Dissertations from 2019
Cold Spray Deposition of Polymers – Characterization and Optimization, Zahra Khalkhali, Mechanical Engineering
TEACHERS’ KNOWLEDGE ON EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICES FOR STUDENTS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS IN SAUDI ARABIA, Ahmed Khodari, Education
THREE ESSAYS ON UNCERTAINTY IN SOCIAL DILEMMAS, Abdul Kidwai, Resource Economics
MORPHOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR OF MIKTOARM POLYMERS IN THIN FILMS AND THE BULK, Hyeyoung Kim, Polymer Science and Engineering
Self-Exfoliating and Reactive Polymer (SERP) as A Protection Against Chemical Warfare Agents (CWAs), SOEUN KIM, Polymer Science and Engineering
POLYMERIC IMPULSIVE ACTUATION MECHANISMS: DEVELOPMENT, CHARACTERIZATION, AND MODELING, Yongjin Kim, Polymer Science and Engineering
Three Essays on Data-Driven Optimization for Scheduling in Manufacturing and Healthcare, Ekin Koker, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
Amorphous-Crystalline Brush Block Copolymers: Phase Behavior, Rheology and Composite Design, gayathri kopanati, Polymer Science and Engineering
MODELING AND SIMULATION OF DRIVEN NANOPATTERNING OF BULK-MATERIAL AND THIN-FILM SURFACES, Ashish Kumar, Chemical Engineering
Providing Molecular Insight for Understanding Anion Exchange Membrane Conductivity, Michael Kwasny, Polymer Science and Engineering
Bioinspired Complex Nanoarchitectures by DNA Supramolecular Polymerization, Laura A. Lanier, Polymer Science and Engineering
Software-Defined Infrastructure for IoT-based Energy Systems, Stephen Lee, Computer Science
THREE ESSAYS ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE ENVIRONMENT, An Li, Economics
Galaxies and Gas in Dark Matter Halos and the Cosmic Web, Seunghwan Lim, Astronomy
TIME-DIFFERENCE CIRCUITS: METHODOLOGY, DESIGN, AND DIGITAL REALIZATION, Shuo Li, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Fabrication of Key Components in Miniature Energy Storage Devices, Wenhao Li, Polymer Science and Engineering
THE CATALYTIC UREASE SUBUNIT UREC IS CRITICAL FOR BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM UREA UTILIZATION, YANG LYU, Food Science
Dimensions of US Global Financial Power: Essays on Financial Sanctions, Global Imbalances, and Sovereign Default, Mariam Majd, Economics
CHARACTERIZATION OF β-2-MICROGLOBULIN PRE-AMYLOID OLIGOMERS AND THEIR ROLE IN AMYLOID INHIBITION, Tyler M. Marcinko, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Linking Resilience and Climate Induced Migration, Marielos A. Marin, Regional Planning
FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY AND MICROSCOPY STUDIES OF CHROMOPHORE COUPLING IN ISOLATED SMALL MOLECULE NANOSTRUCTURES, Sarah R. Marques, Chemistry
Tools for Tutoring Theoretical Computer Science Topics, Mark McCartin-Lim, Computer Science
PETROGENESIS OF BASALTIC LAVAS IN ICELAND AND THE SPRINGERVILLE VOLCANIC FIELD, U.S.A.: THE INFLUENCE OF TECTONIC SETTING, DEPTH OF MELTING AND VOLATILES, Marissa Mnich, Geosciences
Consensual Qualitative Research: Replicability of Results and Social Reliability of Process, Nicholas Morrison, Psychology
A Parallel Direct Method for Finite Element Electromagnetic Computations Based on Domain Decomposition, Javad Moshfegh, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Gaming For Life: Gaming Practices, Self-Care, and Thriving Under Neoliberalism, Brian Myers, Communication
PREDICTIVE SIMULATION OF HUMAN MOVEMENT AND APPLICATIONS TO ASSISTIVE DEVICE DESIGN AND CONTROL, Vinh Nguyen, Mechanical Engineering
