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Author:

Bajraj, Gent

Title:

Essays in monetary economics

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

market games
phillips curve
directed search

File:

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Committee Members:

Neil Wallace, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Neil Wallace, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shouyong Shi, Committee Member
James Jordan, Committee Member
Joel Matthew Vanden, Outside Member

Author:

Wright, William C

Title:

An Algebraic Perspective on Computing with Data

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Mathematics
Statistics
Sheaf Theory
Category Theory
Giry Monad
Algebraic Statistics
Topos Theory

File:

Download Wright-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jason Ryder Morton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jason Ryder Morton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vladimir Itskov, Committee Member
Alexei Novikov, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Outside Member

Author:

Hsu, Shih Jung

Title:

Experimental Investigation of Insect Flight Aerodynamics and Control

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

MAGLEV
Speed Control
Insect Flight
Visual Control

File:

Download Shih-Jung_Hsu_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Bo Cheng, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bo Cheng, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anne Elizabeth Martin, Committee Member
Rui Ni, Committee Member
Rudolf Johannes Schilder, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lemmon, Megan Elaine

Title:

The Consequences of Structural Stigma For Employment, Marriage, and Independent Living Among Deaf Individuals in 19th Century America

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

stigma
disability
employment
marriage

File:

Download Lemmon_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Molly Ann Martin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Molly Ann Martin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Committee Member
Steven Andrew Haas, Committee Member
Jonathan Emdin Cook, Outside Member

Author:

Steiger, Jessica

Title:

A Comparative Analysis of Education Policy Fragmentation for Student-Athletes with Learning Disabilities

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

Student-athletes
NCAA
Learning disabilities

File:

Download Jessica_Steiger_Thesis_Summer_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Maryellen Schaub, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Morgan, Committee Member

Author:

Morgart, Erin Coleen

Title:

DEVELOPING ELEMENTARY PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE FOR TEACHING: ENGAGING IN AN ADAPTED LESSON STUDY CYCLE

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Mathematics Education
Lesson Study
Teacher Education
Elementary Pre-Service Teachers
Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching

File:

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Committee Members:

Gwendolyn Monica Lloyd, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gwendolyn Monica Lloyd, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fran Arbaugh, Committee Member
Rachel Marie Wolkenhauer, Committee Member
Andrew Michael Baxter, Outside Member
Andrea Vujan Mccloskey, Committee Member

Author:

Prasad, Chitrarth

Title:

SIMULATION OF SUPERSONIC JET NOISE REDUCTION USING FLUID INSERTS FOR LOW BYPASS RATIO TURBOFANS

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

supersonic
noise reduction
Large eddy simulation
Proper Orthogonal Decomposition
Doak's Momentum Potential Theory

File:

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Committee Members:

Philip Morris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip John Morris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Outside Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wright, Isaac

Title:

Empirical Evaluation of the Efficient Market Hypothesis: A Machine Learning Approach

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Financial Markets
Efficient Market Hypothesis
Random Forest
Boosting
GLM
stocks

File:

Download IsaacWright_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Logan Reimherr, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jia Li, Committee Member
John C Liechty, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Smith, Cory

Title:

MEASUREMENT OF TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER UNSTEADY WALL PRESSURES BENEATH ELASTOMER LAYERS OF VARIOUS THICKNESSES ON A PLATE

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

turbulent boundary layer
flow induced noise
elastomer attenuation

File:

Download CorySmith_Dissertation_Final_01JUL2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Dean Capone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy A Brungart, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis McLaughlin, Committee Member
William Bonness, Committee Member
Laura Pauley, Outside Member

Author:

Potts, Cory A

Title:

RELATING THE EXPERIENCE OF AGENCY TO THE LEVEL OF ACTION IDENTIFICATION IN A HIERARCHICAL TASK

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Agency
Hierarchical Representation
Cognition
Action

File:

Download Cory_Potts_Revised_Dissertation__Submitted_draft__7-8-19.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Alan Carlson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Alan Carlson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nancy Anne Coulter Dennis, Committee Member
Bradley Paul Wyble, Committee Member
Robert L Sainburg, Outside Member

Author:

Zhou, Shuai

Title:

Subsidized Relocation and the Willingness to Move: Evidence from the Targeted Poverty Alleviation Project in China

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

subsidized relocation
willingness
relocation stability

File:

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Committee Members:

Guangqing Chi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brian Clemens Thiede, Committee Member
Zhen Lei, Committee Member

Author:

Pettus, Mudiwa Mpho

Title:

African-American Rhetorical Education in the Age of Booker T. Washington

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Booker T. Washington
African-American rhetorical education
African-American rhetorical theory
post-Reconstruction
interracial communication
W.E.B. Du Bois
Pauline Hopkins
Sutton Griggs
democratic deliberation
rhetoric
rhetorical education
compromise
nineteenth-century rhetoric

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Committee Members:

Raymond Keith Gilyard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shirley Moody, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Outside Member

Author:

Kunin, Alexander

Title:

Properties and Applications of Convex Neural Codes

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

combinatorics
mathematical neuroscience
convex geometry
convex coding

File:

Download alexkunin-diss-v7.pdf

Committee Members:

Vladimir Itskov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vladimir Itskov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carina Pamela Curto, Committee Member
Jason Ryder Morton, Committee Member
Dezhe Jin, Outside Member

Author:

Cohick, Zane W

Title:

