Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2010
Theoretical Models for Wall Injected Duct Flows, Tony Saad
"Expanding Horizons": Examining Master’s Level Counseling Students’ Experiences with Mentors, Shelley Elizabeth Salter
Government Intervention and Economic Growth, Maria Sarigiannidou
Ambigüedades éticas y estéticas: La narrativa peruana contemporánea y la violencia política, Gabriel T Saxton-Ruiz
The Assumption of Non-coerciveness and the Total Food Market, Harwood Schaffer
Autobiographical Memory Specificity and the Role of Defensiveness, Brooding, Executive Control, and Family Functioning, Lina Carvalho Schlachter
Alzheimer's Disease Caregiver Burden: Does Resilience Matter?, Cathy B Scott
Interstitial Copresence: Experiencing Self With and Within Everyday Forms of Electronically Mediated Communication, Steven J. Seiler
Heterosexism and Homonegativism in Sport: A Phenomenological Investigation of Lesbian Athletes, Marie Elizabeth Shaw
Fractions of Numerical Semigroups, Harold Justin Smith
Always and never the same: Women's long-distance friendships during life course transitions, Jessica Thern Smith
The Impact of Secondary Mathematics Methods Courses on Preservice Secondary Teachers’ Beliefs about the Learning and Teaching of Mathematics, Ronald Gene Smith II
The Gendered Soul: Victorian Women Autobiographers and the Novel, Robbie E Spivey
A New Lean Model: Improving Race Team Performance through Team-Driver Communication Efficacy, Joseph Ruric Stainback IV
Interplay between structure and chemistry of materials and their physical properties, Alaska Subedi
A High -Temperature, High-Voltage, Fast Response Time Linear Regulator in 0.8um BCD-on-SOI, Chia Hung Su
Factors Related to Student Persistence in a New Residential STEM High School: The Case of the Tennessee Governor’s Academy for Mathematics and Science, Amy Cinci Sullins
A Case Study Exploring the Preservice Technology Training Experiences of Novice Teachers, Susan R. Sutton
Professionalism: What is it and are we teaching for it?, Brian K Tate
The Effect of Technique Instruction on Biomechanical Risk Factors Associated with ACL Injury Risk in Female Recreational Athletes, Jeremiah Jackson Tate
Novel Electrochemical Detections of Biologically and Environmentally Relevant Substances, Clarissa E. Tatum
Resistance to Learning in Mandatory Training Contexts: Design and Construction of a Diagnostic Instrument, Jonathan E. Taylor
Surface and Subsurface Physical and Chemical Characterization of Materials at the Nanoscale, Laurene Tetard
A Study of Presidential Derailment in Community Colleges, Leigh Anne Touzeau
Mixture of Factor Analyzers with Information Criteria and the Genetic Algorithm, Esra Turan
The Effect of Body Mass Index on Pedometer Accuracy in a Free-Living Environment, Brian Matthew Tyo
THE RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT PROCESS OF PUBLIC DIPLOMACY: U.S. PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN ROMANIA, Antoneta Vanc
Affective Socialization Processes in Mathematics Doctoral Study: Gaining Insight from Successful Students, Lauren L Wagener
The Tennessee Death Penalty: Prosecutors, Juries and the Impact of Race, Kristin Amber Wagers
The role of the Suppressor of Hairy-wing insulator protein in chromatin organization and expression of transposable elements in Drosophila melanogaster, Heather Anne Wallace
An Investigation of Time Management and Organization in Head Start Families, Heather Sedges Wallace
Study of Deformation Behavior of Nanocrystalline Nickel using Nanoindentation Techniques, Changli Wang
A New Screening Methodology for Mixture Experiments, Maria Weese
Surface and subsurface structures of the western Valley and Ridge in Tennessee and geometry and kinematics that permit reconstruction of the Tennessee salient, southern Appalachians, Jennifer Kathleen Whisner
Adolescent Female Substance Use: An Examination of Male Peer Influences and Parental Control, Sarah Gwynne Whiteford
Inside the Minds of Sex Offenders: Illuminating the Role of Implicit Rape Attitudes in Sexual Offending, Laura M. Widman
EVALUATION OF AND BEHAVIOR TOWARD THE VISUAL RETAIL ENVIRONMENT: FUNCTION OF CONSUMERS’ VISUAL AESTHETIC SENSITIVITY, Sarah Eubanks Wilhoit
The Effects of Narrative Coherence & Mindfulness on Parenting Style & Child Behavior, Keith Lee Williams
Multivariate Optimization of Neutron Detectors Through Modeling, Martin Rodney Williamson
Unintentional Injury Content Assessment in Undergraduate Personal Health and Wellness Courses, Kiley Elizabeth Winston
Attrition and Mobility: Analysis of the Educational and Employment History of Teacher Education Graduates at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, William B. Wishart
Archaism, or Textual Literalism in the Historical Novel, Linell B Wisner
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Therapeutic Assessment with Depressed Adult Clients Using Case-Based Time-Series Design, Nicole J. Wolf
Effects of Taiji and Strength Training Interventions on Knee Osteoarthritis of Older Adults, Michael George Wortley
