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Author:

Lei, Daisy

Title:

CUE INTEGRATION OF FACE CUE AND NATIVE- AND NONNATIVE-ACCENTED SPEECH DURING SPEECH PROCESSING

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

speech processing
language processing
accent
ERP

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Committee Members:

Carrie Jackson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rick Gilmore, Major Field Member
Navin Viswanathan, Major Field Member
Janet van Hell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cho, Eunhae

Title:

From the provinces to the capital: Geographic and sociocultural transitions for Korean learners of English

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

upward educational mobility
provincial exodus
educational inequality
regional disparity
language learning experience
cultural-historical theoretical framework
ethics
narrative ethnography
narrative inquiry

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Committee Members:

Tommaso Milani, Program Head/Chair
Karen Johnson, Major Field Member
Ning Yu, Major Field Member
Matthew Poehner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tommaso Milani, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Celeste Kinginger, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Singh, Divya

Title:

Exploring Dark Matter through Gravitational-Wave Observations

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

gravitational wave searches
dark matter
gstlal

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Committee Members:

Cindy Gulis, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kohta Murase, Major Field Member
Irina Mocioiu, Major Field Member
Irina Mocioiu, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Bangalore Sathyaprakash, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chad Hanna, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Phung, Lan Nhi

Title:

The Biogeography and Genomics of Vocalizations in North American Passerines

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Vocalization
New World warblers
Biogeography
Genomics
Leiothlypis ruficapilla
Setophaga coronata
Glacial refugia
Avian evolution
Song variation
Call variation
Reproductive barrier

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Mcgraw, Program Head/Chair
Julian Avery, Outside Unit Member
David Toews, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Heather Hines, Chair of Committee
Emily Davenport, Outside Field Member

Author:

Chan, Dennis

Title:

Elucidating the Relationship between Neuroinflammation and Functional Connectivity over the Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Alzheimer's disease
Neuroimaging
Neuroscience
Neuroinflammation
Network Analysis

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Proctor, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiao Liu, Major Field Member
Justin Pritchard, Major Field Member
Nanyin Zhang, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
Patrick Drew, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Lara, Gabriel

Title:

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND CLIMATE RESILIENCE: ANALYZING FLOOD RISK, SALINITY VULNERABILITIES, AND URBAN WATER QUALITY

Graduate Program:

Energy, Environmental, and Food Economics (PhD)

Keywords:

Flood risk
environmental justice
environmental economics

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Committee Members:

Katherine Zipp, Program Head/Chair
Matthew Gustafson, Outside Unit Member
Daniel Brent, Co-Chair, Major Member & Dissertation Advisor
Edward Jaenicke, Outside Field Member
Douglas Wrenn, Co-Chair, Major Member & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Blume, Zachary

Title:

Implementation of High-Volume Fly Ash Binders for High Early Age Strength Self-Consolidating Concrete in Precast Applications and Machine Learning-Driven Optimization of Binary Concrete Mix Designs for Reduced Embodied Carbon

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Low-carbon concrete
Supplementary Cementitious Materials
Bayesian Optimization
Machine Learning
High-Volume Fly Ash
Self-Consolidating Concrete

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Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aleksandra Radlińska, Committee Member
Farshad Rajabipour, Program Head/Chair
Sayed M Soleimani, Committee Member

Author:

Asghari Bareh Kheil, Nima

Title:

Study of Effective Experimental Approaches to Improve Hempcrete's Compressive Strength

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

hempcrete
sustainable material
magnesium oxide
fly ash
metakaolin
nano-silica
compaction
mechanical properties.
nano silica
mechanical properties

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Committee Members:

Ali M Memari, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Corey Gracie-Griffin, Committee Member
James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair
Esther Adhiambo Obonyo, Committee Member
Hojae Yi, Committee Member

Author:

Prakash, Aviral

Title:

General Relativistic Hydrodynamic Simulations of Neutron Star Mergers: From Quarks to Gravitational Waves

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Neutron Stars
Equation of State
QCD
Phase Transitions
Gravitational Waves

File:

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Committee Members:

Bangalore Sathyaprakash, Major Field Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Outside Unit & Field Member
David Radice, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mauricio Terrones, Program Head/Chair
Zoltan Fodor, Major Field Member

Author:

McLaughlin, Gozde

Title:

Supporting Preservice Teachers’ Computational Thinking Practices in an Engineering Content Course

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

computational thinking
preservice teachers
science and engineering practices
science education
engineering education

