Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2005
Relationships between Operationalizations of Dyslexia and Attitudes and Perceptions of Learning a Foreign Language, Katrinda Wills Scott
Internet Purchasing Decision Behavior And Product Involvement, Jung-Im Seo
A Criterion Validity Study Of Individuals' Reports of Gunfire And Recorded Gunfire, Sylvia Jane Sergent
Division I Female Athletes’ Experience of Team Cohesion, Vanessa Regina Shannon
Parity Theorems for Combinatorial Statistics, Mark A. Shattuck
Systematics of the North American Plums (Prunus subgenus Prunus section Prunocerasus; Rosaceae), Joey Thomas Shaw
Breast Milk or Formula: An Existential Phenomenological Study of Infant Feeding Decisions Made by WIC Recipients in East Tennessee, Jenny Blair Short
An Empirical Model for Assessing Academic Research Levels and Capacities of Colleges and Universities, Fred Donald Shults
The Duties, Responsibilities, and Challenges of Opening a New Elementary School, Kathy Dykes Sims
Analysis of Teacher Candidates and Faculty Evaluations of the Utility of a Single Digital Portfolio System, Thillainatarajan Sivakumaran
Moving Toward Social Justice Through Sport: An Exploration into the Ability of Intercollegiate Coaches of Women’s Teams to Effect Social Change, Elizabeth A. Slator
Predicting Success of Developmental and Core Mathematics Students at East Tennessee State University, Daryl Lynn Stephens
An Assessment of Influences Which Affect Teachers’ Use of Technology, Bryan K. Stewart
Analysis of Martian Parental Melts and Thermal Infrared Studies of Putative Paleolake Basins on Mars, Karen Renée Stockstill
Hypersurfaces of prescribed curvature in hyperbolic space, Marek Szapiel
Load Balancing in Parallel and Distributed Databases, Zhong Tang
C3/C4 Variations in High Salt Marsh Sediments: An Application of Compound Specific Isotopic Analysis of Lipid Biomarkers to Late Holocene Paleoclimatic Research, Benjamin Ryan Tanner
The Effectiveness of Accountability Policy in Higher Education: The Perspectives of Higher Education Leaders, Sharon J. Tanner
Study of The N = 77 Isotones Near The Proton-drip Line; Isomeric Decays of 140Eu, 142Tb, 144Ho, and 146Tm, Mohammed Noor Tantawy
College Choice Decisions of Student Athletes, John Patrick Teeples
Low-Voltage Analog Circuit Design Using the Adaptively Biased Body-Driven Circuit Technique, Stephen Christopher Terry
Serial Long Bone Histology: Inter- and Intra-Bone Age Estimation, Mariateresa Anne Tersigni
Predicting the Academic Achievement of African American Women at Two Predominantly White Women's Colleges, Tammalyn Michele Thomas-Golden
Personnel Selection in the Transportation Sector: An Investigation of Personality Traits in Relation to the Job Performance of Delivery Drivers, Mark Andrew Tichon
Characteristics of the Therapeutic Alliance in Couple Therapy: Perspectives from the Field, Nathan Daniel Tomcik
The Use of Capacity and Inventory in a Rate-Based Planning and Scheduling System to Achieve Strategic Goals in Industrial Applications, Chad Aaron Toney
Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics for Studying Microbial Physiology from Isolates to Communities, Nathan Christopher VerBerkmoes
Modification and Evaluation of Continuous Roll Prediction Model for Front Drive Mowers, Xinyan Wang
Understanding and Controlling the Molecular Level Processes Involved in the Development of Latent Fingerprints Using the Cyanoacrylate Fuming Method, Stephen Paul Wargacki
Overcoming Statistical Error and Bias in Quantum Monte Carlo: Application to Metal-Doped Helium Clusters, Gary Lee Warren Jr.
'Black Atlantic' Cultural Politics as Reflected in Panamanian Literature, Sonja Stephenson Watson
A Reevaluation of the Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions Associated with Homo erectus from Java, Indonesia, Based on the Functional Morphology of Fossil Bovid Astragali, Daniel Charles Weinand
Intimate partner violence in Appalachia : a study of relationship violence among community college students in Southern Appalachia, Karen Michelle Wetzel
The Middle Ordovician Tellico-Sevier Syncline: A Stratigraphic, Structural and Paleoseimic Investigation., Stephen Christopher Whisner
Student Reports of Physical and Psychological Maltreatment in Schools: An Under Explored Aspect of Student Victimization in Schools, Kathryn Suzanne Whitted
The Oligopeptide Transport Family: Informatic and Experimental Characterization, Amy Marie Wiles
Mapping a Journey to Change: Teachers and facilitator learning together, Lorna B. Williams
The Effects of Known Versus Unknown Criteria on Journal Writing Performance of Elementary Students Using an Independent Group Contingency, Janet Beth Winn
Isolation and Thermodynamic Characterization of Aminoglycoside Nucleotidyltransferase (2″)-Ia, Roger Edward Wright
Analysis of Vehicle Use Patterns during Military Field Exercises to Identify Potential Roads, Chunxia Wu
Energy Efficient Designs for Collaborative Signal and Information Processing inWireless Sensor Networks, Yingyue Xu
Fabrication and characterization of nanoelectronic devices for electron beam lithography applications, Xiaojing Yang
Design, Analysis, and Applications of Failure Amplification Experiments, Oksoun Yee
Female Head Coaches of Men's Collegiate Teams: A Critical Feminist Analysis, Colin Fisher Young
'Phenomenal Woman': A Phenomenological Exploration of the 'Voices' and Experiences of My Sistas', Eva Yoshan Wiggins Young
