Influence of Platinum Nanoparticles on Ionic Transport and Hydrogen Reactivity of Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Thin Films, Firas Mahyob
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Horizon Content Knowledge and its Integration into Physics Education Research: Case Study Analysis on Physical Science and Physics Teachers, Trevor A. Robertson
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Directional Tensile Strength of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polylactic Acid in Extrusion Based Additive Manufacturing for Custom Failure Parts, Lucinda Slattery
Honors College

Thermal Stability of Platinum-Silicon Alloy Films Grown on Langasite Substrates for use in Microwave Acoustic Sensor Technology, Kell Fremouw
Honors College

Measurement of Airborne Radionuclides and Their Relation to Weather Patterns at Orono, ME, James W. Deaton
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Remotely Sensed Assessment of the Preferred Habitat of Alexandrium catenella in the Gulf of Maine and the Bay of Fundy, Andre F. Bucci
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Design, Construction, and Investigation of a Small Polarimeter, Kelvy Zucca
Honors College

Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Classify and Identify Galaxy Merger Events in the Candels Field, Alex Koch
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

An Investigation of Students' Use and Understanding of Evaluation Strategies, Abolaji R. Akinyemi
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Hydrodynamic Impacts of Expanding Aquaculture, Zhilong Liu
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Toward Improving Understanding of the Structure and Biophysics of Glycosaminoglycans, Elizabeth K. Whitmore
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Nonlinear elastic behavior of nanostructured 2D materials of arbitrary symmetries, Serge R. Maalouf
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Live Cell Super-resolution Microscopy Quanitifies an Interaction Between Influenza Hemagglutinin and Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate, Jaqulin N. Wallace
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Biophysical and stable isotopic profiles of the salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Krøyer, 1837), Emma Taccardi
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Understanding the Magnetic Properties of II-VI Semiconductor Nanocrystals, Alex Khammang
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Phytoplankton Community Composition in the Surface Ocean: Methods for Detection using Optical Measurements, Pigment Concentrations, and Flow Cytometry, Alison P. Chase
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Quantification of Interactions between Influenza Hemagglutinin and Host Cell Phosphoinositides by Super-Resolution Microscopy, Matthew T. Parent
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Investigating the Stability of Observed Low Semi-major Axis Exoplanetary Systems With Hypothetical Outer Planets Using The Program Mercury6, Kendall Butler
Honors College

Applying Cluster Analysis to Student Responses from Energy Surveys for Identification of Commonalities in their Understanding, Arianna Giguere
Honors College

UAV 6DOF Simulation and Kalman Filter for Localizing Radioactive Sources, John G. Goulet
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Design and Construction of a Computer Controlled Astronomical Spectropolarimeter, Jacob Marchio
Honors College

A Numerical Survey of Multi-Planet Systems’ Inclination Excitation and Survival Under the Influence of an Oblate, Tilted Star, Kathleen M T Schultz
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

PHY 502 - Shared Sheet, Jim McClymer
Teaching, Learning & Research Documents

Brownstein (Kenneth Robert) Papers, 1967-2001, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
Finding Aids

Investigating Ions’ Effects on the Fluorescent Protein Dendra2, Benjamin Waterman
Honors College

Using Question Variations to Access Alternate Student Thinking About the Same Physical Situations, Jeffrey Mathis Hawkins
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

450degree C Aln Thin Film Growth on Nitrided C-Plane Sapphire Substrates, Roger Eastman Feeley
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

New Methodologies for Examining and Supporting Student Reasoning in Physics, John C. Speirs
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Application of Silicon Nanohair Textured p-n Junctions in a Photovoltaic Device, Michael Small
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Three-Dimensional Bedrock Channel Evolution with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, Nick Richmond
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Echoes of the Past: The Effect of Background Experience on Far Transfer, Graham H. Hummel-Hall
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Antineutrino-Induced Charge Current Quasi-Elastic Neutral Hyperon Cross-Section on Argon In Argoneut, Samuel M. Borer
Honors College