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Committee Members:

Scott Mcdonald, Program Head/Chair
Scott Mcdonald, Major Field Member
ChanMin Kim, Outside Unit & Field Member
Carla Zembal-Saul, Major Field Member
Amy Farris, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Isgate, Sara

Title:

Uncovering Effects Of Noise Pollution on Learning Performance and Reproductive Success Using an Operant Conditioning Device in Wild Songbirds

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

cognition
wildlife
songbirds
bluebirds
operant conditioning
behavioral ecology
noise pollution
fitness
reproductive success
problem solving

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Committee Members:

Jason C Keagy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julian D Avery, Committee Member
Patrick Drohan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Sonia Angele Cavigelli, Committee Member

Author:

Marakovits, Michael

Title:

High Frequency Material Property Characterization of Dielectrics for 5G/6G Applications

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

5G
6G
temperature-dependence
material characterization
dielectrics
permittivity
loss tangent
temperature coefficient
microwaves
electronic packaging

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Committee Members:

Michael T Lanagan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven Edward Perini, Committee Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Samia Suliman, Committee Member

Author:

Bennink, James

Title:

Design and Construction of a Compound Coaxial Tilting-Head Rotorcraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

compound helicopter
rotorcraft
tilt-head
coaxial

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Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Smith, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member

Author:

Sharma, Siddharth

Title:

Human tracking in 3D space through monocular vision

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

Object tracking
Computer Vision
Segmentation
Vanishing points
Perspective views

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Committee Members:

Hien Nguyen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Md Faisal Kabir, Committee Member
Sukmoon Chang, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Littmann, Tyler

Title:

Cold spray deposition behavior, characterization, and erosion performance of polyetheretherketone-nickel composites using ball milling for deposition on fiber reinforced plastics

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Cold Spray
Erosion Resistance
Composite Coatings
Ball Milling

File:

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Committee Members:

Douglas Edward Wolfe, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Namiko Yamamoto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Timothy John Eden, Committee Member

Author:

Hao, Yan

Title:

Central and Local Government Fiscal Behavior under Fiscal Federalism---Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Evidence

Graduate Program:

Public Administration

Keywords:

intergovernmental transfer
game theory inference
decision making mechanism
political party influence
partisan alignment
fiscal federalism
principal components analysis (PCA)
panel data analysis
grant allocation
mechanisms
tax collection effort
Ramsey model
kalman filter
grant allocation mechanism

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Committee Members:

L. Marvin Overby, Program Head/Chair
David Argente, Outside Unit & Field Member
Younhee Kim, Major Field Member
Dan Mallinson, Major Field Member
Odd Stalebrink, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Camero, Dabis

Title:

DIABETES PREDICTION USING ANFIS WITH AUTOENCODING AND KALMAN FILTER

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Diabetes
predictive models
early diagnosis
World Health Organization (WHO)
Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS)
Autoencoding
Kalman filtering
hybrid model
dimensionality reduction
feature extraction
BRFSS dataset
medical informatics
healthcare analytics
Explainable AI
chronic diseases
model generalizability
Computational Complexity
Outliers
Interpretability

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Committee Members:

Aldo W Morales, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Truong Xuan Tran, Committee Member
Rafic Bachnak, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jason Martis, Committee Member
Sannidhan M S, Committee Member

Author:

Orzolek, Megan

Title:

Investigating Lubricated Friction Forces with a Singing Wineglass

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

Acoustics
Wineglass
Friction
Stick-slip
Structural vibrations

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Committee Members:

Michael Lester Jonson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexander M Mertz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Barnard, Program Head/Chair
Dan Russell, Committee Member

Author:

Dunning, Emily

Title:

Child Maltreatment and Psychopathology Symptoms: The Impact of Developmental Timing and Contamination

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

child maltreatment
psychopathology
child development
developmental timing
chronicity
early childhood
contamination
human development
psychology

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Committee Members:

Chad Edward Shenk, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steffany Fredman, Committee Member
Douglas Teti, Program Head/Chair
Zachary Fisher, Committee Member

Author:

Azarmi, Farzad

Title:

MARGINAL BRAIN FUNCTION DISRUPTION CAUSED BY RAT ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX PERTURBATION

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Engineering

Keywords:

fMRI
Rat
Muscimol
Seed-map
Anterior cingulate cortex

File:

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Committee Members:

Nanyin Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Committee Member
Thomas Neuberger, Committee Member