Masters Theses
Masters Theses from 2015
“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
Chemical Investigations of Diabetes Mellitus, Malaria, and Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer, Maggie Sparks Lookadoo
Time Series Analysis of MODIS NDVI data with Cloudy Pixels: Frequency-domain and SiZer analyses of vegetation change in Western Rwanda, Ephraim Robert Love
Kiezdeutsh in den Kinos und auf den Strassen: Mediendiskurse zu einer neuen Sprechweise und ihre Darstellung im Film, Andrew Simon Lubben
Population Structure of Late Blight (Phytophthora infestans) in Colombia and Ecuador and Downy Mildew (Peronospora farinosa f. sp. spinaciae) on Spinach in Arizona and California, Rebecca Marie Lyon
Adaptive Golf Course Redevelopment: Identity and Balance, Timothy Joseph Lysett
FORGOTTEN INFRASTRUCTURE: The Future of the Industrial Mundane, Whitney Ann Manahan
Trapping Methods for Ixodid Ticks and Pathogen Associations of Amblyomma maculatum (Gulf Coast Tick) in Western Tennessee, Sarah Elizabeth Mays
Habitat use and response to wetland management practices of non-breeding dabbling ducks in western Tennessee, Matthew Doddridge McClanahan
The Economic Implications of Evolving Aviation Funding Policy in Tennessee, Hunter Pressley McCracken
Everything Leaves a Trace: D. H. Lawrence, Modernism, and the English Bildungsroman Tradition, Justin Miles McGee
Design and Construction Of a Full-Scale Lateral Impact Testing Facility, Cody Aaron Mitchell
Analysis of Distractions for Teenage Drivers Utilizing a Car Simulator, Ali Mohammadhashemi
Intergroup Dialogue in Undergraduate Multicultural Psychology Education: Group Climate Development and Outcomes, Joel Timothy Muller
Fostering global leaders: A case study of the Korea Foundation for the Next Generation Sports Talent and its partnership with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Benjamin Hisung Nam
Bile Salt Hydrolase: A Microbiome Target for Enhanced Animal Health, Rekek Negga
Phase Dynamics of LOCSET Control Methodology, Brendan Neschke
Kenneth Koch's Postmodern Comedy Revisited, John Campbell Nichols
Experimental Limestone Dissolution and Changes in Multiscale Structure Using Small- and Ultra Small- Angle Neutron Scattering, Chad Alan Novack
Design, Testing, and Calibration of a Custom Air Data Boom to Obtain Flight Data For the UTSI Cessna-T210J (N33UT), Kristopher Nathaniel Oegema
Analysis of Beef Cattle Producers’ Propensity to Adopt Pasture Management and Prescribed Grazing East of the 100th Meridian, Kristen Elizabeth Oliver
A Decade of Lessons Learned: The Local Implementation of Stormwater Programs in Tennessee, Catherine Trudy Olsen
Efficacy of Extending the Voluntary Waiting Period in Lactating Dairy Cows to Improve Fertility of Sex-Sorted Semen, Sarah E. Orr
American Black Duck Wintering Dynamics and Dabbling Duck Response to Herbicide Application in Western Tennessee Wetlands, Joshua Matthew Osborn
THE ROLE OF THE ARCHITECT IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT, Christopher Alan Owens
Integration Of Maintenance Into Design And Sustainability Of Buildings, Dinesh Reddy Patlolla
Removal of Trace Organic Compounds in Domestic Wastewater using Recirculating Packed-Bed Media Filters, Brittani Nikole Perez
The Effect of Perceived Healthy and Unhealthy Commercials on Intake of Perceived Healthy and Unhealthy Snack foods in Normal Weight, College-Aged, Dietary Restrained Women, Seletha Ann Periman
Disorder in Mg1-xNixAl2O4 Spinel and its Impact on the Response to Swift Heavy Ion Irradiation, Brandon Alexander Perlov
Development and Evaluation of a Cost Effective Plant Growth Media Moisture Sensor and Development of an Aqueous Data Transmission System for Irrigation Purposes, Steven Michael Pickett
New Destinations of Islamic Fundamental Terrorism: The Rise of Al Shabaab, Damien Evan Pitts
Phylogenetic analysis and revision of the Nearctic Androprosopa Mik (Diptera: Thaumaleidae) with an emphasis on the western species, Robert John Pivar
Installation and Alignment of the N3He Experiment, Eric Lee Plemons
Impact of Solidification on Tensile Strength of CoCr 2LC in Selective Laser Melting, Stefan Robert Popp
Establishing a Chronology of Late Quaternary Glacial Advances in the Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica, Rebecca Susan Potter
Correlating Morphology to Performance in Conjugated Polymer Nanocomposite Thin Films, Siddharth Pradhan
Kinetic and Thermodynamic Modeling of Long Term Phase Stability in Alloy 800H Subjected to LWR Core Conditions, Wayne Ethan Pratt
Survival and Growth Rate of Translocated Freshwater Mussels Lampsilis fasciola and Medionidus conradicus, Laura L. Pullum
I, Too, Am Harvard: A Black Higher Education Narrative, Tara Nicole Rayers
Delights of Posillipo, Terrors of Vesuvius: Music, Spectacle, and Identity in Early Modern Naples, Nathan Kent Reeves
Evaluation of the Thermal Inactivation Kinetics of Surrogate Vegetative Bacteria, Amber Lynne Parham Renix
“I guess someone forgot to ask us if we wanted to be America’s diversity mascots”: The identity journey of transracial, transnational, Korean adoptees, Molly Jin Ah Rigell
Four Dimensional Approach to Center City Transformation: A case study of Knoxville, TN: 1884—1950, Joseph Ryan Roberts
Geostatistical Analysis of Point Soil Water Retention Parameters for Flint Sand, William Blake Roberts
Numerical Methods for Solving Optimal Control Problems, Garrett Robert Rose
DRINKING AND REMAKING PLACE: A STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF COMMERCIAL MOONSHINE IN EAST TENNESSEE, Helen Rosko
Casting Stones: An Analysis of the Late Archaic Period at the Big Pine Tree Site, South Carolina, Based in Behavioral Ecology, Adam Daniel Russell
Visualizing the Historic Landscape of Montserrat: Social Justice Through Community Mapping in a Post-Colonial Environment, Kevin Patrick Russell
Determination of Dispersal Patterns and Characterization of Important Habitats for Lake Sturgeon Restoration in The Upper Tennessee River System, Christina Grace Saidak
Religious Tones and Overtones in the Human Sufficiency Arguments of Marx and Nietzsche, Norman Rudolph Saliba
Factors Impacting FFA Involvement After High School, Danielle Eve-Marie Sanok
The Lived Experience of the Collegiate Female Student-Athlete, Kelsie Ann Patricia Saxe
Moderating Effect of Negative Peer Group Climate on the Relation Between Men’s Locus of Control and Aggression Towards Intimate Partners, Megan Ryan Schmidt