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Author:

Searight, Will

Title:

Preliminary Design of a Hot Hydrogen Test Loop for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion applications

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
Thermal Analysis
Plasma Material Interaction
Space Propulsion
Hydrogen
Composites
Ceramics
High Temperature Materials

File:

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Committee Members:

Leigh Winfrey, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jean Paul Allain, Program Head/Chair
Elia Merzari, Committee Member
Jean Paul Allain, Committee Member

Author:

Azhar, Erum

Title:

Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Among Family Physicians About Ovarian Reserve, Reproductive Counseling And Fertility Preservation

Graduate Program:

Public Health Sciences

Keywords:

Ovarian reserve
reproductive counseling
fertility preservation
family medicine
female reproductive-age cancer
cancer and fertility

File:

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Committee Members:

Kristen H Kjerulff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carol S Weisman, Committee Member
Richard Scott Legro, Committee Member
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Program Head/Chair
Li Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Basiel, Bailey

Title:

Genomic evaluation of horn fly resistance and phenotypes of cholesterol deficiency carriers in Holstein cattle

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

cholesterol deficiency
APOB
show cattle
horn fly
pest resistance
organic
KIT
genetic parameters

File:

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Committee Members:

Chad Daniel Dechow, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wansheng Liu, Committee Member
Erika Theresa Machtinger, Committee Member
Terry D Etherton, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Yiming

Title:

Measurement and Characterization of Pressure and Temperature In the Biomass Pelletization Process

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

Biomass Densification
Pelletizer Instrumentation Pelletizing
Pressure
Temperature.
Pelletizer Instrumentation
Keywords. Biomass Densification
Pelletizing
Die Pressure
Die Temperature
Wood pellets
Pelletization

File:

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Committee Members:

Daniel Edward Ciolkosz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Boney, Committee Member
Virendra Puri, Committee Member
Hojae Yi, Committee Member
Paul Heinz Heinemann, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Di Domizio, Gabriella

Title:

Understanding Competing Reaction Pathways in Nanoparticle Cation Exchange Processes Using the Tyndall Effect

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Tyndall effect
Cation Exchange
Structure-Selective
Nanoparticle
Manganese Sulfide
MnS
Digenite

File:

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Committee Members:

Raymond Edward Schaak, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lauren Dell Zarzar, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Alattar, Bader

Title:

Investigating Biologically Inspired Inverted Landing Strategies in a Nano-Quadcopter

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Biologically Inspired
Quadcopter
Crazyflie
Control
Reinforcement Learning
Blue Bottle Flies
Inverted Landing
Visual Cues
Optical Flow

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Committee Members:

Bo Cheng, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiang Yang, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lanka, Sree Sai

Title:

Extraction and Evaluation of Statistical Features from Social and Behavioral Science Papers

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

text extraction
tokenization
regular expressions
p-values
sample size
reproducibility

File:

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Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Sarah Michele Rajtmajer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jian Wu, Special Signatory

Author:

Piasente, Jonathon

Title:

Iron Sulfide Minerals in Concrete Aggregates

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Concrete
Aggregates
Iron Sulfide
Expansion
Deleterious
Oxidation
Secondary Mineral Formation
Reactive Aggregates
Problematic Aggregates
Pyrrhotite
Pyrite

File:

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Committee Members:

Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Program Head/Chair
Gordon Patrick Warn, Committee Member
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Member

Author:

Melton, Sierra

Title:

Iceberg Calving and Meltwater Drainage at the Ice-Cliff Terminus of Helheim Glacier, Greenland

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Greenland
Glaciology
Iceberg
Glacier
Meltwater
Glacial Hydrology
Remote Sensing
Satellite Imagery
Climate Change
Iceberg Calving
Helheim Glacier

File:

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Committee Members:

Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard B Alley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Byron Richard Parizek, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Nesterova, Darya

Title:

Sexually dimorphic impact of the iron regulating gene, HFE, on survival in Glioblastoma.

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Glioblastoma
Brain Tumors
Sex differences
Sex
HFE
iron
iron regulation
tumor microenvironment
immune infiltration
cancer
sexual dimorphism
prognostic indicators

File:

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Committee Members:

James Robert Connor, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Anne Proctor, Committee Member
Todd Schell, Committee Member
Brad Zacharia, Committee Member
Ralph Lauren Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Zehua

Title:

Nonlinear Chiroptical Responses from Plasmonic Nanostructures

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nonlinear optics
Plasmonic
Nanostructures
Chirality

File:

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Committee Members:

Kenneth Luther Knappenberger, Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Oborn, Collin

Title:

Evolution of the Tungnárhraun mafic lavas: Insights into magma storage and ascent beneath Barðarbunga volcanic system

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Iceland
Geochemistry
Petrology
PUBs
Bárðarbunga
Tungnárhraun

File:

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Committee Members:

Tanya Furman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Christopher La Femina, Committee Member
Andrew James Smye, Committee Member
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Program Head/Chair

Author:

O'Brien, John

Title:

Study of Process-Structure-Property Relationships in Stainless Steel 316L Made by Powder Bed Fusion

Graduate Program:

Additive Manufacturing and Design

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
316L
3D Printing
L-PBF
Machine Learning
Statistics
Process control

File:

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Committee Members:

Allison Michelle Beese, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy W. Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Committee Member
Timothy W. Simpson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Luo, Dongsheng

Title:

Scholar Name Disambiguation via Collective Clustering

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Name Disambiguation
Collective Clustering
Information Network

File:

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Committee Members:

Xiang Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suhang Wang, Committee Member
Dongwon Lee, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Laiton Jimenez, Laura

Title:

Effect of host plant diet on fitness, population parameters, and gut microbiota of grape berry moth (GBM) Paralobesia vietana

Graduate Program:

Entomology (MS)

Keywords:

Bacterial microbiota
fungal microbiota
fruit-feeding insect
amplicon metagenomic sequencing
Vitis.Bacterial microbiota
Vitis.
Amplicon metagenomic sequencing
Vitis
grape cultivar
microbiome
life cycle

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Committee Members:

Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Flor E Acevedo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kelli Hoover, Committee Member
Istvan Albert, Committee Member

Author:

Pagan, Michael

Title:

Analytical Methods for High-Speed Ground Vehicle Path Planning Through Obstacle Fields

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Bounded A*
Path planning
High speed
ground vehicle
off-road
obstacle field
analytical method
point-to-point path
arc centroid
kinematic admissibility
dynamic admissibility
friction-limited traversal
golden ratio
computationally efficient
geometric solution
centroid envelope
acceleration limits
Halton
Voronoi
Dubins

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Committee Members:

Robert Francis Kunz, Program Head/Chair
Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Herschel C Pangborn, Committee Member
Karl Martin Reichard, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Stefanick, Veronica

Title:

Development and Evaluation of Chitosan-Pullulan Films Containing Lauric Arginate (LAE) To Inhibit Microorganisms Associated With Raw and Ready-To-Eat Meat Products

Graduate Program:

Food Science (MS)

Keywords:

Chitosan
Pullulan
Lauric Arginate
Food Packaging
Food Spoilage
Muscle Food
Biopolymer

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Committee Members:

Robert Roberts, Program Head/Chair
Catherine Nettles Cutter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Greg Ziegler, Committee Member
Ramaswamy C Anantheswaran, Committee Member
Gamini Mendis, Committee Member

Author:

Cruse, Casey

Title:

Behavioral and functional characterization of xenobiotic responsible enzymes in the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata

Graduate Program:

Entomology (MS)

Keywords:

olfaction
insecticide resistance
carboxylesterases
cytochrome P450s
Colorado potato beetle
host plant location

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Committee Members:

Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Fang Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael S. Wolfin, Committee Member
Rudolf Johannes Schilder, Committee Member
Timothy W Moural, Committee Member

Author:

Lawler, Olivia

Title:

Development and Pilot Testing of Short Education Videos to Improve Knowledge, Confidence, and Intent to Use Herbs and Spices to Reduce Saturated Fat, Sugar, and Salt in Cooking

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences (MS)

Keywords:

nutrition education
herbs and spices
online
MTurk
CloudResearch

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Committee Members:

Meg Bruening, Program Head/Chair
Penny Margaret Kris-Etherton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Helene Hopfer, Committee Member
Travis D Masterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Alsanousi, Mowffq

Title:

MODELING INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE SERVICE CONTRACTS WITH APPLICATIONS TO OIL REFINERIES

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

maintenance
shutdowns
refineries
deterministic
integer programming
optimize
procurement

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Griffin, Committee Member

Author:

Robinson, Abbie

Title:

Risk of child marriage: An investigation of climate effects on child marriage in Mali

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology (MS)

Keywords:

Child marriage
climate
Mali
Family Code

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Committee Members:

Brian Clemens Thiede, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heather F Randell, Committee Member
Elizabeth Ransom, Committee Member
Brian Clemens Thiede, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Moore, Patrick

Title:

Elliptical Loop Antennas of Arbitrary Size and Ellipticity: Exact Analytical Expression for Radiated Power and Directivity and the Algorithms to Compute Them

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Radiated Power
Directivity
Elliptical Loop Antennas
Exact Analytical Solution
Exact Analytical Expression

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Douglas Henry Werner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sawyer Duane Campbell, Committee Member

Author:

Morgan, Joshua

Title:

Mapping Underwater Environments with Imaging Sonar

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

imaging sonar
image processing
localization
motion estimation
navigation
mosaicking

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Thomas F La Porta, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John F Doherty, Committee Member
Mark P Mahon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Almutairi, Faris

Title:

Design And Numerical Simulation of One-Phase Liquid Immersion Cooling System For Small-Scale Cryptocurrency Mining Rigs

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Immersion Cooling
Dielectric Liquid
Cryptocurrency mining
Thermal management
CFD
Computational fluid dynamics
heat transfer
ASIC
ASIC miner

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Committee Members:

Ahm E Rahman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Issam Abu-Mahfouz, Committee Member
Rick Ciocci, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Brian Allen Maicke, Committee Member

Author:

Strong-Jones, Sienna

Title:

Child Maltreatment and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Symptomology: The Role of Racial/Ethnic Identity as a Protective Factor

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies (MS)

Keywords:

Child maltreatment
trauma
resilience
PTSS

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Committee Members:

Jennie G Noll, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Abenaa Jones, Committee Member
Charles Geier, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Zachary Fisher, Committee Member
Abenaa Jones, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennie G Noll, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Saucier, Emilie

Title:

Observations and Modeling of the Transition from an Open to Closed System at Telica Volcano, Nicaragua

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (MS)

Keywords:

Volcano
Volcanology
Geoscience
Geology
Sealing
Phreatic Eruptions
Phreatic
Telica
Nicaragua
Deformation
Modeling
Machine Learning
Geodesy
Remote Sensing
Gas Flux
Hydrothermal Mineralisation
Magmatic Plug
Seal

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Committee Members:

Maureen Feineman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Peter LaFemina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lombera, Metzli

Title:

Measurement Models of Maltreatment and Associations with Suicidal Ideation Statements Made by Youth in Foster Care

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

Childhood maltreatment
structural equation modeling
confirmatory factor analysis
suicidal ideation

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Committee Members:

Amy Dyanna Marshall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yo Jackson, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Chad Edward Shenk, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Caeden

Title:

Noninvasive Tracking of Solidification Using Ultrasound

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Ultrasound
Mushy Zone
Reflection
Matching Layer
Acoustic
Casting
Solidification
Wax
Metal
Front Tracking

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Committee Members:

Andrea P. Arguelles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Kube, Committee Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Julianna Simon, Committee Member

Author:

Cross, Marci

Title:

Reporting Problem Substance Use in the Child Welfare System: How Caregiver Characteristics Influence the Congruence of Caseworker’s and Mother’s Reports

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies (MS)

Keywords:

child welfare
maternal substance use
report of substance use
substance use disclosure

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Committee Members:

Christian Michael Connell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Abeena Jones, Committee Member
Charles Geier, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Govere, Ephraim

Title:

Communicating Privacy-Utility Trade-Offs of Differential Privacy Through Analogical Reasoning

Graduate Program:

Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations (MS)

Keywords:

differential privacy
analogical reasoning
personally identifiable information
information sharing
protected individually identifiable health information

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Committee Members:

Aiping Xiong, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Member
Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
Peng Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Manning, Caroline

Title:

Uncovering the Hidden Motives: The Role of Implicit Motivation in Predicting Job Crafting Behaviors

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

Job Crafting
Implicit Personality
Person-job Fit

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Committee Members:

James Le Breton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rustin Meyer, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Jean Phillips, Committee Member

Author:

Medzorian, Jack

Title:

Effect of Freestream Turbulence on Wall-bounded Tip Vortex Breakdown and Boundary Layer Stability

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Tip Vortex flow
Adverse Pressure Gradient
Freestream Turbulence
Wingtip Vortex
Turbulent Boundary Layer
Vortex Breakdown
Non-equilibrium

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Francis Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Stephen P Lynch, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David M Williams, Committee Member

Author:

Guo, Xiangrong

Title:

Working towards Morel Cultivation in the Northeastern United States

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology (MS)

Keywords:

Morchella
morel cultivation
mating-type
ascocarp
fruiting body
conidiation
nutrient bag

File:

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Committee Members:

Maria Del Mar Jimenez Gasco, Program Head/Chair
John Andrew Pecchia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sharifa G Crandall, Committee Member
Gretchen Anna Kuldau, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Josephine Wee, Committee Member

Author:

Griffin, Rachel

Title:

Transcription Factor SOX2 as an Indicator of Progression in Early-Stage Bladder Cancer

Graduate Program:

Laboratory Animal Medicine (MS)

Keywords:

Bladder cancer
SOX2
Biomarker
Xenograft
Urothelial carcinoma

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Committee Members:

Tiffany Whitcomb, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Joshua I Warrick, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jenelle Marie Izer, Committee Member
David James Degraff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Terosky, Justin

Title:

Using Three-Electrode Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Sensors to Monitor Paint Degradation in Seawater

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Corrosion
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy

File:

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Barbara Shaw, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elzbieta Sikora, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member

Author:

Feng, Vincent

Title:

Spectroscopy of Chamber Plasma and Plume of a 2.4-GHz Microwave Electrothermal Thruster

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

MET
Electric Propulsion
Spectroscopy

File:

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Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven G Bilén, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert G. Melton, Committee Member
Jesse Kane Mc Ternan, Committee Member

Author:

Pawikhum, Kittiphum

Title:

Design End-effectors for Thinning Apple in the Green Fruit Stage

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

End-effector
Thinning
Green fruit Thinning
Crop load management
apples apples
mechanical properties
Physical Properties
apples thinning
Apples
Mechanical properties

File:

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Committee Members:

Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Paul Heinz Heinemann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long He, Committee Member
Henry Joseph Sommer, III, Committee Member
Randall Gray Bock, Special Signatory

Author:

Worman, Gabriel

Title:

Data-Driven State of Health Estimation in Sparsely Sampled Lead-Acid Battery Packs

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

state of health
batteries
lead-acid
capacity
internal resistance

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Chris Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jared Butler, Committee Member

Author:

Motalebi, Mahan

Title:

Planning Building Obsolescence Through Material Strategy: Formulating Decay-Informed Earth Blocks

Graduate Program:

Architecture (MS)

Keywords:

decay
earth blocks
pigeon towers
cyclical construction
temporal tectonics
Decay
Earth Blocks
Pigeon Towers
Cyclical Construction
Temporal Tectonics

File:

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Committee Members:

Ute Poerschke, Program Head/Chair
Marcus Shaffer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Arthur Lauerman, Committee Member
Benay Gursoy Toykoc, Committee Member

Author:

Selby, Kristen

Title:

Interlimb differences in multi-degree-of-freedom coordination during cyclic bilateral and unilateral wrist movements

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology (MS)

Keywords:

Bilateral
bilateral coordination
interlimb coordination
dynamic dominance

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert L Sainburg, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Latash, Committee Member
Jonathan Dingwell, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Tarkeshwar Singh, Committee Member

Author:

Majetic, Marley

Title:

Unique Ice Crystal Observations from the ICE-Ball Field Campaign Combined with Model Simulations Elucidate Cirrus Development

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (MS)

Keywords:

cirrus
ice crystal
ice habits
surface kinetics
ICE-Ball
scroll rosettes

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Committee Members:

David Stensrud, Program Head/Chair
Jerry Y Harrington, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Robert Kumjian, Committee Member
Israel Silber, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Miriam Arak Freedman, Committee Member
Nathan Magee, Special Signatory

Author:

Singman, Matthew

Title:

Cognitive Signal Processing: Applying Machine Learning to Adaptive Array Signal Processing Weight Generation

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Signal Processing
Array Signal Processing
Machine Learning
Adaptive Signal Processing

File:

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory Huff, Committee Member

Author:

Hernandez, Nebraska

Title:

Towards a Critical Environmental Justice: An Analysis of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's Environmental Justice Policy Revision

Graduate Program:

Geography (MS)

Keywords:

critical environmental justice
Pennsylvania
policy

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Committee Members:

Brian King, Program Head/Chair
Jennifer E Baka, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joshua F Inwood, Committee Member

Author:

Pervez, Mohammad Zaid

Title:

Kinetics of Electrons under Influence of Externally Applied Electric Field in Weakly Ionized Carbon Dioxide Plasma

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Electron energy distribution function
Boltzmann equation
Carbon dioxide
Air
Non-thermal plasma
Gas discharge
Electron transport and rate coefficients
Weakly ionized plasma
Molecular hydrogen
Helium
Magnetized Plasma

File:

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Committee Members:

Victor P Pasko, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Reza Janalizadeh, Special Signatory

Author:

Holl, Nicholas

Title:

Millimeter-Wave Advanced Imaging Techniques

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

radar
millimeter wave
mmWave
synthetic aperture radar
SAR
imaging
radar imaging
millimeter wave radar imaging

File:

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Julio Urbina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Kenneth Breakall, Committee Member

Author:

Cayley, Alex

Title:

Creation and Evaluation of a Novel Design Evaluation Tool for Additive Manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Engineering Design (MS)

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Restrictive
Opportunistic
Design Evaluation

File:

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Committee Members:

Nicholas Meisel, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Nicholas Alexander Meisel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jessica Dolores Menold, Committee Member
David William Mazyck, Committee Member

Author:

Purviance, Joshua

Title:

Error Modeling of Doppler Velocity Logs Using a Point-based Scattering Model

Graduate Program:

Acoustics (MS)

Keywords:

Doppler Velocity Log
DVL
Sonar
Error modeling
Delay estimation

File:

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Committee Members:

Daniel C. Brown, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Joseph Meyer, Jr., Committee Member
Andrew Barnard, Program Head/Chair
Thomas E Blanford, Committee Member

Author:

Vaira, Quentin

Title:

Hybrid Otto Fuel II And Electric Propulsion For Extended Duration Underwater Vehicles

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Hybrid Propulsion
UUV
Unmanned Undersea Vehicle
Otto Fuel II

File:

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Committee Members:

Mary Frecker, Program Head/Chair
Chris Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mike Manahan, Jr., Committee Member
Joel Robert Anstrom, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kim, Yeunjoo

Title:

Age-related changes in children’s speech contents during a frustrating task and their relations to nonverbal anger expressions in early childhood

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

early childhood
anger expression
age-related changes
spontaneous speech
language
emotion regulation

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_VKim_FINAL_032023.pdf

Committee Members:

Pamela Marie Cole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rina Das Eiden, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Janet Van Hell, Committee Member

Author:

Bowlus, Christine

Title:

Acute β1-Blockade Slows Cardiorespiratory Kinetics and Increases Oxygen Extraction at Onset of Moderate Intensity Exercise in Healthy Women

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology (MS)

Keywords:

oxygen consumption
kinetics
exercise physiology
female physiology

File:

Download Christine_Bowlus_MS_Thesis_Final_edits_V3.pdf

Committee Members:

David Nathan Proctor, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jim Pawelczyk, Committee Member
Jonathan Dingwell, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Lacy Marie Alexander, Committee Member

Author:

Klippel, Paul

Title:

Enabling fast image reconstruction for photoacoustic tomography using GPUs

Graduate Program:

Acoustics (MS)

Keywords:

Photoacoustics
Biomedical imaging
GPU
image reconstruction
ultrasound

File:

Download PKlippel_Masters_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Yun Jing, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julianna Simon, Committee Member
Andrew Barnard, Program Head/Chair
Daniel C. Brown, Committee Member

