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21101. Active Vibration Control Using Electric Rotor Torques In eVTOL Aircraft

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Author:
Cho, Changik
Title:
Active Vibration Control Using Electric Rotor Torques In eVTOL Aircraft
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
EVTOL
Active Vibration Control
Structural Dynamics
Electric Motor Torque
File:
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Committee Members:
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Satadru Dey, Major Field Member
Edward Smith, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Joseph Cusumano, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chris Rahn, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr

21102. Recurrence Analysis of Stochastic Data Under Uncertainty

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Author:
Buqammaz, Mohammed Khaled
Title:
Recurrence Analysis of Stochastic Data Under Uncertainty
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
Nonlinear dynamical systems
Nonlinear analysis
Recurrence Analysis
Uncertainty factors
Healthcare systems
Unsupervised machine learning
Cluster analysis
Cardiac signals
Recurrence quantification analysis
Helathcare systems analytics
Cross recurrence plots
Joint recurrence analysis
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Committee Members:
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Ling Rothrock, Major Field Member
Hui Zhao, Outside Unit & Field Member
Hui Yang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Robert Voigt, Major Field Member

21103. On exploring strategies to prevent spring freeze damage and elucidating the mechanisms of cold acclimation in Vitis

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Author:
Persico, Meredith
Title:
On exploring strategies to prevent spring freeze damage and elucidating the mechanisms of cold acclimation in Vitis
Graduate Program:
Horticulture
Keywords:
Vitis
cold tolerance
ecophysiology
budbreak
freeze damage
wine quality
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Committee Members:
Surinder Chopra, Program Head/Chair
Kathy Kelley, Major Field Member
Helene Hopfer, Outside Field Member
Jason Londo, Special Member
Michela Centinari, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Misha Kwasniewski, Outside Unit Member

21104. Fluctuations in Bulk and Thin Film Glasses

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Author:
Kirchner, Katelyn
Title:
Fluctuations in Bulk and Thin Film Glasses
Graduate Program:
Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Statistical mechanics
Glass
Thin film silica
Structure
Fluctuations
Ion exchange
File:
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Committee Members:
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Robert Kimel, Major Field Member
Seong Kim, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
Sushmit Goyal, Special Member

21105. Does Conversationality and Verifiability Affect Trust in Content Generated by ChatGPT?

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Author:
Liao, Meng Qi
Title:
Does Conversationality and Verifiability Affect Trust in Content Generated by ChatGPT?
Graduate Program:
Mass Communications
Keywords:
Generative AI
Trust
Artificial Intelligence
Verification
Misinformation
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Committee Members:
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Michael Schmierbach, Major Field Member
Aiping Xiong, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jessica Myrick, Major Field Member
S. Shyam Sundar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

21106. Investigation of the Catalytic Co-Pyrolysis of Polyethylene Terephthalate and Polyolefins with Zeolite Catalysts

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Author:
Okonsky, Sean
Title:
Investigation of the Catalytic Co-Pyrolysis of Polyethylene Terephthalate and Polyolefins with Zeolite Catalysts
Graduate Program:
Chemical Engineering
Keywords:
Catalytic Pyrolysis
Polyolefins
Polyethylene Terephthalate
Zeolite Catalysts
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Committee Members:
Robert Rioux, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Robert Rioux, Major Field Member
Stephen Chmely, Outside Unit & Field Member
Phillip Savage, Major Field Member
Hilal Ezgi Toraman, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

21107. Acute and Longitudinal Effects of High-density Theta Burst Stimulation on Rat Brain

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Author:
Li, Qiong
Title:
Acute and Longitudinal Effects of High-density Theta Burst Stimulation on Rat Brain
Graduate Program:
Bioengineering
Keywords:
TMS
fMRI
EMG
Animal models
Sex differences
Brain stimulation
File:
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Committee Members:
Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Major Field Member
Xiao Liu, Major Field Member
Nanyin Zhang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
Hanbing Lu, Special Member
Tao Zhou, Outside Unit & Field Member
Yihong Yang, Special Member

