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Author:

Rivera, Olivia

Title:

The Zinc Transporter ZnT2 (SLC30A2) As a Regulator of the Lactation Cycle: Implications In Suboptimal Lactation

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Lactation
SLC30A2
Zinc
ZnT2
Lysosome
Involution
Mammary Gland

File:

Download Rivera_Dissertation_March_2019_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

David Soybel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Soybel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Martin Yengo, Committee Member
Edward Joseph Gunther, Committee Member
Robin Taylor Wilson, Outside Member
Hong-Gang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shannon Kelleher, Special Member

Author:

Alzaabi, Omar Saleh

Title:

AIRBORNE INSECT RADAR SCATTERING CHARACTERIZATION USING ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Radar Cross Section (RCS)
Target Tracking
Method of Moments (MoM)
FEKO
Remote Sensing
Bio-electromagnetics
numerical methods

File:

Download Omar_Alzaabi_Dissertation__Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Julio V. Urbina, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julio V. Urbina, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James K. Breakall, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Michael T. Lanagan, Outside Member

Author:

Strock, Christopher

Title:

Functional Implications of Root Architectural and Anatomical Phenes for Soil Resource Capture

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Common bean
Phenotyping
Roots
Plant Physiology
Drought Stress
Phosphorus Stress
Root Architecture
Root Anatomy
Plant Nutrition

File:

Download Strock_Thesis_04.02.2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan Paul Lynch, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan Paul Lynch, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathleen Marie Brown, Committee Member
Armen R. Kemanian, Committee Member
Jack Watson, Outside Member

Author:

Hass, Daniel

Title:

Ucp2-Dependent Changes in Mitochondrial Dynamics Protect the Retina from Glaucoma

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

Ucp2
Glaucoma
Mitochondria
Oxidative Stress
Uncoupling
Eye
Retina
Neurodegeneration

File:

Download DTH-Thesis-Final-3.pdf

Committee Members:

Colin James Barnstable, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Colin James Barnstable, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ian Alexander Simpson, Committee Member
Alistair J Barber, Committee Member
Gregory Steven Yochum, Outside Member
Daniel James Morgan, Committee Member

Author:

Tan, Qijun

Title:

Asymptotically Contained Representations and the Spherical Plancherel Formula

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Plancherel formula
representation of semi-simple Lie groups
symplectic geometry
noncommutative geometry
harmonic analysis
C^*-algebra

File:

Download master.pdf

Committee Members:

Nigel David Higson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nigel David Higson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Frank Baum, Committee Member
Ping Xu, Committee Member
Murat Gunaydin, Outside Member

Author:

Murphy, Julie Lynn

Title:

The Influence of Family Communication Patterns and Young Adults Engaging in Advance Care Planning with Their Parents: A Mixed-Methods Study

Graduate Program:

Nursing

Keywords:

advance care planning
nursing
communication
family communication patterns
mixed methods

File:

Download Dissertation_Final_Draft_Murphy.pdf

Committee Members:

Judith E Hupcey, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith E Hupcey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lisa Ann Kitko, Committee Member
Jacqueline Ann Mogle, Committee Member
Jon F Nussbaum, Outside Member

Author:

Marcum, Andrew

Title:

Ultracold Fermions in Reduced Dimensions: Three-Body Recombination, Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquids, and a Honeycomb Lattice

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

degenerate Fermi gases
atomic gases
quasi-one dimension
three-body recombination
Luttinger liquid

File:

Download Marcum-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth M. O'Hara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth M. O'Hara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Scott Weiss, Committee Member
Ying Liu, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member

Author:

Conway, Brian

Title:

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS OF IONIC LIQUIDS AND IONIC LIQUID - CONVENTIONAL SOLVENT MIXTURES

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

molecular dynamics
ionic liquids
classical simulation
spectroscopy
chemistry
physical chemistry
mixtures
ions
diffusion
rotation
solvation dynamics

File:

Download final_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark Maroncelli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
William Noid, Committee Member
Janna Maranas, Outside Member

Author:

Chakraborty, Nirjhor

Title:

Fundamental Investigation of Gas Storage and Transport in Shales

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

shale gas
supercritical fluids
nanopores and fluid confinement
gas densification
adsorption-desorption
surface diffusion
3D X-ray CT Imaging
sub-resolution and multi-scale imaging
petrophysics and characterization
multi-phase multi-mechanistic modeling

File:

Download Nirjhor_Chakraborty_Dissertation_Post-Defense_final_draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Zuleima T Karpyn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Michael Charles Hillman, Outside Member

Author:

Hadjicosta, Elena

Title:

Integral Transform Methods in Goodness-of-Fit Testing

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Bessel function
Contiguous alternative
Gamma distribution
Gaussian random field
Hankel transform
Wishart distribution

File:

Download Hadjicosta_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Richards, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bharath Sriperumbudur, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Akritas, Committee Member
Lynn Lin, Committee Member
Kirsten Eisentraeger, Outside Member

Author:

Shetty, Smitha

Title:

ELECTROMECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF LEAD MAGNESIUM NIOBATE BASED THIN FILMS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

relaxor ferroelectricity
PMN
D33
single beam laser interferometer

File:

Download Smitha_Shetty_Dissertation_final_1.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Chris Giebink, Outside Member
Thomas Shaw, Special Member

Author:

Barnes, William

Title:

Functional Analyses of Cell Wall Synthesis and Modification in Arabidopsis thaliana

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Arabidopsis thaliana
cell wall
cellulose
pectin
lignin

File:

Download W_Barnes_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles T Anderson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles T Anderson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gabriele Brigitte Monshausen, Committee Member
John Edward Carlson, Committee Member
Costas D Maranas, Outside Member

Author:

Sabeeh, Ala Hamza

Title:

MIST DEPOSITION, PATTERNING AND APPLICATIONS OF CADMIUM SELENIDE NANOCRYSTALLINE QUANTUM DOT FILMS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Nanocrystalline Quantum Dots
Mist Deposition
Patterning
Lift-off Process
Downshifting
Silicon Solar Cell
micro-patterns
thin film

