Masters Theses
Masters Theses from 2019
Perceptions and Food Acquisition Behaviors among Food Pantry Users in Rural Appalachia, Adeline Mae Grier-Welch
Emotion Regulation as a Potential Mediator between Sleep Quality and Intimate Partner Violence Among College Students, Hannah Grigorian
A Bayesian Approach to Multi-Drone Source Localization Methods, Joshua James Gurka
EXPLORING YOUNG ADULT READING HABITS AND RETROSPECTIVE HOME LITERACY PRACTICES, Rachel Guy
Explorations into Religiosity and its Implications on Physiological Health, Self-Esteem & Life Satisfaction, Fadi Edwar Hakeem
How Team Culture Affects NCAA Swimming and Diving Team Performance, Michael Hamann
Effects of prescribed fire on eastern box turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina), Katie Ann Harris
Dopaminergic Input to and Reception in the Auditory Midbrain, Alexa Lorren Hartman
IDENTITY, INVESTMENT, AND POWER RELATIONS: A CASE STUDY OF NONPROFIT ADULT ESL LEARNERS, Abby Elaine Hassler
Movements, Immobilization, and Anthropogenic Dietary Histories of Feral Swine in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Patrick Joseph Helm
Analysis of Adjoint Flux Calculation for Detector Response Estimation in Typical PWR Conditions, Shane Henderson
Investigation of Substituted Vinyl-Added Polynorbornenes and Composite Materials, Morgan Higgins
t-AUCB, a Pharmacological Inhibitor of Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase, Promotes Brown Adipogenesis: Role of PPAR alpha and PPAR gamma, Kelsey Hildreth
Dynamics of Contact Angles and Hemiwicking on Rock Fracture Faces, Bohdan Horodecky
Thermoregulatory Behavior in Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia guttata) in a Lab-Controlled Setting, Clara Howell
Design and Switching Performance Evaluation of a 10 kV SiC MOSFET Based Phase Leg for Medium Voltage Applications, Xingxuan Huang
Mechanical response of carbon fiber/polyphenylene sulfide commingled fiber & polymethacrylimide foam core sandwich composites, Jared Hughes
Stand Dynamics Following Gap Scale Exogenous Disturbance in a Single Cohort Mixed Species Stand in Morgan County, Tennessee, Brian Hughett
Hibernation Activity and the Susceptibility of Southeastern Bats to Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the Causal Agent of White-Nose Syndrome, Reilly Jackson
Experiential Learning of Students on a Study Abroad Trip to Australia: A Qualitative Study, Baylee Jarrell
Untangling Motivation and Performance: Examining the Impact of Feedback, Expectancy, and Resilience on Performance, Erica W. Jenkins
Nesting and Brooding Ecology of Eastern Wild Turkey in South-Central Tennessee, Vincent Johnson
PERSONA, PRINT, AND PROPAGANDA: ORLANDO DI LASSO AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF SELF IN COUNTER-REFORMATION BAVARIA, Tara Leigh Jordan
Improving Manufacturing Data Quality with Data Fusion and Advanced Algorithms for Improved Total Data Quality Management, David Juriga
ECOLOGICAL FACTORS UNDERPINNING EXPANSION OF BORRELIA-INFECTED TICK POPULATIONS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES, Janetta Renea Kelly
Characterization of Changes in Whiskey Odorants by the Lincoln County Process, Trenton Kerley
A CNN-LSTM for predicting mortality in the ICU, Mohammad Hashir Khan
Volunteer and Staff Perceptions of a Public Garden Adopt-a-Spot Volunteer Program: A Qualitative Inquiry, Alice Marie Kimbrell
Organization of Proteins from Multiple Chemotaxis Systems in Rhizobium Leguminosarum and Impact on Short-Term Root Colonization, Kathleen King
Evaluating scenarios using a spatially-explicit agent-based model in order to recover pheasant populations and determine biomass harvest strategies, Jasmine Asha Kreig
Pro-Social Marketing: The Mirror or Veil?, Samantha LaVoi