21108. Becoming Mother: An Ethnography Examining Mothers of Biracial/Multiracial Children in New York City

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Author:
Roop Miheretu, Kara
Title:
Becoming Mother: An Ethnography Examining Mothers of Biracial/Multiracial Children in New York City
Graduate Program:
Curriculum and Instruction
Keywords:
Mothering
Biracial/Multiracial Motherhood
Critical Race Theory
Intersectioality
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Committee Members:
Kimberly Powell, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Tiffany Nyachae, Major Field Member
Gail Boldt, Major Field Member
Shedra Snipes, Outside Unit & Field Member
Allison Henward, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

21109. Unsteady Lift Measurement and Reconstruction Methodologies

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Author:
Jones, Zachary
Title:
Unsteady Lift Measurement and Reconstruction Methodologies
Graduate Program:
Acoustics
Keywords:
force reconstruction
unsteady lift
force measurement
reduced-order model
distributed forces
File:
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Committee Members:
Andrew Barnard, Program Head/Chair
Alok Sinha, Outside Unit & Field Member
Dan Russell, Major Field Member
Andrew Barnard, Major Field Member
Nicholas Vlajic, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tyler Dare, Major Field Member

21110. Multiparametric Brain Hemodynamics and Molecular Imaging Using Novel Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Strategies

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Author:
Chen, Haoyang
Title:
Multiparametric Brain Hemodynamics and Molecular Imaging Using Novel Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Strategies
Graduate Program:
Bioengineering
Keywords:
Neuroimaging
Neurological disorders
Ultrasound
Photoacoustic
Transducers
Transparent transducers
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Committee Members:
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
Patrick Drew, Major Field Member
Bruce Gluckman, Major Field Member
Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nanyin Zhang, Major Field Member
Julianna Simon, Outside Unit & Field Member

21111. Detection of Scuffing Faults Using the Squared Envelope Spectrum

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Author:
Watson, Daniel
Title:
Detection of Scuffing Faults Using the Squared Envelope Spectrum
Graduate Program:
Acoustics
Keywords:
a. Scuffing
Vibration
Acoustic
Acoustics
Accelerometers
Bearings
Cepstrum
TSA
MEMS
Binary Classification
Precision Recall Characteristic
PRC
Receiver Operating Characteristic
ROC
Prognostic Health Management
PHM
Common Rail Diesel Engine
Tribology
Squared Envelope Spectrum
SES
Scuffing
Vibration
Acoustic
Acoustics
Accelerometers
MEMS
Bearings
Cepstrum
TSA
OT
Binary Classification
Precision Recall Characteristic
PRC
Receiver Operating Characteristic
ROC
Prognostic Health Management
PHM
Common Rail Diesel Engine
Tribology
Squared Envelope Spectrum
SES
File:
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Committee Members:
Andrew Barnard, Program Head/Chair
Karl Reichard, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Thompson, Major Field Member
David Swanson, Major Field Member
Albert Segall, Outside Unit & Field Member

21112. An Elective Medication Calculation Course for Prelicensure Nursing Students: Who Should Enroll and What Are the Benefits?

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Author:
Yoder, Maria
Title:
An Elective Medication Calculation Course for Prelicensure Nursing Students: Who Should Enroll and What Are the Benefits?
Graduate Program:
Higher Education (DED)
Keywords:
dosage calculation
medication calculation
nursing education
nursing student
academic help-seeking
File:
Download MYoder_dissertation_6.21.24.pdf
Committee Members:
Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair
Karen Paulson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Marie Boltz, Outside Unit & Field Member
JOSEPH POLIZZI, Committee Member
Kevin Kinser, Committee Member

