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Doctoral Dissertations

Dissertations from 2023 2023

Evaluation of biomass as bio-additive in 3D printing, Shuyang Zhang

Kinetics and phase stability of nano-scale precipitates in Fe-based binary alloys during ion irradiations, Yajie Zhao

DEEP LEARNING BASED POWER SYSTEM STABILITY ASSESSMENT FOR REDUCED WECC SYSTEM, Yinfeng Zhao

The Identification of Small Molecule Inhibitors to Candida albicans Phosphatidylserine Synthase, Yue Zhou

MICROSTRUCTURE EVOLUTION AND MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF THERMALLY AGED AND IRRADIATED FE-CR ALLOYS, Pengcheng Zhu

INFORMAL HUMAN MILK SHARING: AWARENESS, ATTITUDES, AND FEASIBILITY OF AT-HOME PASTEURIZATION, Rebecca Zuchowski

Dissertations from 2022 2022

Tethered Axial Coordination as a Control Modality in Rhodium(II)-Catalyzed Carbene Transfer Reactions, Anthony Dean Abshire

Novel Mixed Integer Programming Approaches to Unit Commitment and Tool Switching Problems, Najmaddin Akhundov

IMPROVED AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF ECONOMICALLY IMPORTANT PLANT-PARASITIC NEMATODES OF FIELD CROPS AND FUNGAL DISEASES OF SOYBEAN AND HEMP IN TENNESSEE, Rufus J. Akinrinlola

Model Based Force Estimation and Stiffness Control for Continuum Robots, Vincent A. Aloi

Oscillation Analysis and its Mitigation Using Inverter-Based Resources in Large-Scale Power Grids, Khaled Alshuaibi

A STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESSORS ON HYPOTHALAMIC REGULATION OF REPRODUCTION USING AN IN VITRO SYSTEM, Lisa L. Amelse

Troya Victa : Empire, Identity, and Apocalypse in the Frankish Chronicles of the Fourth Crusade, Jordan Amspacher

INTRA-SKELETAL VARIATION IN STABLE ISOTOPES THROUGH NON-DESTRUCTIVE APPROACHES: APPLICATIONS OF THE PATTERNS OF SKELETAL REMODELING TO BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Armando Anzellini

Investigation of Fore-Aft Element Connectors for an ultra-efficient Slotted, Natural-Laminar-Flow Aircraft Wing, Corey M. Arndt

Elucidating mammalian cellular responses to the uptake of nanoparticles (NPs), pathogens, and lipoproteins: similarities and differences, Monireh Asoudeh

ANALYSIS OF PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES AND TERRESTRIAL DYNAMICS OF MECHANICALLY FORMED MICRO-NANO SCALED PARTICLES FROM AGRICULTURAL PLASTIC MULCHES, Anton Friedrich Astner

Bacterial Communities during Heifer Development and their Impact on the Uterine Environment, Taylor Brianne Ault Seay

Resituando El Cuerpo Femenino A Través De La Memoria Histórica Y La Ficción: Carlota De Bélgica Y Eva Perón En Las Novelas Noticias Del Imperio De Fernando Del Paso Y Santa Evita De Tomás Eloy Martínez, Krysheida Ayub - Unzon

Constructing Freedom of Speech in Elite News Media: 2011 - 2020, John Baker

Disrupting the Canon with Young Adult Remixes, Arianna Banack

Leader Type and Responses to State-Sponsored Terrorism, Arjun Banerjee

Content Externalism and Self-Knowledge, Donnie Gene Barnett Jr.

ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL: AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF FAT REPRESENTATION IN YAL AS A CATALYST FOR FAT ACCEPTANCE, Laura Beal

Making Sense of Soil Microbiome Complexity for Plant and Ecosystem Function in a Changing World, Kendall K. Beals

Nodulin 26 like Intrinsic Proteins: Structurally Similar Membrane Channels with Diverse Functions in Plant Hypoxia Stress, Metalloid Nutrition & Toxicity, Zachary Beamer

“It's Like You're Trying to Get a Meeting with the Pope”: A Narrative Inquiry on Experiences of Social Work Field Staff Establishing Field Placements in Sport, Lauren Beasley

Investigating Person-Specific Profiles of Readiness-To-Exercise: Exploring Associations with Hypothetical Experiential Outcomes and Perceived Relevance, Cory Beaumont

Measurement of Neutrino-Induced Neutron Production in Lead, Brandon J. Becker

Three Essays on the Determinants of Business Activity and Entrepreneurship, Richard H. Beem Jr

Predators in the Petals: How crab spiders affect plants and their pollinators, Amanda D. Benoit

Framing Athlete Mental Health: Analysis of the 2022 Winter Olympics News Coverage, Sam B. Bernstein

“Sometimes the People Giving the Care Get a Little Overlooked”: Athletic Trainers’ Personal Use of Psychosocial Strategies and Interactions with Mental Performance Consultants, Alexander Bianco

Implantable Medical Devices for Local Drug Delivery and Tissue Regeneration to Combat Chronic Bacterial Infection, Caroline J. Billings

The Lived Experience of Losing Employment After Diagnosis with Dementia: A Phenomenological Analysis, Susan K. Blaine

Principal in Name Only: A Mixed Methods Study of How Catholic School Governance Models Affect Leadership, Davis H. Bodie

Chiral Mesogen-Free Liquid Crystalline Polyethers with Sulfonylated Side Chains and Patchy Brush Nanoparticles, Caleb A. Bohannon

Accelerated Catalyst Diffusion in Chemically Amplified Resists, Christopher M. Bottoms

The Parasocial Relationships in Social Media Survey, Austin T. Boyd

Morbidity, Mortality, and Marginalization: An Intersectional Investigation of Respiratory Stress and Differential Frailty in Industrial-Era England, Derek A. Boyd

Design and Development of the Urban Population Health Observatory to Improve Disease Surveillance and Response, Whitney Brakefield

Seeing with the Eyes of the Soul: Visionary Women, Meditative Lives of Christ, and Their Readers in Late-Medieval England, Caitlin J. BranumThrash

Expectancy Values and their Interaction with the edTPA, Stephanie L. Brennan

An Archaeological Study of Pit Cellars and Ethnic Identity in Tennessee, Daniel Whitaker Howard Brock

Essays in Experimental Economics and Applied Econometrics, Michael Jacob Brown

Modeling Basal Sprout Production in Vector-Borne Tree Disease, Kelly Buch

HIGHLIGHTING TEACHER VOICES: DISCUSSIONS ON RACE AND RACISM IN THE ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM, Carrie Lynn Buckner

The Development of Photoinduced Initiation of Olefin Polymerization and its Applications, Justin M. Burroughs

STABILITY AND RESILIENCE IN RAWLS'S POLITICAL LIBERALISM, Grace Campbell

Task-based Runtime Optimizations Towards High Performance Computing Applications, Qinglei Cao

Modeling Homonormativity: A Grounded Theory of Pursuing Queer Parenthood in The South, A. Capannola

Predictive Capabilities of Laminar-Turbulent Transition Models for Aerodynamics Applications, Jared Alexander Carnes

Self-Objectification and Alcohol Use in Young Adult College Women, Rachel Carretta

Poa annua: An Annual Species?, Devon E. Carroll

We're all friends here: Examining Transparasocial Interaction on Twitch and its Effects on Strategic Communications, Alexander Edward Carter

Role of temperature, transmission pathways, and pathogen load in Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans epidemiology, Edward Davis Carter

Investigation on the Impact of Property-Microstructure of Spark Plasma Sintered MgB2 Superconducting Bulks in Manufacturing Operations, Fabiano Carvalho de Castro Sene

The Upgraded Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime Using the In-Beam Method, Jimmy P. Caylor

Crowd Control: Regulating the Spatial Organization of Biopolymers and Gene Expression by Macromolecular Crowding, Gaurav Chauhan

Healthcare Service Utilization and Life Satisfaction in South Africa, Tamara Chavez-Lindell

Essays in Assessing Healthcare Disparities for Improving Healthcare Equity in Southeastern Region of the U.S. Using GIS and Anti-Covering Location Problem, Heewon Chea

Reconciling Self-Censorship: A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of University Staff and Administrators, Leigh Cherry

Improving Strength and Stability in Continuum Robots, Jake A Childs

Characterization of microbial metabolism at diverse complexity levels: Extending integrated metaproteomics from simple cell-free systems to complex environmental microbiomes, Payal Chirania

A High Rate Pixelated Neutron Detector for Neutron Reflectometry at the Spallation Neutron Source, Su-Ann Chong

Three Essays in Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Vasudha Chopra

Investigating metabolic alterations in various systems relating to the gut microbiome using mass spectrometry-based metabolomics, Courtney J. Christopher

Core-Collapse Supernova Simulations With Spectral Two-Moment Neutrino Transport, Ran Chu

Compositional Effects on the Mechanical Properties and Deformation Mechanisms of Face-Centered Cubic High-Entropy Alloys, Joshua L. Cicotte

Extended Methods and Biological Networks using Explainable AI algorithm Iterative Random Forest, Ashley Cliff

Exploring Sleep Quality, Quality of Life, and Seizure Frequency in Patients with Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures, Sandra J. Cobb

The Devil Did Not Make Me Do It: Understanding Factors That Influence College Choice of a Faith-Based Institution, Phillip Lowell Cook Jr.

Confinement and Interface Effects in Self Assembly of Functional Block Copolymers, Jonathan P. Coote

“In the Skin I’m in…I Represent a Different Version of What Help Looks Like:” Black Women Sport Psychology Professional’s Experiences in Applied Sport Psychology, Sharon R. Couch

Enhancing Social Skill Performance In Vivo: An Investigation of Tootling Across Activity Structures, Margaret Crewdson

T-PESS and Special Education Teacher Attrition and Retention: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study of Teacher Perceptions of Administrator Effectiveness, Janna R. Crow

Public Health, Community, and the Making of the Modern Morgue in Bavaria, 1855-1914, Alyssa Nicole Culp

Sermon Geographies: Black People As Spiritual Cartographers in South Carolina, Shaundra L. Cunningham

USING HEURISTIC METHODS AND MACHINE LEARNING TO ENHANCE THE POSITIONAL ACCURACY OF HISTORICAL GEOSPATIAL DATASETS, Pankaj Mani Dahal

Modeling of chromatin architecture: implications in health and disease, Priyojit Das

Genealogy Tells: Informing Health and Aging Policies Using East Tennessean Older Women's Family Histories, Perceptions, and Experiences of Health Inequity, Heather Davis

Enhancing the Performance of the MtCNN for the Classification of Cancer Pathology Reports: From Data Annotation to Model Deployment, Kevin De Angeli

Aroma Chemistry of Mountain Mints in the Incanum Group of Pycnanthemum Michx., Melissa M. Dein

Evaluation of Cotton Management Decisions: Cover Crops, Weed Control, and Injured Stands, Savana D. Denton

Paying Attention: The Lived Experiences of Female ADHD Graduate Students in Higher Education, Tiffany Michelle Devol

Ambivalent Sexism and Condom Use Self-Efficacy Amongst Men Who Bottom: A Serial Mediation Model, Elliott Nolan DeVore

The spatial, temporal, and ecological constraints of plant-host associated microbial communities, Jonathan Dickey

The Literary Fairy: Celtic Folklore’s Influence on Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Joshua Dobbs

High power lightweight solid-state circuit breaker development and motor drive design for electrified aircraft propulsion, Zhou Dong

Corrosion and Microstructural Characterization of Molybdenum-YSZ Cermets Following Hydrogen Exposure up to 2630 K, Taylor G. Duffin

DETERMINATION OF NEAR-SOL CARBON IMPURITY CONTENT DUE TO DIVERTOR TARGET LEAKAGE USING CARBON-13 TRACERS VIA METHANE INJECTION ON THE DIII-D TOKAMAK, Jonah David Duran

Studying Electron Dynamics for Quantum Materials with Real Space Resolution: A Wannier Orbital Approach to Spectroscopy using High-Performance Supercomputers, Casey J. Eichstaedt

WE HAVE REMAINED PATIENT: FORENSIC HUMAN RIGHTS ANTHROPOLOGY IN POST-SIAD BARRE SOMALILAND, Lucia My Maja Karolina Elgerud Norstrom

Universal Basic Income Favorability: An Examination of Discursive Frames of and Support for UBI Proposals, John Stacy Elliott

Diffusion of Policy Innovations: State Adoption of Value-Added Models in K-12 Education, Kirsten England

Constrained Collective Movement in Human-Robot Teams, Joshua Fagan

Access beyond geographic accessibility: understanding opportunities to human needs in a physical-virtual world, Jimmy Feng

An Autoethnographic Study Uncovering Disruptive Events that Impacted a Gay Woman's Transformation into Adulthood, Erin J. Ferris

LATINIDAD IN SUMMER READING: A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO MULTICULTURAL LITERACY FOR LATINO/A ENGLISH LEARNERS’ SELF-EFFICACY IN TRANSITIONING TO MIDDLE SCHOOL, Elizabeth Fincher

Water availability as a cross-scale driver of microbial functions and free viral abundance in soil, Aubrey K. Fine