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Author:

Song, Hyoungju

Title:

THE IMPACT OF UPPER ECHELONS’ HUMAN AND SOCIAL CAPITAL ON POST-IPO PERFORMANCE IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY: THE LIFE CYCLE PERSPECTIVE

Graduate Program:

Hospitality Management (PHD)

Keywords:

an initial public offering
Upper echelons
Human and social capital
A life cycle perspective
post-IPO performance

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Committee Members:

Donna Quadri-Felitti, Program Head/Chair
Phillip Jolly, Major Field Member
Donald Hambrick, Outside Unit & Field Member
Seoki Lee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amit Sharma, Major Field Member

Author:

Stutzman, Christopher B

Title:

MONITORING OF METAL ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING VIA OPTICAL EMISSIONS SENSING

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Plume Sensing
Optical Emission Monitoring
Laser Powder Bed Fusion

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Edward Reutzel, Major Field Member
Abdalla Nassar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Qian Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
David Jeffrey Corbin, Special Member
Albert Segall, Major Field Member

Author:

Stewart, Hannah Leigh

Title:

Biotic and abiotic manipulation of thermoregulatory capacities in Bombus impatiens

Graduate Program:

Entomology (PHD)

Keywords:

Bumble bee
Bombus impatiens
Immune challenge
Thermoregulation
Task switching

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Committee Members:

Robert Berghage, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christina Grozinger, Major Field Member
Diana Cox-Foster, Major Field Member
Rudolf Schilder, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Julie Urban, Major Field Member
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Strayhorn, Jillian

Title:

A Bayesian Decision Analytic Approach to Selecting Optimized Interventions in the Multiphase Optimization Strategy

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

intervention optimization
decision analysis
Bayesian statistics
multicriteria decision analysis
multiphase optimization strategy

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Committee Members:

Timothy Brick, Major Field Member
Steffany Fredman, Major Field Member
David Vanness, Outside Unit & Field Member
Linda Collins, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Charles Geier, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Steves, Megan

Title:

Elucidating the Interplay of Optical Function and Structure in Nanomaterials with Nonlinear Optical Microscopy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

2D materials
nonlinear optics
ultrafast spectroscopy
2d metals
transition metal dichalcogenides
second harmonic generation
microscopy

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Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lasse Jensen, Major Field Member
Kenneth Knappenberger, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Asbury, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sumner, Sarah Elizabeth

Title:

Selenoproteins regulate B cell development and peripheral homeostasis

Graduate Program:

Pathobiology (PHD)

Keywords:

B lymphocyte
B cell
Selenoproteins
Selenium
SelenoW
SelenoH
B cell Development
Reactive Oxygen Species
ROS
NAC

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Committee Members:

Girish Kirimanjeswara, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Margherita Cantorna, Major Field Member
Santhosh Girirajan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Troy Sutton, Major Field Member
Kumble Prabhu, Major Field Member
Kumble Prabhu, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sowers, Dawn

Title:

The Effects of Intermediary Feedback on Eye Tracking as an Access Method for AAC

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders (PHD)

Keywords:

AAC
Eye Tracking
Augmentative Communication
alternative access
visual feedback

File:

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Committee Members:

Nicole Etter (She/Her), Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Krista Wilkinson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kathryn Drager, Major Field Member
Rick Gilmore, Outside Unit & Field Member
Carol Miller, Major Field Member
Nicole Etter (she/her), Major Field Member

Author:

Tien, Kai Wen

Title:

Performance Assurance in Smart Maintenance

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

performance assurance
exception analytics
condition-based maintenance
continuous time Markov decision process
phase-type distribution
corrective maintenance
preventive maintenance

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Committee Members:

Sanjay Joshi, Major Field Member
Vittaldas Prabhu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Saurabh Bansal, Outside Unit & Field Member
Paul Griffin, Major Field Member

Author:

Uhl, Jonathan

Title:

Adolescent Friendship Groups, Gender, and Delinquency in a Cross-National Context

Graduate Program:

Criminology (PHD)

Keywords:

Juvenile Delinquency
Cross-National Research
Gender

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Committee Members:

Thomas Anthony Loughran, IV, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jennifer Maggs, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jeremy Staff, Major Field Member
Darrell Steffensmeier, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Pam Wilcox, Major Field Member

Author:

Thakar, Tanay

Title:

Assessing the Role of Gap-Avoidance Mechanisms and Nucleosome Assembly Pathways as Guardians of DNA Replication Fork Stability

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Replication Stress
Fork protection
Genome Stability
Nucleosome Assembly
PCNA
BRCA1
BRCA2

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Committee Members:

Hong-Gang Wang, Outside Field Member
James Broach, Major Field Member
Zhonghua Gao, Major Field Member
Lisa Shantz, Outside Unit Member
George Moldovan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ralph Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Trawick, Sonya

Title:

Revisiting the Concept of "Triggering of Code-Switching

Graduate Program:

Spanish (PHD)

Keywords:

bilingualism
linguistics
code-switching
trigger
sociolinguistics
quantitative
corpus

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Committee Members:

Paola Migliaccio-Dussias, Major Field Member
John Lipski, Major Field Member
Rena Cacoullos, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Janet van Hell, Outside Unit & Field Member
Paola Migliaccio-Dussias, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Treanore, Erin D

Title:

Ecological and Evolutionary Aspects of Bumble Bee Diapause

Graduate Program:

Entomology (PHD)

Keywords:

Diapause
Bumble bees
Social Insects
Nutritional Ecology
Pollinators

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Committee Members:

