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Author:

Yener, Devren Adem

Title:

Guided wave mode conversion behavior and delamination detection in composite plates: an FEM-driven approach

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

ultrasound
ultrasonic
guided waves
composites
delamination
finite element
non-destructive testing
non-destructive evaluation
structural health monitoring
ndt
nde
shm
lamb waves
laminate
carbon fiber
fem
fea
composite

File:

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Committee Members:

Joseph Lawrence Rose, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Liu, Xiao

Title:

Programming in Eliza

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Program Synthesis
Natural Language
Eliza
LOGO

File:

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Committee Members:

Dinghao Wu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Weathers, Thomas Casey

Title:

CONSERVATION GENETICS OF SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BROOK TROUT (Salvelinus fontinalis)

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

Population genetics
Genetic differentiation
Isolation
Fragmentation
Riverscape genetics
Conservation

File:

Download Weathers_PhD_Dissertation_May_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

John Edward Carlson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Edward Carlson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Lee King, Committee Member
Jesse R Lasky, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Outside Member
Matthew A Kulp, Special Member

Author:

Lv, Weining

Title:

DEEP SCENE END TO END OCR TOOL

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

deep learning ocr system

File:

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Committee Members:

Lee Giles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Croninger, Rachel Miriam Vriend

Title:

Facilitating Small-Group Discussions: Effects of Teacher Discourse Moves Across Four Group Composition Formats in Fourth and Fifth Grade

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

Classroom Discussions
High-level Comprehension
Teacher Moves
Group Composition

File:

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Committee Members:

P. Karen Murphy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Li, Xinyue

Title:

DEALING WITH TESTLET-STRUCTURED DATA: EFFECT OF SAMPLE SIZE ON IRT MODEL SELECTION

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

item response theory
unidimensional model
bifactor model
model selection
testlet data

File:

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Committee Members:

Pui-Wa Lei, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wallace, Anya Michelle

Title:

CURVING SPACETIME: ON PERFORMANCE, PLEASURE, AND THE IMAGINARY BLACK GIRLHOOD SEXUAL POLITICS

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

Black girlhood
Girlhood
Visual Culture
Performance Writing
Art Writing
Popular Culture
Narratology
Translation
Language
black hole theory
Philosophy
Sexuality Studies
Gender Studies
Women's Studies
Art Education
Visual Culture Studies
Undisciplined
Body Politics
Black body
Rage
Freedom Studies
Fantasy
Creative Writing
Youth Culture Studies
Prison Culture Studies
Cultural Studies
Children's Narrative Studies
Fiction Studies
Rememory

File:

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Committee Members:

Wanda Knight, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wanda Knight, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Grace Hampton, Committee Member
Courtney Desiree Morris, Outside Member
Uju Anya, Outside Member
Booker Stephen Carpenter, II, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Malife, Chukwudiuto Udechukwu

Title:

PARALLELIZATION STRATEGY FOR MULTIPLE POINT STATISTICS BASED SIMULATION ON GPU

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Reservoir Characterization
Reservoir Modeling
MPS
Geostatistics
Geo-statistics
Multiple Point Simulation
Multiple Point Statistics
Multi Point Simulation
Multi Point Statistics
Spatial Estimation
GPU
Parallelization
Graphics Processing Unit

File:

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Committee Members:

Sanjay Srinivasan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Affane Nguema, Chris Raymond

Title:

Development of Artificial Neural Networks Applicable to Single Phase Unconventional Gas Reservoirs with Slanted Wells

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Artificial Neural Networks
Slanted Wells
Rate Transient Analysis
Pressure Transient Analysis
Reservoir Simulation
Unconventional Gas
Dual Porosity

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr .Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Luis F. Ayala H., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member

Author:

Last, Beth Anna

Title:

Multi-scale Microstructure and Thermo-mechanical Characterization for Shape Memory Alloy Design via Additive Manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

shape memory alloy
additive manufacturing
microstructure
digital image correlation

File:

Download BethLast_PhD_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Reginald Felix Hamilton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reginald Felix Hamilton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Todd Palmer, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Outside Member
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Member

Author:

Ikis, Didem

Title:

ALASKAN PONDS AND THEIR MIGRATORY BIRD AND INSECT COMMUNITIES IN A CHANGING ARCTIC: DEVELOPMENT OF A LONG-TERM INVENTORY AND MONITORING PLAN FOR IZEMBEK NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

BIODIVERSITY
CLIMATE CHANGE
GLOBAL CHANGE
COMMUNITY ECOLOGY
PHENOLOGY
SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP
CONSERVATION
ALASKA
ARCTIC
PONDS
INVENTORY & MONITORING
ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