Elliptic Curves And Power Residues, Vy Thi Khanh Nguyen, Mathematics
Hiplife Music in Ghana: Postcolonial Performances of Modernity, Nii Kotei Nikoi, Communication
Radiant Selves: How Transgender People are Remaking Gender in Discourse, Narrative, and Practice, Sonny Nordmarken, Sociology
MULTI-ETHNIC STAKEHOLDERS AND THEIR PERSPECTIVE OF CULTURE-BASED INTERVENTION PROGRAMS IN BELIZE: CASE STUDY OF PROGRAM FOR THE GARIFUNA PEOPLE, Juan Nunez, Education
DIETARY OLIGOSACCHARIDES ARE DIFFERENTIALLY METABOLIZED BY COMMENSAL MICROBIOTA WITHIN IN VITRO MODEL SYSTEMS, Ezgi Özcan, Food Science
STATE-LOCAL GOVERNMENT SPENDING, MACROECONOMIC FISCAL POLICY, AND THE BUSINESS CYCLE, Amanda Page-Hoongrajok, Economics
THE POTENTIAL HEALTH EFFECTS OF BLUEBERRY (VACCINIUM CORYMBOSUM L.), CHE PAN, Food Science
STRUCTURAL CONTROL OF OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES USING PASSIVE AND SEMI-ACTIVE CONTROL, Semyung Park, Mechanical Engineering
THE ROLE OF AGULHAS LEAKAGE IN PLIOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE, Neil Patel, Geosciences
Observational Studies of Fragmentation in Molecular Clouds, Riwaj Pokhrel, Astronomy
DRIVERS and CONSEQUENCES of CARBON USE EFFICIENCY - and ITS MEASUREMENT in SOIL, Grace Pold, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
CONTROLLING SELECTIVITIES IN HETEROGENEOUSLY CATALYZED ALDOL REACTIONS, Koushik Ponnuru, Chemical Engineering
THE SOCIAL PROCESS OF DYING IN THE HOSPITAL: A GROUNDED THEORY STUDY, Alyson Prokop, Nursing
Effects of Ivermectin and Perfluorobutanesulfonic Acid (PFBS) on Lipid Metabolism, Weipeng Qi, Food Science
SILVER MIRROR SUBSTRATE AND ROLLING METHOD FOR IMPROVED SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SPESCTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS IN FOOD, Yanqi Qu, Food Science
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ANOMALOUS pH OF AQUEOUS NANOEMULSIONS, Kieran P. Ramos, Physics
Divided Tongues: The Politics and Poetics of Food in Modern Anglophone Indian Fiction, Shakuntala Ray, English
THREE ESSAYS ON FIRM BEHAVIORS IN ONLINE MARKET PLATFORMS, Erfan Rezvani, Management
CHANGES IN SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES AFTER LONG-TERM WARMING EXPOSURE, William G. Rodríguez-Reillo, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
THE EFFECTS OF GAIT SPEED AND VISUAL INFORMATION AVAILABILITY ON HEAD MOVEMENT, LOCOMOTOR COORDINATION, AND SUCCESSFUL AVOIDANCE OF OBSTACLES IN A COMPLEX VISUAL TERRAIN, Luis Rosado, Kinesiology
FACTORS INFLUENCING SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA PRODUCTIVITY IN RELATIONSHIP TO ESTUARY INLET OPENING ELLISVILLE MARSH, PLYMOUTH, MA, Ellen K. Russell, Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences
ENVIRONMENTAL RISK FACTORS FOR INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE: TRICLOSAN AND OTHER CONSUMER ANTIMICROBIALS, Katherine Z. Sanidad, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Emotional Response to Negative Mood Induction in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Cognitively-intact Older Adults, Gennarina Diane Santorelli, Psychology
MODIFICATION OF 2D MATERIALS UTILIZING FUNCTIONAL POLYMER INTERFACIAL LAYERS, Ryan Selhorst, Polymer Science and Engineering
The Influence of Wind Power on Rural Areas Economic, Demographic, and Community Services Impacts, Eman Shoeib, Regional Planning