Rudolf Schilder, Major Field Member
Etya Amsalem, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Heather Hines, Major Field Member
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
James Marden, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Tiffin, Hannah

Title:

“Scratching” the Surface: Ticks and Sarcoptic Mange (Sarcoptes scabiei) in American Black Bears

Graduate Program:

Entomology (PHD)

Keywords:

black bear
ursus americanus
mange
sarcoptic mange
parasite
host-parasite interactions
carnivores
red fox
grey fox
coyote
ticks
Ixodes scapularis
backlegged tick
Sarcoptes scabiei
scabies
neglected diseases
zoonotic disease
zoonoses
One Health
Pennsylvania
wildlife
disease spillover
disease ecology
emerging disease

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Committee Members:

Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Edwin Rajotte, Major Field Member
Erika Machtinger, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Justin Brown, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jennifer Mullinax, Special Member
Mark Ternent, Special Member
Joyce Sakamoto, Major Field Member

Author:

Thomas, Tina

Title:

Investigating Helping and Hindering Factors that Influenced Black/African American Women's Decision to Pursue Mathematics Degrees in the United States

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development (PHD)

Keywords:

Black women in STEM
Black women in mathematics
educational equity
disparities in mathmatics

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Committee Members:

Heather Zimmerman, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
William Rothwell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hyung Joon Yoon, Major Field Member
Matthew Poehner, Outside Unit Member
Uju Anya, Outside Field Member

Author:

Tuchow, Noah

Title:

Potential Habitability as a Stellar Property: Assessing the Habitable Histories of Stellar Systems

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics (PHD)

Keywords:

Exoplanets
Astrobiology
Exoplanet Evolution
Biosignatures
Direct Imaging
Planet hosting stars
Habitable zone
Stellar properties

File:

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Committee Members:

Steinn Sigurdsson, Major Field Member
Michael Eracleous, Major Field Member
Jason Wright, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eric Ford, Major Field Member
James Kasting, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rebekah Dawson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Usenza, Christiana

Title:

Sustaining Sounds in North America: Models for Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in Music Education

Graduate Program:

Music Education (PHD)

Keywords:

music education
ethnomusicology
culturally sustaining pedagogy
culturally relevant education
decolonization
indigenization
antiracism
mariachi
new orleans brass bands
native american music
cultural sustainability
culturally responsive teaching
culturally relevant pedagogy

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Committee Members:

Ann Clements, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Charles Youmans, Outside Field Member
Sarah Watts, Major Field Member
William Dewey, Outside Unit Member
Linda Carol Porter Thornton, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Wenger, Eliott

Title:

Mechanistic Investigation of Oxygen-Activating Enzymes Using Rapid-Kinetics, Structural, and Spectroscopic Methodologies

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Enzyme
Mechanism
Oxygen
Kinetics
Crystallography
Metalloenzyme
Stopped-flow
EPR-spectroscopy
Mossbauer-spectroscopy
Mass Spectrometry

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Committee Members:

Howard Salis, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amie Boal, Major Field Member
Carsten Krebs, Co-Chair of Committee
Alexey Silakov, Major Field Member
Joseph Bollinger, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Weld, Jennifer Lizabeth

Title:

A Procedure to Assess and Revise The Pennsylvania Phosphorus Index

Graduate Program:

Soil Science (PHD)

Keywords:

Phosphorus
Phosphorus Index
TopoSWAT
APLE
nutrient management

File:

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Committee Members:

Bradley Cardinale, Program Head/Chair
Tameria Veith, Outside Unit & Field Member
Charlie White, Major Field Member
Peter Kleinman, Major Field Member
Douglas Beegle, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Xie, Tianze

Title:

Design of selective palladium-based catalyst for direct synthesis of hydrogen peroxide

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

H2O2 direct synthesis
Pd carbide
H2O2 decomposition
Catalyst optimization
carbonization treatment
Kinetics

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Committee Members:

Phillip Savage, Major Field Member
Seong H. Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Robert Rioux, Dissertation Advisor
James Hodges, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michael Janik, Chair of Committee

Author:

Xiang, Zhen

Title:

Defense of Backdoor Attacks against Deep Neural Network Classifiers

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

adversarial machine learning
backdoor attack
Trojan
backdoor defense
anomaly detection
point cloud
reverse-engineering

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Committee Members:

George Kesidis, Major Field Member
Constantino Lagoa, Major Field Member
David Miller, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anna Squicciarini, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Williams, Brittany

Title:

The Effect of Visual Speech Information on Linguistic Release from Masking

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders (PHD)

Keywords:

Speech Perception
Masking
Bilingual
Audiovisual

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Committee Members:

Jacqueline Mogle, Outside Field Member
Anne Olmstead, Major Field Member
Paola Migliaccio-Dussias, Outside Unit & Field Member
Navin Viswanathan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Michael Robb, Major Field Member
Nicole Etter (She/Her), Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Xia, Yu

Title:

Participatory Agency that Addresses Participation Inequity and Drives Collaborative Problem-Solving and Learning for Children

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

computer-supported collaborative learning
participation equity
participatory agency
collaborative design learning

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Committee Members:

Marcela Borge, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ty Hollett, Major Field Member
Tanner Vea, Major Field Member
Gerald Letendre, Outside Unit & Field Member
Susan Mary Land, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Wang, Xi

Title:

Analysis of Crossover Designs with Nonignorable Dropout

Graduate Program:

Biostatistics (PHD)

Keywords:

crossover trials
ignorable missing
nonignorable missing
controlled multiple imputation
longitudinal data
repeated measures
intensive longitudinal data

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Committee Members:

Vernon Chinchilli, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Mauger, Major Field Member
Judie Ann Howrylak, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ming Wang, Major Field Member
Shouhao Zhou, Major Field Member
Arthur Berg, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Williams, Glen

Title:

Towards the Next-Generation of Engineering Design Artificial Intelligence: A Framework for Additive Manufacturing Machine Learning Development

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

additive manufacturing
machine learning
artificial intelligence
design
manufacturing

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Committee Members:

Nicholas Meisel, Major Field Member
Timothy Simpson, Major Field Member
Chris McComb, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
C Lee Giles, Outside Unit & Field Member
Daniel Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Witcher, Aaron

Title:

MAROONING POETICS: LINES OF FLIGHT, CULTURAL RECREATION AND ERRANTRY IN MARTINICAN LITERATURE

Graduate Program:

French (PHD)

Keywords:

Marronnage
Martinique
poetics
Creole culture
African Diaspora

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Committee Members:

Benedicte Monicat, Major Field Member
Emmanuel Jean-Francois, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jonathan Eburne, Outside Unit & Field Member
Fabienne Kanor, Major Field Member
Benedicte Monicat, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zainuddin, Nursyafiqi

Title:

Getting to the root of nematode chemotaxis: Manipulation of belowground plant-nematode interactions

Graduate Program:

Entomology (PHD)

Keywords:

nematode
kinesis
taxis
volatile
exudate
chemotaxis
non-volatile
olfactometer
behavior
ecological niche
environmental context
phytochemical
plant-nematode
evolution
parasitism
plant defense
carbon dioxide

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Committee Members:

Jared Ali, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Barbercheck, Major Field Member
Wendy Hanna-Rose, Outside Unit & Field Member
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Edwin Rajotte, Major Field Member
Jared Ali, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Yu, Tianliang

Title:

Parametric and Topology Optimization for Multidisciplinary Design Using a Decomposition Method to Address Nonlinear Boundary Conditions

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
Topology Optimization
Decomposition Method
Nonlinear Boundary Conditions
Spacecraft Passive Thermal Control
Synthetic Jet Actuator

File:

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Committee Members:

Mary Frecker, Outside Unit & Field Member
Edward Smith, Major Field Member
Stephen Conlon, Major Field Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
George A Lesieutre, Dissertation Advisor
George Lesieutre, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Lixiang

Title:

Trustworthy Unsupervised and Supervised Learning

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Trustworthy Machine Learning
Clustering Uncertainty Assessment
Multi-view Stability-based Clustering
Enhancing Interpretability of DNN
Robust Surrogate Model for Uncertainty Quantification

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Committee Members:

Lin Lin, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Jia Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Matthew Reimherr, Major Field Member
Emily Davenport, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ephraim Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Zhang, Muzi

Title:

Study of Interval Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

interval data
symbolic data
segment plot
dandelion plot
response surface methodology
visualization
correlation measure

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Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Major Field Member
Matthew Reimherr, Major Field Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair
Lingzhou Xue, Chair of Committee
Dennis Lin, Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Yiming

Title:

ANALYSIS OF ORIFICE METERING AND PERFORATION EROSION FOR SHALE GAS WELLS VIA COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) MODELING

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

CFD
EROSION
PERFORATION EROSION
GAS METERING
ORIFICE METER

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Committee Members:

Gregory King, Major Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Major Field Member
Xiang Yang, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mort D Webster, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Yuan, Chengchao

Title:

Neutrino and Electromagnetic Counterparts of Galaxy and Astrophysical Black Hole Mergers

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Multimessenger Astrophysics
High-Energy Astrophysics
Astroparticle Physics
Compact Binary Mergers
Galaxy Mergers

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Committee Members:

Miguel Mostafa, Major Field Member
Kohta Murase, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Douglas Cowen, Major Field Member
Donghui Jeong, Outside Unit & Field Member
Peter Meszaros, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zainal, Nur Hani

Title:

A Randomized Controlled Trial of a 14-Day Mindfulness Ecological Momentary Intervention (MEMI) for Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

generalized anxiety disorder
mindfulness
ecological momentary intervention
executive functioning

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Committee Members:

Kyle Murdock, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michelle Newman, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Christopher Cameron, Major Field Member
Peter Arnett, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zamora Barrera, Sergio

Title:

Geodesic Spaces with Large Discrete Groups of Isometries

Graduate Program:

Mathematics (PHD)

Keywords:

Geometric Group Theory
Metric Geometry

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Committee Members:

Nigel Higson, Major Field Member
Donald Richards, Outside Unit & Field Member
Anton Petrunin, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alexei Novikov, Major Field Member
Alexei Novikov, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Yu, Anya

Title:

Investigating the Impact of Language Experience on Second Language Reading Comprehension Using a Resting-State Connectome-based Predictive Model

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

L2 reading
immersion
resting-state fMRI
machine learning
implicit learning

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Committee Members:

Roger Beaty, Major Field Member
Frank Hillary, Major Field Member
Janet van Hell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Peggy Van Meter, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Washington, Chanell Nicole

Title:

The Antecedents and Consequences of Romantic Relationship Tempo in Young Adulthood

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

marriage
cohabitation
parent-child relationship quality
relationship tempo
alcohol consumption
depressive symptoms
family structure
family instability
family belonging

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Committee Members:

Valarie Elizabeth King, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Valarie Elizabeth King, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer Elyse Glick, Committee Member
Michelle Lynn Frisco, Committee Member
Jennifer Lianne Maggs, Outside Member
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Committee Member
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Harrington, Nicole Elizabeth

Title:

Young Adult Incarceration and Maternal Health Outcomes: Examining the Effects of Exposure to and Continued Involvement Following the Incarceration of a Child

