Masters Theses
Masters Theses from 2020
The Economics of Global Saturated Fat Intake and Implications for Public Health, Amelia Grace Ahles
Assessing the Role of Biased Competition in 5- and 11-month-old Infants, Amanda Marie Ainsley
Fission Gas Behavior in Nuclear Fuels, Abdullah Alani
GRANT: Ground-Roaming Autonomous Neuromorphic Targeter, Jonathan Daniel Ambrose
Zone-based Manufacturing, Abhay Rajendra Bajpai
Towards a Counter-History of the Maghreb: Rewriting the Precolonial Past in the Works of Driss Chraïbi, Tahar Djaout, and Assia Djebar, Allison Grace Becha
Biaxial behavior and design of steel-concrete composite columns, Amirfarzad Behnam
TEACHING BEHIND BARS: THE TEACHING LIFE HISTORIES OF EDUCATORS WHO HAVE WORKED IN JUVENILE DETENTION CENTERS, Karina Beltran
Predicting voluntary forage intake of supplemented beef cattle, Connor Biehler
2S Mobile Battery Charger with Integrated Cell Balancing, Quillen Vaughn Blalock
Cool-season annual cover crop species and dual-use forage cover crops in no-till Tennessee production systems, Weston Michael Bracey
It’s All in the Mix: Physiological Effects of Fatty Acid Supplementation on Enterococcus faecalis, William Thomas Brewer V
Supplementing White Light with Narrow-Band Light Wavelengths Impacts Cilantro Yield, Colin Brice
Stochastic Neuron Design for the mrDANNA Neuromorphic Architecture, Samuel Denis Brown
Tweet diffusion over space and time: A comparison of a winter-weather and tornado-outbreak case study, Alyssa Margaret Cannistraci
Computational Fluid Dynamics Assessment of Laminar-Turbulent Boundary Layer Transition and its Application to Rotorcraft, Jared Alexander Carnes
Emotional Destruction: How Supervisors Can Transform a Subordinate’s Emotions Towards the Workplace, Diane K. Carr
A Multi-Proxy Record of Paleoenvironmental Change from a Southern Belizean Pine Savanna, Jacob Cecil
Synthesis of Well-Defined Binary Mixed Brushes on 20 nm Silica Nanoparticles and Asymmetrically End- Functionalized Semicrystalline Poly(ε-caprolactone)s, Andrew J. Chancellor
Retrospective Reports of Fathering and New Fathers’ Parenting Identities, Shelby Taylor Clouthier
Optical Measurements of Viscous Interactions on a Hollow-Cylinder / Flare in a Mach 4 Freestream, Jack William Cobourn
Borderline Features Mediate the Association between the Experience of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Opioid Misuse among Pregnant Women, Chloe T. Cohen
The Impact of Objects’ Visual Properties on Infant Reaching Strategies, John Paul Connell
Making Orange Green? A Critical Geographic Approach to Carbon Footprinting Tennessee Football Tourism, Jacob Alexander Cooper
Conservation of Terrestrial Salamanders Through Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Management in Eastern Hemlock Forests within Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Jonathan Lawrence Cox
Methodology for Source Term Analysis of a Molten Salt Reactor, Sarah Creasman
The IBC-Why Model: Juggling structure and rhetorical theory in the first-year composition classroom, JESSICA ANNE CYPHERS
Utilization of Raman Spectroscopic Techniques for Forensic Science Applications, Alyssa Rose Daniel
A System Dynamics Approach to Sediment Management at Small Hydropower Facilities, Sarah Ann Dowda
ALTERNATIVE MODERATOR CONCEPTS FOR MODULAR/MICRO HIGH TEMPERATURE GAS-COOLED REACTORS, Edward Matthew Duchnowski
Measurement and Analysis of Pressure Profile for Nozzle Based Single Screw Extrusion Systems, Jake Dvorak
Study of a Position Sensing Gas Proportional Detector for Decommissioning, Christopher Echterling
DETECTION OF METASTATIC CANCERS IN BONE: A COMPARISON OF MACROSCOPIC AND RADIOGRAPHIC METHODS, Sara Fatula
Network Analysis of Protein Structure Networks Upon Ligand Binding, David Foutch
Strength and Reliability of Bolted Connections Susceptible to Tearout, Nicolo Franceschetti
Carbon Metabolism in Cave Subaerial Biofilms, Victoria E. Frazier
Development and Testing of a GIS-Based Method to Detect and Characterize Sinkholes, Bridgette Ingram Fritz
ALTERED EXPRESSION OF BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR IMPAIRS REM SLEEP ACTIVITY IN SPRAGUE-DAWLEY RATS: A SECONDARY ANALYSIS, Jennifer Marie Garner
A Neuroscience-Inspired Approach to Training Spiking Neural Networks, James Michael Ghawaly Jr.
Roles of Select Cytochrome P450 Epoxygenases in Brown Adipogenesis, Katherine Marie Graham
Impacts of Tariffs and Trade Agreements on Japanese Wine Imports by Source, Emily Katherine Greear
Asch and AI: Conformity to Non-Human Intelligence, Andrew Stephen Heim
The Use of Optical In-Situ Data of Tensile Samples to Model Porosity for Part Qualification of AM 316L, Caitlin Hensley
The Parent Influence: The Relationship Among Family Communication Patterns, Student Financial Literacy, and College Choice, Casey Lynn Hillon
CHOICE OF CRITERION MEASURE MATTERS FOR VALIDATING ESTIMATES OF YOUTH SEDENTARY BEHAVIOR: DIRECT OBSERVATION VERSUS INDIRECT CALORIMETRY VERSUS BOTH, Minttu Karoliina Hukka
Pinocchio: An Opera in Two Acts, Aaron Lee Hunt
Information Theory Problem Description Parser, Gary Brent Hurst
Efficacy of a Mushroom Derived Saltiness Enhancer in Increasing Saltiness and Consumer Acceptance in Low Sodium Applications, Lindsay Jenkinson
Media Representation of Prostitutes in the British Empire, Allison Wittmer Johnson
SYNTHESIS AND BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF AZIDE- TAGGED BIOMIMETIC PROBES FOR GLOBAL LABELING OF THE SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE GLYCEROLIPIDOME, Matthew R. Johnson
The Effects of Geometry and Material Variations on the Onset Voltage of Electrospray Emitters, Justin Michael Jones
Linking Theory of Disruptive Technology with Nuclear Security: UAS as an Emerging and Disruptive Technology, Jason J. Karcz
Developer Reputation Estimator: Increasing the Transparency of Developer Contributions in Open Source Software, Andrey Karnauch
Interdisciplinary Artists: The Collaboration of Interdisciplinary Artists Foster Interdisciplinary Education, Ninut Karnthaworn
"Wolves in Sheep's Clothing": Dissimulation within Sixteenth-Century Castile’s Luterano Community, Susana Joy Kenyon
Comparison of Three Rapid Commercial Canine Parvovirus Antigen Detection Tests with Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR), Niloofar Khajeh-Kazerooni
Informing Safety Analysis and Transient Testing for the Transformational Challenge Reactor, Robert Forrester Kile
Forage species selection for transitional organic production in the Southeastern United States, Jonathan Kubesch
An Explicit Asymptotic Approach Applied To Neutrino-Electron Scattering In The Neutrino Transport Problem, Aaron Michael Lackey - Stewart
Defining Bee Pollinator Community Composition in Tennessee Soybean, Andrew L. Lawson
Improvements to Solanum tuberosum cv. ‘Desireé’ cell suspension culture and Nicotiana tabacum cv. ‘Petit Havana’ shoot induction., Jessica Slade Layton
Electron microprobe in situ monazite dating of the Slide Lake shear zone, Jeremy Leierzapf
Morphology and Decomposition of Roots Under Organic Management in the Southeastern U.S., Karen Leu
Random Search Plus: A more effective random search for machine learning hyperparameters optimization, Bohan Li
Producer Perceptions and the Use of Conservation Practices in Middle and West Tennessee, Yung-Lun Lo
“HOME SWEET HOME TO ME”: FIRST YEAR WRITING ATTITUDES IN ROCKY TOP, Bethany Wood Martin
Predicting Surface Heat Flux and Temperature via a Pulse-Echo Acoustic Transducer for Inverse Heat Conduction Applications, Kevin Jiju Mathew
