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Author:

Helms, Anjel M

Title:

Eavesdropping plants: Plants perceive and respond to insect odors by priming their anti-herbivore defenses

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Priming
Plant defense
Chemical ecology
gall insect

File:

Download Anjel_Helms_Dissertation_2015.pdf

Committee Members:

John Frazier Tooker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark C Mescher, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Eissenstat, Committee Member
Consuelo M De Moraes, Committee Member
Debashis Gosh, Committee Member

Author:

Babaei Pourkargar, Davood

Title:

Synthesis of advanced control structures for complex chemical processes using sensor networks

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Process control
Chemical processes
Distributed parameter systems
Model reduction
Chemical reactor
Feedback control

File:

Download DBP-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Antonios Armaou, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Antonios Armaou, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Kyle Jeffrey Magnuson Bishop, Committee Member

Author:

Ervin, Heather Kay

Title:

The Impact of Instruction Through Models on Preservice Teachers' Understanding of Fraction Multiplication and Division

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

preservice teachers' understanding
fraction models
fraction multiplication
fraction division
teaching intervention

File:

Download Ervin_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrea Vujan Mccloskey, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edith Frances Arbaugh, Committee Member
Gwendolyn Monica Lloyd, Committee Member
Paul J Riccomini, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Li

Title:

Understanding The Effects Of Mineral Spatial Distributions On Chromium Sorption and Calcite Dissolutoin In Porous Media

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Spatial pattern
Cr(VI) sorption
Dissolution
Heterogeneity
Connectivity
reactive transport

File:

Download Revised_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Li Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Member
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Member
Sridhar Komarneni, Committee Member

Author:

Hoffman, Sara Lynn

Title:

Fight or Flight: Jeremiah's Polemic Against Emigration to Egypt in Literary and Historical Perspective

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

Jeremiah
Biblical Studies
Ancient Near East
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomistic History

File:

Download Hoffman_-_Dissertation_-_Final_Draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Gerald Neil Knoppers, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Baruch Halpern, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donald B Redford, Committee Member
Kenneth Gale Hirth, Committee Member
Janina M Safran, Committee Member

Author:

Spanjers, Charles Steven

Title:

Nickel-zinc Intermetallic Catalysts for Acetylene Semi-hydrogenation and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Techniques for Catalyst Characterization

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

catalysis
catalyst
hydrogenation
x-ray absorption spectroscopy
intermetallic

File:

Download Spanjers_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seong Han Kim, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Phillip E Savage, Committee Member

Author:

Imperio, Caesar Gerald

Title:

From behavior to epigenetics: Individual differences in heroin addiction

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

Addiction
Heroin
Reward
Epigenetics
Enrichment
RNA-seq

File:

Download Final_Imperio_Dissertation_.pdf

Committee Members:

Patricia Sue Grigson Kennedy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott C Bunce, Committee Member
Willard M Freeman, Special Member
Robert G Levenson, Committee Member
Victor J Ruiz Velasco, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Zhao

Title:

Design, test, and improvement of a low-cost apple harvest-assist unit

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA)
apple harvest
safety
ergonomic analysis
harvest assist-unit
awkward postures.

File:

Download Zhao_Zhang_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Heinz Heinemann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jude Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andris Freivalds, Committee Member
James Rawlinson Schupp, Special Member

Author:

Wang, Yaqun

Title:

Inference of Gene Regulatory Network Based on Gene Expression Dynamics in Response to Environmental Signals

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Gene Regulatory Network
Gene Expression
Gene Cluster
DBN
Ordinary Differential Equation
Gene-Environment Interaction

File:

Download YaqunWang-Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rongling Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Committee Member

Author:

Gan, Quan

Title:

Analysis of induced seismicity and heat transfer in geothermal reservoirs by coupled simulation

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Geothermal reservoir
thermal front
induced seismicity
permeabiltiy evolution
breakdown pressure

File:

Download Quan_Gan_Analysis_of_induced_seismicity_and_heat_transfer_by_coupled_simulation_in_geothermal_reservoirs.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jamal Rostami, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Special Member