Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2012
How do psychiatric healthcare workers prevent the use of restraint and seclusion?, Kelly A. Carlson
Experimental studies of nuclei near doubly magic 100Sn and 78Ni, Lucia Cartegni
It Transforms All of You: Lived Experiences of Partners of Iraq Combat Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injuries, Laurel Sue Cassidy
The Estimation of Caloric Expenditure Using Three Triaxial Accelerometers, Tyrone Gene Ceaser
Measurement of Production and Decay Properties of Bs Mesons Decaying into J/Psi Phi with the CMS Detector at the LHC, Giordano Cerizza
Theoretical Modeling of the Formation and Functionality of Low-Dimensional Materials, Hua Chen
Getting Ready for the Test: The Impact of School Restructuring on High School English Teachers, Todd Sloan Cherner
Advancements in Modeling Self-Consistent Core-Collapse Supernovae with CHIMERA, Merek Austin Chertkow
Examining the Interplay of Rejection Sensitivity, Self-Compassion, and Communication in Romantic Relationships, Jennifer Anne Christman
Educators’ Perceptions about the Uses of Primary Sources in Social Studies Classroom, Jeremiah Curtis Clabough
The Itinerant Position of Yttrium as Evidenced by Carboxylic Acid Extractions, Dustin C Collier
Organizational Storytelling in Academic Libraries: Roles, Addressees and Perceptions, Monica Colon-Aguirre
The Relationship between Self-Directed Learning and Information Literacy among Adult Learners in Higher Education, Tiffani Reneau Conner
A Consideration of the Potential Side Effects of Health Insurance Coverage, Melanie Jane Cozad
Liquidity in the 144A Debt Market, Karen Ann Craig
John Randolph of Roanoke and the Politics of Doom: Slavery, Sectionalism, and Self-Deception, 1773-1821, Aaron Scott Crawford
Microbial Community Structure And Ecosystem Function In A Changing World, Melissa Ann Cregger
The Effect of Race on Crime: A Multilevel Analysis, Wanjun Cui
Atomistic Simulations of the Fusion-Plasma Material Interface, Mostafa Jon Dadras
The Construction and Performance of Adulthood in 18- to 25-year-old GED Students: A Narrative Exploration, Clara Amelia Davis
Safety Climate Perceptions of Contingent and Permanent Employees Associated with the Manufacturing of Office Products, Anthony Jeffery Depietro
Teacher Efficacy and Classroom Management among Botswana Junior Secondary School Teachers, Waitshega Tefo Smitta Dibapile
Of This Ground: Land as Refuge in the Works of Three Kentucky Women Writers, Nicole Marie Drewitz-Crockett
Hard and Soft Error Resilience for One-sided Dense Linear Algebra Algorithms, Peng Du
The Role of Non-Bonding Interactions and Bonding Schemes in the Structure and Properties of Multi-Component Polymer Systems, Caleb Will Dyer
Parenting Behind Bars: A Qualitative Study of Incarcerated Mothers, Beth Allen Easterling
Board of Directors Monitoring of CEO Insider Trading: Before and After the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Alireza Ebrahim
Disengaging From Moral Disengagement: Scant Experimental Evidence For a Popular Theory, Lydia Elisabeth Eckstein Jackson
Boards as Strategy Makers: The Antecedents and Consequences of Board Involvement in Strategic Decision Making, Karen Ford Eickhoff
Finding peace: A theory of neighborhood safety among Burundian refugees in Knoxville, Lacreisha Nicole Ejike-King
End-of-Life Culture Care Expressions, Meanings, Patterns, and Practices among Yup'ik Eskimo, Pamela J. Embler
Synthesis and Characterization of Functionalized Nanomaterials: Heterogeneous Palladium Catalyst and Lithium-Doped Graphene Oxide, Benjamin E Estes
Characterization of Bipolaris species, their effects on switchgrass biomass yield and chemical components, Oluseyi Lydia Fajolu
Detection of Soybean Amino Acid QTLs and Seed Yield QTLs Using Selective Genotyping, Benjamin David Fallen
Deciding to Divert: Domestic and International Sources of Constraints on Leader Decision-making, Norris Thomas Feeney
Evolutionary Interactions in Invasive Species: the Importance of Plant-Soil Feedbacks to Local Adaptation and Rapid Evolution, Emmi Felker-Quinn
Real-Time Selective Harmonic Minimization for Multilevel Inverters Using Genetic Algorithm and Artificial Neural Network Angle Generation, Faete Jacques Teixeira Filho
Judicial Influence on Academic Decision-Making: A Study of Tenure Denial Litigation Cases in which Higher Education Institutions Did Not Wholly Prevail, Julee Tate Flood
Confinement Effects of Solvation on a Molecule Physisorbed on a Metal Particle, Jacob Fosso Tande
JOB SATISFACTION, ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH, AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN SELECTED TENNESSEE MIDDLE SCHOOLS, James Lon Fox
(Un)Packing Your Backpack: Educational Philosophy, Positionality, and Pedagogical Praxis, Yvette Prinsloo Franklin
The role of hybridization in generating species- and population-level variation in Sarracenia (Sarraceniaceae), Marvin Steven Furches
The Impact of Relational Aggression and Friendship Quality on the Pathway from Parental Psychological Control to Child Internalizing Symptomology, Alden Elizabeth Gaertner
Comparative analysis of courtship in Agelenopsis funnel-web spiders (Araneae, Agelenidae) with an emphasis on potential isolating mechanisms, Audra Blair Galasso
The Role of Faculty in Institutional Decision Making, Marisa Ann Galick Moazen
Underwater Video Mapping of the Pigeon River in Haywood County, North Carolina, and Cocke County, Tennessee, Michael Scott Gaugler
