Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2023
Sub-Chandrasekhar type Ia supernovae scenarios with increased pathways for neutronization, Fernando Hernan Rivas
A Novel Transition Layer Structure for Integrating Tungsten and Reduced Activation Ferritic/ Martensitic Steel, Ishtiaque Karim Robin
BAGGAGE AND BLINDERS: THE DYNAMIC NATURE OF EARLY STAGE INVESTOR DECISION MAKING, Ashley Yerves Roccapriore
The Hospital Won’t Save Us: An Exploration of the Racial Absence of Care and Emergent Radical Care as a Site of Liberation, Christopher L. Rogers
Metagenomic investigation of microbial dark carbon fixation, viral interactions, and horizonal gene transfer within a convergent margin subsurface ecosystem, Timothy Joseph Rogers
DESIGNING THE SCIENTIFIC DATA SUPPLY CHAIN TO INCREASE KNOWLEDGE CREATION AND ACCELERATE SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY VIA A MULTI-ARMED NEWSVENDOR MODEL, Nettie Roozeboom
The Genomic Landscape of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius: Exploring Genome Diversity, Phylogeny, Vaccine Candidates, Ashkan Roozitalab
The New Media Frontier: How Social Media Affects Partisan Attachments, Candidate Evaluations, and Political Emotions, Justin Allen Rose
Reducing The Levelized Cost of Energy of Residential PV Inverters Through Dynamic Hardware Allocation, Kamal Sabi
Development of Artificial Lipids for Metal Ion-Responsive Liposomes and Related Medicinal Applications, Ruhani Sagar
Improving Customer Experience throughout the Customer Journey in the Big Data Era, Mohammad Saljoughian
Analyzing Rent Burden from the Geographical Perspective: Determinants and Their Variation in the United States, Mikhail Samarin
Investigating the Effects of Salicylic Acid on Intercellular Trafficking via Plasmodesmata, Amie Fornah Sankoh
THE ROLE OF PARTIAL PRIVATIZATION IN THE EVOLUTION OF COOPERATION, Lucas Santana Souza
Development of a detailed and reduced-order neutronics models for fusion reactor blanket and systems design optimization, Felipe Santos Novais
Effects of the U.S. Veterinary Feed Directive Final Rule on the Prevalence of Violative Antibiotic Residues and Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in Animal Products, Md Shamim Sarkar
COACH EVALUATION: INSIGHT INTO THE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT OF NCAA DIVISION I COACHES, Kelsie Ann Patricia Saxe
Adaptation of Transactinide Handling Methods in Support of Gas-Phase Separations of Rare Earth Elements and Nuclear Forensic Analysis, David Schappel
Sexual Evangelism: Youth Activism and the Fight for Comprehensive Sex Education in East Tennessee, Elena Schuch
ASTROBIOLOGICAL ANALOGS: EXPLORING THE MICROBIAL ECOLOGY OF CRYPTIC CRYOSPHERE HABITATS, Caleb Garry Schuler
SUBSTANCE USE AMONGST EMERGING ADULTS: REPERCUSSIONS OF ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, Ashlyn Nicole Schwartz
The Impact of Rebel Group Structure on Foreign Fighter Civilian Victimization, Jack Anthony Schwartz
The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic Masking on Individuals with Hearing Loss: Metacognition, Mental Health, and Ableism, Kristel Scoresby
Characterization of radiotolerance in potato and development of a gamma radiation phytosensor., Robert Graham Sears
Multiscale Modeling of Polymers: from Atomistic Structure to Macroscopic Properties, Nobahar Shahidi
Unlocking the Potential of Machine Learning in the Derivation of Low-Energy Models for Metallic Magnets, Vikram Sharma
Enhancing Microgrid Flexibility, Stability, and Economy with Inverter-based Resources, Buxin She
APPLICATION OF MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES TO EMPOWER DRUG DEVELOPMENT, Yue Shen
Intelligent Traffic Control with Connected and Automated Vehicles, Yang Shi
Additively Manufactured Nature Inspired Morphology for Redesign: Advancing Next Generation Energy Systems, Vanshika Singh
