Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 1984
Negativism as a news selection predictor, Robert H. Bohle
A comparison of job performance of East Tennessee nursing assistants trained by different methods, Joan Jessiman Boling
A needs assessment of the Knoxville labor market to determine a post secondary graphic-arts program for the State Technical Institute at Knoxville, Tennessee, Richard Lee Bowling
A study of employee attitudes and perceptions of open-plan and enclosed office environments, Marlene Margaret Christensen Bradshaw
The effects of pre- and post-transit potassium levels, feedlot receiving diets, and levamisole injection on stressed bull and steer calves, Frank K. Brazle
Health behaviors of women relative to marital status and social support, Donna Lynn Breitenstein
Effect of respiratory alkalosis on hind limb and in situ skeletal muscle oxygen uptake in the dog, Alan G. Brice
The influence of grade and body type on the performance of purchased feeder pigs, Earl D. Brooks
The Occurrence and Cause of Midsummer Zooplankton Declines: Cyanobacteria and the Implications for Freshwater Ecology, Nicholas K. Brown
The worlds of cancer patients, Karl W. Buddenhagen
Development and cross-validation of a specail scale of the MMPI-168 to predict psychiatric recommendations of incompetency to stand trial, Rexford Forrest Burnette
Relationships among teacher personality, pupil control attitudes, and pupil control behavior, Doris Williams Bush
Morphogenesis in several cultivars of boston fern, Thomas Edward Byrne
Mechanisms of coexistence between two species of cliff-dwelling spiders, Achaearanea tepidariorum and Coelotes montanus, Alan B. Cady
Dynamics and structure development in biaxially stretched polyethylene terephthalate films and stretch blow molded bottles, Mukerrem Cakmak
Power spectrum estimation with logarithmically uniform resolution in frequency, Charles Lynn Carnal
Investigation of the in vitro phosphorylation of gamma aminobutyrate aminotransferase by cAMP dependent protein kinase, R. Keith Carr
Performance and adequacy of a state tax system : the case of Tennessee, Samuel Roberts Carter
Diffusion in metal and insulator thin films studied by optical methods, Chun Chih Chang
Electron transfer reactions in SbC1₃-rich media, David Monroe Chapman
Measurement of learning style dominance and hemispheric dominance of fourteen- and fifteen-year-old high school students, Patricia DuBose Clark
Instructors' and employers' perceptions of the adequacy of training in four selected secondary vocational programs, Ruby Battle Cochran
Synthesis, processing and localization of the gB and gC glycoproteins of herpes simplex virus type 1, Teresa Compton
The economics of labor union mergers, John L. Conant
Pressure suppression pool thermal mixing, David Howard Cook
Aspects of the genetics of bovine blood systems : linkage, heterosis, gene frequency and association with production traits, Johnny E. Copeland
Effects of Cooking Method, Fat Level, and Days on Feed on the Objective and Sensory Characteristics of Restructured Steaks, Carol A. Costello
The influence of concentration on the dynamics of cubic lattice chains, Charles Clarence Crabb
Characterization of mutant and wild-type phosphoribosylpyrophosphate synthetase from chinese hamster fibroblasts, Charles R. Crawford
American Indian and Euro-American Impact upon Holocene Vegetation in the Lower Little Tennessee River Valley, East Tennessee, Patricia A. Cridlebaugh
The Response of Premature Infants to Parenteral Amino Acids in the First Week of Life, Mitzi Wilkinson Davis
Synthesis and characterization of tetracyanoquinodimethane polyesters, Roger William Day
A feasibility study of a goal analysis process : as demonstrated through the english and mathematics program goals of a Philippine university, Erlina C. De Luna
Pentecostal Healing: A Facet of the Personalistic Health System of Pakal-Na, A Village in Southern Mexico, Murl Owen Dirksen
A study of health promotion programs of selected Tennessee employers, Steve Michael Dorman
Economies of scale and operational efficiency in mergers among savings and loan associations, William A. Dowling
Microarchitecture and biomineralization of the envelope in Trachelomonas and Strombomonas (Euglenophyceae), John Robert Dunlap
The relationship between sensation-seeking and horror movie interest and attendance, Emily Dian Edwards
An analysis of the boundaries between community psychology and community mental health as reflected in journal content, Morris Paul Ehrenberg
Structure, properties, and electrochemical behavior of some binuclear rhodium complexes containing isocyanide, carbon monoxide, and halide ligands, Paul Daniel Enlow
Response of established alfalfa to herbicides applied in the winter, John Reid Evans
An assessment of computer-based education in two and four year hotel-restaurant management programs in the United States, Michael Russell Evans
Unobtrusive Observations of Cigarette Smoking, Robert Fisher
Internalization, intracellular sorting, and recycling of cell surface sialoglycoproteins in HeLa cells, Jordan Barry Fishman
The spatial metaphor, action language and psychoanalytic object relations theory : an alternate view, Sharon M. Flaherty
