Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 1981
An investigation of the confirmation of predictive brand expectations as a determinant of consumer satisfaction, Ved Prakash
The effect of gender and sex role orientation on approaches to behavior change, locus of control and overall effectiveness in self-management of college students, Betty Jo Pritchard
The Ecology of the Raccoon (Procyon lotor) in Cades Coves, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Alan Robert Rabinowitz
The effect of spatial variability on discrete task transfer, Michael R. Ragsdale
A Comparison of the Effects of Classroom Placement Status on the Self-Concept and Academic Achievement of Self-Contained and Mainstreamed Educable Mentally Retarded Students, Judson Leon Reese-Dukes
Attitudinal antecedents to union representation : a comparison between union and nonunion workers on work and union related outcomes, James R. Ridley
Borrowed news : looking at the world through foreign eyes, Daniel Riffe
First grader's understanding of reading and reading instructional terminology, Leslie Lewis Roberts
The identification of vocational and career development competencies for school guidance counselors, William Robin Robertson
Participation in and satisfaction with decisions and their relationship to militant employee attitudes in school districts in East Tennessee, James Ray Ross
Multiple schedule interactions and a model of operant discrimination, David Winfield Rowe
The origins and development of public radio in Tennessee, 1949-1980, Don Shults Scroggins
An analysis of the relationships of seven selected variables to state board test pool examination performance of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Nursing, Theresa Griffith Sharp
A Study of the Auchinleck Manuscript: Investigations Into the Process of Book Making in the Fourteenth Century, Timothy Allen Shonk
An evaluation of the health knowledge of freshmen attending state supported colleges and universities in the state of Mississippi, Allan Anthony Simmons
Study of inservice education in Tennessee as perceived by principals, supervisors and superintendents, Charles E. Smith
Multivariable Process Control Using Singular Value Decomposition, C. Russell Smith III
Variation in territory size of the ovenbird (seiurus aurocapillus) : the role of habitat structure, Thomas M. Smith
Effect of a program of recreational activities made available in a junior high school library upon use of library materials by students, Jane McAmis Sparks
Anticipated Retirement : generalized locus of control, interest in the future, and morale, John Henry Spencer
Amino acid biosynthesis in the developing endosperm tissue of ZEA MAYS L., Rosemarie Wahnbaeck Spencer
The influence of Dorothea von Montau on the mysticism of Margery Kempe, Ute Stargardt
An Interdisciplinary Model for the Treatment of Obesity in Young Girls, Annell St. Charles
Topology of the imaginary : the origin and structure of the lacanian unconscious, David Wilson Stewart
An empirical investigation of the impact of the sensitive payments issue and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 on the internal audit function, Glenn E. Sumners
Hamiltonian cycles and chains in graphs with striped and circulant distance matrices : theory and applications, P. S. Sundararaghavan
An empirical test of the monetary theory of the balance of payments : India, 1950 to 1965, Chaitram Jivaram Talele
Computer-enhanced Landsat images for ground water exploration in the northern Arabian Shield : Ha'il test site, Mohamed Ahmed Tarabzouni
The differential and additive effects of client participation and multiple prompt procedures on appointment keeping, Bayard Shelton Tarpley
John Watts in colonial and revolutionary New York, Clifton James Taylor
A determination of the costs and relationship of collective bargaining to Tennessee public school finance, Edward Marvin Taylor
Court-agency interaction in environmental policy-making : the cases of the nuclear regulatory commission and the environmental protection agency, Larry W. Thomas
Rheological and boundary characterization of unvulcanized rubbers and their compounds, Shigeyuki Toki
The integration of work and play in healthy adulthood, Marc Isaac Tonkin
The effects of treatments for public speaking anxiety on self-efficacy expectations, Davis Clarke Tracy
Person-environment fit in the world of work : a study of the relationship between Jung's personality styles and Holland's occupational environments, Carmen J. Trammell
Imagery, coping and physiological variables in adult cancer patients, Robert Lee Trestman
Use of clothing and perceptions of thermal comfort in the home environment, Ann Vanderpoorten
A descriptive study of systemwide self-studies of multicampus university systems, Sean Van Pallandt
Henry James and Gustave Flaubert : the creative relationship, Jeanine Baker Varner
The comic techniques of George Coleman the elder, Paul Stanley Varner
A study of Tennessee certification standards for trade and industrial and health occupations teachers, Jane Ellen Vaughn
An acoustic source modeling technique to predict the near sound field of axisymmetric turbulent jets, Sundaram C. Venkitarama
A comparative study of reproduction in two populations of the lizard, anolis carolinensis, Julia Karen Wade
A study of changing conceptions of equality and achievement reflected in Newbery award-winning books and the runners-up during the period between the two world wars, Gwendolyn Wallace
Formaldehyde release from durable press shirting fabrics, Billie Jean Walters
Movie as metaphor in contemporary fiction : a study of Walker Percy, Larry McMurtry, and John Fowles, Carol Marie Ward
