Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2015
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
Wide Band Embedded Slot Antennas for Biomedical, Harsh Environment, and Rescue Applications, Yun Seo Koo
EFFECTIVENESS OF PROLOQUO2GOTM IN ENHANCING COMMUNICATION IN CHILDREN WITH AUTISM DURING ABA THERAPY, Taylor Eastin Krcek
CONSTRUCTING VICTIMHOOD: OPPOSITION TO LEGISLATION PROTECTING LGBT STUDENTS AGAINST BULLYING, Kiam Loong Daniel Lai
The Count of Saint-Gilles and the Saints of the Apocalypse: Occitanian Piety and Culture in the Time of the First Crusade, Thomas Whitney Lecaque
Environmental Gentrification and Development in a Rural Appalachian Community: Blending Critical Theory and Ethnography, Rhiannon A. Leebrick
QUANTITATIVE AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS PIPELINE FOR LABEL-FREE METAPROTEOMICS DATA AND ITS APPLICATIONS, Lang Ho Lee
Computational Framework for Small Animal SPECT Imaging: Simulation and Reconstruction, Sang Hyeb Lee
Wide-Area Synchrophasor Measurement Applications and Power System Dynamic Modeling, Yin Lei
Fluorochlorozirconate Glass Ceramics for Photovoltaic and Computed Radiography Applications, Russell Lee Leonard
The Congruence-Based Zero-Divisor Graph, Elizabeth Fowler Lewis
ARITHMETIC LOGIC UNIT ARCHITECTURES WITH DYNAMICALLY DEFINED PRECISION, Getao Liang
Crystal Growth and Physical Property Characterization of Complex Perovskite Oxides, Ling Li
Compressed Sensing in Resource-Constrained Environments: From Sensing Mechanism Design to Recovery Algorithms, Shuangjiang Li
Driving Volatility in Instantaneous Driving Behaviors: Studies Using Large-Scale Trajectory Data, Jun Liu
A Magnetic Actuated Fully Insertable Robotic Camera System for Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery, Xiaolong Liu
Using GPU to Accelerate Linear Computations in Power System Applications, Xue Li
Timing and Extent of the Little Ice Age Glacial Advances in the Eastern Tian Shan, China, Yanan Li
Southern Gothic Fiction and New Naturalism: Toward a Reading of New Naturalism, Jeremy Kevin Locke
The factors that influenced the decision to enter into a $1 billion fundraising campaign by two public higher education institutions, William Rhodes Logan
Joint optimization of allocation and release policy decisions for surgical block time under uncertainty, Mina Loghavi
Calmodulin-like protein 38: a component of ribonucleoprotein particles during hypoxic stress responses in Arabidopsis, Ansul Lokdarshi
Women At War: A Qualitative Study Of U.S. Female Military Personnel, Their Journeys Home, Multiple Deployments, And The Effect Of War, Autumn Nicole Lowry
Fault Diagnosis and Failure Prognostics of Lithium-ion Battery based on Least Squares Support Vector Machine and Memory Particle Filter Framework, Mohammed Ali Lskaafi
Insights into planetesimal evolution: Petrological investigations of regolithic howardites and carbonaceous chondrite impact melts, Nicole Gabriel Lunning
Physiological characterization of Prochlorococcus under abiotic stressors temperature and hydrogen peroxide, Lanying Ma
Dynamic Simulation and Neuromuscular Control of Movement: Applications for Predictive Simulations of Balance Recovery, Misagh Mansouri Boroujeni
Principal Mental Models and Perceptions of Distributed Leadership, Leigh Ann Marlar
Computational Analysis of Neutron Scattering Data, Benjamin Walter Martin
CHARACTERIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF AMYLOID-REACTIVE PEPTIDES AS TRACERS FOR QUANTITATIVE MOLECULAR IMAGING, Emily Brooke Martin
Economic Wealth and Social Welfare: A Longitudinal Analysis of Transnational Well-Being, Kelly Brooke Martin
Solar Modulation of the Cosmic Ray Intensity and the Measurement of the Cerenkov Reemission in NOvA’s Liquid Scintillator, Philip James Mason
Characterization of Mechanically Cooled High Purity Germanium (HPGe) Detectors at Elevated Temperatures, Joseph Benjamin McCabe
Home to the Reich: The Nazi Occupation of Europe's Influence on Life inside Germany, 1941-1945, Michael Patrick McConnell
A GHz-range, High-resolution Multi-modulus Prescaler for Extreme Environment Applications, Benjamin Matthew McCue
What Middle Schoolers Want: An Analysis of the Most Circulated Texts in a Public School District, Kimberly Flanders McCuiston
Mindfulness-Based Therapy and Behavioral Activation: A Randomized Controlled Trial with Depressed College Students, Crystal Constance McIndoo
Linking soil moisture and carbon-cycle processes in two understudied terrestrial ecosystems: Ecuadorian páramo grasslands and constructed agricultural wetlands, Julie Yvette McKnight
HOME/ECONOMICS: ENTERPRISE, PROPERTY, AND MONEY IN WOMEN’S DOMESTIC FICTION, 1860-1930, Julia Poindexter McLeod
Theory and Experiments Exploring Behavioral, Financial, and Public Economics, Matthew John McMahon
The Effects of Trade Competition on Health, and Determinants of Workplace Behavior, Thomas Clayton McManus
Community Formation and the Development of a British-Atlantic Identity in the Chesapeake: An Archaeological and Historical Study of the Tobacco Pipe Trade in the Potomac River Valley ca. 1630-1730, Lauren Kathleen McMillan
Synthesis, Characterization and Evaluation of Lectin-Binding Properties of 1,2-cis-Glycosides, Bo Meng
NANOSCALED CELLULOSE AND ITS CARBONACEOUS MATERIAL: APPLICATION AND LOCAL STRUCTURE INVESTIGATION, Yujie Meng
Elucidating mechanisms of lipid droplet formation in the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Alexander William Meyers
Understanding the Influence of Non-covalent Interactions and Nanoparticle Geometries in Carbon Based Polymer Nanocomposites, Bradley Carroll Miller
Conservation Planning in a Changing World, Austin Walker Milt
Development of the SETIS Instrument to Measure Teachers' Self-Efficacy to Teach Science in an Integrated STEM Framework, Monica Clutch Mobley
Collaborative Models for Supply Networks Coordination and Healthcare Consolidation, Shima Mohebbi
Microfluidic Syntheses of PET Radiotracers via Fluorodenitration, Thomas Madison Moore
Essays on Environmental Economics, Shukhrat Usmonovich Musinov
Positionality and Its Effects on Pedagogy: Examining the Identity Categories of Race, Class, and Gender of English as a Second Language (ESL) Preservice Teachers., Hollie Marie Nawrocki
Synthesis of Mesoporous Carbon for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Sequestration, Kimberly Marie Nelson
Rhetorics of Self in Eighteenth-Century Biography, Nathaniel Don Norman
Enriching Teacher Self-Efficacy Through a Support Centric Evaluation Model: A Mixed Methods Study of TEAM's Impact on Teacher Self-Efficacy, Elizabeth Marie Norton
Computational Simulation of Mass Transport and Energy Transfer in the Microbial Fuel Cell System, Shiqi Ou
Integrated application of genomic, biochemical and cultivation approaches to characterize 1,2-dichloropropane dichloroelemination in organohalide respiring Chloroflexi, Elizabeth Padilla
An Investigation of Key Personality Traits of Managers and Executives, Kanwarjit Pahwa
Self-assembled Casein Nanostructures to Deliver Novel Functionalities, Kang Pan
The Metastatic Receptor Status Impact on First-Line Treatment Plans and Outcomes for Recurrent Metastatic Breast Cancer, T. Allen Pannell
The Effects of Realistic Nuclear Kinetics, Dimensionality, and Resolution on Detonations in Low-Density Type Ia Supernovae Environments, Thomas L. Papatheodore
Essays on Energy Efficiency and Pricing Behavior in the U.S. Automobile Market: Evidence from Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Sangsoo Park
Template-Based Imaging Analysis of Arbitrary Nuclear Material Configurations Using Time and Directionally-Tagged Fast Neutrons, Kirsten Elise Pena
Exploring the Heterogeneity of Other-regarding Preferences, Langchuan Peng