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201. EVALUATING THE VALUE OF VIRTUAL REALITY TRAINING FOR ELECTRICAL WORKERS ON ENERGY STORAGE AND MICROGRID SYSTEMS

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Author:
Wang, Xiaohui
Title:
EVALUATING THE VALUE OF VIRTUAL REALITY TRAINING FOR ELECTRICAL WORKERS ON ENERGY STORAGE AND MICROGRID SYSTEMS
Graduate Program:
Architectural Engineering
Keywords:
Energy Storage and Microgrid
Virtual Reality Safety Training
Pedagogical Value
Immersive Virtual Reality
Evaluation
File:
Download MasterThesis_X.Wang.pdf
Committee Members:
John I. Messner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Leicht, Committee Member
Somayeh Asadi, Committee Member

202. HIGH DIMENSIONAL STATISTICAL LEARNING AND DECISION MAKING

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Author:
Wang, Xue
Title:
HIGH DIMENSIONAL STATISTICAL LEARNING AND DECISION MAKING
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
High Dimensional Learning
Statistical Learning
Decision Making
Optimization
File:
Download Xue_Wang_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Tao Yao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tao Yao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Outside Member

203. EFFECTS OF COLOR-FLESHED POTATOES ON DEXTRAN SULFATE SODIUM (DSS)-INDUCED COLITIS AND THE ROLE OF GUT MICROBIOTA

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Author:
Wang, Tianmin
Title:
EFFECTS OF COLOR-FLESHED POTATOES ON DEXTRAN SULFATE SODIUM (DSS)-INDUCED COLITIS AND THE ROLE OF GUT MICROBIOTA
Graduate Program:
Horticulture
Keywords:
Anti-inflammatory
Color-fleshed Potato
DSS
Colitis
Anthocyanins
Intestinal Microbiota
File:
Download 0612_Thesis_Draft-TM-final-0718-format.pdf
Committee Members:
Lavanya Reddivari, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Surinder Chopra, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary J Kennett, Committee Member

204. THEORY OF NANOTHREADS: ENUMERATION, STRUCTURE IDENTIFICATION, AND PROPERTIES

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Author:
Wang, Tao
Title:
THEORY OF NANOTHREADS: ENUMERATION, STRUCTURE IDENTIFICATION, AND PROPERTIES
Graduate Program:
Physics
Keywords:
Nanothreads
Density Functional Theory
Enumeration
Structure Identification
Solid State NMR
File:
Download Dissertation_TaoWang.pdf
Committee Members:
Vincent H.Crespi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
John V Badding, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Outside Member

205. CHILDHOOD OBESITY AND RURAL DISPARITIES: RURALITY, ENVIRONMENT AND BODY MASS INDEX AMONG U.S. CHILDREN

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Author:
Wang, Wei Lin
Title:
CHILDHOOD OBESITY AND RURAL DISPARITIES: RURALITY, ENVIRONMENT AND BODY MASS INDEX AMONG U.S. CHILDREN
Graduate Program:
Rural Sociology
Keywords:
Childhood obesity
Rural-urban difference
Food environment
Multilevel modeling
File:
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Committee Members:
Leif Jensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leif Jensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn J. Brasier, Committee Member
Guangqing Chi, Committee Member
Jennifer Van Hook, Outside Member
Kathryn J Brasier, Program Head/Chair

206. Iron-Copper Bimetallic Catalysts for Direct Carbon Dioxide Hydrogenation to Higher Hydrocarbons

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Author:
Wang, Wenjia
Title:
Iron-Copper Bimetallic Catalysts for Direct Carbon Dioxide Hydrogenation to Higher Hydrocarbons
Graduate Program:
Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:
CO2 hydrogenation
bimetallic catalyst
hydrocarbon
File:
Download Dissertation_Final_Wenjia_Wang_111419_v5.pdf
Committee Members:
Chunshan Song, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chunshan Song, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Outside Member
Xiaoxing Wang, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

