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Kimberly Anne Powell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kimberly Anne Powell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine M Thompson, Committee Member
Mary Ann Stankiewicz, Committee Member
Scott P Mcdonald, Outside Member

Author:

Mostavi, Ehsan

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING INSTRUMENT IN DESIGNING OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Building energy performance
building design optimization
occupants' behavior
harmony search algorithm
building envelope design tool
multiobjective optimization

File:

Download Ehsan_Mostavi.pdf

Committee Members:

Somayeh Asadi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Somayeh Asadi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Freihaut, Committee Member
Lisa Domenica Iulo, Committee Member
Ute Poerschke, Outside Member
Chimay Anumba, Committee Member

Author:

Palmore, Christopher C

Title:

THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF CRIME: SELF-CONTROL, ALCOHOL USE, AND DISPUTE-RELATED VIOLENCE

Graduate Program:

Criminology

Keywords:

crime
opportunity
violence
routine activities
alcohol

File:

Download full_dissertation_4_palmore.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Felson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Felson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffery T. Ulmer, Committee Member
Corina Graif, Committee Member
H. Harrington Cleveland, Outside Member

Author:

Yuill, Matthew Buchanan

Title:

FUNCTIONAL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN OPIOIDS AND A CANNABINOID RECEPTOR 2 AGONIST IN INFLAMMATORY PAIN.

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

CB2R
morphine
pain
tolerance
formalin
JWH-133
opioid
cannabinoid agonist

File:

Download Yuill_Thesis_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel James Morgan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patricia Sue Grigson-Kennedy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert G Levenson, Committee Member
John Ellis, Committee Member
Jossee Guindon, Outside Member

Author:

James, Brittany L

Title:

Identifying predictors of success and valid measures of eating behavior and diet satisfaction in a portion-control weight loss trial

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

weight loss
obesity treatment
adults
eating behavior
diet

File:

Download Dissertation_BrittanyJames-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Barbara Jean Rolls, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barbara Jean Rolls, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Penny Margaret Kris-Etherton, Committee Member
Kathleen Loralee Keller, Committee Member
Eric Loken, Outside Member
Rena Wing, Special Member

Author:

Dhanker, Rijul

Title:

INJECTION AND BIPOLARONIC CHARGE SPECIES AT METAL-ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR CONTACT INTERFACES

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

injection
internal photoemission
surface plasmons
OMAR
Bipolarons
charge modulation spectroscopy
organic magentic field effects
organic semiconductors

File:

Download Dissertation_-_R_Dhanker.pdf

Committee Members:

Noel Christopher Giebink, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Xingjie Ni, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Outside Member

Author:

Panganiban, Ronaldo L

Title:

The Role of Posttranscriptional Regulation in the Pathogenesis of Allergic Asthma

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

postranscriptional regulation
tristetraprolin
miRNA
HuR
asthma
IL-13

File:

Download panganibanthesis2018final.pdf

Committee Members:

Faoud T Ishmael, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Faoud T Ishmael, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy John Craig, Committee Member
Judie Ann Howrylak, Committee Member
Aron Eliot Lukacher, Outside Member
Gregory Steven Yochum, Committee Member

Author:

Davidoff, Beth Ellen

Title:

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SPOKEN LANGUAGE INTERACTIONS OF YOUNG BEGINNING COMMUNICATORS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER AND THEIR MOTHERS: A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Keywords:

characteristics
spoken language interactions
beginning communicators
autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

File:

Download B_E_Davidoff_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Janice Catherine Light, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janice Catherine Light, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn D R Drager, Committee Member
Carol Anne Miller, Committee Member
Karen Lynn Miller, Outside Member

Author:

Mcfalls, Ashley Jane

Title:

The complex interplay of heroin, reward and gene expression

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

gene expression
heroin
reward devaluation
laterality
saccharin
self administration
environmental enrichment

File:

Download McFalls_dissertation_4.16.18.FINALv3.pdf

Committee Members:

Kent Eugene Vrana, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kent Eugene Vrana, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andras Hajnal, Committee Member
Patricia Sue Grigson-Kennedy, Committee Member
Kirsteen Nairn Browning, Outside Member

Author:

Lee, Sheng Hsun

Title:

Learning Chinese in and Beyond Study Abroad: Two Longitudinal Case Studies of Language Learning Processes