Al-Ce-Mn Solidification Phase Selection and Solid-State Phase Transformations, Kevin Dean Sisco
Evaluating Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD): Construct Validity and Correlates, Rebecca Mills Skadberg
Factors Associated with the Success of an African American College President, Tyvi T. Small
Insights into the Application of Deep Reinforcement Learning in Healthcare and Materials Science, Benjamin R. Smith
An Electronic Validation of the Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM), Bonnie M. Smith
Adapting Romance’s Semantic and Syntactic Structures in 21st Century Young Adult Literature, Film, and Television, Jennifer Anne Smith
The Non-existence and Scarcity of Congruences for Partitions, Jeremiah C. Smith
Synchrotron infrared spectroscopy of domain walls and high pressure phases of multiferroics, Kevin A. Smith Jr
Investigating Metastable Phases in Ion-Irradiated Binary Oxides, Alexandre Paul Solomon
A Feminist Ethnography of Care in the Infant/Toddler Classroom, Chesley Anne Sorrells
APPLYING DIGITAL IMAGE CORRELATION TO CHARACTERIZE ADVANCED COMPOSITE MANUFACTURING PROCESSES AND MATERIALS, Ryan J. Spencer
Faith Influences on Health of Rural Appalachian Older Adults in East Tennessee: An Ethnonursing Study, Karina Elizabeth Strange
Sexual Violence and Psychological Distress: The Roles of Coping Self-efficacy, Self-blame, Shame, Activism, and Feminism, Charlotte Strauss Swanson
Reading the Rainbow: Exploring the Educational Experiences of LGBTQ+ Students, Ashley R. Stroud
Saudi Women's Abuse and Help-Seeking Experiences: A Qualitative Thematic Analysis, Shahad Ahmed Subiani
Heat Pump Integrated Thermal Storage for Building Demand Response and Decarbonization, Sara Sultan
Roles of soil pores in determining water retention and microbial dynamics, Huihui Sun
MORPHOLOGIC ANALYSES OF PALEOZOIC RHOMBIFERAN ECHINODERM STEMS, Aidan R. Sweeney
Diversity, taxonomy, and systematics of chanterelles and allies (Cantharellales), Rachel A. Swenie
Segmenting the Thin Blue Line: An Ethnographic Content Analysis of Myth and Ritual in Contemporary U.S. Police Film, Alexandra Szmutko
Non-collinear Magnetic Textures Studied by Neutron Scattering, NAN TANG
Understanding and Simulating Wildfire Changes Using Advanced Statical and Process-Oriented Models, Rongyun Tang
Experiences with Student Loan Debt: A Phenomenological Study of First-Generation, Low-Income College Graduates, Sarah Leigh Gardner Thomas
Impact of Renewables on Grid Strength, Transient Stability, and Grid Operation Characterization, Abigail E. Till
Comprehensive Studies of Magnetic Properties of Metal-Organic Frameworks and Molecular Compounds, Pagnareach Tin
Whiteness and Racial (Non)Knowing In a Historically Sundown Town, Abigail Christine Tobias-Lauerman
Evaluation of Treatment Options and Investigation of Pathogenesis of Chytridiomycosis in North American Salamanders, Anastasia Elaine Towe
Regulation of Protein Synthesis in Arabidopsis Thaliana through a Bioinformatic and Mathematical Lens, Ricardo Andres Urquidi Camacho
Generative Machine Learning Models in Healthcare Applications, Senne Van Steelandt
Investigation of Microstructure and Mechanical Behavior of Novel Powder-Extruded Al-Ce-Mg Alloys, Mairym Vazquez
The Novel Chlorination of Zirconium Metal and Its Application to a Recycling Protocol for Zircaloy Cladding from Spent Nuclear Fuel Rods, Breanna K. Vestal
(Un)Grading as Institutional Ecology: How (Alternative) Assessment Choices Shape Writing Classrooms, Megan Von Bergen
TREATMENT ACCESSIBILITY DURING COVID-19: INDIVIDUAL AND TREATMENT CENTER PERSPECTIVES USING GELBERG—ANDERSEN’S BEHAVIORAL MODEL FOR VULNERABLE POPULATIONS, Dorothy A. Wallis
Space-Angle Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method for Radiative Transfer Equation, Hang Wang
Additive Manufacturing of Magnetic Materials for Electric Motor and Generator Applications, Haobo Wang
