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Author:

Amburgey, Staci

Title:

COARSE AND FINE-SCALE DETERMINANTS OF SPECIES RANGE BOUNDARIES

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

species distribution modeling
range dynamics
bioclimatic envelope model
species occupancy model
amphibian
reptile
mammal
climate change
interspecific competition
multispecies
habitat fragmentation

File:

Download AmburgeyDissertation2019Jan.pdf

Committee Members:

David Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Andrew Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew R. Marshall, Committee Member
Tyler Wagner, Committee Member
Tracy Langkilde, Outside Member
Evan Grant, Special Member

Author:

Derk, Gregory

Title:

HIGH-PRESSURE BURNING-RATES OF JA2 AND NITROMETHANE PROPELLANTS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

nitromethane
JA2
supercritical combustion
high-pressure combustion
monopropellant

File:

Download GregDerk_Thesis_-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacqueline Antonia O'Connor, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

Author:

Tashakor, Elahe

Title:

L-STATISTICS OF ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCES FOR QUANTIFYING THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO VARIABLES

Graduate Program:

Biostatistics

Keywords:

Agreement
Concordance correlation coefficient
L-statistics
Robust estimation

File:

Download Dissertation_Elahe_Tashakor.pdf

Committee Members:

Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tonya Sharp King, Committee Member
Ming Wang, Committee Member
David Spencer Phelps, Outside Member

Author:

Cornelius, Jason

Title:

Efficient CFD Approaches for Coaxial Rotor Simulations

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Multicopter
Multicopters
Coaxial Rotor
Coaxial Rotors
CFD Simulation
Rotorcraft
Helicopter
STAR-CCM+
RotCFD
Mixing-Plane
Blade-Element
Time-Accurate
Blade-Resolved
Blade-Modeled
Quadcopter

File:

Download Jason_Cornelius_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Kinzel, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member

Author:

Banghoff, John

Title:

Using Dual-Polarization Radar Information to Investigate Clear-Air Atmospheric Phenomena

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

Radar
Meteorology
Boundary Layer
Remote Sensing
Dual-Polarization Radar
Horizontal Convective Rolls
Cellular Convection
Clear-Air

File:

Download Banghoff_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

David Jonathan Stensrud, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Robert Kumjian, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Spencer Young, Committee Member

Author:

Pepley, David

Title:

Simulation of Needle Insertion Procedures

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Healthcare
Surgical Simulation
Central Venous Catheterization
Surgical Training
Needle Insertion
Percutaneous Procedures
Haptics

File:

Download Pepley_Dissertation_Rev2.pdf

Committee Members:

Jason Zachary Moore, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jason Zachary Moore, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Humberto Cortes Correales, Committee Member
Bo Cheng, Committee Member
Scarlett Rae Miller, Outside Member

Author:

Heininger, Katie Julia

Title:

Individual Differences and Creativity in the Engineering Design Process

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Creativity
Engineering Design
Industrial Engineering
Idea Generation
Concept Screening
KAI
PCS
Problem Solving

File:

Download Heininger_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Scarlett Rae Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathryn Jablokow, Committee Member

Author:

Hafer, Joseph

Title:

THE THEORY OF PRAGMATIC GOVERNANCE: A CLASSIC GROUNDED THEORY STUDY OF PENNSYLVANIA’S BUREAU OF FORESTRY GOVERNANCE PRACTICES

Graduate Program:

Public Administration

Keywords:

public administration
pragmatism
public policy
management
forestry
Pennsylvania
state government
grounded theory

File:

Download Hafer_Dissertation_Final_Draft_20190130.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Ran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Ran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Triparna B Vasavada, Committee Member
Odd Jonas Stalebrink, Committee Member
Janet Duck, Outside Member

Author:

Calicioglu Sengul, Ayse Ozgul

Title:

TECHNICAL, ECONOMIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL FEASIBILITY OF WASTEWATER-DERIVED DUCKWEED BIOREFINERIES

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

ethanol fermentation
anaerobic digestion
volatile fatty acids
acidogenic digestion
life cycle assessment
techno-economic analysis
mixed anaerobic cultures
value cascade
carboxylate platform

File:

Download Calicioglu_Dissertation_final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Rachel Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rachel Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles T Anderson, Committee Member
John Michael Regan, Committee Member
Deborah L. Sills, Outside Member
Tom Richard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Talamantes, Gerardo

Title:

Characterization of Polyoxymethylene as a High-Density Fuel For Use in Hybrid Rocket Applications

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Solid Fuels
Polyoxymethylene
Diffusion Flame
Opposed Flow Burner
Hybrid Rockets
High-Density Fuel
POM
combustion

File:

Download Talamantes_Thesis_May_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member

Author:

Santoro, Leeann

Title:

PROTEIN AGGREGATION DETECTION USING BODIPY-BASED FLUORESCENT PROBES

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

protein
aggregate
fluorophore
Alzheimer's
neurodegeneration
fluorescence
molecular rotor
Huntington's
ALS

File:

Download Thesis_Revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Xin Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip C Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Scott A Showalter, Committee Member

Author:

Wager, Justin Charles

Title:

Influence of the foot on ankle joint function during running

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology

Keywords:

running
biomechanics
foot
ankle
modeling

File:

Download disser_jwager.pdf

Committee Members:

John Henry Challis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Henry Challis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonas Rubenson, Committee Member
Robert Barry Eckhardt, Committee Member
Henry Joseph Sommer, III, Outside Member

Author:

Rainford, Shauna Kay

Title:

An integrative assessment of soil organic carbon dynamics in wetland environments

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Soil organic carbon
wetland
soil
paleoecology
spectroscopy

File:

Download Rainford_Dissertation_final_draft1.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Joseph Drohan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Joseph Drohan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Brooks, Committee Member
Sarah McClure, Committee Member
David Mortensen, Outside Member

Author:

Kim, Jeong Nyeon

Title:

CLOSED-LOOP FINITE ELEMENT DESIGN OF ARRAY ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS FOR HIGH FREQUENCY APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Thin film PZT
PMUT
Array
Finite element modeling
PZFlex
Ultrasound transducer

File:

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Committee Members:

Judith Todd Copley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith Todd Copley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard L. Tutwiler, Committee Member
Bernhard R. Tittmann, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Outside Member

Author:

Greenawalt, Anne

Title:

SPORTSWOMEN’S CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY AND LEARNING THROUGH PERSONAL NARRATIVES: A POSTSTRUCTURAL FEMINIST ANALYSIS FOR CREATING HISTORY AND SOCIAL CHANGE

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

sportswomen
identity
adult learning
adult education
narrative learning theory
feminist theory
autoethnography
feminist critical discourse analysis

File:

Download Greenawalt_-_Sportswomens_Constructions_of_ID_and_Learning.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robin Redmon Wright, Committee Member
Mary Napoli, Committee Member
Charles David Kupfer, Outside Member

Author:

Ismail, Arif Mawardi

Title:

Two-body Loss in a Fermi Gas Near a P-Wave Feshbach Resonance

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

ultracold Fermi gas
p-wave
dipolar relazation
quasi-1D quantum gas
6Li

File:

Download Dissertation_ArifMawardiIsmail.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth O'Hara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth O'Hara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Committee Member, Committee Member
Eric Hudson, Committee Member
Leonid Berlyand, Outside Member

Author:

Ford, Jennifer

Title:

ADVANCED THEORETICAL APPLICATIONS OF MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND COMPARTMENTAL ANALYSIS IN VITAMIN A AND PROVITAMIN A CAROTENOID RESEARCH: VALIDATION OF PREDICTION METHODS

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

WinSAAM
isotope dilution
tracer kinetics
carotenoid bioefficacy
vitamin A status
nutrition assessment

File:

Download Ford_JL._Dissertation_Feb_1__2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael H. Green, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael H. Green, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gregory C. Shearer, Committee Member
Laura E. Murray-Kolb, Committee Member
Ephraim M. Hanks, Outside Member

Author:

Legault, Jennifer

Title:

Putting second language in context: Effects of second language learning context on behavior and gray matter structure

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

Neuroimaging
Second language acquisition
Learning context

File:

Download Legault_Dissertation_2019_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Ping Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ping Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Jeffrey Wilson, Committee Member
Kathryn Suzanne Scherf, Committee Member
Nanyin Zhang, Outside Member

Author:

Yang, Guang

Title:

What drives the growth of black holes?

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

X-ray
active galactic nucleus
black hole-galaxy coevolution
photometric redshift
AGN variability
extragalactic transient

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

William Nielsen Brandt, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Nielsen Brandt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Eracleous, Committee Member
Donald P Schneider, Committee Member
Kohta Murase, Outside Member
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Member

Author:

Alazemi, Nadeyah

Title:

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING EXPERIENCES THAT AFFECT SELF-EFFICACY BELIEFS AND ACHIEVEMENT GOAL ORIENTATIONS OF KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS IN KUWAIT

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Self-efficacy
Achievement Goal Orientations
Kuwait
Professional Learning Experiences

File:

Download Alazemi_N_Thesis_-PDF_Final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Ravinder Koul, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ravinder Koul, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jamie M. Myers, Committee Member
Iris Mittendorf, Committee Member
Roger Shouse, Outside Member

Author:

Uitvlugt, Caleb

Title:

NMR, X-RAY, AND INFRARED CHARACTERIZATION OF DYNAMICS AND STRUCTURE IN IONIC LIQUIDS AND SOLIDS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

NMR
IR
XRD
Ionic Liquids
Dynamics
Structure

File:

Download NMR_X-ray_and_Infrared_Characterization_of_Dynamics_and_Structure_in_Ionic_Liquids_and_Solids.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark Maroncelli, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott A Showalter, Committee Member
Alexey Silakov, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member

Author:

Saadawi, Majed Nabil

Title:

POLYMER-POLYMER COMPOSITES: MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF INTER-REINFORCED THERMOPLASTICS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Polymer-Polymer Composites
thermoplastic composite
3D printing
additive manufacturing
dual extrusion

File:

Download Thesis_Polymer-Polymer_Composites_Majed_Saadawi.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Anthony Hickner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Evangelos Manias, Committee Member
Robert John Hickey, III, Committee Member

Author:

Gigliotti, Christopher

Title:

Clinical Relevance of Calcium Phosphosilicate Nanoparticles for the Treatment of Human Bone Disease

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

nanoparticles
drug delivery
bioconjugation
design of experiment
3D printing
metastatic breast cancer

File:

Download Christopher_Gigliotti_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

James Hansell Adair, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hansell Adair, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Lynn Messing, Committee Member
Daniel J Hayes, Committee Member
Gregory Stephen Lewis, Outside Member

Author:

Chan, Andrea

Title:

Climate Change Effects on Coral Symbioses

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

coral reef
population genetics
climate change
Symbiodiniaceae
gene expession
symbiosis
bioerosion
physiology

File:

Download AChan_Thesis_Final_Complete.pdf

Committee Members:

Iliana Brigitta Baums, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Iliana Brigitta Baums, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Todd C LaJeunesse, Committee Member
Roberto Iglesias-Prieto, Committee Member
Lee Kump, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Zefang

Title:

SPIN- AND VALLEY- DEPENDENT EXCITONS IN ATOMICALLY THIN TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

2D
exciton
transition metal dichalcogenides
valley

File:

Download ThesisZefangWang_01-28.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jie Shan, Committee Member
Moses H.W. Chan, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member

Author:

Long, Amy Elizabeth

Title:

TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS AND EXPERIENCES WITH A REFORMED TEACHER EVALUATION SYSTEM: CONDITIONS NECESSARY FOR CHANGING PRACTICE

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

teacher evaluation
reformed evaluation
teacher goal-setting
teacher evaluator relationships
teacher perceptions
teacher evaluation practices

File:

Download Amy_Long_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernard Joel Badiali, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernard Joel Badiali, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rachel Marie Wolkenhauer, Committee Member
Amy C Crosson, Committee Member
Deborah Lynn Schussler, Outside Member

Author:

Yu, Zhengyao

Title:

Multi-resolution Analysis of Disruptions in Different Urban Network Configurations under Varying Information Scenarios

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

traffic network resilience
left turn treatments
one-way streets
disruption information provision
urban traffic network

File:

Download Dissertation_Yu.pdf

Committee Members:

Vikash V. Gayah, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vikash V. Gayah, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric T. Donnell, Committee Member
S. Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Outside Member

Author:

De Forest, Russ

Title:

Cross-Diffusive Instabilities and Aggregation in Partial Differential Equation Models of Interacting Populations

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

cross-diffusion
normally parabolic systems
quasilinear PDE
public goods games
predator-prey

File:

Download deForestDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Leonard Belmonte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Leonard Belmonte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Charles Reluga, Committee Member
Helge Kristian Jenssen, Committee Member
Christopher H Griffin, Outside Member

Author:

Zhou, Huiyuan

Title:

MICROWAVE INVERSE RECONSTRUCTION METHODS FOR IMAGING

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Microwave Imaging
Dual Mesh
Distmesh
Levenberg Marquardt
Iteratve Method with Adaptive Threshold
Non-decimated Wavelet Transformation

File:

Download Huiyuan_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Kenneth Breakall, Committee Member
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member

Author:

Xu, Fangcao

Title:

AN ALGORITHM TO INFER SPATIOTEMPORAL DIFFUSION NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Spatiotemporal diffusion; Network Inference; Survival analysis

File:

Download Master_Thesis_Fangcao_Xu.pdf

Committee Members:

Donna Peuquet, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bruce Desmarais, Committee Member
Guido Cervone, Committee Member

Author:

Venable, Cameron

Title:

THE EFFECTS OF INVASIVE PREY ON NATIVE PREDATORS

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Invasive Species
Behavior
Learning
Lizards
Fire ants
Cue detection

File:

Download Venable_Dissertation__2019_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Tracy Langkilde, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rudolf Johannes Schilder, Committee Member
Nancy Ostiguy, Committee Member
Nancy Ostiguy, Outside Member

Author:

Ensminger, David

Title:

The causes and consequences of elevated glucocorticoids in wild animals

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

corticosterone
maternal stress
maternal programming
glucocorticoid
wild animal
Sceloporus undulatus
Cervus canadensis

File:

Download Ensminger_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Tracy Langkilde, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Andrew Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
W. David Walter, Committee Member
Matthew R. Marshall, Committee Member
Tracy Langkilde, Outside Member

Author:

Singh, Madhu

Title:

Measurement, Characterization, Identification and Control of Combustion Produced Soot

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Carbon
Soot
Nanostructure
Microscopy
Spectroscopy
TEM
Carbon Black Functionalization
Laser-induced Incandescence
LII
Soot Source Identification
SSILD
Laser Derivatization
Time-resolved LII
Carbon Characterization
Health effects of combustion soot
Cytotoxicity
Diesel Particulate Filter
DPF
Cell viability
BEAS-2B male lung cells
XPS
XRD
TGA
Soot oxidation
NO2 Oxidation
TiRe-LII
Carbonizaton
graphitization

File:

Download MadhuSingh_Dissertation_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Randy Lee Vander Wal, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chunshan Song, Committee Member
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Committee Member
Patricia Silveyra, Outside Member

Author:

Xi, Zhenke

Title:

COMBINING DECLINE CURVE ANALYSIS AND GEOSTATISTICS TO FORECAST GAS PRODUCTION IN THE MARCELLUS SHALE

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

unconventional shale
data analytics
gas production forecast
decline curve analysis
geostatistics

File:

Download MS_thesis_ZhenkeXi.pdf

Committee Members:

Eugene C Morgan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
John Yilin Wang, Committee Member
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Member

Author:

Aly, Zineb

Title:

VARIANCE-BASED SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS APPLIED TO HYDROGEN MIGRATION AND REDISTRIBUTION MODEL IN THE FUEL PERFORMANCE CODE BISON

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

hydrides
fuel performance code analysis
variance-based sensitivity analysis
optimization
Bison
Dakota
Sobol

File:

Download Zineb_PSU_Master_Thesis_updated.pdf

Committee Members:

Nicholas R. Brown, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Giovanni Pastore, Committee Member
Arthur T. Motta, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Long

Title:

CAGE-FREE-HEN HOUSING VENTILATION OPTIONS TO IMPROVE AIR QUALITY AND BIRD WELFARE

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

CFD modeling
Cage-free egg production
Simulation
Indoor air quality
Animal housing
Animal welfare
Agricultural and biological engineering

File:

Download Long_Chen_PhD_Dissertation_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Eileen Eilzabeth Fabian, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eileen Eilzabeth Fabian, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Michael Cimbala, Committee Member
Virendra Puri, Committee Member
Paul H Patterson, Outside Member

Author:

Lopez, Luis Arturo

Title:

Essays on Brokers, Financial Intermediaries, and Securitized Mortgages

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Real Estate
Agency Theory
Mortgage Securitization

File:

Download PSUThesis_Lopez.pdf

Committee Members:

Brent W. Ambrose, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brent W. Ambrose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jiro Yoshida, Committee Member
Liang Peng, Committee Member
Timothy T. Simin, Outside Member
Austin J. Jaffe, Committee Member

Author:

Cario, Benjamin

Title:

Evaluating the impact of substrate composition, reactor configuration, and operating conditions on the performance of bioelectrochemical systems treating fermentation effluents.

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

microbial electrolysis cells
microbial fuel cells
fermentation
dark fermentation
bioelectrochemical systems
carbon felt
fermentation effluent
anion exchange membrane
platinum/carbon catalyst
anolyte flow rate
reactor configuration
substrate composition
internal resistance
electrode potential slope

File:

Download Benjamin_Cario_M.S._Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce Logan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Michael Regan, Committee Member
Christopher A Gorski, Committee Member

Author:

Golder, Lauren Jenna

Title:

Anarchy at Home: Anarchism and the Politics of Intimacy in the Gilded-Age United States

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

anarchism
women
gender
free love
sex radicalism
domesticity
radical education
US history
19th century
anarchists
Gilded Age
Emma Goldman
Lillian Harman
Benjamin R. Tucker
Voltairine de Cleyre
Modern School

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Committee Members:

Lori D Ginzberg, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lori D Ginzberg, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tobias Heinrich Albert Brinkmann, Committee Member
Greg Eghigian, Committee Member
Melissa Wright, Outside Member

Author:

Ferster, Bronson P

Title:

Catalyzing Community-led Solar Development: Escaping the Prisoner's Dilemma by Enabling Cooperative Behavior

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

community solar
catalyzing
game theory
cooperative behavior
project development
onboarding
shared solar
Prisoner's dilemma
repeated games
social utility
collective action
solar
photovoltaics
PV
decision
strategy

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Brownson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhen Lei, Committee Member
Gretchen Macht, Committee Member

Author:

Lu, Cihang

Title:

Fully Ceramic Microencapsulated Fuel in High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Fully ceramic microencapsulated (FCM) fuel
high temperature gas cooled reactor (HTGR)
TRISO fuel
loss of forced cooling (LOFC) accidents
reactivity-initiated accidents (RIA)
Sensitivity study
SiC annealing

File:

Download Dissertation_Cihang_Lu.pdf

Committee Members:

Nicholas R. Brown, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicholas R. Brown, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Arthur T. Motta, Committee Member
William J. Walters, Committee Member
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Outside Member

Author:

Epler-Ruths, Colleen

Title:

IMPACT OF MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS’ SPATIAL SKILLS ON PLATE TECTONICS LEARNING WITH COMPUTER VISUALIZATION

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

spatial skills
plate tectonics learning progressions
computer visualizations
noticing

File:

Download Epler-Ruths__C._M._dissertation_2019__1_.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Scott McDonald, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Scott McDonald, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Richard Duschl, Committee Member
Dr. Julia Plummer, Committee Member
Dr. Gabriela Richards, Outside Member

Author:

Zhong, Haoti

Title:

User Protection in Social Networks using Machine Learning Techniques

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Privacy
Cyberbully
Social Networks

File:

Download User_protection_in_social_networks_using_machine_learning_techniques.pdf

Committee Members:

David Jonathan Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Dongwon Lee, Outside Member

Author:

Hernandez, Richard

Title:

Fuel Cycle Performance of Thermal and Fast Spectrum Small Modular Reactors

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

SMR- Small Modular Reactor
Fuel Cycle Analysis
Impacts of Neutron Leakage
Natural resource utilization
Spent Fuel Activity
Fuel Cycle Evaluation and Screening Study

File:

Download HERNANDEZ_RICHARD_MASTERS_THESIS_V6.pdf

Committee Members:

Nicholas R. Brown, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William J Walters, Committee Member
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Member

Author:

Tindall, Alyssa

Title:

Effects of Replacing Saturated Fatty Acids with Walnuts or Vegetable Oils on Central Blood Pressure, Arterial Stiffnecuss Indices, Lipids, Lipoproteins, and the Gut Microbiome in Adults at Risk for Cardiovaslar Disease

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

Walnuts
Microbiome
Bioactives
Cardiovascular Disease
Hypertension
PUFA

File:

Download Dissertation_-_April_8_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Penny Margaret Kris-Etherton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Penny Margaret Kris-Etherton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Laura E Murray-Kolb, Committee Member
Gregory C Shearer, Committee Member
David Nathan Proctor, Outside Member

Author:

Qin, Yifeng

Title:

THE TRANSFER/TRANSMISSION LINE MATRIX METHOD APPLIED IN ELECTROMAGNETICS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Transfer Matrix Method
Analytical Method
Bi-anisotropic Material
Multi-layer System
Antenna
Multi-conductor Transmission Line System

File:

Download PhD-Thesis_Yifeng_VFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Douglas Werner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Werner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Victor Pasko, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Outside Member

Author:

Hospodiuk, Monika

Title:

ENGINEERING OF NEOVASCULARIZED-PANCREAS-ON-A-CHIP MODEL

Graduate Program:

Biorenewable Systems

Keywords:

pancreas
vascularization
organ on a chip
tissue engineering
ECM
perfusion
hydrogel
3D bioprinting

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_20190412_FINAL3.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey M Catchmark, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ibrahim Tarik Ozbolat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Heinz Heinemann, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Outside Member
Nicole Brown, Committee Member

Author:

Rivera, Olivia

Title:

The Zinc Transporter ZnT2 (SLC30A2) As a Regulator of the Lactation Cycle: Implications In Suboptimal Lactation

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Lactation
SLC30A2
Zinc
ZnT2
Lysosome
Involution
Mammary Gland

File:

Download Rivera_Dissertation_March_2019_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

David Soybel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Soybel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Martin Yengo, Committee Member
Edward Joseph Gunther, Committee Member
Robin Taylor Wilson, Outside Member
Hong-Gang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shannon Kelleher, Special Member

Author:

Alzaabi, Omar Saleh

Title:

AIRBORNE INSECT RADAR SCATTERING CHARACTERIZATION USING ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Radar Cross Section (RCS)
Target Tracking
Method of Moments (MoM)
FEKO
Remote Sensing
Bio-electromagnetics
numerical methods

File:

Download Omar_Alzaabi_Dissertation__Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Julio V. Urbina, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julio V. Urbina, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James K. Breakall, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Michael T. Lanagan, Outside Member

Author:

Sharedalal, Rutvik

Title:

AMAZON FINE FOOD REVIEWS - DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Text mining
Text classification
Online consumer reviews
Review helpfulness
Word embedding

File:

Download MS_Thesis_rns26.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor