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Author:

Cave, Scott Ryan

Title:

Communication and the Social History of Contact in the Spanish Atlantic, 1341-1602

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

Communication
Contact
Conquest
Spanish Empire
Native Americans

File:

Download Cave_diss_Final_upload.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Bennett Restall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Bennett Restall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, Committee Member
David Giguette Atwill, Committee Member
Amara Leah Solari, Outside Member

Author:

Hoagland, Nell E

Title:

Surface water-sediment interactions: Examples from pristine and contaminated catchments

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

arsenic
nitrogen
critical zone
floodplains
gold mining
groundwater-surface water interactions
hyporheic zone
aqueous geochemistry
hydrology
water contamination

File:

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Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew S Fantle, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Jason Philip Kaye, Outside Member
Tess Alethea Russo, Special Member

Author:

Ahmadipur, Amir

Title:

EXPERIMENTAL AND ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF IMPACT FORCE FROM A DRY GRANULAR SLIDING MASS ON A RIGID OBSTRUCTION

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Basal friction
Compression wave
Dynamic force
Flume test
Granular flow
Impact
Deposit morphology
Flow dynamics
Granular avalanches
Inclined surface
Static force
Flow velocity

File:

Download Amir_Ahmadipur_Ph.D._Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Tong Qiu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ming Xiao, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Bai, Yifan

Title:

THE CONSEQUENCES OF EDUCATIONAL ASSORTATIVE MARRIAGE FOR CHILDREN'S ACADEMIC PROFICIENCY IN THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

Educational Assortative Marriage
Academic Proficiency
United States
China

File:

Download Yifan_Bai_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Soo-yong Byun, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soo-Yong Byun, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Post, Committee Member
Kevin Paul Kinser, Committee Member
John David Iceland, Outside Member

Author:

Pritchard, Catharine Elizbeth

Title:

A LANDSCAPE OF FEAR: MEASURING NUTRITIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS IN PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTIONS

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

stress
glucocorticoids
thyroid hormones
Vicugna vicugna
predator-prey interactions
a landscape of fear

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. Tracy Langkilde, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Paola Ferreri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Victoria Braithwaite, Committee Member
Dr. Matt Marshall, Committee Member
Dr. Matt Marshall, Outside Member

Author:

Hyun, Jinshil

Title:

The effects of metal work demands on cognitive aging and dementia

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

cognitive aging
dementia
mental work demands
cognitive reserve

File:

Download Hyun_Dissertation_Final_20180927.pdf

Committee Members:

Martin J. Sliwinski, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Martin J. Sliwinski, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David M. Almeida, Committee Member
Lesley A. Ross, Committee Member
Joshua M. Smyth, Outside Member

Author:

Chothe, Shubhada Krishna

Title:

ROLE OF NOD-LIKE RECEPTOR FAMILY CARD DOMAIN CONTAINING 5 (NLRC5) IN INFLUENZA A VIRUS INFECTION

Graduate Program:

Pathobiology

Keywords:

NLRC5
Influenza A virus
NOD like receptor
avian influenza

File:

Download Chothe_dissertation__skc172_psu.edu_.pdf

Committee Members:

Bhushan M Jayarao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bhushan M Jayarao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suresh Varma Kuchipudi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Girish Soorappa Kirimanjeswara, Committee Member
Isabella Cattadori, Outside Member
Subhashinie Kariyawasam, Committee Member
Suresh Varma Kuchipudi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Sheth, Nisha Sanjay

Title:

A surface science perspective of the usable strength of glass

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

glass
surface science
surface characterization
mechanical properties of materials

File:

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Committee Members:

Seong Han Kim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seong Han Kim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carlo G. Pantano, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Outside Member

Author:

Nihranz, Chad T

Title:

STRESSFUL MEMORIES: CONSEQUENCES OF HERBIVORY AND INBREEDING IN SOLANUM CAROLINENSE

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Solanum carolinense
Manduca sexta
herbivory
induced defenses
inbreeding
transgenerational induction

File:

Download Nihranz_-_Dissertation_in_Ecology.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew George Stephenson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew George Stephenson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Frazier Tooker, Committee Member
James Homer Tumlinson III, Committee Member
Gary Felton, Outside Member
Mark C. Mescher, Special Member

Author:

Hellmann, Daniel Evan

Title:

THE GENERATIVE EFFECT OF EXPERTISE AND ARTICULATION WORK IN ORGANIC ICT BASED COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

ICT
Information and Communication Technologies
Collaboration
Institutions
Proto-institutions
Community Emergence
Digital Humanitarians
Generative Phenomena
Period of Genesis
Cyber Infrastructure

File:

Download Hellmann__DissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Carleen Frances Maitland, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carleen Frances Maitland, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrea H Tapia, Committee Member
Frederico T Fonseca, Committee Member
Gary J Adler Jr., Outside Member

Author:

Thanomsing, Chulapol

Title:

A CASE STUDY OF FACULTY USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN TEACHING AND LEARNING

Graduate Program:

Instructional Systems

Keywords:

Social Media
Teaching and Learning
Instructional Design
Instructional Technology
Case study

File:

Download Thanomsing-Dissertation-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Priya Sharma, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Priya Sharma, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roy Clariana, Committee Member
Douglas L Leslie, Committee Member
Eugene Joseph Lengerich, Outside Member

Author:

Stout, Trevor

Title:

Simulation of N-wave and shaped supersonic signature turbulent variations

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

Sonic boom
Acoustic propagation
Turbulence
KZK
Shaped signature
Low boom
N-wave
Supersonic

File:

Download Stout_PhDthesis_v16.pdf

Committee Members:

Victor Sparrow, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Victor Sparrow, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karl Reichard, Committee Member
Julianna Simon, Committee Member
Kenneth Brentner, Outside Member

