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1001. Hidden in Plain Sight: A Philosophical Examination of the Invisibility of Black Women in Analyses of State Violence

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Author:
Mensah, Shaeeda
Title:
Hidden in Plain Sight: A Philosophical Examination of the Invisibility of Black Women in Analyses of State Violence
Graduate Program:
Philosophy
Keywords:
State violence
philosophy of punishment
feminism
racism
mass incarceration
police brutality
black women
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Committee Members:
Sarah Clark Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarah Clark Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn Sophia Belle, Committee Member
Amy Rebekah Allen, Committee Member
Melissa Wright, Outside Member

1002. Tracing the environmental and human health impacts of oil and gas development

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Open Access
Author:
Tasker, Travis Lindsay
Title:
Tracing the environmental and human health impacts of oil and gas development
Graduate Program:
Environmental Engineering
Keywords:
hydraulic fracturing
Marcellus Shale
Utica Shale
TENORM
Oil and gas
isotopes
File:
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Committee Members:
William D Burgos, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William D Burgos, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nathaniel Richard Warner, Committee Member
Franklin Lewis Dorman Jr., Committee Member
Matthew S Fantle, Outside Member

1003. Rigidity for abelian actions with rank 1 factors

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Open Access
Author:
Rudenko, Oleg
Title:
Rigidity for abelian actions with rank 1 factors
Graduate Program:
Mathematics
Keywords:
dynamical systems
rank 1 factors
abelian actions
rigidity
File:
Download Rudenko-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Federico Juan Rodriguez Hertz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Federico Juan Rodriguez Hertz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Boris V Kalinin, Committee Member
Zhiren Wang, Committee Member
Eugenio Bianchi, Outside Member

1004. E.T.C. Phone Home: Perspectives of Evidence-Based Practices in an After School Program

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Open Access
Author:
Root, David Timothy
Title:
E.T.C. Phone Home: Perspectives of Evidence-Based Practices in an After School Program
Graduate Program:
Criminal Justice
Keywords:
Juvenile Delinquency
Evidence-Based Practices
After-School Program
Behavior Modification
Qualitative Research
File:
Download Root_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Philip Richard Kavanaugh Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan Lee, Committee Member
Eileen Michelle Ahlin, Committee Member

1005. An ecological lens on the emergence of plant pathogencity: comparative studies of pathogenic and non-pathogenic Fusarium oxysporum

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Open Access
Author:
Tesdall, Genna
Title:
An ecological lens on the emergence of plant pathogencity: comparative studies of pathogenic and non-pathogenic Fusarium oxysporum
Graduate Program:
Plant Pathology
Keywords:
Fusarium oxysporum
Banana
International agriculture
Plant pathology
microbial ecology
soil-borne plant pathogens
fungal evolution
pathogen evolution
File:
Download Master_Thesis_27November2018.pdf
Committee Members:
Maria del Mar Jimenez Gasco, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Beth Krueger Gugino, Committee Member
David Michael Geiser, Committee Member
Mary Ellen Barbercheck, Committee Member
Melanie Joy Miller Foster, Committee Member

1006. Information Theoretic Security Guarantees against More Capable Adversaries

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Open Access
Author:
Nafea, Mohamed Saeed
Title:
Information Theoretic Security Guarantees against More Capable Adversaries
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Information theoretic security
Wiretap channel
MIMO wiretap channel
Secure degrees of freedom
Interference alignment
Cooperative jamming
Adversarial resource advantage
Wiretap Channel II
Strong secrecy
Concentration of measures
Designed adversarial attacks
Chosen ciphertext attack
Coded caching
Secure coded caching
Cache tapping
Generalized wiretap model
Generalized multi-terminal wiretap models
Type II adversaries
File:
Download MNafea_dissertation-final.pdf
Committee Members:
Aylin Yener, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aylin Yener, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member
Viveck Ramesh Cadambe, Committee Member
Jan Severin Reimann, Outside Member

1007. Central Park in Film: Architecture as the Structure of Desire

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Open Access
Author:
Tehrani, Sadra
Title:
Central Park in Film: Architecture as the Structure of Desire
Graduate Program:
Architecture
Keywords:
Architecture
Central Park
Landscape
Film
Cinema
movies
design
Olmsted
New York
Desire
File:
Download Sadra_Tehrani_-_Final_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Mehrdad Hadighi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reggie Aviles, Committee Member
Kevin J Hagopian, Committee Member
Donald Kunze, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

1008. Tensions in International Higher Education: Sense Making, Decision Making, and Organizational Culture

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Open Access
Author:
Brinker, Suzan
Title:
Tensions in International Higher Education: Sense Making, Decision Making, and Organizational Culture
Graduate Program:
Higher Education
Keywords:
Qualitative Research
Higher Education
International Higher Education
Ethnography
Organizational Culture
Sense Making
Decision Making
File:
Download Brinker_FinalDissertation_Fall2018.pdf
Committee Members:
John Jesse Cheslock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Jesse Cheslock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David S Guthrie, Committee Member
Gerald K Letendre, Committee Member
Kyle Peck, Outside Member

1009. Ventilated Supercavity Physics

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Author:
Hansford, Samuel E
Title:
Ventilated Supercavity Physics
Graduate Program:
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:
Supercavitation
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Committee Members:
Robert Francis Kunz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rhett William Jefferies, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy A Brungart, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member
Jules Washington Lindau V, Outside Member

1010. MECHANISTIC STUDY OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND NEUROD1-MEDIATED IN VIVO CELL CONVERSION

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Author:
Wang, Yue
Title:
MECHANISTIC STUDY OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND NEUROD1-MEDIATED IN VIVO CELL CONVERSION
Graduate Program:
Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences
Keywords:
Alzheimer's disease
NeuroD1
Cell conversion
Beneficial effect
GAD67
Haploinsufficiency
Small molecule cocktail
Therapy
In vivo
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Committee Members:
Gong Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Cavener, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard Luscher, Committee Member
Kevin Douglas Alloway, Committee Member
Yingwei Mao, Outside Member

1011. HIGH PRESSURE CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF CRYSTALLINE DOPED ZNSE OPTICAL FIBERS

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Author:
Coco, Michael G
Title:
HIGH PRESSURE CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF CRYSTALLINE DOPED ZNSE OPTICAL FIBERS
Graduate Program:
Chemistry
Keywords:
FeZnSe
mid-infrared
optical fiber laser
CrZnSe
high pressure
chemical vapor deposition
ZnSSe
File:

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Committee Members:
John V. Badding, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John V. Badding, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E. Mallouk, Committee Member
Miriam A. Freedman, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member

1012. Puja at the Crossroads: A Transnational Ethnography of Hindu Festivals in the United States

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Author:
Mitra, Semontee
Title:
Puja at the Crossroads: A Transnational Ethnography of Hindu Festivals in the United States
Graduate Program:
American Studies
Keywords:
South Asian Indians
Diaspora
Hindu Religion
Religious Festivals
Women
Goddesses
Durga Puja
Diwali
Kali Puja
Navratri
Folk Traditions
Indian Americans
Commercialization of Religion
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Committee Members:
Simon J. Bronner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Simon J. Bronner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member
Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Committee Member
Triparna B Vasavada, Outside Member

1013. Rhetoric and the Making of Algorithmic Worlds

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Open Access
Author:
Johnson, Jeremy David
Title:
Rhetoric and the Making of Algorithmic Worlds
Graduate Program:
Communication Arts and Sciences
Keywords:
Rhetoric
Algorithms
Networks
Agency
Power
Kosmos
Facebook
Google
YouTube
File:
Download Jeremy_David_Johnson_-_Rhetoric_and_the_Making_of_Algorithmic_Worlds.pdf
Committee Members:
Rosa Eberly, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rosa Eberly, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anne Demo, Committee Member
Stephen Browne, Committee Member
Stuart Selber, Outside Member
Michele Kennerly, Committee Member

1014. MEDIATING THE mTORC2-DEPENDENT SURVIVAL RESPONSE TO UVB EXPOSURE THROUGH NEGATIVE REGULATION OF THE TUMOR SUPRESSOR FOXO3a IN KERATINOCYTES

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Author:
Feehan, Robert Patrick
Title:
MEDIATING THE mTORC2-DEPENDENT SURVIVAL RESPONSE TO UVB EXPOSURE THROUGH NEGATIVE REGULATION OF THE TUMOR SUPRESSOR FOXO3a IN KERATINOCYTES
Graduate Program:
Biomedical Sciences
Keywords:
UVB
Skin Cancer
mTOR
FOXO3a
Keratinocyte
Apoptosis
File:
Download Robert_Feehan_-_Final_Dissertation_-_3-28-18.pdf
Committee Members:
Lisa M. Shantz, PhD, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lisa M. Shantz, PhD, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Scot R. Kimball, PhD, Committee Member
Sarah K. Bronson, PhD, Committee Member
Diane M. Thiboutot, MD, Outside Member
Charles H. Lang, PhD, Committee Member

1015. THE POETICS AND POLITICS OF PAIN: DECOLONIAL SPIRITUALITY IN THE AFRO-CARIBBEAN AND ITS DIASPORA

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Author:
Deckman, Joshua Ryan
Title:
THE POETICS AND POLITICS OF PAIN: DECOLONIAL SPIRITUALITY IN THE AFRO-CARIBBEAN AND ITS DIASPORA
Graduate Program:
Spanish
Keywords:
Caribbean
Puerto Rico
Dominican Republic
Cuba
Haiti
File:
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Committee Members:
Judith Sierra-Rivera, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith Sierra-Rivera, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Julia Cuervo-Hewitt, Committee Member
John Andres Ochoa, Committee Member
Maha Marouan, Outside Member

1016. Asynchrony and Heterochrony in Embryological Development

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Open Access
Author:
Flaherty, Kevin Vincent
Title:
Asynchrony and Heterochrony in Embryological Development
Graduate Program:
Anthropology
Keywords:
anthropology
heterochrony
mouse model
fgfr2
developmental age
human evolution
craniofacial
File:
Download Dissertation_Kevin_Flaherty.pdf
Committee Members:
Joan Richtsmeier, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joan Richtsmeier, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Ryan, Committee Member
George (PJ) Perry, Committee Member
Patrick Drew, Outside Member
Kazuhiko Kawasaki, Committee Member

1017. ROLE OF SOMATOSTATIN-POSITIVE GABAERGIC NEURONS IN ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION-RELATED PHENOTYPES

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Open Access
Author:
Jefferson, Sarah J
Title:
ROLE OF SOMATOSTATIN-POSITIVE GABAERGIC NEURONS IN ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION-RELATED PHENOTYPES
Graduate Program:
Neuroscience
Keywords:
Depression
GABA
Somatostatin
Interneuron
Anxiety
Stress
File:
Download Dissertation_final.pdf
Committee Members:
Bernhard Luscher, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernhard Luscher, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy J Jegla, Committee Member
Melissa Rolls, Committee Member
Sonia Angele Cavigelli, Outside Member

1018. KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: MEASURING ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP WITH SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSES OF SCHOLARLY JOURNAL CITATIONS IN PUBLIC ADMINSTRATION AND RELATED FIELDS

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Open Access
Author:
McGuigan, Glenn Steele
Title:
KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: MEASURING ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP WITH SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSES OF SCHOLARLY JOURNAL CITATIONS IN PUBLIC ADMINSTRATION AND RELATED FIELDS
Graduate Program:
Public Administration
Keywords:
Social network analysis
Public Administration
Scholarly Publishing
Citation Analysis
Prestige
File:
Download Dissertation_McGuigan_Final_Revision__11_14_18B.pdf
Committee Members:
Goktug Morcol, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Goktug Morcol, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Ran, Committee Member
Steven Peterson, Committee Member
Rhoda Joseph, Outside Member

1020. GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON TACTILE REACTIVITY FROM INFANCY TO TODDLERHOOD

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Author:
Mammen, Micah Ashley
Title:
GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON TACTILE REACTIVITY FROM INFANCY TO TODDLERHOOD
Graduate Program:
Psychology
Keywords:
touch
infancy
genetic
File:
Download MammenMA.pdf
Committee Members:
Ginger A Moore, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ginger A Moore, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Committee Member
Pamela Marie Cole, Committee Member
Cynthia Stifter, Outside Member