Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2016
OBJECTIVE BAYESIAN ANALYSIS OF A GENERALIZED LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTION, Shengnan Li
Analysis and Detection of Cyberattacks in Smart Home Cyber-Physical Energy Systems, Yang Liu
Rhyolite and Trachyte Formation at Lake City Caldera: Insight from Quantitative Textural and Geochemical Analyses, Jordan Lubbers
Evaluation of Social License for the Forest Products Industry in Houghton County, Michigan, Will Lytle
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF OPTICAL ELASTOGRAPHY SETUP, Abhinav Madhavachandran
Polychlorinated Biphenyl Compound and Metal Contamination and Remediation in Torch Lake, Houghton County, MI, Ankita Mandelia
MODELING THE PHYSICAL AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES IN LAKE SUPERIOR USING LAKE2K, Sheelagh M. Mccarthy
The Impact of Gamified Mobile Applications for Disease Management: Case Study Pre-Diabetic Adolescents, Obie McGowan
Thermomechanical Processing of Aluminum Micro-alloyed with Sc, Zr, Ti, B, and C, Cameron McNamara
On the Aerodynamic Properties of Slotted-Flap Flow-Control Devices for Wind Turbine Applications, Muraleekrishnan Menon Menon Muraleedharan Nair
NEW MODEL TO PREDICT HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT FOR FLOW BOILING IN MICROFIN TUBES, Reem Sadruddin Merchant
COMPARISON OF THE 2-TERM AND 3-TERM AVO APPROXIMATIONS FOR SEISMIC DATA IN PENOBSCOT AREA, NOVA SCOTIA, Mevlut Han Mertturk
SHIPBREAKING IN BANGLADESH: PERSPECTIVES FROM INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY, POLITICAL ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, S.M. Mizanur Rahman
Role of miR-483 in pancreatic alpha and beta cells, Ramkumar Mohan
The Effect of Community Connectivity on Water and Sanitation Systems in Rural Panama, M.C. Moritz
TECHNICAL AND ECONOMICAL ANALYSIS OF RESIDENTIAL SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS, Aishwarya Shrikant Mundada
LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS OF CONTACT NUCLEATION BY MINERAL DUSTS, BACTERIA, AND SOLUBLE SALTS, Joseph Niehaus
Designing Better Symbols: An Attentional Approach to Match Symbols to Performance Goals, Hannah North
INHIBITION OF BACTERIAL GROWTH AND PREVENTION OF BACTERIAL ADHESION WITH LOCALIZED NITRIC OXIDE DELIVERY, Julia Osborne
DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF A RESIDENTIAL PV-BATTERY SYSTEM, Sevket Burak Ovali
Design of a Mobile Underwater Charging System, Brian R. Page
LEARNING TO NOTICE AND USE STUDENT THINKING IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS COURSES, Anna Pascoe
Two Problems of Gerhard Ringel, Adrian Pastine
MECHANICALLY AND ELECTROCHEMICALLY STABLE MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOTUBES FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS, Sweetu Patel
Personas: A Strategy for More Inclusive and Usable Reproductive Health Tracking Technologies, Anna R. Paul
ENERGY JUSTICE AND U.S. ENERGY POLICY: CASE STUDY APPLICATIONS EXPLORING U.S. ENERGY POLICY THROUGH AN ENERGY JUSTICE FRAMEWORK, Emily Prehoda
SMALL SIZE COUPLING FEED AND INDUCTIVE SHORTING ANTENNA FOR WIDE BANDWIDTH, INCREASED GAIN AND EFFICIENCY WITH LOW SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE (SAR) OPERATION, Md Mahfuzur Rahman
Formation of Copper Gasars at Subatmospheric Pressures, Helen J. Rau
