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101. The empirical relationship between administrator ratings of teacher effectiveness and student achievement on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness

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Author:
Oliveras, Yanira
Title:
The empirical relationship between administrator ratings of teacher effectiveness and student achievement on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness
Graduate Program:
Curriculum and Instruction
Keywords:
administrator ratings
teacher effectiveness
student achievement
File:
Download Oliveras_Dissertation_The_Empirical_Relationship_between_admin_ratings_of_teacher_effectiveness__stu_achievement_on_Texas_STAAR.pdf
Committee Members:
James F Nolan Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernard Joel Badiali, Committee Member
Iris M Striedieck, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

103. Native American Land Use Legacies in the Present Day Landscape of the Eastern United States

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Open Access
Author:
Johnson, Sarah Elizabeth
Title:
Native American Land Use Legacies in the Present Day Landscape of the Eastern United States
Graduate Program:
Ecology
Keywords:
Native American
land use legacy
cultural ecology
indicator species
File:
Download SJohnson_Dissertation_PSU_Ecology_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:
Marc David Abrams, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Committee Member
Kim C Steiner, Committee Member
Dean R. Snow, Committee Member

104. Heterogeneous Catalysis at the Single-molecule Level: A Quantitative Understanding of the Catalytic Activity of Individual Gold Nanoparticles and its Associated Dynamics

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Open Access
Author:
Ravi, Venkataramanan
Title:
Heterogeneous Catalysis at the Single-molecule Level: A Quantitative Understanding of the Catalytic Activity of Individual Gold Nanoparticles and its Associated Dynamics
Graduate Program:
Chemical Engineering
Keywords:
Heterogeneous Catalysis
Gold Nanoparticles
Single Molecule Level Measurements
Kinetic Analysis
Thermodynamics
File:
Download Final_PhD_Thesis_Venkat_Ravi.pdf
Committee Members:
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Committee Member

105. A Case Study to Examine Institutional Factors Facilitating and Inhibiting Faculty Preparation for Teaching in an Online MBA Program

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Open Access
Author:
Kashyap, Shubha
Title:
A Case Study to Examine Institutional Factors Facilitating and Inhibiting Faculty Preparation for Teaching in an Online MBA Program
Graduate Program:
Workforce Education and Development
Keywords:
Faculty Preparation
Online Education
Online MBA program
Institutional Factors
Facilitating Change
Higher Education
File:
Download Kashyap_Dissertation_Final_May_2014.pdf
Committee Members:
William J Rothwell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith Ann Kolb, Committee Member
Susan E Cromwell, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

106. Mechanistic investigations of nucleotidyl-transfer reaction and de novo initiation in Rna polymerases by X-ray crystallography

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Open Access
Author:
Basu, Ritwika
Title:
Mechanistic investigations of nucleotidyl-transfer reaction and de novo initiation in Rna polymerases by X-ray crystallography
Graduate Program:
Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology
Keywords:
soak-trigger freeze X-ray crystallography
nucleotidyl-transfer reaction
RNA polymerase
N4 bacteriophage
Thermus thermophilus
File:
Download Final_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Katsuhiko Murakami, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katsuhiko Murakami, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Craig Eugene Cameron, Committee Member
Paul Lee Babitzke, Committee Member
Andrey S Krasilnikov, Committee Member
Scott A Showalter, Committee Member

108. The Effects of Acute Psychosocial Stress on HPA-Axis and SAM-Axis Function in Men with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

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Open Access
Author:
Walter, Kimberly Nicole
Title:
The Effects of Acute Psychosocial Stress on HPA-Axis and SAM-Axis Function in Men with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Graduate Program:
Biobehavioral Health
Keywords:
Type 2 diabetes mellitus
Acute psychosocial stress
Stress physiology
File:
Download KNWalter_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:
Laura Klein, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Laura Klein, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Manuel Almeida, Committee Member
Elizabeth Susman, Committee Member
Sheila Grace West, Committee Member

109. Opting Out of the Presidency: Perspectives of Community College Chief Academic Officers

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Open Access
Author:
Appiah-padi, Radecka
Title:
Opting Out of the Presidency: Perspectives of Community College Chief Academic Officers
Graduate Program:
Workforce Education and Development
Keywords:
chief academic officer
community colleges
higher education leadership
File:
Download Dissertation_FINAL_Appiah-Padi_raa5206.pdf
Committee Members:
Edgar I Farmer Sr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edgar I Farmer Sr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Wesley Edward Donahue, Committee Member
Craig D Weidemann, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

110. "efficient Combinatorial Methods in Sparsification, Summarization and Testing of Large Datasets"

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Author:
Yaroslavtsev, Grigory
Title:
"efficient Combinatorial Methods in Sparsification, Summarization and Testing of Large Datasets"
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
algorithms
big data
sublinear algorithms
graph theory
sparsification
summarization
File:
Download main.pdf
Committee Members:
Sofya Raskhodnikova, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sofya Raskhodnikova, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Adam Smith, Committee Member
Piotr Berman, Committee Member
Jason Ryder Morton, Special Member