Masters Theses
Masters Theses from 2024
State of Health Estimation for Second-Use Electric Vehicle Batteries in Grid Applications, Yousef Hassan A Alamri
Money, Family, Happiness: Financial Beliefs and Relational Satisfaction in Parent-Young Adult Children Relationships, Keely M. Algya
Leadership Journeys of Twelve Women in the Wine Industry: A Qualitative Study, Colleen Baker
Evaluation of Eriophyid Mite Collection Methods and Environmental Parameters that Affect Populations of Phyllocoptes fructiphilus, Tara Michelle Barnette
Experimental Studies of Shock Train Generation and Unstart Propagation in Mach 2.3 Flow, Nicholas W. Bartlett
EASIER AIR ALERT PLATFORM: A DESIGN AND APPROACH TO CREATING A DISTRIBUTED AIR QUALITY MONITORING AND ALERT SYSTEM, Bryceton Bible
Assessment of Nocturnal and Crepuscular Arthropods and Their Influence on Bat Species on the Eastern Highland Rim, Carmen Black
An Evaluation of Spectroscopic Databases: Content, Structure, Toolsets, Usability, and Documentation, Joseph William Braker
“THE BEST-WORST EXPERIENCE OF MY ENTIRE LIFE”: NEGATIVE, POSITIVE, AND MIXED EMOTIONAL REACTIONS TO GETTING VOTED OFF SURVIVOR ISLAND, Emily Ann Brayton
Principles of Tomographic Measurements and Reconstruction, Bernadette Evelyn Brezinski
Labor Trafficking on the Global Sporting Stage, Luke A. Brice
Lower Limits of Performance of an Electrospray Thruster using a Direct Measurement Method, Caitlin M. Bunce
AQUATIC TRANSITIONS AND INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIPS IN FISSIDENS MOSSES, Julia R. Butler
Post-Layout Evaluation of Adiabatic Logic for Energy Efficiency and CPA Resistance, Jun-Cheng Chin
Impact of preovulatory follicle maturity on oocyte metabolism and embryo development., Hannah M. Clark
Cluster Analysis of Consumer Attitudes Towards Online Grocery Shopping and Impacts on Online Grocery Usage and Food Expenditure, Harrison T. Clark
MERCURY BIOMAGNIFICATION IN AQUATIC FOOD WEBS OF GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK, Zachary Winston Clark
A Quantitative Analysis of Security Keys and Commit Signing on Github, Parker N. Collier
“AND AM I BORN TO DIE?”: COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND TRAUMA IN CONTEMPORARY APPALACHIAN HEAVY METAL, Alexandra Dellgren
Genetic Algorithm Optimization of Experiment Design for Targeted Uncertainty Reduction, Alexander Amedeo DePillis
Experimental Investigation Into the Effects of Surface Roughness in a Mach 4 Edge Turbulent Boundary Layer, Jordan Dixon
Framing Maternity Care Access in the United States: A Comparative Analysis of Online News Sources, Esther Dowell
Understanding Missing National Agriculutral Statistics Survey Yields, William Hence Duncan
WINTER ROOST SELECTION OF EASTERN RED BATS AND IMPACTS OF NON-GROWING SEASON PRESCRIBED FIRE ON FORAGING ACTIVITY OF FOREST ROOSTING BATS IN TENNESSEE, Ashley D. Epstein
Understanding Linguistic Treatment Across Species: a Comparative Study at Zoo Knoxville, Dynestee S. Fields
Watch, Follow, Sabotage: Themes of Stasi Surveillance in the Queer East German Films Coming Out and Die andere Liebe, Julia Goncalves
Teacher Preparation and Perceptions on Readiness to Address the Science of Reading, Hannah Marie Gump
Dairy Revenue Protection: Choice Determinants and Performance Assessment, Wyatt A. Haley
Dynamics of Diffusion, Landon K. Harris
A COMPARISON OF TIME SERIES METHODS FOR POST-COVID TRANSIT RIDERSHIP FORECASTING, Ashley Morgan Hightower
Changes in Tennessee Land Use, Leann Hopper
Advancing Compact Modeling of Electronic Devices: Machine Learning Approaches with Neural Networks, Mixture Density Networks, and Deep Symbolic Regression, Jack Robert Hutchins
Identifying and Assessing Metrics of Ecosystem Recover in Eastern Hardwood Forests, Ian Kennedy
Holy Asexualities: Discursive Constructions and Late Medieval Religious Women's Asexual Embodiment, Mackenzie Wynn King
The Causes and Implications of Burnout Among Graduate Assistants, Katherine Mary Kuka
Validating the Design Tensile Strength of Grade 5 and Metric Class 8.8 Bolts, Paxton Charles Lifsey
What's the Pointe?: A Leap into New Leadership, Traci A. Lively
41 FOR FREEDOM: BALLISTIC MISSILE SUBMARINERS AND THE NUCLEAR DETERRENT SHIELD DURING THE COLD WAR, Jeremy Daniel Long
SCREENPLAY STRUCTURE AS ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY STRUCTURE: CAN NARRATIVE KNOWLEDGE HELP STUDENTS WRITE STRONGER ACADEMIC ESSAYS?, Merrill Eric Augustine Loya
Defining a haplotype encompassing the LCORL-NCAPG locus associated with increased lean growth in beef cattle, Leif E. Majeres
Designing a Serious Game to Simulate Ecological Processes on a Post-Eruption Mount St. Helens Landscape, Parker Maynard
Mind over Material: An fNIRS Study Attempting to Manipulate 3-year-olds away from a Shape Bias and into a Material One, Alexis Rose McCraw
Play-Based Learning in Elementary School Foreign Language Settings, Anna McDaniel
Electromagnetic Penetration of Structures Considering High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse, David P. Mignardot
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN SPORT: THE ILLUSTRATIVE CASE OF THE GERMAN MEN’S BUNDESLIGA, Denise Morawek
Experiences of Textuality: from the Oulipo to the Cyborg Author of the Digital Age, Maxime Moreau
Effects of Repeated Reading with a Reader's Theater Approach on First Graders' Reading Fluency, Comprehension, and Prosody, Allison M. Murray
The maternal figure symbolizes stability and continuity in the novels of George Eliot: a close reading of the Mill on the Floss, Razan A. Naseb
Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.)., Carthel Tyler Newton
Two Essays on the Economics of Global Food Demand, Savant Nzayiramya
ENHANCED EFFICIENCY NITROGEN FERTILIZER AS TOOL TO CONTROL NITROGEN LOSS IN ROW CROP PRODUCTION, Samuel Kudzo Okai
Characterizing the Impact of Wall Heating on a Mach 4 Edge Turbulent Boundary Layer, Oriana Rose Palumbo
Evaluation of avian use of agricultural cover crops during the winter, migration stopover, and the breeding season in Tennessee, Brittany Panos
Mapping Arbitrary Spiking Neural Networks to the RAVENS Neuroprocessor, Jongheon Park
Early Childhood Education in India and Traces of Colonial Regimes: A Critical Discourse Analysis, Snigdha Rampal
The Event, Michael R. Ray Sr
The Role of Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1 alpha (HIF-1⍺) in Human Coronavirus OC43 Infection, Olivia Faith Riffey
Negotiating Identities: Appalachian Voices in Academia, Cameron J. Rogers
Identification, Creation, and Characterization of Bio-Based Antifreeze Agents, Joshua Samuel Saad
Understanding student experiences with TLS client authentication, Clay A. Shubert
Understanding Premarital Predictors of Relationship Satisfaction, Ornella Skaff
Pollen-specific expression of EcoRI restriction endonuclease for bioconfinement in Panicum virgatum L., Jessica Nicole Stockdale
CURRENT PERCEPTIONS, USE, AND FIELD IMPLEMENTATION OF PRECISION POULTRY FARMING TECHNOLOGIES, Tanner Alan Thornton
Attention, Curiosity, and Pleasurable Solitude Within Adventure Games: A Reading of RealMyst: Masterpiece Edition and Paradise Killer, Hannah J. Trammell
LEVERAGING MORPHOLOGICAL AND PHYLOGENOMIC METHODS TO ELUCIDATE THE EVOLUTION OF DIXIDAE, Jackson H. Turner
Finding Short Range Order in High Entropy Alloys, Mariah Wakefield
An Audio-Based Emotion Monitoring System for Enhancing Construction Worker Safety, Mengjun Wang
WATER AFFORDABILITY IN TENNESSEE: APPLYING MODERN PORTFOLIO THEORY TO ASSESS THE RISK-RETURN TRADE-OFF OF CLEAN WATER ACT SUBSIDIES, Hannah E. Williams
A FRAMEWORK FOR ESTIMATING HYBRID MANUFACTURING COSTS, Nathan Joel Wilson
Masters Theses from 2023
Neighborhood Adversity and Externalizing Problems: The Moderating Role of Educational Opportunities, Nagham Abou Zeid
The influence of ion-ion correlations on conductivity in concentrated ionic systems, MD DIPU AHMED
An isostable coordinate based amelioration strategy to mitigate the effects of Jet lag, Talha Ahmed
Comparing Symbiont Densities in Laboratory-Maintained and Field Populations of Acyrthosiphon pisum, Georgina Lynda Aitolo
EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF SPORTS INFLUENCER ADVERTISING ON CONSUMER BEHAVIOR IN THE US AND SAUDI ARABIA ON INSTAGRAM., Mohammed Samer Alassaf
Stakeholders and Stakeseekers’ Perceptions of Cultural Violations and International Crisis Communication, Najwa Nishaa Albaqami
Love on the Spectrum: Djuna Barnes’s Case Against Categorization in Nightwood, Kaitlyn A. Alford
MODULAR COMPOSITE SANDWICH STRUCTURES FOR THERMAL AND STRUCTURAL RETROFITTING OF EXISTING BUILDINGS, Marc Al Ghazal
Exploring the Structure and Dynamics of Shock/Turbulent Boundary Layer Interactions Generated by Swept Compression Ramps in a Mach 2 Freestream, Daniel S. Allen
Examining housing experiences among International Students at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), Rosemary Achentisa Ayelazuno
Socially Equal Energy Efficient Development: A Theoretical Reflection on Applied Work, Darcy A. Ayers
Can packaging impact consumers perceptions of what products appear to look healthy Vs. If they actually are healthy?, Allison Grace Bagwell
INHIBITED SEXUAL COMMUNICATION: A MEDIATOR OF INSECURE ADULT ATTACHMENT AND SEXUAL DISSATISFACTION, Maya Elizabeth Barrett
RISK AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF PUBLICLY TRADED BIOFUEL FIRMS, Bishal Bista
The Digital Face of Airpower: Asymmetry, Artificial Intelligence and Intimate Combat in the Twenty-First Century United States Air Force, Jordan Bolster
Where’s My Favorite Dictator? An Analysis of the American Empire In Post-Revolution Egypt, Jeremy Alan Brill Booth
Bluegrass: a Voicing, Cade Botts
Developing a Flexible System for a Friendly Robot to Ease Dementia (FRED) Using Cloud Technologies and Software Design Patterns, Robert James Bray
Analysis of a Controlled Approximation for Explicit Integrations of Stiff Thermonuclear Networks, Nicholas Brey
Use of Automatic Metaheuristic Optimizations for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy, Christopher Busch
Boundary Layer Measurements on the BOLT II Geometry Using Pressure and Temperature Sensitive Paints, Jacob Gaetano Butera
BOG TURTLE DENSITY ESTIMATION USING SPATIAL CAPTURE RECAPTURE, LIVE TRAPS, AND CAMERA TRAPS IN NORTHEAST TENNESSEE, USA, Timothy Calhoun
Modeling the Decomposition of Sulfuric Acid for a Nuclear-Powered Integrated Energy System, CT Ragan Callaway