Masters Theses
Masters Theses from 2006
What is Left, Andrew Michael Najberg
Active Submission: The Subversion of Gendered Binary Oppositions in Three Post-War Novels Authored by International Women, Rebecca Annette Napier
Cooling of QPS Modular Coils using Embedded Copper Tubes, Shankar Narasimhaswami
Ethics in Times of Plague: Home Care, Obligations to Treat, End of Life, and Public Policies, Michael Woods Nash
Place Not Of Place: The Moveable Home: A Critique of Suburbia, Kristofer M. Nonn
Ultraviolet Image Analysis of Spacecraft Exhaust Plumes, Karen L. Norton
Comparative Analysis of Predictive Data-Mining Techniques, Godswill Chukwugozie Nsofor
Support Vector Regression for Non-Stationary Time Series, Bukola Titilayo Ojemakinde
Four-Dimensional MVCT Imaging and Spatial Translation of Helical Tomotherapy Dose Distributions Using Sinogram Modification, Samuel Scott Outten
Photochemical Route to the Production of Fullerene Allotropes, Olga Ovchinnikova
Origin and Classification of Middle Wallace Breccias, Mesoproterozoic Belt Supergroup, Montana and Idaho, Quintin M. Overocker
The New ‘Struggle to Get It Straight’: The Broadcasting Board of Governors’ and the Voice of America’s search for purpose and structure in the War on Terror, Curtis Joel Owens
Microprocessor Implementation of Autoregressive Analysis of Process Sensor Signals, Swetha Priyanka Pakala
Immobilization of Small Mammals and Occupancy, Seasonal Food Habits, and Parasites of Allegheny Woodrats in the Cumberland Mountains, Tennessee, William Teague Parker
The Construct of Sensory Suggestibility: A Factor Analysis, Nicole Alexandra Perez
Social Student Bodies in the IM World: Digital Vernaculars and Self-Reflexive Rhetoric, Stacey Lynn Pigg
A Shelf-to-Basin Examination of Food Supply for Arctic Benthic Macrofauna and the Potential Biases of Sampling Methodology, Rebecca Pirtle-Levy
Contact Metamorphism of Calc-Silicate Rocks in the Belmont Contact Aureole, Central Nevada, Kelly Plummer
Experimental Analyses of an Atmospheric Pressure Electrical Plasma Decontaminator, Eric Pius Pradeep
Dads Matter: A Phenomenological Exploration of Fathers' Influence on Collegiate Female Athletes' Sport Experience, Tanya Raquel Prewitt
A Distributed Solution for Visual Sensor Networks to Detect Targets in Crowds, Cheng Qian
Integrated Corridor Management: Operational Strategies under Interstate Diversion Scenarios, Shaun Michael Quayle
Design of a Catalyst System with Periodic Flow Reversal for Lean Burn Natural Gas Engines, Balaji Ramamurthy
Outside the fence,' the threat to the U.S. Aviation Industry, David Thomas Ramsey
Angelo Soliman Then and Now: A Historical and Psychoanalytical Interpretation of Soliman Depictions in Modern German Literature, Erin Elizabeth Read
Understanding Space through the Experience of Dance, Sandra L. Restrepo-Tovar
A Hamiltonian-Based Algorithm for Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulation at Constant Chemical Potential, Johanna Marie Reyes
Using GPS and GIS to evaluate military vehicle traffic patterns for the prediction of vegetation removal, Matthew Kendall Rice
Application of Energy Analysis to the Problem of Propulsion Driven Nutation Instability of Spin Stabilized Spacecraft, Tina Morina Rice
Facilitated Transport of Triclosan in the Receiving Environment of an Onsite Wastewater Treatment System: Agent of Aquatic Concern, Adrienne L. Roach
An Examination of Relationships Between Direct Government Payments in Agriculture and Farm Vulnerability in Iowa and Tennessee, Brad Christopher Robbins
Identifying and Analyzing Potential Watershed-Based Water Quality Trading Programs, David Carlos Roberts