“You Can Be a Good Romanian, but not a Romanian”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Romanian History Textbook Narrative, Razvan Sibii, Communication
The Solution is the Problem: An Immanent Critique of Capitalism's Crisis, 2008-2018, Michael Stein, Political Science
Metabolic cost of asymmetrical walking: preferred step time asymmetry optimizes metabolic cost of walking, Jan Stenum, Kinesiology
Machine Learning Models for Efficient and Robust Natural Language Processing, Emma Strubell, Computer Science
Efficient Self-supervised Deep Sensorimotor Learning in Robotics, Takeshi Takahashi, Computer Science
Service Competition and Data-Centric Protocols for Internet Access, Thiago Teixeira, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Residual Stress Models for Large Eddy Simulation of Stratified Turbulent Flows, Felipe Augusto Ventura de Bragança Alves, Mechanical Engineering
Extracting and Representing Entities, Types, and Relations, Patrick Verga, Computer Science
Phrasal and Clausal Exceptive-Additive Constructions Crosslinguistically, Ekaterina Vostrikova, Linguistics
THREE ESSAYS ON REMOTE WORK AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Ryan Wallace, Regional Planning
PRECISE CONTROL OF 360-DEGREE MAGNETIC DOMAIN-WALL FORMATION AND THEIR PROPERTIES IN GEOMETRICALLY CONFINED NANOWIRES, dan wang, Physics
SCALABLE UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION BOUNDS FOR PREDICTIVE MODELING, Jie wang, Mathematics
Supramolecular Nanoassemblies for the Separation and Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Peptides and Modified Proteins, Meizhe Wang, Chemistry
CYTOCHROME P450 MONOOXYGENASE-MEDIATED LIPID METABOLISM IN OBESITY AND COLON TUMORIGENESIS, Weicang Wang, Food Science
The Politics of Return: Migration, Race, and Belonging in the Russian Far East, Lauren Woodard, Anthropology
The Effects of Solute Composition and Nanoparticle Surface Properties on Nano-Bio Interactions, Zehui Xia, Civil and Environmental Engineering
EXTREME DYNAMICS OF NANOMATERIALS UNDER HIGH-RATE MECHANICAL STIMULI, Wanting Xie, Physics
Response Retrieval in Information-seeking Conversations, Liu Yang, Computer Science
Essays on Monetary Policy in Developing Countries: Income Distribution, Housing and Unemployment, Zhandos Ybrayev, Economics
CLASS, GENDER, AND MEDIATED LABOR ACTIVISM IN GLOBALIZING CHINA, Siyuan Yin, Communication
HUMAN MILK NON-PROTEIN NITROGEN METABOLISM BY INFANT ASSOCIATED BIFIDOBACTERIA, Xiaomeng You, Food Science
SOLID-STATE TRANSFORMATIONS OF BLOCK COPOLYMERS: SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASING Χ AND IMPARTING FUNCTIONALITY, Duk Man Yu, Polymer Science and Engineering
Joint Asymptotics for Smoothing Spline Semiparametric Nonlinear Models, Jiahui Yu, Mathematics
Neural Models for Information Retrieval without Labeled Data, Hamed Zamani, Computer Science
Resource Rents, Public Investment and Economic Development: The Case of Bolivia, Raul Zelada Aprili, Economics
AN EXAMINED LIFE OF A LANGUAGE TEACHER OF CHINESE: AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATION INTO AGENCY, Ying Zhang, Education
EVOLUTION OF THE PATHOGENIC FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM THROUGH THE LENS OF COMPARATIVE GENOMICS, YONG ZHANG, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
PROTEIN DETECTION AND STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION BY MASS SPECTROMETRY USING SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES AND SMALL MOLECULES, Bo Zhao, Chemistry