A Materials Approach to Resonant Microwave Microplasma Generators

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Plasma
Microwave
Microplasma
Resonator
Split-Ring Resonator
Materials
Breakdown
Weibull
Dielectric
Plasma Generator
Plasma Breakdown
Ring Resonator
Metamaterial
Laser Ablation
Microfabrication
Q-factor
Microwave Breakdown
Microwave Plasma
Microwave Materials
Dielectric Resonator
Microwave Properties
Microwave Conductivity
Ultra High Frequency
UHF
UHF Plasma
Microwave Microplasma
UHF Microplasma

File:

Download ZC_Dissertation_2019_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael T Lanagan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Committee Member
Abdalla Ramadan Nassar, Committee Member
Sven G Bilen, Outside Member

Author:

Behrens, Liza

Title:

NURSING STAFF PERCEPTIONS OF RISK WHEN HONORING NURSING HOME RESIDENTS’ PREFERENCES: A SEQUENTIAL FOCUS GROUP STUDY

Graduate Program:

Nursing

Keywords:

Nursing Home
Risk Management
Nursing Staff
Preferences
Person-Centered Care

File:

Download 2019_Behrens_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kimberly Sue Van Haitsma, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kimberly Sue Van Haitsma, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ann Marie Kolanowski, Committee Member
Marie P Boltz, Committee Member
Mark Sciegaj, Outside Member

Author:

Wham, Briana Danielle

Title:

Evolutionary and ecological patterns in bumble bees (Bombus spp.): from mimetic coloration to epidemiological dynamics

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Bumble bees
Mullerian mimicry
Epidemiology
Viral Persistence

File:

Download EzrayDissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Heather M Hines, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heather M Hines, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Diana Cox-Foster, Committee Member
Margarita Maria Lopez-Uribe, Committee Member
Erica A H Smithwick, Outside Member
Christina M Grozinger, Committee Member

Author:

Ashley, Robert

Title:

Exploring the “Low-Floors” of the Scratch Coding Environment: A Case Study of Middle School Students Experiences with Scratch Tutorials

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology

Keywords:

Scratch
Case Study
Thick Description
Scaffolding
Tutorials

File:

Download ExploringLowFloors.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Gabriela Richard, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Tyler Hollett, Committee Member
Dr. Susan Land, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Qiyuan

Title:

Examining the Effects of Learners’ Background and Social Network Position on Content-Related Interaction via the MOOC Platform

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology

Keywords:

MOOCs
Interaction
Machine Learning
SEM
Social Network Analysis
Online Learning

File:

Download QL_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Priya Sharma, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Priya Sharma, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roy Clariana, Committee Member
Simon Hooper, Committee Member
Runze Li, Outside Member

Author:

Sun, Na

Title:

Promoting Student Community with Increased Information Visibility In Distance Education

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Online Community
Community Building
CSCW
CSCL
Distance Learning
Visual Analytics
CMC
Education Technology

File:

Download Thesis_Sun2019_DistanceLearners.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Beth Rosson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jack Carroll, Committee Member
Ting-Hao (Kenneth) Huang, Committee Member
Kyle Peck, Outside Member

Author:

Dai, Yaoyao

Title:

Beloved Governments: Authoritarian Regimes' Toolkit for Building Popular Support

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Authoritarian Regimes
Public Opinion
Preference Falsification
Information Manipulation
Propaganda
Anti-Corruption Campaigns

File:

Download Dai_Dissertation_201908.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Richard Golder, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Richard Golder, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Boliang Zhu, Committee Member
Sona Nadenichek Golder, Committee Member
Jonathan Eran Abel, Outside Member
Wenfang Tang, Special Member

Author:

Stallworth, Audrey

Title:

Efficacy of Oil and Gas Produced Water as a Road Dust Suppressant

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

oil and gas produced water
efficacy
road spreading
dust suppressant
method
PM10

File:

Download Stallworth_final_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Nathaniel Richard Warner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William D Burgos, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fred Scott Cannon, Committee Member

Author:

Sadeghi, Seyedali

Title:

EVALUATION OF MUSCLE FUNCTION AND PATHOLOGIES USING ULTRASOUND SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Ultrasound shear wave elastography
muscle force production
posterior lumbar fusion
radiofrequency neurotomy
compartment syndrome
shear modulus

File:

Download PhD_thesis-Seyedali_Sadeghi.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Humberto Cortes Correales, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Humberto Cortes Correales, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Zachary Moore, Committee Member
Stephen Jacob Piazza, Committee Member
Meghan Elise Vidt, Outside Member

Author:

Sanchez Farran, Maria Antonieta

Title:

MODELING NON-LINEAR OSCILLATORY AND COLLECTIVE PHENOMENA IN ACTIVE COLLOIDAL ASSEMBLIES

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

autocatalysis
colloids
diffusiophoresis
nanomotors
oscillations

File:

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Committee Members:

Ali Borhan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali Borhan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Antonios Armaou, Committee Member
Themis Matsoukas, Committee Member
Ayusman Sen, Outside Member

Author:

Chen, Ted Hsuan

Title:

Multilayer Networks in Political Science: Development and Applications of Novel Methods to International Cooperation and Conflict

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

multilayer networks
network analysis
international cooperation
informal diplomacy
transnational relations

File:

Download Chen_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce A Desmarais, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bruce A Desmarais, Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xun Cao, Committee Member
Douglas William Lemke, Committee Member
Diane Helen Felmlee, Outside Member