Preparing for the Onset of Hemlock Mortality in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: An Assessment of Potential Impacts to Riparian Ecosystems, Scott Wesley Roberts
Analysis of an Experimental Pulsed Plasma Accelerator, Daniel Michael Rooney
Triple Threat: My Journey as a Black Lesbian Athlete in Search of Additional Black Lesbian Student-Athletes, Jillian Robin Ross
‘Like What Do You Do – Hand Out an Announcement?’ – Combating Heteronormativity in Physical Education, Stephanie Megan Roth
A Quantitative Study of Scaling Properties of Fracture Networks, Ankur Roy
Characterization of Processes used in Nanofabrication of Digital Electrostatic E-Beam Array Lithography (DEAL) Devices, Ryan Benjamine Rucker
Characterizing how fish communities and physical habitat structure are affected by urbanization in an East Tennessee watershed, Robert Lee Sain
Occupancy of Small Mammals on Private Lands in the Emory/ Obed Watershed, Tennessee, Carrie Hedio Salyers
Comparison of Transverse and Sagittal Otolith Sectioning for Aging Wild Rainbow Trout from East Tennessee Streams, Reggie Eric Sawyers
The Viability of the Economy of Oromia: A Point of Departure, Harwood David Schaffer
Premiering Pierrot lunaire, from Berlin to New York: Reception, Criticism, and Modernism, Clara S. Schauman
Comparison of Mosquito Abundance, Distribution, and Parity Between a High and a Low Prevalence Site for La Crosse Encephalitis in Eastern Tennessee, Sabra Lee Scheffel
Validation of Measures by the Lifecorder EX Activity Monitor, Scott Andrew Schmidt
Petrogenesis of Apollo 15 Olivine-Normative and Quartz-Normative Mare Basalts, Darren W. Schnare
Pyrogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from Carboniferous, Triassic, and Modern chars: potential relations to paleoatmospheric oxygen content, Patrick Jerome Schuneman
A Teaching Tool: Exploring a Cooperative Spirit, Education, and Cultural Influence through the Arts, Carmen Rachel Scoggins
Cultural Consensus, Political Conflict: The Problem of Unity among German Intellectuals during World War I, Benjamin Taylor Shannon
Day for Night: Facilitating Collaborative Solutions in the Pursuit of Approval for Human Subjects Research, Joseph D. Shearer
A Study of Political Activity among Social Work Students, Elizabeth A. Shelton
Sufferings Which Have No Tongue: The Enculturation of War, Trauma, and the Disappearing Body, Jason Lewis Simms
Surface Studies of Selective Hydrogen Desorption from Silicon, Jason Kenneth Smith
Spatiotemporal Modeling of Shorebird Habitat Availability at Rankin Wildlife Management Area, Tennessee, Matthew D. Smith
Installing a Night Vision Imaging System in the CF-188 Hornet: Compatibility of Warning and Caution Lights, Andrew John Soundy
The Functional Application of the Propeller Load Curve for Fixed Pitch Propellers, Rebecca Barnett Speas
Thermoelectrics for Cooling Power Electronics, Michael Ralf Starke
Effect of Ionizing Radiation on the Crystalline Morphology of Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE), Christopher Phillip Stephens
A Surveillance of Luncheon Meats for the Occurrence of Listeria monocytogenes in Grocery Stores in Tennessee, Jacob Henry Stevens
Applications of Mass Spectrometry to Synthetic Copolymers, Elizabeth Angela Stewart
Design and Test of an Event Detector and Locator for the ReflectoActive™ Seals System, Brad J. Stinson
A Paleoecological History of West Pond on Great Abaco Island, The Bahamas, Based on Pollen and Charcoal Analysis of Lake Sediments, Allison Jean Stork
Mowing and Light-weight Rolling of Creeping Bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.) Putting Greens during summer heat stress periods in the Transition Zone, William Daniel Strunk
A Case for an Aerial Refueling Capability for the United States Marine Corps UH-1Y Helicopter, Scott Suckow
The Study of Overload Effects on Fatigue-Crack-Growth Behavior by Neutron Diffraction, Yinan Sun
Methodology for Uncertainty Analysis of Advanced Fuel Cycles and Preliminary Results, Gary Alan Sweder
Modeling of Tapered Corrugated Graphite-Foam Heat Exchangers, Abdoulaye Sy
Simulation Study of Digitized Enhanced Feher Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (EFQPSK), Fall Bernard Taylor
Light, Place, and the Temporal Experience: A Proposal for a Live Work Building in Nashville, Tennessee, Robert G. Thompson III
Perceived Importance of Precision Farming Technologies in Improving the Efficiency of Phosphorus, Potassium, and Nitrogen in Southeastern Cotton Production, John Colby Torbett
The Spatial Form of Post Apartheid Cape Town, Elizabeth Rebekah Trail
Evaluation of V-22 Tiltrotor Handling Qualities in the Instrument Meteorological Environment, Scott Bennett Trail
A Histological Examination of Odocoileus virginianus for Forensic Application, Lindsay Hines Trammell
Development of the Joint Stand Off Weapon (JSOW) Moving Target Capability: AGM-154 Block Three program, Kyle Travis Turco
Automated Design Space Exploration for Digital Hardware, Jonathan Logan Turnmire
"One Major Step Short of War:” Jimmy Carter, the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, and the Last Chapter of the Cold War, George Uriah
Liberalism, Communitarianism, and the Search for Utopia, Jennifer Marie Vanden Heuval
A Parametric Study of Water Vapor Condensation in Supersonic Nozzle Flow Fields, Todd Branson VanPelt
The Effects of a Periodic Cicada Emergence on Forest Birds and the Ecology of Cerulean Warblers at Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge, Indiana, Dustin W. Varble
Fatigue Characteristics of Field HMA Surface Mixtures Containing Recycled Asphalt Pavement (RAP), Dragon Vukosavljevic
Participation in a Full Service School After Hours Enrichment Program: An Assessment of Students' Academic and Social Progress, Cassandra Staben Walker
Flexible integration, Chun-Yi Wang
Hispanic Students' Mathematics Achievement in Tennessee: Comparing with Asian Students, Yan Wang
Rheology of 1- Butyl-3-Methylimidazolium Chloride Cellulose Solutions, Joy Louise Watson
Validation of the ParvoMedics TrueOne® 2400 Metabolic Measurement System for measuring resting metabolic rate in a heterogeneous adult population, Tracie M. Weinheimer
Soapstone Vessel Chronology and Function in the Southern Appalachians of Eastern Tennessee, Edward William Wells III
An Experimental Study of Incompressible Axisymmetric Cavity Flow with Swirl, Lee Charles Wendell
Sexual Communication and Contraceptive Use in Adolescent Dating Couples, Laura M. Widman
Synergistic Effects of BubR1 and p53 Deficiency in Tumor Formation, Walter Guy Wiles
Consumer Perceptions of Branded Beef Products, Leslie Erin Williams
Origin and Tectonic Evolution of the Southern Appalachian Neoacadin Crystalline Core: Evidence from the Geology of the Gilreath 7.5-Minute Quadrangle, North Carolina, Crystal Gayle Wilson
Design and Optimization of a Wind Deflector for Round-Nose MD-500 Series Helicopters, James Joseph Wright
Constructed Sites ad Collective Memory: A Proposal for Lower Manhattan's African Burial Ground, Jessica Lauren Wright
Probing Precursor Interactions with the Chloroplast Import Apparatus, Sarah Jean Wright
The Effect of Star Formation on Observed Properties of High Redshift Absorption Systems, Yi-Jung Yang