207. ON THE ROBUSTNESS, EFFICIENCY AND INFORMATION FRESHNESS IN NETWORKED SYSTEMS

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Author:
Wang, Boyu
Title:
ON THE ROBUSTNESS, EFFICIENCY AND INFORMATION FRESHNESS IN NETWORKED SYSTEMS
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
cyber physical systems
robustness
efficiency
information freshness
File:
Download Boyu-dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Jing Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jing Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Committee Member
Aylin Yener, Committee Member
Hui Yang, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

208. Propagation, Proppant Transport, and the Evolution of Transport Properties of Fluid-Driven Fractures

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Author:
Wang, Jiehao
Title:
Propagation, Proppant Transport, and the Evolution of Transport Properties of Fluid-Driven Fractures
Graduate Program:
Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:
Hydraulic fracturing
Proppant transport
Fracture conductivity
Natural fracture
Gas fracturing
Dynamic gas fracturing
File:
Download Jiehao_Wang_PhD_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Arash Dahi Taleghani, Committee Member
Li Li, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

209. low temperature processing of electro-ceramic materials and devices

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Author:
Wang, Dixiong
Title:
low temperature processing of electro-ceramic materials and devices
Graduate Program:
Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Dielectric energy storage
Cold sintering process
Bismuth niobate
Lead zirconate titanate
Ceramic processing
Energy harvesting
File:
Download Dixiong_Wang_Thesis_submission_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Qing Wang, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

210. neuronal conversion of human glioblastoma cells by single neuronal transcription factor

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Author:
Wang, Xin
Title:
neuronal conversion of human glioblastoma cells by single neuronal transcription factor
Graduate Program:
Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences
Keywords:
neuronal conversion
Neurog2
NeuroD1
Ascl1
glioblastoma
File:
Download Dissertation_Xin.pdf
Committee Members:
Yingwei Mao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yingwei Mao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy J Jegla, Committee Member
Xiaojun Lance Lian, Committee Member
Adam Bleier Glick, Outside Member
Gong Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gong Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melissa Rolls, Program Head/Chair

211. Explore the Potential of Reinforcement Learning: Dosing Control and Sketch Generation

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Author:
Wang, Haizhou
Title:
Explore the Potential of Reinforcement Learning: Dosing Control and Sketch Generation
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
Reinfocement Learning
Heparin Dosing Control
Sketch Generation
Data-Driven Method
Q-Learning
Continuous Action Space
Attribute Selection
File:
Download Wang_Thesis_Final_v2.pdf
Committee Members:
Hui Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair
Hui Zhao, Committee Member
Peng Liu, Committee Member

212. Addressing Prolonged Sedentary Behaviors in Workplaces: Effects of Humor on Behavioral Intention and Perceived Interruption

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Author:
Wang, Shan
Title:
Addressing Prolonged Sedentary Behaviors in Workplaces: Effects of Humor on Behavioral Intention and Perceived Interruption
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
HCI
behavior change
prompt
prolonged sedentary behavior
interruption
File:
Download Shan_Wang_v3.pdf
Committee Members:
Saeed M Abdullah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
Xinning Gui, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

213. essays on educational investment and outcomes

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Author:
Wang, Jinwen
Title:
essays on educational investment and outcomes
Graduate Program:
Economics
Keywords:
Parental investment
Child development
Low-stakes exam
College admission
File:
Download Jinwen_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Kala Krishna, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kala Krishna, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Russell Cooper, Committee Member
Keisuke Hirano, Committee Member
Katerina Bodovski, Outside Member
Marc Albert Henry, Program Head/Chair

214. Characterization of microbial dynamics and volatile metabolome changes during fermentation of Chambourcin grapes in two Pennsylvania regions

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Author:
Wang, Hung Li
Title:
Characterization of microbial dynamics and volatile metabolome changes during fermentation of Chambourcin grapes in two Pennsylvania regions
Graduate Program:
Food Science
Keywords:
Wine
Microbiome
Volatile compound
HS-SPME-GC-MS
Chambourcin
File:
Download Master_thesis_HungLi_Wang_071720.pdf
Committee Members:
Josephine Wee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Helene Hopfer, Committee Member
Darrell William Cockburn, Committee Member
Robert F Roberts, Program Head/Chair

