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Author:: McGinnis, Anne Madeline
Title:: Student Behaviors as Predictors of Later Academic Achievement: School Entry Through Fifth Grade
Graduate Program:: School Psychology
Keywords:: student behavior
academic achievement
elementary students
prosocial skills
approaches to learning
problem behaviors
File:: Download McGinnis_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: James Clyde Diperna, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Clyde Diperna, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Leslie Hale, Committee Member
Richard Hazler, Committee Member
Keith B Wilson, Committee Member

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Author:: Rogers, Amy Michelle
Title:: BECOMING MORE "CIVIC" THROUGH THE STUDY OF LOCAL HISTORY
Graduate Program:: Curriculum and Instruction
Keywords:: place-based education
civic engagement
civic mindedness
local history
File:: Download Final_Revision_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: James F Nolan Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Murry R Nelson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Daniel Marshall, Committee Member
James F Nolan Jr., Committee Member
Kai Arthur Schafft, Committee Member

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Author:: Scanlan, Andrew Michael
Title:: Do Alternate Stable States Occur in Streams? Assessing Community Changes in Biofilms along a Biogeochemcical Gradient
Graduate Program:: Ecology
Keywords:: Diatom Assemblages
Alterante Stable State Hypothesis
Productivity Threshold
File:: Download Scanlan_Thesis_12-9-09.pdf
Committee Members:: Hunter Carrick, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hunter Carrick, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Todd, Aaron M
Title:: Performance degradation of P3HT:PCBM Polymer/fullerene photovoltaic cells under gamma irradiation
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science
Keywords:: solar cells
gamma irradiation
CELIV
radiation damage
File:: Download Masters-AT.pdf
Committee Members:: Jian Xu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jian Xu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Osama O Awadelkarim, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
S Ashok, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Tatum, Angela Megin
Title:: Mechanisms that Regulate the CD8+ T cell Response to SV40 T Antigen
Graduate Program:: Microbiology and Immunology
Keywords:: SV40
T antigen
immunodominance
CD8+ T cells
tumor
immunotherapy
File:: Download Tatum_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Todd Schell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Todd Schell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Charles Norbury, Committee Member
David Joseph Spector, Committee Member
Kristin Ann Eckert, Committee Member

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Author:: Wilson, Andrew Mark
Title:: BIRD POPULATION RESPONSES TO CONSERVATION GRASSLANDS IN PENNSYLVANIA
Graduate Program:: Ecology
Keywords:: grassland bird
conservation
CRP
Pennsylvania
CREP
File:: Download Andrew_Wilson_Final_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Margaret Brittingham, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Margaret Brittingham, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Duane R Diefenbach, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Walter Matthew Tzilkowski, Committee Member

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Author:: Olatunji, Adewale
Title:: OPTIMIZATION OF NATURAL GAS FIELD DEVELOPMENT USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
Graduate Program:: Petroleum and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Natural Gas Field Development
Artificial Neural Networks
File:: Download Olatunji_Adewale.pdf
Committee Members:: Luis Ayala, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Luis F Ayala H, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Wright, Ato Obrumah
Title:: ROLE OFCYLD, A DEUBIQUITINATING ENZYME, IN MAST CELL FUNCTION AND SPERMATOGENESIS
Graduate Program:: Cell and Molecular Biology
Keywords:: deubiquitination
K63
DUB
K48
Mast cells
FceRI
BMMC
degranulation
cytokines
type I allergy
allergy
IgE
tyrosine kinases
anaphylaxis
spermatogenesis
bcl-2
male infertility
germ cells
TNF-alpha
TRAF
LOH
loss of heterozygosity
ubiquitination
apoptosis
cylindromatosis
NF-kB
CYLD
RIP
Receptor interacting protein
caspase
IKK
File:: Download ATOWRIGHTthesis8-12-08.pdf
Committee Members:: Shao Cong Sun, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Todd Schell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Harold Bonneau, Committee Member
Neil David Christensen, Committee Member
Diane M Thiboutot, Committee Member

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Author:: Borner, Arnaud
Title:: DROPLET VAPORIZATION OF N-HEPTANE IN SUBCRITICAL CONDITIONS USING MOLECULAR DYNAMICS
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: n-heptane
vaporization
Droplets
molecular dynamics
File:: Download MasterThesis_v3_Arnaud_Borner.pdf
Committee Members:: Michael Matthew Micci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Matthew Micci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: McGraw, Adam Philip
Title:: Protein-RNA interactions involved in regulation of the tryptophan biosynthesis operon (trpEDCFBA) in Bacillus subtilis
Graduate Program:: Chemistry
Keywords:: protein-RNA interactions
mRNA stability
TRAP
RNA structure
File:: Download AM_thesis_FINAL-2-101008.pdf
Committee Members:: Paul Lee Babitzke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Charles Keiler, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member

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