Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2019
Development of a Scale Designed to Measure Interest in Verbal and Written Expression, Jared Ian Goldman
Context and Decision Making: An Exploratory, Mixed Methods Study Examining the Mental Models of Rural and Urban Principals., Matthew A. Gowan
Conceptualizing College-Going Volition: Investigating Relationships with Barriers and Self-Efficacy in Rural Appalachia, Danielle Graham
Electric Co-operatives as Rural Retail Broadband Network Providers: Opportunities and Challenges, Jamie Alexander Greig
Roles for the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex in Resistance to Acute Social Stress, Johnathon Grizzell
Coarse Proximity, Proximity at Infinity, and Coarse Structures, Pawel Grzegrzolka
SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF STONE MASONRY AND UNREINFORCED CONCRETE RAILROAD BRIDGE PIERS, Qiang Gui
Determination of the Yield Stress of Borosilicate Glasses by Means of Spherical Nanoindentation, Benjamin Hackett
Thermal conductivity of MXY₃ magnetic layered trichalcogenides, Amanda Haglund
Correlation-based Analytics in Big Data, Nooshin Hamidian Hamidian
Investigating the reinforcement effect of geogrids in flexible pavements, Bingye Han
Toward a New Paradigm for Risk-Based Radiation Policymaking, Thomas William Hansen
The response of Ti₃SiC₂ MAX phase to ion energy dissipation during energetic irradiations at different temperatures, William Alexander Hanson
Indebted: Cultural Implications and the Role of Debt as Discipline on a Public College Campus, Maria Hartley
Quantitative Sequestration of Anthropogenic Pollutants by Marine Microalgae, Mohammed Fahad Hasan
A Mixed-Methods Approach to Assessing Factors Contributing to Heat Exposure at the Neighborhood- and Individual-Levels in Knoxville, Tennessee, Alisa Lynn Hass
Reward Contingencies and Student Interactions that Contribute to the Success of Cooperative Learning Groups, Kendall Bree Hauck
Numerical Methods for Radiative Transport Equations, Vincent Heningburg
“Behaviors of Employees in the Frontlines: Implications for Customer-Based Strategy”, Adam Mark Hepworth
CELL MORPHOLOGY AND CELL DIVISION ARE PRECISELY CONTROLLED THOUGH DIFFERENTIAL REGULATION OF CDC42, Brian Hercyk
A Narrative Inquiry on the Experiences of Refugee Adult Learners in Community Colleges in the Southeastern Region of the United States, Patricia Higgins
Alabama's Public Wilderness: Reconstruction, Natural Resources, and the End of the Southern Commons, 1866-1905, Joshua Stephen Hodge
Oxidative and Adsorbent Impacts on Selenide Based Transition Metal Dichalcogenides, Anna Hoffman
Effects of ASL Rhyme and Rhythm on Deaf Children’s Engagement Behavior and Accuracy in Recitation, Leala K. Holcomb
Simulations of Unsteady Shocks via a Finite-Element Solver with High-Order Spatial and Temporal Accuracy, Kevin Raymond Holst
Dynamic Task Discovery in a Data-Flow, Task-Based Runtime System, Reazul Hoque
Freeform Heat Exchanger Design and Optimization Based on Constructal Law, Ali Hossein Nejad
VaaS: Visualization as a Service, Alok Hota
A HIGH TEMPERATURE OUT-OF-PILE EXPERIMENT FOR TESTING NUCLEAR THERMAL PROPULSION SURROGATE FUELS., Richard Howard
"Regarding themselves as permanently settled": An Ethnohistory of Cherokee Hyper-Displacement, Tyler B. Howe
Characterization of Deformation During Syn-Convergent Extension: Insights from the Brittle-Ductile-Transition in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, Cameron Hughes
Vibrational properties of molecule-based multiferroics and quantum magnets across quantum phase transitions, Kendall Hughey
How Brand Empowerment Strategies Affect Consumer Behavior: From A Psychological Ownership Perspective, Songyee Hur
Explicit Timing Variations in Curriculum-Based Measurement of Written Expression Administration, Peter Lawrence Ignacio
Graduation Rates of Division I Student-Athlete Special Admits: Fact vs. Fiction, Alexandra Ingram
The Design of an Imager to Safeguard Spent Fuel Using Passive Fast Neutron Emission Tomography, Anagha Srikanth Iyengar
Paving New Roads for CMV Research with Chemokines and Peptides, Joseph Wilson Jackson
Navigating White Spaces: A Phenomenological Study Of Black Women’s Involvement Experiences In Predominantly White Student Organizations, Dametraus Lewis Jaggers
EVALUATION OF TIME RATE OF CONSOLIDATION AND UNDRAINED SHEAR STRENGTH OF HYDRAULICALLY PLACED FINE COAL REFUSE, Cyrus Jedari Sefidgari
Herstory: A Qualitative Examination of the Experiences of African American Women Senior Student Affairs Officers at Land-Grant Institutions, Tanisha Jenkins
The Integration of Literacy and Science: An Ethnographic Case Study set in an Appalachian Elementary School, Jody LaShay Jennings
GaN-Based High Efficiency Transmitter for Multiple-Receiver Wireless Power Transfer, Ling Jiang
On the influence of cobamides on organohalide respiration and mercury methylation, Nannan Jiang
The population genetics, ecology, and transmission of Toxoplasma gondii in North America, Tiantian Jiang
A transport study of high density helicon plasma discharges in the Prototype Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment, Nischal Kafle
Photochemical Control of Homogeneous Olefin Polymerization Catalysts, Jordan Michael Kaiser
Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of Heterogeneous Boron-Containing Cobalt Catalysts for Catalytic Transfer Hydrogenation, Michael Valentyn Kandziolka III
NUTRITIONAL STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE UTILIZATION OF NUTRIENTS IN LACTATING DAIRY COWS EXPOSED TO HEAT STRESS, Jeffrey Kaufman
A Tale of Grievance and Opportunity: Evaluating The Effects of Counterterrorism Policies, Marginalization of Groups and Irredentism on the Rise of Terrorism in the Horn of Africa., Conny Sidi Kazungu
Synthesis of Cationic TetraNHC Complexes of Cobalt, Chromium, Iron, and Platinum for Oxidative Group Transfer, Calvin L. Keller
Evaluation of Biological Signaling and Transport Molecules Using Synthetic, Computational, and Mass Spectrometric Techniques., Brandon James Kennedy
“YOU HAVE MADE NO MISTAKE IN SEEKING TO SAVE SOULS AMONG US”: CATHOLIC EVANGELIZATION AMONG BLACK NASHVILLIANS, 1898-1908, Susan Alice Kennedy
Looking and Thinking: The Relationship Between Attention Functioning and Executive Functioning in 2.5- and 3.5-year-olds, Anastasia Nicole Kerr-German
Holocene Precipitation Variability, Prehistoric Agriculture, and Natural and Human-Set Fires in Costa Rica, Matthew Timothy Kerr
Buried Alive: Analysis of Uncultured Microbes in Marine Sediments, Richard Kevorkian
Nanoscale probing of Modified Surfaces with Surface Plasmons, Vineet Kumar Khulllar
Development of Iron Nanoparticles for Medical Imaging and Therapeutic Treatments of Glioblastoma Multiforme, Julie Elizabeth King
The Social Media Decision: Why Some Terrorist Organizations Choose to Build and Utilize a Social Media Presence and Others Do Not, Justin Robert Kinney
Chemical Transformations of Hydrated Uranyl Fluoride, Marie Kirkegaard
Psychometric Validation and Comparison of the Team Development Measure and Learning Community Concepts among High School Professional Learning Community Teams, Michael Kirkland
A Second Skin: Ascetics as Body-Places in Late Antique Christianity, Kathryn Willey Kleinkopf
Investigations into fracture and vein systems in Gale crater, Mars, Rachel Emily Kronyak
Study of spin and charge dynamics in one-dimensional cuprates using resonant inelastic x-ray scattering, Umesh Kumar Kumar
The Role of Borderline Personality Features, Social Support, and Perceived Stress on Prescribed and Non-Prescribed Opioid Use during Pregnancy, Gretchen Kurdziel
The Influence of Shared Attention on Product Evaluation, Theresa Kwon
Children's Motivation for Physical Activity, Tyler Kybartas
The Transformation of a Confederate State: War and Politics on the South Carolina Home Front, 1861-1862, Eric Lager
Encapsulation of Vitamin D3 in Gum Arabic to Improve Application in Beverages and Enhance Bioavailability, Mary Ross Lamsen
Application of mechanistic models to separate the effects of mutation, selection, and drift on protein sequence evolution, Cedric Lars Landerer
A SITUATED PERSPECTIVE OF RURAL SECONDARY MATHEMATICS TEACHERS DILEMMAS AND RESOURCES, Michael Lawson
Fabrication and Electrical Characterization of Uranyl-based Semiconductors, Seth Lawson
Characterization of circulating extracellular vesicle content and PAG concentrations in pregnant sheep infected with BVDV, Andrea Sketch Lear
APPRAISING OPPORTUNITIES TO BETTER UNDERSTAND WELL-BEING AND PERFORMANCE IN THE ORGANIZATIONAL SCIENCES, Michael Paul Lerman
Improving the Isotropy of Additively Manufactured Parts by Fused Deposition Modeling: From Polymeric Self-Assembly to Reactive Processing, Neiko Levenhagen
Principals Socially Just Leadership Practices, Charlene Lewis
The ecology of soil viruses: abundance, distribution, diversity and impact on microbial community structure, Xiaolong Liang
Source Coding for Controlling Cyber Physical Systems, Liang Li
Structural and Deformation Heterogeneities of Chemically Complex Multicomponent Alloys, Tingkun Liu
Essays in Health Economics, Yinan Liu
MATH SKILLS IN BIOLOGY EDUCATION:A NEEDS ASSESSMENT OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE BIOLOGY FACULTY, Sondra M. LoRe
THE PASSOVER SEDER: THE HISTORY OF A MEMORY, Jacob F. Love
Investigation of Environmental Degradation of Plastic Scintillators, Matthew Loyd
Advances in Big Data Analytics: Algorithmic Stability and Data Cleansing, Yuping Lu
Index-Based Algorithms for Local Query Process in Large-scale Graphs, Zheng Lu
Asteroid Regolith Weathering: A Large-Scale Observational Investigation, Eric Michael MacLennan