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1. THE ROLE OF FRIENDSHIP SUPPORT IN EMERGING ADULTS’ RISKY SEXUAL DECISION-MAKING: A TEST OF THE REGRET REGULATION THEORY

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Author:
Lucas, Alysa Ann
Title:
THE ROLE OF FRIENDSHIP SUPPORT IN EMERGING ADULTS’ RISKY SEXUAL DECISION-MAKING: A TEST OF THE REGRET REGULATION THEORY
Graduate Program:
Communication Arts and Sciences
Keywords:
regret regulation theory
support
friendship
sexual decision-making
File:
Download ALucasDISS-FINAL_EDITS_with_ACK_1_.pdf
Committee Members:
Jon F Nussbaum, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jon F Nussbaum, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis Stephen Gouran, Committee Member
Denise Haunani Solomon, Committee Member
Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Member

2. The Influence of Small Schools High School Redesign on Teachers' Collective Efficacy Beliefs

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Author:
Meisinger, Amy Ann
Title:
The Influence of Small Schools High School Redesign on Teachers' Collective Efficacy Beliefs
Graduate Program:
Educational Leadership
Keywords:
small schools
collective teacher efficacy
high school redesign
File:
Download Meisinger_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:
Nona Ann Prestine, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nona Ann Prestine, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Preston C Green, Committee Member
William Hartman, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

3. Plantae, Animalia, Fungi: Transformations of Natural History in Contemporary American Art

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Author:
Mazow, Alissa Walls
Title:
Plantae, Animalia, Fungi: Transformations of Natural History in Contemporary American Art
Graduate Program:
Art History
Keywords:
american art
natural history
File:
Download DISS_FINAL.SMALL_FILE.pdf
Committee Members:
Sarah K Rich, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarah K Rich, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Brian A Curran, Committee Member
Craig Robert Zabel, Committee Member
Nancy Elizabeth Locke, Committee Member
Richard Matthew Doyle, Committee Member

4. Plantation Modernism: Irish, Caribbean, and U.S. Fiction 1890-1950

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Author:
Clukey, Amy
Title:
Plantation Modernism: Irish, Caribbean, and U.S. Fiction 1890-1950
Graduate Program:
English
Keywords:
plantation fiction
modernism
File:
Download Dissertation-Submitted_for_Final_Submission_to_Thesis_Office5.pdf
Committee Members:
Janet Wynne Lyon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Deborah Clarke, Committee Member
Mark Stewart Morrisson, Committee Member
Jonathan Paul Eburne, Committee Member
Sean X Goudie, Committee Member

8. QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF IN VIVO PERISTALTIC AND SEGMENTAL MOTION IN THE RAT SMALL INTESTINE USING DYNAMIC MRI

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Author:
Ailiani, Amit
Title:
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF IN VIVO PERISTALTIC AND SEGMENTAL MOTION IN THE RAT SMALL INTESTINE USING DYNAMIC MRI
Graduate Program:
Bioengineering
Keywords:
image analysis
image segmentation
principal component analysis
active shape models
in vivo
jejunum
segmental motion
peristalsis
dynamic MRI
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
non invasive
isoflurane
inactin anesthesia
rat small intestine
villi
computational fluid dynamics model
File:
Download Amit_Ailiani_PhD_Thesis_24March2010.pdf
Committee Members:
Andrew Webb, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew G Webb, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Gordon Brasseur, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Keefe B Manning, Committee Member
Steven Schiff, Committee Member

10. A Strain Rate Sensitivity Investigation of Aerospace Steel Gear Teeth Via Instrumented Impact Testing

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Open Access
Author:
Isaacson, Aaron
Title:
A Strain Rate Sensitivity Investigation of Aerospace Steel Gear Teeth Via Instrumented Impact Testing
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
strain rate sensitivity
aerospace high hot hardness gear steels
instrumented impact testing
File:
Download Isaacson_Thesis_Final_Complete.pdf
Committee Members:
Stephen M Copley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen M Copley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Surendra B Rao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

12. Glimpsing Liminality and the Poetics of Faith: Ethics and the Fantastic Spirit

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Author:
Ohmoto-Frederick, Ayumi Clara
Title:
Glimpsing Liminality and the Poetics of Faith: Ethics and the Fantastic Spirit
Graduate Program:
Comparative Literature
Keywords:
Japanese
apparition
ghost
obake
spirit
modern
European
liminality
File:
Download a.c._ohmoto-frederick_dissertation.pdfDownload Ayumi_Ohmoto-Frederick_Errata_File.pdf
Committee Members:
Thomas Oliver Beebee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Reiko Tachibana, Committee Member
Monique Yvonne Yaari, Committee Member
Veronique Marion Foti, Committee Member

13. Predictors of Anti-Trafficking Initiatives: A Cross-National, Time-Series Analysis of The Trafficking In Persons Report

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Author:
Wooditch, Alese C.
Title:
Predictors of Anti-Trafficking Initiatives: A Cross-National, Time-Series Analysis of The Trafficking In Persons Report
Graduate Program:
Criminal Justice
Keywords:
Human Trafficking; Anti-Trafficking Initiatives; P
File:
Download Wooditch_A._C._-_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Barbara A Sims, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donald Charles Hummer Ii, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

14. Learning on the job: Cooperative education, internships, and engineering problem-solving skills

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Author:
Yin, Alexander Chih-Jen
Title:
Learning on the job: Cooperative education, internships, and engineering problem-solving skills
Graduate Program:
Higher Education
Keywords:
Cooperative education
engineering education
internships
problem-solving skills
Experiential Learning Cycle
Model of Domain Learning
File:
Download Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Lisa R Lattuca, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lisa R Lattuca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Fredericks Volkwein, Committee Member
Peggy Noel Van Meter, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member

15. Rhetoric for Becoming Otherwise: Life, Literature, Genealogy, Flight

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Author:
Anders, Abram Daniel
Title:
Rhetoric for Becoming Otherwise: Life, Literature, Genealogy, Flight
Graduate Program:
English
Keywords:
genealogy
ethics
health
rhetoric
File:
Download AndersRFBO.PDF
Committee Members:
Richard Doyle, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Matthew Doyle, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey Nealon, Committee Member
Xiaoye You, Committee Member
Robert Anderson Yarber Jr., Committee Member

16. INTEGRAL TIME-OF-FLIGHT AND CHARGE EXTRACTION BY LINEARLY INCREASING VOLTAGE TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING CARRIER MOBILITY

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Author:
Berger, Alan
Title:
INTEGRAL TIME-OF-FLIGHT AND CHARGE EXTRACTION BY LINEARLY INCREASING VOLTAGE TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING CARRIER MOBILITY
Graduate Program:
Engineering Science
Keywords:
organic solar cell
charge carrier mobility
CELIV
time-of-flight
nanocrystal hybrid solar cell
File:
Download ABerger_Masters_Thesis_final.pdf
Committee Members:
S Ashok, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
S Ashok, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jian Xu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

17. A Composite-Based Retro-Prediction Method for Jet Contrail Outbreaks Over the United States

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Author:
Silva, Armand Daniel
Title:
A Composite-Based Retro-Prediction Method for Jet Contrail Outbreaks Over the United States
Graduate Program:
Geography
Keywords:
contrails
regionalization
retro-prediction
upper troposphere
aviation
climate diagnostics
synoptic climatology
File:
Download Silva_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Andrew Mark Carleton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Mark Carleton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

18. SIMULATIONS OF AEROSOL, MICROPHYSICAL AND COASTAL INFLUENCES ON ARCTIC MIXED-PHASE CLOUDS

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Author:
Avramov, Alexander Elkov
Title:
SIMULATIONS OF AEROSOL, MICROPHYSICAL AND COASTAL INFLUENCES ON ARCTIC MIXED-PHASE CLOUDS
Graduate Program:
Meteorology
Keywords:
aerosols
mixed-phase clouds
arctic clouds
ice crystal habit
File:
Download FinalDissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Jerry Y Harrington, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jerry Y H Arrington, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Johannes Verlinde, Committee Member
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Member
David Pollard, Committee Member

19. EXPLORING ADULT BUSINESS STUDENTS’ TRANSITION TO COLLEGE THROUGH A FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR COURSE: AN ACTION RESEARCH STUDY

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Author:
Bailey, April Elizabeth
Title:
EXPLORING ADULT BUSINESS STUDENTS’ TRANSITION TO COLLEGE THROUGH A FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR COURSE: AN ACTION RESEARCH STUDY
Graduate Program:
Adult Education
Keywords:
adult students
business students
first-year seminar
student transitions and adjustment
undergraduate business programs
action research
File:
Download April_Bailey_Final_Dissertation_April_2009.pdf
Committee Members:
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniele D Flannery, Committee Member
Senel Poyrazli, Committee Member
Stephen Patrick Schappe, Committee Member
Heather L Stuckey, Committee Member
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member