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Author:

Dameron, Arrelaine Allen

Title:

Controlling Molecular Assemblies

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

self-assembled monolayers
molecular patterning
microdisplacement printing
microcontact printing
dip-pen nanolithography
scanning tunneling microscopy
atomic force microscopy
molecular electronics
adamantanethiol

File:

Download AAD_phdthesis_013006.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul S Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Sadegh, Abdallah Ahmed

Title:

AN INTEGRATED HYDRODYNAMIC / PVT VERTICAL WELLBORE MODEL FOR TWO-PHASE NATURAL GAS / LIQUID SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

Natural gas
Condensate
wells
Multiphase flow
Wellbore model

File:

Download Thesis_Final_Version.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Adebola Adewumi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Robert W Watson, Committee Member
Mku Thaddeus Ityokumbul, Committee Member
Mark Stephen Klima, Committee Member

Author:

Wolff, Andrew B.

Title:

REWRITING TRUJILLO, RECONSTRUCTING A NATION: DOMINICAN HISTORY IN NOVELS BY MARCIO VELOZ MAGGIOLO, ANDRES L. MATEO, VIRIATO SENCION, AND MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Dominican Republic
novel
Marcio Veloz Maggiolo
Viriato Sencion
Andres L. Mateo
Mario Vargas Llosa
De abril en adelante
La balada de Alfonsina Bairan
Los que falsificaron la firma de Dios
La fiesta del chivo

File:

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Committee Members:

Anibal Gonzalez Perez, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Priscilla Melendez, Committee Member
Julia Cuervo Hewitt, Committee Member
Thomas Oliver Beebee, Committee Member

Author:

Griel, Amy Eileen

Title:

DIETARY FATS: A QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE APPROACH TO REDUCING RISK OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN THE FASTING AND FED STATE

Graduate Program:

Nutrition

Keywords:

Dietary Fat
Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
Nutrition
Humans
Eating Patterns
trans fatty acids

File:

Download Final_Thesis_Amy_Griel.pdf

Committee Members:

Penny Margaret Kris Etherton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Terryl Johnson Hartman, Committee Member
Keith R Martin, Committee Member
Sheila Grace West, Committee Member
David Theodore Mauger, Committee Member

Author:

Karatjas, Andrew George

Title:

STUDIES TOWARD THE SYNTHESIS OF TMC-95A AND DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENANTIOSELECTIVE PUMMERER REACTION FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF 3,3-SPIROCYCLIC OXINDOLES

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Pummerer
TMC-95

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ken S Feldman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Blake Peterson, Committee Member
RAYMOND LEE FUNK, Committee Member
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member

Author:

Hoskins, Andrew Howard

Title:

Development and Characterization of a Robotic Dynamic Activity Simulator

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

cadaver walking simulation
dynamic gait simulation
foot and ankle biomechanics
robotics

File:

Download AHoskins_PhD_Diss_HiQ.pdf

Committee Members:

Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Neil Sharkey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Jacob Piazza, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Mummert, Anna Beckhorn

Title:

Thermodynamic Formalism for Nonuniformly Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

dynamical systems
thermodynamic formalism
smooth ergodic theory
nonuniform hyperbolicity

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Yakov B Pesin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Piotr Berman, Committee Member
Svetlana Katok, Committee Member
Mark Levi, Committee Member
Arkady Tempelman, Committee Member
Howard Weiss, Committee Member

Author:

Johnson, Amber Lauren

Title:

“WE DON’T WRITE JUST TO WRITE; WE WRITE TO BE FREE”: A RHETORICAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF SPOKEN WORD IN LOS ANGELES

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rhetoric
poetry
performance
counterpublic
collective identity
ethnography
spoken word

File:

Download Dissertation_Amber_L_Johnson.pdf

Committee Members:

Ronald L Jackson Ii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Member
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member
Raymond Keith Gilyard, Committee Member

Author:

Stuver, Amber Lynnell

Title:

Burst Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Methods:<br> Design, Development and Comparison

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

General Relativity
LIGO
simulation
signal processing
MATLAB
data analysis
gravitational waves

File:

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Committee Members:

Lee S Finn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member

Author:

Zerkle, Aubrey L.

