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Author:

Smith, Britton Devon

Title:

The Transition from Population III to Population II Star Formation in the Early Universe

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

numerical simulation
cosmology
star formation

File:

Download Britton_Smith_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Niel Brandt, Committee Member
Jane Camilla Charlton, Committee Member
Deirdre Shoemaker, Committee Member
Richard Alan Wade, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Brittany Sheree

Title:

Perceptions of Agriculture and Barriers to Enrollment in Colleges of Agriculture of Southern New Jersey High School Students

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Extension Education

Keywords:

enrollment barriers
perceptions
agriculture education
awareness

File:

Download Brittany_Smith_Final_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Connie Devine Baggett, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Connie Devine Baggett, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Smith, Carole Christiana

Title:

Hearing Voices in Shostakovich: Uncovering Hidden Meanings in the Film "Odna"

Graduate Program:

Music Theory and History

Keywords:

Soviet cinema
film music
Alone
Odna
Dmitri Shostakovich
silent film
sound film

File:

Download Carole_Christiana_Smith_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric John Mckee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric John Mckee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Smith, Carissa Dawn Turner

Title:

Placing Religion: The Spiritual Geography of Twentieth-Century American Women Writers

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

religion
feminism
spiritual geography
literature
place

File:

Download diss_complete.pdf

Committee Members:

Deborah L Clarke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine Lee Gorby, Committee Member
Iyunolu Folayan Osagie, Committee Member
Robin G Schulze, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Courtney Lynne

Title:

Expression of MicroRNAs in the Bovine Corpus Luteum their Impact on Luteal Cell Function

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

bovine
CL
corpus luteum
miRNA
MicroRNAs
cow

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_of_Courtney_Smith.pdf

Committee Members:

Joy Lee Pate, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joy Lee Pate, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Smith, Chad M

Title:

EFFECTS OF PROPAGATING INTERNAL WAVES ON SHALLOW-WATER ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION DURING THE TRANSVERSE ACOUSTIC VARIABILITY EXPERIMENT OF 2008

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

shallow-water
internal wave
acoustic

File:

Download SmithChad_MastersThesis_FinalDraft_compressed.pdf

Committee Members:

David Bradley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Bradley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas B Gabrielson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Lee Culver, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Smith, David Grant

Title:

"On the Edge of Freedom: The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870"

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

border
petition
fugitive slaves
abolitionism
anti-slavery
antislavery
Pennsylvania
Thaddeus Stevens
contrabands
African Americans
Gettysburg
Robert E. Lee

File:

Download Final_1120DGSmithPhDThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

William Alan Blair, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anne Carver Rose, Committee Member
Lori D Ginzberg, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Richard J M Blackett, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Damon Michael

Title:

READERS THEATRE: ITS EFFECTIVENESS IN IMPROVING READING FLUENCY, STUDENT MOTIVATION, AND ATTITUDES TOWARD READING AMONG SECOND-GRADE STUDENTS

Graduate Program:

School Psychology

Keywords:

Oral Reading Fluency
Reading Attitude
Reading Motivation
Readers Theatre

File:

Download readers_theatre_final_5-4-11.pdf

Committee Members:

Barbara Schaefer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barbara Schaefer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Leslie Hale, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bonnie J Meyer, Committee Member
Edward A Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Juliet Anne

Title:

VOICES, VALUES, VIEWS: A NARRATIVE ETHNOGRAPHY OF A VOLUNTEER LITERACY PROGRAM STUDENT INVOLVEMENT GROUP

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

adult education
literacy
participatory education
narrative ethnography

File:

Download Juliet_Smith_Doctoral_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Jeremy Douglas

Title:

EFFECTS OF PROSTHESIS INERTIA ON THE MECHANICS AND ENERGETICS OF AMPUTEE LOCOMOTION

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology

Keywords:

transtibial
biomechanics
loading

File:

Download Jeremy_Smith_Final_Draft_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Philip Martin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Henry Challis, Committee Member
Stephen Jacob Piazza, Committee Member
Robert L Sainburg, Committee Member
Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Janice Elaine

Title:

The Meanings of Teaching from the Perspective of Exemplary and Experienced Teachers

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

adult education
narrative inquiry
meaning-making
Kegan
constructive-developmental
teaching
teacher professional development

File:

Download Smith_March_25.pdfDownload Janice_Smith_Errata2.pdf

Committee Members:

Patricia Angelica Cranton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward W Taylor, Committee Member
Denise Gaspari Meister, Committee Member
Gina Brelsford, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Jason Michael

Title:

The Effects of Neighborhood and School Context on Extracurricular Participation and Educational Outcomes

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

education
attainment
extracurricular
neighborhood effects
school effects
racial composition
class composition

File:

Download Jason_Smith_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

George Farkas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barrett Alan Lee, Committee Member
Suet Ling Pong, Committee Member
Roger C Shouse, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Jeremy Paul

Title:

One Way Street: A Case Study of The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Philadelphia Daily News coverage concerning the 2009 Septa Strike

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

organized labor
media
communications

File:

Download One_Way_Street_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ronald V Bettig, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Smith, Justin R

Title:

ANALYSIS OF BIOGENIC AMINE NEUROTRANSMITTERS WITH CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

biogenic amines
Capillary electrophoresis

File:

Download JS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Ewing, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Ewing, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Smith, Kandler A.

Title:

Electrochemical Modeling, Estimation and Control of Lithium Ion Batteries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

lithium ion
battery
hybrid electric vehicle
model order reduction
diffusion systems
state of charge estimation

File:

Download Dissertation_KandlerSmith2006.pdf

Committee Members:

Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Qian Wang, Committee Member
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Kristin A

Title:

Robust Design Using Loss Function with Multiple Objectives and Patient Classifications Applied to Health Care

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

health care
robust design
multiple objectives
taguchi

File:

Download KristinASmith_final.pdf

Committee Members:

M Jeya Chandra, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
M Jeya Chandra, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Smith, Katelyn J

Title:

DETERMINATION OF IMPROVED CRITERIA FOR CRACK PROPAGATION IN THE PRESENCE OF HIGH SURFACE STRESSES

Graduate Program:

Engineering Mechanics

Keywords:

stress intensity factors
semielliptical cracks
weight function
surface stresses
finite element analysis

File:

Download KatelynJSmith_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Albert Eliot Segall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Albert Eliot Segall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Smith, Kenneth Lee

Title:

Dynamic Singularity Excision in Numerical Relativity

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

black holes
classical general relativity
numerical relativity
singularity excision

File:

Download ksmith_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Pablo Laguna, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernd BrÜGmann, Committee Member
Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Kevin

Title:

Computation of Viscous Multiphase Hydrodynamics and Ship Motions During Wave-Slap Events and Wave Excited Roll

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

wave breaking
tumblehome
oscillating cylinder
prescribed motion
RANS
CFD
VOF
6DOF
seakeeping
wave impact
wave model
free surface
sponge layer
numerical beach
dissipation zone
box barge
mesh motion
deep water
shallow water
non reflecting boundary condition
openfoam
finite volume method
wave dissipation
impact load scaling

File:

Download KevinSmithMSThesisPSUETDr2.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Paterson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Smith, Lindsay A

Title:

FROM COW BELLES TO WAGNS: FACTORS THAT HAVE INFLUENCED THE CREATION OF WOMEN INITIATED AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

women agriculture organizations
social movement theories

File:

Download Cow_Belles_to_WAgNs__2_.pdf

Committee Members:

Kathryn Jo Brasier, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor