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Author:

Stoop, Tawni Blaze

Title:

What You See Might Be What You Get: Vicarious Reinforcement of Children's Engagement in Aggression

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

early childhood
aggression
vicarious reinforcement

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Committee Members:

Amy Marshall, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Erika Lunkenheimer, Major Field Member
Pamela Cole, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Feinberg, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mayo, Chelsea

Title:

Situational Coping in the Context of Poverty-Related Stress: Examining the Concurrent and Predictive Validity of Situational Coping Fit Indices in Low-Income Youth

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

situational coping
coping flexibility
poverty-related stress
pre-adolescents
psychopathology

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Committee Members:

Karen Bierman, Major Field Member
Steffany Fredman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rina Eiden, Major Field Member
Martha Wadsworth, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Muratori, Tanya

Title:

Influence of breed composition and novel tools on longevity and behavior of dairy cows

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

Telomere Length
Crossbreeding
Grazing behavior
heritability

File:

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Committee Members:

Chad Dechow, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kathy Soder, Outside Unit & Field Member
Idan Shalev, Outside Field Member
Wansheng Liu, Major Field Member
Ramesh Ramachandran, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jang, Seokhoon

Title:

Tribochemistry of diamond-like carbon; its impact on superlubricity

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Diamond-like carbon
Graphitization
Hydrogenation
Superlubricity
Transfer films

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Committee Members:

Robert Rioux, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Robert Rioux, Major Field Member
Seong Kim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amir Sheikhi, Major Field Member
Adri van Duin, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Salamanca Malagon, Carlos

Title:

Essays on International Trade

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

International Trade
Rules of Origin
Nonlinear Pricing

File:

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Committee Members:

Barry Ickes, Program Head/Chair
Edward Jaenicke, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kala Krishna, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Roberts, Major Field Member
Michael Gechter, Major Field Member

Author:

Groeneveld, Andrew

Title:

Variational Multiscale Methods for Stabilized Enforcement of Constraints

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Composite
Debonding
Embedded mesh
Finite element method
Finite strain
Immersed mesh
Interfacial stabilization
Meshfree method
Stabilized method
Variational multiscale method

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Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Program Head/Chair
Christian Peco, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jesse Sherburn, Special Member
Aleksandra Radli¿ska, Major Field Member
Pinlei Chen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kostas Papakonstantinou, Major Field Member

Author:

Delmar, Sarah

Title:

Modeling working memory: Varying noise based on neural differences.

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

Cognitive modeling
Neuroimaging
Working memory

File:

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Committee Members:

Sonia Cavigelli, Program Head/Chair
Frank Ritter, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bradley Wyble, Outside Field Member
Nancy Dennis, Major Field Member
Farnaz Tehranchi, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Lyu, Yao

Title:

"WHEN IS NOT THE INFRASTRUCTURE": A STUDY OF THE ENTANGLEMENT BETWEEN HUMAN AND SOCIO-TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Human-Computer Interaction
Infrastructure Studies
Accessible Computing

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Committee Members:

Carleen Maitland, Program Head/Chair
Marcela Borge, Outside Unit & Field Member
Priya Kumar, Major Field Member
Jack Carroll, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Major Field Member

Author:

Lopez Valdivia, Ivan

Title:

Exploring the fitness landscape of root traits across maize domestication.

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Environmental Plant Science (PhD)

Keywords:

OpenSimRoot
Root Modeling
Maize domestication
Root anatomy
Root architecture

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Committee Members:

Erin Connolly, Program Head/Chair
Jonathan Lynch, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Huff, Major Field Member
Jesse Lasky, Outside Unit & Field Member
Charlie White, Major Field Member

Author:

Chacon, Francisco

Title:

The Effects of Cultivation and Extraction Conditions on the Phytochemistry and Bioactivity of Cannabis sativa L.