File:

Download Ala_Sabeeh_PhD_Dissertaion_SP_19_submitted.pdf

Committee Members:

Jerzy Ruzyllo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Osama O Awadelkarim, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Outside Member

Author:

Wu, Kan

Title:

BUS TRANSIT PRIORITY: MODELING AND EVALUATING PERFORMANCE

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

bus transit priority
transit signal priority
traffic flow theory
kinematic wave theory
queuing theory

File:

Download Kan_950090433_PhD_dissertation_Final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

S. Ilgin Guler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vikash V. Gayah, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Martin T. Pietrucha, Committee Member
Terry L. Friesz, Committee Member
Terry L. Friesz, Outside Member

Author:

Pizzo Suarez, Lucilla

Title:

TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING THE GENETIC BASIS OF PHENOTYPIC HETEROGENEITY IN NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS

Graduate Program:

Molecular Medicine

Keywords:

copy number variant
autism
modifier gene
genetic background
phenotypic variability
neurodevelopmental disorders

File:

Download Dissertation_LPizzo_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Santhosh Girirajan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Santhosh Girirajan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ross Cameron Hardison, Committee Member
Zhi-Chun Lai, Committee Member
Qunhua Li, Outside Member
Scott Brian Selleck, Committee Member

Author:

Kumar, Aishwarya

Title:

Neutral atom quantum computing : Quantum gates and Maxwell's demon

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Quantum Computation
Atomic Physics
optical lattice
neutral atoms
Cesium
rydberg
quantum gates
randomized benchmarking
laser
maxwell's demon
entropy

File:

Download AishwaryaKumar-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David Scott Weiss, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Scott Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Kenneth O'Hara, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Outside Member

Author:

Callahan-Flintoft, Chloe

Title:

Understanding the role of visual transients and the temporal autocorrelation of features in extending and closing the attentional window

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Attentional drag theory
attention
feature extraction
N2pc

File:

Download Dissertation_Callahan-Flintoft.pdf

Committee Members:

Bradley Paul Wyble, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bradley Paul Wyble, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Alan Carlson, Committee Member
Frank Gerard Hillary, Committee Member
John Collins, Outside Member

Author:

Shi, Lai

Title:

PAD4 MEDIATED CANCER EXTRACELLULAR CHROMATIN NETWORK IN BREAST CANCER PROMOTES THE DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESSION OF LUNG METASTASIS

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

PAD4
Hypercitrullination
Cancer Extracellular Chromatin Network
Breast cancer
Lung metastasis

File:

Download Dissertation-Lai_Shi.pdf

Committee Members:

Yanming Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yong Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Siyang Zheng, Committee Member
Yanming Wang, Committee Member
Robert Paulson, Outside Member

Author:

Lu, Xinrui

Title:

APPLICATION OF INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY ON THE IN-SITU MEASUREMENT OF BUILDING ENVELOPE THERMAL PROPERTIES

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Building Envelope; Infrared Thermography; Building Science; R-value

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_-_Xinrui_Lu.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali M Memari, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali M Memari, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Member
Gordon Patrick Warn, Committee Member
James Freihaut, Outside Member
Somayeh Asadi, Committee Member

Author:

Eissler, Sarah Elizabeth

Title:

CHOCOLATE AND CLIMATE CHANGE: INVESTIGATING GENDER DYNAMICS OF SMALL-SCALE CACAO PRODUCERS IN LAMPUNG AND SOUTH SULAWESI INDONESIA

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

gender
climate change
small-scale agriculture
cocoa
Indonesia

File:

Download Eissler_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark A Brennan Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Azzara, Committee Member
Ann Rachel Tickamyer, Committee Member
Siela N. Maximova, Outside Member
Carolyn Sachs, Committee Member

Author:

Das, Bagmi

Title:

SUPPORT SEEKING BEHAVIOR FOR SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN THE INDIAN-AMERICAN POPULATION

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

acculturation
sexual violence
Indian-Americans
support seeking

File:

Download Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Hazler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Hazler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Diandra Janelle Prescod, Committee Member
Jonna Marie Kulikowich, Committee Member
Jessica Lynn Matsick, Outside Member

Author:

Southmayd, Emily

Title:

Exploration of the Independent and Combined Effects of Energy and Estrogen on Bone Metabolism, Bone Structure, and Estimated Bone Strength in Young Exercising Women

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology

Keywords:

Female Athlete Triad
Bone Health
Exercising Women
Bone Mineral Density
Nutrition
Bone Turnover
Amenorrhea

File:

Download Southmayd__EA._DOCTORAL_DISSERTATION.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Jane De Souza, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane De Souza, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nancy Williams, Committee Member
Lorah D Dorn, Committee Member
Rebecca Jane Mallinson, Outside Member
Allison Altman Singles, Committee Member

Author:

Lei, Yu

Title:

DEFECT ENGINEERING IN LAYERED MATERIALS: ELECTROCHEMICAL APPLICATIONS IN ENERGY CONVERSION AND BIO-SENSING

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

2D materials
defects
electrochemistry
Hydrogen evolution reaction
Lithium-ion battery
Bio-sensing

File:

Download YuLei-FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Outside Member

Author:

Ghanem, Kahina

Title:

AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO INVESTIGATING OVARIAN FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT AND CYCLIC RECRUITMENT IN CHICKENS

Graduate Program:

Integrative and Biomedical Physiology

Keywords:

Ovary
chicken
follicle
FSH
Relaxin-3
Development
Granulosa cells
Cyclic recruitment

File:

Download 2-27-19_Dissertation_Kahina_Ghanem_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Alan L. Johnson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan L. Johnson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joy L. Pate, Committee Member
Ramesh Ramachandran, Committee Member
Robert Paulson, Outside Member

Author:

Kuo, Yu Hsuan

Title:

SINGLING-OUT VS. BLENDING-IN: OUTLIER DETECTION AND DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY IN DATA

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

outlier detection
outlier explanation
differential privacy

File:

Download PSU_dissertation_kuo.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Kifer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Kifer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clyde Lee Giles, Committee Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member
Zhenhui Li, Outside Member

Author:

Keller, Joseph

Title:

Timing matters: Climate change, phenology, demography, and management of the invasive weed Carduus nutans

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Carduus nutans
climate change
weed management
integral projection model
phenology
biological control

File:

Download Keller_Joseph_ecology_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Katriona Shea, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katriona Shea, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Committee Member
Michael Saunders, Committee Member
James Rosenberger, Outside Member

Author:

Hornick, Jacob

Title:

Analysis of Naturally Occurring Genetic Variants in the Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Receptor Family

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

Personalized medicine
GPCR
S1P
RRMS
G protein
Genetic variation
yeast

File:

Download Dissertation_Complete_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

James Riley Broach, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Riley Broach, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ralph Lauren Keil, Committee Member
Ira Joseph Ropson, Committee Member
Richard Bernard Mailman, Outside Member

Author:

Liang, Jiali

Title:

VISUAL-PERCEPTUAL FEATURES INFLUENCE EYE-HAND COUPLING BY INDIVIDUALS WITH TYPICAL DEVELOPMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR AAC DESIGNS

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Keywords:

Eye-hand coupling
Cognitive load
Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Eye-tracking
Motor Movement

File:

Download Jiali_Dissertation_Eye-hand_format_corrected.pdf

Committee Members:

Krista M. Wilkinson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Krista M. Wilkinson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carol A. Miller, Committee Member
Kathryn D. R. Drager, Committee Member
Rick Gilmore, Outside Member
Robert L. Sainburg, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Hoge, Heather

Title:

THE CATHEDRAL OF CEFALÙ AND ROGER II’S PATRONAGE IN A MULTICULTURAL CONTEXT

Graduate Program:

Art History

Keywords:

Norman Sicily
Roger II
Medieval Architecture
Medieval Sicily
Medieval Art

File:

Download Hoge_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth Smith, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Madhuri Shrikant Desai, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Madhuri Shrikant Desai, Committee Member
Anthony Cutler, Committee Member
Kathryn Elizabeth Salzer, Outside Member

Author:

Lucena Kreppel Paes, Paulo

Title:

Analysis of Inter-scale Turbulence-Chemistry Dynamics with Reduced Physics Simulations for Application to Large-Eddy Simulation of Premixed Turbulent Combustion

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Premixed turbulent combustion
Large-eddy simulation
Vortex-flame interaction
SGS modeling
Fourier transform

File:

Download PauloPaes-Dissertation-Submit.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xuan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Brasseur, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Jacqueline Antonia O'Connor, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Outside Member
Peter Hamlington, Special Member
James Brasseur, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xuan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Zhong, Hongxuan

Title:

USING ITEM RESPONSE THEORY TO DEVELOP A RAVEN’S MATRICES SHORT FORM FOR PAKISTANI ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS

Graduate Program:

School Psychology

Keywords:

Item response theory
Measurement efficiency
Short form development
Raven's Matrices
Adolescents and young adults

File:

Download Zhong_Dissertation_3.31.19_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

James C. DiPerna, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James C. DiPerna, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barbara A. Schaefer, Committee Member
Pui-Wa Lei, Committee Member
Pamela M. Cole, Outside Member
Barbara A. Schaefer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Porter, Nathaniel Douglas

Title:

Religious Islands, Partners, and Bridges: Studying Cross-Denominational Shared Ideas Using Book Co-Purchase Networks

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

sociology
religion
social network analysis
sna
network science
denominations
amazon
culture
consumption
Christianity
US religion
affiliation networks

File:

Download ndp_etd_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Finke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roger Finke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Diane Helen Felmlee, Committee Member
Alan M Sica, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Jing

Title:

THE INFLUENCE OF TEACHER EMPOWERMENT ON TEACHER INTENTION TO LEAVE: AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

TEACHER EMPOWERMENT
INTENTION TO LEAVE
TEACHER ATTRITION

File:

Download 190311_Jing_Liu_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Deborah L. Schussler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Deborah L. Schussler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gerald K. LeTendre, Committee Member
Soo-yong Byun, Committee Member
Bernard J. Badiali, Outside Member

Author:

Xu, Yuncheng

Title:

3D numerical modelling of hydrodynamics and morphodynamics around in-stream structures

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

immersed boundary method
OpenFOAM
CFD
scour modeling
sediment transport
in-stream structure
large woody debris

File:

Download Xu_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaofeng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member
Chaopeng Shen, Committee Member
Roman Alexander Dibiase, Outside Member

Author:

Hatef, Azeta

Title:

Alternative spaces of engagement: Constructing meaning through traditional and social media among Roma in the Czech Republic

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

Roma
Czech Republic
identity
belonging
social media
activism
television
ethnography
Identity
Belonging
Social media
Activism
Television
Ethnography

File:

Download Hatef_Azeta_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Paul Mcallister, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michelle Lyn Rodino, Committee Member
Matthew Frank Jordan, Committee Member
Yael Warshel, Outside Member

Author:

Sprague, Briana Nicole

Title:

Associations between physical and cognitive function in healthy older adults

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

physical function
older adults
cognition
cognitive training
subjective memory

File:

Download Sprague_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Lesley A. Ross, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lesley A. Ross, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alyssa A. Gamaldo, Committee Member
David N. Proctor, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Outside Member

Author:

Pawelec, Krzysztof

Title:

VALUE DISTRIBUTION OF AUTOMORPHIC L-FUNCTIONS

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

value distribution

File:

Download KrzysztofPawelec-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Charles Vaughan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Charles Vaughan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kirsten Eisentraeger, Committee Member
Ae Ja Yee, Committee Member
Jose Palacios, Outside Member

Author:

Fuentes Ortiz, Nathalie

Title:

Endocrine Control of Air Pollution-Induced Lung Inflammation

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

air pollution
sex hormones
lung immunity
sex differences

File:

Download Fuentes_vRevised_Final_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Patricia Silveyra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zissis C Chroneos, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Scot R Kimball, Committee Member
Charles H Lang, Committee Member
David James Degraff, Outside Member

Author:

Dillon, Jasmine Ashley

Title:

LIFE CYCLE ECO-EFFICIENCY OF GRASS-FED BEEF PRODUCTION SYSTEMS IN THE NORTHEAST U.S.

