Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2007
Golden-winged warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera) demographics and habitat use and the potential effects of land use change on golden-winged and cerulean warblers (Dendroica cerulea) in the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee, Lesley Penfield Bulluck
Pasión y Deseo: Del Amor y la Sexualidad En Poemas Selectos De Octavio Paz y Rosario Castellanos, María Cristina Campos Fuentes
Emergency Disaster Preparedness and Community Mental Health Facilities Capacity Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Linda Lee Cannon Peoples
Spectroscopic Investigations of Complex Transition Metal Oxides, Jinbo Cao
Novel Approaches to Metal Ion Sensing, Nathan Allen Carrington
Gene Expression Analysis of Escherichia coli O157:H7 at 10 and 37°C and Under Acidic Conditions Using High Density Oligonucleotide Microarrays, Kristina K. Carter
Emaricdulfe by E. C. Esquier (1595): Materials Toward a Critical Edition, Georgia Chapman Caver
Comparison of Developmental Assets of Early Adolescents in Two Urban Youth Programs, Keesha Yvette Chapman
Fabrication and Analysis of Polymeric Nanocomposites from Cellulose Fibrils, Qingzheng Cheng
Scale Validation of Co-parenting in Foster Couples, Donna J. Cherry
Development of an integrated opto-electric biosensor to dynamically examine cytometric proliferation and cytotoxicity, Chang Kyoung Choi
The Dose-Response Association of Physical Activity and the Metabolic Syndrome Among U.S. Adults: NHANES 1999-2004, James R. Churilla
Female Faculty Experiences of Discrimination in Higher Education, Kylie Gray Cole
Hope, Coping Style, and Dietary Behaviors of Early and Late Postgastrectomy Stomach Cancer Patients, Cynthia Collins
Choice Experiments: Application to Air Quality Policy Options and Investigation of Method's Incentive Compatibility, Jill Phillips Collins
Becoming Tied: A Theory of Adolescent Maternal-Infant Interaction, Melinda K. Sprinkle Collins
The Stability of Carotenogenic Food Colorants and Strategies to Prolong the Shelf Life in Process Cheese Spread, Ann Marie Doneski Craig
Cigarette Papers: Cigarette Advertising and Promotion in College and University Student Newspapers, A Case Study of The Orange and White at The University of Tennessee, Elizabeth Crisp Crawford
Work, Family, and Community in a Triciprocal Relationship: An Exploratory Study of Enrichment, Cindy L. Crowder
Co-Occurring Disorders: An Outpatient Latent Class Analysis, Kathleen H. Darby
Shopping While Black: Perceptions of Discrimination in Retail Settings, Edith F. Davidson
Supply Chain Leadership, Charles Clifford Defee
Elements of Postfeminism: The Current Landscape of American Politics?, Laura DeLorenzo Denison
Putting the Horse Before the Cart: Utilizing What Assessment Data Reveal About Struggling Young Adolescent Readers to Inform Policy and Instruction, Danielle V. Dennis
Characterization of the Role of Mouse Nell1 Gene in Osteogenesis and Chondrogenesis During Mammalian Fetal Development, Jayashree Basavaraj Desai
Development of a Real-Time PCR Assay for Detection and Quantification of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Apple Juice, Nancy Rabalais DeTrana
Past Fire Regimes of Table Mountain Pine (Pinus pungens L.) Stands in the Central Appalachian Mountains, Virginia, U.S.A., Georgina DeWeese
A Study of Collaborative School-University Partnerships Involving Teams of Educators from Bulgaria and the United States, Edward L. Diden
Adiposity Related Protection of Intestinal Tumorigenesis: Interaction With Dietary Calcium, Shengli Ding
The Pursuit of Community Journalism in a Segregated Tennessee Town, 1949-1969: Richard Smyser and The Alfred Hill Family, Amy Rebecca Drews
The Effect of Academic Earmarking on the Distribution of Federal Research Funding, Andrew Beecher Dunsmore
The Relationship Between Parental Literacy and Language Practices and Beliefs and Toddlers’ Emergent Literacy Skills, Claire Maples Edwards
Job Satisfaction and Work Ethic among Workers in a Japanese Manufacturing Company Located in the United States, Samuel L. Elkins
Slipping Backwards: The Supreme Court, Segregation Legislation, and the African American Press, 1877-1920, Kathryn St.Clair Ellis
Protein Threading for Genome-Scale Structural Analysis, Kyle P. Ellrott
L’Enseignement de la langue française dans les universités yéménites, son passé et son avenir. Étude historique, sociale, analytique et critique, Nesrine Abdullah El-Zine
MEMS Capacitive Strain Sensing Elements for Integrated Total Knee Arthroplasty Prosthesis Monitoring, Boyd McCutchen Evans III
Surface Plasmon Enhanced Heating of Gold Nanoparticles: A Plasmonic Optical Switch, Philip Gareth Evans
Application of Solid Phase Micro-extraction With Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry for the Determination of Geosmin and 2-Methylisoborneol in Processed Navy Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), Coesha Ancoinette Fairley
A Systematic Study of Trillium subgenus Delostylis, Susan B. Farmer
Bat Population Dynamics: An Individual-based Model Approach, Paula Federico
Workers' Compensation and Disability Benefits: The Effect of the Permanent Partial Disability Multiplier and Settlement Method on Back Injury Claims in the State of Tennessee, Eric Allan Fenstemaker
Methods for the Self-Consistent Determination of Thermophysical Properties from Two-Phase Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Jared T. Fern
Streaming Effects in Liquid Injection Rocket Engines with Transverse Mode Oscillations, Sean Robert Fischbach
A Team-Based Approach to Social Learning Research in Natural Resource Management, Jonah Malachai Fogel
How Adult Students Experience Having Their Beliefs Challenged in an Undergraduate Religion Class: A Phenomenological Analysis, Steven Blake Frye
Increasing On-Task Behavior in Second-Grade Students: An Empirical Validation of the Color Wheel Intervention, Daniel L. Fudge
Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques Applied to Algorithm Selection for Solving Sparse Linear Systems, Erika Fuentes
An Integrated Fuzzy Inference Based Monitoring, Diagnostic, and Prognostic System, Dustin R. Garvey
Levelising as a Quality Management Tool, Denise Lynn Gaskin
Spinning Carbon Fiber Precursors from 1-Butyl-3-Methylimidazolium Chloride Cellulose Solutions, Rhea J. Gelderloos-Sammons
Felony Disenfranchisement Legislation: A Test of the Group Threat Hypothesis, Angel Dawn Geoghagan
Behavioral and Ecological Influences on the Echolocation of Brazilian Free-Tailed Bats, Tadarida brasiliensis, Erin H. Gillam
A Study of the Development of Long-Term Marriages Lasting 25 Years or More, Alexander S. Gnilka
Repealing State Legislative Term Limits: A Comparative Analysis, Troy Christopher Goodale
Reliability and Validity of the UNIT - Gifted Screening Scale (UNIT - GSS), Rebecca Grace Gray
Presentation Software and its Affects on Developmental Students’ Mathematics Attitudes, Julianna Gregory
Beauveria bassiana, A Cotton Endophyte With Biocontrol Activity Against Seedling Disease, Mary Ruth Griffin
Development and Validation of the Deaf Athletic Coping Skills Inventory, Jason S. Grindstaff
Laser Surface Structuring of Alumina, Sandip Pundlikrao Harimkar
A Multi-scale Analysis of Disturbance Dynamics in Hardwood Forest Communities on the Cumberland Plateau, U.S.A., Justin L. Hart
Tennessee State Public School Counselors’ Time, Tasks and Knowledge, Laura Michelle Hebert
Automated Gene Classification using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization on Biomedical Literature, Kevin Erich Heinrich
Organizational Health and Student Achievement Gains in Elementary Schools, Christopher Lee Henderson
God’s Deaf and Dumb Instruments: Albert the Great’s Speculum astronomiae and Four Centuries of Readers, Scott Edward Hendrix
Measuring the Impact of Workplace Design on Training Transfer Relative to Other Organizational Factors, Terron L. Hillsman
The Half-life of a Good Place: A Novel, Laura Amanda Hoffer
Risk Management in the Post-SOX Era: Do Audit Firms Effectively Retain Clients, Carl Hollingsworth
The Influence of Atmospherics on Consumer Perceptions of Service Quality, Merchandise Price, and Merchandise Quality Influencing Behavioral Intentions: A Retailing Study of Outlet Malls, Alycia Fogle Holmes
Internet Usage and State Sales Tax Competition, Mary E. Howard
Adherence to the 10,000 Steps per Day Recommendation: An Examination of Researcher Contact, Self-Efficacy, Social Support, and Perceived Barriers, Cherilyn N. Hultquist
Predicting High School Truancy and Academic Performance Among Students in the Appalachian South, Melissa Kathryn Hunt
Characterization of a Biomimetic Calcium-Deficient Hydroxyapatite-Bacterial Cellulose Composite, Stacy Hutchens
Myths, Metaphors, and Mass-Mediated Reality: U.S. Press Coverage of Bird Flu and Avian Influenza Pandemic, 1996-2006, Kunka Dineva Ignatova
AC Electroosmosis for Lab-On-a-Chip Applications, Nazmul Islam
Personalized Health Monitoring Using Evolvable Block-based Neural Networks, Wei Jiang
Nursing in Hell: The Experience of Providing Care During and After Hurricane Katrina, Marti L. Jordan-Welch
Differentiated Intrusion Detection and SVDD-based Feature Selection for Anomaly Detection, Inho Kang
LeaF: A Learning-based Fault Diagnostic System for Multi-Robot Teams, Balajee Kannan
Canada’s Cultural Media Policy and Newfoundland Music on the Radio: Local Identities and Global Implications, Sara Beth Keough
Modular DC-DC Converters, Faisal Habib Khan
Toward Customer Love: Investigating the Antecedents and Outcomes of Satisfied Customers’ Emotional Attachments to Retailers, Hye-Young Kim
Climatic Adaptation and Postcranial Metric Variation in Precontact North America, Kathryn A. King
Eight Karats of Justice: Analysis of the Grassroots Resistance Movement Against Goldmining in the Villages of Bergama, Turkey, Banu Aysu Koçer
Time and Frequency Domain Analyses of Hydrologic and Stream Water Quality Data, Shesh Raj Koirala
Mindfulness in Everyday Life: An Empirical Study of Mindfulness as it is Experienced in Ordinary Life among Long-Term Vipassana Practitioners, Jacqueline Kracker
Fracture Biomechanics of the Human Skeleton, Anne M. Kroman
Optimization of Interfacial Interactions to Achieve the Nanoscale Dispersion of Clay in Polymer/Clay Nanocomposites, Deepali Kumar
Physical Properties of Unconventional Superconductors, Valentina Anatolyevna Kuznetsova
Synthesis and Characterization of Atomically Dispersed, Vanadosilicate Catalysts in Si8O20-Based Building Block Solids, Ming-Yung Lee
Impact of Consumer Characteristics and Hedonic Shopping Motivations on Online Auctions, Min-Young Lee
A Theory of Multi-Transitions and the Chinese Welfare State, Bo Li
Design and Evaluation of a Non-Intrusive Corn Population Sensor, Haizhou Li