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Author:: Cahill, Michael Scott
Title:: A COMPARISON OF YOUTH PERCEPTIONS REGARDING ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN PENNSYLVANIA AND NICARAGUA
Graduate Program:: Agricultural and Extension Education
Keywords:: Agriculture
Education
Agricultural Education
Student
Pennsylvania
Nicaragua
International
Bandura
Azjen
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial
Self-Efficacy
FFA
SAE
Supervised Agricultural Experience
NGO
Perceptions
File:: Download A_COMPARISON_OF_YOUTH_PERCEPTIONS_REGARDING_ENTREPRENEURSHIP_IN_PENNSYLVANIA_AND_NICARAGUA.pdf
Committee Members:: Daniel Douglas Foster, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Ewing, Committee Member
Carl Daniel Azzara, Committee Member

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Author:: Williamson, Lacey Taylor
Title:: Monitoring Wild Ring-necked Pheasant Population Restoration in Pennsylvania
Graduate Program:: Wildlife and Fisheries Science
Keywords:: density estimation
detection probability
Pennsylvania
Phasianus colchicus
restoration
ring-necked pheasant
habitat modeling
pheasant
habitat
File:: Download Williamson_thesis_Final_11_22.pdf
Committee Members:: W. David Walter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Duane Diefenbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matt Marshall, Committee Member

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Author:: Hanrath, Lily Savannah
Title:: MORE THAN JUST MONEY: HOW THE BAIL PROCESS CREATES UNINTENDED RACIAL DISPARITY
Graduate Program:: Criminology
Keywords:: Bail
Focal Concerns
Race
Pennsylvania
Judges
Disparity
File:: Download Hanrath_Lily_Final_Thesis_Formatting_11.28.2017.pdf
Committee Members:: Jeffrey Todd Ulmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric P Baumer, Committee Member
Darrell J Steffensmeier, Committee Member

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Author:: Sciaudone, Kyra Tatiana
Title:: IMPACTS OF VEGETATIVE BUFFERS AND WINTER CROPS ON WATER QUALITY AND PROFITABILITY OF SMALL TO MIDSIZE FARMS IN PENNSYLVANIA
Graduate Program:: Biorenewable Systems
Keywords:: Energy Crops
Profitability
Crop Budgets
Water Quality
Switchgrass
Willow
Agroecosystem Model
Mahantango Creek
Pennsylvania
Flood Frequency
File:: Download Final_Thesis_KTS_Spring_2018.pdf
Committee Members:: Thomas Lehman Richard, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Armen R. Kemanian, Committee Member
Cibin Raj, Committee Member
Katherine Yoder Zipp, Committee Member

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Author:: Liu, Yaru Grace
Title:: A GIS Imagery Based Woody Biomass Biorefinery Location Model for Pennsylvania
Graduate Program:: Business Administration
Keywords:: Woody biomass
Pennsylvania
Facility location
GIS
NAIP imagery
Mixed integer linear programming
File:: Download Yaru_Liu_Dissertation_2019_v9.pdf
Committee Members:: Evelyn Ann Thomchick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Alexander Novack, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Saurabh Bansal, Committee Member
Thomas Lehman Richard, Committee Member
Thomas Lehman Richard, Outside Member

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Author:: Hafer, Joseph
Title:: THE THEORY OF PRAGMATIC GOVERNANCE: A CLASSIC GROUNDED THEORY STUDY OF PENNSYLVANIA’S BUREAU OF FORESTRY GOVERNANCE PRACTICES
Graduate Program:: Public Administration
Keywords:: public administration
pragmatism
public policy
management
forestry
Pennsylvania
state government
grounded theory
File:: Download Hafer_Dissertation_Final_Draft_20190130.pdf
Committee Members:: Bing Ran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Ran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Triparna B Vasavada, Committee Member
Odd Jonas Stalebrink, Committee Member
Janet Duck, Outside Member

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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:: Download CBlack_DissertationFinal_March2019.pdf
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

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Author:: Kintner, Jonas
Title:: Relative Seismic Event Location and Size Estimation, Contributions to Earthquake Analysis and Seismic Discrimination at Local Distances
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: Geophysics
Seismology
Iran
Caribbean
Pennsylvania
Wyoming
File:: Download JonasKintner-DissertationFinal.pdf
Committee Members:: Charles James Ammon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles James Ammon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Committee Member
Christelle Wauthier, Committee Member
Parisa Shokouhi, Outside Member

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Author:: Whitley, Hannah Terese
Title:: Power, Privilege, and "Playing in the Dirt": An Intersectional Exploration of Women's Agricultural Experiences in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Graduate Program:: Rural Sociology
Keywords:: historically marginalized agriculturalists
intersectionality
participatory action research
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
social sustainability
urban agriculture
women farmers
critical food systems scholarship
qualitative research
File:: Download Whitley-_RSOC_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Kathryn J. Brasier, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Ransom, Committee Member
Kathleen J D Sexsmith, Committee Member
Kathryn Jo Brasier, Program Head/Chair
Kathryn J. Brasier, Committee Member

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Author:: Kirkpatrick., Daphne
Title:: THE IMPACT OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION’S PRINCIPAL EFFECTIVENESS FRAMEWORK FOR LEADERSHIP
Graduate Program:: Educational Leadership
Keywords:: Principal Effectiveness
Framework for Leadership
Principal Evaluation
Superintendent Roles and Responsibilities
Superintendent's Professional Development
Principal Supervisors
Pennsylvania
File:: Download DISSERTATION_KIRKPATRICK_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Deborah Lynn Schussler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Deborah Lynn Schussler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tiffany M Squires, Committee Member
Marsha Elizabeth Modeste, Committee Member
John Ewing, Outside Member
Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair

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