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Author:

Garrett, Grant Robert

Title:

Comparison of Water, Helium, and Carbon Dioxide as Coolants for Next Generation Power Plants using TRACE

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Generation IV Reactors
Water
Helium
Carbon Dioxide
Thermal-Hydraulic Simulation
TRACE
SNAP
Fusion Reactors

File:

Download Grant_Garrett_Master_s_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Justin Kyle Watson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wunsch, Katharine Ed

Title:

Analyzing tropical cyclone structures during secondary eyewall formation using aircraft in-situ observations

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

tropical cyclones
secondary eyewall formation
aircraft in-situ observations
eyewall replacement cycles

File:

Download Wunsch_masters_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Anthony Didlake, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fuqing Zhang, Committee Member
George Young, Committee Member

Author:

Galimberti, Evan Barsness

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF DISPERSION AND ITS EFFECT ON THE SURFACTANT-POLYMER FLOODING PROCESS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Dispersion
Surfactant-polymer
Upscaling
Enhanced Oil Recovery
Incremental Efficiency

File:

Download Galimberti_Final_Version.pdf

Committee Members:

Russell Taylor Johns, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory R King, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member

Author:

Osif-Bleam, Mary Lynn

Title:

FILLING THE GAPS: WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TESOL WORKING CONDITIONS

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

ESOL teachers
ELLs
Teacher working conditions

File:

Download Osif-Bleam_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

David A. Gamson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lulla, Amriti R

Title:

miRNAs AS THERAPEUTICS TO TARGET CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION AND PROMOTE CELL DEATH IN CANCER CELLS

Graduate Program:

Molecular Medicine

Keywords:

miRNA therapeutics CDK4 cell cycle apoptosis TRAIL High-throughput screening

File:

Download Amriti_PhD_thesis_corrected_4.11.18.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Wafik S. El-Deiry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles H Lang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward Joseph Gunther, Committee Member
Douglas B Stairs, Committee Member
Rosalyn Bryson Irby, Outside Member
Jin-Ming Yang, Committee Member

Author:

Krishna, Vinayaka N

Title:

Dense Convolutional Object Detectors for Visual Assistive Systems On Mobile Platform

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

Convolutional Neural Network
DenseNets
ResNet
Deep Learning
Visual Assistance System
Mobile Deep Learning

File:

Download VinayakaKrishna-DissertationFinal4.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Sampson, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member

Author:

Rhee, Hye Young

Title:

Longitudinal associations between parental daily sleep, maternal daily mood, and parenting

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

parental daily sleep
maternal daily mood dynamics
parenting

File:

Download Dissertation_Hye_Young_Rhee_Final_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Douglas Michael Teti, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Michael Teti, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Manuel Almeida, Committee Member
Sy-Miin Chow, Committee Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Outside Member
Gregory M Fosco, Committee Member

Author:

Asif, Mohammed

Title:

PROTOTYPING AND OPTIMIZATION OF A MINIATURE MICROWAVE-FREQUENCY ION THRUSTER

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

space propulsion
plasma propulsion
propulsion
electric propulsion
rocket propulsion
ion engines
microwave thruster
ion thruster
experimental research on electric propulsion
computational research on electric propulsion
miniaturization of electric propulsion
ion thrusters for CubeSats
electric propulsion for CubeSats

File:

Download Asif_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Bilen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael M. Micci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Wion, Rachel Kathryn

Title:

FACTORS INVOLVED IN HIV PREVENTION IN OLDER ONLINE DATERS: A FEASIBILITY STUDY

Graduate Program:

Nursing

Keywords:

older adults
online dating
HIV prevention
risk behavior
confirmatory factor analysis
risk perception
self-efficacy

File:

Download Wion_Rachel_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Jayne Loeb, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Jayne Loeb, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donna Marie Fick, Committee Member
Jacqueline Ann Mogle, Committee Member
Patricia Koch, Outside Member

Author:

Nagle, Brittney Nicole

Title:

Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Reveals Dynamic and Structural Characterization of Zea Mays Primary Cell Walls

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

solid-state NMR
maize
cell walls
primary cell walls
Zea mays

File:

Download Dissertation_BNN.pdf

Committee Members:

Benjamin James Lear, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Miriam Arak Freedman, Committee Member
Daniel J Cosgrove, Outside Member

Author:

Wittmeyer, Kameron Thomas

Title:

Over expression of a novel gene responsible for Unstable factor for orange1 phenotypes in maize causes widespread stress and alters flavonoid metabolism

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Ufo1
Ufo1-1
Unstable factor for orange1
Maize genetics
RNA-seq
maize epigenetics
paramutation
p1
pericarp color1
P1-wr

File:

Download Kam_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Surinder Chopra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Surinder Chopra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dawn Luthe, Committee Member
Majid R Foolad, Committee Member
Michael Axtell, Outside Member

Author:

Feldman, Jason Scot

Title:

MENTAL ROTATION IN CHILDREN WITH ADHD: A DIFFUSION MODEL ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

ADHD
Mental rotation
diffusion model

File:

Download JSF_MS_Thesis_Final_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Cynthia L Huang-Pollock, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Frank Gerard Hillary, Committee Member
Bradley Paul Wyble, Committee Member

Author:

Subramaniam, Sarith

Title:

Parametric modeling strategies for efficient annual analysis of daylight in buildings

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Daylighting
Lighting
Software Development
Architecture
Building Science

