Doctoral Dissertations

 

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Dissertations from 2011

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Prenatal Care Choices in Appalachia: A Qualitative, Critical Realist Description & Content Analysis, Julia Cain Phillippi

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Toward Personalized Medicine: The potential role of RNA interference in Plasma Cell Dyscrasia, Jonathan E Phipps

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Silvicultural Considerations for the Reintroduction of American Chestnut, Castanea dentata, to the Forests of the Eastern United States, Cornelia Cooper Wells Pinchot

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Analysis of 26Al + p elastic and inelastic scattering reactions and Galactic abundances of 26Al, Stephen Todd Pittman

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Women and the Environment: Mediating and Moderating Effects of Gender and Demographic Characteristics of Environmental Concern, Carmel Elizabeth Price

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Exploring the Relationship Between Orpda and Teachers' Conceptual Understanding of Place Value, Jamie Howard Price

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Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Approaches to 1,2,4-Triazine-Accelerated Copper-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloadditions, Ashleigh Lauren Prince

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The Elucidation of Stationary Phase Treatment Effects in Enantiomeric Separations, Joel Garrett Putnam

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Between Centralization and Decentralization: Changed Curriculum Governance in Chinese Education after 1986, Tingting Qi

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Suppression of Chronically Induced Breast Carcinogenesis and Role of Mesenchymal Stem-like Cells, Kusum Rathore

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Preservice Secondary School Mathematics Teachers' Current Notions of Proof in Euclidean Geometry, Michael Ratliff

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Development of an Organizational Hardiness construct: Examining configurations of Sensemaking, Organizational Identity, and Enactment., Joshua Lloyd Ray

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CEO SERPs: Are they related to firm risk and who approves them?, Colin D. Reid

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Islands, Metapopulations, and Archipelagos: Genetic Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Structured Populations in the Context of Conservation, Robert Graham Reynolds

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Acoustic Emission and X-Ray Diffraction Techniques for the In Situ Study of Electrochemical Energy Storage Materials, Kevin James Rhodes

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Effect of Unsteady Combustion on the Stability of Rocket Engines, Tina Morina Rice

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Preferences among White College Students Regarding Ethnicity of University Counseling Center Therapists, John David Richardson

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Elementary and secondary science teachers negotiation of controversial science content: The relationships among prior conception appropriation, thinking disposition, and learning about geologic time, James Harold Roberson

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Monte Carlo Simulations of Single-Molecule Fluorescence Detection Experiments, William Neil Robinson

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Transcriptomic Data Analysis Using Graph-Based Out-of-Core Methods, Gary L Rogers

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Chemical Tools to Characterize Membrane-Protein Binding Interactions Using Synthetic Lipid Probes, Meng Meng Rowland

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A Dendrochronological Approach for Analyzing the Geographic Range Structure of Tree Species, John Balisen Sakulich

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The Utilization of Mouse Models to Study Gene Functions: The Role of Foxn3 and Chd2 in Murine Development and Cancer, George Azaz Samaan

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Toward a Progressive African Americanism: Africanism and Intraracial Class Conflict in Twentieth- and Early Twenty-First-Century African American Literature, LaRonda Meeshay Sanders-Senu

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Circle Packings on Affine Tori, Christopher Thomas Sass

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Kenshi’s Experiences of Kendo: A Phenomenological Investigation, Takahiro Sato

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Constraints on Primary Production in Lake Erie, Matthew Alan Saxton

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Population of low-lying levels in the one-neutron halo nucleus 11Be via the neutron transfer reaction 10Be(d,p), Kyle Thomas Schmitt

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Nano-dispersing Lipophilic Antimicrobials for Improved Food Safety, Bhavini Dipak Shah

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On the evolution of codon usage bias, Premal R. Shah

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Magnetic Field Dependent Electroluminescence and Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductors, Ming Shao

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Immunity and Immunopathology in acute viral infections, Shalini Sharma

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Quantitative Binocular Assessment Using Infrared Video Photoscreening, Lei Shi

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Production and Roles of Volatile Secondary Metabolites in Interactions of the Host Plant Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) with Other Organisms at Multi-Trophic Levels., Gitika Shrivastava

