Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2014
Mirror in the Dark: Poems, Carolyn Rose Stice
World Wide Diversity of Phytophthora capsici, Dylan B. Storey
Tennessee Teachers' Support for the Curriculum Component of State Accountability Policies, Shannon Lee Strahan
Discovery of the Meanings, Expressions, and Practices Related to Malaria Care Among the Maasai, Cecily Weller Strang
Development of a Method for Incorporating Fault Codes in Prognostic Analysis, Eric Allen Strong
More Myself: Exploring Students' Perceptions of Self-Authorship Development, Benjamin B. Stubbs
Citizen Science: Framing the Public, Information Exchange, and Communication in Crowdsourced Science, Todd Ernest Suomela
Client Responses to Non-Compliant Audits: An Analysis of Clients Targeted by PCAOB Inspection, Quinn Thomas Swanquist
Families of Struggling Readers in the Accountability Era: A Collective Ethnographic Case Study of Literacy Engagement and Interaction in the Home and School, Sarah Lynn Swauger
Site Supervisor Self-disclosure: A Shared Experience, Jeffrey R. Sweeney
Evaluation of Traits Associated with Breeding for Improved Biomass and Ethanol Yield in Switchgrass, Virginia Roseanna Sykes
Measuring Academic Leadership Effectiveness of Hospitality and Tourism Academic Administrators: A Transformation Leadership Framework, James Edward Talbert III
Development of a Forward/Adjoint Hybrid Monte Carlo Absorbed Dose Calculational Method for Use in Radiation Therapy, Mat M. Tamimi
Synthesis and Characterization of Magnetic Nanowires Prepared by Chemical Vapor Deposition, Siwei Tang
Fatigue, Fracture, and Environmentally-Assisted Behavior of Advanced Engineering Materials, Zhi Tang
Quantum Tuning of Plasmons in Ultrathin Metal Films, Ao Teng
ASSESSING THE EFFECT OF SENSE OF COMMUNITY ON MILITARY VETERAN COMMUNITY REINTEGRATION DIFFICULTIES, Veliska Joy Thomas
Understanding Polymers in Thin Films to Improve Photovoltaic Properties and Surface Bound Polymerization, Lesley Danielle Thompson
Determination of Area of Fire Origin through Examination of Structural Failure and Deformation, Andrew Thomas Tinsley
Assessing Motives for Consensual Sex: Development of the Sexual Motives Questionnaire, Vanessa Tirone
Measuring Change in Psychotherapy Using the MMPI-2 and the Holt Measure of Primary Process Manifestation, Karen M. Toman
Reflections of Parents and Teachers on the Process of Daily Transitions Into Infant-Toddler Child Care, Linda Carol Traum
Development and Modeling of a Biosensor Platform using AlGaN/GaN HEMT Devices, Fahmida Shaheen Tulip
In Defense of the Direct Argument for Incompatibilism, Paul Roger Turner
The People Who Do ‘This’ in Common: Book Clubs as ‘Everyday Activists’, Julie E. Tyler
Exploring martian magmas: From the mantle to the regolith, Arya Sigrid Waltraud Udry
Planning for Communication through Rehearsal Imagined Interactions, Martijn Jos Van Kelegom
Communities of Abundance: Sociality, Sustainability, and the Solidarity Economies of Local Food-Related Business Networks in Knoxville, Tennessee, Tony Nathan VanWinkle
Developmental Trajectories of ADHD Symptoms to Adolescent Substance Use: What Influence Do Peer, Family and Neighborhood Factors Have?, Michael Lawrence Vitulano
Belief in the Efficacy of Psychotherapy (BEP): Psychometric Scale Development and Examination of Theoretical Correlates, Erin Gray Volpe
Self, Society, and Environment in the 21st Century: The Development and Assessment of an Ecological Identity Scale, Tobin N. Walton
Interactive Feature Selection and Visualization for Large Observational Data, Jingyuan Wang
Barrier Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks, Zhibo Wang
Do Clients Avoid ‘Contaminated’ Offices? The Economic Consequences of Low Quality Audits, Robert Lowell Whited
Deferred Tax Assets and Credit Risk, Scott David White
Integration and management of winter-annual cover crops and herbicides to control glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri S. Wats), Matthew Scott Wiggins
Nonlocal Polarization Interferometry and Entanglement Detection, Brian P. Williams
A Bayesian Approach to Broad-Area Nuclear and Radiological Search Operations, Samuel James Willmon
Peace Under Pressure: Portraits of Christian Leadership in College Basketball Coaches, Charles Henry Wilson Jr.
Unique Functions of the Ethylene Receptors in Seed Germination, Rebecca Lynn Wilson
Bidirectional Associations between Parenting Behavior and Child Callous-Unemotional Traits: Do Delinquent Peer Affiliations and/or Parental Psychopathology Moderate these Links?, Amber Rochelle Wimsatt
Graduate Teaching Assistants' Development of Expertise in Teaching First-Year Composition, Carolyn Anne Wisniewski
This Humbling River, Ryan Dean Woldruff
Associations of Total Activity Counts and Physical Activity Intensity Levels with the Metabolic Syndrome: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach, Dana Lizbeth Wolff
Testing Claims of Efficacy and Mechanism of Action for Emotion Focused Couples Therapy: A Dyadic Case Study Using Time-Series Design, Albert Jun-Wei Wong
Atomic and Molecular Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Above a Titanium Target, Alexander Charles Woods
Hospital Competitive Strategies and Performance Outcomes, Wei Wu
Temperature and Alloying Effects on the Mechanical Properties of Equiatomic FCC Solid Solution Alloys, Zhenggang Wu
Cascaded Inverters for Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Systems, Bailu Xiao
INVESTIGATION OF DEFORMATION AND FAILURE MECHANISMS IN NANOINDENTATION MECHANICS, Yuzhi Xia
High Density EMI Filter Design in High Power Three-Phase Motor Drive Systems, Jing Xue
Adaptive Control for Power System Voltage and Frequency Regulation, Yao Xu
Computer Simulations of Enzymes, Jianzhuang Yao
"Game Time is My Time. I Get to Define That:" Gender, Identity, and the National Football League's Female Fans, Traci Yates
Probing the size dependent chemical properties of metals in reduced dimension, Xiangshi Yin
Migrating towards Using Electric Vehicles in Fleets – Proposed Methods for Demand Estimation and Fleet Design, Taekwan Yoon
Modeling, Analysis, and Control of a Mobile Robot for In Vivo Fluoroscopy of Human Joints during Natural Movements, Matthew A. Young
Scalable Hardware Efficient Deep Spatio-Temporal Inference Networks, Steven Robert Young
IN-LINE MICROFLUIDIC PARTICLE PRECONCENTRATOR AND DETECTOR FOR CONTINUOUS FLOW MONITORING, Quan Yuan
3D Robotic Sensing of People: Human Perception, Representation and Activity Recognition, Hao Zhang
Frequency Monitoring Network (FNET) Data Center Development and Data Analysis, Ye Zhang
Deformation of a face-centered cubic FeCoCrMnNi high entropy alloy, Chao Zhu
Five Dimensions of Emerging Adulthood: A Comparison Between Students, Nonstudents, and College Graduates, Jennifer Renée Zorotovich
Dissertations from 2013
Plasmonics Resonance Enhanced Active Photothermal Effects in Aluminum Nanoenergetics for Propulsion Applications, Jacques Abboud
DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF MASS SPECTROMETRY-BASED PROTEOMICS TO GENERATE AND NAVIGATE THE PROTEOMES OF THE GENUS POPULUS, Paul Edward Abraham
Development and Integration of Informatic Tools for Qualitative and Quantitative Characterization of Proteomic Datasets Generated by Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Rachel Michelle Adams
Control of Solar Photovoltaic (PhV) Power Generation In Grid-connected and Islanded Microgrids, Sarina Adhikari
Factors That Affect the Ability of Novice Science Teachers to Teach for NOS Understanding, Bennett Alexander Adkinson
Multidimensional Compressible Framework for Modeling Biglobal Stability in Rocket Motors, Michel Henry Akiki
Insights Into the Beliefs and Practices of Preservice Elementary Mathematics Teacher Educators: A Naturalistic Inquiry, Linda Ann Arnold
An Investigation of Markov Random Fields for Bayesian Reconstruction of Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography, Lloyd Fredrick Arrowood
SPECIES DISCRIMINATION, SYSTEMATICS, AND ONTOGENY OF BLASTOIDEA, James William Atwood
Wood decomposition in a warmer world, Emily Elizabeth Austin
The Development of Lithium Tetraborate Compounds for Thermal Neutron Detection, John David Auxier II
Automobile Races and the Marketing of Places: A Geographic and Marketing Exploration of IndyCar Racing in the United States, Andrew James Baker
Semi-Implicit Direct Kinetics Methodology for Deterministic, Time-Dependent, Three-Dimensional, and Fine-Energy Neutron Transport Solutions, James Ernest Banfield
Analysis, Prototyping, and Design of an Ionization Profile Monitor for the Spallation Neutron Source Accumulator Ring, Dirk A. Bartkoski
Developing 16- and 18-Atom Ringed Macrocyclic Tetracarbene Complexes, Heather Marie Bass
Supportive Leadership, Employee Engagement and Occupational Safety: A Field Study, Lauren Elizabeth Baxter
The Impact of Motivations and Enduring Involvement in an Adventure Tourism Setting, Eric Beckman
The Bioarchaeology of Inka Resettlement Practices: Insight from Biological Distance Analysis, Jonathan Daniel Bethard
Toward Message Passing Failure Management, Wesley B. Bland
Nobel Women: Readers' Theater for Global Education, Dorothy Elizabeth Blanks
Early Identification and Improvement of Variables Related to Course Success, Carolyn Anne Blondin
Investigation of Asphalt Pavement Mixture Blending Utilizing Analytical Chemistry Techniques, Benjamin Frank Bowers
Chemical Vapor Deposition of Heteroepitaxial Boron Phosphide Thin Films, John Daniel Brasfield
Using the Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms-70 (CCAPS-70) and the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) to Predict Treatment Duration and Premature Termination, Marci Michelle Breedlove
The revolution before the Revolution? A Material Culture Approach to Consumerism at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, VA, Eleanor E. Breen
Mechanisms Contributing to the Emergence of Ranavirus in Ectothermic Vertebrate Communities, Roberto M. Brenes
Be a Man, Comrade! Construction of the ‘Socialist Male Personality’ in the GDR Youth Literature of the 1950s and 1960s., Joanna Broda-Schunck