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Author:

Moon, Jessica Beth

Title:

Edaphic properties, their heterogeneity, and associated microbial communities in headwater wetland complexes of the Ridge and Valley Region, Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

wetlands
soils
microbial communities
heterogeneity

File:

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Committee Members:

Denice Heller Wardrop, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert P Brooks, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maryann Victoria Bruns, Committee Member
Jason Philip Kaye, Committee Member
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Member
Douglas Archibald, Committee Member

Author:

Hariharan, Baradhwaj

Title:

functional form and heterogeneity effects on safety performance function estimation

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Crash frequency
heterogeneity
count data
negative binomial
multinomial fractional polynomial
over-dispersion

File:

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Committee Members:

Venkataraman Shankar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Swagata Banerjee Basu, Committee Member
Jeremy Joseph Blum, Committee Member
Evelyn Ann Thomchick, Committee Member

Author:

Torab, Peter

Title:

Collective Invasion In Heterogeneous Bladder Cancer Tumors: A Biomanufacturing Approach

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

bladder
cancer
heterogeneity
invasion
heterogeneous
biomanufacturing
biosensor
biomanufactured
biomanufacture
3D
extracellular matrix
leader cells
collective invasion
invasion assay
in vitro

File:

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Committee Members:

Pak Kin Wong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Pak Kin Wong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jing Du, Committee Member
Tak Sing Wong, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Husmann, Kyle

Title:

Advancing Measurement Technology in Educational Intervention Research to Study Individual, Contextual, and Implementation Heterogeneity

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

education
heterogeneity
technology
measurement
educational intervention

File:

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Committee Members:

Charles Geier, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Karen Bierman, Outside Unit Member
Timothy Brick, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
James Diperna, Outside Field Member
Zita Oravecz, Co-Chair of Committee

Author:

Traore, Abdelmoumine

Title:

Essays on the Mitigation of Climate-Related Stochastic Losses through Investment and Insurance

Graduate Program:

Energy, Environmental, and Food Economics (PhD)

Keywords:

Crops(Corn and Soybeans)
Crop Insurance
typical risk
short-term risk
weather
factors
heterogeneity
discrete choice
panel data
fixed effects
unit structure level
Investment
insurance
expected utility
robust optimization
long (short)-term risk vs. long (short)-term uncertainty
risk aversion
climate change
prosocial
green bond
conventional bond utility
optimization
risk aversion
environmental regulation
green default

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Committee Members:

Douglas Wrenn, Program Head/Chair
Robert Weaver, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Katherine Zipp, Major Field Member
Uday Shanbhag, Outside Unit & Field Member
Douglas Wrenn, Major Field Member