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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The Carceral Body Multiple: Intake in the New York City jails
(Virginia Tech, 2020-03-27)This ethnographic dissertation project is an applied philosophical project that takes an ontological and critical phenomenological approach to the enactment of carceral bodies. This dissertation set out to answer two central ... -
Framework for Integrated Multi-Scale CFD Simulations in Architectural Design
(Virginia Tech, 2021-09-17)An important aspect in the process of architectural design is the testing of solution alternatives in order to evaluate them on their appropriateness within the context of the design problem. Computational Fluid Dynamics ... -
PERFORMANCE OF STEEL FIBER REINFORCED AND CONVENTIONALLY REINFORCED POST-TENSIONED FLAT PLATES
(Virginia Tech, 2021-09-16)With the increasing need for commercial and residential buildings, post-tensioned (PT) flat plates have become a preferred choice for floor systems, because of the numerous advantages over non-prestressed slabs such as ... -
The Interaction of Early Growth Response Gene 1 and Myocyte Enhancer Factor 2C in the Murine Brain Cortex
(Virginia Tech, 2021-09-16)Early growth response gene – 1 (Egr1) encodes a protein widely present in mammalian body, such as connective tissue, cardiac tissue, the liver, and the brain. As a transcription factor (TF), it is involved in processes ... -
Citizen Science: Training Pet Dogs to Detect the Spotted Lanternfly
(Virginia Tech, 2021-09-16)Dogs have been used alongside humans as detection tools for centuries. There have been a multitude of studies published that demonstrate the accuracy and utility of detection dogs, more specifically conservation scent ... -
Developing Fast and Accurate Water Models for Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Simulations
(Virginia Tech, 2021-09-15)Water models are of great importance for different fields of studies such as fluid mechanics, nano materials, and biomolecule simulations. In this dissertation, we focus on the water models applied in atomistic simulations, ... -
Analysis of Neutral D Meson Two-Body Decays to a Neutral Kaon and a Neutral Pion
(Virginia Tech, 2021-09-15)Decays of neutral D mesons to final states containing K + π's could provide evidence for CP-violation from a source not accounted for in the Standard Model. Due to the interference between Cabibbo-favored and Cabibbo-suppressed ... -
Children's House, Old Town North Alexandria Montessori School
(Virginia Tech, 2021-09-15)Montessori education is a pedagogy based on the development of a child's natural intuition and curiosity. The teachers lead rather than teach, motivating the student to explore through activity. The student's spontaneous ... -
Recommending TEE-based Functions Using a Deep Learning Model
(Virginia Tech, 2021-09-14)Trusted execution environments (TEEs) are an emerging technology that provides a protected hardware environment for processing and storing sensitive information. By using TEEs, developers can bolster the security of software ... -
Novel Algorithms for Understanding Online Reviews
(Virginia Tech, 2021-09-14)This dissertation focuses on the review understanding problem, which has gained attention from both industry and academia, and has found applications in many downstream tasks, such as recommendation, information retrieval ... -
Comparing UAV and Pole Photogrammetry for Monitoring Beach Erosion
(Virginia Tech, 2021-09-14)Sandy beaches are vulnerable to extreme erosion during large storms, as well as gradual erosion processes over months and years. Without monitoring and adaptation strategies, erosion can put people, homes, and other ... -
Computationally-effective Modeling of Far-field Underwater Explosion for Early-stage Surface Ship Design
(Virginia Tech, 2020-03-23)The vulnerability of a ship to the impact of underwater explosions (UNDEX) and how to incorporate this factor into early-stage ship design is an important aspect in the ship survivability study. In this dissertation, ... -
Extending the Capabilities of Time Delayed Haptic Teleoperation Systems
(Virginia Tech, 2020-03-23)This thesis focuses on making improvements to time-delayed teleoperation systems, with both direct and semi-autonomous haptic control, by addressing the challenges associated with force-position (F-P) predictive architectures. ... -
Opportunity Between the Turbines: A Willingness-to-Pay Experiment Regarding Co-Location Activities with the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Farm
(Virginia Tech, 2021-09-13)With shipping routes, fisheries, conservation areas, recreation, and other maritime industries competing for space off Virginia's coastline, integrated solutions for marine areas may offer a way to limit conflict and ... -
Housing The Homeless
(Virginia Tech, 2021-09-13)While architecture, a physical built art form, markets itself as a public endeavor, access divides along societal and economical status. Urban planning of city layouts mimic and deep these divides, falling prey to the ... -
Thresholds and Critical Growth Stages for Brown Stink Bug, Euschistus servus (Say), Management in Field Corn, Zea mays
(Virginia Tech, 2020-03-20)The brown stink bug, Euchistus servus (Say), is a polyphagous pest of multiple cultivated hosts in Virginia. It recently emerged as a potentially devastating pest of maize, Zea mays L. (Poaceae), in eastern Virginia where ... -
What Factors are Associated with Multilateral Environmental Agreement Noncompliance, and can Agreement Provisions be Designed to Mitigate them?
(Virginia Tech, 2020-03-20)This research contributes to gaps in the international relations and international law literature on compliance by engaging practitioners with multilateral environmental agreement (MEA) expertise to answer two questions: ... -
Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Retrofits to Increase the Flexural Capacity of Deteriorated Steel Members
(Virginia Tech, 2021-09-10)The load-carrying capacity of aging bridge members may at times be found insufficient due to deterioration and a historical trend towards increased truck axle loads beyond their design capacity. Structurally deficient ... -
Development of Methods for Boron Reagents
(Virginia Tech, 2020-03-19)Boron reagents are known to be valuable in the field of organic chemistry due to their abilities to undergo a variety of transformations, resulting in useful pharmaceuticals and synthetic intermediates. It has also been ... -
Functional Characterization of Four Xanthomonas euvesicatoria Type III Effectors
(Virginia Tech, 2020-03-19)Pepper and tomato, as two common, popular, and important vegetables grown worldwide, provide human beings with high quality fruit of flavor and aroma, and a high concentration of vitamins and antioxidants. Pepper and tomato ...
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