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Author:: Padmanabhan, Viveknarayanan
Title:: Automatic Contrail Detection and Segmentation in Polar-orbiter Satellite Images
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: Contrail
AVHRR
Line detection
segmentation
Hough Transform
File:: Download Thesis-Viveknarayanan.pdf
Committee Members:: Andrew Mark Carleton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Joseph Kane, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Evan Higgins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Raczka, Brett Michael
Title:: Improving Terrestrial Carbon Modeling
Graduate Program:: Meteorology
Keywords:: terrestrial biosphere model
carbon flux
flux tower
model-data comparison
NEE
GPP
ED2
parameter sensitivity analysis
File:: Download Raczka_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Ken Davis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Eliot Forest, Committee Member
Klaus Keller, Committee Member
Erica A H Smithwick, Committee Member

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Author:: Martin, Stephen Benjamin
Title:: A Microbiologically-based Rating System for In-duct Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation Air Disinfection Systems
Graduate Program:: Architectural Engineering
Keywords:: Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation
UVGI
In-Duct
Biodosimeter
Air Disinfection
Collimated Beam
k-value
File:: Download Stephen_Martin_-_PhD_Dissertation_-_Complete_with_Appendices_-_FINAL_AS_SUBMITTED_TO_PENN_STATE_-_20140717.pdf
Committee Members:: James Freihaut, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William P Bahnfleth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Freihaut, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William P Bahnfleth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard George Mistrick, Committee Member
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Member

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Author:: Zhang, Kai
Title:: Multimodal Functional Neuroimaging of Oculomotor Deficits in Athletes with Concussion.
Graduate Program:: Kinesiology
Keywords:: Concussion
Neuroimaging
fMRI
DMN
Graph Theory
File:: Download 2-Kai_Zhang_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Semyon Slobounov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Semyon Slobounov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karl Maxim Newell, Committee Member
Frank Gerard Hillary, Committee Member
Wayne Joseph Sebastianelli, Committee Member
David E Conroy, Committee Member

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Author:: Choi, Youngjoon
Title:: Online Travel Media and Touristic Experience: Examining the Psychological Effects of Technology Affordances
Graduate Program:: Recreation, Park and Tourism Management
Keywords:: media technology
affordance
touristic experience
modality
agency
navigability
File:: Download eTD_Youngjoon_Choi.pdf
Committee Members:: Benjamin Daniel Hickerson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin Daniel Hickerson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Deborah Lee Kerstetter, Committee Member
Alan R Graefe, Committee Member
S. Shyam Sundar, Committee Member

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Author:: Esparra, Mariem Cristina
Title:: Forward Osmosis as a Reverse Osmosis Pre-treatment in Treating Brackish Water and Wastewater
Graduate Program:: Environmental Pollution Control
Keywords:: Forward osmosis
Brackish Water
Wastewater
Membrane flux
File:: Download MS_Thesis_EPC.pdf
Committee Members:: Yuefeng F Xie, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wendong Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Sokolowski, Christopher Henry
Title:: Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOX by NH3 for Diesel Exhaust Aftertreatment
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: selective catalytic reduction
SCR
NH3-SCR
diesel
NOX
nitrogen oxides
catalyst deactivation
zeolite
iron zeolite
File:: Download Sokolowski_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Yongsheng Chen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarma V Pisupati, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan P Mathews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Yang, Chieh-chung
Title:: Quantifying Potentential Benefits of Carbon Market Participation for Owners of Pennsylvania Oak Stands
Graduate Program:: Forest Resources
Keywords:: Oak stands
Pennsylvania
carbon credit
carbon benefits
CAR
File:: Download Chieh-Chung_Yang_Thesis_final_20140712f.pdf
Committee Members:: Marc Eric Mcdill, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Konarske, Alison Marie
Title:: Adaptations of Electrical Field Flow Fractionation For Use With Nanoparticles
Graduate Program:: Chemistry
Keywords:: ElFFF
Field Flow Fractionation
Nanoparticles
separation
File:: Download A_Konarske_Vermilya_Final_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Mary Elizabeth Williams, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raymond Edward Schaak, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine Dolan Keating, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Poudyal, Ashutosh
Title:: A Study on the Effect of Media Volume Manipulations on Global HUVEC Colony Proliferation Within a Microfluidic Channel
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: HUVEC
microfluidic
cell culture
File:: Download Poudyal_Ashutosh_MS_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Siyang Zheng, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sheereen Majdzarringhalamaraghy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William O Hancock, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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