Masters Theses
Masters Theses from 2021
How Divergent Risk-Characters Rewrite the Anti-Vaccination Narrative, Shelby C. Luttman
Unmanned Aerial System for Radioactive Source Search, William J. Lynch
The Implications of Yoga as a Coping Mechanism for Stress During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Ellie Hunter Madenberg
Interactions of Candidate Gene Expression and in vitro Infection with Streptococcus uberis in Bovine Mammary Epithelial Cells, Hannah Lacy Martin Malcomson
Power System Stability Assessment with Supervised Machine Learning, Mirka Mandich
Association Between Stream Impairment by Mercury and Superfund Sites in the Conterminous USA, Karessa L. Manning
The Psychosocial Outcomes Among Athletes and Youths with Disabilities, Coleen E. Martinez
Terrestrial laser scanning technology for measuring streambank retreat along East Fork Poplar Creek and calculating the effect on mercury release., José L. Martínez Collado
Examining the Effects of Caregiver Stress, Communication Quality, and Discipline Practices on Child Externalizing Behavior, Mckenzie Rose Martin
Partial Discharge Testing and Detection under PWM Voltage, John Meadors
Evaluating the winter diet of a reintroduced herd of elk in the Cumberland Mountains, Tennessee, using next-generation sequencing techniques, Dailee L. Metts
Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá: Constructing National Identity in the case of Jonathan González, Arturo Jaime Morales Jr
APPLICATION OF TITRATIONS FOR VERIFICATION OF SMALL MOLECULE INTERACTION IN RELATION TO AMIDOXIMATED FIBERS FOR URANIUM EXTRACTION FROM SEAWATER, Kc Michael Mote
Critical Pedagogy and Accountability: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Race and Embodiment in Tennessee's Teacher Evaluations, Rebecca C. Napreyeva
The Effect of Bovine Endometrial Cell Conditioned Media on In Vitro Produced Bovine Embryo Development and Gene Expression, Mary A. Oliver
Assessment of Component Level Tritium Transport for Fission and Fusion Systems, Miles Landon ONeal
Financial Feasibility and Factors that lead to Profitability for Small-Scale Farmers in Rwanda., Saheed Adeniyi Orimadegun
UHT Milk: Supply Chain Based Shelf Life Assessment and Risk Mitigation, Sagar Rameshwar Padghan
Political Attitudes and Behavior in a Pandemic: Factors Affecting Compliance with COVID-19 Policies, Christopher Palmer
The Role of Athletic Trainers in the Mental Health Care of Student-Athletes, Dominic J. Palumbo
TRANSSACCADIC UPDATING AND FEATURE OVERWRITING, Jessica Parker
A modular cloning toolbox for chloroplast metabolic engineering, Alexander C. Pfotenhauer
Accelerating Dynamical Density Response Code on Summit and Its Application for Computing the Density Response Function of Vanadium Sesquioxide, Wileam Y. Phan
The Application of Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy to Molten Salt Corrosion, William S. Ponder
Monsters in Mesopotamia: Edessa, Goths, and Roman Identity in Euphemia and the Goth and the Julian Romance, Emma Elisabeth Pugmire
Identifying Drought Tolerance Traits in Tennessee Soybean Genotypes: Recovery from Severe Water Deficit Stress, Samuel W. Purdom
Investigating the mechanisms and specificity of bacterial virulence in an entomopathogenic symbiosis, Elizabeth Ransone
EXPERIMENTAL ALTERATION OF VENUSIAN SURFACE BASALTS IN A HYBRID CO2-SO2 ATMOSPHERE, Robert B. Reid
Utilizing Synthetic Biology to Engineer Novel Plant Transcriptional Regulators for Precise Control of Autoluminescent Plants, Dominique K. Reuter
Using visual attention at 11-months to predict outcomes at age 4, Esther Reynolds
Assessing Basic Needs Insecurity Prevalence and Associated Factors among College Students Enrolled at a Large, Public University in the Southeastern U.S., Mary Kathleen Robbins
Azospirillum brasilense Chemotaxis Receptor Clusters Structure and Chemosensory Signaling, Madison S. Rost
An Exploration of Topical Interaction in Symphony for Wind Band, Paul Royse
“Effortful”: Narratives of Women Working in Higher Education during COVID-19, Miranda N. Rutan
Modeling and Evaluation of Utility-Scale Microgrid Investment for Distribution System Planning, Ian Schomer
Assessing the Precision of Cranial and Mandibular Morphoscopic Traits from 3D Surface Scans, Sarah Thomas Schwing
Current State Of The Tennessee Dairy Industry And Barriers To Producers’ Permanency, Arup Ratan Sen
“There Shall Be Made No Differentiation:” The Maintenance of Stratification in the State of Kuwait through the 1959 Nationality and Aliens Residence Laws, Alzaina Shams Aldeen
Calculation and modeling of the neutron’s magnetic moment, Abhyuday Sharda
Economic valuation of recreation access to wildlife management areas in Tennessee, Clara Shattuck
Therapeutic Intervention or Rider Influence on the Electromyographic Activity And Kinematics of Horses, Karen L. Shaw
An Evaluation of Angler Preferences for Stocking Public Fishing Lakes in Tennessee, Pratikshya Silwal
GROWTH, BROWSING AND MORTALITY IN MIXED OAK AND PINE PLANTINGS, Heather Slayton
Exploring Determinants of Exercise-Related Affect in Older Adults who Regularly Engage in Aerobic Exercise, Jessica Smith
Analysis of Cattle Producer Surveys about Horn Fly Management and Expected Progeny Differences, Katlyn V. Smith
Correlating Fracture Toughness and Surface Roughness for a Ductile Epoxy Adhered to Aluminum Substrates, Kurt Ryan Smith
Thermodynamic Analysis of an Autogenous Pressurization System, Samuel H. Smith
TRAINING CHARACTERISTICS AND POWER PROFILES OF USA CYCLING ROAD CYCLISTS, Robert Sroka
Black Men’s Intimate Partner Violence Victimization, Help-Seeking, and Barriers to Help-Seeking, Meagan A. Stewart
Drought-stress-inducible synthetic promoters in rice (Oryza sativa), Paolo Montano Tagaloguin
The Desire to Train: A Motivational Profile of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Players, Terrance Tarver
Modeling Emergence of Annual Bluegrass (Poa annua L.) in Hybrid Bermudagrass [C. dactylon (L.) Pers. x C. transvaalensis Burtt-Davy], Dallas Rose Taylor
Rare Earth-Doped Glass-Ceramic Scintillators as X-Ray Flat Panel Detector Substrates, Austin M. Thomas
Queering Disasters: Embodied Crises in Post-Harvey Houston, Thomas T. Tran
Messy Zoning and Studentification: Fort Sanders in Knoxville, Tennessee, Yael Uziel
Creaky Voice: Interactional Effects in Production and Perception, Victoria Anita Voorhees
Bioretention Cell Performance Under Shifting Precipitation Patterns Across the Contiguous United States, Matthew Weathers
Reference Price Effect on Consumer Preference: Evidence from Food Labeling, Xiaohan Wei
Determining Critical Fall Height for Bermudagrass Grown on Sand and Native Soil Root Zones, Taylor L. Williams
Assessment of Maternal Perceptions on Post-Surgical Follow-up in Managing Tethered Oral Tissues, Taylor Winkel
The Effect of Inputs on Poultry Production Output, Ty M. Wolaver
Whose Voices are Heard? Sources Quoted in Media Coverage of Amateurism and NIL Rights in College Sport, Peyton L. Woods
Exploring the Fourth Reality: Cultural Anthropologists' Reflections on Expert Witnessing for Asylum Cases, Mary Ruth Wossum-Fisher
Development of A Point-of-Use Testing Platform for Detecting Bacteria Infection in Raw Milk, Xin Xia
Social Inequity in Memories of Shakespeare: The Fetishizing Power of the Globe Theatre, Reagan A Yessler
Effects of Pillar and Sealing Design on thermal and Mechanical Performance of Vacuum Insulated Glazing, Wenyuan Zhu
Cover Crop Treatment Impacts on Selected Soil Health Indicators in Two Tennessee Long-term No-till Corn-Soybean Rotations, Adam A. Zimmerman
Fungicide sensitivity and spore trapping of Cercospora sojina, Elias Zuchelli
Masters Theses from 2020
The Economics of Global Saturated Fat Intake and Implications for Public Health, Amelia Grace Ahles
Assessing the Role of Biased Competition in 5- and 11-month-old Infants, Amanda Marie Ainsley
Fission Gas Behavior in Nuclear Fuels, Abdullah Alani
Patterns within centimeter-scale bedding in carbonate rocks in the Archean Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa, James Harvey Alexander
GRANT: Ground-Roaming Autonomous Neuromorphic Targeter, Jonathan Daniel Ambrose
Generation of ORIGEN Reactor Libraries for Liquid-Fueled Molten Salt Reactors, Kyle Everett Anderson
Empirical Modeling of Used Nuclear Fuel Radiation Emissions for Safeguards Purposes, Amanda M. Bachmann
Zone-based Manufacturing, Abhay Rajendra Bajpai
“One Day Dictated So Much”: A Qualitative Study on the Long-Term Effects of Behavioral Management Charts, Aya E. Barnes
Towards a Counter-History of the Maghreb: Rewriting the Precolonial Past in the Works of Driss Chraïbi, Tahar Djaout, and Assia Djebar, Allison Grace Becha
Biaxial behavior and design of steel-concrete composite columns, Amirfarzad Behnam
Associations between diet quality and intentions to lose weight in an adolescent sample, Morganne Belton
TEACHING BEHIND BARS: THE TEACHING LIFE HISTORIES OF EDUCATORS WHO HAVE WORKED IN JUVENILE DETENTION CENTERS, Karina Beltran
Estimating the Effects of Small-Scale Broiler Poultry Farming on Increasing Rwandan Meat Protein Consumption, Sarah Berman
The Role of Water Solubility and Diffusion Coefficient in Air of Chlorine Dioxide Gas during Surface Decontamination and Compatibility of Selected Plastics and Elastomers, Mario Ernesto Bermudez Gonzalez
Predicting voluntary forage intake of supplemented beef cattle, Connor Biehler
2S Mobile Battery Charger with Integrated Cell Balancing, Quillen Vaughn Blalock
Adapted Physical Education and Adapted Sport in Higher Education, Avery Blankenburg
Improving Convolutional Neural Network Robustness to Adversarial Images Through Image Filtering, Natalie E. Bogda
Staphylococcus Carnosus CS 300 Grown Under Varying Conditions at 42°C as a Potential Surrogate for Correlation of Hepatitis A Virus Inactivation in Select Foods, Alexander Bowman
Cool-season annual cover crop species and dual-use forage cover crops in no-till Tennessee production systems, Weston Michael Bracey
The Effect of Supplemental Protein on the Uterine Environment during Heifer Development, Kiernan James Brandt
It’s All in the Mix: Physiological Effects of Fatty Acid Supplementation on Enterococcus faecalis, William Thomas Brewer V
Supplementing White Light with Narrow-Band Light Wavelengths Impacts Cilantro Yield, Colin Brice
Stochastic Neuron Design for the mrDANNA Neuromorphic Architecture, Samuel Denis Brown
Tweet diffusion over space and time: A comparison of a winter-weather and tornado-outbreak case study, Alyssa Margaret Cannistraci
Computational Fluid Dynamics Assessment of Laminar-Turbulent Boundary Layer Transition and its Application to Rotorcraft, Jared Alexander Carnes