Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2002
A look at personality change among conduct disordered adolescents in residential treatment, Robert J. Riethmiller
Residual Stress Effects on Fatigue Life via the Stress Intensity Parameter, K, Jeffrey Lynn Roberts
Job stress and perceptions among Hispanic professionals of prejudice and discrimination in the workplace, Maria G. Rodriguez
Dickens and his intrusive first-person "authors", Arthur L. Rogers
Trial and error in the pursuit of public health : Leicexter, 1849-1891, Scott Edward Roney
John Dewey's concept of the good : a macro- and meso-application to the U.S. health system, Barbara Joan Russell
Group 4 Metallocene and Half-sandwich Derivatives of Spherosilicate: Preparation fromSi8O20(SnMe3)8 and Their Olefin Polymerization Activity, Suree Saengkerdsub
Breaking the cycle of absent fathers : highly involved African-American nonresidential fathers describe their roles and responsibilities beyond biological paternity, Javiette VaShann Samuel
Development of a Model to Assess the Effect of Ozone on Public Health Using Models-3/CMAQ, Pedro Alex Sanhueza H.
Design considerations for a pressure-driven multi-stage rocket, Steven Craig Sauerwein
Reproducibility and optimization in capillary electrophoresis, James P. Schaeper
Sacred culture : religion and aesthetics in Barbauld, Blake, and the Shelleys, Daniel D. Schierenbeck
Facilitators and Impediments in Moving Firms Toward Supply Chain Management: A Qualitative Field Study, DeWayne Lee Searcy
Computational Investigation of the Discharge Coefficient of Bellmouth Flow Meters in Engine Test Facilities, Charles Lynn Sebourn
Words of descrimination, voices of determination : reflections of the desegregation of Clinton High School, Lana Carmen Seivers
Cross-Cultural Competencies in International Management Curricula: A Delphi Study of Faculty Perspectives, Roxanna M. Senyshyn
Tennessee's Radical Army : the State Guard and its role in Reconstruction, Benjamin Horton Severance
"Make them your friend" : a phenomenological study of patients' experience soliciting nursing care in the hospital setting, Mona M. Shattel
Factors that affect the level of coorientation that exists between public relations and journalism educators, Thomasena. Shaw
Increasing Students' Awareness and Perception of Peer Prosocial Behavior: An Investigation of Tootling, Heather Lee Shelton
An Expectancy-Value Analysis of Web Gratifications, Meiling Shih
If not you, then who? : an historical perspective on the effectiveness of school-related programs in the prevention of teen pregnancy, Linda Ingram Shoemaker
Differences in Quality of Care by Insurance Plan: A Fee-For-Service vs. Health Maintenance Organization Comparison, Pamela Driggers Silcox
Problem solving ability in elementary school age children with hearing impairment, Donna Fisher Smiley
Principals' experiences and perceptions of year round high schools, David Kevin Smith
The synthesis and reactions of substituted perfluoroadamantanes, fluorofullerenes and norbornane carbocations, Kenneth Smith
Transient Jet Interaction Force and Moment Reconstruction in Dynamic Wind-Tunnel Testing, Mark Edward Smith
A Phenomenological Study of the Experience of Travel, Norris Lee Smith
Telecommuting in Higher Education: An Examination of the Decision Making Factors, Phyllis Joy Snodgrass
Telecommuting In Higher Education: An Examination of the Decision-Making Factors, Phyllis Joy Snodgrass
Magnetic Properties of Nanoparticle Systems of Fe, Co, Ni, and FePt, Created by Ion Implantation, Korey Dean Sorge
Expectations and satisfaction among undergraduate students : a consumer behavior approach, Leigh. Southward
Personality functioning among Alcoholics Anonymous participants, Erik Russell Sprohge
Causes, cures, and compliance : bible believers' causal attributions and preferred treatments for mental disorders, Todd S. Stanfield
Investigation of Cognitive Impairments using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease, Mateja de Leonni Stanonik
EEG Patterns of TBI Patients with Attention Deficits During Cognitive Tasks and Second Resting Baseline, Stamatina Stathopoulou
Measurements of secondary charged particle fragmentation cross sections produced by high energy heavy ions using silicon strip detectors, Daniel Leon Stephens
Polymer-Supported 14-Crown-4 and Bifunctional Resins for Selective Metal Ion Complexation: Synthesis and Characterization, Christy L. Stine
Martian Xenon Components in Basaltic Shergottite Meteorites, Katherine Delene Ocker Stone
Surface Modeling and Analysis Using Range Images: Smoothing, Registration, Integration, and Segmentation, Yiyong Sun
Spin excitations in quantum hall systems and their effect on nuclear spin relaxation and photoluminescence, Izabela Anna Szlufarska
Malaysia and Singapore in the world economy : state, capitalism, and authoritarianism, Azlan A. Tajuddin
Geography of stopover habitats and migratory pathways for neotropical migratory forest birds in the eastern United States, Roger Tankersley Jr.
