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Spring 2017

Huang,Wenyuan

The hydrogen-bonded complexes between 2-fluoroethanol and water molecules have been investigated by using Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy and ab initio calculations. The computational and experimental theories are briefly described. The instrumentation and theoretical consideration about...

Fall 2017

Pashkovska, Kateryna

In my dissertation, I explore the sense of place and the local identity in Petrozavodsk, the capital city of the Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation. We are aware of the geographical and political borders, of those visible dividing lines on the map that insulate ethnic groups and nation...

Fall 2017

Aldabbas, Eman IA

In this thesis, we prove the non-amenability of the Banach algebra B(E), the banach algebra of all operators on an infinite dimensional Banach space E, where, for p in the interval [1,infinity), E is an infinite dimensional Lp-space in the sense of Lindenstrauss and Pelczynski. In addition, we...

Fall 2017

Tedjasaputra, Vincent

The purpose of this dissertation was to characterize the response of the pulmonary vasculature to exercise in health (including a pharmacological intervention) and in individuals with mild chronic obstructive lung disease. The first project studied the effect of a dopamine receptor blockade on...

Fall 2017

Charchuk, Rhianna M

Background: Population displacement caused by complex humanitarian emergencies (CHE) has major health consequences, affecting 65 million people worldwide. This multiple methods thesis explores the impact of population displacement in two separate studies: (1) malaria among internally displaced...

Fall 2017

Bertrand, Jennifer K

Perception is to sensation what illusion is to the actual state of the world. How we sense information varies greatly from how we ultimately perceive and understand that information - a result of top-down and bottom-up processes at work. Work from over 100 years ago (Brucke, 1864) found an...

Spring 2018

Navid Pourmokhtari Yakhdani

In June 2009 there appeared on the streets of Tehran and other major Iranian cities something unprecedented in the thirty-year history of the Islamic Republic: immense crowds engaged in spontaneous forms of collective action directed against what was widely perceived to be election fraud. The...

Fall 2017

Vishal, Vikrant

Appropriate scale-up provides a critical link between fine-scale heterogeneity descriptions and coarse-scale models used for transport modeling, which is essential for planning and management of subsurface reservoirs. A significant challenge in subsurface flow and transport modeling is to develop...

Spring 2018

Bozorg Bigdeli, Masoud

Superhydrophobic interfaces, due to their unique water repellent and self-cleaning properties, are attracting a wide-spread interest for implementation in a variety of applications, including self-assembly based fabrication methods, nano/microfluidics, and solar energy harvesting. To facilitate...

Fall 2017

Corrigan, Amelia

While rapid road and road-stream crossing decommissioning after forestry operations may serve to limit broader impacts of sedimentation in high value headwater streams, few studies have evaluated the combined effects of accelerated harvest operations and rapid retirement of roads on stream...