Masters Theses
Masters Theses from 2021
Relative Soybean Response to Aminocyclopyrachlor, 2,4-D, Dicamba, and Aminopyralid, Trey I. Clark
Impacts of Red Clover Isoflavones on Tall Fescue Toxicosis in Beef Cattle, Juan F. Cordero Llarena
Evaluation of Robust Deep Learning Pipelines Targeting Low SWaP Edge Deployment, David Carter Cornett
Seasonality, Distribution, and Biological Control of Crapemyrtle Bark Scale, A New Invasive Threat in Tennessee, Amira Cornish
Feeding Behavior and Influence of Hemp Varieties and Fertilization Rates on Damage Caused by Corn Earworm, Helicoverpa zea, Julian Cosner
QUEER SPACES, RELIGIOUS PLACES: SHARING RISK AND MAKING KIN WITHIN A QUEER CHURCH AMIDST A PANDEMIC, Sadie V. Counts
Contemporary Black Civil Rights Activism Strategies in East Tennessee: Gaining Economic and Political Power in the Black Community, Lily Joy Crosby
USING SURVEY DATA TO UNDERSTAND RIDESOURCING IN TENNESSEE: WHO, WHERE, WHEN, AND WHY?, Cassidy Kilmer Crossland
Machine Learning Applications for Waveform Analysis, Micah R. Cruz
An assessment of small game hunters’ and trappers’ motivations, satisfaction, and constraints, Kiley Davan
Chemical Elemental Analysis Using Portable X-ray Fluorescence as a Means of Sorting Commingled Human Remains, Matthew Mikal Davis
A Communications Testbed for Testing Power Electronic Agent Systems, Benjamin R. Dean
Screening for Cry proteins with unique receptors in fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) and corn earworm (Helicoverpa zea), Aria C. Deluna
Self-Identity and Risk Mitigation Behavior: Self-Protecting Masks Mandate, Mallory L. Denning
Evaluation of Medicaid Expansion on Food Insecurity Amongst Households with a Disability, Trinity Douglass
Relationships between Postpartum Anxiety, Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy, and Breastfeeding Exclusivity, Rachel Eichholtz
Pollinator Community Homogenization and Pollination Services in Agroecosystems, Devon S. Eldridge .
LiDAR evaluation of the structural complexity of multi-cropped white oak (Quercus alba) and pine (Pinus spp.) plantings in east Tennessee, USA, Bret Alan Elgersma
Evaluation of the Remote Provision of Local Food Assistance and Access Resources (FAAR) Training Program, Julianne Evans
Impacts of anthropogenic change on plant reproduction and fitness, Alexandra S. Faidiga
Life History, Diet and Habitat of the Federally Endangered Laurel Dace (Chrosomus saylori), Shawna M. Fix
Vorticity and Kinematic Analysis of the Cordillera Blanca Shear Zone, Peru, Corey Flynn
Expanding Band Parameter Analysis Methods for HED Meteorites and V-type Asteroids, Noah Adm Haverkamp Frere
Examining Messaging Strategies of Virtual Reality Companies on Instagram, Brian Galloway
Investigation of the Rupture Initiation and Mechanical Performance of Alumina Port Covers for Integrated Rocket Ramjet Systems, Haley R. Goldston
Radiation Effects on Lithium Indium Diselenide Semiconductors as Neutron Imaging Detectors, Robert M. Golduber
Investigating microbial genes involved in plant colonization and the effects on plant microbiome assembly, David Grant
Designing Polymer Materials for Improved Additive Manufacturing, Kaizhong Guan
I Am Woman: The Complicated Relationship between Fairy Mistresses, Virgin Martyrs, and the Medieval Patriarchy, Katherine A. Haire
Molecular Markers Within and Beyond Viburnum: A Single Set of SSRs for an Immense Genus, Trinity Paige Hamm