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

grass-fed
forage-finished
beef cattle
animal management
northeast

File:

Download DILLON_-_Dissertation_-_Revised_-_FINAL_-_Updated.pdf

Committee Members:

Alexander Nikolov Hristov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexander Nikolov Hristov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kevin John Harvatine, Committee Member
Daniel M Kniffen, Committee Member
Heather D Karsten, Outside Member
Clarence Alan Rotz, Special Member

Author:

Jiang, Yilun

Title:

Debt Management Problems and Topics in Stackelberg Equilibrium

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

optimal control
debt management
bankruptcy risk
non-cooperative game
Stackelberg equilibrium
generic property

File:

Download Yilun_Jiang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Alberto Bressan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alberto Bressan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alexei Novikov, Committee Member
Iouri M Soukhov, Committee Member
John C Liechty, Outside Member

Author:

Trietsch, Carolyn

Title:

Exploring Megaspilidae (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea) Through Morphology and More

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Ceraphronoidea
Megaspilidae
Ceraphronidae
Conostigmus
Dendrocerus
Megaspilius
Hymenoptera
Wasp
Taxonomy
Systematics
Morphology
Histology
Parasitoid
Insect
Entomology
Natural History

File:

Download Trietsch_FinalThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Robert Deans, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Frazier Tooker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Istvan Miko, Committee Member
Heather M Hines, Committee Member
Benoit A Dayrat, Outside Member

Author:

Koegler, Holly

Title:

Motor Planning and Language in Children With and Without Language Impairment

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Keywords:

action control
language development
procedural deficit hypothesis
developmental language disorder
specific language impairment
language and motor control
end state comfort
motor planning
child language
procedural memory

File:

Download Motor_planning_and_language_in_children_with_and_without_langauge_impairment_Koegler_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Carol Anne Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carol Anne Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Krista M Wilkinson, Committee Member
Ji Min Lee, Committee Member
David Rosenbaum, Outside Member

Author:

Park, Woongbae

Title:

THE MEDIATING ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND TEAM LEARNING ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRUST, PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY, AND VIRTUAL TEAM EFFECTIVENESS IN THE KOREAN RESEARCH INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

virtual team
psychology safety
trust
team learning
knowledge sharing
team effectiveness

File:

Download WoongbaePark_DissertationFinal_submitted.pdf

Committee Members:

David Lynn Passmore, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Lynn Passmore, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Wesley Edward Donahue, Committee Member
Cynthia Pellock, Committee Member
Rama B. Radhakrishna, Outside Member

Author:

Sun, Nan

Title:

Mechanics and Engineering of Atmospheric Water Harvesting

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

atmospheric water harvesting
dew harvesting
fog harvesting
particle deposition
Namib Desert beetle

File:

Download Nan_Sun_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Tak Sing Wong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tak Sing Wong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alexander S Rattner, Committee Member
Christopher D. Rahn, Committee Member
Pak Kin Wong, Outside Member

Author:

Mekerishvili, Giorgi

Title:

ESSAYS ON INFORMATION DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Bayesian PersuasionInformation Design
Disclosure Requirements
Information Disclosure
Crowdfunding
Microtargeting
Kickstarter
Optimal Regulation
Regulation of Disclosure Requirements
political campaigns
political campaigning
Citizen Candidate Model
Principal-Agent Model
Crowdfunding Platform
Reward-based Crowdfunding
commitment power
commitment to information disclosure
reputation
reputation system
long-run reputation
cheap talk
investor protection
capital formation
model of electoral competition
strategic candidates
voter turnout
political awareness
elite polarization
negative campaigning
instrumental voters
rational voters
expressive voting
belief-free equilibrium
strategic communication
dynamic incentives
three stage Maximum Likelihood
campaigning technologies
repeated cheap talk
entrepreneurship
asymmetric information
moral hazard
information intermediary
information intermediation
financial intermediary
Bayesian Persuasion
Information Design
optimal regulation
regulation of disclosure requirements
Moral Hazard
optimal disclosure on crowdfunding platforms
commitment vs. flexibility
commitment vs. flexibility in information disclosure
a fair punishment
microtargeting rational voters

File:

Download Dissertation_Giorgi_Mekerishvili.pdf

Committee Members:

Syed Nageeb Ali, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Syed Nageeb Ali, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karl Edward Schurter, Committee Member
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Member
Bumba Mukherjee, Outside Member
Nima Haghpanah Jahromi, Committee Member
James Jordan, Committee Member

Author:

Bayeck, Rebecca Y

Title:

EXPLORING THE AFRICAN SONGO GAME AND HOW GAMEPLAY ENHANCES MULTIPLE LITERACIES AMONG ADULT PLAYERS IN CAMEROON AND THE UNITED STATES

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology

Keywords:

Songo Board Game
literacies
Cameroon and the United States
African Board Game

File:

Download DISSERTATION.pdf

Committee Members:

Gabriela T Richard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gabriela T Richard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nicole Sheree Webster, Committee Member
Tyler S Hollett, Committee Member
Sinfree Bullock Makoni, Outside Member

Author:

Kumar, Devesh

Title:

Ensemble-based assimilation of non-linearly related dynamic data in reservoir models exhibiting non-Gaussian characteristics

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Data assimilation
Ensemble Kalman filter
non-Gaussian parameters
non-linear models
indicator transforms

File:

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Committee Members:

Sanjay Srinivasan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mort Webster, Committee Member
Gregory King, Committee Member
Steven Greybush, Outside Member

