Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2016
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
Design and Implementation of an Integrated Biosensor Platform for Lab-on-a-Chip Diabetic Care Systems, Khandaker Abdullah Al Mamun
The Conway Polynomial and Amphicheiral Knots, Vajira Asanka Manathunga
On the quantification of complexity and diversity from phenotypes to ecosystems, Zachary Harrison Marion
Mozarab Readers of the Bible, From the Córdoban Martyrs to the Glossa Ordinaria, Geoffrey Kyle Martin
Quantitative Metrics for Comparison of Hyper-dimensional LSA Spaces for Semantic Differences, John Christopher Martin
Examining the Writing Motivation and Achievement of At-Risk Elementary-Aged Students, Melissa Sue Martin
Reducing Power Consumption and Latency in Mobile Devices using a Push Event Stream Model, Kernel Display Server, and GUI Scheduler, Stephen Gregory Marz
A Comparative Study on Calcification of Aortic Valves, Shirin Masjedi
Variable selection via penalized regression and the genetic algorithm using information complexity, with applications for high-dimensional -omics data, Tyler J. Massaro
Becoming a Mathematics Teacher: Identity, Narratives, and Resources, Ellen Burleson Matheny
Perceiving Sexual Consent: The Effects of Gender and Alcohol Use on Perceptions of Sexual Consent, Sarah Elizabeth Mauck
A Biologically Informed Structure to Accuracy in Osteometric Reassociation, Kyle Mccormick
Mass and Charge Transport in Hydrated Polymeric Membranes, Marshall T. McDonnell
Technological Adaptations at Dust Cave, Alabama (1LU496): An Evaluation of Organizational Strategies from the Late Paleoindian to the Middle Archaic, Katherine Elizabeth McMillan
An Analysis of Skeletal Trauma Patterning of Accidental and Intentional Injury, Shauna Lynn McNulty
Lignin-based Li-Ion Anode Materials Synthesized from Low-Cost Renewable Resources, Nicholas William McNutt
Next Generation In-Vivo Forward Solution Physiological Model of the Human Lower Limb to Predict Implanted Knee Mechanics, Bradley Allen Meccia
Transgender Self-Attitudes: Formation and Change A Qualitative Study, Juliet Ezhil Meggs
Mining Uranium from Seawater: A Coordination Chemistry Approach, Nada Mehio
Gothic Naturalism and American Women Writers, Stephanie Ann Metz
THE EFFECT OF SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSES AMONG THE HISTORIC ARIKARA NATIVE AMERICANS, Jocelyn Diana Minsky-Rowland
Dynamics and Self-assembly of Single and Multi-component Polymeric Flows: A Mesoscopic Computational Study, Mouge Mohagheghi
MOLECULAR AND ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN AUREOCOCCUS ANOPHAGEFFERENS AND ITS GIANT VIRUS, Mohammad Moniruzzaman
Utilizing Cover Crops to Improve Sustainability of Conventional Weed Management Programs, Garret Brown Montgomery
Plant-microbe interactions influence ecosystem processes: the role of roots and mycorrhizal fungal hyphae on terrestrial carbon dynamics, Jessica Andrea Moore
Public Support for Social Welfare Policies: A Cross-National Examination, Andrew Lee Morelock
The Effect of Illumination on the Conformation and Thermodynamics of Conjugated Polymers, Brian Frank Morgan
The Scruffy City: Development in Knoxville, TN, Katherine Leigh Morris
COHESION WITHOUT COHESINS IN DROSOPHILA MEIOSIS, Avik Mukherjee
Development of an f-element separation chemistry using solid electrolytes, Kristian Guy Myhre
Pigment dispersing factor: Transcriptional regulation and its role in metabolism in Drosophila melanogaster, Sudershana Nair
Bayesian-based Methods for Transitioning Between Prognostic Estimates to Leverage Available Data, Alan Y. Nam
Electron Transport to Photosystem I by Soluble Carriers: Evolution of the Interacting Pair, Khoa Dang Nguyen
The Hunt for Lost Blood: Nazi Germanization Policy in Occupied Europe, Bradley Jared Nichols
Effects of Television Viewing On Psycho-Physiological And Behavioral Outcomes, Brittany Star Overstreet
Parables of Love: Reading the Romances of Chrétien de Troyes through Bernard of Clairvaux, Carrie D. Pagels
ANTHRAX MODELS INVOLVING IMMUNOLOGY, EPIDEMIOLOGY AND CONTROLS, Buddhi Raj Pantha
Improving Metabolic Engineering and Characterization of Clostridium thermocellum for Improved Cellulosic Ethanol Production, Beth Alexandra Papanek
Development and Validation of a Crisis Self-Efficacy Scale, Sejin Park
Cross-Functional Integration in the Supply Chain: Construct Development and the Impact of Workplace Behaviors, Daniel A. Pellathy
La censura católica literaria durante la Posguerra española: Traspasando las fronteras de la ideología franquista., Ángela Pérez del Puerto
Algorithms and Methods for Optimizing the Spent Nuclear Fuel Allocation Strategy, Gordon Matthew Petersen
Impedance-Resolved Performance and Durability in Redox Flow Batteries, Alan Michael Pezeshki
How Do People in Animal Welfare Fields Respond to Family Violence Situations?, Bethanie Allison Poe
Mathematical Approaches to Sustainability Assessment and Protocol Development for the Bioenergy Sustainability Target Assessment Resource (Bio-STAR), Nathan Louis Pollesch
Examining the Nature and Consequences of Interfunctional Bias in a Corporate Setting, William Adam Powell
Essays on Environmental Policy Instruments, Emissions Leakage and Public Policy, Shreekar Pradhan
Magnetic Local Positioning System with Supplemental Magnetometer-Accelerometer Data Fusion, Benjamin Scott Prothro
New Insights Into An Old Interaction: Developing A Model For PAI-1:VN Interactions, Letitia Nichole Puster
Elucidating the effects of metabolic state on nanoparticle distribution in mice and in vitro uptake, Kevin James Quigley
Development of the Coach Autonomy Support Beliefs Scale, Johannes Jakob Raabe
Individual variation in plant traits drives species interactions, ecosystem functioning, and responses to global change, Quentin Daniel Read
An Intelligent Robot and Augmented Reality Instruction System, Christopher M. Reardon
College Adjustment, Discrimination, and Social Support among Students of Color, Daniela Andrea Recabarren
Advancing Social Justice Through Conflict Resolution Amid Rapid Urban Transformation of the San Francisco Bay Area, Amanda Jo Reinke
Metabolomics approaches to decipher the antibacterial mechanisms of yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis) against Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, Caroline Sue Rempe
Whole Genome Sequencing as a Tool for Identifying Phenotypic Properties and Underlying Genetic Mechanisms in Staphylococcus pseudintermedius, Matthew C. Riley
Shelley's Delusive Flames: Self and Poetry in The Major Works, Brent Steven Robida
Native American Young Adults in their Transition to College, and Persistence Through the First Year, Adrian Alexander Rodriguez
Novel Methods and Sensors for the Analysis of Trace Chemicals with Potential Environmental Applications, Samuel Mason Rosolina