The Screen of (Post)Modern Society: American Sociology and Its Discontents, Robert J. Leonard
Effects of long-term use and incorporation of biodegradable plastic mulch films on soil microbial community structure and activity, Jose Liquet y Gonzalez
Willow Comes to WIC: Participants’ Perceptions of Effects on Fruit- and Vegetable-Related Attitudes and Behaviors, Sarah Elizabeth Lisson
Studies of Molecular Magnetism and Dynamics by Inelastic Neutron Scattering and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Zhiming Liu
Biochar Amendment for Enhanced Nitrogen Use, Soil Health, and Plant Growth, Xiuwen Li
A Monolithic Gm-C Filter based Very Low Power, Programmable, and Multi-Channel Harmonic Discrimination System using Analog Signal Processing, Gavin Benjamin Long
Saltiness Enhancing Odorants Derived from Mushrooms, Jordan Lopez
MODELING AND SIMULATION OF THE DYNAMIC EFFECTS OF PRESSURE VARIATIONS ON HYDRAULIC BLADDER AND PISTON STYLE ACCUMULATORS, Colin Loudermilk
The Healing Word: Performative Speech in Anglo-Saxon Medical Texts, Honor Lundt
Holocene Climate Variability in Hispaniola: Sedimentary Alkane Evidence of Precipitation during the Terminal Classic Drought, Elizabeth MacLennan
ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE VICTIMIZATION AND EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES AMONG MALE AND FEMALE POST-9/11 VETERANS, Rachel Miriam Maskin
STABILITY OF BOVINE MILK EXOSOMES AND THEIR EFFECT ON PROLIFERATION OF RAW 264.7 CELLS, Svjetlana Matic
The Effects of Starspots and Faculae on the G-band, Ca I, and Hγ Photospheric Indices, David Cameron McCallister
The Maestro Attack: Orchestrating Malicious Flows with BGP, Benjamin Tyler McDaniel
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time Residential HVAC Control, Evan McKee
Broiler chicken development: from genetic regulation to rural Rwandan production, Robert Ivan Mihelic
Development of a Serological Diagnostic assay for Elaeophora schneideri infection in moose (Alces alces), Megan D. Miller
Mechanisms of resistance against insecticidal dsRNA in Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Colorado potato beetle), Swati Mishra
Loss of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor and Sex-Specific Disruption of Neuronal Function, Blake Mitchell
Wide Dynamic Range, Highly Accurate, Low Power CMOS Potentiostat for Electrochemical Sensing Applications, Varsha Mohan
“MAKE SOMEONE LOVE SOMETHING AND SHARE YOUR PASSION”: PERCEPTIONS OF COACH CARING AMONGST ELITE WOMEN’S RUGBY SEVENS ATHLETES, Sierra Morris
The Tiger Gap: Culture, Contradiction, and Clausewitz in German Armored Warfare in World War II, Eric Vahan Muirhead
Validating a Measure of Postsecondary Supports, Sean M. Murphy
Depression, Anxiety, and Stress in Women Misusing Opioids During Pregnancy and Effects on the Development of Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome, Samantha Noose
Temperature Sensitive Behavioral Modeling of Analog to Digital Converters, William Norton II
DERIVING LIFETIMES OF LUNAR EJECTA CONSTITUENTS: A MODEL FOR LUNAR EROSION REGOLITH OVERTURN, Cole Nypaver
The Effects of an Overhead Goal and Movement Anticipation on Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Muscle Activation Patterns, Michael O'Dwyer
An Assessment of Genetic Diversity and Spatial Distribution of Cercis canadensis L. (Eastern Redbud) Using Microsatellite Loci., Meher Afroze Ony
Trade Study of a Thermally Insulated, Nonuniform, Single-Zone Absorption Cell, Waritphon Overacker
Propulsion/airframe Integration Study of an Ultra High Bypass Ratio Turbofan and a Slotted, Natural-Laminar-Flow Wing, David Palmer
Testing and Measurement in a High Voltage and High dv/dt Environment Demonstrated in a 10 kV SiC Based MMC Phase-Leg, James Palmer
