Masters Theses
Masters Theses from 2007
The Study of Crack Closure Phenomenon Following One Tensile Overload, Yinan Sun
Fabrication of Nano-Injection Needles for Neural Pathway Study in Mice, Sangeetha Swaminathan
Changes in Body Composition and Physical Activity Behavior in a Group of College Freshmen, Tracy A. Swibas
Factors that Affect the Perception of Company Success by Assembly Workers in the Boat Industry, Karima Tayeb
Mechanisms of Organic Matter Preservation in Continental Margin Sediments from the Gulf of Maine, Laura A. Taylor
A Study of the Homology of Subset Spaces and their Connection to the K-SAT Problem in Computer Science, Oliver J. Thistlethwaite
The Buried, The Wasted, The Lost: Six Stories and Six Snapshots, Emily E. Thompson
“Parametric Study of the Effects of Water to Cementitious Materials Ratio and Cementitious Materials Content on the Durability Properties of High Performance Concrete, Andrew T. Tinsley
Determination of Air Flotation Parameters to Perform Solid Liquid Separation Treatment in an Activated Sludge Treating Grease Waste by Promoting Filamentous Bacteria, Juan Guillermo Cartajena Torrealba
Transport Critical Currents in YBaCuO-based Coated Conductors: Angular, Magnetic Field, and Temperature Dependencies, Samuel M. Travaglini
State Libraries in the United States: Identifying and Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty- First Century, Sandra G. Treadway
From Despised Enemy to Wronged American: Images of the Japanese American Internment, 1942-1992, Kenichiro Tsuchihashi
Design and Analysis of a General Purpose Operational Amplifier for Extreme Temperature Operation, Chandradevi Ulaganathan
Century-Scale Trends in Climatic Variability for the Pacific Northwest from Western Juniper (Juniperus occidentalis Hook. ssp. occidentalis) Tree-Ring Data, Christopher Aaron Underwood
Clonality and Genetic Diversity Revealed by AFLPs in Schisandra glabra (Brickell) Rheder (Schisandraceae), a Rare Basal Angiosperm, Matthew J. Valente
Energy Harvesting from Vibration of a Bridge, Sri Harish Valluru
Modern Frequency and the Significance of Acromial Shape in the Etiological Debate of Os Acromiale, Lorena Villao
Mound versus Village: A Biocultural Investigation of Status and Health at the Cox Site, Juliette R. Vogel
Density Functional Theory and Phase Shifts, Anthony G. Wald
An Engage-ment of the Significant Everyday, Suzanne M. Walker
Technology Adoption and Abandonment in Precision Cotton Production, Jonathan C. Walton
Preserving the Legacy of Jens Jensen Landscapes: A Historical Assessment of his Knoxville Van Deventer Garden, Terumi Watson
Rate and Timing of Nitrogen Fertilizer in Burley Tobacco, Michael Randall Waynick
The Role of Soluble Fibrin in Lymphocyte and LAK Cell Adherence to and Migration across Vascular Endothelial Cells: Implications for Immunotherapy and Cancer, Brandy Lee Weidow
Late Holocene Charcoal Stratigraphy and Modern Charcoal Deposition in the Pine Rocklands of Great Abaco Island, the Bahamas, David N. West
Sang the Sun, Katherine Martin Williams
Physiologic Changes Occurring During a 592-mile Hike on the Appalachian Trail, Patricia Gayle Williams
An Investigation of How Students Experience Corporate Advertising in Public Schools, Amanda Gail Wilson
Extraction, Ecology, Exploitation, and Oppression: The Political Economy of Coal in Appalachia, William R. Wishart
An Analysis of the Spatial Distribution of Chiefdom Settlements: Modeling the Mississippian Culture in the Tennessee River Valley, Jonathan Witcoski
Depressive Symptoms in an Urban Kurdish Refugee and Immigrant Population: An Exploratory Study, Natalie Kay Worley
Methodological Considerations: Osteoarthritis and the Significance of Porosity in the William M. Bass Donated Skeletal Collection, Kimberly Tenese Wren
A Longest-Queue-First Signal Scheduling Algorithm with Quality of Service Provisioning for an Isolated Intersection, Richard James Wunderlich
Henry Morgenthau: The Evolution of an American Activist, Maggie Laurel Yancey
Image and Sieve Analysis of Biomass Particle Sizes and Separation after Size Reduction, Yuechuan Yang
Analysis and Characterization of a SiGe BiCMOS Low Power Operational Amplifier, Archana Yarlagadda
Empress' Story, Brandy Michelle Yates
Academic Achievement and Depression Among Chinese Youth: The Role of Gender, Qionghui Zhang
Seasonal Variations in Fish Assemblages of Small Warmwater Streams in Four Southeastern National Parks, Joseph Carl Zimmerman
Masters Theses from 2006
Dismantling the Master’s Schoolhouse: The Rhetoric of Education in African American Autobiography and Fiction, Miya G. Abbot
Analysis of Information Networks of Freshman Engineering Students, Sara Noel Abdulla
Asymptotic Solutions for the Fundamental Isentropic Relations in Variable Area Duct Flow, Esam M. Abu-Irshaid
A Class-E Inductive Powering Link with Backward Data Communications for Implantable Sensor Systems, Mohammad Ahsanul Adeeb
Adsorption of 2-Ketogluconate by Gibbsite, Goethite, and Kaolinite, Robert Maxwell Anderson III
The Environmental Reward Observation Scale (EROS): Development, Validity, and Reliability, Maria Elizabeth Anne Armento
What's up, Bitch?, Mary Elizabeth Asbury
Highway 11, Devon Koren Asdell
Structure and Fibrillogenicity of 11-1F4 Epitope Peptide, Demet Ataman
Processing and Characterization of a Novel Bioabsorbable Polymer for Biomedical Applications, Katherine Atchley
Tennessee's Kenaf Market Potential as a Feedstock in the Production of Paper, Gerry Solano Avila
Nabataean and Roman Survey Pottery from the Karak Plateau, Jordan, Meagan Kelley Ayer
Evaluation of Tactical Aircrew Workload using Advanced Cockpit Simulation and its Impact on the Design of the EA-18G Aircraft, Christopher Michael Bahner
Computerized Music Theory Placement Exams and Correlations between Placement Levels and Demographics, Sarah Catherine Bailey
Mothers’ Attitudes about Childhood Nutrition Coverage in Magazines and Newspapers, Carrie Suzanne Baker
Study of Hydrogel Properties and Immobilization of a Bioluminescent Bioreporter, Arun Balassundaram
A Peculiar Diversion: The Social Ramifications of Quarter-Racing in the Eighteenth-Century Tidewater Virginia, Tollie Jean Banker
The Development of an Assault Directed Infrared Countermeasures (DIRCM) Program, Tracy Anne Barkhimer
Migration from Teleoperation to Autonomy via Modular Sensor and Mobility Bricks, Roselyne Dalanda Barreto
BMP Adoption in Two East Tennessee Watersheds, Michael Barrowclough
The Practicality of the Abhidhammattha-Sangaha, Jeffrey Wayne Bass
Rebound Ace Tennis Court Surface: The Effect of Temperature on the Coefficient of Friction, Denise Helen Bauer
Distributed Self-Deployment in Visual Sensor Networks, Christopher Allan Beall
Multiple Resolution Nonparametric Classifiers, David Laurence Beck
Measuring Cell Surface Elasticity on Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli 042 Wild Type and Dispersin Mutant by Atomic Force Microscopy, Melissa Aline Beckmann
Use of a Dynamic Sediment Delivery Model for Watershed Planning in Beaver Creek, Knox County, Tennessee, Shannon Elizabeth Bennett
The Effects of Pathogen Infection on Nitrogen Remobilization in Arabidopsis thaliana, Michelle Ann Boercker
Simulation of Power System Response to Reactive Power Compensation, Pierre Alexander Boheme
Optimization of the Mod-VIII One Atmosphere Uniform Glow Discharge Plasma Reactor® for Surface Energy Treatment, Truman Andrew Bonds
Insights into the Etheostoma spectabile species complex: Incongruence between mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequence data, Christen M. Bossu
Lignin Composites with Phenol-Acrylates Cured by Electron Beam, Seth N. Bowman
Women, Aging, and Media: How Women Are Impacted By Messages About Getting Older In Popular Culture, Teresa Shelley Bowman
The Agri-tourism Industry and It's Needs for Assistance in Tennessee, Eugenia Dawson Boyd
Video Game Ratings: Does the System Work for Parents?, Alexis Diane Brekke
Design and Implementation of a Complex-conjugate Shaper and Baseline Restorer for a Silicon-based Neutron Detector Front-end, Jonathan Lanier Britton
Sustainable Expression: Combining the Past and the Present to Create a Viable Vernacular, William Thomas Brown
A Resource Efficient Localized Recurrent Neural Network Architecture and Learning Algorithm, Daniel Borisovich Budik
A Low Noise CMOS Charge-Sensitive Preamplifier with Pole/Zero Compensation for a Neutron Detection System, Steven Curtis Bunch
Nikolski's Approach to the theorems of Beurling and Nyman regarding zeros of the Riemann ζ-function, Jared R. Bunn
Physical Activity and Weather: The Association of Physical Activity with Weather-Related Factors Measured on the Knoxville Third-Creek Greenway, Ryan Allen Burchfield
Running Away from an Adolescent Residential Treatment Facility: Does Adult Involvement Make a Difference?, Michael Lee Burford
Vector Control and Experimental Evaluation of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors for HEVs, Timothy Adam Burress
Horizontal Gene Transfer to Bacteria of an Arabidopsis Thaliana ABC Transporter That Confers Kanamycin Resistance in Transgenic Plants, Kellie Parks Burris
Rheology of Lignin and Lignin/PET Blends, Jesse Daniel Bush
A Test of the Enemy Release Hypothesis Using a Congeneric Pair of Lespedeza Species, Mary Gail Caflisch
An Evaluation of the Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter Topology For Direct-Drive Synchronous Wind Farm Applications, Gerald Robert Callison
An Analysis of Bayesian Methods in Determining the Viability of Perinatal Remains, Tiffanie Sue Cave
Photography in Architecture: The Transformation of Reality, Haley E. Chapman
Development of Novel Synthetic Methods Utilizing Organometallic Reagents and Total Synthesis of Eupomatilone 2, Chunlan Chen
Grasping Strategies for a Dexterous Hand during Teleoperation, Prem Sagar Chidambaram
Using Physical Compilation to Implement a System on Chip Platform, Pradeep M. Chimakurthy
Occurrence of Antibiotic Resistance in Environmental and Amphibian E. coli Isolates Associated with Cattle and Aquatic Environments, Robin Lynn Cissell
Biological Control Methods for Damping-off of Tomato Seedlings Caused by Pythium myriotylum, Miranda Marshall Clark
Forage Quality and Performance of Tall Fescue Hay Amended with Broiler Litter and Commercial Fertilizer, Stacy L. Clark
Potassium and Cultivar Effects on Carbohydrate Partitioning in Upland Cotton, Jenny Dale Clement
A Proposal for an Open Source System of Development and Research for Music CAI, Daniel E. Clouse
Improved Flight Test Techniques for Evaluating Control Margins in the Shipboard Environment, Sean Thomas Collier
Regional Analysis of Trade Flows and Marketing Practice Trends in the United States Nursery Industry, Bryan Frank Combs