"Rapping About Authenticity": Exploring the Differences in Perceptions of "Authenticity" in Rap Music by Consumers.", James L. Wright
User’s Behavior in Selected Online Learning Environments, Ai-Lun Wu
Adolescent Predictors of Early Adult Adjustment, Porche' Wynn
Molecular Simulations of Adsorption and Diffusion in Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), Ruichang Xiong
An Effective Approach to Nonparametric Quickest Detection and Its Decentralized Realization, Dayu Yang
Differential Equation Models and Numerical Methods for Reverse Engineering Genetic Regulatory Networks, Mi Un Yoon
Human–animal relationships as modulators of trauma effects in children: a developmental neurobiological perspective, Janet G. Yorke
Campylobacter Pathogenesis and Subunit Vaccine Development, Ximin Zeng
Two Essays on Momentum Strategy and Its Sources of Abnormal Returns, Yu Zhang
Neutron scattering study of the high Tc superconductors, Jun Zhao
Durability and Fatigue Behavior of CIP Concrete Connections for Accelerated Bridge Construction, Peng Zhu
Dissertations from 2009
Service Delivery Consolidation, Governance and the Enhancement of Local Government Capacity: Creating a Service Consolidation Model, Charles Richard Abernathy
Levels of acetic and lactic acid in RTE meat and poultry products and their association with occurrence of Listeria monocytogenes at retail, Omaima Maamoun Ahmed
Experimental Studies of Exotic Negative Ions, Shaun Gerald Ard
Dynamic effects of government policies in a small open developing economy with external debt and sovereign risk, Mark Assibey-Yeboah
Novel Approach to Ocular Photoscreening, Kevin Charles Baker
Physical Adsorption of Ethylene on MgO(100): Effects of Substrate Ionicity and Symmetry on Wetting, Andi Barbour
Open source software contributors' motivations in a community of practice, Hoda Baytiyeh
Data Mining with Multivariate Kernel Regression Using Information Complexity and the Genetic Algorithm, Dennis Jack Beal
Giving Back Not Giving Up: Generativity Among Older Female Inmates, Regina White Benedict
Promoter hypermethylation of candidate tumor suppressor genes in urinary bladder and prostate cancer, Heike Bernert
Physician as Military Officer: Conflicts in Professional Duties, Kevin Michael Bond
Tectonic implications of para- and orthogneiss geochronology and geochemistry from the southern Appalachian crystalline core, Brendan Richardson Bream
“The Youngest of the great American Family”: The Creation of a Franco-American Culture in Early Louisiana, Cinnamon Brown
Role of Dietary Calcium and Dairy in Modulating Oxidative Stress, Inflammatory Stress and Lifespan, Antje Eerenstein Bruckbauer
The Integration of European Union Borderlands: Polish Views on Cross-Border Mobility and Cooperation Across the Polish-German Border, Michelle Janet Brym
Evaluation Use and Influence among Project Directors of State GEAR UP Grants, Erin Mehalic Burr
Situational Awareness in Multi-Casualty Incidents: Theory Development from the Field, Steven T. Busby
Why Foreign Counterinsurgency Campaigns Fail, Donald Frederick Butler
Administrators’ Literacy Beliefs and Leadership Behaviors as Reflected in Early Childhood Practice, Maria Kostrzewa Cahill
Functional Connectivity of EEG LORETA in Cortical Core Components of the Self and the Default Network (DNt) of the Brain, Rex Lee Cannon
Sequence-Based Specification of Embedded Systems, Jason Martin Carter
A Study of Presidential Derailment in Public Research Universities, Keith Shaw Carver
The effects of nursing home organizational culture and climate on employee and resident outcomes, Kimberly McClure Cassie
A Financial Model for the Launch and Operation of an Online Degree Program by a Public Higher Education System, Jason Caudill
A phenomenological inquiry into children's experiences and choices related to health and disease prevention, Juliann Marie Chavez
Automated Surveillance Systems with Multi-Camera and Robotic Platforms, Chung Hao Chen
Coupled Flow Discrete Element Method Application in Granular Porous Media using Open Source Codes, Feng Chen
Low-power switched capacitor voltage reference, Suheng Chen
UT Taiwanese graduate students' perceived difficulties in English for academic purpose setting, Tai-Ming Chen
The roles of phospholipid biosynthesis in Candida albicans virulence, Ying-Lien Chen
Scheduling for Service Stability and Supply Chain Coordination, Yuerong Chen
Automated Correction and Optimized Contrast Enhancement of Multi-Line CCD Images, Zhiyu Chen
Nonlinear localized dissipative structures for long-time solution of wave equation, Subhashini B. Chitta
The Regulation of Neuropeptide Corazonin and Its Functional Analyses in Drosophila Melanogaster, Seung-Hoon Choi
Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors for Selective Anti-Cancer Therapeutics, Shambhunath Choudhary
System effectiveness model formulation with application to nuclear safeguards systems, Cameron Wright Coates
The synthesis and spectroscopic studies of titanium-amido complexes as potential catalysts for small molecule activation and polymerization reactions, Andrew James Colvin
An Analysis of Two Markets with Asymmetric Information, Stephen James Cotten