215. Computational methods for designing de novo metabolic pathways and genome-minimized chassis strains

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Author:
Wang, Lin
Title:
Computational methods for designing de novo metabolic pathways and genome-minimized chassis strains
Graduate Program:
Chemical Engineering
Keywords:
de novo pathway
minimal genome
metabolic engineering
thermodynamics
File:
Download Dissertation_Lin_Wang.pdf
Committee Members:
Costas D Maranas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Antonios Armaou, Committee Member
Andrew David Patterson, Outside Member
Phillip E Savage, Program Head/Chair

216. Comparative Investigation of Full and Focused Network Feedback on Students’ Knowledge Structure and Learning

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Author:
Wang, Yu
Title:
Comparative Investigation of Full and Focused Network Feedback on Students’ Knowledge Structure and Learning
Graduate Program:
Learning, Design, and Technology
Keywords:
Knowledge structure
concept map
network map
Full & Focused map
File:
Download WANG_Dissertation_SPRING_3-30-2021.pdf
Committee Members:
Roy Clariana, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roy Clariana, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Mary Land, Committee Member
Wesley Edward Donahue, Committee Member
Brian R Belland, Outside Member
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Program Head/Chair

217. Automated Programming Frameworks for Analyzing Differential Privacy

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Author:
Wang, Yuxin
Title:
Automated Programming Frameworks for Analyzing Differential Privacy
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
differential privacy
program analysis
programming languages
File:
Download main.pdf
Committee Members:
G. Tan, Major Field Member
Danfeng Zhang, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Kifer, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Dinghao Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

218. Towards Network Level Moving Target Defense with Software Defined Networking

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Li
Title:
Towards Network Level Moving Target Defense with Software Defined Networking
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)
Keywords:
network security
moving target defense
software-defined networking
network reconnaissance protection
network reflector
shadow network
SDN
SDN security application
File:
Download Li-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Linhai Song, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Anna Squicciarini, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Major Field Member

219. Oppositions and Reconciliations in Representative Piano Works by Charles Tomlinson Griffes

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Author:
Wang, Anqi
Title:
Oppositions and Reconciliations in Representative Piano Works by Charles Tomlinson Griffes
Graduate Program:
Music (MA)
Keywords:
Griffes
American composer
The White Peacock
The Fountain of the Acqua Paola
The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan
Sonata for Piano
File:
Download Wang_MA_Thesis_Final_Version_Marh_2022.pdf
Committee Members:
Taylor Aitken Greer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Perez Benitez, Jr., Committee Member
Rachel Copeland, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

220. Defining Vitamin D Receptor Expression in The Splenic Immune Cells Using a Novel VDRcre Mouse and the Effect of Vitamin D Status on SARS-COV-2 Infection in Hamsters

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Author:
Wang, Jinpeng
Title:
Defining Vitamin D Receptor Expression in The Splenic Immune Cells Using a Novel VDRcre Mouse and the Effect of Vitamin D Status on SARS-COV-2 Infection in Hamsters
Graduate Program:
Pathobiology (MS)
Keywords:
Vitmain D
VDR
T cells
Myeloid cells
Proliferation
Hamsters
COVID-19
File:
Download Jinpeng_Wang_s_Master_Thesis_11-16-2021_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Margherita Teresa-Anna Cantorna, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anthony Paul Schmitt, Committee Member
Kumble Prabhu, Program Head/Chair

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

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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

222. Development of materials for all-solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries

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Author:
Wang, Daiwei
Title:
Development of materials for all-solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
Lithium-sulfur battery
All-solid-state battery
Lithium thiophosphate electrolytes
File:

No files available due to restrictions.

