Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2006
Technology Proficiency Among K-12 Award-Nominated Teachers in Tennessee: A Survey of Teachers, Christopher John Greer
Development of a Potentially Accurate and Efficient LES CFD Algorithm to Predict Heat and Mass Transport in Inhabited Spaces, Marcel Andre Grubert
Measuring the Safety Climate of Steel Mini-mill Workers using an Instrument Validated by Structural Equation Modeling, Michael Edward Hall
Crises, Deficits, and Ideologies in the Congressional Debates of the NCLB: How Presidential Influence Impacted Early Childhood Education Initiatives, Winnifred Diane Hall
Empathic Accuracy and Adolescent Romantic Relationships, Peter T. Haugen
Administrators' Perceptions of Corporal Punishment in Hamilton County Elementary Schools, Kathryn Hunt Hawkins
Justifying Leadership: A Social Cognitive Approach to Understanding and Predicting Egotistic and Philanthropic Leadership, Katherine R. Helland
Dendroclimatological Analysis and Fire History of Longleaf Pine (Pinus Palustris Mill.) in the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain, Joseph P. Henderson
Scenes from the Margins: A Participatory Action Research Study About the Praxis of Womanhood as a Different Way of Working in Male-Dominated Professions, Jane Bingham Henry
Essays on Tax Competition, Brian Christopher Hill
Disentangling the Meaning of Multisource Feedback: An Examination of the Nomological Network Surrounding Source and Dimension Factors, Brian J. Hoffman
Attachment Styles and Use of Defense Mechanisms: A Study of the Adult Attachment Projective and Cramer's Defense Mechanism Scale, Paul Matthew Hoffman
Optimal Control of Partial Di®erential Equations and Variational Inequalities, Volodymyr Hrynkiv
Sense of Identity and Life Satisfaction in College Students, Beverly Carol Huffstetler
Temperature Dependent Analytical Modeling, Simulation and Characterizations of HEMTs in Gallium Nitride Process, Hasina F. Huq
Effects of Balance Training On Falls Efficacy for Older Adults Residing In Assisted- Living Facilities, James Norman Hurtubise
Understanding Environmental Concerns and Contexts: A Multilevel Exploration of Economic, Social and Natural Environment Contexts on Environmental Concerns, Sean Thomas Huss
Thermodynamic Characterization of Polymeric Materials Subjected to Non-isothermal Flows: Experiment, Theory and Simulation, Tudor Constantin Ionescu
Automotive Crashworthiness of Adhesively Bonded Carbon Fiber Polymer Composite Structures, George Chennakattu Jacob
Instructional Leadership and Academic Performance in Tennessee High Schools, Denise Minton Johnson
The Role of Novel Magnetic Interactions in Surface-Supported Magnetic Nanodot Assemblies, Maria Asuncion Torija Juana
Materials Integration and Device Fabrication of Active Matrix Thin Film Transistor Arrays for Intracellular Gene Delivery, Seung-Ik Jun
Leadership Ability Based on Communication Style: A Quantitative Study of the Effects of Sex and Gender on Perception of Leadership, Linda Pysher Jurczak
Virtues and Dying: Patient Virtues and Good Deaths, William Paul Kabasenche
Pseudoelasticity and Shape Memory Effect in Single Crystal Fe3Al, Saurabh Kabra
The Stability Analysis of Linear Dynamical Systems with Time-Delays, Ajeet Ganesh Kamath
Unholstered and Unquestioned: The Rise of Post-World War II American Gun Cultures, Angela Frye Keaton
Internet Financial Reporting: The Effects of Hyperlinks and Irrelevant Information on Investor Judgments, Andrea Seaton Kelton
Anaclitic and Introjective Personality Distinctions among Psychotherapy Outpatients: Examining Clinical Change across Baseline and Therapy Phases, David Dix Kemmerer
Intention to Leave and Organizational Commitment among Child Welfare Workers, Shakira Alicia Kennedy
Embodying History: Women, Representation, and Resistance in Twentieth-Century Southern African and Caribbean Literature, April Conley Kilinski
Political Sophistication and Partisan Cues: Insight from South Korea’s 2002 Presidential Election, Do-Kyung Kim
Religion and Political Attitudes in South Korea, Junghyoun Kim
Developing an Integrated Model of Interactivity in the Context of Travel-Related Web Sites, Juran Kim
Promises to Keep: A Phenomenological Study of ICU Nurses’ Experiences Caring for Dying Patients, Phyllis Ann King
Studies on Cytochrome P450 genes in Drosophila melanogaster: Relationship between over expression and DDT resistance, and xenobiotic induction, Srilalitha Kuruganti
Vertical export of biogenic matter in the Chukchi and Barents Seas, Catherine Lalande
The Tension and Coherence of Love, Identification, and Detachment in Gandhi’s thought, Sanjay Lal
A Study of the Relationship Between Indentation Creep and Uniaxial Creep, James Anthony LaManna Jr.
