Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2015
Geometry of Scales, Kyle Stephen Austin
Accounting Information Risk and Credit Ratings, Douglas Ray Ayres
Brown and Beige Adipocytes: Effects of Inflammation and Nutritional Intervention, Jiyoung Bae
Newly Licensed Registered Nurses' Experiences with Clinical Simulation, Carrie Ann Bailey
Evidence of Late Quaternary Fires from Charcoal and Siliceous Aggregates in Lake Sediments in the Eastern U.S.A., Joanne P. Ballard
Synthesis and Morphology of Well-Defined Mixed Homopolymer Brushes Grafted on 150 - 180 nm Silica Particles, Chunhui Bao
Investigations into the Tectonics of Uranian and Saturnian Icy Satellites, Chloe Brett Beddingfield
Deficit Discourse, Literate Lives: Success Narratives of Black Youth, Ann Marie Bennett
Bats and Disease: Behavioral and Community Responses of Southern Bat Populations during the White-nose Syndrome Epizootic, Riley Fehr Bernard
An Investigation of Inorganic Compound Scattering., Karl Jay Bernstein
Role of microRNA-155 in Herpes Simplex Virus Pathogenesis, Siddheshvar Bhela
Exploring Holistic Comfort in Children who Experience a Clinical Venipuncture Procedure, April Athena Bice
#Learningtoteach: Using Instagram to Elicit Pre-service Teacher Reflection, Monica Thomas Billen
Interdependent Determinants of Parental Involvement among Families of Children Receiving Early Intervention Services, Rhett Maurice Billen
Synthesis and Characterization of Support-Modified Nanoparticle-Based Catalysts and Mixed Oxide Catalysts for Low Temperature CO Oxidation, Andrew Justin Binder
Population Modeling for Resource Allocation and Antimicrobial Stewardship, Jason Bintz
Systematics and diversification patterns of morphologically and ecologically diverse lineages of Agaricomycetes: Clavariaceae and Cantharellales, Joshua Mark Birkebak
The Effects of Hope, Rumination, Resilience, and Unit Support on Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Severity in Veterans, Laura Elizabeth Blackburn
Evolution and Phylogeny of the Parasitoid Subfamily Phasiinae (Diptera: Tachinidae), Jeremy Daniel Blaschke
Integrated Internet Marketing Communications for the Global Market: An Empirical Examination, Philip Jean Boutin Jr.
Bacterial diversity and function within an epigenic cave system and implications for other limestone cave systems, Kathleen Merritt Brannen-Donnelly
Event Localization In Bulk Scintillator Crystals Using Optical Coded Apertures, Joshua Brian Braverman
Distinguishing primary versus secondary geochemical and silicon isotope characteristics of Precambrian chert and iron formation, Latisha Ashley Brengman
“Beyond the four walls of my building”: A case study of #Edchat and the power of connectedness, Virginia G. Britt
How Therapy Affects the Counselor: Development through Play Therapy Practice and Supervision, Tiffany Paige Brooks
Mixed-species Flock Members’ Reactions to Novel and Predator Stimuli, Sheri Ann Browning
Back from the Brink: The Process of Revitalization at a Small, Private, Religious Institution, Samantha K. Brown
Retrospective Study of Victimization by Bullying among Sexual Minority and Majority College Students: Exploring External Sources of Support to Promote Resilience, Allison Enders-Hunt Buck
PROGNOSTIC ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT FOR PLANT MONITORING AND MAINTENANCE PLANNING, Them Hill Bui
A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Efficiency, Equity, and Uncertainty in Tournaments, Nicholas Busko
The Supervisory Relationship: How Style and Working Alliance Relate to Satisfaction among Cyber and Face-to-Face Supervisees, Lauren Elizabeth Bussey
Women on the Move: The Migration of WNBA Players to Overseas Basketball Teams, Barbra Nalani Butler
The Effects of Voluntary versus Cold-calling Participation on Class Discussion and Exam Performance in Multiple Sections of an Educational Psychology Undergraduate Course, Brittany Ann Carstens
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