Committee Members:
Donghai Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donghai Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chao-Yang Wang, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Hojong Kim, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

223. Humans and Treponematoses: An Interdisciplinary Study Bridging Ancient and Modern Treponema Pallidum Genomes

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Author:
Wang, Ziyu
Title:
Humans and Treponematoses: An Interdisciplinary Study Bridging Ancient and Modern Treponema Pallidum Genomes
Graduate Program:
Anthropology
Keywords:
ancient DNA
Treponematoses
Treponema pallidum
Origin of syphilis
Yaws in historical Europe
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Committee Members:
George Robert Milner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Robert Milner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Moriah Louise Szpara, Outside Member
Nina G Jablonski, Committee Member
Sheila Lukehart, Special Member
George H Perry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tim Ryan, Program Head/Chair
George H Perry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

224. Pathologic Substrates of Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Parkinsonisms

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Author:
Wang, Ernest Weider
Title:
Pathologic Substrates of Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Parkinsonisms
Graduate Program:
Biomedical Sciences (PHD)
Keywords:
MRI
parkinsonisms
pathology
neuropathology
gene-environment
pesticides
paraquat
HFE
susceptibility MRI
DTI
substantia nigra
iron
Parkinson's disease
progressive supranuclear palsy
multiple system atrophy
corticobasal degeneration
dopamine
movement disorders
neurology
brain
File:
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Committee Members:
Xuemei Huang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Guangwei Du, Major Field Member
Gary Perdew, Outside Unit & Field Member
James Connor, Major Field Member
Matthew Coates, Special Member
Ralph Keil, Program Head/Chair

225. Electrical Transport and Tunneling Measurements on Two-Dimensional Electron System at SrTiO3 Interface

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Author:
Wang, Ziqiao
Title:
Electrical Transport and Tunneling Measurements on Two-Dimensional Electron System at SrTiO3 Interface
Graduate Program:
Physics (PHD)
Keywords:
Two-dimensional electron system
Oxide interface
Electrical transport measurement
Tunneling measurement
Shubnikov-de Haas oscillation
Spin-orbit coupling
Strongly correlated electrons
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Committee Members:
Eric Hudson, Major Field Member
Qi Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joshua Robinson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Cuizu Chang, Major Field Member
Richard Robinett, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

226. KINETIC STUDY OF CO2 SORPTION BY SOLID AMINE MATERIALS AND CATALYTIC OXIDATION OF CARBON MONOXIDE BY CERIA-SUPPORTED SINGLE-ATOM NOBLE-METAL CATALYSTS

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Author:
Wang, Linxi
Title:
KINETIC STUDY OF CO2 SORPTION BY SOLID AMINE MATERIALS AND CATALYTIC OXIDATION OF CARBON MONOXIDE BY CERIA-SUPPORTED SINGLE-ATOM NOBLE-METAL CATALYSTS
Graduate Program:
Chemical Engineering
Keywords:
CO2 sorption
solid amine sorbents
heat of sorption
single-atom catalysis
kinetics
DFT
File:
Download Linxi_Wang_-_Ph.D_thesis_-_Fall_2020.pdf
Committee Members:
Robert Rioux, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Rioux, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Phillip E Savage, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Hilal Ezgi Toraman, Outside Member
Phillip E Savage, Program Head/Chair

227. Phonons at Phase Boundaries in Electronic and Structural Transitions

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Author:
Wang, Huaiyu
Title:
Phonons at Phase Boundaries in Electronic and Structural Transitions
Graduate Program:
Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
Structural perturbation
Phonons
Ultrafast
X-ray Diffraction
Raman spectroscopy
Quantum Materials
Ferroelectric Nanotextures
Phase Transition
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Committee Members:
Venkatraman Gopalan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Zhiqiang Mao, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
Long-Qing Chen, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Haidan Wen, Special Member

228. Public Perceptions, Ecosystem Benefits, and Sustainability: Green Stormwater Infrastructure Development in Chinese Sponge Cities

