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 Ranjendra 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
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
Computational Fluid Dynamics Assessment of Laminar-Turbulent Boundary Layer Transition and its Application to Rotorcraft, Jared Alexander Carnes
A Multi-Proxy Record of Paleoenvironmental Change from a Southern Belizean Pine Savanna, Jacob Cecil
Retrospective Reports of Fathering and New Fathers’ Parenting Identities, Shelby Taylor Clouthier
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
Methodology for Source Term Analysis of a Molten Salt Reactor, Sarah Creasman
A System Dynamics Approach to Sediment Management at Small Hydropower Facilities, Sarah Ann Dowda
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
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.
Impacts of Tariffs and Trade Agreements on Japanese Wine Imports by Source, Emily Katherine Greear
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
Media Representation of Prostitutes in the British Empire, Allison Wittmer Johnson
The Effects of Geometry and Material Variations on the Onset Voltage of Electrospray Emitters, Justin Michael Jones
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
Informing Safety Analysis and Transient Testing for the Transformational Challenge Reactor, Robert Forrester Kile
Morphology and Decomposition of Roots Under Organic Management in the Southeastern U.S., Karen Leu
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
Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Ca12Ga14O33, Sabrina Emerson McCoy
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
Nostoc Colonization Driven by Sphagnum Host Genetic Variation, Megan Nicole-Ujjval Patel
HEAT TRANSFER OF 316L – A356 INTERPENETRATING HYBRID MATERIALS, Alex Pawlowski
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
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
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
Ergonomic Workload Balancing, Kshitij Krishna Sharma
Grid Frequency Regulation Provided by High Power Motor Drives, Taylor Lee Short
Appalachia Abroad: The University of Tennessee and Cold War Rural Development Programs in India, 1954-1972, Kaitlin Amanda Simpson
States of Penetration: The Body Cavity Search and Its Visual Representations, Vivian A. Swayne
City of Ill Repute: Labor and Sex Work in Knoxville, Tennessee, 1890-1914, Emma G. Thompson
The Ontology of Kont: A New Epistemology of Temporal Aesthetics in Afro-Caribbean Speculative Fiction, Zoie C. Timothy
Fieldable Neutron Imaging System: Simulation and Experimentation into the Viability of Associated Particle Imaging in Austere Field Environments, Benjamin Charles Troxell
The Relationship Between Demographic Similarity in Youth Mentoring Dyads and College Student Academic and Emotional Functioning, Alayna Joi Watson
Barriers to Recreation for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as Perceived by Recreation Service Providers, Kelsey Phillips Webb
“PULL UP A CHAIR!”: ACCOMMODATION, PARTICIPATION, AND DISABILITY IN OLD TIME AND BLUEGRASS JAM SESSIONS, Emily Elaine Williams
Jump Rope Connecting the Past, Present and Future, Nicholas Woodard
Masters Theses from 2019
Conventional and Over Molded Sheet Molded Compound (SMC), MOHAMMED ZAHID ABBAS KHURAISHI
Assessment of Antiviral and Photodynamic Inactivation Activity of Different Compounds Against Hepatitis A Virus, Mostafa Mahmoud Abotaleb
HYDRAULIC RESPONSE TO EMULSIFIED VEGETABLE OIL BIOSTIMULATION: IN-SITU TEST IN A HIGHLY HETEROGENOUS URANIUM CONTAMINATED AQUIFER, Benjamin Gregory Adams
Optimal Prevented Planting Decisions for Corn and Cotton, Kevin Ray Adkins
Synechocystis: Low Dosage and Rapid Response to Ethylene, Cidney Jean Allen
Good Intentions: Exploring Short-Term Missions in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, Hannah Archer Miss
Integrative Ethical Education: A Preliminary Investigation into the Effect of a Theoretically Grounded Intervention on College Students’ Moral Development, Drew Thomas Ashby-King
genben: A Framework for Benchmarking Genomic Data Analysis Methods on Scalable Systems, Eric Auel
Athletes’ Perceptions of Their High School Sport Ecology and Life Skills Development, Kylee Jo Ault
Analysis of the Effects of Four Forage Mixtures Designed for Tennessee and Kentucky Organic Dairy Systems, Hannah Ruth Bailey
Studying the Plant-Microbe Interface of Populus Using Constructed Microbial Communities, ADITYA BARDE
Enzyme-Sensitive Lipid Trigger-Mediated Release of Payload from Liposomes, Sara Barker
Saudade for String Quartet, Dennis Patrick Belisle
The Impact of Large-scale Dynamic Load Modeling on the U.S. Eastern Interconnection, Melanie Bennett
Estimating Production of Brewery and Distillery Spent Grains in Tennessee and Identifying Sustainable Uses, Sarah Elizabeth Best
Youth Can! Grow their Community: Qualitative Evaluation of a Gardening-Enhanced Positive Youth Development Program, Marissa Black
EXAMINING THE NATURE, QUALITY, AND REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER IN POPULAR CHILDREN’S DIGITAL PICTURE BOOK APPS, Marie Patricia Bliss
Coaches' Perceptions of Girls' Sport at Title I High Schools, Katie Shelgren Boggs
MUSIC AND THE MONSTER: SOUNDING FEAR AND MENTAL ILLNESS IN CRIMINAL MINDS, Andrew James Borecky
Atmospheric Entry Performance of the Hercules Single-Stage Reusable Vehicle at Earth, Braxton Lott Brakefield
Multiple Object Tracking Across Social Contexts, James Bramlett
AMERICAN BLACK BEAR (Ursus americanus) MOVEMENTS AND FOOD-CONDITIONING ALONG THE INTERFACE OF GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK AND PRIVATE LAND, Jessica Leigh-Ann Braunstein
The study of polymeric binders and their role in concomitant solid-electrolyte interphase formation on silicon anodes, Katie Browning
SYNTHNOTES: TOWARDS SYNTHETIC CLINICAL TEXT GENERATION, Kris Allen Brown
Determining the Optimal Start-up Strategy for a Cow-Calf Producer to Maximize Long-Term Profitability and Minimize Risk, Jared Matthew Bruhin
On the Road to Maturity: Families, Rebellion, Relationships, and Gender in Contemporary German “Coming of Age Stories”, Jacob Buford