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

study abroad
Chinese
sociocultural theory
foreign language learning and teaching

File:

Download Dissertation-Final_Version-Sheng-Hsun_Lee.pdf

Committee Members:

Celeste S Kinginger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ning Yu, Committee Member
James Lantolf, Committee Member
Xiaoye You, Outside Member

Author:

Dahl, Julia L

Title:

Women's Under-Confidence and Men's Over-Confidence in STEM

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Gender
Longitudinal
STEM
Affirmation
Confidence

File:

Download Julia_Diss_Thesis__8_.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan Emdin Cook, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan Emdin Cook, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephanie A Shields, Committee Member
Melvin Michael Mark, Committee Member
Joshua Morrison Smyth, Outside Member

Author:

Hofstetter, Daniel William

Title:

MANURE PIT-SAFETY VENTILATION DESIGN INFLUENCE ON HYDROGEN SULFIDE GAS CONTAMINATION IN ATTACHED BARNS

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

manure pit-safety ventilation
hydrogen sulfide
barn air contamination
CFD
computational fluid dynamics
concentration scaling
transient gas measurement
ventilation simulation

File:

Download Hofstetter_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Virendra M. Puri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis J. Murphy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eileen E. Fabian, Committee Member
Harvey B. Manbeck, Committee Member
Justin K. Watson, Outside Member

Author:

Karamchandani, Apoorva

Title:

Microscale Mechanical Characterization for Macroscale Quality Assessment of Densified Biomass Assemblies

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

characterization
switchgrass
coordination number
contact area
pellet
diametral tensile strength

File:

Download Dissertation_AK_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Virendra M Puri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Virendra M Puri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jude Liu, Committee Member
Daniel Edward Ciolkosz, Committee Member
Md Amanul Haque, Outside Member
Hojae Yi, Special Member

Author:

Abraham, Yewande Sonayon

Title:

INTEGRATING OCCUPANT VALUES AND PREFERENCES WITH BUILDING SYSTEMS IN CONDITIONED ENVIRONMENTS

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Occupant values
Indoor Environmental Quality
Building energy consumption
Occupant behavior
Occupant comfort

File:

Download Dissertation_Yewande_Abraham_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Chimay Anumba, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Somayeh Asadi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Freihaut, Committee Member
Chimay Anumba, Committee Member
Conrad S Tucker, Outside Member
Lisa Domenica Iulo, Special Member
Nora El-Gohary, Special Member
Somayeh Asadi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Vashisth, Aniruddh

Title:

MULTI-SCALE CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELLING OF NANOSILICA REINFORCED CARBON/EPOXY COMPOSITES FOR FILAMENT WOUND STRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Ballistic impact
carbon epoxy composite
molecular dynamics
filament winding
nanosilica

File:

Download Phd_Thesis_Aniruddh_Vashisth_final_draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Charles E. Bakis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Charles E. Bakis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Clifford J. Lissenden, Committee Member
Dr. Kevin Koudela, Committee Member
Dr. Adri van Duin, Outside Member
Dr. Thomas Juska, Committee Member

Author:

Vitko, Lauren Frances

Title:

PREDICTIVE MAPPING OF SOIL RESTRICTIVE LAYERS USING TOPOGRAPHIC RELATIONSHIPS AND GEOPHYSICAL TOOLS

Graduate Program:

Soil Science

Keywords:

soil-landscape modeling
digital soil mapping
ground penetrating radar
electromagnetic induction
soil depletions

File:

Download Vitko_submitted_4_6_18.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Joseph Drohan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Joseph Drohan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Charles Stehouwer, Committee Member
Peter Kleinman, Committee Member
Douglas Alan Miller, Outside Member
James Hamlett, Outside Member
Anthony Buda, Special Member

Author:

Mrowczynski, Oliver D

Title:

Exosomes and their Implications in Glioblastoma

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

exosomes
glioblastoma
radiation
glioma stem cell
neuroblastoma
HFE

File:

Download Oliver_Mrowczynski_Thesis_Exosomes_and_Their_Implications_in_Glioblastoma__01042018_.pdf

Committee Members:

James Robert Connor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brad Zacharia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barbara Ann Miller, Committee Member
Jong Kak Yun, Committee Member
Achuthamangalam B Madhankumar, Outside Member

