East Tennessee State University

The Internet Did This to Me: Forms, Consequences, and Coping Strategies of Cyberbullying

This study examined self-reported cyberbullying experiences recounted in a subreddit (r/cyberbullying) to identify forms of cyberbullying, its effects, and ways to cope with it. The findings indicate that there are several types of cyberbullying, such as verbal aggression, decept...

Facts vs. Feelings: An Investigation of Informational and Empathy-Based Interventions on Rape Myth Acceptance in College Students

This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of two short video approaches on decreasing rape myth acceptance (RMA) in a sample of college students. One video was informational, providing facts about sexual assault, whereas the other took an empathy-based approach, exposing parti...

Steaming into the Unknown: Technological Change, the British Niger Expeditions, and Imperialism, 1832–1857

This thesis repositions the nineteenth-century Niger Expeditions at the center of early British imperial development in West Africa. Rather than treating these ventures as isolated exploratory episodes, it argues that they functioned as technological and administrative experiment...

The Memphis Gambling Screen: A Clinical Validation Study of an Enhanced-Readability Self-Report Measure for Gambling Disorder

Precise identification of gambling disorder can be difficult when commonly used screeners vary in clarity and diagnostic accuracy. The Memphis Gambling Screen (MGS) was developed as an enhanced-readability self-report measure to improve item comprehension and strengthen the diagn...

Developing Solvent Tolerant Microbial Membranes: Lipid Extraction and Laurdan Fluorescence Approaches for Biofuel Optimization

The high demand for sustainable energy has increased interest in advanced biofuels, though production is limited by solvent toxicity to microbial hosts. This study investigated the role of lipid composition in modulating membrane fluidity and solvent tolerance using Bacillus subt...

A Large and Robust Legless Lizard (Squamata, Anguinae) from the Gray Fossil Site of Eastern Tennessee

The early Pliocene Gray Fossil Site in Tennessee preserved an abundance of microfossils, including numerous anguid lizard specimens. This includes the following elements: dentaries, a pterygoid fragment, a jugal, frontals, parietal fragments, dorsal and caudal vertebrae, and many...