Graduate Program:

Criminology

Keywords:

Collateral Consequences
Maternal Health
Young Adult Incarceration
Co-Residence

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Committee Members:

Derek Allen Kreager, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Allen Kreager, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeremy Staff, Committee Member
David M Ramey, Committee Member
Susan Marie Mc Hale, Outside Member
Thomas Anthony Loughran, IV, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Elbich, Daniel Benjamin

Title:

Effects of Neural Dedifferentiation on the Selectivity of the Magnocellular and Parvocellular Visual Pathways

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

fmri
aging
mvpa
vision
expression
threat detection

File:

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Committee Members:

Nancy Anne Coulter Dennis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nancy Anne Coulter Dennis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bradley Paul Wyble, Committee Member
Reginald Adams, Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chaleece Wyatt Sandberg, Outside Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Program Head/Chair
Reginald Adams, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Dawood, Sindes

Title:

Longitudinal Associations Among Pathological Narcissism, Multidimensional Perfectionism, Shame, and Aggression

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

pathological narcissism
perfectionism
perfectionistic self-presentation
shame
aggression
longitudinal

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Committee Members:

Aaron Lee Pincus, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aaron Lee Pincus, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Amy Dyanna Marshall, Committee Member
Michael Nelson Hallquist, Committee Member
David E Conroy, Outside Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cody, Adam William

Title:

Corax in Chalk: A Discursive Ecology of Deipnosophistae

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Athenaeus
Rhetoric
Authority
Narrative
Text
Information
Manuscript
Form
Function
Miscellany
Encyclopedia
Compilation
Memory

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Committee Members:

Rosa A Eberly, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Michele Jean Kennerly, Committee Member
Anna Irene Peterson, Outside Member
Denise Haunani Solomon, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tremblay, Suzanna

Title:

Skeletal morphology, grave goods, and cemetery organization: Mortuary archaeology to community life

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

bioarhaeology
mortuary archaeology
paleodemography
prehistoric illinois
prehistoric midwest
osteology

File:

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Committee Members:

George Robert Milner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Robert Milner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kirk Dow French, Committee Member
Stephen Augustus Matthews, Outside Member
James William Wood, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lee Ann Newsom, Special Member
Timothy Michael Ryan, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Velez, Emma

Title:

The Colonial Contract and the Coloniality of Gender: A Decolonial Feminist Approach to Re-thinking the Self, Epistemology, and the Ethicopolitical

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Decolonial Feminism
Latina Feminism
Decolonial Theory
Latinx Gender Studies
Colonial Contract
Feminist Philosophy
Maria Lugones
Chela Sandoval
Emma Perez

File:

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Committee Members:

Nancy A Tuana, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eduardo Mendieta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn Sophia Belle, Committee Member
Mariana J Ortega, Committee Member
Melissa Wright, Outside Member
Amy Rebekah Allen, Program Head/Chair
Nancy A Tuana, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eduardo Mendieta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kim, Hanjoo

Title:

Testing Contrast Avoidance Model Using a Computer-Based Analysis of Emotional Facial Expressions

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

worry
rumination
repetitive negative thinking
contrast avoidance model
emotional facial expression
generalized anxiety disorder
major depressive disorder

File:

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Committee Members:

Michelle Gayle Newman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michelle Gayle Newman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ginger A Moore, Committee Member
Reginald Adams, Jr., Committee Member
Jennifer Elise Graham-Engeland, Outside Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Opperman, Romy

Title:

Race, Ecology, Freedom: Climate Justice and Environmental Racism

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Africana Philosophy
Environmental Racism

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nancy A Tuana, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eduardo Mendieta, Committee Member
Charles Edward Scott, Special Member
Cynthia Ann Young, Outside Member
Amy Rebekah Allen, Program Head/Chair
Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nancy A Tuana, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jefferson, Sarah J

Title:

ROLE OF SOMATOSTATIN-POSITIVE GABAERGIC NEURONS IN ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION-RELATED PHENOTYPES

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

Depression
GABA
Somatostatin
Interneuron
Anxiety
Stress

File:

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Committee Members:

Bernhard Luscher, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernhard Luscher, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy J Jegla, Committee Member
Melissa Rolls, Committee Member
Sonia Angele Cavigelli, Outside Member

Author:

Bauer, Denise Helen

Title:

A Recommendation for the Backpack Load Limit of Middle School Students Based on Physiological and Psychophysical Measurements

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

children and backpacks
backpack load limits

File:

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Committee Members:

Andris Freivalds, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leah C Newman, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Richard J. Koubek, Committee Member
John Henry Challis, Committee Member

Author:

Briggs, Natalie

Title:

Novel Synthesis of 2-Dimensional Group III and IV Metals and Binary Compounds

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

2D materials
Silicon carbide
Intercalation
Epitaxial graphene
2D metals
Confinement heteroepitaxy
2D nitrides

File:

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Committee Members:

Joshua Alexander Robinson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Susan B Sinnott, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Outside Member
Thomas Mallouk, Special Member
Susan B Sinnott, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jung, InHaeng

Title:

Novel Food Technology Acceptance Model: Application of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT)

Graduate Program:

Hospitality Management (PHD)

Keywords:

UTAUT
Novel Food Technology Acceptance (NFTA)
Sustainability
Trust in the regulatory system
Convenience

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Committee Members:

Donna Quadri-Felitti, Program Head/Chair
Donna Quadri-Felitti, Major Field Member
Mary Oliver, Outside Unit & Field Member
Anna Mattila, Major Field Member
Amit Sharma, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

