Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2014
Thermal Hydraulic Characteristics of Fuel Defects in Plate Type Nuclear Research Reactors, Isaac Thomas Bodey
"I Saved the Iguana": A Mixed Methods Study Examining Responder Mental Health after Major Disasters and Humanitarian Relief Events, Suzanne Marie Boswell
Thermal Inactivation of Human Norovirus Surrogates and Hepatitis A Virus in Foods, Hayriye Bozkurt Cekmer
Development of a FLUKA-Based Lookup Tool for Rapid Analysis of Radiation Exposures in Space Environments, John Macdougall Brittingham
Critical Teacher Inquiry: Collaborative Action Research Using Post-Structuralist and Cross-National Provocations, Robyn Anne Brookshire
Calcium and Leucine Modulation of Airway Inflammation, Patricia Louise Brown
A Study of Espoused Corporate Cultural Factors and Their Relationship with Business Success, Tonya Denise Brown
Neutron Diffraction Study of Engineering Materials Subjected to Complex Loadings, Jeffrey R. Bunn
Characterization of the Fine-Scale Weld Deposit Microstructure and its Influence on the Elevated Temperature Properties of 2.25Cr - 1Mo - 0.25V Weldments in Heavy Wall Pressure Vessels, Dewey Joshua Burgess
Essays on Resource Allocation Efficiency and Behavior, Julianna Marie Butler
Behavior of Larger-Diameter Strands in the Disturbed Region of Prestressed Concrete Girders, John Verlin Cabage Jr.
Investigation of the Phase Transformation Kinetics and Texture Evolution in a TRIP Steel under Complex Loads, Ercan Cakmak
From Foraging to Food Production on the Southern Cumberland Plateau of Alabama and Tennessee, U.S.A., Stephen Byrnes Carmody
Relationships among Prochlorococcus ecotypes across oceanic temperature ranges, Jeremy Werner Chandler
Fabrication of Zein Nanoparticle-Biopolymer Complexes to Deliver Essential Oils in Aqueous Dispersions, Huaiqiong Chen
Theoretical Studies of the Growth and Functionality of Layered Materials, Wei Chen
Client Attachment as a Predictor of Therapy Outcome and Premature Termination, Gahee Choi
Multistep Kinetic Monte Carlo, Holly Nichole Johnson Clark
Ab Initio Studies of Proton Transport in Proton Exchange Membranes, Jeffrey Keith Clark
Strategic Technology Maturation and Insertion (STMI): a requirements guided, technology development optimization process, James Brill Clegern
Compositions in Black and Brown: Manifestations of Afro-Latinity in U.S. Black Latino/a Literary Discourse, Janelle Chevon Coleman
Predicting High-Stakes Tests of Math Achievement using a Group-Administered RTI Instrument: Validating Skills Measured by the Monitoring Instructional Responsiveness: Math, Jeremy Thomas Coles
The Effects of Group Personality Composition on Project Team Performance: Operationalizations and Outcomes, Mark Collins
Social Justice in Mathematics Education, Renee Lenise Colquitt
News and the Public Sphere: The Boston Marathon Bombing in The New York Times and Le Figaro, Ioana Alexandra Coman
Uncovering Latino Sex Trafficking in a New Destination Area: A Case Study, Lauren Kimberlee Copley
Synthesizing Strong Donor Macrocyclic Tetracarbene Metal Complexes for Catalytic Aziridination, Steven Alan Cramer
COMPARISONS OF POINT AND AVERAGE CAPILLARY PRESSURE - SATURATION FUNCTIONS FOR POROUS MEDIA, Samuel Clark Cropper
The Effects of Social Support on At-Risk Youth, Christi LaNet Culpepper
The Effects of Leucine and Dairy Products on Adipose Tissue Inflammation: The Role of Adipocyte Derived Microvesicles, Benjamin Jones Curry
Online Social Networking Sites: Meaning of SNS's to Gay Men From Non-Accepting Families, Richard Tazz Curry
Communication, Control, and Time: The Lived Experience of Uncertainty in Adolescent Pregnancy, Elizabeth Dortch Dalton
