Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2011
Essays on State Lottery Demand and Revenue Earmarks, Kara Diane Smith Mitchell
Developing biocontainment strategies to suppress transgene escape via pollen dispersal from transgenic plants, Hong Seok Moon
The ‘Helper’ Phenotype: A Symbiotic Interaction Between Prochlorococcus and Hydrogen Peroxide Scavenging Microorganisms, James Jeffrey Morris
Use of Remote Sensing, Hydrologic Tree-Ring Reconstructions, and Forecasting for Improved Water Resources Planning and Management, Cody Lee Moser
Modeling And Development Of A MEMS Device For Pyroelectric Energy Scavenging, Salwa Mostafa
"Your World Stops": The Relationship Chiasm between Teachers and Students in Court-Mandated Adult Education, Rondal David Mottern
Development of a Rigid Body Forward Solution Physiological Model of the Lower Leg to Predict Non Implanted and Implanted Knee Kinematics and Kinetics, John Kyle Patrick Mueller
Distress Tolerance, Experiential Avoidance, and Negative Affect: Implications for Understanding Eating Behavior and BMI, Christen Nicole Mullane
The Effect of Reflective Writing Interventions on Critical Thinking Skills, Jessica L Naber
Wittgenstein and Aesthetic Reasoning with Stories in the Bioethics Classroom, Michael Woods Nash
Evolution, Speciation, and Conservation of Amblyopsid Cavefishes, Matthew Lance Niemiller
Surface Symmetry Energy of Nuclear Energy Density Functionals, Nikola Iliev Nikolov
An Evaluation of the Outcomes of Children with Multiple Disabilities who Attended Camp Koinonia in 2009, Janelle Nimer
Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Congeners of Hydramycin, an Anthraquinone-Type Antitumor Agent, Costyl Ngnouomeuchi Njiojob
Telerobotic Sensor-based Tool Control Derived From Behavior-based Robotics Concepts, Mark William Noakes
Assessing the efficiency of phenotypic and molecular genotype selection methods for complex traits in Soybean, Catherine Nyaguthii Nyinyi
Disaster Education for Nurses: A Comparison of Two Instructional Methods for Teaching Basic Disaster Life Support in the Light of Self-Efficacy Theory, Mary Catherine Nypaver
Examining A School’s Reform Efforts Through Capacity Building: A Case Study of an Elementary School, Daphne Helen Odom
Counting Reducible Composites of Polynomials, Jacob Andrew Ogle
Thermo- and pH-Sensitive Hydrophilic Block Copolymers: Synthesis, Micellization, Gelation, and Application, Thomas G. O'Lenick
Characterization of a Small Animal SPECT Platform for use in Preclinical Translational Research, Dustin Ryan Osborne
Oceanic-Atmospheric and Hydrologic Variability in Long Lead-Time Forecasting, Abdoul Aziz Oubeidillah
Spatially Resolved Laser and Thermal Desorption/Ionization Coupled with Mass Spectrometry, Olga Sergeevna Ovchinnikova
The Beta Decay of 79,80,81Zn and Nuclear Structure around the N=50 Shell Closure, Stephen William Padgett
Radii and neutron correlations of (6,8)He within the Gamow Shell Model, Georgios Papadimitriou
The Role of Social Network Websites in Consumer-Brand Relationship, Hyejune Park
Bullying, Victimization, Associated Distress & Transition Among Intellectually Gifted Children, Taylor Kaine Pelchar
This We Call Many Things: A Collection of Poems, Charlotte Jeane Pence
Atomistic Modeling of Hydrogen Storage in Nanostructured Carbons, Lujian Peng
Targeted Synthesis and Characterization of Nanostructured Silicate Building Block Supports and Heterogeneous Catalysts with Tungsten(VI) or Zirconium(IV) Centers, Michael Edward Peretich
Prenatal Care Choices in Appalachia: A Qualitative, Critical Realist Description & Content Analysis, Julia Cain Phillippi
Toward Personalized Medicine: The potential role of RNA interference in Plasma Cell Dyscrasia, Jonathan E Phipps
Silvicultural Considerations for the Reintroduction of American Chestnut, Castanea dentata, to the Forests of the Eastern United States, Cornelia Cooper Wells Pinchot
Analysis of 26Al + p elastic and inelastic scattering reactions and Galactic abundances of 26Al, Stephen Todd Pittman
Women and the Environment: Mediating and Moderating Effects of Gender and Demographic Characteristics of Environmental Concern, Carmel Elizabeth Price
Exploring the Relationship Between Orpda and Teachers' Conceptual Understanding of Place Value, Jamie Howard Price
Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Approaches to 1,2,4-Triazine-Accelerated Copper-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloadditions, Ashleigh Lauren Prince
The Elucidation of Stationary Phase Treatment Effects in Enantiomeric Separations, Joel Garrett Putnam
Between Centralization and Decentralization: Changed Curriculum Governance in Chinese Education after 1986, Tingting Qi
Suppression of Chronically Induced Breast Carcinogenesis and Role of Mesenchymal Stem-like Cells, Kusum Rathore
Preservice Secondary School Mathematics Teachers' Current Notions of Proof in Euclidean Geometry, Michael Ratliff
Development of an Organizational Hardiness construct: Examining configurations of Sensemaking, Organizational Identity, and Enactment., Joshua Lloyd Ray
CEO SERPs: Are they related to firm risk and who approves them?, Colin D. Reid
Islands, Metapopulations, and Archipelagos: Genetic Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Structured Populations in the Context of Conservation, Robert Graham Reynolds
Acoustic Emission and X-Ray Diffraction Techniques for the In Situ Study of Electrochemical Energy Storage Materials, Kevin James Rhodes