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Rui
Title:
Public Perceptions, Ecosystem Benefits, and Sustainability: Green Stormwater Infrastructure Development in Chinese Sponge Cities
Graduate Program:
Architecture (PHD)
Keywords:
Green stormwater infrastructure
Stormwater management
Ecosystem benefit
Sponge city
China
Public perception
Willingness to pay
Neighborhood regeneration
Sustainability
File:
Download Dissertation_Rui_Wang_2023.pdf
Committee Members:
Daniel Brent, Outside Unit Member
Stuart Echols, Major Field Member
Robert Chiles, Outside Field Member
Matthew B Royer, Special Member
Hong Wu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ute Poerschke, Program Head/Chair

229. From bits to ballots: Unfolding the role of information infrastructure in political space

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Author:
Wang, Yang
Title:
From bits to ballots: Unfolding the role of information infrastructure in political space
Graduate Program:
Mass Communications (PHD)
Keywords:
Information infrastructure
Voter turnout
Voting preference
Spatial analysis
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Committee Members:
Michael Schmierbach, Major Field Member
Stephen Matthews, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Krishna Jayakar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Patrick Parsons, Major Field Member
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Homero Gil De Zuniga, Major Field Member

230. Phase-field study on electromechanical phenomena in ferroelectric single crystals and thin films

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Bo
Title:
Phase-field study on electromechanical phenomena in ferroelectric single crystals and thin films
Graduate Program:
Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Phase-field modeling
Ferroelectric materials
Piezoelectric effect
Flexoelectric effect
Domain structure
File:
Download Dissertation-vfin.pdf
Committee Members:
Long-Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Outside Member
Qiang Du, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

231. Expression Affordances of Digital Media: Implications for Political Knowledge, Attitude, Affect, and Willingness to Deliberate

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Jinping
Title:
Expression Affordances of Digital Media: Implications for Political Knowledge, Attitude, Affect, and Willingness to Deliberate
Graduate Program:
Mass Communications
Keywords:
Self-expression
Affordance
Interactive media
Expression effects
Political attitude
Affective polarization
Willingness to deliberate
File:
Download Dissertation_JinpingWang_final.pdf
Committee Members:
S. Shyam Sundar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
S. Shyam Sundar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Grant Schmierbach, Committee Member
Fuyuan Shen, Committee Member
John W Gastil, Outside Member
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Program Head/Chair

232. Fabrication and Characterization of a Large-array Surface-mount Hot-film

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Author:
Wang, Sean
Title:
Fabrication and Characterization of a Large-array Surface-mount Hot-film
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering (MS)
Keywords:
Hot-film
Array
PIV
Surface-mounted
Large-scale
Fabrication
Anemometry
Characterization
File:
Download Sean_Wang_Master_s_Thesis_V2.2.pdf
Committee Members:
Mark A Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xin Ning, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Tamy Guimarães, Committee Member

233. Exploratory Descriptive Study of Intergenerational Play Involving Young Children

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Author:
Wang, Yihan
Title:
Exploratory Descriptive Study of Intergenerational Play Involving Young Children
Graduate Program:
Curriculum and Instruction (MS)
Keywords:
Intergenerational play
Technology
Grandparents
Young children
File:
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Committee Members:
James Ewald Johnson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Samuel Kaplan, Committee Member
Kimberly Powell, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

234. Temperature distribution induced by ultrasound wave propagation using physics based deep learning method

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Yuzhang
Title:
Temperature distribution induced by ultrasound wave propagation using physics based deep learning method
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering (MS)
Keywords:
Deep learning
PINN
tBHTE
temperature map
ultrasound wave propagation
transducers
File:
Download Thesis_MS_2021_Yuzhang_final_Modified.pdf
Committee Members:
Mohamed Khaled Almekkawy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

235. PORE-SCALE STUDY ON PARTIALLY MISCIBLE MULTIPHASE TRANSPORT IN HYDROCARBON RESERVOIRS USING THE LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD

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Author:
Wang, Zhicheng William
Title:
PORE-SCALE STUDY ON PARTIALLY MISCIBLE MULTIPHASE TRANSPORT IN HYDROCARBON RESERVOIRS USING THE LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD
Graduate Program:
Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
Multiphase Flow Behaviors
Pseudopotential Lattice Boltzmann Method
Simulation Framwork
Partially Miscible Multi-component Fluids
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Committee Members:
Corina Drapaca, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Luis Ayala H, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Major Field Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Major Field Member
Mort D Webster, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Orlando M. Ayala, Special Member
Member Committee, Special Member

236. Phase-Field Modeling of Mobile Species Coupled with Reactions and Phase Microstructures

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Author:
Wang, Rui
Title:
Phase-Field Modeling of Mobile Species Coupled with Reactions and Phase Microstructures
Graduate Program:
Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
Phase-field modeling
mobile species
charge
dielectric degradation
ferroelectric
alloy oxidation
File:
Download Rui_Wang-Dissertation_final.pdf
Committee Members:
Michael Lanagan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
Clive Randall, Major Field Member
Long-Qing Chen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

237. Statistical Methods for Aggregating Trans-Ancestry Genome Wide Association Summary Statistics & Its Applications to Nicotine & Alcohol Addiction Phenotypes

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Author:
Wang, Xingyan
Title:
Statistical Methods for Aggregating Trans-Ancestry Genome Wide Association Summary Statistics & Its Applications to Nicotine & Alcohol Addiction Phenotypes
Graduate Program:
Biostatistics (PHD)
Keywords:
Trans-Ancestry
Meta-Analysis
GWAS
Smoking and Drinking addiction
Admixed Population
Fine-mapping
TWAS
Gene Set Enrichment Analysis
File:

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Committee Members:
Dajiang Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jennifer Nyland, Outside Unit Member
Vernon Chinchilli, Major Field Member
Joshua Muscat, Outside Field Member
Rongling Wu, Major Field Member
Arthur Berg, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

238. Constructing and Investigating Modeling Approaches of Near-Surface Turbulence in Large-Eddy Simulations of Tornadoes

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Author:
Wang, Aaron
Title:
Constructing and Investigating Modeling Approaches of Near-Surface Turbulence in Large-Eddy Simulations of Tornadoes
Graduate Program:
Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (PHD)
Keywords:
tornado
turbulence
large-eddy simulation
LES
WENO
wall model
two-layer model
File:
Download AaronWang-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
David Stensrud, Program Head/Chair
Paul Markowski, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ying Pan, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
George Bryan, Special Member
Xiang Yang, Outside Unit & Field Member
David Stensrud, Major Field Member

239. Meshfree Linear Solver Selection and Variational Geometric Formulations in Computational Mechanics

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Yanran
Title:
Meshfree Linear Solver Selection and Variational Geometric Formulations in Computational Mechanics
Graduate Program:
Civil Engineering (MS)
Keywords:
meshfree
Complexity Analyses
Linear Solver Selection
Geometric Interpretations
Variational formulation
File:
Download Meshfree_Linear_Solver_Selection_And_Variational_Geometric_Formulations_In_Computational_Mechanics.pdf
Committee Members:
Mike Hillman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kostas Papakonstantinou, Committee Member
Jay Regan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Pinlei Chen, Committee Member
Christian Peco, Committee Member

240. Semantic Image Retrieval via Graph Representation and Metric Learning

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Author:
Wang, William
Title:
Semantic Image Retrieval via Graph Representation and Metric Learning
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering (MS)
Keywords:
Semantic image retrieval
Image-to-image retrieval
Scene graph
Graph convolutional network
Metric learning
Deep learning
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Committee Members:
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Wang-Chien Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member

241. Analysis of Crossover Designs with Nonignorable Dropout

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Author:
Wang, Xi
Title:
Analysis of Crossover Designs with Nonignorable Dropout
Graduate Program:
Biostatistics (PHD)
Keywords:
crossover trials
ignorable missing
nonignorable missing
controlled multiple imputation
longitudinal data
repeated measures
intensive longitudinal data
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Committee Members:
Vernon Chinchilli, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Mauger, Major Field Member
Judie Ann Howrylak, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ming Wang, Major Field Member
Shouhao Zhou, Major Field Member
Arthur Berg, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