PREDICTIVE CONTROL OF POWER GRID-CONNECTED ENERGY SYSTEMS BASED ON ENERGY AND EXERGY METRICS, Meysam Razmara
ASSESSING THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE SURFACE TEMPERATURE OF INLAND LAKES IN MICHIGAN, Kaitlin Reinl
Characterization of Torque Converter Cavitation Sound Power Level over Varying Speed Ratio, Craig Reynolds
EXOTIC OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF METAL-DIELECTRIC NANO-STRUCTURES, Mehdi Sadatgol
PURIFICATION AND RECOVERY OF INFECTIOUS VIRUS PARTICLES USING OSMOLYTE FLOCCULATION, Ashish Saksule
ENGINEERING ANTIPHAGOCYTIC AND TARGETING THERAPEUTIC CARRIERS FOR CANCER TREATMENT, Nasrin Salehi
RISK-BASED ASSESSMENT AND STRENGTHENING OF ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS SUBJECTED TO NATURAL HAZARDS, Abdullahi Salman
CARBON FLUX DYNAMICS IN HIGH ALTITUDE PEATLANDS IN THE ECUADORIAN ANDES, Maria Elisa Sanchez Garces
The role of amino acids in the nitrogen cycle of peatlands, Tia Scarpelli
Nature and mechanics of slope instability at Pacaya Volcano, Lauren Schaefer
CARBON CYCLING AND RESTORATION IN TEMPERATE FORESTED PEATLANDS, Rose Schwartz
Testing Lidar-Radar Derived Drop Sizes Against In Situ Measurements, Mary Amanda Shaw
Mechanically Induced Structural Changes in Molybdenum Disulfide, Prasad Pramod Soman
FLOOD RISK EVOLUTION: EXAMINING CHANGES IN FLOOD BEHAVIOR AND CONSEQUENCES FOR FLOOD RISK ANALYSIS, Patricia Spellman
SMART AERODYNAMIC CONTROL DEVICES DESIGN AND VIBRATION REDUCTION ANALYSIS FOR WIND TURBINE BLADES, Xiao Sun
MULTISENSORY CUE CONGRUENCY IN LANE CHANGE TEST, Yuanjing Sun
A WIRELESS SENSOR SYSTEM WITH DIGITALLY CONTROLLED SIGNAL CONDITIONING CIRCUIT FOR FORCE MONITORING AT BONE FIXATION PLATES, Govindan Suresh
THE CUYUNA IRON RANGE: LEGACY OF A 20TH CENTURY INDUSTRIAL COMMUNITY, Frederick Sutherland
ON THE APPLICATIONS OF INTERACTIVE THEOREM PROVING IN COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING, Amer Tahat
Hardware Design and Integration and Software Programming for Optical Elastography, Nima Taherkhani
Novel Carbohydrate-Dependent Biological Properties of Human Health Related Lectins and Glycoconjugates, Melanie Talaga
MECHANICAL TESTING OF FUSED FILAMENT 3-D PRINTED COMPONENTS FOR DISTRIBUTED MANUFACTURING, Nagendra Gautam Tanikella
ALLOYING OF THIN-WALL DUCTILE IRON CASTINGS, Stephanie Tankersley
CHANNEL MODELING FOR FIFTH GENERATION CELLULAR NETWORKS AND WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS, Amir Torabi
COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT SEISMIC FILTERING TECHNIQUES ON PRESTACK INVERSION FOR PENOBSCOT AREA-NOVA SCOTIA, Omer Emre Uygun
THE UTILITY OF THE PARTICIPATORY APPROACH FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENTS, Ashma Vaidya
THE MENTAL GAME: SUPERSTITIONS, RITUALS, AND MENTAL CONTROL IN COMPETITIVE ATHLETES, Alexander S. van der Merwe
DEVELOPMENT & INTEGRATION OF FHIR WITH OPEN-SOURCE EMR & RELATIONAL DATABASES, Timothy Van Wagner
Proton Exchange Membrane Characterization at Subzero Temperatures, Saumitra Verma
Geoheritage of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Erika Vye
Designing a Permeable Reactive Barrier for the Remediation of Copper Contaminated Groundwater., Christopher Walkons
FIRST-PRINCIPLES STUDIES OF GROUP IV AND GROUP V RELATED TWO DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS, Gaoxue Wang
Data Management and Data Facilitation in Multi-Center Large Cohort Health Care Studies, Wei Wang
Experimental Investigations of Fused Filament Fabrication for Applications to Affordable Scientific Hardware, Bas Wijnen
Representation and Analysis of Multi-Modal, Nonuniform Time Series Data: An Application to Survival Prognosis of Oncology Patients in an Outpatient Setting, Jennifer Winikus
Analysis on the Performance Limitations of an Interferometric Geolocation Device, Michael Witt
Evaluating Groundwater Recharge in the Saloum Region of Senegal, Alexander Wohlgemuth
INFLUENCE OF THE WEATHERED LAYER ON RETRIEVING BODY WAVE USING PASSIVE SIESMIC INTERFEROMETRY, Boming Wu
RESERVOIR ESTIMATION IN THE PENOBSCOT 3D SEISMIC VOLUME USING CONSTRAINED SPARSE SPIKE INVERSION, OFFSHORE NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA, Mengchu Xiao
MODIFICATION OF ACTIVATED CARBON FOR SUPERCAPACITOR, Yan Xu
THE EFFECT OF POSTTRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS ON PROTEIN AGGREGATION, MORPHOLOGY, AND TOXICITY, Mu Yang
PROPERTY ANALYSIS OF THE ASPHALT MATERIALS USING MOLECULAR DYNAMICS (MD) METHOD, Hui Yao
AIR CHARGE ESTIMATION FOR AN SI ENGINE USING IN-CYLINDER PRESSURE SENSOR, Arya Yazdani
WIDE AREA MEASUREMENTS BASED UNDER VOLTAGE LOAD SHEDDING, Jaya Raghavendra Arun Kumar Yellajosula
DYNAMIC ATOMISTIC STUDY OF TUNNEL FUNCTIONS IN NANOSTRUCTURED TRANSITIONAL METAL OXIDES, Yifei Yuan
Powering an Industry: The History of the Calumet and Hecla Electrical System and the Environmental Consequences Left Behind, Emma M. Zawisza
NANOSPHERE LITHOGRAPHY AND ITS APPLICATION IN RAPID AND ECONOMIC FABRICATION OF PLASMONIC HYDROGENATED AMORPHOUS SILICON PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES, Chenlong Zhang
Impacts of global change on tropospheric ozone and mercury, Huanxin Zhang
Improving navigation and spatial judgments in head-mounted displays, Ruimin Zhang
AN ANALYSIS OF STAKEHOLDERS COMMUNICATION IN COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, Wei Zhang
Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2015
RELATIVISTIC CONFIGURATION INTERACTION CALCULATIONS OF THE ATOMIC PROPERTIES OF SELECTED TRANSITION METAL POSITIVE IONS; NI II, V II AND W II, Marwa Hefny Abdalmoneam
DEALING WITH ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES EVOLVING FROM DECLINING OIL PRODUCTION IN SAUDI ARABIA, Mazen Aboudah
CHARACTERIZING RAIL EMBANKMENT STABILIZATION NEEDS ON THE HUDSON BAY RAILWAY, Priscilla Addison
BUILDING A DISCOURSE: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN NEW MEDIA'S CONVERGENCE AND RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION'S MULTIMODALITY, Katherine G. Aho
MICROWAVE ASSISTED COMMUNITION OF SULFIDE ORE, Matthew D. Andriese
ELECTROCHEMICAL PROCESSES IN MICROFLUIDICS SYSTEMS UNDER AC ELECTRIC FIELDS, Ran An
LENSES OF INDUSTRY: THE RISE OF INDUSTRIAL PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE LAKE SUPERIOR MINING DISTRICT, 1880-1933, Robert Anthony
THE USE OF JATROPHA CURCAS TO ACHIEVE A SELF SUFFICIENT WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM: A CASE STUDY IN RURAL SENEGAL, Alexandra Archer
HOUSEHOLD BIOSAND WATER FILTERS: MATERIALS, CAPACITY, AND TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON PERFORMANCE, Nathan B. Arnold