Masters Theses
Masters Theses from 2005
A Family of Matrix Representations of the Figure Eight Knot Group, Marvalisa M. Payne
Fracture Toughness: Evaluation of Testing Procedure To Simplify JIc Calculations, Brandon Paul Pehrson
Evaluation of Experimental Bridge: Massman Drive Bridge Over Interstate 40 in Davidson County, Jeremy Glen Pettus
Potential of Beauveria bassiana 11-98 as a biological control agent against tomato pests; and detection of the mycotoxic metabolite beauvericin in tomato plants using HPLC, Wesley Aaron Powell
Motion Control for a Tracking Fluoroscope System, Gabriel Rinaldo Preliasco
Atomic Childhood: An Analysis of the Impact of the Manhattan Project on the Children of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, John David Prince
Analysis of 2D Spatial Filtering of Simulated Muscle Action Potential Using Grid Arrays, Mohammad Moshiur Rahman
A Comparative Analysis of Management Accounting Systems on Lean Implementation, Karuppuchamy Ramasamy
A Performance Analysis of the CMAQ Model and Its Sensitivity to Ozone Precursors in East Tennessee, Karthikeyan Ramaswamy
A Comparison of Human Decomposition in an Indoor and an Outdoor Environment, Genevieve T. Ritchie
The Effect of Stuttering and Fluency-enhancing Conditions on a Manual Movement Task, Mary Rhodes Robbins
Water Quality Characterization, Stormwater Analyses, and Statistical Modeling of Stream Water Quality in the Little Pigeon River Watershed of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, James Chadwick Roby
Mindfulness and Narrative: Connecting Experience and Story, Noah Lyons Roost
Managing the Remaining Service Life of the T-34C Aircraft, John Howard Rousseau
Empathy and the MSSW Curriculum: Are Students’ Levels of Empathy Influenced by the Curriculum?, Melissa Rene Routh
Civil Rights in Action: Creating Art on the Borderline a Visual Arts Cultural Center for Memphis, Tennessee, Melissa Anne Ruff
Targeted Economic Development in Tennessee: An Industrial Cluster Analysis of a Multi-County Upper-Cumberland Region, Benjamin Paul Sanders
Consumers’ Perceptions of and Responses to Green Cause-Related Marketing, Betsy Suzanne Saylor
Validation of Quantitative Trait Loci Conditioning Seed Phytate and Protein Concentration in Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merrill], Andrew M. Scaboo
Macroscopic Sedimentary Charcoal as a Proxy for Past Fire in Northwestern Costa Rica, Kyle James Schlachter
Bio-derived Fuels for Hybrid Rocket Motors, Joshua David Scholes
Morphological, textual, geochemical, and mineralogical properties of dolostone-derived residuum in Knox County, Tennessee, Bryan Scott Schultz
Relationship Between Perceptions of Community and Moral Development of Undergraduate Students, Cynthia Bright Seaver
Analytical Verification of the ACI Approach of Estimating Tensile Strain Capacity of Mass Concrete, Cristina Diane Seay
Estimating the Postmortem Interval in Freshwater Environments, Billie Lee Seet
Efficacy of DNA Sampling to Monitor Population Abundance of Black Bears in the Southern Appalachians, Katie E. Settlage
A Method to Calculate the Femoro-Polyethylene Contact Pressures in Total Knee Arthroplasty In-Vivo, Adrija Sharma
Performance Study of Hybrid Spread Spectrum Techniques, Yachna Sharma
Architecture for the Lost Place, Jeremy Shipp
Physiological Response Associated With Select Rorschach Codes, Chad Ryan Sims
Bench Scale Evaluation of Dense Ceramic Membranes for Production of High Purity Hydrogen from Gasification, Binay Kumar Singh
Power Spectral Density (PSD) Terrain Modeling for Vehicle Durability Analysis, Ezhilventhan Sivanesan
Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Children’s Gardening Program: A Survey of Alumni, Emily Kathleen Smith
An Experimental Study Of Axisymmetric Cavity Oscillations In Low Speed Incompressible Flow, Jeremy David Brice Smith
AFLP Markers Identify Cornus florida Cultivars, Naomi Rene Smith
Reverse-Flow Oxidation Catalyst with Supplemental Fuel Injection for Lean-Burn Natural Gas Engines, Steven Scott Smith
Electron Beam Cured Resins for Wood Composites, Ting Song
A Dynamic Ampacity Model for the Testing of Advanced Conductors, Matthew Benjamin Sooter
An Analysis of Target Location Error Generated by the Litening Pod as Integrated on the AV-8B Harrier II, Shaun C. Spang
Glass-blue Days: A Collection of Poetry, Steven Paul Sparks
Temperature Control of the Online Rheological Sensor, Larry Scott Spencer
Race, Women, and the South: Faulkner’s Connection to and Separation from the Fugitive-Agrarian Tradition, Brandi Stearns
Determination and Comparison of In Vivo Forces and Torques in Normal and Degenerative Lumbar Spines, Shaun Kevin Stinton
An Experimental Evaluation of the Constant β Relating the Contact Stiffness to the Contact Area in Nanoindentation, Jeremy Harper Strader
Synthesis and Analysis of Anionic Hydrogel Scaffolds for Endothelial Cell Tissue Engineering, Abitha Sundararajan
Ametropic Eye Modeling, Bo Tan
