Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2015
Labor Unions and Economic Inequality in the Wealthy Democracies, Eric Graig Castater
An Application of Path-Percolation Theory and Lattice-Boltzmann Model on Mass Transfer in Inhomogeneous Porous Media, Ozgur Cekmer
Advances in High-Throughput Analysis: Automated Radiochemical Separations and Nanopillar based Separations and Field Enhanced Spectroscopy, Jennifer Jeanne Charlton
Ion Irradiation-induced Microstructural Change in SiC, Chien-Hung Chen
Salmonella in Low Water Activity Foods: Physiological, genetic modification and control methods, Wei Chen
Calibration and Rescaling Principles for Nonlinear Inverse Heat Conduction and Parameter Estimation Problems, Yinyuan Chen
Linking physiology and biogeography: Disentangling the constraints on the distributions of ant species, Lacy Danikas Chick
Isolated Wired and Wireless Battery Charger with Integrated Boost Converter for PHEV and EV Applications, Madhu Sudhan Chinthavali
GlyR3 regulation in Clostridium thermocellum, Jinlyung Choi
Hyperspectral Data Acquisition and Its Application for Face Recognition, Woon Cho
Analysis of the U.S. Electric Power Industry, Yin Chu
3D KINEMATIC AND STRENGTH BEHAVIOR OF GRANULAR MATERIALS AT THE PARTICLE-LEVEL, Mehmet Burak Cil
Effective field theory approach to collective motion in atomic nuclei, Eduardo Antonio Coello Perez
The Effects of a Historical Perspective Taking Scenario Activity on Classroom Discussion, William Gary Cole
Domain Decomposition Methods for Discontinuous Galerkin Approximations of Elliptic Problems, Craig Dwain Collins
Hybrid K-edge Densitometry as a Method for Materials Accountancy Measurements in Pyrochemical Reprocessing, Matthew Tyler Cook
The Academic Writing of Evangelical Undergraduates, Emily Ann Cope
ALTERNATING CURRENT ELECTROKINETICS BASED CAPACITIVE AFFINITY BIOSENSOR: A POINT-OF-CARE DIAGNOSTIC PLATFORM, Haochen Cui
A 3rd Generation Frequency Disturbance Recorder: A Secure, Low Cost Synchophasor Measurement Device, Jerel Alan Culliss
Freelancers on the Frontline: Influences on Conflict Coverage, Denae Lynn D'Arcy
Interface and Morphology Engineering in Solution-Processed Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices, Sanjib Das
Student Persistence in Career and Technical Education: A Multi-Sample, Mixed-Method Evaluation of Student Services, Brittany Jo Daulton
Solution and Surface Properties of Architecturally- and Compositionally-Complex Block Copolymers and their Binary Mixtures, Jesse Lawrence Davis
Crafting Memory and My Collector, Katherine Ann Davis
Undergraduate Women in the STEM Fields and the Use of Academic Library Resources and Services, Rebecca O'Kelly Davis
The role of Phosphatidylserine and Phosphatidylethanolamine in Candida albicans virulence, Sarah Elizabeth Davis
The Identification of Regulatory Impacts Using Panel Data, Jie Deng
Investigating advection control in competitive PDE systems and environmental transmission in Johne's Disease ODE models, Kokum Rekha De Silva
You Kind of Have to Prove It: Gender Microaggressions within the Lived Experiences of Women in Engineering, Crystal Rose Diaz-Espinoza
Numerical Analysis of Convex Splitting Schemes for Cahn-Hilliard and Coupled Cahn-Hilliard-Fluid-Flow Equations, Amanda Emily Diegel
CMV Chemokines and Co-infection: A Dissemination Plot that Peptides Can Foil, Pranay Dogra
Batched Linear Algebra Problems on GPU Accelerators, Tingxing Dong
Assessment of Biomass Burning and Mineral Dust Impacts on Air Quality and Regional Climate, Xinyi Dong
The Development and Validation of the Self-Efficacy in Statistical Practices Scale, Niranji Anuradha Pathirage Dopa Pathirage
Characterization of Optimal Cyber Attacks on Control Systems, Anis Drira
Investigating Cranial Variation in Japanese Populations Using Geometric Morphometrics, Beatrix Dudzik
Illusions of Safety: Poems, Stephanie Elaine Dugger
The Effect of Composition and Architecture on Polymer Behavior in Homopolymer Blends and Inter-filament Bonding in 3D Printed Models, Edward Roy Duranty
Bulk Heterojunctions in Photovoltaic Devices, Ondrej Edward Dyck
ION TRANSPORT IN POLYMER ELECTROLYTES, Fei Fan
An Examination of High-Achieving College Students: Career Indecision and Career Thoughts, Justina Anne Farley
Analysis of Productivity Indicators: Perceptions of Administrators and Faculty Serving at Religiously Affiliated Private Colleges and Universities, Mark Jeremy Farley
The Perpetration of Adulthood Animal Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence in Men and Women Arrested for Domestic Violence, Jeniimarie Febres
Rogue and Deviants: A Game-Theoretic Perspective on Opportunism in Strategic Alliance Relationships, Anton Pavol Fenik
A Model for the Rapid Distribution of Critical Medical Countermeasures to Large U.S. Populations During a Public Health Emergency via the SNS-RSS-POD System, Roger Ivan Fiske
DAQ Software Contributions, Absolute Scale Energy Calibration and Background Evaluation for the NOvA Experiment at Fermilab, Eric Flumerfelt
The State of Inclusive Practices for English Learners in Georgia’s Elementary Schools: A Mixed Methods Study of the ESOL Push-in Model, Eileen Pabilona Galang
The Design of Novel DCB-3503 Analogues: Ligand-Based and Structure-Based Approaches, Yundi Gan
Public Service Motivation: A Cross-National Examination of East Asian Countries, Jin Gao
An Exploration of the Relationships among Faculty Verbal Messages, College Student Identities, and Student Outcomes, Michelle Epstein Garland
Assessment of Reactivity Equivalence for Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuels in Light Water Reactors, Nathan Michael George
TARGETING EARLY EVENTS IN HERPETIC STROMAL KERATITIS, Fernanda Giménez
Neuron Clustering for Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Supervised and Reinforcement Learning, Benjamin Frederick Goodrich
All-Acrylic Multigraft Copolymers: Synthesis and Structure-Property Relationship for Producing Next Generation Thermoplastic Elastomers, Andrew Brown Goodwin
The Roles of Facilitators in Implementation and Effectiveness of In-School Suspension (ISS): A Qualitative Study, Gia Renee Gray
Evaluation, Construction, and Verification of a Subchannel Steady State Heat Transfer Code for Plate-Fueled Reactors, Cory Landon Griffard
Epidemiology of select species of filarial nematodes in free-ranging moose (Alces alces) of North America, Caroline Mae Grunenwald
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Irradiation Damage in Multicomponent Alloys, Wei Guo
Two Essays on the Effects of External Pressure on Executive Compensation: Evidenced Through Political Sensitivity and Pay for Performance Disclosure, Brandy Elaine Hadley
Examination of Banded Iron Formation Through Petrographic, Geochemical and Iron Isotope Analyses, Melissa Margaret Hage
A site-specific and dynamic modeling system for zoning and optimizing variable rate irrigation in cotton, Amir Haghverdi
On The Spin Evolution Of Isolated Pulsars, Oliver Quinn Hamil
Self-Learning License Plate Matching Algorithm: Some Enhancements and Its Role in Travel Time Ground Truth Measurements, Stephanie Raven Ann Hargrove
Nucleosynthesis in Self-Consistent Core-Collapse Supernova Models using Multidimensional Chimera Simulations, James Austin Harris
Methodology For Generating Simplified Cross Section Data Sets For Neutron Transport Calculations, Thomas Jay Harrison
An Historical Archaeology of Early Modern Manhood in the Potomac River Valley of Virginia, 1645-1730, Danny Brad Hatch
Social Systems and Psychic Confluence: Flash Mobs, Communications, and Agency, Nicholas John Hauman
Consolidation in U.S. Higher Education: A Case Study of a Regional Institution, Douglas V. Hawks
Group Brainstorming in Organizations: Implementing the Functional Theory of Group Decision-Making as a Means for Increasing Performance, Kyle B. Heuett
The Matter of Jerusalem: The Holy Land in Angevin Court Culture and Identity, c. 1154-1216, Katherine Lee Hodges-Kluck
Aeroelastic Analysis of a Wind Turbine Blade Using the Harmonic Balance Method, Jason Charles Howison
Engineering the “Pluripotency” of Zr-based Bulk Metallic Glasses as Biomedical Materials, Lu Huang
Age Estimation with Decision Trees: Testing the Relevance of 94 Aging Indicators on the William M. Bass Donated Collection, Kevin Benjamin Dominic Hufnagl
Designing Novel 1,2,3- and 1,2,4-Triazoles for Coordination Complexes and Frameworks, Brianna Celiese Hughes
Studies of Metalloporphyrins and Tantalum Amide Imide Compounds, Seth Carlton Hunter
Exploring Novel Environmental Link to Obesity: Role of Parabens in Adipogenesis in vitro and in vivo, Pan Hu
Incentive based Residential Demand Aggregation, Qinran Hu
Why Do U.S. Consumers Purchase Ethnically Disparate Products?, Jong Han Hyun
Polymer Additives Effects on Structure and Dynamics, Adam Eugene Imel
Influence of Aminocyclopyrachlor plus Metsulfuron on Seedhead Development and Forage Quality in Tall Fescue, Trevor Davis Israel
Characterization of the role of alpha-arylphorin in the Heliothis virescens midgut response to Cry1Ac toxin from Bacillus thuringiensis, Jerreme Jamael Jackson
Quantification of Fast-Neutron Sources with Coded Aperture Imaging, Timothy Donald Jackson
A Low-Power BFSK/OOK Transmitter for Wireless Sensors, Mohammed Shahriar Jahan
Improving Mechanical Properties of Bulk Metallic Glasses by Approaches of In-situ Composites and Thin Films, Haoling Jia
Algorithm-Based Fault Tolerance for Two-Sided Dense Matrix Factorizations, Yulu Jia
Electronic Energy Loss of Heavy Ions and Its Effects in Ceramics, Ke Jin
Elucidation of Conformational Switching Mechanisms of Sensing Proteins by Molecular Dynamics Perturbation Studies, Quentin Ramon Johnson
A Discourse Analysis of Beginning English Teachers' Identity Development, Joshua Peter Johnston
Blueberry polyphenols as natural antimicrobial agents against foodborne viruses: Towards understanding their mechanism and applications in food systems, Snehal Shrikant Joshi
Exploring Structure-Dynamics-Function Relationship in Proteins, Protein: Ligand and Protein: Protein Systems through Computational Methods, Karan Pal Kapoor
Population Dynamics and Ecophysiology of Fraser fir (Abies fraseri) in the High Elevation Forests in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, Steven Douglas Kaylor
Financial Deregulation, Income Inequality, and Partisan Politics from the Great War to the Great Recession, Eric Reed Keller
Developing a Written Language Inventory for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students: A Systemic Functional Grammar Approach, Jennifer Renée Kilpatrick
Monte Carlo Methods in Finance, Je Guk Kim
The fabrication of micro- and nano- scale deterministic and stochastic pillar arrays for planar separations, Teresa Byers Kirchner
Experiences of Newly Licensed Registered Nurses Who Stay in Their First Jobs, Lisa D. Kirkland