File:

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Committee Members:

Tracy Lee Langkilde, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Victoria Anne Braithwaite-Read, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tomas A Carlo-Joglar, Committee Member
David Andrew Miller, Committee Member
Eric Post, Outside Member

Author:

Boyer, Brady William

Title:

Rates and prevalences of predispersal seed predation on plant communities across a latitudinal gradient

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

density dependence
Janzen-Connell hypothesis
seed predation
host specificity
latitude

File:

Download Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Tomas A Carlo-Joglar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Frazier Tooker, Committee Member

Author:

Varadarajan Srinivasan, Krishna Prasad

Title:

ANALYZING THE EFFECTS OF GEOMETRIC LANE CONSTRAINTS ON RADAR-BASED SENSING OF AVAILABLE VEHICLE HEADWAY USING MAPPED LANE GEOMETRY AND CAMERA REGISTRATION OF LANE POSITION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

RADAR-based sensing
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
Headway estimation
Available free space in ego-lane
free space estimation for fuel economy
sensor fusion

File:

Download Krishna_Prasad_Varadarajan_Srinivasan_Masters_Thesis_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Noureldeen, Ali

Title:

Security Study of Ranking Algorithms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ranking Algorthims
Machine Learning

File:

Download AliNoureldeen.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Charania, Rahim Karim

Title:

PREDICTING AND MODELLING THE STATISTICAL LIKELIHOOD OF CARDIAC INCIDENTS USING THE COX PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Survival Analysis
Cox Regression Models
Kaplan-Meier Curves
Cardiac Events
Heart Disease
Prediction
Statistical Modelling
Reliability Engineering
Survival Analysis
Cox Regression Models
Kaplan-Meier Curves
Cardiac Events
Heart Disease
Prediction
Statistical Modelling
Reliability Engineering

File:

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Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Blecher, Jared Jacob

Title:

Hybrid Laser-Arc Welding of Ni-base Alloy 690

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

laser welding
hybrid welding
nickel alloy
keyhole porosity
root defect
inline coherent imaging
heat transfer and fluid flow modeling

File:

Download Blecher_Dissertation_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Tarasankar Debroy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Todd Palmer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Outside Member

Author:

Axten, Christopher Joseph

Title:

Utilizing Transitional CFD to Analyze the Performance of a Racing Sailplane

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

computational fluid dynamics
sailplane
boundary layer transition
aircraft performance
aircraft design

File:

Download Axten_C_Master_Thesis_Draft_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark David Maughmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Devadoss, Daphny Oviya

Title:

HOIST MOTION CONTROL: HYDRAULIC SOLENOID VALVE CURRENT REGULATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF MINIMUM CURRENT FOR MOTION

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

hoist control
PI controller
current regulation in solenoid valve
minimum current for hydraulic motion
averaging state-space model

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Cady, Matthew D

Title:

Nurture TRUMPS Nature: Genetics, The Environment, and Parenting and Their Effect on Child Food Intake and Childhood Obesity

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

childhood obesity
obesity
genetics
adoption
cluster analysis
environmental health
Nurture versus Nature

File:

Download Matt_Cady_Dissertation_FinalVersion.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Green, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Green, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathleen Keller, Committee Member
Jennifer Savage Williams, Committee Member
Melissa Bopp, Outside Member
Jody Ganiban, Special Member

Author:

Yao, Wenqing

Title:

Data-driven sensor recalibration and fault diagnosis in nuclear power plants

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

sensor recalibration
fault diagnosis
nuclear power plants
online monitoring
autoregressive support vector regression
resistance temperature detector

File:

Download PhD_dissertation_Wenqing_Yao_20190415.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Justin Kyle Watson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Ivanov, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Outside Member
Justin Kyle Watson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kostadin Ivanov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James A Turso, Special Member
Xin Jin, Special Member

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:

Download Sushamshushekar_Doddabasappa_Thesis.pdf

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:

Download Trivedi_Thesis_20190418.pdf

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:

Download MS_thesis_Aravinth_Sadagopan_May_2019.pdf

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:

Download Wisor_Thesis_Final.pdf

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:

Download Vbharatula_thesis_final.pdf

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:

Download T_Speacht_Final_Dissertation.pdf

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:

Download Dissertation_KJ_Final.pdf

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:

Download AlMishwat_PhD_Dissertation_2019_Final.pdf

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:

Download Whitehead_Dissertation_May_2019.pdf

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:

Download PS_LEE.pdf

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:

Download SR_dissertation_Spring_2019_SUBMISSION_2.pdf

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:

Download Thesis_Lake_Graboski__Corrected_.pdf

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:

Download Wiepz_Masters_Thesis_Complete.pdf

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:

Download Faith_Dissertation2018.pdf

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:

Download Thesis_2262019.pdf

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:

Download MastersThesisEntomology_BriannaFlonc.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Yun, Xingzhao

Title:

RECONSTRUCTION OF ULTRASOUND TOMOGRAPHY FOR CANCER DETECTION USING ADVANCED REGULARIZATION METHODS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ultrasound tomography
inverse scattering problem
regularization

File:

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Committee Members:

Almekkawy Mohamed, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jin, Yue

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF TWO-PHASE FLOW THERMAL-HYDRAULIC BEHAVIOR IN ROD BUNDLE DURING REFLOOD TRANSIENTS BASED ON THE RBHT EXPERIMENTAL DATA

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Two-Phase Flow
Heat Transfer
Reflood
Liquid Droplets
Mass Quality
DFFB

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Final_Yue_Jin_-2222222.pdf

Committee Members:

Fan-Bill B Cheung, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fan-Bill B Cheung, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member
Cengiz Camci, Outside Member
Kostadin Ivanov, Special Member
Maria Avramova, Special Member
Bao-Wen Yang, Special Member
Stephen Bajorek, Special Member

Author:

Alzaabi, Abdulla Saleh

Title:

A Semi-Analytical Analysis of the Gas and Water Forecasts from Unconventional Reservoirs

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Material Balance
Unconventional Reservoirs
Coalbed Methane
Runge-Kutta
Muskat

File:

Download Abdulla_Alzaabi_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Gregory R King, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jain, Abhishek

Title:

Multi-Scale Investigations in Soot Formation and Chemical Vapor Deposition

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Multi-scale
Soot formation
Chemical Vapor Deposition
simulation
nanomaterials

File:

Download AJ-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xuan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Outside Member

Author:

Chumongkhon, Visanu

Title:

ONLINE CUSTOMER REVIEW ANALYTICS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Text Classification
Machine Learning
Sentiment Analysis
Topic Modeling
Online Review Analytics
Support Vector Machine
Convolutional Neural Network
VADER

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Visanu_Chumongkhon.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lengel, Kathleen

Title:

ETHNIC-SPECIFIC HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE-16 VARIANTS EXHIBIT DISTINCT MODES OF HOST ENTRY AND INFECTION

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

HPV
Virus entry

File:

Download KLengel_Thesis_2_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Craig Matthew Meyers, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Neil David Christensen, Committee Member
Laura Carrel, Committee Member

Author:

Austin, Morgan Elizabeth

Title:

DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST RIG TO STUDY METAL ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Metal Additive Manufacturing
Shields Number
Saltation
Metal Powder

File:

Download Austin_Morgan.pdf

Committee Members:

Rui Ni, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bazer, Abdulsamed

Title:

Shrinkage Cracking Potential & Petrographic Analysis of Concrete with MgO Expansive Admixture

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

shrinkage
restrained ring test
MgO expansive admixture
MgO concrete
petrography
thin sections
concrete
cementitious admixtures
shrinkage cracking
cracking potential
microstructure of concrete
fluorescence microscopy
polarized light microscopy
scanning electrom microscopy
SEM
EDS
concrete petrography

File:

Download SAMET_THESIS_FULL_reviewed_edited_on_20_december.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra Z Radlinska, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Committee Member

Author:

Cook, Aaron Matthew

Title:

Economic Issues in Nutrient Pollution Control

Graduate Program:

Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics

Keywords:

nutrient pollution
Chesapeake Bay
dynamic control
water quality trading
lag times
multiple pollutants

File:

Download Cook_AEREC_Dissertation_4_08_19.pdf

Committee Members:

James Samuel Shortle, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Samuel Shortle, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Douglas Harvey Wrenn II, Committee Member
Karen Ann Fisher-Vanden, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Outside Member

Author:

Mathur, Tanmay Dutt

Title:

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS, DESIGN, AND FABRICATION OF PERICYCLIC MECHANICAL TRANSMISSION WITH STRAIGHT BEVEL GEARS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

LTCA
EHL
Internal bevel gear
Pericyclic drive
FSM

File:

Download Mathur-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward C. Smith, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C. Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Liming Chang, Committee Member
Robert C. Bill, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Outside Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Safari, Mahsa

Title:

A REGENERATIVE APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDING ENERGY RETROFIT PROJECTS

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Energy Retrofit; Project Delivery Method; Regenerative Design

File:

Download MS_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David R Riley II, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David R Riley II, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Somayeh Asadi, Committee Member
James Freihaut, Committee Member
Rachel Alice Brennan, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Yaru Grace

