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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Effectiveness Evaluation of COVID-19 Regulations in Collegiate Sports: Quantifying Player Proximity and Workload During Soccer Training
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-26)The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent shutdown and regulations have drastically altered the world of competitive sports. The global shutdown beginning in March 2020 put a significant strain on athlete's ability to train, ... -
Emerging Readers and Inferential Comprehension with Wordless Narrative Picturebooks: An intervention study
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-26)Inference generation is a process that is key to successful reading (e.g., Bowyer- Crane and Snowling, 2005; Oakhill and Cain, 2012) and that begins to develop early in the reading acquisition process, through listening ... -
Study and Application of the Space Curve Quantum Control Formalism
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-26)Quantum Computation and Information requires high accuracy in gate control despite noises and imperfections from the environment and physical implementation. Here we introduce an SCQC Formalism based on dynamical decoupling ... -
Into the Into of Earth Itself
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-26)Into the Into of Earth Itself is a poetry collection that investigates the relationship between ecological violation and the violation of women, as well as toxicity and toxic masculinity. In doing so, it draws from the ... -
'No hard feelings': Resolving and Redefining Threatened Masculinity
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-26)This project sheds light on men's choice in the face of threats to their masculinity: to compensate to appear more masculine or to revise their definitions of manhood. Research has demonstrated that men overcompensate in ... -
Fostering a More Sustainable World through Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle: The Role of Perceived Value in a Circular Economy
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-26)The last few decades have seen an explosion in population growth and along with this growth we have also witnessed an increase in demand for products. Although our resources are limited, consumers' needs know no bounds. ... -
Management Strategies for Natural Cider Fermentation: Effects of sulfite addition and acidification in high- and low- tannin cultivars
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-26)Virginia is the largest apple producing state in the Southeast region of the United States and ranks 10th in most cideries in the US. Natural, or un-inoculated, fermentation methods are of interest to cider producers due ... -
Interpreting Dimension Reductions through Gradient Visualization
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-26)Dimension reduction (DRs) are significant in data analysis to reduce the complexity of high dimensional data while preserving information to the greatest extent. However, the complex processes involved in DRs attribute to ... -
The Convergence- The Intersection of Two Extreme Typologies in Cities
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-26)In the early 20th century, downtown areas were the primary centers of commerce, industry, and cultural activity in many American cities. However, with the rise of suburbanization, many of these downtown areas began to ... -
Perceptions of Quality Among Undergraduate Students in Online Courses: A Community of Inquiry Framework Approach to Quality in Higher Education
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-26)The COVID-19 pandemic, known as the coronavirus, was declared as a national pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020 (Cucinotta and Vanelli, 2020). Following the declaration of a national pandemic, institutions ... -
Building trustworthy machine learning systems in adversarial environments
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-26)Modern AI systems, particularly with the rise of big data and deep learning in the last decade, have greatly improved our daily life and at the same time created a long list of controversies. AI systems are often subject ... -
An Analysis of the Suruí Forest Carbon Project in Context of Settler Colonialism
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-25)This thesis analyzes the Suruí Forest Carbon Project in the context of settler colonialism. By exploring the three core principles of settler colonialism as outlined by settler colonial scholar Patrick Wolfe: access to ... -
Applications of Event Data Recorder Derived Crash Severity Metrics to Injury Prevention
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-25)Since 2015, there have been more than 35,000 fatalities annually due to crashes on United States roads [1], [2]. Typically, road departure crashes account for less than 10% of all annual crash occupants yet comprise nearly ... -
Unsettling Stories: A Settler Reflection on Narrative Phantasies of Land
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-25)Modern political and market structures have normalized colonial violence into economic and social realities, while imperial powers still dictate modes of labor and resources extraction that benefit them in the present, but ... -
Self-Condensing Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-25)Ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) is a great tool for synthesizing polyolefin materials with different topologies, including hyperbranched polymers—polymers with high degrees of branching and many end groups. ... -
Perceptions of Law Enforcement Officers: Pornography as a Risk Factor for Peer-on-Peer Child Sexual Abuse
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-25)Data on peer-on-peer child sexual demonstrates up to one-third of child sexual assaults perpetrated by other children and what the limited data suggest is that these rates are increasing. These alarming rates of sexual ... -
Latter-day Saint Undergraduate Students' Interfaith Engagement: A Post-Intentional Phenomenological Study
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-25)Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are a minoritized and marginalized population in the United States and on most college and university campuses (Rockenbach, Bowman, et al., 2017). Recent studies ... -
QUANTIFYING THE LINKAGES BETWEEN US' WATER RESOURCES AND ITS PRODUCTION OF FOOD, ENERGY, AND WATER
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-25)Water is a critical resource that is essential for human well-being and economic development. Many regions around the world face ongoing water scarcity and competition over water resources. Climate change, other drastic ... -
Field Evaluation of Doppler LIDAR Sensors for Early Assessment of Track Instability
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-25)The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate the use of Doppler Lidar sensors for assessing track weakening that would indicate early stages of track instability. Such track weakening could lead to gage widening or ... -
On the Use of Uncalibrated Digital Phased Arrays for Blind Signal Separation for Interference Removal in Congested Spectral Bands
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-05)With usable spectrum becoming increasingly more congested, the need for robust, adaptive communications to take advantage of spatially-separated signal sources is apparent. Traditional phased array beamforming techniques ...
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