Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2024
MATRIX STIFFNESS SENSING BY NASCENT ADHESIONS AND THE ROLE OF RIAM IN ADHESION ASSEMBLY, Nikhil Mittal
Myosin-independent stiffness sensing by fibroblasts is regulated by the viscoelasticity of flowing actin, Nikhil Mittal, Etienne B. Michels, Andrew E. Massey, Yunxiu Qiu, Shaina P. Royer-Weeden, Bryan R. Smith, Alexander X. Cartagena-Rivera, and Sangyoon J. Han
Polymerizing actin regulates myosin-independent mechanosensing by modulating actin elasticity and flow fluctuation, Nikhil Mittal, Etienne Michels, Kathleen Pakenas, Shaina P. Royer-Weeden, and Sangyoon J. Han
RECYCLING WASTE PLASTICS FROM E-WASTE AND HOUSEHOLD SOURCES FOR SUSTAINABLE ASPHALT CONSTRUCTION, Sepehr Mohammadi
Design and Analysis of Self-Tanked Stepwise Charging Circuit for Four-Phase Adiabatic Logic, William Morell and Jin Woo Choi
UNDERSTANDING SUBTLE GENDER BIAS RECOGNITION AMONG WITNESSES IN A STEM UNDERGRADUATE CONTEXT, Darnishia Lashalle Morris
Genome size influences plant growth and biodiversity responses to nutrient fertilization in diverse grassland communities, Joseph A. Morton, Carlos Alberto Arnillas, Lori Biedermann, Elizabeth T. Borer, Lars A. Brudvig, Yvonne M. Buckley, Marc W. Cadotte, Kendi Davies, Ian Donohue, Anne Ebeling, Nico Eisenhauer, Catalina Estrada, Sylvia Haider, Yann Hautier, Anke Jentsch, Holly Martinson, Rebecca L. McCulley, Xavier Raynaud, Christiane Roscher, Eric W. Seabloom, Carly J. Stevens, Katerina Vesela, Alison Wallace, Ilia J. Leitch, Andrew R. Leitch, and Erika Hersch-Green
EXPLORING USABILITY IN EXERCISE INTERVENTIONS: FROM CONCEPTUALIZATION TO MEASUREMENT AND APPLICATION, Anne Inger Mørtvedt
Experimental investigation of long-term performance of fiber-reinforced epoxy and polyurethane polymer composites, Abdel Hamid I. Mourad, Amir Hussain Idrisi, Asima Zahoor, Muhammad M. Sherif, and Beckry M. Abdel-Magid
Light curve and hardness tests for millilensing in GRB 081122A, GRB 081126A, GRB 110517B, and GRB 210812A, Oindabi Mukherjee and Robert J. Nemiroff
Light curve and hardness tests for millilensing in GRB 950830, GRB 090717A, and GRB 200716C, Oindabi Mukherjee and Robert J. Nemiroff
Assessing visibility at highway-rail grade crossings using light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology, Mohsen Naghdi, Pasi T. Lautala, and Abdolmajid Erfani
Morphological Changes of Liver Among Post-Fontan Surgery Patients, Varatharajan Nainamalai, Håvard Bjørke Jenssen, Khadiza Tun Suha, Mostafa Rezaeitaleshmahalleh, Min Wang, Sarah Khan, Marcus Haw, Jingfeng Jiang, and Joseph Vettukattil
The Effect of Seasonal Ice Cover Duration on Shoreline Erosion in Lake Michigan, Ryan S. Navarre
Land use change and forest management effects on soil carbon stocks in the Northeast U.S., Lucas E. Nave, Kendall DeLyser, Grant M. Domke, Scott M. Holub, Maria K. Janowiak, Adrienne B. Keller, Matthew P. Peters, Kevin A. Solarik, Brian F. Walters, and Christopher W. Swanston
Aluminum Critical Mineral Production Feasibility via Landfill Mining: Preliminary study of potential project locations and co-benefits, Anabel M. Needham
Valorization of Spent Vetiver Roots for Biochar Generation, Sameer Neve, Dibyendu Sarkar, Manas Warke, Teresa Bandosz, and Rupali Datta
Gravity Fed Hopper Flow of Bulk Solids for Lunar ISRU, Jason Bendixen Noe
CONTINUOUS, PLATFORM PURIFICATION OF VIRAL PRODUCTS USING AQUEOUS TWO-PHASE EXTRACTION, Natalie M. Nold
