Masters Theses
Masters Theses from 1998
Soliloquy : for piano and tape, Jonathan D. Peters
The effects of bolus consistency on the coordination of swallowing in children and adults : an EMG study, Rebecca Lynn Peters
Injury of drinking water organisms in biofilms and effects upon ecology and physiology, Charles B. Phiefer
A NetSolve client for Windows NT/95, Rick Phillips
Economic evaluation of alternative income protection strategies for West Tennessee corn producers, Walter Ray Philpot
Derivation of site-specific water quality criteria for selected metals, Terry L. Phipps
Abundance, growth, and movement of brown trout in a second order Tennessee stream, Ryan Michael Phirman
Flight test safety : lessons learned from an S-3B flight test mishap during a frequency domain test, Brett Matthew Pierson
Construction and characterization of high molecular weight DNA clones of legumes for positional cloning, Sanjeev Vasu Pillai
Modeling the response of a Harshaw albedo neutron dosimeter using the Monte Carlo n-particle transport code, MCNP, Christina Beth Pomatto
Trajectory analysis of the split Mars Design Reference Mission, Brian M. Portock
Water quality and ecological impacts of watering cattle adjacent to a small middle Tennessee stream, Jeffrey Russell Powell
Three newspaper's responses to six critical television appearances by John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon, Joseph R. Priest
A low dead time variable CMOS delay for the nuclear weapons identification system, Bryan Scott Puckett
A Methodology for Acoustic Measurement and Separation of Background Noise, Sekhar Radhakrishnan
Classification of human chromosomes in context using constrained Markov networks and Bayesian probability, Corey D. Ramey
Optical Model Methods of Predicting Nuclide Fragment Production for Space and Radiation Therapy Applications, Chester R. Ramsey
Athletics donor motivation and behavior, Virginia Susan Ratliff
A two-case study of band broadening in liquid chromatography, Preshious R. A. Rearden
Benthic macrofaunal invertebrates of the East Siberian and Chukchi Seas : benthic biomass, community structure and radionuclide contamination, Andrew Jay Reed
Genetic variation in selected acorn and seedling characteristics of northern red oak (Quercus rubra L.)., Mark Alexander Remaley
Green fluorescent protein as a reporter gene for orchardgrass leaf transformation, Harold A. Richards
Secular change in external femoral measures from 1840 to 1970 : a biomechanical interpretation, Lauren Amber Rockhold
A method using computational fluid dynamics for evaluating a correlation for shock shape with a temperature gradient over spherical nose bodies in perfect gas air, Brian Edward Roebuck
An evaluation of the man-machine interface with the advanced tactical airborne reconnaissance system installed in the F/A-18D aircraft, Marty Rollinger
Autism etiologies as an information mapping problem, Jeffrey Brian Romanczuk
Boundary layer wind flow characteristics and wind effects on low-rise buildings, Ronald Albert Saklem
A study of the relationship between the African American-owned advertising agancy and the U.S. advertising industry, Diana Briscoe Scales
Effects of stretch, angiotensin II and aldosterone on nonmyocyte hyperplasia and collagen synthesis, Robin Thieme Scarborough
Phylogenic reconstruction in Eupatorium (Asteraceae: Eupatorieae) using its DNA sequences, Gregory John Schmidt
The Pack Horse Library Project of Eastern Kentucky: 1936-1943, Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer
A case study of the role of public relations during a fund-raising campaign in a crisis : 1997 Great Knoxville Rubber Duck Race, Amy Jean Seifert
NCAA division I women's vollyball players' perceptions of psychological momentum, Elizabeth Maureen Shannon
Manipulating aerodynamic boundary layers : using an electrohydrodynamic effect generated by a One Atmosphere Uniform Glow Discharge Plasma, Daniel Max Sherman
Sexual harassment in collegiate sport, Lia Ann Sheucraft
Use of commercial electronic components in missile systems, Randall G. Short
The reduction of Ytterbium(III) to Ytterbium(II) using magnesium, James Dustin Siler
A geomorphological investigation of soils forming on the Humboldt terrace in western Tennessee, David Edward Smith
Mach Number Uniformity in a 16-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel at Arnold Engineering Development Center, David H. Smith
On the solvable, nilpotent, and supersolvable groups of order at most two hundred, Derek Keith Smith
Political culture and propaganda : a comparison of the films Kolberg and Bataan, Sandra Ransier Smith
Effects of air temperature and soil moisture on the brooding behavior of the five-lined skink, Eumeces fasciatus, Stacy E. Smith
Musician's earplugs for orchestral musicians, Selena Brown Snowden
Wavelet analysis to characterize nonlinearities and predict limit cycles of an aeroelastic system, Kyle T. Snyder
Acoustic characteristics of European-American and Latin-American male adults during oral reading and sustained phonation of vowels, Heather Sonner-Ward
Increased learning of a physical science concept, simple machines, via an interactive multimedia exhibit compared to a hands-on exhibit in a science museum setting, Roberta Gomes de Souza Ayres
Photochemical decomposition of Brij-35 and hexachlorobenzene by UV/hydrogen peroxide and photo-Fenton oxidation, Mack Bradley Sparks
16s ribosomal RNA analysis to detect soil microbial community shifts in response to changing agricultural practices from row crops to short rotation woody crops, Julia O'Neal Stair
