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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Divergent Synthesis of Carbon–extended Bile Acids via Regioselective Mitsunobu Reaction, Stephen Blay

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Genetic Diversity of Paxistima canbyi A. Gray: Conserving A Rare Plant Species Endemic to the Eastern United States, Isaac Buabeng

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Modular Solution Functionalization of Silica Surfaces to Control Heterogeneous Nucleation of Acetaminophen, Benjamin T. Clegg

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Exploring the Performance of Soil Based Microbial Fuel Cells in the Presence of Allelopathic and Nitrogen Fixing Plants, Tyler Luong

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Transient Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy for Measuring Collisional Quenching Rates of CO and its Potential for Studying H2O, Jordan M. Polvere

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Energy Harvesting for Residential Microgrid Distributed Sensor Systems, Devin C. Whalen

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Pneumatic Latched Demultiplexer Circuit for Controlling Multi-Actuator Soft Robots, Arsh Noor Amin

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A Microfluidic Channel for Detecting Respiratory Pathogens in Young Children, Maliheh Azimi Roueini

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Temperature-Dependent Diffusion in Block Copolymer Organogels, Ridwana Bashar

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Unusual Chromosome Configurations: Evaluation of Sex Univalent and Trivalent Chromosome Models, Ashley B. Borseth

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Covalent Functionalization of Silica Surfaces for Heterogenous Nucleation of Acetaminophen, Emily E. Byers

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Development of a Concise Stereospecific Synthesis of Iso Bile Acids, Yongxin Chen

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Developing Methods for Building More Robust Sparsity in Multi-Dimensional NMR, Lucy Cullen

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Effects of Social Context on Salivary Cortisol and Attention in Tufted Capuchins (Cebus [Sapajus] apella), Andrew DeSana

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Campus Sexual Violence in the Time of COVID-l9, Hannah Holt

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Genetic Substrates of the Initial Subjective Rewarding Effects of Alcohol in Mice, Holly Jones

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Visualizing The Permanent Lie: An Examination of Dystopian Literature Using Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Model, Anthony Mitchell

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Relationships between behavior, energy metabolites, and corticosterone in black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) nestlings, Sierra Pete

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Evaluation of Reach and Catchment Level Effects of Riparian Buffers on Fish Communities in Agricultural Streams, Sierra Rider

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Characterizing Variability in the Transient Storage Zones of Miller Run in Lewisburg, PA, Sabrina Savidge

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Students’ Attitudes Towards Family-Work Benefits When Professors Act as a Third Party Influence, Crystal Dawn Snyder

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Exploration Of Robotics Need In The Medical Field And Robotic Arm Operation Via Glove Control, Aditi Vijayvergia

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Solid-State Shear Pulverization: A Comprehensive Study on Polymer Processing Technology from a Systematic Innovation Perspective, Tyler A. Will

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Importance of Instream Habitat to Recruitment and Community Structure of Aquatic Invertebrates, Catherine R. Billé

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STUDY OF THE MECHANlSM OF FLOW-INDUCED VIBRATIONS OF A CYLINDER IN PROXIMITY TO A WALL, Jonathan M. Chambers

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A Synthesis of an Anthracene-Based Zwitterion, Andrew Thomas Champlin

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Vibrational Relaxation of CO(v=1) and CO(v=2) by CO, Cole J. Hediger

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Effects of Affiliative Social Relationships on Call Response in Brown Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus [Sapajus] apella), Stephanie Hills

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Combining Host-Guest Complexation with Two-Dimensional Polymerization, Brittany T. Keller

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Existential Reactions to Modernity: An Analysis of Lovecraft's Nihilistic Cosmicism & Dostoevsky's Christian Existentialism, Olivia Maikisch

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Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of Arylgold and Heteroarylgold Compounds, Carly Masonheimer

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Fantastical Worlds and the Act of Reading in Peter and Wendy, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Harry Potter, Grace Monroe

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Establishing Independent Tunability of the Mechanical and Transport Properties of Polymer Gels, Lucas Rankin

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Complementary Techniques to Study the Behavior of Water and the Effect on Diffusion and Degradation in Hydrogels, Paige Rockwell

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Enter Invisible: Atavistic Dualism in Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton, Andrew Scott

