• Why Good Games Go Bad: Exploring Consumer Engagement in Video Game Communities 

  Hodgdon, Katharine Connor (2018-11-26)

  This dissertation examines consumer perceptions of the engagement practices of the AAA video game industry, consumer perceptions of engagement with the AAA video game industry, and consumer perceptions of engagement with ...

• An Analysis of Expertise in Agricultural Communications, Education, Extension, and Leadership Research 

  Costello, Lori Michelle (2018-11-16)

  Expertise is dynamic, domain specific, and characterized by an individual’s level of knowledge, experience, and problem-solving ability. Having expertise in the phenomenon of interest can be used as an indicator of an ...

• Improved Finite Element Modeling and Dynamic Analysis of Rotating Machinery and a Drillstring with Impact Dampers 

  Hu, Lingnan (2018-11-26)

  Accurate modeling and analysis approaches have long been important concerns for designers of rotating machinery. This work is focused on the improvement of high-fidelity finite element (FE) modeling approaches and software ...

• Full-State and Output Feedback Control of Uncertain Nonlinear Nonstandard Multiple-Time-Scale Systems 

  Saha, Dipanjan (2018-12-10)

  Nonlinear systems with dynamics evolving in distinct slow and fast time-scales are common in science and engineering. Geometric singular perturbation theory is a powerful tool for controller design for such systems over ...

• Transcriptomics Analysis Gene Expression and Effects of Acute Exposure to Experimental Temperatures and Salinities on the Survival of Southern Flounder (Paralichthys lethostigma) Premetamorphic Larvae Spawned by Parents Collected Along the Environmental Cline of the Texas Coast 

  Blandon, Ivonne Rodriguez (2018-12-10)

  Southern flounder (Paralichthys lethostigma) provides important commercial and recreational fisheries opportunities on the Texas coast. The economic impact of this fishery is negatively affected by recent declines in harvest ...

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