In the Spring 2015 semester, several Ph.D. candidates successfully presented and defended their dissertations, including Liping Yang, Qinghan Liang, Francis Neville, and Lisa Walton. The Abstracts of these dissertations are below, and full texts are available for review in written form through the School of Computing and Information Science, and will soon be available for download at http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/.   “Theories read more Recent Ph.D. Dissertations Available