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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:

Download Andrew_Lefever_MS_Thesis_11-22-22.pdf

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:

Download Xinyi_Thesis_Final.pdf

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:

Download Thesis_Zhanchen_Dong.pdf

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:

Download Felins-MSThesis.pdf

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:

Download Beyda_Masters_Thesis.pdf

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:

Download JE_PSU_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

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:

Download WilliamWang-thesis-20220727.pdf

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:

Download Daniel_Thesis_Final_Version_UpdatedFormatReview.pdf

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:

Download Dyer_MS_Thesis.pdf

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:

Download Blunk_Thesis_Final_version.pdf

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:

Download Masters_Thesis_Mohamed_Osman_Submit.pdf

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:

Download FarihaAzhar_EDSGN_Thesis_22.pdf

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:

Download AQUINO_CARLFREDRICK_MastersThesis.pdf

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:

Download DST_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Whichard, Corey Logan

Title:

Social Ties During Incarceration and Community Reentry: A Network Approach to Prison Life, Reentry Preparation, and the Return Home

Graduate Program:

Criminology

Keywords:

Incarceration
Reentry
Social Networks
Prison

File:

Download Whichard_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Allen Kreager, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Allen Kreager, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
D. W. Osgood, Committee Member
Richard B Felson, Committee Member
Susan Marie Mchale, Outside Member
Sara Wakefield, Special Member

Author:

Fonseca Pacheco, Fernando

Title:

The Theater of Futures Past: Infrastructures of the Latin American Avant-Garde

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

Theater
avant-garde
Latin America
infrastructure
Asturias
Ramiro Guerra
Hugo Carrillo
Carpentier
Roldán
José Coronel Urtecho
Joaquín Pasos
Cuba
Nicaragua
Guatemala

File:

Download PS-Thesis-FernandoFonsecaPacheco.pdf

Committee Members:

Sarah J. Townsend, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarah J. Townsend, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Julia Cuervo Hewitt, Committee Member
Jonathan P. Eburne, Committee Member
Maria Rosa Truglio, Outside Member

Author:

Champi, Christopher

Title:

First- and second-person singular subject pronoun expression in Dominican Spanish: The structure and acquisition of variable forms

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

Subject Pronoun Expression
Variation
Acquisition of Variation
Dominican Spanish

File:

Download Champi_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Committee Member
Matthew Carlson, Committee Member
Michael Putnam, Outside Member

Author:

Geraths, Cory Paul

Title:

Voices and Visages: Mary Magdalene's Afterlives in Text and Art

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Mary Magdalene
Rhetoric
Historiography
Feminism
Art
Afterlives
Christianity
Communication
Graphic
Apocryphal
Gnostic

File:

Download Geraths_Dissertation_-_Final_for_Graduate_School.pdf

Committee Members:

Michele Kennerly, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michele Kennerly, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rosa Eberly, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
Cheryl Glenn, Outside Member

Author:

Lee, Eunjeong

Title:

TRANSLINGUAL DISPOSITION, NEGOTIATION PRACTICES, AND RHETORICAL ATTUNEMENT: MULTILINGUAL WRITERS’ LEARNING OF ACADEMIC WRITING

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

translingual disposition
rhetorical attunement
multilingual writing
negotiation

File:

Download Lee_dissertation_draft_final.pdf

Committee Members:

A. Suresh Canagarajah, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
A. Suresh Canagarajah, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sinfree Bullock Makoni, Committee Member
Karen E Johnson, Committee Member
Xiaoye You, Outside Member
Mari Haneda, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, Michelle Nancy

Title:

Molecular Aesthetics: Race, Form, and Matter in Contemporary Asian American Literature

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Asian American literature
posthumanism
feminist science studies
American literature

File:

Download mnh_-_Dissertation__FILED_.pdf

Committee Members:

Tina Chen Goudie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tina Chen Goudie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member
Michael Francis Berube, Committee Member
Gabeba Baderoon, Outside Member

Author:

Kisselev, Olesya Viktorovna

Title:

WORD ORDER AND INFORMATION STRUCTURE IN THE WRITING OF HERITAGE AND SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS OF RUSSIAN: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

word order
information structure
learner language
Russian as a heritage language

File:

Download Kisselev_dissertation_August3_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaofei Lu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Lantolf, Committee Member
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Committee Member
Irina Mikaelian, Outside Member

Author:

Youn, Soo Jeong

Title:

THERAPIST EFFECTS: UNPACKING THE MEANING BEHIND DIFFERENCES

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

therapist effects
practice oriented research
practice research networks
psychotherapy process