Effect of Unsteady Combustion on the Stability of Rocket Engines, Tina Morina Rice
Preferences among White College Students Regarding Ethnicity of University Counseling Center Therapists, John David Richardson
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
Monte Carlo Simulations of Single-Molecule Fluorescence Detection Experiments, William Neil Robinson
Transcriptomic Data Analysis Using Graph-Based Out-of-Core Methods, Gary L Rogers
Chemical Tools to Characterize Membrane-Protein Binding Interactions Using Synthetic Lipid Probes, Meng Meng Rowland
A Dendrochronological Approach for Analyzing the Geographic Range Structure of Tree Species, John Balisen Sakulich
The Utilization of Mouse Models to Study Gene Functions: The Role of Foxn3 and Chd2 in Murine Development and Cancer, George Azaz Samaan
Toward a Progressive African Americanism: Africanism and Intraracial Class Conflict in Twentieth- and Early Twenty-First-Century African American Literature, LaRonda Meeshay Sanders-Senu
Circle Packings on Affine Tori, Christopher Thomas Sass
Kenshi’s Experiences of Kendo: A Phenomenological Investigation, Takahiro Sato
Constraints on Primary Production in Lake Erie, Matthew Alan Saxton
Population of low-lying levels in the one-neutron halo nucleus 11Be via the neutron transfer reaction 10Be(d,p), Kyle Thomas Schmitt
Nano-dispersing Lipophilic Antimicrobials for Improved Food Safety, Bhavini Dipak Shah
On the evolution of codon usage bias, Premal R. Shah
Magnetic Field Dependent Electroluminescence and Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductors, Ming Shao
Immunity and Immunopathology in acute viral infections, Shalini Sharma
Quantitative Binocular Assessment Using Infrared Video Photoscreening, Lei Shi
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
Handmade and DIY: The Cultural Economy in the Digital Age, Benjamin Joshua Shultz
The Impact of Transportation and Childcare Assistance on Self-Sufficiency in Families First Participants in Tennessee, Debra Anne Wolfe Shumaker
An Investigation of Pinning Landscapes with Engineered Defects: Contact-free Critical Current Density Measurements, John William Sinclair
Nano-enabled synthetic biology: A cell mimic based sensing platform for exploiting biochemical networks, Piro Siuti
Terminal Sedation, Karen L Smith
Personality Traits and Career Decidedness: An Empirical Study of University Students, Ryan M. Smith
Teachers' Experiences with Comprehension Instruction in Upper Elementary Classrooms, Kathryn Louise Solic
Journalism under Siege: An Investigation into How Journalists in Macedonia Understand Professionalism and Their Role in the Development of Democracy, Katerina Spasovska
Dendroclimatology and Woodland Dynamics on the Volcanic Badlands of Western New Mexico, U.S.A., Mark Daniel Spond
Decolonial Multiculturalism and Local-global Contexts: A Postcritical Feminist Bricolage for Developing New Praxes in Education, Katharine Matthaei Sprecher
Can America’s Top Sedentary Activity be Made More Active?: Physical Activity and Leisure-time Study (PALS), Jeremy Adam Steeves
A Geospatial Based Decision Framework for Extending MARSSIM Regulatory Principles into the Subsurface, Robert Nathan Stewart
An Evaluation of Disturbance-Induced Nutrient Changes and Climate Responses of Loblolly Pine Xylem, Rebecca Lynne Stratton
FACULTY PERCEPTIONS OF THE FACTORS ENABLING AND FACILITATING THEIR INTEGRATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING, Charles Michael Sturgeon
Regulation of B cell response to respiratory viruses, Aarthi Sundararajan
Robust Multichannel Functional-Data-Analysis Methods for Data Recovery in Complex Systems, Jian Sun
ROLE OF IL-17 AND TH17 CELLS IN HSV INDUCED OCULAR IMMUNOPATHOLOGY, Amol Sahebrao Suryawanshi
The Role of Systemic Inflammation in the Development of Equine Laminitis, Elizabeth MaryRose Tadros
The Impact of Change on System of Systems Performance with an Application to Small and Medium Multihospital Systems, Karima Tayeb
Developmental Evolution of the Progamic Phase in Nymphaeales, Mackenzie Lorraine Taylor
Spatial Variation in Organic Carbon and Stable Isotope Composition of Lake Sediments at Laguna Zoncho, Costa Rica, Zachary P Taylor
Processing, Microstructures, and Properties of Aluminide-Strengthened Ferritic Steels, Zhenke Teng
Carbon and Sulfur Cycling in Early Paleozoic Oceans, Cara Kim Thompson
Electronic Excitations in YTiO3 using TDDFT and electronic structure using a multiresolution framework, William Scott Thornton
Studies on the mechanism of homolog pairing in Drosophila male meiosis, Jui-He Tsai
Unto the Least of These: The Pentecostal Church and Social Ministry, Stacey U Tucker
Explicit Lp-norm estimates of infinitely divisible random vectors in Hilbert spaces with applications, Matthew D Turner
Artificial Nutrition and Hydration for Infants with Life-Terminating Conditions: Rethinking the Catholic Position, L William Uhl
The Evolution and Mechanics of Translational Control in Plants, Justin N. Vaughn
After the Final Bell: The Self-Directed Learning Practices of Elementary Teachers, Susan Renee Wagner
In Their Own Words: Perspectives on HBCU Institutional Quality from HBCU Administrators, Chutney Nichole Walton
Liquid Extraction Based Surface Sampling: Liquid Microjunction Surface Sampling Probes Coupled with Mass Spectrometry, Matthew John Walworth