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Author:

Weathers, Thomas Casey

Title:

CONSERVATION GENETICS OF SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BROOK TROUT (Salvelinus fontinalis)

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

Population genetics
Genetic differentiation
Isolation
Fragmentation
Riverscape genetics
Conservation

File:

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Committee Members:

John Edward Carlson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Edward Carlson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Lee King, Committee Member
Jesse R Lasky, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Outside Member
Matthew A Kulp, Special Member

Author:

Wallace, Anya Michelle

Title:

CURVING SPACETIME: ON PERFORMANCE, PLEASURE, AND THE IMAGINARY BLACK GIRLHOOD SEXUAL POLITICS

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

Black girlhood
Girlhood
Visual Culture
Performance Writing
Art Writing
Popular Culture
Narratology
Translation
Language
black hole theory
Philosophy
Sexuality Studies
Gender Studies
Women's Studies
Art Education
Visual Culture Studies
Undisciplined
Body Politics
Black body
Rage
Freedom Studies
Fantasy
Creative Writing
Youth Culture Studies
Prison Culture Studies
Cultural Studies
Children's Narrative Studies
Fiction Studies
Rememory

File:

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Committee Members:

Wanda Knight, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wanda Knight, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Grace Hampton, Committee Member
Courtney Desiree Morris, Outside Member
Uju Anya, Outside Member
Booker Stephen Carpenter, II, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Last, Beth Anna

Title:

Multi-scale Microstructure and Thermo-mechanical Characterization for Shape Memory Alloy Design via Additive Manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

shape memory alloy
additive manufacturing
microstructure
digital image correlation

File:

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Committee Members:

Reginald Felix Hamilton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reginald Felix Hamilton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Todd Palmer, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Outside Member
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Member

Author:

Ikis, Didem

Title:

ALASKAN PONDS AND THEIR MIGRATORY BIRD AND INSECT COMMUNITIES IN A CHANGING ARCTIC: DEVELOPMENT OF A LONG-TERM INVENTORY AND MONITORING PLAN FOR IZEMBEK NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

BIODIVERSITY
CLIMATE CHANGE
GLOBAL CHANGE
COMMUNITY ECOLOGY
PHENOLOGY
SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP
CONSERVATION
ALASKA
ARCTIC
PONDS
INVENTORY & MONITORING
ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

File:

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Committee Members:

Tracy Lee Langkilde, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Victoria Anne Braithwaite-Read, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tomas A Carlo-Joglar, Committee Member
David Andrew Miller, Committee Member
Eric Post, Outside Member

Author:

Blecher, Jared Jacob

Title:

Hybrid Laser-Arc Welding of Ni-base Alloy 690

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

laser welding
hybrid welding
nickel alloy
keyhole porosity
root defect
inline coherent imaging
heat transfer and fluid flow modeling

File:

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Committee Members:

Tarasankar Debroy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Todd Palmer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Outside Member

Author:

Cady, Matthew D

Title:

Nurture TRUMPS Nature: Genetics, The Environment, and Parenting and Their Effect on Child Food Intake and Childhood Obesity

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

childhood obesity
obesity
genetics
adoption
cluster analysis
environmental health
Nurture versus Nature

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael Green, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Green, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathleen Keller, Committee Member
Jennifer Savage Williams, Committee Member
Melissa Bopp, Outside Member
Jody Ganiban, Special Member

Author:

Yao, Wenqing

Title:

Data-driven sensor recalibration and fault diagnosis in nuclear power plants

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

sensor recalibration
fault diagnosis
nuclear power plants
online monitoring
autoregressive support vector regression
resistance temperature detector

File:

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Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Justin Kyle Watson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Ivanov, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Outside Member
Justin Kyle Watson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kostadin Ivanov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James A Turso, Special Member
Xin Jin, Special Member

Author:

Griffin, Dominiqua Monica

Title:

AN INVESTIGATION OF SCHOOL COUNSELING ROLES, PRACTICES, CHALLENGES, AND DEMANDS IN BARBADOS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAMS IN BARBADOS

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

Barbados
School Counseling
Guidance Counselling
International Education
International School Counseling
Caribbean

File:

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Committee Members:

Julia A Green Bryan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julia A Green Bryan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nicole Sheree Webster, Committee Member
Seriashia Joyce Chatters, Committee Member
Ashley Nichol Patterson, Outside Member

Author:

Bharatula, Vasudha

Title:

REGULATION OF STRESS INDUCED GENE EXPRESSION IN SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Msn2
yeast
Stress

File:

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Committee Members:

James Riley Broach, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Riley Broach, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ralph Lauren Keil, Committee Member
Gregory Steven Yochum, Committee Member
Scot R Kimball, Outside Member
Oranee Tawatnuntachai, Special Member

Author:

Speacht, Toni Leigh

Title:

Interdependence of the Musculoskeletal System in Response to Unloading, Immobilization, and RANKL

Graduate Program:

Physiology

Keywords:

osteopenia
sarcopenia
unloading
immobilization
RANKL
hindlimb suspension

File:

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Committee Members:

Charles H Lang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles H Lang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gregory Stephen Lewis, Committee Member
Scot R Kimball, Committee Member
Gregory Steven Yochum, Outside Member
Henry Joseph Donahue, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Henry Joseph Donahue, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Im, Kyungjae

Title:

FRICTION AND PERMEABILITY EVOLUTION OF FRACUTRES AND FAULTS DURING STATIC REPOSE AND DYNAMIC REACTIVATION

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Fault permeability
Fault Friction
Rate and State Friction
Fault Reactivation

File:

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Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Almishwat, Mohammad Ali

Title:

STRUCTURAL AND MECHANISTIC ENZYMOLOGY OF NUCLEOTIDE INCORPORATION BY A-FAMILY DNA POLYMERASES

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

DNA polymerase
A-family
DNA replication
DNA
Nucleotide incorporation
time-resolved
structural enzymology
X-ray crystallography
high-fidelity

File:

Download AlMishwat_PhD_Dissertation_2019_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

James Gregory Ferry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Gregory Ferry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Hafenstein, Committee Member
David Scott Gilmour, Committee Member
Squire J Booker, Outside Member
Amie Kathleen Boal, Committee Member
Ken Keiler, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dusch, William George

Title:

Data Science in Scanning Probe Microscopy: Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

scanning tunneling microscopy
data science
machine learning
python
data analysis
deep learning
scanning probe microscopy
condensed matter
software
vibration cancellation
automation
unsupervised learning
physics

File:

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Committee Members:

Eric Hudson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Hudson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Sofo, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Member

Author:

Whitehead, Shelley Alexandra

Title:

Nature Nurtures: How environmental variation influences Anopheles stephensi vectorial capacity

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

mosquito
malaria
climate change
Anopheles
vector ecology
environmental variation
life history
Plasmodium

File:

Download Whitehead_Dissertation_May_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Brian Thomas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Brian Thomas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member
Rudolf Johannes Schilder, Committee Member
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Outside Member
Diana Cox-Foster, Special Member

Author:

Lee, Pei Wei

Title:

USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO ACCESS AND SUPPORT INFORMAL LEARNING IN MUSEUMS OF TAIWAN AND THE U.S.

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Keywords:

Informal Learning
Social Media

File:

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Committee Members:

Ladislaus M. Semali, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ladislaus M. Semali, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Adnan Qayyum, Committee Member
Wei-Fan Chen, Committee Member
Roger Shouse, Outside Member

Author:

Patia, Kaitlyn Grace

Title:

The (F)utiliy of Knowledge: The Democratic Faith of W.E.B. Du Bois and Jane Addams

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Democratic Faith
Rhetoric
Memory
Addams
Du Bois
Poetics
Storytelling
Agitation
Hull-House

File:

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Committee Members:

Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
Debra Hawhee, Outside Member
Denise Haunani Solomon, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rangavittal, Samarth

Title:

ASSEMBLY AND ANALYSIS OF GREAT APE Y CHROMOSOMES

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics

Keywords:

genome assembly
great ape
Y chromosome
k-mers

File:

Download SR_dissertation_Spring_2019_SUBMISSION_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Raquel Assis, Committee Member
Wansheng Liu, Committee Member
Paul Medvedev, Outside Member

Author:

Beck, Faith Rose

Title:

Experimental and Theoretical Study of Oscillatory Two-Phase Flows with Heat and Mass Transfer

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

oscillatory reflood
liquid carryover
stability analysis
heat and mass transfer
thermal-hydraulics
liquid entrainment

File:

Download Faith_Dissertation2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Fan-Bill B Cheung, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fan-Bill B Cheung, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rui Ni, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Member
Diane Marie Henderson, Outside Member
Horacio Perez-Blanco, Special Member
Gita Talmage, Special Member
Steven M. Bajorek, Outside Member

Author:

Zhao, Peng

Title:

Multiscale Modeling and Mechanics of 2D Layered Crystals

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Multiscale Modeling
2D Material
Finite Crystal Elasticity

File:

Download opt_Dissertstion_Peng.pdf

Committee Members:

The Pennsylvania State University, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sulin Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Outside Member

Author:

Quinlan, Kevin Randall

Title:

Advances in Design of Computer Experiments

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Covering Arrays
Bayesian Design
Plackett and Burman Designs
Experimental Run Order
Optimization

File:

Download Thesis_2262019.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis Keith Pearl, Committee Member
David Hunter, Committee Member
Enrique Del Castillo, Outside Member