McGuigan, Glenn Steele

Title:

KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: MEASURING ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP WITH SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSES OF SCHOLARLY JOURNAL CITATIONS IN PUBLIC ADMINSTRATION AND RELATED FIELDS

Graduate Program:

Public Administration

Keywords:

Social network analysis
Public Administration
Scholarly Publishing
Citation Analysis
Prestige

File:

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Committee Members:

Goktug Morcol, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Goktug Morcol, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Ran, Committee Member
Steven Peterson, Committee Member
Rhoda Joseph, Outside Member

Author:

Adams, Heather Brook

Title:

Secrets and Silences: Rhetorics of Unwed Pregnancy Since 1960

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

unwed pregnancy
rhetoric
Roe v Wade

File:

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Committee Members:

Cheryl Jean Glenn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John L Selzer, Committee Member
Hester Maureen Blum, Committee Member
James Hogan, Committee Member

Author:

Vo, Dat Tien

Title:

Opioid Overdose Real-Time Wearable Monitor with Fuzzy Inference System

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Opioid
overdose
fuzzy
inference
system
embedded
wearable

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Anthony Gray, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sedig Salem Agili, Committee Member
Seth Wolpert, Committee Member

Author:

Biertempfel, Julia

Title:

Assessing Conservation Practice Effectiveness with Lorenz Inequality Results

Graduate Program:

Biorenewable Systems (MS)

Keywords:

water quality
Lorenz inequality
Gini coefficient
TMDL
Chesapeake Bay
nutrient loading
conservation practices
best management practices
BMPs
nutrients
phosphorus
nitrogen
agriculture
concentration-discharge
legacy nutrients

File:

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Committee Members:

Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Heather Elise Preisendanz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cibin Raj, Committee Member
Tamie Veith, Committee Member

Author:

Cain, Abriana

Title:

The effect of physical activity and energy restriction on tumor blood vessel architecture and hypoxia in the 4T1.2 murine breast cancer model

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences (MS)

Keywords:

breast cancer
cancer
triple negative breast cancer
physical activity
hypoxia
calorie restriction
energy restriction
vessel architecture

File:

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Committee Members:

A Ross, Program Head/Chair
Connie Jo Rogers, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alison D Gernand, Committee Member
Vishal Singh, Committee Member

Author:

Brownell, Matthew

Title:

A Time-Varying Subspace Method for Shape Estimation of a Flexible Spacecraft Membrane

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

subspace
spacecraft
flexible
solar
solar power
ERA
reduced-order modeling
analytical modeling
dynamics
structures
space structure
large

File:

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Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert G. Melton, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Roshan Thomas Eapen, Committee Member
Andrew Sinclair, Special Signatory

Author:

Borda, Bianca

Title:

Development of a Broadband Receiver for a Quadrupole Resonance (QR) Detection System

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Quadrupole Resonance Detection System
QR Detection

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas La Porta, Program Head/Chair
Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julio Urbina, Committee Member

Author:

Case, John

Title:

Photoacoustic measurement of the optical absorption of aerosols

Graduate Program:

Acoustics (MS)

Keywords:

Photoacoustics
Helmholtz Resonator
Acoustics
Optical Absorption
Aerosols

File:

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Committee Members:

Andrew Barnard, Program Head/Chair
Robert William Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Carl Swanson, Committee Member
Daniel C. Brown, Committee Member

Author:

Dec Peevey, Dominika

Title:

Counting and Accounting During an Outbreak: a Case Study of Measles in 2015-2016 Mongolia

Graduate Program:

Ecology (MS)

Keywords:

Outbreak
Disease Surveillance
Measles
Reported Cases
Hybrid Surveillance
Vaccination

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Committee Members:

Matthew Joseph Ferrari, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jessica Maral Conway, Committee Member
Jason Kaye, Program Head/Chair
Ottar N Bjornstad, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sagan Friant, Committee Member

Author:

Chakrabarti, Shakya

Title:

Logic Locking of Integrated Circuits enabled by 2D Materials based Memtransistors

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Integrated Circuits
Two-dimensional material
Logic Locking
Hardware Security
In-memory computing

File:

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Committee Members:

Saptarshi Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Abhronil Sengupta, Committee Member
Thomas La Porta, Program Head/Chair
Rongming Chu, Committee Member

Author:

Davis, Kenya

Title:

Re-Presenting Iris West: Race-Bent Black Women in Post-Racial Comic Book Adaptation

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (MA)

Keywords:

The Flash
Colorblindness
Comic Book Adaptation
Representation

File:

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Committee Members:

Kirt Wilson, Program Head/Chair
Kirt H Wilson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Elizabeth Stuckey, Committee Member
Bradford James Vivian, Committee Member

Author:

Cressman, Anna

Title:

THE MECHANISMS REGULATING CO2 NARCOSIS IN BOMBUS IMPATIENS

Graduate Program:

Entomology (MS)

Keywords:

carbon dioxide
insects
reproduction
metabolism
anesthesia

File:

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Committee Members:

Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Etya Amsalem, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rudolf Johannes Schilder, Committee Member
Heather M Hines, Committee Member

Author:

Dyer, Walter

Title:

Association between Oral Contraceptive Use and Cigarette Dependence in Women who Smoke Cigarettes

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

Cigarettes
Sex Differences
Oral Contraceptives
Cigarette Dependence
Ovarian Hormones

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephen Jeffrey Wilson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rina Das Eiden, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Jose Angel Soto, Committee Member

Author:

Dong, Zhanchen

Title:

System Design and Implementation of Collaborative Mixed-Reality-Based Firefighter Training