File:

Download Sarith.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard George Mistrick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard George Mistrick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kevin William Houser, Committee Member
Donghyun Rim, Committee Member
Ute Poerschke, Outside Member

Author:

Son, Seoyoung

Title:

THE ROLE OF THE MEMBRANE IN INTEGRIN-MEDIATED ADHESION OF CELLS TO SURFACES

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Integrin
Membrane mechanical Properties
Time-correlated single photon microscopy
Cell adhesion
Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
Optical trap

File:

Download Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter J Butler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter J Butler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Justin Lee Brown, Committee Member
Tae-Hee Lee, Outside Member
Esther Winter Gomez, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Henry Francis

Title:

Designing Processing in Memory Architectures via Static Analysis of Real Programs

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

computer architecture
processing in memory
static analysis

File:

Download master-gradschool.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Millett, Caitlin Elizabeth

Title:

THE INTERACTION OF INFLAMMATION AND GENDER/SEX IN BIPOLAR DISORDERS

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

Mood Disorder
Depression
Inflammation
Biomarker
Psychiatry
Female
Women

File:

Download Millett_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Erika F H Saunders, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erika F H Saunders, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patricia Sue Grigson-Kennedy, Committee Member
James Robert Connor, Committee Member
Julio Fernandez-Mendoza, Outside Member

Author:

Vizzachero, Benjamin Scott

Title:

The advantage of the rare: field experiments on density-dependent seed dispersal by avian frugivores

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

frugivory
dispersal
birds
anti-apostatic
density-dependence
fruit choice
diversity maintenance
mutualisms
mutualistic
negative density-dependence
seed dispersal
experiment
artificial fruit
fruit
abundance
fruit color
fruit traits
field experiment

File:

Download 07.14_vizzachero_thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Tomas A. Carlo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David A. W. Miller, Committee Member
Margaret C. Brittingham, Committee Member

Author:

Porras Becerra, Mitzy Fernanda

Title:

VIRUS MEDIATED COMPETITION AND FACILITATION IN APHIDS

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Positive interactions
stress tolerance
thermal tolerance
coexistence

File:

Download Competitionandfacilitationtoleranceaphidsflies_Porras_Co-Chair_of_Committee.pdf

Committee Members:

Edwin George Rajotte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tomas A Carlo-Joglar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Harold Marden, Outside Member
Gary Felton, Committee Member
Frederic Marion-Poll, Special Member
James Homer Tumlinson III, Committee Member
Tomas A Carlo-Joglar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edwin George Rajotte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dering, Matthew Lewis

Title:

Generation and Evaluation of Design Using Deep Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Deep learning
design
generative models
prototyping

File:

Download Dering-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Kifer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rebecca Jane Passonneau, Committee Member
Mohamed Khaled Almekkawy, Committee Member
Timothy Raymond Brick, Outside Member

Author:

Haley, Jeremy Scott

Title:

DOSE-DEPENDENT EFFECT OF AEROBIC EXERCISE ON THE CONCENTRATION OF INFLAMMATORY BIOMARKERS IN A POPULATION OF WOMEN AT HIGH RISK FOR BREAST CANCER

Graduate Program:

Public Health Sciences

Keywords:

breast cancer
high-risk women
exercise
inflammation

File:

Download HALEY_MSPHS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kathleen M Sturgeon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathryn Schmitz, Committee Member
Kristen H Kjerulff, Committee Member

Author:

Freed, Sara Ann

Title:

Characteristics and Predictors of Distracted Driving Behaviors in Older Adults

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

older adults
distracted driving
older drivers
cognition
physical function
multilevel modeling
useful field of view

File:

Download Freed_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Lesley Ross, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alyssa Gamaldo, Committee Member

Author:

Andrews, Elizabeth Marie

Title:

Lithium isotopes in carbonate-rich marine sections: implications for diagenesis, authigenic clay formation, and the global lithium cycle

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Lithium Isotopes
Authigenic Clay Formation
Diagenesis
Carbonates

File:

Download EAndrews_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew S Fantle, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Member
Lee Kump, Committee Member

Author:

Whitehair, Carey A

Title:

INVESTIGATING NARRATIVES OF ATTRITION IN ENGINEERING

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

graduate attrtition
attrition
engineering
graduate engineering
engineering education
education
graduate engineering attrition
qualitative analysis

File:

Download Carey_Whitehair_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Catherine G P Berdanier, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chen, Ruimin

Title:

Heterogeneous Recurrence Analysis of Vectorcardiogram Signals

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Heterogeneous recurrence analysis
Vectorcardiogram
Processing monitoring and control

File:

Download MSThesis_RuiminChen_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Eissenstat, Sunhee

Title:

EXAMINING THE PREDICTORS OF DEPRESSION AMONG PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV IN CARE

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

People living with HIV/AIDS
Depression
Multilevel modeling

File:

Download SJE_0411.pdf

Committee Members:

Liza M. Conyers, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Liza M. Conyers, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Hazler, Committee Member
Wendy Ann Coduti, Committee Member
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Outside Member
KB Boomer, Special Member

Author:

Nazari, Saharnaz

Title:

IDENTIFYING BALLAST FOULING USING STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION TECHNIQUES ON SMARTROCK DATA

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Ballast Fouling
Railway
SmartRock
Statistical Pattern Recognition Analysis

File:

Download final_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Hai Huang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Tong Qiu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shihui Shen, Committee Member
Xinli Wu, Committee Member