Title:

A GIS Imagery Based Woody Biomass Biorefinery Location Model for Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Woody biomass
Pennsylvania
Facility location
GIS
NAIP imagery
Mixed integer linear programming

File:

Download Yaru_Liu_Dissertation_2019_v9.pdf

Committee Members:

Evelyn Ann Thomchick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Alexander Novack, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Saurabh Bansal, Committee Member
Thomas Lehman Richard, Committee Member
Thomas Lehman Richard, Outside Member

Author:

Blandin, Elisabeta

Title:

IN VITRO MODELS OF NEURONAL DEVELOPMENT IN VIVO EXHIBIT STRUCTURAL PLASTICITY AND CAN PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS SUCH AS SCHIZOPHRENIA

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

Neurostructure
Dynamic
Dopamine
Schizophrenia
Neuroblastoma

File:

Download Master_s_Thesis_Final_Draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Alfredo Bellon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andras Hajnal, Committee Member
Patricia Sue Grigson-Kennedy, Committee Member

Author:

Broka, Damien

Title:

Symplectic Realizations of Non-Degenerate Poisson-Nijenhuis Manifolds

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

differential geometry
mathematical physics
complex variables
symplectic geometry

File:

Download damienbroka-phd.pdf

Committee Members:

Ping Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ping Xu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nigel David Higson, Committee Member
Adrian Ocneanu, Committee Member
Martin Bojowald, Outside Member
Mathieu Philippe Stienon, Committee Member

Author:

Lauvaux, Catherine Tasarla

Title:

UNDERSTANDING TRAJECTORIES OF LANDSCAPE CHANGE: THE RESPONSES OF A ROCKY MOUNTAIN FOREST-SAGGEBRUSH-GRASSLAND LANDSCAPE TO FIRE SUPPRESSION, LIVESTOCK GRAZIN, AND CLIMATE

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

fire suppression
fire history
Rocky mountains
Sawtooth National Forest
Soldier mountains
Douglas-fir
whitebark pine
sagebrush
subalpine fir
livestock grazing
tree enchroachment
vegetation dynamics
tree mortality
fire severity

File:

Download C_LauvauxDissertationSubmitted2.pdf

Committee Members:

Alan H Taylor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan H Taylor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Mark Carleton, Committee Member
Erica A H Smithwick, Committee Member
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Outside Member

Author:

Barney, Danielle

Title:

Intersections of Athletics and Institutional Identity in Women's College Transitions to Coeducation

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

higher education
intercollegiate athletics
coeducation
gender
institutional change
institutional identity

File:

Download Dissertation-Fall_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Geiger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roger Geiger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Jesse Cheslock, Committee Member
Mark Dyreson, Committee Member
Jessica Lynn Schultz, Outside Member

Author:

Siskar, Thomas

Title:

The Flipside of Housing Choice: Who Is Forced to Move?

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

residential mobility
forced moves
eviction
foreclosure
displacement

File:

Download Siskar_MT.pdf

Committee Members:

John Iceland, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barrett Lee, Committee Member
Brian Thiede, Committee Member

Author:

Werner, Mark Andrew

Title:

Applications of Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy for Non-destructive Analysis of Plant Cell Walls and Engineered Soil Surrogates

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

NMR
Nuclear magnetic resonance
plant cell walls
cellulose
Engineered soil surrogates
hemicellulose
pectin
pesticides
probe molecules
cross polarization
INADEQUATE

File:

Download Thesis_final_3.pdf

Committee Members:

Benjamin James Lear, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
David D Boehr, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member

Author:

Peng, Jiayu

Title:

New Developments in Design of Experiments

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Optimal design
Order-of-addition
Run order
Screening design
Exchange algorithm
Traveling Salesman Problem

File:

Download Jiayu_Peng_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Committee Member
Russell Richard Barton, Outside Member
Murali Haran, Program Head/Chair
James Rosenberger, Committee Member

Author:

Yang, Ching Chi

Title:

Dimensional Analysis for Response Surface Methodology

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Dimension reduction
Function approximation
Optimization
Variable selection

File:

Download Dissertation_CCY_17May19.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Le Bao, Committee Member
Fuqing Zhang, Outside Member

Author:

Lin, Alex Yu

Title:

SOMATIC LOSS OF MATERNAL POLA2 CAUSES TISSUE-DEPENDENT CELL DEATH AND DNA DAMAGE IN POLA2 MUTANT ZEBRAFISH

Graduate Program:

Cell and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

DNA polymerase alpha
huli hutu
hht
zebrafish
DNA damage
Cell cycle arrest
Cell death