Author:

Rana, Sachin

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF AN ASSISTED HISTORY MATCHING AND UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION TOOL BASED ON GAUSSIAN PROCESSES PROXY MODELS AND VARIOGRAM BASED SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Assisted History Matching
Gaussian Processes
Sensitivity Analysis
Uncertainty Quantification
Bayesian Optimization

File:

Download Sachin_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gregory R King, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Jing Yang, Outside Member

Author:

Wei, Qiong

Title:

The role of cellular forces in regulating epithelial morphogenesis and drug delivery

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

cellular force
drug delivery
wound healing
epithelial morphogenesis

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Qiong_Wei.pdf

Committee Members:

Sulin Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sulin Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R. Tittmann, Committee Member
Patrick James Drew, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Outside Member
Yong Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Salimifard, Parichehr

Title:

Indoor aerosol sensing and resuspension dynamics

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Indoor air quality
Particulate matter
Particle resuspension
Indoor allergens
Bioaerosol
Dust mite
Cat fur
Dog fur
Pollen
Bacillus thuringiensis
Anthrax
Monodisperse particles
Low-cost sensor
Optical particle counter
Aerodynamic equivalent diameter
Sensor calibration.

File:

Download Parichehr_Salimifard_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Donghyun Rim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donghyun Rim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James D. Freihaut, Committee Member
William P. Bahnfleth, Committee Member
Rui Ni, Outside Member

Author:

Charepalli, Venkata Rohit

Title:

POLYPHENOL-RICH FOODS AS INHIBITORS OF COLON CANCER STEM CELLS

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

Cancer stem cells
polyphenols
purple-fleshed potatoes
cancer prevention
resveratrol
grape seed extract
β-catenin
colon cancer

File:

Download Dissertation_Charepalli.pdf

Committee Members:

Jairam Kp Vanamala, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jairam Kp Vanamala, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joshua D Lambert, Committee Member
Gregory Ray Ziegler, Committee Member
Mary J Kennett, Outside Member

Author:

Raposoda Silva De Castro E Cos, Eduardo

Title:

MANAGING COMPLEXITY IN MASS CUSTOMIZATION THROUGH DESIGN SPACE SUBDIVISION: A CASE STUDY IN CERAMIC TABLEWARE DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Architecture

Keywords:

mass customization
ceramic tableware
generative design systems
shape grammars
parametric modeling
digital fabrication

File:

Download castroecosta_phdDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose M Pinto Duarte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jose M Pinto Duarte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jose M Pinto Duarte, Committee Member
Loukas N Kalisperis, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Outside Member
Conrad S Tucker, Outside Member
Thomas Arthur Lauerman, Special Member
Joaquim Jorge, Special Member

Author:

Wu, Qian

Title:

COMMUNICATING EMOTIONS IN L2 CHINESE: A MIXED-METHODS MULTIPLE CASE STUDY OF AMERICAN LEARNERS OF CHINESE STUDYING ABROAD IN CHINA

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

study abroad
Chinese as a second language
emotion language
Vygotskian sociocultural theory
mixed-methods research
case study

File:

Download QianWu_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Celeste Kinginger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Celeste Kinginger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert W. Schrauf, Committee Member
Ning Yu, Committee Member
Mari Haneda, Outside Member

Author:

Enab, Khaled Ahmed

Title:

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK BASED DESIGN PROTOCOL FOR WAG IMPLEMENTATION IN CO2 INJECTION USING FISHBONE WELLS IN LOW PERMEABILITY Oil RESERVOIRS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Enhanced Oil Recovery
WAG
CO2 Injection
Unconventional Oil Reservoirs
Tight Oil Reservoirs
Artificial Neural Network
Machine Learning

File:

Download Khaled_Enab_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Member
Gregory R King, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Outside Member

Author:

Schall, Megan Victoria

Title:

A multidisciplinary approach to evaluating population status and disease dynamics of smallmouth bass

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

smallmouth bass
fish ecology
fish health

File:

Download Schall_dissertation_19_December_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Tyler Wagner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tyler Wagner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vicki S. Blazer, Committee Member
W. David Walter, Committee Member
Val Richard Beasley, Outside Member

Author:

Garbrick, Amy Hughes

Title:

Factors Influencing Student Engagement in an Online Asynchronous Discussion Forum Measured by Quantity, Quality, Survey, and Social Network Analysis

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology

Keywords:

Discussion Forum
Social Network Analysis
Push Notification
Engagement
Asynchronous
Distance Education
Modularity
Interaction
Mobile Apps
Technology
Learning Management Systems
Online Learning
Content Analysis

File:

Download dissertation_garbrick_03_08_18.pdf

Committee Members:

Roy Clariana, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roy Clariana, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kyle Peck, Committee Member
Simon Richard Hooper, Committee Member
Peter Kent Forster, Outside Member

Author:

Kramer, Adrienne Katherine

Title:

Defining Derecho Intensity and Impacts Through Physical Properties, FEMA Assistance, and an Emergency Management Impact Scale and GIS Response Tool

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

derecho
Northern Tier
FEMA assistance
GIS tool

File:

Download dissertChs_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Mark Carleton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Mark Carleton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Douglas Alan Miller, Committee Member
Robert George Crane, Committee Member
Yvette Pamela Richardson, Outside Member

Author:

Dodson, Brittany Lee

Title:

IT’S THE LITTLE THINGS: EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF BACTERIA ON MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUSES

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

mosquito
microbiome
bacteria
viruses
infectious diseases
wolbachia

File:

Download Dodson_Dissertation2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Jason Rasgon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jason Rasgon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Brian Thomas, Committee Member
Kelli Hoover, Committee Member
Marilyn J Roossinck, Outside Member

Author:

Fallon, Lochran Christopher

Title:

Myspedagogy: Applications of Mystherory in Secondary English and Language Arts Education and Teacher Education

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Teacher Education
Secondary Education
English Language Arts
Mystheory
Coherence
Inversion
Mys-
Semi-Actuality
Poststructuralism
Secondary English Education
Language Arts
English
Language Arts Education
Curriculum and Instruction
Education Philosophy
Education Theory
Myspedagogy

File:

Download Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Angiline Louisa Whitney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rose Mary Zbiek, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gail Louise Boldt, Committee Member
Jamie Myers, Committee Member
Charles Richard Garoian, Outside Member
Mari Haneda, Committee Member

Author:

Zhou, Yijing

Title:

Interactome analysis reveals ZNF804A, a schizophrenia risk gene, as a novel component of protein translational machinery critical for embryonic neurodevelopment

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

schizophrenia

File:

Download Dissertation_Yijing_Zhou_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Yingwei Mao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yingwei Mao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy J Jegla, Committee Member
Gong Chen, Committee Member
Wendy Hanna-Rose, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Yiou

Title:

OPTIMAL CONTROL, DIFFERENTIAL VARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES, AND THEIR APPLICATION TO TRAFFIC SCIENCE, REVENUE MANAGEMENT AND SUPPLY CHAINS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Optimal Control
DVI
DTA
Revenue Management
Supply Chain

File:

Download Yiou_Wang_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Terry L. Friesz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Terry L. Friesz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Uday V. Shanbhag, Committee Member
Alberto Bressan, Outside Member

Author:

Noel, Olivier Francois

Title:

BILE ACID SIGNALING AND THE REGULATION OF THE COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3 ALTERNATIVE ACTIVATION PATHWAY PROTEINS

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Bile acids
FXR
RYGB
Bariatric surgery
Complement pathway
Complement C3 Alternative pathway
Diabetes Mellitus
C5L2
ASP

File:

Download OlivierNoel_Thesis_RevisedFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

James Riley Broach, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Riley Broach, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Keith C Cheng, Committee Member
Charles H Lang, Committee Member
Diane M Thiboutot, Outside Member
Glenn S Gerhard, Special Member

Author:

Anderson, Cavil Sybil

Title:

HOW DOES ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE INFLUENCE COLLABORATIVE LEARNING AND INTEGRATED SERVICES IN THE NON-ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES IN THREE DIFFERENT TYPES OF UNIVERSITIES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: A MULTIPLE CASE STUDY

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

Organization Development
Change Management
Organizational Structure
Human Resources
Student Affairs
Organizational Silos
Training and Development
Higher Education Hierarchies
Boundaryless Organizational Structures
Cross-functional Structure
Collaboration

File:

Download Cavil_S_Anderson_Ph.D._Dessertation_01312018_.pdf

Committee Members:

William J. Rothwell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William J. Rothwell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cynthia Pellock, Committee Member
Wesley Edward Donahue, Committee Member
Nicole Sheree Webster, Outside Member

Author:

Black, Adam James

Title:

Characterization of the high-fat diet-induced effects on pre-mRNA alternative splicing in skeletal muscle: a focus on fatty acids and troponin T3

Graduate Program:

Physiology

Keywords:

alternative splicing
fatty acids
Tnnt3
high-fat diet
fast skeletal muscle troponin T
skeletal muscle
ceramide

File:

Download Black_dissertation_010318.pdf

Committee Members:

Scot R Kimball, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scot R Kimball, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leonard Shelton Jefferson Jr., Committee Member
Charles H Lang, Committee Member
Ralph Lauren Keil, Outside Member
Lisa M Shantz, Committee Member

Author:

Gamrat, Christopher Wagner

Title:

DIGITAL BADGING SYSTEMS AS A SET OF CULTURAL TOOLS FOR PERSONALIZED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology

Keywords:

digital badging
digital badges
teacher professional development
professional development
independent professional development
cultural tools
wayfinding
planning

File:

Download Gamrat_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Heather A Zimmerman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heather A Zimmerman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Mary Land, Committee Member
Kyle L Peck, Committee Member
Edward J Glantz, Outside Member

Author:

Ji, Xiaoyu

Title:

Semiconductor Fabrics and Single Crystal Fibers for Optoelectronic Applications

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Optical fiber
Silicon Photonics
Chemical vapor deposition
Laser crystallization
Crystal growth
Optoelectronics
Hydrogenated amorphous silicon
Photovoltaics
Flexible electronics

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_Xiaoyu_Ji.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suzanne E. Mohney, Committee Member
Joan M. Redwing, Committee Member
Zhi-Wen Liu, Outside Member
John V. Badding, Committee Member

Author:

Xu, Wei

Title:

Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Properties of Strongly-Interacting Bosons in Optical Lattices

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Optical Lattice
Path Integral Monte Carlo
Worm Algorithm
Lieb-Liniger Model
Tonks-Girardeau Gas
Bose-Hubbard Model
Fermionization
Quasicondensation
Inverse Confined Scattering Analysis
Ultracold Atoms
Condensed Matter Physics
Computational Physics

File:

Download Thesis_WX.pdf

Committee Members:

Marcos Antonio Rigol, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marcos Antonio Rigol, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Scott Weiss, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Outside Member

Author:

Kinsman, Brian J

Title:

HYPERTONIC SODIUM CHLORIDE SENSING BY THE ORGANUM VASCULOSUM OF THE LAMINA TERMINALIS

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

blood pressure
salt
NaCl
NaCl-sensing
osmoreceptor
sympathetic
hypothalamus
hypertension
salt-sensitive
sodium
ENaC
epithelial sodium channel
benzamil
OVLT

File:

Download KINSMAN_DISSERTATION_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Kirsteen Nairn Browning, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kirsteen Nairn Browning, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles H Lang, Committee Member
Urs Leuenberger, Committee Member
Leslie Joan Parent, Outside Member
Sean D. Stocker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sean D. Stocker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yang, Gang

Title:

Network Control and Damage Mitigation in Complex Networked System

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Network Control
Network Dynamics
Boolean Network
Damage Mitigation
Logical Modelling

File:

Download GangYang-Dissertation_20180109_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Réka Albert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Réka Albert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dezhe Jin, Committee Member
Tim Reluga, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Haitian

Title:

GROWTH AND FUNCTIONALITIES OF VANADATE THIN FILMS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Molecular beam epitaxy
Thin film
Strongly correlated oxides
Transition metal oxides
Metal to insulator transition
VO2
LaVO3

File:

Download HaiTian_Zhang_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Roman Engel-Herbert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Chris Giebink, Outside Member

Author:

Sarmiento, Daniel Perez

Title:

Urban land-surface impacts on atmospheric processes for Indianapolis, Indiana

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

Land-surface interactions
Urban meteorology
WRF

File:

Download Sarmiento_PhDDissertation_v3.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth James Davis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth James Davis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David R Stauffer, Committee Member
Fuqing Zhang, Committee Member
Andrew Mark Carleton, Outside Member