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Author:

Stark, Mary

Title:

A Case Study Of Formal And Informal Learning Among Displaced Mountain Residents From Greene County, Virginia

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

formal learning
informal learning
mountain people
rural education
resettlement
Greene County
Virginia

File:

Download Stormy_Stark_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacqueline A Stefkovich, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacqueline A Stefkovich, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward J Fuller, Committee Member
Jacqueline J A Reid Walsh, Committee Member
Frederick Dudley Loomis Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Wood, Jonathan Sayre

Title:

Causal inference in traffic safety research: comparison of the empirical Bayes and propensity scores-potential outcomes methods

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Causal inference
empirical Bayes
transportation safety
genetic matching
propensity scores
crash modification factor

File:

Download Wood_Doctoral_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Todd Donnell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sukran Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
Martin T Pietrucha, Committee Member
Luke John Keele, Special Member
Glenn A Firebaugh, Special Member

Author:

Berg, Bjorn Konrad

Title:

The Credit Relevance of Litigation Materiality Disclosures

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Litigation
Credit Relevance
Contingencies
Materiality
Disclosure
Uncertainty
Cost of Capital

File:

Download Bjorn_Berg.pdf

Committee Members:

Guojin Gong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guojin Gong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steven J Huddart, Committee Member
Karl A Muller Iii, Committee Member
Samuel C Thompson Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Zheng, Saijing

Title:

Occupy MOOCs: Understanding Users' Motivations, Perceptions and Activity Trajectories

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

MOOCs
Massive Open Online Courses
Motivation
Perceptions
mix-method

File:

Download Dissertation-Saijing_Zheng-Final_Version2.pdf

Committee Members:

John Millar Carroll, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Millar Carroll, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kyle Leonard Peck, Committee Member
Zhenhui Li, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Denagamage, Thomas Nishantha

Title:

Epidemiology, risk factors, and control of Salmonella Enteritidis contamination of commercial layer flocks and shell eggs

Graduate Program:

Pathobiology

Keywords:

Foodborne
EQAP
Epidemiology
Phage typing
Poultry
PFGE
Risk factors
Salmonella Enteritidis
Shell eggs
Systematic review

File:

Download DISSERTATION_DENAGAMAGE_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Bhushan M Jayarao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bhushan M Jayarao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward G Dudley, Committee Member
Girish Soorappa Kirimanjeswara, Committee Member
Eugene Joseph Lengerich, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Mei Hsuan

Title:

Taiwanese pre-service teachers' play perceptions and practice: a case study

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Children's play
perceptions of play
practice of children's play
the implementation of children's play
teacher preparation

File:

Download Vianas_Dissertation_2016_Final__.pdf

Committee Members:

James Ewald Johnson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Ewald Johnson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Edward Poehner, Committee Member
Roger C Shouse, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member
William Carlsen, Special Member

Author:

Shi, Huanhuan

Title:

essays on causal analysis of strategic marketing decisions

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

causal analysis
marketing strategy
advertising expense
voluntary disclosure
sales force departure

File:

Download dissertation_Huanhuan_Shi_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Shrihari Sridhar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rajdeep Grewal, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary L Lilien, Committee Member
Steven J Huddart, Committee Member

Author:

Breon, Luke Justin

Title:

Ultrasonic Guided Wave Propagation in Pipes with Elbows

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Guided Wave
Pipe
Elbow
Focusing
Complex Waveguides
Mode Tracing

File:

Download 1-Breon_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Judith Todd Copley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith Todd Copley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Committee Member
Kyusun Choi, Committee Member
Richard Laurence Tutwiler, Committee Member

Author:

Martin, Rebekah Elizabeth

Title:

The Practice of Medicine in Yucatan and the Southern Gulf Coast, 1600-1830

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

History of Medicine
Yucatan
New Spain
Legitimacy

File:

Download Martin_Dissertation_2016_Revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Bennett Restall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amara Leah Solari, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Bennett Restall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn Elizabeth Salzer, Committee Member
Kent Russell Lohse, Committee Member
Bradford Albert Bouley, Committee Member
Colleen Connolly Ahern, Committee Member

Author:

Wal, Megha

Title:

Mechanism For Nucleosome Organization Reconstituted Across A Eukaryotic Genome

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

nucleosome
chromatin remodelers
in vitro reconstitution
yeast

File:

Download Megha_Wal_Thesis_2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Benjamin Franklin Pugh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin Franklin Pugh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph C. Reese, Committee Member
Song Tan, Committee Member
Ross Cameron Hardison, Committee Member
Tae Hee Lee, Committee Member