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Handmade and DIY: The Cultural Economy in the Digital Age, Benjamin Joshua Shultz

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The Impact of Transportation and Childcare Assistance on Self-Sufficiency in Families First Participants in Tennessee, Debra Anne Wolfe Shumaker

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An Investigation of Pinning Landscapes with Engineered Defects: Contact-free Critical Current Density Measurements, John William Sinclair

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Nano-enabled synthetic biology: A cell mimic based sensing platform for exploiting biochemical networks, Piro Siuti

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Terminal Sedation, Karen L Smith

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Personality Traits and Career Decidedness: An Empirical Study of University Students, Ryan M. Smith

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Teachers' Experiences with Comprehension Instruction in Upper Elementary Classrooms, Kathryn Louise Solic

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Journalism under Siege: An Investigation into How Journalists in Macedonia Understand Professionalism and Their Role in the Development of Democracy, Katerina Spasovska

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Dendroclimatology and Woodland Dynamics on the Volcanic Badlands of Western New Mexico, U.S.A., Mark Daniel Spond

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Decolonial Multiculturalism and Local-global Contexts: A Postcritical Feminist Bricolage for Developing New Praxes in Education, Katharine Matthaei Sprecher

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Can America’s Top Sedentary Activity be Made More Active?: Physical Activity and Leisure-time Study (PALS), Jeremy Adam Steeves

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A Geospatial Based Decision Framework for Extending MARSSIM Regulatory Principles into the Subsurface, Robert Nathan Stewart

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An Evaluation of Disturbance-Induced Nutrient Changes and Climate Responses of Loblolly Pine Xylem, Rebecca Lynne Stratton

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FACULTY PERCEPTIONS OF THE FACTORS ENABLING AND FACILITATING THEIR INTEGRATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING, Charles Michael Sturgeon

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Regulation of B cell response to respiratory viruses, Aarthi Sundararajan

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Robust Multichannel Functional-Data-Analysis Methods for Data Recovery in Complex Systems, Jian Sun

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ROLE OF IL-17 AND TH17 CELLS IN HSV INDUCED OCULAR IMMUNOPATHOLOGY, Amol Sahebrao Suryawanshi

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The Role of Systemic Inflammation in the Development of Equine Laminitis, Elizabeth MaryRose Tadros

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The Impact of Change on System of Systems Performance with an Application to Small and Medium Multihospital Systems, Karima Tayeb

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Developmental Evolution of the Progamic Phase in Nymphaeales, Mackenzie Lorraine Taylor

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Spatial Variation in Organic Carbon and Stable Isotope Composition of Lake Sediments at Laguna Zoncho, Costa Rica, Zachary P Taylor

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Processing, Microstructures, and Properties of Aluminide-Strengthened Ferritic Steels, Zhenke Teng

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Carbon and Sulfur Cycling in Early Paleozoic Oceans, Cara Kim Thompson

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Electronic Excitations in YTiO3 using TDDFT and electronic structure using a multiresolution framework, William Scott Thornton

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Studies on the mechanism of homolog pairing in Drosophila male meiosis, Jui-He Tsai

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Unto the Least of These: The Pentecostal Church and Social Ministry, Stacey U Tucker

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Explicit Lp-norm estimates of infinitely divisible random vectors in Hilbert spaces with applications, Matthew D Turner

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Optimal Draw Area and Feedstock Delivery Schedule of Biorefineries in the Southeast U.S. Based on Least Cost and Producers’ Willingness to Plant a Dedicated Energy Crop, Wen Tu

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Artificial Nutrition and Hydration for Infants with Life-Terminating Conditions: Rethinking the Catholic Position, L William Uhl

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The Evolution and Mechanics of Translational Control in Plants, Justin N. Vaughn

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After the Final Bell: The Self-Directed Learning Practices of Elementary Teachers, Susan Renee Wagner

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In Their Own Words: Perspectives on HBCU Institutional Quality from HBCU Administrators, Chutney Nichole Walton

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Liquid Extraction Based Surface Sampling: Liquid Microjunction Surface Sampling Probes Coupled with Mass Spectrometry, Matthew John Walworth