Effects on pH, surfactant concentration, and surface type on the removal of an oil from a solid surface, Byron Ashley Starkweather
Untold pains and aches' : the long-term effects of wounding on Tennessee Confederate veterans, Kathryn W. St Clair
A metric tensor in cosmology, Charles Shane Stein
Convex cones, polyhedral sets and polytopes applied to linear systems and linear programming, Donna Creel Stein
The influence and interaction of breed and processing on pork tenderness, Salena Gibbons Stevens
Constructing a hybrid of R67 dihydrofolate reductase to study asymmetric mutations in the active site, Michael Brad Strader
Habitat Use and Effects of Prescribed Fire on Black Bears in Northwestern Florida, Marty R. Stratman
Study of second-order floating-point low roundoff noise IIR filter implementation in FPGA, Bo Su
A behavioral and physiological study of a silverback gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) bachelor group, Karen Marie Sughrue
Applications of capillary electrophoresis to environmentally interesting molecules and single-component combinatory libraries, Susan SiXun Sun
Assessment of the arachidonic acid content in a select group of foods commonly consumed in the American diet, Laura Taber
Reality, John Duncan Talbird
An investigation of children's perceptions of the emotional climate of their schools, Kimberly Ann Taliano
Coping, power, and satisfaction in marriage, Holly Elizabeth Tatum
Radiation doses and health risks from radionuclides released into the Clinch River in support of the Oak Ridge dose reconstruction project, Brian A. Thomas
Framing the public's opinion : concept and frame mapping of President Clinton's alleged sexual scandals as depicted in the mainstream media and Usenet newsgroups, Mary Ruth Thompson
Optical interface for an intelligent wireless sensor and system, Timothy Dan Threatt
Fatigue theory survey and comparison for assessing high cycle fatigue, Thomas F. Tibbals
Analysis of the floating bottleneck in pull production systems, Chad Aaron Toney
Changing of the cards : chronicling the growth of Las Vegas and its industries, Gregory David Toth
CH-46E helicopter automatic flight control system evaluation, Eric Brent Treworgy
Evaluation of a separation-based fiber-optic sensor in a micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography mode of operation, Victoria Tropina
Prairie View A&M University women's track and field 1972-1980 : a case study of a historically black college, Robin Lynn Truiett
Laser lap welding of 80Y90T steel with plasma arc augmentation, Glendon Tyree
Behavioral modeling for system level simulation and verification of a microelectronic system controller, Badhri Narayanan Uppiliappan
At the end of the Road to Nowhere : an analysis of the North Shore Road conflict in Swain County, North Carolina, Lisa Marie Valdez
The Countess of Dia : a feminine voice in Provence, Karen Denise Van Guilder
The Impacts of Tourism on Space and Place in Jonesborough, Tennessee, Elizabeth E. Van Horn
Design of low-level current sources for addressable electron emitter array, Jason Michael Vann
Influence of Bt cotton on beneficial arthropod populations, Nancy Burkhead Van Tol
The study of politics in Cyprus' sport, Andreas Vasiliou
Using adult redirects and prompts to increase interactions among children with autism and their normally developing peers, Misty Ann Vetter
The effect of volatile fatty acid inclusion in drinking water on intestinal microflora, VFA, pH, dry matter, and performance in weanling pigs, Robert Jason Vickers
The Shotgun House in Knoxville, Tennessee, Dagmar VonToal
The Ontogeny of Red Wolf (Canis rufus) Social Behavior: Implications for Sociality and Taxonomic Status, Tarren Kay Wagener
Characteristics of soils along the Elk River, southcentral Tennessee : implications for soil and landscape genesis, and archaeology, John Stuart Wah
Rivers of urgent breath, Stacy Jones Waller
Coaxial thermal pulsed plasma thrusters, Thomas H. Walloschek
The four phases of the Deutsches Wöerbuch, Susan Katherine Wall
Historic french scenic paperhangings in Flat Rock, North Carolina 1800-1850, Elizabeth J. Washburn
A flight test evaluation of seaplane takeoff performance with respect to delta ratio, William Bryan Waters
Urban revitalization and the use of sports facilities : a case study of Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Lawrence Hemphill Watson
Issue saliency and voting turnout in the 1996 general election : the case of Knox County, Tennessee, Jennifer Simpson Weems
Fast prototyping on personal computers, Stefan Weidmann
Vibrational analysis of growth hormone modulated healing of a canine radial partial ostectomy, Joseph P. Weigel
Bringing literature alive through drama for middle school students, Joellen Weis
Effects of intravenous hypertonic urea on distorion product otoacoustic emissions in cats, Erin Lee Wendover
The design and application of ICAT : Interactive Cluster Analysis Toolkit, Dax Marek Westerman
Analyzing ecotourism potential using geographic information systems, Nathan A. West
Design and comparison of a small, monolithic weighing lysimeter to a large lysimeter and to the penman and penman-monteith equations, Christopher Ray Wheeler
Spirit in the age of information : rethinking inside-outside relationships in architecture as an approach to reflective contemporary practice, Juliany Wibisono
Influence of modified atmosphere packaging on survival and recovery of sublethally heat- and acid-injured Listeria monocytogenes, Robert Charles Williams