Editorial: Mitral valve disease: mechanisms to therapies, Maria Carmo Nunes, Hoda Hatoum, Alison M. Pouch, and Muralidhar Padala
Characterization of non-Gaussianity in the snow distributions of various landscapes, Noriaki Ohara, Andrew D. Parsekian, Benjamin M. Jones, Rodrigo C. Rangel, Kenneth M Hinkel, and Rui A.P. Perdigão
Efficient alkaline water electrolysis with an iron-incorporated yttrium oxide/yttrium phosphide nanorod catalyst on Ni foam: overpotential reduction and electrochemical insights, Subash Pandey and Rudy L. Luck
Role of Carbonyl Compounds for N-Nitrosamine Formation during Nitrosation: Kinetics and Mechanisms, Yishuai Pan, Florian Breider, Benjamin Barrios, Daisuke Minakata, Huiping Deng, and Urs von Gunten
ALGORITHMS FOR COORDINATING MULTIPLE AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES UNDER VARIOUS CONSTRAINTS WITH EMPHASIS ON WORKLOAD BALANCING, Abhishek Patil
FROM TECHNICAL RESOLUTION TO AGILE EVOLUTION: A BLENDED ROLE AT HUMANE INTERFACE DESIGN ENTERPRISE (HIDE), Ketansingh Anil Patil
The effect of gamma-ray irradiation on polymer-graphene nanocomposite interfaces, Sagar Patil, Josh Kemppainen, Travis Wavrunek, and Gregory Odegard
Intelligent Transportation System with 5G Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X): Architectures, Vehicular Use Cases, Emergency Vehicles, Current Challenges, and Future Directions, Vaishali Pawar, Nilima Zade, Deepali Vora, Vaishali Khairnar, Aurenice M. Oliveira, Ketan Kotecha, and Ambarish Kulkarni
EXAMINING GENOME SIZE AND NUTRIENT INFLUENCE ON DAMAGE PATTERNS, AND PLANT-INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY DYNAMICS, Hailee B. Petosky
Usefulness of Current Patient-Reported Outcome Scales for ACL Injury: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of Stakeholder-Perceived Utility of Specific Constructs and Items Across the Rehabilitation Timeline, Erich Petushek, Jed A. Diekfuss, Joseph D. Lamplot, Anne-Inger Mørtvedt, Lauren C. Hoey, Kevin Heo, Camryn B. Petit, Kim D. Barber Foss, Shayla M. Warren, Alexis B. Slutsky-Ganesh, Charles D. Kenyon, April L. McPherson, Michael E. Biller, Michael Newsome, Brian Jennings, John W. Xerogeanes, and Gregory D. Myer
Asymptotics of the rate function in the large deviation principle for sums of independent identically distributed random variables, Iosif Pinelis
STATICALLY CONTROLLED SYNCHRONIZED LANE ARCHITECTURES, Scott K. Pomerville
Characterization of Oscillatory Response of Light-Weight Wind Turbine Rotors under Controlled Gust Pulses, Fernando Ponta, Alayna Farrell, Apurva Baruah, and North Yates
High-Frequency-Based Transmission Line Percentage Differential Protection with Traveling Wave Alignment, Igor F. Prado, Flavio Costa, Kleber M. Silva, Rodrigo P. Medeiros, and Bruce A. Mork
LMCrot: An enhanced protein crotonylation site predictor by leveraging an interpretable window-level embedding from a transformer-based protein language model, Pawel Pratyush, Soufia Bahmani, Suresh Pokharel, Hamid D. Ismail, and Dukka Bahadur
Gains in soil carbon storage under anthropogenic nitrogen deposition are rapidly lost following its cessation, Brooke E. Propson, Donald R. Zak, Aimée T. Classen, Andrew J Burton, and Zachary B. Freedman
The Great Lakes Winter Grab: Limnological data from a multi-institutional winter sampling campaign on the Laurentian Great Lakes, Ge Pu, Krill Shchapov, Nolan J.T. Pearce, Kelly Bowen, Andrew Bramburger, Andrew Camilleri, Maci Quintanilla, Trista Vick-Majors, and et al.
Synergy between Ca2+ and high ionic field-strength cations during the corrosion of alkali aluminoborosilicate glasses in hyper-alkaline media, Qianhui Qin, Nicholas Stone-Weiss, Nian Shi, Pinaki Mukherjee, Jinjun Ren, and Ashutosh Goel
Recognition, Subject Formation, and Agency: Marginalization and Agency in Feminist Dystopian Narratives, Samantha J. Quade
The Microverse: A Task-Oriented Edge-Scale Metaverse, Qian Qu, Mohsen Hatami, Ronghua Xu, Deeraj Nagothu, Yu Chen, Xiaohua Li, Erik Blasch, Erika Ardiles-Cruz, and Genshe Chen
SPECIFICATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ARM ISA USING ADL, Jonathan A. Rabideau
INTEGRATING ARCGIS AND REDUX USING MIDDLEWARE, Vishnu Vardhan Reddy Rapuru
Strain and Substrate-Induced Electronic Properties of Novel Mixed Anion-Based 2D ScHX2 (X = I/Br) Semiconductors, Ashima Rawat and Ravindra Pandey
Cytauxzoonosis in Indiana, USA: a case series of cats infected with Cytauxzoon felis (2018-2022), Mason V. Reichard, Stacy R. Cotey, Sriveny Dangoudoubiyam, Pabasara Weerarathne, Kenneth Tussey, Rebecca P. Wilkes, and et. al.
Social and knowledge diversity in forest education: Vital for the world’s forests, Mika Rekola, Andrew B. Taber, Terry Sharik, John A. Parrotta, Michael J. Dockry, Folaranmi D. Babalola, Tara L Bal, David Ganz, Marta Gruca, Manuel R. Guariguata, James Kungu, Pipiet Larasatie, Anne Nevgi, Sandra Rodriguez-Piñeros, Sirichai Saengcharnchai, Niclas Sandström, and Khalil Walji
Developing a nearly automated open-source pipeline for conducting computational fluid dynamics simulations in anterior brain vasculature: a feasibility study, Mostafa Rezaeitaleshmahalleh, Nan Mu, Zonghan Lyu, Joseph Gemmete, Aditya Pandey, and Jingfeng Jiang
UNESCO, Mining Heritage and the Scalar Sustainability of Tourism Geographies at Industrial World Heritage Sites, Mark A. Rhodes and Kathryn L. Hannum
Health Impacts of Future Prescribed Fire Smoke: Considerations From an Exposure Scenario in California, Andrew Rosenberg, Sumi Hoshiko, Joseph R. Buckman, Kirstin R. Yeomans, Thomas Hayashi, Samantha J. Kramer, Shih Ming Huang, Nancy H. French, and Ana G. Rappold
Reversing File Access Control Using Disk Forensics on Low-Level Flash Memory, Caleb J. Rother and Bo Chen
New examples of self-dual near-extremal ternary codes of length 48 derived from 2-(47,23,11) designs, Sanja Rukavina and Vladimir Tonchev
A Micromechanical Study of Interactions of Cyanate Ester Monomer with Graphene or Boron Nitride Monolayer, Geeta Sachdeva, Álvaro Lobato, Ravindra Pandey, and Gregory Odegard
Sustainable Environmental Technologies: Recent Development, Opportunities, and Key Challenges, Prafulla Kumar Sahoo, Rupali Datta, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, and Dibyendu Sarkar
Jovian Vortex Hunter: A Citizen Science Project to Study Jupiter’s Vortices, Ramanakumar Sankar, Shawn R. Brueshaber, Lucy Fortson, Candice Hansen-Koharcheck, Chris Lintott, Kameswara Mantha, Cooper Nesmith, and Glenn S. Orton
Understanding Confusion: A Case Study of Training a Machine Model to Predict and Interpret Consensus From Volunteer Labels, Ramanakumar Sankar, Kameswara Mantha, Cooper Nesmith, Lucy Fortson, Shawn R. Brueshaber, Candice Hansen-Koharcheck, and Glenn Orton
Verifying an improved intermittent water distribution network analysis method based on EPA-SWMM, Dondu Sarisen, Raziyeh Farmani, David W. Watkins, Brian Barkdoll, Brian Rivers, Chao Zhang, and Fayyaz Ali Memon
A PHYSICAL TEST ARTIFACT FOR EVALUATING EDGE CASES OF INDIVIDUAL AND FUSED AUTOMATED DRIVING PERCEPTION SENSORS, Colin Schaefer
Enriched microbial consortia from natural environments reveal core groups of microbial taxa able to degrade terephthalate and terphthalamide, Laura G. Schaerer, Sulihat Aloba, Emily Wood, Allison Olson, Isabel B. A. Valencia, Rebecca Ong, and Stephen Techtmann
Engagement for Life's Sake: Reflections on Partnering and Partnership with Rural Tribal Nations, Chelsea Schelly, Valoree Gagnon, Kathleen Brosemer, and Kristin Arola
LES-C Turbulence Models and Fluid Flow Modeling: Analysis and Application to Incompressible Turbulence and Fluid-Fluid Interaction, Kyle J. Schwiebert
A staged approach using machine learning and uncertainty quantification to predict the risk of hip fracture, Anjum Shaik, Kristoffer A. Larsen, Nancy E. Lane, Chen Zhao, Kuan Jui Su, Joyce H. Keyak, Qing Tian, Qiuying Sha, Hui Shen, Hong Wen Deng, and Weihua Zhou
The Integration of Neuromorphic Computing in Autonomous Robotic Systems, Md Abu Bakr Siddique
Impact of changing climate on bryophyte contributions to terrestrial water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles, Mandy L. Slate, Anita Antoninka, Lydia Bailey, Monica B. Berdugo, Des A. Callaghan, Mariana Cárdenas, Matthew W. Chmielewski, Nicole J. Fenton, Hannah Holland-Moritz, Samantha Hopkins, Mélanie Jean, Bier Ekaphan Kraichak, Zoë Lindo, Amelia Merced, Tobi Oke, Daniel Stanton, Julia E. Stuart, Daniel Tucker, and Kirsten K. Coe
Sphere-Graph: A Compact 3D Topological Map for Robotic Navigation and Segmentation of Complex Environments, Meryl Spencer, Reid W. Sawtell, and Sarah Kitchen
A Virtual Time Driven Simulator for DEVS Models, Ronald R. Stempien
Wolves across borders, Ilse Storch, Aimee Tallian, Luigi Boitani, Cecilia Di Bernardi, Josip Kusak, Çağan Şekercioğlu, Douglas Smith, John Vucetich, and Barbara Zimmermann
Application of Fusion based Deep Learning Models to Improve Millimeter Wave Beamforming, Abishek Subramanian
OPTIMIZING PHP API CALLS WITH PAGINATION AND CACHING, Parsharam Reddy Sudda
Thermo-photo catalytic anode process for carbonate-superstructured solid fuel cells, Hanrui Su and Yun Hang Hu
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND CYCLING FATIGUE OF ZN-BASED ALLOYS: EFFECTS OF THERMAL TREATMENT, Henry D. Summers
INVESTIGATING CHLORIDE INGRESSION IN CONCRETE AND CHLORIDE-INDUCED REBAR CORROSION, Peifeng Su
Seagrass ecosystem recovery: Experimental removal and synthesis of disturbance studies, Spencer J. Tassone, Carolyn J. Ewers Lewis, Karen J. McGlathery, and Michael L. Pace
Maintaining Ukraine’s Grid Reliability under Rapid Growth of Renewable Electricity Share: Challenges in the Pre-War, War-Time, and Post-War Periods, Kurbatova Tetiana, Roman Sidortsov, Trypolska Galyna, Hulak Daniil, and Sotnyk Iryna
Multispectral Deep Neural Network Fusion Method for Low-Light Object Detection, Keval Thaker, Sumanth Chennupati, Nathir Rawashdeh, and Samir A. Rawashdeh
Suitability of the height above nearest drainage (HAND) model for flood inundation mapping in data-scarce regions: a comparative analysis with hydrodynamic models, Navin Tony Thalakkottukara, Jobin Thomas, Melanie Watkins, Benjamin C. Holland, Thomas Oommen, and Himanshu Grover
Greening of a boreal rich fen driven by CO2 fertilisation, Sandeep Thayamkottu, T. Luke Smallman, Jaan Pärn, Ülo Mander, Eugénie S. Euskirchen, and Evan Kane
Decentering humans in sustainability: a framework for Earth-centered kinship and practice, Tran Thi Mai Anh, Cassandra M. Reed-VanDam, Kendall Belopavlovich, Elizabeth Brown, Katherine E. Higdon, Shelby Nicole Lane-Clark, Katherine M. McGowen, Emily Shaw, and Valoree Gagnon
Energy Service Security for Public Health Resilience: Perception and Concerns in Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan☆, Shardul Tiwari, Zoē Ketola, Chelsea Schelly, and Eric Boyer-Cole
Comparison of Cerebral ECD Perfusion in Patients with Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Parkinson’s Disease Dementia, Aili Toyli, Guang-Uei Hung, Chen Zhao, Qiuying Sha, Pai-Yi Chiu, and Weihua Zhou
Progress in Electronic, Energy, Biomedical and Environmental Applications of Boron Nitride and MoS2 Nanostructures, Join Uddin, Raksha Dubey, Vinaayak Sivam Balasubramaniam, Jeff Kabel, Vedika Khare, Zohreh Salimi, Sambhawana Sharma, Dongyan Zhang, and Yoke Khin Yap
RedWater Test Data, Paul van Susante and Kris Zacny
FATIGUE RESISTANT CAST STEEL RAILCAR COUPLERS PRODUCED BY WIRE-ARC ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING (WAAM), Samuel Vellequette
The 2019 Raikoke eruption as a testbed used by the Volcano Response group for rapid assessment of volcanic atmospheric impacts, Jean Paul Vernier, Thomas J. Aubry, Claudia Timmreck, Anja Schmidt, Lieven Clarisse, Fred Prata, Nicolas Theys, Andrew T. Prata, Graham Mann, Hyundeok Choi, Simon Carn, Richard Rigby, Susan C. Loughlin, and John A. Stevenson
Editorial: Microorganisms in polar regions: understanding their survival strategies for a sustainable future, Trista Vick-Majors, Shiv Mohan Singh, and Prashant Kumar Singh
More than Semantics? Navigating the "policy ∗ Design" Concepts' Landscape, Diana Pamela Villa-Alvarez and Adam Wellstead
Flow Dynamic Factors Correlated With Device-Related Thrombosis After Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion, Brennan Vogl, Emily Vitale, Sunyoung Ahn, Agata Sularz, Alejandra Chavez Ponce, Gerardo V. Lo Russo, Jeremy Collins, Alessandra Maria Bavo, Ahmed El Shaer, Anders Kramer, Yuheng Jia, Davorka Lulic, Matthieu De Beule, Jens Erik Nielsen-Kudsk, Ole De Backer, Mohamad Alkhouli, and Hoda Hatoum
A Flexible Inventory of Survey Items for Environmental Concepts Generated via Special Attention to Content Validity and Item Response Theory, John A. Vucetich, Jeremy T. Bruskotter, Benjamin Ghasemi, Claire E. Rapp, Michael Paul Nelson, and Kristina M. Slagle
A COMBINATORIAL PROOF OF A PARTITION PERIMETER INEQUALITY, Hunter Waldron
EXAMINING DRIVER PREFERENCES FOR INTELLIGENT AUDIOVISUAL WARNINGS AT HIGHWAY-RAIL GRADE CROSSINGS, Samantha Walker
Glaciation of mixed-phase clouds: insights from bulk model and bin-microphysics large-eddy simulation informed by laboratory experiment, Aaron Wang, Steve Krueger, Sisi Chen, Mikhail Ovchinnikov, Will Cantrell, and Raymond Shaw
Designing a Convection-Cloud Chamber for Collision-Coalescence Using Large-Eddy Simulation With Bin Microphysics, Aaron Wang, Mikhail Ovchinnikov, Fan Yang, Silvio Schmalfuss, and Raymond A. Shaw
Error estimates for a mixed finite element method for the Maxwell's transmission eigenvalue problem, Chao Wang, Jintao Cui, and Jiguang Sun
Editorial: Molecular Mechanisms of Fruit Quality Formation in Fruit Trees, Lihu Wang, Lixin Wang, Ze Peng, Xitong Fei, and Hairong Wei
Durability Investigation of Ultra-Thin Polyurethane Wearing Course for Asphalt Pavement, Wenguang Wang, Baodong Liu, Dongzhao Jin, Miao Yu, and Junsen Zeng
DYNAMIC MEMORY MANAGEMENT FOR KEY-VALUE STORE, Yuchen Wang
Deciphering the intricate hierarchical gene regulatory network: unraveling multi-level regulation and modifications driving secondary cell wall formation, Zhigang Wei and Hairong Wei
Public value and procedural policy instrument specifications in “design for service”, Adam Wellstead and Michael Howlett
New Avenues for Public Value Management and the Role of Nonprofit Policy Innovation Labs: Co-Experience and Social Media, Adam Wellstead, Rowen Schmidt, Angie Carter, and Anat Gofen
Machine Learning Vegetation Filtering of Coastal Cliff and Bluff Point Clouds, Phillipe A. Wernette
Bayesian hierarchical modelling of size spectra, Jeff S. Wesner, Justin P.F. Pomeranz, James R. Junker, and Vojsava Gjoni
Seasonal and Species-Level Water-Use Strategies and Groundwater Dependence in Dryland Riparian Woodlands During Extreme Drought, Jared Williams, John C. Stella, Michael Bliss Singer, Adam M. Lambert, Steve L. Voelker, John E. Drake, Jonathan M. Friedman, Lissa Pelletier, Li Kui, and Dar A. Roberts
Implementing reactivity in molecular dynamics simulations with harmonic force fields, Jordan J. Winetrout, Krishan Kanhaiya, Josh Kemppainen, Pieter J. in ‘t Veld, Geeta Sachdeva, Ravindra Pandey, Behzad Damirchi, Adri van Duin, Gregory Odegard, and Hendrik Heinz