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Author:: Feroz, Hasin Maksura
Title:: TRANSPORT KINETICS OF OPTOGENETICALLY RELEVANT MEMBRANE PROTEINS: PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION
Graduate Program:: Chemical Engineering
Keywords:: Membrane protein
detergent
transport rate of opsins
vesicle/oocyte-based rate
extraction / purification
ultrafiltration
File:: Download Thesis_HasinFeroz_ed_3.pdf
Committee Members:: Manish Kumar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Manish Kumar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Phillip E Savage, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Outside Member

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Author:: Marple, Daniel Robert
Title:: Understanding Lithium Plating in Lithium-Ion Batteries and Exploring Mitigation Strategies by Self-Heating
Graduate Program:: Chemical Engineering
Keywords:: Lithium ion battery
lithium plating
self-heating
low temperature
cycle life
pulse heating
large-format battery
File:: Download Marple_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Chao-Yang Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chao-Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Outside Member

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Author:: Zhang, Chenchen
Title:: EXPLORING NOVEL GLASS MICROFABRICATION TECHNIQUES FOR SENSOR APPLICATIONS
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: glass etching
on-chip glass microspherical shell
WGM resonator
glass microbubble ensulation
File:: Download Ph.D_thesis_Chenchen_Zhang_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Weihua Guan, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member

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Author:: Bubash, Connie Kathleen
Title:: Contagious Texts Embodied: Melancholy Hermeneutics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Graduate Program:: English
Keywords:: melancholy
contagion
self-help book
embodiment
the passions
medieval literature
early modern literature
Sidney
Shakespeare
Chaucer
Gower
therapeutic reading
vernacular medical treatise
File:: Download Bubash_Complete_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert R. Edwards, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Cheney, Committee Member
Mary Floyd-Wilson, Committee Member
Bradford Bouley, Outside Member

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Author:: Nuckols, Lauren Elizabeth
Title:: On Beauty and Ambivalence: The Complexity of Aesthetic Experience
Graduate Program:: Philosophy
Keywords:: Semiotics
Aesthetics
Beauty
Ambivalence
Ethics
Justice
Peirce
Pragmatism
Psychoanalytic Theory
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Committee Members:: Vincent Colapietro, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Colapietro, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Philip Christman, Committee Member
Sarah Clark Miller, Committee Member
Anne Carver Rose, Outside Member
John Philip Christman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Philip Christman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Kim, Gloria Bora
Title:: CITRATE-BASED BIOMATERIALS FOR NERVE TISSUE ENGINEERING AND BRAIN DRUG DELIVERY
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: citric acid
biomaterials
nerve tissue engineering
brain cancer
drug delivery
File:: Download Thesis-final_eTD_upload.pdf
Committee Members:: Jian Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheng Dong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jian Yang, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Kevin Douglas Alloway, Outside Member

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Author:: Dick, David Avi
Title:: A New Metric to Predict Listener Envelopment Based On Spherical Microphone Array Measurements and Higher Order Ambisonic Reproductions
Graduate Program:: Acoustics
Keywords:: Concert hall acoustics
Architectural acoustics
Ambisonics
Spherical microphone array
Loudspeaker array
Listener envelopment
File:: Download Dave_Dick_-_Dissertation_-_Dec_2017.pdf
Committee Members:: Michelle Celine Vigeant, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michelle Celine Vigeant, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Allen Russell, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member
John F Doherty, Outside Member
Bill Rabinowitz, Special Member

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Author:: Shahid, Saima
Title:: Discovery of endogenous plant small RNAs and their role in trans-species gene regulation
Graduate Program:: Plant Biology
Keywords:: miRNA
siRNA
plant small RNAs
Amborella
Physcomitrella
Triphysaria
Cuscuta
Parasitic plants
trans-species gene regulation
File:: Download Dissertation_Saima_Shahid_final_111717.pdf
Committee Members:: Michael Axtell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Axtell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Member
Gabriele Brigitte Monshausen, Committee Member
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Outside Member

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Author:: Pandey, Shaileshachandra V
Title:: TECHNIQUES FOR DESIGNING MICROWAVE AND MILLIMETER WAVE ANTENNAS AND COMPONENTS USING ARTIFICIALLY ENGINEERED MATERIALS AND METASURFACES
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: FSS
Artificial Engineered material
Lens
Variable phase-shifter
Space-qualifiable Lens
Metal-only Reflectarray
Dielectric-only Reflectarray
DaD Lens
Dual-band Metal-only reflectarray
File:: Download Final_Thesis_SP.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr. Raj Mittra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Ram Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Jim Breakall, Committee Member
Dr. MICHAEL T LANAGAN, Committee Member
Dr. MICHAEL T LANAGAN, Outside Member

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Author:: Garrido, Carlos Oswaldo
Title:: Reasoning motivated by prejudice as a determinant of top-down influences on the face-processing system: An unexplored channel leading to outgroup bias
Graduate Program:: Psychology
Keywords:: top-down influences
face-processing
cross-group impressions
visual perception
prejudice
stereotyping
categorization
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Committee Members:: Reginald B. Adams, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reginald B. Adams, Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephanie A. Shields, Committee Member
Jose A. Soto, Committee Member
Mary Beth Oliver, Outside Member

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