Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2011
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
Revenue Management for Make-to-Order and Make-to-Stock Systems, Jiao Wang
Shear-Band Formation and Thermal Activation in Metallic Glasses, Lu Wang
MULTI-SCALE MODELING OF POLYMERIC MATERIALS: AN ATOMISTIC AND COARSE-GRAINED MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY, Qifei Wang
Performance Controlled Power Optimization for Virtualized Internet Datacenters, Yefu Wang
Algorithms for Advection on Hybrid Parallel Computers, James Buford White III
Identification of Novel Molecular Targets of Resveratrol in Colorectal Carcinogenesis, Nichelle Chantil Whitlock
Baryon Spectrum Analysis using Dirac's Covariant Constraint Dynamics, Joshua Franklin Whitney
Discrete Geometric Homotopy Theory and Critical Values of Metric Spaces, Leonard Duane Wilkins
The Impact of Repeated Sensory-Motor Experience With Multimodal Objects Upon the Emergence of Infant Reaching, Joshua L Williams
Aqueous Micellar Gels of Multiresponsive Hydrophilic ABA Linear Triblock Copolymers, Jeremiah Wallace Woodcock
Mechanism of phospholipid induction of cell migration, Dongwei Wu
Investigating Properties of Pavement Materials Utilizing Loaded Wheel Tester (LWT), Hao Wu
A Model of Voting Behavior by State Court Justices in Death Penalty Appeals, Seong Min Wu
Positive Functioning among Chinese Adolescents: Conceptualizing a Framework and Testing Effects of Parenting, Mingzhu Xia
Reliability Analysis of Nanocrystal Embedded High-k Nonvolatile Memories, Chia-Han Yang
Turbo Bayesian Compressed Sensing, Depeng Yang
In Situ Preconcentration by AC Electrokinetics for Rapid and Sensitive Nanoparticle Detection, Kai Yang
Essays on Gross Receipts Taxes, Zhou Yang
Birnbaum Importance Patterns and Their Applications in the Component Assignment Problem, Qingzhu Yao
Wide-area Situational Awareness Application Developments, Yanzhu Ye
HUMAN INTERACTIONS IN PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL SPACES: A GIS-BASED TIME-GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORATORY APPROACH, Ling Yin
Progress Toward a Redetermination of the Neutron Lifetime Through the Absolute Determination of Neutron Flux, Andrew T Yue
The role of a glycosyltransferase, ST6Gal I in regulating viral specific T and B cell responses, Junwei Zeng
Endogenous gypsy insulators mediate higher order chromatin organization and repress gene expression in Drosophila, Shaofei Zhang
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