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Author:

Boz, Ilker

Title:

CHARACTERIZATION OF ASPHALT MIXTURES AND RAP BINDER PROPERTIES THROUGH IMPACT RESONANCE TEST

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Impact Resonance Test
Resonant Frequency
Asphalt Concrete
RAP
Modulus
Characterization

File:

Download IlkerBoz_PhDDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mansour Solaimanian, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mansour Solaimanian, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Durland Laurence Shumway, Outside Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Outside Member

Author:

Saboe, Patrick Owen

Title:

Wiring enzymes to electrodes using biomimetic membranes

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Bio-inspired membranes for energy and the environment

File:

Download P-Saboe_PhD-Dissertation_10-17-2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Manish Kumar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Manish Kumar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Phillip E Savage, Committee Member
John H Golbeck, Outside Member

Author:

ZHANG, YU

Title:

FULLY-COUPLED HYDROLOGICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSES FOR MODELING LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

landscape evolution
Hydrological processes
Erosion and deposition
groundwater seepage
numerical modeling

File:

Download Yu_Zhang_s_dissertation_submit_to_graduate_school.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher J Duffy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Chaopeng Shen, Committee Member
Rudy Slingerland, Outside Member

Author:

Tsen, Darwin Han-Lin

Title:

Postsocialist Collectivities: Institutions, Aesthetics, Politics in the Sinophone Novel

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature

Keywords:

China
Postsocialism
Postcolonialism
Sinophone
novel
Taiwan
Malaysia
institutions
anarchism
critical theory
collective
Ｍarxism
Occupy
modern literature

File:

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Committee Members:

Eric Robert Hayot, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shuang Shen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn Alexia Merkel-Hess Mcdonald, Committee Member
Jonathan Eran Abel, Committee Member
Tina Chen Goudie, Outside Member

Author:

Kioumarsi, Niloufar

Title:

MONTAGE AND ARCHITECTURE: A METHOD FOR TEMPORAL DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Architecture

Keywords:

Architecture
Time
Temporal design
Design method
Montage

File:

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Committee Members:

Felecia Davis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel E Willis, Committee Member
Alexandra Staub, Committee Member

Author:

Kee, J. Celeste

Title:

Unpacking Post-Katrina Student Identities Through Arts-Based Inquiry

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

arts-based research
art education
Hurricane Katrina
student identity
theory of performativity
community arts
African diaspora art
culturally relevant art education

File:

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Committee Members:

Christine M. Thompson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine M Thompson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Booker Stephen Carpenter II, Committee Member
Charles Richard Garoian, Committee Member
Kathleen Mary Collins, Outside Member

Author:

Li, Zifeng

Title:

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS OF THE POLYMER/WATER INTERFACES IN LATEX PAINT

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

atomistic molecular dynamics simulations
acrylic latex paint
electrical double layer
surfactant surface binding
nanoparticle
polymer water interface

File:

Download Zifeng_Li_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott Thomas Milner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Thomas Milner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member
Janna Kay Maranas, Committee Member
Ralph H Colby, Outside Member
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Lim, Dooyoung

Title:

THE EFFECTS OF MEDICARE PART D ON NON-PROPER USE OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS IN ELDERLY MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES

Graduate Program:

Health Policy and Administration

Keywords:

Medicare Part D
Non-Proper Use of Prescription Drugs
Elderly Medicare beneficiaries
Beers Criteria
Off-label drug use
Inappropriate drug use

File:

Download DLim_PhD_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeah Jung, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeah Jung, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Moran, Committee Member
Denis G. Shea, Committee Member
Li Wang, Outside Member

Author:

Cannon, Tenille

Title:

Orientations toward Mathematical Processes of Prospective Secondary Mathematics Teachers as Related to Work with Tasks

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

mathematical tasks
mathematical processes
discovery
prospective teachers
teacher beliefs

File:

Download Cannon_Dissertation_2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Rose Mary Zbiek, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rose Mary Zbiek, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edith Frances Arbaugh, Committee Member
Mary Kathleen Heid, Committee Member
Andrew Leonard Belmonte, Outside Member
Gwendolyn Monica Lloyd, Committee Member

Author:

Ferlez, Bryan Henry

Title:

Photochemical Electron Transfer in Homodimeric Type I Photosynthetic Reaction Centers

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

photosynthesis
reaction center
heliobacteria

File:

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Committee Members:

John H Golbeck, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John H Golbeck, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald Ashley Bryant, Committee Member
Carsten Krebs, Committee Member
Manish Kumar, Outside Member
B. Tracy Nixon, Committee Member

Author:

Tilger, Lauren Elizabeth

Title:

Pratiques d'Ecriture Transgenre: Writing the Transgender Body in Four Nineteenth Century Novels

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

transgender
gender studies
French literature
nineteenth century
LGBTQ

File:

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Committee Members:

Benedicte Marie-Christine Monicat, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benedicte Marie-Christine Monicat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jean-Claude Vuillemin, Committee Member
Jennifer Boittin, Committee Member
Maria Rosa Truglio, Outside Member

Author:

Cheng, Baofeng

Title:

HELICOPTER ROTOR NOISE INVESTIGATION DURING ICE ACCRETION

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Helicopter Rotor Noise; Rotor Broadband Noise; Helicopter Ice Accretion; Surface Roughness; Trailing Edge Noise

File:

Download Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth S. Brentner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth S. Brentner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip J. Morris, Committee Member
Dennis K. McLaughlin, Committee Member
Victor W. Sparrow, Outside Member

Author:

Walters, Karim Andre

Title:

PHOTOSYSTEM I AS A LIGHT INDUCED ELECTRON PUMP FOR DIRECT ENZYME CATALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Photosynthesis
Ferredoxin
Sulfite Reductase

File:

Download Karim_Walters_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. John Golbeck, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. John Golbeck, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Squire Booker, Committee Member
Dr. Christine Keating, Committee Member
Dr. Wayne Curtis, Outside Member

Author:

Mueller, Thomas J

Title:

Modeling Metabolism and Regulation to Facilitate Strain Characterization and Design

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Optimization
Cyanobacteria
Systems Biology
Computational Biology
Metabolic Modeling

File:

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Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Phillip E Savage, Committee Member
Manish Kumar, Committee Member
James Gregory Ferry, Outside Member

Author:

Ting, Caitlin Yeh-Shan

Title:

Syntactic processing in language and music: Behavioral and electrophysiological studies

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

psycholinguistics
syntactic processing
music cognition
bilingualism
event-related potentials

File:

Download Ting_Doctoral_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Janet van Hell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janet van Hell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Judith Kroll, Committee Member
Suzy Scherf, Committee Member
Carrie Jackson, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Chu

Title:

PREDICTION OF CONSOLIDATION TIMES FOR SHEAR STRENGTH TESTING OF GEOSYNTHETIC CLAY LINERS USING CS2 MODEL

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Geosynthetic clay liner
consolidation
shear strength testing

File:

Download Master_Thesis_Chu_Wang_Final_Version.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Joseph Fox, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Ming Xiao, Committee Member

Author:

Iavorivska, Lidiia

Title:

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER IN ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION: INPUTS TO WATERSHEDS AND INFLUENCES OF CLIMATE

Graduate Program:

Forest Resources

Keywords:

Atmospheric deposition
Organic carbon
Precipitation chemistry
Carbon cycling
Storm event
Nutrient cycling

File:

Download Dissertation_Final_Iavorivska.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth Weeks Boyer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Weeks Boyer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David R. DeWalle, Committee Member
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Committee Member
Jose Dolores Fuentes, Outside Member

Author:

Cases, Laurent Jean

Title:

Remaking Provincial Administration: Dioceses, Vicarii and Social Change in Late Antiquity (283-395)

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

Roman History
Late Antiquity
Vicarius
Administration
Roman Bureaucracy

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael Kulikowski, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Wheeler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Bennett Restall, Committee Member
Kathryn Elizabeth Salzer, Committee Member
Kenneth Gale Hirth, Outside Member

Author:

Acciai, Francesco

Title:

Socioeconomic Status and Health in Middle and Late Life: A New Look at an Old Issue

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Social inequalities in health
Health disparities
Socioeconomic status
SES
Chronic conditions
Chronic diseases
Elderly
Late life
SHARE
Europe
Aging
Health trajectories
Longitudinal analysis
Attrition
Sample selection

File:

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Committee Members:

Melissa Hardy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melissa Hardy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Glenn A Firebaugh, Committee Member
Steven Andrew Haas, Committee Member
Leif Jensen, Outside Member

Author:

Mueller, Joel Thomas

Title:

Conflict, Specialization, and Place Attachment Among North American Rock Climbers

Graduate Program:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management

Keywords:

Outdoor Recreation
Climbing
Rock Climbing
Place Attachment
Specialization
Conflict
Structural Equation Modeling
Recreation
Place Dependence

File:

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Committee Members:

Alan R Graefe, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derrick Taff, Committee Member
Andrew Justin Mowen, Committee Member

Author:

Ramos Riquelme, Miguel Alejandro

Title:

A DIACHRONIC VARIATIONIST APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF SUBJECT PRONOUN EXPRESSION IN SPANISH: FIRST-PERSON SINGULAR

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

Subject expression
Spanish
Variation
Diachrony

File:

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Committee Members:

Rena Torres Cacoullos, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen Lynn Miller, Committee Member
Marianna Nadeu Rota, Committee Member
B. Richard Page, Outside Member

Author:

Li, Ruowang

Title:

USING LARGE-SCALE GENOMICS DATA TO UNDERSTAND THE GENETIC BASIS OF COMPLEX TRAITS

Graduate Program:

Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

Bioinformatics
Genomics
Statistics
Data Integration
Bayesian Network
Epistasis

File:

Download Ruowang_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Marylyn Deriggi Ritchie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marylyn Deriggi Ritchie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ross Cameron Hardison, Committee Member
Shaun A Mahony, Committee Member
Le Bao, Outside Member

Author:

Pulido Barrios, Hannier

Title:

EFFECTS OF BENEFICIAL MICROBES ON PLANT-VIRUS-VECTOR INTERACTIONS INVOLVING SOYBEAN

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Beneficial rhizobacteria
multi-trophic interactions
parasitoid wasps
metabolomics
transcriptomics
VOCs
plant volatiles
herbivory

File:

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Committee Members:

Mark Mescher, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Stephenson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Consuelo de Moraes, Committee Member
John Frazier Tooker, Committee Member
Cristina Rosa, Outside Member
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member

Author:

Park, Joonho Daniel

Title:

Steganographic sonar

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

sonar
signal processing
tracking
steganography
information theory
detection
estimation
motion modeling
sound modeling
waveform design

File:

Download Park-Dissertation-Steganographic_Sonar.pdf

Committee Members:

John F. Doherty, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John F. Doherty, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
David M. Jenkins, Committee Member
Lee Culver, Outside Member

Author:

Ensor, Brendan Melvin

Title:

THE NATURE OF UNSTABLE OXIDE GROWTH IN ZIRCONIUM AND ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

zirconium
zirconium alloy
fuel cladding
corrosion
synchrotron radiation
X-ray diffraction
XANES
neutron irradiated
Zircaloy-4
hydrogen
breakaway oxidation
strain
stress
plastic deformation
oxide growth
X-ray fluorescence
Raman spectroscopy
tetragonal fraction
grain size

File:

Download Brendan_Ensor_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Arthur Thompson Motta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Tonks, Committee Member
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Outside Member
Ashley Lucente, Special Member
John Seidensticker, Special Member

Author:

Chen, Yueying

Title:

IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PATHOGEN EFFECTOR- HOST TARGET INTERACTIONS INVOLVED IN RICE BLAST DISEASE

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology

Keywords:

Rice Blast disease
Effectors
plant immunity
rice
plant development
Disease regulator

File:

Download Chen_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yinong Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yinong Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy W Mcnellis, Committee Member
Seogchan Kang, Committee Member
Surinder Chopra, Outside Member
Yanming Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Qiang

Title:

Autophagy and apoptosis in acute myeloid leukemia

Graduate Program:

Pharmacology

Keywords:

Bcl-2
Mcl-1
leukemia
autophagy
apoptosis
acute myeloid leukemia
small molecule inhibitors

File:

Download 2016-11-09_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Hong-Gang Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hong-Gang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer Xavier, Committee Member
Shantu Amin, Committee Member
Qing Yang, Outside Member

Author:

Kushner, Douglas Ian

Title:

THIN FILM DYNAMICS OF ION-CONTAINING POLYMERS UNDER CONFINEMENT

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Thin Polymer Films
Nafion
Water Sorption
Fuel Cells
Spectroscopic Ellipsometry
Quartz Crystal Microbalance

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael Anthony Hickner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ralph H Colby, Committee Member
Evangelos Manias, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Outside Member

Author:

Sun, Yuqiong

Title:

PROTECTING IAAS CLOUDS THROUGH CONTROL OF CLOUD SERVICES

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Cloud Security
Mandatory Access Control
Information Flow Control
Cloud Service Vulnerability

File:

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Committee Members:

Trent R. Jaeger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Trent R. Jaeger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick D. Mcdaniel, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
C. Lee Giles, Outside Member
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Wilkie, Sarah Kristine

Title:

THE MEDIATING EFFECT OF DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS AMONG INDIVIDUALS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES RISK WHO DO NOT PERCIEVE RISK

Graduate Program:

Health Policy and Administration

Keywords:

type 2 diabetes; depression; risk perception

File:

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Committee Members:

Patricia Miranda, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rhonda BeLue, Committee Member
Marianne M. Hillemeier, Committee Member

Author:

Cole, Julia A

Title:

A Higher-Order Free-Wake Method for Aerodynamic Performance Prediction of Propeller-Wing Systems

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Aerodynamic analysis
free-wake method
propeller-wing interaction

File:

Download jcole_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark David Maughmer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member
Gul Kremer, Outside Member
Goetz Bramesfeld, Special Member

Author:

May, Emily M.

Title:

How Does the Neighborhood "Come through the Door?" Neighborhood Disadvantage and the Home Environment for Preschoolers

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

poverty
early childhood
neighborhood
concentrated disadvantage
residential instability
neighborhood disorder
depression
parenting
social support

File:

Download Thesis_EMM_FINAL_2016-11-18.pdf

Committee Members:

Sandra T Azar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Martha Ellen Wadsworth, Committee Member
Dawn Paula Witherspoon, Committee Member

Author:

sun, jinquan

Title:

A NOVEL SMALL MOLECULE DNA INTERCALATOR PZ1225 IN CANCER CELL APOPTOSIS AND A HISTONE MODIFIER PAD4 IN MACROPHAGE EXTRACELLULAR TRAP FORMATION

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

DNA damage
DNA intercalator
small molecule
MAPK
mTOR
apoptosis
macrophage
extracellular traps
PAD4
citrullination
stroke

File:

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Committee Members:

Yanming Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhi-Chun Lai, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Douglas Cavener, Committee Member
Lu Bai, Committee Member
Robert Paulson, Outside Member

Author:

Adams, Nancy Ellen

Title:

Dialog About Psychosocial Issues in Problem-Based Learning Sessions in Medical Education

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

problem-based learning (PBL)
psychosocial aspects of health care
cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT)
dialog
medical students

File:

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward W Taylor, Committee Member
Carol Whitfield, Committee Member
Gregory Alan Crawford, Outside Member

Author:

Li, Shu

Title:

BIOCHEMICAL AND FUNCTIONAL STUDIES OF S-RNASE-BASED SELF-INCOMPATIBILITY IN PETUNIA INFLATA

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Self-incompatibility
S-Locus F-box proteins
SCF complexes
Mass Spectrometry
Co-immunoprecipitation
Petunia inflata

File:

Download Shu_Li_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Teh-Hui Kao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Teh-Hui Kao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gabriele Brigitte Monshausen, Committee Member
Dawn S Luthe, Committee Member
Michael Axtell, Outside Member

Author:

Ersahin, Ahmet

Title:

AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK APPROACH FOR EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF CYCLIC STEAM INJECTION IN NATURALLY FRACTURED HEAVY OIL RESERVOIRS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Artificial Neural Network
cyclic steam injection
cyclic steam stimulation
ann
csi
css
thermal eor

File:

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Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yilin Wang, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member

Author:

Wong, Flory

Title:

Catalytic Nanomotors and Micropump Systems Utilizing Alternate Fuels

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

nanomotors
micropumps
electrophoretic
electrokinetic
active colloids
self-electrophoresis
density-driven flows
self-powered

