Masters Theses
Masters Theses from 2015
The Effects of Individual and Employer Characteristics on Hourly Employee Retention: an Empirical Study, Robert Allen Cobb
Dividing and Conquering Meshes within the NIST Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) on Multicore Computing Systems, Donald Charles Collins
The Power of Three in Dan Forrest’s Requiem for the Living, Lindsey Lanee Cope
4-H Wildlife Habitat Education Program: A Qualitative Study on Career Exploration, Ronnie Lee Cowan
BAT, INSECT PREY, AND VEGETATION RESPONSE TO PRESCRIBED FIRE AND OVERSTORY THINNING IN HARDWOOD FORESTS OF TENNESSEE, Maxwell Rambeau Cox
Flexible Memory Allocation in Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations, Aaron David Craig
After the Human: Theory and Sociology in the Age of Fractal Ambiguity, Dromology, and Emergent Epi-spaces, Joel Michael Crombez
A Low-Power, Laser-Based Delta-Sigma Modulator for the Measurement of Atmospheric Gas Composition, Christopher Edward Crowder
DANNA A Neuromorphic Computing VLSI Chip, Christopher Paul Daffron
Europan double ridge morphology as a test for hypothesized models of formation, Ashley Caroline Dameron
Heuristic Solution For Separated Manufacturing Process, James Dee Davis
Diallel Analysis of Biomass and Ethanol Yield in Leaves versus Stems of Lowland Switchgrass, Alexandria Christina Desantis
Sensitivity Analysis of Fuel Cladding Temperature to Dry Cask Loading and Storage Conditions, Remy Russell DeVoe
Neutrino Signatures in Terrestrial Detectors from Two- and Three-Dimensional Core-Collapse Supernovae Simulations, Tanner Brooks Devotie
Flight Testing the Piper PA-32 Saratoga and PA-31 Navajo, Matthew John DiMaiolo
COMPARING NEWS FRAMES ABOUT THE SYRIAN CRISIS BETWEEN THE KOMMERSANT AND THE FINANCIAL TIMES, Anton Dinerstein
CMOS Gate Drive IC With Embedded Cross Talk Suppression Circuitry For Power Electronic Applications, Jeffery M. Dix
AVATARS DES INDEPENDANCES EN AFRIQUE: AHMADOU KOUROUMA ET MONGO BETI, Falone Domle Jiejup
Gender, Coping Style, and Depression Severity in Emerging Adult University Students, Dennis Allen Donahue
Measurement of Hysteretic Shale Capillary Pressure – Saturation Relationships using a Water Activity Meter, Brendan Michael Donnelly
Visualization Techniques for Neuroscience-Inspired Dynamic Architectures, Margaret Grace Drouhard
Impact of milk production level on beef cow-calf productivity in Tennessee, Sarah Rebecca Edwards
Observations and Conversations: A Mixed Methods Approach to Describing Home-Preparation of Infant Formula among a Sample of Low-Income Mothers, Rebecca Lauren Ellison
The Preservation and Persistence of Human DNA in Soil during Cadaver Decomposition, Alexandra Leah Emmons
The Relationship between Parent Communication Orientations and the Self-Efficacy of Student-Athletes, Sara Marie Erdner
Effects Of Noncommercial Open Interest On Corn And Soybean Futures Price Volatility, William Grady Ferguson
Modeling Water Age and Disinfection Byproduct Formation in Drinking Water Distribution Systems in East Tennessee, Seth Adam Fischer
Architecture of Transience: Developing Communities for Migrant Farm Workers, Laura Flores
The CMS Pixel Luminosity Telescope Browser Interface, Mark Miller Foerster
Associations of cooking self-efficacy and frequency of iCook-4H youth participants with dietary quality and BMI at baseline, Amber Donaldson Ford
My Painted Plate: Nutrition-Related Art Enhances the Effects of Nutrition Education, Abby Helene Forman
THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT: DECOMPOSITION RATES IN HUMAN REMAINS WRAPPED IN PLASTIC, Barbara R. Forman
