Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2000
The utility and implications of empathy in the workplace, Wendy C. Chambers
A Characteristics Finite Element Algorithm for Computational Open Channel Flow Analysis, Zachariah Chambers
An investigation of the relationship between alcohol use and satisfaction with life among college students, Robert James Channell
Going-down pairs of communicative rings, Richard Douglas Chatham
Structural requirements in calmodulin for n-methyltransferase recognition and NAD kinase activation, Jennifer Ann Cobb
The economic health of private historically black colleges and universities : 1986-1995, Emma Cody-Mitchell
Nodulation signal specificity and perception in legumes, Jonathan Cohn
A dynamic finite element modeling technique for two-dimensional structures, Emma Jewell Cooley
The ghosts that haunt us : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's stories of the supernatural, Sally E. Corran
Characteristics of foster family applicants willing to accept hard to place foster children, Mary Ellen Cox
Three essays in industrial organization, Richard Guy Cox
An empirical investigation of the relationships between money, interest rates,investment and output : a disaggregated approach, Tricia Elaine Coxwell
Clarifying care : elaborating and expanding the care ethic, Charles Christopher Crittenden
Population biology of a rare hemiparasite, Aureolaria patula (Chapman) Pennell (Scrophulariaceae): demographic trends, host interactions, and reproductive biology, Maureen Cunningham
The contemporary militia: network news framing of a social movement, Marie Curkan-Flanagan
Uniqueness and summability of two-dimensional Walsh series and their generalizations, Douglas S. Daniel
"When they start doing things like that, they are ready to go" : what the infant's transition from the infant classroom to the toddler classroom means to teachers, Eliza Labouisse Dean
Modeling a fish population with diffusive and advective movement in a spatial environment, Qingping Deng
Spectropolarimetry of polymers, Bhushan Janardan Deshpande
The relationship and communication experiences between student-teachers and their supervisors in a university child care laboratory setting : a qualitative study, Matthew John Devereaux
The growth and decline of transportation studies in undergraduate business education from the 1890s to the age of supply chain management in the 1990s, William Judson Dewitt
Applications of in-line fiber optic raman spectroscopy to polymer processes, Mrunalini Dhamdhere
The question of gender discrimination in mortgage lending : a cross regional analysis, Amatta Sangho Diabate
Laser Spark Ignition Modeling, Ivan George Dors
The experience of sexual desire : an empirial-phenomenological investigation, Johnny M. Dossett
Attributions of school children and their relationship to depression, Janette A. Doucette
Electric utilities, fiscal illusion and the provision of local public services, Paula Dowell
Sex-role stereotyping: changes in attitude of 3-,4-, and 5-year-old children, Blanche Dresner
Assessing forgiveness : development and validation of the act of forgiveness scale, Joy Rogers Drinnon
Surface phases of transition metal oxides, Hani Dulli
The Relationship Between the Student Teachers' Self-reflection of Performance and the Student Teachers' Performance Evaluation as Viewed by their Evaluation Team, Bonnie Peterson Eder
Application of occasional feedback trajectory correction to enhance lean combustion quality in a pulsed combustor, Kevin Dean Edwards
The use of art therapy to deal with low self-esteem among the aged ; selected case studies, Elizabeth Eichelbaum
Effects of hand-held calculators on precollege students in mathematics classes - a meta-analysis, Aimee Joy Ellington
Autonomy and chronic impairment, Carolyn Norine Ells
Computerized Content Analysis: A comparison of the Verbal Productions of High Hypnotizable, Low Hypnotizable and Simulating Subjects, Edeltraud Elter-Nodvin
Cost-benefit analysis for software process improvement, Daniel T. Fetzer
Narrative transgression and disembodied voices: the reconstruction of identity in the novels of Carmen Boullosa, Barbara Rebecca Fick
Symbolization-based analysis of engineering time series, Charles Edward Andrew Finney
Mountaineers in gray : the story of the Nineteenth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., John Derrick Fowler
The experience of performance funding on higher education at the campus level in the past 20 years, Michelle Susong Freeman
Post-tenure review: a study of policies and practices at colleges and universities in the United States, Judith Elaine Fry
Predicting relationship quality and longevity from patterns of interaction in adolescent romantic relationships, Renee Vickerman Galliher
Cumulative risk and youth problem behaviors : the role of IQ, cognitive problem-solving ability, and self-esteem, Jean Marie Gerard
Interactions between introduced and native Anolis lizards in Florida and Grand Cayman Island, Glenn P. Gerber
Cognitive processes as predictors of reading success, Maripat Mullaly Gettelfinger
The athletic coachability scale: construct conceptualization and psychometric analyses, Peter R. Giacobbi
Comparison of training hard copy and computer job-aids: using expert object technology, Ronald Herbert Gibson
Numerical procedures for enhancing the evaluation of elastic-plastic fracture toughness test results, Paulo Costa Gioielli
An examination of career progress in a downsizing organization, Laura A. Gniatczyk
An educational intervention to postpone sexual activity, Laurie Anne Goode
Attachment parenting : new ideas, old practices, Katherine Elizabeth Green
Adolescent sexual competence and sexual risk-taking : an ecological model of risk and protection, Kevin Harvey Gross
Personality composition, group norms, and group effectiveness in military work teams, Terry R. Halfhill
Tennessee Performance Funding and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville: A Case Study, Kimberely B. Hall
Diabetic neuropathy, balance, falls and fear, June Elaine Hanks
A study to determine the effectiveness of the academic development program at Tennessee Technological University, Pamela Beaty Harden
Promoting golf in the Golden Age : a frame analysis of the writings of O.B. Keelor and Grantland Rice, Robin L. Hardin
Structural studies of the nucleosome core particle, Joel Monroe Harp
Disparities in mortgage lending, bank performance, economic influence and regulatory oversight, Keith D. Harvey
A comparison of biodata, ability, and a conditional reasoning test as predictors of reliable behavior in the workplace, Suzanne Renee Hawes
Reducing organic loading of anaerobic lagoons with high-rate anaerobic digestion : reactor performance and economic analysis, Gary Lawrence Hawkins
Accuracy of pelvis repositioning in individuals with and without low back pain, Traci Lee Haydu
Structure-function studies of the saccharomyces cerevisiae pheromone receptor, ste2p, using novel α-factor analogs, Loren Keith Henry
Postcards from the war : a rhetorical analysis of authorship and audience in Martha Gellhorn's war-torn travel writing, Marcie L. Hinton
SMO maintenance and multiple campaign successes : a case study of Solutions to Issues of Concern to Knoxvillians, Laurel Long Holland
Between God and markets : class, race, and state in the underdevelopment of the American South, Shirley Ann Hollis
Rating of sports teams via least squares and mean absolute deviation techniques : an empirical study of three NCAA sports, Thalia L. Hooker
Incidence and impact of client suicide on health service providers in psychology, Elizabeth Lynne Howard
Analysis of selected factors as predictors of surviving family members' attitudes towards euthanasia, Jeffrey L. Hoyer
Thin film stress studies using microcantilevers and microcantilever sensors, Zhiyu Hu
Electron beam induced conductivity effect of polymer resists and charging induced electron beam deflection simulation in electron beam lithography, Justin Jia-Jen Hwu
Radiolytic effects on fluoride impurities in a U₃₈, Alan Scott Icenhour
A study of nuclear plant heat rate optimization using nonlinear artificial intelligence and linear statistical analysis models, Claude Irvine
The effect of the essential oil of rosemary and lemon on memory ability in eighth graders, Ronda J. Irvin-Hamilton
Characterization of chloroplast transit peptides and the major stromal Hsp70, CSS1 : implications for an ATP-dependent chloroplast protein import molecular motor, Robert Alvin Ivey
Predicting the Viability of Fish Populations in a Modified Riverine Environment, Henriette I. Jager
The effects of internal audit outsourcing on financial statement users' confidence in their protection from fraudulent financial reporting, Kevin Lamont James
Monetary aggregation and policy decisions : an empirical evaluation across currency-equivalent, divisia, and simple sum aggregates, Hamzeh Ahmed Khaleefeh Jaradat
The psychometric efficacy of positively versus negatively worded items on a self-report measure of middle schoolers' work ethic, Kary O. Jessup
Fatigue Behavior of ULTIMET Alloy: Experiment and Theoretical Modeling, Liang Jiang
Studies in panellus stypticus and the genus panellus complex, Jiankang Jin
The effects of 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone on the map kinase cascade in neoplastic and non-neoplastic pulmonary neuroendocrine cells, Brian Ashley Jull
An exploratory study of a novel enhanced corona discharge for sterilization, Weng Lock Kang
Antecedents and moderators of the state of supply chain logistics measurement and consequential perceived competitiveness, James S. Keebler
Organoboranes in organic synthesis, Shane W. Kelley
Developments and experimental evaluation of partitioning algorithms for adaptive computing systems, Nabil Kerkiz
The dissolution of the "Emotional center of life": women's friendships in American fiction (1873-1915), Kristina Lee Knotts
The relationship between relational committment, spousal intimacy, and regiosity and marital satisfaction, Kris Koehne
Identification and characterization of two peptide transport systems in arabidopsis thaliana, Serry Koh
Efficent implementation of high order methods in computational fluid dynamics, Alexy Yu Kolesnikov
Complex shaped solar sails : a study of the coupled attitude and trajectory dynamics, Christel Brigitte Kolk
Group invariant stable processes, Slawomir Kolodynski
Unbounded Bergman operators, Sherwin Kouchekian-Sabour
Plasticity of morphology, chemoreception, and predatory behavior in garter snakes (Thamnophis Sirtalis), Mark Andrew Krause
Patterns and consequences of ice storms in forested Appalachian landscapes, Charles W. Lafon
A triadic interpretation of balance theory as a mediating factor in conditional agenda-setting, Kyle Langley
Integrating location and logistics models, Agatino La Rosa