Author:

Ou, Lu

Title:

ESTIMATION OF NONLINEAR MIXED-EFFECTS CONTINUOUS-TIME MODELS

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

continuous-time model
mixed-effects model
nonlinear dynamic model
Kalman filter
differential equations

File:

Download Dissertation_Lu_Ou.pdf

Committee Members:

Sy-Miin Chow, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sy-Miin Chow, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter C.M. Molenaar, Committee Member
Cynthia Stifter, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Outside Member
Timothy R. Brick, Committee Member
Zhaohua Lu, Special Member

Author:

Anantharaman, Anuradha

Title:

RACE AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS ORGANIZATIONAL DIVERSITY CLIMATE: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF EMOTIONS

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Diversity
emotions
job pursuit behavioural intentions
recruitment

File:

Download Anantharaman_Thesis_forsubmission.pdf

Committee Members:

Kisha Shannon Jones, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alicia Ann Grandey, Committee Member
Jonathan Emdin Cook, Committee Member

Author:

Brooks, Lauren Joi

Title:

KAFKA GOES TO NEW YORK: READING KAFKA IN SEINFELD'S AMERICA

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

Kafka
Seinfeld
YiddishTheater JewishHumor

File:

Download Brooks_Dissertation_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Oliver Beebee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Claire Mary Colebrook, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sabine Doran, Committee Member
Samuel Mark Frederick, Committee Member
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Outside Member

Author:

Layland, Eric Keith

Title:

Association Leisure Boredom with Risky Sexual Debut During Adolescence

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

adolescence
leisure boredom
risky sexual behavior
sexual debut
South Africa
adolescence
leisure boredom
risky sexual behavior
sexual debut
South Africa

File:

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Committee Members:

Nilam Ram, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Linda Caldwell, Committee Member

Author:

Iaroshenko, Oleksandr

Title:

Vortices in the Ginzburg-Landau Superconductivity Model

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

superconductivity
Ginzburg-Landau
variational problems
vortices
pinning

File:

Download Iaroshenko-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Leonid V Berlyand, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leonid V Berlyand, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anna L Mazzucato, Committee Member
Helge Kristian Jenssen, Committee Member
Kenneth O'Hara, Outside Member

Author:

Luo, Jiawei

Title:

Understanding shear-induced hydrolysis reactions on soda lime silica glass surface

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Soda lime silica glass
surface structure of glass
surface mechanical properties
shear-induced hydrolysis reactions
vibrational spectroscopy
wear behavior
surface chemistry

File:

Download Jiawei_PhD_Dissertation_Submit2.pdf

Committee Members:

Seong Han Kim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seong Han Kim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Member
Manish Kumar, Committee Member
Carlo G. Pantano, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Hongjian

Title:

Ubran Computing with Mobility Data: a Unified Approach

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

urban computing
graph embedding
data mining
mobility data
spatial non-stationary
geographically weighted regression
reinforcement learning
MCMC

File:

Download Hongjian-disertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Zhenhui Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhenhui Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
C. Lee Giles, Committee Member
Anna Squicciarini, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Member

Author:

Pandey, Utsav

Title:

Comparative Genomics Provides Insights into Herpesvirus Transmission, Spread, and Virulence

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

Herpes Simplex Virus
Marek's Disease Virus
Bioinformatics
Molecular Biology
Virology
Genomics

File:

Download Utsav_Pandey_PhD_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Moriah Louise Szpara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Moriah Louise Szpara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anthony Paul Schmitt, Committee Member
Istvan Albert, Committee Member
Andrew Fraser Read, Outside Member
Timothy Charles Meredith, Committee Member

Author:

Lakhmani, Sagar

Title:

VELOCITY BASED POTENTIAL FIELD METHOD FOR COLLISION AVOIDANCE OF AUTONOMOUS AERIAL VEHICLES

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Potential fields
Drones
UAV
Velocity bases approach
Collision avoidance
Aerial Vehicles
Robotics
Path planning

File:

Download Sagar_Lakhmani_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan Richard Wagner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Carran, Spencer Alexander

Title:

Equity in Disease Management

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Measles
Public health policy
epidemiology
disease management

File:

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Committee Members:

Matthew Joseph Ferrari, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Joseph Ferrari, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member
Katriona Shea, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Outside Member
Timothy Charles Reluga, Committee Member

Author:

Kerr, Evan M

Title:

ADVANCED HYBRID ROCKET PROPULSION UNIT FOR CUBESATS (PUC): DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF A TITANIUM TANK

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

CubeSat
Propulsion unit
hybrid rocket
additive manufacturing
powder bed fusion
direct metal laser sintering
DMLS
PBF

File:

Download Kerr_Thesis_Master_s_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Matthew Micci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Nealon, Caitlin Marie

Title:

AGONIST-SPECIFIC MECHANISMS OF CANNABINOID TOLERANCE IN PRECLINICAL MODELS OF ACUTE AND CHRONIC PAIN

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

pain
tolerance
cannabinoid

File:

Download CNealon_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel James Morgan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel James Morgan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Ellis, Committee Member
Patricia Sue Grigson-Kennedy, Committee Member
Ira Joseph Ropson, Outside Member

Author:

Sokolowsky, George Alexander

Title:

A new bulk adaptive habit microphysical model including deposition coefficient prediction and its application in different model frameworks

