Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2023
On Beliefs "Worth Risking" in Plato, Clayton Willis Carden
Ethylene Perception and Response in Azospirillum brasilense Sp7, Timothy S. Carlew
Counselor Educators’ Engagement in Mental Health Services in Higher Education Institutions, Kristen Anne Carlosh
Methods to Hasten Zoysiagrass Establishment from Sprigs, Tyler Carr
Path Integral Monte Carlo for Entanglement in Bosonic Lattices at T = 0, Emanuel Casiano-Diaz
Following the Thread: Ex-Combatant Reintegration and the Search for the Disappeared in Colombia, William Daniel Cawley
Hashed Coordinate Sparse Tensor Storage with MATLAB, Jama MeiLi Charles
Essays In Microeconomics, Michael Charysh
Effect of Seawater and Temperature Upon Carbon Fiber/Vinyl Ester (CFVE) Composites and its Constituents, Vivek Chawla
Impact of cadmium stress on soil virus reproduction and the persistence of viruses under abiotic conditions, Zhibo Cheng
Experimental Investigation of the Downstream Effects from High-Speed Fluid Structure Interactions and the Development of Supporting Diagnostics, James R. Chism
Higher Education Assessment Professionals' Professional Identity: Influences of Leadership, Job Satisfaction, Work Motivation, and Professional Development, Rosanna Nichole Christen
An Exploratory Study of the Career Mobility Patterns of African American Women Working in Public Parks and Recreation Agencies, Chermaine Cole
Using Quantitative Wood Anatomy to Improve Tree-Ring Reconstructions of Climate and Environmental Disturbances, Savannah Anne Collins-Key
Mitigating Space Industry Supply Chain Risk Thru Risk-Based Analysis, Jennifer S. Cooper
Total Absorption Spectroscopy of Mo-106 and Tc-106, Michael Cooper
Increasing Productivity and Biodiversity of Tall Fescue Swards by Intercropping Cool and Warm-Season Forage Species, Michael Dereck Corbin
Sensitivity Analysis of Thermophysical Properties of Molten Salts using a Molten Salt Demonstration Reactor Model in TRANSFORM, Sarah Elizabeth Creasman
The Epistemic Value of Resonance: Intuitive Thinking in Theoretical Understanding, Claire Dartez
Reduced Order Modeling And Analysis Of Cardiac Chaos, Tuhin Subhra Das
DEVELOPMENT OF A LOW-DOSE RADIATION THERAPY DEVICE FOR ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, Thomas Heath Davis
Exploiting Symmetry in Linear and Integer Linear Programming, Ethan Jedidiah Deakins
Student Choice-of-Text in an Upper Secondary Independent Reading Program: A Quasi-Experimental Study, Brian M. DeLoach
Computational Aspects of Mixed Characteristic Witt Vectors and Denominators in Canonical Liftings of Elliptic Curves, Jacob Dennerlein
Resiliency of Power Systems in the Cyber Layer: Application to Load Forecasting and Security Assessment, Mojtaba Dezvarei
Enhanced Bioretention Modeling at the Catchment-Scale: An Integrated DRAINMOD-Urban and SWMM Approach, Ghada Diab
The Role Of Multiple Object Views In Early Word Learning: A Dynamic Process, Abigail Julian DiMercurio
Cell-free Metabolic Engineering Strategies for Accelerated Biomanufacturing, Jaime Lorenzo N. Dinglasan
Leveraging Supply Chain Planning for Improved Supply Chain Performance, Anne Elizabeth Dohmen
Greenwashing “Brown Gold”: A Critical Analysis of Anaerobic Digesters and California’s Neoliberal Environmental Programs in Wisconsin’s Dairyland, Sarah Emily D'Onofrio
The G_2-Hitchin Component of Triangle Groups: Dimension and Integer Points, Hannah E. Downs
Developing Spin and Polarization Order in 2D Hybrid Perovskites, Bogdan Dryzhakov
Multiphysics Performance and Safety Analysis for Advanced High Temperature Reactors, Edward Matthew Duchnowski
