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Author:

Wortman, Thomas I.

Title:

Psychosocial Effects of Studying Abroad: Openness to Diversity

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

student development
international education
international
study abroad
diversity
Chickering

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Committee Members:

M Lee Upcraft, Committee Member
Donald E Heller, Committee Member
Robert M Hendrickson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Richard Laubscher, Committee Member
Dennis Stephen Gouran, Committee Member

Author:

Murtha Jr., Timothy Michael

Title:

LAND AND LABOR: CLASSIC MAYA TERRACED AGRICULTURE AT CARACOL, BELIZE

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

Simulation
EPIC
Belize
Caracol
Terraces
Maya
Intensive Agriculture
Terracing
Classic Maya
Agriculture
Cultural Ecology
Land Use
Tropical Ecology
GIS
Cultural Evolution
Labor
British Honduras
Archaeology
Mesoamerica
Anthropology

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Committee Members:

Arlen Chase, Committee Member
William Sanders, Committee Member
David Lee Webster, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Robert Milner, Committee Member
Barry Earl Scheetz, Committee Member
Kenneth Gale Hirth, Committee Member

Author:

Duman, Teoman

Title:

A model of perceived value for leisure travel products

Graduate Program:

Leisure Studies

Keywords:

leisure travel
perceived value
perceived transaction value
cruise vacation satisfaction
cruise vacation value
affect

File:

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Committee Members:

Anna S Mattila, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Deborah Lee Kerstetter, Committee Member
Daniel John Mount, Committee Member
Dr Harry Zinn, Committee Member

Author:

Inanc, Tamer

Title:

A NOVEL APPROACH TO ACTIVE VISION SYSTEMS: MODELLING, CONTROL AND REAL TIME TRACKING

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

robotics
real time tracking
computer vision
robust control
modelling
active vision
robust identification

File:

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Committee Members:

Mario Sznaier, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member
Kyusun Choi, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Octavia I Camps, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Taeho

Title:

Quality Management: Technical efficiency, benchmarking, and contracts

Graduate Program:

Agricultural Economics

Keywords:

contracts
benchmarking
categorical factors
Technical efficiency

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert D Weaver, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Member
David Christy, Committee Member
Jeffrey Stokes, Committee Member

Author:

Ueda, Takeshi

Title:

FROM WHOM DO FARMERS LEARN? AN ANALYSIS OF TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY DETERMINANTS FOR THE INDIAN GREEN REVOLUTION

Graduate Program:

Agricultural Economics

Keywords:

technological change
high-yielding varieties
green revolution
leanring-from-others
technical efficiency
learning-by-doing
Stochastic frontier analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Jill Leslie Findeis, Committee Member
Bee Yan Roberts, Committee Member
Darren L Frechette, Committee Member
Spiro E Stefanou, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Zhu, Tao

Title:

Existence of Monetary Steady States in a Matching Model of Money

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

matching model
existence
steady state

File:

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Committee Members:

Neil Wallace, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Schuyler Jordan, Committee Member
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Member
Luen Chau Li, Committee Member

Author:

Atanasov, Vladimir A.

Title:

Equity Investments with Private Benefits of Control

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

large investors
optimal portfolios
control benefits

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Committee Members:

Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov, Committee Member
Dennis P Sheehan, Committee Member
Chris Muscarella, Committee Member
Ian Domowitz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Scarola, Vito William

Title:

Phase Diagram of The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

p-wave pairing
flux quantum
composite fermion
Quantum Hall

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Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member

Author:

Vaithyanathan, Venugopalan

Title:

Phase-field Simulations of Coherent Precipitate Morphologies and Coarsening Kinetics

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

phase-field model
3D simulation
first-principles phase-field coupling
coarsening of gamma-prime precipitates
multiscale model
anomalous coarsening

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Committee Members:

Zi Kui Liu, Committee Member
John Richard Hellmann Jr., Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Darrell G Schlom, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Committee Member

Author:

Veeramachaneni, Vamshi Mohan

Title:

Aligning Fragmented Sequences

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

contig ordering
heuristics
MAX-SNP hardness
approximation algorithms
sequence assembly

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Committee Members:

Webb Colby Miller, Committee Member
Piotr Berman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Wojciech Makalowski, Committee Member
Jonathan Goldstine, Committee Member

Author:

Jeong, Wun-Cheol

Title:

DYNAMIC TIME DIVISION DUPLEX AND TIME SLOT ALLOCATION STRATEGY FOR MULTIMEDIA TRAFFIC IN WIRELESS APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Co-channel interference Management
Time Division Duplex
D-TDD
Multimedia Traffic
Time Slot Allocation
Wireless Communications

File:

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Committee Members:

Mohsen Kavehrad, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Metzner, Committee Member
Rajeev Sharma, Committee Member
James Kenneth Breakall, Committee Member
John F Doherty, Committee Member

Author:

Akcay, Yalcin

Title:

THREE ESSAYS ON RESOURCE ALLOCATION PROBLEMS: Inventory Management in Assemble-to-Order Systems and Online Assignment of Flexible Resources

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Multidimensional Knapsack Problem
Assemble-to-Order Systems
Flexible Resources
Revenue Management

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Committee Members:

Anant Balakrishnan, Committee Member
Susan H Xu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jack C Hayya, Committee Member
Gautam Natarajan, Committee Member

Author:

Chang, Yi-Ping

Title:

COMBUSTION BEHAVIOR OF HAN-BASED LIQUID PROPELLANTS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

pressure exponents.
burning rate controlling mechanisms
decomposition
autocatalytic
pyrolysis
propellants
hydroxylammonium nitrate
combustion

File:

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Committee Members:

Harold Harris Schobert, Committee Member
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Yong-Han

Title:

Market-based Dynamic Resource Control of Distributed Multiple Projects

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

resource control
distributed multiple projects
multiagent
market-based control

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Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Member
Natarajan Gautam, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member

Author:

Watanabe, Yumiko

Title:

The Late Archean biosphere: Implications of organic and inorganic geochemistry of marine shales and terrestrial paleosols

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

geochemistry
biosphere
organic matter
shale
Archean
paleosol

File:

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Committee Members:

Blair Hedges, Committee Member
Hiroshi Ohmoto, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Member
Michael Allan Arthur, Committee Member

Author:

Yingling, Yaroslava G.

Title:

Photochemical Processes in Laser Ablation of Organic Solids: Molecular Dynamics Study.

Graduate Program:

Materials

Keywords:

molecular dynamics
processes
laser ablation
simulations
photodecomposition
mechanisms

File:

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Committee Members:

Barbara Shaw, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barbara Jane Garrison, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Zhang, Yuan Ji

Title:

ETHYLENE AND PHOSPHORUS RESPONSES IN PLANTS

Graduate Program:

Horticulture

Keywords:

Phosphorus deficiency
root response and ethylene
root hair length and density
basal root gravitropism
woody plant establishment
Arabidopsis thaliana
Phaseolus vulgaris
Rhododendron catawbiense
Forsythia intermedia
Aesculus glabra
Quercus macrocarpa

File:

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Committee Members:

Jonathan Paul Lynch, Committee Member
Kathleen Marie Brown, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Craig, Committee Member
Larry Judson Kuhns, Committee Member
Simon Gilroy, Committee Member
John Metzner, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yanyong

Title:

SCHEDULING AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR NEXT GENERATION CLUSTERS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

resource management
operating systems
parallel systems
performance evaluation
CPU scheduling
cluster

File:

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Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Hubertus Frank, Committee Member
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
Dr Natarajan Gautam, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member