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2. UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL APPLICATIONS' DATA PRACTICES AND PRIVACY NOTICES ON SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Na
Title:
UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL APPLICATIONS' DATA PRACTICES AND PRIVACY NOTICES ON SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
Third-party applications (apps)
information privacy
privacy notice and consent
privacy awareness and control
default settings
SNS
File:
Download Thesis-NaWang-07022018.pdf
Committee Members:
Heng Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

3. University students’ school mathematics understanding and its growth in their learning of collegiate mathematics: Through the lens of a transformative transition framework

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Open Access
Author:
Lee, Younhee
Title:
University students’ school mathematics understanding and its growth in their learning of collegiate mathematics: Through the lens of a transformative transition framework
Graduate Program:
Curriculum and Instruction
Keywords:
Mathematical connections
Double discontinuity
Characteristics/qualities of mathematical understanding
Qualitative levels of mathematical understanding
Growth in mathematical understanding
Transformative transition
Teaching interview
Factorization
Polynomial equation
Unique factorization theorem
Prospective secondary mathematics teachers
Mathematics-intensive majors
File:
Download Younhee_Lee_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Mary Kathleen Heid, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

5. PROBABILISTIC REAL-TIME DOMAIN AWARENESS LEVERAGING COMPUTER VISION AND COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE

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Open Access
Author:
Bolden, Mark Patrick
Title:
PROBABILISTIC REAL-TIME DOMAIN AWARENESS LEVERAGING COMPUTER VISION AND COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
domain awareness
space domain
space debris
real-time
debris tracking
computer vision
computational intelligence
tactical object tracking
clustering
break-up event tracking
debris cloud tracking
File:
Download MarkBolden_-_Masters_Thesis_20180710.pdf
Committee Members:
David Spencer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

6. Development and Field Testing of an Autonomous Soaring System

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Open Access
Author:
Depenbusch, Nathan Thomas
Title:
Development and Field Testing of an Autonomous Soaring System
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
autonomous soaring
aerial robotics
thermal soaring
soaring
unmanned aerial vehicle
UAV
File:
Download Depenbusch-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Sean N Brennan, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Outside Member

8. BROADBAND OPTICAL RESPONSES OF CHIRAL SCULPTURED THIN FILMS DEPOSITED ON PLANAR AND NON-PLANAR SUBSTRATES

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Open Access
Author:
Erten, Sema
Title:
BROADBAND OPTICAL RESPONSES OF CHIRAL SCULPTURED THIN FILMS DEPOSITED ON PLANAR AND NON-PLANAR SUBSTRATES
Graduate Program:
Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:
chiral sculptured thin films
File:
Download SemaErten_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Dr. Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Dinesh Agrawal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Jian Xu, Committee Member
Dr. Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Committee Member
Dr. Thomas Mallouk, Outside Member

9. Coupled biophysical simulations of cell-cell interaction and drug delivery microrobots

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Open Access
Author:
Gaskin, Byron Jerrod
Title:
Coupled biophysical simulations of cell-cell interaction and drug delivery microrobots
Graduate Program:
Bioengineering
Keywords:
computational mechanics
personalized medicine
computational fluid dynamics
computational structural mechanics
biochemistry
fluid dynamics
solid mechanics
continuum mechanics
blood flow
blood cells
drug delivery
drug targeting
microrobotics
flowing bodies
hyperelasticity
rigid body motion
File:
Download BJG_PhD_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Robert Francis Kunz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cheng Dong, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Robert Lee Campbell, Outside Member
Sean Michael Mcintyre, Special Member

10. Rigid Body Satellite Time-Optimal Attitude Control Using Inversion

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Open Access
Author:
Basu, Kaushik
Title:
Rigid Body Satellite Time-Optimal Attitude Control Using Inversion
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
Time Optimal Control
Particle Swarm Optimization
Spacecraft Attitude Control
Pseudospectral Method
Rigid Body Dynamics
File:
Download Ko_Basu-Phd_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Dr Robert Melton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Robert Melton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr David Spencer, Committee Member
Dr Joseph Horn, Committee Member
Dr Joseph Cusumano, Outside Member

12. DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADAPTIVE, MULTISCALE, NONLINEAR DISTURBANCE EQUATIONS SOLVER

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Open Access
Author:
Premi, Amandeep
Title:
DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADAPTIVE, MULTISCALE, NONLINEAR DISTURBANCE EQUATIONS SOLVER
Graduate Program:
Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:
NLDE
gust modeling
Transition
Pressure-velocity coupling
wavelets
multiscale
AMR
adaptive mesh refinement
File:
Download Thesis_apremi.pdf
Committee Members:
Dr. Mark D. Maughmer, Committee Member
Dr. Phillip J. Morris, Committee Member
Dr. Michael P. Kinzel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Michael P. Kinzel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amanda D Hanford, Outside Member