File:

Download Youn_Dissertation_formatted_for_PSU_6.2.17_updated.pdf

Committee Members:

Louis Georges Castonguay, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Louis Georges Castonguay, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Jeffrey Wilson, Committee Member
Jeffrey Hayes, Committee Member
Peter Cm Molenaar, Outside Member

Author:

Bhargava, Sakshi

Title:

Individual and Contextual Predictors of Middle School Youth’s Academic Outcomes

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

home-based involvement
school-based involvement
academic socialization
neighborhood structure
social dynamics
behavioral engagement
emotional engagement
academic performance

File:

Download Dissertation_Final_Revised_1_SB07202017.pdf

Committee Members:

Dawn Paula Witherspoon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dawn Paula Witherspoon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Committee Member
Sandra T Azar, Committee Member
Mayra Y Bamaca, Outside Member

Author:

Zak, Amanda

Title:

Snowshoe Hare (Lepus americanus) Range Contraction in Pennsylvania and Forest Features That Increase Population Resilience

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Snowshoe hare
Lepus americanus
Climate change
Range contraction
Occupancy modeling
Species distribution modeling
Spatially-explicit capture-recapture
Forest management
Pennsylvania
Snowshoe hare
Lepus americanus
Climate change
Range contraction
Occupancy modeling
Species distribution modeling
Spatially-explicit capture-recapture
Forest management
Pennsylvania

File:

Download AmandaZak_MastersThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Duane R Diefenbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cassandra M Miller-Butterworth, Committee Member
Jason Kaye, Program Head/Chair
David Andrew Miller, Committee Member
Emily S Boyd, Special Signatory

Author:

Alvarado, Nathan

Title:

Design and Thermal Modeling of a Semi-Passive, Low-Power Ice Protection System for eVTOL

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Ice Protection
Icing
CFD
Heat Transfer
Rotorcraft
eVTOL
Wind Tunnel Testing
Anti-Icing
De-Icing
AERTS

File:

Download Thesis_-_Nathan_Alvarado__Final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bladimir Ramos-Alvarado, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Edward Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Kramer, Michael

Title:

Non-axisymmetric Fan Inlet and Exit Guide Vane Design to Mitigate Circumferential Inlet Distortion Effects

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Ducts
boundary layer ingestion
inlet distortion
fan
rotor
IGV
EGV
mitigation

File:

Download Michael_Kramer_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

David K Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Tamy Guimaraes, Committee Member

Author:

Roman, Caterina

Title:

Biological management of soil-borne pathogens within Pennsylvania high tunnel tomato production

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology

Keywords:

root-knot nematodes
anaerobic soil disinfestion
Colletotrichum coccodes
Pseudopyrenochatea
Biocontrols
Soil-borne diseases

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Committee Members:

Beth Krueger Gugino, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sharifa G Crandall, Committee Member
Maria Del Mar Jimenez Gasco, Program Head/Chair
Mihail Kantor, Committee Member
Francesco Di Gioia, Committee Member

Author:

Boldaz, Cameron

Title:

Engineering Processes of Mechanical Decortication for Industrial Hemp

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

Hemp
Decortication
Fiber
Textile
Biomass
Hemp Decortication
Bast
Hurd
Shive
Machinery
Agriculture
Agricultural Machinery

File:

Download Engineering_Processes_of_Mechanical_Decortication_for_Industrial_Hemp.pdf

Committee Members:

Jude Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Edward Ciolkosz, Committee Member
Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Ali M Memari, Committee Member
David James Lyons, Committee Member

Author:

Karan, Adam

Title:

Using Ultrasonic Wave Speed to Monitor the Debulk and Cure of Composite Materials

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Composites
Debulk
Ultrasonic Sensors
Composite Curing
ABH Taper
Stiffeners
Carbon Fiber Epoxy

File:

Download 3-27-25_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles E Bakis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cliff Lissenden, Committee Member
Laura Cabrera, Program Head/Chair
Christopher Kube, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Glenn, Ryan

Title:

Accurate Target Tracking using Reachability Analysis and State Constraints

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Kalman filter
reachability analysis
state constraints

File:

Download Master_s_Thesis__Final_Version_.pdf

Committee Members:

Puneet Singla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roshan Thomas Eapen, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Eric Norman Johnson, Committee Member

Author:

Goyal, Praney

Title:

Exploring Counterfactual Explanations for Text-Based Data Using Large Language Models

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Counterfactual Explanation

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Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amulya Yadav, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Schmidt, Matthew

Title:

A Generalized Enrichment Procedure for Finite Element Methods with Applications to Compressible Flows

