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Author:

Mirzaei, Mehrdad

Title:

OPTIMAL FEEDBACK CONTROL DESIGN FOR A HYPERSONIC REENTRY VEHICLE

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Optimal Control
Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation
Optimal Feedback Control
Trajectory Optimization
Hypersonic Reentry Vehicle
Sparse Collocation Method
Convex Optimization

File:

Download Mehrdad_Mirzaei_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Graham Melton, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Doucette, Grayson S

Title:

COARSE TO FINE: TUNING MOLECULAR PACKING TO PINPOINT TRIPLET PAIR SEPARATION MECHANISMS AND THE ROLE OF MOLECULAR COUPLING

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Singlet Fission
High Pressure
Intermolecular Coupling
Photophysics
Pentacene
Polymorph

File:

Download Doucette_Thesis_Final_2.pdf

Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Outside Member

Author:

He, Yuting

Title:

Understanding the Carbon Cycle in the Complex Terrain at Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

terrestrial carbon cycle
complex terrain
critical zone observatory
Biome-BGC
ecosystem modeling

File:

Download Dissertation_YutingHE_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Davis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Davis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Eissenstat, Outside Member
Chris Eliot Forest, Committee Member
Yuning Shi, Special Member
Chaopeng Shen, Committee Member
David Jonathan Stensrud, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Watson, Samuel Caleb

Title:

Investigation of the bacterial safety of fermented and dried duck salami

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

duck salami
Salmonella
Listeria monocytogenes
Campylobacter

File:

Download Watson__Samuel._ANSC_MS_Thesis-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan Campbell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Catherine Nettles Cutter, Committee Member
Edward William Mills, Committee Member
Nancy Ostguy, Committee Member

Author:

Foster, Albert

Title:

Polyvinyl Toluene and Lithium Glass Composites for Neutron Detection

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Composite
Neutron
Detection
Pulse Shape Discrimination
Polymer
Glass

File:

Download Polyvinyle_Toluene_and_Lithium_Glass_Composites_for_Neutron_Detector.pdf

Committee Members:

Zoubeida Ounaies, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zoubeida Ounaies, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Azaree Tresong Lintereur, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Seong Han Kim, Outside Member
Amira Barhoumi Meddeb, Special Member

Author:

Klee, Sara

Title:

DIGGING DEEPER INTO THE GENETIC BASIS OF ERWINIA AMYLOVORA VIRULENCE

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology

Keywords:

Erwinia amylovora
plant pathogen
polysaccharide
virulence
fire blight
translation
auxotrophy

File:

Download Klee_PhD_Dissertation_real_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy W Mcnellis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy W Mcnellis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kari Anne Peter, Committee Member
Seogchan Kang, Committee Member
Gabriele Brigitte Monshausen, Outside Member
Maria Del Mar Jimenez Gasco, Committee Member

Author:

Khan, Hossain

Title:

Exploring Sequence Architectures at Flanking Regions of Copy Number Variants

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics

Keywords:

CNVs
Structural Variations
Alu elements
L1 LINE elements
Flanking regions of CNVs
Segmental Duplications

File:

Download ThesisWriteup_Final_HossainKhan.pdf

Committee Members:

Santhosh Girirajan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anton Nekrutenko, Committee Member
Yifei Huang, Committee Member
George H Perry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Meister, Alissa

Title:

VAGAL DYSFUNCTION IN NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

vagus
cytokines
heart rate variability
NEC
immunohistochemistry
preterm

File:

Download ALM_Dissertation_Compiled_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Renato A Travagli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Renato A Travagli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kim Kopenhaver Doheny, Committee Member
Kirsteen Nairn Browning, Committee Member
Charles H Lang, Outside Member

Author:

Banan, Zoya

Title:

Residential Air Quality Changes Due to Marcellus Shale Gas Development in Pennsylvania Mapping the Implications