Author:

Tucker, Nora

Title:

A PERSON-CENTERED ANALYSIS OF PARENT SOCIALIZATION OF EMOTION AT AGES TWO AND FIVE​

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

Emotion Socialization
Parent Socialization of Emotion
Parenting
Person-Centered

File:

Download Tucker__MastersThesis_Dec22.pdf

Committee Members:

Kristin Buss (She/Her), Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Pamela Marie Cole, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Rina Das Eiden, Committee Member

Author:

Thummala, Rajiv

Title:

Space Worms: On the Threat of Cyber-ASAT Weaponry to Satellite Constellations

Graduate Program:

Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations (MS)

Keywords:

space cybersecurity
satellite cybersecurity
national security space
Anti-Satellite
satellite constellation

File:

Download Thesis_Thummala_2023.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Taegyu Kim, Committee Member
Edward Glantz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Carleen Maitland, Committee Member
Jungwoo Ryoo, Committee Member
Gregory Falco, Committee Member

Author:

Purcell, Ashton

Title:

Observation of Paramagnetic Recombination Centers in 4H-SiC pin Diodes via Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

electron paramagnetic resonance
electrically detected magnetic resonance
4H-SiC
wide-bandgap semiconductors
paramagnetic defects
point defects
semiconductor devices
pin diodes

File:

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Committee Members:

Patrick M Lenahan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Saptarshi Das, Committee Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Sahin K Ozdemir, Committee Member

Author:

Stueck, Clifford

Title:

Effective Use of an Analytical Approximation for the Relative Motion of Spacecraft on Hyperbolic Trajectories

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Hyperbolic Orbits
Relative Motion
Lagrange Expansion
Analytical Model

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert G. Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Daning Huang, Committee Member

Author:

Germeroth, Lilly

Title:

Gardener Choice Impacts Monarch Survival: Milkweed Species Identity Influences Arthropod Communities and Monarch Predation

Graduate Program:

Ecology (MS)

Keywords:

conservation
monarch butterfly
milkweed
asclepias
community ecology

File:

Download Germeroth_MS_Ecology_SP23.pdf

Committee Members:

Sara Hermann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Ellen Barbercheck, Committee Member
Jared Ali, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jared Gregory Ali, Committee Member

Author:

Stark, Sydney

Title:

Ecological Impacts and Social Perceptions of the Invasive Flathead Catfish in Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science (MS)

Keywords:

Aquatic Invasive Species
AIS
Diet analysis
Flathead Catfish
DNA barcoding
Surveys

File:

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Committee Members:

Julian D Avery, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tyler Wagner, Committee Member
Bradley Cardinale, Program Head/Chair
Megan Kepler Schall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Van Every, Hannah Leigh

Title:

Randomized control trial of dietary supplementation with dried plums on inflammatory mediators in postmenopausal women with osteopenia and osteoporosis

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

inflammation
menopause
osteoporosis
dried plum
crp

File:

Download MS_VanEvery_2021_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Connie Jo Rogers, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane De Souza, Committee Member
Penny Margaret Kris-Etherton, Committee Member
A Catharine Ross, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Niu, Fangya

Title:

Experimental Investigation of Pressure Dependence of Contact Angle Measurement in CO2/Brine Systems

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

CO2 storage
contact angle
wettability
pressure dependence
micro-CT imaging

File:

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Committee Members:

Zuleima T Karpyn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell Taylor Johns, Committee Member
Meng Wang, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ferich, Andrea Carol

Title:

Landowner Attitudes Toward Multifunctional Riparian Forest Buffers

Graduate Program:

Forest Resources

Keywords:

riparian
buffer
landowner
agroforestry
non-timber forest products
water quality
best management practices
forestry
forest

File:

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Weeks Boyer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bradley Cardinale, Program Head/Chair
James Craig Finley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Allyson Muth, Committee Member
Frans J G Padt, Committee Member

Author:

Leiby, Nathaniel

Title:

The Fate of Foliar Urea Fertilizer Applied to Golf Course Systems as Influenced by Petroleum Derived Spray Oil

Graduate Program:

Agronomy

Keywords:

Turfgrass
Putting green
Nitrogen
Fairway

File:

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Committee Members:

Maxim J Schlossberg, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Robert Huff, Committee Member
Francesco Di Gioia, Committee Member
Charlie White, Committee Member
Peter Landschoot, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Pranesh, Raj

Title:

S_COVID: A FRUGAL YET EFFECTIVE ENGINE TO EXPLORE COVID-19 SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

COVID-19
Unsupervised learning
Question-answering
Search engine
Natural Language Processing
Information retrieval
COVID-19
Unsupervised learning
Question-answering
Search engine
Natural Language Processing
Information retrieval

File:

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Committee Members:

Rui Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Abhinav Verma, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Satish, Chirag

Title:

Characterizing Object Stores For Serverless Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Serverless systems
Object Stores
Characterization

File:

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Committee Members:

Aasheesh Kolli, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wang-Chien Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lakhera, Ketan

Title:

High-Power Density Three-Phase Two-Level Inverter Using Gan Devices and Aluminum PCB Board

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

GaN Devices
Aluminum PCB(Al PCB)
Three-Phase Two-Level Inverter
High Power Density

File:

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Committee Members:

Arash Khoshkbar-Sadigh, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arash Khoshkbar-Sadigh, Committee Member
Yan Li, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Michaels, Jared

Title:

the influence of obesity and associated hyperglycemia on bone homeostasis

Graduate Program:

Anatomy

Keywords:

Obesity
Bone
Bone Marrow
Distal Femur
Lumican

File:

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Committee Members:

Reyad Elbarbary, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patricia Mclaughlin, Program Head/Chair
Fadia A Kamal, Committee Member
Gregory Stephen Lewis, Committee Member

Author:

Alqenaee, Amnah

Title:

Development Of A Straw-Reinforced Clay-Based Mixture For 3D Printing Construction Of Affordable Home

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

3D Printing
Concrete 3D Pringting
3DP
3DPC
Cob
Environmentally Friendly
Construction
Cob Construction
Earthen Construction
Earth-Based Material

File:

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Committee Members:

Ali M Memari, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Committee Member
Jose M Pinto Duarte, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bharadwaj, Skanda

Title:

Motion Estimation in Ultrasound Image Sequences: A Deep Learning Approach

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

motion estimation
object tracking
ultrasound imaging
deep learning
Siamese networks
convolutional neural networks
Kalman Filter

File:

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Committee Members:

Mohamed Khaled Almekkawy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member
Robert Collins, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Henneh, Daniel

Title:

Automation of additive manufacturing of concrete structures through closed-loop control of printing equipment.

Graduate Program:

Engineering Design

Keywords:

Concrete
AddConLab
3D printing
3DCP
Automation
Cosed-loop
system
3D
Control
Robot
Additive manufacturing
Design

File:

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Committee Members:

Sven G Bilen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicholas Alexander Meisel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilen, Program Head/Chair
Timothy W. Simpson, Committee Member

Author:

Eure, Keenan

Title:

Simultaneous assimilation of radar and satellite observations to improve ensemble forecasts of convection initiation

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

convection
data assimilation
satellite
radar
ensemble

File:

Download Eure_CI.pdf

Committee Members:

David Jonathan Stensrud, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yunji Zhang, Committee Member
Steven J Greybush, Committee Member
David Jonathan Stensrud, Program Head/Chair
Paul Markowski, Committee Member
Matthew R. Kumjian, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Xiang

Title:

Bridging Paired-end RNA-seq reads

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

RNA-seq
transcript assembly
de Bruijn graph

File:

Download Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mingfu Shao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Paul Medvedev, Committee Member

Author:

Cheng, Yuhuan

Title:

Trans-Ethnic Meta-Analysis on Lipid Exome Sequencing Data

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics

Keywords:

GWAS
trans-ethnic
meta-analysis
lipids
cardiovascular disease
rare variant
whole-exome sequence

File:

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Committee Members:

Dajiang Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George H Perry, Program Head/Chair
Laura Carrel, Committee Member
Duanping Liao, Committee Member

Author:

Ajayi, Oluwadamilola

Title:

Explainable AI (XAI) for Fault Detection and Classification in Microgrids Using a Real-time Simulation Framework

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

power systems protection
fault analysis
machine learning
real-time simulation
microgrid modeling

File:

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Committee Members:

Peter Idowu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Md Habib Ullah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rafic Bachnak, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Aldo W Morales, Committee Member

Author:

Bartolomeo Koninckx, Constanza

Title:

Development of phyllosphere suppressive communities towards Xanthomonas perforans and their potential applications as a biological control against bacterial spot of tomato

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology (MS)

Keywords:

bacterial spot
phyllosphere suppressive communities
biocontrol
copper-resistant
Xanthomonas

File:

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Committee Members:

Maria Del Mar Jimenez Gasco, Program Head/Chair
Kevin Loren Hockett, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sharifa G Crandall, Committee Member
Beth Krueger Gugino, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sara Hermann, Committee Member

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 (MS)

Keywords:

Nitrate
Nitrite
Pre-reduce nitrite
Uncured
Fermented summer sausage

File:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Alexander, Jason

Title:

Understanding The Effect Glass Fibers Have On The Crystallization of Poly(Ether Ether Ketone) In The Quiescent And Flow-Induced Crystallization Scenarios

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Polymer Crystallization
PEEK
Flow-Induced Crystallization
Polymer Composites

File:

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Committee Members:

Ralph H Colby, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Thomas Milner, Committee Member
Seong Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Alicyn Marie Rhoades, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bryan D Vogt, Committee Member
Robert John Hickey, III, Committee Member
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member

Author:

Anderson, Yawen

Title:

Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Atrazine Degrading Pseudomonas Sp. ADP Biofilms

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

P. ADP
Biofilm
Raman spectroscopy
Biofilm assay
Microplate

File:

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Committee Members:

Tonya L. Peeples, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephanie Butler Velegol, Committee Member
Seong Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Esther Gomez, Committee Member

Author:

Banuna, Ledeebari

Title:

African Rice: Neglected and Underutilized by Science?

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology (MS)

Keywords:

Neglected and Underutilized crops
African rice
agrobiodiversity
Indigenous African species
Oryza glaberrima
Food sovereignty
Productivism
West Africa
Plant genetic resources
Rice
Food security
Indigenous knowledge systems
Sustainable agriculture
Climate resilience
orphan crops
oryza
Oryza sativa

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Committee Members:

Brian Clemens Thiede, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Leland Luther Glenna, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bronwen Powell, Committee Member
Robert Magneson Chiles, Committee Member

Author:

Alghamdi, Saleh

Title:

Evaluating 4D Multiuser Construction Plan Reviews Using Augmented Reality

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Augmented Reality (AR)
Construction Plan Review
4D Modeling
Collaboration
Interactivity
Shared Spatial Anchors SSA
BIM
Augmented Reality (AR)
Construction Plan Review
4D Modeling
Collaboration
Interactivity
Shared Spatial Anchors SSA
BIM
Augmented Reality (AR)
Construction Plan Review
4D Modeling
Collaboration
Interactivity
Shared Spatial Anchors SSA
BIM

File:

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Committee Members:

John Messner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rob Leicht, Committee Member
Yuqing Hu, Committee Member
Julian Wang, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Anderson, Alex

Title:

Identifying Coherent Motions in Near-Surface Turbulence: Microfronts with Subsequent Quiescent Periods in Temperature Time Series

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (MS)

Keywords:

microfront
near-surface turbulence
coherent motions
coherent structures
quiescent periods
temperature burst event

File:

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Committee Members:

David Stensrud, Program Head/Chair
Ying Pan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth James Davis, Committee Member
Scott James Richardson, Committee Member

Author:

Baghi, Ali

Title:

Enabling Concurrent Reinforcement During 3D Concrete Printing to Create Spanning Structures Using Tensile Cables

Graduate Program:

Architecture (MS)

Keywords:

3D Concrete Printing (3DCP)
formwork-free
printing and reinforcing end-effector

File:

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Committee Members:

Ute Poerschke, Program Head/Chair
Shadi Nazarian, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jose M Pinto Duarte, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilén, Committee Member
Ali M Memari, Committee Member
Nathan Brown, Committee Member

Author:

Alshahrani, Mohammed

Title:

deep learning approaches for object tracking and motion estimation of ultrasound imaging sequences

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Deep Learning
Object tracking
CFNet
Advanced-CFNet

File:

Download Final_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

John Sampson, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Mohamed Khaled Almekkawy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member

Author:

Haviland, Zachary

Title:

Lignin impairs Cel7A degradation of cellulose by impeding enzyme movement and not by acting as a sink

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

cellulose
lignin
Cel7A
single-molecule microscopy
biofuel

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Committee Members:

William O Hancock, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Justin R Pritchard, Committee Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
Howard M Salis, Committee Member

Author:

Han, Jeong Hoon

Title:

Evaluation of CRISPR Activation Toolkit for Targeted Activation of Regulatory Elements in Chickens

Graduate Program:

Animal Science (MS)

Keywords:

Chicken
CRISPR
dCas9
Activation

File:

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Committee Members:

Adele Turzillo, Program Head/Chair
Tae Hyun Kim, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wansheng Liu, Committee Member
Ramesh Ramachandran, Committee Member

Author:

Groeneveld-Meijer, Willem

Title:

Powder Spreading Characteristics of Monomodal and Bimodal Spherical Alumina for Ceramic Matrix Composite Binder Jet Additive Manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

binder jet additive manufacturing
additive manufacturing
alumina powder
ceramic matrix composites
ceramic
composites

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Committee Members:

Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Carl Voigt, Committee Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jeremy Schreiber, Special Signatory
Matt Lear, Special Signatory

Author:

Gupta, Siddharth

Title:

RADON CALIBRATION CHAMBER DESIGN FEATURES AND POTENTIAL IMPROVEMENTS

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Radon
Radon Calibration Chamber
Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFD

File:

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Committee Members:

Arthur Motta, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Marek Flaska, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Saya Lee, Committee Member
Federico Scurti, Committee Member

Author:

He, Chenyang

Title:

Seeking Stimulation And Meaning To Alleviate Boredom

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

State Boredom
Seeking Meaning
Seeking Stimulation

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Committee Members:

Karen Gasper, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan Emdin Cook, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Roger Beaty, Committee Member

Author:

Gutierrez, Grace

Title:

Assessing The Roles of Thermal Tolerance and Species Distribution Associated With Invasion Potential of Non-Native Mason Bees

Graduate Program:

Ecology (MS)

Keywords:

mason bees
thermal tolerance
invasive species
species distribution

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Committee Members:

Jared Gregory Ali, Program Head/Chair
Margarita Maria Lopez-Uribe, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Biddinger, Committee Member
David Andrew Miller, Committee Member
Rudolf Johannes Schilder, Committee Member

Author:

Graham, Emily

Title:

Identifying Primary Drivers of Streamflow Quantity Changes in the Alaska Southern Cordillera Region

Graduate Program:

Spatial Data Science (MS)

Keywords:

Alaska
surface hydrology
streamflow quantity change
climate change

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Committee Members:

Brandi Gaertner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Panagiotis Giannakis, Committee Member
Anthony Robinson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Helm, Maddy

Title:

Biochemical and structural characterization of the globin-coupled sensor in Klebsiella variicola

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (MS)

Keywords:

Globin coupled sensor
heme
gas sensor
cyclic-di-GMP
diguanylate cyclase
GGDEF
SAXS
biofilm