The Presence of Don Quixote in Music, Susan Jane Flynn
Fall fescue pasture management systems for beef cows, Jesse Ray Ford
Penetration mechanisms in periodically-cleaned woven fabric filters, William Francis Frazier
The relationship of collective bargaining to the decision-making power of the public school principal, Barbara Godley Fulmer
Mathematical model reduction for process simulation and controller design, James Gerard Gerstle
An experimental investigation of confined, multiple, turbulent jet mixing with recirculation, Ashoke Ghosh
An investigation of the construct validity of a measure of job "burnout" for human service workers, Karol Girdler
Electron capture to the continuum from atomic hydrogen, Gary Alan Glass
Effects of multiple coercion on parental recognition of child problem behavior, Jerome S. Gordon
The effects of syntactic complexity and sentence production task onspeech disfluences of three-, five-, and seven-year-old children, Pearl A. Gordon
Alpha-driven currents in tokamak reactors, Michael Joseph Gouge
An analysis of national aviation policy with respect to America's strategic airlift capability, Kent Neill Gourdin
The macromolecular structure of coal, Thomas K. Green
A study of the widening and penetrating effects of a campaign against the folk crime of DUI, Robert E. Greenwood
The influence of social group, past experience, and attitude on participation and nonparticipation in sports and physical activities, Sarah A. Hammitt
Callus formation and somatic embryogenesis : from leaf cultures of orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.), Gary E. Hanning
Behavioral ecology of bald eagles along the Pacific Northwest Coast : a landscape perspective, Andrew James Hansen
An examination of the relationship between quality costs and productivity in conjunction with the introduction of statistical process control : a case study, Kay Poston Harmon
Self-talk and exercise behavior, Lorraine Ackerman Hart
A comparison of the effects of single-trait and multiple-trait sire selection on dairy cattle performance, Kimberley Kirnan Hawkins
Factors affecting the subjective estimate of structural soundness in birth to market age swine, Max Franklin Hawkins
Mechanisms of induction of SCE and mutatins by BrdU and CldU and the use of inhibitors of DNA repair to study mechanisms of radiation-induced chromosome aberrations, Michael William Heartlein
Studies of the formation and transcription of class II promoter-containing ordered nucleoprotein complexes in vitro, Randolph James Hellwig
Parents' perceptions of their adolescents' social competence as predictors of parental satisfaction, Carolyn Sue Henry
Influence-gaining behaviors of principals in schools of varying levels of instructional effectiveness, Reginald Morris High
The relationship between hypnotic susceptibility and ego functions, Larry L. Hines
Nonlinear network location models, John Norman Hooker
Studies of ultraviolet light and benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide induced DNA damage and repair in human cells, Bennett van Houten
Monte Carlo particle dispersion (MoCaPD) model of battlefield obscuration, Kao-Huah Huang
Moral design in the plays of Sir Charles Sedley, Michael Benjamin Hudnall
Neurophysiological correlates of meaningful and nonmeaningful sentence processing, Celia Sue Bessel Hume
Thermodynamics of binary n-alkane mixtures : partial molar volumes and free energies, Richard Steward Hutchings
A theoretical study of compressible two phase internal flow, Chii-Jong Hwang
Electron-impact fragmentographic fluorescence spectroscopy, Izumi Ishii
The use of hypnotherapy in the treatment of chemotherapy induced vomiting, Billie Faye Ivra
Impression management during the presidential transitions of Nixon, Carter, and Reagan : a quantitative content analysis and thematic analysis, Karen Sue Johnson
The stability of timoshenko beams conveying a compressible fluid, Robert Ost Johnson
Climates in organizations : using psychological and collective climates to explain the organization structure-job satisfaction relationship, William A. Johnson
Compatibility problems generated in graphite fiber--metal matrix composites, Raj K. Kaul
Pollyanalytics and spirit of place in D. H. Lawrence's short fiction, Martin Francis Kearney
A general-purpose multivariable controller using a singular value decomposition structure, Joe M. Keeton
The effect of garment attributes and risk factors on adoption/purchase decisions for pesticide protective apparel, Ruth Marie King
Thomas D'urfey's adaptations of Renaissance plays, Jack Lorence Knowles
Social and deviant behavior of nonhandicapped peer tutors in an integrated early education setting, Deborah A. L. Koshansky
A study on values and children's biographies, Kyoon Kwon
A study of conflict related to the development of the Comprehensive Education Reform Act of 1984, Zelma Lansford
The effects of foster placement on the biological children of foster parents : an exploratory investigation, Dianne J. Lemieux
Cognitive developmental constraints on the enhancement of interpersonal problem solving, Barbara Ostendorf Lewis
The development and validation of an expectancy-based scale for the measurement of the motivation to be creative, David Elliot Lewis