Characterizing the mechanical behavior of single and polycrystalline silicon carbide using nanoindentation., Amit Datye
Describing the Cognitive Complexity of Counselors-in-Training Enrolled in a Group Dynamics and Methods Course, John Lester Davison
Assessing the genetic diversity of the genus Viburnum using simple sequence repeats, Deborah Dean
The Role of Social Media Editors in Television Newsrooms: An Exploratory Study, Allyson Beutke DeVito
BIODEGRADATION AND PHOTODEGRADATION OF POLYLACTIC ACID AND POLYLACTIC ACID/ POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE BLENDS NONWOVEN AGRICULTURAL MULCHES IN AMBIENT SOIL CONDITIONS, Sathiskumar Dharmalingam
The Relationship between Hope and Self-Directed Learning in the Workplace, Vicki Martin Dieffenderfer
A Study of Energy Resolution and Non-proportionality of YAlO3:Ce and Gd3Ga3Al2O12:Ce, Samuel Bradley Donnald
Biogeographical patterns, ecological drivers, and evolutionary mechanisms of plant invasions, Rafael Dudeque Zenni
Inherited Masculinities?: Noble Fathers and Sons and Aspects of Masculinity in Early Modern England, 1530-1630, Joshua Lane Durbin
The "Vast and Terrible" Trauma: American Literary Naturalism, Ethics, and Levinas, Tyler Joseph Efird
Intimacy Uncertainty and Identity in Gay Male Couples Dealing with a Serodiscordant HIV Status, Scott Allen Eldredge
UWB Precise Indoor Localization System Performance, Limitations and its Integration, Essam Abdelkadir Elkhouly
Acceleration and Verification of Virtual High-throughput Multiconformer Docking, Sally Rose Ellingson
Stability of Particle-Mean Flow Interactions in Solid and Hybrid Rockets, Trevor Sterling Elliott
Alternative Strategies for Weed Control in Creeping Bentgrass, Matthew Thomas Elmore
Interaction Privacy: A Study of Threats and Consequences, Carol Lee Esmark
Asymptotic Behavior of a Class of SPDEs, Parisa Fatheddin
Engineering Bacterial Cellulose Scaffold and its Biomimetic Composites for Bone and Cartilage Tissue Regeneration, Pelagie Marlene Favi
Living with Hypertension: Experiences of Black Men Related to Their Perceptions of the Clinical Encounter at Diagnosis, Glenda McCartney Feild
The Green Staff of Asclepius: Envisioning Sustainable Medicine, Jason Lee Fishel
Investigating the Role of a Reduced-Instruction Approach in Implicit and Explicit Motor Learning Strategies, Kevin Michael Fisher
Comparative Genomics of Microbial Chemoreceptor Sequence, Structure, and Function, Aaron Daniel Fleetwood
Active Families in the Great Outdoors: A family-centered program to increase physical activity levels, perceptions, and behaviors, Jennifer Irene Flynn
Development of Optical Sensors for Chemical Detection, Jonathan Kelly Fong
The Effects of Prompts and Comprehension Assessment on Oral Reading: Moderating Effect of Reading Skills, Bethany Evelyn Forbes
Improving GPU Shared Memory Access Efficiency, Shuang Gao
The Auchinleck Manuscript: A Study in Manuscript Production, Scribal Innovation, and Literary Value in the Early 14th Century, Tricia Kelly George
Talk to Me: An Apology for Poetry, Christian Anton Gerard
Challenging the State: Evaluating the Effects of Uneven Distribution of Public Goods, Economic Globalization and Political Openness on Domestic Terrorism, Sambuddha Ghatak
Investigations into Ambient Ionization Mechanisms: Electrospray Ionization and Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry, Stephen Colin Gibson
Using Mindful Self-Compassion to Improve Self-Criticism, Self-Soothing, Cravings, and Relapse in Substance Abusers in an Intensive Outpatient Program, Sarah Elizabeth Gilbert
