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Author:

Spencer, Lauren A.

Title:

SOCIAL SHARING OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONAL EVENTS: WHETHER OR NOT SHARING HELPS DEPENDS ON THE LISTENER’S RESPONSE

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

affect
emotion regulation
coping
interpersonal closeness
interpersonal emotion regulation
social support

File:

Download SPENCER_DISSERTATION_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Gasper, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Gasper, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephanie A Shields, Committee Member
Alicia Ann Grandey, Committee Member
Mary Beth Oliver, Outside Member
Melvin Michael Mark, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Byerly, Jack Cameron

Title:

Temporal and Spatial Dimensions of Neighborhood Effects on Mental Health among Older Adults

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Neighborhood effects
Older adults

File:

Download Byerly_Jack_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Augustus Matthews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Augustus Matthews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barrett Alan Lee, Committee Member
Eric Silver, Committee Member
David Manuel Almeida, Outside Member
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Huang, Shue

Title:

The role of high density lipoprotein for alcohol intake and myocardial infarction: results from two prospective cohorts

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

alcohol intake
HDL
cardiovascular disease
prospective cohort
mediation analysis
longitudinal analysis

File:

Download Penn_State_Dissertation_Shue_Huang_4.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiang Gao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiang Gao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Penny Margaret Kris-Etherton, Committee Member
Sy-Miin Chow, Outside Member
Gregory C Shearer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory C Shearer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
A Catharine Ross, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mullins, Casey

Title:

Academic Engagement as a Moderated Mediator on Reading Achievement for Adolescents Who Have Experienced Adversity

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

ACEs
adversity
academic engagement
adolescents
reading achievement
early childhood adversity
LONGSCAN
parent-child relationships
teacher-student relationships

File:

Download Mullins_Thesis_191022.pdf

Committee Members:

Carlomagno Del Carmen Panlilio, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew T Mc Crudden, Committee Member
Pui-Wa Lei, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Schoeneman, John

Title:

International Corporate Networks: A study of Foreign Direct Investment, Executive Hiring, and Lobbying

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

International Political Economy
Social Network Analysis
Corporate Networks

File:

Download Schoeneman_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Zorn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Zorn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bruce A Desmarais, Jr., Committee Member
Boliang Zhu, Committee Member
Xiaoyue Niu, Outside Member
Glenn Hunter Palmer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ding, Dazhong

Title:

Surface Characterization of Piezoelectric Sensor Materials for Potential Use in Reactor Vessel Sensors

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Piezoelectric
Aluminum Nitride
Yttrium Calcium Oxoborate
Lanthanum Gallium Silicate
Lanthanum Gallium Tantalate
Nondestructive Characterization

File:

Download eTD.pdf

Committee Members:

Leigh Winfrey, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Member
Jean Paul Allain, Program Head/Chair
Jean Paul Allain, Committee Member

Author:

Santos Thedin, Regis

Title:

An Investigation of coupled atmospheric turbulence and ship airwakes for helicopter-ship dynamic interface simulations

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Ship Airwakes
Flight Dynamics
Rotorcraft

File:

Download thedin2019phdthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Member
Michael P Kinzel, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kirkpatrick., Daphne

Title:

THE IMPACT OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION’S PRINCIPAL EFFECTIVENESS FRAMEWORK FOR LEADERSHIP

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

Principal Effectiveness
Framework for Leadership
Principal Evaluation
Superintendent Roles and Responsibilities
Superintendent's Professional Development
Principal Supervisors
Pennsylvania

File:

Download DISSERTATION_KIRKPATRICK_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Deborah Lynn Schussler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Deborah Lynn Schussler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tiffany M Squires, Committee Member
Marsha Elizabeth Modeste, Committee Member
John Ewing, Outside Member
Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Shuo

Title:

MULTISTAGE BREAST CARCINOGENESIS MODELING USING TRANSGENIC MICE: BIOLOGICAL AND THERAPEUTIC IMPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

breast cancer
transgenic mouse model
chemical carcinogenesis
DMBA
targeted therapy
mechanisms of resistance

File:

Download Shuo_Li_Final_Dissertation_.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward Joseph Gunther, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Joseph Gunther, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lisa M Shantz, Committee Member
Douglas B Stairs, Committee Member
Todd Schell, Outside Member
Wafik El-Deiry, Special Member
Ralph Lauren Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dong, Zefeng

Title:

THREE ESSAYS ON CONSUMER DEMAND, HEALTH AND FOOD ENVIRONMENT

Graduate Program:

Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics

Keywords:

Consumer Demand
Food Environments
Obesity
Type 2 Diabetes
Physical Activity

File:

Download Zefeng_Dong_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward C Jaenicke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Jaenicke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Douglas Harvey Wrenn, II, Committee Member
Peter William Newberry, Outside Member
Yizao Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Jaenicke, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Roman-Martinez, Angel

Title:

Mackey Bijection for some Reductive Groups and Continuous Fields of Reduced C*-Algebras

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Representation theory
Mackey bijection
Reduced group C*-algebra

File:

Download Math_Dissertation-Angel_Roman.pdf

Committee Members:

Nigel David Higson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nigel David Higson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nathanial Patrick Brown, Committee Member
Paul Frank Baum, Committee Member
Murat Gunaydin, Outside Member
Eyal Subag, Special Member
Carina Pamela Curto, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Paudel, Sulav

Title:

INSECT-PLANT INTERACTIONS IN A WARMING WORLD: EFFECTS OF ELEVATED TEMPERATURE ON TOMATOES AND THEIR INSECT HERBIVORES

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

climate change
elevation
insect-plant interactions
global warming
glucose oxidase
salivary defense elicitors
polyphenol oxidase
trypsin protease inhibitors
induced plant defense
leaf trichomes
domestication
inducibility

File:

Download Sulav_Paudel_2019_PhD_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Edwin George Rajotte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edwin George Rajotte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kelli Hoover, Committee Member
Gary Felton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Majid R Foolad, Outside Member
Gary Felton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mukherjee, Tuhin

Title:

TRANSPORT PHENOMENA BASED MODELING OF COMMON DEFECT FORMATION IN METAL PRINTING

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Additive manufacturing
3D printing
Residual stresses
Defects
Lack of fusion
Heat and fluid flow

File:

Download Thesis_Mukherjee_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Tarasankar Debroy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tarasankar Debroy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Todd Palmer, Committee Member
Zi-Kui Liu, Committee Member
Timothy W. Simpson, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yang, Ya Fei

Title:

SOURCES OF EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES AMONG SECOND-GENERATION IMMIGRANTS TO TAIWAN

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

second-generation immigrants
educational inequality
parental involvement
immigrant educational policy
Taiwan

File:

Download Fall_2019_Dissertation_Ya-Fei_Yang_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

David Post, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Post, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katerina Bodovski, Committee Member
Soo-Yong Byun, Committee Member
Ralph Salvador Oropesa, Outside Member
Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Nichols, Robert

Title:

UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECTS OF ENVIORNMENTAL POLLUTANTS ON THE GUT MICROBIOME

Graduate Program:

Molecular Toxicology

Keywords:

Microbiome
16S sequencing
Metatranscriptoics
AHR
TCDF
Flow Cytometry

File:

Download Robert_Nichols_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew David Patterson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew David Patterson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary H Perdew, Committee Member
Curtis John Omiecinski, Committee Member
Istvan Albert, Outside Member
Curtis John Omiecinski, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zuback, James Scott

Title:

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIALS BETWEEN FERRITIC AND AUSTENITIC ALLOYS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Additive manufacturing
Functionally graded materials
Steels
Hardness
Diffusion
Ferritic alloys
Austenitic alloys
Superalloys

File:

Download Zuback_Thesis_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Tarasankar Debroy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tarasankar Debroy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Todd Palmer, Outside Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member
Reginald Felix Hamilton, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rosenberg, Matthew

Title:

A Search for Very High Energy Photons from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

HAWC
high-energy astrophysics
gamma rays
gamma-ray bursts

File:

Download Dissertation_MRosenberg_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Miguel Alejandro Mostafa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Miguel Alejandro Mostafa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
Kohta Murase, Committee Member
Peter Istvan Meszaros, Outside Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Halper, Sean

Title:

Design Optimization Algorithms for Synthetic Biology Applications

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Synthetic Biology
Metabolic Engineering
CRISPR
Design Optimization
Gene Synthesis

File:

Download Halper_Dissertation_Design_Optimization.pdf

Committee Members:

Howard M Salis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Howard M Salis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Phillip E Savage, Committee Member
Reka Z Albert, Outside Member
Phillip E Savage, Program Head/Chair

Author:

He, Xin

Title:

MECHANOCHEMISTRY OF ADSORBED MOLECULES AT TRIBOLOGICAL INTERFACES

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

tribology; lubrication; mechanochemistry; surface science

File:

Download Thesis_Xin_He_revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Seong Han Kim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seong Han Kim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xueyi Zhang, Committee Member
Themis Matsoukas, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Outside Member
Seong Han Kim, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liang, Xiao

Title:

TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROL IN A CONNECTED AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE ENVIRONMENT CONSIDERING PEDESTRIANS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Traffic signal control
connected vehicles
autonomous vehicles
pedestrians
genetic algorithm

File:

Download Xiao_Liang-Dissertaion.pdf

Committee Members:

Vikash Varun Gayah, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vikash Varun Gayah, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric T. Donnell, Committee Member
Jose A. Ventura, Outside Member
Sukran Ilgin Guler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sukran Ilgin Guler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dong, Yan

Title:

ENHANCED PERFORMANCE OF NICKEL-IRON LAYERED DOUBLE HYDROXIDE AS AN OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION CATALYST THROUGH INTERCALATION

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

layered double hydroxde
pH-near-neutral condition
intercalation
in-situ anion exchange
oxygen evolution reaction

File:

Download Yan_Dong_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Sridhar Komarneni, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Komarneni, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donghai Wang, Committee Member
Hojong Kim, Committee Member
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mohajerani, Farzad

Title:

Interaction-driven Transport of Molecules, Colloids and Vesicles

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Chemotaxis
Diffusiophoresis
Crowding
Soft Materials
Active Materials

File:

Download Dissertation_Interaction-driven_Transport_FM_11_20_V2.pdf

Committee Members:

Darrell Velegol, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Darrell Velegol, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Outside Member
Ayusman Sen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip Savage, Program Head/Chair
Ayusman Sen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Bian, Yuchen

Title:

LOCAL COMMUNITY DETECTION ON COMPLEX NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Local community detection
random walk
memory-based random walk
multi-walker chain
query replacement
query node
topology potential field

File:

Download YourName-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiang Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiang Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dongwon Lee, Committee Member
Zihan Zhou, Committee Member
Chaopeng Shen, Outside Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hu, Zhisheng

Title:

Reinforcement learning for adaptive cyber defense: Algorithms, analysis and experiments

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Reinforcement learning
Adaptive cyber defense

File:

Download Hu_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Minghui Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Peng Liu, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lee, Shannon

Title:

THE USABILITY OF EDUCATIONAL AND EMPLOYMENT RECORDS FOR INSTITUTIONAL ASSESSMENT

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

wage records
unemployment insurance
education records
employment records
institutional research
assessment
human capital theory
signaling theory
workforce development
higher education
employment outcomes of education
labor economics
labor research
earnings of college graduates
retention

File:

Download SHANNON_LEE_FINAL_DISSERTATION_10.10.19.pdf

Committee Members:

David Lynn Passmore, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Lynn Passmore, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cynthia Pellock, Committee Member
Wesley Edward Donahue, Committee Member
John Thomas Harwood, Outside Member
David W. Stevens, Special Member
Susan Mary Land, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jia, Mengyuan

Title:

Genetic characterization and mapping of late blight resistance genes in the wild tomato accession PI 270443

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Late blight
tomato
gene mapping
disease resistance
Recombinant Inbred Line
GBS
RNA-sequencing

File:

Download Mengyuan_Jia_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Majid R Foolad, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Majid R Foolad, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Guiltinan, Committee Member
Surinder Chopra, Committee Member
Beth Krueger Gugino, Outside Member
Hamid Ashrafi, Special Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Hong En

Title:

Towards Optimized Feedback and Performance Metrics for Simulation-Based Needle Insertion Training

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

surgical training
eye-tracking
needle insertion
simulation-based training
haptic feedback
skill acquisition

File:

Download Hong-En_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Scarlett Rae Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scarlett Rae Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Carson Mccomb, Committee Member
Jason Zachary Moore, Outside Member
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Member
David C Han, Special Member
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wu, Lihua

Title:

Self-Incompatibility in Petunia: Characterization of S-RNase and S-Locus-F-Box Proteins, and Sequence Analyses of the S-Locus Region Containing Their Genes

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Self-incompatibility
Petunia inflata
S-RNase
S-locus
S-locus-F-box proteins

File:

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Committee Members:

Teh-Hui Kao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Teh-Hui Kao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gabriele Brigitte Monshausen, Committee Member
Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Member
Timothy W Mcnellis, Outside Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wan, Wendian

Title:

ALGORITHMS FOR OPERATION OF POWER SYSTEMS: RISK, UNCERTAINTY, DISCRETENESS, AND NONCONVEXITY

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

stochastic programming
economic dispatch
power system optimization
nonconvex optimization

File:

Download Wendian-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vinayak V Shanbhag, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member
Guodong Pang, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Outside Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Program Head/Chair
Mort D Webster, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Lebkuecher, Amy

Title:

Plan Reuse in Motor and Language Production

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

motor planning
language production
plan reuse
hysteresis
motor production
sentence construction

File:

Download Lebkuecher_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel J Weiss, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bradley Paul Wyble, Committee Member
Robert L Sainburg, Committee Member
Melvin Michael Mark, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Monaghan, Rory

Title:

Medical Marijuana Law Implementation and Marijuana Enforcement

Graduate Program:

Criminology

Keywords:

Medical marijuana
law enforcement
marijuana policy

File:

Download Monaghan_thesis_-_10-2019.pdf

Committee Members:

David M Ramey, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeremy Staff, Committee Member
Jeffrey Todd Ulmer, Committee Member
Thomas Anthony Loughran, IV, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sclafani, Judith

Title:

Morphological change in response to mass extinction: a case study of Strophomenida (Brachiopoda) at the Late Ordovician

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Late Ordovician mass extinction
recovery
morphometrics
paleoecology
evolutionary history

File:

Download DissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark E Patzkowsky, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Bralower, Committee Member
Peter Daniel Wilf, Committee Member
David Peter Hughes, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fan, Long

Title:

Fluid transport behaviors of intact coal and coal measure rocks: applications for subsurface coal mine methane control and coalbed methane production

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Gob permeability
Gob compaction
Cyclic loading
Fracture permeability
Coal permeability
Fracture sliding

File:

Download Long_Fan_dissertation_edit-pdf.pdf

Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffery L Kohler, Committee Member
Sekhar Bhattacharyya, Committee Member
Mathieu Philippe Stienon, Outside Member
William Arthur Groves, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chapin, Shelley

Title:

The Effects of AAC Video Visual Scene Display Technology on the Communication of Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Graduate Program:

Special Education

Keywords:

preschoolers
autism spectrum disorder
augmentative and alternative communication
social interaction