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Committee Members:

Emily E Weinert, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amie Kathleen Boal, Committee Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Mark Hedglin, Committee Member

Author:

Graap, Skyler

Title:

Using EUREC4A Field Campaign Data to Improve Shallow Cumulus Regimes in the Community Atmosphere Model

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (MS)

Keywords:

climate
modelling
planetary boundary layer
turbulence
momentum flux
higher order closure
turbulence closure

File:

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Committee Members:

Colin M. Zarzycki, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jerry Y Harrington, Committee Member
David Stensrud, Program Head/Chair
Ying Pan, Committee Member

Author:

Mendez Acevedo, Marysabel

Title:

Control of Listeria monocytogenes in apple packing facilities

Graduate Program:

Food Science (MS)

Keywords:

L. monocytogenes
Apple packing houses
Microbiota
Biocide resistance
Persistence
inlA

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Roberts, Program Head/Chair
Jasna Kovac, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Luke F Laborde, Committee Member
Josephine Wee, Committee Member
Erika Ganda, Committee Member

Author:

Miles, Andrew

Title:

From Forested to Urban Ecosystems: Refining Tree Health in American Elm (Ulmus americana) and American Beech (Fagus grandifolia)

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology (MS)

Keywords:

Forest Pathology
Urban Forestry
American Elm
American Beech
Tree Health
Urban Systems

File:

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Committee Members:

Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair
Cristina Rosa, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jill Hamilton, Committee Member
Sharifa G Crandall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Francisco Dini Andreote, Committee Member
Timothy W Mcnellis, Committee Member
Mihail Kantor, Special Signatory

Author:

Neetu, Neetu

Title:

A Phonocardiography based Wearable Vest for Detecting Pulmonary Hypertension in Neonates

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Phonocardiography
PulmonaryHypertension
Occlusion
Signal processing
FastFourierTransform
Neonates

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Committee Members:

Seth Wolpert, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aldo W Morales, Committee Member
Rafic Bachnak, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Xinwei Niu, Committee Member

Author:

Memarian, Sina

Title:

Determinants of indoor air quality in residential buildings with a focus on human behavior and outdoor air quality

Graduate Program:

Architecture (MS)

Keywords:

Indoor air quality (IAQ)
Outdoor air quality
Residential buildings
Human behavior

File:

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Committee Members:

Ute Poerschke, Program Head/Chair
Lisa Domenica Iulo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Natasha Lynn Miles, Committee Member
Rahman Azari, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth James Davis, Committee Member

Author:

Moradzadeh, Sam

Title:

An Extended Reality (XR) learning-based workflow for knitted tensioned design processes

Graduate Program:

Architecture (MS)

Keywords:

Design research
Design process
Extended Reality (XR)
Knitted textile
Lightweight tensioned structures
Virtual Reality (VR)
Augmented Reality (AR)
Mixed Reality (MR)
Design cognition
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

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Committee Members:

Ute Poerschke, Program Head/Chair
Felecia Ann Davis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jose M Pinto Duarte, Committee Member
Yubo Kou, Committee Member

Author:

Muñoz Hernández, Angel

Title:

Understanding Iron-Sulfur Cluster Regeneration in RNA Methylthiotransferases

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology (MS)

Keywords:

MiaB
radical SAM enzyme
iron-sulfur cluster
methylthiotransferase
tRNA
[4Fe-4S] cluster
Fe/S biogenesis pathway
BACTH
BioID
Crosslinking Mass Spectrometry

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Committee Members:

Squire J. Booker, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carsten Krebs, Committee Member
Wendy Hanna-Rose, Program Head/Chair
C. Denise Okafor, Committee Member

Author:

Meeks, Kathleen

Title:

The Human Connection: A Graph Theory Approach to Depression and fMRI Resting State Network Analyses

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience (MS)

Keywords:

Anhedonia
Graph Theory
Depression
Functional Connectivity
Resting-State fMRI

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Committee Members:

Charles Geier, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Frank Gerard Hillary, Committee Member
Sonia Cavigelli, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Dahlia Mukherjee, Special Signatory
Zachary Fisher, Committee Member

Author:

Meyers, Kate

Title:

Phase Identification of Phosphorus Uptake onto Carbonate Minerals in Coastal Wastewater Injection Zones

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (MS)

Keywords:

wastewater remediation
carbonate geochemistry
phosphate
water quality

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Committee Members:

Miquela Ingalls, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lee Kump, Committee Member
Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Kimberly Lau, Committee Member

Author:

Miller, Adriana

Title:

Novel metaphor processing in a second language: A behavioral and ERP study

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

novel metaphor
EEG
bilingualism
second language
ERP

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Committee Members:

Janet Van Hell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roger Beaty, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Chaleece Sandberg (She/Her), Committee Member

Author:

Raich, Emma

Title:

A Study of the Effect of an Elevated Beat Rate in the Left Side of the 12cc Penn State Pediatric Total Artificial Heart

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

total artificial heart
pediatric
mechanical circulatory support devices
particle image velocimetry
elevated beat rate
cardiovascular fluid dynamics
thrombosis
wall shear rate

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Committee Members:

Keefe B Manning, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Justin Lee Brown, Committee Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
William Joseph Weiss, Committee Member