Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2002
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
Development of a simulation backplane with dynamic configurability, Lloyd Gabriel Clonts
Mediated and collaborative learning for students with learning disabilities : "This is about life, it's the rules of life.", Gail L. Collins
A study of selected non-pending, Supreme Court cases held between 1965-2000 on K-12 public, intradistrict, race-based, dual systems of education, LaRonda J. Conley-Townsend
Phenomenology of spiritual experience, Kim Ann Cornish
Conversations in the zone : collaborative learning in the counselor/student relationship, Mark S. Cotter
I Never Thought About Thinking: Experiences of Participants in a Reflective Learning Group, Donal Martin Crosse
Analysis of finite element based numerical methods for acoustic waves, elastic waves, and fluid-solid interactions in the frequency domain, Peter Cummings
Modulators of transit peptide activity in targeting and translocation of precursors into plastides : the mature domain, lipids and Toc-Tic components, Amanda Carole Dabney Smith
Design and analysis of a novel electric machine and drive, Daniel Steven Daniel
Expression and Characterization of the MHC Class II Transactivator in K-562 Cells, Noel Elyssa Day
Pathogenic mechanisms involved in the ocular immunoinflammatory lesions : herpetic stromal keratitis, Shilpa Deshpande
Advanced off-column technologies for capillary electrophoresis : microfluidic deposition, two-dimensional separations, and surface-enhanced Raman scattering-based detection, Gerald Lynn DeVault
First-year law student retention and the use of academic support programs, Judith Jane Jones Devine
Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii IgG antibodies and behavioral risks of exposure among women of childbearing age from the Knoxville, Tennessee area, Vina Rachel Diderrich
Facilitating the acquisition of healthy social attributions in sixth grade students, Mary Natalie Dillivan
An investigation of the learning outcomes of distance learning students versus traditional classroom students attempting the masters of business administration, Elizabeth Crawford Dodd
"Soldiers of the Cross": Confederate Soldier-Christians and the Impact of War on Their Faith, Kent Toby Dollar
From Second Creek to New Pangea: A Multi-Scale Analysis of Patterns and Trends in Aquatic Biodiversity, Jeffrey Robert Duncan
Analysis of Events Governing the Meiotic Division in Mouse Spermatocytes, Shannon Stewart Eaker
Working against the sadness : personal loss and poetic healing in the poetry of Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall, Raymond Carver, and Tess Gallagher, Jo Angela Edwins
An investigation of notetaking as a predictor of course performance and course evaluation, Alan Christopher Eggert
Molecular genetic analysis of bile salt hydrolase expression and transport in Lactobacillus Johnsonii strain 100-100, Christopher Anthony Elkins
Changing perspectives in early childhood education : recasting the Reggio Emillia approach, Elizabeth M. Elliott
Attitudes of Tennessee physicians towards euthanasia and assisted death, Douglas Essinger
Characterization of the tumor supressor activity of the FHIT gene in association with application of innovative detection technologies, Minoo Askari Dermenaki Farahani
Factors affecting the transfer of related training in a trade union apprenticeship program, Mark Stuart Farris
Technology and Tradition: Jewish Bioethics in the Age of Genetics, Toby Lee Fey
Reconciling utility with liberal justice : John Stuart Mill's minimalist utilitarianism, John Robert Fitzpatrick
An artificial neural network model for the prediction of child physical abuse recurrences, Chris W. Flaherty
Employees' perceptions of deterrents to participation in an employer-provided educational assistance program, Frances Jeannine Fogerson
EEG Coherence and Amplitude Effects of Rhythmic Auditory and Visual Stimulation with an Emphasis in Computational Methods, Jon Alan Frederick
Clergy referral for counseling problems, Steven Allen Fultz