Masters Theses
Masters Theses from 2011
Knowledge and Perceptions of Agriculture in Tennessee through Fall Agritourism Experiences, Jessica Jarrell Poore
Analyzing Effects on Biofuels While Integrating the Agricultural Sector to the Energy Market: Linking POLYSYS and MARKAL, Shreekar Pradhan
Literal Imagery in Music: A Thesis to Accompany Constellation Suite, Evelyn Marie Pursley-Kopitzke
ANALYSIS OF FACTORS AFFECTING FARMERS’ WILLINGNESS TO ADOPT SWITCHGRASS PRODUCTION IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES AND AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET-BASED DECISION TOOL FOR POTIENTIAL SWITCHGRASS PRODUCERS, Donald Joshua Qualls
Voices of low SES women overcoming breastfeeding barriers: A qualitative analysis and model development, Lacey Mc Donough Raburn
Automated Visual Monitoring of Machining Equipment, Timothy Wayne Ragland
Design and Synthesis of Metabolically Stabilized Lipid Probes for the Investigation of Protein–Lipid Binding Interactions, Ashdeep Kaur Rajpal
Comparative Analysis of the Faunal Remains from British Royal Engineer and Enslaved African Occupations at Brimstone Hill Fortress, St. Kitts, West Indies, Ann Marie Ramsey
DEVELOPMENT AND ANALYSIS OF ONBOARD TRANSLUNAR INJECTION TARGETING ALGORITHMS, Phillippe Lyles Winters Reed
Introducing water vapor into a high vacuum chamber at AEDC., James Philip Rogers
Comparison of Two Methods for the Assessment of Chloride Ion Penetration in Concrete: A Field Study, Eric William Ryan
Gender Differences in Overt Behavior and Mediators of Depression Severity, Marlena Maria Ryba
Dynamic Human Resource Predictive Model for Complex Organizations, Tachapon Saengsureepornchai
Classification System for Impedance Spectra, Carl Gordon Sapp
On the Behavior of the Asymptotics of Robertson-Walker Cosmologies as a Function of the Cosmological Constant, Noah Thomas Schaefferkoetter
A 7600-year Record of Environmental History from the Sediments of Laguna Tortuguero, Puerto Rico, Alice Renee Schoen
Nuclear Receptors in Ecdysone-mediated Programmed Cell Death in Drosophila melanogaster, Ritika Sehgal
A Phenomenological Study on the Natural Rhythms of Light: Implications on Educative Design in Haiti, Jonida Paqesor Shehu
Greenway Design and Planning for Healthy Communities: Case Study of Knoxville, Yilin Shi
Examining the Roles of PsToc75 POTRA Domains in Chloroplast Protein Import, Richard Franklin Simmerman
An Explanation of Anomalous Hexachords in Four Serial Works by Igor Stravinsky, Robert Sivy
IMPACT OF SWITCHGRASS BIOENERGY FEEDSTOCK PRODUCTION ON SOIL CARBON DIOXIDE FLUX AND BELOW GROUND SOIL ORGANIC CARBON STORAGE IN EAST TENNESSEE, Leah Denise Soro
Rooted in Place: The Role of Design in Small Town Identity, Todd Owen Sparks
Professional Preparation of the NCAA Division I Athletic Director: An Occupational Framework, Jeffrey Charles Spenard
Bringing Biodiversity to Development: Perceptions of Integrating Eucalyptus and Forest-Corridors around the Serra do Brigadeiro, Brazil, Maggie R Stevens
Effect of Landscape Position and Dairy Manure Addition on Bioavailable Forms of Soil Phosphorus Using Enzyme Hydrolysis, Themis Mahalia Stone
Pulsed laser deposition of boron and boron nitride thin film, Siwei Tang
Thermal Feasibility and Performance Characteristics of an Air-Cooled Axial Flow Cylindrical Power Inverter by Finite Element Analysis, Jonathan Atef Tawfik
Evaluating Substrate Metrics for Monitoring Sediment Impairment of East Tennessee Streams., James Hunter Terrell
USING STABLE ISOTOPES TO ASSESS LONGITUDINAL DIET PATTERNS OF BLACK BEARS (URSUS AMERICANUS) IN GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK, Jennapher Lynn Teunissen Van Manen
PVT Compensation for Single-Slope Measurement Systems, Kevin Vun Kiat Tham
Flowability of Rice Thermally Processed in Pouches: A Pilot Study, Daniel Edward Thomason
Getting Heavy: An Exploration into the Effects of D2O and High Hydrostatic Pressure on R67 Dihydrofolate Reductase, Mary Jane Timson
Worker Shortage, Outsourcing, and Immigration as Features of Computer Technology Competition between the United States and India, Melvin L. Tobias
A Novel Free Form Femoral Cutting Guide, Wesley Andrew Underwood
The Role of Extension in Community Resource and Economic Development as Perceived by Administrators and Directors of the Cooperative Extension Service, Seth Charles Urbanowitz
Continuously Variable Rotorcraft Propulsion System: Modelling and Simulation, Naveen Kumar Vallabhaneni
ANALYZING SUPERCOMPUTER UTILIZATION UNDER QUEUING WITH A PRIORITY FORMULA AND A STRICT BACKFILL POLICY, Michael David Vanderlan
Increasing Accuracy of Simulation Modeling via a Dynamic Modeling Approach, Prasanna Rao Venkateswara Rao
Identifying Pathogens of Switchgrass and Investigating Antimicrobial Activity of Switchgrass-Derived Extractives, Andrea Linh Vu
Optimizing the performance of a glass-ceramic storage phosphor as an imaging plate for medical use, Manh Vu
Purpurae Florem of Mitrou: Assessing the Role of Purple Dye Manufacture in the Emergence of a Political Elite, Rachel Lynn Vykukal
Software Verification for a Custom Instrument using VectorCAST and CodeSonar, Christina Dawn Ward
Establishment and persistence of legumes in switchgrass biomass and forage/biomass production systems, Kara Spivey Warwick
Describing Home Play Food Availability Among Preschoolers Within a Nutritional Context: Relationships with Gender, Food Preferences, Food Neophobia, and Maternal Feeding Styles, Jenna Marie Waters
Effect of Maternal Borderline Personality Disorder on Romantic Attachment in Adolescence, Christopher Daniel Watkins
An Investigation of Stratigraphic Evidence for an Abrupt Climatic Event 8200 yr BP in Valle de las Morrenas, Costa Rica, Brian Thomas Watson
Physical and chemical stability of fish oil-in-water emulsions prepared with preheated WPI and maltodextrins, Sutida Watthanapimol
Allometric scaling of dietary linoleic acid on changes in tissue arachidonic acid using human equivalent diets in mice, Kylie A Weldon
Avian Response to Production Stands of Native Warm-Season Grasses in the Mid-South, Andrew Steven West
Do Thigh Circumference and Mass Changes Associated With Obesity Alter Walking Biomechanics?, Carolyn Grace Westlake
RSS Feeds, Browsing and End-User Engagement, Mary Beth West
Nutrition Knowledge and Child Care Feeding Practices of Early Childhood Education Students: A Preliminary Study, Sarah Jill White
Improvements in Multi-tool Surveying Efficiency for Archaeological Geophysics, Caitlyn Marie Williams
The Effects of Prior Knowledge and Stealing Thunder on Interpersonal Social Attraction, Kathrine Amanda Williams
Automating Real-Time Fault Detection for the University of Tennessee Space Institute, Aviation Systems’ Flight Testing and Airborne Science Applications, Samuel Vivek Williams
The Financial Crisis as an Expression of Macrohistorical Trends: World Hegemony, Neoliberal Globalization, and Financialization in 21st Century Capitalism, Shane Montgomery Willson
Does group feeding by toxic prey confer a defensive benefit? Aristolochic acid content, larvae group size and survival of pipevine swallowtail (Battus philenor) larvae., Lauren Wisner Wilmoth
Bee Visitation to Crops and other Flowers Planted as Bee Food, Michael Edward Wilson
High and low active transit accessibility on greenways: The relationship with physical activity, Dana Lizbeth Wolff
AN INTRICATE SIMPLICITY: CONTRARIES AS AN EVOCATION OF THE SUBLIME IN MOZART’S JUPITER SYMPHONY, K. 551, Emily Michelle Wuchner