Author:

Singh, Manik

Title:

QUANTITATIVE INVERSION OF MICROSEISMIC DATA: BAYESIAN MODEL SELECTION USING FAST PROXIES FOR FRACTURING AND WAVE PROPAGATION

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Microseismic
Hydraulic Fracturing
Bayesian Model Selection
Quantitative Inversion
Tight Oil/Gas
Petroleum Engineering
Reservoir Engineering

File:

Download ManikSingh_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sanjay Srinivasan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Charles James Ammon, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Chaoyi

Title:

MINERALOGICAL AND TEXTURAL CONTROLS ON SHEAR STRENGTH, SLIP STABILITY AND PERMEABILITY OF FAULTS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Induced Seismicity
Frictional Instability
Mineralogical and Textural Controls
Permeability of Faults and Fractures
Modeling of Mechanical and Rheological Responses of Faults

File:

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Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris J Marone, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Zhan, Hongyuan

Title:

Temporal and Structural Machine Learning from Transportation Data

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

machine learning
time series prediction
optimization
intelligent transportation
structural learning

File:

Download HyZhanDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kamesh Madduri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member
Necdet S Aybat, Outside Member
Kesheng Wu, Special Member
Xiaoye Sherry Li, Special Member
Gabriel Gomes, Special Member

Author:

Harford, Joseph Patrick

Title:

HELPING AND HINDERING FACTORS FOR INMATES MEETING THE CHALLENGES FOR SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY REENTRY

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

recidivism
community reentry
criminal justice reform
workforce education

File:

Download JHarford_Dissertation_Final_3_20_19.pdf

Committee Members:

Hyung Joon Yoon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hyung Joon Yoon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Wesley E. Donahue, Committee Member
Mark D Threeton, Committee Member
Glen Kreiner, Outside Member

Author:

Xia, Mengya

Title:

MOTHER-FATHER-ADOLESCENT TRIADIC RELATIONSHIP DYNAMICS AND THEIR ASSOCIATIONS WITH ADOLESCENTS’ POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ADJUSTMENT

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

family dynamic
triadic family relationship
adolescent adjustment

File:

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Committee Members:

Gregory M. Fosco, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory M Fosco, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bethany Cara Bray, Committee Member
Susan Marie Mchale, Committee Member
Erika Sell Lunkenheimer, Outside Member
Zita Oravecz, Committee Member

Author:

Yoo, Kyungjin

Title:

Can Grid Be Designed by Democracy? - The Political Complexity of Regional Electricity Policy Formation

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Regional Transmission Organization
Stakeholder process
Decision-making
Political power

File:

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Committee Members:

Seth Adam Blumsack, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joel Reid Landry, Committee Member
Jennifer E Baka, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Outside Member

Author:

Seraphin, Wideline

Title:

In her Own Words: (De)Marginalizing Black Immigrant Girlhood in an Emancipatory Literacy Classroom

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

black immigrant girls
immigrant youth literacies
Haitian youth
literacy studies
literacy education

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeanine M. Staples, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeanine M. Staples, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Thomas Kissling, Committee Member
Dana Lynn Stuchul, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Outside Member

Author:

Spencer, Mychal

Title:

Tailorable Manufacturing of Polymer Nanocomposites using Oscillating Magnetic Fields

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Nanocomposites
Nanoparticles
Magnetic assembly
Oscillating field
Polymer-matrix composites

File:

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Committee Members:

Namiko Yamamoto, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Namiko Yamamoto, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Outside Member

Author:

Colen, Jung

Title:

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS’ CONCEPTIONS OF THE COMMON CORE STANDARDS FOR MATHEMATICAL PRACTICE

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Teacher conceptions
Teacher understanding
Elementary school teachers
Common Core
Standards for Mathematical Practice
In-depth interviews
Qualitative research

File:

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Committee Members:

Andrea Vujan Mccloskey, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrea Vujan Mccloskey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fran Arbaugh, Committee Member
Gwendolyn Monica Lloyd, Committee Member
Andrew Michael Baxter, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Ke

Title:

Cellulose nanocomposites production through co-culture fermentation

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

Bacterial cellulose
Exopolysaccharides
Escherichia coli
Hyaluronic acid
Lactococcus lactis
Co-culturing
Bioreactor
Biofilm
Ribbon assembly
Crystallinity

File:

Download Dissertation_Ke_Liu_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey M Catchmark, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Demirci, Committee Member
Cibin Raj, Committee Member
Edward G Dudley, Outside Member

Author:

Lu, Jinpeng

Title:

On two problems in analysis on manifolds

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

graph Laplacian
discretization
spectrum
isotopy
curve shortening flow

File:

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Committee Members:

Dmitri Yu Burago, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dmitri Yu Burago, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Levi, Committee Member
Alexei Novikov, Committee Member
Mark Strikman, Outside Member

Author:

Fyfe, Alexander Colin

Title:

"Forms of Resilience: African Fiction and the Crisis of Capitalism"

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature

Keywords:

African literatures
capitalism
resilience
literary form
crisis
gender

File:

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Committee Members:

Rosemary Jane Jolly, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rosemary Jane Jolly, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hoda El Shakry, Committee Member
Magali Armillas-Tiseyra, Committee Member
Alicia Catharine Decker, Outside Member
Shuang Shen, Committee Member

Author:

Erickson, Frank

Title:

Essays on the economics of education

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

economics of education
job mobility

File:

Download dissert.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark John Roberts, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark John Roberts, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul L E Grieco, Committee Member
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Member
John Jesse Cheslock, Outside Member

Author:

Kandemir, Baris

Title:

Aesthetic And Affective Applications Of Visual Features And Physical Property Analysis Of Plant Stomata Through Active Surfaces

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Computer Vision
Active Curves
Affective Computing
Computational Aesthetics

File:

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Committee Members:

James Z Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Z Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jia Li, Committee Member
Zihan Zhou, Committee Member
Charles T Anderson, Outside Member
Reginald Adams, Jr., Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Xuan

Title:

Pectin’s role in plant cell wall mechanical properties: A structure-property study by multi-dimensional mechanical assays and cell wall visualization techniques

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

plant primary cell wall
AFM
biomechanics
cellulose
pectin

File:

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Committee Members:

Daniel J Cosgrove, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel J Cosgrove, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles T Anderson, Committee Member
B Tracy Nixon, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Outside Member

Author:

Mak, Hio Wa

Title:

The Developmental Significance of Parents and Peers for Individual Adjustment Across Adolescence

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

Parent-Adolescent Relationship
Friendship Support
Relationship Quality
Adolescent Depression
Time-Varying Effect Modeling

File:

Download Mak_Dissertation_20190326.pdf

Committee Members:

Gregory M. Fosco, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory M. Fosco, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nilam Ram, Committee Member
Robert W. Roeser, Committee Member
Stephanie T. Lanza, Outside Member

Author:

Hall, Gordon

Title:

HELPING STUDENTS TRANSITION TO MIDDLE SCHOOL: EFFICACY OF AN ATTRIBUTIONAL INTERVENTION

Graduate Program:

School Psychology

Keywords:

Attribution
School-based Intervention
Mind-set
Achievement

File:

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Committee Members:

James Clyde Diperna, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Clyde Diperna, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barbara Schaefer, Committee Member
Karen Linn Bierman, Committee Member
Scott Gest, Outside Member

Author:

Weissenrieder, Jillian

Title:

Dopamine D2 Receptor Antagonists as Potential Therapeutics for Glioblastoma Multiforme

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

cancer
pharmacology
dopamine D2 receptor
antipsychotic
thioridazine
glioblastoma

File:

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Committee Members:

Raymond J. Hohl, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey D Neighbors, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kent Eugene Vrana, Committee Member
David James Degraff, Committee Member
Xuemei Huang, Outside Member

Author:

Kim, Jinyong

Title:

Modeling Micro- and Macro-Scale Two-Phase Flow in 3D Flow Channels of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Fuel Cell
3D fine mesh
Flow-field
Water management
High current density
Mass transport
Two-phase flow
Modeling
PEMFC

File:

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Committee Members:

Chao-Yang Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chao-Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Sukwon Choi, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Outside Member

Author:

Thibodeau, Mark

Title:

Mortgage Servicers and Housing Externalities

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

mortgage servicer
RMBS
foreclosure spillover
default contagion
housing externalities
mortgage modification
servicer concentation
servicer share
mortgage securitization

File:

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Committee Members:

Brent William Ambrose, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brent William Ambrose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jiro Yoshida, Committee Member
Liang Peng, Committee Member
Timothy T Simin, Outside Member
Austin Jaffe, Committee Member

Author:

Hultquist, Carolynne

Title:

Validation of Citizen Science Data for Decision-Making during Disasters

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

crowdsource
citizen science
data integration
environmental hazards

File:

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Committee Members:

Guido Cervone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guido Cervone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anthony C Robinson, Committee Member
Todd Smith Bacastow, Committee Member
Andrea Tapia, Outside Member

Author:

Fleming, Jennifer A

Title:

The Dose-Response Effects of Lean Beef in a Mediterranean-Style Dietary Pattern on Established and Emerging Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

Mediterranean diet
Lean beef
Cardiovascular disease
Lipids
Dietary patterns
Vascular health

File:

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Committee Members:

Penny Margaret Kris-Etherton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Penny Margaret Kris-Etherton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Connie Jo Rogers, Committee Member
Gregory C Shearer, Committee Member
Peter Lawrence Bordi, Jr., Outside Member

Author:

Kunches, Daniel

Title:

Capacity in the Age of Environmental Variability: An Analysis of Yosemite’s Use and Ecological Imperatives

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Capacity
Yosemite National Park
Climate Variability
Protected Area Management
Ecological Restoration
Conservation Boundaries

File:

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Committee Members:

Brian Hastings King, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brian Hastings King, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karl Zimmerer, Committee Member
Alan H Taylor, Committee Member
Alan R Graefe, Outside Member
Cynthia Ann Brewer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Szeles, Tiffany

Title:

Damage mitigation and prediction of alkali-silica reaction in concrete

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Concrete
Alkali-silica reaction
Mitigation
Service life
Aluminum
Design of experiment

File:

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Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nathaniel Richard Warner, Committee Member
Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Committee Member
James Rosenberger, Outside Member
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Dutta, Ritam

Title:

AN ETHNOGRAPHIC CASE STUDY OF CONTEMPORARY BENGALI STUDENTS’ ‘ADDA’ (HANG-OUT) IN ONE UNIVERSITY IN KOLKATA: ALTERNATIVE PATHWAYS TO LEARNING, OR A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME?

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Bengali
Sociability Practice
Informal learning
Kolkata
Adda
Hang out
Student
Youth
West Bengal
Alternative pathways to learning
Culture Studies
Youth Studies
Ethnographic Case Study
Educational Culture
Culture of Education
South Asian Studies
Education
Educational Sociology
Sociology of Education
Informal Education
Adult Education
Continuous Education
Lifelong Learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member
Mark Thomas Kissling, Committee Member
Susan G Strauss, Outside Member
Gwendolyn Monica Lloyd, Committee Member

Author:

Khawaji, Ibrahim Hussain

Title:

ENGINEERED THIN FILMS OF PARYLENE C AS ELECTRICAL INSULATORS FOR FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

ENGINEERED THIN FILMS
PARYLENE C
ELECTRICAL INSULATORS
FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS
low-k

File:

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Committee Members:

Osama O Awadelkarim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Outside Member

Author:

Nelson, Jonathan

Title:

Role of Cartography, Design, and Visualization in Making Personal Movement Data More Accessible, Legible, Valuable

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

personal movement data
visualization
cartography
data dashboards
UI/UX design
user studies
user centered design
human-computer interaction
culture studies
place
quantified-self (QS)

