Masters Theses
Masters Theses from 2006
Connecting Self-Contained Urban Neighborhoods, John Daniel Lattimore
Controlling the Dispersion of Nanoparticles in Polymer Matrices, Chang-Uk Lee
Wind-Tunnel Investigation of Wind Deflectors for the MH-6M Mission Enhanced Little Bird Helicopter, Richard Lee Lewis
Toward Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Complex Molecular Systems, Chao Li
Developing Asset Maintenance Evaluation System, Yanzhen Li
Theoretical Study of Noble Gas Bubble Behavior in Mercury, Bo Lu
Established Predators of Fiorinia externa Ferris (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) on Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carriere) in Urban and Forest Sites, Christine Ann Lynch
The Transformation of the King's Mountain Victors, Michael Lynch
Feeding Behavior and Chick-a-dee Calls in the Presence of Predator Models: A Field Study of Carolina Chickadees (Peocile carolinensis), Ellen Jolene Mahurin
Compressible Flow in Slab Rocket Motors, Brian A. Maicke
The Effects of Nursery Length and Pond Substrate Use in Production of Freshwater Prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii, Holly Alford Marlowe
Baseball and Boosterism: Henry W. Grady, the Atlanta Constitution, and the Inaugural Season of the Southern League, David A. Martin
Urban Hubs: Closing the Space, Time, Continuum, Edward Brinson Martin
Cultivation of Phylogenetically Diverse and Metabolically Novel Atrazine Degrading Soil Bacteria using Bio-Sep® Beads, Emily Catherine Martin
System-on-Chip Design and Test with Embedded Debug Capabilities, Tushti Marwah
Violence, Drugs, and U.S. Foreign Assistance, Lauren Elizabeth Mattox
Free Radical Polymerization in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids, Xiao Ma
Flood Tolerance of Hardwood Bottomland Oak Seedlings, Jonathan Ray McCurry
An International Corridor in the Making?: Immigrant-Owned Entrepreneurial Establishments in Birmingham, Alabama, Paul N. McDaniel
The Effects of Processing on Hydrophilic Antioxidant Capacity of Black Beans, Elizabeth Roberson McGee
Neutron Diffraction Study of Heavy Water Intercalation in Superconducting Deuterated Sodium Cobaltate Na0.35CoO21.4D2O, Cinzia Metallo
An Investigation of Different Golf Ball Dimple Flow Fields, Walter Robert Michalchuk
Design of a Single Axle Regenerative Brake System for a 2005 Thru-the-Road Hybrid Electric Chevrolet Equinox, John William Miller
Thresholds, John Charles Sanders Mixon
Structural and dynamical studies of superacids and superacidic solutions using neutron and high energy X-ray scattering, Jamie John Molaison
Making the Margins Legitimate: Travel, Family, and National Identity in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction, Teresa R. Moore
Design of an Active Stereo Vision 3D Scene Reconstruction System Based on the Linear Position Sensor Module, Julie Anne Morris
Lipodysregulation and Type 2 diabetes in TALLYHO/Jng Mice, Ola Abdelmoniem Mostafa
Politics of Representations: Snow Man and Bait by David Albahari, Damjana Mraovic
Hydrothermal diamond anvil cell studies: a possible new calibration mineral and applications to the hydrous-carbonate mineral, nesquehonite., Cara Kim Mulcahy
“Design, Development and Characterization of a Thermal Sensor Brick System for Modular Robotics, Nikhil Arun Naik
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