Author:

Brennan, Ann Elizabeth

Title:

Becoming

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Education
Curriculum
Rooted Teaching
Place
Teacher Education

File:

Download Brennan_-_Becominig_-_12.4.18.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark Thomas Kissling, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Thomas Kissling, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Angiline Louisa Whitney, Committee Member
Dana Lynn Stuchul, Committee Member
Christopher Uhl, Outside Member

Author:

Choi, Minkyu

Title:

Polarization Orientation Dependence of Piezoelectric Loss and Proposed Crystallographic Characterization Methodology

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

PZT
piezoelectric loss
piezoelectric characterization
anisotropy
negative loss

File:

Download Choi_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenji Uchino, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenji Uchino, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Member
Wenwu Cao, Outside Member

Author:

Marshall, Andrew James

Title:

The Death Knell of Damien Hirst's Brand

Graduate Program:

Art History

Keywords:

brand
branding
art world
pricing strategy
brand strategy
auction
auctions
auction analysis

File:

Download Andrew_J._Marshall_s_The_Graduate_School_Thesis_.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Sarah K. Rich, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bauerle, Matthew Richard

Title:

Mechanistic Analysis of the Radical SAM Methylases RlmN and Cfr

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Radical SAM enzyme
Mechanistic Enzymology
X-ray Crystallography
RlmN and Cfr
Mass Spectrometry
Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectroscopy
Enzyme Kinetics
Rapid Chemical Quench
pH-rate profile
Deuterium Exchange
Directed Evolution
Methylation
Thiyl Radical
Cysteine
Iron-Sulfur Cluster
S-adenosylmethionine
5'-deoxyadenosine
S-adenosylhomocysteine
Radical SAM methylase

File:

Download Bauerle_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Squire J. Booker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Squire J. Booker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Amie K. Boal, Committee Member
Dr. J. Martin Bollinger, Committee Member
Dr. William Hancock, Outside Member
Dr. Carsten Krebs, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, Shixin

Title:

MESOSCALE STRUCTRUAL ANALYSIS OF CELLUOLOSE MICROFIBRILS IN PLANT CELL WALLS USING VIBRATIONAL SUM FREUQNENCY GENERATION (SFG) SPECTROSCOPY

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Cellulose
sum frequency generation
plant cell walls

File:

Download PhD_thesis_Shixin_Huang_final_version2.pdf

Committee Members:

Seong Han Kim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seong Han Kim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel J Cosgrove, Committee Member
Phillip E Savage, Committee Member
Charles T Anderson, Outside Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Maria Suk

Title:

Evaluating the effects of vineyard management strategies on cold stress in wine grapes

Graduate Program:

Horticulture

Keywords:

Viticulture
Cold stress
Freeze injury
Canopy management
Cultivar selection
Hydraulic transport
Anatomy
Crop load
Cluster thinning
Early leaf removal

File:

Download Complete_dissertation_Smith_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Michela Centinari, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Marini, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathleen Kelley, Committee Member
Ryan Elias, Committee Member
Ryan Elias, Outside Member

Author:

Tang, Hengtao

Title:

EXPLORING SELF-REGULATED LEARNER PROFILES IN MOOCS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology

Keywords:

Self-regulated learning
Learning analytics
MOOCs
Culture
Comparative study

File:

Download Dissertation_-_Tang.pdf

Committee Members:

Kyle Peck, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kyle Peck, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ladislaus Semali, Committee Member
Susan Mary Land, Committee Member
Wei-Fan Chen, Outside Member

Author:

Dong, Pool Ip

Title:

YOUNG CHILDREN’S DIGITAL PLAY IN THE DAYCARE CENTER: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC CASE STUDY OF YOUNG KOREAN CHILDREN’S MEANING-MAKING

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Digital play
Young children
Play
Digital technology
Ethnographic case study

File:

Download pool_ip_dong_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Allison S. Henward, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James E. Johnson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline J. Reid-Walsh, Committee Member
Christopher M. Schulte, Committee Member
Christine Marmé Thompson, Outside Member

Author:

Cornell, Carl Benjamin

Title:

Oikos: Sustainability, Dwelling, and Culture in Urban France

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

Sustainability
Dwelling
Culture
Urban France
France
Contemporary France
Deindustrialization
Memory
Ecology
City

File:

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Committee Members:

Monique Yaari, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Monique Yaari, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer Boittin, Committee Member
Kathryn Grossman, Committee Member
Sophie de Schaepdrijver, Outside Member
Jean-Pierre Le Dantec, Special Member

Author:

Li, Yaqi

Title:

THE IMPACT OF MICRONUTRIENT STATUS ON VITAMIN A METABOLISM AND KINETICS IN RATS

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

Vitamin A
neonates
iron deficiency
WinSAAM
compartmental model

File:

Download Dissertation_Yaqi_Li-after_defense-final.pdf

Committee Members:

A. Catharine Ross, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
A. Catharine Ross, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael H. Green, Committee Member
Laura E. Murray-Kolb, Committee Member
Kevin Harvatine, Outside Member
Gregory Shearer, Committee Member

Author:

Mckay, John David

Title:

Tailored Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Image Formation and Analysis

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Synthetic Aperture Sonar
Synthetic Aperture Radar
Deep Learning
Transfer Learning
automatic target recognition

File:

Download JohnMcKay-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vishal Monga, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vishal Monga, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member
Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Committee Member
Necdet S Aybat, Outside Member

Author:

Ji, Xinye

Title:

Elucidating hydrologic controls of floodplain lake dynamics using a multi-scale process-based model

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrological modeling
Multi-scale approach
floodplain lake dynamics
Generic data structure
Integrated process-based model

File:

Download Xinye_Ji_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chaopeng Shen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chaopeng Shen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Elizabeth Weeks Boyer, Committee Member
Chris Eliot Forest, Outside Member

Author:

Andrzejewski, Elizabeth Mae

Title:

FAST, LOW-SKILLED, AND FLEXIBLE BUILDING ASSEMBLY (NOW!): Revisiting the Joint-Based Universal Building System

Graduate Program:

Architecture

Keywords:

Universal Joint
Konrad Wachsmann
Prefabricated Building
Open Building System
General Panel Corporation
Wedge Connector
Prefabrication
Architecture
Disaster Relief
Packaged House System
Walter Gropius

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Marcus Steven Shaffer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Theodore Kalsbeek, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Steven Richard White Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Senanayake, Narmadha

Title:

CULTIVATING HEALTH IN LANDSCAPES OF UNCERTAINTY: MYSTERY KIDNEY DISEASE, ENVIRONMENTAL RISK AND AGRARIAN TRANSFORMATION IN SRI LANKA’S DRY ZONE

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

political ecologies of health
feminist geography
agrarian change
mystery kidney disease
dry zone Sri Lanka
environmental risk
uncertainty

File:

Download Senanayake-Dissertation-FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Brian Hastings King, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brian Hastings King, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karl Zimmerer, Committee Member
Lorraine Dowler, Committee Member
Carolyn Sachs, Outside Member

Author:

Kensinger, Lyndsay A

Title:

ENGAGING GLADIATORS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE MOTIVATIONS OF SCANDAL’S TWITTER AUDIENCE

Graduate Program:

Communications

Keywords:

Twitter
Live Tweeting
Scandal
Motivations

File:

Download L._Kensinger_Thesis_FINAL11.3.18.pdf

Committee Members:

Nakho Kim, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Jones Kareithi, Committee Member
Catherine Anne Rios, Committee Member

Author:

Orth, Nikki Shayna

Title:

Rhetorics of Remembrance: Civil Rights Memoirs and Civil Rights Memory

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Rhetoric
Memory
Civil Rights Movement
Memoirs

File:

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Committee Members:

Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Member
Anne T Demo, Committee Member

Author:

Monteiro, Vanessa Caroline

Title:

THE CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER IN THE AMAZON RAINFOREST

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

Convective boundary layer
Amazon rainforest
Mesoscale convective system

File:

Download PSU_Thesis_VF_VCM.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Dolores Fuentes, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jerry Y Harrington, Committee Member
Gregory S Jenkins, Committee Member

Author:

Veazey, Dustin Montgomery

Title:

Microstructural Control of Polyaryletherketones and their Fiber Reinforced Composites

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

polymer
composites
crosslink

File:

Download DustinVeazey_MastersThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Enrique Daniel Gomez, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member

Author:

Schrom, Robert Stephen

Title:

Radar measurements and simulations of ice crystal growth in Arctic mixed-phase clouds

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

Radar
Ice crystals
Scattering
Microphysics

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Robert Kumjian, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Robert Kumjian, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Johannes Verlinde, Committee Member
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Outside Member
Jerry Y Harrington, Committee Member

Author:

Jia, Yufei

Title:

Laser and PT-Symmetric Photonics with Organic and Hybrid semiconductors

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

perovskite
laser
continuous wave
organic materials
parity-time symmetry

File:

Download Laser_and_PT_Symmetric_Photonics_with_Organic_and_Hybrid_semiconductors_Yufei_Jia_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Noel Christopher Giebink, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Xingjie Ni, Committee Member
Mikael Caleb Rechtsman, Outside Member

Author:

Ordorica, Salvador Adrian

Title:

RESHAPING NET LOAD OF HIGH RENEWABLE DISTRIBUTION FEEDERS WITH COMMERCIAL BUILDING MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

MPC
Model Predictive Controlls
High Renewable Energy Pentration
Reshape Net Load

File:

Download M.S._Thesis_-_Ordorica.pdf

Committee Members:

Gregory Scott Pavlak, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hagedorn, Annelise Dejong

Title:

“IF WE WERE VALUED MORE”: A STUDY OF CHILDCARE PROVIDERS IN RURAL SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

Childcare
Rural
Gendered Employment
Work

File:

Download Hagedorn_Dissertation_November26.pdf

Committee Members:

Leif Jensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leif Jensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ann Tickamyer, Committee Member
Leland Glenna, Committee Member
Sarah Damaske, Outside Member

Author:

Carnes, Robert Ronald

Title:

RIDING THE MERGER WAVE: THE GATEKEEPING ROLE OF AUDITORS

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Merger Waves
Audit
Industry Environment

File:

Download Robert_Carnes_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Karl A Muller III, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl A Muller III, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Orie Edwin Barron, Committee Member
Hal Derric White, Committee Member
David Haushalter, Outside Member
Dane M. Christensen, Committee Member

Author:

Cramer, Maria Elaine

Title:

Integrated Pest Management for Two Red Raspberry Pests Utilizing UV-Blocking High Tunnel Plastic Films

Graduate Program:

Horticulture

Keywords:

High tunnel
Primocane-fruiting
UV-light
Plastic film
Protected culture
Integrated pest management
Red raspberry
Rubus idaeus subsp. Ideaus
Japanese beetle
Popillia japonica
Spotted wing drosophila
Drosophila suzukii
Harvest interval
Attracticidal spheres
Spectral sensitivity

File:

Download Thesis_with_proper_format.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard P Marini, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathleen Demchak, Committee Member
Tracy Leskey, Committee Member

Author:

Alrawi, Zaid Ismaeel

Title:

RECONSTRUCTING THE RURAL ECONOMY OF SOUTHERN MESOPOTAMIA DURING THE THIRD MILLENNIUM B.C.