File:

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Committee Members:

Alan M MacEachren, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan M MacEachren, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cynthia Ann Brewer, Committee Member
Anthony C Robinson, Committee Member
Burt Monroe III, Outside Member

Author:

Titus, Richard

Title:

An Integrated Supplier Selection Model with Product Life Cycle Considerations

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Supplier Selection
MCDM
Product Life Cycle
Goal Programming
Math Programming
case study

File:

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Committee Members:

A. Ravindran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
A. Ravindran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
El-Amine Lehtihet, Committee Member
Vittaldas Prabhu, Committee Member
Felisa Preciado Higgins, Outside Member

Author:

Deng, Donna

Title:

Fabrication and Analysis of 2D TMD Based Devices for integration into More-Than-Moore electronic systems

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

2D materials
TMDs
transition metal dichalcogenides
MoS2
WS2
epitaxial graphene
dielectrophoretic assembly
dielectrophoresis
self-assembly
directed assembly
heterostructure
2D
contact engineering
transistor
contacts
sensors
chemical sensing
triethylamine
chemiresistor
internet of things
more-than-moore

File:

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Committee Members:

Joshua Alexander Robinson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Member
Seyedehaida Ebrahimi, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Outside Member

Author:

Chao, Ju Hung

Title:

ADVANCED LASER BEAM DEFLECTION AND LASER INDUCED ACTIVATION

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

KTN
Beam Deflector
Multi-denominational beam deflector
High gain PCSS
Ruby fluorescence

File:

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Committee Members:

Shizhuo Yin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shizhuo Yin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Kenneth Breakall, Committee Member
Victor P Pasko, Committee Member
Jian Hsu, Outside Member

Author:

Miller, Sharmaine Larue

Title:

Effects of Stressors on the Development and Resilience of Adult Fish Behavior

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

fish behavior
temperament
stress
environmental context
predictability
facial recognition

File:

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Committee Members:

Victoria Anne Braithwaite-Read, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Harold Marden, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tracy Langkilde, Committee Member
Sonia Angele Cavigelli, Committee Member
Sonia Angele Cavigelli, Outside Member

Author:

Snyder, Jacob

Title:

Improving Turbine Cooling Through Control of Surface Roughness in the Additive Manufacturing Process

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

L-PBF
gas turbines
heat transfer
additive manufacturing
surface roughness
DMLS
SLM
fluid flow
film cooling
process parameters

File:

Download SnyderDissertation_FinalSubmission.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Ann Thole, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member
Edward William Reutzel, Outside Member
Reid Adam Berdanier, Special Member

Author:

Olson, Bradley Louis

Title:

Higher Education and Community Development: A Multi-Stakeholder View on the Correlates of Project Participation and Design Preferences

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Extension Education

Keywords:

higher education
community development
participation
engagement
project design
social interaction

File:

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Committee Members:

Mark A Brennan Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark A Brennan Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rama B Radhakrishna, Committee Member
Nicole Sheree Webster, Committee Member
Jacqueline Edmondson, Outside Member
Theodore Roberts Alter, Committee Member

Author:

Tucker, Scott Michael

Title:

Finite Element Analysis for Surgical Decision Support of Intramedullary Nail Fixation for Proximal Femur Fractures

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Orthopaedic Biomechanics
Finite Element Analysis
Intramedullary Nail
Femur Fracture

File:

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Committee Members:

Gregory Stephen Lewis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith Todd Copley, Committee Member
John Elfar, Outside Member
John Spence Reid, Special Member
Lisa M Shantz, Outside Member
Gregory Stephen Lewis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Shewark, Elizabeth

Title:

PARENT-CHILD AND TEACHER-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS: THE ROLE OF THE CHILD

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Child Emotionality
Child Emotion Development
Parenting
Parent-Child Relationships
Teacher-Child Relationships
Child Problem Behaviors
Child Social Competence
Behavioral Genetics
Evocative Gene-Environment Correlation
Adoption Design
Temperament

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Committee Members:

Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kristin Ann Buss, Committee Member
Ginger A Moore, Committee Member
Gregory M Fosco, Outside Member

Author:

Celik, Zeynel Berkay

Title:

Automated IoT Security and Privacy Analysis

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

IoT security and privacy
program analysis
security
privacy

File:

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Committee Members:

Patrick McDaniel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas F. La Porta, Committee Member
Gang Tan, Committee Member
David Reitter, Outside Member
A. Selcuk Uluagac, Special Member

Author:

Wang, Yue

Title:

ON IMPROVING THE UTILITY FOR DATA ANALYSES UNDER DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Differential privacy
statistical data analyses

File:

Download YueWang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Kifer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Kifer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clyde Lee Giles, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Outside Member

Author:

Diaz Beltran, Ana Carolina

Title:

"Am I North American or South American?" Theorizing and Studying Living Curricula of the Global

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

curriculum
citizenship
global citizenship
Latinas/os
immigrant
youth
Hazleton
living curriculum
place
global
stories
storying
narrative

File:

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Committee Members:

Mark Thomas Kissling, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Thomas Kissling, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gail Louise Boldt, Committee Member
Kimberly Anne Powell, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Outside Member

Author:

Lu, Feiyue

Title:

MOLECULAR ANALYSES OF THE DROSOPHILA RNA POLYMERASE II CARBOXY-TERMINAL DOMAIN

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

RNA Pol II CTD
consensus heptads
divergent motifs
transcription compartment
Drosophila genetics

File:

Download Lu_thesis_final_final.pdf

Committee Members:

David Scott Gilmour, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Scott Gilmour, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benjamin Franklin Pugh, Committee Member
Melissa Rolls, Committee Member
Scott A Showalter, Outside Member
Joseph C. Reese, Committee Member
Claire Madison Thomas, Committee Member

Author:

Franklin, Alison Mary

Title:

The Influence of Wastewater Reuse on the Occurrence of Antibiotics, Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria, and Toxicological Impacts in the Environment