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

cloud physics
atmospheric ice modeling
deposition coefficient
box model
parcel model
bulk particle size distribution
bulk model
faceted ice crystals
cirrus
ice microphysics
adaptive habit
deposition coefficient prediction
vapor deposition ice growth

File:

Download Sokolowsky_PSU_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jerry Y Harrington, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Member
Matthew Robert Kumjian, Committee Member

Author:

Nemeth, Samuel Tyler

Title:

Berlioz's National Monumentalism: Expanding the Soft Power Paradigm

Graduate Program:

Musicology

Keywords:

Berlioz
Political Music
National Monumentalism
Soft Power
Grande messe des morts
Te Deum

File:

Download Samuel_T._Nemeth_MA_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark C. Ferraguto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marica S. Tacconi, Committee Member

Author:

Ferreyro Fernandez, Sebastian

Title:

ADVANCED SOOT AND RADIATION MODELS FOR LAMINAR AND TURBULENT FLAMES

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Computational uid dynamics
soot
spectral radiation
compression-ignition engine
PDF method
Computational fluid dynamics

File:

Download suf157-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel C. Haworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel C. Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen R. Turns, Committee Member
Robert Santoro, Committee Member
Philip J. Morris, Outside Member
Yuan Xuan, Committee Member

Author:

Vazquez, Elena Maria

Title:

MASONRY SCREEN WALLS IN PARAGUAY: CREATING A DIGITAL FRAMEWORK FOR OPTIMIZING ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE THROUGH SHAPE CONFIGURATION

Graduate Program:

Architecture

Keywords:

Masonry screen walls performance-based design
shape grammars
smart low-tech
Masonry screen walls
Performance-based design
Environmental performance
Smart low-tech
Shape grammars

File:

Download 2018_04_01_THESIS_.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Duarte, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ute Poerschke, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Denise Costanzo, Committee Member

Author:

Mahajan, Shephali

Title:

Gender Inclusive Talent Management practices in Multinational Companies operating in India

Graduate Program:

Human Resources and Employment Relations

Keywords:

Gender Inclusion
Multinational companies
India
Female
Stereotypes
Sex-based discrimination

File:

Download Shephali_Mahajan__finalthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Elaine Farndale, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Karimzadeh, Morteza

Title:

GEO-ANNOTATION AND GEOPARSING OF TEXTUAL DOCUMENTS

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

geoparsing
natural language processing
geographic information retreival
annotation
geo-annotation
geocoding
spatial linguistics
named entity recognition

File:

Download karimzadehFinalDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Alan Maceachren, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan Maceachren, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donna Peuquet, Committee Member
Guido Cervone, Committee Member
C. Lee Giles, Outside Member

Author:

White, Amanda Rose

Title:

Pathophysiology of the Colonic Neuromuscular Compartment after Experimental Spinal Cord Injury

Graduate Program:

Anatomy

Keywords:

Neurotrauma
Spinal cord injury
Enteric nervous system
Tissue remodeling
Colon

File:

Download White_Dissertation_2018_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Gregory Michael Holmes, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory Michael Holmes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David R Gater, Committee Member
Andras Hajnal, Committee Member
Ralph Lauren Keil, Outside Member

Author:

McGrady, Carlene Miller

Title:

Pollination Services, Colony Abundances and Population Genetics of Bombus impatiens

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Pollination
Cucurbita Agroecosystems
Bombus impatiens
Apis mellifera
Peponapis pruinosa
visitation rates
microsatellite analysis
colony abundance
population genetics

File:

Download MCGRADY_FINAL_THESIS_7.10.18.pdf

Committee Members:

Shelby Jay Fleischer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Margarita Maria Lopez-Uribe, Committee Member
James Strange, Committee Member
Maryann Frazier, Committee Member

Author:

Holder, Amber Jackeline

Title:

FOREGROUNDING NARRATIVITY IN WRIGHT/MARIANELLI PERIOD DRAMAS

Graduate Program:

Musicology

Keywords:

film music
Dario Marianelli
narrativity
leitmotivic techniques
semiotic associations

File:

Download Holder-_Thesis_Final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles Dowell Youmans, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Dorley, Jancoba K

Title:

Understanding the relationship between climate change and concentration-discharge discharge: Agricutural Nitrate in the clear creek watershed.

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Concentration-discharge Dynamic
Nitrate export
Time series analysis
Climate projections

File:

Download Dorley_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Li Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Duffy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cibin Raj, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Xi

Title:

APPGRADER: AN APP QUALITY GRADING SYSTEM BASED ON CODE-LEVEL FEATURES

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Mobile App Ranking
App Quality Evaluation
App View
Graph Convolutional Network
Deep Learning

File:

Download Xi-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Gominho, Brandon Simon

Title:

Thermal Tolerance of Flight Muscles in the Endothermic Hawkmoth, Manduca sexta

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Heat shock proteins
Manduca sexta
Thermoregulation
Thermal Tolerance
Physiology
Flight Muscles

File:

Download Gominho_Thesis_final_04_11_18.pdf

Committee Members:

Rudolf Johannes Schilder, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jared Gregory Ali, Committee Member
Margarita Maria Lopez-Uribe, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Fei

Title:

Mining Heterogeneous Data for Semantic Understanding of Mobility Data

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

semantic annotation
mobility data
data mining

File:

Download FeiWu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhenhui Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhenhui Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clyde Lee Giles, Committee Member
Xiang Zhang, Committee Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Outside Member

Author:

Dewoolfson, Emily J

Title:

Harmony Adrift: The Influence Of The “Water Topic” On Compositional Choices In Ravel's Jeux d'eau

Graduate Program:

Music Theory

Keywords:

Ravel
Jeux d'eau
Sonata form
Semiotics
Schenker

File:

Download Jeux_d_eau_thesis_revised_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric John Mckee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Maull, Amanda

Title:

PATH DEPENDENCE, ANTI-FRACKING MOBILIZATION, AND SHALE POLICY DIVERGENCE IN NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

path dependence
social movements
policy

File:

Download maull-diss-final3.pdf

Committee Members:

Alan M Sica, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John David Mccarthy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John David Mccarthy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sarah A Damaske, Outside Member
Jeffrey T. Ulmer, Committee Member

Author:

Muniz Castro, Raquel

Title:

Promoting Socio-Emotional Learning Opportunities in Upward Bound

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

socio-emotional learning
socio-emotional skills
Upward Bound
summer programs
high school
compensatory education programs
TRIO
soft skills
non-cognitive skills
social and emotional

File:

Download Muniz_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mindy L Kornhaber, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mindy L Kornhaber, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maria M Lewis, Committee Member
Dana Lynn Mitra, Committee Member
Carlomagno Del Carmen Panlilio, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Enhao

Title:

Electronic Circuit for Ultrasound Modulation

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Pulsed ultrasound
Brain stimulation
Headstage
Commercial chip
PCB
Modulation

File:

Download Master_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mehdi Kiani, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Weihua Guan, Committee Member
Sumeet Gupta, Committee Member

Author:

Mckeever, Daniel James

Title:

BOARD NETWORKS AND FIRM PERFORMANCE

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Boards of Directors
Social Networks
Corporate Governance

File:

Download McKeever_Dissertation_edits_3.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Iliev, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Iliev, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matt Gustafson, Committee Member
David Haushalter, Committee Member
Siyuan Liu, Outside Member
Tim Simin, Committee Member

Author:

Ceres, Robert L

Title:

Understanding and quantifying storm surge risk and developing robust risk mitigation strategies

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

storm surge risk mitigation
hurricane
tropical cyclone
island city on a wedge
New York City
NYC
Manhattan
bias
Generalized Extreme Value distribution
GEV

File:

Download Ceres_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris Eliot Forest, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Eliot Forest, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Klaus Keller, Committee Member
David W Titley, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Outside Member

Author:

Kohler, Ryan J

Title:

Polymorphic Homework and Laboratory System: An Instructional Tool for Combating Cheating

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Cybersecurity
Education
Cheating
Situation Awareness
Challenge-Based Learning
Polymorphism

File:

Download kohler.r-MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Nicklaus A Giacobe, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jungwoo Ryoo, Committee Member
Peter Kent Forster, Committee Member

Author:

Kennedy, Matthew

Title:

Data Fusion of Security Logs to Measure Critical Security Controls to Increase Situation Awareness

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

metrics
security metrics
data fusion
situation awareness
jdl
security logs
cybersecurity

File:

Download Final_Kennedy_MS_Degree_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Nicklaus A Giacobe, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Kent Forster, Committee Member
Donald Richard Shemanski, Committee Member

Author:

Leary, Robert D

Title:

Real-time Vehicle Pose Estimation Utilizing Monocular Vision and Lane Marker Maps

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

vehicle localization
pose estimation
lane detection
autonomous vehicle
state estimation

File:

Download Leary-Masters.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Mishra, Partha Pratim

Title:

ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SELF-BALANCING PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Self-Balancing Systems
Maximum Power Point Tracking
Extremum-Seeking
Lyapunov Methods
Controls
Model-based Estimation
Renewable Energy Systems
Lithium-ion Batteries
State Estimation
Input Estimation
Model Reduction
Stability
Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation

File:

Download Partha_Mishra_Dissertation_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Hosam Kadry Fathy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Stephanie Stockar, Committee Member
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Outside Member

Author:

Logan, Ellis Scott

Title:

Complexity in the Desert: Heterogeneity in Food Shopping and Purchasing Patterns within Disadvantaged Urban Communities

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

food desert
demography
neighborhood health
urban
grocery store
dietary health

File:

Download DISSERTATION_ESL_FINAL_4_13.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen A. Matthews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen A. Matthews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michelle Frisco, Committee Member
Barrett Lee, Committee Member
Patricia Miranda-Hartsuff, Outside Member

Author:

Daou, Carla

Title:

Race Differences In Associations Between Micronutrient Intake And Habitual Sleep Variability In Adolescents

Graduate Program:

Public Health Sciences

Keywords:

Sleep variability
sleep duration
insomnia complaint
micronutrient
race

File:

Download approved.pdf

Committee Members:

Duanping Liao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kristen H Kjerulff, Committee Member

Author:

Venkatesan, Ganesh

Title:

Micromechanical Analysis of Transverse Young's Modulus of Glass/Carbon Hybrid Fiber Composites

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

micromechanics
hybrid composites
finite element analysis
transverse Young's modulus

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Ganesh_Venkatesan_Final_Draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles E Bakis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Huang, Shan

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF ENHANCEMENT OF DOWNWARD FACING BOILING HEAT TRANSFER USING MICRO-POROUS COATINGS

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

CHF coating vessel

File:

Download Development_of_a_New_Downward__revised_.pdf

Committee Members:

Fan-Bill B Cheung, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Agole, David

Title:

PARTICIPATION IN CAPACITY-BUILDING PROGRAMS AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE WELLBEING OF YOUNG FARMERS WITH AND WITHOUT DISABILITIES IN UGANDA

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Extension Education

Keywords:

Disability
Young Farmers
Participation
Capacity Building
Well-being
Community

File:

Download AGOLE_Final_DISSERTATION__April_2__2018__-_Participation_in_Capacity-building_Programs_and_Implications_for_Well-being.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Connie D. Baggett, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Connie D. Baggett, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Mark A. Brennan, Committee Member
Dr. Edgar P. Yoder, Committee Member
Sinfree B. Makoni, Outside Member

Author:

Topper, Stefan Andreas

Title:

A Proposed Method for Investigating the Effects of Friction Supply on Driver Speed Selection on Horizontal Curves

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Friction
Vehicle Dynamics
Risk Perception
Horizontal Curves
Driving Behavior

File:

Download Topper_MS_Thesis_2018_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew B Parkinson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

Author:

Breen, Scott Patrick

Title:

ORAL SOMATOSENSORY FUNCTION AND THE PERCEPTION OF CHOCOLATE PARTICLE SIZE

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

Chocolate
Oral Somatosensation
Psychophysics
Particle Size

File:

Download Breen_MastersThesis_FoodScience_Published.pdf

Committee Members:

John E Hayes, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicole Michele Etter, Committee Member
Gregory Ray Ziegler, Committee Member

Author:

Merck, Andrew Thomas

Title:

The Development of a Fast Method for the Calculation of Noise from Supersonic Jets

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

Jet Noise
Aeroacoustics
Acoustics
Empirical Method
Wavepacket
Supersonic
Turbulence
Mixing Noise

File:

Download Andrew_Merck_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Philip John Morris, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member

Author:

Lei, Xiong

Title:

Characterization of Gas-Charged Porous Media from Joint Inversion of P/S- Wave Attenuation Based on OBS and/or Sonic Log Data

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Q estimation
Attenuation inversion
Quality factor
Bayesian inversion
Gas saturation
Porosity
Permeability
OBS
Sonic log

File:

Download Dissertation_XiongLei_revision_v7.pdf

Committee Members:

Eugene Morgan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Outside Member

Author:

Corak, Gokhan

Title:

STATE FEEDBACK REACTOR CONTROL USING A VANADIUM AND RHODIUM SELF-POWERED NEUTRON DETECTOR

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

State feedback control
Reactor Control
Self-power neutron detectors
SPND
Vanadium self-power neutron detector
Rhodium self-power neutron detector

File:

Download Gokhan_Corak_Master_thesis-final.pdf

Committee Members:

James A Turso, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Morrison, Travis William

Title:

Local-global principles and diophantine sets in rings of number-theoretic interest

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

class field theory
hasse principle
diophantine
decidability

File:

Download Morrison-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Anne Kirsten Eisentraeger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anne Kirsten Eisentraeger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Wen-Ching Winnie Li, Committee Member
Jan Severin Reimann, Committee Member
Emily Rolfe Grosholz, Outside Member

Author:

Bug, Leah

Title:

K-8 Teacher Blended Learning Professional Development and NGSS,and Communities of Practice: A Mixed Methods Study

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

NGSS
Communities of Practice
Teacher Professional Development
K-8 Science Education
Blended Learning
Mixed Methods Study
K-8 Science Teacher Professional Development

File:

Download Bug_Dissertation_Final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Gregory John Kelly, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory John Kelly, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathleen Mitchell Hill, Committee Member
Scott P Mcdonald, Committee Member
Susan W Stewart, Outside Member
James Nolan, Committee Member

Author:

Dow, Nicholas William

Title:

A baseline experiment and initial investigation of the effects of virtual immersion on vehicle passenger risk perception

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

virtual reality
perception of risk
autonomous vehicles
driving simulator

File:

Download 071218_Dow_MastersThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew B Parkinson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Almoaiqel, Sarah

Title:

Situating Privacy in the Technology Supported Collaborative Practices of the Saudi Arabian Workplace: Lessons on Socio-spatial and Socio-technical and Socio-Spatial Design

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Human Computer Interaction
Value Sensitive Design
Socio-Technical
Socio-Spatial
Privacy
Computer Supported Cooperative Work

File:

Download Sarah_Almoaiqel_s_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Millar Carroll, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Millar Carroll, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
Lynette Marie Yarger, Committee Member
Elaine Farndale, Outside Member

Author:

Masters, Sarah Renee

Title:

EFFECT OF PARTICLE CONCENTRATION AND REYNOLDS NUMBER ON HEAT TRANSFER IN PARTICLE-LADEN FLOWS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Particle-laden flow
particle concentration
solids loading
Nusselt number
heat transfer

File:

Download Thesis_PSU_MSME_Masters.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael P Manahan Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member

Author:

Romo, Amelia Blenderman

Title:

Dog Owners' Perceptions and Behaviors Related to the Disposal of Pet Waste in City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks

Graduate Program:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management

Keywords:

open space
dogs
pet waste
leash
behaviors
Leave No Trace
Theory of Planned Behavior

File:

Download Romo_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

B Derrick Taff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter B Newman, Committee Member
Alan R Graefe, Committee Member

Author:

Hall, Danielle Natasha

Title:

Individual Differences and Performance in a College Biology Course

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

goal orientation
individual differences
metacognition
self-efficacy
self efficacy
Metacognitive awareness

File:

Download Danielle_Hall_Masters_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Cyr, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peggy Van Meter, Committee Member
Timothy Jegla, Committee Member

Author:

Sheen, Joo Hyun

Title:

Religious Hybridization and the Legacy of Jesuit Accommodationism in the Early Modern East Asia: A Comparative Analysis of Apologetics by Early Catholics in China and Korea

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

Religious hybridization
The Society of Jesus
Catholicism in China
Catholicism in Korea
Xu Guangqi
Han Lin
Zhang Geng
Zhu Zongyuan
Zhang Xingyao
Chŏng Yak-jong
Hwang Sa-yŏng
Chŏng Ha-sang
Matteo Ricci
Tianzhu shiyi
Jugyo yoji
Pi wang
Paeksŏ
buru yifo
accommodationism
Jesuits
apologetics
Catholicism and Confucianism

File:

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Committee Members:

Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
On-Cho Ng, Committee Member
Kate Merkel-Hess, Committee Member
Kathlene T Baldanza, Committee Member
Charlotte Diane Eubanks, Outside Member
Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Yu, Anya

Title:

Individual Differences in Reading Comprehension: A Resting-State Functional Connectivity Approach

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

reading
text comprehension
executive function
functional connectivity
resting-state fMRI

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_AYU.pdf

Committee Members:

Ping Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janet van Hell, Committee Member
Chaleece Wyatt Sandberg, Committee Member
Xiao Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Bottai, Auriane

Title:

Computational Fluid Dynamics / Flight Dynamics Simulations of an Autonomous Helicopter using Actuator Disk Couplings for Main and Tail Rotors

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Actuator Disk Coupling
Coupled CFD Flight Dynamics
UAV
Autonomous Helicopter
SFS2
Ship based operations

File:

Download MSThesisPSU2018_Bottai_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

J.F.Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kumar, Kuldeep

Title:

ELECTROCHEMICAL CORROSION BEHAVIOR OF NICKEL ALLOYS IN SULFATE-CONTAINING MOLTEN SALTS AT 700 °C

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Nickel alloys
Hot corrosion
Molten salts
Electrochemical corrosion measurements
Passivity
High temperature corrosion
Nickel-aluminum
Chromium addition in nickel alloys
Sulfate reduction
Potentiodynamic polarizations
LiCl-KCl-Na2SO4

File:

Download PhD_dissertation_Kuldeep_Kumar.pdf

Committee Members:

Hojong Kim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hojong Kim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, Committee Member
Zi-Kui Liu, Committee Member
Barbara Shaw, Outside Member
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member

Author:

Jamshidi, Shahrzad

Title:

Distributed Computational Systems

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Algebraic Geometry
Phylogenetic Models
Groebner Basis
Cognitive Probabilities
Universal Approximation

File:

Download Jamshidi_S-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jason Ryder Morton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jason Ryder Morton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Levi, Committee Member
Timothy Charles Reluga, Committee Member
John Phillip Sustersic Jr., Outside Member

Author:

Rangaswamy, Cara Parry

Title:

Seeing the Sidewalk: Giving New Terms to an Everyday Urban Space

Graduate Program:

Architecture

Keywords:

sidewalk
urban fabric
photomontage
representation
observation
design

File:

Download CaraRangaswamy_FinalThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Darla Lindberg, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Aeschbacher, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Denise Costanzo, Committee Member

Author:

Mcnamara, Kevin R

Title:

Modeling the Microstructural Evolution of Parts During Metal Additive Manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Microstructural Modeling
Microstructure
Metal Additive Manufacturing
Johnson-Mehl-Avrami
Nonisothermal Phase Transformations
Kinetics
Inconel 718
Ti-6Al-4V
3D Printing

File:

Download Modeling_Microstructure_Metal_AM.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Martukanitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long-Qing Chen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member

Author:

Holderman, Brennan Reese

Title:

ADVANCING LOW-COST MOBILE REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGIES FOR FOREST RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Graduate Program:

Forest Resources

Keywords:

lidar

File:

Download Holderman_Masters_Thesis_Forest_Resources_v2.0.pdf

Committee Members:

Marc Eric Mcdill, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sheatsley, Ryan Matthew

Title:

Adversarial Examples in Constrained Domains

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

machine learning
adversarial machine learning
network intrusion detection

File:

Download sheatsley-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Furer, Melinda Leigh

Title:

A Test of Choice Bundling when Reward Receipt is Contingent upon the Completion of an Aversive Behavior

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Choice bundling; economics; addiction; impulsivity

File:

Download Ashe_Master_s_Thesis_4.3.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Wilson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joshua Morrison Smyth, Committee Member
James Marshall Lebreton, Committee Member

Author:

Hall, Loyal Philip

Title:

Understanding the sensory basis for Anoplophora glabripennis odor-mediated behavior

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Anoplophora glabripennis
Asian longhorned beetle
cerambycidae
chemical ecology
neurology
antennal lobe
glomeruli
electrophysiology
electropalpogram
electroantennogram
single sensillum recording
fly eagles fly
pheromone
olfaction

File:

Download Loyal_Hall_PhD_Dissertation_in_Entomology-2.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Charles Baker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Charles Baker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kelli Hoover, Committee Member
Michael Saunders, Committee Member
Laura P Leites, Outside Member
Melody Keena, Special Member