The effects of bisphenol A on adipose tissue development, metabolism, and endocrine function and the role it may play in the development of obesity, Brantley Nelson Wyatt
Intellectual Property and Policy Issues in Biotechnology, Amy Iver Yancey
Residual Supply Analysis of the United States Corn Export Market, Melissa Antoinette Yeast
Public Confidence in Social Institutions and Media Coverage: A Case of Belarus, Dzmitry Yuran
Alarm Calling in the Context of Flying Predator Stimuli: A Field Study of Carolina Chickadees (Poecile carolinensis), Christopher Erik Zachau
A Study of Missing Data Imputation and Predictive Modeling of Strength Properties of Wood Composites, Yan Zeng
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) for Flow Measurement, Bi Yao Zhang
Design and Implementation of an Object-Oriented Space-Time GIS Data Model, Ziliang Zhao
Land Use/Land Cover Change and Its Hydrological Impacts from 1984 to 2010 in the Little River Watershed, Tennessee, Chunhao Zhu
Comparison of Baseflow-Stormflow Ion Mass Export for Two Streams in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Guy Thomas Zimmerman
Haptic Tele-operation of Wheeled Mobile Robot and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle over the Internet, Zhiyuan Zuo
Masters Theses from 2010
Performance Space: Shaping the Arts Scene in Asheville, NC, Elizabeth Adair Ahrens
DA-II Electric-Powered Sport Aircraft Utilizing Fuel Cell and Liquid Hydrogen Technologies, Densu Aktas
Enhancement of PROBEPIC Code and Application to Langmuir Probes, Densu Aktas
A Call Center Simulation Study: Comparing the Reliability of Cross-Trained Agents to Specialized Agents, Louis Franklin Ali III
Wind River Range Snowpack Reconstruction Using Dendochronology and Sea Surface Temperatures, SallyRose Anderson
MPI-based Parallel Solution of Sparse Linear Systems Using Chio's Condensation Algorithm and Test Data from Power Flow Analysis, Robert Bernard Armistead
Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Circuitry for Implantable Sensors, Anusha Atla
Soil Moisture Profiles and Root growth of Hardwood Trees Planted in Different Groundcovers on the Steep Slopes of Reclaimed Mine Sites, Elizabeth Anne Aubuchon
Development and Use of a Computer Program “Hyper-N” to Predict the Performance of Air Vehicles Traveling at Hypersonic Speeds, Younes Baalla
Oak Savanna Restoration and Management in the Mid-South, Seth A. Barrioz
Fracture Toughness: Evaluation of Analysis Procedures to Simplify JIC Calculations, Thomas Joseph Battiste
Income and Life Satisfaction Among Voluntary vs. Involuntary Retirees, Lauren Elizabeth Baxter
Monitoring Nitrogen Levels in the Cotton Canopy using Real-Time Active-Illumination Spectral Sensing, Marisol Benitez Ramirez
Effect of Tilted surfaces on Ankle Kinematics and EMG activities in landing, Divya Bhaskaran
Classification and Fertility of Soils in the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area Based on Landscape Position and Geology, Ryan H. Blair
A Tomb With A View and Two Stories, Matthew Louis Blanshei
Soil nitrogen amendments and insect herbivory alter above-and belowground plant biomass in an old-field ecosystem, Jarrod Dwayne Blue
Regional Differences in Adipose Tissue of the Sinclair Minipig, Suzanne Lauren Booker
We're Not Thugs and Rappers: An Examination of African American Male Athletes' Perceptions of the Media, Keia Janese Bragg
Developing, Refining, and Validating a Survey to Measure Adolescent Food Safety Self-Efficacy, Monica K Brandon
The Effect of Bonner Sphere Borehole Orientation on Neutron Detector Response, John Macdougall Brittingham
The Effects of Living Mulches on Organic, Reduced-Till Broccoli Growth and Management, Sarah Elizabeth Broughton
Perceptions Related to Dietary Supplements among College Students, Bethany Hope Brown