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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A New Institutionalist History of Appalshop: Exploring the Agential Dynamics of an Appalachian Community Cultural Development Organization
(Virginia Tech, 2020-02-07)This research draws on New Institutionalist theory as interpreted by Fligstein and McAdam (2012) to explore the relationship between structure and agency within one nonprofit organization, Appalshop, located in Central ... -
Evaluation of Active Capacitor Banks for Floating H-bridge Power Modules
(Virginia Tech, 2020-02-07)The DC-side floating capacitors in the floating power modules of power converters are subject to high voltage fluctuation, due to the presence of reactive harmonic components. Utilizing passive capacitors, as done in ... -
Supporting Rural Adolescent Voices in the Secondary English Language Arts Classroom
(Virginia Tech, 2021-07-30)The purpose of this qualitative study was to employ a sociocultural, anti-deficit, and dialogic rural theoretical framework to examine the ways teachers seek to support the lived experiences of rural adolescent students ... -
Teaching in the Real World: Autoethnography Meets Meta-Autoethnography from a Practicing Teacher's Perspective
(Virginia Tech, 2021-07-30)Abstract In "Who are You," I narrate seven vignettes of my lived experiences from childhood through the beginning of my Ph. D. I examine how they directly relate to the relationships I build with my students as a teacher ... -
Maison de Couture
(Virginia Tech, 2021-07-30)This project stems from the dualities joining two worlds: couture, the art of fashion and architecture, the art of building. They both involve the intelligible and the sensible, the skill of the artist and the engineer. ... -
A Case Study of an Agricultural Teacher's Planned Behavior When Working With Students With Special Needs
(Virginia Tech, 2021-07-29)Students with special needs are often placed in agriculture and other CTE classes. Literature has shown that teachers often feel unprepared to deal with this population of students. The Theory of Planned Behavior framed ... -
Development of Agriculture value chains as an asset for the sustainable development and food security: the case of the improvement of agricultural technical and vocational education in Senegal
(Virginia Tech, 2021-07-29)The growth of a country depends on the improvement of its human resources. The TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training) system intends primarily to advance personal support and resources. Throughout education, ... -
Assessment of the Effectiveness of Emergency Lighting, Retroreflective Markings, and Paint Color on Policing and Law Enforcement Safety
(Virginia Tech, 2020-07-01)This project is an in-depth investigation on the impact of lighting, marking and paint schemes on the operational aspects of police vehicles. This investigation consisted of two phases that ultimately consisted of four ... -
Technological Innovations for Mid-Atlantic Cropping Systems
(Virginia Tech, 2020-02-05)Greater projected demand for food, fuel, and fiber will require substantial increases in global agricultural production over the next three decades. Climate change is also forecasted to make weather events more extreme and ... -
Modeling the Nucleation and Growth of Colloidal Nanoparticles
(Virginia Tech, 2020-02-05)Controlling the size and size distribution of colloidal nanoparticles have gained extraordinary attention as their physical and chemical properties are strongly affected by size. Ligands are widely used to control the size ... -
Pharmacokinetics of a high-concentration formulation of buprenorphine (Simbadol®) in male dogs
(Virginia Tech, 2021-07-28)Objective: To describe the pharmacokinetics of buprenorphine in dogs following administration of a high-concentration formulation of buprenorphine. Study design: Prospective, randomized, crossover study. Animals: A total ... -
OpenFOAM Implementation of Microbubble Models for Ocean Applications
(Virginia Tech, 2021-07-27)An investigation was carried out on the current state of the art in bubble modelling for computational fluid dynamics, and comparisons made between the different methods for both polydisperse and monodisperse multiphase ... -
Scalability Analysis and Optimization for Large-Scale Deep Learning
(Virginia Tech, 2020-02-03)Despite its growing importance, scalable deep learning (DL) remains a difficult challenge. Scalability of large-scale DL is constrained by many factors, including those deriving from data movement and data processing. ... -
Characterizing the Drivers of Carbon Use in Post-Anoxic Denitrification
(Virginia Tech, 2021-07-26)Three of Hampton Roads Sanitation District's (HRSD's) conventional activated sludge Water Resource Recovery Facilities (WRRFs) add methanol for post-anoxic denitrification: the Virginia Initiative Plant (VIP), Nansemond ... -
Assessing the Influence of Prescribed Fire on Faunal Communities in a Pyric Landscape
(Virginia Tech, 2020-01-31)Understanding the link between environmental factors such as disturbance events, land cover, and soil productivity to spatial variation in animal distributions and vital rates is fundamental to population ecology and ... -
Populist Just Transitions
(Virginia Tech, 2020-01-31)This dissertation argues that the just transition policy framework may not vivify labor internationalism or erode support for right-wing populists if just transitions are not part of left-wing populist projects. Labor ... -
Factors influencing arbovirus transmission: vector competence and the effects of virus infection on repellent response, oxidative stress, and glutathione-S-transferase activity
(Virginia Tech, 2020-01-31)Zika (ZIKV), La Crosse (LACV), and Cache Valley (CVV) viruses are mosquito-vectored diseases that cause significant morbidity and mortality in humans and animals. Transmission of these viruses are dependent on numerous ... -
Systematic Tire Testing and Model Parameterization for Tire Traction on Soft Soil
(Virginia Tech, 2020-01-30)Tire performance over soft soil influences the performance of off-road vehicles on soft soil, as the tire is the only force transmitting element between the off-road vehicles and soil during the vehicle operation. One ... -
Archimedean Screw Turbine Based Energy Harvester and Acoustic Communication in Well Site Applications
(Virginia Tech, 2020-01-30)Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has become increasingly important in the Oil and Gas industry. Despite the various advantages WSN has compared to the wired counter parts, it also faces some critical challenges in the oil ... -
Polymer Nanoparticle Characterization and Applications for Drug Delivery
(Virginia Tech, 2019-01-30)Nanoparticle usage continues to increase in everyday products, from cosmetics to food preservation coatings, drug delivery to polymer fillers. Their characterization and synthesis is of utmost importance to ensure safety ...
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