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Author:

Brawner, Thomas W

Title:

The Diffusion of Instability in Authoritarian Regimes

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Diffusion
Authoritarian Regimes
Democratic Transition
Regularization
Machine Learning
Prediction
Coups

File:

Download brawner_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donna Bahry, Committee Member
Bumba Mukherjee, Committee Member
Johannes Fedderke, Outside Member

Author:

Chindam, Chandraprakash

Title:

MULTIFUNCTIONAL PARYLENE-C MICROFIBROUS THIN FILMS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

microfibrous thin films
Parylene C
multifunctionality
microfibers
phononic crystals
photonic crystals
wettability

File:

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Committee Members:

Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Osama O. Awadelkarim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Committee Member
Michael T. Lanagan, Committee Member
M. Amanul Haque, Outside Member

Author:

Allaway, Heather Christina

Title:

THE ROLE OF URINE COLLECTION PROCEDURES AND NON-TRADITIONAL DXA MEASURES OF BODY COMPOSITION ON REPRODUCTIVE HORMONES

Graduate Program:

Physiology

Keywords:

Reproductive Health
Reduced Sample Collection Frequency
Combined Oral Contraception
Contraceptive Vaginal Ring
IGF-1 Generation Test
Functional Hypothalamic Amenorrhea
Resumption of Menses
Insulin-like Growth Factor-1
Estrone-1-Glucuronide
Pregnanediol Glucuronide
Body Composition
Dual X-Ray Absorptiometry

File:

Download Allaway_Dissertation_Final_Combined_3.29.2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Jane De Souza, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane De Souza, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nancy I. Williams, Committee Member
Connie J. Rogers, Committee Member
Lorah D. Dorn, Outside Member

Author:

Rohrer, Sheila Ann

Title:

Frontiers of Refinement: Border Crossings in the Early Republic Travel Narrative of Sally Hastings

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Early Republic
Women's studies
American Literature
Travel
Travel Narrative
American history
American West
Frontier
Early American history
Gender Studies

File:

Download Sheila_Rohrer_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Haddad, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Haddad, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anne A. Verplanck, Committee Member
Michael L. Barton, Committee Member
Mary Napoli, Outside Member

Author:

Podolsky, Michael Adam

Title:

Disparate Activation And Function of B Cells in Benign And Malignant Tumors of the Skin: Implications for Cancer Immunotherapy

Graduate Program:

Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Keywords:

Squamous Cell Carcinoma
B-Cell
CD40
T-Cell
Ras
Immunotherapy

File:

Download Michael_Podolsky_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Adam Glick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adam Glick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Na Xiong, Committee Member
Andrea Mastro, Committee Member
Connie Rogers, Outside Member

Author:

Gibbs, Eric Bryant

Title:

THE EFFECTS OF MULTI-SITE PHOSPHORYLATION ON THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE CARBOXYL-TERMINAL DOMAIN OF THE RNA POLYMERASE II LARGE SUBUNIT

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

IDP
RNAPII
CTD
Intrinsically Disordered Protein
NMR
SAXS
P-TEFb
Ssu72

File:

Download Eric_Bryant_Gibbs_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott A. Showalter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott A. Showalter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member
William G. Noid, Committee Member
David Gilmour, Outside Member

Author:

Mendoza Galvis, Sergio Andres

Title:

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON THE VALUE OF INFORMATION IN LITHIUM-ION BATTERY STATE AND PARAMETER ESTIMATION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

lithium ion batteries
identifiability
parameter identification
SOC estimation
optimal experiments
Fisher Analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Hosam Fathy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zoubeida Ounaies, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris Rahn, Committee Member
Donghai Wang, Committee Member
Constantino Lagoa, Outside Member

Author:

Weiss, Anne E

Title:

SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO?: EDUCATOR (MEMBER) RETENTION IN AN ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITY FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

teacher professional development
online learning communities
STEM education
retention
goodness-of-fit

File:

Download Weiss_Dissertation_Final_Version.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Kyle Peck, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Roger Geiger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. John Cheslock, Committee Member
N/A, Committee Member
Dr. Peggy Van Meter, Outside Member

Author:

Swenson, Eric R

Title:

VALUE-BASED PAYMENT IN TOTAL JOINT ARTHROPLASTY: A HEALTHCARE MARKET SEGMENTATION METHODOLOGY TO IMPROVE VALUE

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Healthcare Market Segmentation
Data Analytics
Total Joint Replacement
Value Based Payment

File:

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Committee Members:

Harriet B. Nembhard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harriet B. Nembhard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ravi Ravindran, Committee Member
Conrad Tucker, Committee Member
Naleef Fareed, Outside Member

Author:

Grossman Leopard, Jennifer Bernice

Title:

Student Organization Advising and its Impact on Individual Student Leaders, Student Organizations, and Student Organization Advisors

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

Student organizations
Student organization advisor
Student organization leader
Student affairs

File:

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Committee Members:

Neal Hutchens, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Neal Hutchens, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrea Dowhower, Committee Member
Margaret Lorah, Committee Member
Mindy Kornhaber, Outside Member

Author:

Khodayari, Ali

Title:

KINETIC MODELING IN GENOME-SCALE METABOLIC MODELS: PARAMETERIZATION AND STRAIN DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Kinetic modeling
Ensemble modeling
Model parameterization
Computational strain design
Succinate overproduction
Bilevel optimization

File:

Download Ali_Khodayari_thesis_01-26-2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D. Maranas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janna Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Howard Salis, Committee Member
Andrew Patterson, Outside Member

Author:

Wornell Seregow, Emily Joy

Title:

Immigrant Integration In New US Destinations: The Prevalence, Function, And Networks Of Informal Work

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

livelihood strategies
informal work
new immigrant destinations
immigrant assimilation
social networks

File:

Download Wornell__dissertation__final.pdf

Committee Members:

Leif Jensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leif Jensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ann R. Tickamyer, Committee Member
Shannon Monnat, Committee Member
Lise Nelson, Outside Member

Author:

Minkenberg, Bastian

Title:

MULTIPLEX TARGETED MUTATION AND ANALYSIS OF RICE MAP KINASE GENES WITH CRISPR/CAS9

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

genome-editing
CRISPR/Cas9
rice
Oryza sativa
off-target prediction
mitogen-activated protein kinases
essential genes
multi-gene family
multiplex

File:

Download Bastian_Minkenberg_PhD_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yinong Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yinong Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David R. Huff, Committee Member
Claude dePamphilis, Committee Member
Gabriele Monshausen, Outside Member

Author:

Mansor, Muammar

Title:

Isotopic and trace metal geochemistry of calcite, gypsum, and pyrite as proxies for ancient life and environments

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Achromatium
pyrite
Fe isotope
biosignature
sulfur isotope
molybdenum
biofilms
reactive transport modeling
gypsum
calcite

File:

Download Final_thesis_Muammar_revised_April2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Fantle, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher House, Committee Member
Christopher House, Committee Member
Li Li, Outside Member

Author:

Ayub, Ali

Title:

An Adaptive Markov Process for Deceptive Robotics

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Deception
Robotics
Probability Theory
HRI
Markov Process
Entropy

File:

Download PS-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Aldo Morales, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seth Wolpert, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amit Banerjee, Committee Member

Author:

Singh, Madhu

Title:

Density-based rescaled exponential model for gas-condensate reservoirs during boundary-dominated flow

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

density-based
rescaled exponential
gas-condensate
boundary dominated flow
variable bottomhole pressure
multiphase flow
analytical model

File:

Download MadhuSingh_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
John Yilin Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Murray, Alison Kristine

Title:

RESIDENT ATTITUDES TOWARD TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN A RURAL, AMENITY RICH AREA

Graduate Program:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management

Keywords:

Rural Tourism
Interactional field theory
Community development
amenity migration

File:

Download Murray_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Deborah Kerstetter, PhD, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Alan Graefe, PhD, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Andrew Mowen, PhD, Committee Member
Dr. Albert Luloff, PhD, Committee Member
Dr. Albert Luloff, PhD, Outside Member

Author:

Pitas, Nicholas A

Title:

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FUNDING FOR LOCAL PUBLIC PARK AND RECREATION SERVICES: ATTITUDES, IDEOLOGIES, AND VALUES

Graduate Program:

Recreation and Parks

Keywords:

Parks and recreation
Values
Ideology
Attitudes
Privatization

File:

Download Pitas_Revised_Dissertation_6.20.17.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Mowen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Mowen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan Graefe, Committee Member
B. Derrick Taff, Committee Member
Rama Radhakrishna, Outside Member
Benjamin Hickerson, Special Member

Author:

Liang, Shuang

Title:

SIMULATING THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, WILDFIRE AND FUEL TREATMENT ON SIERRA NEVADA FORESTS

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Sierra Nevada
Forest
Carbon
climate change
wildfire
modeling
LANDIS-II

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Ecology_Shuang_Liang_2017Spring_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew D. Hurteau, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew D. Hurteau, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Margot W. Kaye, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan H. Taylor, Committee Member
Katriona Shea, Outside Member

Author:

Raman, Balaji

Title:

DEPOSITION OF MAGNETITE IN HIGH TEMPERATURE BOILER ENVIRONMENTS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Deposition
fouling
magnetite
boilers
DLVO interaction energy

File:

Download Balaji_Raman-Dissertation-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Serguei N Lvov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Serguei N. Lvov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sarma V. Pisupati, Committee Member
Zuleima T. Karpyn, Committee Member
James Adair, Outside Member

Author:

BARBERI, DANIELA

Title:

RACIALIZATION OF CRIME: A TEST OF CITIZENSHIP STATUS ON CRIMINAL PERCEPTIONS

Graduate Program:

Criminal Justice

Keywords:

Racialization of crime
Racial prejudice
Citizenship
News
Contact theory
Gender

File:

Download Barberi___D._Master_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Eileen M. Ahlin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donald C. Hummer, Committee Member
Shaun L. Gabbidon, Committee Member

Author:

Welliver, Michele Carol

Title:

Sales Manager Perceptions of Employer Branding Strategies for Entry-level Salesperson Recruitment in Select Business-to-Business Companies

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

employer branding
salesperson recruitment

File:

Download Michele_Welliver_Dissertation_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. William J. Rothwell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. William J. Rothwell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Judith A. Kolb, Committee Member
Dr. Wesley Donahue, Committee Member
Dr. Glen Kreiner, Outside Member

Author:

Fukai, Hiroki

Title:

Theoretical Investigations of Partnership Turnover and of Money

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

partnership
turnover
money
essentiality of money

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Hiroki_Fukai.pdf

Committee Members:

Neil Wallace, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Neil Wallace, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Russell Cooper, Committee Member
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Member
Anthony Kwasnica, Outside Member

Author:

Laurent, Jean Emile

Title:

Cross-Functional Project Teams in Construction: A Case Study

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Integrated Project Delivery
IPD
Lean
Cross-functional teams
cross-functional project teams
cluster
case study
interviews

File:

Download Master_Thesis__-_Jean_Laurent_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert M. Leicht, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Riley, Committee Member
John R. Bechtel, Committee Member

Author:

Gutworth, Melissa Beth

Title:

Context for Creativity: Leader-Follower Fit and the Creative Process

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

creativity
leadership
mindsets
fit

File:

Download Dissertation_Final_Edits_3_22_17.pdf

Committee Members:

Samuel Hunter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Samuel Hunter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James LeBreton, Committee Member
Susan Mohammed, Committee Member
Linda K. Treviño, Outside Member

Author:

Ramcharan, Amanda Maria

Title:

Multidisciplinary Applications of U.S. Soils Datasets: Machine Learning Models, Data Mining, and Land Use Analyses

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

soil
machine learning
agroecosystem modeling
digital soil mapping
soil pedotransfer functions
random forest
data mining

File:

Download Ramcharan_Dissertation.4-12-17..pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas L. Richard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas L. Richard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Heather Gall, Committee Member
Douglas Miller, Committee Member
Tomislav Hengl, Outside Member

Author:

Fetter, Molly Elizabeth

Title:

EFFECTS OF AN EXTRUDED FLAXSEED SUPPLEMENT ON TRANSITION COW IMMUNE FUNCTION AND EFFECTS OF A METHANE INHIBITOR ON TRANSITION COW OVARIAN ACTIVITY

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

Dairy cattle
Transition period
Periparturient diseases
Flaxseed
Methane inhibitor
Negative energy balance (NEB)

File:

Download Fetter._Masters_Thesis._04.02.17.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Troy L. Ott, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Alauddin, Nursabrina Binti

Title:

From Dress Shoes to Flip-Flops: A Study on the Shifting of Imperialism and Cultural Identity in Malaysia

Graduate Program:

Humanities

Keywords:

Media imperialism
cultural identity
Hybridity
Hyperreality
Participatory Culture

File:

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Committee Members:

Nakho Kim, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

McCreary, Amber Dawn

Title:

INVESTIGATING AND TUNING THE PROPERTIES OF 2-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS VIA DOPING, STRAIN, AND OPTICAL TECHNIQUES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

two-dimensional materials
graphene
transition metal dichalcogenides
photoluminescence
Raman spectroscopy

File:

Download McCreary-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E. Mallouk, Committee Member
Eric Hudson, Committee Member
Joshua Robinson, Outside Member

Author:

Kottmeyer, Alexa Marie

Title:

The Role of Symbolic System in Relational Reasoning

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

Relational Reasoning
Analogy
Anomaly
Antinomy
Antithesis
Symbolic system
Factor analysis
multitrait-multimethod matrix

File:

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Committee Members:

Peggy Van Meter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonna Kulikowich, Committee Member

Author:

Kwon, Ki Bum

Title:

THE LONGITUDINAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE IN KOREAN COMPANIES

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

Human capital
Training and development investment
Financial performance
Latent growth modeling

File:

Download Kibum__Dissertation_Final_Updated.pdf

Committee Members:

David L. Passmore, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David L. Passmore, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William J. Rothwell, Committee Member
Wesley E. Donahue, Committee Member
Soo-yong Byun, Outside Member

Author:

Owiny, Sylvia A

Title:

Adult Education as a Strategy to Engage People-Centered Social Development in Uganda and Tanzania

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Adult Education
Uganda
Tanzania
Development
People-Centered Approach
Education in Africa

File:

Download Sylvia_Owiny_Dissertation_Final_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Ladislaus M. Semali, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ladislaus M. Semali, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fred Schied, Committee Member
Adnan Qayyum, Committee Member
Sinfree Makoni, Outside Member

Author:

Kamel Hedayat Abad, Mohammad Ehsan

Title:

INTEGRATION AND INTEROPERABILITY OF BUILDING ENVELOPE INFORMATION AND ENERGY MODELING

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Energy Modeling
Building Envelope Information
Building Information Modeling
Energy Smart Home
Building Energy Retrofit
gbXML
EnergyPlus
OpenStudio
BIM

File:

Download INTEGRATION_AND_INTEROPERABILITY_OF_BUILDING_ENVELOPE_INFORMATION_AND_ENERGY_MODELING.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali Memari, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali Memari, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Member
James Freihaut, Committee Member
José Duarte, Outside Member
David Riley, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Ruoxu

Title:

READING NEWS ON SMARTPHONES: HOW DO MOOD, MODALITY INTERACTIVITY, AND NEWS STORY LENGTH INFLUENCE USER ENGAGEMENT?

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

smartphone news reading
mood
modality interactivity
news story length
user engagment
persuasion
user experience
human computer interaction

File:

Download Wang_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michel M. Haigh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fuyuan Shen, Committee Member
Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Member
James Dillard, Outside Member
Michel M. Haigh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Vrana, Laura Elizabeth

Title:

Writing Transgressions: Publication Contexts and the Politics of Recognition in Contemporary Black Women's Poetry

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

African American literature
Poetry
Textual studies
American literature
Race
Critical race theory
Gender studies

File:

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Committee Members:

Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shirley Moody-Turner, Committee Member
Linda Ferguson Selzer, Committee Member
Judith Sierra-Rivera, Outside Member

Author:

Backer, Penina Miriam

Title:

Implications of Mother-Infant Dyadic Regulation for Emotion Self-Regulatory Development across Infancy

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

dyadic regulation
emotion regulation
infant-caregiver interaction
infant development

File:

Download Penina_s_Master_s_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Cynthia Stifter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory Fosco, Committee Member
Timothy Brick, Committee Member

Author:

Pardede, Fabiola Marella

Title:

TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF UTILIZATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE AS A HEAT TRANSFER MEDIUM FOR GEOTHERMAL ENERGY EXTRACTION IN INDONESIA BASED ON SIMULATION STUDIES

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

geothermal
carbon dioxide
supercritical
Indonesia
IGCC
utilization
sequestration
simulation

File:

Download Pardede_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Sarma Pisupati, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bhimanapati, Ganesh Rahul

Title:

Scalable Synthesis of Graphene Based Heterostructures and their use in Energy Sensing, Conversion and Storage

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

graphene
molybdenum disulfide
heterostructures
radiation
hydrogen evolution reactions
HERs
lithium ion batteries
LiBs
transition metal dichalcogenides
tungsten diselenide

File:

Download Final_Thesis_V2.pdf

Committee Members:

Joshua A Robinson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joshua A Robinson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Adair, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Outside Member

Author:

Flarend, Alice Marie

Title:

Identifying and Supporting Productive Collaborative Teacher Talk

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

science teaching
teacher professional development
teacher learning
teacher discourse

File:

Download Alice_Flarend_Dissertation_March_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott P. McDonald, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott P. McDonald, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephanie L. Knight, Committee Member
Julia Plummer, Committee Member
Susan Strauss, Outside Member

Author:

Fry, Richard Wayne

Title:

Data-Driven Decision-Making and the Challenges Facing Pennsylvania School Administrators, Compliance vs. Conviction

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

Data Driven Decision Making
Strategic Planning
Administrative Goal Setting

File:

Download Dissertation_Proposed_Manuscript_-170210final2.pdf

Committee Members:

Kai A. Schafft, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kai A. Schafft, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Marsha E. Modeste, Committee Member
Ed Fuller, Committee Member
Karen E. Eppley, Outside Member

Author:

Abraham, Michael

Title:

ENGINEERING OHMIC CONTACTS TO III-V, III-N AND 2D DICHALCOGENIDES: THE IMPACT OF ANNEALING AND SURFACE PREPARATION ON CONTACT RESISTANCE

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

MoS2
GaN
InGaAs
Ohmic contacts
surface preparation
annealing
alloyed
silver
TiAl
Ni
silicide
self-aligned
MoS2 FETs
intercalation
Nickel
Titanium Aluminum
GaN HEMTs

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_170507_MAbraham.pdf

Committee Members:

Suzanne E. Mohney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suzanne E. Mohney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
S. Ashok, Committee Member
Joan Redwing, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Member

Author:

Xie, Jinyu

Title:

INTELLIGENT ARTIFICIAL PANCREAS INCORPORATED WITH MEAL DETECTION SYSTEM AND RECOMMENDER SYSTEM FOR TYPE-1 DIABETES SELF-MANAGEMENT

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Diabetes
Type 1
Meal Detection
Estimation
Recommender System
Adaptive Control
System Identification
Insulin
Exercise
Kalman Filter

File:

Download PhD-Dissertation-Jinyu-Xie-03-09-2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Qian Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qian Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Bo Cheng, Committee Member
Peter Molenaar, Outside Member

Author:

Griffith, Kelly

Title:

Beating the Odds: A Multi-Site Case Study of College Preparation in Rural, Western New York

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

college preparation
college readiness
college access
qualitative research
rural schools
education policy
education reform

File:

Download Dissertation_KGriffith_FINAL_3.27.17.pdf

Committee Members:

Mindy L. Kornhaber, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mindy L. Kornhaber, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dana Mitra, Committee Member
Erica Frankenberg, Committee Member
Diane McLaughlin, Outside Member

Author:

Zheng, Xiaofei

Title:

STUDIES ON THE LOCAL TIMES OF DISCRETE-TIME STOCHASTIC PROCESSES

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

local time
discrete stochastic processes
discrete fractional Brownian motion
Mittag-Leffler distribution
Infinite ergodic theory
almost sure central limit theorem
pointwise dual ergodicity

File:

Download Xiaofei_Zheng-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Manfred Denker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Manfred Denker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alexei Novikov, Committee Member
Anna Mazzucato, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Outside Member

Author:

Miller, Simon W

Title:

Design as a Sequential Decision Process: A Method for Reducing Set Space Using Models to Bound Objectives

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

design
decision-making
sequential decision
bounding model
interval dominance
discriminatory
model
set-based design
fidelity

File:

Download SimonWMiller-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy W Simpson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy W Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Frecker, Committee Member
Michael A Yukish, Committee Member
Gordon Warn, Outside Member
Mark Traband, Committee Member

Author:

Gockley, Brian David

Title:

A Study of Faculty Teaching Activities at the Undergraduate Level

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

teaching activities
adoption rates
undergraduate teaching
faculty teaching
teaching surveys
pedagogy
teaching methods
teaching practices
activities
adoption
teaching
faculty
methods
practices

File:

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Committee Members:

Dorothy Evensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dorothy Evensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Cheslock, Committee Member
Leticia Oseguera, Committee Member
Kyle Peck, Outside Member

Author:

Hammett, Erin Elizabeth

Title:

TXT2STAYQUIT: A PILOT RANDOMIZED TRIAL OF BRIEF AUTOMATED SMOKING CESSATION TEXTING INTERVENTION FOR INPATIENT SMOKERS DISCHARGED FROM THE HOSPITAL

Graduate Program:

Public Health Sciences

Keywords:

smoking cessation

File:

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Committee Members:

Jonathan Foulds, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Sciamanna, Committee Member
Vernon Chinchilli, Committee Member

Author:

Mckinney, Samantha Rene

Title:

Investigation of food safety parameters for fermented semi-dry and dry sausage products

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

E. coli O157:H7
Salmonella
L. monocytogenes
fermented sausages

File:

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Committee Members:

Jonathan Campbell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Catherine Cutter, Committee Member
Nancy Ostiguy, Committee Member

Author:

Lindstrom, Rachel Anne

Title:

Biological Cohabiting Families and Adolescent Wellbeing

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Cohabitation
Family structure
Child wellbeing
Adolescence

File:

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Committee Members:

Valarie King, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Valarie King, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Johnson, Committee Member
Molly Martin, Committee Member
David Eggebeen, Outside Member
Paul Amato, Special Member

Author:

Hoorn, Megan Elizabeth

Title:

“IF YOU USE YOUR AAC FROM THE BEGINNING OF A RELATIONSHIP, IT WILL BE NORMAL FOR YOU AND YOUR PARTNER, EVEN DURING SEX”: PEOPLE WHO USE AAC AND SEXUALITY

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Keywords:

sexuality
sex
AAC
augmentative and alternative communication
complex communication needs
speech-language pathology
disability
relationships

File:

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Committee Members:

Janice Light, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jessica Gosnell Caron, Committee Member

Author:

Shen, Yufei

Title:

Spontaneous emission control and nanoscale transport in optoelectronic devices

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Spontaneous emission
Kinetic Monte Carlo
OLED
Upper-excited state emission
Luminescent solar concentrator
Device simulation
Hyperbolic metamaterial

File:

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Committee Members:

Noel C. Giebink, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Noel C. Giebink, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kristen A. Fichthorn, Committee Member
Nathan D. Gemelke, Committee Member
Thomas E. Mallouk, Outside Member

Author:

Chaklader, Rushtin

Title:

RELATING PREFERENCE TO BODY SIZE AND SHAPE THROUGH THE DATA MINING OF CONSUMER REVIEWS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Data Mining
Design for Human Variability
Consumer Reviews

File:

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Committee Members:

Matt Parkinson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen A. Thole, Committee Member
Conrad Tucker, Committee Member

Author:

Yetming, Kristen Dominique

Title:

BHLF1, a Lytic-Cycle Gene Encoding a Long Non-Coding RNA Contributes to Epstein-Barr Virus Latency

Graduate Program:

Microbiology and Immunology

Keywords:

Epstein-Barr virus
EBV
BHLF1
long non-coding RNA
lncRNA
latency

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeffery T. Sample, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffery T. Sample, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clare E. Sample, Committee Member
Todd D. Schell, Committee Member
Gregory S. Yochum, Outside Member
David J. Spector, Committee Member

Author:

Biber, Benjamin Michael

Title:

DIRECTED SELF-ASSEMBLY OF INORGANIC REDOX COMPLEXES AND THE FORMATION OF CHARGE SEPARATED STATES

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Photosynthetic mimics
coordination chemistry
artificial photosynthesis
electron transfer

File:

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Committee Members:

Mary Elizabeth Williams, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Elizabeth Williams, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E. Mallouk, Committee Member
Benjamin J. Lear, Committee Member
John Golbeck, Outside Member

Author:

Cloonan, Kevin Rayne

Title:

Behaviorally active substances affecting reproductive success of the fungus gnat, Lycoriella ingenua, a pest of white button mushrooms, Agaricus bisporus

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

mushroom fly
fungus gnat
female extract
y-tube olfactometer
gas chromatography/electroantennographic detection
gas chromatography/behavioral bioassays
Diptera
Sciaridae
Lycoriella ingenua
Agaricus bisporus
mushroom compost
Trichoderma aggressivum
microbial metabolism
insect-fungus mutualism

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas C. Baker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas C. Baker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nina E. Jenkins, Committee Member
Shelby Fleischer, Committee Member
John Pecchia, Outside Member

Author:

Gurrentz, Benjamin Thomas

Title:

Family, Faith, and Friends: Incorporating Social Networks into the Study of Family and Religion

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

family
religion
social networks

File:

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Committee Members:

Roger Finke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roger Finke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Diane Felmlee, Committee Member
David Johnson, Committee Member
David Eggebeen, Outside Member

Author:

Mainzer, Stephen Paul

Title:

A community landscape theory of pro-environmental behavior: the effects of landscape and community interaction on residential energy consumption in two Pennsylvania towns.

Graduate Program:

Architecture

Keywords:

Landscape
Community
Proenvironmental behavior
Mixed-method
Transdisciplinary
Energy

File:

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Committee Members:

Charles Andrew Cole, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles Andrew Cole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
A.E. Luloff, Committee Member
Mallika Bose, Committee Member
Jim Finley, Outside Member

Author:

Rangarajan, Rajesh

Title:

THERMAL HISTORY PREDICTION USING FAR-FIELD TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS DURING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

N/A

File:

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Corina Drapaca, Committee Member
Albert Segall, Committee Member

Author:

Leeman, John Robert

Title:

Laboratory Studies of Fault Stability and Slow Earthquakes

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

slow slip
earthquake
fault mechanics
rock mechanics
fault stability
ice stream

File:

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Committee Members:

Chris Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Demian Saffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Richard Alley, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Outside Member

Author:

Brown, Daniel C

Title:

Modeling and Measurement of Spatial Coherence for Normal Incidence Seafloor Scattering

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

spatial coherence
coherence
scattering
sea floor
seneca lake

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas B. Gabrielson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas B. Gabrielson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles W. Holland, Committee Member
Rick L. Tutwiler, Committee Member
Timothy J. Kane, Outside Member
Anthony P. Lyons, Special Member

Author:

Fleck, Joey Arthur

Title:

Leadership Success: A Study Of Career And Technical Education Administrative Directors

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

Career and Technical Education
Leadership
Leadership Skills
Educational Leadership
CTE Administrative Directors
Leadership in Career and Technical Education

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. Mark Threeton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Mark Threeton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Judith Kolb, Committee Member
Dr. Wesley Donahue, Committee Member
Dr. John Ewing, Outside Member

Author:

Nusiner Bassi, Maria Alessandra

Title:

A Copula-Based Method to Synthesize Anthropometric Data of Target User Populations

Graduate Program:

Engineering Design

Keywords:

Anthropometry
Virtual Fitting Trials
Synthesis
Summary Statistics
Design
Multivariate Analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Matthew Parkinson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicholas Meisel, Committee Member

Author:

Mc Vey, Michael George

Title:

Transformational Journey of Educators in Technology: A Mixed Methods Study of Tenured Business Faculty

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Online education
transformative learning
tenured business faculty
adult education
resistance
teaching online

File:

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Committee Members:

Edward W. Taylor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward W. Taylor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Janet M. Duck, Committee Member
Adnan A. Qayyum, Committee Member
David L. Rodgers, Outside Member

Author:

Thomas, Kristin L

Title:

The Awe in Awesome: A Multidisciplinary Approach Sheds Light on Education Abroad

Graduate Program:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management

Keywords:

Education Abroad
motivations
expectations
awe
tourist
identity
educational tourism
meaning making
study abroad
novelty
authenticity

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. Deborah Kerstetter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Deborah Kerstetter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Peter Newman, Committee Member
Dr. Derrick Taff, Committee Member
Dr. Dorothy Evensen, Outside Member

Author:

Koby, Peter James

Title:

Updating the Colonial Cartographic Representation of Barbados: Digital Inquiries of a Sugar Island

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Barbados
sugar
colonial
digital humanities
cartography
historical geography
geography
history
census
maps
geospatial
Sweet Atlantic
symbols

File:

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Committee Members:

Deryck W. Holdsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Deryck W. Holdsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anthony C. Robinson, Committee Member
Andrew M. Carleton, Committee Member
Matthew Restall, Outside Member

Author:

Vernon, Julia Anne

Title:

FIN WHALE DISTRIBUTION IN THE INDIAN AND EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEANS IN SUPPORT OF PASSIVE ACOUSTIC DENSITY ESTIMATION

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

density estimation
fin whales

File:

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Committee Members:

Jennifer Miksis-Olds, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Bradley, Committee Member
Karl Reichard, Committee Member
Margaret Brittingham, Committee Member

Author:

Connelly, Lindsay Mae

Title:

Life, Death, and Design: Revisiting Aldo Rossi's Cemetery at San Cataldo

Graduate Program:

Architecture

Keywords:

San Cataldo
Aldo Rossi
Rossi
Modena
Cemetery
San Cataldo Cemetery
Italy
Modena Cemetery
Funerary Architecture
Architecture

File:

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Committee Members:

Denise Costanzo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Darla Lindberg, Committee Member
James Cooper, Committee Member
Craig Zabel, Committee Member

Author:

Perry, Rebecca Kirsten

Title:

Executive Functioning as a Moderator between Preschool Classroom Quality and Self-Regulation for Children from High and Low Poverty Backgrounds

Graduate Program:

School Psychology

Keywords:

Executive Functioning
Classroom Quality
Early Childhood
Self-Regulation
Poverty
Education

File:

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Committee Members:

Barbara Schaefer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barbara Schaefer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer Frank, Committee Member
Shirley Woika, Committee Member
Pamela Cole, Outside Member
James DiPerna, Committee Member

Author:

Lovelace, Jeffrey Brent

Title:

The myth of the yellow-brick road: Extending the CIP model of leadership

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

CIP Model of Leadership
Charismatic Leadership
Ideological Leadership
Pragmatic Leadership
Scale Development
Measurement

File:

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Committee Members:

Samuel T. Hunter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Samuel T. Hunter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rick Jacobs, Committee Member
Susan Mohammed, Committee Member
Donald Hambrick, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Ji

Title:

Computationally Efficient Online Model-Based Control and Estimation for Lithium-ion Batteries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Lithium-ion batteries
Battery mangement systems
Differential Flatness
Control
Estimation

File:

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Committee Members:

Hosam K. Fathy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hosam K. Fathy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher D. Rahn, Committee Member
Chao-Yang Wang, Committee Member
Constantino Lagoa, Outside Member

Author:

Kulaylat, Audrey Stokes

Title:

Shared Decision Making in Elective Colorectal Surgery: Cost Utility Analysis of Smoking Cessation Programs

Graduate Program:

Public Health Sciences

Keywords:

Smoking cessation
Decision Analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Christopher S. Hollenbeak, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Leslie, Committee Member

Author:

Panitanarak, Thap

Title:

Scalable graph and mesh algorithms on distributed-memory systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

parallel computation
graph algorithm
distributed memory algorithm
graph data structure
linear solver
mesh warping
SSSP
mesh partitioning

File:

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Committee Members:

Kamesh Madduri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suzanne M. Shontz, Committee Member
Mahmut T. Kandemir, Committee Member
Keefe B. Manning, Outside Member

Author:

Yue, Wenting

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF A PRODUCTION DATA ANALYSIS MODEL AND ITS APPLICATION IN A PRODUCING OIL RESERVOIR

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

production data analysis
Ensemble Kalman Filter
Whole-field evaluation
Reservoir simulation
history matching

File:

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Committee Members:

John Yilin Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yilin Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Steven Greybush, Outside Member

Author:

Castano-Duque, Lina M

Title:

MAIZE DEFENSE RESPONSES AND STRATEGIES AGAINST ABOVEGROUND AND BELOWGROUND INSECTS

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

maize
Diabrotica virgifera virgifera
Spodotera frugiperda
plant-insect interactions
plant defenses
proteomics
network biology

File:

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Committee Members:

Dawn S. Luthe, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dawn S. Luthe, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathleen M. Brown, Committee Member
Réka Albert, Committee Member
Mary Barbercheck, Outside Member

Author:

Fuller, Zach Lewis

Title:

Uncovering the Dynamics of Natural Populations: Genomic Studies in Drosophila pseudoobscura & Apis mellifera

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Genomics
drosophila
apis mellifera
selection
population dynamics

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephen Schaeffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kateryna Makova, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Medvedev, Committee Member
Christina Grozinger, Committee Member
Christina Grozinger, Outside Member

Author:

Morales Pamplona, Santiago

Title:

Anxiety and Attention Bias Towards Threat: a Developmental and Multi-method Approach

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Attention bias
Temperament
Anxiety
Development

File:

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Committee Members:

Kristin Buss, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kristin Buss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Committee Member
Reginald Adams, Committee Member
Sonia A. Cavigelli, Outside Member

Author:

Menold, Jessica D

Title:

Prototype for X (PFX): A Prototyping Framework to Support Product Design

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Prototype
Design Theory and Methods
Human Centered Design
Design Thinking
Design For X

File:

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Committee Members:

Kathryn Jablokow, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Scarlett Miller, Committee Member
Meg Small, Committee Member
Aaron Knochel, Outside Member
Timothy Simpson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathryn Jablokow, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Douton, Joaquin E

Title:

NEUROCHEMICAL PROFILE IN THE NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS DURING DEVALUATION OF NATURAL REWARDS IN DRUG ADDICTION

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

Reward devaluation
Cocaine
Heroin
Taste Reactivity Test
Microdialysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. Patricia Sue Grigson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Robert Levenson, Committee Member
Dr. Andras Hajnal, Committee Member
Dr. Scott Bunce, Committee Member

Author:

Gonzalez, Inanllely Y

Title:

INTRAMOLECULAR [3 + 2] CYCLOCONDENSATIONS OF ALKENES WITH INDOLIDENE AND INDOLIDENIUM CATION INTERMEDIATES: APPLICATION TOWARDS THE SYNTHESIS OF LECANINDOLE D

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

cyclizations
indolidene
cyclocondensation

File:

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Committee Members:

Ken S. Feldman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ken S. Feldman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Scott T. Phillips, Committee Member
Ray L. Funk, Committee Member
Michael Hickner, Outside Member

Author:

Solea, Eftychia

Title:

Nonparametric graphical models for functional data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Additive conditional independence; additive correlation operator; additive precision operator; EEG; fMRI; gaussian graphical model; reproducing kernel Hilbert space.
Functional Principal Component Analysis
Hilbert space- valued random elements
Karhunen-Loeve expansion
Rank Correlation
Rank Transformation.

File:

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Aleksandra Slavkovic, Committee Member
Michael Akritas, Committee Member
Rongling Wu, Outside Member

Author:

Sandoe, Kathryn Jeanne

Title:

Hungry for Justice: The Hunger Games and Developing an Activist Identity in Women Fans

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

adult education
informal learning
popular culture
fan activism
The Hunger Games
social justice
public pedagogy
convergence culture
poststructural feminism
social movements
fan studies

File:

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Committee Members:

Robin Redmon Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Redmon Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Committee Member
Holly Angelique, Committee Member
Peter J. Kareithi, Outside Member

Author:

Huang, Yan

Title:

ATTITUDE STABILITY AND RESISTANCE: THE IMPACT OF NARRATIVES IN HEALTH COMMUNICATION

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

Narrative Persuasion
Attitude Stability
Resistance
Narrative Engagement
Cancer Communication
Health Message
Memory Accessibility

File:

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Committee Members:

Fuyuan Shen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fuyuan Shen, Committee Member
Michael Schmierbach, Committee Member
Xiaoyue Maggie Niu, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Xingsheng

Title:

THE EFFECT OF SPATIAL SEGMENTATION ON SAFETY PERFORMANCE FUNCTION MODELING

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

safety performance functions
roadway segmentation
machine learning
Negative Binominal models
coordinate-descent approach
Weighted Absolute Percentage Error
clustering
generalizability of models

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeremy Blum, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thang N. Bui, Committee Member
Linda Null, Committee Member
Sukmoon Chang, Committee Member
Omar El Ariss, Committee Member
Hyuntae Na, Committee Member

Author:

Bassett, Ryan M

Title:

A Typology of Religious Influence on Gustav Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony

Graduate Program:

Musicology

Keywords:

Gustav Mahler
Spirituality
Reform Judaism
Christianity
Gustav Theodor Fechner
The Second Symphony
The "Resurrection" Symphony

File:

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Committee Members:

Charles Youmans, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Maureen Carr, Committee Member
Marica Tacconi, Committee Member

Author:

Giossi, Joseph Thomas

Title:

Regulation of Seasonal Changes in Gene Expression via Adiponectin Signaling in a Migratory Bird Species

Graduate Program:

Physiology

Keywords:

clock
adiponectin
biological clock
sparrow
migration

File:

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Committee Members:

Paul Bartell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kevin Harvatine, Committee Member
Joshua Lambert, Committee Member
Ramesh Ramachandran, Committee Member

Author:

Davis, Ethan B

Title:

EVALUATING AGRICULTURAL LAND USE PATTERNS IN RELATION TO FOOD SYSTEMS, BIOENERGY, AND CARBON MITIGATION

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Biofuels
bioenergy
transportation energy
food security
carbon sequestration
greenhouse gas emissions
food demand
cropland intensification
pasture intensification
electric vehicles
indirect land use change

File:

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Committee Members:

Erica Smithwick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erica Smithwick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dave Mortensen, Committee Member
Alan Taylor, Committee Member
Tom Richard, Outside Member

Author:

Dufour, Catherine Simmons

Title:

The Nature of the Working Relationship between a College President and Board of Trustees: A Case Study

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

higher education
president
board of trustees
relationship
roles and responsibilities
trust
communcation and transparency
shared vision

File:

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Committee Members:

Neal H. Hutchens, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Neal H. Hutchens, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert M. Mendrickson, Committee Member
Michael J. Dooris, Committee Member
Kathleen J. Bieschke, Outside Member

Author:

Ponce De Leon Jara, Maria Alejandra

Title:

MEASURED AND DAYCENT- SIMULATED NITROUS OXIDE EMISSIONS FROM SOIL PLANTED TO CORN IN DAIRY CROPPING SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Agronomy

Keywords:

Nitrous oxide
DAYCENT
Dairy sistems
Crop residue
Manure injection
Random Forests

File:

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Committee Members:

Heather Karsten, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Curtis Dell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan Rotz, Committee Member

Author:

Le Berre, Samuel

Title:

REMOTE DETECTION OF CORROSIVE ENVIRONMENT INTEGRATED IN A MULTI-SENSOR ROBOT FOR DRY STORAGE SAFETY ASSESSMENT

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

nuclear spent-fuel
stress corrosion cracking
laser induced breakdown spectroscopy
fiber delivery
double-pulse
chlorine detection
sodium surrogate
dry storage canister

File:

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Committee Members:

Arthur Motta, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arthur Motta, Committee Member
Michael Tonks, Committee Member
Igor Jovanovic, Committee Member

Author:

Spires, James Michael

Title:

MODEL FOLLOWING AND HIGH ORDER AUGMENTATION FOR ROTORCRAFT CONTROL, APPLIED VIA PARTIAL AUTHORITY

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

rotorcraft control
model following control
dynamic decoupling
explicit model following
H2
Hinf
dynamic inversion
nonlinear dynamic inversion
handling qualities
partial authority control
feed forward
turbulence rejection
piggyback compensation

File:

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Committee Members:

Joseph Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward Smith, Committee Member
Jacob Langelaan, Committee Member
Chris Rahn, Outside Member

Author:

Leon y Leon, Isabel Aurora

Title:

ECOLOGICAL CHANGES IN THE NANNOPLANKTON COMMUNITY ACROSS A SHELF TRANSECT DURING THE ONSET OF THE PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

nannoplankton
PETM
Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
nearshore
paleoecology
Cambridge-Dorchester MD
shelf environment

File:

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Committee Members:

Timothy Bralower, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lee Kump, Committee Member
Mark Patzkowsky, Committee Member

Author:

Perchinski, Joshua Cody

Title:

COLLECTIVE EFFICACY AND FEAR OF CRIME IN THE CONTEXT OF NATURAL GAS DEVELOPMENT

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

Collective Efficacy
Boomtown
Natural resource development
fear of crime
social disruption

File:

Download Perchinski_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kathryn Brasier, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shannon Monnat, Committee Member
Leland Glenna, Committee Member

Author:

Cells, Caitlin Siobhan

Title:

Extending Reliability Evidence for Adjustment Scales for Preschool Intervention (ASPI) Scores Among At-Risk Rural Preschoolers

Graduate Program:

School Psychology

Keywords:

rural
preschool behavior
behavior problems

File:

Download Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Barbara Schaefer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barbara Schaefer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shirley Woika, Committee Member
Paul Morgan, Committee Member
Scott Gest, Outside Member

Author:

Mamun, Abdullah-Al

Title:

OPTIMAL CONTROL OF DATACENTER ENERGY STORAGE FOR DEMAND RESPONSE

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Battery
Lithium-ion
Stochastic control
Genetic algorithm
Optimal control
Particle filter
Physics-based modeling
datacenter
energy management

File:

Download AMamun_dissertation_committee.pdf

Committee Members:

Hosam Fathy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hosam Fathy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher D. Rahn, Committee Member
Horacio Perez-Blanco, Committee Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Outside Member

Author:

Dwivedi, Neelam

Title:

Higher Education as a Cyber-Cultural Institution: An Investigation into the Emerging Institutional Logic

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Higher education
online education
mediatization
institutional logic
teaching practice

File:

Download Dissertation_-_Neelam_Dwivedi_-_Summer_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Xiaolong (Luke) Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Xiaolong (Luke) Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Sandeep Purao, Committee Member
Dr. Eileen Trauth, Committee Member
Dr. Rayne Sperling, Outside Member

Author:

Jaiprakash, Amrita

Title:

Absence of an Immunodominant MHC Class Ia-Restricted Epitope Elicits a Compensatory MHC Class Ib-Restricted CD8+ T Cell Response to Mouse Polyomavirus CNS Infection

Graduate Program:

Anatomy

Keywords:

Polyomavirus
MHC
MHC class Ib
Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
Non-classical MHC
Mouse Polyomavirus

File:

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Committee Members:

Aron Lukacher, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patricia McLaughlin, Committee Member
Todd Schell, Committee Member
James Connor, Committee Member

Author:

Dennehy, Terri Reichley

Title:

Intraprofessional Collaboration: Innovations in Occupational Therapy Academia

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Occupational Therapy
Intraprofessional Collaboration
Participatory Action Research
Learner-Centered Education

File:

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Committee Members:

Edward W. Taylor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward W. Taylor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robin Redmon Wright, Committee Member
Raffy Luquis, Committee Member
Hengameh Hosseini, Outside Member

Author:

Taylor, Ann Hamilton

Title:

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivators that Attract and Retain Part-time Online Teaching Faculty at Penn State

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

higher education
adjunct faculty
distance learning
online
faculty motivation
online faculty
part time faculty
online teaching
incentives
online instruction
faculty retention
hiring practices

File:

Download Dissertation_AnnTaylor_7February2017_final.pdf

Committee Members:

David Passmore, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Passmore, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kyle Peck, Committee Member
Wesley Donahue, Committee Member
Lawrence Boggess, Outside Member

Author:

Oruc, Ilker

Title:

Towards Real-Time Pilot-in-the-Loop Simulation of Rotorcraft with Fully-Coupled CFD Solutions of Rotor / Terrain Interactions

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

modeling
simulation
pilot-in-the-loop
rotorcraft
terrain
ship airwake
dynamic interface
DI
helicopter/ship
coupled
fully-coupled
fully coupled
ground effect
CFD
aerodynamics
flight control
flight dynamics
ship landing
ship approach
computational
fluid
dynamics
real-time
manned
sloped
partial ground
acceleration
helicopter simulation
high-performance-computing
flight simulator
MPI
helicopter dynamics
SFS2
MPMD
actuator disk
ADM
ALM
simple frigate ship
non-linear
NLDI
UH-60
flight performance
one-way coupled
two-way coupled
recirculation
coupled simulation
coupling interface
IGE
OGE
hover
GENHEL
GENHEL-PSU
Navier-Stokes
Gaussian

File:

Download IlkerOruc-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph F. Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph F. Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C. Smith, Committee Member
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Outside Member

Author:

Shim, Ji Young

Title:

CONFLICT, CONTROVERSY, AND ART EDUCATION: SOCIAL AND PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

Museum Education
Art Education
Temporary Autonomous Zone
Art Controversy
Poetic Terrorism
Art Exhibition

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_JYS.pdf

Committee Members:

B Stephen Carpenter II, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
B Stephen Carpenter II, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles Garoian, Committee Member
Christine Marmé Thompson, Committee Member
Alan Sica, Outside Member