Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 1999
Dilemmas and prospects for democratization in sub-Saharan Africa : democratic transition and consolidation in Kenya and Zambia, Joseph G. Njoroge
Educational psychology at the millennium: an electronic analysis of doctoral programs, Michael E. Nolan
Synthesis and development of selective ion-exchange resins for the removal of toxic metal ions from water in the environment, Robert Dean Ober
Sulfentrazone behavior in surface soil : dissipation, degradation, adsorption and mobility, George Anthony Ohmes
Intergenerational Programming: Yesterday's Memories, Today's Moments, and Tomorrow's Hopes, Kathleen Ann O'Rourke
The relationship of cognitive learning styles, mathematics attitude, and achievement in a problem posing classroom, Mary Ellen Owens
Flavor and Storage Stability of Potato Chips Fried in Cottonseed and Sunflower Oils and Sunflower:Palm Olein Oil Blends, Philipus Pangloli
The use of radio to increase parental involvement in education of their children, Rita Charlsia Patterson
I'd just be wantin' to go on': gifted students talk about waiting in the regular classroom, Marie E. Peine
Exploring the information processing capabilities of random dendritic neural nets, Tzusheng Pei
Power, resistance, and the state: a case study of economic development in Roane County, Tennessee, Deborah Godwin Perkins
Theoretical and algorithmic approaches to field-programmable gate array partitioning, Barbara Catherine Plaut
The experience of students in a collaborative learning classroom, Melissa Marty Portwood
Permanence of invariant subspaces under functional calculus and related topics, Gabriel Titu Prǎjiturǎ
Oh, flower of Eastern silence' : the influence of Indian religion on American fiction, 1882-1933, Nathaniel Hope Preston
The perceptions of selected older adults about the impact of a university adult education program on their lives : a phenomenological study, Amy Sarah Sue Price
Application of multisolute adsorption equilibrium to the simulation of nonlinear chromatographic band profiles, Igor Quiñones-García
Enhancement of the properties of polymer blends by hydrogen bonding and transesterification, Bijan Radmard
Early analysis of VLSI systems with packaging considerations, Karthikeyan Ramamurthi
The foreign language glossed reader : authentic literary text as comprehensible input, Avigail Rashkovsky
The sedentary relapse experiences of African American women, Serena Reese
Finding Fibonacci : an interdisciplinary liberal arts course based on mathematical patterns, Margaret Stevenson Ribble
Effects of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T metabolites on degradation of chlorinated phenoxyacetic acids, dibenzofuran, and dibenzo-p-dioxin by environmental bacteria, James Franklin Rice
Leadership behaviors of principals and student achievement, Craig DeWitt Rigell
Removal Period Cherokee Households in Southwestern North Carolina: Material Perspectives on Ethnicity and Cultural Differentiation, Brett High Riggs
The effects of predator presence on insect behavior: consequences for individual fitness, population growth and pest suppression in agroecosystems, Rebecca Young Rivers
Landscape-level control of population dynamics: late-Quaternary paleoecology of beech in upper Michigan, William Petty Rivers
The perceived impact of childhood parental divorce on young adults, Cheryl Malone Robinson
An analysis of the temporal dynamics in tree species diversity for major tree taxa of two states in the midsouth, USA, James Forrest Rosson
Quaternary Vertebrate Paleoecology of the Central Mississippi Alluvial Valley; Implications for the Initial Human Occupation, Michael William Ruddell
The resource-based and relational views: complementary perspectives of competitive advantage, Joel A. Ryman
Survival of inoculate Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Listeria monocytogenes in soymilk mixtures during fermentation and refrigerated storage, Boonsong Saeng-on
The status of environmental education in elementary and middle public schools of East Tennessee : a teacher perspective, Amadou Bocar Cire Sall
The impact of teacher effect on student math competency achievement, June C. Rivers Sanders
Existence of certain compact contractible manifolds containing disjoint spines, Manuel Jackson Sanders
Improved techniques for software testing based on Markov chain usage models, Kirk D. Sayre
The role of nucleation in the electrochemistry of organic conducting salt electrodes, Kristian Michael Scaboo
A macroeconomic and sub-macroeconomic evaluation of divisia monetary aggregates : $bevidence from three time series applications, Donald L. Schunk
The role of calcium channels in the growth regulation of normal and neoplastic neuroendocrine lung cells, Barbara Jane Sheppard
The uranyl adsorption capacity and selectivity studies on organic/inorganic hybrid sol-gel sorbents, Yongsoon Shin
On black holes and d-branes, Marina Valentinovna Shmakova
A study of the leadership skills developed through the experiences of eight superintendents in Tennessee, Patricia Lauper Smith
Molecular and genetic analysis of the orpk mouse model of polycystic kidney disease : searching for treatments and modifer genes, Carla S. Sommardahl
Superconducting study of the intermettalic YNi₂B₂C single crystal and several high-Tc materials, Kyu Jeong Song
Identification and characterization of genes potentially involved in meiosis in Drosophila melanogaster males, Wendy Bradberry Stapleton
A study of the variational aspects for the Fock expansion of the solution of hydrogenic atoms in constant magnetic fields, James B. Sternberg
Growing pains: a qualitative study of personal growth experiences of collegiate student-athletes, William Henry Shawn Stewart
A ground-based real-time remote sensing system for diagnosing nitrogen status in cotton plants, Ruixiu Sui
Understanding isothermal crystallization and subsequent melting behavior of syndiotactic polypropylene, Pitt Supaphol
Living as subject : the stories of five women with disabilities, Lois M. Symington
Gentlemen prefer modernism : 'middlebrow' culture and the transmutation of realism in the works of Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Fannie Hurst, Stephanie Lewis Thompson
Facilitating dialogue and decision-making in a family business, Linda Tisue
Elementary preservice teachers' conceptual understandings of the cause of moon phases, Kathy Cabe Trundle
Betting the farm : the effect of prior performance on the framing of strategic risk decisions, Craig A. Turner
Does it matter where you live? : social disorganization, gender-role attitudes, financial satisfaction, and male-to-female partner violence, Judy Allene Van Wyk
Premedical values related to rural family practice, Jeri Jones Veenstra
Team Conflict, Integrative Conflict-Management Strategies, and Team Effectiveness: A Field Study, DonnaMaria Christina Vigil-King
Pedagogy and power relations in English studies ; insights from literary and rhetorical theory, Jeffrey Walter Walkington
The c-Jun n-terminal kinase/stress-activated protein kinase (JNK/SAPK) pathway in paclitaxel-induced apoptosis of cancer cells, Tzu-Hao Wang
The effects of the intensity of racial identity attitudes on predicting college preference for African-American high school seniors, Candace L. Washington
The ecology and management of black bears in the Tensas River Basin of Louisiana, Keith Marshall Weaver
This gaudy, gilded stage, Jeremy W. Webster
Interaction of beta-adrenergic receptors, NNK, and ethanol in selected pancreatic carcinoma cell lines, Diann Lynn Weddle
Conformational studies of monoacylated anthocyanins : factors that affect their color stability, Neil Andrew Whittemore
Analysis of a transmission-based robotic servoactuator concept, Thomas Christopher Widner
Discrete conformal welding, George Brock Williams
The experience of religious serpent handling : a phenomenological study, William Paul Williamson
Citizen participation in environmental decisionmaking [sic] : the Department of Energy experience with site specific advisory boards, Walter Lee Williams
Electron-phonon effects in graphene and an armchair (10,10) single wall carbon nanotube, Lilia Milcheva Rapatinska Woods
Cometabolic oxidation of TCE (trichloroethylene) by Pseudomonas putida F1 in biofiltration, Hae-Jin Woo
Damage assessment and progression in a polyisocyanurate based continuous swirl mat composite, Darnell Carlton Worley II
Stability analysis of rock blocks around tunnels, Yan Wu
A survey of Knox County, Tennessee residents on the use and disposal of household hazardous waste, Charles Richard Yard
Quantum chaos in the periodically kicked Rydberg atom, Shuhei Yoshida
New solution methodologies for multi-period stochastic programming decision models, Guey-Mei You
The murine mutation scurfy (sf) results in an antigen-dependent disease with altered T-cell sensitivity, Joanne Louise Zahorsky-Reeves
Dissertations from 1998
Modeling highway construction tasks to determine project duration, Abdulrazak B. Abdulghafour
Ethnic self-identity and the role of Islam : a study of the Yemeni community in the south end of Dearborn and Detroit, Michigan, Abdullah Azib Al-Ahmary
Literacy and literacy instruction : interns' perceptions, Cathleen Frances Allred
Control of Food Intake and Expression of Hunger in the Northern Water Snake, Nerodia sipedon (L.), Paul Timothy Andreadis
Tarnished silver : the silver-fork novel and the rhetoric for reform, Maria K. Bachman
The meaning of solitude in the lives of creative writers, Helen Angelyn Bales
Isolation and characterization of PTR3 : a novel gene required for amino acid-responsive signal transduction in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, R. David Barnes
Population and molecular effects of nonpolar narcotics on Tetrahymena pyriformis, Anna Pate Bearden
Albert Schweitzer's ethic of reverence for life : analysis, defense and applications to the veterinary profession, Rebecca Ann Bennett
An analysis of the effect of computer work station associated pain on work performance, Mary Lockhart Benton
Comparison of traditional and reentry students and the attribution of learned helplessness, Linda Blair
The beginning and end of health insurance in the United States, Lynne Marie Bownds
Soil genesis and classification in the Whiteoak Mountain fault block in East Tennessee, Janice L. Branson
Significant leadership developmental experiences of five pioneering women executives in higher education, Janet Brooker
Predicting bird extinctions following tropical deforestation, Thomas Matthew Brooks
Where the rule perscribes not' : duty and narrative mediation in the eighteenth-century British novel, Kenneth Michael Brothers
A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program, Janie L. Burney