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Author:

Saleem, Muhammad Rakeh

Title:

From Gaze to Insight: Leveraging Eye Trackingfor Structural Inspection

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

eye tracking
damage assessment
fixation maps
visual attention
computer vision
building inspection
human-building interaction
artificial intelligence
saliency maps
disaster reconnaissance

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Committee Members:

Alan Wagner, Outside Unit Member
Simon Miller, Outside Field Member
Rebecca Napolitano, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Thomas Boothby, Major Field Member
James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Arunagiri, Karthik

Title:

Electrochemical Pump for Hydrogen Purification: Investigating Kinetic and Transport Properties in the Electrode layer

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Electrochemical hydrogen pump
Hydrogen purification and compression
Electrode Binder
Gas transport
Kinetics
Phosphonic acid ionomer
Anhydride formation
Binder Blend

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Committee Members:

Ezra Clark, Major Field Member
Derek Hall, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bert Chandler, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Phillip Savage, Major Field Member
Christopher Arges, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Robert Rioux, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Kaushal, Saanchi

Title:

Dimensionality Reduction and Physics-Based Modeling to Quantify Relationships between Masonry Buildings and Tornadoes

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Tornado Damage
Digital Documentation
Historic Buildings
Disaster Reconnaissance
Numerical Modeling

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Committee Members:

Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Manzhu Yu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rebecca Napolitano, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Esther Obonyo, Major Field Member
Julian Wang, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Williams, Victoria

Title:

Understanding the effects of a new approach: Evaluating a behavioral health service at a central Pennsylvanian elementary school

Graduate Program:

Public Administration

Keywords:

Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services
Intensive Behavioral Health Services
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Mixed-Method Exploratory Design
Elementary School
School-Based Behavioral Health Services

File:

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Committee Members:

Ana Patricia Aguilera Hermida, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sara Imanpour, Major Field Member
Dan Mallinson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Triparna Vasavada, Major Field Member
Goktug Morcol, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Tang, Xiaomeng

Title:

DYE-DOPED CALCIUM PHOSPHOSILICATE NANOPARTICLES FOR EARLY DETECTION OF HUMAN CANCERS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Calcium phosphosilicate
Cancer diagnosis
Bioimaging
Bioconjugation
Targeted delivery

File:

Download XT_Thesis_Draft_v10.8.pdf

Committee Members:

James Hansell Adair, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Paul S Cremer, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Yue

Title:

MECHANISTIC STUDY OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND NEUROD1-MEDIATED IN VIVO CELL CONVERSION

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

Alzheimer's disease
NeuroD1
Cell conversion
Beneficial effect
GAD67
Haploinsufficiency
Small molecule cocktail
Therapy
In vivo

File:

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Committee Members:

Gong Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Cavener, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard Luscher, Committee Member
Kevin Douglas Alloway, Committee Member
Yingwei Mao, Outside Member

Author:

Vrana, Laura Elizabeth

Title:

Writing Transgressions: Publication Contexts and the Politics of Recognition in Contemporary Black Women's Poetry

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

African American literature
Poetry
Textual studies
American literature
Race
Critical race theory
Gender studies

File:

Download Laura_Vrana_dissertation_final_filing_with_graduate_school_28_Mar_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shirley Moody-Turner, Committee Member
Linda Ferguson Selzer, Committee Member
Judith Sierra-Rivera, Outside Member

Author:

Hernandez, Margarita

Title:

Noventa Millas: Migration history, genomic ancestry, and health outcomes among Cuban refugees/immigrants and Cuban-Americans in the United States

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

anthropology
genomics
biocultural anthropology
Latiné
mixed-methods
community based research

File:

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Committee Members:

Tim Ryan, Program Head/Chair
Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Shenk, Dissertation Co-Advisor
George Perry, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Shriver, Major Field Member

Author:

Coco, Michael G

Title:

HIGH PRESSURE CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF CRYSTALLINE DOPED ZNSE OPTICAL FIBERS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

FeZnSe
mid-infrared
optical fiber laser
CrZnSe
high pressure
chemical vapor deposition
ZnSSe

File:

Download coco_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

John V. Badding, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John V. Badding, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E. Mallouk, Committee Member
Miriam A. Freedman, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member

Author:

Morgart, James Ashley

Title:

HAUNTED REGIONS: EXHUMING MARGINALIZED NARRATIVES IN POSTWAR AMERICAN GOTHIC FICTION

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Gothic
Regionalism
American Literature
Postwar
The Uncanny
Abjection
Gothic Literature
William Styron
Chester Himes
Shirley Jackson
Ray Bradbury
Ross Macdonald
Gothic Science Fiction
Detective Fiction
Southern Gothic

File:

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Committee Members:

Sanford Schwartz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sanford Schwartz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Berube, Committee Member
Mark Morrisson, Committee Member
Jonathan Eburne, Outside Member