Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2016
Computational Analyses of mRNA Ribosome Loading in Arabidopsis Thaliana, Joseph Benjamin Ernest
Family Experiences with Standardized Assessments Leading to Participation in the Opt Out Movement, Christy Lee Evans
Can Curriculum-based Measures and Teacher Ranking Predict End-of-year Achievement for Students Who are Gifted or High-achieving?, Bruce Alan Ewing
"Our Village Approach": The story of how one African American family educates their children, Sherrie Lynn Fairchild-Keyes
Bi-Level Optimization Considering Uncertainties of Wind Power and Demand Response, Xin Fang
Psychometric Properties of Three Common Depression Measures in Breast Cancer Patients with Major Depressive Disorder, Audrey Ashton File
Modeling Prehistoric Health in the Middle Cumberland Region of Tennessee: Mississippian Populations on the Threshold of Collapse, Christina Laiz Fojas
AEROBIC BACTERIAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF LIGNIN-DERIVED AROMATIC COMPOUNDS, Ashley Marie Frank
Eco-Fashion Consumption: Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory, Wei Fu
Feedback-Directed Management of Performance and Power for Emerging Computer Systems, Xing Fu
Development of a Reactor Physics Analysis Procedure for the Plank-Based and Liquid Salt-Cooled Advanced High Temperature Reactor, Cole Andrew Gentry
MULTI-PHYSICS MODELING, Ahmadreza Ghahremani
Development, Synthesis, and Analysis of Surrogate Post-Detonation Nuclear Melt Glass, Andrew Vincent Giminaro
Temperature Dependent Mechanical Behavior of Solid Acids, Ryan Scott Ginder
Experiencing Defeat, Remembering Victory: The Army of Tennessee in War and Memory, 1861-1930, Robert Lamar Glaze
Long-Term Treatment with Insulin and Retinoic Acid Increased Glucose Usage in L6 Muscle Cells via Glycogenesis, Matthew Ray Goff
Kinetic Monte Carlo Models for Crystal Defects, Kyle Louis Golenbiewski
Nepantla as her Place in the Middle: Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in the Writings of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Nicole Lynn Gomez
Fundamental physics with cold neutron beams, Kyle Brandon Grammer
Student and Instructor Experiences with Types of Teaching and Learning in a Computer Course, Emily Carter Gray
Actinium-225 Production via Proton Irradiation of Thorium-232, Justin Reed Griswold
Integrating the Cost of Quality into Multi-Products Multi-Components Supply Chain Network Design, Waleed Abdussalam Gueir
Data Analytics and Application Developments Based on Synchrophasor Measurements, Jiahui Guo
Face Centered Image Analysis Using Saliency and Deep Learning Based Techniques, Rui Guo
Virtue, Evidence, and Epistemic Justification, Alexander Steven Hallam
A TOOL KIT FOR BUILDING HBCU TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORKS USING AN ADVANCED PLANNING SYSTEM, Clovia Hamilton
STRESS, COPING, AND WELL BEING OF AFRICAN AMERICAN COLLEGE WOMEN: A GROUNDED THEORY STUDY, Christine R. Hannon
Applications of Business Analytics in Marketing: Joint Modeling of Correlated Multivariate Outcomes, Sumin Han
Viewing Power, Politics, and Loss: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Mass Media’s Representations of Teacher Unions in the United States and the Consequences Concerning Policy, Melissa Ann Harness
Pulsed-Laser Induced Dewetting of Metallic Nanostructures, Christopher Aidan Hartnett
Anthropocentrism and the Long-Term: Nietzsche as an Environmental Thinker, Andrew Nolan Hatley
Performance Analysis and Modeling of Task-Based Runtimes, Blake Andrew Haugen
Spin Flipper, Neutron Polarimetry, and Simulation, for the n3He Experiment, Christopher Bradshaw Hayes
Academic Outcomes in Higher Education for Students Screened as Twice-Exceptional: Gifted with a Learning Disability in Math or Reading, Elizabeth Ann Hays
Administrative Support in an East Tennessee Rural School District During the Change to Common Core State Standards, Victoria Lyn Henley
Synthesis and Behavior of Stimuli-Responsive Shape-Changing Linear Molecular Bottlebrushes, Daniel Mark Henn
Therapy Dogs in the College Classroom: The Effect of Dogs on Stress, Anxiety, and Spanish L2 Phonological Learning and Performance, Elaine Maralee Henry
Innocence Revisited: Nineteenth-Century Literature in the Works of C. S. Lewis, Heather Louise Nation Hess
Institutional Expenditures and State Economic Factors Influencing 2012-2014 Public University Graduation Rates, Brian Todd Hester
STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF CNT YARNS AND CNT/CNF REINFORCED PAN-BASED CARBON FIBERS, Nitilaksha Phalaxayya Hiremath
Decoding the cellular zipcode: Functional analysis of transit peptide motifs and mechanistic implications in plastid targeting and import, Kristen N. Holbrook
Duality of Scales, Michael Christopher Holloway
The Effect of Attractive Polymer-Nanoparticle Interactions on the Local Segmental Dynamics of Polymer Nanocomposites, Adam Prillaman Holt
Re-Mapping the Space of the Sacred in the Nowell Codex, Teresa Marie Hooper
Studies of Uncertainties in Smart Grid: Wind Power Generation and Wide-Area Communication, Can Huang
Functional Role of Each Component in Gamma Secretase Complex, Chen Hu
Real-time Voltage Stability Monitoring and Control for Load Areas: A Hybrid Approach, Fengkai Hu
A Quantitative Genetic Analysis of Limb Segment Morphology in Humans and Other Primates: Genetic Variance, Morphological Integration, and Linkage Analysis, Brannon Irene Hulsey
Synthesis and Characterization of New Multifunctional Initiators for Anionic Polymerization and the Use of Poly(4-hydroxystyrene) as a Template for new Polymers, Christopher Michael Hurley
Deterministic Neutron Transport and Multiphysics Experimental Safety Analyses at the High Flux Isotope Reactor, Christopher James Hurt
Complex Non-equilibrium Structural Dynamics in Globular Proteins, Xiaohu Hu
Ethnic Discrimination and Psychological Distress among Middle Eastern/Arab Americans: The Roles of Religiosity, Coping, Ethnic Identity, and Family Connectedness, Ayse Selin Ikizler
Governance of Supply Chain Information Flows, Joonhwan In
Geomorphology, Stratigraphy, and Paleohydrology of the Aeolis Dorsa region, Mars, with Insights from Modern and Ancient Terrestrial Analogs, Robert Eric Jacobsen II
THE FAMILY TIES THAT BIND: ESSAYS THAT EXAMINE AND EXTEND THE MICROFOUNDATIONS OF SOCIOEMOTIONAL WEALTH THEORY, David Scott Jiang
Computational Identification of Terpene Synthase Genes and Their Evolutionary Analysis, Qidong Jia
Reconstructing Late Holocene Fire, Agriculture, and Climate from Sediment Records in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic, Erik Nicholas Johanson
“Will the Crested Cranes be there in the future?” An exploration of the Ugandan Senior Women’s National Football Team, Alicia Jane Johnson
HerStory: Dr. Ruth Simmons’ Journey to the Presidency, Patricia Yvette Jones
Attitudes and Barriers to Women’s Participation in a Proposed Community-Based Conservation Program in Western Belize, Amanda Shay Kaeser
ROLE OF INSIDE DIRECTORS IN MITIGATING NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF OUTSIDE DIRECTORS’ BUSYNESS, Syed Mainuddin Kamal
Effect of exposure to 3,4,4′-Trichlorocarbanilide (TCC) during critical developmental life stages, Rebekah Charlene Kennedy
Remediating Secondary Alternative School Students’ Academic Outcomes Using the Writing and Sharing Connections Process, Laura Karen Kildare
THE IMPACTS OF REGULATORY FOCUS AND TEMPORAL DISTANCE ON THE EVALUATION OF ONLINE CONSUMER REVIEWS, Seeun Kim
A Generalized Method for Fissile Material Characterization Using Short-Lived Fission Product Gamma Spectroscopy, Justin Richard Knowles
Dynamic Modeling and Renewable Integration Studies on the U.S. Power Grids, Gefei Kou
Characterization of an Ethylene Receptor in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, Randy Francis Lacey
Sketches, Impressions and Confessions: Literature as Experiment in the Nineteenth Century, Andrew Ragsdale Lallier
Shades of Green: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. Green Economies, Jenna Ann Lamphere
The Environmental Effects of Trade and Environmental Policy Within and Across Sectors, Lawrence Dale LaPlue III
“I Haven’t Worked to be a Token:” A Narrative Inquiry of the Experiences of Eight Black Female Assistant Coaches in NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball, Leslie Kaye Larsen
Design and Construction of Designer Bioester Libraries for Validation of the Modular Cell Theory, Donovan Layton
Modeling Feral Hogs in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Benjamin Anthony Levy
A Characterization Study on Catalyst Layers in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells, Luyue Li
Interaction between Charge-transfer States Studied by Magnetic Field Effects, Mingxing Li
Material and Process Engineering for Bulk Single Crystal Growth of High Performance Scintillator Potassium Calcium Iodide, Adam Coleman Lindsey
DEVELOPMENT OF INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR AN INTEGRAL LARGE SCALE PRESSURIZED WATER REACTOR, Matthew Rowland Morrow Lish
Exploring Thermoelectric Effect Based on Multi-layer Conductor/Organic/Conductor Devices, Qing Liu
Extension Theorems on Matrix Weighted Sobolev Spaces, Christopher Ryan Loga
Principals' Perceptions of the Tennessee Teacher Tenure Law: A Concurrent Mixed Methods Study, David John Lomascolo
Living Alongside: A Narrative Inquiry into the Impact of Reflective Practice Training in Real Life, Patricia Randall Long
Development and Initial Validation of a Flipped Classroom Adoption Inventory in Higher Education, Taotao Long
Design and Analysis of a Fully-Integrated Resonant Gate Driver, Yu Long
Neuropsychological Effects of Placebo Stimulants in College Students, Samantha Jayne Lookatch
God's Brush Arbor: Camp Meeting Culture during the Second Great Awakening, 1800-1860, Keith Dwayne Lyon
Out of School Time Science Programs: Examining a Program’s Impacts on the Science Identities of Middle School Female Participants, Elizabeth Ripley MacTavish
Neurally Plausible Model of Robot Reaching Inspired by Infant Motor Babbling, Zahra Mahoor
“/ENTEE MIN FAINE/? [WHERE ARE YOU FROM?]": THE RHETORIC OF NATIONALITY OF MUSLIM WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHEAST, Bushra Mohammad Malaibari
Symbiotic plasmonic nanomaterials: Synthesis and properties, Abhinav Malasi