MIXING METALS FOR MAGIC MATERIALS: Analysis of Binary Eutectic Alloys for Metamaterial Applications, Ethan Elder Fox
“Not for Casual Readers:” An Evaluation of Digital Data from Virginia Archaeological Websites, Mark Antony Freeman
Requiem for the Transient, Brian Palmer Gee
Improving Management and Species Selection of Warm-Season Forage Grasses for Southeast Production Systems, Christine Helen Gelley
HSP-Wrap: The Design and Evaluation of Reusable Parallelism for a Subclass of Data-Intensive Applications, Paul R. Giblock
Rapid Dissolution for Destructive Assay of Nuclear Melt Glass, Jonathan Allen Gill
From God Terms to Gaga: The Bad Romance between Motherhood and Female Suffragists in American Film, Mary Ellis Glymph
Rare occurrences of free-living bacteria belonging to Sedimenticola from subtidal seagrass beds associated with the lucinid clam, Stewartia floridana, Aaron M. Goemann
An Examination of Fertilizer Use Efficiency and Irrigation Management in Tennessee Agricultural Production, Timothy James Grant
Development of Cross Laminated Timber in the United States of America, Karl Konstantin Grasser
Overweight and Obese Children's Social Interactions and Peer Responses, Meagan Johannah Green
Betting Markets vs Opinion Polling: The 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum, Jamie Alexander Greig
Ultra-Low-Power Configurable Analog Signal Processor for Wireless Sensors, James Kelly Griffin
Locational Advantage and the Impact of Scale: Comparing Local and Conventional Fruit and Vegetable Transportation Efficiencies, Charles Cate Grigsby
Student Perceptions of Institutional Crisis Management, Preparedness, and Response: The Case of the Active Shooter, Jared Allen Grimsley
Gallic acid-grafted chitosan films as antioxidant food packaging, Ping Guo
Truckload Carrier Selection, Routing and Cost Optimization, Zhixin Han
Sanitization Effectiveness of Alkaline-Dissolved Essential Oils as Organic Produce Washing Solutions, Marion Lewis Harness III
“They’re all little boys who need a strong mommy:” Burke’s Theories of Form and Terministic Screens Concerning Maternal Representations in Sons of Anarchy, Stephanie Michelle Harrelson
Life Skill Development of Youth Participants of the 4-H Beef Skillathon Program, Josey Megan Harris
“Die zukünftige Ehefrau” and “alte Jungfer” in Fanny Lewald’s First Fiction and Autobiography, Judith E. Hector
A Model of Activity and Intervention Across Social Networks, Allison Marie Heming
Analyzing the Risk and Returns for a Spring- and Fall-Calving Beef Herd in Tennessee, Gavin William Henry
Modeling of Debonding and Crack Propagation in Fibrous Composites Using a Discontinuous Galerkin Approach, Wesley Michael Hicks
Rhetoric Reframed: “Obamacare,” “Obamacore,” and the Failure/Future of Political Discourse in the United States, Jaclyn Elyse Hilberg
CONSTRUCTING TERROIR: Architectural Mitigation in Mono-economies at Risk to Climate Change, Geneva Margaret Hill
Cowpea Adaptability to Southeastern Organic Farming Systems: Forage Productivity and Charcoal Rot Susceptibility, Samantha Lindsey Hill
Bankfull Geomorphic Relationships and HEC-RAS Assessment in Small Catchments of the Cumberland Plateau Ecoregion, Ryan Lee Hodges
Nutrition Marketing on the Front-of-Package: 2007-2014, Ana Elizabeth Hoffmann
Siloxane and Silane-functionalized Polynorbornenes as Membranes for Passive Carbon Dioxide Separation, Eunice Koheun Hong
Preparation and Characterization of Thermodynamically Controlled Polymer Nanocomposites, Jiadi Hou
The Effect of Social Media on Consumer Perceptions of the Beef Industry, Michelle Lauren Howard
Effects of bedding with recycled sand on lying behaviors, udder hygiene, and preferences of lactating Holstein dairy cows, Heather DeAnna Ingle
Efficacy of Visual Surveys for White-Nose Syndrome at Bat Hibernacula, Amanda Frances Janicki
Utilizing Inventory Data and Public Opinion to Develop an Urban Tree Management Plan for Oak Ridge, TN, Thomas E. Jennings
The Greek Youthening: Assessing the Iconographic Changes within Courtship during the Late Archaic Period, Jared Alan Johnson
User Perspective and Analysis of the Continuous-Energy Sensitivity Methods in SCALE 6.2 using TSUNAMI-3D, Elizabeth Lauryn Jones
Those who choose to stay: Narrating the rural Appalachian Queer experience, Amy Michelle Jordan
Life Cycle Assessment of the Oriented Strand Board and Plywood Industries in the United States of America, Dominik Kaestner
Border-Collision Bifurcations of Cardiac Calcium Cycling, Jacob Michael Kahle
Dynamic Modeling of a Small Modular Reactor for Control and Monitoring, Jeffrey Robert Kapernick
Deception among Organizational Leaders: Impacts on Employee Perceptions of Supervisor Credibility, Power, and Trust, Paisleigh Jo Kelley
When the Dead are Not Silent: The Investigation of Cultural Perspectives Concerning Improper Burials in Northern Uganda, Adrianne S Kembel
Geochemical Control of Methanogenesis in Cape Lookout Bight, North Carolina, Richard Kevorkian
Modeling Route Choice of Utilitarian Bikeshare Users from GPS Data, Ranjit Khatri
Comparison of Agricultural Technologies and Risk Analysis of Smallholder Farmers in Mozambique, Simon Mesfin Kidane
LEISURE PARTICIPATION AND PERCEIVED CONSTRAINTS OF PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES, Kayla Stefania Kiernozek
Life Skills Gained Through the 4-H Sheep Skillathon, Terra Rose Kimes
EFFECTS OF FOREST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON RACCOON ECOLOGY IN A LONGLEAF PINE ECOSYSTEM, Ronald Brian Kirby
ANALYSIS OF FLAMMABILITY LIMITS AND GAS PROPERTIES OF A SOLID ROCKET MOTOR TEST IN A HIGH ALTITUDE TEST FACILITY, Richard Scott Kirkpatrick
Dietary Supplementation of Choline and Betaine in Heat-Stressed Broilers, Kouassi Remi Kpodo
Effect of Maternal Borderline Personality Disorder on Adolescents’ Experience of Maltreatment and Adolescent Borderline Features, Gretchen Kurdziel
Collegiate Novice Rowers’ Motivations: An Application of Self-Determination Theory, Amy Nicole Kuuskoski
Essays on analysis of electricity-price policy, Sanguk Kwon
Distribution of ABC Transporter Genes across the Plant Kingdom, Thomas Scott Lane
Trajectory Analysis and Comparison of a Linear Aerospike Nozzle to a Conventional Bell Nozzle for SSTO Flight, Elizabeth Lara Lash
Characterizing groundwater CH4 and 222Rn in relation to hydraulic fracturing and other environmental processes in Letcher County, KY, St. Thomas Majeau LeDoux
Spatial and Temporal Impacts of Incentive Payments for Forest-Based Carbon Sequestration, Juhee Lee
Effect of Particle Morphology on the Deformation Behavior of Sand under Monotonic Loading Conditions, Alexia Rose Leib
America’s Lethal Dilemma: Legitimating Old Methods of Execution in an Era of Abolition, Kyle Ward Letteney
Accuracy of Supervised Classification of Cropland in sub–Saharan Africa, Sarah Lynn Lewis-Gonzales
On the Existence and Uniqueness of Static, Spherically Symmetric Stellar Models in General Relativity, Josh Michael Lipsmeyer
Development and Evaluation of Novel Vaccination Strategies for Campylobacter Control in Poultry, Xiang Liu
Modeling and Simulation of a Prototypical Advanced Reactor, Xiaotong Liu
A Study of Colloquial Place Names through Geotagged Social Media Data, Yuan Liu
Transparent Superhydrophobic Polycarbonate Coating, Gimgun Loi