Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2011
Optimal Theory Applied in Integrodifference Equation Models and in a Cholera Differential Equation Model, Peng Zhong
BIOFUEL AND WATER RESOURCES, Xia Zhou
Characterization and modeling of toxic fly ash constituents in the environment, Zhenwei Zhu
Dissertations from 2010
Tantalum Carbene and Imide Complexes. Synthesis, Characterization, and Pathways of Formation, Julia Kathryn Covington Abbott
Radial Heterogeneity and Surface Properties of Columns Used in High Performance Liquid Chromatography, Jude A. Abia
An Investigation of the Relationship between Big Five and Narrow Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction in College Student and Adult Samples, Christine A. Acevedo
Supported Aqueous-Phase Catalysis for Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization, Ravi Aggarwal
Unintentional Death Rates in Selected Medical Districts among Males living in the United Arab Emirates, Amina Ahmed Sandal Ali
AdS/CFT Correspondence and Hydrodynamics of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions, James Ethan Alsup
Information seeking behavior of scientists in Venezuela, Simon Luis Aristeguieta Trillos
Polymeric Loop Formation at Hard and Soft Interfaces, Earl Ashcraft
The Effects of Female Cabinet Ministers on Female-Friendly Social Policy, Amy Atchison
Kernel-Based Data Mining Approach with Variable Selection for Nonlinear High-Dimensional Data, Seung Hyun Baek
Alternative Splicing in Human Colorectal Cancer, Jae Hoon Bahn
Enhancing Teacher-Child Interactions: A Pilot Study Using Focal Child Data, Kaitlin Noel Bargreen
The Effects of Practice Schedule and Self-Controlled Feedback Manipulations on the Acquisition and Retention of Motor Skills, Joao Augusto De Camargo Barros
Essays on Monetary Policy, Omer Bayar
Predicting Turnover Intent: Examining the Effects of Employee Engagement, Compensation Fairness, Job Satisfaction, and Age., Mary L. Berry
THE EFFECTS OF CONSUMER ORIENTATIONS ON THE CONSUMPTION OF COUNTERFEIT LUXURY BRANDS, Vertica Bhardwaj
Methicillin Resistance in Staphylococcus pseudintermedius, Chad Christopher Black
Optimal Control of Species Augmentation Conservation Strategies, Erin Nicole Bodine
The Tariff in the Age of Jackson, William K Bolt
Orange Alba: The Civil Religion of Loyalism in the Southwestern Lowlands of Scotland since 1798, Ronnie Michael Booker Jr.
Systems, Social Order, and the Global Debt Crisis, John Hamilton Bradford
Steps Toward Butternut (Juglans cinerea L.) Restoration, Sunshine L. Brosi
An Examination of Potential Mediating Factors on the Seductive Details Effect in Learning from Text, Emily Kay Rowland Bryant
Towards Simulations of Binary Neutron Star Mergers and Core-Collapse Supernovae with GenASiS, Reuben Donald Budiardja
Hawks versus Doves: The Influence of Political Ideology on the Foreign Policy Behavior of Democratic States, Costel Calin
Interorganizational Dynamics and the Development and Implementation of an Innovative, STEM High School Program, John Wilson Campbell Jr.
Density Functional Calculation of X-Ray Absorption Spectra within the Core Hole Approximation: An Implementation in NWChem, William Ben Carlen
The Professional Development of Pre-K Mentor Teachers: Insights from a Face-to-Face and Online Community of Practice, Lori Allison Caudle
Carleson-type inequalitites in harmonically weighted Dirichlet spaces, Gerardo Roman Chacon Perez
Diagnosis and Management of Horses with Equine Metabolic Syndrome (EMS), Kelly Ann Chameroy
Scene Segmentation and Object Classification for Place Recognition, Chang Cheng
Adaptive Performance and Power Management in Distributed Computing Systems, Ming Chen
Becoming a Creatrix: Women’s Religious Roles in W. B. Yeats and Olivia Shakespear, Elaine Kathyryn Childs
Malignant Catarrhal Fever Viruses in Tennessee Ruminants, Robin Lynn Cissell
The High School Principal as Instructional Leader: An Explanatory, Mixed Methods Case Study Examining Principal Leadership within the Context of Rural Secondary Schools, Benjamin Tyler Clabo
Merging Data Sources to Predict Remaining Useful Life – An Automated Method to Identify Prognostic Parameters, Jamie Baalis Coble
The Operationalization of the Doctrine of In Loco Parentis: The Administrative Council of the University of Tennessee in the Early 1920s and 1930s, Bryan Franklin Coker
“Holla if you hear me”: A Conversation with Black, inner-city youth on career preparedness programs, Theressa N. Cooper
Generational Perceptions of Productive/Unproductive Information Received from Management through Different Communication Channels, Eva Lynn Cowell
Listening to students: The Lived Experience of Students Taking an Accountability Test, Laura Rutherford Crisp
ARE RESIDENCE LIFE PROFESSIONALS CULTURALLY COMPETENT? AN EXPLORATION OF THE PERCEIVED MULTICULTURAL COUNSELING COMPETENCE OF RESIDENCE LIFE PROFESSIONALS NEW TO THE FIELD, Kelli J. Cummings
Human Decomposition Ecology at the University of Tennessee Anthropology Research Facility, Franklin Edward Damann
New Electrochemical and Optical Detection Methods for Biological and Environmental Applications, Royce Nicholas Dansby-Sparks
