Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2009
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
www.homeless.org/culture: A Cross-level Analysis of the Relationship between Organizational Culture and Technology Use among Homeless Service Providers, Courtney Marie Cronley
Linking genotypic diversity within Solidago altissima to communities and ecosystems, Gregory M. Crutsinger
Climate-Driven Impacts of Groundfish on Food Webs in the Northern Bering Sea, Xuehua Cui
Morphological and Molecular Systematics of Psychodidae (Diptera), Gregory Russel Curler
Proposed mechanism of action of saxitoxin in aquatic systems based on expression profiling in lower eukaryotes, Kathleen Daumer Cusick
The Effectiveness of a Restraint Reduction Policy Implemented to Reduce the Use of Physical Restraint with Children and Adolescents in a Residential Care Facility, Irma Molina Damen
Managing team conflict through perspective taking, Shaun W. Davenport
Sociality, Cognition and Social Learning in Turtles (Emydidae), Karen Marie Davis
Was That Racist or Not? I Can’t Tell: The Music of Prussian Blue, Michael J. Davis
Towards Universality in Automatic Freeway Incident Detection: A Calibration-Free Algorithm, Manoel Mendonca de Castro-Neto
The Relationship Between Preschool Teachers’ Beliefs About School Readiness and Classroom Practice in Tennessee Child Care Programs, Joanna Hope Denny
Parents’ Perceptions of Their Children’s and Their Own Sport Experiences, Michael John Diacin
Examining subjective understanding of participants and trained coders in adolescent romantic couples' interactions, Joseph Warren Dickson
The Effects of Betrayal Characteristics on Laypeople’s Ratings of Betrayal Severity and Conceptualization of Forgiveness, Lee J. Dixon
Small Windows of Hope: Understanding the Meaning of Fatigue Experienced by Cancer Patients, Lois Starnes Doane
Studies of Tungsten Alkyl Alkylidyne Compounds and Iron Porphyrin Derivatives, Brenda Ann Dougan
Bling without blood? The role of natural resources in civil war, Kimberly L. Douglass
Biological Simulations and Biologically Inspired Adaptive Systems, Edgar Alfredo Duenez-Guzman
The Executive Coach and Clients in Reflective Practice: Levelising as a Special Case, David T. Duncan
Coronaviral 2’-O-Methyltransferase Function in Virus Replication., Agnieszka Dziduszko
In Contradiction: The Concept of Globalization in the Popular Discourse of Education Reform, Bradley Scott Ellison
A habitat assessment to locate tree of heaven [Ailanthus altissima, (Mill.) Swingle] in Mammoth Cave National Park, Belinda D. Esham
An Investigation of the Transferability of Trip Generation Models and the Utilization of aSpatial Context Variable, Jerry Don Everett
Structure-Function Studies of the Large Subunit of Ribonucleotide Reductase from Homo sapiens and Saccharomyces cerevisiae, James Wesley Fairman
Self-transcendence and spiritual well-being in participants of short-term, faith-based, foreign, health care missions, Elizabeth Ann Fiske
The Design and Synthesis of Biotinylated Tylophorine Analogues for use as Affinity Probes in the Elucidation of the Cellular Targets of DCB-3503, Samson Francis
Atomically resolved STM studies of the perovskite manganite thin-film surfaces, Kenji Fuchigami
Open Heavy Flavor Measurement at Forward Angles for Cu+Cu Collisions at Center of Mass NN Collision Energy 200 GeV, Irakli Garishvili
Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Networks as Transparent Conductors, Matthew Patrick Garrett
Athletes' Experience of Poor Coaching, Brian Gearity
Somehow a word must be found: William Carlos Williams, the Legacies of Duchamp, and the Troping of the Found, Brian L. Gempp
Spectroscopic Imaging for the Detection and Identification of Bacterial Contaminations, Michael Gilbert
Concept-driven visualization for terascale data analytics, Markus Glatter
Population structure of Lower Nubia in the Mesolithic-Christian groups, Kanya Mia Godde
Geographic Variation and Phenotypic Plasticity of Body Size and Cell Size in the Lizard, Anolis Carolinensis, Rachael Goodman
Accelerating Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations with Emerging Architectures, Akila Gothandaraman
English as a second language and bilingual education teacher perceptions of technology integration in the K-12 classroom, Yurimi Michael Grigsby
Social Support and Depression Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults, Julie Helen Grocki
Design and Synthesis of Novel Tylophorine Analogs and their Biological Activity, Julio Gutierrez
Child Parent Relationship Therapy: Hope for Disrupted Attachment, Carolyn Carlisle Hacker
The epidemiology of La Crosse virus in Tennessee and West Virginia, Andrew Douglas Haddow
A Pure Test of Backward Induction, Kelly Padden Hall
The Effects of 17- Beta Estradiol on G-Protein Inwardly Rectifying Potassium Channels (GIRKs) in Breast Cancer, Michael W. Hance
Foraging Behavior of Nerodia clarkii compressicauda, with Special Reference to Lingual Luring, Kerry Andrew Hansknecht
Unnatural amino acids designed for click chemistry and their application to the modification of peptides & nitrene transfer reactions catalyzed by metalloporphyrins, Jeremiah David Harden
An Automated Diagnostic Tool for Predicting Anatomical Response to Radiation Therapy, Carley Elizabeth Harris
Structure and Properties of Nanoclay Reinforced Polymer Films, Fibers and Nonwovens, Raghavendra Ratnakar Hegde
Targeted Proteomics for the Characterization of Enriched Microbial Protein Isolates and Protein Complexes, William Judson Hervey
Synthesis and Characterization of Branched Polyelectrolytes: Star-branched NaPSS, Daniel W. Holley
Patients as Consumers: The Influence of DTCA and "Becoming Little Doctors.", Karen Michele Hood
A New Generation of Mixture-Model Cluster Analysis with Information Complexity and the Genetic EM Algorithm, John Andrew Howe
Extending Knowledge of Parents’ Role in Adolescent Development: The Mediating Effect of Self, Sally BeVille Hunter
A Study of Nonlinear Combustion Instability, Eric J. Jacob
Life Lived Well: A Narrative Analysis of One Woman‟s Wellness Across the Life Span, Whitney Locke Jarnagin
How and to What Extent Do Two Cover, Copy, and Compare Spelling Interventions Contribute to Spelling, Word Recognition and Vocabulary Development?, Kathryn Jaspers
The Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on Bank CEO and Director Compensation, Victoria Javine
Treadmill Workstations: An Obesity Intervention?, Dinesh John
Enhancing User Queries in Scientific Visualization with Distribution Information, Christopher Johnson
Quantitative Analysis of Influenza Virus-Specific B Cell Responses Generated by Infection and Vaccination, Hye Mee Joo
Beyond Sharing the Pen: Dialogue in the Context of Interactive Writing, Jennifer Jeanne Jordan
Perceived needs of counseling interns in concurrent supervision, Tara Sloan Jungersen
Flame Retardant Mattress Pads, Manjeshwar Ganeshaq Kamath
The elastic scattering of deuterons on ¹³²Sn in inverse kinematics, Ryan W. Kapler
An Historical Analysis of Thinking in Resources Published by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS): 1977 – 2006, Ulku Serezli Karabulut