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Author:

George, Sumitha

Title:

Technology Driven Architecture Support for Memory Hierarchies

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Cache
Memory
FEFET
FeFET
NCFET
MDA
symmetric memory
2Dimensional Memory
2D Memory
Tag-less cache
Tagless
CAM
non-volatile
flip-flop
flipflop
Content Addressable Memory
Approximate CAM
Non volatility

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Special Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kim, Joyce

Title:

Neural control of the circulation during exercise in healthy rats and in those with simulated peripheral artery disease

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

APETx2
exercise pressor reflex
mechanoreceptor reflex
metaboreceptor reflex
protons
diprotonated phosphate
lactic acid
peripheral artery disease
sympathetic nervous system
thin fiber muscle afferents
autonomic nervous system
static contraction
tendon stretch

File:

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Committee Members:

Marc Kaufman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marc Kaufman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lawrence Isaac Sinoway, Committee Member
Victor J Ruiz-Velasco, Committee Member
Charles H Lang, Outside Member
Gail Doreen Thomas, Committee Member
Ralph Lauren Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Chang Jiang

Title:

Advanced High-Speed Solid-State Optical-Beam Control Devices

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Electro-Optics
Ferroeletrics
Potassium Tantalate Niobate
Optical Deflector
Vari-focal Lens
Light Emitting Diode
Light Extraction Efficiency

File:

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Committee Members:

Shizhuo Yin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shizhuo Yin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Victor P Pasko, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Jian Hsu, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bhuiyan, Nishat Anjum

Title:

An Exploration of Physical Activity Interventions and Factors Associated with Physical Activity Behaviors Among Rural Residents in the United States

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology

Keywords:

Physical activity
rural health disparities

File:

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Committee Members:

Scherezade Kelly Mama, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scherezade Kelly Mama, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David E Conroy, Committee Member
Kathryn Schmitz, Committee Member
Joshua Morrison Smyth, Outside Member
Jonathan Bates Dingwell, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Saladin, Marissa

Title:

Electron Transfer in Ionic Liquids: Intramolecular and Transer-to-Solvent Reactions

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

electron transfer
ionic liquids
ultrafast spectroscopy

File:

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Committee Members:

Mark Maroncelli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
John H Golbeck, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yang, Guolan

Title:

Advertising Recognition and Persuasion in the Context of Sponsored Influencer Content: Effects of Disclosure Prominence, Message Involvement, and Persuasion Knowledge

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

sponsorship disclosure
persuasion knowledge
involvement
native advertising
advertising recognition
resistance

File:

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Committee Members:

Fuyuan Shen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fuyuan Shen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Denise Sevick Bortree, Committee Member
Francis Erin Dardis, Committee Member
Michael Grant Schmierbach, Outside Member
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chrisfield, Benjamin James

Title:

The Effects of Copper-Based Fungicides on The Quality and Performance of Hops

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

Hops
Copper
Fungicides
Quality
Transition Metals
Beer
Oxidation

File:

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Committee Members:

Ryan John Elias, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ryan John Elias, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Helene Hopfer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joshua D Lambert, Committee Member
Alexey Silakov, Outside Member
Robert F Roberts, Program Head/Chair
Helene Hopfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Vafi Sani, Jalal

Title:

Information environment, the organization of firms, and investment decisions

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Agency friction
corporate disclosure
corporate investment
delegation of decision making
information environment
organization of firms

File:

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Committee Members:

Karl A Muller, III, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl A Muller, III, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henock Louis, Committee Member
Hal White, Committee Member
David Haushalter, Outside Member
Jeremiah Green, Special Member
Brent William Ambrose, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wen, Jiawei

Title:

Multi-block ADMM Algorithms for High-dimensional Sparse Estimation

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Feature partition
Alternating direction method of multipliers
High dimensional data

File:

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Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ethan Xingyuan Fang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Helen Marie Kamens, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair
Ethan Xingyuan Fang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

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 (MS)

Keywords:

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

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Laveaga, Erica

Title:

Developmental and mortality rate of spotted lanternfly (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae) on grapevines and tree of heaven

Graduate Program:

Entomology (MS)

Keywords:

Development
Mortality
Reproduction

File:

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Committee Members:

Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Flor E Acevedo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michela Centinari, Committee Member
Julie Marie Urban, Committee Member
Kelli Hoover, Committee Member

Author:

Ivanova, Miglena

Title:

Codeveloping Trajectories of Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior Problems From Toddlerhood to Early School Age: Role of Prenatal Substance Exposure and Caregiver Sensitivity

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

externalizing problems
internalizing problems
codeveloping trajectories
prenatal substance exposure
caregiver sensitivity
parallel-process latent growth curve modeling
externalizing problems
internalizing problems
codeveloping trajectories
prenatal substance exposure
caregiver sensitivity
parallel-process latent growth curve modeling

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Committee Members:

Rina Das Eiden, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jenae Neiderhiser, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Peter C. M. Molenaar, Committee Member

Author:

Jangam, Avesh Avinash

Title:

Treatment Planning for Thermal Therapies to Treat Glioblastoma Multiforme

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

GBM
LITT
magnetic nanoparticles hyperthermia
simulation model
treatment planning
thermal therapies
medical tool
simulation tool

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Committee Members:

Rick Ciocci, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Anilchandra Attaluri, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brian Allen Maicke, Committee Member
Anirudh Sharma, Committee Member

Author:

Jackson, Luke

Title:

Analyzing the Impact of Distribution Center Location on E-Commerce Network Design

Graduate Program:

Data Analytics (MS)

Keywords:

Supply Chain
Data Analysis
Clustering Model
Geospatial Analysis
E-commerce

File:

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Committee Members:

Colin Neill, Program Head/Chair
Guanghua Qiu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raghu Sangwan, Committee Member
Youakim Badr, Committee Member

Author:

Johnston, Alexis

Title:

The Effect of Vitamin D Deficiency on Vitamin D Receptor Expression in a VDR/Cre Reporter Mouse and the Effect of Vitamin D on Survival and Natural Killer Cells in Influenza A Infection

Graduate Program:

Pathobiology (MS)

Keywords:

vitamin d
natural killer cell
nk cell
influenza
vdr
cyp27b1

File:

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Committee Members:

Margherita Teresa-Anna Cantorna, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vishal Singh, Committee Member
Kumble Prabhu, Program Head/Chair
Robert Paulson, Committee Member
Troy Clavell Sutton, Committee Member

Author:

Kou, Tianqi

Title:

Reconceptualizing Machine Learning Reproducibility

Graduate Program:

Informatics (MS)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Reproducibility
Philosophy of Machine Learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Fred Fonseca, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Priya Kumar, Committee Member
Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
Daniel Susser, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kelm, Madison

Title:

Predictors of Parenting at Toddler Age: Maternal Childhood Maltreatment, Prenatal Substance Use, and Pre-to-Postnatal Maternal Mood Unpredictability

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

Maternal sensitivity
harshness
mood unpredictability
prenatal substance use
childhood maltreatment

File:

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Committee Members:

Rina Das Eiden, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erika Sell Lunkenheimer, Committee Member
Kristin Buss, Program Head/Chair
Pamela Marie Cole, Committee Member
Stephanie Godleski, Special Signatory

Author:

King, Rachel

Title:

Evaluating Realistic Deployments of Trusted Execution Environments in the Tor Network

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

trusted execution environments
security
tor network

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member

Author:

Heon, Alban Philippe

Title:

Systematic Evaluation of Geo-Location Privacy Mechanisms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

privacy
obfuscation mechanism
location privacy

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Zhaoran

Title:

Optimization of Hot Water Pretreatment of Switchgrass for Acidogenic and Anaerobic Digestion

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Switchgrass
Liquid Hot Water Pretreatment
Acidogenic Digestion
Anaerobic Digestion

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Committee Members:

Tom Richard, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali Demirci, Committee Member
Suat Irmak, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Rachel Brennan, Committee Member