A study of the relationships between TOEFL scores and selected performance characteristics of Arabic students in an individualized competency based training program, Chester Joseph Warner
Criteria for determining the appropriate tax treatment of expenditures as repairs versus improvements : an empirical investigation of judicial decisions, Gary Lynn Waters
The effects of the step program on mothers from different socio-economic levels, Carol Jane Schwaegler Weaver
The interrelatedness of spouses' adjustment in sibling relations, marital adjustment, and conventionalization, Karl Gilmore Weddle
Effects of hemoglobin concentration, carbon dioxide tension, and lactic acid concentration on hydrogen ion activity of human blood in vitro, Kenneth Craig Wessling
A semantic description of selected first grade narratives-in-prose using case grammar, Marilynn M. Whiteley
Planning guidelines for selecting ridesharing strategies in small and medium sized urban areas, Douglas Wayne Wiersig
Structure of Blue Ridge thrust front, Tennessee, Southern Appalachians, William Dale Witherspoon
Effects of three noise exposure patterns with equivalent sound energy on the auditory system of chinchilla, William Scott Wood
Needed health counseling competencies of ministers, Wayne Edward Wylie
Dissertations from 1980
Investigation of parameters affecting the concentration of radon and its daughters in indoor atmospheres, Mahmoud M. Abdelrazek
An old-spelling critical edition of Thomas Lodge's A̲ M̲a̲ṟg̲a̲ṟi̲ṯe̲ o̲f̲ A̲m̲e̲ṟi̲c̲a̲ (1596), James Clyde Addison
Environmental control of poultry buildings for minimum energy input, Nazar Jabrail Alias
Environmental effects of applying feedlot runoff to grassland plots by sprinkler irrigation., Naufal Al-Masri
Material effects in Angus bull and heifer calves fed at different post-weaning nutritional levels, Ali Abdul Ghani Al-Talib
Flavor and chemical characteristics of frozen ground beef from steers finished on forage and grain rations, Mohammad Amiri
An investigation of perceptions of participation in decision making and satisfaction with decisions made of selected personnel in the ten community colleges in Tennessee, Truman Gay Anderson
Faculty perceptions of faculty development in the Small College Consortium, Robert Dexter Andrews
An investigation of person/environment congruents in a psychiatric treatment milieu, Antoinette L. Anker
Nonmetropolitan viability in the East South Central Census Division of the United States, Allen Ray Arbogast
Energy and economic development strategies system studies for LDC's, J. Baguant
Creativity, mental imagery, and cerebral dominance, Steven Robert Banks
Crystallographic studies of nucleic acid components, Charles Leslie Barnes
The self as the source of knowledge : A philisophical study of the identity theme in the adolescent novel, Wallace McDonald Beasley
The use of copper acetylacetonate induced C-13 nmr line broadening in the determination of the stereochemistry of rigid cyclohexylamines, Clarence Dixon Blue
A Comparison of Late Prehistoric Dallas and Overhill Cherokee Subsistence Strategies in the Little Tennessee River Valley, Arthur E. Bogan
Relationships between student values, teacher values, and health attitudes among students enrolled in a college-level personal health class, Stephen Eric Bohnenblust
Jitneys : a complement to public transportation, Carlos Rafael Bonilla
A model of local sector growth in the South, Larry Goddard Bray
Stratigraphic, paleoenvironmental, and echinoderm distributional patterns in an unfaulted Middle Ordovician (Chickamauga Group) shelf-edge to on-shelf transect in East Tennessee, Fritz Clayton Breland
The identification, verification, and validation of competencies needed by vocational teacher educators, Vickie Elaine Johnson Brown
Weed control, population density change and herbicide persistence in soils in no-tillage and conventional tillage soybean-wheat double cropping systems, Fitzroy Dennis Bullock
Influential factors affecting enrollment into nontraditional vocational education programs as perceived by educational personnel, S. Carolyn Burkhart
The effects of client participation in keeping appointments, Steven Dane Burton
The equivalence of job analysis agents : a methodological reappraisal, Robert Earl Burt
Self concept, social class, and knowledge of alcohol and alcohol consumption among 12 and 13 year old students, Johnny Thomas Butler
Teaching style and classroom seating arrangements in East Tennessee middle schools, Marvin A. Camfield
Transient simulation and sensitivity analysis for transport of radionuclides in a saturated-unsaturated groundwater flow system, Hanchang Henry Chen
Parental bone marrow growth in young hybrid mice, Robert Paul Chervenak
An investigation of the dilute solution properties and liquid crystal behavior of poly(chloro-p-phenylene terephthalamide), David R. Coffin
The scrubbing of gaseous nitrogen oxides in packed towers, Robert M. Counce
A description of shared linguistic meaning among education practitioners : implications for the role of school psychologists, G. Douglas Cox
A comparison of cardiovascular responses in reactive and non-reactive individuals to psychological and physical challenge, Ronald H. Cox
Analyses of verbal and nonverbal behaviors of teachers teaching reading, Doris Scott Crawford
Green's theories and coextensions, Alfred H. Cripps
"Useful in his day and generation" : James Alexander Ventress (1805-1867), Lynda Lasswell Crist
Compliance with the child passenger protection act : effects of a loaner program for low income mothers, Carol Jane Culler
Diversification as an alternative growth strategy for the airline industry, Lawrence Francis Cunningham
Perceptions of school personnel in the Memphis City School System concerning the teacher evaluation process, Leon Patrick Davis