File:

Download Chapin_12.4.19.pdf

Committee Members:

David Brent Mcnaughton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Brent Mcnaughton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pamela S Wolfe, Committee Member
Janice Catherine Light, Outside Member
Jessica Gosnell Caron, Outside Member
Kathleen M Mckinnon, Committee Member
Mary Catherine Scheeler, Program Head/Chair
David Lee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Berger, Tom

Title:

Handling Qualities Requirements and Control Design for High-Speed Rotorcraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Rotorcraft
Handling Qualities
Flight Control System
Control Laws
Tiltrotor
Compound Helicopter

File:

Download TomBerger-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Norman Johnson, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member
Christopher D. Rahn, Outside Member
Mark B. Tischler, Special Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Batista, Juan

Title:

Analysis and Robust Preconditioning for Numerical Implementations of Richards' Equations in Groundwater Flow

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Hydrology
Numerical Simulation
Porous Media
Nonlinear PDE
Applied Mathematics
Preconditioners
Auxiliary Space Method

File:

Download JB_Diss.pdf

Committee Members:

Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiantao Li, Committee Member
Corina Stefania Drapaca, Outside Member
Anna L Mazzucato, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anna L Mazzucato, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Levi, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jenkins, Adam

Title:

Academic Integration and Success for Online Community College Students: The Role of Community and Motivation

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

community college
community college students
online community college
online learning
classroom community
Academic Motivation Scale
academic integration
intrinsic motivation
persistence
academic achievement

File:

Download Adam_Jenkins_Adult_Education_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Adnan A Qayyum, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Calvin Diehl, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen Paulson, Outside Member
David S Guthrie, Outside Member
Susan Mary Land, Program Head/Chair
Adnan A Qayyum, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Calvin Diehl, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Thweatt, Jennifer

Title:

Characterization of Pigment Biosynthesis and Light-Harvesting Complexes of Selected Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

photosynthesis
chlorophyll
light-harvesting
green sulfur bacteria
carotenoid
astrobiology
GSB
purple sulfur bacteria
PSB

File:

Download ThweattETD1.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Ashley Bryant, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donald Ashley Bryant, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Squire J Booker, Committee Member
John H Golbeck, Committee Member
Jennifer Macalady, Outside Member
Timothy Iwao Miyashiro, Committee Member
Wendy Hanna-Rose, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Livada, Jovan

Title:

Class Ic Ribonucleotide Reductases: Expansion of the Subclass and Insight into the Multi-Step Inter-Subunit Radical Translocation Mechanism

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

EPR
ribonucleotide reductase
DFT
Bioinorganic

File:

Download Livada_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph M Bollinger, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph M Bollinger, Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Squire J Booker, Committee Member
Alexey Silakov, Committee Member
Ming Tien, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Du, Manyu

Title:

MECHANISTIC STUDIES OF LONG-DISTANCE GENE REGULATION IN BUDDING YEAST

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

gene expression
3D genome organization
long-distance chromosomal interactions
3D gene clustering

File:

Download Thesis_ManyuDu_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Lu Bai, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lu Bai, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Manuel Llinas, Committee Member
Benjamin Franklin Pugh, Committee Member
Qunhua Li, Outside Member
Ken Keiler, Program Head/Chair
David Scott Gilmour, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Wenjia

Title:

Iron-Copper Bimetallic Catalysts for Direct Carbon Dioxide Hydrogenation to Higher Hydrocarbons

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

CO2 hydrogenation
bimetallic catalyst
hydrocarbon

File:

Download Dissertation_Final_Wenjia_Wang_111419_v5.pdf

Committee Members:

Chunshan Song, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chunshan Song, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Outside Member
Xiaoxing Wang, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rowland, Andrew

Title:

BIO-INSPIRED LIPOSOME-STABILIZED MULTI-PHASE ALL-AQUEOUS EMULSIONS FOR DIRECTED MINERAL SYNTHESIS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

artificial mineralizing vescile
amorphous calcium carbonate
bioinspired
liquid-liquid phase separation
coacervate
aqueous two phase separation
stabilized emulsion

