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Author:

Villar, Gabriel

Title:

STUDIES ON MALE DRONES YIELD NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE MECHANISM UNDELYING ODOR-MEDIATED SOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN THE HONEY BEE (Apis mellifera L.)

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Honey bee
Drone
Pheromone
Chemical Ecology
Behavior
Olfaction

File:

Download Villar_Dissertation_Final_Dec_2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Christina Grozinger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Charles Baker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Heather M Hines, Committee Member
N/A, Committee Member
Victoria Anne Braithwaite-Read, Outside Member

Author:

Kim, Hanjoo

Title:

THE EFFECTS OF RUMINATION AND WORRY ON CONTRAST AVOIDANCE IN MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER AND GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER: AN APPLICATION OF CONTRAST AVOIDANCE MODEL OF WORRY

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

rumination
worry
contrast avoidance
heart rate variability
major depressive disorder
generalized anxiety disorder
negative perseveration

File:

Download The_effects_of_rumination_and_worry_in_contrast_avoidance_Hanjoo_Kim_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michelle G. Newman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ginger Moore, Committee Member
Reginald B. Admans, Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Czyzewski, Benjamin D

Title:

EFFECTS OF MOWING ON ANNUAL BLUEGRASS WEEVIL, LISTRONOTUS MACULICOLLIS KIRBY (COLEOPTERA:CURCULIONIDAE) ADULT BEHAVIOR AND LARVAL DEVELOPMENT IN GOLF COURSE PUTTING GREENS

Graduate Program:

Agronomy

Keywords:

Annual bluegrass weevil
Listronotus maculicollis
Golf course cultural practice
Poa annua
Annual Bluegrass
Golf Course
Putting green
Diel patterns
Diel

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. Benjamin A. McGraw, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Maxim Schlossberg, Committee Member
Dr. Ed Rajotte, Committee Member

Author:

Chellappa, Varun Sudhurshun

Title:

SPATIAL ACCESSIBILITY IN FOOD DESERTS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Data Analytics
Data Mining
Spatial Accessibility
Big Data
Process Improvement

File:

Download Varun_S_Chellappa_-_MS_Thesis_-_Fall_2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Member
Janis P Terpenny, Committee Member

Author:

Selvaraj, Shivaani Aruna

Title:

The Quest For Really Useful Knowledge: An Institutional Ethnography of Community Adult Education in the Digital Age

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

institutional ethnography
radical education
social relations
digital literacy
broadband adoption
neoliberal funding regimes

File:

Download Selvaraj_Dissertation_11.17.16.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward W. Taylor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kamini M. Grahame, Committee Member
Peter R. Grahame, Committee Member
Andrea Tapia, Outside Member
Sasha Costanza-Chock, Special Member

Author:

Anagiotos, Christos

Title:

Learning Ethno-National Identity in Areas of Conflict: A Comparative Narrative Analysis of Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot Young Adults

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Keywords:

Identity learning
Ethnic and national identity construction
Divided island of Cyprus
Ethnic conflict
Narrative analysis
Lifelong learning
Adult Education

File:

Download Anagiotos_Christos_PhD_Dissertation_2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Fred M. Schied, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fred M. Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ladislaus M. Semali, Committee Member
Davin J. Carr-Chellman, Committee Member
David M. Post, Outside Member
Ladislaus M. Semali, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

McInteer, Nicole Lea

Title:

Writing the Edge of Empire: Joseph Roth's Galicia

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

Joseph Roth
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Galicia
cosmopolitanism
Austrian literature

File:

Download McInteer_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Daniel Purdy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Daniel Purdy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Thomas Beebee, Committee Member
Dr. Richard Page, Committee Member
Dr. Sophie De Schaepdrijver, Outside Member
Dr. Bettina Brandt, Special Member

Author:

Dobs, Abby Marie Mueller

Title:

A CONVERSATION ANALYTIC APPROACH TO MOTIVATION: FOSTERING MOTIVATION IN THE L2 CLASSROOM THROUGH PLAY

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

conversation analysis
motivation
second language classroom
second language learning
teacher-student interaction
interactional competence
membership categorization analysis
language play
identity

File:

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Committee Members:

Joan Kelly Hall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joan Kelly Hall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suresh Canagarajah, Committee Member
Karen E. Johnson, Committee Member
Mari A. Haneda, Outside Member

Author:

Champion, Bruce Allen

Title:

MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION AND APPLICATION OF A CARBON-LOADED LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMER FOR INTERCONNECT DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Dielectric Absorber
Input/Output
Insertion Loss
Resonance
Genetic Algorithm
Crosstalk
Material Characterization

File:

Download Thesis_Champion_Fall2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Sedig Salem Agili, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aldo W Morales, Committee Member
Jeremy Joseph Blum, Committee Member

Author:

Ward, Jessie J

Title:

A comparison of oak seedling survival and growth across three geologic formations in Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Forest Resources

Keywords:

geologic formation
oak regeneration
northern red oak
lithology
root electrolyte leakage

File:

Download Ward_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Aaron David Stottlemyer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Eissenstat, Committee Member
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Committee Member