ETDs: Virginia Tech Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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Virginia Tech has been a world leader in electronic theses and dissertation initiatives for more than 20 years. On January 1, 1997, Virginia Tech was the first university to require electronic submission of theses and dissertations (ETDs). Ever since then, Virginia Tech graduate students have been able to prepare, submit, review, and publish their theses and dissertations online and to append digital media such as images, data, audio, and video.
University Libraries staff are currently digitizing thousands of pre-1997 theses and dissertations and loading them into VTechWorks. Most of these theses and dissertations are fully available to the public, but we will, in general, honor requests by the item's author to restrict access to Virginia Tech only. See our process for Requesting that Material be Amended or Removed.
To search all Virginia Tech print and digital theses and dissertations, use the University Libraries ETD resource guide.
Materials that are restricted to Virginia Tech only may be requested via your own university or public library's Interlibrary Loan program or through the VTechWorks request form that appears when you try to access the item. You might also be able to obtain a copy of the work through ProQuest's database of theses and dissertations. If you are on a Virginia Tech campus but are unable to find the pre-1997 thesis or dissertation you are seeking in VTechWorks, you may also be able to order a physical copy from library storage. Please check the library catalog at http://www.lib.vt.edu/ for physical copies.
The guidelines that apply to Virginia Tech's graduate students as ETD authors can be found at http://guides.lib.vt.edu/ETDguide.
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Trauma and the PhD
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-15)In writing this autoethnography, I invite you to enter into my world. It is not a world that is easy, or altogether happy. In the end, though, it is a story of survival and of perseverance. Trauma touches almost every ... -
Co-production of Science and Regulation: Radiation Health and the Linear No-Threshold Model
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-15)The model used as the basis for regulation of human radiation exposures in the United States has been a source of controversy for decades because human health consequences have not been determined with statistically ... -
Risk Cultures, Beef Traceability, and Food Safety in the United States and Zambia
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-15)Understanding ways of improving the safety of food is an important area of research. In this project, I explore the history of the food safety systems in the United States and the Republic of Zambia. Focusing on the ... -
Sediment Delivery Ratios and Areas of Forest Operational Features by Physiographic Groupings in the Southeastern U.S.
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-15)Forests of the Southeastern United States produce approximately 12% of all the world's wood products and represent 40% of all U.S. timberland, thus emphasizing the importance of Southeast in support of the United States' ... -
The Implications of The Sharing Economy for Public Relations Theory and Practice: A Thematic Analysis of Airbnb, Uber and TaskRabbit
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-15)This thesis presents a public relations perspective of the sharing economy by exploring how three prominent sharing economy companies, Airbnb, Uber and TaskRabbit, communicate to form a relationship with key stakeholders, ... -
Tabletop Role-Playing Games and the Actual Play Show: Author, Audience, and Adaptation
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-15)Though tabletop role-playing games, or TRPGs, have received some scholarly attention since the creation of Dungeons and Dragons in the 1970s, very few scholars have considered how TRPGs function as a vehicle for long-form ... -
Isolated Architecture: Finding Solidarity In Isolation
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-15)Throughout history, humans have stigmatized solitude. We see it as an inconvenience, something to avoid, a punishment. As a society today, we are constantly locked on to our phones, televisions, friend groups and generally ... -
Increasing Polarization of the Youth Vote
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-15)On July 1, 1971, the Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified which prohibited states from denying citizens who had attained the age of eighteen the right to vote. Having passed 96-0 in the ... -
Towards Decolonial Climate Justice: An Analysis of Green New Deal and Indigenous Perspectives
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-15)The Green New Deal has gained international significance as the only prominent climate legislation in the United States. The Green New Deal has also become emblematic of a larger movement for climate justice; however, ... -
Evaluating the role of the fission yeast cyclin B Cdc13 in cell size homeostasis
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-15)Most cellular proteins retain a stable concentration as cells grow and divide, but there are exceptions. Some cell cycle regulators change in concentration with cell size. In fission yeast, Cdc13 (cyclin B), an important ... -
Not All Leaders Are Perceived Equal: The Interaction between Leader Gender, Perceiver Gender, and Emotion Suppression on Leader Ratings
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-15)Females continue to be underrepresented in leadership despite research demonstrating that leadership effectiveness does not vary by leader gender (Paustian-Underdahl et al., 2014). The current study examines the gender ... -
'Look for the helpers': The impact of gender incongruence on transgender individuals' comfort asking for police help
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-15)Research has established a link between LGBTQ+ identity and high victimization rates. However, transgender experiences specifically are not well understood because they are often subsumed under the monolithic label of ... -
Sterile Neutrino Searches
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-15)In the first part of the thesis we explore the sensitivity to sterile neutrinos by using a novel kaon tagging technology: ENUBET, the proposed experiment could decisively test indications from the experiments Neutrino-4 ... -
Utilizing Recurrent Neural Networks for Temporal Data Generation and Prediction
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-15)The Falling Creek Reservoir (FCR) in Roanoke is monitored for water quality and other key measurements to distribute clean and safe water to the community. Forecasting these measurements is critical for management of the ... -
Development of High-Performance Optofluidic Sensors on Micro/Nanostructured Surfaces
(Virginia Tech, 2020-01-22)Optofluidic sensing utilizes the advantages of both microfluidic and optical science to achieve tunable and reconfigurable high-performance sensing purpose, which has established itself as a new and dynamic research field ... -
Efficient Algorithms for Data Analytics in Geophysical Imaging
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-14)Modern sensing systems such as distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) can produce massive quantities of geophysical data, often in remote locations. This presents significant challenges with regards to data storage and performing ... -
Isogeometric Approach to Optical Tomography
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-14)Optical Tomography is an imaging modality that enhances early diagnosis of disease through use of harmless Near-Infrared rays instead of conventional x-rays. The subsequent images are used to reconstruct the object. However ... -
Optimization Methods for Dynamic Mode Decomposition of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-14)Reduced-order models have long been used to understand the behavior of nonlinear partial differential equations. Naturally, reduced-order modeling techniques come at the price of either computational accuracy or computation ... -
Numerical Analysis and Parameter Optimization of Portable Oscillating-Body Wave Energy Converters
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-14)As a clean, abundant, and renewable source of energy with a strategic location in close proximity to global population regions, ocean wave energy shows major promise. Although much wave energy converter development has ... -
A Novel Method and Two Exoskeletons for Whole-arm Gravity Compensation
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-14)This thesis is centered upon the published A Novel Method and Exoskeletons for Whole-arm Gravity Compensation (Turner, Hull 2020), and includes a novel concept for supporting the weight of a person's arm or robotic linkage. ...
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