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Author:

Varshney, Amit

Title:

Optimization and control of multiscale process systems using model reduction: Application to thin-film growth

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Carleman Linearization
System Identification
Optimization
Dynamic Optimization
Modeling
Multiscale
Stochastic
Model Predictive Control
Receding Horizon Control
Thin film growth
Epitaxy

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Antonios Armaou, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Costas D Maranas, Committee Member
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member

Author:

Loubeau, Alexandra

Title:

Nonlinear propagation of high-frequency energy from blast waves as it pertains to bat hearing

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

nonlinear acoustics
blast wave
explosion
outdoor sound propagation
high frequency
bat

File:

Download alexandra_loubeau_phdthesis2006.pdf

Committee Members:

Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas B Gabrielson, Committee Member
John Stephen Lamancusa, Committee Member
Anthony A Atchley, Committee Member

Author:

Deak, Atila

Title:

BENEFITS OF FORAGE SPECIES DIVERSITY IN GRAZING SYSTEMS IN PENNSYLVANIA

Graduate Program:

Agronomy

Keywords:

DIVERISTY
PASTURES
GRAZING
WEED SUPRESSION
GRAZING ECONOMIC ANALYIS

File:

Download Deak_PhD_Tesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Marvin H Hall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matt A Sanderson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gregory Wayne Roth, Committee Member
Harold William Harpster, Committee Member
Clarence Alan Rotz, Committee Member

Author:

Gayasen, Aman

Title:

Implications of Future Technologies on the Design of FPGAs

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

field programmable gate array
power
thermal
three-dimensional stacking
three-dimensional integration
nanotechnology
interconnect

File:

Download gayasen-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member

Author:

Jabbour, Aref

Title:

Instrumentality, Reactivity and Psychopathy in Sexual Offenses against Children: An Exploratory Analysis

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

psychopathy
sexual offenses
instrumentality
reactivity

File:

Download Final_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Andrew Arnett, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sandra T Azar, Committee Member
Eric Silver, Committee Member
Richard Hazler, Committee Member

Author:

Natarajan, Ajay

Title:

MULTI-CRITERIA SUPPLY CHAIN INVENTORY MODELS WITH TRANSPORTATION COSTS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Multi-Criteria optimization
Single Objective optimization
Inventory policies
Transportation
Inventory
Supply Chain
Stochastic modelling
Supply chain Case Study

File:

Download Thesis_Report.pdf

Committee Members:

Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
John Eugene Tyworth, Committee Member

Author:

Edge, Brian A.

Title:

An Analytical and Numerical Study of Cavitation Scale Effects in High-Reynolds Number Circular Jet Flows

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Cavitation Inception
Detached-eddy simulation
circular jet
round jet
cavitation scale effects

File:

Download B_Edge_PhD.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric G Paterson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Laura Pauley, Committee Member
Mario F Trujillo, Committee Member

Author:

Bray, Bethany Cara

Title:

Examining Gambling and Substance Use: Applications of Advanced Latent Class Modeling Techniques for Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Data

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

gambling
substance use
latent class models
longitudinal

File:

Download BethanyCaraBray-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Linda Marie Collins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward A Smith, Committee Member
Jennifer Lianne Maggs, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Schafer, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Committee Member
Helene R White, Committee Member

Author:

Zellers, Brian Christopher

Title:

AN ACOUSTIC SUPERPOSITION METHOD FOR COMPUTING STRUCTURAL RADIATION IN SPATIALLY DIGITIZED DOMAINS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

ACOUSTICS
MESHLESS
COMPUTATIONAL
DIGITAL
ELEMENT FREE
SUPERPOSITION

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Hugo Koopmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Lester Jonson, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member
Martin Wesley Trethewey, Committee Member

Author:

Hollingshead, Brett David

Title:

In vitro and in vivo analysis of aryl hydrocarbon receptor regulation by the hepatitis B virus X-associated protein 2

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

aryl hydrocarbon receptor
XAP2
HSP90
gene regulation
chaperone proteins
AIP

File:

Download Hollingshead_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary H Perdew, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey Maurice Peters, Committee Member
Ross Cameron Hardison, Committee Member
Ming Tien, Committee Member
Scott Trent Feldman, Committee Member

Author:

Keller, Brian David

Title:

Beyond individual differences: The role of differentiation of self in predicting the career exploration of college students

Graduate Program:

Counseling Psychology

Keywords:

career exploration
differentiation of self
ego identity status
Super theory
Bowen theory

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth A Skowron, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey Hayes, Committee Member
Spencer G Niles, Committee Member
Robert D Reason, Committee Member

Author:

Anderson, Brian Eric

Title:

GRATING LOBE REDUCTION IN TRANSDUCER ARRAYS THROUGH STRUCTURAL FILTERING OF SUPERCRITICAL PLATES

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

grating lobe
array
transducer
transducer array
supercritical
coincidence
plate
structural acoustics

File:

Download Final_Thesis_Master_Document.pdf

Committee Members:

William Jack Hughes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Courtney Brice Burroughs, Committee Member
Stephen A Hambric, Committee Member
Nadine Barrie Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Hieger, Brad

Title:

THE INFLUENCE OF DIAGNOSTIC CLARITY AND PREJUDICIAL ATTITUDES ON CLINICAL JUDGMENT BIASES

Graduate Program:

Counseling Psychology

Keywords:

racial bias
bias
clinical judgment
racism
prejudice

File:

Download Complete_dissertation_draft_040907.pdf

Committee Members:

Beverly Vandiver, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas D Borkovec, Committee Member
Robert B Slaney, Committee Member
Kurt M Gehlert, Committee Member

Author:

Maldonado, Blanca Estela

Title:

Preindustrial Copper Production at the Archaeological Zone of Itziparátzico, a Tarascan Location in Michoacán, México

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

Ancient Technologies
Preindustrial Copper Production
Tarascan State
Mesoamerican Metallurgy
Craft Production
Archaeometallurgy

File:

Download Maldonado_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Gale Hirth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Raymond Howell, Committee Member
Helen P Pollard, Committee Member
Thilo Rehren, Committee Member
David Lee Webster, Committee Member
William T Sanders, Committee Member

Author:

Phillips, Brett E

Title:

Occludin Regulates Permeability and Cell Division in Retinal Pigmented Epithelium Cells

Graduate Program:

Physiology

Keywords:

Cell Division
ARPE-19
Tight Junctions
Paracellular Permeability

File:

Download Brett_Phillips_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

David A Antonetti, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anthony Edward Pegg, Committee Member
Charles H Lang, Committee Member
Jiyue Zhu, Committee Member
Steven F Abcouwer, Committee Member

Author:

Ueland, Benjamin George

Title:

COOPERATIVE MAGNETIC RELAXATION IN GEOMETRICALLY FRUSTRATED RARE-EARTH PYROCHLORES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

geometric frustration
geometrically frustrated magnets
frustrated magnets
cooperative paramagnet
spin liquid
spin ice
stuffed spin ice

File:

Download bguelandThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter E Schiffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
Ari M Mizel, Committee Member
John V Badding, Committee Member

Author:

Feldmeyer, Ben

Title:

RACE/ETHNICITY, SOCIAL STRUCTURE, AND VIOLENCE: MOVING BEYOND BLACK-WHITE COMPARISONS TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF HISPANIC VIOLENCE

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

race/ethnicity
violence
social structure
racial invariance
segregation
immigration

File:

Download Ben_Feldmeyer_-_DISSERTATION_6-20-07.pdf

Committee Members:

Darrell J Steffensmeier, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barrett Alan Lee, Committee Member
Eric Silver, Committee Member
Jeffery Todd Ulmer, Committee Member
James Eisenstein, Committee Member

Author:

Krawiec, Brian

Title:

Control of Protein Balance during Immobilization-Induced Skeletal Muscle Atrophy

Graduate Program:

Physiology

Keywords:

eukaryotic initiation factor
translation
disuse
muscle
protein synthesis
proteolysis

File:

Download Revised_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles H Lang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leonard Shelton Jefferson Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas C Vary, Committee Member
Yuk Chow Ng, Committee Member
Peter A Farrell, Committee Member

Author:

Wilt, Brian James

Title:

Preservice Teachers to Inservice Teachers: Teaching for Social Justice

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Social Justice
Antioppressive Education
Critical Multiculturalism
Diversity
Power
Privilege
Oppression

File:

Download Brian_Wilt.pdf

Committee Members:

Debra M Freedman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Miryam Espinosa Dulanto, Committee Member
John Daniel Marshall, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

Author:

Patel, Bhavesh K

Title:

Impact of heating rate on starch granule structure and functionality

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

baking process
starch retrogradation
starch gelatinization
heating rate

File:

Download bhavesh__thesis_hiren.pdf

Committee Members:

Koushik Seetharaman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gregory Ray Ziegler, Committee Member
Ramaswamy C Anantheswaran, Committee Member
Edward William Mills, Committee Member
Ralph D Waniska, Committee Member