Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2016
Development and Application of 3-D Fuel Performance Modeling to Assess Missing Pellet Surface Influence on Pellet Clad Interaction and Clad Failure, Nathan Allen Capps
Wide-Area Measurement-Based Applications for Power System Monitoring and Dynamic Modeling, Jidong Chai
Biochemistry and Evolution of the Phytohormone-methylating SABATH Methyltransferase in Plants, Minta Chaiprasongsuk
TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER? UNPACKING PERSISTENCE AND EXAMINING ITS IMPACT ON SALESPERSON PERFORMANCE, Nawar Naim Chaker
Catalytic Aziridination with a Borate-containing N-Heterocyclic Tetracarbene Iron Complex, Preeti Pradip Chandrachud
Response of Microbial Community Structure to Clay Flocculation of Harmful Algal Blooms, Chunyi Chen
Purchase Decision Type Influences on Consumers’ Reliance: Brand-Related User-Generated Content, Hyuk Jun Cheong
Spatial Crowding and Confinement Effects on Bursty Gene Expression, Charles Wei-Shing Chin
Investigation of localized performance and gas evolution in all-vanadium redox flow batteries via in-situ distributed diagnostic techniques, Jason Thomas Clement
Investigating the Role of Testosterone Signaling at Androgen Receptors in Resiliency to Social Stress, Catherine Tucker Clinard
Influences on Self-Regulated Learning in Low-Income Children: Examining the Role of Private and Social Speech as Self-Regulation Tools, Lisa Ann Connor
Developing and Implementing a LGBT Family Studies Course: A Pre-Post Evaluation, Kathryn Alexandra Conrad
A Critical Historical Geography of Slavery in the American South, Matthew Russell Cook
Synthesis, Reactivity, and NMR Trends of Early Transition Metal Compounds, Tabitha Marie Cook
A Characterization of Human Burial Signatures using Spectroscopy and LIDAR, Katie Ann Corcoran
Turbine Engine Rotor Blade Damage Detection through the Analysis of Vibration of Stationary Components, Jon Rylan Cox
Essays in Policy Analysis, Michael Philip Craig
Investigating the effects of commonly implemented school safety strategies on school social work practitioners, Matthew James Cuellar
High Voltage Point of Load Converter for Data Center Power Supplies, Yutian Cui
College Student Engagement Patterns in Small Group Learning Activities Conducted in Courses Organized using a Flipped Learning Instructional Pedagogy, John Creighton Cummins
New Perspectives on the Seventeenth-Century Protohistoric Period in East Tennessee: Redefining the Period through Glass Trade Bead and Ceramic Analyses, Jessica Nicole Dalton-Carriger
What They Say: Student Voices in Nursing Simulation, Andrea McMahan Damewood
Conditional Computation in Deep and Recurrent Neural Networks, Andrew Scott Davis
Optimization of Metabolomics Data Processing with Applications Towards the Profiling of Microbial Consortia, Stephen Patrick Dearth
Exploring the Professional Identity Development of Counselors-In-Training through Experiential Small Groups, Amanda Christine DeDiego
The Decline of Agriculture and the Rise of Republican Party Strength in the South, John Marshall Dickey
Kinematic, Metamorphic, and Geochronologic Constraints on the Evolution of the Lhagoi Kangri Gneiss Dome, Southern Tibet: Insight into Mid-Crustal Processes During Himalayan Orogenesis, Timothy Francis Diedesch
Stochastic and Optimal Distributed Control for Energy Optimization and Spatially Invariant Systems, Jin Dong
3D Multi-Scale Behavior of Granular Materials using Experimental and Numerical Techniques, Andrew Michael Druckrey
Adopting 3D Time-of-Flight Sensing Technology for Design Information Verification in International Safeguards, Matthew Stephen Duchene
Patristic Precedent and Vernacular Innovation: the Practice and Theory of Anglo-Saxon Translation, Andrew Timothy Eichel
Essays in Applied Economics: Applications of Transformed Ordinal Quantile Regression, Okila R. Elboeva
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