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Author:

Powers, Christopher

Title:

Aggressive disruptive students in restricted educational placements: Moderated influence of placement history on adolescent outcomes

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

aggressive-disruptive behavior
restricted educational placement
special education
propensity scoring
causal inference

File:

Download Powers_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Linn Bierman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Linn Bierman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cynthia L Huang Pollock, Committee Member
Thomas W Farmer, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Committee Member

Author:

Hsiao, Pao

Title:

Identification of dietary patterns and relationship with weight and health outcomes in older adults

Graduate Program:

Nutrition

Keywords:

dietary patterns
older adults
obesity
diet
aging

File:

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Committee Members:

Gordon Lee Jensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Terryl Johnson Hartman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sharon M Nickols Richardson, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Committee Member
Martin John Sliwinski, Committee Member

Author:

Crowley, Daniel Max

Title:

Evaluating The Cost-effectivness Of Real-world Prevention: Approaches For Estimating The Efficieny Of Evidence-based Programming

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

Prevention Science
Cost-Effectiveness
Prescription Drug Misuse
Efficiency Analyses

File:

Download 1-Crowley_Dissertation_Format_Review_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark T Greenberg, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark T Greenberg, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Damon Evan Jones, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Linda Marie Collins, Committee Member
Edward A Smith, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Committee Member
Daniel Francis Perkins, Special Member
Steven Howard Zarit, Special Member

Author:

Thoroughgood, Christian Noble

Title:

Follower Susceptibility to Destructive Leaders: Development and Validation of Conformer and Colluder Scales

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Susceptible Followers
Destructive Leadership
Toxic Leadership
"Dark" Leadership

File:

Download Doctoral_Dissertation_-_Christian_N._Thoroughgood.pdf

Committee Members:

Samuel Todd Hunter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rick R Jacobs, Committee Member
James Lewis Farr, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Committee Member

Author:

Zhu, Yeying

Title:

Data-adaptive Approaches to Modeling Propensity Scores in Causal Inference Problems

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

causal inference
data-adaptive
data mining
observational studies
propensity scores

File:

Download Yeying-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Debashis Ghosh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Committee Member

Author:

Lindgren, Jessica Ann

Title:

The Association between measures of Diet Quality and Breast Density and Body Composition in Premenopausal Women

Graduate Program:

Nutrition

Keywords:

Breast density
Body composition
Breast cancer
Diet
Nutrition
Premenopausal women

File:

Download Lindgren_Revised_Dissertation_6-18-13.pdf

Committee Members:

Terryl Johnson Hartman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Joanne Dorgan, Committee Member
Jennifer Savage Williams, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Special Member

Author:

Madill, Rebecca Anne

Title:

How do elementary school teachers shape children's social development? A study of teachers' use of seating arrangements and responsive teaching

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

teacher-child interactions
teacher-child relationship quality
elementary school
seating arrangements

File:

Download Madill_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott David Gest, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Linn Bierman, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Committee Member
D Wayne Osgood, Committee Member

Author:

Trail, Jessica Brooke

Title:

Dynamic Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data: New Models, Statistical Procedures, and Applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

intensive longitudinal data
dynamic systems
time-varying effects

File:

Download JessicaTrailDissertation3.pdf

Committee Members:

Linda Marie Collins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Fricks, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Committee Member

Author:

Zhou, Jiangxiu

Title:

Comparison of approaches for handling missingness in covariates for propensity score models

Graduate Program:

Biobehavioral Health

Keywords:

propensity scores; missing data

File:

Download Dissertation_Jiangxiu_Zhou.pdf

Committee Members:

Donna Coffman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Walter Graham, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sheila Grace West, Committee Member
Kari Lock Morgan, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Yaqun

Title:

Inference of Gene Regulatory Network Based on Gene Expression Dynamics in Response to Environmental Signals

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Gene Regulatory Network
Gene Expression
Gene Cluster
DBN
Ordinary Differential Equation
Gene-Environment Interaction

File:

Download YaqunWang-Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rongling Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Committee Member

Author:

Miller, Jacqueline Ann

Title:

The Context and Consequences of Sexual Coercion towards South African Boys and the Impact of Enhancing the School Environment on School Sexual Climate and Coercion

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

sexual violence
male victimization
adolescents
South Africa

File:

Download JAM_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward A Smith, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward A Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Linda L Caldwell, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Committee Member
Rachel Annette Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Chu, Wanghuan

Title:

Feature Screening For Ultra-high Dimensional Longitudinal Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Feature screening
ultra-high dimensional data
longitudinal genetic study

File:

Download Chu_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Reimherr, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Outside Member