Author:

Hesse, Arielle Leah

Title:

Responsibility for Exposure: Health Governance of Respirable Crystalline Silica in the Hydraulic Fracturing Industry

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Health Geography
Silica
Occupational Health
Responsibility
Hydraulic Fracturing

File:

Download HesseDissertation_FinalApril2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Brian Hastings King, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melissa Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lorraine Dowler, Committee Member
Melissa Wright, Committee Member
Kai Arthur Schafft, Outside Member

Author:

Jonsrud, Jarrod Lee

Title:

Sports and Moral Excellence: The Intersections of Sports and Authenticity

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology

Keywords:

Sports Ethics
Virtue
Morality
Authenticity
Existentialism

File:

Download Jonsrud_Dissertation_-_Final_Formatted1.pdf

Committee Members:

R. Scott Kretchmar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
R. Scott Kretchmar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Dyreson, Committee Member
Francisco Javier Lopez Frias, Committee Member
Peter Renton Allison, Outside Member

Author:

Alat, Ece

Title:

CERAMIC COATINGS FOR NUCLEAR FUEL CLADDING TO ENHANCE ACCIDENT TOLERANCE

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Accident tolerant fuel
corrosion resistance
oxidation resistance
ceramic coatings
nuclear fuel cladding
titanium aluminum nitride (TiAlN)
titanium nitride (TiN)
cathodic arc physical vapor deposition
substrate bias
cathode composition
titanium bond coating
substrate surface preparation method
substrate surface roughness
nitrogen partial pressure
coating deposition time
scratch testing
neutronic analysis
multilayer ceramic coatings
air oxidation
supercritical water testing (SCW)
X-ray diffraction (XRD)
scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
Raman spectroscopy
energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS)
differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
thermogravimetric analysis (TGA)
autoclave testing

File:

Download Ece_Alat_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Arthur Thompson Motta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member
Hojong Kim, Outside Member

Author:

Weitzner, Stephen E

Title:

Quantum–Continuum Modeling of Electrodeposition

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Electrochemistry
Density functional theory
DFT
Solvation
Quantum-Continuum
Interface
Electrodeposition
Underpotential deposition
Thermodynamics
Statistical Mechanics
Monte Carlo
Implicit solvent
Multiscale
Alloy
Electrode
Catalysis
Electrocatalysis
UPD
Cluster expansion

File:

Download Stephen_Weitzner_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Ismaila Dabo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ralph Colby, Committee Member
Hojong Kim, Committee Member
Michael Janik, Outside Member

Author:

Xia, Wentao

Title:

VEHICULAR FSO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM APPLYING REAL-TIME RECOGNITION AND TRACKING

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

self-driving
feature extraction
ORB feature
contour extraction
object tracking

File:

Download thesis_wentao.pdf

Committee Members:

Tim Kane, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julio Urbina, Committee Member

Author:

Mason, Jennifer Smith

Title:

Visual Perspectives and Decision-Making in Geospatial Uncertainty

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Uncertainty
Decision-Making
Visual Summaries
Storm Surge
Visualization

File:

Download JMason_DissertationFINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Alexander Klippel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexander Klippel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan Maceachren, Committee Member
Stephen Augustus Matthews, Committee Member
David W Titley, Outside Member
Jason Dykes, Special Member

Author:

Thirumala, Sandeep Krishna

Title:

Non-volatile Ferroelectric Transistor based Memory Design: Device-Circuit Analysis Considering Gate Leakage

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Ferroelectric Transistors
Gate Leakage
FEFET Memories
Polarization
Retention

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_Sandeep_Thirumala_Submitted.pdf

Committee Members:

Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mehdi Kiani, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Ziqi

Title:

English and Chinese Language Assessment of DSM-5 Personality Disorders and Interpersonal Problems in Bilingual Speakers

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Personality Disorder
Personality assessment
International Student
Chinese English Bilingual
Validity across language

File:

Download WU_Thesis_Graduate_School.pdf

Committee Members:

Aaron Lee Pincus, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Frank Gerard Hillary, Committee Member
Janet van Hell, Committee Member

Author:

Kimura, Daisuke

Title:

ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA, MULTILINGUALISM, AND SOCIAL NETWORKS IN STUDY ABROAD: NARRATIVE CASE STUDIES OF JAPANESE STUDENTS IN THAILAND

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

English as a lingua franca
globalization
study abroad
narrative case study

File:

Download Kimura_dissertation_format.pdf

Committee Members:

Suresh Canagarajah, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suresh Canagarajah, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Kelly Hall, Committee Member
Celeste Kinginger, Committee Member
Mari Haneda, Outside Member

Author:

Williams, Kezi Malcolm

Title:

FATE OF LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES ON INTACT AND WOUNDED APPLES DURING STORAGE AND IN A SIMULATED DUMP TANK

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

Food Science
Food Microbiology
Food Safety

File:

Download Kezi_Thesis_2018_Final_Draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Luke LaBorde, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Catherine Cutter, Committee Member
Dr. Edward Dudley, Committee Member

Author:

Price, Jared Scott

Title:

HIGH EFFICIENCY PLANAR SOLAR CONCENTRATORS AND NOVEL STRUCTURES FOR ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

OLED
LED
CPV
Photovoltaics

File:

Download JaredPrice-Dissertation_V3.pdf

Committee Members:

Noel Christopher Giebink, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Jian Xu, Outside Member