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Author:: Crump, Morgan
Title:: Understanding Visitor Perception of Artificial Light at Night in Natural Areas: A Study of Visitor Experience in Determining a Light Level Threshold
Graduate Program:: Recreation, Park and Tourism Management (MS)
Keywords:: artificial light at night
visitor experience
protected areas
lighting levels
File:: Download Thesis_Crump03.01.23.pdf
Committee Members:: Peter Newman, Program Head/Chair
Brendan Derrick Taff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan R Graefe, Committee Member
Peter Newman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Boon, Olivia
Title:: Pathways for Just Indigenous Futures: Exploring Indigenous-Based Collaboration Frameworks in Climate Change Adaptation
Graduate Program:: Landscape Architecture (MS)
Keywords:: Indigenous
Climate change
Justice
Collective Capacity
Framework
Community Engagement
Adaptation
File:: Download OliviaBoon_MSThesis_May2023.pdf
Committee Members:: Stuart Echols, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Stephen Paul Mainzer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Stempel, Committee Member
Leann Andrews, Committee Member

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Author:: Hedrick, Sally
Title:: How Support Affects the Risk-Taking Behaviors of Graduate Women in STEM
Graduate Program:: Human Resources and Employment Relations (MS)
Keywords:: STEM
Risk-taking
Risk
Women
Support
Graduate Student
File:: Download How_Support_Affects_the_Risk-Taking_Behaviors_of_Graduate_Women_in_STEM.pdf
Committee Members:: Paul Clark, Program Head/Chair
Dorothea Roumpi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hee Man Park, Committee Member
Mark David Gough, Committee Member

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Author:: Frost, Joshua
Title:: BOKO HARAM – A GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS OF A TERRORIST GROUP USING SPATIAL DATA SCIENCE AND GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE
Graduate Program:: Spatial Data Science (MS)
Keywords:: Boko Haram
Geospatial Intelligence
Spatial Data Science
Terrorism
Geospatial
GIS
G function
Africa
West
Central
Nigeria
Niger
Cameroon
Chad
Lake Chad
Distance-based functions
Descriptive spatial statistics
terrorist
Global Terrorism Database
START
RStudio
GeoDa
ArcGIS
proximity
Islamic State of West Africa
ISWA
al-Qaeda
Taliban
ISIS
File:: Download Frost_Joshua_Thesis2023.pdf
Committee Members:: Daniel Steiner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fritz Connor Kessler, Committee Member
Anthony Robinson, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Martin, Leigh
Title:: Measuring plasma volume in women of reproductive age – a comparison study of hydroxyethyl starch to other methods of plasma volume measurements
Graduate Program:: Nutritional Sciences (MS)
Keywords:: plasma volume
women's health
nutrition
biomarkers
hydroxyethyl starch
indocyanine green
File:: Download MS_Thesis_-_Leigh_Martin.pdf
Committee Members:: Alison D Gernand, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lacy Marie Alexander, Committee Member
Meg Bruening, Program Head/Chair
Maria Rita Castro, Committee Member

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Author:: Reed, Bridget
Title:: The Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Wine Consumer Behavior in the Mid-Atlantic U.S. Region
Graduate Program:: Food Science (MS)
Keywords:: wine
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania wine
COVID-19
pandemic
COVID-19 pandemic
consumer ethnocentrism
File:: Download Bridget_Reed_Thesis.V3.pdf
Committee Members:: John Hayes, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Helene Hopfer, Committee Member
Robert Roberts, Program Head/Chair
Sarah Kirkmeyer, Committee Member

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Author:: Sengupta, Agnimitra
Title:: Evaluating the Reliability of Automatically Generated Pedestrian and Bicycle Crash Surrogates
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering (MS)
Keywords:: traffic safety
transportation engineering
vulnerable road user
pedestrian safety
bicycle safety
machine learning
statistical modeling
imbalanced data
surrogate safety measures
traffic conflict analysis
Bayesian optimization
File:: Download PSU_MS_Agnimitra_Sengupta.pdf
Committee Members:: S. Ilgin Guler, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vikash V. Gayah, Committee Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Xianbiao Hu, Committee Member

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Author:: Cramer, Madeline
Title:: Defining a Taxonomy for Construction Digital Twin Use Cases
Graduate Program:: Architectural Engineering (MS)
Keywords:: Construction
Digital Twin
Technology
Cyber-Physical System
File:: Download Cramer_Final_GradEdits.pdf
Committee Members:: John Messner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuqing Hu, Committee Member
James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair
Rob Leicht, Committee Member

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Author:: Walter, Natalie
Title:: Mycelium-Based Composites as Acoustic Architectural Components
Graduate Program:: Architecture (MS)
Keywords:: Biodesign
Biofabrication
Mycelium-Based Composites
Sound Absorption Materials
Shape Grammars
Acoustic Simulation
File:: Download Natalie_Walter_MS_Thesis_Final_Submission.pdf
Committee Members:: Benay Gursoy Toykoc, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Andrew Pecchia, Committee Member
Ute Poerschke, Program Head/Chair
Nathan Brown, Committee Member
Rahman Azari, Committee Member

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Author:: Gupta, Shantanu
Title:: Predicting Driver's Takeover Decisions in a Conditionally Automated Vehicle with Gaze Based Deep Learning Architectures
Graduate Program:: Industrial Engineering (MS)
Keywords:: Conditionally Automated Vehicles
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Situational Awareness
Takeover Performance
File:: Download Shantanu_Masters_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Yiqi Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair

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