Author:

Gur, Shlomit

Title:

Machine-learning-based functional connectivity analyses: challenges and opportunities

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

machine learning
functional connectivity
fMRI
network neuroscience
longitudinal
multi-site

File:

Download ML-Based_FC_Analyses_-_Challenges_and_Opportunities.pdf

Committee Members:

Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Yen, Committee Member
Michele Diaz, Committee Member
Michael Nelson Hallquist, Outside Member
Kevin Douglas Alloway, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gambonini, Francesca Anastasia

Title:

Effects of an Extruded Flaxseed Supplement on Transition Cow Milk Production and Reproductive Function and Effects of Early Pregnancy on Mediators of Immune Tolerance in Dairy Heifers

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

omega-3
flaxseed
dairy nutrition
maternal recognition of pregnancy
dairy reproduction

File:

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Committee Members:

Troy L Ott, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joy L Pate, Committee Member
Kevin J Harvatine, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Nan

Title:

Delivery of growth factors and stem cells for therapeutic angiogenesis

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

aptamers
hydrogels
angiogenesis
growth factor delivery
cell delivery

File:

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Committee Members:

Yong Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yong Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Scott H Medina, Committee Member
Na Xiong, Outside Member

Author:

Pobee, Ruth

Title:

IRON STATUS AND PSYCHOSOCIAL WELLBEING AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN IN CAPE COAST- GHANA

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

Iron status
psychosocial outcomes
pregnancy
Ghana

File:

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Committee Members:

Laura E. Murray-Kolb, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Laura E. Murray-Kolb, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alison Diane Gernand, Committee Member
Connie Jo Rogers, Committee Member
Chow Mosuk, Outside Member

Author:

Lenko, Matthew

Title:

Design and Experimental Testing of a Microtracking Concentrating Photovoltaic Skylight

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Skylight
CPV
Photovoltaic
Daylighting
Microtracking
Concentrating
Experimental
Design

File:

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Committee Members:

Christopher D. Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bo Cheng, Committee Member

Author:

Sheen, Emily Marie

Title:

An Exploration of Mixed Effects Models for Analysis of Infant Weight Gain Trajectories

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

generalized linear mixed models
statistics
biostatistics
microbiome
INSIGHT
mixed effects random forest

File:

Download EmilySheen-MS-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Logan Reimherr, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Itoga, Takaaki

Title:

ESSAYS ON MULTI-PRODUCT FIRMS

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Multi-product firms
Reallocation
Factor market imperfection
Trade liberalization
Production function estimation

File:

Download Dissertation_Takaaki_Itoga.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Yeaple, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Yeaple, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Tybout, Committee Member
Paul Grieco, Committee Member
Aydin Alptekinoglu, Outside Member

Author:

Stanton, Chloe

Title:

Documentation of novel diatom-associated calcification in a lacustrine whiting event at Fayetteville Green Lake, New York, USA

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

calcium carbonate
biomineralization
diatom
cyanobacteria
whiting
carbonate muds

File:

Download Stanton_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Lee Kump, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julie Genevieve Cosmidis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Goff, Kerby

Title:

Missionaries Of Modernity: The Women’s Protestant Missionary Movement And The Expansion Of Female Education Outside The West, 1950-2010

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

educational expansion
gender
religion
missionaries

File:

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Committee Members:

Roger Finke, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David P Baker, Committee Member
Nancy Kay Luke, Committee Member
Charles Seguin, Committee Member

Author:

Atrianfar, Hamed

Title:

TWO ESSAYS ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND MACROECONOMICS

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Import Competition
Quality Upgrading
Markup Reduction
Efficiency Wage
Directed Search
Adverse Selection

File:

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Committee Members:

Jonathan Eaton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan Eaton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Ross Yeaple, Committee Member
James R. Tybout, Committee Member
Douglas Harvey Wrenn, II, Outside Member

Author:

Bressers, Cathleen

Title:

Upper Mantle Structure Beneath the Northern East African Plateau from P- and S-wave Body-wave Tomography

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

tomography
East African Rift System
AfricaArray
Uganda
Upper Mantle
VanDecar
lithosphere
multi-channel cross correlation
Kenya Rift
East African Plateau

File:

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Committee Members:

Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Christelle Wauthier, Committee Member

Author:

Krieger, Michael

Title:

Storytelling on Social Media: The Changing Face of Narrative on Snapchat and Instagram

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

Social Media
Storytelling
Communication Technology

File:

Download MKThesis2.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Frank Jordan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Committee Member
Alexander Leor Fattal, Committee Member

Author:

Firooz, Hamid

Title:

Trade-Induced Job Turnover and Unemployment

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Trade liberalization
job turnover
unemployment
variable demand elasticity
Colombia

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Committee Members:

James R. Tybout, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell Wade Cooper, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Ross Yeaple, Committee Member
Jonathan Eaton, Committee Member
Douglas Harvey Wrenn, II, Outside Member

Author:

Mitchell, Stacey

Title:

Moving through Modern Spain (1888-1923): Revelatory Darkness as Critical Medium

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

Spanish modernism
Spanish literature
Revelatory Darkness
Space
Movement
Black Spain

File:

Download Mitchell__Stacey_E._Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nicolás Fernández-Medina, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicolás Fernández-Medina, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maria Rosa Truglio, Committee Member
Mary Elizabeth Barnard, Committee Member
Nancy Elizabeth Locke, Outside Member
William R. Blue, Special Member
Leslie Harkema, Special Member