242. Modeling Heat Transfer in Saturated Soil

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Chu
Title:
Modeling Heat Transfer in Saturated Soil
Graduate Program:
Civil Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
Heat transfer
Thermal conductivity
Thermal dispersion
Effective porosity
Thermal nonequilibrium
Numerical modeling
Layered soil
Local thermal equilibrium
File:
Download Final_Phd_Dissertation_Chu_Wang.pdf
Committee Members:
Yuan Xuan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Patrick Fox, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tong Qiu, Major Field Member
Ming Xiao, Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Pinlei Chen, Minor Field Member

243. Employability of International Master's Returnees

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Jialing
Title:
Employability of International Master's Returnees
Graduate Program:
Higher Education (DED)
Keywords:
international students
employability
international higher education
gender equity
international mobility
File:
Download JWANG.pdf
Committee Members:
Kelly Rosinger, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Karly Ford, Major Field Member
Celeste Kinginger, Outside Unit & Field Member
Gerald K Letendre, Program Head/Chair
John Cheslock, Major Field Member

244. ESSAYS IN SEMIPARAMETRIC IDENTIFICATION AND ESTIMATION

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Rui
Title:
ESSAYS IN SEMIPARAMETRIC IDENTIFICATION AND ESTIMATION
Graduate Program:
Economics (PHD)
Keywords:
Identification
Estimation
Semiparametric
Treatment Effects
Misreporting
Substitution Patterns
File:
Download Rui_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Keisuke Hirano, Major Field Member
Joris Pinkse, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sung Jae Jun, Co-Chair of Committee
Runze Li, Outside Unit & Field Member
Marc Albert Henry, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

245. Static and Dynamic Wetting on Bio-inspired Compact Nano-Textured Surfaces

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Lin
Title:
Static and Dynamic Wetting on Bio-inspired Compact Nano-Textured Surfaces
Graduate Program:
Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:
hydrophobic surface
bio-inspired
water-repellent insects
high solid fraction
contact time
bouncing droplets
reentrant pillars
hoodoo pillars
pressure stability
File:
Download PhD_Dissertation-Lin_Wang-Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Tak Sing Wong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tak Sing Wong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Pak Kin Wong, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

246. Photoluminescent Materials Development and Applications

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Author:
Wang, Dingbowen
Title:
Photoluminescent Materials Development and Applications
Graduate Program:
Biomedical Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
Photoluminescent materials
Fluorescence
Halide sensing
Encryption
Anti-counterfeiting
Excitation-wavelength-dependent emission
File:

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Committee Members:
Pak Kin Wong, Major Field Member
Jian Yang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Scott Medina, Major Field Member
Zhiwen Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair

247. The concept of conceptual metaphor as a psychological tool for L2 development: A conceptual metaphor theory-informed concept-based language instruction

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Tianfang Sally
Title:
The concept of conceptual metaphor as a psychological tool for L2 development: A conceptual metaphor theory-informed concept-based language instruction
Graduate Program:
Applied Linguistics (PHD)
Keywords:
Conceptual Metaphor Theory
Concept-based Language Instruction
L2 pedagogy
Micro-genetic analysis
File:
Download Wang_Dissertation_CMT_CBLI.pdf
Committee Members:
Ning Yu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Matthew Poehner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Deryn Verity, Major Field Member
Xiaofei Lu, Major Field Member
Tommaso Milani, Program Head/Chair
Celeste Kinginger, Major Field Member

248. Statistical methods for replicability assessment of genotype-phenotype associations and polygenic risk score modeling in large-scale multi-ancestry consortium studies and electronic health record-based biobanks

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Author:
Wang, Chen
Title:
Statistical methods for replicability assessment of genotype-phenotype associations and polygenic risk score modeling in large-scale multi-ancestry consortium studies and electronic health record-based biobanks
Graduate Program:
Bioinformatics and Genomics (PhD)
Keywords:
GWAS meta-analysis
Replicability Assessment
Polygenic Risk Score
Electronic Health Record
File:

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Committee Members:
David Koslicki, Program Head/Chair
Dajiang Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Qunhua Li, Major Field Member
Helen Kamens, Outside Unit & Field Member
Yifei Huang, Major Field Member

249. Defense against test-time evasion attacks and backdoor attacks

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Hang
Title:
Defense against test-time evasion attacks and backdoor attacks
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
adversarial machine learning
backdoor attack
Trojan
maximum margin
adversarial examples
GANs
activation clipping
File:
Download Hang-Wang-Dissertation-final.pdf
Committee Members:
Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
George Kesidis, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Constantino Lagoa, Major Field Member
David Miller, Co-Chair, Major Member & Dissertation Advisor
Jia Li, Outside Unit & Field Member
Vishal Monga, Major Field Member

250. Rural Girls' Performances through Literacy: Reconceptualizing Rural Chinese Literate Girlhoods

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Jue
Title:
Rural Girls' Performances through Literacy: Reconceptualizing Rural Chinese Literate Girlhoods
Graduate Program:
Curriculum and Instruction (PHD)
Keywords:
ethnic minority
literacy
rurality
girlhood
emerging identities
File:
Download JueWang_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Allison Henward, Major Field Member
Xiaoye You, Outside Unit & Field Member
Gail Boldt, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Major Field Member
Kimberly Anne Powell, Program Head/Chair

251. Light scattering for optical and photonic applications

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Cheng Yu
Title:
Light scattering for optical and photonic applications
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
scattering
ultrafast imaging
random laser
lensless imaging
metasurface
droplet laser
File:
Download thesisV6_final.pdf
Committee Members:
Zhiwen Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xingjie Ni, Major Field Member
Christine Keating, Outside Unit & Field Member
Noel Giebink, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

253. Supporting college students' metacognitive monitoring in a biology course through practice and timely monitoring feedback

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Ying
Title:
Supporting college students' metacognitive monitoring in a biology course through practice and timely monitoring feedback
Graduate Program:
Educational Psychology (PHD)
Keywords:
self-regulated learning
metacognitive monitoring
timely feedback
File:
Download Dissertation_Final_YingWang.pdf
Committee Members:
Alexandra List, Major Field Member
Rayne Sperling, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Simon Hooper, Outside Unit & Field Member
Matthew McCrudden, Major Field Member
Matthew McCrudden, Program Head/Chair

254. oxazine-caged bodipys for mapping viscosity at a super-resolution level

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Wenting
Title:
oxazine-caged bodipys for mapping viscosity at a super-resolution level
Graduate Program:
Chemistry (MS)
Keywords:
Super-Resolution
Bioimaging
Protein Aggeration
Photocage
File:
Download Master_Thesis-Wenting_Wang.pdf
Committee Members:
Xin Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tae-Hee Lee, Committee Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Lauren Dell Zarzar, Committee Member
Ying Gu, Committee Member

255. Stabilized meshfree methods for material failure and composite analysis

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Jiarui
Title:
Stabilized meshfree methods for material failure and composite analysis
Graduate Program:
Civil Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
meshfree method
stabilization
hybrid Lagrangian/semi-Lagrangian
immersed volumetric
energy conserving time integration
File:
Download Jiarui_Dissertation__27_.pdf
Committee Members:
Pinlei Chen, Major Field Member
Jing Du, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michael Hillman, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Gordon Warn, Major Field Member
Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Major Field Member
John Regan, Program Head/Chair

256. Topics on Variable Selection in High-Dimensional Data

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Jia
Title:
Topics on Variable Selection in High-Dimensional Data
Graduate Program:
Statistics (PHD)
Keywords:
Bayesian variable selection
High-dimensional data
Network analysis
Partially linear model
Time-varying network model
File:
Download Jia-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Lingzhou Xue, Major Field Member
David Hunter, Major Field Member
Rongling Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ephraim Hanks, Program Head/Chair