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Author:

Zhang, Ying

Title:

New Models For Conditional Covariance Matrix

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

covariance estimation
smoothing spline
Cholesky decomposition
local linear regression
semi-parametric regression

File:

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Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Jianing

Title:

Essays on Mutual Funds and Bond Markets

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

mutual fund
corporate bond
TIPS
industry timing
institutional trade

File:

Download Zhang_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joel Matthew Vanden, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joel Matthew Vanden, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Quanwei Cao, Committee Member
Heber Farnsworth, Committee Member
N Edward Coulson, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Hongsong

Title:

Three Essays on Firm Productivity in Industrial Organization and International Trade

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

heterogeneous productivity
industrial organization
international trade
import

File:

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Committee Members:

Mark John Roberts, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark John Roberts, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James R. Tybout, Committee Member
Paul L E Grieco, Committee Member
Spiro E Stefanou, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Bo

Title:

Dynamic Games and Robust Models for Transportation and Service Networks

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Urban Freight Transportation
Truckload Service Procurement
Dynamic Stackelberg Game
Two-Stage Robust Optimization

File:

Download Dissertation_Bo_Zhang_v3_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Tao Yao, Terry L Friesz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tao Yao, Terry L Friesz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Griffin, Committee Member
Susan H Xu, Special Member

Author:

Zhang, Lei

Title:

Thermodynamic investigation of transition metal oxides via CALPHAD and first-principles methods

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

CALPHAD
transition metal oxides
phase stability
first-principles
defect

File:

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Committee Members:

Zi Kui Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Liwen

Title:

The relationship between job resources and work engagement in an international context

Graduate Program:

Human Resources and Employment Relations

Keywords:

work engagement
job resources
power distance
uncertainty avoidance
work engagement
job resources
power distance
uncertainty avoidance
work engagement
job resources
power distance
uncertainty avoidance

File:

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Committee Members:

Elaine Farndale, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ryan Lamare, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Weichun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Shang-min

Title:

Oral Cancer Induced by The Tobacco Carcinogen Dibenzo[a,l]pyrene in Mice

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

Oral Cancer
Tobacco Carcinogen
DB[a
l]P
DNA adducts
LC-MS/MS
p53 mutations
epigenetics
alcohol
chemoprevention

File:

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Committee Members:

Karam E El Bayoumy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kristin Ann Eckert, Committee Member
John Peter Richie Jr., Committee Member
Thomas E Spratt, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Lu

Title:

Decipher the menu: The impact of language barriers on decision-making

Graduate Program:

Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Management

Keywords:

Language barrier
preference fluency
power
and choice

File:

Download 1-Dissertation_Lu_final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Anna S Mattila, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Allen Cranage, Committee Member
Hubert Van Hoof, Committee Member
Margaret Grace Meloy, Committee Member
Yu Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yang

Title:

Decentralized Interactions In Networks

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

network
game theory
behavioral experiment
operations research

File:

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Committee Members:

Gary Bolton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Xu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elena Katok, Committee Member
Anthony Mark Kwasnica, Committee Member
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yeting

Title:

Horizontal Gene Transfer Studies in Parasitic Plants of the Orobanchaceae

Graduate Program:

Genetics

Keywords:

Horizontal gene transfer
Parasitic plants
Orobanchaceae

File:

Download yetingDissertationOri.pdf

Committee Members:

Claude W De Pamphilis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tomas Carlo, Committee Member
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
John Edward Carlson, Committee Member