Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2007
Static and Dynamic Magnetism in the Electron-Doped High-Temperature Superconductor Pr0.88LaCe0.12CuO4-δ and in the f-electron, Non-Fermi Liquid Alloy Sc1-xUxPd3, Stephen Dennis Wilson
A Study of Middle School Teachers' Use of Assessment Team Data from Learning Disability Evaluations, Carole Cavender Witt
Sonochemical and Hydrophobic Modification of Chitin and Chitosan, Tao Wu
Validation of the Air Force Family Needs Screener, Wendy J. Wyse
Plastic Deformation and Annealing of Zr- and Cu- Based Bulk Metallic Glasses, Sujing Xie
A Finite Element Study of the Contact Stiffness of Homogenous Materials and Thin Films, Haitao Xu
Modeling the Quorum Sensing Signaling Regulatory Network in Vibrio fischeri, Ling Yan
Parametric and Non-Parametric Regression Tree Models of the Strength Properties of Engineered Wood Panels Using Real-time Industrial Data, Timothy Mark Young
Yield and Reliability Analysis for Nanoelectronics, Tao Yuan
Electro-Thermal Modeling of SiC Power Electronic Systems, Hui Zhang
Optimal Sizing and Location of Static and Dynamic Reactive Power Compensation, Wenjuan Zhang
Approximation Methods for the Standard Deviation of Flow Times in the G/G/s Queue, Xiaofeng Zhao
Dissertations from 2006
Hydrodynamic Wave Contributions to Combustion Instability in Rockets, Esam M. T. Abu-Irshaid
The Effect of Mobile Phase Composition and Temperature on the Adsorption Behavior of Tryptophan, Tarab Jamil Ahmad
Linear and Nonlinear Chiroptical Effects, Watheq Ahmad Al-Basheer
Inflammatory Response Following Moderate and Vigorous Aerobic Exercise, Carolyn Albright
Weaving the Threads of Relational Connectedness Between Women: Exploring How Women Make Meaning in Their Lives Through Relationships with Other Women, Lee Ann Alley Jolley
The Impact of Societal Values on Kuwaiti Women and the Role of Education, Zaha F. M. M. Alsuwailan
Low Speed Crash Testing: Establishment of the Anderson Fascia Damage Methodology, Bryce Otis Anderson
Linking Work Stress, Parental Self-Efficacy, Ineffective Parenting, and Youth Problem Behavior, Owen Arthur Anderson
Political Practice: A Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Inquiry, Michael E. Arfkin
Three Population Models Applied to Competition, Disease and Invasion, Erika Asano
Developing Math Automaticity Using a Classwide Fluency Building Procedure for Students with Varying Processing Speeds, Philip K. Axtell
Computer Modeling of Tennessee Valley Authority’s Coal Based Power Plant at Kingston to Predict the Effluent to Emory River, Bratendu Bagchi
Single-Molecule Detection with Active Transport, David Allan Ball
Combined Study of Reactor and Terrestrial Antineutrinos with KamLAND, Mikhail Batygov
The Tangled Web of Community Ecology: Making Sense of Complex Data, Monica Lynn Beals
Investigating Forgiveness in Relation to Offensive Experiences Among Black and White Respondents, Allen R. Bellamy
'Pick it Up, It's Good' Utilizing Solution-Focused Guided Imagery with Golfers Experiencing the Yips: A Single-Subject Research Design, Robert J. Bell
Iterative Reconstruction of Cone-Beam Micro-CT Data, Thomas Matthew Benson
Chaucer's Questioning Impulse: Reading the Dream Visions and Troilus and Criseyde, Anita K. Bergeson
Socio-Emotional Conflict in Teams: A Social Relations Analysis and Exploration of Causes, Jacqueline Zelno Bergman
Community College Students’ Perceptions of Their Rural High School Mathematics Experience, Caroline Munn Best
Multiculturalism and the State: Globalization, National Protection, and the Role of Social Policy in Québec and Canada, Corey Allen Blad
Supplementation of Purified Fiber to Tall Fescue Grass Hay Diets, Howard Martin Blalock
The Effects of Fast Secondary Electrons on Low Voltage Electron Beam Lithography, Mehdi Bolorizadeh
Parent-Daughter Relationships in Abusive Families as Perceived by Adult Female Survivors of Childhood Abuse, Kimberly Sue Bolton
Regularization of the Particle-Particle Interaction in the Nuclear Density Functional Theory, Piotr Jerzy Borycki
Being Authentic in Life and on Stage: A Phenomenological Investigation of the Actor as Character, Sanderien Marieke Bosshardt
Identifying the Underpinnings of Compulsive Behavior: A New Measure of Addiction Proneness, Jennifer Lynn Bowler
Differential Attributions of the Causes of Subordinate Success and Failure by Aggressive and Non-Aggressive Individuals, Mark Connor Bowler
Essays on IPO-Firm Earnings Management, Scott N. Bronson
Screening Mammography Compliance in Rural and Urban Women in Tennessee, Kathleen Conroy Brown
Facing Down Death and Moving Beyond: Strategies Utilized by Female Survivors of Childhood Maltreatment, Tonya Barri Broyles
German Olympians’ Experiences of Competing at the 2004 Athens Games, Sebastian Brueckner
From the Voice to the Violent Act: Language and Violence in Contemporary Drama, Richard A. Bryan
A Case Study of Successful Small School Reform: The Construction Academy as a Fundamentally Different Enterprise, Alison E. Buehler
Explaining Species Diversity By Linking Local and Large Scale Processes, Marc William Cadotte