Author:

Ma, Chuying

Title:

Bioinspired Citrate-based Metabonegenic Biomaterials for Bone Regenerative Engineering

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

citrate-based materials
metabonegenic regulation
bone regenerative engineering
phosphoserine
citrate
degradation product

File:

Download Ma_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jian Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jian Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yong Wang, Committee Member
Xiaojun Lance Lian, Committee Member
Xingjie Ni, Outside Member
Daniel J Hayes, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fagan, Jonathan

Title:

THE ROLE OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN INSPECTING SURFACES

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

CESR
solvent dielectric
gold

File:

Download Fagan_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Benjamin James Lear, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Scott A Showalter, Committee Member
Alexey Silakov, Committee Member
Robert Rioux, Outside Member

Author:

Level, Rachel

Title:

Depressed Mother's Positive Affect with their Partners and their Infants: Evidence for Compensatory Effects

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

maternal depression
parenting
infancy
family systems
compensatory
spillover
marital conflict

File:

Download RL_Masters_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Ginger A Moore, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kristin Ann Buss, Committee Member
Amy Dyanna Marshall, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Yuwei

Title:

The Influences of Advice Argumentation on Advice Evaluations and Outcomes: A Construal Level Perspective

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Advice response theory
Construal level theory
Temporal distance
Interpersonal communication
Advice

File:

Download YLi_MA_Thesis_Summer19.pdf

Committee Members:

Erina Lynne Macgeorge, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Denise Haunani Solomon, Committee Member
James Dillard, Committee Member

Author:

Tang, Xulong

Title:

Irregularity-aware Computation and Data Management in Manycore Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

GPGPUs
Manycore architecture
Data locality
Irregular applications

File:

Download PHD_thesis_Xulong.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chita R. Das, Committee Member
John (Jack) Sampson, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Member

Author:

Jiang, Jue

Title:

QUANTUM TRANSPORT IN TOPOLOGICAL MATERIALS AND PROXIMITY EFFECT IN FERROMAGNETIC NANOWIRES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Quantum anomalous Hall effect
Topological insulator
Physical vapor deposition
Dilution refrigerator
Nanolithography
Heterostructures

File:

Download Jue_Jiang_Dissertation_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Moses H. W. Chan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Moses H. W. Chan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cui-zu Chang, Committee Member
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Member

Author:

Bucior, Christine Ann

Title:

Ghosts and the Imagined Past

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

collective memory
ghost stories
ghosts
the past

File:

Download Bucior_Dissertation_Ghosts_and_the_Imagined_Past.pdf

Committee Members:

Alan Sica, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan Sica, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Adler, Committee Member
Jeffrey Ulmer, Committee Member
Stephen Browne, Outside Member

Author:

Braymiller, Jessica

Title:

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF NICOTINE USE AMONG ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS IN THE UNITED STATES: FINDINGS FROM THE PATH STUDY

Graduate Program:

Biobehavioral Health

Keywords:

Adolescence
Young Adulthood
Nicotine
Marijuana
Time-Varying Effect Modeling
Latent Class Analysis
Latent Transition Analysis
Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems

File:

Download JessicaBraymiller_FinalDissertation_2019-FINAL_REVISION_6.27.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephanie T. Lanza, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephanie T. Lanza, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steven A. Branstetter, Committee Member
Thomas J. Gould, Committee Member
Martin J. Sliwinski, Outside Member
Michael Russell, Committee Member

Author:

O'Donnell, Ryan

Title:

Developing an OATS (Operationalized Attentional Task Set): an assessment of how attentional sets change during a task according to its demands

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

visual attention
visual search
attentional sets
categorical search
visual attention
visual search
attentional sets
categorical search

File:

Download REO_MastersThesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Bradley Paul Wyble, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cynthia L Huang-Pollock, Committee Member
Richard Alan Carlson, Committee Member

Author:

Mahmood, Navid

Title:

APPLYING DEEP LEARNING TECHNIQUES TO GENERATE MEDICAL IMAGES

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Adversarial learning
deep learning
image synthesis
residual learning
Deep learning
Medical image
Generative network
Image registration
Residual learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Mohamed Khaled Almekkawy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member

Author:

Arva, Bryan Joseph

Title:

Understanding the Effects of New Information and Communication Technologies on Political Mobilization and Violence

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Terrorism
Information and Communication Technologies
ICTs
Protests
Social Media
Political Mobilization
Political Violence

File:

Download Finished_Arva_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

James A Piazza, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James A Piazza, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Douglas William Lemke, Committee Member
Zaryab Iqbal, Committee Member
Richard B Felson, Outside Member

Author:

Aydemir Doke, Deniz

Title:

DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF ABLEIST MICROAGGRESSIONS IMPACT QUESTIONNAIRE

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

Ableist microaggressions
disability
ableism
Scale development

File:

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Committee Members:

James Taylor Herbert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Taylor Herbert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carlos P Zalaquett, Committee Member
Allison R Fleming, Committee Member
Jose Angel Soto, Outside Member

Author:

Gendrue, Nathan

Title:

METHANE DISTRIBUTION AND VENTILATION OPTIMIZATION FOR A SCALED LONGWALL MINE WITH BLEEDER

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Longwall Mining
Ventilation Effectiveness
Ventilation System Optimization
Methane Gas
CFD
Scaled Model

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. Shimin Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair
Sekhar Bhattacharyya, Committee Member
William Arthur Groves, Committee Member

Author:

Huynh, Brian

Title:

Energy Optimization using Model Predictive Control for Engine Cooling Systems in Heavy Duty Trucks

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Model Predictive Control
Engine Cooling System
Energy Optimization

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephanie Stockar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher D. Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Loughlin-Presnal, John Edward

Title:

Do Gains in Executive Functions Support Sustained Intervention Effects in a Home and Preschool-Based Schoool Readiness Intervention?