Distribution Locational Marginal Price in the Distribution Level Electricity Market, Xiaofei Wang
A Quantitative and Spatial Analysis of Pancreatic Cancer in South Central Appalachia, Andrew Joseph Ward
Machine Learning and Decision Making to Optimize Treatment Planning in Parkinson’s Disease, Jeremy Watts
Fatalism and Flamboyance: Representing Rural Appalachian LGBTQ+ Youth in Young Adult Literature, Julia E. Watts
Resource Use and Success in Life Science Graduate Education, Maryrose Weatherton
Evaluating Sekakawon/Wicocomico Persistence Throughout the Potomac and Rappahannock River Valleys Through the Identification of Communities of Practice, Rebecca J. Webster
Exploring Localized Relationships Between Age-Related Bone Loss and Cortical Expansion in Diaphyseal Bone, Gregory James Wehrman
Purpose in Place: Discerning and Forefronting Forgotten Landscapes using the Methodological Lens of Augmented Reality, Lindy Westenhoff
Mentor Teacher Positioning during Pedagogical Documentation with Early Childhood Preservice Teachers, Melissa Renee Westfall
DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF AN ELEVATED TEMPERATURE CUTTING FORCE DYNAMOMETER FOR HYBRID MANUFACTURING, Justin West
Dinitrogen Functionalization Using a Molybdenum Atom: Bridging the Gap Between Small and Coordination Complexes via Quantum Mechanical Methods, Maria Virginia White
Probing Gas Transport Structure-Property Relationships in Vinyl-Addition Polynorbornenes, Trevor Jonas Wilson
"People Have Died To Get Us To Where We Are": Combating Aging Services Information Marginalization Alongside LGBT+ Older Adults, Joseph William Winberry
Characterization of Residual Stress and Precipitate Evolution in Aluminum 2xxx Self-Reacting Friction Stir Welds, Benjamin Joe Wing
Effects of a Movement-based Curriculum on the Motor and Cognitive Development of Preschool-aged Children, Aaron Wood
Utilizing ultra-performance chromatography high-resolution mass spectrometry to investigate fatty acid mediated antibiotic tolerance, Brittni Woodall
Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopic Immunoassays for Women’s Reproductive Health Monitoring, Avery Lauren Wood
The Development of Tailored Amphiphilic Copolymers for Detergent-Free Integral Membrane Protein Extraction, Cameron Edward Workman
Exploring the Role of Family Emotional Climate and Trait Mindfulness on Gendered Racism and Anxiety Among African American Women, LaTrice Nicole Wright
Three Essays on the Economics of Education, Ge Wu
Soybean Cyst Nematode Resistance and Growth Defense Trade-off, Christopher Robert Wyman
Exploring Rural Appalachian LGBTQ+ Wellness: Conceptualizing Through the IS-WEL Wellness Lens and Narrative Inquiry, Mary K. Wynn
Generalized Participation Factors on Nonlinear Power System Oscillations, Tianwei Xia
Physics-Augmented Modeling and Optimization of Complex Systems: Healthcare Applications, Jianxin Xie
INTEGRATED MODELING AND MONITORING FOR A HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE BUILDING ENVIRONMENT, Yifang Xu
Assessing the Landscape of Relationship Help and a Pilot Adaptation of Relationship Checkups for Christian Churches, Adam W. York
Development of a Portable, Tileable, Dual-Particle Radiography System, Christian Xavier Young
A Qualitative Analysis of a Playground Mentoring Intervention for Bullied Elementary School Children, Sydney T. Younginer
EFFECTS OF HEAT STRESS ON INFLAMMATION, INTESTINAL INTEGRITY, MICROBIOTA, AND PRODUCTIVITY IN DAIRY CALVES, Zhantao Yu
From sink bias to void swelling in irradiated structural materials, Ziang Yu
ATOMIC-LEVEL MECHANISMS OF FAST RELAXATION IN METALLIC GLASSES, Leo W. Zella
Investigating Drivers of Algal Bloom Succession in Lake Erie, Brittany Zepernick
Measurement-Based Monitoring and Control in Power Systems with High Renewable Penetrations, Chengwen Zhang
Material Size Effects in Conventional Arc Welding, Sealing, and Devices, Lingyue Zhang