Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2013
Personality Traits and Motivations for Usage of Online Social Network Sites Among College Freshmen, Jason Paul Rieger
Poesía e historicidad en Ernesto Cardenal y Roberto Fernández Retamar, Alberto David Rivera Vaca
Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Lube Oil Performance and Engine Friction, William Fredrick Rohr
Online Multi-Stage Deep Architectures for Feature Extraction and Object Recognition, Derek Christopher Rose
An Investigation of Energy Migration in Rare Earth Oxyorthosilicate Scintillation Materials, Harold Edward Rothfuss
Innovation Outside Firm Boundaries: A Real Options Perspective on Appropriability, Commercialization Strategies and Firm Performance, Mary Beth Rousseau
Religion’s Influence on Environmental Concern: U.S. Evangelicals’ Construction of Climate Change Perceptions, Aaron S. Routhe
How Left a Turn? Legacies of the Neoliberal State in Latin America, Aaron Thomas Rowland
Scale-dependent heterogeneity in fracture data sets and grayscale images, Ankur Roy
Novel bimetallic plasmonic nanomaterials, Ritesh Sachan
Quantitative Techniques for PET/CT: A Clinical Assessment of the Impact of PSF and TOF, Joshua Donald Schaefferkoetter
The Post-human Gamer: Reflections on Fieldwork in World of Warcraft, Joshua Stephen Schendel
Chromatin Insulators: Master Regulators of the Eukaryotic Genome, Todd Andrew Schoborg
Essays on Forward Trading, Environmental Quality and Investor Behavior, and the WTA-WTP Disparity, Jens Schubert
Friendly Fire: Amicus Curiae Participation and Impact at the Roberts Court, David Hooper Scott
Essentially Analytical Theory Closure for Space Filtered Thermal-Incompressible Navier-Stokes Partial Differential Equation System on Bounded Domains, Mikhail Alexandrovich Sekachev
Gender and Party Stereotypes in the Evaluation of U.S. Senate Candidates, Rebecca Madelyn Shafer
Functional Analysis of Corazonin and Its Receptor in Drosophila melanogaster, Kai Sha
VALIDATING APPROACHES FOR STUDYING MICROBIAL DIVERSITY TO CHARACTERIZE COMMUNITIES FROM ROOTS OF Populus deltoides, Migun Shakya
Virtual Reality Aided Mobile C-arm Positioning for Image-Guided Surgery, Zhenzhou Shao
Syntheses, Characterization and Reactions of Early Transition Metal Guanidinate and Imide Compounds, Bhavna Sharma
Fundamental Studies of Single Crystal Alpha Alumina Microstructures Produced by Irradiation with Zirconium Ions, Younes Sina
The Relationship of Personality to Entrepreneurial Performance: An Examination of Openness to Experience Facets, Adam R. Smith
Experimental and Statistical Techniques to Probe Extraordinary Electronic Properties of Molecules, Byron Hager Smith
Using Mobile Technology to Improve Autonomy in Students with Intellectual Disabilities in Postsecondary Education Programs, Catherine Caudle Smith
Who's Got What It Takes? The Training Background of NCAA Division I Baseball Players, LeQuez Tymarkee Spearman
To the Indian Removal Act, 1814-1830, Kyle Massey Stephens
I Know I Can Learn: The Experiences of NCAA Division I – FBS Student-Athletes with Learning Disabilities and/or ADHD in Higher Education, Sarah Elizabeth Stokowski
Sociobiophysicality, Cold War, and Critical Theory: Human-Ecological Transformation and Contemporary Ecological Subjectivity, Alexander Stoner
Ant Community Dynamics and the Effects of Global Warming, Katharine Lisa Stuble
Multiscale Modeling of Toxoplasma gondii, Adam Michael Sullivan
Adsorption and Diffusion of Gases in Nano-Porous Materials, Nethika Sahani Suraweera
"It's a Little Scar": A Phenomenological Study of Nurses' Responses Following Direct Involvement in a Nursing Error, Shelia H. Swift
Nature and Degree of Aqueous Alteration of Outer Main Belt Asteroids and CM and CI Carbonaceous Chondrites, Driss Takir
Characterization Techniques and Electrolyte Separator Performance Investigation for All Vanadium Redox Flow Battery, Zhijiang Tang
Paleodemography of the Larson Site (39WW2) Cemetery: How Age-at-Death Methods Influence Model Estimation, Rebecca Taylor
Fluorescence Spectroscopy with Correlated Atomic Force Microscopy of Gold Nanoparticles and Meso-scale Ribbons, Meredith Marie Therrien
Fully Coupled Fluid and Electrodynamic Modeling of Plasmas: A Two-fluid Isomorphism and a Strong Conservative Flux-coupled Finite Volume Framework, Richard Joel Thompson
Good Partners or Good Politicians: An Exploration of Politics in Supply Chain Management, LaDonna Michelle Thornton
The Effect of Maternal Borderline Personality Disorder and Social Support on Patterns of Emotional Availability in Mother-Child Interactions, Rebecca Devan Trupe
The N-terminus of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae G protein-coupled receptor Ste2p: formation of dimer interfaces and negative regulation, Mohammad Seraj Uddin
Synthesis and Characterization of Doped Mayenite as a Transparent Conducting Oxide, Sabina Nwamaka Ude
Fire and Forest History from Soil Charcoal in Yellow Pine and Mixed Hardwood-Pine Forests in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, U.S.A., Christopher Aaron Underwood
Optimization of Scintillator based Radiation Portal Monitors, Matthew J. Urffer
Synthesis, Basic Characterization, and Resonant Ultrasound Studies of Novel Materials: Iron-based Superconductors and Mo3Sb7-based Thermoelectrics, Lindsay Heatherly Vanbebber
A Study of Graduate Student Grief and Prolonged Grief Disorder, Mary Alice Varga
Structural Health Monitoring and Damage Identification of Bridges Using Triaxial Geophones and Time Series Analysis, Reza Vasheghani Farahani
Modulating T cell Responses to Control Stromal Keratitis, Tamara Antia Veiga Parga
Structure and Morphology of Sulfonated Polysulfone and Perfluorosulfonic Acid Ionomers, Chen Wang
Neutron scattering study of the iron based superconductors, Miaoyin Wang
Synthesis and Characterization of Fullerene-based Hydrogen Storage Materials, Patrick Alan Ward
MICROWAVE HEATING SIMULATION OF METALS AND DIELECTRIC CERAMICS, Brian C. Warren
Enhancing Critical Thinking Disposition and Clinical Judgment Skills in Senior BSN Students via Electronic Interactive Simulation, Deborah Lynne Weatherspoon
Geographic and Temporal Epidemiology of Campylobacteriosis, Jennifer Weisent
Advanced Studies on Locational Marginal Pricing, Yanli Wei
Telling it Like it is: A Qualitative Excavation of the Factors that Impel Natural/Physical Scientists to Serve as Mass Media News Sources, David Scott Wells
Cyberathletes’ Lived Experience of Video Game Tournaments, Samuel Joseph Whalen
African American Oral Histories of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Public Schools During the Early Days of Desegregation, 1955 – 1967, Lorena B. Whipple
A CONTEXT FOR ASSESSING THE EFFICACY OF A RADIOLOGICAL/NUCLEAR MATERIALS INTERDICTION MISSION AT BORDER CROSSINGS, James Dale White
Isolation and Deformation Results for Commuting Squares of Finite Dimensional Matrix Algebras, Joseph Robert White
On Strong Pressure Waves in Cylinders, Andrew W. Wilson
An Investigation of Faculty Development Center Staff Evaluators Perceptions of Processes, Theory, and Models Used in Evaluating Faculty Development, Thelma Mae Woodard
SYSTEM STUDIES OF FISSION-FUSION HYBRID MOLTEN SALT REACTORS, Robert D. Woolley
Haldane pseudopotentials and Landau level mixing in the quantum Hall effect, Rachel Elizabeth Wooten
The Lived Experience of Female Doctor Shoppers, Julie Ann Worley
Tuning Cell Fate on Self-assembled Structures, Xiaohui Wu
Long Time Asymptotics of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Processes in Poisson Random Media, Fei Xing
All-SiC Three-Phase Converters for High Efficiency Applications, Fan Xu
Development of Si Device Based Power Converters for High Temperature Operation in HEV Applications, Zhuxian Xu
Rural to Urban Intercity Transit User Characteristics Analysis, Demand Estimation and Network Design, Hongtai Yang
Medicalizing Suffering: Postsocialist Reforms of the Mental Health System in Ukraine, Shelly Ann Yankovskyy
Essays on State Fiscal Institutions, Todd Richard Yarbrough
Three Studies Evaluating a Computer-Based Sight-Word Reading Intervention System across Special-Needs Students, Jared Scott Yaw
Enhancing Usability of the Multi-channel Analysis of Surface Wave (MASW) Technique for Subsurface Physical Property Mapping by Incorporating Random-Array Seismic Acquisition, Prasanta Malati Yeluru
Green Manufacturing of Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications, Sijia Yi
Measurement of the Prompt Double J/psi Production Cross Section in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV, Andrew David York
Multifunctional Polymeric Micro- and Nanocomposite Fibers for Radiation Detection, Stephen Andrew Young
Modeling and Optimization of Resource Allocation in Supply Chain Management Problems, Qi Yuan
A Simple, Practical Prioritization Scheme for a Job Shop Processing Multiple Job Types, Shuping Zhang
VIBRATION BASED DAMAGE IDENTIFICATION OF TIME-VARYING DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS, Jie Zhao
Investigation into Key Pavement Materials and Local Calibration on MEPDG, Changjun Zhou
Dissertations from 2012
The Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Group 13 Nanostructured Building Block Heterogeneous Silicate Catalysts, Joshua G. Abbott
Three Dimensional Nonlinear Statistical Modeling Framework for Morphological Analysis, Emam ElHak Abdel Fatah
Knowing the Holy: Sanctification and Identity in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Literature, Elizabeth Anne Acker
New Insights on the Peopling of the New World: Analysis of Migration Waves and Ancestral Areas of the First Americans, Barbara Kathleen Alsup
Growth Regulation of Pancreatic Cancer Cells and Their Normal Cells of Origin by Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors, Mohammed Hussein Al-Wadei
Analyses of Measurements from the CRaTER Instrument on the LRO Spacecraft using Space Radiation Transport Codes, Jamie Alicia Anderson
Hydrologic Reconstructions using Dendroclimatology, Climate Signals, and Pacific Ocean Sea Surface Temperature Variability, SallyRose Anderson
Examining Elementary Students' Use of Electronic Readers for Independent Reading, Tammy Lynn Anderson
Generalized Branching in Circle Packing, James Russell Ashe
Everyone’s Doing It. Or Are They? Understanding Student Affairs Assessment Practices at Small Private Colleges, Jonita Denise Ashley-Pauley
Essays in Industrial Organization, Evren Atiker
Life in the Stands: The Experiences of Female Major League Baseball Fans, Kelly Lynn Balfour
AN ANALYSIS OF THE VALUES AND SPIRITUALITY PROFILES OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS BY CARNEGIE CLASSIFICATION, Harold Wayne Ballard
Giant ragweed (Ambrosia trifida L.) biology, competition, and control in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.), Kelly Anna Barnett