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

School readiness
Executive function
Self-regulation
Preschool
Intervention
Early childhood

File:

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Committee Members:

Karen Linn Bierman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Linn Bierman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kristin Ann Buss, Committee Member
Martha Ellen Wadsworth, Committee Member
Scott David Gest, Outside Member

Author:

Williamson, Jason

Title:

Social Class Diversity in Teams: The Moderating Effects of Perspective Taking and Conflict Resolution Norms on Team Viability

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Social Class Diversity
Teams
Perspective Taking
Conflict Resolution

File:

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Committee Members:

Susan Mohammed, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alicia Ann Grandey, Committee Member
Jose Angel Soto, Committee Member

Author:

Bakthavatsalam, Bakthavatsalam

Title:

Hoist Motion Control: Identification of Hoist Dynamics and Design of A Finite-State Machine Based PI Controller

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

crane hoist control
crane hoist

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Schiano, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Li, Hui

Title:

SLIPS-LAB for urinary stone diagnostics

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Urinary stone; Urinalysis; SLIPS; Point of care; Biomimicry
Microfluidics
Urinary stone
Urinalysis
SLIPS
Point of care
Biomimicry

File:

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Committee Members:

Pak Kin Wong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Pak Kin Wong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tak Sing Wong, Committee Member
Siyang Zheng, Committee Member
Lauren Dell Zarzar, Outside Member

Author:

Scott, Julie

Title:

MATERNAL SENSITIVITY TO INFANT DISTRESS: EXAMINING POTENTIAL PREDICTORS IN A LOW-INCOME SAMPLE

Graduate Program:

Counseling Psychology

Keywords:

sensitivity to distress
maternal sensitivity
attachment theory

File:

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Committee Members:

Kathleen Bieschke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathleen Bieschke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey Hayes, Committee Member
Benjamin D Locke, Committee Member
Ginger A Moore, Outside Member
Susan S Woodhouse, Special Member

Author:

Daniels, Aubrey

Title:

A Retrospective Study on the Relationships between Complex Trauma, Family Environment, Family Cohesion, Resilience, and Depression in Young Adults

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

Complex Trauma
Resilience
Depression
Family
Cohesion
Family Environment
Family Cohesion
Counseling
Counselor Education
Mental Health
School Counselors
Higher Education
Trauma
Counselor Supervision

File:

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Committee Members:

Julia A Green Bryan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jolynn Carney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Diandra Janelle Prescod, Committee Member
Carlomagno Del Carmen Panlilio, Committee Member
Kenneth Levy, Outside Member

Author:

Fernandez, Carla Beatriz

Title:

THE ROLE OF SPEAKER IDENTITY ON THE PROCESSING OF NATIVE AND FOREIGN-ACCENTED SPEECH

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

language
perception
EEG

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Committee Members:

Adriana Van Hell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adriana Van Hell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michele Diaz, Committee Member
Reginald Adams, Jr., Committee Member
Katharina Sophie Schuhmann, Outside Member
Kathryn Suzanne Scherf, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Tao

Title:

THEORY OF NANOTHREADS: ENUMERATION, STRUCTURE IDENTIFICATION, AND PROPERTIES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Nanothreads
Density Functional Theory
Enumeration
Structure Identification
Solid State NMR

File:

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Committee Members:

Vincent H.Crespi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
John V Badding, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Outside Member

Author:

Erol, Anil

Title:

Studies of Dipole-Driven Active Materials: Multifield Processing Simulations, Microstructure-Based Constitutive Modeling, and Macroscopic Active Composite Optimization

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Electro-active polymers
magneto-active elastomers
nonlinear elasticity
smart materials
optimization
modeling
mechanics of materials

File:

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Committee Members:

Paris R Vonlockette, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paris R Vonlockette, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Zoubeida Ounaies, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Outside Member

Author:

Gil Aguirre, Alejandro

Title:

EVALUATION OF CACAO PROJECTS IN COLOMBIA: A CASE STUDY OF RURAL PRODUCTIVE PARTNERSHIPS PROJECT (PAAP)

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Extension Education

Keywords:

Program evaluation
Cocoa programs
Productive Partnership Project (PAAP)

File:

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Committee Members:

Mark A. Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Committee Member
Siela N. Maximova, Committee Member

Author:

Rothman, Sarah

Title:

WILDFLOWER MEADOW RESTORATION ON SURFACE MINES

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

restoration
surface mines
soil amendment
wildflowers

File:

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Committee Members:

Charles Andrew Cole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Maryann Victoria Bruns, Committee Member
Marvin H Hall, Committee Member

Author:

Denny, Matthew

Title:

Three Essays on Legislative Text Analysis

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Text Analysis
Congress
American Politics
Bureaucracy
Legislation

File:

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Committee Members:

Bruce A Desmarais, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bruce A Desmarais, Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Burt Monroe III, Committee Member
Michael J Nelson, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Outside Member

Author:

Urena, Jose

Title:

IN VITRO PRO-OXIDANT AND CYTOTOXIC EFFECTS OF AEROSOLS FROM A THIRD-GENERATION ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE IN HUMAN ORAL CELL LINES

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

electronic cigarette
carbonyls
free radicals
human oral cells
cytotoxicity
oxidative stress
in vitro
air-liquid interface
atomizer

File:

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Committee Members:

Joshua D. Lambert, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexey Silakov, Committee Member
Ryan J. Elias, Committee Member

Author:

Roman, Cristina Flores-almeida

Title:

EXAMINING THE HIGH INCIDENCE OF DEPRESSION IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS THROUGH LOCAL AND GLOBAL STRUCTURAL NETWORK PERSPECTIVES

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

multiple sclerosis
structural connectivity
depression
connectometry
graph theory

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Committee Members:

Peter A. Arnett, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Arnett, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jose Angel Soto, Committee Member
Kathryn Suzanne Scherf, Committee Member
Chaleece Wyatt Sandberg, Outside Member
Michael Nelson Hallquist, Committee Member

Author:

Liendo, Elizabeth

Title:

Pain and Pleasure: Fictions of Erotic Violence from Ovid to Spenser

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature

Keywords:

medieval
early modern
erotic violence
Ovid
Amores
mastery

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Committee Members:

Robert R. Edwards, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert R. Edwards, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Caroline Eckhardt, Committee Member
Garrett Sullivan, Committee Member
Maria Truglio, Outside Member

Author:

Zaballero, Aileen

Title:

A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF CONDITIONS THAT INFLUENCE THE RETURN-MIGRATION OF FILIPINO NURSES IN NORTH AMERICA AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

Return migration
push/pull
Filipino Nurses
Philippines
Healthcare Workforce

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. William J. Rothwell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Ladislaus M. Semali, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Edgar Yoder, Committee Member
Dr. Wesley E. Donahue, Committee Member
Dr. Hyung Joon Yoon, Outside Member
Dr. Ladislaus M. Semali, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. William J. Rothwell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Henry, Shannon Lee

Title:

EXAMINING ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN PEER CONTEXT, SOCIAL ANXIETY, AND ALCOHOL EXPECTANCIES IN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

alcohol
peers
social anxiety
anxiety
alcohol expectancies
undergraduates
peer familiarity
peer context

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephen Wilson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Wilson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Koraly Elisa Perez-Edgar, Committee Member
Charles Geier, Committee Member
Hobart H Cleveland, III, Outside Member

Author:

Nikiforov, Ivan

Title:

The Protective Effect of Religiosity against Substance Use: Findings from National Survey on Drug Use and Health

Graduate Program:

Public Health Sciences

Keywords:

Religiosity
Substance Use
Drug Use
NSDUH

File:

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Committee Members:

Li Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vonn Andrew Walter, Committee Member
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member

Author:

Hackenbrack, Nicole Marie

Title:

INVESTIGATING THE REPLICATION AND EVOLUTION OF ICOSAHEDRAL VIRUSES WITH CRYO-ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

virus
cryo-electron microscopy
replication
evolution
picornavirus
partitivirus
adenovirus

File:

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Committee Members:

Susan Hafenstein, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joyce Jose, Committee Member
Scott Eugene Lindner, Committee Member
B. Tracy Nixon, Committee Member

Author:

Mitra, Utsab

Title:

UNDERSTANDING STRUCTURAL INFLUENCES IN GOLD MONOLAYERED-PROTECTED CLUSTERS USING MAGNETO-OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nanoclusters
Ultrafast Spectroscopy
Two-dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy
Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy
Superatoms
Gold Clusters
Zeeman Effect

File:

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Committee Members:

Kenneth Luther Knappenberger, Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member

Author:

Gonzales, Mique

Title:

AN ANALYSIS OF TESTING CONFIGURATIONS FOR THE TRIBOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SILICON CARBIDE

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Silicon Carbide
Tribology
Pin on Disk
Block on Ring
Ring on Disk

File:

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Committee Members:

Albert Eliot Segall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrea Paola Arguelles, Committee Member
Reginald Felix Hamilton, Committee Member

Author:

Dennis, Lauren

Title:

Methane Fluxes in an Area of Shale Gas Development in Northeastern Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

Methane
Micrometeorology
Shale Gas

File:

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Committee Members:

Kenneth James Davis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott James Richardson, Committee Member
Ying Pan, Committee Member
Paul Markowski, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Trowbridge, Michael

Title:

Fluidic Flexible Matrix Composite Damped Vibration Absorbers for Stiff-Inplane Hingeless Rotor Blades

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

F2MC
damped vibration absorber
fluidic flexible matrix composite
helicopter
rotorcraft
structural dynamics
vibration absorber
rotor blade
vibration control
stiff-inplane

File:

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Committee Members:

Christopher D. Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C. Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric R. Marsh, Committee Member
Daniel C. Haworth, Committee Member

Author:

Carte, Jared L

Title:

Uranium-series Geochemistry in Residual Soils: Examples from Central Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Uranium
Weathering
Geochemistry
Soils
Soil Uranium

File:

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Committee Members:

Matthew S Fantle, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julie Genevieve Cosmidis, Committee Member
Herschel Adams Elliott, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Xuanchi

Title:

Evolution of Permeability and Acoustic Velocity through Radio-Frequency Heating of Shale

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Shale
permeability
radio-frequency heating
p-wave velocity
Green River Shale
Marcellus Shale

File:

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Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris J Marone, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member

Author:

Guo, Di

Title:

DO FIRMS MANAGE EARNINGS TO GAIN RUSSELL 1000 MEMBERSHIP?

