Masters Theses
Masters Theses from 2009
Population and genetic impacts of a 4-lane highway on black bears in eastern North Carolina, Jeremy Michael Nicholson
Vision-Based Reinforcement Learning Using A Consolidated Actor-Critic Model, Christopher Allen Niedzwiedz
Student engagement in English 101 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Laura McIntosh Orr
Evaluation of spring and fall burndown application timings on control of glyphosate-resistant horesweed in no-till cotton, Lucas Neil Owen
Numerical simulation for the cooling of QPS modular coils with embedded copper tubes and subsequent experimental verification, Delight Mawunyo Owu
The human response study to whole-body vibration in the cab of heavy duty truck, Liangming Pan
Design of a Highly Constrained Test System for a 12-bit, 16-channel Wilkinson ADC, Zachary William Pannell
The Creation of Micropatterns through the Femtosecond Laser Ablation of Diamond Materials, Matthew D. Parrish
Use of high pressure homogenization in bacterial inactivation, Panchalee Pathanibul
A GPU-based Implementation for Improved Online Rebinning Performance in Clinical 3-D PET, Dilip Reddy Patlolla
La conciencia histórica en la poesía hispanoamericana, Jason Lee Pettigrew
Modification of Nancie Atwell's Reading Workshop for Implementation in a Homogeneous Group of Struggling Adolescent Readers, Marilyn Ludwig Pickett
Sound Scenes: Performativity, Politics, and Capital in New Music Ensembles, John Robison Pippen
Quantifying dust emissions from pre and post Stryker transformation at Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii, Naga Swapna Potteti
Influence of Parenting Behavior on Behavioral and Psychological Associations of Proactive and Reactive Aggression, Jamie Lee Rathert
A Program Evaluation of Parenting Apart: Effective Co-Parenting, Melissa Ivy Rector
Marking Space: Redefining the South Knoxville Waterfront, John Edward Reed
Mixture of volatile fatty acids effect on bioelectric properties of acid injury in the equine non-glandular stomach, Rilla Evelyn Reese
Usewear Analysis of Flake Tools from the Townsend Project (Sites 40BT89, 40BT90, 40BT91, 40BT94), Blount County, Tennessee, Phyllis Sierra Rigney
The Pi Beta Phi Settlement School: Progressive Reform in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, 1910-1965, Shirley Marie Robinson
Pregnancy retention of bovine recipients following transfer of embryos exposed to a prostaglandin F₂[alpha] receptor antagonist, David Allen Roper
Investigating the Maintenance of the Lyme Disease Pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi, and its Vector, Ixodes scapularis, in Tennessee, Michelle Erin Rosen
An Exploration of Monophonic Instrument Classification Using Multi-Threaded Artificial Neural Networks, Marc Joseph Rubin
Plume Source Localization and Boundary Prediction, Samir Sahyoun
Preprocessing of microarray data and analysis and comparison techniques for the resulting graph structures, Jon A. Scharff
Survival and reproduction of re-introduced species of selected darters and shiners in Coal Creek, TN, Erin Elizabeth Schiding
An Investigation Into the Activities of 1,2,3 & 1,2,4 Triazoles in Biological and Catalytic Systems, David John Schneider
Water conservation behaviors in Georgia the effects of place, Amber Kay Scott
Ida von Hahn-Hahn und Isabelle Eberhardt. Ausbruch aus Restriktionen – Auf der Suche nach sich selbst, Anja Katharina Seiler
Accuracy of the Omron HJ-720ITC in Free-Living Individuals, Nathan Andrew Silcott
Parts of a man, Timothy J, Sisk
Application of the Explicit Asymptotic Method to Nuclear Burning in Type Ia Supernova, Christopher Ryan Smith
"We’ll All Shout Together in that Morning": Iconicity and Sacred Harp Singing on Sand Mountain, Alabama, Jonathon Murray Smith
“Growing Up Green: A Study Focusing on Environmental Attitudes, Knowledge and Focusing on Environmental Attitudes, Knowledge and Behaviors of Elementary Children.”, Sarah Elizabeth Smith
Broken mirror of the world: Language crisis and reflection. Fragment and experience as instruments of truth in Benjamin, Hofmannsthal, and Rilke, Noah P. Soltau
Why Females Fight: Predicting Political Activism among Palestinian Female Youth, Carolyn Reagh Spellings
Can female recreational athletes alter their jump landing mechanism on verbal instruction?, Abhaya Srivatsan
Applications of BRET: The Detection and Visualization of Protein Interactions and Intramolecular Conformational Changes, Lindsay Anne Staron
"I can't be punished anymore": Exploring Incapacity and Carceral Formations in Samuel Beckett's Endgame, Happy Days, Play, Not I, and Catastrophe, Victoria Helen Swanson
Lithic Resource Survey of the Upper Little River Drainage: Raw Material Availability and Use at the Townsend Sites, Jeremy L. Sweat
An Experimental Analysis of the Laminar Separation Bubble At Low Reynolds Numbers, Karla Marie Swift
Pilot Constructed Treatment Wetland and Natural Media Filter, Clint Swires
Automated System to Debug Under-performing Network Flows in Wide Area Networks, Harika Tandra
The shadow cost of disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) project participation goals in Tennessee highway construction, Edward Lee Taylor
Architectural Sampling: the Integration and Manipulation of Meaning, Jacob Stafford Thomas
Computational Investigations of Characteristic Performance Improvements for Subkilogram Laser Micropropulsion, Richard Joel Thompson
Accelerated CTIS Using the Cell Processor, Thaddeus James Thompson
Suburban ant community structure with emphasis on Tapinoma sessile and T. sessile colony movement in the laboratory, Tiffany Aurora Toennisson
Casein Micelles from Bovine Milk: Ethanol Induced Changes in Hydrophobicity and Interaction with Native Whey Proteins, Raymundo Trejo
Evaluation of HFIR LEU fuel using the COMSOL multiphysics platform, Lee Paul Tschaepe
Mean kinematic vorticity of retrograde mylonite in the Brevard fault zone, South Carolina, Ching Tu
Structural Behavior of a Pile Framed Tie Back Retaining Wall, Mieah Dee Turner
Impact of Larger Diameter Strands on AASHTO/PCI Bulb-Tees, Jayaprakash Vadivelu
The role of third-party intervention on the political rights and civil liberties, Elis Vllasi
A comparison of suspended sediment and E.coli in two East Tennessee streams, Anne B. Wambersie
Economic analysis of delivering switchgrass to a biorefinery from both the farmers' and processor's perspectives, Chenguang Wang
Minimum Transmission Power Configuration in Real-Time Wireless Sensor Networks, Xiaodong Wang
College choice and retention of international students in the United States, Elizabeth Anne Washam
Novel Design of a Portosystemic Shunt Occluder, Tommy Lee Washington
A Disordered Domesticity: Constructions of Masculinity in the Dramatic Works of John Gay, Jeremy Brandon Wear
Dietary Supplement Use and Beliefs among College Students Enrolled in an Introductory Nutrition Course, Amy Denice Webb
Pedagogy for Millennials: Using New Literacies and New Media to Teach Old Texts, Keli Woodard Weed
Magnetoelastic coupling in a quantum spin ladder, Jessica Lynn White
Classification of subwatershed slopes and geotechnical characterization of steep slopes on reclaimed mine lands in East Tennessee, Patrick Hamilton White
Exploring the Mechanisms of the Connection between Offspring‟s Perceptions of Interparental Conflict and their Current Relationship Functioning, Jennifer Mary Willett
Survival of Salmonella Strains in Ground Beef Containing Varying Fat Contents and Heated at Varying Calculated Lethalities, Christopher Jerome Williams
The effects of task exposure and simulated grasping experience upon the emergence of reaching, Joshua L. Williams
Muskrat-River Otter Interactions in and Adjacent to Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, Ryan H. Williamson
Ammianus and Constantius: The Portrayal of a Tyrant in the Res Gestae, Sean Robert Williams
The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas: Rethinking Economic Integration After the Failures of Neoliberalism, Shannon D. Williams
Modeling Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Location Using GIS, Bradly Scott Wilson
Waterbird use of Kentucky Reservoir mudflats, Drew W. Wirwa
Of rain, a river, Ryan D. Woldruff
Wetting Behavior of Polymer Melts with Refractory Coatings at High Temperature, Robin Woracek
Effect of Ambient Temperature and Humidity on Aging of Nanocarbons, Liangcheng Yang
Elemental Analysis of Soils Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), Ningfang Yang
Black bear relocation as a method to reduce elk calf predation within Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Joseph Gene Yarkovich
High Resolution X-ray Tomography of Fiber Reinforced Polymeric Composites, Stephen Andrew Young
Carefully guarded borders, Yekaterina Mikhailovna Zemmel
Multiple Axisymmetric Solutions for Axially Traveling Waves in Solid Rocket Motors, Nadim Yaacoub Zgheib
Masters Theses from 2008
Simulating Truck Lane Management Approaches to Improve Efficiency and Safety of Highways in Knoxville, Tennessee, Adebola Adebisi Adelakum
Demand Forecasting Model for Emergent Manufacturing, Naveed Ahmed Nasar Ahmed
Land Use-Transportation Interaction: Lessons Learned from an Experimental Model using Cellular Automata and Artificial Neural Networks, Steve R. Ahrens
Numerical Analysis for Determination of Fiber Orientation in Nonwoven Mats, Lee Reynolds Allen
Roles, Perceptions, and Control of Infant Feeding among Low-Income Fathers in East Tennessee, Kristen Erika Anderson
The Kozolec: Material Culture, Identity, and Social Practice in Slovenia, Toby Martin Applegate
Tree-Like Spaces with the Fixed-Point Property, Realized as Inverse Limits of Special Finite Trees, Jennifer Katherine Aust
On the Trail of Fine Ale: The Role of Factor Conditions in the Location of Craft Breweries in the United States, James Daniel Baginski
Applied Stress Effects on the Isothermal and Cyclic High-Temperature Oxidation Behavior of Superalloys, Bryan R. Barnard
Illuminated Dimensions: Providing an Intellectual or Spiritual Enlightenment through Existence, Michelle Renee Barton
Heats of Solvation of Organic Liquids in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids, Paula Jeanette Beach
Novel Method for Recovery of Escherichia coli O157:H7 from Beef Surfaces, Matthew Adam Becher
An Analysis of Transformational, Transactional and Laissez-Faire Leadership Styles Between Professional and Student Leaders in Collegiate Outdoor Programs, Bradley D. Beggs
Optimization of Cosmological Simulations with Artificial Intelligence, Jay Billings
A Paradox of Self-Image: William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and King Richard II in Hitler’s Germany, Bradley Michael Blair
Negative Effects of Electroshocking Fish Embryos: Implications for Threatened and Endangered Fishes, Russell Joseph Bohl