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Author:

Ramachandran, Sharath Kumar

Title:

INVESTIGATING THE ACCURACY OF CREATIVITY METRICS USED IN ENGINEERING DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Engineering Design

Keywords:

Creativity and Concept Generation
Design Evaluation
Design Validation
Creatvity Metrics
Verifying Metrics

File:

Download Sharath_Kumar_Ramachandran_Grad_Thesis_Fall_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Scarlett Rae Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Samuel Todd Hunter, Committee Member
Sven G Bilen, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Alamoudi, Hassan

Title:

Applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in healthcare: A cardiovascular case

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Healthcare
Cardiovascular

File:

Download Hassan_Alamoudi-MS_Thesis_Dec_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Carl Voigt, Program Head/Chair
Hui Yang, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Special Signatory

Author:

Wafula, Eric

Title:

Computational methods for comparative genomics of non-model species: a case study in the parasitic plant family Orobanchaceae

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Computational biology
Evolutionary biology
Bioinformatics
Comparative genomics
Next-generation sequencing
de novo assembly
Genome annotation
Gene expression
Whole genome duplication
Gene duplication
Phylogenomics
Ancestral reconstruction
Transcriptomics
Orthogroups
Gene family evolution
Parasitic plants
Orobanchaceae
Striga

File:

Download Eric_wafula_dissertation_final_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Claude Walker Depamphilis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Harold Marden, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Istvan Albert, Outside Member
Naomi S Altman, Outside Member
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Roth, Paul

Title:

INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF PROFESSIONAL PLANNERS FOR ENHANCING PRIVATE FOREST LEGACY DECISIONS

Graduate Program:

Forest Resources

Keywords:

forest legacy planning
estate planning
conservation based estate planning
forest land planning
forest land estate planning process
private forest landowner
Pennsylvania private forests
stewardship
conservation
values

File:

Download P_ROTH_FOR_RES_Dissertation_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

James Craig Finley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Craig Finley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William F. Elmendorf, Committee Member
Allyson Muth, Committee Member
Matthew Samuel Kaplan, Outside Member
David Eissenstat, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Agarwal, Amal

Title:

Model-Based Clustering of Nonparametric Weighted Networks

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Exponential-family random graphical model
Local likelihood
Variational inference

File:

Download Amal-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Diaz, Manuel

Title:

SEMICLASSICAL CONSISTENT CONSTRAINTS WITH MOMENTS IN SPHERICALLY SYMMETRIC QUANTUM GRAVITY

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Canonical Quantum Gravity
Semiclassical Constraint Algebra
Canonical Effective Method
Dirac Algebra
Hypersurface Deformation Algebra
First-Class Algebra
First-Class Constraints
Constrained Hamiltonian System
Effective Theory

File:

Download ManuelDiaz-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Martin Bojowald, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
Irina Mocioiu, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member

Author:

Srinivasan, Visweshwar

Title:

AN ULTRA-LOW-COST PORTABLE PHOTOACOUSTIC SYSTEM

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

medical
electronics
devices
ultrasound
photoacoustics
portable
cheap
ultra
ultraportable
cost effective

File:

Download Vish_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

William Evan Higgins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mehdi Kiani, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Clemente-Harding, Laura

Title:

Extension of the Analog Ensemble Technique to the Spatial Domain

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Analog Ensemble
uncertainty quantification
Search Space Extension
Schaake Shuffle
ensemble prediction
spatio-temporal consistency
computationally efficient
spatial optimization
optimal predictor weighting

File:

Download 2019_PSU_Dissertation_LCH_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Guido Cervone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guido Cervone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alexander Klippel, Committee Member
Robert George Crane, Committee Member
George Spencer Young, Outside Member
Sue Ellen Haupt, Outside Member
Cynthia Ann Brewer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rotella, Christopher

Title:

Harnessing the Properties of Carbon Nanotubes to Increase Applicability

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Carbon Nanotubes
Chemical Doping
Increasing applicability
Biomedical applications
Li-ion Batteries

File:

Download Rotella_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cristina Rosa, Outside Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Crowe, Elizabeth

Title:

Understanding Factors that Influence STEM Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Buy-In to Pedagogical Training

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

graduate teaching assistant
pedagogical training
buy-in
STEM pedagogical training
GTA professional development

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_Crowe_for_Submission_11-11.pdf

Committee Members:

Julia Diane Plummer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rose Mary Zbiek, Program Head/Chair
Hollie Kulago, Committee Member