A Proposed Framework for Simultaneous Optimization of Evacuation Traffic Distribution and Assignment, Fang Yuan
Temporal GIS Design of an Extended Time-geographic Framework for Physical and Virtual Activities, Hongbo Yu
Syntheses, Structures, and Reactivities of Early-Transition-Metal Silyl, Amide, and Imide Complexes, Xianghua Yu
Sexual Contacts and Advances between Psychology Educators and Students: A National Survey of APA Student Affiliates, Robert Francis Zakrzewski
Novel Approaches in the Thermal Management of Electronics Involving Coupled Electrical, Thermal and CFD Analysis, Bahram Zandi
Charge transport measurements of vertically aligned carbon nanofiber, Lan Zhang
Essays on Intra-Industry Trade, Yanhong Zhang
An Integrated Approach to Performance Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis of Nuclear Power Systems, Ke Zhao
Dissertations from 2004
Integration of Design Scales and Its Application to Multi-component Adsorption Systems, Parag S. Adhangale
Structure–Function Studies of the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae α–Mating Factor Pheromone Receptor Ste2p, Ayça Akal–Strader
Growth Stimulation of Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma and their Cells of Origin by "Chemopreventive" Agents that Increase Intracellular cAMP, Hussein Abdulhadi Nasser Al-Wadei
Multicultural Initiatives at ACA Colleges, Cara Everett Anderson
"Running In and Out of Pregnancy": Elite Distance Runners' Experiences of Returning to Competition After Pregnancy, Karen M. Appleby
A Taxonomy of Customer Dissatisfaction-Related Coping Tactics Based on Dissatisfaction-Related Goals, Andrew B. Artis
Generalized Multigroup Method, Ibrahim Khalil Attieh
The Role of History in the Diversification of the Funnel-web Spiders, Agelenopsis Aperta, and its Congeners, Nadia Antoine Ayoub
Christian Woman, womanChrist: The Feminization of Christianity in Constanza de Castilla, Catherine of Siena, and Teresa de Cartagena, Mary Elizabeth Baldridge
Murine Herpetic Stromal Keratitis: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Involved in its Pathogenesis, Kaustuv Banerjee
Com- putational Subset Model Selection Algorithms and Applications, Xinli Bao
Motor Vehicle Wealth Taxes and Fleet Age: Air Quality Implications, Karie Anne Barbour
Coming Out at Work: African-American Lesbians’ Experiences, Melissa Ann Bartsch
The Experience of Menopausal Transition among Amish Women, Desiree R. Batson
modifier of mdg4 encodes a protein involved in homologous chromosome pairing in Drosophila melanogaster males, Morvarid Soltani Bejnood
Differentiation of Fragmented Bone from South East Asia: The Histological Evidence, Derek Christian Benedix
An Examination of the Logistics Leverage Process: Implications for Marketing Strategy and Competitive Advantage, Lisa Michelle Bobbitt
The Stories Readers Remember: An Interview Study of the Enduring Effects of Literature, Carolyn Roberts Boswell
Control of p27 Localization and Degradation by the PI3 Kinase Akt/PKB pathway in MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cells, Marissa J. Bradbury
The Effects of Marital Conflict on Sibling Relationships, Allison Mercedes Caban
The Role of Demographic Diversity in Predicting Worker Psychological Safety, Ann Marie Callahan
Gender Differences in Adolescents with Disruptive Behavior Disorders: A Look at Self-Report, Projective, and Treatment Outcome Measures, Ashley Campbell
La teoría de la poesía en Jorge Cuesta y José Gorostiza, Raúl Carrillo-Arciniega
Online Instruction Self-Efficacy Beliefs Among College Students Who Utilized Web-Enhanced Instruction, Carol Carter
Reasoning for Wisdom in Emotional Education, Michael Joseph Carter
Dynamics and Development of Shortleaf Pine in East Tennessee, Patrick Daniel Cassidy
Psychological Type and Epistemology in College Freshmen, Elementary Teachers, Preservice Science Teachers and Scientists: Implications for Science Education Reform, Nancy Eaton Chadwell
The Effects of Optimism and the Five-Factor Model of Personality on Stress and Performance in the Work Place, Fung Ming Chan
An ARIMA Supply Chain Model with a Generalized Ordering Policy, Vuttichai Chatpattananan
Characterization of Porous Media and Refractory Materials, Xin Chen
Biological Knowledge Discovery Through Mining Multiple Sources of High-Throughput Data, Yu Chen
Use of acoustic methods for monitoring avian communities in temperate and tropical ecosystems, Vijak Chimchome
An Empirical Examination of Reactive and Proactive Aggression Subtypes among Juvenile Delinquents, Rosine LaWanda Christmas
A Survey of High School English Teachers to Determine their Knowledge, Use, and Attitude Related to Young Adult Literature in the Classroom, Jennifer L. Claiborne
Assessing Cultural Receptivity in Fostering: Scale Development and Validation, Tanya M. Coakley
The Perspectives of Teachers on the Reciprocal Relationship of Tutoring and Teaching, Debra Jean Coffey
Plantation Airs: Racial Paternalism and the Transformations of Class in Southern Fiction, 1945-1971, Brannon Winn Costello
An Examination of the Psychometric Properties of the Casey Foster Applicant Inventory – Worker Version (CFAI-W), Gary S. Cuddeback
Relationship of College Students' Response Styles on the Strong Interest Inventory to Scores on the Beck Depression Inventory and the Career Thoughts Inventory, Martha C. Dagenhart
Development of Novel Substrates and Sampling Techniques for the Analysis of Drugs and Model Environmental Pollutants via Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS), Marco Antonio De Jesús