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Hemp
Cultivation
Extraction
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme
Cannabinoids
Terpenoids

File:

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Committee Members:

Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair
Joshua Kellogg, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amy Arnold, Outside Field Member
Kent Vrana, Outside Unit Member
Charles Anderson, Major Field Member

Author:

Balakrishna Rai, Siddhartha

Title:

Tackling the Challenges in Enabling Processing in Memory in DDR-DRAM Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Processing in Memory
Bank level In Memory Processing
DRAM
Memory
NUMA capability for Bank Level In Memory Processing
LLM

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Major Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Major Field Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Saptarshi Das, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Burtnett, Sarah

Title:

Investigating dietary methods for improving fatty acid digestibility and milk fat yields in lactating dairy cattle

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

milk fat depression
emulsifiers
oleic acid

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Committee Members:

Ramesh Ramachandran, Program Head/Chair
Robert Vansaun, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tara Felix, Major Field Member
Arlyn Heinrichs, Major Field Member
Kevin Harvatine, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Belcher, Daniel

Title:

Ribosome Biogenesis and Translational Control in Skeletal Muscle: Insights into Anabolic Deficits and Atrophy in Cancer Cachexia

Graduate Program:

Integrative and Biomedical Physiology

Keywords:

skeletal muscle
cancer cachexia
ribosomes
translational efficiency
muscle wasting
skeletal muscle
cancer cachexia
ribosomes
protein synthesis
muscle wasting
skeletal muscle
cancer cachexia
ribosome
muscle wasting
translational efficiency

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Committee Members:

Gregory Shearer, Program Head/Chair
Gustavo Nader, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Scot Kimball, Outside Unit & Field Member
William Staniar, Major Field Member
Robert Paulson, Major Field Member

Author:

Foster, Linsea

Title:

Surface engineering of metal, graphite, and metal-graphite composites for improved strength and various material properties

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Cold sintering
Surface engineering
Powder metal
Powder carbon
Green machining
Soft magnetic composites

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Michael Lanagan, Major Field Member
Randy Vander Wal, Outside Unit & Field Member
Clive Randall, Major Field Member
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daudi Waryoba, Special Member
Daudi Waryoba, Special Member

Author:

Pan, Yuxuan

Title:

Three essays on Mental Health, Racial Disparity, and Consumer Behavior

Graduate Program:

Energy, Environmental, and Food Economics (PhD)

Keywords:

mental health
nutritional quality
racial disparity
soda tax
food security
covid

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Committee Members:

Dave Abler, Program Head/Chair
Edward Jaenicke, Outside Field Member
Stephan Goetz, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Linlin Fan, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Paul Grieco, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Liu, Tianyi

Title:

Advancing Integrated Nucleic Acid Testing for HIV Self-Testing and Personalized Viral Load Monitoring

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Human Immunodeficiency Viruses
Viral Load
Self-Testing
Nucleic Acid Testing
Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction
Quantification

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Zhiwen Liu, Major Field Member
Mehdi Kiani, Major Field Member
Weihua Guan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Cunjiang Yu, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Jia, Xiaodong

Title:

Nesting Structures in Mirrors: Formal Techniques for Parsing and Inferring Visibly Pushdown Grammars

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

program analysis
grammars
context-free grammars
visibly pushdown grammars
automata theory
parsing
parser generator
formal verification
coq
visibly pushdown automata
parsers
software verification

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
G. Tan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Abhinav Verma, Major Field Member
Danfeng Zhang, Major Field Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Aryal, Vivek

Title:

ALKYLARYLATION OF UNACTIVATED ALKENES IN ALKENYL KETIMINES AND AMINES

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Unactivated alkenes
Coordinating groups
Alkylarylation
Ni-catalysis
Alkylorganozinc reagents

File:

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Committee Members:

Ramesh Giri, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eric Nacsa, Major Field Member
Emily Weinert, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ayusman Sen, Major Field Member
Kenneth Knappenberger, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Peoples, Wilson

Title:

Learning General Differential Operators on Unknown Manifolds

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Manifold Learning
Graph Laplacian
Operator Estimation
Radial Basis Functions
Kernel Methods

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Committee Members:

Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin, Program Head/Chair
John Harlim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Outside Unit & Field Member
Alexei Novikov, Major Field Member
Jeffrey Case, Major Field Member

Author:

Oneill, Laurel

Title:

Applied Spectroscopy: From the Lab, To the Field, To the Classroom

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

spectroscopy
engineering education
queering
raman spectroscopy
laser induced breakdown spectroscopy
bubbles

File:

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xingjie Ni, Major Field Member
Tim Kane, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Weihua Guan, Major Field Member
Seyedehaida Ebrahimi, Major Field Member
Lorraine Dowler, Outside Field Member

Author:

Son, Yeongwoo

Title:

COMPOSITIONALLY COMPLEX PEROVSKITE OXIDES: DIELECTRIC, FERROELECTRIC, ELECTROCALORIC, AND ENERGY STORAGE PROPERTIES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

High entropy perovskite oxide
Pulsed laser deposition
ferroelectricity
dielectric relaxation
relaxor ferroelectric
polarization stability
electrocaloric effects
energy storage
antiferroelectric

File:

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Qiming Zhang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jon-Paul Maria, Major Field Member
Clive Randall, Major Field Member

Author:

Morris, Brian

Title:

Impact of Biochar Application on Agricultural Landscapes Through Soil Infiltration and Changes in Soil Physical Properties

Graduate Program:

Soil Science

Keywords:

biochar
concentrated flow paths
soil water infiltration
infiltration
TMDL
chesapeake bay
cornell sprinkle infiltrometer
bulk density
particle density
hydrophobicity
agricultural landscapes
riparian forest buffers
riparian buffers

File:

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Committee Members:

Tyler A Groh, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan M Duncan, Committee Member
Patrick Drohan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Heather Elise Preisendanz, Committee Member

Author:

Feuerborn, John

Title:

Examining the factors underpinning the differential success of wild bumble bee species and their responses to anthropogenic change

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

bumble bee
climate change
conservation
physiology
thermal tolerance
phenology
pollen macronutrients
distribution
floral visitation
habitat

File:

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Committee Members:

Heather M Hines, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guilherme Becker, Committee Member
Elizabeth Mcgraw, Program Head/Chair
Christina M Grozinger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Umashankar, Mohnish

Title:

Experimental Apparatus for Investigating Plasma Sheaths on Hypersonic Re-Entry Vehicles

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Hypersonics
Atmospheric Re-entry
Plasma
Langmuir Probes
Plasma Diagnostics

File:

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Committee Members:

Sven G Bilén, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean David Knecht, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Mark A Miller, Committee Member
Jesse Kane Mc Ternan, Special Signatory

Author:

Fjeldsted, Aaron

Title:

The Development of Advanced Analysis Techniques for Gamma-Ray Spectra

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Nuclear Security
Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy
Machine Learning

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Committee Members:

Dipanjan Pan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Marek Flaska, Major Field Member
Kenan Unlu, Major Field Member
Azaree Lintereur, Special Member
Douglas Wolfe, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Wesley Reinhart, Outside Unit & Field Member
Patrick Lofy, Special Member

Author:

Zhao, Tianxiang

Title:

Deep Learning for Structured Data: Weak Supervision and Interpretability

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Weak Supervision
Graph Neural Network
Data Mining
Machine Learning
Sequential Decision Process

File:

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Sharon Huang, Major Field Member
Xiang Zhang, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Suhang Wang, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Wang-Chien Lee, Outside Unit & Field Member
Vasant Honavar, Major Field Member

Author:

Dasari, Vishnu Tej

Title:

A Receding Horizon Based Sensor Tasking for Tracking Space Objects in Cislunar Regime

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

space situational awareness
conjugate unscented transform
kalman filter
mutual information

File:

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Committee Members:

Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roshan Thomas Eapen, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Robert G. Melton, Committee Member

Author:

Le, Linh

Title:

MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT TO ENABLE HIGH-ENERGY DENSITY AND LONG-CYCLING LI METAL BATTERIES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Electrolytes
Li Protection
Lithium Batteries
Fast-charging

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Donghai Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hojong Kim, Major Field Member
Adri van Duin, Major Field Member
Feifei Shi, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Mattiace, John Michael

Title:

A stochastic model studying interactions between breastfeeding and vaccination in providing rotavirus immunity

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

rotavirus
approximate bayesian computation
bayesian
ordinary differential equations
sir

File:

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Committee Members:

Murali Haran, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Berg, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Runze Li, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Osborne, Cornelia

Title:

The Significance of Compatibility in Scleractinian Corals and Applications for Environmental Bioengineering in a Warming Ocean