A Mode Comparison between Mailed and Internet Surveys, Craig T. Laymen
Design Assessment of Two-Wheeled Luggage Based on Mechanical Models and a Usability Test, Jun-Seok Lee
Environmental Manipulation to Increase the Nutritional Content in Leafy Vegetables, Mark Gregory Lefsrud
Impact of Inter-Organizational Influence Communication Strategies on Target Firm Relationship Satisfaction: an Empirical Study of the Food and Chemical Industry in Thailand, Thaweephan Leingpibul
Two Essays on Corporate Reorganization under Chapter 11, Fei Leng
Management of Requirements Changes in Sequence-Based Software Specifications, Lan Lin
Modeling of Terrain Impact Caused by Off-road Vehicles, Qinghe Li
Scheduling Algorithms for Scalable High-Performance Packet Switching Architectures, Xike Li
How Factors Related to Social Control Might Contribute to Juvenile Delinquency Among African American and Caucasian Females, Andridia Victoria Mapson
Cross-Species Comparison of Spermatocyte Responses to Induced DNA Damage: the Laboratory Mouse and Drosophila melanogaster, Shannon Marie Matulis
Solute Transport and U(VI) Reactivity in Natural Heterogeneous Sediments, Melanie A. Mays
Measurement of the 32S(p,d)31S Reaction and Its Astrophysical Implications, Zhanwen Ma
The Taped-Problems Intervention: Increasing Multiplication Fact Fluency Using a Low-Tech Time Delay Intervention, Elizabeth McCallum
Assessment of the Trait Hope Scale with Social Service Providers, Andrea Kelli McCarter
Accelerating Exact Stochastic Simulation of Biochemical Systems, James Michael McCollum
A Test of the Classical Model for Predicting Endurance Running Performance, James Edward McLaughlin
An Investigation into the Nature of the Relationship of Corporate Culture to Logistics Outsourcing Decisions, John Edmund Mello
Forest Certification and Nonindustrial Private Forest Landowners: assessing awareness, acceptance, and educational preferences, David Chester Mercker
Design Criteria for Aerobic Treatment of Grease Waste by Filamentous Microorganisms in Activated Sludge, Christian Edward Seal Mery
Variance Analysis of TDOT Highway Construction Prices for Modeling Estimates, Lloyd Medford Middleton
Methylsilane Derived SiC Particle Coatings Produced By Fluid-Bed Chemical Vapor Deposition, James Henry Miller
Vitronectin and Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 Form Higher-Order Complexes that Localize to the Extracellular Matrix and Adopt Adhesive Properties, Kenneth H. Minor
Cohomological Dimension With Respect to Nonabelian Groups, Atish Jyoti Mitra
Manifestations of Broken Symmetry: The Surfaces Phases of Ca2−xSrxRuO4, Robert G. Moore II
A Season-Long Mental Skills Training Program for Collegiate Volleyball Players, Taryn Kelly Morgan
Specialized Understanding of Mathematics: A Study of Prospective Elementary Teachers, Margaret Viola Moss
A Critical Case Study of Program Fidelity in TennCare, Carole Lynn Myers
A Multi-Source Model of Perceived Organizational Support and Performance, Sarah Kay Nielsen
Depression, Cognition, and Anosognosia in Alzheimer's Disease: A Rorschach Analysis, Lisa Lillard Oglesby
Current Practices in Blended Instruction, Eunjoo Oh
The Effect of Bacterial Chemotaxis on In situ Bioremediation Rate, Christopher John O'Lenick
On-Line Learning and Wavelet-Based Feature Extraction Methodology for Process Monitoring using High-Dimensional Functional Data, Olufemi Abayomi Omitaomu
Growth and Superconductivity of Pb and Pb-Bi Alloys in the Quantum Regime, Mustafa Murat Ozer
Interdependent Group Contingencies with Randomly Selected Components Applied to Class-wide Performance in the Accelerated Reader Program, Danielle Nicole Pappas
The Mental Demands and Coping Strategies of Professional Motocross Riders: A Qualitative Investigation, Ashwin J. Patel
The Liar as a Comic Figure in Plays by Ruiz de Alarcon, Corneille and Moliere, Robert Matthew Patrick
An Investigation of the Dependability and Standard Error of Measurement of Words Read Correctly Per Minute Using Curriculum-Based Measurement, Brian Charles Poncy
White Collar Radicals: New Deal Labor and Red Scare Communists in the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1935-1955, Aaron D. Purcell
Spatial Processes and Ecotoxicological Risk Assessment Modeling, Steven Thomas Purucker
Pessimistic and Optimistic Personality Traits among Tennessee Adult Tobacco Smokers and Nonsmokers in Selected Worksites, Kandi Delyn Qualls
Analysis and Control of Nonnegative Systems, Jayanthy Ramakrishnan
Differential Neutrophil Function and Intracellular Signaling in Dairy Cows with Specific CXCR1 Genotypes, Magdalena Rambeaud
A Social Constructionist Approach to the Facilitation of Professional Development among Community College Faculty, Linda McKinstry Randolph
The Role of Specific Interactions on the Dispersion and Properties of Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Nanocomposites, Asif Rasheed
Computational Analysis of Mass Spectrometric Data for Whole Organism Proteomic Studies, Evgenia Razumovskaya
Ab-initio Calculations of the Charge-Density Response in Complex Materials, Oscar Dario Restrepo Tovar
The Reaction of Telechelic Polymers at Multicomponent Interfaces: A Molecular Loop Study, James Kevin Rice
Multiple Approaches to the Separation of Amino Acids and Biologically-Relevant Compounds, Lance Andrew Riddle
Alcohol and Analgesic Use in the Baby Boomer Cohort, Martha B. Rider
Scripted vs. Real: An Analysis of Parent-Child Interactions in African American Sitcom Families and Real Life Families, Syrenthia Johnson Robinson
Understanding the Role of the School Resource Officer (SRO): Perceptions from Middle School Administrators and SROs, Teresa Renee Robinson
Urban Transit and the Working Poor: The Geography of Welfare Reform, Jennifer Lynn Rogalsky
Implementation of a Special Education Parent Advisory Committee: A Mixed Methods Investigation into the Members’ Experience of Parental Involvement with the School System, Jeffrey Brian Romanczuk
The Development of a Computer Operator Risk Index to Assist Computer Operators, Sandra Louise Rudd