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Author:

Bliss, Daniel

Title:

Leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae): Presence and Control in Dairy Cropping Systems

Graduate Program:

Entomology (MS)

Keywords:

Leafhopper
Dairy Cropping
IPM
Biological Control

File:

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Committee Members:

Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
John Tooker, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heather D Karsten, Committee Member
Andrew R Deans, Committee Member

Author:

Bird, Sydney

Title:

Developing Molecular and Analytical Tools For the Evaluation of Mating Frequency in Social and Solitary Bees

Graduate Program:

Ecology (MS)

Keywords:

mating frequency
bombus impatiens
eucera pruinosa
monandry

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Committee Members:

Jared Ali, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Margarita Maria Lopez-Uribe, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heather M Hines, Committee Member
Jill Hamilton, Committee Member

Author:

Becker, Chelsea

Title:

Evaluating the impact of pigs and pasture-based housing on growth, pork quality, and welfare of finishing hogs

Graduate Program:

Animal Science (MS)

Keywords:

Pork quality
Pasture management
Outdoor-based swine
Slaughter day stress

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth A Hines, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan Alexander Campbell, Committee Member
Adele Turzillo, Program Head/Chair
Kathy Soder, Committee Member

Author:

Brown, Alexander

Title:

Impacts of Sodium Chloride on Nutrient, Heavy Metals, and Total Suspended Solids Removal by Bioretention Mesocosms with Varied Vegetation and Saturation

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

bioretention
deicing salt
stormwater
green infrastructure
bioinfiltration
heavy metals
nutrients
nitrogen
phosphorus
copper
zinc
stormwater control measure
best management practice
sediment
internal water storage
vegetation
removal efficiency
water quality
loading
urban
runoff
nonpoint pollution

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Lauren Mc Phillips, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nathaniel Richard Warner, Committee Member
Margaret Crowley Hoffman, Committee Member

Author:

Benit, Simeon

Title:

Stochastic Models to Generate Sound Speed Ensembles and Calculate Transmission Loss Ensembles at the New England Shelf Break Using Empirical Orthogonal Functions and Sparse Dictionary Learning

Graduate Program:

Acoustics (MS)

Keywords:

Stochastic Model
Empirical Orthogonal Functions
Machine Learning
Acoustics
Underwater Acoustics
Principal Component Analysis
PCA
EOF
Dictionary Learning
Sparse Dictionary Learning
K-SVD
Orthogonal Matching Pursuit
Sound Speed Profiles
Range-dependent Acoustic Model
Transmission Loss
New England Shelf Break

File:

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Committee Members:

Andrew Barnard, Program Head/Chair
Ying-Tsong Lin, Committee Member
Daniel C. Brown, Committee Member
James Miller, Special Signatory
Andrew Barnard, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel C. Brown, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Boyd, Amari

Title:

Identification of Athletes at Risk for Developing Psychological Trauma Following Injury

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology (MS)

Keywords:

kinesiophobia
psychology
athletics
injury
ERAIQ
TSK-11

File:

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Committee Members:

Semyon Slobounov, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wayne Joseph Sebastianelli, Committee Member
Jonathan Dingwell, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Lacy Marie Alexander, Committee Member

Author:

Beck-Horton, Cordelia

Title:

Photochemical C–H Heteroarylation of Unfunctionalized Aromatic N–Heterocycles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (MS)

Keywords:

Photochemistry
C-H functionalization
Heterobiaryl

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Committee Members:

Eric Nacsa, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott A Showalter, Committee Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Jonathan Kuo, Committee Member

Author:

Bitting, Miranda

Title:

A Climatology of Convective Precipitation over Europe

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (MS)

Keywords:

convection
convective
precipitation
Europe
radar
satellite
remote sensing
observations
rain gauge
thunderstorm
climatology

File:

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Committee Members:

Kelly Lombardo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Markowski, Committee Member
David Stensrud, Program Head/Chair
David Jonathan Stensrud, Committee Member

Author:

Eifert, Carlee

Title:

The effect of exercise on gastric ulcer occurrence and severity, inflammation, and oxidative stress in Quarter Horse long yearlings

Graduate Program:

Animal Science (MS)

Keywords:

horse
exercise
gastric ulceration
inflammation
oxidative stress.

File:

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Committee Members:

William Burton Staniar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Danielle Smarsh, Committee Member
Adele Turzillo, Program Head/Chair
Kevin John Harvatine, Committee Member

Author:

Evans, Jesse

Title:

A song of mice and fire: Effects of prescribed burns on tick host interactions involving Peromyscus leucopus and Ixodes scapularis

Graduate Program:

Entomology (MS)

Keywords:

Ixodes scapularis
Peromyscus leucopus
prescribed burn
Lyme disease
Borrelia burgdorferi
tickborne illness
tickborne pathogen
stress
corticosterone
blacklegged tick
white-footed mouse
tick-host interactions
fire
forest fire
landscape management
Anaplasma phagocytophilum
Babesia microti

File:

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Committee Members:

Erika T. Machtinger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erica A H Smithwick, Committee Member
John Tooker, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jesse K Kreye, Committee Member
Andrea Darracq, Committee Member