File:

Download FWong_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ayusman Sen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ayusman Sen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Outside Member

Author:

Kamrava, Sepideh

Title:

Resource Procurement in Cloud Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

Cloud Computing
Optimization
Resource Procurement
Reserved instances

File:

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Committee Members:

Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member

Author:

Schaffer, Jacob Eric

Title:

Interlimb Differences in Coordination of Unsupported Reaching Movements

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology

Keywords:

Handedness
Brain lateralization
Reaching

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert L Sainburg, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Latash, Committee Member
John Henry Challis, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Yuxi

Title:

Integration of Product Design and Supply Chain Performance for Multi-Market Conditions

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

product design
supply chain
design for assembly
design for profit
mixed integer programming

File:

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Committee Members:

Gul Okudan Kremer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jianhua Chen, Committee Member
Xinli Wu, Committee Member

Author:

Park, Soohyun

Title:

Development of Proteoliposome- and Nanowell-based Platforms to Assess P-glycoprotein Transport Activity

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Giant liposome
P-glycoprotein
Multidrug resistance
Pore-spanning bilayer

File:

Download SPark_doctoral_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sheereen Majd, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sheereen Majd, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Committee Member
Manish Kumar, Outside Member
William O Hancock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Liu, Ying

Title:

Mechanistic studies on Bif-1 function in obesity and Atg9 trafficking

Graduate Program:

Pharmacology

Keywords:

Bif-1
Atg9
obesity
autophagy
lipid metabolism
lipophagy

File:

Download Ying_Liu_Ph.D._Dissertation_Final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Hong-Gang Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hong-Gang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Bernard Mailman, Committee Member
Thomas E Spratt, Committee Member
Yoshinori Takahashi, Outside Member
Yuguang (Roger) Shi, Outside Member

Author:

Mckee, Amalie Elena

Title:

Modelling Management for the Maintenance of Measles Elimination

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

measles
routine immunization
vaccine policy
disease elimination
mathematical models
modelling management

File:

Download McKee_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Katriona Shea, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Fraser Read, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Joseph Ferrari, Committee Member
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member
Rachel Annette Smith, Outside Member

Author:

Zhu, Yizhi

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF FRAGILITY INFORMATION FOR BUILDING LIGHT-FRAME AND ENVELOPE SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMANCE-BASED SEISMIC DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

fragility
SIPs
light-frame
building envelope
performance-based seismic design

File:

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Committee Members:

Ali M Memari, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aly Marei Said, Committee Member
Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Committee Member

Author:

Hakoda, Christopher Nobuo

Title:

A Tool and a Process for Finding a Damage Feature for Guided Waves that is Independent of Temperature

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Guided Waves
SAFE method
PVDF
Temperature

File:

Download ChristopherHakoda-Thesis_Dec_07_2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Lawrence Rose, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member

Author:

Jiang, Dongyun

Title:

A novel mouse model with neuroligin-2 R215H mutation for the study of psychiatric disorders

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

neuroligin 2
R215H mutation
schizophrenia
psychiatric disorders
GABAergic deficits

File:

Download PS-Thesis-Dongyun_Jiang.pdf

Committee Members:

Gong Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gong Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard Luscher, Committee Member
Yingwei Mao, Committee Member
Nanyin Zhang, Outside Member
Aimin Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Tack, Jonsimon

Title:

Protect My Child, A New Paradigm in Parental Control

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Parental Control
Mobile Devices
Child Safety

File:

Download Jonsimon_Tack_Masters_Thesis_Protect_My_Child.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Committee Member

Author:

Sun, Mingyao

Title:

DIETARY COCOA (THEOBROMA CACAO) SUPPLEMENTATION IMPROVES OBESITY-RELATED FATTY LIVER DISEASE IN MICE

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

Cocoa
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Lipid metabolism
Mitochondrial biogenesis
Oxidative stress
Inflammation

File:

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Committee Members:

Joshua D. Lambert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joshua D. Lambert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jairam K.P. Vanamala, Committee Member
Gregory R. Ziegler, Committee Member
Gregory Shearer, Outside Member

Author:

Tanis Ozcelik, Arzu

Title:

Science Teacher Candidates Developing Professional Pedagogical Vision Around Ambitious Science Teaching Practices

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Preservice science teacher education
teacher classroom discourse
discourse analysis
ambitious science teaching
professional pedagogical vision

File:

Download Tanis-Ozcelik_Dissertation_December-2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott P Mcdonald, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott P Mcdonald, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gregory John Kelly, Committee Member
Julia Diane Plummer, Committee Member
Stephanie L Knight, Outside Member

Author:

Hu, Wenhui

Title:

THIRD-PARTY LIBRARY SECURITY MANAGEMENT FOR MOBILE APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Security
Third-party library
Isolation
Android
Integrity Verification
Policy

File:

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Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peng Liu, Committee Member
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Outside Member
Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Damien Octean, Special Member
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Sun, Xiaoran

Title:

MATERNAL AND PATERNAL RESOURCES ACROSS CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE AS PREDICTORS OF YOUNG ADULT ACHIEVEMENT

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

parental warmth
educational achievement
occupational achievement
childhood
adolescence
young adulthood
parental warmth
educational achievement
occupational achievement
childhood
adolescence
young adulthood

File:

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Committee Members:

Susan M. McHale, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eva S. Lefkowitz, Committee Member
Lisa Gatzke-Kopp, Committee Member

Author:

Kang, You Jung

Title:

MIMICKING AND TARGETING BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES USING GIANT PROTEOLIPOSOME AND POLYMERIC NANOPARTICLES

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Giant Unilamellar Vesicles
Hydrogel
Nanoparticles
Nanoprecipitation
Electroformation

File:

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Committee Members:

William O Hancock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William O Hancock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sheereen Majd, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Committee Member
James R Connor, Outside Member
Sheereen Majd, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Park, Hyewon

Title:

Learning lives of young adult North Korean defectors: Identity reconstruction within everyday life

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Keywords:

Young adult North Korean defectors
Identity reconstruction
Cultural-Historical Activity Theory
Adult education

File:

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Committee Members:

Fred M. Schied, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fred M. Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Davin J. Carr-Chellman, Committee Member
Adnan A Qayyum, Committee Member
Soo-Yong Byun, Outside Member

Author:

Cecala, Rebecca Karoline

Title:

CREATING A NARRATIVE OF LIFE: PUBLIC HEALTH THROUGH THE EYES OF DR. SARA JOSEPHINE BAKER

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Sara Josephine Baker
public health
infant welfare
new york city
history of science

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles David Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Simon Josef Bronner, Committee Member
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Anne Carver Rose, Outside Member

Author:

Yuan, Xiao

Title:

A Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Approach to Temporary Structures Monitoring

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Cyber-Physical Systems
Temporary Structural Monitoring
Virtual and Physical World
Bi-directional Information Communication

File:

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Committee Members:

Chimay J. Anumba, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chimay J. Anumba, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
M.Kevin Parfitt, Committee Member
Stephen Treado, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Member
M.Kevin Parfitt, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
M.Kevin Parfitt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Suchyta, Mark Edward

Title:

UNDERSTANDING SENSE OF PLACE IN PENNSYLVANIA’S MARCELLUS SHALE

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

Marcellus Shale
Sense of Place
Community Development
Natural Resources
Environmental Attitudes

File:

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Committee Members:

Kathryn J. Brasier, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Diane K. McLaughlin, Committee Member
Shannon M. Monnat, Committee Member

Author:

Matzko, Paul Edward

Title:

Creating the Silent Majority: State Censorship and the Radio Right in the 1960s

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

conservatism
New Right
New Christian Right
radio
broadcasting
Walter Reuther
National Council of Churches
United Church of Christ
John F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Federal Communications Commission
Internal Revenue Service
Carl McIntire
Billy James Hargis
H. L. Hunt
Fairness Doctrine
censorship
Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC
WLBT
WXUR
Everett C. Parker
E. William Henry
Ronald Reagan
Radio Right

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Committee Members:

Philip Jenkins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy S Greenberg, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Scott Cross, Committee Member
Philip Jenkins, Committee Member
Roger Kent Finke, Outside Member
Amy S Greenberg, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Janisch, Corey Thomas

Title:

Two Dimensional Materials: New Oppertunities in Photonics

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Two Dimensional Materials
Nonlinear Optics
Second Harmonic Generation
Sum Frequency Generation
Microresonators
Raman Sptectroscopy
Optical Resonators

File:

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Committee Members:

Zhiwen Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Iam-Choon Khoo, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Outside Member

Author:

Xi, Xiaoning

Title:

NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION OF PLANT CELL WALL ARCHITECTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AT MICRO AND NANO LEVEL

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Mechanical properties
Elastic modulus
Atomic force microscopy
Nanoindentation
Scanning acoustic microscopy
Plant cell wall

File:

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Committee Members:

Bernhard R.Tittmann, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernhard R.Tittmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sulin Zhang, Committee Member
Samia A. Suliman, Committee Member
Seong H. Kim, Outside Member

Author:

McKay, Vernecia Sharae

Title:

Numerical Simulation of Conditionally Turbulent Oscillatory Boundary Layers in Thermoacoustic Devices

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

intermittent turbulence
oscillatory flow
thermoacoustics

File:

Download VSMcKay-Dissertation_21Nov2016good.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Philip Morris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Kenneth Brentner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Lyle Long, Committee Member
Dr. Victory Sparrow, Committee Member
Dr. Anthony Atchley, Outside Member

Author:

Hsu, Vicki Chenyi

Title:

Dynamic Disclosures: Personal Writing, Relational Rhetoric, and Institutional Narratives

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Rhetoric
Composition
Diversity
Personal
Narratives
Multiculturalism

File:

Download Hsu_Dynamic_Disclosures_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Debra Hawhee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debra Hawhee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suresh Canagarajah, Committee Member
Ebony Coletu, Committee Member
Rosemary Jane Jolly, Outside Member

Author:

Kamel, Bishoy Samir

Title:

Homology, Homoplasy and The Holobiont: A Comparative Genomics Approach

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Biomineralization
Homology
Evolution
Genome
Metabolic Networks
Corals
Orbicella faveolata
Mollusks

File:

Download homology-homoplasy-holobiont__4_.pdf

Committee Members:

Monica Medina, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles Fisher, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roberto Iglesias-Prieto, Committee Member
Kazuhiko Kawasaki, Committee Member
Jennifer L. Macalady, Outside Member

Author:

Esposito, Tony

Title:

MODELING COLOR RENDITION AND COLOR DISCRIMINATION WITH AVERAGE FIDELITY, AVERAGE GAMUT, AND GAMUT SHAPE

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

color rendering
color discrimination
fidelity
gamut area
best-fit ellipse
transposition
Rdt
preference
naturalness
vividness
skin preference

File:

Download EspositoTony_PsuDoctoralDissertation2016_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Kevin William Houser, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kevin William Houser, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard George Mistrick, Committee Member
Stephen James Treado, Committee Member
James Landis Rosenberger, Outside Member

Author:

Kim, Sang-Ah

Title:

STRUCTURAL AND BIOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF LSD1/COREST HISTONE DEMETHYLASE COMPLEX ON THE NUCLEOSOME

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

nucleosome
chromatin
structural biology
gene regulation
histone demethylase
lsd1

File:

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Committee Members:

Song Tan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrey S. Krasilnikov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lu Bai, Committee Member
David S. Gilmour, Committee Member
Scott Showalter, Outside Member

Author:

Polim, Rico

Title:

Real-Time Supply Chain Analytics - Shipment Duration Prediction

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Logistics
Data Mining
Forecasting

File:

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Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hui Zhao, Committee Member
Robert Voight, Committee Member

Author:

Pino San Martin, Felipe Humberto

Title:

FACTORS THAT AFFECT RUMEN FERMENTATION AND TOTAL TRACT DIGESTION IN PRECISION FEEDING DAIRY HEIFERS

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

Heifers
precision feeding
starch
passage rate
digestibility
rumen fermentation

File:

Download Thesis_final3.pdf

Committee Members:

Arlyn Judson Heinrichs, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arlyn Judson Heinrichs, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chad Daniel Dechow, Committee Member
Kevin John Harvatine, Committee Member
Gregory Wayne Roth, Outside Member

Author:

Mcclain, Jonathan Michael

Title:

AN EXAMINATION OF THE CULTURAL VALIDITY OF THE COUNSELING CENTER ASSESSMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS-62

Graduate Program:

Counseling Psychology

Keywords:

CCAPS
Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Hayes, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathleen Bieschke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benjamin D Locke, Committee Member
Louis Georges Castonguay, Committee Member
n/a, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Zi

Title:

First-Order Methods for Large Scale Convex Optimization

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

first-order methods
convex optimization
distributed optimization
convex regression
multi-agent consensus optimization

File:

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Committee Members:

Necdet S Aybat, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Necdet S Aybat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Member
Enrique del Castillo, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Outside Member

Author:

Breon, Amy

Title:

THE PRINCIPAL’S ROLE IN LEADING INSTRUCTIONAL CHANGE A CASE STUDY IN NEW PROGRAM ADOPTION

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

Instructional Leadership
Principal's Role
Program Adoption
Instructional Change

File:

Download Amy_Breon.pdf

Committee Members:

Nona Prestine, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nona Prestine, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward J Fuller, Committee Member
Roger C Shouse, Committee Member
Jacqueline Edmondson, Outside Member

Author:

Braun, Summer S

Title:

Predicting Elementary Teachers' Efforts to Manage Social Dynamics from Teacher Characteristics and the Early Year Peer Ecology

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

Elementary Teachers
Teacher Characteristics
Social Dynamics Management
Peer Ecology

File:

Download SSB_Manuscript_Grad_School_2016.12.1.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott David Gest, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Linn Bierman, Committee Member
Lisa Michelle Kopp, Committee Member

Author:

Maas, Megan Keely

Title:

A PERSON-CENTERED APPROACH TO ONLINE SEXUAL EXPERIENCES AND OFFLINE SEXUAL AND SUBSTANCE USE BEHAVIORS AMONG FEMALE ADOLESCENTS

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

social media; teen dating violence; sexual assault; female adolescents; maltreatment; sexting; pornography; HIV risk; substance use

File:

Download Maas.Dissertation.FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Jennie G Noll, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennie G Noll, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eva S Lefkowitz, Committee Member
Bethany Cara Bray, Committee Member
Patricia Barthalow Koch, Outside Member

Author:

Mao, Yi

Title:

SUSPENSION PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE NUMERICAL MODEL DEVELOPMENT AND LOAD CASE SIMULATION

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Suspension pedestrian bridge
numerical model
dynamic behavior
load case simulation

File:

Download Thesis_YiMao.pdf

Committee Members:

JEFFREY A. LAMAN, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
ALI MEMARI, Committee Member
GORDON WARN, Committee Member

Author:

Choe, Katherine Naeun

Title:

HUWE1 Interacts with PCNA to Alleviate Replication Stress

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

DNA replication
Genomic instability
H2AX
DNA Damage
HUWE1
PCNA
Replication stress

File:

Download Choe_thesis_v9_26-10-17.pdf

Committee Members:

George Lucian Moldovan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Lucian Moldovan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Riley Broach, Committee Member
Ralph Lauren Keil, Committee Member
Kent Eugene Vrana, Outside Member
Cristina I Truica, Special Member

Author:

Crayne, Matthew Philip

Title:

The Power of Many: A Follower-Centric Concept of Leader Error and Influence

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Leadership
Laboratory
Historiometric
Followers

File:

Download Dissertation_Format_Review_12.5.Finals.pdf

Committee Members:

Samuel Todd Hunter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Samuel Todd Hunter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Mohammed, Committee Member
Rick R Jacobs, Committee Member
Vilmos Fosnocht Misangyi, Outside Member

Author:

Poepsel, Timothy John

Title:

The Influence of Bilingualism on Statistical Learning With Multiple Inputs

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Statistical learning
language acquisition
bilingualism
speech segmentation
word learning

File:

Download Poepsel_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dan Weiss, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dan Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Judith Kroll, Committee Member
Matthew Carlson, Committee Member
Kristin Buss, Outside Member

Author:

Price, Matthew Burroughs

Title:

Of Minor Spaces: Spatial Narratologies of the Modern British Novel

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Victorian
Modernist
Novel
Space
Narratology
Setting