21113. Amnesty's Origins: Peace, Federal Power, and the Public Good in the Long Civil War Era

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Author:
Walser, Heather
Title:
Amnesty's Origins: Peace, Federal Power, and the Public Good in the Long Civil War Era
Graduate Program:
History
Keywords:
Amnesty
Federalism
Civil War
Constitutional History
Federal power
Whiskey Rebellion
Fries Rebellion
Dorr War
Bleeding Kansas
Utah Expedition
Reconstruction
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Committee Members:
Christina Snyder, Outside Field Member
Michael Nelson, Outside Unit Member
Amy Greenberg, Major Field Member
Rachel Shelden, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amy Greenberg, Program Head/Chair
Jacob Lee, Major Field Member

21114. Integrand Basis Building for Supersymmetric Theories Using Prescriptive Unitarity

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Author:
Patatoukos, Kokkimidis
Title:
Integrand Basis Building for Supersymmetric Theories Using Prescriptive Unitarity
Graduate Program:
Physics
Keywords:
sYM
BCFW
unitarity
elliptic
ratio function
supersymmetry
scattering amplitudes
perturbation theory
File:
Download KPDissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Mauricio Terrones, Program Head/Chair
Murat Gunaydin, Major Field Member
Radu Roiban, Major Field Member
Nigel Higson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jacob Bourjaily, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

21115. Transport Studies of the Topological States in Bernal-stacked Bilayer Graphene

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Author:
Huang, Ke
Title:
Transport Studies of the Topological States in Bernal-stacked Bilayer Graphene
Graduate Program:
Physics
Keywords:
Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene
Quantum Hall effect
Fractional quantum Hall effect
Quantum valley Hall kink state
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Committee Members:
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jainendra Jain, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Major Field Member
Jun Zhu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mauricio Terrones, Program Head/Chair

21116. Engineering Hole Injection and Transport in Low-dimensional Material Transistors

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Author:
Oberoi, Aaryan
Title:
Engineering Hole Injection and Transport in Low-dimensional Material Transistors
Graduate Program:
Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:
p-Type 2D FET
Contact Engineering
Interface Engineering
Charge Transfer Doping
p-Type Doping
Low-dimensional Materials
2D materials
Strain
Scaling
Channel Length Scaling
Tungsten Diselenide
Molybdenum Diselenide
WSe2 p-Type FETs
Work-function Engineering
p-Type 2D Transistors
Capacitance-Voltage Measurements
Carbon Nanotubes
Interface Trap Density
Interface Traps
Conductance Frequency Measurements
Defect Density Analysis
CNT FETs
Annealing
Trap Density Reduction
Oxide Capping
Hole Injection
Hole Transport
File:
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Committee Members:
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Osama Awadelkarim, Major Field Member
Patrick Lenahan, Major Field Member
Morteza Kayyalha, Outside Unit & Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

21117. Nanoscale insights into sustainable alloy production: understanding corrosion in advanced alloys and optimizing iron ore reduction processes

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Author:
Lodhi, Muhammad Jahangir
Title:
Nanoscale insights into sustainable alloy production: understanding corrosion in advanced alloys and optimizing iron ore reduction processes
Graduate Program:
Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:
Metallic Materials
Sustainability
Additive Manufacturing
Localized Corrosion
Electrochemical Analysis
Iron oxide reduction
4D-STEM
Sluggish Kinetics
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Committee Members:
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Elzbieta Sikora, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yang Yang, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Liang Qi, Special Member
Reginald Hamilton, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Outside Unit & Field Member

21118. Education in the Korean labor movement, 1980-2023: Institutionalizing education, democratizing pedagogy

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Author:
Kim, Jaeung
Title:
Education in the Korean labor movement, 1980-2023: Institutionalizing education, democratizing pedagogy
Graduate Program:
Lifelong Learning and Adult Education
Keywords:
workers' education
labor movement
South Korea
democratic pedagogy
social movement education
political ethnography
popular education
labor unions
adult education
organizational strategy
institutionalization of education
File:
Download Jaeung_Education_in_the_Korean_labor_movement_Final_Submission.pdf
Committee Members:
Heather Zimmerman, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Esther Prins, Major Field Member
Elaine Hui, Outside Unit Member
Jose Cossa, Major Field Member
John Holst, Co-Chair, Outside Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Rebecca Tarlau, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

