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Author:

Doddabasappa, Sushamshushekar

Title:

LQR CONTROL DESIGN FOR A DC-DC CONVERTER USING SENSITIVITY FUNCTIONS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

LQR Control
Sensitivity Functions
Sensitivity Analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Javad Khazaei, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Idowu, Committee Member
Scott Van Tonningen, Committee Member

Author:

Trivedi, Yamankumar Premalbhai

Title:

FIELD DEPLOYABLE GUIDED WAVE TRANSDUCERS FOR HIGH-TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Bismuth Titanate
Spray-on Transducers
Film Transducers
SHM
NDE
High-Temperature
Lithium Niobate
Lamb Wave generation
Guided Waves
Excitation Frequency
Dispersion Curves

File:

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Committee Members:

Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrea Paola Arguelles, Committee Member
Parisa Shokouhi, Committee Member

Author:

Griffin, Dominiqua Monica

Title:

AN INVESTIGATION OF SCHOOL COUNSELING ROLES, PRACTICES, CHALLENGES, AND DEMANDS IN BARBADOS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAMS IN BARBADOS

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

Barbados
School Counseling
Guidance Counselling
International Education
International School Counseling
Caribbean

File:

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Committee Members:

Julia A Green Bryan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julia A Green Bryan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nicole Sheree Webster, Committee Member
Seriashia Joyce Chatters, Committee Member
Ashley Nichol Patterson, Outside Member

Author:

Sadagopan, Aravinth

Title:

A design strategy for a 6:1 supersonic mixed-flow compressor stage and its viscous flow-based performance analysis

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

mixed-flow compressor
mean-line design
turbomachinery
computational fluid dynamics
shock stability
aerospace propulsion
Bezier curves
NASA Rotor 37
Supersonic Diffuser
6:1
pressure-ratio
blade optimization

File:

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Committee Members:

Cengiz Camci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wisor, Joshua Michael

Title:

The Invasion of the Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus) and its effect on the Habitat Partitioning of Benthic Fishes in French Creek.

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

Fish
microhabitat
invasive species
Round Goby

File:

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Committee Members:

Jay Richard Stauffer Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Weeks Boyer, Committee Member
Julian D Avery, Committee Member

Author:

Bharatula, Vasudha

Title:

REGULATION OF STRESS INDUCED GENE EXPRESSION IN SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Msn2
yeast
Stress

File:

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Committee Members:

James Riley Broach, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Riley Broach, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ralph Lauren Keil, Committee Member
Gregory Steven Yochum, Committee Member
Scot R Kimball, Outside Member
Oranee Tawatnuntachai, Special Member

Author:

Speacht, Toni Leigh

Title:

Interdependence of the Musculoskeletal System in Response to Unloading, Immobilization, and RANKL

Graduate Program:

Physiology

Keywords:

osteopenia
sarcopenia
unloading
immobilization
RANKL
hindlimb suspension

File:

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Committee Members:

Charles H Lang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles H Lang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gregory Stephen Lewis, Committee Member
Scot R Kimball, Committee Member
Gregory Steven Yochum, Outside Member
Henry Joseph Donahue, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Henry Joseph Donahue, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Im, Kyungjae

Title:

FRICTION AND PERMEABILITY EVOLUTION OF FRACUTRES AND FAULTS DURING STATIC REPOSE AND DYNAMIC REACTIVATION

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Fault permeability
Fault Friction
Rate and State Friction
Fault Reactivation

File:

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Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Almishwat, Mohammad Ali

Title:

STRUCTURAL AND MECHANISTIC ENZYMOLOGY OF NUCLEOTIDE INCORPORATION BY A-FAMILY DNA POLYMERASES

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

DNA polymerase
A-family
DNA replication
DNA
Nucleotide incorporation
time-resolved
structural enzymology
X-ray crystallography
high-fidelity

File:

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Committee Members:

James Gregory Ferry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Gregory Ferry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Hafenstein, Committee Member
David Scott Gilmour, Committee Member
Squire J Booker, Outside Member
Amie Kathleen Boal, Committee Member
Ken Keiler, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dusch, William George

Title:

Data Science in Scanning Probe Microscopy: Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

scanning tunneling microscopy
data science
machine learning
python
data analysis
deep learning
scanning probe microscopy
condensed matter
software
vibration cancellation
automation
unsupervised learning
physics

File:

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Committee Members:

Eric Hudson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Hudson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Sofo, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Member

Author:

Whitehead, Shelley Alexandra

Title:

Nature Nurtures: How environmental variation influences Anopheles stephensi vectorial capacity

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

mosquito
malaria
climate change
Anopheles
vector ecology
environmental variation
life history
Plasmodium

File:

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Committee Members:

Matthew Brian Thomas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Brian Thomas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member
Rudolf Johannes Schilder, Committee Member
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Outside Member
Diana Cox-Foster, Special Member

Author:

Lee, Pei Wei

Title:

USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO ACCESS AND SUPPORT INFORMAL LEARNING IN MUSEUMS OF TAIWAN AND THE U.S.

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Keywords:

Informal Learning
Social Media

File:

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Committee Members:

Ladislaus M. Semali, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ladislaus M. Semali, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Adnan Qayyum, Committee Member
Wei-Fan Chen, Committee Member
Roger Shouse, Outside Member

Author:

Patia, Kaitlyn Grace

Title:

The (F)utiliy of Knowledge: The Democratic Faith of W.E.B. Du Bois and Jane Addams

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Democratic Faith
Rhetoric
Memory
Addams
Du Bois
Poetics
Storytelling
Agitation
Hull-House

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Committee Members:

Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
Debra Hawhee, Outside Member
Denise Haunani Solomon, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rangavittal, Samarth

Title:

ASSEMBLY AND ANALYSIS OF GREAT APE Y CHROMOSOMES

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics

Keywords:

genome assembly
great ape
Y chromosome
k-mers

File:

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Committee Members:

Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Raquel Assis, Committee Member
Wansheng Liu, Committee Member
Paul Medvedev, Outside Member

Author:

Graboski, Lake Edward

Title:

A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF OAK SEEDLING SUCCESS IN REGENERATING OAK FOREST STANDS

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

oak
seedling
regeneration
pennsylvania

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. Kim C. Steiner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Marc McDill, Committee Member
Dr. Laura Leites, Committee Member
Dr. James Finley (Retired), Committee Member

Author:

Wiepz, Rebecca Josephine

Title:

THE IMPACTS OF ARTIFICIAL SPUR EXTINCTION AND LEAF REMOVAL ON YIELD AND FRUIT QUALITY OF ‘GALA’

Graduate Program:

Horticulture

Keywords:

Spur removal
Spur leaf
Crop load management

File:

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Committee Members:

James Rawlinson Schupp, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kari Anne Peter, Committee Member
Richard P Marini, Committee Member

Author:

Beck, Faith Rose

Title:

Experimental and Theoretical Study of Oscillatory Two-Phase Flows with Heat and Mass Transfer

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

oscillatory reflood
liquid carryover
stability analysis
heat and mass transfer
thermal-hydraulics
liquid entrainment

File:

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Committee Members:

Fan-Bill B Cheung, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fan-Bill B Cheung, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rui Ni, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Member
Diane Marie Henderson, Outside Member
Horacio Perez-Blanco, Special Member
Gita Talmage, Special Member
Steven M. Bajorek, Outside Member

Author:

Zhao, Peng

Title:

Multiscale Modeling and Mechanics of 2D Layered Crystals

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Multiscale Modeling
2D Material
Finite Crystal Elasticity

File:

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Committee Members:

The Pennsylvania State University, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sulin Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Outside Member

Author:

Quinlan, Kevin Randall

Title:

Advances in Design of Computer Experiments

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Covering Arrays
Bayesian Design
Plackett and Burman Designs
Experimental Run Order
Optimization

File:

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Committee Members:

Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis Keith Pearl, Committee Member
David Hunter, Committee Member
Enrique Del Castillo, Outside Member

Author:

Flonc, Brianna Evelyn

Title:

Do fungi make caterpillars picky eaters? Effects of endophytic Metarhizium robertsii on corn, Zea mays, growth and fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Metarhizium
Fall Armyworm
Spodoptera frugiperda
Zea mays
Biological Control
Endophyte
Agriculture
Pest Control
Metarhizium robertsii
Entomopathogenic Fungus

File:

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Committee Members:

Mary Ellen Barbercheck, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nina Ellen Jenkins, Committee Member
Maryann Victoria Bruns, Committee Member