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Author:

Kitt-Lewis, Erin Ann

Title:

Caregiving at the end of life: A discursive analysis of agency

Graduate Program:

Nursing

Keywords:

Discourse analysis
secondary analysis
qualitative
informal family caregiving
end of life

File:

Download Kitt-Lewis_Dissertation_3.23.17_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Janice Lee Penrod, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janice Lee Penrod, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Jayne Loeb, Committee Member
Susan G Strauss, Committee Member
Robert William Schrauf, Outside Member

Author:

Anthony, Kate Lordan

Title:

EXCESS FEED CONSUMPTION DURING GROWTH CAUSES CHANGES IN EXPRESSION OF STEROIDOGENIC ENZYMES AND NEUROACTIVE RECEPTORS IN OVARIES OF PREPUBESCENT BROILER BREEDER HENS

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

ovary
follicle
chicken
broiler breeder hen
microarray
DAVID
steroidogenesis
neural
prepubescent
feed
gene expression
VIP
vasoactive intestinal polypeptide

File:

Download Final_Version_with_no_blank_page.pdf

Committee Members:

Francisco Javier Diaz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan Leslie Johnson, Committee Member
Ramesh Ramachandran, Committee Member

Author:

Schroeder, Kingsley Manning

Title:

Developmental Trends, Processes, and Associations between Children's Gender Understanding and Felt Pressure to Conform to Gender Roles

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

gender development
felt pressure
parent socialization
gender understanding
gendered peer relations

File:

Download SchroederMastersThesis_KMS_16Apr2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Lynn Susan Liben, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan Emdin Cook, Committee Member
Dawn Paula Witherspoon, Committee Member

Author:

Qiu, Yijun

Title:

Identification of Regions in Drosophila Spt5 That Are Involved in Promoter Proximal Pausing

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

transcription elongation
RNA polymerase II
promoter proximal pausing
Spt5
KOW domain
gene regulation

File:

Download Yijun_Qiu_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

David Scott Gilmour, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Scott Gilmour, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph C. Reese, Committee Member
Benjamin Franklin Pugh, Committee Member
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Outside Member
Song Tan, Committee Member

Author:

Billard, Myles William

Title:

DESIGN OF A MULTI-SITE, MULTI-REGION MICRODRIVE NEURAL RECORDING SYSTEM

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Neurophysiology
Microdrive
Sleep
Wake
Circuits
Systems
Electrophysiology
Neural Recordings
Brainstem

File:

Download BillardMyles_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce Gluckman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kevin Douglas Alloway, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member

Author:

Masko, Jeffrey A

Title:

NEOLIBERAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF “WHITE MASCULINITY” IN CINEMATIC MEDIA - 1970-2015

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Keywords:

whiteness
masculinity
working class
film cycle
media studies
mass communications
Marxist communications
film theory
cinema studies
political subjectivities
bromance
reality television
romantic comedy
trucking films
film genre

File:

Download Masko-Jeffrey_Dissertation_Master_04162017.pdf

Committee Members:

Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kevin Hagopian, Committee Member
Matt McAllister, Committee Member
Greg Eghigian, Outside Member

Author:

Luthra, Tarun

Title:

Seismic Investigation of Sediments Beneath Antarctic Ice Streams

Graduate Program:

Earth Sciences

Keywords:

Glaciology
Ice Streams
Geophysics
Reflection seismology
geosciences
Antarctica
West Antarctic Ice Sheet

File:

Download Luthra_dissertation_17thApril.pdf

Committee Members:

Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
Byron Richard Parizek, Committee Member
Charles Holland, Outside Member

Author:

Shang, Bin

Title:

Design of Brine Disposal Wells in Depleted Gas Reservoirs via Artificial Intelligence Protocols

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

ANN
Brine Disposal
Depleted Gas Reservoirs

File:

Download Bin_Shang_Masters_Thesis_July_26_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Member
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Member

Author:

Hill, Lillian Z

Title:

Lithological Controls on Soil Properties of Temperate Forest Ecosystems in Central Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Lithology
Nutrient Cycles
Critical Zone
Soil Gas
Soil Properties
Temperate Forest

File:

Download Lillian_Hill_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jason Philip Kaye, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roman Alexander Dibiase, Committee Member
David Eissenstat, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Drohan, Committee Member

Author:

Motevalian, Seyed Pouria

Title:

Simulations of Reactive Species Transport in the Respiratory Tract

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Dosimetry Modeling
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Mass Trasnport
Respiratory Tract

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_Seyed_Pouria_Motevalian.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali Borhan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali Borhan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Member
James Ultman, Committee Member
Rebecca Bascom, Outside Member