Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2022
EFFECTS OF DISSIMILAR SILVICULTURAL TECHNIQUES ON SMALL MAMMAL COMMUNITIES IN MICHIGAN'S UPPER PENINSULA, Breanna R. Gusick
Greener Sheep: Life Cycle Analysis of Integrated Sheep Agrivoltaic Systems, Robert Handler and Joshua M. Pearce
Comparison of performance of self-expanding and balloon-expandable transcatheter aortic valves, Hoda Hatoum, Milad Samaee, Janarthanan Sathananthan, Stephanie Sellers, Maximilian Kuetting, Scott M. Lilly, Abdul R. Ihdayhid, Philipp Blanke, Jonathon Leipsic, Vinod H. Thourani, and Lakshmi Prasad Dasi
A Mini Review of Citrus Rootstocks and Their Role in High-Density Orchards, Faisal Hayat, Juan Li, Shahid Iqbal, Yang Peng, Leming Hong, Rashad Mukhtar Balal, Muhammad Nawaz Khan, Muhammad Azher Nawaz, Ummara Khan, Muhammad Asad Farhan, Caiqing Li, Wenpei Song, Panfeng Tu, and Jiezhong Chen
Montane Temperate-Boreal Forests Retain the Leaf Economic Spectrum Despite Intraspecific Variability, Matthew J. Hecking, Jenna M. Zukswert, John E. Drake, Martin Dovciak, and Julia I. Burton
Predictions of household water affordability under conditions of climate change, demographic growth, and fresh groundwater depletion in a southwest US city indicate increasing burdens on the poor, Josiah M. Heyman, Alex S. Mayer, and Jessica Alger
A SURROGATE MODEL OF MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS FOR POLAR FLUIDS: SUPERVISED LEARNING METHODS FOR MOLECULAR POLARIZATION AND UNSUPERVISED METHODS FOR PHASE CLASSIFICATION, Zackerie W. Hjorth
Final inversion of the Midcontinent Rift during the Rigolet Phase of the Grenvillian Orogeny, Eben B. Hodgin, Nicholas L. Swanson-Hysell, James M. DeGraff, Andrew R.C. Kylander-Clark, Mark D. Schmitz, Andrew C. Turner, Yiming Zhang, and Daniel A. Stolper
Classifying Mixing Regimes in Ponds and Shallow Lakes, Meredith A. Holgerson, David C. Richardson, Joseph Roith, Lauren E. Bortolotti, Kerri Finlay, Daniel J. Hornbach, Kshitij Gurung, Andrew Ness, Mikkel R. Andersen, Sheel Bansal, Jacques C. Finlay, Jacob A. Cianci-Gaskill, Shannon Hahn, Benjamin D. Janke, Cory McDonald, Jorrit P. Mesman, Rebecca L. North, Cassandra O. Roberts, Jon N. Sweetman, and Jackie R. Webb
Sight versus Sound: Do Visual Assessments of Dead Standing Trees Reflect Acoustic Nondestructive Evaluations of Wood Quality?, Tyler J. Hovde, John W. Forsman, Robert J. Ross, Mark Rudnicki, Xinfeng Xie, Xiping Wang, and Yvette L. Dickson
EVALUATION OF PRODUCTION-WELL PERFORMANCE IN RESPONSE TO FORMATION CLOGGING AND REHABILITATION FOR THE KEWEENAW BAY TRIBAL FISH HATCHERY, Brock O. Howell
Ecological Studies of Wolves on Isle Royale Annual Report 2021-2022, Sarah R. Hoy, Rolf O. Peterson, and John A. Vucetich
The Role of Wolves in Regulating a Chronic Non-communicable Disease, Osteoarthritis, in Prey Populations, Sarah Hoy, John A. Vucetich, and Rolf O. Peterson
The flying spider-monkey tree fern genome provides insights into fern evolution and arborescence, Xiong Huang, Wenling Wang, Ting Gong, David Wickell, Li Yaung Kuo, Xingtan Zhang, Jialong Wen, Hoon Kim, Fachuang Lu, Hansheng Zhao, Song Chen, Hui Li, Wenqi Wu, Changjiang Yu, Su Chen, Wei Fan, Shuai Chen, Xiuqi Bao, Li Li, Dan Zhang, Longyu Jiang, Xiaojing Yan, Zhenyang Liao, Gongke Zhou, Yalong Guo, John Ralph, Ronald R. Sederoff, Hairong Wei, Ping Zhu, Fay Wei Li, and Ray Ming
Influence of Strip Clearcuts, Deer Exclusion and Herbicide on Initial Sapling Recruitment in Northern Hardwood Forests, Stefan Hupperts, Christopher R. Webster, Robert Froese, Brandon Bal, and Yvette L. Dickinson
Storage Minimization of Marine Energy Grids Using Polyphase Power, Salman Husain, Gordon Parker, and Wayne W. Weaver
Organic and Elemental Carbon in the Urban Background in an Eastern Mediterranean City, Tareq Hussein, Xinyang Li, Zaid Bakri, Andres Alastuey, Sharif Arar, Afnan Al-Hunaiti, Mar Viana, and Tuukka Petäjä
A Mild Dyssynchronous Contraction Pattern Detected by SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Predicts Super-Response to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy, Xiao Hu, Zhiyong Qian, Fengwei Zou, Siyuan Xue, Xinwei Zhang, Yao Wang, Xiaofeng Hou, Weihua Zhou, and Jiangang Zou
Energy Science & Engineering: 10 Years of excellence, Yun Hang Hu
Flood Hazard Index Application in Arid Catchments: Case of the Taguenit Wadi Watershed, Lakhssas, Morocco, Mustapha Ikirri, Farid Faik, Fatima Zahra Echogdali, Isabel Margarida Horta Ribeiro Antunes, Mohamed Abioui, Kamal Abdelrahman, Mohammed S. Fnais, Abderrahmane Wanaim, Mouna Id-Belqas, Said Boutaleb, Kochappi Sathyan Sajinkumar, and Adolfo Quesada-Román
Importance of GLUT Transporters in Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Abdelrahman Ismail and Marina Tanasova
Real Time Predictive and Adaptive Hybrid Powertrain Control Development via Neuroevolution, Frederic Jacquelin, Jungyun Bae, Bo Chen, Pruthwiraj Santhosh, Troy Kraemer, and Bonnie Henderson
Meteorite impact craters as hotspots for mineral resources and energy fuels: A global review, S. James, Saranya R. Chandran, M. Santosh, A. P. Pradeepkumar, M. N. Praveen, and K. S. Sajinkumar
Weaving Academic Grace into the Fabric of Online Courses and Faculty Training: First-Year Engineering Student Advice for Online Faculty During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Faculty Responses, Michelle E. Jarvie-Eggart, Amanda Marie Singer, Marika Seigel, Mary Raber, Thomas M. Freeman, Brett Hamlin, Amy Hamlin, and Michael R. Meyer
Fluid droplet spreading and adhesion studied with a microbalance: a review, Youhua Jiang and Jaroslaw Drelich
Comparison of Rubber Asphalt with Polymer Asphalt under Long-Term Aging Conditions in Michigan, Dongzhao Jin, Kwadwo Ampadu Boateng, Siyu Chen, Kai Xin, and Zhanping You
Asphalt Mixture with Scrap Tire Rubber and Nylon Fiber from Waste Tires: Laboratory Performance and Preliminary M‐E Design Analysis, Dongzhao Jin, Dongdong Ge, Xiaodong Zhou, and Zhanping You
Integrated Parametric Graph Closure and Branch-and-Cut Algorithm for Open Pit Mine Scheduling under Uncertainty, Devendra Joshi, Amol Paithankar, Snehamoy Chatterjee, and Sk Md Equeenuddin
Breeding polyploid Populus: progress and perspective, Xiangyang Kang and Hairong Wei
Mobile-PolypNet: Lightweight Colon Polyp Segmentation Network for Low-Resource Settings, Ranit Karmakar and Saeid Nooshabadi
Eager Scheduling of Dependent Instructions, Kurush Kasad
A Novel RID Algorithm of Muon Trajectory Reconstruction in Water Cherenkov Detectors, Neerav Kaushal
TOWARD DEEP LEARNING EMULATORS FOR MODELING THE LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE, Neerav Kaushal
NECOLA: Toward a Universal Field-level Cosmological Emulator, Neerav Kaushal, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Elena Giusarma, Yin Li, Conner Hawry, and Mauricio Reyes
Perspectives on the social license of the forest products industry from rural Michigan, United States, Zoe Ketola, William Lytle, Chelsea Schelly, Mark Rudnicki, and Matthew Kelly
Physiological Responses to Acute Cycling With Blood Flow Restriction, Matthew A. Kilgas, Tejin Yoon, John McDaniel, Kevin Phillips, and Steve Elmer
RHETORIC OF SURROGACY: RE-CONSIDERING AGENCY THROUGH EMBODIED PERFORMANCE, Ann Kitalong-Will
COMPARATIVE TRANSCRIPTOMIC ANALYSIS OF CANCER TESTIS GENES IN OVARIAN CANCER, Zayne Knuth
Structural and compositional properties of 2D CH3NH3PbI3 hybrid halide perovskite: a DFT study, Sandip R. Kumavat, Geeta Sachdeva, Yogesh Sonvane, and Sanjeev K. Gupta
Lowering water table reduces carbon sink strength and carbon stocks in northern peatlands, Min Jung Kwon, Ashley Ballantyne, Philippe Ciais, Chunjing Qiu, Elodie Salmon, Nina Raoult, Bertrand Guenet, Mathias Göckede, Eugénie S. Euskirchen, Hannu Nykänen, Edward A. Schuur, Merritt R. Turetsky, Catherine M. Dieleman, Evan Kane, and Donatella Zona
HCLC-FC: A novel statistical method for phenome-wide association studies, Xiaoyu Liang, Xuewei Cao, Qiuying Sha, and Shuanglin Zhang
Temporal Changes in Extracellular Vesicle Hemostatic Protein Composition Predict Favourable Left Ventricular Remodeling after Acute Myocardial Infarction, Xiong Chang Lim, Chenyuan Huang, Siti Maryam J.M. Yatim, Suet Yen Chong, Sock Hwee Tan, Xiaoxun Yang, Caryn L. Heidt, Jodi Pedersen, Michael Talanker, Harshvardhan Modh, Matthias G. Wacker, Giorgia Pastorin, Siew Pang Chan, A. Mark Richards, Chris J. Charles, Mark Y. Chan, and Jiong Wei Wang
When Self-Driving Fails: Evaluating Social Media Posts Regarding Problems and Misconceptions about Tesla’s FSD Mode, Anne Linja, Tauseef Mamun, and Shane Mueller
A Few-shot Learning Model based on a Triplet Network for the Prediction of Energy Coincident Peak Days, Jinxiang Liu and Laura Brown
Jamming Detection and Classification in OFDM-based UAVs via Feature- and Spectrogram-tailored Machine Learning, Y. Li, J. Pawlak, J. Price, K. Al Shamaileh, Q. Niyaz, S. Paheding, and V. Devabhaktuni
PROCESS DEVELOPMENT, PHYSICAL, AND ELECTRICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF LANGMUIR BLODGETT TROUGH DEPOSITED POLYANILINE, Mehdi Malekrah
STABILITY APPROXIMATION METHOD FOR PULSE LOADS IN POWER ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS, Eduardo A. Marmol D
Synthesis and Characterization of Alkyne-Functionalized Photo-Cross-Linkable Polyesters, Warrick Ma, Xiaochu Ding, Ying Chen, and Yadong Wang
Thermal Post-Processing of 3D Printed Polypropylene Parts for Vacuum Systems, Pierce Mayville, Aliaksei L. Petsiuk, and Joshua M. Pearce
Aeroelastic Response of Wind Turbine Rotors under Rapid Actuation of Flap-Based Flow Control Devices, Muraleekrishnan Menon and Fernando L. Ponta
Experimental assessments of methanol-based foaming agent in latex modified foamed binders and warm asphalt mixtures, Mohd Rosli Mohd Hasan, Tai Guo, Hainian Wang, and Zhanping You
OPTICAL AND SINGLE PARTICLE PROPERTIES OF NORTH ATLANTIC FREE TROPOSPHERIC AEROSOLS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR AEROSOL DIRECT RADIATIVE FORCING, Megan Morgenstern
Light Curve Test of GRB 200716C as a Gravitationally Lensed Echo, Oindabi Mukherjee and Robert J. Nemiroff
Light Curve Test of GRB 200716C as a Gravitationally Lensed Echo, Oindabi Mukherjee and Robert J. Nemiroff
Butterfly eyespots evolved via cooption of an ancestral gene-regulatory network that also patterns antennae, legs, and wings, Suriya Narayanan Murugesan, Heidi Connahs, Yuji Matsuoka, Mainak Das Gupta, Galen J. Tiong, Manizah Huq, Thomas Werner, and et. al.
A Pilot Study of Transplanting Methods for Wilding American Beech (Fagus grandifolia), Andrea L. Myers, Yvette L. Dickinson, Andrew J. Storer, and Tara L. Bal
Phosphorus and Heavy Metals Removal from Stormwater Runoff Using Granulated Industrial Waste for Retrofitting Catch Basins, Viravid Na Nagara, Dibyendu Sarkar, and Rupali Datta
Removal of heavy metals from stormwater runoff using granulated drinking water treatment residuals, Viravid Na Nagara, Dibyendu Sarkar, Evert J. Elzinga, and Rupali Datta
Optimal Control of Nonlinear Wave Energy Converters In Heave for Maximum Power Extraction, Kevin Nelson
Optimized Production of Second-Generation Bioethanol from a Spent C4 Grass: Vetiver (Chrysopogon zizanioides), Sameer Neve, Dibyendu Sarkar, Zhiming Zhang, and Rupali Datta
A Simple Parameterization to Enhance the Computational Time in the Three Layer Dry Deposition Model for Smooth Surfaces, Omar M.M. Nofal, Omar Al-Jaghbeer, Zaid Bakri, and Tareq Hussein
Understanding the Modus Operandi of Class II KNOX Transcription Factors in Secondary Cell Wall Biosynthesis, Akula Nookaraju, Shashank K. Pandey, Yogesh Ahlawat, and Chandrashekhar P. Joshi
Overcoming supply disruptions during pandemics by utilizing found hardware for open source gentle ventilation, S. Oberloier, N. Gallup, and J. M. Pearce
Prophylaxis and Remediation for Future Pandemic Pathogens-(Lessons from a Post-COVID World), Mark E. Obrenovich, Moncef B. Tayahi, Caryn L. Heidt, and Steven N. Emancipator
THE LANGUAGE OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE RHETORIC OF LIBERIAN PRESIDENTS, Tolulope Aina Odebunmi
Accurate predictions of thermoset resin glass transition temperatures from all-atom molecular dynamics simulation, Gregory Odegard, Sagar Patil, Prashik Gaikwad, Prathamesh Deshpande, Aaron Krieg, Sagar P. Shah, Aspen Reyes, Tarik Dickens, Julia A. King, and Marianna Maiaru
A new Stefan equation to characterize the evolution of thermokarst lake and talik geometry, Noriaki Ohara, Benjamin M. Jones, Andrew D. Parsekian, Kenneth M Hinkel, Katsu Yamatani, Mikhail Kanevskiy, Rodrigo C. Rangel, Amy L. Breen, and Helena Bergstedt
Conservation value of working landscapes in Mesoamerica for Nearctic-neotropical migratory birds, Samuel L. Oliveira
Winter Territoriality of the American Redstart in Oil Palm Plantations, Samuel L. Oliveira, David J. Flaspohler, and Jared D. Wolfe
Fidget Spinner Generator System for Mi-STAR Unit 7.1, Douglas Oppliger
Late-Stage Functionalization through Click Chemistry Provides GLUT5-Targeting Glycoconjugate as a Potential PET Imaging Probe, Adelina Oronova and Marina Tanasova
A Note on Gradient/Fractional One-Dimensional Elasticity and Viscoelasticity, Kostas Parisis, Vlasis Dimosthenis, Leonidas Kouris, Avraam Konstantinidis, and Elias C. Aifantis
An Algorithm for Task Allocation and Planning for a Heterogeneous Multi-Robot System to Minimize the Last Task Completion Time, Abhishek Patil, Jungyun Bae, and Myoungkuk Park
Molecular Modeling of High-performance Polymers, Sagar Umesh Patil
Investigation of Adhesion Performance of Wax Based Warm Mix Asphalt with Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Chao Peng, Hanneng Yang, Zhanping You, Hongchao Ma, Fang Xu, Lingyun You, Aboelkasim Diab, Li Lu, Yudong Hu, Yafeng Liu, Jing Dai, and Zhibo Li
Waste Plastic Direct Extrusion Hangprinter, Aliaksei Petsiuk, Bharath Lavu, Rachel Dick, and Joshua M. Pearce
Improving protein succinylation sites prediction using embeddings from protein language model, Suresh Pokharel, Pawel Pratyush, Michael Heinzinger, Robert H. Newman, and Dukka KC
Microgrid Energy Management during High-Stress Operation, Thomas Price, Gordon Parker, Gail Vaucher, Robert Jane, and Morris Berman
SEARCHING FOR ANOMALOUS EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS USING THE PIERRE AUGER OBSERVATORY FLUORESCENCE DETECTOR, Andrew Puyleart
A Review of Landcover Classification with Very-High Resolution Remotely Sensed Optical Images—Analysis Unit, Model Scalability and Transferability, Rongjun Qin and Tao Liu
A Review of Landcover Classification with Very-High Resolution Remotely Sensed Optical Images—Analysis Unit, Model Scalability and Transferability, Rongjun Qin and Tao Liu
Kraft Lignin with Improved Homogeneity Recovered Directly from Black Liquor and Its Application in Flexible Polyurethane Foams, Peng Quan, Alper Kiziltas, Akash Gondaliya, Mohsen Siahkamari, Mojgan Nejad, and Xinfeng Xie
SIMULATING GROUNDWATER POLLUTANT TRANSPORT FOR REMEDIATION DESIGN, ANTRIM COUNTY, MICHIGAN, Abilynn Raetz
Correlation of Phosphorus Adsorption with Chemical Properties of Aluminum-Based Drinking Water Treatment Residuals Collected from Various Parts of the United States, Roxana Rahmati, Virinder Sidhu, Rosita Nunez, Rupali Datta, and Dibyendu Sarkar
Multisector Dynamics: Advancing the Science of Complex Adaptive Human-Earth Systems, Patrick M. Reed, Antonia Hadjimichael, Richard H. Moss, Christa Brelsford, Casey D. Burleyson, Stuart Cohen, Ana Dyreson, David F. Gold, Rohini S. Gupta, Klaus Keller, Megan Konar, and Erwan Monier
MultiSector Dynamics: Scientific Challenges and a Research Vision for 2030, A Community of Practice Supported by the United States Department of Energy's Office of Science, Patrick M. Reed, Antonia Hadjimichael, Richard H. Moss, Erwan Monier, Sequoia Alba, Christa Brelsford, Ana Dyreson, and et. al.
Novel Stimuli-Responsive Pectin-PVP-Functionalized Clay Based Smart Hydrogels for Drug Delivery and Controlled Release Application, Shabnam Rehmat, Nayab Batool Rizvi, Saba Urooge Khan, Abdul Ghaffar, Atif Islam, Rafi Ullah Khan, Azra Mehmood, Hira Butt, and Muhammad Rizwan
Whole-Tree Harvest Effects on Macronutrients in an Oak-Dominated System after Seven Years, Robert Richard, Evan Kane, Dustin Bronson, and Randall Kolka
Harvesting Intensity and Aridity Are More Important Than Climate Change in Affecting Future Carbon Stocks of Douglas-Fir Forests, Alyssa J. Robinson, Camille E. Defrenne, W. Jean Roach, Caren C. Dymond, Brian J. Pickles, and Suzanne W. Simard
A GLOBAL SURVEY OF VOLCANIC SO2 EMISSIONS AND HEAT FLUX MEASURED FROM SPACE, Nelmary Rodríguez-Sepúlveda
CANCER AND QUIESCENCE: INVESTIGATING HOW THE DREAM COMPLEX AND RETINOBLASTOMA REGULATE THE CELL CYCLE, Lydia Rotman
Mechanobiology in the Comorbidities of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, Shaina P. Royer and Sangyoon J. Han
DEFINING THE ENDMEMBER SYSTEM OF US SOILS AND QUANTIFYING RELATIONSHIPS, AND A HYPERSPECTRAL APPROACH TO THE ALTERATION STRENGTH INDEX, Rachel Rulison
THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION ON OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF 2D MATERIALS AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYMER COMPOSITES AT MOLECULAR LEVEL, Geeta Sachdeva
Einstein-Roscoe regression for the slag viscosity prediction problem in steelmaking, Hiroto Saigo, Dukka KC, and Noritaka Saito
Remote sensing for energy resources: Introduction, K. S. Sajinkumar and Thomas Oommen
Gradient and pressure recovery of a self-expandable transcatheter aortic valve depends on ascending aorta size: In vitro study, Milad Samaee, Hoda Hatoum, Michael Biersmith, Breandan Yeats, Shelley C. Gooden, Vinod H. Thourani, Rebecca T. Hahn, Scott Lilly, Ajit Yoganathan, and Lakshmi Prasad Dasi
Graphene Oxide Functionalized Biosensor for Detection of Stress-Related Biomarkers, Erican Santiago, Shailu Shree Poudyal, Sung Y. Shin, and Hyeun Joong Yoon
Health Risk from Toxic Metals in Wild Rice Grown in Copper Mining-Impacted Sediments, Rohan Deep Sarkar, Zhiming Zhang, Manas Warke, and Rupali Datta