Masters Theses
Masters Theses from 2021
Effect of Radiation on Bond Behavior Between Concrete and Steel Bar: Development of Experimental Protocol, Mohammed Abdelrahman
Bears in Big South Fork: A Spatially Explicit Density Estimate of a Reintroduced Population, Joshua D. Alston
Development of an Encrypted Wireless System for Body Sensor Network Applications, Kendra Anderson
Examining the maternal investment of the calyptra and its influence on the sporophyte offspring, Alessandra Marie Cabrera Aromin
Examining the empirical relationship between subjective fatigue and employee work engagement in a heavy workload manufacturing environment, Prashanth Balasubramanian
Unearthing Tree Symbolism in Song: A Sentiment Analysis, Shannon L. Bayliss
Temperature Sensitive Paint Investigation of a Cylinder Induced Shockwave Boundary Layer Interaction, Caleb Bell
Regenerative Effects of Patch Cut Harvests at Natchez Trace State Forest, Joshua K. Biggerstaff
Ancient ancestors for modern practices: An evolutionary concept analysis of digital marginalia, Brianna Blackwell
Variables Related to Viral Load and CD4 Variance in Men Living with HIV, Natalie Christine Blocher
The Chamber of Prayer: Oratorio Without Words, Hyowon Bong
Dissolved Organic Carbon and the Potential Role to Stream Acidity in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Jason R. Brown
A Secure Architecture for Defense Against Return Address Corruption, Grayson J. Bruner
Design and Simulation of a Supervisory Control System for Hybrid Manufacturing, Michael Buckley
The Political Turn in First-Year Composition: Student and Instructor Perspectives on Politics, Demagoguery, and Democratic Deliberation, Jacob T. Buller-Young
Debt Delivered: The Predatory Inclusion of a Rent-to-Own Chain in the Treasure Valley, Jeff Cates
Design of a Cable-Driven Manipulator for Large-Scale Additive Manufacturing, Phillip Chesser
Impact of Urbanization Gradients and Stormwater Input on the Microbial Community Structure within Impaired Low-Order Streams, Charles Cianciolo
QUEER SPACES, RELIGIOUS PLACES: SHARING RISK AND MAKING KIN WITHIN A QUEER CHURCH AMIDST A PANDEMIC, Sadie V. Counts
Contemporary Black Civil Rights Activism Strategies in East Tennessee: Gaining Economic and Political Power in the Black Community, Lily Joy Crosby
USING SURVEY DATA TO UNDERSTAND RIDESOURCING IN TENNESSEE: WHO, WHERE, WHEN, AND WHY?, Cassidy Kilmer Crossland
Machine Learning Applications for Waveform Analysis, Micah R. Cruz
An assessment of small game hunters’ and trappers’ motivations, satisfaction, and constraints, Kiley Davan
A Communications Testbed for Testing Power Electronic Agent Systems, Benjamin R. Dean
Screening for Cry proteins with unique receptors in fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) and corn earworm (Helicoverpa zea), Aria C. Deluna
Self-Identity and Risk Mitigation Behavior: Self-Protecting Masks Mandate, Mallory L. Denning
Evaluation of Medicaid Expansion on Food Insecurity Amongst Households with a Disability, Trinity Douglass
Relationships between Postpartum Anxiety, Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy, and Breastfeeding Exclusivity, Rachel Eichholtz
LiDAR evaluation of the structural complexity of multi-cropped white oak (Quercus alba) and pine (Pinus spp.) plantings in east Tennessee, USA, Bret Alan Elgersma
Evaluation of the Remote Provision of Local Food Assistance and Access Resources (FAAR) Training Program, Julianne Evans
Life History, Diet and Habitat of the Federally Endangered Laurel Dace (Chrosomus saylori), Shawna M. Fix
Expanding Band Parameter Analysis Methods for HED Meteorites and V-type Asteroids, Noah Adm Haverkamp Frere
Examining Messaging Strategies of Virtual Reality Companies on Instagram, Brian Galloway
Investigating microbial genes involved in plant colonization and the effects on plant microbiome assembly, David Grant
I Am Woman: The Complicated Relationship between Fairy Mistresses, Virgin Martyrs, and the Medieval Patriarchy, Katherine A. Haire
Nutritional Effects on Scrotal Circumference, Motility and Morphology of Spermatozoa and Cytokine Concentrations within Seminal Plasma of Beef Cattle, Taylor D. Harrison
Evaluating a Nutritional Supplement in Enhancing the Effectiveness of Selective Dry Cow Therapy, Kody Hash
NEURAL ACTIVATION DURING DIMENSIONAL LABEL LEARNING PREDICTS DIMENSONAL ATTENTION, Hollis Heim
Design and Experimental Evaluation of a Small-Scale Buckling Restrained Brace Analog, Lindsay K. Helferich
Quantifying Tree Canopy Contributions to Stormwater Runoff Reductions in Urban Watersheds of the Southeastern United States, Matthew C. Howard
Immigration et Émigration dans le ventre de l’Atlantique de Fatou Diome : les dessous pathétiques d’une odyssée à travers l’Afrique au Sud du Sahara., EMILE ANOH KABLAN
eYield: Testing the Adoption and Outcomes of a Novel Online Growth and Yield Model, Timothy S. Kane
Experimental Investigation of Spray Cooling/Heating of a Near-Isothermal Hydro-Pneumatic Energy Storage System, Saiid Kassaee
SUPPLEMENTING EAST TENNESSEE LANDSCAPES FOR POLLINATORS WITH NATIVE PERENNIALS, Amani Khalil
Periodic Replenish and Recount Policy to Address Record Inaccuracy from Stock Loss, Colton K. Ku
Design and Fabrication of Invar Layup Tool Molds using Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing, Matthew Lamsey
EMOTIONAL LABOR: TEACHERS’ UNDERSTANDINGS OF THEIR EMOTIONAL LIVES IN PRESCHOOL CLASSROOMS, Kylie B. Larkin
Analysis of Hardware Accelerated Deep Learning and the Effects of Degradation on Performance, Samuel C. Leach
How Divergent Risk-Characters Rewrite the Anti-Vaccination Narrative, Shelby C. Luttman
Unmanned Aerial System for Radioactive Source Search, William J. Lynch
The Implications of Yoga as a Coping Mechanism for Stress During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Ellie Hunter Madenberg
Power System Stability Assessment with Supervised Machine Learning, Mirka Mandich
Association Between Stream Impairment by Mercury and Superfund Sites in the Conterminous USA, Karessa L. Manning
The Psychosocial Outcomes Among Athletes and Youths with Disabilities, Coleen E. Martinez
Terrestrial laser scanning technology for measuring streambank retreat along East Fork Poplar Creek and calculating the effect on mercury release., José L. Martínez Collado
Examining the Effects of Caregiver Stress, Communication Quality, and Discipline Practices on Child Externalizing Behavior, Mckenzie Rose Martin
Evaluating the winter diet of a reintroduced herd of elk in the Cumberland Mountains, Tennessee, using next-generation sequencing techniques, Dailee L. Metts
APPLICATION OF TITRATIONS FOR VERIFICATION OF SMALL MOLECULE INTERACTION IN RELATION TO AMIDOXIMATED FIBERS FOR URANIUM EXTRACTION FROM SEAWATER, Kc Michael Mote
Critical Pedagogy and Accountability: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Race and Embodiment in Tennessee's Teacher Evaluations, Rebecca C. Napreyeva
Assessment of Component Level Tritium Transport for Fission and Fusion Systems, Miles Landon ONeal
Financial Feasibility and Factors that lead to Profitability for Small-Scale Farmers in Rwanda., Saheed Adeniyi Orimadegun
UHT Milk: Supply Chain Based Shelf Life Assessment and Risk Mitigation, Sagar Rameshwar Padghan
The Role of Athletic Trainers in the Mental Health Care of Student-Athletes, Dominic J. Palumbo
TRANSSACCADIC UPDATING AND FEATURE OVERWRITING, Jessica Parker
A modular cloning toolbox for chloroplast metabolic engineering, Alexander C. Pfotenhauer
The Application of Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy to Molten Salt Corrosion, William S. Ponder
Monsters in Mesopotamia: Edessa, Goths, and Roman Identity in Euphemia and the Goth and the Julian Romance, Emma Elisabeth Pugmire
Identifying Drought Tolerance Traits in Tennessee Soybean Genotypes: Recovery from Severe Water Deficit Stress, Samuel W. Purdom
Investigating the mechanisms and specificity of bacterial virulence in an entomopathogenic symbiosis, Elizabeth Ransone
EXPERIMENTAL ALTERATION OF VENUSIAN SURFACE BASALTS IN A HYBRID CO2-SO2 ATMOSPHERE, Robert B. Reid
Utilizing Synthetic Biology to Engineer Novel Plant Transcriptional Regulators for Precise Control of Autoluminescent Plants, Dominique K. Reuter
Using visual attention at 11-months to predict outcomes at age 4, Esther Reynolds
Assessing Basic Needs Insecurity Prevalence and Associated Factors among College Students Enrolled at a Large, Public University in the Southeastern U.S., Mary Kathleen Robbins
An Exploration of Topical Interaction in Symphony for Wind Band, Paul Royse
“Effortful”: Narratives of Women Working in Higher Education during COVID-19, Miranda N. Rutan
Modeling and Evaluation of Utility-Scale Microgrid Investment for Distribution System Planning, Ian Schomer
Assessing the Precision of Cranial and Mandibular Morphoscopic Traits from 3D Surface Scans, Sarah Thomas Schwing
“There Shall Be Made No Differentiation:” The Maintenance of Stratification in the State of Kuwait through the 1959 Nationality and Aliens Residence Laws, Alzaina Shams Aldeen
Calculation and modeling of the neutron’s magnetic moment, Abhyuday Sharda
Economic valuation of recreation access to wildlife management areas in Tennessee, Clara Shattuck
An Evaluation of Angler Preferences for Stocking Public Fishing Lakes in Tennessee, Pratikshya Silwal
Exploring Determinants of Exercise-Related Affect in Older Adults who Regularly Engage in Aerobic Exercise, Jessica Smith
Analysis of Cattle Producer Surveys about Horn Fly Management and Expected Progeny Differences, Katlyn V. Smith
Correlating Fracture Toughness and Surface Roughness for a Ductile Epoxy Adhered to Aluminum Substrates, Kurt Ryan Smith
TRAINING CHARACTERISTICS AND POWER PROFILES OF USA CYCLING ROAD CYCLISTS, Robert Sroka
Black Men’s Intimate Partner Violence Victimization, Help-Seeking, and Barriers to Help-Seeking, Meagan A. Stewart
Drought-stress-inducible synthetic promoters in rice (Oryza sativa), Paolo Montano Tagaloguin
Modeling Emergence of Annual Bluegrass (Poa annua L.) in Hybrid Bermudagrass [C. dactylon (L.) Pers. x C. transvaalensis Burtt-Davy], Dallas Rose Taylor
Rare Earth-Doped Glass-Ceramic Scintillators as X-Ray Flat Panel Detector Substrates, Austin M. Thomas
Queering Disasters: Embodied Crises in Post-Harvey Houston, Thomas T. Tran
Messy Zoning and Studentification: Fort Sanders in Knoxville, Tennessee, Yael Uziel