Integration of Raman Spectroscopy and Python-based Data Analysis for Advancing Neurobiological Research, Natalie E. Dunn
Examining the Relationship Between Lignocellulosic Biomass Structural Constituents and Its Flow Behavior, Ekramul Haque Ehite
Who Gave You Permission to Rearrange Me? Certainly Not Me: Examining the Racialized Nature of Beauty vis-a-vis Colorism, Skin Bleaching, and Life Chance, Natasha P. Ellis
Characterization of Antibiotic-Producing Thermophilic Bacteria from Remote Environments, Ola Elsakhawy
Applications of Mathematical and Statistical Modeling to Wildlife Management, Animal Husbandry, and Circadian Physiology, David Christian Elzinga
Firm Transparency of Risk Oversight: An Examination of Cybersecurity Governance Disclosures, Laurie E. Ereddia
Object Detection Models with Limited or Small Labeled Datasets, Fabian Enrique Fallas Moya
MECHANOCHEMICAL SYNTHESIS OF TASK-SPECIFIC CONJUGATED POROUS NETWORKS TOWARDS ENHANCED ENERGY STORAGE, Juntian Fan
Heuristics for Lagrangian Relaxation Formulations for the Unit Commitment Problem, Stephen Opeyemi Fatokun
Protection of Grid-Tied and Islanded Systems with High Penetration of Inverter-Based Resources, Maximiliano F. Ferrari
Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine Instrumentation Addressing Environmental Limitations on Temperature Measurements, Dan C Floyd
Fourier Analysis and Optimization of Inductive Wireless Power Transfer for Electric Vehicle Charging, Andrew P. Foote
Chromogenic Detection of Mimic Organophosphorus Nerve Agent DCP Mediated by Novel Rhodium(II) Paddlewheel Complexes, Eric D. Fussell
Exploring New Methods for Polymer and Monomer Editing, Nicholas J. Galan
Utilization of Integer Programming for Scheduling Maintenance at Nuclear Power Plants, Timothy Gallacher
IMPROVED SPATIAL RESOLUTION FOR DOUBLE-SIDED STRIP DETECTORS USING LITHIUM INDIUM DISELENIDE SEMICONDUCTORS, Jake Alexander Gallagher
Juvenile Probation Officers’ Lived Experiences of Collaboration with Clinical Mental Health Counselors: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis., Henrietta Gantt
Establishing Alliances: Plant and Microbial Drivers of Microbiome Assembly across Community Complexity and Timescale, Alexandra D. Gates
Antimicrobial Resistance and Molecular Epidemiology of Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase-Producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella Species in Dairy Farms, Benti Deresa Gelalcha
Heimat or Hjemland: National Consciousness, Self-Determination, and the First World War in Schleswig-Holstein, 1864-1920, Ryan J. Gesme
I READ TO YOU, AND YOU RELAX: INTERACTIVE TEACHER READ-ALOUDS OF PICTURE BOOKS IN THE UNDERGRADUATE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM, Mareike Geyer
Evaluation Of SiC Thermomechanical Performance Safety Limits For TRISO With BISON, Carlotta G. Ghezzi
Sexual Assault Survivors’ Experiences of Campus Spaces: A Photovoice Study, Amber Giffin
The Nuclear System-of-Systems Capabilities Analytic Process, Robert Boone Gilbreath
Large-scale volcanism on the terrestrial planets, Keenan Ben Golder
MULTIDIMENSIONAL INVESTIGATION OF TENNESSEE’S URBAN FOREST, Jillian L. Gorrell
OPIOID USE AND BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER FEATURES: IMPLICATIONS FOR POSTPARTUM MATERNAL SELF-EFFICACY, Andrea Gorrondona
LARGE DEVIATIONS FOR SELF INTERSECTION LOCAL TIMES OF ORNSTEIN-UHLENBECK PROCESSES, Apostolos Gournaris
Climatological Analysis of Tropical Cyclone Occurrence Dates and Landfall Characteristics in the North Atlantic and Eastern North Pacific, Nicholas Sava Grondin
