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The Game Studio: Developing Literacy Through the Lens of Game Design

Bentley, Thomas Mark (Middle Tennessee State University, 2015-06-25)

In this thesis, I propose a curriculum for first year composition (FYC), called the Game Studio curriculum, in which students learn writing through experiences playing, analyzing, and designing games. In Chapter 1, I review ...

Game-related acutely stressful events and coping styles of registered interscholastic sport officials /

Martin, Bryon (Middle Tennessee State University, 2009)

The purposes of this study were: (1) to identify the sources of acute game-related stress experienced by registered interscholastic baseball, basketball, and football officials from the United States, (2) to identify coping ...

GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS STRAIN DEPENDENT GROWTH AND CYTOTOXICITY IN HUMAN MONOCYTES

Ouellette, Corbett Charles

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most prevalent vaginal infection for women of reproductive age, characterized by a lack of normal commensal bacteria and a proliferation of pathogenic species. BV infections can lead to ...

Gdel, Hofstadter, Wallace: The Gdelian Metalogical Narrative Structure of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest

Hudson, Cory (Middle Tennessee State University, 2015-07-10)

Despite acknowledgements that it forms an intellectual predecessor to Infinite Jest, the influence that Douglas R. Hofstadter's Gdel, Escher, Bach (GEB) had upon the structure of David Foster Wallace's novel has resisted ...

Gender Differences in Black and White Students' Adjustment to College at a Predominately White University

Brock, Jarren (Middle Tennessee State University, 2015-06-23)

The present study explored whether there are significant differences between Black and White college freshmen students regarding factors related to retention (i.e., self-efficacy, perceived racism, cross-cultural communication ...

Gender Differences in Child Maltreatment

Elowsky, Jaimie (University Honors College, Middle Tennessee State University, 2019-04-24)

This study examined the relationship between gender of the survivor and five types of child maltreatment (sexual abuse, physical abuse, psychological maltreatment, neglect, and witnessing family violence). Participants ...

Gender Identity in Islam

Akin, Holly; Brown, Adrianna; Wallace, Chloe (Middle Tennessee State University, 2017)

James Cox has outlined the World’s Religion Paradigm as a Christian narrative in which westerners project their preconceived ideological beliefs onto other religions against the Christian framework (Robertson 2013). Through ...

Gender Role Portrayals of Modern Disney Royalty: Stereotypical or Androgynous?

Lopreore, Katie M. (Middle Tennessee State University, 2016-03-30)

The purpose of this study was to assess the occurrences of gender-stereotypical characteristics and gender atypicalities observed in the prince and princess characters from Disney’s 2010 film, Tangled; 2012 film, Brave; ...

Gender, conflict, and workplace bullying: Is civility policy the silver bullet?

Raffo, Deana M (Middle Tennessee State UniversityPittsburg State University, 2013)

Gender, Politics, and Power: The Development of the Ladies Rest Room and Lounge in Rural America, 1900-1945

O'Bryan, Katherine Merzbacher (Middle Tennessee State University, 2013-03-29)

This dissertation investigates a little-known and largely-forgotten rural public institution - the ladies rest room. Individual parties had differing motives for advocating the establishment of ladies rest rooms in rural ...

Gendered Space: Emerging Frames in NASA Public Relations and Mainstream Media Representation, 1958-1986

Wilds, Helen

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was founded October 1, 1958, and has been the subject of research, news and popular culture since its inception. Recent films such as Hidden Figures (2016) and Mercury ...

The gendering of literacies: the reading and writing practices of adolescent girls in rural Appalachia.

Corey, Jean (Middle Tennessee State University, 2000)

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the literacies of adolescent girls in rural Appalachia. This study focuses on the literacies of six girls, two girls each from sixth, ninth, and eleventh grades. Representing ...

Gene Discovery and Annotation of Gardnerella vaginalis, a Bacterium Associated with Bacterial Vaginosis and Pre-term Labor

Ibrahim, Marina (University Honors College, Middle Tennessee State University, 2019-04-07)

Human pregnancy lasts approximately 40 weeks, but genetic and environmental factors could contribute to premature birth. One factor is when other bacteria replace Lactobacillus spp. within the female urogenital tract. One ...

General Aviation in China

Hu, Xiaosi (Middle Tennessee State University, 2015-04-14)

In the last four decades, China has accomplished economic reform successfully and grown to be a leading country in the world. As the "world factory," the country is able to manufacture a variety of industrial products from ...

GENERAL OUTCOMES FOR STUDENTS IDENTIFIED INTELLECTUALLY GIFTED IN RURAL TENNESSEE

Stooksberry, Ragan

This study sought to answer if the standards of living of a group of individuals identified intellectually gifted between 1982 to 2003 in the Wayne County School System, Tennessee is higher than the Wayne County, Tennessee ...

GENERATION IRON: “NO, YOU COULDN'T DO WHAT I DO”

Calautti, Pietro (Middle Tennessee State University, 2016-06-22)

This thesis analyzes the 2013 observational documentary film Generation Iron, directed by Vlad Yudin and produced by Edwin Mejia. Methodologically, it employs a textual analysis along with a contextual grounding. The ...

Generic and Moral Ambiguity in Robert Louis Stevenson's Märchen

Thibodeaux, Toni

Robert Louis Stevenson was an enthusiastic experimenter in a variety of genres who viewed the writer’s role as both that of an entertainer of his readers and as a provocateur regarding the moral and ethical. Märchen, ...

Genocide Restraint: Economic Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Africa

Courtoy, Jason C. (Middle Tennessee State University, 2014-03-27)

The genocide literature focuses on the conditions and casual mechanisms that make a situation ``ripe'' for genocide. However, the literature posits factors and mechanisms that are more common than the outcome of genocide. ...

GENOME ANNOTATION AND ROLE OF NON-CODING RNAS IN DISEASE RESISTANCE, GROWTH AND MUSCLE QUALITY TRAITS IN RAINBOW TROUT

Paneru, Bam Dev (Middle Tennessee State University, 2017-06-22)

In Rainbow trout, effort to annotate the genome reference is ongoing. While recently published trout genome has discovered large number of protein coding genes, many protein coding genes appear to be missing. In addition, ...

GENOME-WIDE ANALYSES OF GENES AFFECTING GROWTH, MUSCLE ACCRETION AND FILLET QUALITY TRAITS IN RAINBOW TROUT

Ali, Ali Reda Eid

Growth performance is one of the most economic important traits for the aquaculture industry. In addition, fillet quality attributes are among the primary determinants of consumer acceptability. To study the genetic ...

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