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“UNCONQUERABLE STRONGHOLD OF LOYALTY”: INVASION, OCCUPATION AND DEVOLVED COMMAND OF THE ARMY OF THE OHIO/CUMBERLAND, 1861-1863.

Phan, Tuan Thanh (Middle Tennessee State University, 2017)

Focusing on the Union Army in the midst and aftermath of invasion in Middle Tennessee, this thesis critically engages the literature on Civil War military and cultural history. It deviates from the traditional historiographical ...
“UNCONQUERABLE STRONGHOLD OF LOYALTY”: INVASION, OCCUPATION AND DEVOLVED COMMAND OF THE ARMY OF THE OHIO/CUMBERLAND, 1861-1863.

Phan, Tuan Thanh (Middle Tennessee State University, 2017)

Focusing on the Union Army in the midst and aftermath of invasion in Middle Tennessee, this thesis critically engages the literature on Civil War military and cultural history. It deviates from the traditional historiographical ...
Undergraduate Psychology Student's Attitudes Toward Yoga

Gray, Amy R. (Middle Tennessee State University, 2013-03-29)

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Undergraduate Psychology Students' Perceptions of Schizophrenia

Herron, Shelby Elizabeth (Middle Tennessee State University, 2016-11-07)

The author investigated the knowledge and attitudes of undergraduate psychology students toward mental illness, specifically schizophrenia. Student participants responded to several scales measuring various attitudes toward ...
Undergraduate psychology tutoring attendance: The effects of reminder messages

Bentley, Meghan Elizabeth (Middle Tennessee State University, 2018)

This study explored at archival data from the Psychology Student Success Center (PSSC) to determine the impact of sending reminder messages to undergraduate students who attended psychology tutoring in an attempt to increase ...
Understanding Performance Differences Based on Computer Experience in Technology Enhanced Assessments

Thompson, Kali (Middle Tennessee State University, 2018-06-05)

Assessment centers can provide valuable insight into predicted job performance. In-basket assessments are utilized to simulate a day in the job for candidates. Through increased technological abilities, organizations have ...
Understanding Resilience and Happiness among College Students

Lower, Katherine Elizabeth (Middle Tennessee State University, 2014-03-25)

The purpose of this study was to determine relationships between several constructs related to positive psychology, including resilience and happiness. Previous research has shown a need to study positive aspects including ...
Unemployment Stigma and the Selection Process

Pearn, Morgan (Middle Tennessee State University, 2015-06-23)

The 2007- 2009 recession resulted in the largest proportion of long-term unemployed people in U.S. history (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2012). In the recovery of such a deep recession, the labor market now faces the task ...
UNOBTAINABLE ELSEWHERE:THE GRAND CANYON, MULES, AND THE NATIONAL PARK'S MOST CONTROVERSIAL TRAIL

Abernathy, Robert Harris (Middle Tennessee State University, 2019)

Over the past one hundred thirty years, tourism at the Grand Canyon has been associated with mules. With the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway’s arrival in 1901, canyon tourism was launched to a new level of popularity ...
Unruly Hordes or Altruistic Communities?: Crowdsourcing in Academic Institutions

Utendorf, Kayla (Middle Tennessee State University, 2016-04-07)

This thesis uses surveys, interviews, and blogs to examine crowdsourcing in archives, libraries, and other academic institutions, with special focus on the connection between crowdsourcing and traditional volunteering and ...
Up Close and Personal: An Examination of How Personality Dimensions, Self-Esteem, and Early Engagement in Risky Sexual Behaviors are Correlated with Risky Sexual Behaviors Related to HIV

Moore, Zaver Demond (Middle Tennessee State University, 2015-08-13)

The facts related to how one contracts the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) are common knowledge through advertisements, television commercials, and educational classes. Even though the general facts of HIV are being ...
“Urgent and Necessary”: Tennesseans and Their Competing Visions of the Interstate System

McMahan, Andrew Wayne (Middle Tennessee State University, 2018-03-27)

The interstate system had a profound impact on the state of Tennessee and the rest of the nation. Several historians have explored the interstate system and its many impacts. However, not much has been written on the ...
THE USE OF A HANDS-ON MODEL IN LEARNING THE REGULATION OF AN INDUCIBLE OPERON AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A GENE REGULATION CONCEPT INVENTORY

Stefanski, Katherine M. (Middle Tennessee State University, 2015-06-24)

A central concept in genetics is the regulation of gene expression. Inducible gene expression is often taught in undergraduate biology courses using the lac operon of Escherichia coli (E. coli). With national calls for ...
Use of a live cell microscopy approach to compare the response of the PINK1:Parkin mitophagy pathway to different mitochondrial depolarization agents

Riley , Wesley (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

The PINK1:Parkin pathway regulates mitochondrial network health by facilitating the autophagic destruction of damaged or dysfunctional mitochondria. While this pathway is widely studied, it remains unclear how it responds ...
Using comparative plastomics to identify potentially informative non-coding regions for basal angiosperms, with a focus on Illicium (Schisandraceae)

Leonard, Opal Rayne (Middle Tennessee State University, 2015-10-27)

• Premise of study: Comparative plastomics provides a method for choosing the most informative tools for a given study group, often a difficult process due to limited available data for targeted taxa. Many of the most ...
Using online intergroup interactions to reduce negative attitudes toward lesbians and gay men

Vacas, Sofia (Middle Tennessee State University, 2016-05-31)

Extending previous research on the contact theory (Allport, 1954) and its effect on reducing negative attitudes toward lesbians and gay men (Grack and Richman, 1996; Graham, Frame, & Kenworthy, 2014), this study investigated ...
USING PROCESS MODELING TO EXPLORE THE ROLES OF IDEOLOGY, EDUCATION AND PARTISAN MEDIA USE IN THE BELIEF IN ‘DEATH PANELS’

Gonzales, Angela Allen (Middle Tennessee State University, 2015-08-08)

As late as March of 2014, nearly one in three Americans still believed the Affordable Care Act would create "death panels" empowered to designate individuals as too ill or elderly to qualify for health care, a myth promoted ...
Using Prompted Self-Inoculation to Increase Support for Campus Recycling

Bowers, Brandon (Middle Tennessee State University, 2018-03-30)

The current study examined whether methods grounded in inoculation theory could combat problematic recycling behavior on a college campus. Participants in the experiment were prompted to rebut none, one, or three of the ...
Using Social Network Analysis to Measure Shared Mental Models of Communication and Interdependence in a Simulated Flight Operations Command Center

Sanders, Emily Kathleen (Middle Tennessee State University, 2013-05-01)

This study examined the relationship between shared mental models (SMM) of interdependence and communication in a simulated aviation flight operations center. Social network analysis indicated that following participation ...
Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Teach "Literacy for Life": How to use MultimodalMatters.com to Facilitate Transfer in First-Year Composition

McNabb, Kayla Bridgette (Middle Tennessee State University, 2014-07-11)

Composition programs across the country have re-imagined their first-year composition (FYC) courses in response to student needs and have chosen to incorporate technology to improve transfer of knowledge and skills. Middle ...

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