21119. Agent-based Modeling of Biological Active Matter

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Author:
Li, Changhao
Title:
Agent-based Modeling of Biological Active Matter
Graduate Program:
Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:
Biophysics
Applied Mechanics
Morphogenesis
Self-patterning
Scientific Machine Learning
Agent-based Modeling
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Committee Members:
Sulin Zhang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Qing Wang, Outside Unit Member
Adri van Duin, Outside Field Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Amir Sheikhi, Outside Field Member
Nanyin Zhang, Major Field Member

21120. Essays in Estimation of Discrete Choice Demand Models

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Author:
Sagl, Stephan
Title:
Essays in Estimation of Discrete Choice Demand Models
Graduate Program:
Economics
Keywords:
demand estimation
personalized pricing
price discrimination
automobile market
pickup trucks
demand estimation
personalized pricing
price discrimination
automobile market
price dispersion
File:
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Committee Members:
Marc Henry, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Edward Jaenicke, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joris Pinkse, Major Field Member
Mark Roberts, Major Field Member
Paul Grieco, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

21121. Development of Structural Capacity Relations for 3D Printed Lightweight Concrete with Mixtures Including Expanded Polystyrene

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Author:
Aminpour, Nima
Title:
Development of Structural Capacity Relations for 3D Printed Lightweight Concrete with Mixtures Including Expanded Polystyrene
Graduate Program:
Architectural Engineering
Keywords:
3D concrete printing
structural analysis
concrete
atoumated construction
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Committee Members:
Julian Wang, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jose Pinto Duarte, Outside Field Member
Nathan Brown, Major Field Member
Ali Memari, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Aleksandra Radli¿ska, Outside Unit Member

21122. The Moralization-Polarization Nexus: Unraveling the Dynamic Relationship Between Elite Politics and Public Opinion

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Author:
Davoodi, Marjan
Title:
The Moralization-Polarization Nexus: Unraveling the Dynamic Relationship Between Elite Politics and Public Opinion
Graduate Program:
Sociology
Keywords:
Elite Moralization
Public Polarization
Word Embeddings
American Politics
Politics of Abortion
Mixed-Method Research
Computational Social Science
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Committee Members:
Michelle Frisco, Program Head/Chair
Gary Adler, Major Field Member
Daniel DellaPosta, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr
Charles Seguin, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr
Kevin Munger, Outside Unit & Field Member

21123. Beyond Accommodation: Access Problems and Responsibilities

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Author:
Lajoie, Corinne
Title:
Beyond Accommodation: Access Problems and Responsibilities
Graduate Program:
Philosophy
Keywords:
disability
accessibility
inclusion
higher education
responsibility
File:
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Committee Members:
Nancy Tuana, Major Field Member
Sarah Miller, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ted Toadvine, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ami Harbin, Special Member
Michael Bérubé, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sarah Miller, Program Head/Chair

21124. Differentiation of Continental Crust: insights from the Variscan Orogeny and the Global Array of Terrigenous Sediments

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Author:
Connop, Charlotte
Title:
Differentiation of Continental Crust: insights from the Variscan Orogeny and the Global Array of Terrigenous Sediments
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
metamorphic petrology
Variscan Orogeny
partial melting
metamorphism
s-type granites
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Committee Members:
Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Andrew Smye, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Outside Unit Member
Mark Caddick, Special Member
Tanya Furman, Outside Field Member
Jesse Reimink, Major Field Member

21125. Identification of Structural Variation in Pediatric B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and its Role in Health Disparity

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Author:
Budurlean, Laura
Title:
Identification of Structural Variation in Pediatric B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and its Role in Health Disparity
Graduate Program:
Biomedical Sciences
Keywords:
B-ALL
structural variation
bionano
optical genome mapping
wgs
SVs
b-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
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Committee Members:
James Broach, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amanda Nelson, Outside Field Member
Todd Schell, Outside Unit Member
Joshua I Warrick, Special Member
Sinisa Dovat, Major Field Member
Joshua I Warrick, Special Member
Lisa M Shantz, Program Head/Chair

21126. Data-Driven Scene Reconstruction, Understanding and Generation

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Author:
Liu, Jiachen
Title:
Data-Driven Scene Reconstruction, Understanding and Generation
Graduate Program:
Informatics
Keywords:
data-driven
3D scene reconstruction
plane reconstruction
generalizability
scene layout generation
floorplan
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Committee Members:
Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
James Wang, Major Field Member
Sharon Huang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Fenglong Ma, Major Field Member
Huijuan Xu, Outside Unit & Field Member

21127. Cross-language transfer in voice onset time: A window into perceptual adaptation in brain and behavior

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Author:
Zaharchuk, Holly
Title:
Cross-language transfer in voice onset time: A window into perceptual adaptation in brain and behavior
Graduate Program:
Psychology
Keywords:
psycholinguistics
adaptation
accent
EEG
ERP
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Committee Members:
Michele Diaz, Major Field Member
Janet van Hell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss, Program Head/Chair
Navin Viswanathan, Outside Field Member
Matthew Carlson, Outside Unit Member

21128. Effects of toxin sequestration in spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) on predator-prey interactions in North America

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Author:
Johnson, Anne
Title:
Effects of toxin sequestration in spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) on predator-prey interactions in North America
Graduate Program:
Entomology
Keywords:
Spotted lanternfly
Predation
Toxin sequestration
Quassinoids
Lycorma delicatula
Invasive species
File:
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Committee Members:
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Kelli Hoover, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Fang Zhu, Major Field Member
Allison Cornell, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sara Hermann, Major Field Member

21129. A Framework Aligning Sustainability and Climate Change Resilience in the Delivery of Low-Income Housing

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Author:
Obeng-Ayirebi, Solomon
Title:
A Framework Aligning Sustainability and Climate Change Resilience in the Delivery of Low-Income Housing
Graduate Program:
Architectural Engineering
Keywords:
Sustainable Housing
Climate Change Adaptation
Housing Affordability
Catastrophic Weather Events
Low-Income Neighborhoods
Resilient Housing Solutions
Sustainability
Framework
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Committee Members:
Esther Adhiambo Obonyo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair
Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, Committee Member
James Mutunga, Committee Member

21130. Prospective Teachers’ Reasoning While Pair Programming Geometric Patterns

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Author:
Dinc, Emre
Title:
Prospective Teachers’ Reasoning While Pair Programming Geometric Patterns
Graduate Program:
Learning, Design, and Technology
Keywords:
mathematical reasoning
block-based programming
algebraic thinking
prospective teachers
cognitive mechanisms
constructionism
instrumental sociogenesis
pattern generalization
visual cues
rule generation
pair programming
geometric patterns
dynamic objects
pattern recognition
visualization
colalboration
recursive reasoning
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Committee Members:
Susan Land, Program Head/Chair
Susan Land, Major Field Member
Xiangquan Yao, Outside Unit Member
Rose Zbiek, Outside Field Member
ChanMin Kim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

21131. The Economic Benefits of Forested Riparian Buffers: An Empirical Evaluation

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Author:
Pohlman, Max
Title:
The Economic Benefits of Forested Riparian Buffers: An Empirical Evaluation
Graduate Program:
Energy, Environmental, and Food Economics (PhD)
Keywords:
Nonmarket valuation
Water quality
Non-point source pollution
Recreation Demand
Best Management Practices
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Committee Members:
Katherine Zipp, Program Head/Chair
Daniel Brent, Major Field Member
Martina Vecchi, Outside Field Member
Katherine Zipp, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Melissa Kreye, Outside Unit Member

21132. The Romantic Bower

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Author:
Le Blanc, David
Title:
The Romantic Bower
Graduate Program:
English
Keywords:
Romanticism
Poetry
Poetics
Anthropocene
Pastoral
Bower
Edmund Spenser
Mary Robinson
John Clare
Felicia Hemans
Charlotte Smith
The Faerie Queene
Post Humanism
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Timothy Morton
Manuel Arias-Maldonado
Heather Sullivan
Jacques Khalip
Andreas Malm
Anahid Nersessian
File:
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Committee Members:
Claire Colebrook, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Shara McCallum, Major Field Member
Daniel Purdy, Outside Unit & Field Member
Hester Blum, Major Field Member
Janet Lyon, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

21133. Towards Co-creation: Exploring Modalities of Vision-augmented Robotic Fabrication for Automation and Beyond

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Author:
Capunaman, Ozguc
Title:
Towards Co-creation: Exploring Modalities of Vision-augmented Robotic Fabrication for Automation and Beyond
Graduate Program:
Architecture
Keywords:
Computer Vision
Robotic Fabrication
Additive Manufacturing
Digital Twin
3D Scanning
Conformal 3D Printing
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Committee Members:
Frank Jacobus, Program Head/Chair
Jose Pinto Duarte, Major Field Member
Benay Gursoy Toykoc, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chris McComb, Special Member
Loukas Kalisperis, Major Field Member
Onur Yuce Gun, Special Member
Katie Fitzsimons, Outside Unit & Field Member

21134. Novel Designs to Mitigate the Negative Impacts of Dirt Deposition in Combustor Walls

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Author:
Mc Ferran, Kyle
Title:
Novel Designs to Mitigate the Negative Impacts of Dirt Deposition in Combustor Walls
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
Double-Walled Combustor Liners
Triple-Walled Combustor Liners
Combustor Liners
Dirt Deposition
Dirt Blockage
Impingement/Effusion Cooling
Heat Transfer
Dirt Mitigation
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Committee Members:
Karen Ann Thole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reid A Berdanier, Committee Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Stephen P Lynch, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

21135. Minimax Optimal Spectral Regularized Kernel Hypothesis Tests

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Author:
Hagrass, Omar
Title:
Minimax Optimal Spectral Regularized Kernel Hypothesis Tests
Graduate Program:
Statistics
Keywords:
maximum mean discrepancy
Two-sample test
reproducing kernel Hilbert space
reproducing kernel Hilbert space
covariance operator
U-statistic
Bernstein’s inequality
minimax separation
permutation test
spectral regularization
Goodness-of-fit test
kernel Stein discrepancy
adaptivity
adaptivity
wild bootstrap
File:
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Committee Members:
Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yanyuan Ma, Major Field Member
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Necdet Aybat, Outside Unit & Field Member
Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Special Member
Zoltan Szabo, Special Member

21136. A Concept- and Corpus-Based Instruction to Promote Effective Communication in Disciplinary Research Writing: Development of Sentence-Level Linguistic Knowledge in ESL/EFL Graduate Students

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Author:
Qiu, Xixin
Title:
A Concept- and Corpus-Based Instruction to Promote Effective Communication in Disciplinary Research Writing: Development of Sentence-Level Linguistic Knowledge in ESL/EFL Graduate Students
Graduate Program:
Applied Linguistics
Keywords:
concept-based language instruction
data-driven learning
engineering writing
L2 writing pedagogy
multilingual graduate students
subordination
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Committee Members:
Tommaso Milani, Program Head/Chair
Meredith Doran, Major Field Member
Catherine Berdanier, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kevin McManus, Major Field Member
Xiaofei Lu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

21137. Essays on Non-Linear Pricing

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Author:
Rojas Echeverri, Manuel
Title:
Essays on Non-Linear Pricing
Graduate Program:
Economics
Keywords:
Water demand
nonlinear pricing
developing countries
Non-Linear Pricing
Developing Countries
Distributional Effects
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Committee Members:
Marc Henry, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Karl Schurter, Major Field Member
Edward Jaenicke, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joris Pinkse, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Michael Gechter, Major Field Member

21138. Life Cycle Assessment of Grass-To-Gas Cropping Systems at Farm-Scale in a Pennsylvania Dairy Production System

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Open Access
Author:
Kelly, De Waunis
Title:
Life Cycle Assessment of Grass-To-Gas Cropping Systems at Farm-Scale in a Pennsylvania Dairy Production System
Graduate Program:
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Keywords:
Life Cycle Assessment
Dairy Life Cycle Assessment
File:
Download Kelly_DeWaunis_Thesis_Final__1___3_.pdf
Committee Members:
Christine Costello, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heather D Karsten, Committee Member
Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Juliana Vasco-Correa, Committee Member

21139. Queering Video Gameplay as a Critical and Affective Praxis in Art Education

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Author:
Gezeroglu, Munire
Title:
Queering Video Gameplay as a Critical and Affective Praxis in Art Education
Graduate Program:
Art Education
Keywords:
Agential Realism
Art Education
Posthuman
Queering
Video Gameplay
Visual/Digital Culture
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Committee Members:
Karen Keifer-Boyd, Program Head/Chair
Aaron Knochel, Major Field Member
Joseph Valente, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Wanda Knight, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Karen Keifer-Boyd, Major Field Member

21141. When Creativity Goes Rogue: Study of Virtual Reality’s Effects on Malevolent Creativity on an Individual and Team Level from First Year Engineering Students

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Open Access
Author:
Cai, Marc
Title:
When Creativity Goes Rogue: Study of Virtual Reality’s Effects on Malevolent Creativity on an Individual and Team Level from First Year Engineering Students
Graduate Program:
Engineering Design
Keywords:
Virtual Reality
Decision Theory
Design Theory
Design Methodology
Design Process
Design Theory and Methodology
Design Methdology
Design Teams
Malevolent Creativity
Design Fixation
Team Personality
File:
Download Jiacheng_Cai_Thesis_7.8.24.pdf
Committee Members:
Scarlett Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Mazyck, Program Head/Chair
Jessica Dolores Menold, Committee Member

21142. Deciphering the Interplay between Structure, Mechanics, and Growth Dynamics of Primary Cell Walls

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Author:
Yu, Jingyi
Title:
Deciphering the Interplay between Structure, Mechanics, and Growth Dynamics of Primary Cell Walls
Graduate Program:
Plant Biology
Keywords:
Primary cell walls
Mechanics
Growth
Structure-function analysis
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Committee Members:
Enrique Gomez, Outside Field Member
Sulin Zhang, Outside Unit Member
Daniel Cosgrove, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Charles Anderson, Major Field Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair

21143. Design, Synthesis, and Modification of Inorganic Nanoparticles

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Author:
Young, Haley
Title:
Design, Synthesis, and Modification of Inorganic Nanoparticles
Graduate Program:
Chemistry
Keywords:
nanoparticles
synthesis
metal chalcogenide
post-synthetic modification
cation exchange
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Committee Members:
Benjamin Lear, Major Field Member
Enrique Gomez, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Elizabeth Elacqua, Major Field Member
Raymond Schaak, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Robert Rioux, Outside Unit & Field Member

21144. Caregiver-Child Communication Following Child Maltreatment: A Dynamic Systems Approach

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Open Access
Author:
Olson, Anneke
Title:
Caregiver-Child Communication Following Child Maltreatment: A Dynamic Systems Approach
Graduate Program:
Human Development and Family Studies
Keywords:
Child maltreatment
Emotion Regulation
Caregiver-Child Relationships
Dynamic Systems
File:
Download Olson_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Douglas Teti, Program Head/Chair
Jennie Noll, Major Field Member
Chad Shenk, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sy-Miin Chow, Major Field Member
Sunny Bai, Major Field Member
Martha Wadsworth, Outside Unit & Field Member

21146. Career and Technical Education Teachers' Perceptions of the Impact of School-Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports on Their Professional Growth and Self-Efficacy for Classroom Management

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Open Access
Author:
O'Dellick, Michael
Title:
Career and Technical Education Teachers' Perceptions of the Impact of School-Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports on Their Professional Growth and Self-Efficacy for Classroom Management
Graduate Program:
Educational Leadership (DED)
Keywords:
self-efficacy
school-wide positive behavior interventions and supports
career and technical education
classroom management
students with disabilities
post-high school transitions
File:
Download Mike_O_Dellick_Dissertation_Final_Copy_June_17__2024.pdf
Committee Members:
Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair
Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Outside Unit Member
Joey Fleck, Outside Field Member
Marsha Modeste, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Threeton, Outside Field Member

21147. HIV within-host modeling of viral invasion and re-invasion: hypotheses into immune responses

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Open Access
Author:
Mainou, Ellie
Title:
HIV within-host modeling of viral invasion and re-invasion: hypotheses into immune responses
Graduate Program:
Biology
Keywords:
HIV cure
Viral rebound
pediatric HIV
mathematical modeling
Acute HIV infection
Nonlinear Mixed Effects Modeling
Model Selection
Immune responses
Latent reservoir
Ensemble modeling
File:
Download Mainou_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:
Elizabeth Mcgraw, Program Head/Chair
Ephraim Hanks, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ottar Bjornstad, Chair of Committee
Jessica Conway, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Maciej Boni, Major Field Member
Cliburn Chan, Special Member

21148. Three Essays on Flood Risk and FEMA’s Community Rating System

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Open Access
Author:
Ren, Yongwang
Title:
Three Essays on Flood Risk and FEMA’s Community Rating System
Graduate Program:
Energy, Environmental, and Food Economics (PhD)
Keywords:
flood risk community rating system
flood insurance
property market
flood risk
community rating system
flood insurance
property market
File:
Download Dissertation_Ren_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Katherine Zipp, Program Head/Chair
Daniel Brent, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Edward Jaenicke, Outside Field Member
Douglas Wrenn, Major Field Member
Xun Cao, Outside Unit Member

21149. Geospatial Sensemaking in Protected Areas to Understand Wildlife Poaching Patterns

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Author:
Zeller Zigaitis, Wendy
Title:
Geospatial Sensemaking in Protected Areas to Understand Wildlife Poaching Patterns
Graduate Program:
Geography
Keywords:
geospatial synthesis
sensemaking
protected areas
wildlife poaching
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Committee Members:
Anthony Robinson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Erica Smithwick, Major Field Member
Jan A. Venter, Special Member
Roger Downs, Major Field Member
Brian King, Program Head/Chair
Guoray Cai, Outside Unit & Field Member

21150. Towards Exclusive Low-Latency Detection of Gravitational Waves and the Inference of Neutron Star Equation of State with Next Generation Detection Networks

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Author:
Huxford, Rachael
Title:
Towards Exclusive Low-Latency Detection of Gravitational Waves and the Inference of Neutron Star Equation of State with Next Generation Detection Networks
Graduate Program:
Physics
Keywords:
gravitational waves
astrophysics
equation of state
File:
Download Huxford-Dissertation-Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Mauricio Terrones, Program Head/Chair
David Radice, Major Field Member
Donghui Jeong, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bangalore Sathyaprakash, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr
Chad Hanna, Dissertation Co-Advisor