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Author:

Plichta, Kristin Ann

Title:

Mammary Epithelial Cell Subtype-Specific Analysis of Ras Pathway Activation

Graduate Program:

Cell and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

Ras
mammary organoids
breast cancer
transgenic mice
mammary epithelial cells

File:

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Committee Members:

Edward Joseph Gunther, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Joseph Gunther, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrea Manni, Committee Member
Christopher Alan Siedlecki, Committee Member
Lisa M Shantz, Committee Member

Author:

Hychka, Kristen Carol

Title:

Characterizing hydrologic settings and hydrologic regimes of headwater riparian wetlands in the Ridge and Valley of Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

wetlands
landscape setting
reach scale
hydrologic regime
headwaters

File:

Download Hychka_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Brooks, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert P Brooks, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan H Taylor, Committee Member
Douglas Alan Miller, Committee Member
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member

Author:

Anderson, Kyle David

Title:

Promises of Modern Renaissance: Italian Presences in Chinese Modernity

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature

Keywords:

cultural borrowing
New Rome
Liang Qichao
Marco Polo
Petrarch
Boccaccio
Dante
Modernity
Chinese Renaissance
Jiao Naifang
Decameron
sonnet
nationalism
agency

File:

Download ChineseRenaissanceAllFiles02Aug2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Alexander C Y Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexander C Y Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Caroline Davis Eckhardt, Committee Member
On Cho Ng, Committee Member
Robert R Edwards, Committee Member

Author:

Bond, Kanisha D

Title:

POWER, IDENTITY, CREDIBILITY & COOPERATION: EXAMINING THE DEVELOPMENT OF COOPERATIVE ARRANGEMENTS AMONG VIOLENT NON-STATE ACTORS

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

alliance politics
international cooperation
violent non-state actors
institution-building

File:

Download Kanisha_Bond_Final_Dissertation_July2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Douglas William Lemke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas William Lemke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Scott Bennett Jr., Committee Member
Glenn Hunter Palmer, Committee Member
Stephen Matthews, Committee Member
Navin Bapat, Committee Member

Author:

Black, Kristin Elizabeth

Title:

TAXONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE METRIACLIMA ZEBRA SPECIES COMPLEX IN LAKE MALAŴI WITH FIVE NEW SPECIES DESCRIPTIONS

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

Lake Malawi
cichlid
mbuna
Metriaclima
M. pambazuko
M. lundoensis
M. midomo
M. tarakiki
M. nigrodorsalis

File:

Download Black_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jay Richard Stauffer Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jay Richard Stauffer Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
C Paola Ferreri, Committee Member
Walter Matthew Tzilkowski, Committee Member
Ke Chung Kim, Committee Member
Ad Konings, Committee Member

Author:

Mueller, Kevin E

Title:

The influence of trees on soil biogeochemistry

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

nitrogen
carbon
acidity
leaf
root
litter
species

File:

Download KEM_dissertation_-_final_version_1-2-11.pdf

Committee Members:

David Eissenstat, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Eissenstat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Philip Kaye, Committee Member
Roger Tai Koide, Committee Member
Jon Chorover, Committee Member

Author:

Prothero, Katie Eva

Title:

Identification of a CTCF-independent insulator that delimits X-inactivated from expressed transcripts within the UBA1 gene

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

DNA methylation
X chromosome inactivation
epigenetics

File:

Download Prothero_Thesis_FINAL2.pdf

Committee Members:

Laura Carrel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Laura Carrel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sergei A Grigoryev, Committee Member
Ira Joseph Ropson, Committee Member
Jiyue Xhu, Committee Member

Author:

Bhat, Kabekode

Title:

Inference for Complex Computer Models and Large Multivariate Spatial Data with Applications to Climate Science

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

computer experiments
Gaussian process
multivariate spatial data
spatiotemporal data
hierarchical Bayesian modeling
climate change

File:

Download Bhat-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Murali Haran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Murali Haran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Klaus Keller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald Richards, Committee Member
Rana Arnold, Committee Member
James Samuel Shortle, Committee Member

Author:

Duncan, Kimberly JoAnne

Title:

Molecular Mechanisms of Growth Inhibition by the Chymotrypsin-like Serine Protease Inhibitor, AAPFcmk

Graduate Program:

Molecular Toxicology

Keywords:

HPV
AAPFcmk
cervical cancer
serine protease inhibitor

File:

Download KJD0511.pdf

Committee Members:

Kristin Eckert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kristin Ann Eckert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Alan Clawson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Neil David Christensen, Committee Member
Thomas E Spratt, Committee Member
John Peter Richie Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Dady, Jr., Kenneth James

Title:

MEASURES OF WEALTH IN PENNSYLVANIA

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

wealth measures
funding education
aid ratios
funding formulas
equity in funding schools
adequacy in funding schools

File:

Download MoW_Dissertation_Final_PDF.pdf

Committee Members:

William Hartman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Hartman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Preston Green, Committee Member
Roger C Shouse, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member