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Mixed Reality
Collaboration
Firefighter Training

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Committee Members:

Thomas F La Porta, Program Head/Chair
Bin Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahanth Gowda, Committee Member

Author:

Dighe, Snehal Machhindra

Title:

Statistical and Deep Learning Time Series Forecasting for Inventory Optimization of Agricultural Products

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Time Series Forecasting
Demand Forecasting
SARIMA
MLP
LSTM
Inventory Optimization
Newsvendor Model
Exploratory Data Analysis
User Interface
Seasonality Study

File:

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Paul Griffin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Derrickson, Kaylie

Title:

Advance-Fee Pet Scams Through the Lens of Narrative Victimology

Graduate Program:

Criminal Justice (MA)

Keywords:

Qualitative
Fraud
Narrative Criminology
Victimization

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Committee Members:

L. Marvin Overby, Program Head/Chair
Jennifer Lindmar Schally, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Andrew Howard, Committee Member
Emily Ruth Strohacker, Committee Member

Author:

Detore, Tessia

Title:

Student Perceptions of Zero-Tolerance Policies

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy (MA)

Keywords:

Zero-tolerance
School resource officer
school-to-prison pipeline
restorative practices

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Committee Members:

Dana Mitra, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mimi Schaub, Committee Member
Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gollapalli, Madhuri

Title:

Characterizing Diseases using Genetic and Clinical variables: A Data Analytics Approach

Graduate Program:

Data Analytics (MS)

Keywords:

gene expression values
multinomial logistic regressio
k-means clustering
landmark genes
principal component analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Colin Neill, Program Head/Chair
Satish Mahadevan Srinivasan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Youakim Badr, Committee Member
Raghu Sangwan, Committee Member
Adrian Sorin Barb, Committee Member

Author:

Fonseca, Ana Caroline

Title:

A Longitudinal Investigation of Broiler Chickens' Microbiome Using High-Throughput Sequencing

Graduate Program:

Animal Science (MS)

Keywords:

Broiler
Probiotic
Essential oil
Microbiome
Performance.

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Committee Members:

Adele Turzillo, Program Head/Chair
Erika Ganda, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Boney, Committee Member
Alberto Gino Lorenzoni Calvo, Committee Member
Francisco Dini Andreote, Committee Member

Author:

Faux-Dugan, Logan

Title:

Relationship between Achilles Tendon Moment Arm and Plantarflexor Muscle Architecture

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology (MS)

Keywords:

Achilles tendon moment arm
Plantarflexors
Muscle Architecture
Regression Analysis
Ultrasonography
3D Ultrasonography
Motion Capture System

File:

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Committee Members:

Jonathan Dingwell, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Stephen Piazza, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonas Rubenson, Committee Member
John Henry Challis, Committee Member

Author:

Gadi, Moad

Title:

Evaluating BIM Execution Planning Elements and Their Alignment to International Information Management Standards

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Building Information Modeling (BIM)
BIM Execution Plan (BEP)
BEP Elements
BIM Standards
ISO 19650

File:

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Committee Members:

Julian Wang, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
John Messner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rob Leicht, Committee Member
Yuqing Hu, Committee Member

Author:

Felins, Michael

Title:

Biasing Distance and Heterogeneous Solution Effects in Liquid Gated Graphene Field Effect Transistors

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Liquid gating
Graphene
Biosensor
FET

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Saptarshi Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Sahin K Ozdemir, Committee Member

Author:

Smallcomb, Molly

Title:

Focused ultrasound therapy to treat tendinopathies

Graduate Program:

Acoustics (PHD)

Keywords:

focused ultrasound
therapeutic ultrasound
tendon
tendinopathy
histotripsy
mechanical fractionation
microdamage
dry needling

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Committee Members:

Christopher Kube, Major Field Member
Meghan Vidt, Outside Unit & Field Member
Julianna Simon, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yun Jing, Major Field Member
Andrew Barnard, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Singerman, Paul

Title:

Application of Language and Symbolic Dynamics for Radar Functionality Optimization

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

radar
maneuver detection
target tracking
language
optimization
symbolic dynamics
information overload
information elasticity
fully adaptive radar
cognitive radar

File:

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Committee Members:

Gregory Huff, Major Field Member
Yan Li, Major Field Member
Ram Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Muralidhar Rangaswamy, Special Member
Asok Ray, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ryle, Ashley Danielle

Title:

Profitable Examples: Grammatical and Rhetorical Voices in Early Modern Women's Life-writing

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

Women's literature
life-writing
early modern English literature
feminist formalism
voice
early modern Women's literature
Renaissance Women's literature
grammar
rhetoric

File:

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Committee Members:

Patrick Cheney, Major Field Member
Caroline Eckhardt, Outside Unit & Field Member
Marcy North, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Loewenstein, Major Field Member
Janet Wynne Lyon, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Claire Colebrook, Major Field Member

Author:

Schwob, Natalie

Title:

Sequencing Biases in Langauge and Motor Planning: A Comparative Study of Humans And Bonobos

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

sequencing
planning
evolution
motor planinng
language planning
domain general
bonobos

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Committee Members:

Elisabeth Karuza, Major Field Member
Daniel Weiss, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rick Gilmore, Major Field Member
Navin Viswanathan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Siapoutis, Nikolas

Title:

Shrinkage Estimation for the Diagonal Multivariate Natural Exponential Families

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

shrinkage estimators
diagonal multivariate natural exponential families
unbiased estimate of risk
semi-parametrics
sampling methods

File:

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Committee Members:

Donald Richards, Dissertation Advisor
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alexei Novikov, Outside Unit & Field Member
Matthew Reimherr, Major Field Member
Ephraim Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Schmid, Franziska

Title:

Essays on Stakeholder Networks in Marketing

Graduate Program:

Business Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

social networks
business-to-business sales
community detection
social media

File:

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Committee Members:

J. Andrew Petersen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stefan Wuyts, Major Field Member
Arvind Rangaswamy, Major Field Member
Brent Ambrose, Program Head/Chair
Bruce Desmarais, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member

Author:

Seol, Seokbong

Title:

Formal exponential maps and Hochschild cohomology associated with dg manifolds

Graduate Program:

Mathematics (PHD)

Keywords:

differential graded manifolds
Hochschild cohomology
Atiyah class
homotopy Lie algebras
Duflo theorem

File:

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Committee Members:

Ping Xu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mathieu Stienon, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nigel Higson, Major Field Member
Adrian Ocneanu, Major Field Member
Martin Bojowald, Outside Unit & Field Member
Alexei Novikov, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Ruggiero, Cara

Title:

Learned Experience and Resource Dilution: A Family Systems Approach Using Mixed Methods to Understand Sibling Feeding

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Responsive feeding
siblings
family systems
mixed methods
infancy
toddlerhood

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Committee Members:

Stephen Kodish, Major Field Member
Jennifer Williams, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kathleen Keller, Major Field Member
Gregory Shearer, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Susan McHale, Outside Unit & Minor Member
Damon Jones, Outside Field Member

Author:

Schneider, Haley Elizabeth

Title:

Public Futures: The Rhetorics of Sustainability and Survival in Philadelphia, 2007 - 2021

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Publics
futurity
environment
urban planning
climate change
rhetoric

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Committee Members:

Rosa Eberly, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amy Allen, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bradford Vivian, Major Field Member
Stephen Browne, Major Field Member
Andrew High, Program Head/Chair
Joshua Barnett, Major Field Member

Author:

Shields, Lauren

Title:

Strain, Security Measures, and Trends in Postsecondary Aspirations for High School Students

Graduate Program:

School Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

high school
strain
school security
postsecondary aspirations
security measures
postsecondary
aspirations

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Committee Members:

Cristin Hall, Major Field Member
Jennifer Frank, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Wendy Coduti, Outside Field Member
Cynthia Pellock, Outside Unit Member
James Diperna, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tan, Shyuan Ching

Title:

Application of Life Purpose in Addressing Health Disparities and Minorities Health

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

Life purpose
aging-varying cognitive health
high-effort coping
functional health
poverty and health
racial minority adults
low SES adults

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Committee Members:

David Almeida, Major Field Member
Alyssa Gamaldo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jennifer Graham-Engeland, Outside Unit & Field Member
Zita Oravecz, Major Field Member
Charles Geier, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Taleb, Mariam

Title:

Fungal community ecology of Lycorma delicatula in Pennsylvania, and the social-ecology of biological invasion risk

Graduate Program:

Entomology (PHD)

Keywords:

invasion ecology
environmental sociology
spotted lanternfly
mycology
unequal exchange
biological invasion
agroecology

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Committee Members:

Edwin Rajotte, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Leif Jensen, Outside Unit & Field Member
Julie Urban, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tanya Renner, Major Field Member
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Swaminathan, Siddharth

Title:

Pro-active and re-active dispatch of energy flexible buildings using peer-to-peer markets for building-to-grid integration

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Model predictive controls
building-to-grid integration
non-wires alternative
peer-to-peer markets
microgrid sizing
energy flexible buildings

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Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Outside Field Member
Greg Pavlak, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
James Freihaut, Major Field Member
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Outside Unit Member
Julian Wang, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Tan, Tianxiang

Title:

Deep learning on Mobile Devices with Neural Processing Units

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Mobile computing
Edge computing
Deep Learning

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Committee Members:

Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Major Field Member
Suhang Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mahanth Gowda, Major Field Member
Guohong Cao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Taylor, Neil

Title:

Sterile Filtration Of Large Particle Therapeutics - New Insights Using A Live Attenuated Viral Vaccine And A Model Nanoparticle Suspension

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Sterile Filtration
Live Attenuated Viral Vaccine
Nanoparticles
Pore Size Distribution
Fouling
Prefiltration

File:

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Committee Members:

Andrew Zydney, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
William Hancock, Outside Unit & Field Member
Themis Matsoukas, Major Field Member
Stephanie Velegol, Major Field Member
Seong H. Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Tebyanian, Nastaran

Title:

Green Infrastructure Placement under Deep Uncertainty

Graduate Program:

Architecture (PHD)

Keywords:

Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty
Green Infrastructure
Spatial Planning
Climate Change

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Committee Members:

Klaus Keller, Outside Unit Member
Lisa Iulo, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Guido Cervone, Outside Field Member
Hong Wu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Loukas Kalisperis, Major Field Member
Ute Poerschke, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Suzuki, Yuta

Title:

Essays on Dynamic Spatial Economics

Graduate Program:

Economics (PHD)

Keywords:

Economic Geography
Spatial Economics
Population Aging
Migration
Labor Dynamics
Capital Dynamics
Internal Trade
Distributional Effects
General Equilibrium

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Committee Members:

Karen Fisher-Vanden, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jonathan Eaton, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Yeaple, Major Field Member
Marc Albert Henry, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Fernando Parro, Major Field Member
Kala Krishna, Major Field Member

Author:

Tao, Jun

Title:

New advances in structure learning of graphical models

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

graphical model
statistical learning

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Committee Members:

Ephraim Mont Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Lingzhou Xue, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Antonio Blanca, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bing Li, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Major Field Member