File:

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Committee Members:

Christine Dolan Keating, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
Scott A Showalter, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dinsmore, Carli

Title:

THE INFLUENCE OF FOOD AVAILABILITY ON LIFE-HISTORY TRAJECTORIES

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Cohort
condition
body size
growth
reptiles
von Bertalanffy
Thamnophis sirtalis
survival
reproduction
garter snake
climate change
environmental variation

File:

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Committee Members:

David Andrew Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julian D Avery, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tracy Langkilde, Committee Member
Jason Philip Kaye, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Colancecco, Elise Marie

Title:

Gender Differences in Predictive Factors of Older Adults’ Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) Recovery Following Hip Fracture

Graduate Program:

Nursing

Keywords:

hip fracture
recovery
IADL
older adult

File:

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Committee Members:

Ann Marie Kolanowski, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ann Marie Kolanowski, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Marie P Boltz, Committee Member
Susan Jayne Loeb, Committee Member
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Outside Member
Judith E Hupcey, Program Head/Chair
Nikki Lynn Hill, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Papalia, Zack

Title:

EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COMMON WORKSITE HEALTH PROMOTION COMPONENTS, SEDENTARY BEHAVIOR, AND EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology

Keywords:

employee health
employee wellness
worksite health
health promotion
kinesiology
worksite
employee
wellness
public health
assessment
biometrics
sedentary
sedentary behavior

File:

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Committee Members:

Melissa Jean Bopp, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melissa Jean Bopp, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Max Crowley, Outside Member
Scherezade Kelly Mama, Committee Member
Meg Leavy Small, Outside Member
Jonathan Bates Dingwell, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Vasquez, Kate

Title:

Post-embryonic mutations are inherited in the next generation of corals

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Post-embryonic mutation
parthenogenesis
Acropora palmata
Microsatellite
Single Nucleotide Polymorphism

File:

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Committee Members:

Iliana Brigitta Baums, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Committee Member
Anton Nekrutenko, Committee Member
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ganoe, Laken

Title:

Using a multi-faceted approach to assess ecological components affecting muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) populations

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

muskrat
wildlife disease
population health
Tyzzer's disease
surveillance
home range
survival
movement
disease transmission

File:

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Committee Members:

W. David Walter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Justin D Brown, Committee Member
Duane Diefenbach, Committee Member
Matthew Lovallo, Special Signatory
David Eissenstat, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hart, Michael

Title:

Glass Canon: The Cambridge School of English and the Academic Formalization of Literary Studies

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Cambridge
critical university studies
history of literary criticism

File:

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Committee Members:

Janet Wynne Lyon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonathan Paul Eburne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Lawrence Caserio, Jr., Committee Member
Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Outside Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair
Jonathan Paul Eburne, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hepler, Nathan Kent

Title:

INSIGHTS INTO THE EVOLUTION OF EXPANSIN FUNCTION USING IN VITRO, IN VIVO, AND PHYLOGENETIC METHODOLOGIES

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

expansin
plant cell wall
gene family evolution
Spirodela polyrhiza
Zostera marina
Utricularia gibba
CRISPR/Cas9
root hair
in vitro evolution

File:

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Committee Members:

Daniel J Cosgrove, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel J Cosgrove, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Axtell, Committee Member
Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Member
Yinong Yang, Outside Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Carr, Jacob Lawrence

Title:

An Investigation into the Factors that Govern Success for New Safety and Health Technologies in the Mining Industry and the Efficacy of those Factors to Predict the Likelihood of Success for Emerging Technologies

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

mining
health and safety
safety and health
emerging technologies

File:

Download JCarr-Dissertation-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffery L Kohler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffery L Kohler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Sekhar Bhattacharyya, Committee Member
Michael Pate, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair