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Author:

Mc Nealey, Rachel

Title:

Grounding the Digital in the Physical: Investigating the links between residential neighborhood digital technology and cybercrime offending

Graduate Program:

Criminology

Keywords:

Cybercrime
Environmental Criminology
Digital Inequality

File:

Download McNealey_Submission_Draft_FINAL_6.28.pdf

Committee Members:

Holly Nguyen, Major Field Member
Pamela Wilcox, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Thomas Loughran, Major Field Member
Guangqing Chi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michelle Frisco, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Zhuomin

Title:

Cross-Domain Image Analysis Approaches towards Segmentation of Placenta Photos and Pictorial Realism Study of Paintings

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Machine learning
Cross-domain image analysis
Placenta
Domain adaptation
Constable
Pictorial realism evaluation

File:

Download Thesis_zhuomin.pdf

Committee Members:

James Wang, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sharon Huang, Major Field Member
Suhang Wang, Major Field Member
Jia Li, Co-Chair, Dissertation Advisor and Minor Member
Elizabeth Mansfield, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gonzales, Carlos

Title:

The Fear of Identity Motivated Crime: An "Identity-In-Community Context" Vulnerability Perspective

Graduate Program:

Criminology (MA)

Keywords:

Fear of Crime
Fear
Hate Crime
Vulnerability
Gender
Race
Political Identity
Identity

File:

Download Gonzales_ThesisTemplate_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Pamela K Wilcox, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeremy Staff, Committee Member
Michelle Frisco, Program Head/Chair
Corina Antohi Graif, Committee Member

Author:

Kelly, Colin

Title:

NONUNIFORM APERTURE SAMPLING AND CENTER FREQUENCY RANDOMIZATION FOR 3-DIMENSIONAL RADAR IMAGING WITH SPARSE APERTURES

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Synthetic Aperture Radar
3-D Radar Imaging
Sparse Apertures
Recursive Sidelobe Minimization
RSM-ACF
RSM
Ultra-Wideband Radar
Grating Lobe Suppression
Sidelobe Suppression

File:

Download Kelly-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Bilén, Major Field Member
Ram Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Brian Phelan, Special Member
Mehdi Kiani, Major Field Member
Traian Dogaru, Special Member
Soundar Kumara, Outside Unit & Field Member
Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fernandez Flores, Miguel

Title:

Cosmic veiling and pre-inflationary initial conditions in R+R2 gravity

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

quantum gravity
inflation
cosmology

File:

Download MFernandez-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sarah Shandera, Major Field Member
Eugenio Bianchi, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Donghui Jeong, Outside Unit & Field Member
Irina Mocioiu, Major Field Member
Irina Mocioiu, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Das, Abhisek

Title:

Ice Particle Habit Effects On The Resilience Of Arctic Mixed-Phase Stratus Clouds In One-Dimensional Model Simulations

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

Arctic Mixed Phase Cloud
Cloud Lifetime
One-Dimensional Model
Glaciation
Subsidence

File:

Download Abhisek_Das_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jerry Y Harrington, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Member
David Stensrud, Program Head/Chair
Matthew Robert Kumjian, Committee Member

Author:

Owens, Abigail

Title:

Soil and Landscape Assessment of the Hydrological Capacity of a ~45-Year-Old Spray Irrigation Wastewater Treatment System

Graduate Program:

Soil Science

Keywords:

Living Filter
Treated wastewater irrigation
Effluent irrigation
Wastewater reuse
Soil moisture
Soil preferential flow
Soil chemistry
Soil characterization

File:

Download Owens_MSThesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Joseph Drohan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heather Elise Preisendanz, Committee Member
Bradley Cardinale, Program Head/Chair
Estelle M Couradeau, Committee Member
John Earl Watson, Committee Member
Charles Walker, Committee Member

Author:

Gui, Fanlu

Title:

Exploring Social Interactions in Online Exercise Classes

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

group exercise
physical activity
fitness
social interaction

File:

Download Fanlu_Dissertation_0705.pdf

Committee Members:

Xinning Gui, Major Field Member
Melissa Bopp, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jack Carroll, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Saeed Abdullah, Major Field Member
Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Almutiri, Faris

Title:

EFFECT OF PARSLEY POWDER AS A SOURCE OF NITRITE AND NITRATE REDUCTASE BACTERIA ON SOME QUALITY CHARACTRISTICS OF UNCURED FERMENTED SUMMER SAUSAGE

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

Nitrate
Nitrite
Pre-reduce nitrite
Uncured
Fermented summer sausage

File:

Download EFFECT_OF_PARSLEY_POWDER_AS_A_SOURCE_OF_NITRITE_AND_NITRATE_REDUCTASE_BACTERIA_ON_SOME_QUALITY_CHARACTRISTICS_OF_UNCURED_FERMENTED_SUMMER_SAUSAGE.PDF

