Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 1994
Extraction of caffeine from guaraná seed with supercritical carbon dioxide, Cyrus Bozorg Mehr
A pedological investigation of catchment basins below late Minoan period archaeological sites in eastern Crete, Greece, Michael Wayne Morris
Molecular and genetic analysis of a new insertional mutation in the TgN(Imorpk)73Rpw line of mice that causes polycystic kidney disease., Judith Harbron Moyer
Some object relations aspects of the Rorschach and their relation to positive and negative emotionality as measured by the multidimensional personality questionnaire, Mary Louise Murray
A life assessment methodology for heat exchanger and steam generator tubing, Masoud Naghedolfeizi
A Training Needs Assessment Model Developed by the Delphi Process for Technology Transfer Programs, Danal Wayne Neal
Influence of infant feeding practices of adolescent and adult mothers on infants' weight, Wina Lee Nevling
The Effects of Low Frequency Electrical Stimulation on Muscular Strength and Endurance in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis, Lisa L. Oglesby
Income rather than a proxy as the main determinant of apparel expenditure when quantitative variables are scaled to remove family size effect, Maria Thompson Okorley
Effect of structure and morphology on the fracture behavior of semi-crystalline thermoplastics, Mabrouk Ouederni
The allylboration of ℓ-amino ketones, Robert David Pace
Perceptions of women about their roles and experiences as communications faculty in a Southern land-grant university, 1947-1992, Linda Gail Palmer
Regulation of glucocorticoid-induced gene expression by insulin, Li Pan
Tennessee teachers and testing : a profile of perceptions, Joseph Burr Parker
Personality correlates of effective managerial behavior, Petra Elisabeth Peper
Testing biobehavioral adaptation in persons living with AIDS using Roy's theory of the person as an adaptive system, Kenneth Doyle Phillips
A study of wind tunnel aerodynamic data correction with panel method and two-variable method, Xiaoqing Qian
Delivering health care to rural America : the community health center program in Southwest Virginia, 1975-1994, Edythe Ann Quinn
Algorithms for VLSI layout based on graph width metrics, Siddharthan Ramachandramurthi
Images of War in the Works of Poet-Soldiers of the Thirty Years' and Prusso-Austrian Wars, Jacqueline Fields Ratliff
On improved methods for monotone CFD solution accuracy, Subrata Rāẏa
Construct validity of the universal nonverbal intelligence test and the universal brief adaptive behavior index, Mellissa Testerman Reed
Petrologic and stable isotopic studies of metamorphic fluid-rock interaction and igneous petrogenesis, Lone Mountain, Nevada, Ian James Richards
Voices and vietnam : a study of varying ideological perspectives in american fiction and film, 1975-1982, Granetta Lyndon Richardson
Depositional history and early freshwater diagenesis of basal Middle Ordovician peritidal carbonate rocks, East Tennessee, Keith E. Roberson
Too-big-to-fail and bank holding company behavior, Breck Ledo Robinson
The relationship among expectations about counseling and aspects of personality, Mark M. Roland
Integrating multi-way and structural constraints into spreadsheet programming, William Joseph Rosener
Policy images, agenda setting, and policy disarray : energy images in the network evening news, 1970-1990, Patra Bonham Rule
Obesity and the experience of eating in adult, American, Caucasian women : a grounded theory approach, Sheryl S. Russell
Discriminant function analysis of the response style of student athletes to the strong interest inventory, Patrice Marie Ryan
Auditory evoked potentials : ABR, MLR, and the late auditory responses for children with and without histories of otitis media, Eva Kinsey Saffer
Regularized fusion : gray and color edge detection and surface reconstruction, Renato Alberto Salinas
Interaction of feeding time and temperature and their relationship to performance of the broiler breeder hen, Maen Helmi Samara
Beyond firm learning : the emergence of a concurrent model of technological change, Stella Sherrouse Schramm
Characterization of the vertebral mutation, TgN370(Imusd)Rpw and the homologous human gene for the TgN737(Imorpk)Rpw polycystic kidney mouse mutation, Jeffrey James Schrick
Estimating state expenditures on public education : an econometric study from pooled time-series and cross-sectional data, Juei-Chi Shen
YFS Monte Carlo approach to higher order radiative corrections to LHC/SSC physics processes, Chehyon Shio
The Kinetics of Volatile Lead Compound Formation During Simulated Hazardous Waste Incineration, Joel Thomas Shor
Angry temperament and locus of control in young women with and without premenstrual syndrome, Helen Smith
The nature of recovery : a qualitative study of chemically dependent males, Louis Murdock Smith
Three studies in ion thermodynamics, Daniel Nathan Sorensen
Thermodynamics of the extraction of Uranium from strong aqueous electrolyte solutions, Barry Bryan Spencer
The role of competitive strategy in the success of initial public offerings of stock : a game theoretic examination of the evolution of strategy within competitive groups in the southwestern United States, Mark Gerard Spitzfaden
Incorporation and resistance : the native Southeast and the world economy, Jeffrey Phillip Stotik
An investigation of agency theory's assumption of strict effort aversion : the role of intrinsic motivation, M. Cathy Sullivan
Experimental and clinical models of hematopoietic stem-cell competition, Patrick Sean Sullivan
The effects of submaximal eccentric isokinetic exercise on strength and power changes and indicators of muscle damage, Lorna Ellen Swanson
An assessment of neurophysiological, behavioral, and performance differences between ADHD and non-ADHD children, Jeffery Neal Swartwood
An assessment of the effects of methylphenidate on electrophysiological, behavioral, and performance measures, Michie Odle Swartwood
Who nailed words to their primitive senses : naming and narrative layering in Thoreau's natural histories, James David Taylor
Interpretation of toxicological data in an ecological setting : physiological, molecular, and population genetic effects of genotoxicants on fish, Christopher William Theodorakis
The application of conditional reasoning to alternative indices of achievement motivation and failure avoidance, Paul Andrew Thoreck
A journalism of outrage : a rhetorical analysis of books about public education, 1967-1991, G. Robert Tobia
Early diagenesis of selected Middle Ordovician organic buildup deposits and oolite shoals from the Southern Appalachians, Kenneth J. Tobin
The relationship between market entry strategy and environmental analysis in U.S.-based multinational companies, Emadene Bradley Travers
Studies of ionic keto/enol equilibria utilizing tandem mass spectrometry, Michael R. Troutman
The effect of graded epinephrine infusion on the blood lactate response to moderate intensity exercise, John Michael Turner
If we work within the system we'll prevail : a genre analysis of the social problem made-for-television/cable movie, James Van Dyke
Black Bear Habitat Use in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Frank Teunissen van Manen
A network assignment based approach to modeling mobile source emissions, Mohan Muralidhar Venigalla
Self-management, time management, and personality type, John S. Verble
Rhodium olefin complexes : study of molecular motion in the solid state and characterization of Rhodium hybrid catalyst systems, Stephanie A. Vierkötter
Stress and coping among mother caregivers of mentally ill adult children, Mary Cosby Weathers
Structural and functional characterization of the nodulin 26 ion channel and the calmodulin-like domain protein kinase from soybean root nodules, Charles David Weaver
The relationship suggestibility of memory and personality, Cheryl K. Webb
Panels as a means of separation for an elderly residence, Linda Scott Webber
An approach to empathy training : peer supervision of counselor trainees, Robert Lee Whitaker
Predictive validity of the intellectual constructs identified on the universal nonverbal intelligence test and the woodcock-johnson psychoeducational battery-revised with achievement, Patricia Couch Williams
Attributes of apparel retailing satisfaction across store types : a comparision between retail executives and customers, Theresa D. Williams
A comparision of alternative forecasting techniques : an application of scan data, Kent L. Wolfe
Clio's voice regained : historical novels by four nineteenth-century women, Susan H. Wood
On vorticity-based numerical methods for incompressible viscous flows, Xiao-Hui Wu
Analysis of anchorages in concrete using a plastic-damage model, Shiqiang Xu
Engineering model of ash deposition and its effect on heat transfer to superheater tubes, Xiao-Xiong Yan
A socio-demographic profile and qualitative study of court-referred perpetrators of partner abuse, David Nelson Yarbrough
Dissertations from 1993
A new methodology based on fuzzy set theory and fault tree analysis for failure diagnosis in nuclear power plants, Mohamed Ibrahim Abdelhai
Modeling biological processes in aggregation of phytoplankton, Azmy Sima'an Ackleh
Analysis of prosody in the speech of high-functioning autistic children, Lynn Adams
The economic community of West African States and the Liberian crisis, Nana Kwame Agyenim-Boateng
A methodology for the analysis and monitoring of vibration data using artificial neural systems, Israel E. Alguíndigue
The occupational work ethic of vocational students in East Tennessee, Bill Ray Allender
Examining the relationship between media and personal expressive rights : the effect of need for cognition, Julie L. Andsager
An epidemiologic study of Toxoplasma gondii in swine in Tennessee, Amir Mohsen Assadi-Rad
Relationships among self-efficacy, dispositional optimism, trait anger, and modes of expressing anger in college students, Erskine Pond Ausbrooks
Diels-Alder reactions and synthetic methodologies on alumina and study of LiClO4/ether system, Satinder Pal Bains
Early family experience, chronic peer rejection in school, and overgeneralized social problem solving as predictors of child adjustment at age seven, Anuradha Bakshi
The influence of personal, positional, and resource power on equity in dual-earner marriages, Sharon Jeffcoat Bartley
The fiction of Ellen Gilchrist : an intertextual reading with works by Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, William Faulkner, and Kate Chopin, Margaret Donovan Bauer
An analysis of administrative discretion in selected students' rights decisions of the United States Supreme Court, Thomas E. Biggs
Semi-inclusive production of light mesons by high energy photoproduction, Gavin R. Blackett
The manufacturing science of thermoplastic composites, David G. Bland
Transformation as a tool to study the genetics of nodulation in Glycine max, James Edward Bond
Serpent-Doves and Sons of Thunder in Mexico : comparing the politics of Latin American Evangelicals, Paul J. Bonicelli
Science and nature as sources for scientific news : are journalistic news values a factor?, Jeffrey Glenn Boone
A phenomenological investigation of participants' experiences of positive events in the therapy process, Kathleen Marie Bradley
An investigation of the appointed versus elected superintendent in the state of Georgia, Carol B. Brand