Unveiling the Regulatory Network for Di/tri-peptide Utilization in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Houjian Cai
Development of a Measure of Sport Injury Anxiety: The Sport Injury Appraisal Scale, Camille McLain Cassidy
Packings of Conformal Preimages of Circles, Matthew Edward Cathey
Phosphorus Removal from Liquid Swine Manure by Chemical Precipitation, Ipek Celen
Interference effects among J = 3/2+ resonances in 19Ne system & Searching for resonances in the unbound 6Be nucleus, Kyung Yuk Chae
Psychological adaptation of Mainland Chinese Female International Students: A Phenomenological Inquiry, I-Wen Chan
Characterization of Aβ Aggregates Using Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry, Maolian Chen
Scalable Techniques for Fault Tolerant High Performance Computing, Zizhong Chen
Studies of the Mechanism of Electron Beam Induced Deposition (EBID), Young Ryong Choi
Developmental and Neurogenetic Studies on the Peptidergic Nerve System in Drosophila, Youn-Jeong Choi
The Thermophysical Roll of Nanoparticles in Nanofluidic Heat and Mass Transport, Chan Hee Chon
A Content Analysis by Political Cultures and Values of State Compliance Documents for the Federal Legislation, No Child Left Behind, Constance Didlake Cole
Avian Community Ecology: Patterns of Co-occurrence, Nestedness, and Morphology, Michael David Collins
Direct Integration of Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy as a Detection Mode for Microfluidic Separations and Fluid Handling: μfluidic-SERS, Raynella Magdalene Connatser
Integrated Computational and Experimental Platform for Characterizing Protein Isoforms and PTMs in Microbial Systems by Top-Down FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry, Heather Marie Connelly
Thermodynamic and Neutron Structural Studies of Hydrocarbon Adsorption on MgO Nanocubes, Richard E. Cook
Relationship of Service Coordinators’ Family-Centered Service Delivery and Maternal Empowerment in Tennessee’s Early Intervention System, Fred W. Coulter
Exploring Sexual Scripts: College Students’ Perceptions of Seduction and Rape, Nicole Corsaro Cravens
Parent Perspectives of Family Involvement in Children’s Education: Doing Whatever They Think It Takes to Help Children Grow and Succeed, Regina Marie Curran
Cellulosic Fibers and Nonwovens from Solutions: Processing and Properties, Atul Dahiya
Secondary School Principals' Perceptions of the Value and Impact of High-Stakes Tests on Content and Mode of Instruction, Clifford Davis Jr.
The Role of Logistics Service Quality in Creating Customer Loyalty, Elizabeth Ruth Davis
The Experience of Being Loved: Physical Affection From Parents As Remembered From Childhood, Ellen Senter Denny
Superdeformation and High Spin Spectroscopy Studies on 174Hf, Martin Krassimirov Djongolov
Development of a Test Methodology for Determining the Efficacy of One Atmosphere Uniform Glow Discharge Plasma Against Airborne Contaminants, Ronald Edward Domitrovic
Efficient Image Processing in Resource-constrained Visual Sensor Networks, Hongtao Du
Applying Landscape-scale Modeling to Everglades Restoration, Scott M. Duke-Sylvester
A High Gain Multi-Stage Operational Amplifier using Compound Transconductance Element, Chandra Sekhar Acharyulu Durisety
Mechanical Properties of Granular Materials Using Nanoindentation and Modeling with Distinct Element Method, Amal Kumar Dutta
Political Advocacy on the Web: Issue Networks in Online Debate Over the USA Patriot Act, Margot Leigh Emery
Portfolio-Based Writing Assessment: An Investigation of Postsecondary Practices, Sharynn Owens Etheridge
Potential subsurface structures and hydrocarbon reservoirs in the southern Appalachian basin beneath the Cumberland Plateau and eastern Highland Rim, Tennessee, Kentucky, and southwestern Virginia, Jonathan Charles Evenick
Synthesis and Characterization of Complex Polymer Architectures, Brandon Scott Farmer
Spectroscopic Investigations in Chiral Crystalline and Solution Phases, Andrew Thomas Fischer
Teachers’ Awareness of Making Decisions for their Classrooms, Mary Kathryn Fitzgerald
The Pressure Model of Terrorism: A Behavioralist Model for Ethnonational Terrorism in Western Europe, 1945-2000, Ole J. Forsberg
Effect of Speech Presentation Level on Acceptance of Noise in Listeners with Normal and Impaired Hearing, Melinda Carol Freyaldenhoven
The Role of Logistics in the Market Orientation Process, Brian Scott Fugate
A Study of Japanese ELL Students in Mainstream Classrooms, Kazue Fujiwara
Thermal Stability of Binary Cr-Cr3Si and Ternary NiAl-Mo Eutectic Alloys, Aravind Gali
Effects of an Artificially Lengthened Vocal Tract on Glottal Closed Quotient in Untrained Male Voices, Christopher Somers Gaskill
Magnetism and Transport Properties of Transition Metal Oxides and Nanoparticles, Dane Thomas Gillaspie
Gender, Power, and the January-May Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Esther Liu Godfrey
The Thematic Meaning of Face-to-Face Conflict Experiences: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Investigation, Thomas Rhett Graves
Democracy and Capitalism in the American Western, Michelle C. Greenwald