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Earnings Management
Russell 1000 Index
Accruals Management
Real Earnings Manipulation

File:

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Committee Members:

Dan Givoly, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dan Givoly, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guojin Gong, Committee Member
Biqin Xie, Committee Member
David Haushalter, Outside Member

Author:

Gatzemeyer, Jace Patrick

Title:

FROM THE HINTERLANDS: MODERNISM AND REGIONALISM IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1918-1941

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

modernism
regionalism
american literature
american modernism
literary regionalism
new regionalism

File:

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Committee Members:

Sean X Goudie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean X Goudie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Member
Robert L. Caserio, Committee Member
Daniel L Letwin, Outside Member

Author:

Regan, Karly

Title:

Arthropod Response to Cover Crop-Based Reduced-Tillage Organic Cropping Systems

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

agroecology
biological control
cover crops
tillage
organic agriculture
arthropod community composition
conservation biological control
pest management
Carabidae
Araneae
Opiliones
Staphylinidae
Delia
Lepidoptera
interseeding
intercropping

File:

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Committee Members:

Mary Ellen Barbercheck, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Ellen Barbercheck, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Frazier Tooker, Committee Member
Kelli Hoover, Committee Member
Armen R. Kemanian, Outside Member
William Curran, Outside Member

Author:

Azhar, Mohammad

Title:

Low Thrust Transfers between Halo Orbits in the Earth-Moon system

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Low thrust
halo orbits
Earth-Moon System
transfers

File:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Ambati, Rajeev Bhatt

Title:

ABSTRACTIVE TEXT SUMMARIZATION BY HIGHLIGHTING

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

text summarization
summarization
natural language processing
deeplearning
memory augmented neural network
abstractive summarization
extractive summarization
sequence modelling
seq2seq

File:

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Committee Members:

David Jonathan Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Member
Victor P Pasko, Committee Member

Author:

Ricks, Paul

Title:

Taking Read-Alouds Seriously: An Examination of Picturebook Read-Aloud Discussions with Teacher Candidates and Their Instructor

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

read-alouds
teacher candidates
picturebooks
picture books
critical multicultural
reader response
preservice teachers

File:

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Committee Members:

Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gwendolyn Monica Lloyd, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Shannon, Committee Member
Jason J Griffith, Committee Member
Shuang Shen, Outside Member
Mark Thomas Kissling, Committee Member

Author:

Krug, James

Title:

HIGH PRESSURE SYNTHESIS OF IN-SITU DOPED CR2+ ZINC SELENIDE FIBER LASERS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

zinc selenide
fiber laser
Cr2+

File:

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Committee Members:

John V Badding, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Miriam Arak Freedman, Committee Member
Lauren Dell Zarzar, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member

Author:

Messick, Cody

Title:

Detecting Gravitational Waves for Multi-Messenger Astronomy

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

gravitational waves
compact binary
compact binary coalescence
binary black hole
binary neutron star
LIGO
Virgo
general relativity
multi-messenger astronomy
multi-messenger astrophysics
multi-messenger
GW170817
GW150914
GW151226
GW170104
GW170814

File:

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Committee Members:

Chad Hanna, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chad Hanna, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Doug Cowen, Committee Member
Irina Mocioiu, Committee Member
Derek Fox, Outside Member

Author:

Crowe, Sean Thomas

Title:

Faithful realizations and semi-classical physics

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

semi-classical physics
quantum tunneling
quantum cosmology
poisson algebras
Casimirs
Darboux coordinates

File:

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Committee Members:

Martin Bojowald, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Martin Bojowald, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eugenio Bianchi, Committee Member
Kenneth O'Hara, Committee Member
Ping Xu, Outside Member

Author:

Nagrale, Shashank

Title:

DAMPING ENHANCEMENT IN HYBRID COMPOSITE BY EMBEDDING NICKEL-TITANIUM WIRES SUBJECTED TO MICROSTRUCTURE TREATMENTS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

H-doping
Aging
Damping
Carbon fiber composite
NiTi
Shape memory alloy
DMA
DSC
Tensile test
Saravanos-Chamis model

File:

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Committee Members:

Reginald Hamilton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles Bakis, Committee Member

Author:

Mukherjee, Manjari

Title:

OPTIMIZATION OF RAPID CYTOTOXICITY ASSAYS FOR SCREENING BACILLUS CEREUS GROUP ISOLATES

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

Bacillus cereus
cytotoxicity

File:

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Committee Members:

Jasna Kovac, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joshua D Lambert, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert F Roberts, Committee Member

Author:

Norris, Jackson

Title:

Multi-Phase Modeling of Intervening Quasar Absorption Line Systems at z < 1

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Astronomy
Quasar Absorption Lines
Circumgalactic Medium
Galaxies
Spectroscopy

File:

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Committee Members:

Jane Camilla Charlton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Caryl Ann Gronwall, Committee Member
Suvrath Mahadevan, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Outside Member

Author:

Nchare Fogam, Abdoul Karim

Title:

ESSAYS ON NONPARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIORAL MODELS OF CONSUMER CHOICE

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Discrete Choice Models
Finite Mixtures
Inattention
Inertia
Panel Data
Partial identification
Difference in Differences
Quantile Treatment Effects
SNAP

