Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2017
Nuclear Fragmentation Cross Section Modeling for Space Radiation Applications, Wouter C. de Wet
Experimental and Computational Investigation of High Entropy Alloys for Elevated-Temperature Applications, Haoyan Diao
I’m Here for a Reason: Motivational Factors of First-Generation Latino Males to Attend College, Zaragosa Jesus Diaz-Espinoza
Impact of Soil Water Content on Bermudagrass Athletic Field Performance, Kyley Hampton Dickson
Individual and Organizational Celebrity: Two Essays on Media Attributions and Organizational Agency, Laura D'Oria
Excessive Acquisition: What Is It? What Makes It Happen?, Melanie Doss
Modulation of Cell Behaviors on Photo-crosslinked Polymer Networks and Polymer Spherulites, Jinbo Dou
Assessment of genetic and education recovery plan objectives for the Bog Turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii), Cassie Marie Dresser
IDENTIFYING EXTINCTION RISK PATTERNS IN POLLINATION NETWORKS AND CONSERVATION PLANNING TO REDUCE THE COST OF MANAGEMENT-NECESSITATED TRAVEL, Christine Elise Dumoulin
A Transcriptomic Analysis of Salmonella enterica Newport In Planta and after Postharvest Sanitization, Laurel Lynn Dunn
Investigating the Properties of Superfluid He-4 through Density Functional Calculations, Matthew Francis Dutra
Capitalist Organizing and Organizations: the Case of the American Petroleum Institute, Elizabeth Ashley East
Sustainable Infrastructure Development: A Holistic System Based Decision Making Framework Integrating Vulnerability Indicators and Stakeholders Objectives, Mohamed Saeid Eid
A Survey Of Student Academic Support In Tennessee Homeless Shelters, Olga C. Eisenhower
Investigating the Regulation of Indole-3-Acetic Acid Production By the Plant Associated Microbe Pantoea sp. YR343, Kasey Noel Estenson
The Role of Protein Structural Ensembles in Thermostability and Ligand Binding, Wilfredo Evangelista Falcón
Hetero-Atom Containing Functional Polymers: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications, Hongbo Feng
Linearly Preconditioned Nonlinear Solvers for Phase Field Equations Involving p-Laplacian Terms, Wenqiang Feng
WOMEN’S HELP-SEEKING BEHAVIOR FOR INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, Ahmet Fidan
Molecular phylogenetic studies of the genera of tribe Polygonateae (Asparagaceae: Nolinoideae): Disporopsis, Heteropolygonatum, and Polygonatum., Aaron Jennings Floden
Rural Appalachian Person and Family Decision Making at End of Life, Mary Lou Clark Fornehed
Conservation Decisions: Designing, Financing and Fundraising for Protected Areas, Rachel Elizabeth Fovargue
Predicting Academic Performance on High-Stakes Tests: Development of the Brief Behavior, Academic, and Social Screener (B-BASS), Trisha Danielle Franklin
The Relationship Between Teachers’ Subject Matter Knowledge for Teaching and Student Achievement in Struggling and Non-Struggling Students, Jami Terese Garner
On Laser-induced Plasma Containing Hydrogen, Ghaneshwar Gautam
Excitations of Quasi-Particles in Nanostructured Systems, Jingxuan Ge
Twenty-‐first Century Deindustrialization and Uneven Development in Appalachia, Katherine Custis Gerlaugh
Electricity and Fuel Consumption in a Lean Energy Supply Chain, Mostafa GhafooriVarzaneh
Novel Fission Track Detection for Identification and Characterization of Special Nuclear Materials, Jonathan Allen Gill
Development of High Performance Gas Separation Membranes through Intelligent Catalyst and Monomer Design, Kevin Richard Gmernicki
Total Absorption Spectroscopy of Neutron Rich Nuclei Across the N=50 Neutron Shell Closure, Kathleen Conner Goetz
Variation in Cortical Bone Distribution in the Aging Adult Appendicular Skeleton, Alice Fazlollah Gooding
Perceptions of Administrators in Facilitating Change and Establishing a Positive School Culture in a New School, Elizabeth Anne Gotcher
Sustainability analysis for new technologies of biofuels and Additive Manufacturing, Nelson A. Granda Marulanda
Regeneration of Imperiled Hardwoods in the Eastern United States, Joshua J. Granger
A Grounded Theory Inquiry into Crying in Women Dealing with the Emotional Stress of Personal Crisis, Mary Bess Griffith
Functional Characterization of Integrated Chemotaxis Pathways and Proteins in the Soil Bacterium, Azospirillum brasilense, Jessica Marie Gullett
Monolithic Perimeter Gated Single Photon Avalanche Diode Based Optical Detector in Standard CMOS, Md. Habib Ullah Habib
Graph-Theoretical Tools for the Analysis of Complex Networks, Ronald Dewayne Hagan
Meso-Scale Behavior Characterization of “Tunable” Clay-Polymer Composites, Bijoy Krishna Halder
The Impact of Increased Tax Return Reporting on Financial Statement Tax Disclosure Quality: Evidence from IRS Schedule UTP, Michelle Kim Harding
Systematics and Biogeography of the Cortinarius violaceus group and Sequestrate Evolution in Cortinarius (Agaricales), Emma Harrower
The impact of rewards on the effectiveness of performance feedback in improving writing production in elementary school students, Leslie Allison Hart
Investigating trends and processes that impact tree species diversity of southern forests at the landscape level, Andrew J. Hartsell
An Optimization Method for Matched Abundance-Ratio Cascades by Varying the Key Weight, Richard Dale Harvey
MODELING AND SPICE IMPLEMENTATION OF SILICON-ON-INSULATOR (SOI) FOUR GATE (G4FET) TRANSISTOR, Md Sakib Hasan
Irish Harps, Scottish Fiddles, English Pens: Romantic Satire and British Nationalism, Shannon Raelene Heath
Population, Consumption, and Procreation: Ethical Implications for Humanity’s Future, Trevor Grant Hedberg
Assessing the Economic Tradeoffs Between Prevention and Suppression of Forest Fires, Elizabeth Trulia Heines
Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant symbionts determine plant performance, the maintenance of diversity, and response to global change, Jeremiah A. Henning
Detection, Diversity, and Evolution of Fungal Nitric Oxide Reductases (P450nor), Steven Adam Higgins
Philosophical Self-Presentation in Late Antique Cappadocia, Stefan Vernon Hodges-Kluck
Development of High-performing Polydimethylsiloxane-based Membranes for Carbon Dioxide Separation, Tao Hong
Optimal Allocation of Dynamic Var Sources Addressing FIDVR Issues, Weihong Huang
Examining the role of therapeutic alliance, split alliance, and gender on couples’ relationship satisfaction following a brief couple intervention, Jessica Andrea Hughes
Bioinformatic and Experimental Approaches for Deeper Metaproteomic Characterization of Complex Environmental Samples, Ramsunder Mahadevan Iyer
Some Novel Approaches to Control Stromal Keratitis, Ujjaldeep Jaggi
Dataflow Programming Paradigms for Computational Chemistry Methods, Heike Jagode
Efficient Methods for Multidimensional Global Polynomial Approximation with Applications to Random PDEs, Peter A. Jantsch
INTRUSION DETECTION OF A SIMULATED SCADA SYSTEM USING A DATA-DRIVEN MODELING APPROACH, Brien Alen Jeffries
The Role of Supply Chain Resource Orchestration and Supply Chain Knowledge in Improving Product Launch Performance in Emerging Markets, Matthew Troy Jenkins
Localization of Large Scale Structures, Ryan James Jensen
A Household Approach to Reconstructing the Townsend Sites in East Tennessee, U.S.A.: Foodways and Daily Practice within a Mississippian Settlement, Jessie Luella Johanson
On the construction and interpretation of fitness landscapes for HIV: a computational perspective, Elizabeth Grace Johnson
Characterization of the Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine IL-1[beta] on Butyrate Metabolism in Colorectal Cancer Cells, Megan Elizabeth Johnstone
Analysis and Design of Communication Avoiding Algorithms for Out of Memory(OOM) SVD, Khairul Kabir
The Impact of Photography on Tourism: Photography Construction Perspective, Justin Kaewnopparat
STUDY ON AGRICULTURAL TRACTOR OPERATOR SAFETY IN ROLLOVER ACCIDENTS, Farzaneh Khorsandi Kouhanestani
Essays in Applied Health Economics, Bongkyun Kim
Almost Symmetries and the Unit Commitment Problem, Bernard Albert Knueven
Evaluating the Effects of Wearable Technologies to Improve Physical Activity Levels for College Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Kelly Nicole Kraiss
Surface Energy in Bond-Counting Models on Bravais and Non-Bravais Lattices, Tim Ryan Krumwiede
An Optimization Framework for Integrating Variable Capacity and Pavement Thickness Requirements in Highway Cost Allocation, Saurav Kumar Dubey
NESTLE to ORIGAMI Coupling: A Nuclear Non-proliferation Tool for LWR Fuel Assembly Isotope Analysis, Margaret Alva Kurtts
Development and Implementation of a Forward Solution Hip Mathematical Model to Determine In Vivo Mechanics and Predict Hip Separation, Michael Thomas LaCour
Elementary Pre-service Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Digitized Visual Primary Sources in the Social Studies, Alicia Lankford Laffoon
Spatio-Temporal Characterization of Arctic Landscapes Using Geospatial Analytics, Zachary Lance Langford
United States Elite Youth Tennis Athletes’ Use of Psychological Strategies in Competition, Emily Earlynn Lauer
‘IT’S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE’: EMPLOYEES’ LIVED EXPERIENCES AND THE ESSENCE OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT, Laura Lou Lemon
Catalytic Hydrodeoxygenation and Dehydration of Bioderived Oxygenates to Renewable Hydrocarbon Building Block Molecules: Enabling Renewable Carbon Fiber, Andrew Walter Lepore
Managing exoelectrogenic microbial community development through bioprocess control for conversion of biomass-derived streams, Alex James Lewis
Advanced Purification and Direct-Write 3D Nanoprinting Via Focused Electron Beam Induced Deposition, Brett Bloxton Lewis
Essays in Behavioral Economics, Jing Li
Errors and Truths from Transportation Data Aggregation: Some Implications for Research and Practice, Hyeonsup Lim
Surface Modification of Pillar Array Systems for Chromatography and Fluorescence Enhancement, Danielle Ruth Lincoln
Using the suprachiasmatic nucleus as a model system to assess tolerance and withdrawal to alcohol, Jonathan Houghton Lindsay