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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Ru-mediated ring-opening metathesis polymerization for the synthesis of complex polymer architectures
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-30)Ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) has gained attention over the last few decades for its versatility and robustness. Through the use of highly active metal catalysts, such as Grubbs' first-generation catalyst ... -
CONK
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-30)CONK is a collection that explores the absurdist irony located at the intersection between horror and humor. The events are predicated upon the characters' fundamental misunderstandings of the world around them, their doom ... -
Lesbi Honest: Barriers to Identifying and Actualizing Sexuality as a "Later in Life Lesbian"
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-30)The growth of Queer Sociology has produced a body of research focused on LGBTQ identity formation, while less has been discovered about subsets of this community, including later-life lesbians who were previously partnered ... -
Development of Diagnostic Tools for Use in a Gas Turbine Engine Undergoing Solid Particulate Ingestion
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-30)Aircraft propulsion systems can be exposed to a variety of solid particulates while operating in either arid or other hazardous environments. For conventional takeoff and landing aircraft, debris can be ingested directly ... -
Al-Tuaif
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-30)A total of 42,500 cases of autism are estimated to exist in Saudi Arabia. Many children displaying signs of autism spectrum disorder are concealed by their parents, resulting in an undiagnosed condition due to parental ... -
Development and Evaluation of System Dynamics Education Modules for Complex Socioenvironmental Systems
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-30)Complex socioenvironmental problems such as food, energy and water shortages, health impacts from environmental contamination and global climate change present significant challenges to the global community. Addressing ... -
Modeling the Impact of Flood Pulses on Disease Outbreaks in Large Water Basins with Scarce Data
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-30)Large river water basins play a critical role in the economic, health, and biodiversity conditions of a region. In some basins, such as the Zambezi River Basin, extreme weather events introduce cycles of drought and heavy ... -
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 ...
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