Theses/Dissertations from 2018
“Friendship with a Brand”: Parasocial Interaction with Burger Brands on Social Media, Alexander E. Carter
An Assessment of the Factors that Increase the Likeliness of Hispanic Students to Attend Higher Education in Northeast Tennessee, Denise Chavez Reyes
The 2-Domination Number of a Caterpillar, Presley Chukwukere
School Library Access as Related to Student Reading Comprehension in an Urban East Tennessee School District, Lori Church
Escaping the Arrhenius Tyranny: Metabolic Compensation during exposure to high temperature in Daphnia, Bret L. Coggins
Gaming Behaviors in Day-to-Day Life: Exploring a Problematic Gaming Behavior Scale, Christin Collie
HIV-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors in Two Low Resource Settings, Candice Lynn Collins
“You Can’t Put a Price on Something That’s Not for Sale”: Eminent Domain in St. Paul, Virginia (1970 - 1985), Evan Couch
Environmental Deterioration in Contemporary Appalachian Literature: A Biblical Ecocritical Analysis of Serena and Strange as This Weather Has Been, Alexandria C. Craft
Direct and Indirect Effects of Invasive Cirsium arvense on Pollination in Southern Appalachian Floral Communities, Jesse Daniels
The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Adipokine Secretion, Ashley DeGroat
Diel Rhythmicity Found in Behavior but Not Biogenic Amine Levels in the Funnel-Web Spider Agelenopsis pennsylvanica (Araneae, Agelenidae), Alexander E. DeMarco
Knowledge and Recommendations of Dietary Supplements by Healthcare Professionals to Treat Patients Post-Cardiac Event, Elise Deming
Comparison of Learning Outcomes from Online and Face-to-Face Accounting Courses, Joel Faidley
Improving Sinkhole Mapping Using LiDAR Data and Locating Sinkhole Hotspots in Johnson City, TN, Kingsley Fasesin
The Expected Number of Patterns in a Random Generated Permutation on [n] = {1,2,...,n}, Evelyn Fokuoh
Worlds with Words: Discourse and Frame Analysis of Performance Storytelling, Chelise Fox
Vector Partitions, Jennifer French
The Inclusive Classroom: Perceptions of General and Special Educators’ Preparedness to Meet the Needs of Students with Disabilities, Allecia Frizzell
Italian Domination on Ladders and Related Products, Bradley Gardner
Evaluating the Influences of Domestic Violence Training on the Attitudes and Perceptions of Police Recruits at the East Tennessee Regional Law Enforcement Academy, Jeffrey T. Gazzo Mr.
The Ecology of Fecal Indicators, Dennis A. Gilfillan
Fascicle Arrangement in College-Aged Athletes, Jacob Goodin
Quantitative Studies of Amyloidogenic Protein Residue Interaction Networks and Abnormal Ammonia Metabolism in Neurotoxicity and Disease, Jeddidiah Griffin
New Criticism—Not So New to Tennessee’s High School English Teachers, Seth Grindstaff
The Effect of Ethanol on Skeletal Muscle Endocrine Function and the Novel Myokines Myonectin and Irisin, Kendra Hagood
Perceptions of Confidentiality and Stigma Associated with use of Counseling Services, Jesi Hall
Imidacloprid Persistence, Mobility, and Effect on Ecosystem Function, Joanna Hardin
Teacher Perceptions of the Tennessee Educator Acceleration Model (TEAM), Kelley Harrell
Self-Organized Structures: Modeling Polistes dominula Nest Construction with Simple Rules, Matthew Harrison
A Normal Form for Words in the Temperley-Lieb Algebra and the Artin Braid Group on Three Strands, Jack Hartsell
The Doyen of Dixie: A Survey of the Banjo Stylings of Uncle Dave Macon, Corbin F. Hayslett
The American and Swedish Criminal Justice System: A Comparative Study, Josefin Hedstrom
Rediscovering the Art of Nursing for Nursing Practice, Deborah Henry
Perceived Stress Among Police and Correctional Officers, Travis D. Hill
Political Competition and Predictors of Hate Crime: A County-level Analysis, Eaven Holder
Digging Into Playwriting, Gleason Holt
Political Journalists Tweet About the Final 2016 Presidential Debate, Hannah Hopper
PA2771 Affects algZ expression and AlgZ/R Phenotypic Outputs in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Abigail Hughes
School Climate: A Comparison of Teachers, Students, and Parents, James A. Jacobs
Proximal Minority Stress, Drinking Motives, and Alcohol Use in Appalachian Sexual Minority Women, Sarah Job
An Intersectional Feminist Perspective of Emmett Till in Young Adult Literature, Claire Jones
The Impact of a Sixth Grade Laptop Initiative on Student Attitudes Concerning Their Learning and Technological Competencies, Jamie Jordan
Teacher Perceptions of Inclusion and Students with Autism, Nancy Keener
Developing Optimization Techniques for Logistical Tendering Using Reverse Combinatorial Auctions, Jennifer Kiser
Examining the Relationship between Offending Behaviors of Adult Male Offenders and the Social Bonds of Attachment and Commitment, Josie Klepper
Performance Assessment of The Extended Gower Coefficient on Mixed Data with Varying Types of Functional Data., Obed Koomson