Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2011
Teachers’ Perceptions of Job Satisfaction and School Climate in an Era of Accountability: A Mixed Methods Study of Two High Schools on Tennessee’s High Priority List, Jeffrey Anton Knox
La modernité esthétique chez André Malraux : La quête du “primitif”, Yulia Draganova Kovatcheva
Modeling chemical degradation and proton transport in perfluorosulfonic acid ionomers, Milan Kumar
Water Ice Films in Cryogenic Vacuum Chambers, Jesse Michael Labello
Adsorption of Hydrogen onto Bare and Metal Decorated Metal Oxides, Paige Elizabeth Landry
The Role of Financial Services Advertising on Investors' Decision-Making, Tae Jun Lee
The Discursive Construction of Autism: Contingent Meanings of Autism and Therapeutic Talk, Jessica Nina Lester
Dynamics, Electromyography and Vibroarthrography as Non-Invasive Diagnostic Tools: Investigation of the Patellofemoral Joint, Filip Leszko
The Phenomenology of Everyday Experiences of Contemporary Mystics in the Jewish Traditions of Kabbalah, Priscilla W Levasseur
Lagrangian Representations of (p, p, p)-triangle Groups, Paul Wayne Lewis Jr.
The Paleoecology and Biogeography of Ordovician Edrioasteroids, Rene Anne Lewis
A TIME-AND-SPACE PARALLELIZED ALGORITHM FOR THE CABLE EQUATION, Chuan Li
Dynamic Modeling, Sensor Placement Design, and Fault Diagnosis of Nuclear Desalination Systems, Fan Li
Investigation of hydrodynamic scaling relationships in shallow spouted beds, Irma Deytia Lima Rojas
Functional Genomic Studies of Soybean Defenses against Pests and Soybean Meal Improvement, Jingyu (Lynn) Lin
Packaging Design of IGBT Power Module Using Novel Switching Cells, Shengnan Li
Transport and Optical Properties of Quantized Low-Dimensional Systems, Xiaoguang Li
Essays on Timing of Firm Actions in Industrial Economics, Youping Li
Elastic properties of complex transition metal oxides studied by Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy, Yanbing Luan
A Case Study of the Full Service Community School Model: School Level Benefits in an Urban, Southern Elementary School, Elisa Cooper Luna
A Bibliometric Analysis of the Use of Technical Report Literature: Pre- and Post- Internet Distribution, Cynthia Gayle Manley
AN EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF MOTHERS IN DUAL-CAREER FAMILIES, Andrea Darlene Marable
Quantification and Ecological Perspectives on Cyanophage and Aquatic Viruses, Audrey Renee Matteson
Using Osteological Evidence to Assess Biological Affinity: A Re-evaluation of Selected Sites in East Tennessee, Donna M McCarthy
The Information Behavior of Public Health Educators Working in Appalachia, Karen Jean McClanahan
Balancing Student Participation in Large College Courses via Randomized Credit for Participation, Daniel Fox McCleary
The Relationship between Racial Identity and the Socialization of Black Ph.D. Students at Predominantly White Institutions, Ferlin Garbe McGaskey
An Examination of the Stability of Positive Psychological Capital Using Frequency-Based Measurement, Elizabeth Anne McGee
Examining the Relationship between Work/Life Conflict and Life Satisfaction in Executives: The Role of Problem-Focused Coping Techniques, Heather S McMillan
“Everything Was Different”: An Existential Phenomenological Investigation of US Professional Basketball Players’ Experiences Overseas, Rainer Josef Meisterjahn
Securities Processing: The Effects of a T+3 System on Security Prices, Victoria Lynn Messman
Having an Elective Cesarean Section: Doing What's Best, Cynthia R Acuff Michaluk
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