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

Mesopotama
Archaeology
Third Millennium B.C.
Rural Economy
GIS

File:

Download Dissertation-Final_Submision-2.pdf

Committee Members:

José M. Capriles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
José M. Capriles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Webster, Committee Member
Kirk Dow French, Committee Member
Mark Munn, Outside Member
George Chaplin, Special Member

Author:

Lister, Andrew Joseph

Title:

PLOT DESIGN OPTIMIZATION USING FORESTS SIMULATED WITH POINT PROCESS AND LANDSCAPE MODELS

Graduate Program:

Forest Resources

Keywords:

forest inventory plot design
point process modelling
hierarchical modelling
landscape simulation
optimal plot design
factorial experiment

File:

Download Lister_Dec2018_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Laura P Leites, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Laura P Leites, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Zenner, Committee Member
Douglas Alan Miller, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Outside Member

Author:

Romberger, Darla Joanne

Title:

THE INFLUENCE OF SECONDARY AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION STUDENT SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE PARTICIPATION ON CAREER DECISION SELF-EFFICACY

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Extension Education

Keywords:

Supervised Agricultural Experience
Self-Efficacy
Career Decision Self-Efficacy
Agricultural Education
School-Based Agricultural Education
Work-Based Learning

File:

Download Romberger_Thesis_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Douglas Foster, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Ewing, Committee Member
Mark D Threeton, Committee Member

Author:

Bull, Margeaux

Title:

EXAMINING THE SURFACE CHEMISTRY AND BEHAVIOR OF COLLOIDALLY-SYNTHESIZED VANADIUM DIOXIDE

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

vanadium dioxide
VO2
colloidal synthesis

File:

Download Margeaux_Bull_Master_s_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Raymond Edward Schaak, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member

Author:

Bliton, Chloe Frances

Title:

THE INITIAL CONSTRUCTION AND VALIDATION OF THE INTERPERSONAL INFLUENCE TACTICS CIRCUMPLEX (IIT-C)

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Influence
Interpersonal Theory
Interpersonal Circumplex
Influence Tactics

File:

Download Bliton_Thesis_-_Masters_Grad.pdf

Committee Members:

Aaron Lee Pincus, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michelle Gayle Newman, Committee Member
David E Conroy, Committee Member

Author:

Kaymak, Zeynep

Title:

A SIMULATION OF MAGNETIC SUSPENSION AND BALANCE SYSTEM FOR WIND TUNNEL

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Magnetic Suspension and Balance Systems
MSBS
Electromagnetic Levitation
COMSOL Multiphysics
AC/DC module
Electromagnetic Force

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Rui Ni, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paris R Vonlockette, Committee Member

Author:

Schreiber, Alison

Title:

Disruptions to Physiological Coregulation Exacerbates Conflict in Couples with Personality Pathology

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

physiological coregulation
personality disorders
social relationships
physiological coregulation
personality disorders
social relationships

File:

Download Alison_Schreiber_Masters_thesis_for_Graduate_School.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Nelson Hallquist, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aaron Lee Pincus, Committee Member
Zita Oravecz, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Hans Weiteng

Title:

Toward improved regional estimates of carbon dioxide sources and sinks through coupled carbon–atmospheric data assimilation

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

carbon cycle
data assimilation
atmospheric inversion
climate
climate change
ensemble kalman filter
Bayesian inference
act-america
co2
carbon dioxide

File:

Download chen.pdf

Committee Members:

Fuqing Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fuqing Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Lauvaux, Committee Member
Steven B. Feldstein, Committee Member
Richard B. Alley, Outside Member
David W. Titley, Outside Member

Author:

Kuatbek, Maksat

Title:

CHARACTERIZATION OF FRACKING SOIL, SEDIMENT, AND WASTEWATER SAMPLES USING COMPARATIVE NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS METHOD

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

NAA
Hydraulic Fracturing
RSEC
PSBR

File:

Download Master_Thesis_by_Maksat_Kuatbek.pdf

Committee Members:

Amanda M Johnsen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Member

Author:

Metzger, Richard Anthony

Title:

Signal Processing Augmentations to Spectrum-Based Modeling for Speaker Recognition

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Speaker Recognition
ApEn
EMD
Speaker Modeling

File:

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Committee Members:

John F Doherty, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John F Doherty, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Marion Jenkins Jr., Committee Member
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Member
Michelle Celine Vigeant, Outside Member

Author:

Duan, Shizhao

Title:

THE ROLE OF IMMUNE EFFECTOR CELLS IN THE 4T1.2 MURINE MAMMARY TUMOR MODEL

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

Breast Cancer
immunotherapy
preclinical breast cancer
triple-negative breast cancer
murine model
4T1.2

File:

Download Duan_MS_thesis_11-26-18_.pdf

Committee Members:

Connie Jo Rogers, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Culliton, Christopher

Title:

Probing Quasar Winds Using Intrinsic Narrow Absorption Lines

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Quasars
Absorption lines
Active Galactic Nuclei
Accretion Disks

File:

Download Culliton-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Eracleous, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jane Camilla Charlton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Member
Derek Brindley Fox, Committee Member
Sarah Elizabeth Shandera, Outside Member

Author:

Huang, Qingquan

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF STABLE HIGH-CAPACITY SILICON-BASED ANODE AND LITHIUM METAL ANODE FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERY

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

lithium-ion battery
silicon anode
lithium metal anode
gel polymer electrolyte

File:

Download PHD_dissertation_of_Qingquan_Huang_V7.pdf

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
Long-Qing Chen, Outside Member

Author:

Greenfelder, Theodore James

Title:

Giving Voice to Visitation: A Mixed Data Approach to Understanding Visitation in a Woman’s Prison

Graduate Program:

Criminology

Keywords:

Prison
Visitation
Women in Prison
Mixed Data
Incarcerated Women
Mixed-Data
Interview

File:

Download Greenfelder_Masters_Thesis_Final_101218.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Allen Kreager, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Todd Ulmer, Committee Member
Gary J Adler Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Aljuhani, Abdulrahman Eid

Title:

THE PERFORMANCE OF PHOTOCONTROL SYSTEMS UNDER DIFFERENT SHADING AND SUNLIGHT CONDITIONS

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Critical point
RMSE
Workplane
Orientation
Calibration
Sensor
Photosensor
Signals
Shade
Performance
Condition
single sensor
Two sensor
Two sensor corrected
Dimming
signal to illuminance ratio
Photocontrol
Daylighting

File:

Download Abdulrahman_Eid_Aljuhani_Final_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard George Mistrick, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Nguyen, Uyen T

Title:

GEOCHEMICAL AND METAGENOMIC INVESTIGATION OF MARINE HYDROCARBON BIODEGRADATION

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

oil biodegradation
high pressure
gulf of mexico
deepwater horizon
hydrocarbon-degrading genes
coal biodegradation

File:

Download Nguyen_Dissertation_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Jennifer Macalady, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Member
James Kubicki, Committee Member
Ming Tien, Outside Member
Sara Ann Lincoln, Committee Member

Author:

Martinez, Idellyse

Title:

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF METASURFACES AND BODY-WORN ANTENNAS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Metasurfaces
Electromagnetic Metamaterials
Electromagnetic Metamaterials
Reconfigurable Absorber
Beam Steering
High Impedance Surface
Phase Gradient
Electromagnetic Band gap
Surface-waves
Reduction of Coupling
On-body Antennas
SAR
Textile Antennas
Wearable Antennas

File:

Download PhD-Thesis-Martinez_vf.pdf

Committee Members:

Douglas H. Werner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Pingjuan L. Werner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Committee Member
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Outside Member

Author:

Caceres, Gabriel

Title:

Autoregressive Planet Search: Methodology & Application to The Kepler Mission

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Astronomy
Exoplanets
Astrostatistics

File:

Download Caceres-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric D Feigelson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric D Feigelson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric B Ford, Committee Member
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Member
Jogesh Babu Gutti, Outside Member
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Member

Author:

Holman, Steven Lee

Title:

"Driver's License, Military ID, and Proof of Registration and Insurance, Please." An Exploratory Study of Officer Discretion Surrounding Traffic Stops on an Air Force Installation

Graduate Program:

Criminal Justice

Keywords:

discretion
U.S. Air Force
race
gender
age
infraction
seriousness of offense
qualitative
discretion
Air Force
race
gender
age
infraction
citation
seriousness of offense
qualitative

File:

Download License__Military_ID__and_Proof_Of_Insurance__Please.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Charles Hummer II, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan Lee, Committee Member

Author:

Odele, Anne

Title:

MEANING, USES, AND OUTCOMES OF ADULT LITERACY IN A FUNCTIONAL ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM IN UGANDA

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Keywords:

Functional adult literacy
adult education
adult literacy
adult learning

File:

Download ANNE_ODELE_DISSERTATION_FALL_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Esther Susana Prins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kimberly Powell, Committee Member
Carolyn E. Sachs, Committee Member
Alicia Catharine Decker, Outside Member

Author:

Miller, Lane

Title:

An Analysis of Acoustic Beam-forming with Sparse Transducer Arrays for Active Control

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

active control
sparse arrays
acoustic beam-forming

File:

Download LanePMiller-MS-Thesis-final-corrected.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen C Thompson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel A Russell, Committee Member
Michelle C Vigeant, Committee Member

Author:

Sava, Elena

Title:

Development of a Multi-Scale Observation Product to Aid Numerical Model Simulations During Flood Emergencies

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

remote sensing
flood
numerical models
social media
data fusion

File:

Download 2018_PSU_Dissertation_Sava_.pdf

Committee Members:

Guido Cervone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guido Cervone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alexander Klippel, Committee Member
Anthony C Robinson, Committee Member
Andrea H Tapia, Outside Member

Author:

Fang, Kuai

Title:

Understanding Hydrologic Functions of Water Storage and Soil Moisture and Improving Predictive Capability using Big Data Machine Learning Methods

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrology
Watershed Functioning
Water Storage
Soil Moisture
Machine Learning
Deep Learning

File:

Download Kuai_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Chaopeng Shen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chaopeng Shen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Klaus Keller, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Pin Yun

Title:

A Cognitive-Pragmatic Study on Modal Verbs of Possibility in Chinese

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

modality
discourse function
Interactional Linguistics
Cognitive Linguistics
force dynamics
mental space

File:

Download Wang_Chinese_possibility_modals.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan G. Strauss, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan G Strauss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ning Yu, Committee Member
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Member
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Outside Member

Author:

Lin, Yu San

Title:

Machine-Learning-Based Approaches for Learning Marketing Strategies

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

machine learning
deep learning
probabilistic generative model
marketing
crowdfunding
menu design
competition
word worth
reward
kickstarter

File:

Download yusan-Dissertation_v3.pdf

Committee Members:

Wang-Chien Lee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Outside Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Ryan, Kerry

Title:

LABORATORY STUDIES OF FAULT RESTRENGTHENING: The Role of Shear Stress and Mineralogy Inferred from Mechanical and Ultrasonic Amplitude Measurements

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

fault healing
frictional healing
earthquakes

File:

Download Ryan_Kerry_DissertationFINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris J Marone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Parisa Shokouhi, Outside Member

Author:

Ding, Zelong

Title:

UNDERSTANDING AND MITIGATING CATASTROPHIC FAILURE IN ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES FOR RELIABLE LIGHTING

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Catastrophic failure
Defect
Heat transfer
OLED
lighting

