Doctoral Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Novel Approaches to Exposure Assessment and Dose Response to Contaminants in Drinking Water and Food
(Virginia Tech, 2018-04-23)In the fields of water safety, food safety, and public communications, the overarching goal is to improve public health. Thus, this dissertation focuses on risk assessment and applying novel methods for exposure assessments ... -
Assessing Nonprofit Websites: Developing an Evaluation Model
(Virginia Tech, 2018-04-23)Nonprofit organizations are pivotal actors in society, and their websites can play important roles in aiding organizations in their socially-beneficial missions by serving as a platform to present information, to interact ... -
Nutrient Impacts on Rumen Growth and Development
(Virginia Tech, 2018-04-19)Our collective knowledge of calf nutrition has evolved over the past 100+ years, but there are still areas of improvement that merit further scientific inquiry. The work described herein explored different aspects of calf ... -
Applying Curriculum Treatments to Improve STEM Attitudes and Promote STEM Career Interest in Fifth Graders
(Virginia Tech, 2018-04-19)The Federal Government has called for an overhaul of STEM education, saying that we as a nation must increase "opportunities for young Americans to gain strong STEM skills" (Office of Science and Technology Policy, 2013, ... -
Low Impurity Content GaN Prepared via OMVPE for Use in Power Electronic Devices: Connection Between Growth Rate, Ammonia Flow, and Impurity Incorporation
(Virginia Tech, 2019-10-10)GaN has the potential to revolutionize the high power electronics industry, enabling high voltage applications and better power conversion efficiency due to its intrinsic material properties and newly available high purity ... -
Incentive Mechanism Design for Systems with Many Agents: A Multiscale Decision Theory Approach
(Virginia Tech, 2018-08-14)Incentives are an effective mechanism to align the interests of decision-makers. For example, employers use incentives to motivate their employees to take actions that benefit both the employers and the employees. Incentives ... -
Prebiotic supplementation with inulin and exercise influence gut microbiome composition and metabolic health
(Virginia Tech, 2018-04-18)Development of type 2 diabetes (T2D) is preceded by prediabetes, which is a metabolically "atypical" state associated with chronic low-grade inflammation, overweight and obesity, lack of exercise, and detrimental changes ... -
Hydrolysis of aluminum in synthetic cation exchange resins and dioctahedral vermiculite
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Solutions to three laminar viscous flow problems by an implicit finite-difference method
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The curve through the expected values of order statistics with special reference to problems in nonparametric tests of hypotheses
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On mobs with certain group-like properties
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Pyrolysis-gas chromatography by direct injection of solutions
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The torsional analysis of beams of arbitrary cross-section with non-linear stress-strain properties
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Materials studies related to the CuxS/ZnyCd1-yS solar cell
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Empirical Bayes estimators for the cross-product ratio of 2x2 contingency tables
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Compatible whole-stand and diameter distribution models for loblolly pine plantations
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Dinoflagellate cysts of the Gymnodiniaceae, Peridiniaceae, and Gonyaulacaceae from the Upper Cretaceous Monmouth Group, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey.
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A comparison of goal perceptions at community colleges and community college components of four-year institutions in West Virginia
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An investigation, comparison, and development of individual tree competition models.
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Flutter of sandwich panels at supersonic speeds
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1965)