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Committee Members:

Eric Robert Hayot, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Member
Robert Lawrence Caserio Jr., Committee Member
Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Outside Member

Author:

Landgraf, Bradley James

Title:

MECHANISTIC STUDIES OF THE METHYLTHIOLATION REACTION CATALYZED BY THE RADICAL SAM ENZYME RIMO

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

S-adenosylmethionine
Radical SAM
Methylthiotransferase
Enzymology
5'-deoxyadenosyl radical
S-adenosylhomocysteine
Post-translational modification

File:

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Committee Members:

Squire J. Booker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Squire J Booker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carsten Krebs, Committee Member
Amie Kathleen Boal, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Outside Member

Author:

Thomas, Tori Lashan

Title:

Exploring the Relationships between High School Racial Composition and Long-Term Educational Outcomes

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

school racial composition
college aspirations
educational attainment
race/ethnicity
high school

File:

Download Final_11.16.pdf

Committee Members:

Michelle Frisco, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
S. Michael Gaddis, Committee Member
Erica Frankenberg, Committee Member

Author:

Fedor, Christopher Leon

Title:

ADDING FEATURES TO DIRECT REAL TIME SEMI-DENSE MONOCULAR SLAM

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping;SLAM;Lie Algebra;Image Alignment

File:

Download cfedorSUBMIT161129.pdf

Committee Members:

Aldo W Morales, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sedig Salem Agili, Committee Member
Seth Wolpert, Committee Member

Author:

Bernhardt, Jase Eric

Title:

A COMPARISON OF DAILY TEMPERATURE AVERAGING METHODOLOGIES: UNCERTAINTIES, SPATIAL VARIABILITY, AND SOCIETAL IMPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Climatology
Climate Change
Human Impacts on Climate
Atmospheric Science
Land Use - Land Cover
Synoptic Climatolgoy

File:

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Committee Members:

Andrew Mark Carleton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Mark Carleton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jon Michael Nese, Committee Member
Brent Yarnal, Committee Member
Martin Tingley, Outside Member

Author:

Conaway, Steven Andrew

Title:

THE ROLE OF HOST-PATHOGEN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS IN SUCCESSFUL BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF CIRSIUM ARVENSE WITH THE RUST FUNGUS PUCCINIA PUNCTIFORMIS

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology

Keywords:

biological control
invasive weeds
canada thistle
rust fungus
cirsium arvense
puccinia puntiformis

File:

Download Conaway_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott Alan Isard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Alan Isard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald Durwood Davis, Committee Member
Katriona Shea, Committee Member
David A Mortensen, Outside Member
Gary W Moorman, Committee Member

Author:

Szkodny, Lauren Elizabeth

Title:

(DE)CONSTRUCTING TRAUMA: DEVELOPMENT OF IDIOSYNCRATIC STRUCTURAL AND DYNAMIC ORGANIZATIONS OF POSTTRAUMATIC SYMPTOMS TO EXAMINE MECHANISMS OF SYMPTOM MAINTENANCE

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

PTSD
person-specific
P-technique
ecological momentary assessment
intensive repeated measures

File:

Download Szkodny_Dissertation_Fall_2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Michelle Gayle Newman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michelle Gayle Newman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pamela Marie Cole, Committee Member
Amy Dyanna Marshall, Committee Member
Peter Cm Molenaar, Outside Member

Author:

Lee, Chris Songjin

Title:

DATA DEPENDENT OPTIMIZATION VISION ARCHITECTURE

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Image processing
Region of interest
Object detection
Computer architecture
Vision pipeline
Accelerator

File:

Download Chris_Dissertation_13.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Outside Member
Kevin Irick, Special Member

Author:

Schwartz, Brandon

Title:

THE EFFECT OF THERMAL CYCLING ON THE PERMEABILITY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SHALE

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Permeability
Bulk Modulus
Shale
Thermal Cycling

File:

Download Brandon_Schwartz_MASTERS_THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris J Marone, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Raja, Faisal Z.

Title:

DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION OF FUEL ROD GAS GAP CONDUCTANCE MODEL IN CTF AS A FUNCTION OF REACTOR POWER AND BURNUP

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

COBRA-TF
CTF
FRAPCON
BISON
GAP CONDUCTANCE
REACTOR POWER
FUEL BURNUP
FUEL EXPOSURE
NUCLEAR
FUEL ROD
SUBCHANNEL CODE
FUEL CENTERLINE TEMPERATURE
FUEL SURFACE TEMPERATURE
UO2
ZIRC4
ZIRC CLADDING
LIGHT WATER REACTOR

File:

Download Faisal_Raja_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Maria Avramova, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Maria Avramova, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Kostadin Ivanov, Committee Member
Dr. Jack S. Brenizer, Committee Member
Dr. John M. Regan, Outside Member

Author:

Garvin, Alexandra M

Title:

Mitochondria as Central Mediators of Cardiac Cell Death with Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury in Aged Female Rats

Graduate Program:

Physiology

Keywords:

heart
ischemia/reperfusion
mitochondria
aging
female
cell death

File:

Download A._Garvin_Final_Dissertation_11-18-16.pdf

Committee Members:

Donna Hope Korzick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donna Hope Korzick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Connie Jo Rogers, Committee Member
Joshua D Lambert, Committee Member
Gregory C Shearer, Outside Member
Chee Lim, Special Member

Author:

Grasser, Nicholas Jared

Title:

DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF THE MXS-R WINGLETS AND AIRFOILS TO IMPROVE AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE IN THE RED BULL AIR RACES

