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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 ...

CREATING A NEW SHORT MEASURE OF THE DARK TETRAD

Dean, Sarah Frances (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

The four dark personality traits of Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, and sadism have been studied together under an overarching construct called the Dark Tetrad. As this field of study is relatively new, the most ...

Motivational contagion in a leader-follower dynamic

Priest, Reed (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

Motivational contagion is a process where one individual’s motivations are adopted by others (Dragoni & Kuenzi, 2012). Leaders enact motivational contagion when they share their goal orientations with followers. The present ...

Extraction, Characterization, and Monosaccharide Composition Comparison of Polysaccharides Extracted from Cannabis sativa Cherry Hemp Root and Fedora 17 Hemp Leaves

Dyer, Kami (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

Traditional medicine has used plants and plant extracts to treat inflammation, tumors, neurodegenerative diseases, arthritis, and in some cases the effects of radiation. While these plants tended to be effective, the reason ...

BREADTH OF THE WILD: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIVERSE EXPERIENCES, ANALOGY USAGE, AND CREATIVE PERFORMANCE

Swetz, Zachary T. (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

A significant amount of anecdotal and theoretical evidence suggests breadth of experience is an important variable for creative performance. The present study was the first to empirically examine this relationship. Breadth ...

New Labour, New Britain: A Critical Analysis of Rhetoric, Securitization, and Politicization of Immigration

McCrary, Kayla (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

Throughout the last decade, the United Kingdom has undergone significant political, social, and cultural changes. In the last few years, British politics has become increasingly divided, with the 2016 membership of the ...

Media Multitasking and Its Effect on Multisensory Integration

Ngo, Hao T (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

The present study examined media multitasking and its potential benefit of multisensory integration. Prior research on media multitasking have found that heavy media multitasking is associated with a wider breadth of ...

Volunteer Traditions: Neoclassical Architecture and Its Racial Impact on Fraternity and Sorority Houses at the University of Tennessee

Mosley, Keneisha Diane (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

Architecture is used often to iterate to the public specific ideas, usually tied to perceived societal norms of a particular culture, group of people, or to represent an idea that is meant to convey ideas that tie to ...

Use and Perceptions of Equestrian Safety Equipment

Vande Kamp, Kailey (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

Modernization of equestrian sport has focused on advancements of safety equipment. The purpose of this study was to investigate factors influencing the use of safety equipment in equestrian sports. It was hypothesized that ...

The Rural Queer Experience in Twentieth-Century American Fiction

Hughes, Eric Wesley (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

A common view of nonurban areas in the United States posits that rural communities and small towns are hegemonically heterosexual and gender conforming or inherently inhospitable to queer individuals. Queer studies have ...

The Queer Eye for Nashville: How LGBTQ People form Community, and Make Spaces, and Places…Like Everyone Else

Staffelli, Philip Matthew (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

In the past thirty years the LGBTQ community has become increasingly studied within academia. However, it is only in the past decade that their spaces and places have begun to be examined. When one narrows this down even ...

Effect of Race and Education on Plea Outcomes for Public Defender Clients

Ector, Al'leta (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

Plea bargains are a negotiated process between a prosecutor, judge, defense attorney/public defender, and defendant where an individual facing criminal charges pleads guilty in exchange for a lesser charge, lesser sentence, ...

Framing, Spiral of Silence, and Coverage of the #MeToo Movement

Harmon, Barbara (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

The 2017 #MeToo movement was the collective response of hashtags with the words “MeToo” to the social media accounts of people who had been sexually assaulted. This study analyzed feature articles that covered the #MeToo ...

CYBERBULLYING EXPERIENCES AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS

Carr, Lisa Wooldridge (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

The current study examined prevalence of seven forms of cyberbullying attacks among college students through different types of medium. Support was found for hypothesis 1; with exclusion/ignoring being the most frequently ...

Attitudes Towards Developmentally Appropriate Classroom Practices Among Kindergarten Teachers in Tennessee

Johnson, Elizabeth p (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the opinions of kindergarten teachers about developmentally appropriate practices and their effects on students externalizing behaviors. It was expected that these teachers would ...

Bioluminescent Reporter Development and Testing for Cre-recombinase and CRISPR/Cas9 Activity for Selectable Marker Recovery in Scheffersomyces stipitis

Smith, Serenah E (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

Scheffersomyces stipitis is the most efficient xylose fermenting yeast known, though it is not as well-studied as other yeast species. The ability of S. stipitis to ferment xylose makes it a potentially useful yeast in the ...

"Girls Gone Wilde": Cultivation, Socialization, and the Quagmire of Consent

McMichael, Jovi-Cherise (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

In a content analysis of 50 films, Bufkin and Eschholz (2000) noted, “The media have been implicated in the propagation of rape myths in American society.” The research for this thesis sets out to explore this issue through ...

Outside the Classroom: An Evaluation of Equine Internships

Layton, Kaylee (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

Internships provide opportunities to gain experience. They have been shown to be beneficial in nursing and business, but equine internships have been lightly researched. This study explored student perceptions of equine ...

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