An Inconsistent God: Attachment to God and Minority Stress among Sexual Minority Christians, Adam David Anthony Maughan
Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Ca12Ga14O33, Sabrina Emerson McCoy
Hunter’s Response to the Emergence of Chronic Wasting Disease in Tennessee, Abigail Louise Meeks
Aroma Chemistry of Daldinia childiae Fermentation, Andrew Jason Moore
Development of a Capacitive Sensor for In-Pile Materials Monitoring, Tyler M. Naughton
APPLICATION OF PUROMYCIN ASSOCIATED NASCENT CHAIN PROTEOMICS (PUNCH-P) TO PLANT SAMPLES, Aleksandra Izabela Noras
Evaluating the Effects of Various Painting Techniques on Athletic Field Surface and Root Zone Characteristics, Bryan McKinley Ogle
Building containerized environments for reproducibility and traceability of scientific workflows, Paula Fernanda Olaya
Vital Sign Detection Using Millimeter Wave Radars, Kellen Oleksak
LA RELIGION ET L'OPPRESSION DES FEMMES DANS LES ROMANS DE FATOU DIOME ET MBAREK OULD BEYROUK., Julius Yaw Osei
Mathematical Model to Design a Reliable Flow of Materials using Supermarkets, Vaikrant Sachin Pandav
Mill dynamics: Exploring factors that influence closure patterns of primary forest product mills in the Southern U.S., Nidia Cristina Panti
Effects of Cooling and Postharvest Storage Methods on Broccoli Quality, Sarah Parker
Nostoc Colonization Driven by Sphagnum Host Genetic Variation, Megan Nicole-Ujjval Patel
HEAT TRANSFER OF 316L – A356 INTERPENETRATING HYBRID MATERIALS, Alex Pawlowski
Design of Power Receiving Units for 6.78MHz Wireless Power Transfer Systems, Hoang Phuc Tran Pham
Flight Test Optimization of Fixed-Wing and Rotary-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Planetary Boundary Layer Research, Brittany Lane Porcelli
Predictors of Sustained Breastfeeding in Low-income Mothers, Rebecca Gayle Renegar
Genome-wide Associations Detect Allele Dose-dependent Metabolism and Transport Genes as Basis for Variation in Sweetpotato Storage Root Culinary Profiles, Tara Elizabeth Rickman
Working with What You Know: Examining how L2 Graduate Students Negotiate Writing Knowledge, Brenna Mary Ritzert
Biomass Potential in Sustainable Aviation Fuel Development: Switchgrass Production Optimization and Carinata Oilseed Enterprise Viability Analysis, Kevin Alan Robertson
Investigating Localized Performance and Mass Transport Phenomena in Polymer Electrolyte Water Electrolyzers, Frida Helena Roenning
Oops, Did I Do That? Uncovering Apparent Mishandling, Tax Fraud, and Illegal Contributions via a Systematic Study of Cryptocurrency Donations to US Political Campaigns, Dakota Blake Sanders
Giving Transit a Voice: A Case Study of TriMet’s Social Media, Nicholas Peter Sarafolean
Big Data and Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach to Understand Why People Ride E-Scooter in Nashville, Tennessee, Nitesh Shah
Improving Conservation and Recreation in Environments Shared by Humans and Bats, Hannah Shapiro
Ergonomic Workload Balancing, Kshitij Krishna Sharma
Grid Frequency Regulation Provided by High Power Motor Drives, Taylor Lee Short
Phytophthora capsici in Tennessee: Fungicide resistance, population genetics and cultural control, Timothy Brent Siegenthaler
Appalachia Abroad: The University of Tennessee and Cold War Rural Development Programs in India, 1954-1972, Kaitlin Amanda Simpson