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Author:

Okita, Noriaki

Title:

Development of a novel foot slip sensor algorithm

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

slip sensor
gait cycle detection
walking robot
stick-slip
stochastic state estimation
anomaly detection

File:

Download Nori_Okita_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Stephen Jacob Piazza, Committee Member
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Jason Zachary Moore, Committee Member

Author:

Malys, Tyler

Title:

Microbiome and Epigenetics: Two Keys to the development of Personalized Medicine

Graduate Program:

Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

Microbiome
Epigenetics
Personalized Medicine
Agriculture
Pathogen Identification
Erythropoiesis
Pakistan
Gene Expression

File:

Download Tyler_draft9April24.pdf

Committee Members:

Cooduvalli S Shashikant, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ross Cameron Hardison, Committee Member
Michael Mugo Mwangi, Committee Member
Matam Vijay Kumar, Committee Member
Peter John Hudson, Special Member

Author:

Black, Nyesha Cheyenne

Title:

The Enduring Legacy of Slavery: a Historical Examination of Black-white Mortality Disparities

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Mortality Disparities
Slavery
Health
Stratification
Place

File:

Download 1-NCBlack_Dissertation_PennState_0406.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Matthews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Augustus Matthews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Marianne Messersmith Hillemeier, Committee Member
Molly Martin, Committee Member
Shedra Amy Snipes, Committee Member

Author:

Sterner, Glenn Earl

Title:

An Examination of Community Organizing Processes to Assess the Potential for Increasing Innovation in Practice

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

community development
rural sociology
community engagement
community organizing
innovation
social networks

File:

Download Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Diane Krantz Mclaughlin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Theodore Roberts Alter, Committee Member
Kathryn Jo Brasier, Committee Member
Leland Luther Glenna, Special Member
Thomas S Lyons, Special Member

Author:

Ou, Lu

Title:

An Examination of Initial Condition Specification in Autoregressive Latent Trajectory Models

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

Autoregressive latent trajectory model
Initial condition specification
Likelihood ratio test

File:

Download Lu_Ou-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sy Miin Chow, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Cm Molenaar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hayden, Jennifer Ann

Title:

The Social Life of Soil

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

Soil Health
Agriculture
U.S.
Chesapeake Bay
Qualitative
Focus Groups
Case Study
Policy
Actor Network Theory
Geography

File:

Download HAYDEN_The_Social_Life_Of_Soil.pdf

Committee Members:

Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cynthia Clare Hinrichs, Committee Member
Leland Luther Glenna, Committee Member
Mary Ellen Barbercheck, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yu

Title:

discrete distribution clustering in big data and a method for storm prediction leveraging large historical archives

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

discrete distribution
clustering
parallel computing
image annotation
protein clustering
storm prediction

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

James Z Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jia Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Z Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jia Li, Committee Member
C Lee Giles, Committee Member
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Committee Member
Chris Eliot Forest, Committee Member

Author:

Qvarnstrom, Marie Yvonne

Title:

The Impact of Societal Changes and Attitudes on the Maintenance and Shift of Pennsylvania German among the Old Order Amish in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN
LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE
SHIFT
ATTITUDE
SOCIOECONOMIC
SOCIOCULTURAL CHANGES / LANCASTER COUNTY

File:

Download Dissertation_-_Committee_Copy_Sept._14_2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Barry Richard Page Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carrie Neal Jackson, Committee Member
Michael Travis Putnam, Committee Member
John Lipski, Committee Member

Author:

He, Siqiong

Title:

modeling photographic composition via triangles

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Aesthetics
photographic composition
triangle detection

File:

Download 1-mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James Z Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Gordin, Mikhail

Title:

Surface Control in Pursuit of Next-generation Batteries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

battery
energy storage
lithium-ion
lithium-sulfur
sodium-ion
electrolyte
solid-electrolyte interphase
surface analysis

File:

Download Mikhail_L_Gordin_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Donghai Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chao Yang Wang, Committee Member
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
Sulin Zhang, Committee Member