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Setback Policy
Health Impact
Fine Particulate Matter
Gaussian Plume Model
Air Quality Regulation
Aerosol Dispersion

File:

Download Zoya_Banan_-_PhD_Dissertation__final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeremy Michael Gernand, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeremy Michael Gernand, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mort D Webster, Committee Member
William Arthur Groves, Committee Member
Kenneth James Davis, Outside Member

Author:

Alhusaini, Badryah Y

Title:

Peer Information and Managerial Myopia

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Managerial Myopia
Peer Information

File:

Download Alhusaini_-_Dissertation_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Karl Muller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl A Muller, III, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dan Givoly, Committee Member
Hal Derric White, Committee Member
Peter G Iliev, Outside Member

Author:

Mackey, Andrew

Title:

The Development of HybridFAST: An Accessible and Transparent PV System Financial Modeling Tool

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

PV
Photovoltaics
Financial Modeling
HybridFAST
Financial
Proforma
Modeling
Solar

File:

Download 190627_ADM223_MS_AE_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Somayeh Asadi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Susan Stewart, Committee Member
Dr. Robert Leicht, Committee Member

Author:

Bove, Cecilia

Title:

ENVIRONMENTAL PARKINSON’S DISEASE: PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES ON THE FUNCTION OF THE DORSAL MOTOR NUCLEUS OF THE VAGUS NEURONS

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

Vagus nerve
Parkinson's disease
gastrointestinal

File:

Download CB_-_Doctoral_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

R. Alberto Travagli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
R. Alberto Travagli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kirsteen N. Browning, Committee Member
Yuval Silberman, Committee Member
Robert Levenson, Outside Member
Thyagarajan Subramanian, Committee Member

Author:

Tyagi, Ankit

Title:

Dynamics of Interacting Turbulent Flames

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Interacting Flames
Turbulent Flames
Image Processing
Laser Diagnostics
Flame Physics
Flame-Flame Interactions

File:

Download Tyagi_Ankit-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacqueline O’Connor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacqueline O’Connor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Haworth, Committee Member
Stephen Lynch, Committee Member
Michael Krane, Outside Member
Isaac Boxx, Special Member

Author:

Liu, Peng

Title:

Monostatic and Bistatic Ice-Penetrating Radars Based on Software-Defined Radio Technology

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Bistatic Ice-Penetrating Radar
Software-Defined Radio

File:

Download PengLiu_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven G Bilen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
John Mathews, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Molina, Mallory Elyse

Title:

Resolving Black Hole and Star-Formation Activity in Nearby Galaxies

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

astronomy
galaxies
AGN
Star formation
dust
attenuation
LINERs

File:

Download Molina-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Eracleous, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Eracleous, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Member
Caryl Ann Gronwall, Committee Member
Stephane Coutu, Outside Member
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Alkhoori, Hamad

Title:

Electromagnetic Scattering by a Three-dimensional Object Composed of an Orthorhombic Dielectric-Magnetic Medium Endowed with Magnetoelectric Gyrotropy

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Anisotropic optical materials
Electromagnetic optics
Scattering theory
Electromagnetic scattering
Dielectric anisotropy
Magnetic anisotropic
Magnetoelectric gyrotropy

File:

Download Alkhoori_Dissertation_v9.pdf

Committee Members:

Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James K. Breakall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ram M. Narayanan, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Anna Stasto, Outside Member
Craig F. Bohren, Special Member

Author:

Haynes-Thoby, Latoya A

Title:

Factors that Contribute to Resilience for Young Adult Black Women with Histories of Intimate Partner Violence

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

trauma informed care
trauma
resilience
Black feminist theory
counseling
intimate partner violence
domestic violence
social support
spirituality
Counselor Education
reflexivity interviewing
resistance
survivorship

File:

Download Factors_that_contribute_to_resilience_for_young_adult_Black_women_with_histories_of_intimate_partner_violence_-_Haynes-Thoby.pdf

Committee Members:

Julia A Green Bryan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julia A Green Bryan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lisa M Conyers, Committee Member
Carlomagno Del Carmen Panlilio, Committee Member
Ashley Nichol Patterson, Outside Member
Diandra Janelle Prescod, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Diandra Janelle Prescod, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Margaret Ann Lorah, Special Member

Author:

Henderson, Codey

Title:

The Impact of Phospholipid Bilayer Interactions on Lipid Diffuison

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Supported Lipid Bilayers
Lipid Diffusion
Lipid Diffusion Model
Bilayer-Support Interactions
Dye Aggregation
Single Particle Tracking
FRAP

File:

Download The_Impact_of_Phospholipid_Bilayer_Interactions_on_Lipid_Diffuison.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul S Cremer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul S Cremer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward Patrick O'Brien, Jr., Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Esther Gomez, Outside Member

Author:

Nandy, Debmalya

Title:

COVARIATE INFORMATION: A NOVEL APPROACH TO SUFFICIENT DIMENSION REDUCTION & FEATURE SCREENING FOR ULTRAHIGH-DIMENSIONAL COVARIATES IN SUPERVISED PROBLEMS

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Fisher information
Density information
Supervised problems
Sufficient dimension reduction
Feature screening
Ultrahigh dimension
Bootstrap

File:

Download PennState_StatisticsPhDDissertation_Final_eTD_081619.pdf

Committee Members:

Francesca Chiaromonte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Outside Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Weixin Yao, Special Member

Author:

Byukusenge, Maurice

Title:

Descriptive Epidemiology and Comparative Genomic Analysis of Non-Typhoidal Salmonella Serotypes from Rwanda

Graduate Program:

Pathobiology

Keywords:

Non-typhoidal Salmonella
Epidemiology
Whole genome sequencing
Rwanda

File:

Download byukusenge_maurice_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Bhushan M Jayarao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bhushan M Jayarao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suresh Varma Kuchipudi, Committee Member
Ernest Hovingh, Committee Member
Isabella Cattadori, Outside Member
Edward G Dudley, Outside Member
Nanasse Nzayirambaho, Special Member

Author:

Nwokonko, Robert

Title:

UNDERSTANDING THE MECHANISM OF UNIMOLECULAR COUPLING BETWEEN STIM AND ORAI

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Store operated calcium channels
Electrophysiology
Membrane proteins
Orai calcium channel
Endoplasmic reticulum
Calcium signalling

File:

Download RMN_THESIS_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Leon Gill, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mohamed Trebak, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Spratt, Committee Member
Blaise Peterson, Committee Member
Jong Kak Yun, Outside Member
Ralph Lauren Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gollakota, Akhila

Title:

HYDROTHERMAL LIQUEFACTION OF MODEL FOOD WASTE BIOMOLECULES

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrothermal liquefaction
Food waste
Subcritical water

File:

Download Thesis_AG.pdf

Committee Members:

Phillip E Savage, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Phillip E Savage, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sarma V Pisupati, Committee Member
Robert Rioux, Committee Member
Chunshan Song, Outside Member
Phillip E Savage, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Basalik, Stefanie

Title:

The First Lady's Hidden-Hand: Mamie Eisenhower's Approach to 1950s Politics

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Mamie
Eisenhower
First Lady
Hidden-Hand
1950s
Politics
Fashion
Toile
White House
Housewife
Mamie Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower

File:

Download Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Committee Member
Carol Nechemias, Outside Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dasgupta, Anish

Title:

SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND CATALYTIC TESTING OF PALLADIUM AND NICKEL BASED INTERMETALLIC COMPOUNDS FOR ACETYLENE SEMI-HYDROGENATION

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Pd-Zn
hydrogenation
acetylene
intermetallic compounds
gamma brass
catalysis

File:

Download thesis-upload081919.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Rioux, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Rioux, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Phillip E Savage, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Chunshan Song, Outside Member
Phillip E Savage, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Truong, Christine