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Coral
Climate change
Gene expression
Hybridization
Chimerism
Reproduction
Thermal stress
Acropora
Diploria
Spawning
Restoration
Conservation
Marine biology
Gamete recogntion

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Mcgraw, Program Head/Chair
David Toews, Major Field Member
Manuel Llinas, Outside Unit & Field Member
Valerie Chamberland, Special Member
Roberto Iglesias-Prieto, Major Field Member
Todd Lajeunesse, Chair of Committee
Iliana B Baums, Special Member
Zachary Szpiech, Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Burlakoti, Dibyajoti

Title:

Community Resilience And Wildlife Conservation In Buffer Zones In Nepal: Exploring Handmade Papermaking As Sustainable Economic Solution For Their Coexistence.

Graduate Program:

Education, Development, and Community Engagement

Keywords:

Buffer zone
Human-Wildlife conflict
Sustainable entrepreneurship
Handmade paper manufacturing.

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Committee Members:

Mark A Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Maria Theresa Spencer, Committee Member
Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Mark A Gagnon, Committee Member

Author:

Allridge, Elijah

Title:

The Sensitivity of Near-Zero Field Magnetoresistance Measurements

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Spin Dependent Recombination
Silicon
MOSFET
Sensitivity
Electron Paramagnetic Resonance
Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance
EPR
EDMR
Near-Zero Field Magnetoresistance
NZFMR
SDR

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Committee Members:

Patrick M Lenahan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Laura Cabrera, Program Head/Chair
Saptarshi Das, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Weixuan

Title:

Analysis of Android Bluetooth Security Manager Protocol

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Bluetooth
Security Manager Protocol
Software Testing
Symbolic Execution
Fuzzing

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Committee Members:

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Roy, Parama

Title:

Finding Equilibrium in Adversarial Machine Learning - Intrinsic Trade-offs between the Robustness and Accuracy or Classifiers and Feature Extractors

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Linear Programming
Adversarial Attacks
Robustness
Optimal Transport
CVXOPT

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Committee Members:

Daniel Cullina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Swaroop Ghosh, Committee Member
Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chatterjee, Arnab

Title:

Advanced Thermal Analysis for studying Martensite Phase Transformation of Shape Memory Adaptive Material Systems fabricated using Additive Manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Shape Memory Alloys
Additive Manufacturing
Differential Scanning Calorimetry
Martensitic transformation
Energetics
Kinetics
Thermoelastic phase transformation
Nitinols
Active Material Systems

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Committee Members:

Laura Cabrera, Program Head/Chair
Edward Reutzel, Outside Field Member
Paris Vonlockette, Outside Unit Member
Todd Palmer, Major Field Member
Reginald Hamilton, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Choi, Jinsol

Title:

Morphogenesis and nanomanufacturing of synthetic brochosomes and their applications

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Leafhopper
Brochosomes
Synthetic Brochosomes
Microfluidics
Nanomanufacturing
Bioinspired Materials

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Pak Kin Wong, Outside Field Member
Tak Sing Wong, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiang Yang, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Hargrove, Brianne

Title:

Analysis and Synthesis of Nonlinear-Elastic Compliant Mechanisms

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Compliant mechanisms
Material nonlinearity
Large deformations
Analytical model
Superelasticity
Synthesis
Optimization
Additive manufacturing

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Zoubeida Ounaies, Major Field Member
Paris von Lockette, Special Member
Mary Frecker, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Reginald Hamilton, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jared Butler, Major Field Member
Jovana Jovanova, Special Member

Author:

Yin, Qin

Title:

Understanding Construction Safety: Exploring Relationships between Individual-level Perceptions of Team Construct

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

construction safety
teamwork

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Committee Members:

Julian Wang, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Susan Simkins, Outside Field Member
James LeBreton, Outside Unit Member
Yuqing Hu, Major Field Member
Esther Obonyo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Solis Castanon, Mayra

Title:

Aging Out Of Foster Care: A Comprehensive Analysis Of Dual-System Impact Of “System Integration” Policy On Incarceration Outcomes In Early Adulthood

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

youth
dual status
dually involved
foster care placement
juvenile justice system

File:

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Committee Members:

Christian Michael Connell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Maggs, Committee Member
Douglas Teti, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wang, Haizhou

Title:

Using AI Technologies To Solve Software Security Challenges

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Large Language Model
Artificial Intelligence
Software Security
Reverse Engineering
Deep Learning
Information Security

File:

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Peng Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Minghui Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sharon Huang, Major Field Member
Suhang Wang, Major Field Member

Author:

Smith, Andrew

Title:

A Novel Method to Prevent Sybil Attacks in VANETs and Share Knowledge of Malicious Nodes

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

VANET
Sybil attack
AODV
Routing
Ad Hoc Network

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeremy Joseph Blum, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bimal Ghimire, Committee Member
Sukmoon Chang, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Sayed Mohsin Reza, Committee Member
Md Faisal Kabir, Committee Member

Author:

Schierman, Kelly

Title:

The Geography of Genocide: Using Machine Learning to Locate Undocumented Mass Graves of the Holocaust

Graduate Program:

Spatial Data Science

Keywords:

MaxEnt
machine learning
holocaust
mass graves
lithuania
holocaust by bullets

File:

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Committee Members:

Brandi Gaertner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leanne Sulewski, Committee Member
Anthony Robinson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Walters, Tyler

Title:

Movement potential of infectious prions by American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) in an area endemic for chronic wasting disease.

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

American crow
RT-QuIC
Chronic wasting disease
Corvus brachyrhynchos
Home range

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Committee Members:

W. David Walter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Frances E Buderman, Committee Member
Jason Kaye, Program Head/Chair
C. Guilherme Becker, Committee Member

Author:

Langhirt, Mark

Title:

Foundations for Development of Three-Dimensional Energy Flux Acoustic Propagation Models

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

underwater
acoustic
propagation
model
energy
flux
three
dimensional

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Committee Members:

Daniel C. Brown, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sheri Lynn Martinelli, Committee Member
Julianna Simon, Program Head/Chair
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member
Charles Holland, Committee Member

Author:

Clark, Jacob

Title:

Schottky Contact Metallizations for GaN

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

GaN
Gallium Nitride
Atomic Layer Deposition
Schottky Barrier
Physical Vapor Deposition
Molybdenum Carbonitride
Schottky Diode
Contacts
Metal Nitrides
Metallization

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Committee Members:

Suzanne E Mohney, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick M Lenahan, Committee Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Rongming Chu, Committee Member

Author:

Mu, Kemin

Title:

Molecular and functional characterization of arabidopsis OBP3 Responsive Gene 1

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

ORG1
iron homeostasis
arabidopsis

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Committee Members:

Teh-Hui Kao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Robert Huff, Committee Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair
Carolee Bull, Committee Member

Author:

Ranjbar, Ali

Title:

Symbolic Analysis and Stateful Fuzzing of Baseband Binaries: A Security Evaluation of 4G and 5G NR Non-Access Stratum Layers

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

baseband firmware
binary analysis
stateful fuzzing
vulnerability discovery

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Committee Members:

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arslan Khan, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yang, Fuhan

Title:

Understanding respiratory disease seasonality: quantitative characterization, mechanistic interpretation, and future projection

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Respiratory disease dynamics
Seasonality
Stochasticity
Forecast
Infectious disease modeling

File:

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Mcgraw, Program Head/Chair
Ephraim Hanks, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Jessica Conway, Chair of Committee
Ottar Bjornstad, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Maciej Boni, Dissertation Co-Advisor

Author:

Rich, Tayana

Title:

Are Black Applicant Reactions to Diversity Statements Dependent on Leader Racial/Ethnic Representation?