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

enrichment
compressible Navier-Stokes
finite element methods
velocity
temperature
XFEM

File:

Download MatthewSchmidtThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

David M Williams, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiang Yang, Committee Member
Mary Frecker, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Suhy, Tori

Title:

Back to the Future: A Scoping Review on the Utility of Device-Based Physical Activity and Sleep Features to Inform Digital Monitoring and Phenotyping in Relation to Prenatal Maternal Health Outcomes

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology

Keywords:

Digital Phenotyping
Wearable Devices
Physical Activity
Sleep
Pregnancy
Maternal Health Outcomes

File:

Download Thesis_SUHY_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Danielle Symons Downs, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melissa Jean Bopp, Committee Member
Jonathan Dingwell, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
David E Conroy, Committee Member

Author:

Abdulqader, Omar

Title:

Investigation of Solvent Vapor Smoothing on Surface Roughness and Mechanical Properties of 3D-Printed Polycarbonate (PC) Parts

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Polycarbonate
PC
3D-Printing
Hot Vapor Smoothing
Fused Deposition Modeling
Additive Manufacturing
AM
Surface Roughness

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Committee Members:

Ola Hamada Rashwan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhezhen Fu, Committee Member
Brian Maicke, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Sheikh Fahad Ferdous, Committee Member

Author:

Chorney, Lance

Title:

MULTI-AGENT REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR GUIDANCE AND CONTROL OF UNMANNED UNDERWATER VEHICLES IN DYNAMIC DOCKING SCENARIOS

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

reinforcement learning
proximal policy optimization
PPO
Remus 100
Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
Multi-agent
Autonomous Control
Guidance
Control

File:

Download MULTI_AGENT_REINFORCEMENT_LEARNING_FOR_GUIDANCE_AND_CONTROL_OF_UNMANNED_UNDERWATER_VEHICLES_IN_DYNAMIC_DOCKING_SCENARIOS.pdf

Committee Members:

Simon W Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sara B Noss, Committee Member
Joseph Horn, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Scott D Hanford, Committee Member
Alfred Scott Lewis, Committee Member

Author:

D'Andrea, Astrid

Title:

Chemical Determinants of Sourness and Related Attributes

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

citrate
citric acid
counterion
liking
pH
titratable acidity
organic acids
lactic acid
malic acid
fumaric acid
tartaric acid
perception

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Committee Members:

Helene Hopfer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ryan John Elias, Committee Member
Robert Roberts, Program Head/Chair
John Hayes, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kuang, Yaozheng

Title:

Evaluation of the reactive power generation of grid-tied photovoltaic inverter with low/high voltage ride-through capability

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Photovoltaic Inverter
Reactive Power Compensation
Renewable Energy Integration
Voltage Ride-Through
IEEE 1547-2018
Simulink Simulation

File:

Download Yaozheng_Kuang_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Yunting Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yan Li, Committee Member
John Doherty, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Committee Member

Author:

Cravener, Cheyenne

Title:

Investigating the Learning Strategies Used by Undergraduate Educational Psychology Students: A Mixed Methods Approach

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

Learning Strategies
Undergraduate Students
Mixed Methods
Educational Psychology
Self-Regulated Learning
Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire
Cognitive Strategies
Metacognitive Strategies
Resource Management Strategies

File:

Download Learning_Strategies_in_Undergraduate_Students_Cravener_FINAL_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew T Mc Crudden, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer L Frank, Committee Member
Pui-Wa Lei, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Urist, Amanda

Title:

High Phosphate Availability in Tonian Period Oceans

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Phosphorus
Neoproterozoic
Carbonate-associated phosphate

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Committee Members:

Miquela Ingalls, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lee Kump, Committee Member
Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Kimberly Lau, Committee Member
Peter Crockford, Committee Member

Author:

Gross, Ethan

Title:

Establishing a Crowdsourcing-Based Data Collection Tool To Identify Sources of Build Failure in Novice AM Designs

Graduate Program:

Engineering Design

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Maker Movement
Material Extrusion
Crowdsourcing Data Collection

File:

Download Final_Masters_ThesisV2.pdf

Committee Members:

Nicholas Alexander Meisel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarah C Ritter, Committee Member
David Mazyck, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Perez, Kevin

Title:

Corridos as Citizen Diplomacy: Cultural Impact of Corridos in the US-Mexico Border Regions

Graduate Program:

Music (MA)

Keywords:

Music
music theory
music history
musicology
corridos
diplomacy
citizen diplomacy
public diplomacy
music diplomacy
cultural diplomacy
chicano
los tigres del norte
norteño
mexican music
mexican regional music
borderlands
borderlands music