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Revenue Management for Make-to-Order and Make-to-Stock Systems, Jiao Wang

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Roles of Polymer Crosslinking Density and Crystallinity in Regulating Surface Characteristics and Pre-osteoblastic MC3T3 Cell Behavior, Kan Wang

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Shear-Band Formation and Thermal Activation in Metallic Glasses, Lu Wang

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MULTI-SCALE MODELING OF POLYMERIC MATERIALS: AN ATOMISTIC AND COARSE-GRAINED MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY, Qifei Wang

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Performance Controlled Power Optimization for Virtualized Internet Datacenters, Yefu Wang

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Endocytic trafficking is required for neuron cell death through regulating TGF-beta signaling in Drosophila melanogaster, Zixing Wang

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Algorithms for Advection on Hybrid Parallel Computers, James Buford White III

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Identification of Novel Molecular Targets of Resveratrol in Colorectal Carcinogenesis, Nichelle Chantil Whitlock

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Baryon Spectrum Analysis using Dirac's Covariant Constraint Dynamics, Joshua Franklin Whitney

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Discrete Geometric Homotopy Theory and Critical Values of Metric Spaces, Leonard Duane Wilkins

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The Impact of Repeated Sensory-Motor Experience With Multimodal Objects Upon the Emergence of Infant Reaching, Joshua L Williams

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Aqueous Micellar Gels of Multiresponsive Hydrophilic ABA Linear Triblock Copolymers, Jeremiah Wallace Woodcock

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Mechanism of phospholipid induction of cell migration, Dongwei Wu

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Investigating Properties of Pavement Materials Utilizing Loaded Wheel Tester (LWT), Hao Wu

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Users’ Help-Seeking Behaviors within the Context of Computer Task Accomplishment: An Exploratory Study, Lei Wu

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A Model of Voting Behavior by State Court Justices in Death Penalty Appeals, Seong Min Wu

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Nanoscale Metal Thin Film Dewetting Via Nanosecond Laser Melting: Understanding Instabilities and Materials Transport in Patterned Thin Films, Yueying Wu

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Positive Functioning among Chinese Adolescents: Conceptualizing a Framework and Testing Effects of Parenting, Mingzhu Xia

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Reliability Analysis of Nanocrystal Embedded High-k Nonvolatile Memories, Chia-Han Yang

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Turbo Bayesian Compressed Sensing, Depeng Yang

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In Situ Preconcentration by AC Electrokinetics for Rapid and Sensitive Nanoparticle Detection, Kai Yang

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DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT OF RARE EARTH ACTIVATED BINARY METAL HALIDE SCINTILLATORS FOR NEXT GENERATION RADIATION DETECTORS, Kan Yang

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Essays on Gross Receipts Taxes, Zhou Yang

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Strong Spin Orbital Coupling Effect on Magnetic Field Response Generated by Intermolecular Excited States in Organic Semiconductors, Liang Yan

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Birnbaum Importance Patterns and Their Applications in the Component Assignment Problem, Qingzhu Yao

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BIOREACTOR SYSTEM DESIGNS FOR LIPASE-CATALYZED SYNTHESIS OF SACCHARIDE- FATTY ACID ESTERS IN SOLVENT-FREE MEDIA, Ran Ye

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Wide-area Situational Awareness Application Developments, Yanzhu Ye

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HUMAN INTERACTIONS IN PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL SPACES: A GIS-BASED TIME-GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORATORY APPROACH, Ling Yin

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“It Can Start From Anything”: An Existential Phenomenological Investigation of Athletes’ Experiences of Psychological Momentum, Greg Young

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Progress Toward a Redetermination of the Neutron Lifetime Through the Absolute Determination of Neutron Flux, Andrew T Yue

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The role of a glycosyltransferase, ST6Gal I in regulating viral specific T and B cell responses, Junwei Zeng

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Endogenous gypsy insulators mediate higher order chromatin organization and repress gene expression in Drosophila, Shaofei Zhang

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Micromechanical Studies of Intergranular Strain and Lattice Misorientation Fields and Comparisons to Advanced Diffraction Measurements, LiLi Zheng