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Recruitment
Diversity
Signaling Theory
diversity cues
Diversity statements
Racial representation
Diversity in leadership

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Committee Members:

Alicia Ann Grandey, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean Laurent, Committee Member
Kristin Buss, Program Head/Chair
Hanyi Min, Committee Member

Author:

Tang, Elle

Title:

A NEW GAUSSIAN GRAPHICAL MODEL-BASED NETWORK INFERENCE METHOD TO INVESTIGATE GENE CO-EXPRESSION RELATIONSHIPS USING SINGLE-CELL RNA-SEQUENCING DATA

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Gaussian Graphical Model
single-cell RNA-sequencing
single-cell genomics
gene co-expression networks

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Committee Members:

Qunhua Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Nicole Lazar, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wo, Luyi

Title:

Evolution and Expression of Overlapping Genes in Drosophila

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

overlapping genes
Drosophila
evolution
gene distribution
nested genes
expression

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Committee Member
Melissa Rolls, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Howells, Callie Lynn

Title:

Studies of Allergic Diseases: Exploring Predictors of Asthma Treatment Superiority and Food Allergy Associations with Dietary Patterns and Metabolic Syndrome

Graduate Program:

Epidemiology (PhD)

Keywords:

cardiovascular disease
metabolic syndrome
asthma
food allergy
diet quality
dietary patterns
corn allergy
allergic asthma

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Committee Members:

Cheryl Thompson, Program Head/Chair
Vernon Chinchilli, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Dave Mauger, Outside Field Member
Djibril M Ba, Special Member
Timothy Craig, Outside Unit Member
Cheryl Thompson, Major Field Member

Author:

Singh, Parmveer

Title:

Understanding Researchers’ Positionality in Integrating and Designing the Transdisciplinary Research Process and Outcomes: A Case Study of Thriving Agriculture Project

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Extension Education

Keywords:

Stakeholder participation
co-production of knowledge
conceptual clarity
transdisciplinary research wicked problems
Delphi study
consensus
program evaluation

File:

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Committee Members:

Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Emily Pakhtigian, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Ewing, Major Field Member
Mark Brennan, Major Field Member
Mark Brennan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Kemmerling, Jesse

Title:

The Development of Gallium Nitride Super-Heterojunction Transistors for 10-kV Blocking and 3-kV Switching

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

GaN
wide-bandgap
high voltage switch
MOSFET
HEMT
semiconductor switch
breakdown voltage
current collapse
on-resistance
transistor
super-heterojunction
superjunction
dynamic performance
electric field distribution
charge balance
charge balance technique
Schottky barrier diodes
dynamic on-resistance
gallium nitride
III-V semiconductor
semiconductor fabrication
TCAD
simulation
2DEG
AlGaN/GaN
high electron mobility transistors
metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors
SHJ
capacitance
field-plate
p-n junction
fast-switching
10-kV
3-kV switching
3-kV
analytical model
derivation
Ron-BV relationship

File:

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Committee Members:

Tom Jackson, Major Field Member
Rongming Chu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Suzanne Mohney, Major Field Member
Joshua Robinson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Yue

Title:

Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on kidney diseases: insights from real-world data

Graduate Program:

Epidemiology (PhD)

Keywords:

COVID-19
Kidney Diseases
Long COVID
Real-World Evidence

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Committee Members:

Kathryn Risher, Major Field Member
Vernon Chinchilli, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Leslie Parent, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nasrollah Ghahramani, Special Member
Djibril M Ba, Special Member
Duanping Liao, Major Field Member
Kathryn Risher, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Brown, Avery

Title:

Vibromechanical Performance of Carbon/Epoxy Stiffened Panels with Acoustic Black Hole Features

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Carbon/Epoxy
Vibration Reduction
Stiffened Panel

File:

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Committee Members:

Charles Bakis, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr
Christopher Kube, Major Field Member
Ben Beck, Outside Unit Member
Matthew D Waller, Special Member
Edward Smith, Dissertation Co-Advisor
George Lesieutre, Outside Field Member
Laura Cabrera, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bernhard, Katie

Title:

Risk, Livelihood Decisions, and Resilience in the Greater Virunga Transboundary Landscape

Graduate Program:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management

Keywords:

conservation social science
park-adjacent communities
tropics
East Africa
household resilience
conservation social science
risk preferences
decision making
survey methods
East Africa
mixed methods
livelihoods
tropics

File:

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Committee Members:

Derrick Taff, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Edwin Sabuhoro, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Erica Smithwick, Outside Field Member
Katherine Zipp, Outside Unit Member
Carter Hunt, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Hart, Tricia

Title:

Cardiometabolic Effects of Pecans as a Snack: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

cardiometabolic diseases
metabolic syndrome
tree nuts
pecans
lipids
lipoproteins
flow mediated dilation
HEI-2020

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Committee Members:

Meg Bruening, Program Head/Chair
Gregory Shearer, Major Field Member
Michael Russell, Outside Unit & Field Member
Alison Gernand, Major Field Member
Kristina Petersen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Angermeier, Susanna

Title:

Microfluidic Ion Exchange Applications and Predictive Modeling for Lanthanide Separations

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

microfluidics
adjacent lanthanide separations
ion exchange
scale-up
predictive ion exchange modeling

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Committee Members:

Jon Schwantes, Program Head/Chair
Xing Wang, Major Field Member
Amanda Johnsen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ashleigh Kimberlin, Special Member
Jon Schwantes, Major Field Member
Darrell Velegol, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Zhang, Shijia

Title:

Internet of Multimodality: Problems in Security, Healthcare and AR/VR

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

IoT Security
Wearable Sensing
Mobile Computing
AR/VR
Healthcare

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Mahmut Kandemir, Major Field Member
Rui Zhang, Major Field Member
Saeed Abdullah, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mahanth Gowda, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Meneses Marentes, Nixon

Title:

EFFECT OF THE ADDITION OF COCOA SWEATINGS AND TIME OF FERMENTATION IN FLAVOR COMPOUNDS AND SENSORY PERCEPTION OF COCOA

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

cocoa
flavor
volatiles
non-volatiles
sensory analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Roberts, Program Head/Chair
Helene Hopfer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Greg Ziegler, Committee Member
Misha T Kwasniewski, Committee Member

Author:

Phan, Roumany

Title:

Energy and Economic Impacts of Engineering Controls for Airborne Infection Risk Mitigations

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

SARS-CoV-2
Energy
Indoor Air Quality
EnergyPlus
CONTAM
Risk Assessment
Wells-Riley
Life Cycle Cost Analysis
Probability of Infection Risk
Dedicated Outdoor Air System
Variable Air Volume System

File:

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Committee Members:

Julian Wang, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
William P Bahnfleth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Freihaut, Committee Member
Greg Pavlak, Committee Member

Author:

Montgomery, Ty

Title:

Effects of interferon tau and pregnancy specific protein B on gene expression during early pregnancy.

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

maternal recognition of pregnancy
HSPE1
D2Dx Immunity Test
pregnancy associated glycoproteins

File:

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Committee Members:

Adele Turzillo, Program Head/Chair
Troy Ott, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joy Lee Pate, Committee Member
Chad Daniel Dechow, Committee Member

Author:

Lacey, Lindsay

Title:

Illuminating taxonomic and ecoregional variation in bias among community science data to inform conservation-based species distribution modeling

Graduate Program:

Spatial Data Science

Keywords:

species distribution model
MaxEnt
conservation
volunteered geographic information
citizen science
community science
bias
SDM
ecological niche model
ENM

File:

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Committee Members:

Anthony Robinson, Program Head/Chair
Marcela Suárez, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Lefever, Andrew

Title:

Production and Conservation Tradeoffs of Vertical Tillage in No-till Systems

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Environmental Plant Science

Keywords:

Vertical tillage
No-till

File:

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Committee Members:

Erin Connolly, Program Head/Chair
John M Wallace, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sjoerd Willem Duiker, Committee Member
Paul David Esker, Committee Member
Charlie White, Committee Member
Peter Landschoot, Committee Member

Author:

Yao, Xinyi

Title:

The Design and Scalable Implementation of Collaborative Mixed-Reallity-Aided LEGO Creation

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Mixed Reality
Collaboration
Validation

File:

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Committee Members:

Bin Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahanth Gowda, Committee Member
Thomas F La Porta, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dong, Zhanchen

Title:

System Design and Implementation of Collaborative Mixed-Reality-Based Firefighter Training

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Mixed Reality
Collaboration
Firefighter Training

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas F La Porta, Program Head/Chair
Bin Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahanth Gowda, Committee Member

Author:

Felins, Michael

Title:

Biasing Distance and Heterogeneous Solution Effects in Liquid Gated Graphene Field Effect Transistors

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Liquid gating
Graphene
Biosensor
FET

