Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 1982
Expectant fatherhood : an investigation of the couvade syndrome and an exploration of anticipating childbirth for fathers, Carol Merritt Walton
The design and development of a microcomputer-managed delivery system for individualized instruction in vocational education, Rei-Tung Ray Wang
Local comparative television advertising : an experiment, Hollis Jefferson Warr
Relationship between maternal attitudes toward hospitalization and children's behavioral reactions to hospitalization, Karen Dianne Weddle
The development of fecal indices for predicting forage intake and quality of forage consumed by lactating beef females allowed an array of forage types, Glenn Richard Wehner
The long-term nutrient retention properties of forest ecosystems : a simulation investigation, David A. Weinstein
The Origins of German Seapower: Military-Industrial Relationships in the Development of the High Seas Fleet, 1897-1912, Gary E. Weir
Synthesis and processing of herpes simplex virus type 1 glycoproteins gB and gC, Elizabeth Ann Wenske
Computer applications to the study of the thermodynamics of coal liquid interactions and to the study of the protonation of weak organic bases, Orville Rodney Weyrich
An examination of Whitehead's epochal theory of time, Villard Alan White
The effects of selective sleep stage deprivation on the visual evoked potential, Stanley French Whitsett
The effect of three social facilitation factors on performance with practice of a complex motor task, Frederick Keith Whitt
Evaluating internal control and alternative compliance testing procedures : a simulation approach, Casper Eldredge Wiggins
Osteology of the Crow Creek Massacre, Patrick S. Willey
Mammalian ear tissue regeneration, Patsy Kylene Williams-Boyce
Pyrrolizidine synthesis via N-chloroamine rearrangements, Paul Randall Williams
The nuclear and mitochondrial genomes of Candida albicans : a study of the yeast phase cell, John W. Wills
Hemispheric dominance and student performance in an engineering-graphics course, Gwendolyn Owens Wilson
An error analysis of selected abbreviations, derivatives, and principles in the shorthand notes of beginning stenograph machine shorthand students, Karen Lee Woodall
The social relations of retirement decision-making, James W. Wooten
Residual stresses and birefringence in rapidly quenched glassy polymers, Carl John Wust
A swath inverter for accelerated drying of hay before packaging, Rafi Khalil Yahya
On Jacobi's decomposition of the motion of a heavy symmetrical top into the motions of two torque-free triaxial tops, Katsuya Yamada
Measurements of the ²³⁸U capture cross section and self-indication ratio for incident neutron energies from 5 eV to 10 keV, Jing-Tong Yang
Beef flavor and fatty acids in different carcass sites as affected by grass and corn diets up to 140 days, Young K. Yeo
Model for Implementing an International Educational Cooperative Program in Hotel Administration Between Egypt and the U.S.A., Mostafa El Zaghl
The effects of affective education on classroom environment, self-esteem, grades, and sociometric relationships, Carol Elizabeth Zempel
Dissertations from 1981
Effects of restrained thermal movement in a continuous, prestressed concrete bridge without interior expansion joints, Ramzi Behnam Abdul-Ahad
The effects of acute physical exercise on the state anxiety and mental performance of college women, Doris A. Abood
An assessment of the health knowledge of freshmen enrolled in Tennessee State Colleges and Universities, Jay Lloyd Allen
Factors which describe a propensity for change in Tennessee schools and a test of a change model, Lawrence Woodrow Allen
Applications of Differential Inequalities to Persistence and Extinction Problems for Reaction-Diffusion Systems, Linda Joy Allen
An exploratory investigation of occupational identity foreclosure and its relationship to Holland's theory of vocational choice, Joanna Siegel Allman
A process model to assess the educational needs of members in Iraqi agricultural cooperatives, Hassan Younis Al-Samarrai
Metabolic responses to various strength glucose solutions ingested prior to exercise, James Bailey Angel
Gunnar Myrdal's intellectual development as an institutional economist, James William Angresano
An Analysis of the Behavior of Steel Liner Anchorages, Daryl R. Armentrout
The single and multiple vehicle pickup and delivery problem : exact and heuistic algorithms, Gerald R. Armstrong
Prediction of aerodynamic loads on aircrafts with external stores at transonic speeds, Chandrasekaran Balasubramanyan
The Effect of Protein and Caloric Restriction and Age on the Rate of Liver Protein Synthesis of Male Rats, Connie Watkins Bales
Cyclic amp calmodulin as post-translational modulators of fruiting in coprinus cinereus, Leslie Robert Ballou
A history of broadcast audience research in the United States, 1920-1980 with an emphasis on the rating services, Mark James Banks
Redeemed time : the sacramental vision and implicit covenant in the major fiction of Richard Wright, William J. Barnette
The effect of death awareness on the protagonists of selected adolescent novels, Mary Lord Beasley
A comparative investigation of varying success in maintaining weight loss, Lorrie G. Beevers
The influence of management on yield and composition of tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb), Kenneth Wayne Bell
A methodology for the empirical classification of newspaper content based on reader interests, Ellen Marion Bennett
The Averbuch Skeletal Series: A Study of Biological and Social Stress at a Late Mississippian Period Site from Middle Tennessee, Hugh Edward Berryman
Content analysis of education coverage in three influential U.S. newsmagazines during a year of low public support for education, Dolly Adams Berthelot
Industrial training : the efficacy of a special drafting training program versus an on-the-job drafting training program, Ronald J. Berthelot
Ultrasonic determination of combinations of third-order elastic constants of small cubic single crystals, Bruce Dion Blackburn
Intrapersonal consistency of teacher responding in good student-teacher relationships, Judith Ann Bastian Boser
Stability of cystic fibrosis associated mucoid pseudomonas aeruginosa in culture, John Rudolph Boyce
The role of emotional maturity in drinking and driving involvement among college graduate students aged 25-34, Neal Richard Boyd
Unanticipated inflation and unanticipated money growth and short-run real output response : dynamic rational expectations models and empirical tests, Joseph M. Brocato
Planning policies and effectiveness of firms engaged in systematic planning processes : a cross-validation study, James France Brown
Faulty reasoning processes within verbalizations of non-psychotic psychotherapy patients, Larry Herbert Brown
An experimental investigation of direct contact three phase boiling heat transfer, Walter David Bruce
Interactions of Eurasian water-milfoil and sediments in an East Tennessee reservoir, Marc C. Bruner
The fidelity of albumin biosynthesis in aged C57B1 mice, James R. Burke
Autoshaped acquisition, fixed ratio maintenance extinction, omission, reversal, and choice of different responses: an investigation of biologically prepared responding, James David Burns
Public service communication source influence and radio gatekeeper behavior : a controlled field experiment, James Walker Busbin
An empirical investigation of the impact on the decision processes of loan officers of separate accounting standards for smaller and/or closely held companies, Jane Ellen Campbell
National Banking in Knoxville, Tennessee, 1864-1913, James Townsend Campen
Effects of attribution training and self-management training on arithmetic task completion, Ronald John Carlini
An Ethnographic Inquiry into Social Identity, Social Stratification, and Premature School Withdrawal in a Rural Appalachian School, Anthony P. Cavender
A possible role for calcium in the regulation of cell division in synchronized Ṯe̲ṯṟa̲ẖy̲m̲e̲ṉa̲, Paul Alan Charp
Sexual identity, object choice, and life styles among women, Shelley M. Chavoor
Locating undesirable facilities on a network, Chih-Kang Eric Chen
The measurement of adult learning styles : perceptual modality, Clarence Edwin Cherry
A study to determine the perceived "effectiveness" of teaching principals as compared to supervising principals in the East Tennessee Development District, Helen Harper Cole
Planning, implementing, and evaluating energy hotlines : profiles and guidelines, Nancy Elizabeth Collins
Effects of temperature and nutritional state on the toxicity of acridine to the Calanoid Copepod Diaptomus clavipes Schacht, John Dennis Cooney
Articulation for physical science and mathematics in Arkansas colleges and universities, Trenton Cooper
Chemotaxis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa : the control of chemotaxis by nitrogen and the role of methionine in chemotaxis, Rebecca Carol Craven
The anaphylactic in plaque-forming-cell response in rats sensitized by inhalation or intraperitoneal injection of ovalbumin, Donald A. Creasia
TDN efficiency of angus and hereford cows raising straightbred and reciprocal cross calves as affected by cow and calf traits, Mike C. Crider
Disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged consumer decision processes concerning deceptive business practices, Charles H. Davis
Aspects of the Social and Spatial Experience of Eastern Box Turtles, Terrapene carolina carolina, Marilla Davis
An analysis of Tennessee's 1980-81 in-service education programs based on the perceptions of public school teachers and administrators, Vicki Smith Dean
The effects of gender and sex role orientation on written self-disclosure, Elizabeth Ann Denton
Morphological Changes on the Axillary Border of the Scapula with Special Reference to the Neandertal Problem, Carol Baratz Dittner-Plasil
A comparison of thirteen time sampling systems with continuous real time measures, Joe W. Dixon
The effects of blame and empathy on an observer's perceptions of a victim, Roger Allan Drake
Asthma : a phenomenological evaluation of family and child perspectives, John F. Duffy
EPA, TVA and Pollution Control: A Comparative Analysis of Intragovernmental Policy Implementation, Robert F. Durant
Psychological Differentiation and Future Time Perspective, John Stewart Durland III
On the finite element method in anistropic Sobolev spaces, Jerome Fields Eastham
A chemical study of 4-aminobutyrate aminotransferase active sites, Udoudo Moses Ekanemesang
Henry Adams on the American presidency, Gaye Elissa Elder
Allegory in the Novels of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Norbert Louis Elliot III
Thermal insulation characteristics of textile drapery fabrics, Helen Heins Epps
Influences on factorial accuracy : a Monte Carlo investigation, Thomas J. Fahey
The role of rural women in family decision making in Iraq, Younis Mahmoud Fattah