13. Early Nighttime Parental Interventions and Infant Sleep Regulation Across the First Year

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Open Access
Author:
Voltaire, Sabrina Trucha
Title:
Early Nighttime Parental Interventions and Infant Sleep Regulation Across the First Year
Graduate Program:
Human Development and Family Studies
Keywords:
Infant Sleep Regulation
Nighttime Parenting Competence
Early Parenting Practices
File:
Download OpenAccess_Voltaire.pdf
Committee Members:
Douglas Teti, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nilam Ram, Committee Member

14. EFFECT OF HYSTERESIS AND HETEROGENEITY ON GAS FLOODING PERFORMANCE

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Open Access
Author:
Li, Liwei
Title:
EFFECT OF HYSTERESIS AND HETEROGENEITY ON GAS FLOODING PERFORMANCE
Graduate Program:
Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:
Enhanced oil recovery
Carbon storage
Gravity-enhanced process
Multiphase flow and hysteresis
Well injectivity
File:
Download Dissertation_Liwei_Li_VFinal.pdf
Committee Members:
Russell T. Johns, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell T. Johns, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Member

15. EPIGENETIC AND GENE EXPRESSION CHANGES MEDIATED BY HISTONE H3 METHYLATION IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA

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Open Access
Author:
Becker, Abigail Harris
Title:
EPIGENETIC AND GENE EXPRESSION CHANGES MEDIATED BY HISTONE H3 METHYLATION IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA
Graduate Program:
Biomedical Sciences
Keywords:
AML
Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Gene Expression
H3K9me2
Histone Methytransferase
G9a
G9a/EHMT2
Chromatin
ChIP-sequencing
Epegentics
LOCKs
File:
Download AbigailHarrisBecker_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Sergei Grigoryev, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kristin Eckert, Committee Member
Greg Yochum, Committee Member

16. Art Integration: Exploring a Transdiscplinary Practice in Rural Art Education

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Open Access
Author:
Kiser, Kathleen Anne
Title:
Art Integration: Exploring a Transdiscplinary Practice in Rural Art Education
Graduate Program:
Art Education
Keywords:
: art integration
transdisciplinary
place-based
rural education
File:
Download KKiser_Dissertation_Final_2018.pdf
Committee Members:
Kimberly Anne Powell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kimberly Anne Powell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine M Thompson, Committee Member
Mary Ann Stankiewicz, Committee Member
Scott P Mcdonald, Outside Member

17. AN ECOLOGICAL STUDY OF IMMIGRANT SEGREGATION IN ESTABLISHED AND NEW DESTINATION METROS USING MORAN’S I AND LISA CLUSTER DESIGNATION

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Author:
Zuchowski, Robert James
Title:
AN ECOLOGICAL STUDY OF IMMIGRANT SEGREGATION IN ESTABLISHED AND NEW DESTINATION METROS USING MORAN’S I AND LISA CLUSTER DESIGNATION
Graduate Program:
Sociology
Keywords:
spatial; residential segregation; sociology; demography
File:
Download Robby_Thesis_May22_FORMATTED_RJZ_100517_0916pm.pdf
Committee Members:
Stephen Augustus Matthews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barrett Alan Lee, Committee Member
Ralph Salvador Oropesa, Committee Member

18. DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING INSTRUMENT IN DESIGNING OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS

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Open Access
Author:
Mostavi, Ehsan
Title:
DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING INSTRUMENT IN DESIGNING OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS
Graduate Program:
Architectural Engineering
Keywords:
Building energy performance
building design optimization
occupants' behavior
harmony search algorithm
building envelope design tool
multiobjective optimization
File:
Download Ehsan_Mostavi.pdf
Committee Members:
Somayeh Asadi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Somayeh Asadi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Freihaut, Committee Member
Lisa Domenica Iulo, Committee Member
Ute Poerschke, Outside Member
Chimay Anumba, Committee Member

20. Public Art and the Topographic City: A Geospatial Analysis of Art Spaces in Pittsburgh

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Open Access
Author:
Decker, Nicholas P
Title:
Public Art and the Topographic City: A Geospatial Analysis of Art Spaces in Pittsburgh
Graduate Program:
Landscape Architecture
Keywords:
Public Art
Urban Development
Urban Redevelopment
Ekitics
Creative Class
Arts-Based Research
ArcGIS
Critical GIS
Cultural Development
Culture-Based Redevelopment
Sculpture
Data Visualization
File:
Download NDecker_Thesis_2018.pdf
Committee Members:
Timothy Murtha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
C. Timothy Baird, Committee Member
Mallika Bose, Committee Member