Surface Reaction and Diffusion Kinetics in Semiconducting Metal Oxide Film Gas Sensors, Aravind Reghu
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Microwave Acoustic SAW Resonators for Stable High-temperature Harsh-Environment Static and Dynamic Strain Sensing Applications, Anin K. Maskay
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Investigating Student Understanding of Vector Calculus in Upper-Division Electricity and Magnetism: Construction and Determination of Differential Element in Non-Cartesian Coordinate Systems, Benjamin Schermerhorn
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Probing the Nature of Student Reasoning Using Modified Chaining Tasks, Ryan Moyer
Honors College

Transformation of Nonlinear Waves in the Presence of Wind, Current, and Vegetation, Haifei Chen
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Using Hydroacoustics to Investigate Biological Responses in Fish Abundance to Restoration Efforts in the Penobscot River, Maine, Constantin C. Scherelis
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Detection and Analysis of Uncharged Particles Utilizing Consumer-Grade CCDs, John A. Cummings III
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Integrated Environment and Proximity Sensing for UAV Applications, Shawn S. Brackett
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Basic Vision Research with Clinical Applications and Science Education Assessments, Andrew Wilson
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

An Analysis of Middle School Physical Science Teachers' Understanding of Accelerated Motion, Elijah Tabachnick
Honors College

Ode to Applied Physics: The Intellectual Pathway of Differential Equations in Mathematics and Physics Courses: Existing Curriculum and Effective Instructional Strategies, Brandon L. Clark
Honors College

Examining Student Reasoning in Introductory Physics: Reversing the Chain, William S. Johnson
Honors College

Wavelet-based Particle Tracking in Unreconstructed, Off-axis Holograms, Zachary R. Connerty-Marin
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Investigating Student Learning of Analog Electronics, Kevin L. Van De Bogart
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Examining Student Ability to Follow and Interact with Qualitative Inferential Reasoning Chains, William N. Ferm Jr.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A Study in Cross-Beam Polarization Fluorescence Photoactivation Localization Microscopy on Dendra2-Hemagluttinin in Fixed NIH3T3 Cells, Matthew M. Valles
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Investigating High Speed Localization Microscopy Through Experimental Methods, Data Processing Methods, and Applications of Localization Microscopy to Biological Questions, Andrew J. Nelson
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Microstructural Analysis of Thermoelastic Response, Nonlinear Creep, and Pervasive Cracking in Heterogeneous Materials, Alden C. Cook
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Synthesis, Structure, and Thermal Stability of Electrically Conductive Co-Evaporated Pt(1-x)Si(x) Thin Films, Robert T. Fryer PhD
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Zirconium Diboride, Hexagonal Boron Nitride, and Amorphous Alumina Thin Films for High Temperature Applications, David Murdock Stewart
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Roles of Siphon Flows in Suspension Feeding, Kevin Du Clos
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Application of Parallel Computing to Optimize Studies of Critical Exponents in the One-Dimensional Sznajd Model, Joseph Garcia
Honors College

Stochastic Modeling of US Equity Returns, Mitchell Benoit
Honors College

Lacustrine Geochronology: Radioisotope Analysis of Maine and Patagonian Cores, Irene Sain Cappa
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Analytical derivation: An epistemic game for solving mathematically based physics problems, Rabindra R. Bajracharya, John R. Thompson
Physics and Astronomy Faculty Scholarship

Spectral Measurements and Super Resolution Imaging of Single Molecules for Fluoresence Photoactivation Localization Microscopy, Michael J. Mlodzianoski
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Identifying Student Difficulties with Heat Engines, Entropy, and the Carnot Cycle, Trevor I. Smith, Warren M. Christensen, Donald B. Mountcastle, John R. Thompson
Physics and Astronomy Faculty Scholarship

Student Understanding of the Boltzmann Factor, Trevor I. Smith, Donald B. Mountcastle, John R. Thompson
Physics and Astronomy Faculty Scholarship

Interplay of Magnetism and Superconductivity in Graphitic Nanostructures, Yao An
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Photophysical Properties of Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins, Eric Breitbach
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Topographic Signatures of Geodynamics, Samuel G. Roy
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Propagation Rate Study of NIH-3T3 Fibroblasts After Exposure to Neutron Radiation, Bryn Joy Nugent
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Development of a Predictive Model for Newtonian Fluid Flow in Porous Polymer Matrices Using Darcy's Law, Matthew Scott Newsom
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

MRI: Acquisition of a SQUID Magnetometer for Analysis of Advanced Materials, Robert W. Meulenberg, Robert J. Lad, David J. Frankel, Michael D. Mason, Samuel T. Hess
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

N-Body Simulations of Supercluster Dynamics to Test the Viability of Large Scale Structure as a Probe of Dark Energy and Dark Matter, David William Pearson
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Student Application of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus with Graphical Representations in Mathematics and Physics, Rabindra R. Bajracharya
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Dynamical Analysis of Three Candidate Bound Superclusters of Galaxies, Merida Geraldeane Batiste
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Identifying Productive Resources in Secondary School Students' Discourse About Energy, Benedikt Walter Harrer
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

NA2752 James Fastook, interviewed by Adam Lee Cilli, James L. Fastook
MF192 Climate Change Institute 40th Anniversary Oral History Project

A Lateral Field Excited Thin Film Bulk Acoustic Wave Sensor, Michael R. FitzGerald
Honors College

The Effects of Dopants on the Modification of the Conduction Band States of Cadmium Selenide Nanocrystals, Joshua Thomas Wright
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Bleed-Through Correction Analysis for Localization Microscopy, Dahan Kim
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Neutron Scattering Studies of Structure, Hydrothermal Stability and Transport in Porous Silica Catalyst Supports, Rachel A. Pollock
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Diffusion Coefficients Calculated Using 137Cs Profiles Applied to 210Pb Dating in Lake Core Sediments, Douglas Louis Cahl
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Cellulose Model Surfaces Studied by Femtosecond Sum Frequency Spectroscopy, Lei Li
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Characterization of Silica Supported Cobalt Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts by X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy, Benjamin Goundie
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Environmental Radiation Measurements of Near-Surface Air in Orono, ME 04469, Anna Jeanne Schliep
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Exact Results in Model Statistical Systems, Peter H. Kleban
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

Development of Instrumentation for Sum Frequency Spectral Imaging Combined with Confocal Fluorescence Imaging and Additional Topics, Edward S. Allgeyer
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Extended Methods in Fluorescence Photoactivation Localization Microscopy and Estimating Activation Yields of Photoactivatable Proteins, Mudalige Siyath Gunewardene
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

An Acoustical Approach to the Study of Marine Particle Dynamics Near the Bottom Boundary Layer, Clementina R. Russo
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Photonic Non-destructive Measurement Methods for Investigating the Evolution of Polar Firn and Ice, Daniel James Breton
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Electronic Transport Properties of Ruthenium and Ruthenium Dioxide Thin Films, Michael M. Steeves
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Identifying and Addressing Specific Student Difficulties in Advanced Thermal Physics, Trevor I. Smith
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A Novel Concept for Measuring Seawater Inherent Optical Properties in and Out of the Water, Alina Gainusa Bogdan
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Higher-Order Physic for Modeling Ice Streams in Ice Sheets, Debra A. Kenneway
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

2-D and 3-D Multi-scale Morphological Analysis of SDSS DR5 Survey Using the Metric Space Technique, Yongfeng Wu
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Applying Cluster Analysis to Physics Education Research Data, R. Padraic Springuel
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Applications of Network Theory to Frustrated Spin Systems and Transitions in Models of Disease Spread, Thomas E. Stone
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Multiple Perspectives on Student Solution Methods for Air Resistance Problems, Katrina E. Black
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Ultrasonic Characterization of Single Crystal Langatate, Blake T. Sturtevant
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Nanoscale Imaging and Spectroscopy of Membrane Organization, Travis John Gould
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Collaborative Research: Research on the Learning and Teaching of Thermal Physics, John R. Thompson
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

Lithogenic, Marine and Anthropogenic Aerosols in an Ice Core from the Saint Elias Mountains, Yukon, Canada: Lead-Aerosol Provenance and Seasonal Variability, Benjamin Gross
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Student Understanding of P-V Diagrams and the Associated Mathematics, Evan B. Pollock
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

On The Stochastic Behavior of Brownian Particles in Potential Wells, as Observed with Optical Traps, Ross Paul Brody
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Exact Results in Model Statistical Systems, Peter H. Kleban
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

Quantitative Shape Analysis of Giant Unilamellar Vesicles as a Function of Cholesterol Content, Michael Mlodzianoski
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Synthesis and Characterization of Zr1-xSixN Thin Film Materials, Xuefei Zhang
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Plasticity: Resource Justification and Development, Eleanor C. Sayre
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A Micro Fabricated Gas-FE Sensor Using SMO Films, Guixiong Zhong
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Investigating Student Understanding of Sound as a Longitudinal Wave, Earl C. Coombs
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

SiAlON Thin Films for High Temperature Applications, John I. Krassikoff
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Applications of Conformal Field Theory to Problems in 2D Percolation, Jacob Joseph Harris Simmons
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

New Statistical Methods to Get the Fractal Dimension of Bright Galaxies Distribution from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data, Yongfeng Wu
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

UV/Ozone Cleaning Studies of AFM Force Sensor Tips, Nicoleta D. Mihai
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Investigating how Students Think About and Learn Quantum Physics: An Example from Tunneling, Jeffrey Todd Morgan
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Radon in Ground Water: A Study of the Measurement and Release of Waterborne Radon and Modeling of Radon Variation in Bedrock Wells, Vincente E. Guiseppe
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Activity-based Tutorials. Volume 2: Modern Physics, Michael J. Wittmann, Richard N. Steinberg, Edward F. Redish
Faculty and Staff Monograph Publications

An Investigation of the Two-Dimensional Ising Spin Glass Using Information Theoretic Measures, Debra A. Kenneway
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Pressure Distribution and Transfer in Rolling Nips, Suresh K. Devisetti
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Activity-based Tutorials. Volume I: Introductory Physics, Michael J. Wittmann, Richard N. Steinberg, Edward F. Redish
Faculty and Staff Monograph Publications

Computer Simulations of Partially Confined Water, Subramanian Vaitheeswaran
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Statistical Mechanics of Farey Fraction Spin Chain Models, Jan Fiala
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Measuring and Modeling Exposure from Environmental Radiation on Tidal Flats, Travis J. Gould
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Discovering the Essential Universe, Neil F. Comins
Faculty and Staff Monograph Publications

Development of a Fourier Transform-Based Time-of-Flight Electron Spectrometer with Ultra-High Resolution, Brian Frederick, Peter H. Kleban
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

Performance Advantages of Maximum Likelihood Methods in PRBS-Modulated Time-of-flight Energy Loss Spectroscopy, Zhongyu Yang
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

An Information Theoretic Study of the Ising Antiferromagnet with Quenched Dilution on a Triangular Lattice, Matthew D. Robinson
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Renormalization-group Studies of Three Model Systems Far from Equilibrium, Ivan T. Georgiev
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Extracting Movement Patterns Using Fuzzy and Neuro-fuzzy Approaches, Haci Mustafa Palancioglu
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Crevassing and Calving of Glacial Ice, James Patrick Kenneally
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Discovering the Universe, Neil F. Comins, William J. Kaufmann III
Faculty and Staff Monograph Publications

Use of an Epitaxial BaF2 Buffer Layer on Silicon to Control W03 Thin Film Growth, Luke D. Doucette
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A Study of Radon in Air and Water in Maine Schools, Mary Jo Norris
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Optical Studies of Layered Inorganic Solids: A Novel Phase Transition and Energy Transfer Studies., Christie L. Larochelle
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Deformation Studies of Tungsten-Gold Contacts at the Nanometer Scale., Steven A. Smallwood
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Heavenly Errors: Misconceptions About the Real Nature of the Universe, Neil F. Comins
Faculty and Staff Monograph Publications

Discovering the Essential Universe, Neil F. Comins
Faculty and Staff Monograph Publications

POWRE: Driven Nonequilibrium Systems with Quenched Disorder: A Renormalization-Group Study, Susan R. McKay
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

A Determination of the Modulus of Elasticity for Small Loads, Charles P. Weston
Physics and Astronomy Faculty Scholarship

The Effect of Magnetization upon the Elasticity of Rods, J. S. Stevens, H. G. Dorsey
Physics and Astronomy Faculty Scholarship

Some Experiments in Molecular Contact, James S. Stevens
Physics and Astronomy Faculty Scholarship

An Application of Interference mMthods to a Study of the Changes Produced in Metals by Magnetization, J. S. Stevens
Physics and Astronomy Faculty Scholarship