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Fall 2014
Today it is relatively unquestioned that Sulpicia, the elegiac woman of [Tib.] 3.8-18, was a historical woman of the same name who lived and wrote Latin elegies in Augustan Rome, and that the poems attributed to her are autobiographical records of love, thereby making Sulpicia a Roman version of...
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Fall 2021
Established in 2007 by the Organization for Transformative Works, the Archive of Our Own (AO3) is a fan fiction archive that hosts over three million fan works, consisting mostly of fan fiction. It has become an active hub of fan activity, making it an ideal object of study as a current...
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Spring 2019
Owing to their rich, tailorable surface chemistry, low toxicity, and elemental abundance,silicon nanocrystals (SiNCs) present an attractive alternative to fluorescentorganic dyes and traditional quantum dots for bioimaging, optoelectronics, and chemicalsensors. These applications capitalize on...
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Why they stay: Examining the intentions of non-family managers to remain employed in family firms
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The project addresses a critical gap in family business research literature, the interactions between owning families and non-family managers, by developing an empirical study of the intentions of these managers to stay employed in family businesses. I develop and test a model of how two manager...
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Wicked Problems and Professional Work: Disrupting Work in a Mature Field with Incumbent Professions
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The emerging institutional work perspective implicates agency and action in institutional dynamics in contrast to the traditional organizational institutional approach. In this dissertation, my objective was to explore institutional disrupting work in a mature field with incumbent professions. I...
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Wide Input Voltage Inverter Configurations and Control Systems for Renewable Energy Resources
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Nowadays, among renewable energy sources, PV systems are highly popular due to their easy installation and affordability. A key component of the PV system is the inverter, which can significantly affect the reliability, efficiency, and power quality of the system. The PV inverters are required to...
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Spring 2023
This research deals with wide speed control of permanent magnet synchronous machines (PMSMs) driven by voltage-source converters (VSCs). The objective is to develop a current control algorithm that allows said machines to optimize their torque for any speeds within their operational range, for...