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Author:: Huang, Wenyi
Title:: Context Modeling for Semantic Text Matching and Scene Text Detection
Graduate Program:: Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:: Citation Recommendation
Scene Text Detection
Deep Learning
Neural Networks
Context Modeling
Text in the Wild
File:: Download WenyiHuang-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: C Lee Giles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
C Lee Giles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhenhui Li, Committee Member
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Member

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Author:: Tyler, Alison Cathleen
Title:: The Regulated Environment: Proposal for an Investigation of Discipline Policy as Symbolic Action
Graduate Program:: Educational Theory and Policy
Keywords:: regulated environment
discipline policy
ethnography
File:: Download Thesis_-_final.pdf
Committee Members:: David Alexander Gamson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dana Lynn Mitra, Committee Member
John Evan Roberts, Committee Member

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Author:: Chulhai, Dhabih Vishaal
Title:: INTERPRETING THE SPECTRAL SIGNATURES OF SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING
Graduate Program:: Chemistry
Keywords:: Spectroscopy
Surface Enhancement
Raman
SERS
Field Gradients
Plasmon
Nanoparticles
TERS
DFT
Subsystem DFT
Frozen Density Embedding
TDDFT
Density Functional Theory
File:: Download DhabihChulhai-PSUThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Lasse Jensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lasse Jensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Miriam Arak Freedman, Committee Member
William George Noid, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Outside Member

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Author:: Kennedy, Steven Robert
Title:: USING THE INTERVALENCE CHARGE TRANSFER BAND IN MIXED VALENCE MIXED PROTONATED METAL DITHIOLENE COMPLEXES TO FOLLOW GROUND STATE PROTON-COUPLED ELECTRON TRANSFER
Graduate Program:: Chemistry
Keywords:: mixed valence
proton-coupled electron transfer
mixed valence mixed protonated
metal dithiolene
electronic spectroscopy
intervalence charge transfer
solar energy
ground state electron transfer
File:: Download Kennedy_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Benjamin James Lear, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alexander Thomas Radosevich, Committee Member
Joseph M Bollinger Jr., Committee Member
John H Golbeck, Outside Member

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Author:: Graysay, Duane Taylor
Title:: UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS’ APPROACHES TO CONSTRUCTING MATHEMATICAL GENERALITIES
Graduate Program:: Curriculum and Instruction
Keywords:: mathematics education
undergraduate mathematics
mathematical processes
advanced mathematical thinking
generalizing
mathematical generality
File:: Download Graysay_Dissertation_Final_160718b.pdf
Committee Members:: Mary Kathleen Heid, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Kathleen Heid, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Glendon W. Blume, Committee Member
Rose Mary Zbiek, Committee Member
Richard Alan Carlson, Outside Member

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Author:: Munsell, Erin Brooke
Title:: Dynamics and predictability of tropical cyclones evaluated through convection-permitting ensemble analyses and forecasts with airborne radar and sounding observations
Graduate Program:: Meteorology
Keywords:: Tropical cyclones
Predictability
Ensemble forecasting
File:: Download MunsellDissertationFinal.pdf
Committee Members:: Fuqing Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fuqing Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Marcelo Chamecki, Committee Member
Steven J Greybush, Committee Member
James Kasting, Outside Member
Jason Sippel, Special Member

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Author:: Zhang, Yifan
Title:: INVESTIGATION OF FUNCTION AND REGULATORY MECHANISM OF GENES CONTROLLING TISSUE GROWTH IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
Graduate Program:: Genetics
Keywords:: growth control
cell apoptosis
ER stress
JNK signaling
Hippo signaling
File:: Download Yifan_Zhang_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Zhi-Chun Lai, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yanming Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Paulson, Committee Member
Richard W Ordway, Committee Member
Wendy Hanna-Rose, Outside Member

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Author:: Gao, Boyi
Title:: NOVEL HIGH-ALTITUDE METEOR OBSERVING STRATEGIES EMPLOYED AT THE JICAMARCA RADIO OBSERVATORY
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: High-Altitude Radar Meteors
Alternating Interpulse Period
Multi-Basline Interferometry
File:: Download Boyi_Gao_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: John David Mathews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John David Mathews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Victor P Pasko, Committee Member
David Bradley Spencer, Outside Member

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Author:: Khadilkar, Aditi Bhushan
Title:: Development of a Fluidized-Bed Agglomeration Modeling Methodology to Include Particle-level Heterogeneities in Ash Chemistry and Granular Physics
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Agglomerate growth
Fluidization
Gasification
combustion
Gasification
Combustion
Granulation
Collision frequency
Ash mineral transformations
Granular kinetic theory
File:: Download Dissertation_Aditi_Khadilkar.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr. Sarma V. Pisupati, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Sarma V. Pisupati, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Dr. Mark S. Klima, Committee Member
Dr. Hojong Kim, Outside Member
Dr. Peter L. Rozelle, Special Member

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Author:: Zhang, Xiaomei
Title:: Efficient and Quality-Aware Data Access in Mobile Opportunistic Networks
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Mobile Opportunistic Networks
Data Transmission
Transient Community
Truth Analysis
Mobile Crowdsourcing
Task Allocation
Mobile Opportunistic Networks
Social Networks
Data Transmission
Transient Community
Truth Analysis
Mobile Crowdsourcing
Task Allocation
File:: Download Xiaomei-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Zhenhui Li, Outside Member

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