Theses/Dissertations from 2018
“I’ve Always Identified with the Women:” How Appalachian Women Ballad Singers’ Repertoire Choices Reflect Their Gendered Concerns, Sara Lynch-Thomason
Preschool Teachers' Perceptions of Children Prenatally Exposed to Drugs, Brandie D. Maness
Parent and Teacher Perceptions of Elementary School Homework, Jimmy Marcum
Hearing Through Walls, Bradley Marshall
Evaluating Socially Determined Health in Rural Appalachia: Use of the Social Quality Theory, Paula Masters
A School of Choice: A Case Study of an Instructional Learning Model in a Public School System, Samuel McCord
Up on the Mountain, Down in the Valley: An Examination of the Impacts of Maternal Incarceration, Tessa McCoy-Hall
Factors Impacting Bone Mineral Density (BMD) Results of Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD), Rhonda McNabb
Post-transcriptional Regulation of RsmA In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Ian Miller
Effect of Root Cause Analysis on Pre-Licensure, Senior-Level Nursing Students’ Safe Medication Administration Practices, Kristi Miller
Eyring Activation Energy Analysis of Acetic Anhydride Hydrolysis in Acetonitrile Cosolvent Systems, Nathan Mitchell
Resilience of Nigerian Widows in the Face of Harmful Widowhood Practices in Southwest Nigeria: An Interdisciplinary Analysis, Esosa Mohammed
Does Spaceflight Increase the Chance of Female Astronauts Developing Uterine Cancer?, Areej Mosa
Eggplants and Peaches: Understanding Emoji Usage on Grindr, Emeka E. Moses
HIV Integrase Inhibitor Pharmacogenetics and Clinical Outcomes: An Exploratory Association Study, Derek E. Murrell
The Talk: Christian Right and Liberal Left Rhetoric about Sex Education, True Neal
Comparing Laser Assisted Pulling and Chemical Vapor Deposition Methods in the Fabrication of Carbon Ultramicro- and Nanoelectrodes, Theophilus Neequaye
Undergraduate Student Perceptions of AP and Dual Enrollment in Relation to College Readiness Skills, Ashleigh E. Norris-Shu
Fossil Moles from the Gray Fossil Site, TN: Implications for Diversification and Evolution of North American Talpidae, Danielle Oberg
America’s Inconsistent Foreign Policy to Africa; a Case Study of Apartheid South Africa, Olugbenga Samson Ojewale Mr
Kinetics and Activation Energy Parameters for Hydrolysis of Acetic Anhydride in a Water-Acetone Cosolvent System, Samson Olowoyo
Clustering Mixed Data: An Extension of the Gower Coefficient with Weighted L2 Distance, Augustine Oppong
Police Perceptions on False Accusations of Sexual Assault, Danielle Ostrander
The Study of Alcoholic Liver Diseases, Seun Emmanuel Owoseni
Thriving in a Fortune 500 Company: A Case Study of Grit, Resilience, and Employee Perceptions, April Pack
A Phenomenological Study on Teacher Perception of Change in School Culture as a Result of the Implementation of Mindfulness, Justin Penley
Relationship of the SRSS Questionnaire with Physiological and Performance Measures, Alec Perkins
Relationships Between Institutional Characteristics and Student Retention and Graduation Rates at SACSCOC Level III Institutions, Kala Perkins-Holtsclaw
Officer Perceptions on Armed Campuses, Paul Perry
Attitudes and General Knowledge of Affirmative Action in Higher Education Admissions At One Historically Black University in Tennessee, James E. Peters
Do Healthcare Students Endorsing Stigma of Mental Illness Screen for Suicidal Ideation? An Evaluation of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors, Dannel K. Petgrave
Distribution of a Sum of Random Variables when the Sample Size is a Poisson Distribution, Mark Pfister
Precalculus and ACT: A Quantitative Study of Five Tennessee High Schools, Michelle R. Phipps
Pre-kindergarten and Kindergarten Teachers' Perceptions of the Student Growth Portfolio Model in Tennessee, Amanda Pickens
The Open Door, Dollar Diplomacy, and the Self-Strengthening Movement: The Birth of American Idealist Imperialism in China, 1890 - 1912, Frederic Poag
Effects of Gender, Age, and Nutrition on Circadian Locomotor Activity Rhythms in the Flesh Fly Sarcophaga crassipalpis, Fritz Prohaska
Self-Compassion and Suicidal Behavior: Indirect Effects of Depression, Anxiety, and Hopelessness across Increasingly Vulnerable Samples, Jessica K. Rabon
Characterization of Acyltransferases and WRINKLED Orthologs Involved in TAG Biosynthesis in Avocado, Md Mahbubur Rahman
Assessing Readiness for Group Therapy in Primary Care: An Initial Survey Exploring Need, Philip Randall
Warning Confidence and Perceptions of Lava Flow Hazard Diversion Strategies at Kīlauea and Mauna Loa volcanoes, Hawai‘i, Ashleigh Reeves
Running the Health Care Marathon: An Ethnography of a Charitable Clinic in a Rural Appalachian Community, Courtney A. Rhoades
Undesirable Forms, Maria Risner
Inescapably Social: Dimensions of Self Construction in the Virtual Social World of Runescape, Isaac Robe
Postcranial Morphology and the Locomotor Adaptations of Extant and Extinct Crocodylomorphs and Lepidosaurs, Laura Rooney
Italian Domination in Complementary Prisms, Haley D. Russell
Bertha Harris' Confessions of Cherubino: From L'Ecriture Feminine to the Gothic South, Kara Russell
The Role of CYP2A5 in Cadmium-Induced Liver Injury, Julia Salamat
TCAP Assessment in Correlation with and as Compared by STAR Assessment, Brooke Sampson
“I’ve Been Given the Wrong Mother:” Reconsidering Absent Mothers in Postmodern British Literature, Amanda G. Sawyers