File:

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Saptarshi Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Sahin K Ozdemir, Committee Member

Author:

Beyda, Sophia

Title:

The Impact of the Organizational Structure of Android Third Party Libraries

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Smartphone Privacy

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Trent Ray Jaeger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Syed Rafiul Hussain, Committee Member

Author:

Elmquist, Jon

Title:

Risk Assessment of Spotted Lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) Neonicotinoid Control Tactics on Non-Target Insect Floral Visitors of Red Maple (Acer rubrum) and Tree-of-Heaven (Ailanthus altissima)

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

neonicotinoid
insecticide
spotted lanternfly
imidacloprid
dinotefuran
pollinator
red maple
tree-of-heaven
Acer rubrum
Ailanthus altissima
Lycorma delicatula
non-target
risk assessment

File:

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Committee Members:

Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Kelli Hoover, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julian D Avery, Committee Member
David Biddinger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wang, William

Title:

Semantic Image Retrieval via Graph Representation and Metric Learning

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Semantic image retrieval
Image-to-image retrieval
Scene graph
Graph convolutional network
Metric learning
Deep learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Wang-Chien Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member

Author:

Robotham, Daniel

Title:

Understanding Factors that Impact Student Commitment to Agriculture

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Extension Education

Keywords:

student commitment
emotional support
academic support
family influence
agricultural career
relevant skill acquisition
university experience
undergraduate students

File:

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Committee Members:

Suzanna R. Windon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Brennan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Dawn Paula Witherspoon, Committee Member

Author:

Dyer, William

Title:

Quasi-Static and Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Dry and Epoxy-Impregnated Carbon Nanotube Yarns

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Carbon nanotube yarn
Epoxy-impregnated carbon nanotube yarn
CNT yarn
Mechanical testing
Dynamic mechanical analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Charles E Bakis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Namiko Yamamoto, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Blunk, Andrew

Title:

Optimizing Nitrogen Management for Grafted and Non-Grafted Fresh Market Tomatoes Grown in High Tunnels in Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Environmental Plant Science

Keywords:

Fresh Market Tomato
Nitrogen
Soil Monitoring
handheld Ion Selective Electrodes (ISE)
High Tunnel
Mid-Atlantic Region
soil fertility management

File:

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Committee Members:

Erin Connolly, Program Head/Chair
Francesco Di Gioia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Claudia Schmidt, Committee Member
Jonathan Paul Lynch, Committee Member
John Thomas Spargo, Committee Member

Author:

Osman, Mohamed

Title:

Development of Transparent Ultrasonic Transducers for Biomedical Applications

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Translucent matching layer
glass beads
Ultrasonic Transducer
Transparent Ultrasound Transducer
Photoacoustic Imaging

File:

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Committee Members:

Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julianna Simon, Committee Member
Mohamed Khaled Almekkawy, Committee Member

Author:

Azhar, Fariha

Title:

ASHE: An Agent-Based Model that Simulates Human Error Probability Using Design Structure Matrices

Graduate Program:

Engineering Design

Keywords:

Human Error
Agent-Based Model
Design Structure Matrix
Human Reliability Analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Nicholas Meisel, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Chris Mc Comb, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matt Parkinson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Aquino, Carl Fredrick

Title:

Greenland Ice Sheet drives sea-level rise differences between model and expert projections

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

sea-level rise
sea level
probabilistic inversion
Bayesian inversion
Greenland Ice Sheet
Antarctic Ice Sheet
climate risk
climate risk management
coastal hazards

File:

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Committee Members:

Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair
Richard B Alley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Klaus Keller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vivek Srikrishnan, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Tianyang

Title:

Dialogue State Tracking with Universal Adversarial Triggers

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Dialogue State Tracking

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Rui Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Antonio Blanca, Committee Member

Author:

Tang, Xiaomeng

Title:

DYE-DOPED CALCIUM PHOSPHOSILICATE NANOPARTICLES FOR EARLY DETECTION OF HUMAN CANCERS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Calcium phosphosilicate
Cancer diagnosis
Bioimaging
Bioconjugation
Targeted delivery

File:

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Committee Members:

James Hansell Adair, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Paul S Cremer, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Outside Member