Title:

Microbial Trace Metal Requirements: Limiting Nutrients and Potential Biosignatures

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

trace metals
biogeochemistry
nitrogen fixation
metal limitation
metallomics
biogeochemical cycling

File:

Download DISS_FINAL_ZERKLE.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Howard House, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member
Lee Kump, Committee Member
Hunter J Carrick, Committee Member
Donald E Canfield, Committee Member

Author:

Khatkhate, Amol Madhav

Title:

Anomaly Detection in Electromechanical Systems using Symbolic Dynamics

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

structural health monitoring
symbolic dynamics
diagnostics
prognostics
electromechanical systems
pattern identification

File:

Download AMK-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Russell Marsh, Committee Member
Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Committee Member
Dr Qian Wang, Committee Member
Eric Keller, Committee Member

Author:

Braithwaite, Alex

Title:

There Goes the Neighborhood! Hot Spots and the Diffusion of International Conflict

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

International Conflict
Hot Spots
Spatial Analysis

File:

Download Braith_Diss_06.pdf

Committee Members:

David Scott Bennett Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Glenn Hunter Palmer, Committee Member
Professor Quan Li, Committee Member
Professor Colin Flint, Committee Member

Author:

Desai, Ankur Rashmikant

Title:

Scaling Regional Land-Atmosphere Fluxes of Carbon Dioxide with Mesoscale Observation Networks: Impact of Land Cover, Management and Disturbance

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

eddy covariance
land-atmosphere trace gas exchange
regional carbon dioxide flux
bottom-up scaling
dynamic vegetation ecosystem modeling

File:

Download adesai-meteo-dissertation-052006.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth James Davis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Toby Nahum Carlson, Committee Member
Raymond Gabriel Najjar Jr., Committee Member
John Corry Wyngaard, Committee Member
Brenton Yarnal, Committee Member

Author:

Yamasaki, Alissa S.

Title:

Concordance between self-reported and physiological measures of emotion during fear imagery in anxiety disorders

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

skin conductance
heart rate
fear
GAD
emotion
concordance
imagery
anxiety
memory

File:

Download format_review_will_be_real_version.pdf

Committee Members:

William Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas D Borkovec, Committee Member
Robert M Stern, Committee Member
Joyce Karen Illfelder Kaye, Committee Member

Author:

Jain, Abhishek

Title:

MOCVD growth and study of thin films of Indium Nitride

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

MOCVD
InN
polarity
graded buffer
in-situ stress analysis
growth mechanism

File:

Download A_Jain_PhD_Thesis_Su_2006.pdf

Committee Members:

Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Darrell G Schlom, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member
Joseph R Flemish, Committee Member

Author:

Kesten, Alper

Title:

A Case Study: Social Studies Preservice Teachers' Perceptons and Attitudes Toward Computer Technologies

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Preservice teachers
social studies
computer technology
attitudes
perceptions

File:

Download ThesisMaster.pdf

Committee Members:

Murry R Nelson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Marily Page, Committee Member
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

Author:

Mehta, Amit

Title:

Performance Characteristics of Charged Ultrafiltration Membranes: Fundamental Studies and Applications

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Biotechnology
Bioseparation
Ultrafiltration
Protein Purification
Charged Membrane
Permeability
Selectivity
Bioprocessing

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Zydney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Wayne Roger Curtis, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member
Andrew Ewing, Committee Member

Author:

Singh, Anurima

Title:

SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYPHOSPHAZENES FOR SURFACE AND BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Biomaterial
Superhydrophobic
Polyphosphazenes
Biodegradable
Bone Tissue Engineering
Nanofibers

File:

Download thesis1.pdf

Committee Members:

Harry R Allcock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan James Benesi, Committee Member
John V Badding, Committee Member
Erwin A Vogler, Committee Member

Author:

Sun, Adan

Title:

GROWTH AND PROPERTIES OF ANODIC OXIDE FILMS ON PLATINUM

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Mott-Schottky
EIS
nanooxide
platinum
Point Defect Model

File:

Download adan-dissertation_07_23_06.pdf

Committee Members:

Digby D Macdonald, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Christopher Muhlstein, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member

Author:

Costanzo, Alessandra

Title:

Regulation of the Extracytoplasmic Stress Factor Sigma E by the Alarmone ppGpp in Escherichia coli

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

sigma factor competition
Extracytoplasmic stress response
ppGpp

File:

Download ACostanzo-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sarah Ellen Ades, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen John Knabel, Committee Member
Katsuhiko Murakami, Committee Member
B Tracy Nixon, Committee Member
Allen T Phillips, Committee Member