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Aircraft Design
Aerodynamics
Airplane Simulation
Winglets
Airfoils
Red Bull
Air Racing
MXS-R
Airplane Performance
Airplane Design

File:

Download Grasser_-_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark David Maughmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member

Author:

Grimaldi, Elizabeth Mary

Title:

IMPLICIT COGNITIVE BIASES, RACIAL ATTITUDES, AND THREAT DETECTION

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

implicit personality
cognitive biases
signal detection
racial biases
implicit attitudes
threat detection

File:

Download Final_Thesis_Document_Grimaldi.pdf

Committee Members:

James Marshall Lebreton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kisha Shannon Jones, Committee Member
Richard Alan Carlson, Committee Member

Author:

Shah, Meet M

Title:

A Methodology for Development of Design Permit Vehicles

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Influence Lines
Bridge
Bridge Analysis
Permit Vehicle
Design Live Load

File:

Download Thesis_MMS.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey A. Laman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Committee Member
Ali M Memari, Committee Member

Author:

Xiaoli, Lingzi

Title:

The development of a Shiga toxin 2a quantification method and application to study the enhanced toxin production of Escherichia coli O157:H7 by nonpathogenic E. coli

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

E. coli O157:H7
Shiga toxin
commensal E. coli
ELISA
virulence

File:

Download Thesis_Final_Lingzi_Xiaoli_20161117.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward G. Dudley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward G. Dudley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roberts F. Roberts, Committee Member
Chitrita DebRoy, Committee Member
James L. Rosenberger, Outside Member
Subhashinie Kariyawasam, Committee Member

Author:

Belton, Kerry R

Title:

ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR ACTIVATION DISRUPTS MOUSE MAMMARY GLAND AND LIVER FUNCTION DURING LACTATION

Graduate Program:

Molecular Toxicology

Keywords:

AHR
Mammary gland
Metabolism
Lactation
NMR

File:

Download 161207_Kerry_Thesis-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew D. Patterson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary H. Perdew, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
K. Sandeep Prabhu, Committee Member
Andrew D. Patterson, Committee Member
Connie J. Rogers, Outside Member

Author:

Davis, Jennifer Marguerite

Title:

MILITARY SPOUSE ONLINE AUTISM RELOCATION READINESS (MILSOARR) TRAINING AND MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Keywords:

autism
military family
peer mentor

File:

Download Davis_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Erinn Heer Finke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erinn Heer Finke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn D R Drager, Committee Member
Carol Anne Miller, Committee Member
Daniel Francis Perkins, Outside Member

Author:

Yang, Jung In

Title:

Reliability and Aging in Patterned Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3 Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ferroelectric
Reliability
Aging
HALT
Conduction mechanism
Patterned PZT thin film

File:

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Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Outside Member

Author:

John, Christian Lee

Title:

Against the Spring Wave: Ungulate Migration Phenology in a Changing Arctic

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Migration
Phenology
Arctic
Climate Change
Caribou
Remote Sensing

File:

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Committee Members:

Eric Post, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Alan Miller, Committee Member
Erica A H Smithwick, Committee Member

Author:

Imonighavwe, Goodness Oghenetega

Title:

Comparative Analysis of Three Equations of State in the prediction of Liquid Properties and the introduction of a new approach to Phase Behavior Modelling

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Thermodynamics
Phase modelling
Equation of state

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael Adebola Adewumi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
unkown, Committee Member
Unknown, Committee Member

Author:

Cronk, Stephanie Sarah

Title:

Soil Organic Carbon Protection in the Presence of Iron Oxides

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Climate change
peatlands
ferrihydrite
soil dissolved organic carbon
Mossbauer
TEM
STEM-EDS
coprecipitation
iron oxides

File:

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Committee Members:

Christopher Aaron Gorski, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William D Burgos, Committee Member
Nathaniel Richard Warner, Committee Member

Author:

Worth, Rachel J

Title:

Dynamics of Life: Large-Scale Simulations of the Behavior of Small Bodies in Systems of Multiple Large Bodies

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

astrophysics
astronomy
astrodynamics
n-body simulations
Alpha Centauri
lithopanspermia
astrobiology
planet formation

File:

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Committee Members:

Steinn Sigurdsson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Member
Eric B Ford, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Outside Member

Author:

Quesenberry, Krista Dawn

Title:

Reading at the Intersection of Modernist, Feminist, and Lifewriting Studies

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

American literature
modernism
modernist
lifewriting
autobiography
feminism
feminist
gender
sexuality
interdisciplinary
cross-disciplinary
feminist science studies
feminist ethics
disability studies

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Committee Members:

Dr. Susan Squier, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Susan Squier, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Robert Caserio, Committee Member
Dr. Sandra Spanier, Committee Member
Dr. Sarah Clark Miller, Outside Member

Author:

Nayak, Roshan Kumar

Title:

IMPLEMENTATION OF GOOD AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES FOOD SAFETY STANDARDS ON MID-ATLANTIC STATES AND NEW YORK PRODUCE FARMS

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Extension Education

Keywords:

Food Safety Standards
GAPs
Mid-Atlantic States
Extension
Produce Growers

File:

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Committee Members:

John Ewing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Ewing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member
Connie Devine Baggett, Committee Member
Luke F Laborde, Outside Member

Author:

Benson, Lizbeth Erin

Title:

Fusing biodiversity metrics into investigations of daily life and healthy aging: Illustrations and recommendations with emodiversity

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

longitudinal analysis
emotion
diversity
intraindividual variability

File:

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Committee Members:

Nilam Ram, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Almeida, Committee Member
Lisa Michelle Kopp, Committee Member