Urban and Regional Planning: A Review of Three Rational Planning Processes, Mark Joseph Taylor
Environmental History at Laguna Yaguarú, Bolivia: Evidence from Pollen, Stable Carbon Isotopes, and an Embedded Mineral Facies, Zachary Paul Taylor
The Effects of Urbanization on the Streambed Sediment Characteristics in a Ridge and Valley Watershed, Brantley Allison Thames
Reconfigurable Hardware Acceleration of Exact Stochastic Simulation, Brandon Parks Thurmon
Kinetics of Cellulose Dissolution in N-Methyl Morpholine-N-Oxide and Evaporative Processes of Similar Solutions, John William Tierney
Reverse Genetics with TILLING in Phytophthora sojae, Melinda Beth Tierney
Extending the Politeness Theory to Meditation Discourse: Does Facework Make a Difference?, Andrew Craig Tollison
Quantifying the effects of sawdust application on soil chemical and physical properties and corn yield, Huong Mai Tran
Tennessee Hay Supply and Demand Response to Prices and Other Factors, Jon Edwin Travis
Paul's Integrated Use of Apocalyptic and Gnostic Imagery in First Thessalonians, Steven Mack Trotter
The Surreal Strip Mall, Myles N. Trudell
The Bovine Coronavirus 2'-O-Methyltransferase Binds Cis-Acting Stem-Loop IV In the 5-Prime Untranslated Region Of The Viral Genome, Tara Beth Tucker
From an Issue-based to a Globalized Frame for Addressing Women's Grievances: Possibilities for Social Change?, Kristen Lea VanHooreweghe
Topology Optimization of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Polymer Damping Structures, Seshadri Mohan Varma Damu
An Evaluation of Clearwing Borer Activity in East Tennessee in Relation to Color, Growing Degree-Days and Pheromone Lure Brands, Christopher Dean Vaughn
Automated Analysis of Fluorescent Microscopic Images to Identify Protein-Protein Interactions, Sankar Venkataraman
Inverse Problems in Image Processing: Blind Image Restoration, Ravi Viswanathan
Using Platform Express for System-on-Chip Design, Mardavsinh Harisinh Wala
Art in the Archives: A Survey of Artists' Papers in Tennessee, Celia S. Walker
Television News Violence and Children’s Fear Reaction, Lin Wang
Modeling and Analysis of the DuPont Access Bridge, Naiyu Wang
Cloning and expression of a putative P450 from Mycobacterium ulcerans, Yang Wang
Food Security in the 21st Century: Lessons from Cuban Agriculture for Materializing Realities, Evan L. Weissman
Deciphering eustatic and tectonic influences during parasequence development in the Mesoprotozoic Helena/Wallace Formation, Belt Supergroup, Montana and Idaho, Stephen Alan Welch
Fundamental Studies of Stabilization of Polyacrylonitrile Precursor, Stephen Alan White
Evaluation of Aquatic Macroinvertebrates Available to Wintering Waterfowl in Managed and Natural Wetlands in Western Tennessee, Michael Shelton Whittington
Linking Channel Stability and Bed Sediment Characteristics to Biological Integrity in Tennessee Ridge and Valley Streams, Kelley H. Williams
Applications of Genetic Algorithms to a Variety of Problems in Physics and Astronomy, Kevin Richard Williams
A 2.4 GHz LC-VCO Using On-Chip Inductors and Accumulation-Mode Varactors in a CMOS 0.18 μm Process, Bryant Derand Williamson
Renaissance Woman: The Works and Critical Reception of Dorothy West, Tamara Jenelle Williamson
A Validation Simulation of a Large Pool Fire, W. Reid Williams
A Comparison of the Sensor Brick Concept as a Modular System Architecture to the Realtime Control System as the Operational Architecture, James Robert Wilson
The Health Status of Early 20th Century Blacks from the Providence Baptist Church Cemetery (40Sy619) in Shelby County, Tennessee, Rebecca J. Wilson
Comparison of Body Composition Assessment Techniques in Older Adults, Rebekah Ann Wilson
Pedologic Investigations in the Red River Region of Eastern Kentucky: Relationship of Soil Properties to Lithology, Slope Aspect, and Soil Quality to Prehistoric Indigenous Food Plot Locations, Jason D. Windingstad
Willie, Waylon, and Me: Mythopoetic Narratives in Outlaw Country Music, Charles Robert Wurl
An Investigation of the Current Distribution in an HTS Triaxial Power Cable and its Operational Impacts on a Power System, Marcus Aaron Young II
Masters Theses from 2004
Prevalence of Potential Zoonotic Enteric Bacterial Pathogens in Dogs and Cats and Factors Associated with Potential Transmission Between Animals and Humans, Omaima Maamoun Ahmed
Studies on Mycobacterium ulcerans, Terri Alford
The Most Important Aviation System: The Human Team and Decision Making in the Modern Cockpit, John Cody Allee
Development of an Accurate Toxicity Assay Using Genetically Engineered Bioluminescent Bacteria, Stacey M. Allsteadt-Barnlund
An Assessment of Environmental Enrichment on Morphology and Behavior of Yearling Rat Snakes (Elaphe obsoleta), Lynn M. Almli
The Rebel Collection, Erika Leigh Andra
Fractured Branched Circle Packings on the Plane, James Russell Ashe
Relationships between muskrats and freshwater mussels prior to river otter restoration at Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, Kimberly Ann Asmus