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Author:

Yuan, Yakun

Title:

PROBING EMERGING PHENOMENA IN COMPLEX OXIDES AWAY FROM GROUND STATES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

complex oxides
nonlinear optics
phase retrieval X-ray crystallography
optical pump probe spectroscopy
polar metal

File:

Download Dissertation_YakunYuan.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Outside Member
Richard D. Averitt, Special Member
James M. Rondinelli, Special Member

Author:

Nissley, Daniel

Title:

Modeling and predicting co-translational protein folding with chemical kinetic and molecular dynamic simulations

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

co-translational folding
protein synthesis
protein folding
synonymous codon
non-equilibrium

File:

Download Nissley_Dan_PhD_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward P. O'Brien, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Patrick O'Brien Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C Bevilacqua, Committee Member
William George Noid, Committee Member
Reka Z Albert, Outside Member

Author:

Hasanian, Mostafa

Title:

MUTUAL NONLINEAR INTERACTION OF ULTRASONIC GUIDED WAVES IN PLATE, APPLICATIONS FOR NDE

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Ultrasonic Guided Waves
Nonlinear Ultrasonics
Wave Mixing
Nondestructive Evaluation
Mutual Interactions

File:

Download Hasanian-_PhD_Dissertation-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Member
Bernhard Tittmann, Committee Member
Parisa Shokouhi, Outside Member

Author:

Marianelli, Allyson

Title:

Polymer-Based Experimental Model Systems for Intracellular Organization

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

liquid liquid phase separation
macromolecular crowding
coacervation
giant vesicle
protocell
microfluidics

File:

Download Thesis_vFinal_112930.pdf

Committee Members:

Christine Dolan Keating, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Paul S Cremer, Committee Member
Scott Eugene Lindner, Outside Member

Author:

Pullanchery Sankara Narayanan, Saranya

Title:

PROBING INTERFACIAL WATER STRUCTURE NEXT TO LIPID MEMBRANES USING VIBRATIONAL SUM FREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Vibrational Sum Frequency Spectroscopy
Interfacial Water Structure
Phospholipid monolayers
Ion-Lipid Interactions

File:

Download Saranya_Pullanchery_Dissertation_2018_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul S. Cremer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul S Cremer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Outside Member

Author:

Li, Lingyu

Title:

SAFETY EFFECTS OF SHOULDER AND CENTERLINE RUMBLE STRIPS: A BAYESIAN PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING FRAMEWORK

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Propensity score matching
crash modification factor
shoulder and centerline rumble strips
safety effect estimates
causal inference
Bayesian method
covariate balancing

File:

Download Lingyu_Doctoral_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric T. Donnell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric T. Donnell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vikash V. Gayah, Committee Member
S. Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
Kari Lock Morgan, Outside Member

Author:

Stroup, Andrea Marie

Title:

An Introduction to the Electronic Waterpipe

Graduate Program:

Biobehavioral Health

Keywords:

Electronic waterpipe
e-waterpipe
hookah
e-head
waterpipe
electronic nicotine delivery systems

File:

Download Stroup_Final_Dissertation_-_revisions.pdf

Committee Members:

Steven A Branstetter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven A Branstetter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas J Gould, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Committee Member
Marianne Messersmith Hillemeier, Outside Member

Author:

Hodgson, John Gregory

Title:

COMPARISONS OF MEASURES OF CRITICAL THINKING AND ANALYTIC PERFORMANCE: EXPLORATORY STUDIES

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

critical thinking
intelligence analysis
participatory action research

File:

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Committee Members:

Steven Raymond Haynes, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven Raymond Haynes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald Richard Shemanski, Committee Member
Edward J Glantz, Committee Member
Guido Cervone, Outside Member

Author:

Bombile, Joel

Title:

Tight Binding Model of Charge Localization and Excitons in Semiconducting Polymers

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Organic electronics
Semiconducting polymers
Tight binding
Charge localization
Polaron
Exciton
Charge Transport

File:

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Committee Members:

Scott Thomas Milner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael John Janik, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Member
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Outside Member
Michael John Janik, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Thomas Milner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Rodriguez, Laura Elise

Title:

THE REACTIVITY OF NITROGEN HETEROCYCLES IN COMPLEX PREBIOTIC MIXTURES: USING CHEMICAL TRENDS TO EVALUATE PLAUSIBLE STRUCTURES OF PRIMITIVE GENETIC MATERIAL ON EARLY EARTH

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Astrobiology
Origins of life
Nucleobases
RNA World
Pre-RNA
Mass spectrometry
Michael addition

File:

Download Dissertation_Rodriguez_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Howard House, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Howard House, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Member
James Kasting, Committee Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Outside Member

Author:

Ozber, Natali

Title:

CHARACTERIZATION OF TRAFFICKING ROUTES OF THE MOVEMENT PROTEIN (MP) OF OURMIA MELON VIRUS (OUMV) AND IDENTIFICATION OF OUMV MP-INTERACTING PROTEINS IN PLANTS

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

plant virus
trafficking pathways
plant–pathogen interaction
virus movement
host factors

File:

Download Natali_Ozber_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Cristina Rosa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cristina Rosa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles T Anderson, Committee Member
Timothy W Mcnellis, Committee Member
Gabriele Brigitte Monshausen, Outside Member

Author:

Carroll, Devon E

Title:

INFLUENCE OF TEMPERATURE ON GERMINATION OF BENTGRASS CULTIVARS AND CULTURAL PRACTICES ON ESTABLISHMENT OF CREEPING BENTGRASS

Graduate Program:

Agronomy

Keywords:

germination
establishment
creeping bentgrass
cultural practices
temperature

File:

Download Carroll_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

John Kaminski, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Landschoot, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Robert Huff, Committee Member
Brian Horgan, Committee Member

Author:

Sun, Simou

Title:

Sensing and Characterizing Interactions with Lipid Membranes

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Lipid Membrane
Biosensor
Physical Chemistry

File:

Download Simou_Sun_Final_Dissertation_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul S Cremer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul S Cremer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C Bevilacqua, Committee Member
John H Golbeck, Committee Member
Craig Eugene Cameron, Outside Member

Author:

Lewis, Allison Michelle

Title:

The Ecology and Functional Significance of Distinct Coral Symbionts

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Indo-Pacific
Scleractinia
Symbiodiniaceae
Endosymbiosis
Ecological Specialization
Calcification
Physiology
Caribbean
Taxonomy

File:

Download Lewis_Allison_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Todd C Lajeunesse, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Monica Medina, Committee Member
Todd C Lajeunesse, Committee Member
Timothy Iwao Miyashiro, Outside Member

Author:

Wei, Dandan

Title:

Understanding the oxidation of biogenic volatile organic compounds in the Amazon rainforest: field observations and model results

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

Biogenic organic compounds
Amazon rainforest
Ozone
Isoprene
atmospheric oxidation
hydroxyl radicals
turbulent mixing

File:

Download Penn_State_University_Thesis_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose D. Fuentes, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jose D. Fuentes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William H. Brune, Committee Member
Thomas Lauvaux, Committee Member
Miriam Freedman maf43@psu.edu, Outside Member
John Orlando, Special Member

Author:

Sinding, Kyle Matthew

Title:

Evaluation of Pressure Field Estimation From Measured Velocity Fields, With Application to Tip Vortex Flows

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Pressure Estimation
Tip Vortex
Error propagation
Stereo Particle Image Velocimetry
Measured Velocity Fields
Pressure Fluctuations

File:

Download Sinding_Dissertation_Final_12_7_18.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael H Krane, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith Todd Copley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Michael H Krane, Committee Member
Stephen P Lynch, Outside Member
Jeff R Harris, Special Member
John Dabiri, Special Member

Author:

Leelasetakul, Mathurin

Title:

Lexical Bundle Use by Thai Undergraduate Learners of English

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

lexical bundles
writing
corpus
corpus lingusitcs
Thai learners of English

File:

Download Mathurin_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaofei Lu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suresh Canagarajah, Committee Member
Ning Yu, Committee Member
Matthew Edward Poehner, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Kehao

Title:

LARGE SCALE SYNTHESIS, DOPING OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES AND THEIR HETEROSTRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

2D Materials
Synthesis
Doping
Heterostructures

File:

Download LARGE_SCALE_SYNTHESIS_DOPING_OF_TWO-DIMENSIONAL__2D__TRANSITION_METAL_DICHALCOGENIDES_AND_THEIR_HETEROSTRUCTURES_Kehao_Zhang_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Joshua Alexander Robinson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Outside Member

Author:

Chiou, Brian

Title:

REDEFINING THE ROLE OF H-FERRITIN IN THE BRAIN

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

H-ferritin
Semaphorin4A
Iron
Blood-brain barrier
Oligodendrocyte
Multiple Sclerosis
Tim-1
Transferrin
Demyelination

File:

Download Chiou_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

James Robert Connor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Robert Connor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Aron Eliot Lukacher, Committee Member
Ian Alexander Simpson, Committee Member
David James Degraff, Outside Member

Author:

Gao, Lisheng

Title:

DESIGN OF Na-BASED PEROVSKITES BASED DIELECTRIC AND PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Lead-free
Piezoelectric
Ferroelectric
antiferroelectric
ceramics
NKN
Base metal cofiring
low pO2 sintering

File:

Download Lisheng_Gao_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Clive A Randall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clive A Randall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member