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Author:

Pisciotta, Kevin James

Title:

Effects of IPO Involvement on Analysts' Information Production

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Initial Public Offerings
Sell-side Analysts
Conflicts of Interest

File:

Download Full__Dissertation_KPisciotta_062018.pdf

Committee Members:

Laura Field; Matthew Gustafson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Laura Field; Matthew Gustafson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter G Iliev, Committee Member
George David Haushalter, Committee Member
Karl A Muller III, Outside Member

Author:

Mason, Amber Elizabeth

Title:

Longitudinal and Reciprocal Effects of Primary School Students' Self-Regulation and Achievement

Graduate Program:

School Psychology

Keywords:

self-regulation
math
reading
achievement

File:

Download Dissertation_-_Amber_Mason__Final_.pdf

Committee Members:

James Clyde Diperna, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Clyde Diperna, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barbara Schaefer, Committee Member
David Lee, Committee Member
Dawn Paula Witherspoon, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Jing

Title:

Design and Fabrication of Bio-Inspired Multi-Functional Slippery Surface Coatings with Novel Functionalities

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Bio-inspired Engineering
Surface Science
Robustness
Viscoelastic Solid Repellency

File:

Download Dissertation_-_Jing_Wang.pdf

Committee Members:

Tak Sing Wong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tak Sing Wong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pak Kin Wong, Committee Member
Donghai Wang, Committee Member
Seong Han Kim, Outside Member

Author:

Mason, Jeremy David

Title:

Total Synthesis of (±)-Alstoscholarisines A-E

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Indole Alkaloids
Organic Synthesis

File:

Download Jeremy_David_Mason_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Steven M Weinreb, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven M Weinreb, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Raymond Lee Funk, Committee Member
Gong Chen, Committee Member
Ming Tien, Outside Member

Author:

Holroyd, Ryan Edgecombe

Title:

The Rebirth of China's Intra-Asian Maritime Trade, 1670 - 1740

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

Maritime Trade
Late Imperial China
Qing Dynasty
East Asia
Southeast Asia
Early Modern Global History
Global History
Indian Ocean

File:

Download Ryan_Holroyd__Doctoral_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathlene Baldanza, Committee Member
Carol Reardon, Committee Member
Shuang Shen, Outside Member
Kathlene Baldanza, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jyoti Gulati Balachandran, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Xian

Title:

Identification and estimation of partially identified models with with applications to industrial organization

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Paritial Identification
Demand Estimation

File:

Download DissertationXianLi.pdf

Committee Members:

Andres Aradillas-Lopez, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andres Aradillas-Lopez, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrik Guggenberger, Committee Member
Coenraad Arnout P Pinkse, Committee Member
John Richard Howell, Outside Member

Author:

Song, Won Jun

Title:

Saving Your Favorite Dictators: External Sponsorship of Authoritarian Regimes and Its Consequences

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

political science
authoritarian regimes
autocracies
dictatorship
international relations
comparative politics
arms transfer
personalism
civil-military relations
security forces

File:

Download SongDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Glenn Hunter Palmer, Committee Member
Douglas William Lemke, Committee Member
Dennis Coleman Jett, Outside Member

Author:

Neagley, Melanie A

Title:

Role of mevalonate pathway inhibition on estrogen receptor expression and its role in mitochondrial cholesterol transport in breast cancer

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Statins
Estrogen Receptor
Breast Cancer
Mitochondrial Cholesterol

File:

Download MNeagleyFinalThesisVersion.pdf

Committee Members:

Raymond Hohl, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nancy L Lill, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hong-Gang Wang, Committee Member
Nadine Hempel, Committee Member
Gail Lynn Matters, Outside Member

Author:

Umbricht, Mark Richard

Title:

Identifying Gaps in the First-Generation Pipeline: A Study of Gaps in College Expectations, Access and Completion by First-Generation Status

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

First-generation
Higher Education
Access
Completion

File:

Download Identifying_Gaps_in_the_First-Generation_Pipline__Umbricht_-_Final_.pdf

Committee Members:

John Jesse Cheslock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Jesse Cheslock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karly Sarita Ford, Committee Member
Kelly Ochs Rosinger, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Outside Member

Author:

Bian, Bo

Title:

ESSAYS ON EMPIRICAL INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

network effects
search and matching
spatial competition
double marginalization
merger
cost saving
market power

File:

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Committee Members:

Mark John Roberts, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark John Roberts, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles Theodore Murry, Committee Member
Peter William Newberry, Committee Member
Guangqing Chi, Outside Member

Author:

Taylor, Kendra Adele

Title:

New Directions for Integration Policy: Exploring Racial and Income Segregation at Multiple Geographic Scales in Large U.S. School Districts, 1990-2010

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

Segregation
School Attendance Zones
School Districts
GIS

File:

Download Kendra_Taylor_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Erica Frankenberg, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erica Frankenberg, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Alexander Gamson, Committee Member
Kai Arthur Schafft, Committee Member
Barrett Alan Lee, Outside Member

Author:

Foroughi, Reza

Title:

NEW APPROACH IN DESIGNING A KINETIC WINDOW SHADING USING SIMULATION-BASED OPTIMIZATION METHOD

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Simulation-based optimization
Energy efficient commercial buildings
Energy simulation
Window shading design
Kinetic window shading
Solar shading
Sustainable building envelope

File:

Download Reza-PhD-Dissertation-Final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Somayeh Asadi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Somayeh Asadi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David R Riley II, Committee Member
Ali M Memari, Committee Member
Ute Poerschke, Outside Member

Author:

Yao, Wenqing

Title:

Data-driven sensor recalibration and fault diagnosis in nuclear power plants

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

sensor recalibration
fault diagnosis
nuclear power plants
online monitoring
autoregressive support vector regression
resistance temperature detector

File:

Download PhD_dissertation_Wenqing_Yao_20190415.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Justin Kyle Watson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Ivanov, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Outside Member
Justin Kyle Watson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kostadin Ivanov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James A Turso, Special Member
Xin Jin, Special Member

Author:

Knoth, Lauren Kay

Title:

DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE AND RECIDIVISM RISK: A CROSS-COUNTRY DEVELOPMENT AND COMPARISON OF DUI RISK ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS

Graduate Program:

Criminology

Keywords:

Driving Under the Influence
DUI
DWI
Recidivism
Risk Assessments
Finland
Drunk Driving

File:

Download FinalDissertation_Knoth_7.9.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Barry Ruback, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Barry Ruback, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeremy Staff, Committee Member
Eric P Baumer, Committee Member
Jennifer Lianne Maggs, Outside Member

Author:

Chau, Truong Nhut

Title:

ESSAYS ON AGRICULTURAL RISK MANAGEMENT AND WATER USE; AND RECREATIONAL FISHING PARTICIPATION AFTER ECOLOGICAL DISRUPTION BY AN INVASIVE SPECIES

Graduate Program:

Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics

Keywords:

Agriculture
Irrigation
Crop Insurance
Risk Management
Invasive Species
Asian Carp
Recreational Fishing
Heterogeneous Effects
Application Rate

File:

Download Dissertation__Chau_2018_.pdf

Committee Members:

James Samuel Shortle, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Gerard Abler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jayson Kennedy Harper, Committee Member
Chiara Lo Prete, Committee Member
Chiara Lo Prete, Outside Member
Richard Ready, Special Member

Author:

Telatovich, Adam Elias

Title:

Numerical Methods for the Langevin Dynamics Model

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Operator splitting
Stochastic differential equations
Langevin equation
Ito-Taylor approximation
Dissipative particle dynamics
Multi-scale integrators

File:

Download YourName-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiantao Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiantao Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Harlim, Committee Member
Wen Shen, Committee Member
William George Noid, Outside Member

Author:

Ruiz, Andrea Liza

Title:

The Past Hurts: Examining the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Abuse on Adult Psychological, Physiological, and Interpersonal Well-Being

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

child abuse
life-course
health
well-being
childhood trauma
resilience
coping style
interpersonal relationships
religion
social support
social optimism

File:

Download ALR_DISSERTATION_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

David R Johnson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David R Johnson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary J Adler Jr., Committee Member
Roger Kent Finke, Committee Member
Sandra T Azar, Outside Member

Author:

Deng, Jianpeng

Title:

Two Essays on International Trade

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Processing Trade
International Trade
Growth

File:

Download Dissertation_Deng_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

James R. Tybout, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James R. Tybout, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Ross Yeaple, Committee Member
Kim Joseph Ruhl, Committee Member
John Raymond Moran Jr., Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Keren

Title:

ATLAS OF SACRIFICE: Three Studies of Ritual Sacrifice in Late Capitalism

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

globalization
neoliberalism
ritual
sacrifice
rhetoric
political philosophy
political theory
transnationalism
political communication

File:

Download Keren_Wang_Dissertation_for_Printing__updated_7-27-18_.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Howard Browne, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
Larry Cata Backer, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Pei

Title:

Advanced Software Obfuscation Techniques and Applications

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

obfuscation
software protection
reverse engineering
empirical study
mobile apps

File:

Download main.pdf

Committee Members:

Dinghao Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dinghao Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peng Liu, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Danfeng Zhang, Outside Member

Author:

Tabares, Leland

Title:

Asian America in the Age of Professionalization

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Asian American Studies
professionalization
institutionality
racialization

File:

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Committee Members:

Tina Chen Goudie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tina Chen Goudie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Francis Berube, Committee Member
Ebony Coletu, Committee Member
Eric Robert Hayot, Outside Member

Author:

Odera, Erica Linn

Title:

EXAMINING THE IMPACTS OF YOUTH PARTICIPATORY EVALUATION METHODS ON A YOUTH PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH SETTING

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Extension Education

Keywords:

participatory evaluation
action research
youth development

File:

Download Odera2018_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark A Brennan Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark A Brennan Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nicole Sheree Webster, Committee Member
Matthew Samuel Kaplan, Committee Member
Madhu Prakash, Outside Member
Patrick Dolan, Special Member

Author:

Rafferty, Sean David

Title:

Using fishes to assess the ecological health of Presque Isle Bay

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

Neoplasms
Intersex
Ecosystem Health
Fishes

File:

Download Rafferty_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jay Richard Stauffer Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jay Richard Stauffer Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elizabeth Weeks Boyer, Committee Member
Jeanette Schnars, Committee Member
Michael Rutter, Outside Member
Vicki Blazer, Special Member

Author:

Morgan, Jessica

Title:

Development of the Fluid Insert Noise Reduction Method Investigating Azimuthal Asymmetry

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Aeroacoustics
Supersonic
Noise Reduction
Jet Noise
PIV

File:

Download JessicaMorgan-Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Philip John Morris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip John Morris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jose Palacios, Committee Member
Jacqueline Antonia O'Connor, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Outside Member

Author:

Wu, Xiaojie

Title:

Model Reduction by Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for Molecular Dynamics and Quantum Mechanics

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Molecular Dynamics
Absorbing boundary condition
Hartree-Fock method
Model reduction
Boundary element method
Wave propagation

File:

Download thesis_xiaojie.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiantao Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiantao Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ludmil Zikatanov, Committee Member
Wenrui Hao, Committee Member
Long-Qing Chen, Outside Member
Francesco Costanzo, Outside Member

Author:

Sharma, Rashmi

Title:

Essays on Operations Management

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Operations Management
Behavioral Decision Making
Incentive Design
Salesforce
Experimental Economics

File:

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Committee Members:

Aydin Alptekinoglu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anthony Mark Kwasnica, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nicholas C Petruzzi, Committee Member
John Andrew Petersen, Committee Member
Anthony Mark Kwasnica, Outside Member
Aydin Alptekinoglu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Harris, Kimberly A

Title:

HEGEL’S DIALECTIC AND AFRICANA PHILOSOPHY: DU BOIS, FANON, AND JAMES

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Hegel
Africana Philosophy
Dialectic
Du Bois
James
Fanon

File:

Download Harris_Dissertation_FRS.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Brady Lee Bowman, Committee Member
Amy Rebekah Allen, Committee Member
Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Outside Member
Kathryn Sophia Belle, Committee Member

Author:

Fedorchuk, Christine

Title:

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 Initial Adherence Factors and the Role of the Polymeric Immunoglobulin Receptor During Adherence to Intestinal Epithelial Cells

Graduate Program:

Pathobiology

Keywords:

E. coli
Escherichia coli
O157
O157:H7
initial adherence
pigr
polymeric immunoglobulin receptor
slp
EHEC

File:

Download CF_Dct_Diss._2018_PSU.pdf

Committee Members:

Subhashinie Kariyawasam, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Subhashinie Kariyawasam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Girish Soorappa Kirimanjeswara, Committee Member
Bhushan M Jayarao, Committee Member
Edward G Dudley, Outside Member

Author:

Frank Webb, Anne

Title:

Development of the Elementary Anxiety Scale for Youth (EASY): A brief universal screener of school-based anxiety scale

Graduate Program:

School Psychology

Keywords:

anxiety scale
students
universal screening
school
Tier 1

File:

Download FrankWebb_Anne_Dissertation_EASY_Scale.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. James DiPerna, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. James DiPerna, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Christin Hall, Committee Member
Dr. Kristin Buss, Committee Member
Dr. Scott Gest, Outside Member

Author:

Weidman, Jake Anthony

Title:

POLICIES, STANDARDS, AND PRACTICES: AN ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT STATE OF ORGANIZATIONAL SECURITY AT UNIVERSITIES AND CORPORATIONS

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Information Security
Security Policies
Security Policy
Policies
Organzational Security
2FA

File:

Download Weidman-Dissertation_-_FINAL_-_Informatics.pdf

Committee Members:

Don Shemanski, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Don Shemanski, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
Gerry Santoro, Committee Member
Krishna Prasad Jayakar, Outside Member

Author:

Xu, Wenfang

Title:

Adaptive Aggregation and Signal Processing on Graphs

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

graph Laplacian
graph aggregation
multilevel hierarchy
hypercircle error estimates
signals on graphs
graph filter

File:

Download WenfangXu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jinchao Xu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chun Liu, Committee Member
Katherine Yoder Zipp, Committee Member
Katherine Yoder Zipp, Outside Member

Author:

Haidar, Ahmad M

Title:

Vibration Control of Shafts via Automatic Passive Balancing

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

structural dynamics
vibration control
rotordynamics
aerospace engineering
automatic passive balancing

File:

Download AhmadHaidar-PhD-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Palacios, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jose Palacios, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Outside Member
Namiko Yamamoto, Committee Member

Author:

Karagoz, Turgay

Title:

FACTORS DETERMINING THE ADOPTIONS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS BY MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS: A NETWORK PERSPECTIVE

Graduate Program:

Public Administration

Keywords:

E-Government
Local e-government
Innovation at Municipal Level
Municipal Networks and Adoption of IT innovations
Municipal Government Associations and Their Impacts on Adoption of IT by Municipalities

File:

Download Karagoz__Turgay.pdf

Committee Members:

Goktug Morcol, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Goktug Morcol, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Ran, Committee Member
Triparna B Vasavada, Committee Member
Rhoda Joseph, Outside Member
Salih Hakan Can, Outside Member

Author:

Mataic, Dane Rypel

Title:

Mobilizing the Faithful: Religious Congregations, Opportunities for Activism, and the Mobilization of Attendees

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Mobilization
Religion
Organizations

File:

Download Mataic_Dissertation_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Finke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roger Finke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John McCarthy, Committee Member
Eric P Baumer, Committee Member
Forrest Scott Briscoe, Outside Member

Author:

Yildiz, Kaan

Title:

Cable Actuated Tensegrity Structures for Deployable Space Booms with Enhanced Stiffness

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

tensegrity structures
space structures
deployment
optimization
effective stiffness
deployable booms
form finding
force finding
transformation
cylindrical tensegrity booms

File:

Download kaanyildiz_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

George A Lesieutre, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George A Lesieutre, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Graham Melton, Committee Member
Namiko Yamamoto, Committee Member
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Outside Member

Author:

Griffin, Dominiqua Monica

Title:

AN INVESTIGATION OF SCHOOL COUNSELING ROLES, PRACTICES, CHALLENGES, AND DEMANDS IN BARBADOS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAMS IN BARBADOS

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

Barbados
School Counseling
Guidance Counselling
International Education
International School Counseling
Caribbean

File:

Download DOMINIQUA_GRIFFIN_DISSERTATION_2019_AN_INVESTIGATION_OF_SCHOOL_COUNSELING_ROLES_PRACTICES_CHALLENGES_AND_DEMANDS_IN_BARBADOS__A_COMPARATIVE_ANALYSIS_OF_SCHOOL_COUNSELING_PROGRAMS_IN_BARBADOS.pdf

Committee Members:

Julia A Green Bryan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julia A Green Bryan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nicole Sheree Webster, Committee Member
Seriashia Joyce Chatters, Committee Member
Ashley Nichol Patterson, Outside Member

Author:

Morandi, Carl Sebastian

Title:

Bismuth Magnesium Titante - Lead Titanate Thin FIlms for High Temperature Ferroelectric Memory

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Bismuth Magnesium Titanate - Lead Titanate
Ferroelectric Random Access Memory
FeRAM
Pulsed Laser Deposition
BiMT-PT
High Temperature Ferroelectric Thin Films

File:

Download Morandi_PHD_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Member
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Outside Member

Author:

Hepworth, Allison D.

Title:

Parents' Information Seeking and Use Regarding Infant and Toddler Feeding

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

Information Seeking
Infancy
Parents
Information Use
Infant Nutrition
Social Media
Decision Trees
Random Intercept Model
Health behavior
Health information seeking

File:

Download Hepworth_Dissertation_ETD_8.1.18.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy Raymond Brick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Meg Leavy Small, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leann Birch, Committee Member
Kathleen Loralee Keller, Committee Member
Eun Kyoung Choe, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Qi

Title:

Quantum Engineering of Fractional Hall Physics in an Atom-Optical Laughlin-Pump Oscillator

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Quantum Simulation
Topological Order
Laughlin's Quantum Pump
Driven Oscillator
Sagnac Interferometer

File:

Download QiLiu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nathan David Gemelke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nathan David Gemelke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Scott Weiss, Committee Member
Kenneth O'Hara, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member

Author:

Briskin, Jessica Tracey

Title:

Investigation of Design Studio Culture In a Virtual Design Studio

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology

Keywords:

Online collaboration
Virtual Design Studios
Critique

File:

Download Briskin_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Mary Land, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Mary Land, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Heather A Zimmerman, Committee Member
Tyler S Hollett, Committee Member
Scott P Mcdonald, Outside Member

Author:

Ruan, Wenjing

Title:

ESSAYS IN INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Quality
Dynamic discrete choice
Market Structure
Land use regulation
Lodging
Franchising
Quality
Fast-Food
Yelp.com

File:

Download WenjingRuan-dissertation-710.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark John Roberts, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark John Roberts, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles Theodore Murry, Committee Member
Peter William Newberry, Committee Member
John Jesse Cheslock, Outside Member
Daniel Jose Grodzicki, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Ruixing

Title:

Topological States in Solids: A Song of Symmetry and Interactions

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Symmetry Protected Topological State
Topological Crystalline Insulator
Topological Semimetal
Majorana Physics

File:

Download Ruixing_Zhang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chaoxing Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Moses H. W. Chan, Committee Member
Jason Ryder Morton, Outside Member

Author:

Ororbia, Alexander Gabriel

Title:

Coordinated Local Learning Algorithms for Continuously Adaptive Neural Systems

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

artificial intelligence
artificial neural networks
local learning
neurocognitive
machine learning
lifelong learning

File:

Download ororbia-dissertation-july10-2018.pdf

Committee Members:

C. Lee Giles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
C. Lee Giles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Reitter, Committee Member
Vasant Honavar, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Member

Author:

Zhu, Xun

Title:

The communicative etiology of consensual stereotypes: Integrating common information bias and positive ingroup bias

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

consensual stereotypes
social identity
social comparisons
small group communication
intergroup communication
linguistic abstraction
social influence
heuristics
multilevel modeling
multilevel mediation
experiment

File:

Download Dissertation_ZHU_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Rachel A. Smith, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rachel A. Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lijiang Shen, Committee Member
Jon F. NussBaum, Committee Member
D. Wayne Osgood, Outside Member
Dennis S. Gouran, Committee Member

Author:

Xiao, Anli

Title:

ENGAGING FOREIGN-BORN CHINESE VOLUNTEERS: EXPLORING THE ORGANIZATIONAL AND PERSONAL OUTCOMES OF FOREIGN-BORN VOLUNTEERISM

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

Public relations
volunteerism
foreign-born
strategic communication
nonprofit organizations

File:

Download 7.19_Xiao_Dissertation_Engaging_Foreign-born_Chinese_Volunteers.pdf

Committee Members:

Denise Bortree, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Denise Bortree, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Colleen Connolly-Ahern, Committee Member
Frank Dardis, Committee Member
Bu Zhong, Outside Member

Author:

Koffer, Rachel Elyse

Title:

Stress, Health, and Well-Being across the Adult Life Span: A Multiple Time-Scale Approach

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

intraindividual variability
daily stress
entropy
lifespan development
aging

File:

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Committee Members:

Nilam Ram, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Manuel Almeida, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nilam Ram, Committee Member
Timothy Raymond Brick, Committee Member
Idan Shalev, Outside Member

Author:

Badenhorst, Paul Roger

Title:

Kintsugi and Processes of Productive Damage: The Values of Embodiment and Emotion For Antiracism Work in Education

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Race
Higher Education
Teacher Education
Embodiment
Emotion
Melancholic Object Attachments
Antiracism

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Committee Members:

Jeanine M Staples, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph M Valente, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gail Louise Boldt, Committee Member
Samuel Jaye Tanner, Committee Member
Julia A Green Bryan, Outside Member

Author:

Wei, Cheng-Hsin

Title:

THE IMPACT OF VITAMIN A SUPPLEMENTATION IN THE EARLY POSTNATAL PERIOD ON METABOLIC REGULATION RELATED TO CHILDHOOD OBESITY RISK

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

Vitamin A
Retinoic acid
Micronutrient supplementation
Childhood obesity
Insulin sensitivity
Thermogenesis

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Committee Members:

A. Catharine Ross, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
A. Catharine Ross, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael H. Green, Committee Member
Connie J. Rogers, Committee Member
Mary J. Kennett, Outside Member

Author:

Lacasse, Dora Lee

Title:

The Subjunctive in New Mexican Spanish: Maintenance in the Face of Language Contact

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

Language contact
sociolinguistics
subjunctive
New Mexican Spanish
bilingual
linguistic variation

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Rena Torres Cacoullos, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
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Paola Eulalia Dussias, Committee Member
Karen Lynn Miller, Committee Member
Michael Travis Putnam, Outside Member

Author:

Chae, Minjung

Title:

SUPERVISION AND TRAINING EXPERIENCES OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN COUNSELING PROGRAMS: AN EXPLORATION INTO LIVED EXPERIENCES

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

international counseling students
counseling
supervision
multicultural supervision
cultural issues

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Committee Members:

JoLynn V. Carney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
JoLynn V. Carney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Julia A. Bryan, Committee Member
Diandra Prescod, Committee Member
Deborah L. Schussler, Outside Member