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Caffeine supplementation and reactive agility in elite youth soccer players /

Jordan, James (Middle Tennessee State University, 2012)

Caffeine has been shown to provide ergogenic benefits to sports performance. However, limited research is available on the effects of caffeine on agility performance. This study examined the effects of 6 mg kg -1 body mass ...

CAI Portfolio English 111 : a new direction for freshman composition at Middle Tennessee State University.

Clayton, Maria (Middle Tennessee State University, 1998)

A paradigm shift occurred in writing instruction theory and pedagogy during the 1970's, a shift that mandated a move away from the current-traditional emphasis on product and towards a new, more rhetorically-based focus ...

Camus, Heller, and the Absurd Legal Novel

Parris, Matthew (University Honors College Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-12-11)

This thesis takes a critical look at Albert Camus’ The Stranger and Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 as two works in a new proposed subgenre of literature: the absurd legal novel. The Stranger’s court system relies on an ...

Can You Hear Me?: Sound-Capturing Technology and the Problem of Obsolescence

Adkins, Heather Michelle (Middle Tennessee State University, 2013-10-29)

This thesis examines technological obsolescence in archival record-keeping. In part a material culture study of the Gray Audograph, a dictation machine popular from the 1940s to its discontinuation in the 1970s, and in ...

Capacity utilization : predictor of inflation.

Wilkes, William (Middle Tennessee State University, 1998)

The current challenge confronting the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank (FOMC) in achieving price stability requires the facility to forecast changes in the rate of inflation and to implement timely ...

The capillary gas chromatographic profiling of human skin surface lipids for forensic application.

Wilson, Linda (Middle Tennessee State University, 1986)

Profile analysis has been applied to the study of human skin surface lipids (SSL) to determine their utility in forensic applications. SSL were collected from the forehead and cheek of 23 volunteers. A pentane extract was ...

Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Grenadian Women

Todd, Angela Fachini (Middle Tennessee State University, 2017-02-23)

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Cardiovascular fitness gains in selected college-level activities.

Ward, Sue (Middle Tennessee State University, 1986)

The purpose of this dissertation was to determine the expected cardiovascular fitness gains in selected college-level activities. The study tested the following activities: aerobic dance, jazz dance, social dance, and ...

Cardiovascular system response to therapeutic water treadmill walking in older adults /

Dolbow, David (Middle Tennessee State University, 2005)

Because older adults have a greater propensity toward musculoskeletal problems, aquatic exercise is a valuable modality for rehabilitation and physical training. However, little research has been completed concerning the ...

Career Indecision: A Possible Explanation for Low Retention Rates

Farrar, Haley (Middle Tennessee State University, 2015-06-26)

This study surveyed undergraduate students in order to examine the relationships between career indecision and a number of different variables to see if certain characteristics led students to be more likely to experience ...

Caregivers or Drug Pushers?: An Examination of Medical Practitioner Stigma and Empathic Communication towards Opioid Abuse

England, Tatum (University Honors College, Middle Tennessee State University, 2019-12-04)

The opioid crisis has reached a boiling point in Tennessee. As a result, a comprehensive plan, entitled TN Together, was launched by the State of Tennessee to address the growing epidemic. However, an area remarkably ...

Carson McCullers and Modernism

Johnson, Margaret Anne (Middle Tennessee State University, 2016-10-28)

To read Carson McCullers solely through the lenses of autobiography, Southern regionalism, or the Gothic—as many scholars and critics have done in the past—is to neglect her artistry as a writer who also scrutinized and ...

CARVING OUT A PLACE IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: AMERICAN AUTHORS OF CHINESE, JAPANESE, AND KOREAN DESCENT

Cho, Seokhee (Middle Tennessee State University, 2019)

Asian American authors have been producing works for children for more than a century, adding to the diversity and sophistication of the body of children’s literature. Critics ascribe the development of Asian American works ...

“CASTLES MADE OF SAND”: MUSICIANS WITH COMPLEX RACIAL IDENTIFICATIONS IN MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN SOCIETY

Schaefer, Samuel Frederic Heutte (Middle Tennessee State University, 2018)

In the mid-twentieth century, musicians with complex racial identification due to family backgrounds of multiple ethnicities and apparent racial ambiguity did not fit neatly into the existing racial power structure. As ...

Causes and consequences of labor market decisions : an empirical investigation /

Minor, Travis (Middle Tennessee State University, 2009)

Collected in this dissertation are three separate works that examine several different factors in an individual's wage determination. Chapter 1 looks at the effect of diabetes on an individual's employment decision and ...

Cell Phone Addiction and Mental Illness

Elam, Jonathan (University Honors College, Middle Tennessee State University, 2019-04-17)

This study explored the relationship between cell-phone addiction and mental health among college students. This thesis asked the following: Are students who are more addicted to their cell phones experiencing more anxiety ...

Cellular Automata: Optimal Analysis, Coding, and Testing for Encryption

Faulkenberry, Stephen James (Middle Tennessee State University, 2016-03-16)

Cellular automata are a set of discrete structures generated and manipulated by predetermined rules, in which each state (or evolution) is influenced by the previous. Utilizing the simplicity of this fundamental structure, ...

Centers, Institutes and Programs Abstracts 2011

Scholars Week (Middle Tennessee State University, 2011)

Collection of the Centers, Institutes, and Programs at Scholars Week 2011

Centers, Institutes, and Programs Abstracts 2013

Scholars Week (Middle Tennessee State University, 2013)

Collection of Centers, Institutes and Program abstracts from Scholars Week 2013.

CERTIFIED ATHLETIC TRAINERS' KNOWLEDGE OF THE NATA POSITION STATEMENT OF PREVENTING SUDDEN DEATH IN SPORTS ASSOCIATED WITH SUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST

Hunt, Robin (Middle Tennessee State University, 2016-10-28)

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) in athletes has become an increased concern for sports medicine and health care professionals covering athletic events. Death due to sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) has effected all levels of athletes ...

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