PhD candidates: You are welcome and encouraged to deposit your dissertation here, but be aware that
1) it is optional, not required (the ProQuest deposit is required); and
2) it will be available to everyone online; there is no embargo for dissertations in the UNL Digital Commons.

Master's candidates: Deposit of your thesis or project is required. (If an embargo [restricted access] is necessary, you may deposit it at http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/embargotheses/ only after getting approval from your department and the Graduate Office; contact Terri Eastin).

TO DEPOSIT YOUR DISSERTATION OR THESIS

1. Create or log in to your Digital Commons account
To create an account: click on My Account at http://digitalcommons.unl.edu then Sign up.
Fill in your names, email address, create a password, and click on Create Account.
Reply to the confirming email from the system, if you get one (check your spam folder).
Your email address will not be published or shared.

2. Find the right series to deposit in
Go to the correct series in the UNL Digital Commons [series links are in the file linked here].
On the correct series page, click the Submit your paper or article link at the bottom of the gray box at left.

3. Instructions for deposit
You should be able to copy (Ctrl-C) and paste (Ctrl-V) most fields.
TITLE: Fill it in using title case (that is, capitals for the first letter of all words except articles and prepositions).
AUTHOR: In each respective box, enter your names (and/or initials) as they appear on the title page of your dissertation or thesis. You are the sole author; your advisor is not considered a co-author. Institution is University of Nebraska-Lincoln (not "at Lincoln" or ", Lincoln"). Do not leave this field blank.
FIRST ADVISOR: Enter your advisor’s name. Add a second and third, if needed (advisors only, not committee members).
DATE OF THIS VERSION: Month and Year only.
CITATION: Copy and paste the rest of whatever appears on the title page of your work. It usually starts with something like “A THESIS Presented to the Faculty …” and ends with “Lincoln, Nebraska [month] [year].”
ABSTRACT: Just include the body of the abstract, not the title or your name, but DO add your advisor’s name at the end of the abstract after the word Advisor and a colon, like this: Advisor: ….
Skip the ORCID IDs, Keywords, Disciplines, and Comments fields, and DO NOT check a bubble for the Publication Status field.
Click UPLOAD FILE FROM YOUR COMPUTER. Select the file of your work from your device (should be in Portable Document Format, PDF).
Click the SUBMIT button at the bottom.

YOU DID IT; your work is submitted!

CONGRATULATIONS on reaching this amazing milestone in your academic career!

4. After your initial deposit
Upon deposit, you will receive an email that your submission has been received; you need to show the Graduate Office this message.

Before we complete your upload, we usually wait a day or two to give you an opportunity to correct those oops issues that seem to emerge just after deposit. Before it’s been posted, you can still log back in and select Revise and upload a new version so you can upload a version with your advisor's name spelled right or whatever else needs to be fixed.

It is important that you DO NOT resubmit another file after it’s been posted online. This causes lots of problems.

But have no fear: If further changes are needed after it’s been posted, you can send a revised file to the series administrator (Sue Gardner) requesting to replace it.

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2023

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Enhancing Urban Water Quality through Biological-Chemical Treatment: Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Community and Temporal Chlorophyll-a Response, Matthew Chaffee

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Modeling Overdraft-Driven Nitrate Transport in Shallow Wells for Mitigation and Scenario Planning, Jonathan Cronk

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Renovating the iPMU via Internet of Things for Pollutant Emission Estimations in Poultry Facilities, Joshua Dotto

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Spectroscopic Sensor Data Fusion to Improve the Prediction of Soil Nutrient Contents, Bidhan Ghimire

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A Robotic System for In-Situ Measurement of Soil Total Carbon and Nitrogen, Husein Harun

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Plant Height Estimation Using RTK-GNSS Enabled Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Photogrammetry, Pascal Izere

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Metabolic Network Modeling to Unravel the Impact of Copper Deficiency and High-fat Diet on Liver Metabolism, Naeun Lee

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Engineering of Microparticle Encapsulated Antioxidant to Mitigate Oxidative Stress in vitro and in vivo, Kayla Ney

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Characterizing Feedlot Feed using Depth Cameras and Imaging Technology, Jean Niwenshuti

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Assessment of Integrated Nutrient Management Practices on Soil Health and Nitrogen Efficiency in Cropping Systems, María José Oviedo Ventura

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Responses of Maize to Different Irrigation Regimes in Semi-arid Western Nebraska, Swathi Palle

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Characterization of Physical and Biochemical Traits in Wheat and Corn Plants Using High Throughput Image Analysis, Kantilata Thapa

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AGEN/BSEN 112 Final project: Moving and Temperament of Cattle, Elly Vo, Taetum Baxa, Ved Patel, Brady Giles, Tami M. Brown-Brandl, and Rossana Villa-Rojas

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Development of a Machine Learning System for Irrigation Decision Support with Disparate Data Streams, Eric Wilkening

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Estimating Crop Stomatal Conductance Through High-Throughput Plant Phenotyping, Junxiao Zhang

2022

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Cybersecurity of Agricultural Machinery: Exploring Cybersecurity Risks and Solutions for Secure Agricultural Machines, Mark Freyhof

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Optimization of a Novel Barnes Maze Protocol for Assessing Antioxidant Treatment Of Traumatic Brain Injury, Connor C. Gee

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Studies on Air Injection in a Wastewater-Fed Subsurface Drip Irrigation System, Henry A. Gonzalez Hernandez

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Development of a Decellularized Hydrogel Composite and its Application in a Novel Model of Disc-associated Low Back Pain in Female Sprague Dawley Rats, David Lillyman

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EFFECT OF INJURY MECHANISM AND SEVERITY ON THE MOLECULAR PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY, Brandon McDonald

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Assessment of Manure Treatment Technology Adoption and Feedlot Runoff Monitoring Opportunities, Juan Carlos Ramos Tanchez

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Semantic Segmentation based deep learning approaches for weed detection, Puranjit Singh

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Inactivation of Salmonella in Black Peppercorn by Fluidization with Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor, Edel Summers

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Pesticide Application Management Toolset for Worker Protection Standards, Nathan W. Thorson

2021

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Efficient Polyhydroxyalkanoate Production by Rhodopseudomonas palustris from Lignocellulosic Biomass, Brandi Brown

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Development of an Internet of Things (IoT) Enabled Novel Wireless Multi Sensor Network for Infield Crop Monitoring, Nipuna Chamara

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Tractor Instrumentation System: Hitch and PTO, and Row Crop Tractor Electrification Considerations, Andrew Donesky

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PRECLINICAL DEVELOPMENT OF SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE-BASED OPTICAL BIOSENSORS, Eric M. Hofferber

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High-Frequency Unmanned Aircraft Flights For Crop Canopy Imaging During Diurnal Moisture Stress, Suresh Pradhyun Kashyap

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Development of Tractor Instrumentation System: Hydraulics, and Controller Area Network (CAN) Data Analysis of Agricultural Machinery, Chee Town Liew

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Assessment of the Effects of Airflow Conditions Related to Hop Drying, David Mabie

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LEVERAGING UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM REMOTE SENSING TO INFORM ENERGY AND WATER BALANCE MODELS FOR SPATIAL SOIL WATER CONTENT MONITORING AND IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT, Mitchell S. Maguire

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Evaluation of a Novel Approach for Assessing Biological Activity in Agricultural Soils, Karla Melgar

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Development and Characterization of a Decellularized Neuroinhibitory Scaffold Containing Matrix Bound Nanovesicles, Logan Piening

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CONTROL SYSTEM FOR VARIABLE-ORIFICE MECHATRONIC SPRAY NOZZLE FOR REGULATION OF APPLICATION RATE AND DROPLET SIZE SPECTRA, Rodney Rohrer

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Design and Evaluation of Unmanned Aerial System-Based Wireless Sensor Network for Irrigation Management, Jasreman Singh

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Sensor-Based Nitrogen Management on Non-Irrigated Corn Based Systems in Nebraska, Samantha L. Teten

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Evaluating evapotranspiration values in Rwanda using the FAO-56 PM, Turc, and Hargreaves-Samani equations, Elizabeth Uwase

2020

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Water-Energy-Food Linkages in Shared Smallholder Irrigation Schemes, Ankit Chandra

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IMPROVING MICROBIOLOGICAL SAFETY OF LOW MOISTURE FOOD PRODUCTS USING RADIO FREQUENCY AND ETHYLENE OXIDE, Long Chen

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Quantification of Nitric Oxide via Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, Jakob Meier

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On-farm Research and Student Engagement to Assess and Promote the Use of Organic Amendments to Improve Agricultural Soil Health and Resilience of Crop Production Systems in Nebraska, Agustin Jose Olivo

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Using Infrared Radiometry Thermometer for Irrigation Management of Dry Edible Beans in Western Nebraska, Isabella Presotto Possignolo

2019

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In Vivo Human-Like Robotic Phenotyping of Leaf and Stem Traits in Maize and Sorghum in Greenhouse, Abbas Atefi

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Predictive Modeling of Fate and Transport of Three Prevalent Contaminants in Midwest Agroecosystem Surface Waters: Nitrate-N, Atrazine, and Escherichia coli, Samuel Hansen

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Uumanned Aerial Vehicle Data Analysis For High-throughput Plant Phenotyping, Jiating Li

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Adding Value to Lignocellulosic Biorefinery: Efficient Process Development of Lignocellulosic Biomass Conversion into Polyhydroxybutyrate, Mengxing Li

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Field Obstacle Identification for Autonomous Tractor Applications, Caleb Lindhorst

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Tailoring Cell-Material Interactions via Poly(acrylic acid) Brushes to Enhance Nonviral Substrate-Mediated Gene Delivery, Amy Mantz

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Flex-Ro: A Robotic High Throughput Field Phenotyping System, Joshua N. Murman

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Enhancing Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Deposition For The Study Of Extracellular Analytes, Joseph A. Stapleton

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Predicting Agricultural Implement Hydraulic Power Demand Using Synchronized Controller Area Network and Ancillary Sensor Data, Gabriel P. Stoll

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Mid to Late Season Weed Detection in Soybean Production Fields Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and Machine Learning, Arun Narenthiran Veeranampalayam Sivakumar

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Design, Development, and Field Testing a VisNIR Integrated Multi-Sensing Soil Penetrometer, Nuwan K. Wijewardane

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A Multi-Sensor Phenotyping System: Applications on Wheat Height Estimation and Soybean Trait Early Prediction, Wenan Yuan

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Persistence and Mitigation of Antibiotic Resistance in Manure and Manure-Amended Soils, Mara J. Zelt

2018

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DEVELOPING AN INTEGRATED MODEL FOR THE CORN, ETHANOL, AND BEEF SYSTEMS USING A LOOSELY COUPLED WEB FRAMEWORK, Ryan Anderson

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Variable Rate Irrigation Using a Spatial Evapotranspiration Model With Remote Sensing Imagery and Soil Water Content Measurements, Sandeep Bhatti

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An Evaluation of Unmanned Aerial System Multispectral and Thermal Infrared Data as Information for Agricultural Crop and Irrigation Management, Mitch Maguire

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Developing Serious Games in Engineering Education: Innovation at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems, Nathan Rice

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SOIL HEALTH EFFECTS AND STAKEHOLDER PERCEPTIONS OF MANURE AND WOODY BIOMASS APPLICATION TO CROPLAND IN NEBRASKA, Linda R. Schott

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DEVELOPMENT OF A SPRAYER PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSTIC TOOL USING IMPROVED MAPPING AND ERROR QUANTIFICATION PRACTICES, Aaron Shearer

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Application of a Multi-Hybrid Planter for Geospatial Assessment of Zone-Based Corn Hybrid and Soybean Seed Treatment Performance for Optimized Crop Production, Rachel Stevens

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Generation of 360 Degree Point Cloud for Characterization of Morphological and Chemical Properties of Maize and Sorghum, Suresh Thapa

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Assessing the Relationship Between Groundwater Nitrate Concentrations and Environmental Variables Through Repeat Sampling and Statistical Machine Learning: Dutch Flats, Nebraska, Martin Wells

2017

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Techno-economic Implications of Fed-batch Enzymatic Hydrolysis, Ellen Emanuel

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Development of Cardiac Atrial Kick Shear Wave Elastography to Assess Myocardial Stiffness, Aaron J. Engel

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Cultivation of Chlorella Sorokiniana Using Beef Feedlot Runoff Holding Pond Effluent, Mitchell Klaus Goedeken

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Thermodynamic Limitations to Agricultural Productivity and Food Security: Livestock in Sub-Saharan Africa, Calvin Harman

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High Throughput Phenotyping of Sorghum for the Study of Growth Rate, Water Use Efficiency, and Chemical Composition, Piyush Pandey

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High throughput in vivo analysis of plant leaf chemical properties using hyperspectral imaging, Piyush Pandey, Yufeng Ge, Vincent Stoerger, and James C. Schnable

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Investigation of Petroleum Use in Off-road Agricultural Machinery and Analysis of J1939 Controller Area Network (CAN) Data for Advanced Machinery Testing, Rodney Rohrer

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USE OF LONG TERM WEATHER DATA AND SPATIALLY DELINEATED FIELD ATTRIBUTES TO PREDICT WATER AND ENERGY CONSERVATION FROM VARIABLE RATE IRRIGATION, Sahil Sharma

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Event and Time-Triggered Control Module Layers for Individual Robot Control Architectures of Unmanned Agricultural Ground Vehicles, Tyler Troyer

2016

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Deployment and Evaluation of an Active RFID Tracking System for Precision Animal Management, Brian Barnes

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Laboratory and Full Boom-Based Investigation of Nozzle Setup and Restriction Effects on Flow, Pressure and Spray Pattern Distribution, Shane H. Forney

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AN EVALUATION OF AGRICULTURAL TRACTORS HYDRAULIC LIFT PERFORMANCE, Grant Melotz

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Development and Assessment of a Groundwater Sustainability Index in Climatically Diverse Groundwater Irrigated Regions in Nebraska, Maria A. Mulet Jalil

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Agroecosystem and Ecosystem Resiliency to Extreme Hydrometeorological and Climate Events, Katherine M. Werner

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Using a VNIR Spectral Library to Model Soil Carbon and Total Nitrogen Content, Nuwan K. Wijewardane

2015

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MODELING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF HAND LOADS TO CERVICAL SPINE COMPRESSIVE FORCES, Mohamed R.S. Amar

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Quantification of Variable Rate Irrigation Benefits and Spatial Variability in Root Zone Water Holding Capacity, Tsz Him Lo

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HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING OF PRIMING CANDIDATES FOR IMPACT ON NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY, Albert L. Nguyen

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The Effect of Manure Application Method on Nutrient and Microbial Runoff Transport and Soil Biological Health Indicators, Nicole R. Schuster