• SYNTHESIS, PURIFICATION, SOLUBILITY, AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY STUDY OF VARIOUS SEGMENTS OF THE PROTEIN α-SYNUCLEIN’S NONAMYLOID-BETA COMPONENT REGION 

  Stowe, Ashton Mae (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  Parkinson’s Disease is a neurodegenerative brain disorder that occurs when dopamine producing neurons, in the mid-region of the brain known as the substantia nigra, stop working or die. The degenerating dopaminergic neurons ...
• Lipids of Pedinomonas minor, Pedinomonas sp., Pyramimonas parkeae, Pyramimonas obovata: A Quest to Reconcile These Tertiary and Secondary Plastid Ancestors of the Dinoflagellate Lepidodinium chlorophorum and Euglenid Euglena gracilis. 

  Nwadibie, Deborah Ngozi (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  The goal of this study was to investigate the plastid origins of the only green-pigmented dinoflagellate genus, represented by Lepidodinium chlorophorum, and the evolutionary model euglenid Euglena gracilis. Intact forms ...
• AGGREGATE LOSS PREDICTION USING MULTIPLE-CLASS CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES 

  Zhang, Chuanlong (Middle Tennessee State University, 2011)

  In this thesis, we consider a model for predicting future losses in car insurance applications by using multiple-class classi cation algorithms. In the car insurance payment data, the records can be divided into four ...
• Re-conceptualizing and Measuring Tacit Knowledge 

  Sumaiya, Mariyam (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  This study attempted to develop a new measure of tacit knowledge based on an updated definition that distinguishes tacit knowledge and explicit knowledge which we built based on Taylor’s taxonomy (2007). Since tacit knowledge ...
• APPRAISAL TENDENCY FRAMEWORK: EMOTIONS AND PERCEPTIONS OF SOCIAL INJUSTICE 

  Tucker, Sarah Elizabeth (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  This thesis implemented the ideas based on the Appraisal-Tendency Framework. Specifically, it observed whether felt emotions, such as sadness or anger, in an educational setting, affected judgments made on whether a situation ...
• Self-Talk and Mindfulness: A Correlational Analysis 

  Grzybowski, Jocelyn Ann (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  This research explores the relationships between mindfulness, self-talk frequency, self-compassion, and experience with mindful practice. Participants (N = 147) were recruited through Middle Tennessee State University’s ...
• Assessing Right Parietal Lobe Functions in Alzheimer's Disease Using the Mass Overlapping Figures Test 

  Hicks, Charles Cullen (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  The purpose of this study was to assess performance on the Mass Overlapping Figures Test (MOFT) between patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and controls. Thirty-nine control individuals were given this newly developed ...
• IMPACT OF FELON DISENFRANCHISEMENT ON RECIDIVISM 

  Haslett, Allison Ela (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  Recidivism is costly for both individuals and society as a whole. While there are multiple causes for recidivism, one area that has not been adequately explored is felon disenfranchisement. To expand the scope of this ...
• Follower Characteristics and Preference for Styles of Leadership Behavior 

  Silverman, Greg (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  The purpose of this study was to determine how the eight common personality types identified by Hogan Assessments – Rebels, Marketers, Proletarians, Congenials, Over-Achievers, Networkers, Misfits, or Preppers – differ in ...
• Trump’s Pandemic: A Content Analysis of Attribute Agendas in U.S. News Media Coverage of the COVID-19 Outbreak Through November 2020 

  Antonacci, Christian Victor (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  2020 is a year that will forever be remembered for two highly significant events; the 2020 United States presidential election and the start of the global COVID-19 pandemic. These issues became highly politicized by the ...
• The Relationship Between Perfectionism and Achievement Goals in High Achieving College Students 

  Wood, Heather (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  Previous research has discovered a trend between perfectionism styles and achievement goal types in High Achieving students. Individuals who have self-oriented perfectionism tend to have more mastery based or performance ...
• The relationship between three different types of child abuse and college academic adjustment 

  Pennington, Myra Ann (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  The current study examined how three different types of child abuse (sexual, physical, psychological) related to college academic adjustment. Potential moderators of the relationship, including perceived social support, ...
• PERCEIVED SOCIAL SUPPORT AND GENDER AS MODERATORS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE AND POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH 

  Cundiff, Justice (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  The current study was designed to investigate the moderating effects of participant gender and perceived social support on the relationship between intimate partner violence victimization and posttraumatic growth. ...
• Beyond Revolution: Insurgencies and Revisionism in International Affairs 

  Sanchez, Victor Morton (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  A common dichotomy in the international affairs literature pits status quo actors, who are satisfied with the current arrangement in international affairs, against revisionist actors, who desire to change it. While revisionism ...
• An Examination of Ethnic Subgroup Score Differences Between Different Types of Situational Judgement Tests 

  Larison, Brent W. (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  Situational Judgment Tests (SJTs) are assessments growing in popularity for purposes of selecting new employees. A current issue is their proneness toward having significant differences in scores between ethnic subgroups, ...
• Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Educational Attainment and Cognitive Competence 

  Evans-Wilent, Autumn (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  The current study used portions of an archival longitudinal data set, collected in upstate New York. This study put a new lens on this archival data, by exploring it in terms of Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACEs. The ...
• Bacterial-Fungal Interactions Affect the Physiology of the Causative Agent of White-Nose Syndrome, Pseudogymnoascus destructans 

  Reece, Jessica Ashton (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  The pathogenic fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans causes white-nose syndrome of bats and has led to massive population declines in North American bat species. Infection with Pseudogymnoascus destructans is partially ...
• Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Phosphorus Based Flame Retardants 

  Humphries, Robbie Mahaffey (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  Using microwave synthesis, chemists may decrease reaction times drastically to produce, in this case, three phosphorus-based flame retardant additives in under twenty minutes to an hour.1 Traditionally, these three products ...
• Will the Number of Behavioral Anchors Increase Rater Accuracy in Performance Evaluations? 

  Byerly, Kelsey Rene (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  This research study sought to determine whether the number of behavioral anchors/examples on a behaviorally anchored rating scaled increased rater accuracy in performance evaluations. Specifically, it examined whether a ...
• A COMPARISON OF PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS OF PATHFINDING ALGORITHMS 

  Johnson, Charles W (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  Pathfinding algorithms are in constant use today – be it for generating driving directions or maintaining the routing tables that are used for routing traffic around the Internet. As would be expected, a given algorithm’s ...

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