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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Data Sharing and Retrieval of Manufacturing Processes
(Virginia Tech, 2023-03-28)With Industrial Internet, businesses can pool their resources to acquire large amounts of data that can then be used in machine learning tasks. Despite the potential to speed up training and deployment and improve ... -
Improving Operating System Security, Reliability, and Performance through Intra-Unikernel Isolation, Asynchronous Out-of-kernel IPC, and Advanced System Servers
(Virginia Tech, 2023-03-28)Computer systems are vulnerable to security exploits, and the security of the operating system (OS) is crucial as it is often a trusted entity that applications rely on. Traditional OSs have a monolithic design where all ... -
Novel Gel-Infused Additively Manufactured Hybrid Rocket Solid Fuels
(Virginia Tech, 2023-03-28)In the aerospace propulsion sector safety is an important driver to costs, vehicle design and mission capabilities. Hybrid rockets are considered some of the safest forms of chemical propulsion. That factor alone makes ... -
Single Cell Force Platforms to Link Force-ECM Coupling in Pathophysiology
(Virginia Tech, 2021-10-04)Migratory cells in vivo move within a predominantly fibrous microenvironment through the action of forces. These dynamic interactions facilitate mechanosensing, critical to fundamental biological processes in pathophysiology. ... -
Scale Modeling of Tests with Combined Thermo-Structural Loading
(Virginia Tech, 2023-03-27)Standard methods for fire resistance testing require large-scale assemblies and are typically conducted on specialized furnaces at considerable cost. This research focused on developing a scaling methodology for a reduced-scale ... -
Culinary Man
(Virginia Tech, 2023-03-27)This dissertation offers an exploration of the field of normative subjectivity circulated within western fine dining traditions. I use the notion of "normative subjectivity" which derives from the work of Michel Foucault. ... -
Two-Stage Stochastic Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications
(Virginia Tech, 2021-09-30)With the rapidly growing need for long-term decision making in the presence of stochastic future events, it is important to devise novel mathematical optimization tools and develop computationally efficient solution ... -
Queer Digital Community: An Analysis of Twitter Counterpublics
(Virginia Tech, 2023-03-23)With the growing need for a sociological understanding of behavior on social media platforms, there is a desire to know how marginalized groups engage with these technologies. This study asks whether queer people on Twitter ... -
Family Processes in Family Group Chats
(Virginia Tech, 2021-09-28)Family group chats are a popular form of technology-mediated communication. Family group chats represent an understudied area of family communication. In this qualitative multi-method study, I aimed to investigate how and ... -
Cytoskeletal Remodeling in Fibrous Environments to Study Pathophysiology
(Virginia Tech, 2021-09-28)Mechanical interactions of cells with their immediately surrounding extracellular matrix (ECM) is now known to be critical in pathophysiology. For example, during cancer progression, while uncontrollable cell division ... -
Predictors of Positive Change in Teaching Practices: A Quantitative Study
(Virginia Tech, 2023-03-21)Change in educational settings is a complex and multifaceted process that commonly implies change in teaching practices. Different initiatives have shown the significance of teachers and their perceptions when change in ... -
Privatizing the Volume and Timing of Blockchain Transactions
(Virginia Tech, 2023-03-20)With current state-of-the-art privacy-preserving blockchain solutions, users can submit transactions to a blockchain while maintaining full anonymity and not leaking the contents of the transaction through cryptographic ... -
The Ecotonal Nature of Community Food Work: A Case Study of Trauma-Informed Care and Agential Change Space
(Virginia Tech, 2023-03-20)Communities of color in particular have experienced a traumatic history of structural violence, interpersonal racism, segregation, and oppression. The unjust history of structural violence and the deleterious treatment of ... -
Investigating Chemical and Structural Heterogeneities of High-Voltage Spinel Cathode Material for Li-ion Batteries
(Virginia Tech, 2023-03-20)Li-ion battery technologies have transformed the consumer electronics and electric vehicles landscape over the last few decades. Single-crystal cathode materials with controllable physical properties including size, ... -
Design and Testing of a SiC-based Solid-State Bypass Switch for 1 kV Power Electronics Building Blocks
(Virginia Tech, 2021-09-24)Over the past two decades, power consumption has increased exponentially worldwide, posing new challenges to power grids to meet the load requirements. With this growing power demand, the need for efficient high-density ... -
Epigenetic Responses of Arabidopsis to Abiotic Stress
(Virginia Tech, 2023-03-17)Weed resistance to control measures, particularly herbicides, is a growing problem in agriculture. In the case of herbicides, resistance is sometimes connected to genetic changes that directly affect the target site of the ... -
Profiling of Microbial Communities, Antibiotic Resistance, Functional Genes, and Biodegradable Dissolved Organic Carbon in a Carbon-Based Potable Water Reuse System
(Virginia Tech, 2023-03-17)Water reuse has become a promising alternative to alleviate stress on conventional freshwater resources in the face of population growth, sea level rise, source water depletion, eutrophication of water bodies, and climate ... -
Contextualization and Sodium Diet Implications of Occoquan Reservoir Salinization
(Virginia Tech, 2023-03-17)Freshwater salinization syndrome is a rising threat globally which results in increased ion concentrations in inland freshwaters. This syndrome threatens healthy aquatic ecosystems and can alter the perception of the ... -
Wearable Devices for Improved Equine Welfare
(Virginia Tech, 2023-03-17)The use of digital technology is becoming increasingly popular in equine research. Current applied technologies for livestock are being used to detect pathogens, observe locomotion patterns, determine estrus periods, and ... -
Understanding perception of different urban thermal model visualizations
(Virginia Tech, 2023-03-17)While satellite-based remote sensing techniques are often used for studying and visualizing the urban heat island effect, they are limited in terms of resolution, view bias, and revisit times. In comparison, modern UAVs ...
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