Interspersing additional, brief items to influence the choice behavior of students with behavioral and emotional disabilities to complete grammar assignments, Donna Ford Teeple
An integrated value-derivative model for the steel industry to evaluate and optimize the impact of operational strategies using total enterprise performance indicators, Jaime Alberto Torres
Teacher Motivation and the Use of Computer-based Interactive Multimedia, Katrina T. Toth
An Information Approach to Regularization Parameter Selection for the Solution of Ill-Posed Inverse Problems Under Model Misspecification, Aleksey M. Urmanov
Using salt-enriched diets to reduce stress-induced hypochloremia and methemoglobinemia in rain[b]ow trout, Agnes M. Vanderpool
The emergence of female adolescent protagonists in selected twentieth-century novels from French Canada, Germany and Austria, Edith B. Vandervoort
The effects of video game playing on academic task performance and brain wave activity, Christine Vaupel
Interactions among Introduced Ungulates, Plants, and Pollinators: A Field Study in the Temperate Forest of the Southern Andes, Diego P. Vazquez
A finite element model updating technique for correcting global geometric errors using multiple models, Charles R. Vining
Creating true molecular composites containing a liquid crystalline polymer by optimizing intermolecular hydrogen bonding, Sriram Viswanathan
Ranking the components of ecological resistance to biological invaders : an experimental manipulation in a southern Appalachian riparian forest., MaryBeth. Von Holle
Consumer materialism and human values orientations, Stephen L. Warren
Factors associated with HIV testing for women during prenatal care, Thomas Alex Washington
Conformational studies of carbohydrates and carbohydrate-containing molecules, Karen Terry Welch
Organizational structure of telehealth care : an examination of four types of telemedicine systems, Teresa Smith Welsh
Numerical simulation of freezing shear driven rivulets using an enthalpy method formulation, Clark G. Wiberg
Geochemistry of eclogites and metapelites from the Adula nappe, Central Alps, Switzerland, René A. Wiesli
Adolescents' perceptions of social support and youth psychosocial well-being among urban, suburban, and rural youth, Victor Romando Wilburn
William Faulkner's visual art : word and image in the early graphic work and the major fiction, Randall Shawn Wilhelm
The effect of age on the propensity for false memories, Daniel D. Williams Jr.
The effectiveness of victim-offender mediation and family group conferencing : a meta-analysis, Mona Marie Williams-Hayes
The relationship among self-efficacy, instructor feedback, and technical support of learners in an online learning environment, Lynn M.Hill Willis
Relationship between attitudes toward mathematics and career choice, Maurice LeVell Wilson
Secondary school principals' perceptions and understandings of the Tennessee School Improvement Planning Process, Donna Lawlor Wright
Development of a valid parent potentiation instrument for prospective parents, Kris Wilks Wright
Analysis of terrestrial and Martian volcanic compositions using thermal emission spectroscopy, Michael Bruce Wyatt
Toward a Dynamic Model of State Choice: Gains Pursuit Debate and the World System, Soo-Lyon Yon
Spectroscopic studies on high-spin states in ¹²⁸,¹²⁹Nd and ¹³⁰La, Omar A. Zeidan
Colonization History and Alternative Community States in Experimental Microcosms, Craig Richard Zimmermann
Dissertations from 2001
A study of the effectiveness of the national collegiate athletic association's athletics certification program, Robert Hunter Adams
Voluntary simplicity : an organizational analysis, Patricia Anne Allen
Continuous morphological data in phylogenetic analyses : an example from the otters (Carnivora: Lutrinae), Charles Gregory Anderson
Determination of the uncertainties in radiation doses from ingestion of ⁹⁰Sr, Iulian Iuelian Apostoaei
Leader traits and leadership competencies necessary during organizational change, Susan B. Arnold
The diagnosis of depression using psychometric instruments and quantitative measures of electroencephalographic activity, John Hancock Askew
Mitochondrial DNA haplotype and sequence analysis of historic Choctaw and Menominee hair shaft samples, Lori Elmore Baker
Use of Case Studies in ABET Accredited Engineering Technology Associate Degree Programs in the United States, James L. Barrott
"Because that's where my roots are": searching for patterns of African-American ethnicity in Arrow Rock, Missouri, Timothy E. Baumann
Evaluating the effectiveness of the community-based project Witnessing in Tennessee to increase breast cancer screening and awareness among African American women, Precilla Lorene Belin
El metateatro en la obra de Guillermo Schmidhuber, Lourdes Betanzos
Characteristics of laser heat treating during processing of a low carbon steel, Brent W. Blaha
The implementation of enterprise resource planning : an innovation diffusion approach, Marianne Bradford
Roles, relationships, and thought : using collaborative action research to improve facilitator practice, Ralph Edwin Brickey
Private practice, personal expectations: an exploration of factors influencing first job choice of law school graduates, Karen Reagan Britton
A phenomenological study of the experiences of welfare-to-work mothers in selecting child care, Marilyn E. Bruckman
The relationship between elementary school girls' perceptions of their parents' body satisfaction and the girls' satisfaction with their own bodies, Marsha Parsons Burdette
The role of dispositional aggressiveness and organizational injustice on deviant workplace behavior, Susan M. Burroughs
Dimensions of addictive experience and 12-step program participation, Paul Busby
An improved method for text summarization using lexical chains, Charles Ray Byler
Beta-Adrenergic, Arachidonic Acid and Potassium Channel Associated-Regulation of Human Breast Cancer Cell Lines, Yavuz Cakir
The Relationship Between Self-Directed Learning and Learning Styles, James Boyd Canipe
Diagenesis of Upper Cambrian Mount Simon Sandstone in the Illinois Basin - Microscale Investigation of Basinal Fluid Migration and Mass Transfer, Zhensheng Chen
The beleaguered individual : a study of twentieth-century American war novels, Patrick Paul Christle
Patterns of sentencing reform adoption in American states, Keith E. Clement