Graduate Program:

Soil Science

Keywords:

Antibiotics
antibiotic resistance
wastewater reuse
water reuse
soil
groundwater

File:

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Committee Members:

John Earl Watson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Maryann Victoria Bruns, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Patrick Vanden Heuvel, Committee Member
Subhashinie Kariyawasam, Committee Member
Clinton Williams, Outside Member

Author:

Lavely, Emily Kay

Title:

ROOT BIOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF APPLE TREES AS AFFECTED BY FRUIT REMOVAL

Graduate Program:

Horticulture

Keywords:

Malus x domestica
chemical thinning
carbohydrate reserves
starch
fine roots
arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF)
non-mycorrhizal fungi (NMF)
nutrient foraging
root diameter

File:

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Committee Members:

Richard P Marini, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Eissenstat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Michael Crassweller, Committee Member
David Eissenstat, Committee Member
Maria Del Mar Jimenez Gasco, Outside Member

Author:

Ding, Yifu

Title:

X-ray micro-tomography and its applications in whole-organism imaging and 3D histology

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

zebrafish
micro-CT
3D histology
phenomics

File:

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Committee Members:

Keith C Cheng, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Keith C Cheng, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Feng Yue, Committee Member
Diane M Thiboutot, Committee Member
Charles H Lang, Outside Member
Qing X Yang, Committee Member
Patrick La Riviere, Special Member

Author:

Tarrant, Ian Michael

Title:

Anticipated Incentives in CEO Compensation Contracts: Estimation and Application

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

CEO Compensation
Earnings Management
Simulation
Equity Incentives

File:

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Committee Members:

Guojin Gong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guojin Gong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karl A Muller III, Committee Member
John Edward Ketz, Committee Member
Fenghua Song, Outside Member

Author:

Leary, Robert D

Title:

Map-based Vehicle State Estimation Using A Spatiotemporal Preview Filter

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

autonomous
vehicle
localization
perception
camera
pose estimation
mapping
lidar
state estimation

File:

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Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew B Parkinson, Committee Member
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Karl Martin Reichard, Outside Member

Author:

Gilfillan, Elizabeth

Title:

THE INFLUENCE OF SCHOOL COUNSELORS ON THE COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS OF FIRST GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

school counselors
college and career readiness
first generation college students
social capital
career decision-making
academic buoyancy

File:

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Committee Members:

Richard Hazler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Hazler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Diandra Janelle Prescod, Committee Member
Rayne Audrey Sperling, Committee Member
Bernard Joel Badiali, Outside Member

Author:

Jones, Andrew

Title:

Narrating for-the-Other: French and Francophone Cinema as Testimony of the Extreme

Graduate Program:

French and Francophone Studies

Keywords:

Cinema
Holocaust
Gulag
Colonialism
French and Francophone Studies
Film Studies
film-philosophy
Emmanuel Levinas

File:

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Committee Members:

Monique Yaari, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Monique Yaari, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer Boittin, Committee Member
Willa Zahava Silverman, Committee Member
Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Outside Member
Steven Ungar, Outside Member

Author:

Vanderhoof, Carmen

Title:

A Three-Part Analysis of Elementary Students' Encounters with Texts, Artifacts, and Engineering Design Processes

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Engineering Education
STEM integration
Engineering Storybooks
Uncertainty
Engineering Drawings
Epistemic Practices
Multimodal Literacies
Discourse Analysis
Figured Worlds
Positioning
Affective Stance
Agency

File:

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Committee Members:

Greg Kelly, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Greg Kelly, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bill Carlsen, Committee Member
Richard Alan Duschl, Committee Member
Susan G Strauss, Outside Member
Christine Cunningham, Special Member

Author:

Wahba, Mohamed

Title:

Factors affecting the repeatability of the fuel consumption of a heavy-duty truck on urban and highway roads

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

V2I
Truck platoon

File:

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Committee Members:

Sean Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
Stephanie Stockar, Committee Member
Eric Norman Johnson, Outside Member
Karen Ann Thole, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hermans, Olaf

Title:

Exploring the role of grounded relationship quality and loyal customer contribution in the satisfaction-loyalty chain in ongoing service relationships

Graduate Program:

Hospitality Management

Keywords:

service relationships
loyalty
relationship quality
satisfaction
co-ownership
dyads

File:

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Committee Members:

Hubert Van Hoof, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anna S Mattila, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donna L Quadri-Felitti, Committee Member
Michael J Tews, Jr., Committee Member
Denise Haunani Solomon, Outside Member

Author:

Black, Caitlin

Title:

From Seed to Cigar: A Cultural Landscape of South-Central Pennsylvania Tobacco

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Pennsylvania
Tobacco
Cultural Landscape

File:

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Committee Members:

Anne Ayer Verplanck, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member
Simon Bronner, Committee Member
Joseph James Cecere, Outside Member

Author:

Grace, Rob Robert

Title:

Incorporating social media in community emergency response

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

crisis response
sensemaking
crisis informatics
emergency management
social media
risk communication

File:

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Committee Members:

Fred Fonseca, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fred Fonseca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrea Tapia, Committee Member
Jack Carroll, Committee Member
Clio Maria Andris, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Chuyu

Title:

Local Government and Ethnic Violence in Authoritarian Regime

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Ethnic Conflict
Authoritarian Regime
China
Xinjiang

File:

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Committee Members:

Xun Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xun Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bumba Mukherjee, Committee Member
Glenn Palmer, Committee Member
David Atwill, Outside Member

Author:

Davis, Stefanie Elizabeth

Title:

FROM FOURTH ESTATE TO “FAKE NEWS”: ENGENDERED SOCIAL NORMS AND SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY NEWSROOM

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

social media
broadcast journalism
gender
qualitative research
news industry

File:

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Committee Members:

Colleen Connolly-Ahern, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bu Zhong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francis Erin Dardis, Committee Member
Lorraine Dowler, Committee Member
Lorraine Dowler, Outside Member