Ecological and evolutionary consequences of genotypic variation and indirect genetic effects on plant-neighbor interactions, Mark Alan Genung
Analyzing Conflict in Organizations with Positioning Theory: A Narrative Inquiry, Cynthia Dionne Ghosten
Aspects of biomacromolecular dynamics at different scales, Dennis Christian Glass
Measuring Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in the Vegetable Pathogen Phytophthora capsici, Daniel Jara Gobena
Effects of Folate Availability on Expression of Adipocyte Metabolic Genes Via Modulation of DNA Methylation, Julia Stair Gouffon
Deaf Education Preservice Teachers’ Perceptions of Scientific Inquiry and Teaching Science to Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students, Shannon Carol Graham
A Highly Integrated Gate Driver with 100% Duty Cycle Capability and High Output Current Drive for Wide-Bandgap Power Switches in Extreme Environments, Robert Lee Greenwell
The Role of the Party Record in Elections for the House of Representatives, 1970-2008, Matthew Thomas Gross
FORM FOLLOWS VALUES. Explaining Embassy Architecture, Natasha Dimitrova Guenova
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Finance and Managerial Control in the US Forest Products Industry, 1945-2008, Andrew Augustus Gunnoe
Agricultural Land-Use Change and Local Context: The Shenandoah-Cumberland Valley Apple-Growing District in the Eastern United States, Joseph Paul Guttmann
PERSONALITY, ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT, AND JOB SEARCH BEHAVIOR: A FIELD STUDY, Cynthia Ward Hackney
Nutritional Adequacy and Performance of Raw Food Diets in Kittens, Beth Alair Hamper
Tree Growth Dynamics, Fire History, and Fire-Climate Relationships in Pine Rocklands of the Florida Keys, U.S.A., Grant Logan Harley
Magnetic Excitations in the Iron Based Superconductors, Leland Weldon Harriger
Effects of a Home-Based Exercise Program on Perception of Illness and Adaptation in Heart Failure Patients, Robin Faust Harris
Thinking and Reading Among College Undergraduates: An Examination of the Relationship between Critical Thinking Skills and Voluntary Reading, Kimberly Tanner Hawkins
The Operationalization and Validation of Isomorphism in Supervision, Robert Eric Heidel
Career Development and Employment Concerns of Employment-Seeking Students with Psychiatric Disabilities, Sarah Charlotte Helm
The Intersection between Home and School: Developing a Scale to Measure Parental Perceptions of Childhood School Stress, Teresa Marie Henke
Multicultural Personality, Hardiness, Morale, Distress and Cultural Stress in U.S. Service Members, Catherine Joan Herrera
Prepared for Natural Disaster? How Children and Families Understand and Make Sense of Natural Disaster Preparedness, Tatjana Magdalena Hocke
Optimization of Transcurium Isotope Production in the High Flux Isotope Reactor, Susan Hogle
Examining the Effects of a High School Healthcare Summer Immersion Program, Jenny M. Holcombe Curry
Hydrology, Soil Erosion and Climate Interactions on Low Compaction Steep-Sloped Reclaimed Sites in the Southern Appalachian Coal Fields, Tennessee, Siavash Hoomehr
Synthesis and Temperature-Induced Phase Transfer Behavior of Thermosensitive Hairy Particles between Aqueous Solution and a Hydrophobic Ionic Liquid, Jonathan Michael Horton
A Novel Approach to Assess Environmental Changes in Marine Ecosystems via Spectroscopic Analyses of Microalgae, Rebecca Burke Horton
Development of Patient Specific Predictive Treatment Margins to Account for Prostate Motion During Treatment Using Real-Time Intra Fraction Tracking, Michael Edward Howard
Health Care Disparities: The Impact of Benevolent Sexism, Dawn Marie Howerton
In Vitro Alterations of a Putative Phospholipid Translocase, Atp10c, and Its Role in Glucose Metabolism, Sarah Elizabeth Hurst
Engineering Transcriptional Control and Synthetic Gene Circuits in Cell Free systems, Sukanya Iyer
Exploring Computational Chemistry on Emerging Architectures, David Dewayne Jenkins
"When Are You Going to Get a Real Job?": An Experiential Sport Ethnography of Players' Experiences on the Men's Pro Tennis Futures Tour, Jacob Cannon Jensen
“It was fight or flight...and flight was not an option”: An Existential Phenomenological Investigation of Military Service Members’ Experience of Hand-to-Hand Combat, Peter Richard Jensen
Effects of Highway Geometric Features and Pavement Quality on Traffic Safety, Ximiao Jiang
Electric Vehicles in China: Emissions, Health Impacts, and Equity, Shuguang Ji
Shopper Value: A Framework and Examination of the Impact of Importance, Shopping Context and Shopping Social Situation, Robert Paul Jones
Teaching Evaluator Competencies: An Examination of Doctoral Programs, Susanne Anna Maria Kaesbauer
Deep Machine Learning with Spatio-Temporal Inference, Thomas Paul Karnowski
"To Preserve This Much-Injured Race": Techniques of Neutralization and Indian Removal, 1829-1831, Robert Michael Keeton
Examining the Role of Perceived Immediacy as a Mediator: Revisiting the Relationships among Immediate Behaviors, Liking, and Disclosure, Stephanie Erin Kelly
Consumers' Correspondence Inference on Celebrity Endorsers: The Role of Correspondence Bias and Suspicion, Taewoo Kim
Assessing the Effect of Relocation Control on Psychological Well-being of Assisted Living Residents, Young Sook Kim
Self-Directed Learning: A Potential Predictor for Technology Integration among K-12 Teachers, Julia Marie Kirk
Teacher Perceptions of Their Science Teaching and Student Learning for Diverse Learners, Yolanda Kirkpatrick