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Author:

Gelsinger, Sonia Lynne

Title:

Effects of colostrum heat treatment on immune development in the neonatal calf

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

calf
colostrum
heat treatment
immunity

File:

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Committee Members:

Arlyn Judson Heinrichs, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arlyn Judson Heinrichs, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joy L. Pate, Committee Member
Gabriella A. Varga, Committee Member
Robert J. Van Saun, Outside Member

Author:

Banerjee, Siddhartha

Title:

AUTHORING CONTENT AUTOMATICALLY USING ABSTRACTIVE SUMMARIZATION

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Abstractive summarization
Automatic authoring
Text summarization
Text-to-text generation

File:

Download BanerjeeThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Prasenjit Mitra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member
David Reitter, Outside Member

Author:

Pu, Yu

Title:

Towards Models of the Economic Value of Interdependent Privacy in Social App Adoption Scenarios

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Third-party Social Apps
App Data Collection Context
Interdependent Privacy
Value of Privacy
Conjoint Analysis
Structural Equation Modeling
Online Survey Study
Sharing Anonymity

File:

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Committee Members:

Jens Grossklags, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jens Grossklags, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
Peng Liu, Committee Member
S. Sundar Shyam, Outside Member

Author:

Pooler, Rick Kevin

Title:

AN ANALYSIS OF SPECTRUM SHARING FOR RADAR APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Spectrum Sensing
Cognitive Radar
Spectrum Sharing
Optimal Sub-band

File:

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Committee Members:

Ram Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Kane, Committee Member
Anthony Martone, Committee Member

Author:

Boehm, Sarah Jane

Title:

Electric Field Directed Nanowire Assembly: Towards Reconfigurable Materials with Switchable Properties

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

gold
silica
dielectrophoresis
metamaterial
electrohydrodynamics
polarizer
lattice

File:

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Committee Members:

Christine D. Keating, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine D. Keating, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Paul S. Cremer, Committee Member
Douglas H. Wener, Outside Member

Author:

Mazzone, Jennie Diehl

Title:

Responding to growers' needs: Evaluation of management strategies for onion center rot, caused by Pantoea ananatis and Pantoea agglomerans

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology

Keywords:

onion
Pantoea ananatis
Pantoea agglomerans
center rot
cultivar
nitrogen
transplant
bactericide
management
integrated pest management
Allium cepa
bacteria
disease
Honduras
horticultural production guide
Rhizoctonia solani
tomato
tomato foliar blight
Pennsylvania

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. Beth K. Gugino, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. María del Mar Jiménez Gasco, Committee Member
Dr. Kari A. Peter, Committee Member
Dr. William Lamont, Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Yan, Yixin

Title:

Sub-wavelength Modulation of Complex Refractive Index and X(2) Optical Nonlinearity in Organic Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

organic semiconductors
photonic materials and devices
nanotechnology
nonlinear optics
parity-time symmetry

File:

Download YY-Dissertation_0103.pdf

Committee Members:

Noel C. Giebink, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Noel C. Giebink, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas N. Jackson, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member

Author:

Morgart, James Ashley

Title:

HAUNTED REGIONS: EXHUMING MARGINALIZED NARRATIVES IN POSTWAR AMERICAN GOTHIC FICTION

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Gothic
Regionalism
American Literature
Postwar
The Uncanny
Abjection
Gothic Literature
William Styron
Chester Himes
Shirley Jackson
Ray Bradbury
Ross Macdonald
Gothic Science Fiction
Detective Fiction
Southern Gothic

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Committee Members:

Sanford Schwartz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sanford Schwartz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Berube, Committee Member
Mark Morrisson, Committee Member
Jonathan Eburne, Outside Member

Author:

Santiago Cordoba, Miguel A

Title:

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF NANOSTRUCTURED SURFACES FOR ENHANCED OPTICAL SENSING

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Biosensors
Optical Sensing
Enhanced Sensing
Nanostructured Surfaces
SERS
Whispering Gallery Mode

File:

Download Thesis_MASC_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Melik C. Demirel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melik C. Demirel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John. V. Badding, Committee Member
Benjamin J. Lear, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Outside Member
Christine D. Keating, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher E. Hamilton, Special Member

Author:

Wang, Feng

Title:

GENOME-WIDE ANALYSIS OF PLANT HETEROCHROMATIC SHORT-INTERFERING RNAS

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

small RNA modifications
small RNA sequencing
Arabidopsis thaliana
AGO4
heterochromatic siRNA accumulation
secondary heterochromatic siRNAs
slicing ability

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael J. Axtell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael J. Axtell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Teh-hui Kao, Committee Member
Charles T. Anderson, Committee Member
Surinder Chopra, Outside Member

Author:

Obungoloch, Johnes

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF ULTRA LOW FIELD MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING FOR DIAGNOSIS OF HYDROCHEPHALUS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

MRI
PMRI
SUSTAINABILITY
HYDROCEPHALUS
LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. Steven J schiff, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Steven J Schiff, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Igor M Savukov, Committee Member
Dr. Srinivas Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Dr. Thomas Newberger, Outside Member
Dr. Nanyin Zhang, Committee Member
Dr. Michael Lanagan, Committee Member

Author:

Kamali Shahri, Seyed Mehdi Mehdi

Title:

STUDY OF AMINOSILICA ADSORBENTS FOR CO2 CAPTURE: EXPERIMENTAL STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

CO2 adsorption
Kinetics
thermodynamics
heat of adsorption
efficiency
aminosilica material
type I adsorbent
surface chemistry
surface modification
CO2 adsorption modeling

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Rioux, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Caroline Clifford, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chunshan Song, Committee Member
Xiaoxing Wang, Committee Member
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Outside Member

Author:

Limbu, Samita

Title:

EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE ON DEVELOPMENT AND FITNESS OF ASIAN GYPSY MOTH AND THE BIOCONTROL AGENT OF HEMLOCK WOOLLY ADELGID, SCYMNUS CAMPTODROMUS

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Hemlock woolly adelgid
Scymnus camptodromus
Asian gypsy moth
Temperature
Development time
Degree-day
Host range specificity

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Samita2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Kelli Hoover, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kelli Hoover, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Melody Keena, Committee Member
Edwin G Rajotte, Committee Member
Jim Sellmer, Outside Member
Mary Barbercheck, Committee Member

Author:

Fernandez, Frank J

Title:

DOCTORAL EDUCATION OF LATINAS AND LATINOS IN THE UNITED STATES: EXAMINATIONS OF (SUB)BACCALAUREATE ORIGINS, THE ROLE OF HISPANIC SERVING INSTITUTIONS, AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOURCES OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND POST-GRADUATION PLANS

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

Survey of Earned Doctorates
Hispanic
Carnegie Classification of Institutions
Community Colleges
Doctoral Universities

File:

Download Fndz_Diss_2017_3_22.pdf

Committee Members:

Leticia Oseguera, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Liliana M. Garces, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roger L. Geiger, Committee Member
David P. Baker, Committee Member
Christopher Fariss, Outside Member

Author:

Chen, Weile

Title:

MYCORRHIZAL-MEDIATED NUTRIENT FORAGING STRATEGIES OF TEMPERATE TREE SPECIES

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Mycorrhizal fungi
Soil heterogeneity
Root trait
Forest
Root proliferation
Species diversity

File:

Download Weile_Chen_PhD_Dissertation_Ver_4.pdf

Committee Members:

David M. Eissenstat, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David M. Eissenstat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew D. Hurteau, Committee Member
John E. Carlson, Committee Member
Kathleen M. Brown, Outside Member
Roger T. Koide, Special Member

Author:

Pitakjakpipop, Pawnprapa

Title:

EFFECT OF SUPPORT FOR Ni2P CATALYSTS ON HYDRODEOXYGENATION OF BIO-OIL USING ANISOLE AND GUAIACOL AS MODEL COMPOUNDS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrodeoxygenation
Nickel Phosphide
TiO2-CeO2
Support effect
Bio-oil

File:

Download Dissertation_Pawnprapa_Pitakjakpipop.pdf

Committee Members:

Chunshan Song, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chunshan Song, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Randy L. Vander Wal, Committee Member
Xiaoxing Wang, Committee Member
Michael J. Janik, Outside Member

Author:

Brandsema, Matthew J

Title:

Formulation and Analysis of the Quantum Radar Cross Section

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Quantum Radar
QRCS
Radar Cross Section
Photon Scattering

File:

Download Matthew_Brandsema_-_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ram Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Iam Choon Khoo, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Marcos Rigol, Outside Member
Marco Lanzagorta, Special Member

Author:

Poore, Ryan James

Title:

EXTENDING A BIOLOGICAL CELL TRACKING SYSTEM TO TRACK RANGE DATA OF PEDESTRIANS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

LIDAR range data
topological constraints
geometric active contour
Interacting Multiple Model

File:

Download ThesisMastersRyanPoore.pdf

Committee Members:

William Higgins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Tutwiler, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member

Author:

Radville, Laura

Title:

Root phenology in a changing world

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

root phenology
climate change
phenology
roots
carbon exchange
root turnover

File:

Download Dissertation_Radville.pdf

Committee Members:

David Eissenstat, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Eissenstat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Post, Committee Member
Margot Kaye, Committee Member
Kathleen Brown, Outside Member

Author:

Culp, Mara Elizabeth

Title:

Three Investigations of Phonological Awareness and Music Aptitude

Graduate Program:

Music Education

Keywords:

phonological awareness
music
special needs
speech and language impairments
speech therapy
reading

File:

Download Three_Investigations_of_Phonological_Awareness_and_Music_Aptitude_-_Final_-_Culp_-_7.10.17.pdf

Committee Members:

Joanne Rutkowski, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joanne Rutkowski, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Linda Thornton, Committee Member
Ann C. Clements, Committee Member
Hoi K. Suen, Outside Member
Barbara Roberts, Special Member