Title:

Advancing Planar Particle Shadow Velocimetry by Development of Multiplanar and Stereoscopic Imaging Variants in Consideration of the Depth of Correlation

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

particle shadow velocimetry
particle image velocimetry
psv
turbulence
experimental fluid mechanics

File:

Download ChristineTruong-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeff Robert Harris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy John Eden, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Committee Member
Jacqueline Antonia O'Connor, Outside Member
Margaret Louise Byron, Outside Member
Barton Lee Smith, Special Member
Judith Todd Copley, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Ning

Title:

DATA-DRIVEN MODELING AND INTERPRETABLE MACHINE LEARNING WITH APPLICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Data-Driven Modeling
Interpretable Machine Learning
Healthcare Analytics
Drug-Drug Interactions
Patient Satisfaction

File:

Download NingLiu-Dissertation-FinalVersion.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guodong Pang, Committee Member
Eunhye Song, Committee Member
Terry Harrison, Outside Member
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ackerman, Jonathan

Title:

Controlling selectivity of platinum deposition on partially exchanged Cu2-xS-CdS nanoparticles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

nanoparticle
Chalcogenide
Cation exchange
partial cation exchange
Seeded growth

File:

Download Ackerman__Jonathan_Master_s_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Raymond Edward Schaak, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Nandy, Debmalya

Title:

A 1H-NMR TARGETED FECAL METABOLOMICS STUDY ON CHILDHOOD OBESITY WITHIN THE INSIGHT COHORT

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics

Keywords:

INSIGHT
1H-NMR
Fecal metabolomics
Childhood obesity

File:

Download MSThesis_BG_NandyD_FinalVersion.pdf

Committee Members:

Francesca Chiaromonte, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Committee Member
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Member
George H Perry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zahedi, Mona

Title:

Evaluating the Use of Fluidized Bed Combustion Fly Ash as Concrete Pozzolan

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Fluidized Bed Combustion
Fly ash
Anthracite coal
Bituminous coal
ASTM C618
Mechanical properties
Durability
Concrete
Hydration mechanism
Beneficiation

File:

Download PhD_dissertation-Mona_Zahedi.pdf

Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Aly Marei Said, Outside Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Swartzfager, John

Title:

Investigation of the Optoelectronic Properties of Formamidinium Lead Bromide Perovskites Using Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Time-resolved spectroscopy
Formamidinium lead bromide
Lead halide perovskites
Time-resolved infrared spectroscopy
Optoelectronic
Photovoltaics
Fano resonance
Transient absorption
Polaron
Electron-phonon coupling
Excited state dynamics
Charge carriers

File:

Download John_Swartzfager_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member

Author:

Lichtenstein, Timothy Thomas

Title:

FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS OF LIQUID METALS TOWARDS ELECTROCHEMICAL SEPARATIONS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Electrorefining
Thermodynamics
barium-alloys
electromotive force
Electrochemical separation
Phase diagram

File:

Download Thesis_TimothyLichtenstein_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Hojong Kim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hojong Kim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zi-Kui Liu, Committee Member
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
Thomas Mallouk, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair
James L. Willit, Special Member

Author:

Widstrom, Andrea Lyn

Title:

Applicability of standard kinetic parameters for describing a photothermally driven reaction

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Diels-Alder
photothermal
gold nanoparticle
solvent
kinetic
viscosity
retro Diels-Alder
dipole
activation
thermodynamic
Arrhenius

File:

Download Widstrom_Andrea_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Benjamin James Lear, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
William D Burgos, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Roberts, Nicole

Title:

Biological Underpinnings of Adolescent Weight Status and Food Intake Behavior across Multiple Time Scales and Levels of Analysis

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

adolescent brain development
obesity
fMRI
resting state connectivity
cognitive modeling

File:

Download NRoberts_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles F. Geier, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles F. Geier, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zita Oravecz, Committee Member
Diana Fishbein, Committee Member
Lorah D Dorn, Outside Member
Douglas Michael Teti, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Stefani Fae, Giovani

Title:

UNDERSTANDING SOYBEAN YIELD LIMITING FACTORS AND THE POTENTIAL FOR AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION IN THE U.S. AND BRAZIL

Graduate Program:

Agronomy

Keywords:

Soybean
Agricultural Intensification
Laser Diffraction
Yield Limiting Factors
International Tour

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_GSF.pdf

Committee Members:

Armen R. Kemanian, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory W. Roth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charlie White, Committee Member
Sjoerd Willem Duiker, Committee Member
John Earl Watson, Outside Member

Author:

Lebold, Kathryn

Title:

A Dual Potential Approach for Modeling Structure and Energetics with Coarse-Grained Models

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

coarse-graining
dual-potential
transferability
representability
thermodynamics

File:

Download Lebold-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Will Noid, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Will Noid, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Outside Member

Author:

Kennehan, Eric Ronald

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF EXCITONIC PROPERTIES AND HOT-CARRIER COOLING IN LEAD SULFIDE QUANTUM DOTS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Spectroscopy
Transient Absorption
Quantum Dots
Lead Sulfide
Perylene Diimide
Phonon
electron-phonon
PbS
Flash photolysis
electro-optical
exciton

File:

Download Kennehan_Eric_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul S Cremer, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Jihang

Title:

An Experimental Study of the Effect of a Pilot Flame on Combustion Instabilities

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Combustion Instability
Gas Turbine
Combustion
Pilot Flame
Flame Transfer Function

File:

Download Dissertation_Jihang_Li.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Domenic Santavicca, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Domenic Santavicca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Daniel Haworth, Committee Member
Dr. Jacqueline O'connor, Committee Member
Dr. Michel Micci, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gray, Christopher

Title:

Oligomeric Ruthenium Light Absorbers and Nanostructured Lenses for Improved Harvesting of Solar Energy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

photoelectrochemical cells
water-splitting
solar energy
solar fuels
nanomaterials
oligomer
ruthenium polypyridal

File:

Download Gray__Chris_-_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Mallouk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Mallouk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Le, Yunying

Title:

DAILY RELATIONAL PROCESSES AMONG NEW PARENTS TRANSITIONING TO PARENTHOOD

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

dyadic daily diary
coparenting
couple closeness
first-time parents
capitalization

File:

Download Yunying_Le_dissertation_09092019.pdf

Committee Members:

Steffany Fredman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steffany Fredman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Ethan Feinberg, Committee Member
Sy-Miin Chow, Committee Member
Amy Dyanna Marshall, Outside Member
Lesley Anne Ross, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tofighi, Mohammad

Title:

Informed Learning for Image Restoration and Understanding

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Cell Detection
Image Processing
Image Deblurring
Deep Learning
Video Deblurring

File:

Download Tofighi_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vishal Monga, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vishal Monga, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member
Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Committee Member
Leonid V Berlyand, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ibrahim, Ahmed

Title:

An Inductively Powered 32-Channel Implantable System-on-Chip for Gastric Electrical-Wave Recording

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Inductive Link
Gastric
slow wave
recording system

File:

Download Ibrahim_Final_Report_Aug2019_Review.pdf

Committee Members:

Mehdi Kiani, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mehdi Kiani, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Swaroop Ghosh, Committee Member
Abhronil Sengupta, Committee Member
Christopher D. Rahn, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Bo

Title:

INTEGRATIVE OMICS FOR DISCOVERING NOVEL MECHANISMS OF IKAROS’ GENE REGULATORY FUNCTIONS IN LEUKEMIA

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics

Keywords:

Ikaros
Leukemia
omics
epigenetic regulation

File:

Download Dissertation_for_PhD_in_Boinformatics_and_Genomics_Bo_Zhang_funding.pdf

Committee Members:

James Riley Broach, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sinisa Dovat, Committee Member
Vladimir S Spiegelman, Committee Member
Ross Cameron Hardison, Outside Member
James Riley Broach, Program Head/Chair
James Riley Broach, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Feng Yue, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Feng Yue, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Garcia Gonzalez, Susana Elizabeth

Title:

CONNECTIVITY IN THE U.S. HYDROECONOMIC NETWORK: TOWARD CONSISTENT ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING OF NATIONAL CONSUMPTION

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Water Footprint
Environmental Accounting
Complex Networks
Input-Output Modeling
Virtual Water

File:

Download SGarciaGonzalez_Dissertation_10032019.pdf

Committee Members:

Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member
Vikash Varun Gayah, Committee Member
Sarah Michele Rajtmajer, Outside Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bahari, Fatemeh

Title:

Neural dynamics underlying sleep-wake regulation in rodent brain

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Sleep-Wake regulation
Rodents
Epilepsy
Single-unit recordings
EEG

File:

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Committee Members:

Bruce J. Gluckman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bruce J. Gluckman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kevin D. Alloway, Outside Member
Steven J. Schiff, Committee Member
Carina Pamela Curto, Outside Member
Patrick J. Drew, Committee Member
Judith Todd Copley, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Reainthippayasakul, Wuttichai

Title:

PHOTOCURABLE DIELECTRICS FOR ELECTRONIC PACKAGING AND ENCAPSULANT APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

photocurable
dielectrics
composites
electronic packaging
thermal conductivity
crosslinking

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael T Lanagan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member
Melik C Demirel, Committee Member
Qing Wang, Outside Member
Judith Todd Copley, Program Head/Chair
Qing Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Beecher, David Lory

Title:

"AN HONORABLE AND MANLY SPORT": THE ROLE OF THOROUGHBRED HORSE RACING IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Horse racing
Slavery
Plantation Life
Antebellum South
Gambling
Thoroughbred

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Committee Members:

John Rogers Haddad, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member
Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Committee Member
Indrit Hoxha, Outside Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Eshelman, Melanie Alice

Title:

Post-transcriptional Regulation of the Intestinal Epithelium by Tristetraprolin

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Tristetraprolin
Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase
Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation
DSS Colitis
Colitis-associated Cancer

File:

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Committee Members:

Gregory Steven Yochum, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory Steven Yochum, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Riley Broach, Committee Member
David James Degraff, Committee Member
Lisa M Shantz, Outside Member
George Lucian Moldovan, Committee Member
Faoud T Ishmael, Committee Member
Ralph Lauren Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Womeldorf, Leslie

Title:

HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATORS: LEARNING COLLABORATIVEY TO TEACH INTERPROFESSIONALLY

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

interprofessional education
interprofessional collaboration
health professions educators
collaboration
faculty development
learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karin Sprow Forte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sandra Starling Halbruner, Committee Member
Casey N Pinto, Outside Member
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wang, Wei Lin

Title:

CHILDHOOD OBESITY AND RURAL DISPARITIES: RURALITY, ENVIRONMENT AND BODY MASS INDEX AMONG U.S. CHILDREN

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

Childhood obesity
Rural-urban difference
Food environment
Multilevel modeling

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Committee Members:

Leif Jensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leif Jensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn J. Brasier, Committee Member
Guangqing Chi, Committee Member
Jennifer Van Hook, Outside Member
Kathryn J Brasier, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Muratov, Oleg

Title:

ESSAYS ON INFORMATION DESIGN IN ECONOMIC THEORY

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Information Design
Competition
Research and Development
Moral Hazard
Optimal Contracts
All-Pay Auctions
Contest Theory

File:

Download Oleg_Muratov_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ron Siegel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ron Siegel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Member
Rohit Lamba, Committee Member
Fenghua Song, Outside Member
Barry William Ickes, Program Head/Chair