File:

Download M.S._thesis-Zelong_Ding.pdf

Committee Members:

Noel Christopher Giebink, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member

Author:

Yan, Chao

Title:

Gene Regulation By Divergent Gene Pairs and Nucleosome Depleting Factors

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

Nucleosome depleting factors
divergent gene pairs
divergent transcription
transcription
gene regulation

File:

Download 1810_Thesis_Draft_Chao_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Lu Bai, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lu Bai, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph C. Reese, Committee Member
Benjamin Franklin Pugh, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Outside Member
Shaun A Mahony, Committee Member

Author:

Doshi, Mitansh Sharad

Title:

COMPUTATIONAL PREDICTION OF A LARGE-SCALE HP TURBINE FLOW AGAINST MEASURED AERODYNAMIC DATA

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Turbine
CFD
Validation
NGV
Rotor
AFTRF
Turbulence model
K-Omega
Efficiency

File:

Download Thesis__MitanshDoshi_FA2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Cengiz Camci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yang, Tao

Title:

STATISTICAL METHODS FOR COMAPRING NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING DATA REPRODUCIBILITY, SIMILARITY AND DIFFERENTIATION

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics

Keywords:

sequencing
reproducibility
quality control
ChIP-seq
Hi-C
differential interaction
genomics

File:

Download TaoYang_dissertation_2018_FinalVersion.pdf

Committee Members:

Qunhua Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qunhua Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shaun Mohany, Committee Member
Yu Zhang, Committee Member
Ross Hardison, Outside Member
Feng Yue, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wang, Lin

Title:

VIRTUE OF NANO TEXTURES ON INSECTS SUPERHYDROPHOBIC SURFACES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

hydrophobic
pressure stability
contact time
droplet bouncing

File:

Download Master_Thesis-DYNAMIC_WETTING_ON_SUPERHYDROPHOBIC_SURFACES_WITH_DENSE_NANOSCALE_TEXTURES-Lin_Wang.pdf

Committee Members:

Tak Sing Wong, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carlo G. Pantano, Committee Member
Pak Kin Wong, Committee Member

Author:

Rice, William Luttrell

Title:

Beyond Fuzzy Feelings- Furthering Recreational Ecosystem Services

Graduate Program:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management

Keywords:

ecosystem services
recreation
parks
protected areas

File:

Download WLR_Thesis_5.0.pdf

Committee Members:

Brendan Derrick Taff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Newman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katherine Yoder Zipp, Committee Member

Author:

Jiang, Xiaoxuan

Title:

IntegratedRecognition: A Theoretically More Efficient Approach to Cached Music Recognition

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Integrated Music Recognition
Locality Recognition

File:

Download Thesis_Final__3.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Geeza, Thomas J

Title:

Mussels of the Family Unionidae as Bio-monitors of Surface Water Quality

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Freshwater Mussels
sclerochronology
Produced Water
Oil and Gas Wastewater
bioaccumulation
strontium isotopes
stable isotope tracers
water resource management

File:

Download Geeza_Dissertation_11-29-18.2.pdf

Committee Members:

Nathaniel Richard Warner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nathaniel Richard Warner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fred Scott Cannon, Committee Member
William D Burgos, Committee Member
Matthew S Fantle, Outside Member
David P. Gillikin, Special Member

Author:

Rosenstein, Lia Kathleen

Title:

Prediction of self-injury for interpersonal and intrapersonal reasons: A latent class analysis of self-injury in relation to borderline personality traits

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

borderline personality disorder
nonsuicidal self-injury

File:

Download LKRosenstein_Masters_Final_Revised_11.27.18.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Levy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Nelson Hallquist, Committee Member
James Marshall Lebreton, Committee Member

Author:

Nagar, Jogender

Title:

EFFICIENT AND ROBUST MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION APPLIED TO PROBLEMS IN ELECTROSTATICS, ELECTROMAGNETICS AND OPTICS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Multi-objective optimization
optimization
electromagnetics
optics
gradient-index lens
antennas
electrostatics
topology optimization

File:

Download Nagar_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Douglas H. Werner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas H. Werner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pingjuan L. Werner, Committee Member
Viktor Pasko, Committee Member
Ram Rajagopalan, Outside Member

Author:

Sausner, Erica Beth

Title:

Community and cultural resilience in Bluefields, Nicaragua: An ethnographic study of Creole people

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

Nicaragua
Creole
cultural resilience
community resilience
marginalized youth
Afro-descendant
culture
critical ethnography

File:

Download Sausner_Comm_Cultural_resilience_in_Bfields_revisions__10.24.18.pdf

Committee Members:

Mindy Kornhaber, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mindy Kornhaber, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dana Mitra, Committee Member
Kai Arthur Schafft, Committee Member
Nicole Webster, Outside Member

Author:

Shan, Yuquan

Title:

Resource Management and Security in Distributed Computing Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Distributed Systems
Cloud Computing
Resource Scheduling
DDoS Attack

File:

Download Yuquan-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

George Kesidis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Kesidis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member
Chiara Lo Prete, Outside Member

Author:

Ramirez, Gabrielle Elizabeth

Title:

SCALY FABRICS AND VEINS OF THE SHIMANTO BELT: A RECORD OF SILICA REDISTRIBUTION IN SUBDUCTION FAULT ZONES

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Shimanto Belt
structural geology
melange
ancient accretionary complex
earthquakes
mineral redistribution

File:

Download MastersThesis_G_Ramirez_Fall2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Myron Fisher, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris J Marone, Committee Member
Andrew James Smye, Committee Member

Author:

Miller, Melissa Danielle

Title:

The importance of intra-management practice variability in phosphorus and total solids losses from agricultural fields

Graduate Program:

Soil Science

Keywords:

Dairy manure
Load-discharge relationships
Phosphorus
Shallow-disk injection
Water quality

File:

Download MS_thesis_Melissa_Miller_final_new.pdf

Committee Members:

John E. Watson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heather E. Gall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles M. White, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Nathan Douglas

Title:

Determination of Fundamental Thermodynamic Properties of Alkali/Alkaline-Earth Elements in Liquid Metals for Recovery from Molten Salt Solutions

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Electrochemical Separations
Liquid Metals
Alkali/Alkaline-Earths
Sr-Bi
Sr-Sb
Sr-Sn
Electromotive Force Method

File:

Download Nathan_D_Smith--Dissertation--FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Hojong Kim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hojong Kim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zi-Kui Liu, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Outside Member

Author:

Bunchek, Jess Marie

Title:

Integrating Cover Crops in No-till Corn and Soybean to Diversify Herbicide-Resistant Weed Management in the Mid-Atlantic

Graduate Program:

Agronomy

Keywords:

weed science
weed management
integrated weed management
cover crops
herbicide resistance
agroecology
conservation tillage
glyphosate
horseweed
pigweed

File:

Download Jess_Bunchek_Thesis_Formatted.pdf

Committee Members:

William Curran, PhD, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Mortensen, PhD, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Wallace, PhD, Committee Member
John Tooker, PhD, Committee Member
Charles White, PhD, Committee Member

Author:

Akarslan, Gokhan

Title:

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE DUST TRAIL PHENOMENON IN A WIND TUNNEL

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Dust Dispersion
Dust Emission
Two-Phase Flow
Dust Deposition

File:

Download Final_Version.pdf

Committee Members:

Rui Ni, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bo Cheng, Committee Member

Author:

Miller, Andrew Christopher

Title:

BELIEVING IN THE END: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE PREPPER COMMUNITY

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Apocalypse
ethnography

File:

Download Miller-Dissertation_Final_Submission_12.5.18.pdf

Committee Members:

Anthony B. Buccitelli, Ph.D., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anthony B. Buccitelli, Ph.D., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Simon J. Bronner, Ph.D., Committee Member
Charles D. Kupfer, Ph.D., Committee Member
Robin Redmon Wright, Ph.D., Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Jason Jie

Title:

Enhancing The Mechanical Strength And Water Resilience Of Amylose And Gelatin-Based Electrospun Nanofibers Via Nontoxic Crosslinking With Genipin

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

Genipin
Crosslinking
Electrospinning
Wound Care
Biopolymers
Material Science
Wound Dressings

File:

Download Jason_Wang_M.S._Thesis_Final_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Gregory R. Ziegler, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ramaswamy C. Anantheswaran, Committee Member
Federico M Harte, Committee Member

Author:

Borriello, Giulia Alexandra

Title:

The Intergenerational Transmission of Mathematics Achievement: A Genetically Informed Study

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

mathematics achievement
intergenerational transmission
behavioral genetics
parenting
heritability
mathematics development
gene-environment interplay

File:

Download Borriello_Dissertation_11NOV2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David John Vandenbergh, Committee Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Committee Member
Rick Owen Gilmore, Outside Member

Author:

Boschitsch, Birgitt Modzelewski

Title:

Biologically Inspired Self-Healing Liquid Membranes for Unusual Particle Filtration

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

membrane
filtration
biologically inspired materials
reverse filter
self-healing

File:

Download Boschitsch_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Tak Sing Wong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tak Sing Wong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member
Pak Kin Wong, Committee Member
Lauren Dell Zarzar, Outside Member

Author:

Cole, Jeremy

Title:

Incremental planning and buffering in language production: Modeling large-scale data

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

computational linguistics
cognitive modeling
psycholinguistics
working memory
declarative memory
artificial intelligence

File:

Download dissertation__10_.pdf

Committee Members:

David T Reitter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David T Reitter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clyde Lee Giles, Committee Member
Frank Edward Ritter, Committee Member
Michael Travis Putnam, Outside Member

Author:

Castillo Meza, Luis Eduardo

Title:

POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF ENERGY PRODUCTION ON WATER QUALITY

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Shale Gas
Isotopes
Lake Sediments
Produced Water
Total Dissolved Solids
Specific Conductance
Coal Refuse
Overburden
Hospital Wastewater
Manganese Oxides

File:

Download Luis_Castillo_Dissertation_11_29_18_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

William D Burgos, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William D Burgos, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Michael Regan, Committee Member
Nathaniel Richard Warner, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Drohan, Outside Member

Author:

Bhushan, Gitanjali L

Title:

Iminosugars with endoplasmic reticulum alpha-glucosidase inhibitor activity are potent inhibitors of Zika virus replication in vitro

Graduate Program:

Pathobiology

Keywords:

Zika virus
antiviral

File:

Download Gitanjali_Bhushan_MS_thesis_format_revisions.pdf

Committee Members:

Suresh Varma Kuchipudi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anthony Paul Schmitt, Committee Member
Troy Clavell Sutton, Committee Member
Santhosh Girirajan, Committee Member

Author:

Marshall, Andrew

Title:

DISPUTING THE NEW NAVY: GREATER DELAWARE PRODUCERS, EMERGING WASHINGTON BUREAUCRACIES, AND CHANGING GEOGRAPHIES OF EXPERTISE AND LAW

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

navy
military geographies
legal geographies
New Navy
shipbuilding
public contracts
armor
armor plate
John Roach
Charles H. Cramp
Court of Claims

File:

Download 2018-12-04_1707_Disputing_the_Navy_Marshall_Final_Corrected.pdf

Committee Members:

Deryck William Holdsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Deryck William Holdsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lorraine Dowler, Committee Member
Melissa Wright, Committee Member
Amy S Greenberg, Outside Member