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Developmental Influences on the Initial Subjective Rewarding Effects of EtOH, Madison Waldron

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Writing the Womb, Writing the Wound: The Function of Vulnerability in Autotheory, Madison Weaver

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Using FTIR-ATR to Predict Saccharification from Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Physically Pretreated Lignocellulosic Biomass, Rajasri Alaparthi

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Frustration and Inspiration: a Model for Working Class Identity Development, Travis Arment

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Problems with Adherence and Social Stigma in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes, Lauralee Davis

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Landscape, Gender, and the Politics of Belonging in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders and Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Sarah Dickerson

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Disrupting An(Other): Sexuality as Political Resistance, Emma C. Downey

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Perspectives on Lynching in William Faulkner's Fiction and Nonfiction, Tabitha Fisher

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First-Generation Etc: Agency, Inequality, Practice, Habitus, and Reflection, Jon Hunsberger

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Borderline Traits in Mothers and Their Adolescent Daughters: Associations Between Emotion Regulation, Relationship Quality, and Social Cognition, Tina Krolikowski

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The Hygroscopicity of Atmospherically Relevant Water-Soluble Sugars and Secondary Organic Aerosols, Kotiba Malek

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Baptisia australis var. australis in Pennsylvania: A Survey of Granivory and Population Genomics in a Threatened Species, Cheyenne Moore

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Development of a Process for Thermal and Mechanical Modelling of Screw-Driven Pellets Extrusion, Kaixiang Shi

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Shape, Space and Typeface: Mapping Black Subjectivity through Caribbean Aesthetics, Samantha Stephens

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Synthesis of Aliphatic and Aromatic Polyanhydrides via Tosyl Chloride-Mediated Solution Polycondensation and Solid-Phase Extractive Polymerization, Joe Titman

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Structural Studies of Bile Salt Micelle Formation and Chiral Selectivity by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Shelby Danielle Valent

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Organic Carbon and Sediment Formation Analysis of Abandoned Mine Drainage (AMD) in the Shamokin Creek Basin of Pennsylvania, Kelly Ambruso

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The Relationship Between Variation in Social Complexity and Cognitive Performance in Brown Capuchins (Cebus [Sapajus] apella), Juliana F. Berhane

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Solar Powered Atmospheric Water Generation, Ben Conser

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Analysis of colloids and flume simulations of abandoned mine drainage, Nathan T. Fretz

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Testing and Validation Framework for Closed-Loop Physiology Management Systems for Critical and Perioperative Care, Farooq M. Gessa

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Analysis and Control of Fiber-Reinforced Elastomeric Enclosures (FREEs), Soheil Habibian

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An Environmental DNA based Analysis of the Life History of Eastern Hellbender Populations in the Susquehanna River Basin, Emma Hundermark

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Development of Physics Based Machine Learning Algorithms, Rob Jennings

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Mobilizing Genre, Revising Politics: The Intersection of Audience, Author, and Allusion in Contemporary Latinx Fiction, Jason Klus

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Sustainability Assessment of Coupling a Rotating Biological Contactor with an Anaerobic Baffled Reactor for Municipal Wastewater Treatment, Mona Mohammed

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Minority Student Engagement Through the Lens of Campus Activities and Events, Jake Reiman

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Population Structure and Connectivity of a Groundwater Crustacean Across Northwestern Montana Aquifers, Megan N. Ritter

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Self-Control Abilities in Squirrel Monkeys (Saimiri sciureus), Renee Russell

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Optical and Electrical Analysis of ZnO/ZnTe Micropillar Solar Cells, Sadia Binte Sohid

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Dual Self-Assembly of a Selectively Solvated ABA Triblock Copolymer Network Loaded with Reverse Micelles, William Walker

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Experimental Study of Hydraulic Conductivity of a Soil-bentonite Cutoff Wall, Landon Crawford Barlow

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Athlete Perpetration and Rape Psychopathology: Connecting Sexual Aggressor Predictors to the Male Sport Experience, Somer Dice

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Stability of Bimetallic Clusters in Protein Model Systems, Sean Hartnett

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Probing of Head-first Substrate Binding to the Phe557Val Mutant of Soybean Lipoxygenase-1 with 11(S)-Deuterated Linoleic Acid, Dillon J. Hershelman

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Empire of the Imagination: Imperialism and the Child Reader of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Children's Literature, Megan Hicks

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Ideology in Literature and Literature as Ideology: Totalitarian and Reactionary Appropriation of Resistant Texts, Huntley Hughes

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Representing Wilderness in the Shaping of America's National Parks: Aesthetics, Boundaries, and Cultures in the Works of James Fenimore Cooper, John Muir, and their Artistic Contemporaries, Alana Jajko

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Disarming “Nature” as a Weapon: A Queer Ecosemiotic Reimagining of Futurity and Environmental Ethics Through Memoir, Sam Lauer

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Biochemical Analysis of Pollen Grains From Dioecious and Andromonoecious Solanum Species, Jackie Raissa Ndem

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Effects Of Air-Fuel Ratio And Operating Conditions On Particle Emissions From A Small Diesel Engine, Odinmma John-Paul Ofili

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Social Relationships and Self-Directed Behavior in Hamadryas Baboons (Papio hamadryas hamadryas), Melissa C. Painter

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NMR Metabolomics of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Emma Robinson

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Components of Auditory Imagery in Healthy Aging, Arley K. Schenker

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DYNAMICS OF A CIRCULAR CYLINDER IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO A WALL, Yargo Teixeira Gomes de Melo

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Stability of Amorphous Particles Formed via Monodisperse Droplet Evaporation, Kurt R. Vostal

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Nature as Theophany: Exploring Coleridge's Scientific and Theological Inquiries into the Imagination, Adam Walker

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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When Things Aren't the Things that We Think: Misreadings, Impostors, and the Object(s) of Criticism in the Fiction of Percival Everett, Steven A. Belskie

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Vehicle Stabilization during Critical Cornering Scenarios Using Sliding Surface Control, Christina Elyse Boyd

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"External Ghost / Than Its interior Confronting": Gardens, Ghosts, and Fractals in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Cole Swensen, Margaret Rose Brown

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Some Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) Behave Prosocially More Often With Strong Affiliative Partners During a Food-sharing Task,, Sara Marie Faiad

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The Will to Remember: Manifestations of Holocaust "Fatigue" and "Exhaustion" in Representations of the Holocaust, Bethany Sarah Grandy

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Oxytocin Mitigates the Negative Consequences of Chronic Social Isolation in Prairie Voles (Microtus ochrogaster), Elyse Kathleen McMahon

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Should I Poach?: How a Couple's Attractiveness and Relationship Duration Impact Short-term Poaching Behavior, James Brian Moran

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Sex Differences in Binge-Like Alcohol Consumption in Mice: Involvement of Beta-endorphin and the Stress Axis, Todd B. Nentwig

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Quantitative Evaluation of Residential Virtual Energy Storage in Comparison to Battery Energy Storage: A Cyber-Physical Systems, Chiedozie Franklin Ononuju

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Cross-Coupling Reactions of Functionalized Organozinc Reagents for the Synthesis of β,β-Disubstituted α,β-Unsaturated Ketones, Heather R. Rensch

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A Passive Brace for the Treatment of Scoliosis Utilizing Compliant Mechanisms, JB Ring

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High Flux Solar Simulators: Improved Optical Modeling for Use in Designing Reduced Cost Simulators, Jeffrey Pleecdo Roba

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A Process for Extracting Knowledge in Design for the Developing World, Paden Michael Troxell

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Probing Bile Salt Micelle Aggregation and Chiral Guest-Host Binding Using Isothermal Titration Calorimetry, Shauna Lynn Anderson

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In-Stream Leaf Decomposition as an Indicator of Marcellus Shale Impairment Across a Land Use Gradient, Jordan Alan Barton

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Ex Situ Hybridization of Two Cryptically Dioecious Solanum (Solanaceae) Species From Northern Territory Australia Clarifies Vague Species Boundaries, Tara Ann Caton

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Complexity in a Gender Binary: the Challenge to Universities to Include Transgender Students, Tricia Nicole Collins

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An Investigation of Amorphous and Unique Organic Molecular Structure Via Monodisperse Droplet Evaporation and Spray Drying, Hannah Theresa Comstock