Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 1991
The roles of membrane components in the symbiotic relationship between amoeba proteus and endosymbionts, Eui Yul Choi
An economic optimal control evaluation of achieving/maintaining groundwater quality contaminated from nonpoint agricultural sources, Gary Virgil Cole
A study of the prevalence and intensity of mathematics anxiety in college students and preservice teachers at a large southern university, Bobby Leon Coleman
Applications of nontraditional organized media in capillary electrophoresis, Roderic O'conor Cole
An exploratory descriptive study of the drinking patterns of black females in three Northern California counties : a secondary analysis 1979-1980, Wanda Lott Collins
LCM-Stability of Power Series Extensions Characterizes Dedekind Domains, John T. Condo
Nursing Students' Perceptions of Interpersonal Relationships with Clinical Instructors, Martha P. Craig
Thermally-induced convection heat transfer in confined air subjected to rapid boundary heating, D. Scott Crocker
Employment intentions of older retail employees as a function of job characteristics and work attitudes, Karen Jo-Harn Cummings
The drama of W. B. Yeats : a rhetorical approach, William Curtis Currie
The long road to recognition : a historical investigation of the activities of the Association of Colleges for Negro Youth, 1913-1934, Michelle Releford Dalton
The effects of monetary policy, inflation, and interest rates on residential fixed investment : an empirical analysis, Robert Andrew Daniell
Covers, q-binomial series, and q-lattices, Reid Marshall Davis
Pediatric nurses' and parents' perceptions of parental participation in the care of hospitalized children, Vivian Lundy Deitz
"My way or the highway" : the Hawkins County textbook controversy, David Whitley Dellinger
Use of an animal model in the assessment of the risk of human viral disease transmission associated with surface application of treated wastewater onto lawns, Elizabeth J. Deming
Numerical investigation of non-spherical droplet dynamics in viscous convective flows, Zhengtao Deng
Contestable markets theory, competition, and the U.S. commercial banking industry, Ross Norman Dickens
Microbial systems analysis of naphthalene degradation in a continuous flow soil slurry reactor, Philip Michael DiGrazia
The Evolution of Financial Practices and Financial Structures Among American Manufacturers, 1875-1905: Case Studies of the Sugar Refining and Meat Packing Industries, William Michael Doyle
The involvement of T lymphocyte subsets in the immunopathology of herpetic stromal keratitis (HSK), Mehmet Ziya Doymaz
Convection in the Melt, John Bryant Drake
Heterogeneity of respiratory syncytial virus G glycoproteins : antigenic and molecular analyses, Robert Bruce Duncan
The development of an instrument to measure the attitudes of middle school mathematics teachers toward low achievers in mathematics, Evelyn Elizabeth Dwyer
Issue phases in attention cycles : a study of the Exxon Valdez disaster, Samuel Coad Dyer
An investigative study of predictive characteristics associated with alumni planned giving, Claire Eldridge-Karr
The siting dilemma : low-level radioactive waste disposal in the United States, Mary R. English
Financing publicly provided goods in less developed countries : a contingent valuation study of potable water services in rural Philippines, Timothy John Essenburg
Understanding the relationship in the buyer/seller dyad, Leslie M. Fine
Appetite, catecholamine, hunger and resting metabolic rate responses of trained and untrained females, Judith Ann Flohr
Petrologic and geochemical evidence for water-rock interaction in the mixed carbonate-siliciclastic Nolichucky Shale (Upper Cambrian) in East Tennessee, J. Lincoln Foreman
Testing the appropriateness of nonprofit hospitals' tax exemptions with logistic regression analyses of hospital financial data, Benjamin P. Foster
Effects of microbial biofilms and microbial metabolic activity on the localized corrosion of steel, Michael John Franklin
A study of home-visit approaches in Project Head Start, Reba Ann Furches
A dynamic finite element modeling technique for frame structures, Nagamanickam Ganesan
SANS and TEM studies of aqueous micellar solutions and ternary microemulsions, Jeffrey Calvin Gee
Generation of monoclonal antibodies to Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin : characterization of a neutralizing monoclonal antibody, Donald G. Gerbig
Production and transport of convoy electrons, John P. Gibbons Jr.
A meta-analysis of selected adolescent alcohol education studies, Moses Goldmon
Vacation expectations, evaluations, and life satisfaction, Cynthia Philippa Golledge-Franz
A generalized albedo option for forward and adjoint Monte Carlo calculations, Itacil Chiari Gomes
Study of ray effects in discrete ordinates calculations, Luisa Maria Torres Gomes
An activity-based conceptual model for evaluating process cost information, Thomas G. Greenwood
Reading improvement, college grades, and attrition, Colleta Durham Grindstaff
Optimal wall heat flux distributions for natural convection flows in rectangular enclosures, John Raymond Haines
Effects of food restriction, exercise, and aging on the pituitary-thyroid axis in the rat, Vivian Haley-Zitlin
An investigation of sources of stress among chief administrative officers in Christian Schools International member institutions, Jeffrey Brian Hall
Synchronous and nonsynchronous parent-child interaction : relations with children's later competence with peers, Amanda Kay Wiginton Harrist
A phenomenological investigation of the experience of ambivalence, Ronald Steven Harrist
Coherent cancellation effects in the multiphoton ionization of xenon, Roger Charles Hart
An Experimental and Analytical Investigation on the Production of Microfibers Using a Single Hole Melt Blowing Process, Bryan David Haynes
Metamorphism of early Proterozoic schists of the southern Black Hills, South Dakota, Thomas S. Helms
The relationship between the availability of proficient entry-level airline pilots and the level of flight training of new-hire pilots at regional airlines, William Carson Herrick
Influence of soil and environmental factors on the persistence and phytotoxicity of pendimethalin and flumetralin, Jeffrey Eric Herrmann
Multiplicity dependence of Bose-Einstein correlation and quantum statistics, Xiaochun He
Values and disvalues underlying mandatory screening, Sheila Ruth Hollander
A new stage : neoformalist analysis of Robert Altman's theater-to-film adaptations of the 1980s, Robert Paul Holtzclaw
A determination of whether restriction enzymes can induce specific deletions at the HPRT locus in CHO cells, Gregory James Horesovsky
A comparison of Rorschach's Erlebnistypus and Jung's Einstellungstypus, John Carleton House
Beaver control and reforestation of drained beaver impoundments, Allan Edward Houston
Infants' vocalized emotions : listener identification and acoustical analysis, Charlotte Ann Hubbard
Typologies of family functioning associated with the occurence of childhood sexual abuse, Timothy Lee Hulsey
A globally well-posed accurate and efficient finite element CFD algorithm for compressible aerodynamics, Giuseppe Settimo Iannelli
Submanifold decompositions that induce approximate fibrations and approximation by bundle maps, Young Ho Im
National television evening news coverage of ozone depletion and the greenhouse effect : a constructionist analysis, Paul L. Jacobson
Bonding in transition-metal silicides studied via soft-x-ray-emission spectroscopy, Jianjun Jia
Spectroscopic studies on high-spin states in ¹⁷⁹ ¹⁸¹Ir and ¹⁷⁵Re, Haoqiang Jin
Studies on the biology of ruffed grouse in the southern Appalachian Mountains, Peter Ignatius Kalla
Amplification, cloning, sequencing, and expression of the putative gene encoding the major envelope protein of a noncytopathic strain of bovine viral diarrhea virus, Melissa A. Kennedy
Vibration and stability analysis of a damped free-free Timoshenko beam under the influence of a directionally controlled end thrust, Siamak Esmailzadeh Khadem
Tennessee dietitians' counseling practices regarding the role of exercise in the management of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, Janice Lee Kidd
Backward linkages to industrial research in steel, 1870-1930, Janet Therese Knoedler
The political socialization of elementary school children during the Gulf War of 1991, Trudy Lee Knowles
Modeling and control of a fixed bed reactor, Moon Kyu Ko
Analysis of packet radio networks using slotted protocols, Masaki Kurosawa
Policing in Taiwan : contemporary observations and comparative implications, Fuchen Laio
The effects of chain microstructure on crystallization in polyethylene, William Scott Lambert
A study of the job acquisition methods employed by selected post-secondary vocational-technical school program completers, Patricia Chism Land
Processes and stages of personal health behavior change, Gary Paul Lankford
The Geneva Protocol of 1924 : British rejection of League of Nations covenant reform, Donald Louis Lanza
Bipropellant spray combustion modeling in small rocket engines, Louis M. Larosiliere
Galerkin/Runge-Kutta discretization for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, Hyun Young Lee
Desorption of metal atoms and large molecules by laser induced surface plasmons, Ida Lee
"The Lotos Rose" : T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets and Eastern thought, Kwang-Mi Lee
Investigations of the Mechanical Behavior of Graphite/PEEK (APC-2) Composits, Kyun Lee
Bulimic women's responses to the use of self-disclosing statements by counselors : implications for counseling, Patricia Lees
Purification, characterization and immunolocalization of bovine and ovine placental retinol-binding protein, Kaung Huei Liu
Photo- and electroproduction of baryon resonances in a potential quark model, Zhenping Li
Children's arrival time behaviors at child care, Sandra Leigh Lookabaugh
The affective and cognitive perspectives of older adult tennis players, Nancy Jean Love
A numerical model of convective effects in diffusion dominated directional solidification of a metal analogue (NH4Cl-H2O) at one gravity and microgravity, Samuel A. Lowry