Author:

Tendulkar, Mohit Milind

Title:

Zinc Oxide Thin-Film Devices for Space Exploration

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

ZnO
Zinc oxide
TFT
thin film transistor
curved substrate lithography
trilateral liftoff
trilateral tfts
adjustable x-ray optics
lynx mission
zno strain sensor
zno temperature sensor

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Committee Members:

Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tom Jackson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rongming Chu, Major Field Member
Mehdi Kiani, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Vaziri Hassas, Behzad

Title:

Process development for selective separation of critical elements from secondary resources

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Critical Elements
Rare Earth Elements
Secondary Resources
Acid Mine Drainage
Staged Precipitation

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Committee Members:

William Burgos, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sarma Pisupati, Major Field Member
Mohammad Rezaee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Athanasios Karamalidis, Major Field Member
Mort Webster, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Wang, Chu

Title:

Modeling Heat Transfer in Saturated Soil

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Heat transfer
Thermal conductivity
Thermal dispersion
Effective porosity
Thermal nonequilibrium
Numerical modeling
Layered soil
Local thermal equilibrium

File:

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Committee Members:

Yuan Xuan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Patrick Fox, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tong Qiu, Major Field Member
Ming Xiao, Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Pinlei Chen, Minor Field Member

Author:

Waddick, Aubrey

Title:

Morality, Legitimacy, and Donors: Recipient Perspectives of Foreign Aid

Graduate Program:

Political Science (PHD)

Keywords:

international political economy
foreign aid
aid recipient
aid recipients
opinion research
survey experiments
Chinese foreign aid
new donors
authoritarian donors

File:

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Committee Members:

Joseph Wright, Major Field Member
Bee Roberts, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bumba Mukherjee, Major Field Member
Boliang Zhu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Michael J Nelson, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Wang, Jialing

Title:

Employability of International Master's Returnees

Graduate Program:

Higher Education (DED)

Keywords:

international students
employability
international higher education
gender equity
international mobility

File:

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Committee Members:

Kelly Rosinger, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Karly Ford, Major Field Member
Celeste Kinginger, Outside Unit & Field Member
Gerald K Letendre, Program Head/Chair
John Cheslock, Major Field Member

Author:

Vazquez, Lauren C

Title:

Children's Neural Processing of Affective Prosody: Speaker and Emotion Effects

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

: affective prosody
speaker familiarity
affective prosody
speaker familiarity

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Committee Members:

Pamela Cole, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Wilson, Major Field Member
Suzy Scherf, Major Field Member
Charles Geier, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wang, Rui

Title:

ESSAYS IN SEMIPARAMETRIC IDENTIFICATION AND ESTIMATION

Graduate Program:

Economics (PHD)

Keywords:

Identification
Estimation
Semiparametric
Treatment Effects
Misreporting
Substitution Patterns

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Committee Members:

Keisuke Hirano, Major Field Member
Joris Pinkse, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sung Jae Jun, Co-Chair of Committee
Runze Li, Outside Unit & Field Member
Marc Albert Henry, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Walter, Ashley

Title:

"We didn't do it, and we won't do it again": Class-action sex discrimination lawsuits at news organizations in the 1970s

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications (PHD)

Keywords:

journalism history
women's labor
media
mass communications
feminist history

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Committee Members:

Katherine Maich, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Russell Frank, Major Field Member
James Risley, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephanie Madden, Major Field Member
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Walsh, Shannon

Title:

Transitioning to College During a Pandemic: Examining the Contributions of Activities, Belonging, and Personal Experiences to First-Year Outcomes

Graduate Program:

School Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

first-year students
retention
college adjustment
pandemic
transition

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Committee Members:

James Diperna, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Barbara Schaefer, Major Field Member
David Guthrie, Outside Unit & Field Member
Shirley Woika, Major Field Member
James Diperna, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Van Kuppeveld, Martijn

Title:

Nonassociative Quantum Mechanics

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Nonassociative
Quantum Mechanics
Magnetic Monopoles

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Committee Members:

Murat Gunaydin, Major Field Member
Ping Xu, Outside Unit Member
Nigel Higson, Outside Field Member
Martin Bojowald, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yoshioka, Natalie

Title:

G-Protein Coupled Receptor Kinase 2: A Novel Regulator of Postnatal Skeletal Development

Graduate Program:

Anatomy (PHD)

Keywords:

skeletal development
endochondral ossification
PTHrP-IHH feedback loop
GRK2

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Committee Members:

Fadia Kamal, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Patricia Mclaughlin, Major Field Member
James Broach, Major Field Member
Amanda Nelson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Irina Elcheva, Major Field Member
Patricia Mclaughlin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yeon, Ji Hwan

Title:

THE IMPACT OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ON FIRM PERFORMANCE: DOES THE LIFE CYCLE STAGE OF A FIRM AND ITS CORPORATE GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE MATTER?

Graduate Program:

Hospitality Management (PHD)

Keywords:

Corporate Life Cycle
Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Financial Performance
Corporate Governance

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Committee Members:

Donna Quadri-Felitti, Program Head/Chair
Heyao Yu, Major Field Member
Phillip Jolly, Major Field Member
Seoki Lee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Judd Michael, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Xing, Guangchi

Title:

Deciphering seismic attenuation: fractal description, wavefield modeling and Q full waveform inversion

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

seismic attenuation
rock physics
fractal
forward modeling
wave propagation
full waveform inversion
critical zone

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Committee Members:

Charles Ammon, Major Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tieyuan Zhu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair
Andrew Nyblade, Major Field Member