Author:

Liao, Cong

Title:

Towards Secure Solutions for Cloud Applications

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Cloud Computing
MapReduce
Provenance Logging
Invariant Violation Detection
Hadoop File System
Distributed Storage
Location-Awareness
Machine Learning
Adversarial Machine Learning
Security
Convolutional Neural Networks

File:

Download Dissertation-Cong.pdf

Committee Members:

Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peng Liu, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Outside Member

Author:

Jung, Huihun

Title:

REPETITIVE PROTEIN MATERIALS DESIGN INSPIRED BY SQUID RING TEETH

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Squid ring teeth
Protein materials design
Biomimetics
Bioelastomer
Tandem repeat
Protein mechanics
Biopolymers

File:

Download Huihun_Jung_PhD_dissertation_2018_eTD_final_correction_table_of_contents.pdf

Committee Members:

Melik C Demirel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melik C Demirel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benjamin D Allen, Committee Member
Sahin K Ozdemir, Committee Member
Seong Han Kim, Outside Member

Author:

Schaefer, Catherine

Title:

Gendered Memory Bias in a Gender Diverse Population

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Gender diversity
Transgender
Gender Development
Memory

File:

Download SchaeferThesisFinal20Nov18.pdf

Committee Members:

Lynn Susan Liben, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Margaret Louise Signorella, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dawn Paula Witherspoon, Committee Member
Lorah D Dorn, Committee Member

Author:

Lin, Charis I

Title:

Field-assisted sintering of nickel-based superalloy powder for high temperature hybrid turbine disk applications

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

field assisted sintering
nickel-based superalloy
hybrid
turbine disk
FAST
hybridization
solid state joining

File:

Download Lin-Thesis-Final-112318.pdf

Committee Members:

Namiko Yamamoto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jogender Singh, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anil Kulkarni, Committee Member
Amy R. Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Hall, Zachary Joseph

Title:

Higher Order Polynomial Approximation For Applications in Space Situational Awareness

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

space situational awareness
conjugate unscented transformation
polynomial approximation
higher order sensitivity
uncertain lambert problem
reachability sets

File:

Download ZachHall-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Bradley Spencer, Committee Member

Author:

Wayman, Callum Richard

Title:

UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECTS OF HYDROLOGIC CONNECTIVITY, LAND USE, AND LITHOLOGY ON WATER QUALITY ACROSS SCALES: FROM A ZEROTH ORDER CATCHMENT TO A HUC 10 WATERSHED IN THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER BASIN

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

synoptic
hydrology
agriculture

File:

Download Wayman_Thesis_FinalforSubmission.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tess Alethea Russo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan M Duncan, Committee Member
Roman Alexander Dibiase, Committee Member

Author:

Chang, Hsiao Ying

Title:

QUALITATIVE PROGRAM EVALUATION OF AN INTEGRATED TRAUMA-INFORMED HIV AND VOCATIONAL INTERVENTION FOR BLACK/AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

HIV
Program Evaluation
Qualitative
Trauma-Informed
Considering Work

File:

Download Hsiao-Ying_Chang_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Liza M. Conyers, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Liza M. Conyers, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James T. Herbert, Committee Member
SeriaShia J. Chatters, Committee Member
Daniel Max Crowley, Outside Member

Author:

King, Seth Lawrence

Title:

Teaching Assistant Pedagogical Development: Evolution, Biological Change over Time, and Concept Based Instruction

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

Sociocultural Theory
Vygotsky
Science education
Teacher education
Concept Based Instruction
Applied Linguistics
Teaching Assistants

File:

Download Final_draft_King_Dissertation_4.pdf

Committee Members:

James Lantolf, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Lantolf, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen E Johnson, Committee Member
Meredith Christine Doran, Committee Member
Richard Alan Duschl, Outside Member

Author:

Bartolai, Joseph

Title:

PREDICTING AND IMPROVING MECHANICAL STRENGTH OF THERMOPLASTIC POLYMER PARTS PRODUCED BY MATERIAL EXTRUSION ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Thermoplastic Polymer
Material Extrusion

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_-_Bartolai_-_revFINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member
Nicholas Alexander Meisel, Outside Member

Author:

Harbor, Lucy Caroline

Title:

CULTURE, CAPITAL, AND COMMUNITY CHANGE: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE IMPACTS OF TOURISM IN SANTIAGO ATITLÁN, GUATEMALA

Graduate Program:

Recreation and Parks

Keywords:

tourism
ethnography
Guatemala
Lake Atitlan
community capital
globalization
development

File:

Download HarborThesisPSU.pdf

Committee Members:

Carter A Hunt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathryn Jo Brasier, Committee Member
Peter Renton Allison, Committee Member

Author:

Duan, Lisha

Title:

Coordinated Supplier Selection, Inventory Replenishment, and Pricing Decisions in Supply Chain Management

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Supply chain management
Supplier selection
Integrated inventory planning
Length of time period
Price-sensitive demand
Logit demand function
Decentralized supply chain
Game theory

File:

Download Disseration_Lisha_Duan.pdf

Committee Members:

José A. Ventura, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
José A. Ventura, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eunhye Song, Committee Member
Huanan Zhang, Committee Member
Saurabh Bansal, Outside Member

Author:

Sheth, Sureel Shreyas

Title:

Identifying and Mitigating Maverick Spend at Penn State Purchasing Services

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Maverick Spend
Purchasing Services
P-card
SRFC
Mitigation Strategies

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Terry Harrison, Committee Member

Author:

Mohammed, Adam

Title:

Detecting Non-constant Time Code in Cryptography Libraries using a Static Information Flow Analysis

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Information flow
Timing Channel
Public-key Cryptography
Static analysis

File:

Download mohammed_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Danfeng Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor