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Author:

Trietsch, Carolyn

Title:

Exploring Megaspilidae (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea) Through Morphology and More

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Ceraphronoidea
Megaspilidae
Ceraphronidae
Conostigmus
Dendrocerus
Megaspilius
Hymenoptera
Wasp
Taxonomy
Systematics
Morphology
Histology
Parasitoid
Insect
Entomology
Natural History

File:

Download Trietsch_FinalThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Robert Deans, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Frazier Tooker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Istvan Miko, Committee Member
Heather M Hines, Committee Member
Benoit A Dayrat, Outside Member

Author:

Koegler, Holly

Title:

Motor Planning and Language in Children With and Without Language Impairment

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Keywords:

action control
language development
procedural deficit hypothesis
developmental language disorder
specific language impairment
language and motor control
end state comfort
motor planning
child language
procedural memory

File:

Download Motor_planning_and_language_in_children_with_and_without_langauge_impairment_Koegler_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Carol Anne Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carol Anne Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Krista M Wilkinson, Committee Member
Ji Min Lee, Committee Member
David Rosenbaum, Outside Member

Author:

Park, Woongbae

Title:

THE MEDIATING ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND TEAM LEARNING ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRUST, PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY, AND VIRTUAL TEAM EFFECTIVENESS IN THE KOREAN RESEARCH INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

virtual team
psychology safety
trust
team learning
knowledge sharing
team effectiveness

File:

Download WoongbaePark_DissertationFinal_submitted.pdf

Committee Members:

David Lynn Passmore, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Lynn Passmore, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Wesley Edward Donahue, Committee Member
Cynthia Pellock, Committee Member
Rama B. Radhakrishna, Outside Member

Author:

Margevicius, Madeline Alma

Title:

SENSITIZING ENERGETIC MATERIALS USING PIEZOELECTRICITY

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Piezoelectric
Fluoropolymer
Combustion

File:

Download Margevicius_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacqueline Antonia O'Connor, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

Author:

Danisi, Jacqueline

Title:

Natural History of Childhood Obesity: Cardiometabolic and Sleep Outcomes and their Underlying Mechanisms

Graduate Program:

Anatomy

Keywords:

pediatrics
obesity
metabolic disorder
sleep disordered breathing
sleep medicine
inflammation

File:

Download Danisi_Master_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Julio Fernandez-Mendoza, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Oren Bixler, Committee Member
Patricia Mclaughlin, Committee Member

Author:

Abdullah, Mohammad B

Title:

DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF AN ARTIFICIAL-NEURAL-NETWORK-BASED ANALYSIS AND DESIGN TOOL FOR CHEMICAL ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY (ALKALINE-SURFACTANT-POLYMER) FIELD IMPLEMENTATIONS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

ANN
EOR
cEOR
Enhanced Oil Recovery
Machine Learning
Artificial Neural Network
Field Implementation

File:

Download Mohammad_Abdullah_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory R King, Committee Member

Author:

Lu, Chengcheng

Title:

A General Differential Mass Balance Equation and its Applications

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Muskat
Forchheimer
Gas-Oil Ratio
Solution gas drive

File:

Download Chengcheng_Lu_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Gregory R King, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
EUGENE MORGAN, Committee Member

Author:

Sun, Nan

Title:

Mechanics and Engineering of Atmospheric Water Harvesting

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

atmospheric water harvesting
dew harvesting
fog harvesting
particle deposition
Namib Desert beetle

File:

Download Nan_Sun_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Tak Sing Wong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tak Sing Wong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alexander S Rattner, Committee Member
Christopher D. Rahn, Committee Member
Pak Kin Wong, Outside Member

Author:

Mayo, Chelsea

Title:

Social Identity Complexity, Ethnic/Racial Identity, and Prosocial Attitudes in Pre-Adolescents

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

race
ethnicity
ethnic socialization
social identity
social identity complexity
pre-adolescents
intergroup attitudes

File:

Download Mayo_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Martha Ellen Wadsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan Emdin Cook, Committee Member
Yo Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Woda, Joshua

Title:

WORKING WITH CITIZEN SCIENTISTS AND HOMEOWNERS IN PENNSYLVANIA TO UNDERSTAND HYDROCARBON-RELATED CONTAMINATION OF WATER RESOURCES

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Shale gas
water quality
methane
hydraulic fracturing
oil and gas
contamination
citizen science

File:

Download Woda_thesis_.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member

Author:

Mekerishvili, Giorgi

Title:

ESSAYS ON INFORMATION DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Bayesian PersuasionInformation Design
Disclosure Requirements
Information Disclosure
Crowdfunding
Microtargeting
Kickstarter
Optimal Regulation
Regulation of Disclosure Requirements
political campaigns
political campaigning
Citizen Candidate Model
Principal-Agent Model
Crowdfunding Platform
Reward-based Crowdfunding
commitment power
commitment to information disclosure
reputation
reputation system
long-run reputation
cheap talk
investor protection
capital formation
model of electoral competition
strategic candidates
voter turnout
political awareness
elite polarization
negative campaigning
instrumental voters
rational voters
expressive voting
belief-free equilibrium
strategic communication
dynamic incentives
three stage Maximum Likelihood
campaigning technologies
repeated cheap talk
entrepreneurship
asymmetric information
moral hazard
information intermediary
information intermediation
financial intermediary
Bayesian Persuasion
Information Design
optimal regulation
regulation of disclosure requirements
Moral Hazard
optimal disclosure on crowdfunding platforms
commitment vs. flexibility
commitment vs. flexibility in information disclosure
a fair punishment
microtargeting rational voters

File:

Download Dissertation_Giorgi_Mekerishvili.pdf

Committee Members:

Syed Nageeb Ali, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Syed Nageeb Ali, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karl Edward Schurter, Committee Member
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Member
Bumba Mukherjee, Outside Member
Nima Haghpanah Jahromi, Committee Member
James Jordan, Committee Member

Author:

Huling, Andrew

Title:

Understanding mechanisms of imidacloprid failure for controlling white grubs in turfgrass

Graduate Program:

Agronomy

Keywords:

White grubs
turfgrass
imidacloprid
ELISA

File:

Download AHuling_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Ben McGraw, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Ed Rajotte, Committee Member
Mary Ann Victoria Bruns, Committee Member

Author:

Bayeck, Rebecca Y

Title:

EXPLORING THE AFRICAN SONGO GAME AND HOW GAMEPLAY ENHANCES MULTIPLE LITERACIES AMONG ADULT PLAYERS IN CAMEROON AND THE UNITED STATES

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology

Keywords:

Songo Board Game
literacies
Cameroon and the United States
African Board Game

File:

Download DISSERTATION.pdf

Committee Members:

Gabriela T Richard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gabriela T Richard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nicole Sheree Webster, Committee Member
Tyler S Hollett, Committee Member
Sinfree Bullock Makoni, Outside Member

Author:

Kumar, Devesh

Title:

Ensemble-based assimilation of non-linearly related dynamic data in reservoir models exhibiting non-Gaussian characteristics

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Data assimilation
Ensemble Kalman filter
non-Gaussian parameters
non-linear models
indicator transforms

File:

Download DeveshKumar-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sanjay Srinivasan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mort Webster, Committee Member
Gregory King, Committee Member
Steven Greybush, Outside Member

Author:

Singh, Manik

Title:

QUANTITATIVE INVERSION OF MICROSEISMIC DATA: BAYESIAN MODEL SELECTION USING FAST PROXIES FOR FRACTURING AND WAVE PROPAGATION

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Microseismic
Hydraulic Fracturing
Bayesian Model Selection
Quantitative Inversion
Tight Oil/Gas
Petroleum Engineering
Reservoir Engineering

File:

Download ManikSingh_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sanjay Srinivasan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Charles James Ammon, Outside Member

Author:

Peck, William

Title:

PLANNING THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION: A MODEL BASED SIMULATED ANNEALING APPROACH

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Simulated Annealing
Systems Dynamic Modeling
Integer Programming
Resource Allocation Problem
Simulation Modeling
Metaheuristics
Mathematical Programming
Job Shop

File:

Download Peck_MS_Thesis_Final_1.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel A. Finke, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ilgun Guler, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Committee Member

Author:

Cormier, Dwayne Ray

Title:

THE CULTURAL PROFICIENCY CONTINUUM DIALOGIC PROTOCOL: AN EMERGING TOOL FOR EXAMINING PRESERVICE TEACHERS' SOCIOCULTURAL CONSCIOUSNESS CONCERNING MAJORITY-MINORITY SCHOOLS AND STUDENT POPULATIONS

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Multicultural Education
Educational Design Research
Sociocultural Theory
Teachers' Beliefs
Cultural Proficiency
School-University Partnerships
Socially Mediated Structure
Supervision

File:

Download 4_10_19_Final_Draft_Dwayne_Ray_Cormier_Dissertation_.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernard Joel Badiali, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernard Joel Badiali, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ravinder Koul, Committee Member
Scott P Mcdonald, Committee Member
Raymond Keith Gilyard, Outside Member
Jamie Myers, Special Member

Author:

Wang, Chaoyi

Title:

MINERALOGICAL AND TEXTURAL CONTROLS ON SHEAR STRENGTH, SLIP STABILITY AND PERMEABILITY OF FAULTS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Induced Seismicity
Frictional Instability
Mineralogical and Textural Controls
Permeability of Faults and Fractures
Modeling of Mechanical and Rheological Responses of Faults

File:

Download ChaoyiWang-Dissertation-ver5.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris J Marone, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Zhan, Hongyuan

Title:

Temporal and Structural Machine Learning from Transportation Data

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

machine learning
time series prediction
optimization
intelligent transportation
structural learning

File:

Download HyZhanDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kamesh Madduri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member
Necdet S Aybat, Outside Member
Kesheng Wu, Special Member
Xiaoye Sherry Li, Special Member
Gabriel Gomes, Special Member

Author:

Harford, Joseph Patrick

Title:

HELPING AND HINDERING FACTORS FOR INMATES MEETING THE CHALLENGES FOR SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY REENTRY

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

recidivism
community reentry
criminal justice reform
workforce education

File:

Download JHarford_Dissertation_Final_3_20_19.pdf

Committee Members:

Hyung Joon Yoon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hyung Joon Yoon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Wesley E. Donahue, Committee Member
Mark D Threeton, Committee Member
Glen Kreiner, Outside Member

Author:

Cronin, Neil

Title:

Safety Nets, Safety Valves, and True Alternatives: How Competing Discourses Shape Leaders’ Understandings of Alternative Education

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

alternative education
discourse
narratives
beliefs
leadership
safety valves
safety nets
innovation
counter-narrative
complex meanings

File:

Download N.Cronin_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Deborah Lynn Schussler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Deborah Lynn Schussler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roger Shouse, Committee Member
Marsha Elizabeth Modeste, Committee Member
Dana Lynn Stuchul, Outside Member

Author:

Xia, Mengya

Title:

MOTHER-FATHER-ADOLESCENT TRIADIC RELATIONSHIP DYNAMICS AND THEIR ASSOCIATIONS WITH ADOLESCENTS’ POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ADJUSTMENT

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

family dynamic
triadic family relationship
adolescent adjustment

File:

Download Dissertation_Xia_final_for_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Gregory M. Fosco, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory M Fosco, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bethany Cara Bray, Committee Member
Susan Marie Mchale, Committee Member
Erika Sell Lunkenheimer, Outside Member
Zita Oravecz, Committee Member

Author:

Hobson, Zachary

Title:

Accuracy of Athletic Training Student Performance Factors for Determining BOC Exam First-Time Pass Outcomes

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology

Keywords:

BOC exam
Accreditation standards
Athletic training education
BOC exam predictors
Athletic training admission variables
Athletic training student performance factors

File:

Download Hobson_-_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Giampietro Luciano Vairo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sayers John Miller, III, Committee Member
Danielle Symons Downs, Committee Member

Author:

Ojha, Ashutosh Kumar

Title:

EFFECTS OF KEY DESIGN AND CONTROL PARAMETERS ON PERFORMANCE OF VARIABLE PRIMARY FLOW CHILLED WATER SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

VPF
P-S
CHWS
Variable Primary Flow
tube velocity
chiller plant
flow limit

File:

Download Ojha_Ashutosh_MS_Thesis_Spring_2020.pdf

Committee Members:

William P Bahnfleth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory Scott Pavlak, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Freihaut, Committee Member
Sez Atamturktur, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Amador-Diaz, Isamar

Title:

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS VIA COTREATMENT: A TECHNO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

techno-economic
anaerobic digestion
renewable natural gas
cotreatment
Aspen Plus
switchgrass
lignocellulosic

File:

Download AmadorDiaz_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Tom Richard, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Edward Ciolkosz, Committee Member
Rachel Brennan, Committee Member

Author:

Yoo, Kyungjin

Title:

Can Grid Be Designed by Democracy? - The Political Complexity of Regional Electricity Policy Formation

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Regional Transmission Organization
Stakeholder process
Decision-making
Political power

File:

Download YOO_dissertation_ver2-merged.pdf

Committee Members:

Seth Adam Blumsack, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joel Reid Landry, Committee Member
Jennifer E Baka, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Outside Member

Author:

Fang, Yaming

Title:

An Analysis of Teacher Evaluation in China

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

Teacher evaluation
China

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_Yaming_Fang.pdf

Committee Members:

Mindy L Kornhaber, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Seraphin, Wideline

Title:

In her Own Words: (De)Marginalizing Black Immigrant Girlhood in an Emancipatory Literacy Classroom

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

black immigrant girls
immigrant youth literacies
Haitian youth
literacy studies
literacy education

File:

Download FINAL_DISSERTATION_VITA2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeanine M. Staples, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeanine M. Staples, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Thomas Kissling, Committee Member
Dana Lynn Stuchul, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Outside Member

Author:

Datta, Gaurav Ramesh

Title:

Wearable Photoacoustic Imaging System.

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Photoacoustic imaging
wearable
biomedical imaging
ultrasound transducers
portable
analog front end
bioinstrumentation
functional imaging

File:

Download GauravRD_MS_thesis_etd.pdf

Committee Members:

Sri - Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mehdi Kiani, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Spencer, Mychal

Title:

Tailorable Manufacturing of Polymer Nanocomposites using Oscillating Magnetic Fields

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Nanocomposites
Nanoparticles
Magnetic assembly
Oscillating field
Polymer-matrix composites

File:

Download MSpencer_Dissertation_PSU-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Namiko Yamamoto, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Namiko Yamamoto, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Outside Member

Author:

Crosson, Dylan

Title:

Because It Was There: Influence and Intertextuality in the Music of Michael Hedges

Graduate Program:

Musicology

Keywords:

Michael Hedges
Fibonacci Series
Fingerstyle guitar
Bartók
Minimalism
Steve Reich
Philip Glass
Terry Riley
Composition
New Age Music
New Age
Michael Manring
Windham Hill

File:

Download Thesis_-_Full.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles Dowell Youmans, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chesakis, Andrew Lewis

Title:

FROM WASTE PAPER AND DISCARDED TEXTILES TO BOARD STOCK AN EXPLORATION OF HOUSEHOLD WASTE AS A MATERIAL RESOURCE FOR MAKING

Graduate Program:

Architecture

Keywords:

Upcycle
Household Waste
Composite
Board Stock
Sheet Stock
Making

File:

Download Chesakis_MS_Thesis_FINAL_SUBMIT.pdf

Committee Members:

Marcus Steven Shaffer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dk Osseo-Asare, Committee Member
Esther Adhiambo Obonyo, Committee Member

Author:

Yiu, Shun

Title:

When Performance Doesn't Count: A Meta-Analytic Investigation of Performance-Based Promotion

Graduate Program:

Human Resources and Employment Relations

Keywords:

Promotion
Job performance
Meta-analysis

File:

Download Thesis_Final_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Sumita Raghuram, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jean Marie Phillips, Committee Member
Kameron Carter, Committee Member

Author:

Ouyang, Beining

Title:

PULSED UV LIGHT INACTIVATION OF ESCHERICHIA COLI AND SALMONELLA IN LIQUID EGG WHITE AND ITS EFFECTS ON QUALITY

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

decontamination
liquid egg white
pulsed UV light
response surface modeling
Escherichia coli
Salmonella Enteritidis
flow-through system

File:

Download M.S.Thesis.Ouyang.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali Demirci, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul H. Patterson, Committee Member
Virendra Puri, Committee Member

Author:

Colen, Jung

Title:

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS’ CONCEPTIONS OF THE COMMON CORE STANDARDS FOR MATHEMATICAL PRACTICE

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Teacher conceptions
Teacher understanding
Elementary school teachers
Common Core
Standards for Mathematical Practice
In-depth interviews
Qualitative research

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrea Vujan Mccloskey, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrea Vujan Mccloskey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fran Arbaugh, Committee Member
Gwendolyn Monica Lloyd, Committee Member
Andrew Michael Baxter, Outside Member

Author:

Mahlobo, Christa

Title:

INTERPERSONAL AND PARK-BASED DISCRIMINATION AS PREDICTORS OF ANXIETY IN BLACK AND WHITE PHILADELPHIANS

Graduate Program:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management

Keywords:

Black
park quality
park access
structural discrimination
mental health
gender
anxiety

File:

Download Thesis_FINAL_CTM.pdf

Committee Members:

Birgitta Baker, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Justin Mowen, Committee Member
Brendan Derrick Taff, Committee Member

Author:

Then, Weng Ee

Title:

DISCLOSURE PRACTICES IN SPONSORED CONTENT ON YOUTUBE

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

sponsored content
youtube
disclosure

File:

Download master_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Denise Sevick Bortree, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Francis Erin Dardis, Committee Member
Fuyuan Shen, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Ke

Title:

Cellulose nanocomposites production through co-culture fermentation

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

Bacterial cellulose
Exopolysaccharides
Escherichia coli
Hyaluronic acid
Lactococcus lactis
Co-culturing
Bioreactor
Biofilm
Ribbon assembly
Crystallinity

File:

Download Dissertation_Ke_Liu_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey M Catchmark, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Demirci, Committee Member
Cibin Raj, Committee Member
Edward G Dudley, Outside Member

Author:

Aljohani, Meshal

Title:

WORK ENGAGEMENT AS MEDIATOR IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOB RESOURCES AND EMPLOYEES’ TURNOVER INTENTION AMONG NURSING PRACTITIONERS IN SAUDI ARABI

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

Keywords: turnover intention
job resources
work engagement
JD-R model.

File:

Download Meshal__Aljohani_dissertartion_.pdf

Committee Members:

Juidth A. Kolb, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Juidth A. Kolb, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William J. Rothwell, Committee Member
Threeton, Mark D, Committee Member
Edgar P. Yoder, Outside Member

Author:

Lu, Jinpeng

Title:

On two problems in analysis on manifolds

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

graph Laplacian
discretization
spectrum
isotopy
curve shortening flow

File:

Download Jinpeng_Lu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dmitri Yu Burago, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dmitri Yu Burago, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Levi, Committee Member
Alexei Novikov, Committee Member
Mark Strikman, Outside Member

Author:

Fyfe, Alexander Colin

Title:

"Forms of Resilience: African Fiction and the Crisis of Capitalism"

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature

Keywords:

African literatures
capitalism
resilience
literary form
crisis
gender

File:

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Committee Members:

Rosemary Jane Jolly, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rosemary Jane Jolly, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hoda El Shakry, Committee Member
Magali Armillas-Tiseyra, Committee Member
Alicia Catharine Decker, Outside Member
Shuang Shen, Committee Member

Author:

Harner, Andrew David

Title:

Evaluating the impacts of viticultural and environmental factors on rotundone in Noiret grapes

Graduate Program:

Horticulture

Keywords:

Noiret
Rotundone

File:

Download Andrew_Harner__Jr._-_MS_Thesis_-_4.1.19.pdf

Committee Members:

Michela Centinari, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard P Marini, Committee Member
Ryan John Elias, Committee Member
Justine Vanden Heuvel, Committee Member

Author:

Erickson, Frank

Title:

Essays on the economics of education

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

economics of education
job mobility

File:

Download dissert.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark John Roberts, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark John Roberts, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul L E Grieco, Committee Member
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Member
John Jesse Cheslock, Outside Member

Author:

Ostrander, John

Title:

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Virtual Reality as an Education and Training Resource for Additive Manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Engineering Design

Keywords:

Virtual Reality
Additive Manufacturing
VR
AM
DfAM
Design
Education
CAD
3D Printing

File:

Download John_MEDSGN_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Nicholas Alexander Meisel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Member
Timothy W. Simpson, Committee Member
Sven G Bilen, Committee Member

Author:

Kandemir, Baris

Title:

Aesthetic And Affective Applications Of Visual Features And Physical Property Analysis Of Plant Stomata Through Active Surfaces

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Computer Vision
Active Curves
Affective Computing
Computational Aesthetics

File:

Download baris_kandemir_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James Z Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Z Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jia Li, Committee Member
Zihan Zhou, Committee Member
Charles T Anderson, Outside Member
Reginald Adams, Jr., Outside Member

Author:

Nino, Michael

Title:

Time-optimal, constrained, satellite reorientation maneuver using inverse dynamics

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Reorientation
Rigidbody Satellite
Satellite
Optimal Reorientation
PSO
Particle Swarm Optimization
Quaternion
Euler Angle
Optimal Control
Time Optimal Control
Michael Nino
Mike Nino
Melton
Dr. Melton
Robert G. Melton
Aerospace Engineering

File:

Download Mike_Nino_Updated_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member
Puneet Singla, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Xuan

Title:

Pectin’s role in plant cell wall mechanical properties: A structure-property study by multi-dimensional mechanical assays and cell wall visualization techniques

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

plant primary cell wall
AFM
biomechanics
cellulose
pectin

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Xuan_Wang.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel J Cosgrove, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel J Cosgrove, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles T Anderson, Committee Member
B Tracy Nixon, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Outside Member

Author:

Paranjpe, Anish

Title:

BOHEMIA – A VALIDATOR FOR PARSER FRAMEWORKS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

Parser
Fuzzy Testing
Equivalence Modulo Inputs

File:

Download Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Gang Tan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chen, Cheng Kai

Title:

Biomarkers Discovery Using Network Based Anomaly Detection

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Feature Selectionn
Anomaly Detection
Graph Similarity

File:

Download Cheng-Kai_Chen_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vasant Honavar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Coco, Angela M

Title:

THE INFLUENCE OF CROP PHYLODIVERSITY ON HERBIVOROUS INSECTS OF SQUASH AND THEIR NATURAL ENEMIES

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

ecology
entomology
biology
squash
butternut
evolution
phylogeny
insect
plant
interaction
structure
volatile
ipm
cues
response
behavior
parasite
parasitoid
Centistes diabroticae
Celatoria setosa
nematode
gregarine
coco
angela
tooker
john
kaplan
ian
rock springs
agriculture
vegitable
crop
intercrop
polyculture
herbiore
pest
phytophageous
bug
cucumber beetle
squash bug
wasp
fly
food
integrated
management
cucurbit
balduf
community
phylogenetic
relatedness
neighbor
divergence
zucchini
associational
resistance
apparency
research
thesis
2017
2018
2019
regression
elytron
length
sticky
pitfall
trap
foliage
flower
scout
scouting
rain
natural
enemies
diversity
merkle
control
eastern
north
america

File:

Download CocoA_thesis_final_draftc.pdf

Committee Members:

John F Tooker, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shelby Jay Fleischer, Committee Member
Beth Krueger Gugino, Committee Member