Committee Members:

Edward W. Mills, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan A. Campbell, Committee Member
Adele Turzillo, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Suresh, Shakthi

Title:

User-Centered Design and Construction of a Modular Biofilter System for Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Graduate Program:

Engineering Design

Keywords:

User-centered design
biofilter
methanotrophs
system design
Design
Manufacturing

File:

Download Final_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Juliana Vasco-Correa, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicholas Meisel, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Xiong, Xiaoyue

Title:

Detrending multi-subject, multilevel short time series data

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

multilevel AR
detrend
nonlinear growth
intraindividual variability
Gompertz curve

File:

Download DETRENDING_MULTI-SUBJECT__MULTILEVEL_SHORT_TIME_SERIES_DATA.pdf

Committee Members:

Sy-Miin Chow, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Hunter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heidemarie Laurent, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Riggins, Nia

Title:

Why Scarites? A Commensal Relationship between a Mite and a Ground Beetle

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Micromegistus
Trigynaspida
commensal mites

File:

Download Blues_MS_ThesisFINAL2.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Joseph Skvarla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heather M Hines, Committee Member
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Flor E Acevedo, Committee Member

Author:

Pyres, Macy

Title:

Exploring Middle and High School Wolastoqiyik and Mi'kmaq Students Sense of Belonging

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

Belonging
Qualitative
Indigenous Methodology
Sharing Circles
Decolonizing Methodologies

File:

Download Thesis_Macy_Pyres_Final_5_22.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew T Mc Crudden, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jimena Cosso, Committee Member
P Murphy, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Prajapati, Abhishek Kumar

Title:

A generative approach to generalize deep learning models for pavement distress segmentation

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Deep learning
Pavement Distress Assessment
Domain Adaptation
Generative Adversarial Networks

File:

Download Prajapati_MS_Thesis_03_17_2024.pdf

Committee Members:

S. Ilgin Guler, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vikash V. Gayah, Committee Member
Farshad Rajabipour, Program Head/Chair
Xianbao Hu, Committee Member

Author:

Bolivar, Ana

Title:

Landfalling Tropical Cyclones: Directly Simulated vs. Statistically-Dynamically Downscaled

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

tropical cyclones
climate models
HighResMIP
statistical-dynamical downscaling
landfalls
tropical cyclone climatology

File:

Download Bolivar_Ana_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Colin M. Zarzycki, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melissa Marie Gervais, Committee Member
Paul Markowski, Program Head/Chair
Anthony Carl Didlake, Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Content, Virginia

Title:

High Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Load Improves Non-Nitric Oxide-Mediated Cutaneous Microvascular Function in Reproductive-Aged Healthy Women

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology

Keywords:

Cutaneous Circulation
Microvascular Function
Nitric Oxide
NO-Independent Vasodilation
Non-NO-Dependent Vasodilation
Antioxidant
Anti-Inflammatory
Cardiovascular Disease

File:

Download Content_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Lacy Marie Alexander, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Lawrence Kenney, Jr., Committee Member
Jonathan Dingwell, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Alison D Gernand, Committee Member

Author:

Mullin, Hollie

Title:

Reproducibility of Functional Connectomics in Traumatic Brain Injury

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

fMRI
neuroimaging
resting-state
functional connectivity
graph theory
multiverse
TBI
brain injury
resting-state functional connectivity
reliability

File:

Download Mullin_18March2024_FINAL_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Frank Gerard Hillary, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Andrew Arnett, Committee Member
Kristin Buss, Program Head/Chair
Nancy Dennis, Committee Member

Author:

Fisher, Kathleen

Title:

Cutaneous Cardiovascular And Thermoregulatory Responses To Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure And Sunscreen Application

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology

Keywords:

Ultraviolet Radiation
sunscreen
thermoregulation
skin pigmentation
athletes

File:

Download Fisher_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

William Lawrence Kenney, Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lacy Marie Alexander, Committee Member
Jonathan Dingwell, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
David E Conroy, Committee Member

Author:

Chakraborty, Alisa

Title:

Mitigating oxidative degradation of proton exchange membranes with free radical scavengers

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Fuel cell
Membrane durability
Free radical scavenger
Reactive oxygen speices

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Alisa_Chakraborty.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Arges, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Seong Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Hee Jeung Oh, Committee Member
Lauren Dell Zarzar, Committee Member

Author:

Sakamoto, Mc Kenna

Title:

Examining the Role of Depression on the Relationship between Objective and Subjective Cognitive Functioning after Sport-Related Concussion

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Sport-related concussion
depression
neuropsychological assessment
post-concussion symptoms

File:

Download Sakamoto_Masters_Thesis_FINAL_Corrected.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Andrew Arnett, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Frank Gerard Hillary, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Semyon Slobounov, Committee Member