How Accurately Do Infants Represent Lexical Stress Information in Recently Segmented Words?, Sara Parvanezadeh Esfahani
Heat sensitization of human enteric viruses by plant extracts and validation of their thermal inactivation by bacterial surrogates, Mayuri Hemant Patwardhan
SOLID STATE SYNTHESIS OF MULTICOMPONENT RARE-EARTH OXIDE CERAMICS, Matheus Pianassola
Aelius Aristides as Orator-Confessor: Embodied Ethos in Second Century Healing Cults, Josie Rose Portz
Impact of nutritional management strategies on semen quality of developing bulls, Jarret Proctor
Does Self-Weighing with Feedback Assist with the Self-Regulation of Energy Balance Behaviors?, Genevieve Prushinski
A CMOS Sub-threshold W-2W Current mode Digital-to-Analog Converter, Spencer Raby
A Comparative Analysis of Activity Based Costing and Standard Costing in Tracing the Effect of Lean Implementation in a Deterministic Process, Abhinav Raghavan
How does genome size affect the evolution of pollen tube growth rate, a haploid performance trait?, John Reese
Tennessee Beef Cattle Producer Use of and Willingness to Adopt Warm-Season Grasses for Forage, Yongwang Ren
DEVELOPMENT OF AN UWB RADAR SYSTEM, Matthew Abraham Richardson
Bleach-Based Decontamination Treatment and Cytosine Deamination in Contaminant DNA, Anne Riley
The Impact of Batch Size on Worker Stress Perception, EWERTON ESDRAS RODRIGUES DE ARAUJO
A Robust Hierarchical Dispatch Scheme for Active Distribution Networks Considering Home Thermal Flexibility, Cody Rooks
Using Landsat Phenology Curves to Characterize Post-Fire Forest Responses in South Carolina, USA, Miranda Brooke Rose
Transport Code Simulations for Shielded Special Nuclear Material Discrimination, Gregory P. Rouleau
Effect of Unique Cover Cropping Strategies on Soil Nitrogen Dynamics and Their Rates of Nitrogen Release, Manuel Sabbagh
Classification of sEMG signals and Motion data using learning algorithms with application to post-stroke impairment, Sri Ravali Sadhu
Effects of Increased Step Width on Knee Biomechanics in Healthy-weight and Obese Populations During Inclined and Declined Walking, Daniel Sample
A Framework To Implement Varied Learning Environment Using Team Based Learning - Pyramid Hologram To Increase The Learning Outcome In Lean Training, Aravind Satyanarayanan
"IT’S MORE THAN JUST A GAME": NCCAA DIVISION II STUDENT- ATHLETES’ PERCEPTIONS OF COACH CARING, Jordan Andee Schools
Emerging Adult Women’s Perceptions of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC): A Grounded Theory Investigation, Elena Schuch
Characterizing and Comparing Tristructural-Isotropic Buffer Properties from AGR-1 and AGR-2 Irradiation Experiments, Austin Schumacher
A Numerical Study of the Scaling and Control of Crossing Shock-Wave/Turbulent Boundary-Layer Interactions, Matthew Schwartz
On the Robustness of Object Detection Based Deep Learning Models, Matthew Seals
Insects Associated with Industrial Hemp, Cannabis sp. L., in Tennessee and Development of Helicoverpa zea (Boddie) on a Hemp-Based Diet, William Seals
Understanding the Effects of Personalization Behavior on Content Aggregator Use and User Satisfaction, Jared Sebby
Redox Conditions Determine Microbial Cobamide Production in Hyporheic Sediment, Laurel Seus
Simulation of a Langmuir Probe Sampling a non-Maxwellian Plasma, Alicia Claire Sherrod
A STUDY OF DATABASE MIGRATION: UNDERSTANDING THE USER EXPERIENCE, Scott Eugene Shumate
THE IMPACT OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ON COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES, Carlie Marie Simms
STUDY OF THE DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF MOLTEN-SALT REACTORS, Vikram Singh
Rationalization of Crystallographic Texture Evolution in High Gamma Prime Ni-based Superalloys during Laser Powder Feed Directed Energy Disposition, Kevin Michael Smith