An Exploration of Absolute Minimal Degree Lifts of Hyperelliptic Curves, Justin A. Groves
Methods for Analyzing Transit Accessibility and Equity: Case Studies from Tennessee, Jing Guo
Linking structure – dynamics – function in intrinsically disordered regions of multidomain regulatory proteins, Viswanathan Gurumoorthy
Characterizing the Structure and Radiation Resistance of Weberite-Type Complex Oxides, Igor M. Gussev
Mining Crowdsourced Data for Pavement Maintenance, Incident Management, and Traffic Monitoring, Yangsong Gu
Monitoring Additive Manufacturing Machine Health, Jeremy Hale
Synthesizing, Purifying, and Characterizing Molten Chloride Salts, Phillip W. Halstenberg
The Influence of Spectral Quality on Primary and Secondary Metabolism of Hydroponically Grown Basil, Hunter Albright Hammock
Exploring Wellness Behaviors following a Non-Death Loss Experience: A Structural Equation Model, Covington Hanley
Coefficients of modular forms and applications to partition theory, Michael Anthony Hanson
Correlation of Structure to Performance of Soft Materials for Energy Storage Systems Using Neutron Scattering, Md Ashraful Haque
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY: AN EXPLORATORY CASE STUDY OF BARRIERS EXPERIENCED BY TENNESSEE TRANSFER PATHWAYS STUDENTS, Alexis Hartley
Investigating the Nuclear Safeguards Technology Development Pipeline Through the Research and Development of Fs-LIBS for Uranium Enrichment Facilities, Jonathan Daniel Hartman
The nature and significance of worldwide human dermatoglyphic variation in finger ridge-counts, Kathleen Ann Hauther
Role of kinases and an epigenetically regulated gene in soybean cyst nematode resistance, Tracy Elizabeth Hawk
Neutrino Physics at a Research Reactor: Backgrounds and Analysis, Blaine Alexander Heffron
Novel microbial guilds implicated in N2O reduction, Guang He
Mandated Learning: Administrators' Perceptions of Unfunded Mandates in Online Education, Ronald Aaron Hennen
Generalized Differentiable Neural Architecture Search with Performance and Stability Improvements, Emily J. Herron
Towards Expressive and Versatile Visualization-as-a-Service (VaaS), Tanner C. Hobson
Examining the Impact of Course Modality and Course Content Presentation Modality on Undergraduate Grade Outcomes and Course Evaluations, Valerie E. Hogan-Sandi
Feasibility Study of Fresh Fuel Feed Monitoring for Liquid-Fueled Molten Salt Reactor Safeguards, Karen K. Hogue
Identifying Interactions and Dissemination Pathways of Beauveria bassiana among Kudzu, Kudzu Bug, Soybean, and the Soil, Kassie Lynne Hollabaugh
Precipitation Variability and Predictability over the Arabian Peninsula, Central Southwest Asia, and Southern Africa, Matthew Francis Horan
The Impact of Guaranteed Income on Political Participation, Daniel Horn
Understanding lignin’s fast pyrolysis through examination of the thermolysis mechanisms of model oligomers, Ross Wesley Houston
Medicinal Tea: Global Cultural Transfer and A Vast Early America, Yiyun Huang
Developments in Hardwood Genomics: The Generation and Application of Molecular Resources for Species Preservation, Matthew Huff
A Measurement of Neutron Polarization and Transmission for the nEDM@SNS Experiment, Kavish Imam
Not a Tracing: A Map, Emily Jalloul
A Narrative Inquiry on Chinese International Doctoral Students’ Perspectives on Developing Critical Thinking in the U.S., Shuaipu Jiang
Impacts of High Renewable Power Grids on System Planning and Monitoring, Zhihao Jiang
“Not What I Expected”: A Narrative Inquiry on the Leadership Experiences of Women Campus Recreation Directors in the Power Five Conferences, Emily J. Johnson