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_-_Alex_Yu-Shun_Lin_-_Final_May_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Keith C Cheng, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Keith C Cheng, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kristin Ann Eckert, Committee Member
Douglas B Stairs, Committee Member
Ralph Lauren Keil, Outside Member

Author:

Vu, Tiep

Title:

Signal classification under structured sparsity constraints

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Signal Classification
Sparsity Coding
Dictionary Learning
Image Classification
Optimization

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vishal Monga, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vishal Monga, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Robert Collins, Outside Member

Author:

You, Cheng

Title:

Air Quality and Health Effects: Systematic Investigation

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Time Series
Detrending
Smoothing
Spline
Kernel
Regression
Case Crossover
Short-term Change
Long-term Trend
Acute Effect
Chronic Effect
Air Quality
Environmental Epidemiology

File:

Download ChengYou-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis K.J. Lin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis K.J. Lin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ephraim M. Hanks, Committee Member
Yanyuan Ma, Committee Member
Fuqing Zhang, Outside Member

Author:

Li, Yuelong

Title:

Low-rank and Sparse Structures in Computational Imaging: Analysis and Algorithms

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

High dynamic range imaging
Computational Imaging
Image alignment and stitching
Optimization
Statistical Estimation
Low-rank and Sparsity

File:

Download PhDThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vishal Monga, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vishal Monga, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William E. Higgins, Committee Member
David J. Miller, Committee Member
Sean Brennan, Outside Member
Jesse Barlow, Committee Member

Author:

Yuan, Yakun

Title:

PROBING EMERGING PHENOMENA IN COMPLEX OXIDES AWAY FROM GROUND STATES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

complex oxides
nonlinear optics
phase retrieval X-ray crystallography
optical pump probe spectroscopy
polar metal

File:

Download Dissertation_YakunYuan.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Outside Member
Richard D. Averitt, Special Member
James M. Rondinelli, Special Member

Author:

Nissley, Daniel

Title:

Modeling and predicting co-translational protein folding with chemical kinetic and molecular dynamic simulations

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

co-translational folding
protein synthesis
protein folding
synonymous codon
non-equilibrium

File:

Download Nissley_Dan_PhD_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward P. O'Brien, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Patrick O'Brien Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C Bevilacqua, Committee Member
William George Noid, Committee Member
Reka Z Albert, Outside Member

Author:

Hasanian, Mostafa

Title:

MUTUAL NONLINEAR INTERACTION OF ULTRASONIC GUIDED WAVES IN PLATE, APPLICATIONS FOR NDE

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Ultrasonic Guided Waves
Nonlinear Ultrasonics
Wave Mixing
Nondestructive Evaluation
Mutual Interactions

File:

Download Hasanian-_PhD_Dissertation-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Member
Bernhard Tittmann, Committee Member
Parisa Shokouhi, Outside Member

Author:

Marianelli, Allyson

Title:

Polymer-Based Experimental Model Systems for Intracellular Organization

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

liquid liquid phase separation
macromolecular crowding
coacervation
giant vesicle
protocell
microfluidics

File:

Download Thesis_vFinal_112930.pdf

Committee Members:

Christine Dolan Keating, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Paul S Cremer, Committee Member
Scott Eugene Lindner, Outside Member

Author:

Pullanchery Sankara Narayanan, Saranya

Title:

PROBING INTERFACIAL WATER STRUCTURE NEXT TO LIPID MEMBRANES USING VIBRATIONAL SUM FREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Vibrational Sum Frequency Spectroscopy
Interfacial Water Structure
Phospholipid monolayers
Ion-Lipid Interactions

File:

Download Saranya_Pullanchery_Dissertation_2018_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul S. Cremer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul S Cremer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Outside Member

Author:

Li, Lingyu

Title:

SAFETY EFFECTS OF SHOULDER AND CENTERLINE RUMBLE STRIPS: A BAYESIAN PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING FRAMEWORK

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Propensity score matching
crash modification factor
shoulder and centerline rumble strips
safety effect estimates
causal inference
Bayesian method
covariate balancing

File:

Download Lingyu_Doctoral_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Stroup, Andrea Marie

Title:

An Introduction to the Electronic Waterpipe

Graduate Program:

Biobehavioral Health

Keywords:

Electronic waterpipe
e-waterpipe
hookah
e-head
waterpipe
electronic nicotine delivery systems

File:

Download Stroup_Final_Dissertation_-_revisions.pdf

Committee Members:

Steven A Branstetter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven A Branstetter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas J Gould, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Committee Member
Marianne Messersmith Hillemeier, Outside Member

Author:

Hodgson, John Gregory

Title:

COMPARISONS OF MEASURES OF CRITICAL THINKING AND ANALYTIC PERFORMANCE: EXPLORATORY STUDIES

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

critical thinking
intelligence analysis
participatory action research

File:

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Committee Members:

Steven Raymond Haynes, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven Raymond Haynes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald Richard Shemanski, Committee Member
Edward J Glantz, Committee Member
Guido Cervone, Outside Member

Author:

Bombile, Joel

Title:

Tight Binding Model of Charge Localization and Excitons in Semiconducting Polymers

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Organic electronics
Semiconducting polymers
Tight binding
Charge localization
Polaron
Exciton
Charge Transport

File:

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Committee Members:

Scott Thomas Milner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael John Janik, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Member
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Outside Member
Michael John Janik, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Thomas Milner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Rodriguez, Laura Elise

Title:

THE REACTIVITY OF NITROGEN HETEROCYCLES IN COMPLEX PREBIOTIC MIXTURES: USING CHEMICAL TRENDS TO EVALUATE PLAUSIBLE STRUCTURES OF PRIMITIVE GENETIC MATERIAL ON EARLY EARTH

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Astrobiology
Origins of life
Nucleobases
RNA World
Pre-RNA
Mass spectrometry
Michael addition

File:

Download Dissertation_Rodriguez_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Howard House, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Howard House, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Member
James Kasting, Committee Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Outside Member

Author:

Ozber, Natali

Title:

CHARACTERIZATION OF TRAFFICKING ROUTES OF THE MOVEMENT PROTEIN (MP) OF OURMIA MELON VIRUS (OUMV) AND IDENTIFICATION OF OUMV MP-INTERACTING PROTEINS IN PLANTS

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

plant virus
trafficking pathways
plant–pathogen interaction
virus movement
host factors

File:

Download Natali_Ozber_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Cristina Rosa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cristina Rosa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles T Anderson, Committee Member
Timothy W Mcnellis, Committee Member
Gabriele Brigitte Monshausen, Outside Member

Author:

Carroll, Devon E

Title:

INFLUENCE OF TEMPERATURE ON GERMINATION OF BENTGRASS CULTIVARS AND CULTURAL PRACTICES ON ESTABLISHMENT OF CREEPING BENTGRASS

Graduate Program:

Agronomy

Keywords:

germination
establishment
creeping bentgrass
cultural practices
temperature

File:

Download Carroll_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

John Kaminski, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Landschoot, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Robert Huff, Committee Member
Brian Horgan, Committee Member

Author:

Sun, Simou

Title:

Sensing and Characterizing Interactions with Lipid Membranes

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Lipid Membrane
Biosensor
Physical Chemistry

File:

Download Simou_Sun_Final_Dissertation_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul S Cremer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul S Cremer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C Bevilacqua, Committee Member
John H Golbeck, Committee Member
Craig Eugene Cameron, Outside Member

Author:

Lewis, Allison Michelle

Title:

The Ecology and Functional Significance of Distinct Coral Symbionts

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Indo-Pacific
Scleractinia
Symbiodiniaceae
Endosymbiosis
Ecological Specialization
Calcification
Physiology
Caribbean
Taxonomy

File:

Download Lewis_Allison_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Todd C Lajeunesse, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Monica Medina, Committee Member
Todd C Lajeunesse, Committee Member
Timothy Iwao Miyashiro, Outside Member

Author:

Wei, Dandan

Title:

Understanding the oxidation of biogenic volatile organic compounds in the Amazon rainforest: field observations and model results

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

Biogenic organic compounds
Amazon rainforest
Ozone
Isoprene
atmospheric oxidation
hydroxyl radicals
turbulent mixing

File:

Download Penn_State_University_Thesis_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose D. Fuentes, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jose D. Fuentes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William H. Brune, Committee Member
Thomas Lauvaux, Committee Member
Miriam Freedman maf43@psu.edu, Outside Member
John Orlando, Special Member

Author:

Sinding, Kyle Matthew

Title:

Evaluation of Pressure Field Estimation From Measured Velocity Fields, With Application to Tip Vortex Flows

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Pressure Estimation
Tip Vortex
Error propagation
Stereo Particle Image Velocimetry
Measured Velocity Fields
Pressure Fluctuations

File:

Download Sinding_Dissertation_Final_12_7_18.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael H Krane, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith Todd Copley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Michael H Krane, Committee Member
Stephen P Lynch, Outside Member
Jeff R Harris, Special Member
John Dabiri, Special Member

Author:

Leelasetakul, Mathurin

Title:

Lexical Bundle Use by Thai Undergraduate Learners of English

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

lexical bundles
writing
corpus
corpus lingusitcs
Thai learners of English

File:

Download Mathurin_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaofei Lu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suresh Canagarajah, Committee Member
Ning Yu, Committee Member
Matthew Edward Poehner, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Kehao

Title:

LARGE SCALE SYNTHESIS, DOPING OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES AND THEIR HETEROSTRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

2D Materials
Synthesis
Doping
Heterostructures

File:

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Committee Members:

Joshua Alexander Robinson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Outside Member

Author:

Chiou, Brian

Title:

REDEFINING THE ROLE OF H-FERRITIN IN THE BRAIN

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

H-ferritin
Semaphorin4A
Iron
Blood-brain barrier
Oligodendrocyte
Multiple Sclerosis
Tim-1
Transferrin
Demyelination

File:

Download Chiou_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

James Robert Connor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Robert Connor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Aron Eliot Lukacher, Committee Member
Ian Alexander Simpson, Committee Member
David James Degraff, Outside Member

Author:

Gao, Lisheng

Title:

DESIGN OF Na-BASED PEROVSKITES BASED DIELECTRIC AND PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Lead-free
Piezoelectric
Ferroelectric
antiferroelectric
ceramics
NKN
Base metal cofiring
low pO2 sintering

File:

Download Lisheng_Gao_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Clive A Randall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clive A Randall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member

Author:

Polydore, Seth

Title:

Analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana RNA Dependent RNA Polymerase Mutants Reveals Novel Small RNAs and Improves Existing Annotations

Graduate Program:

Genetics

Keywords:

RNA DEPENDENT RNA POLYMERASE protein
small RNAs
micro RNA
phased small RNA
heterochromatic small RNA
rdr1/2/6

File:

Download Seth_Polydore_Doctoral_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Axtell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Axtell, Committee Member
Charles T Anderson, Committee Member
Naomi S Altman, Outside Member

Author:

Osei Amponsa, Vasty

Title:

ALTERATIONS IN FOXA1 AND PTEN EXPRESSION CONTRIBUTE TO MORPHOLOGIC AND MOLECULAR HETEROGENEITY IN BLADDER CANCER

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

FOXA1
PTEN
Squamous differentiation
Carcinoma in situ
Bladder cancer
Heterogeneity
Basal and luminal subtypes
BBN
Mouse model

File:

Download Voseiamponsa_Dissertation_02222019.pdf

Committee Members:

David James Degraff, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David James Degraff, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kent Eugene Vrana, Committee Member
Lisa M Shantz, Committee Member
James Riley Broach, Outside Member

Author:

Bateman, Kathryn

Title:

Assembling policy dilemmas: Science teacher responses to educational policy

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

educational policy
science education
communities of practice
dilemmas
sense-making
teacher learning

File:

Download Bateman_Kathryn_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Scott McDonald, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Scott McDonald, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Gregory Kelly, Committee Member
Dr. Richard Duschl, Committee Member
Dr. Tanya Furman, Outside Member

Author:

Lamer, Katia

Title:

RELATIVE OCCURRENCE OF LIQUID, ICE AND MIXED-PHASE CONDITIONS WITHIN CLOUD AND PRECIPITATION REGIMES: LONG TERM GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS FOR GCM MODEL EVALUATION

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

model evaluation
mixed-phase clouds
rain rate
observational benchmark
forward-simulators
subcolumn generator
ground-based observations
general circulation models

File:

Download Lamer_phd_dissertation_final_version_submitted.pdf

Committee Members:

Eugene E. Clothiaux, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Johannes Verlinde, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Mark Carleton, Committee Member
Chris Eliot Forest, Committee Member
Ann M. Fridlind, Outside Member

Author:

Li, Xuefei

Title:

SYNTHESIS AND METAL-INSULATOR TRANSITION PROPERTIES OF VANADIUM DIOXIDE NANOSTRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

metal oxides
metal-insulator transition
vanadium dioxide
nanostructures
hybrid particles
interfaces

File:

Download Xuefei_Li_dissertation_xul125_20190109.pdf

Committee Members:

Raymond E. Schaak, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raymond E. Schaak, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine D. Keating, Committee Member
Thomas E. Mallouk, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Kersavage, Kristin

Title:

Relationship between Speed Metrics and Crash Frequency and Severity: Implications for Roadway Design

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

speed
crash risk
crash frequency and severity
negative binomial
binary logistic regression

File:

Download Kristin_Kersavage_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric T. Donnell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric T. Donnell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vikash Varun Gayah, Committee Member
Sukran Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Outside Member

Author:

Goralski, Tyler

Title:

Ribosome Rescue is Essential in the Pathogen Francisella tularensis

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

Francisella tularensis
ArfT
ribosome rescue

File:

Download Goralski_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Keiler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Girish Kirimanjeswara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Meredith, Committee Member
Scott Lindner, Committee Member
Sandeep Prabhu, Outside Member

Author:

Elyasi, Nima

Title:

EXTRACTING BETTER PERFORMANCE FROM THE PARALLELISM OFFERED BY SSDS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Solid State Drive (SSD)
Scheduling
Data Replication
Tail Latency
Parallelism
Performance

File:

Download Nima_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Outside Member
Changho Choi, Special Member

Author:

Li, Jacinda Changhui

Title:

HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY-ADRENAL AXIS DYSREGULATION, BODY MASS INDEX GROWTH TRAJECTORIES, AND OBESITY IN FEMALES WITH HISTORIES OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE AND NONABUSED COMPARISONS

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

obesity
childhood sexual abuse
stress physiology
hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
cortisol
female
adolescence
body mass index
stress
child maltreatment
multilevel modeling

File:

Download HDFS_Dissertation_Li_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jennie G Noll, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennie G Noll, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chad Edward Shenk, Committee Member
Nilam Ram, Committee Member
Lori Anne Francis, Outside Member
Kathleen Loralee Keller, Special Member

Author:

Clouthier, Tracy Lynn

Title:

Testing Borderline Personality Disorder Diagnosis as a Moderator of the Longitudinal Course of Alliance and Outcome in a Community Mental Health Center

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

psychotherapy
borderline personality disorder
therapeutic alliance

File:

Download Dissertation_Format_Review_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Levy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Levy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Louis Georges Castonguay, Committee Member
Jeffrey Hayes, Committee Member
Sy-Miin Chow, Outside Member

Author:

Wei, Liwei

Title:

PROMOTING ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY THROUGH QUALITY TALK: AN INTERVENTION WITH MANDARIN-SPEAKING STUDENTS

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

small-group discussion
English language learners
English language proficiency
Mandarin-speaking students
Quality Talk
written argumentation
middle school students

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_Liwei_Wei_0214.pdf

Committee Members:

P. Karen Murphy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
P. Karen Murphy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonna M. Kulikowich, Committee Member
Peggy N. Van Meter, Committee Member
Janet Van Hell, Outside Member

Author:

Coles, Gregory Joshua

Title:

Advantageous Incapacities: Reading the Margins with Kenneth Burke

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

rhetorical theory
Kenneth Burke
semiotics
nondominant discourse
identity construction

File:

Download Advantageous_Incapacities_-_Complete_Final_Draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Cheryl Glenn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheryl Glenn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member
John "Jack" Selzer, Committee Member
Stephen Browne, Outside Member

Author:

Haney, Jennifer

Title:

The Role of Forest Resources in the Development of a Non-Egalitarian Fisher-Gatherer-Hunter Society in Southwest Florida

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

Calusa
Caloosahatchee
Florida
Archaeology
Fuelwood

File:

Download Haney_FINAL_ANTH_040719.pdf

Committee Members:

Lee A. Newsom, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Robert Milner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Douglas Warren Bird, Committee Member
Sarah McClure, Committee Member
Alan R Graefe, Outside Member

Author:

Maman, Stephan

Title:

Medicaid insurance status predicts postoperative mortality after total knee arthroplasty in State Inpatient Databases

Graduate Program:

Public Health Sciences

Keywords:

total knee replacement
disparities
socioeconomic
medicaid
medicare
insurance
outcomes
perioperative
orthopedic

File:

Download Thesis_-_Stephan_Maman.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Andreae, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Wang, Committee Member
Douglas L Leslie, Committee Member

Author:

Serpi, Alex Alexandra

Title:

OF HORSENETTLE & HORNWORMS: THE MECHANISMS OF NON-GLANDULAR TRICHOMES AND THEIR EFFECTS ON HERBIVORES

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Trichomes
Tobacco hornworms
Manduca sexta
Horsenettle
Solanum carolinense
maternal effects
transgenerational
plant defense
peritrophic membrane
herbivore
Lepidoptera

File:

Download Serpi_Doctoral_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Tracy Langkilde, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Harold Marden, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rudolf Johannes Schilder, Committee Member
Tanya Renner, Committee Member
Tanya Renner, Outside Member

Author:

Smith, Michael

Title:

John McLean Harrington's Handwritten Newspapers in 1858

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

handwritten newspapers
journalism history
Civil War
journalism
longhand newspapers

File:

Download MichaelRaySmithMAthesisJan182019.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Ford Risley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Marie Hardin, Committee Member
Dr. John S. Nichols, Committee Member