L’humour féminin subtil et raffiné dans le théâtre de Yasmina Reza, Sandra Daniela Da Silva Esteves Soares
Trade, Pollution and the Environment: An Examination of Economic Growth and Greenhouse Emissions from Different Sources, Alejandro E. Dellachiesa
Everyday Experiences of Power, Kelly De-Moll
Gay Male Identity in the Context of College: Implications for Development, Support, and Campus Climate, James M. DeVita
“Development of Genetic and Genomic Predictors of Fertility in Argentinean Holstein Cattle.”, Fernando Alfonso Di Croce
Secular Change of the Modern Human Bony Pelvis: Examining Morphology in the United States using Metrics and Geometric Morphometry, Kathryn R.D. Driscoll
Beyond the Battlefield: Direct and Prosthetic Memory of the American War in Viet Nam, Susan L. Eastman
The Maximum Clique Problem: Algorithms, Applications, and Implementations, John David Eblen
Prediction of Premature Termination within A University Counseling Center Setting: An Exploratory Study Using The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI), Meirav Edlis - Matityahou
Identifying Mechanisms Associated with Innate Immunity in Cows Genetically Susceptible to Mastitis, Alexandra Alida Elliott
Humility: Development and analysis of a scale, Jeffrey Charles Elliott
Perceived Roles and Responsibilities of Secondary School Principals and School Resource Officers towards School Security, Macel Ely II
Characterization of the Extracellular Proteome of a Natural Microbial Community with an Integrated Mass Spectrometric / Bioinformatic Approach, Brian Keith Erickson
Molecular-Level Modeling of Proton Transport in Aqueous Systems and Polymer Electrolyte Membranes: A Reactive Molecular Dynamics Study, Myvizhi Esai Selvan
Multidimensional Liquid Chromatography Separations, Jacob N. Fairchild
Attachment Representations and Reflective Function in Women with Borderline Personality Disorder and their Adolescent Offspring, Katie Lauren Fitzpatrick
Biomechanical Risk Factors for Knee Osteoarthritis in Young Adults: The Influence of Obesity and Gait Instruction, Julia Ann Freedman
Monotonic and Cyclic Compression Behavior of Bulk Metallic Glasses, Matthew Webster Freels
Communication in married couples: Exploring the roles of betrayal and forgiveness, Nikki N. Frousakis
The Effects of Pacing on Academic Performance in Elementary School Students with Attention Difficulties, Emily Jane Fuller
Client-Centered Play Therapy with an Elderly Assisted Living Facility Resident, Angela M. Fuss
Boiling Water Reactor Core Simulation with Generalized Isotopic Inventory Tracking for Actinide Management, Jack Douglas Galloway
Welcome to Boomland, Cebrun Abe Gaustad
A Method to Accomplish the Optimal Control of Continuous Dynamical Systems with Impulse Controls via Discrete Optimal Control and Utilizing Optimal Control Theory to Explore the Emergence of Synchrony., Rachel Natalie Graves
The Development of a Parameterized Scatter Removal Algorithm for Nuclear Materials Identification System Imaging, Brandon Robert Grogan
5’-Proximal cis-Acting RNA Signals for Coronavirus Genome Replication, Bo-Jhih Guan
Investigation of the Processing, Structure and Properties of Poly(phenylene sulfide) (PPS) Melt Spun Fibers, Prabhakar Gulgunje
Evaluation of genetic diversity of flowering dogwood (Cornus florida L.) in the eastern United States using microsatellites., Denita Hadziabdic
Teacher Political Self-Efficacy: Construct Development and Validation, Mary Catherine Hammon
The Consanguinity of Ideas: Race and Anti-communism in the U.S. - Australian Relationship, 1933 - 1953, Travis J. Hardy
Biological Affinities and the Construction of Cultural Identity for the Proposed Coosa Chiefdom, Michaelyn S. Harle
Revisiting the Iceberg: A Study of Technology, Self-Direction, and the Learning Projects of Small Business Owners, John David Harrison
In Sickness and in Health: Analyzing the Ethical Limits of the Marriage between Health Care and the Market in the United States, Thomas D Harter
A Comparison of the Wellness Levels of Victims of Domestic Violence with a Local Female Population, Tara Zeruie Harvey
Too Much Horse: Fiction, Nonfiction, Prose Poetry, Andrew Otis Haschemeyer
Pin-Wise Loading Optimization and Lattice–to-Core Coupling for Isotopic Management in Light Water Reactors, Hermilo Hernandez Noyola
Development of Nanomechanical Sensors for Environmental Contaminate Screening Using Protein Functionalized Microcantilevers, Kasey L. Hill
Using Critical Race Theory to Read Fantasy Football, Stephanie Rene Hill
Women's Softball in Iran: An Autoethnographic Journey, Sarah J Hillyer
Is All Goodwill Created Equal? An Analysis of the Association Between Agency Conflicts, Board Monitoring, and Goodwill in U.S. Mergers and Acquisitions, Matthew L. Hoag
Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Peptide Resistance in Campylobacter, Ky Van Hoang
Faith and Field: Christianity, the Environment, and Five Contemporary American Poets, Heather M. Hoover
A Novel Technique for CTIS Image-Reconstruction, Mitchel Dewayne Horton
Investigating Genetic Diversity of Phytophthora spp. and Related Oomycetes, Jonathan Patrick Hulvey
An Adaptive Nonparametric Modeling Technique for Expanded Condition Monitoring of Processes, Matthew John Humberstone