File:

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Committee Members:

Marc Albert Henry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marc Albert Henry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sung Jae Jun, Committee Member
Daniel Jose Grodzicki, Committee Member
Scott J. Colby, Outside Member

Author:

Palmer, Lindsay

Title:

Perceived Identity Incongruence: Sexual Orientation and Fit with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

STEM diversity
identity
LGBTQ
belonging
academic outcomes
STEM diversity
identity
LGBTQ
belonging

File:

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Committee Members:

Jessica Lynn Matsick, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Theresa K Vescio, Committee Member
Samantha Lauren Tornello, Committee Member
Melvin Michael Mark, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tierney, Charles John

Title:

Scaled-Model Testing of Rotor Hub Root-End Airfoil Shapes

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Helicopter
Rotor Hub
Flow
Drag
Prediction

File:

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Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Restrepo Rubio, Johann Shocker

Title:

CHARACTERIZATION OF THE FUNCTION OF SELECTED PHYTOPHTHORA MEGAKARYA EFFECTOR PROTEINS DURING INFECTION OF THEOBROMA CACAO

Graduate Program:

Horticulture

Keywords:

Effectors
cacao
RXLR
cell death suppression
Phytophthora megakarya
Black Pod Rot

File:

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Committee Members:

Siela N. Maximova, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Guiltinan, Committee Member
Yinong Yang, Committee Member
Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Anthony

Title:

Modeling Prescribed Fire Effects on Vegetation Dynamics in Mid-Atlantic Oak and Pitch Pine Forests

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Prescribed Fire
Oak Forests
Pitch Pine Forests
Mid-Atlantic
Modeling
Forest Management

File:

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Committee Members:

Alan H Taylor, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erica A H Smithwick, Committee Member
Cynthia Ann Brewer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hosur, Sujay Sheshagiri

Title:

EYELID DRIVE SYSTEM: A MULTIMODAL ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY EMPLOYING INDUCTIVE SENSING OF EYELID MOVEMENT AND ACCELEROMETER DATA

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

inductive sensing
accelerometer
dual-modal
information transfer rate
power wheelchair
Hands-free Assistive Technology
Inductive Sensing
Accelerometer
Dual-modal
Information Transfer Rate
Power Wheelchair

File:

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Committee Members:

Mehdi Kiani, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Weihua Guan, Committee Member

Author:

Sagzhanov, Daulet

Title:

3D DISCRETE FRACTURE NETWORK FOR CLEAT-SCALE MODELING OF DYNAMIC COAL BEHAVIOR

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Coal Cleat
Discrete Fracture Network

File:

Download Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan P Mathews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Mohammad Rezaee, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Xi

Title:

Quantifying cities through user-generated geosocial content with GeoAI

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

GIScience
GeoAI
Cities
Computational Social Science
Machine Learning
Data Mining

File:

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Committee Members:

Clio Maria Andris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clio Maria Andris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan M Mac Eachren, Committee Member
Donna Peuquet, Committee Member
Bruce A Desmarais, Jr., Outside Member

Author:

Morris, Jared

Title:

EFFECTS OF AN EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION AND VIDEO MODELING INTERVENTION WITH AUGMENTED REALITY ON THE RATIONAL NUMBER MATHEMATICS OUTCOMES OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES

Graduate Program:

Special Education

Keywords:

explicit instruction
video modeling
augmented reality
rational numbers
computer assisted instruction
educational technology
effective instruction
mathematics
mathematics instruction
mathematics disability
dyscalculia
specific learning disability
fractions
explicit instruction
video modeling
augmented reality
rational numbers
computer assisted instruction
educational technology
effective instruction
mathematics
mathematics instruction
mathematics disability
dyscalculia
specific learning disability
fractions
explicit instruction
video modeling
augmented reality
rational numbers
computer assisted instruction
educational technology
effective instruction
mathematics
mathematics instruction
mathematics disability
dyscalculia
specific learning disability
fractions
explicit instruction
video modeling
augmented reality
rational numbers
computer assisted instruction
educational technology
effective instruction
mathematics
mathematics instruction
mathematics disability
dyscalculia
specific learning disability
fractions

File:

Download Dissertation__Final__Jared_R._Morris.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth M. Hughes, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer L Frank, Committee Member
Mary Catherine Scheeler, Committee Member
Amy C Crosson, Outside Member

Author:

Savonen, Benjamin Lyle

Title:

A METHODOLOGY FOR TRIAGING PRODUCT NEEDS FOR LOCALIZED MANUFACTURING WITH 3D PRINTING IN LOW-RESOURCE ENVIRONMENTS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

3D printing
Humanitarian Engineering
International Development
Low-Resource Contexts

File:

Download Dissertation_Savonen.pdf

Committee Members:

John Gershenson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Gershenson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy W. Simpson, Committee Member
Nicholas Alexander Meisel, Committee Member
Jason Andrew Acimovic, Outside Member

Author:

Gormley, Jessica

Title:

Supporting Children with Complex Communication Needs to Communicate Choices During an Inpatient Stay: Effect of a Partner Training on Health Care Professionals

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Keywords:

augmentative and alternative communication
health care training
just-in-time training
inpatient
communicating choices
children

File:

Download Gormley_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Janice Catherine Light, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janice Catherine Light, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jessica Gosnell Caron, Committee Member
Nicole Michele Etter, Committee Member
David Brent Mcnaughton, Outside Member