Nutritional Effects on Scrotal Circumference, Motility and Morphology of Spermatozoa and Cytokine Concentrations within Seminal Plasma of Beef Cattle, Taylor D. Harrison
The Development and Implementation of a Testing Regime for a Laser Spectroscopy Sample Chamber, Jonathan D. Hartman
Evaluating a Nutritional Supplement in Enhancing the Effectiveness of Selective Dry Cow Therapy, Kody Hash
NEURAL ACTIVATION DURING DIMENSIONAL LABEL LEARNING PREDICTS DIMENSONAL ATTENTION, Hollis Heim
Design and Experimental Evaluation of a Small-Scale Buckling Restrained Brace Analog, Lindsay K. Helferich
Quantifying Tree Canopy Contributions to Stormwater Runoff Reductions in Urban Watersheds of the Southeastern United States, Matthew C. Howard
Immigration et Émigration dans le ventre de l’Atlantique de Fatou Diome : les dessous pathétiques d’une odyssée à travers l’Afrique au Sud du Sahara., EMILE ANOH KABLAN
eYield: Testing the Adoption and Outcomes of a Novel Online Growth and Yield Model, Timothy S. Kane
Experimental Investigation of Spray Cooling/Heating of a Near-Isothermal Hydro-Pneumatic Energy Storage System, Saiid Kassaee
SUPPLEMENTING EAST TENNESSEE LANDSCAPES FOR POLLINATORS WITH NATIVE PERENNIALS, Amani Khalil
Memory of the Constitutional Convention and the Madison Papers, Amanda M. Klug
Periodic Replenish and Recount Policy to Address Record Inaccuracy from Stock Loss, Colton K. Ku
Design and Fabrication of Invar Layup Tool Molds using Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing, Matthew Lamsey
EMOTIONAL LABOR: TEACHERS’ UNDERSTANDINGS OF THEIR EMOTIONAL LIVES IN PRESCHOOL CLASSROOMS, Kylie B. Larkin
Analysis of Hardware Accelerated Deep Learning and the Effects of Degradation on Performance, Samuel C. Leach
How Divergent Risk-Characters Rewrite the Anti-Vaccination Narrative, Shelby C. Luttman
Unmanned Aerial System for Radioactive Source Search, William J. Lynch
The Implications of Yoga as a Coping Mechanism for Stress During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Ellie Hunter Madenberg
Interactions of Candidate Gene Expression and in vitro Infection with Streptococcus uberis in Bovine Mammary Epithelial Cells, Hannah Lacy Martin Malcomson
Power System Stability Assessment with Supervised Machine Learning, Mirka Mandich
Association Between Stream Impairment by Mercury and Superfund Sites in the Conterminous USA, Karessa L. Manning
The Psychosocial Outcomes Among Athletes and Youths with Disabilities, Coleen E. Martinez
Terrestrial laser scanning technology for measuring streambank retreat along East Fork Poplar Creek and calculating the effect on mercury release., José L. Martínez Collado
Examining the Effects of Caregiver Stress, Communication Quality, and Discipline Practices on Child Externalizing Behavior, Mckenzie Rose Martin
Partial Discharge Testing and Detection under PWM Voltage, John Meadors
Evaluating the winter diet of a reintroduced herd of elk in the Cumberland Mountains, Tennessee, using next-generation sequencing techniques, Dailee L. Metts
Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá: Constructing National Identity in the case of Jonathan González, Arturo Jaime Morales Jr
APPLICATION OF TITRATIONS FOR VERIFICATION OF SMALL MOLECULE INTERACTION IN RELATION TO AMIDOXIMATED FIBERS FOR URANIUM EXTRACTION FROM SEAWATER, Kc Michael Mote
Critical Pedagogy and Accountability: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Race and Embodiment in Tennessee's Teacher Evaluations, Rebecca C. Napreyeva
The Effect of Bovine Endometrial Cell Conditioned Media on In Vitro Produced Bovine Embryo Development and Gene Expression, Mary A. Oliver
Assessment of Component Level Tritium Transport for Fission and Fusion Systems, Miles Landon ONeal
Financial Feasibility and Factors that lead to Profitability for Small-Scale Farmers in Rwanda., Saheed Adeniyi Orimadegun
UHT Milk: Supply Chain Based Shelf Life Assessment and Risk Mitigation, Sagar Rameshwar Padghan
Political Attitudes and Behavior in a Pandemic: Factors Affecting Compliance with COVID-19 Policies, Christopher Palmer
The Role of Athletic Trainers in the Mental Health Care of Student-Athletes, Dominic J. Palumbo
TRANSSACCADIC UPDATING AND FEATURE OVERWRITING, Jessica Parker
A modular cloning toolbox for chloroplast metabolic engineering, Alexander C. Pfotenhauer
Accelerating Dynamical Density Response Code on Summit and Its Application for Computing the Density Response Function of Vanadium Sesquioxide, Wileam Y. Phan
The Application of Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy to Molten Salt Corrosion, William S. Ponder
Monsters in Mesopotamia: Edessa, Goths, and Roman Identity in Euphemia and the Goth and the Julian Romance, Emma Elisabeth Pugmire
Identifying Drought Tolerance Traits in Tennessee Soybean Genotypes: Recovery from Severe Water Deficit Stress, Samuel W. Purdom
Investigating the mechanisms and specificity of bacterial virulence in an entomopathogenic symbiosis, Elizabeth Ransone
EXPERIMENTAL ALTERATION OF VENUSIAN SURFACE BASALTS IN A HYBRID CO2-SO2 ATMOSPHERE, Robert B. Reid
Utilizing Synthetic Biology to Engineer Novel Plant Transcriptional Regulators for Precise Control of Autoluminescent Plants, Dominique K. Reuter
Using visual attention at 11-months to predict outcomes at age 4, Esther Reynolds
Assessing Basic Needs Insecurity Prevalence and Associated Factors among College Students Enrolled at a Large, Public University in the Southeastern U.S., Mary Kathleen Robbins
Azospirillum brasilense Chemotaxis Receptor Clusters Structure and Chemosensory Signaling, Madison S. Rost
An Exploration of Topical Interaction in Symphony for Wind Band, Paul Royse
“Effortful”: Narratives of Women Working in Higher Education during COVID-19, Miranda N. Rutan
Modeling and Evaluation of Utility-Scale Microgrid Investment for Distribution System Planning, Ian Schomer
Assessing the Precision of Cranial and Mandibular Morphoscopic Traits from 3D Surface Scans, Sarah Thomas Schwing
Current State Of The Tennessee Dairy Industry And Barriers To Producers’ Permanency, Arup Ratan Sen
“There Shall Be Made No Differentiation:” The Maintenance of Stratification in the State of Kuwait through the 1959 Nationality and Aliens Residence Laws, Alzaina Shams Aldeen
Calculation and modeling of the neutron’s magnetic moment, Abhyuday Sharda
Economic valuation of recreation access to wildlife management areas in Tennessee, Clara Shattuck
Therapeutic Intervention or Rider Influence on the Electromyographic Activity And Kinematics of Horses, Karen L. Shaw
An Evaluation of Angler Preferences for Stocking Public Fishing Lakes in Tennessee, Pratikshya Silwal
GROWTH, BROWSING AND MORTALITY IN MIXED OAK AND PINE PLANTINGS, Heather Slayton
Exploring Determinants of Exercise-Related Affect in Older Adults who Regularly Engage in Aerobic Exercise, Jessica Smith
Analysis of Cattle Producer Surveys about Horn Fly Management and Expected Progeny Differences, Katlyn V. Smith
Correlating Fracture Toughness and Surface Roughness for a Ductile Epoxy Adhered to Aluminum Substrates, Kurt Ryan Smith