Masters Theses
Masters Theses from 2021
Thermodynamic Analysis of an Autogenous Pressurization System, Samuel H. Smith
TRAINING CHARACTERISTICS AND POWER PROFILES OF USA CYCLING ROAD CYCLISTS, Robert Sroka
Black Men’s Intimate Partner Violence Victimization, Help-Seeking, and Barriers to Help-Seeking, Meagan A. Stewart
Drought-stress-inducible synthetic promoters in rice (Oryza sativa), Paolo Montano Tagaloguin
The Desire to Train: A Motivational Profile of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Players, Terrance Tarver
Modeling Emergence of Annual Bluegrass (Poa annua L.) in Hybrid Bermudagrass [C. dactylon (L.) Pers. x C. transvaalensis Burtt-Davy], Dallas Rose Taylor
Rare Earth-Doped Glass-Ceramic Scintillators as X-Ray Flat Panel Detector Substrates, Austin M. Thomas
Queering Disasters: Embodied Crises in Post-Harvey Houston, Thomas T. Tran
Messy Zoning and Studentification: Fort Sanders in Knoxville, Tennessee, Yael Uziel
Creaky Voice: Interactional Effects in Production and Perception, Victoria Anita Voorhees
Bioretention Cell Performance Under Shifting Precipitation Patterns Across the Contiguous United States, Matthew Weathers
Reference Price Effect on Consumer Preference: Evidence from Food Labeling, Xiaohan Wei
Determining Critical Fall Height for Bermudagrass Grown on Sand and Native Soil Root Zones, Taylor L. Williams
Assessment of Maternal Perceptions on Post-Surgical Follow-up in Managing Tethered Oral Tissues, Taylor Winkel
The Effect of Inputs on Poultry Production Output, Ty M. Wolaver
Whose Voices are Heard? Sources Quoted in Media Coverage of Amateurism and NIL Rights in College Sport, Peyton L. Woods
Exploring the Fourth Reality: Cultural Anthropologists' Reflections on Expert Witnessing for Asylum Cases, Mary Ruth Wossum-Fisher
Development of A Point-of-Use Testing Platform for Detecting Bacteria Infection in Raw Milk, Xin Xia
Social Inequity in Memories of Shakespeare: The Fetishizing Power of the Globe Theatre, Reagan A Yessler
Effects of Pillar and Sealing Design on thermal and Mechanical Performance of Vacuum Insulated Glazing, Wenyuan Zhu
Cover Crop Treatment Impacts on Selected Soil Health Indicators in Two Tennessee Long-term No-till Corn-Soybean Rotations, Adam A. Zimmerman
Fungicide sensitivity and spore trapping of Cercospora sojina, Elias Zuchelli
Masters Theses from 2020
The Economics of Global Saturated Fat Intake and Implications for Public Health, Amelia Grace Ahles
Assessing the Role of Biased Competition in 5- and 11-month-old Infants, Amanda Marie Ainsley
Fission Gas Behavior in Nuclear Fuels, Abdullah Alani
Patterns within centimeter-scale bedding in carbonate rocks in the Archean Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa, James Harvey Alexander
GRANT: Ground-Roaming Autonomous Neuromorphic Targeter, Jonathan Daniel Ambrose
Generation of ORIGEN Reactor Libraries for Liquid-Fueled Molten Salt Reactors, Kyle Everett Anderson
Empirical Modeling of Used Nuclear Fuel Radiation Emissions for Safeguards Purposes, Amanda M. Bachmann
Zone-based Manufacturing, Abhay Rajendra Bajpai
“One Day Dictated So Much”: A Qualitative Study on the Long-Term Effects of Behavioral Management Charts, Aya E. Barnes
Towards a Counter-History of the Maghreb: Rewriting the Precolonial Past in the Works of Driss Chraïbi, Tahar Djaout, and Assia Djebar, Allison Grace Becha
Biaxial behavior and design of steel-concrete composite columns, Amirfarzad Behnam
Associations between diet quality and intentions to lose weight in an adolescent sample, Morganne Belton
TEACHING BEHIND BARS: THE TEACHING LIFE HISTORIES OF EDUCATORS WHO HAVE WORKED IN JUVENILE DETENTION CENTERS, Karina Beltran
Estimating the Effects of Small-Scale Broiler Poultry Farming on Increasing Rwandan Meat Protein Consumption, Sarah Berman
The Role of Water Solubility and Diffusion Coefficient in Air of Chlorine Dioxide Gas during Surface Decontamination and Compatibility of Selected Plastics and Elastomers, Mario Ernesto Bermudez Gonzalez
Predicting voluntary forage intake of supplemented beef cattle, Connor Biehler
2S Mobile Battery Charger with Integrated Cell Balancing, Quillen Vaughn Blalock
Adapted Physical Education and Adapted Sport in Higher Education, Avery Blankenburg
Improving Convolutional Neural Network Robustness to Adversarial Images Through Image Filtering, Natalie E. Bogda
Staphylococcus Carnosus CS 300 Grown Under Varying Conditions at 42°C as a Potential Surrogate for Correlation of Hepatitis A Virus Inactivation in Select Foods, Alexander Bowman
Cool-season annual cover crop species and dual-use forage cover crops in no-till Tennessee production systems, Weston Michael Bracey
The Effect of Supplemental Protein on the Uterine Environment during Heifer Development, Kiernan James Brandt
It’s All in the Mix: Physiological Effects of Fatty Acid Supplementation on Enterococcus faecalis, William Thomas Brewer V
Supplementing White Light with Narrow-Band Light Wavelengths Impacts Cilantro Yield, Colin Brice
Stochastic Neuron Design for the mrDANNA Neuromorphic Architecture, Samuel Denis Brown
Tweet diffusion over space and time: A comparison of a winter-weather and tornado-outbreak case study, Alyssa Margaret Cannistraci
Computational Fluid Dynamics Assessment of Laminar-Turbulent Boundary Layer Transition and its Application to Rotorcraft, Jared Alexander Carnes
Emotional Destruction: How Supervisors Can Transform a Subordinate’s Emotions Towards the Workplace, Diane K. Carr
A Multi-Proxy Record of Paleoenvironmental Change from a Southern Belizean Pine Savanna, Jacob Cecil
Effects of Soil Conservation Practices on Soil Properties in a Cotton and Soybean System in West Tennessee, Safak Ceylan
Synthesis of Well-Defined Binary Mixed Brushes on 20 nm Silica Nanoparticles and Asymmetrically End- Functionalized Semicrystalline Poly(ε-caprolactone)s, Andrew J. Chancellor
Inactivation of Human Norovirus Surrogates, Feline Calicivirus and Tulane Virus, by Ozonated Water, Joseph Choi
Occupy the Food Supply: The University of Tennessee and Food Insecurity, Bryan Clayborne
Retrospective Reports of Fathering and New Fathers’ Parenting Identities, Shelby Taylor Clouthier
Optical Measurements of Viscous Interactions on a Hollow-Cylinder / Flare in a Mach 4 Freestream, Jack William Cobourn
Borderline Features Mediate the Association between the Experience of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Opioid Misuse among Pregnant Women, Chloe T. Cohen
Improving Stream Bank Erosion Estimates by Adjusting the Applied Shear Stress for Different Bank Characteristics, Justin Condon
The Impact of Objects’ Visual Properties on Infant Reaching Strategies, John Paul Connell
Validation of the College Planning Behaviors Scale, Katherine Danielle Cook
Making Orange Green? A Critical Geographic Approach to Carbon Footprinting Tennessee Football Tourism, Jacob Alexander Cooper
Conservation of Terrestrial Salamanders Through Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Management in Eastern Hemlock Forests within Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Jonathan Lawrence Cox
Methodology for Source Term Analysis of a Molten Salt Reactor, Sarah Creasman
The IBC-Why Model: Juggling structure and rhetorical theory in the first-year composition classroom, JESSICA ANNE CYPHERS
Utilization of Raman Spectroscopic Techniques for Forensic Science Applications, Alyssa Rose Daniel
A System Dynamics Approach to Sediment Management at Small Hydropower Facilities, Sarah Ann Dowda
ALTERNATIVE MODERATOR CONCEPTS FOR MODULAR/MICRO HIGH TEMPERATURE GAS-COOLED REACTORS, Edward Matthew Duchnowski
Measurement and Analysis of Pressure Profile for Nozzle Based Single Screw Extrusion Systems, Jake Dvorak
Study of a Position Sensing Gas Proportional Detector for Decommissioning, Christopher Echterling
Exploring the Effects of Response Type in a Visual Working Memory Task: An fNIRS Study, Rachel Eddings
DETECTION OF METASTATIC CANCERS IN BONE: A COMPARISON OF MACROSCOPIC AND RADIOGRAPHIC METHODS, Sara Fatula
Network Analysis of Protein Structure Networks Upon Ligand Binding, David Foutch
Strength and Reliability of Bolted Connections Susceptible to Tearout, Nicolo Franceschetti
Carbon Metabolism in Cave Subaerial Biofilms, Victoria E. Frazier
Development and Testing of a GIS-Based Method to Detect and Characterize Sinkholes, Bridgette Ingram Fritz
ALTERED EXPRESSION OF BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR IMPAIRS REM SLEEP ACTIVITY IN SPRAGUE-DAWLEY RATS: A SECONDARY ANALYSIS, Jennifer Marie Garner
Protagoras's Teaching Promises a Modified Version of Homeric Virtue, Mary Gatta
A Neuroscience-Inspired Approach to Training Spiking Neural Networks, James Michael Ghawaly Jr.
Consumer Preferences for Environmentally Friendly Disposable Dinnerware Alternatives, Mackenzie Gill
Preterm Birth Among Opioid-Using Women Vs. High Risk Controls: The Potential Moderating Role of Borderline Features, Andrea Maria Gorrondona
Roles of Select Cytochrome P450 Epoxygenases in Brown Adipogenesis, Katherine Marie Graham
Impacts of Tariffs and Trade Agreements on Japanese Wine Imports by Source, Emily Katherine Greear
Evaluating the Effects of Scan Strategy on AM Annealed Fe-3Si steel through Understanding of Solidification Conditions and Thermal Stresses, Michael P. Haines
Incorporating Aural Skills in The Teaching of Middle and High School Instrumental Ensembles, Adrian Hartsough
Social Rhythms and Health Outcomes in Young Adults, Grace Marie Hawkins
Asch and AI: Conformity to Non-Human Intelligence, Andrew Stephen Heim
Effects of a moderate and aggressive implant strategy on the rumen microbial community and metabolome in steers, Madison Henniger
The Use of Optical In-Situ Data of Tensile Samples to Model Porosity for Part Qualification of AM 316L, Caitlin Hensley
The Parent Influence: The Relationship Among Family Communication Patterns, Student Financial Literacy, and College Choice, Casey Lynn Hillon
Providing Real-time Driver Advisories in Connected Vehicles: A Data-Driven Approach Supported by Field Experimentation, Mohammad Asadul Hoque
CHOICE OF CRITERION MEASURE MATTERS FOR VALIDATING ESTIMATES OF YOUTH SEDENTARY BEHAVIOR: DIRECT OBSERVATION VERSUS INDIRECT CALORIMETRY VERSUS BOTH, Minttu Karoliina Hukka
Pinocchio: An Opera in Two Acts, Aaron Lee Hunt
Information Theory Problem Description Parser, Gary Brent Hurst