Elucidating Fundamental Mechanisms in Focused Electron- and Ion-Beam Induced Synthesis, Carlos M. Gonzalez
Lifetime Estimation of IGBTs in a Grid-connected STATCOM, Lakshmi Reddy Gopi Reddy
Social Fingerprinting: Identifying Users of Social Networks by their Data Footprint, Denise Koessler Gosnell
Going Gothic: Spanish Unity and Blame in The Legend of Rodrigo and Florinda, Sara A. Gottardi
Local Government-Citizen Relationships: Using the coorientation approach to analyze relationship effectivness, Melissa Wooten Graham
How technology interacts with emerging adulthood psychosocial developmental tasks: An examination of online self-presentation and cell phone usage, Samantha Lynn Gray
Structural Dynamics and Charge Transport in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids, Philip James Griffin
Essays on The Optimality of Delaying Quality Tests and the Reverse Hold-up Problem, Natalia Gritsko
High-Efficiency Three-Phase Current Source Rectifier Using SiC Devices and Delta-Type Topology, Ben Guo
Effective Multi-echelon Inventory Systems for Supplier Selection and Order Allocation, Cong Guo
Essay on Firm Inventory and Innovation Behavior, Ye Gu
Effects of Stimulus Symmetry on Hierarchical Processing in Six-Month-Old Short- and Long-Looking Infants, Margaret Weinel Guy
Exploring Perceptions of Staff Registered Nurse Preceptors for Undergraduate, Pre-licensure Nursing Students, Katherine C. Hall
Impacts of climate change, human land use, and mercury contamination on Southern Appalachian Plethodontid salamanders, Michael Kevin Hamed
Synthesis and Thermodynamic Analysis of Volatile Beta-Diketone Complexes of Select Lanthanides via Gas-Phase Separations, Daniel Hanson
The Structure and Function of Photosystem I and Photosystem I – Hydrogenase Protein Fusions: An Experimental and Computational Study, Bradley Jordan Harris
Applications and Improvements in the Molecular Modeling of Protein and Ligand Interactions, Jason Bret Harris
Automated Doppler Broadening of Cross Sections for Neutron Transport Applications, Shane William Daniel Hart
Flatness-Based Control Methodologies to Improve Frequency Regulation in Power Systems with High Penetration of Wind, Maryam Hassani Variani
Participant Career and Research Outcomes of the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award, Samuel Held
Ibn Hazm: an Islamic Source of Courtly Love, Daniel Nathan Hickman
Predictors of Heterosexual Siblings’ Acceptance of their Lesbian or Gay Sibling of Origin, Angela Nichole Hilton
Adaptive radiation along a benthic/pelagic ecological axis in North America’s most diverse, endemic clade of freshwater fishes, Phillip Ray Hollingsworth Jr.
Predictors of Casual Sex Participation in Young Adulthood: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, Rachel M. Holmes
Essays on Fiscal Policies in Open Economies, Ahiteme Nicodeme Houndonougbo
Functional Study of the Suppressor of Hairy-wing Insulator Protein in Drosophila melanogaster, Shih-Jui Hsu
Studies of Economics and Stability with Variable Generation and Controllable Load, Hao Huang
Empirical Analysis on Factors Impacting Mobile Learning Acceptance in Higher Engineering Education, Yu Huang
Examining Perceived Life Stress Factors among Intercollegiate Athletes: A Holistic Perspective, Landon Tyler Huffman
New Remote Sensing Methods for Detecting and Quantifying Forest Disturbance and Regeneration in the Eastern United States, Michael Joseph Hughes
Monte Carlo Modeling of Ion Beam Induced Secondary Electrons, Uk Huh
The Algebraic Thinking of Mathematics Teachers in China and the U.S., Qintong Hu
Growth, Structure, Electronic and Transport Properties of Yttrium Disilicide Nanowires, Saban Mustafa Hus