Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2007
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
A Study of the Secondary Electrons, Yinghong Lin
Institutionalism, Rawls, and Political Development: Theorizing about the Ideal of Institution Building, Shaomeng Li
Temperament and Personality in Preschoolers: Are the Concepts the Same or Different?, Cathy Grist Litty
Saying Yes When You Mean No: A Phenomenological Analysis of Consensual Unwanted Sexual Activity, Samantha C. Litzinger
Molecular Evolution of MADS-box Genes in Cotton (Gossypium L.), Wusheng Liu
Hardware-Efficient Scalable Reinforcement Learning Systems, Zhenzhen Liu
Study on Infrastructure Materials Using Neutron Radiography and Diffraction, Xin Luo
Investigation of Vorticity Confinement as a High Reynolds Number Turbulence Model, Nicholas F. Lynn
Establishment, Growth, Spread, and Ecological Impacts of Microstegium vimineum in Central Hardwood Forests, Jordan M. Marshall
The Roots of Middle-Earth: William Morris's Influence upon J. R. R. Tolkien, Kelvin Lee Massey
Fabric-on-a-Chip: Toward Consolidating Packet Switching Functions on Silicon, William B. Matthews
An Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties of the Test of Dyslexia-Rapid Assessment Profile, Sara Jean McCane
Scale and Contingency in Plant Demography: Quantitative Approaches and Inference, Sean Maurice McMahon
Cognitive Prototypes of the Mentor and Protégé Roles, Stacy McManus
Bioinformatic and Proteomic Investigation of Chloroplast Transit Peptide Motifs and Genesis, David R. McWilliams
Intrinsically Evolvable Artificial Neural Networks, Saumil Girish Merchant
Computationally Efficient Mixed Pixel Decomposition Using Constrained Optimizations, Lidan Miao
Assessment of HIV/AIDS Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors Among Students Attending Historically Black Colleges & Universities: The Basis for Developing a Conceptual Teaching/Learning Framework, John Franklin Michael
Mapping the Martian Geologic Record: Studies of the Gusev Crater Spirit Landing Site and Plagioclase Feldspar Compositions on Mars, Keith Alan Milam
Racial Identification Among Rural African American Adolescents, John Walter Miller Jr.
Professional Publics/Private Citizens: Human Rights NGOs and the Sponsoring of Public Activism, Christopher Todd Minnix
Modeling Coordinate Measuring Machine Scanning Operations, Pamela Murray Moor
The Complex Ambivalence of ‘Privileged Moments’ in the Works of J.M.G. Le Clézio: Their Force, Their Limitations, and Their Relationship to Alterity, Keith Aaron Moser
The Experience of Retiring from Sport Following a Career in High School Football: A Phenomenological Investigation, Douglas J. Muccio
A Philosophical Analysis of Chet Bowers’ Ethical Theory of EcoJustice: Shifting towards Uncertainty Thinking in Science Education, Michael Paul Mueller
An Experimental Release of Elk into Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Jennifer Lynn Murrow
Synthesis of Novel Boronated Amino Acids for BNCT an Alternate Cancer Therapy and Use of Microwaves in Organic Synthesis, Abhijit Achyut Naravane
The Influence of Selected Wood Characteristics and Composites Production Parameters on the Sorption Behavior of Wood Materials, Trairat Neimsuwan
The Influence of SPetrology of Chondrule Precursors and Sorting of Particles in Ordinary Chondrites, Jeffrey Wyatt Nettles