File:

Download Corridos_as_Citizen_Diplomacy_-_Cultural_Impact_of_Corridos_in_the_U.S.-Mexico_Border_Regions.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles Dowell Youmans, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Taylor Aitken Greer, Committee Member
Mark Ferraguto, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Mohellebi, Elias Zakaria

Title:

A Machine Learning Framework for Optimizing Travel Restriction Interventions in Response to Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Graduate Program:

Data Analytics

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Travel Restriction Interventions
Infectious Diseases
Outbreaks
Travel Restrictions
Resource Allocation
human mobility
Framework for Travel Restrictions Optimization
Travel Restriction Interventions Tuning Tool
COVID-19
Virus
Epidemic
Pandemic
Strategic Response Plans
Crisis Management
Disaster Management

File:

Download Elias_Mohellebi_Updated_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Satish Mahadevan Srinivasan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ashkan Negahban, Committee Member
Raghu Sangwan, Program Head/Chair
Mohamad Darayi, Committee Member
Nil Hande Ergin, Committee Member
Adrian Sorin Barb, Committee Member

Author:

Tahriri, Farzaneh

Title:

Modeling the Nitrogen Balance and Nitrous Oxide Emission of Organic Grain and Forage Production Systems

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

Nitrous oxide emissions
Nitrogen balance
organic agriculture
Modeling

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Committee Members:

Armen R. Kemanian, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniela Carrijo, Committee Member
Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Juliana Vasco-Correa, Committee Member

Author:

Asger, Sohail

Title:

Understanding Commute Satisfaction: The Role of Travel Mode Dissonance and Regional Variation

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Commute Satisfaction
Satisfaction with Travel Scale (STS)
Multinomial logit (MNL)
travel mode dissonance

File:

Download SAsger_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Sofia Margarita Vidalis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Saravanan Gurupackiam, Committee Member
Shirley Clark, Program Head/Chair
Shashidhara S Marikunte, Committee Member
Nikhil Menon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ghulami, Maryam

Title:

The Association Between Instructional Modality and Students' Evaluation of the World in Conversation Dialogue Program

Graduate Program:

Sociology (MA)

Keywords:

Key words: Online
In-Person
Dialogue program
instructional modalities
Post Program Evaluation (PPE)
World in Conversation (WinC)
Covid 19

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Committee Members:

David P Baker, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Molly Martin, Committee Member
Scott Yabiku, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Charles Seguin, Committee Member

Author:

Ramos, Christopher

Title:

DustCast: An ensemble machine learning model for monthly atmospheric dust aerosol forecasting across the Arabian Peninsula

Graduate Program:

Spatial Data Science

Keywords:

Dust
Aerosol
Machine Learning
Arabian Peninsula
Ensemble

File:

Download Christopher_Ramos_Final_Thesis3.pdf

Committee Members:

Brandi Gaertner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven J Greybush, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anthony Robinson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Daher, Abdallah

Title:

Enhancing Computational Efficiency of PSU-WOPWOP through MPI based Parallelization

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Aeroacoustics
MPI
PSU-WOPWOP
Parallelization
Noise Prediction

File:

Download Daher_Thesis_Final_1.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Steven Brentner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Greenwood, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Alan Richard Wagner, Committee Member

Author:

Van Alstine, Anna E

Title:

Relating Polarimetric Radar Measurements to Quasi-Linear Convective System Cold Pool Properties and Damage Potential

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

Polarimetric Radar
Specific Attenuation
Convective storm systems
Squall lines
Cold pools
Mesoscale processes
Surface observations

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Committee Members:

Matthew Robert Kumjian, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Member
Paul Markowski, Program Head/Chair
Kelly Lombardo, Committee Member

Author:

Pirmohammadjamaat, Amirmoez

Title:

comparing data assimilation methods for differentiable hydrologic models

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

data assimilation
hydrology
Machine Learning
DIFFERENTIABLE HYDROLOGIC MODELS

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Committee Members:

Chaopeng Shen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Farshad Rajabipour, Program Head/Chair
Jonathan M Duncan, Committee Member

Author:

Mukherjee, Avik

Title:

LOCALITY AWARE DYNAMIC MIGRATION OF LAYERS OF LLM BETWEEN GPU AND CPU IN MOBILE AND EDGE DEVICES

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Dynamic Migration
LLM
Transformer
Deep Learning
Computer Architecture

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Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ruslan Nikolaev, Committee Member
Antonio Blanca, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies