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Toward A More Inclusive Structure Of Sport: Is Participation In Coeducational Physical Activities Related To Perceptions Of Gender And Athletic Ability?, Rachel M. La Croix
Toward A More Inclusive Structure Of Sport: Is Participation In Coeducational Physical Activities Related To Perceptions Of Gender And Athletic Ability?, Rachel M. La Croix
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Regional Variations In Third World Development, Robert Dempsey Wynn
Regional Variations In Third World Development, Robert Dempsey Wynn
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Radical Environmentalism And Religion, Evelyn Louise Bush
Radical Environmentalism And Religion, Evelyn Louise Bush
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
New Kent County, Virginia Bets On Gambling: Government Program Or Business Strategy?, Alexandra Elaine Sasser Hall
New Kent County, Virginia Bets On Gambling: Government Program Or Business Strategy?, Alexandra Elaine Sasser Hall
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Perot Activism In 1992: Implications For The Republican Party, Jonathan Gabriel Kajeckas
Perot Activism In 1992: Implications For The Republican Party, Jonathan Gabriel Kajeckas
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Spirit Of The Times: Church, State And Revolution In Virginia, Kenneth William Rosenfeld
The Spirit Of The Times: Church, State And Revolution In Virginia, Kenneth William Rosenfeld
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No abstract provided.
Liberalism And Toleration: Competing Concepts Of Toleration In Liberal Thought, Jonathan Parks Pierpan
Liberalism And Toleration: Competing Concepts Of Toleration In Liberal Thought, Jonathan Parks Pierpan
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"Seventeen" Magazine As A Manual For "Doing Gender", Amy N. Vreeland
"Seventeen" Magazine As A Manual For "Doing Gender", Amy N. Vreeland
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No abstract provided.
Structured Eigenvectors, Interlacing, And Matrix Completions, Brenda K. Kroschel
Structured Eigenvectors, Interlacing, And Matrix Completions, Brenda K. Kroschel
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation presents results from three areas of applicable matrix analysis: structured eigenvectors, interlacing, and matrix completion problems. Although these are distinct topics, the structured eigenvector results provide connections.;It is a straightforward matrix calculation that if {dollar}\lambda{dollar} is an eigenvalue of A, x an associated structured eigenvector and {dollar}\alpha{dollar} the set of positions in which x has nonzero entries, then {dollar}\lambda{dollar} is also an eigenvalue of the submatrix of A that lies in the rows and columns indexed by {dollar}\alpha{dollar}. We present a converse to this statement and apply the results to interlacing and to matrix completion problems. Several corollaries …
The Comparison Of Student Engagement Rates During Classroom Discourse, Cooperative Learning, And Lecture Methods Of Instruction In Secondary Schools, Wendy Meadors Geiger
The Comparison Of Student Engagement Rates During Classroom Discourse, Cooperative Learning, And Lecture Methods Of Instruction In Secondary Schools, Wendy Meadors Geiger
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this study was to examine the degree to which cooperative learning affects the active participation or engagement of students in the classroom. Previous research has found that students were more engaged during lecture and classroom discourse methods of instruction (anderson & Scott, 1978). This study attempted to determine whether the instructional strategy of cooperative learning affected this result.;The sample for this study was selected from the students of two English and two social studies teachers for each instructional method (cooperative learning, lecture, and classroom discourse). Videotapes were made of each teacher's class for analysis. Each class had …
The Juggling Act Female Administrators Perform Between Their Professional And Nonprofessional Lives, Betsy Taylor Roesch
The Juggling Act Female Administrators Perform Between Their Professional And Nonprofessional Lives, Betsy Taylor Roesch
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this study was to examine how full-time female college administrators juggle the responsibilities in their professional lives with those of their nonprofessional lives.;A total of thirty female administrators were selected from both private and public four-year institutions in eastern Virginia. Snowball sampling was used to identify the women who met the criteria of the study. The women were all full-time college administrators who had at least one child still living at home and at least one living parent. They were all members of the "sandwich generation". One-third of the women were African American.;Information on each woman was …
Effects Of Periodic Environmental Hypoxia On Predator Utilization Of Macrobenthic Infauna, Janet A. Nestlerode
Effects Of Periodic Environmental Hypoxia On Predator Utilization Of Macrobenthic Infauna, Janet A. Nestlerode
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Hypoxia and anoxia have significant deleterious ecological effects on living resources throughout many estuarine and marine ecosystems worldwide. Brief periods of low oxygen facilitate transfer of benthic production to higher trophic levels as many benthic infaunal species have shallower sediment depth distributions during hypoxic events. A baited time-lapse camera equipped with a water quality datalogger was used to document in situ exploitation of oxygen-stressed benthic invertebrate prey organisms by mobile fish and crustacean predators during alternating normoxia-hypoxia cycles in the York River. Based on photographic and diver observations, this hypoxiainduced benthic-pelagic transfer of production is more likely to occur when …
The Once And Future Friend: Tennyson's Exploration Of Human Immortality, Melinda Simons
The Once And Future Friend: Tennyson's Exploration Of Human Immortality, Melinda Simons
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Heavens Or The Abyss: A Reading Of Edith Wharton's "The House Of Mirth" As A Romance, Joseph Rives Nicholson
The Heavens Or The Abyss: A Reading Of Edith Wharton's "The House Of Mirth" As A Romance, Joseph Rives Nicholson
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No abstract provided.
Temporal Variablity Of The Pycnocline In The Mid-Chesapeake Bay, Linda Jane Frizzell-Makowski
Temporal Variablity Of The Pycnocline In The Mid-Chesapeake Bay, Linda Jane Frizzell-Makowski
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Mixing and dispersion in a partially mixed estuary are driven by, among other processes, the gravitational circulation, wind-events and tides. These processes are important in the vertical and horizontal distribution and exchange of salinity, oxygen, nutrients, and organisms. The objective of this research was to examine the temporal variability of the pycnocline in the mid-Chesapeake Bay in response to forcing at subtidal and higher frequencies as observed in the spring of 1993. The largest change in the pycnocline was associated with meteorological forcing. Up-Bay wind stress and subsequent abatement of the wind stress produced a 5 meter displacement of the …
Labor At Home: The Domestic World Of Workers At The Du Pont Powder Mills, 1802-1902, Margaret M. Mulrooney
Labor At Home: The Domestic World Of Workers At The Du Pont Powder Mills, 1802-1902, Margaret M. Mulrooney
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
While the history of the du Pont family and Du Pont Company have been well-documented, little is known about the everyday lives of the Irish Catholic immigrants who lived and worked at the home plant near Wilmington, Delaware. to correct this oversight, "Labor at Home" explores every aspect of the powder workers' domestic world--from religious beliefs, family structure, gender relations, and ethnic ties, to houses, furnishings, and yards--and uses this data to support new conclusions about cultural identity and class affiliation. as early as the 1820s, for example, powder mill families began to convey their increasing affiliation with bourgeois American …
John Donne's Thwarted Redemption Of Poetry In "A Valediction: Of The Booke", Patrick Lee Plaisance
John Donne's Thwarted Redemption Of Poetry In "A Valediction: Of The Booke", Patrick Lee Plaisance
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Piercing The Corporeal Veil: The Extra Stanza Of "Pearl" As Spiritual Focal Point, Michael Blum
Piercing The Corporeal Veil: The Extra Stanza Of "Pearl" As Spiritual Focal Point, Michael Blum
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No abstract provided.
An Evaluation Of The Academic Outcomes Of The Upward Bound Program At Virginia Union University, James Edward Laws Jr.
An Evaluation Of The Academic Outcomes Of The Upward Bound Program At Virginia Union University, James Edward Laws Jr.
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This study analyzed the impact the Upward Bound program at Virginia Union University had on students' freshman year performance. The population selected for the study were those students who participated in Virginia Union University's Upward Bound program during the academic years 1984-85 through 1993-94 and entered Virginia Union University after completing the program.;The Upward Bound participants were compared to a comparable control group of non-Upward Bound students. The two groups were measured on the following variables: need for remedial math, need for remedial English, placement on academic probation, drop-out rate, average freshman GPA, average (for credit) math grade, and average …
A Grammar-Based Technique For Genetic Search And Optimization, Clayton Matthew Johnson
A Grammar-Based Technique For Genetic Search And Optimization, Clayton Matthew Johnson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The genetic algorithm (GA) is a robust search technique which has been theoretically and empirically proven to provide efficient search for a variety of problems. Due largely to the semantic and expressive limitations of adopting a bitstring representation, however, the traditional GA has not found wide acceptance in the Artificial Intelligence community. In addition, binary chromosones can unevenly weight genetic search, reduce the effectiveness of recombination operators, make it difficult to solve problems whose solution schemata are of high order and defining length, and hinder new schema discovery in cases where chromosome-wide changes are required.;The research presented in this dissertation …
The Power Of The Privy: Mediating Social Relations On A 19th Century British Military Site, Joseph Henry Last
The Power Of The Privy: Mediating Social Relations On A 19th Century British Military Site, Joseph Henry Last
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No abstract provided.
Calamus, Drum-Taps, And Whitman's Model Of Comradeship, Charles B. Green
Calamus, Drum-Taps, And Whitman's Model Of Comradeship, Charles B. Green
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No abstract provided.
The Narrator In The Middle English Bird Debates: A Dynamic Convention, Stephen B. Constantelos
The Narrator In The Middle English Bird Debates: A Dynamic Convention, Stephen B. Constantelos
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No abstract provided.
Edna Pontellier's Impossible Dream: Fantasy And Reality In "The Awakening", Ronda Marie Holm
Edna Pontellier's Impossible Dream: Fantasy And Reality In "The Awakening", Ronda Marie Holm
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Paine, Blake And Hegemony, Grace Moore
Paine, Blake And Hegemony, Grace Moore
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
On The Path To Paterson: Prose And The Search For The American Language, Mary Carolyn Click
On The Path To Paterson: Prose And The Search For The American Language, Mary Carolyn Click
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
A Knowable World: America, The City, And The Thematics Of Book Five Of William Carlos Williams' "Paterson", Gaston De Bearn
A Knowable World: America, The City, And The Thematics Of Book Five Of William Carlos Williams' "Paterson", Gaston De Bearn
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Principal's Role In Fostering Teacher Collaboration For Students With Special Needs, Evie Ruth Tindall
The Principal's Role In Fostering Teacher Collaboration For Students With Special Needs, Evie Ruth Tindall
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study examined the principal's role in fostering teacher collaboration for students with special needs by investigating two overarching questions: (a) How do principals foster teacher collaboration for the purpose of improving teaching and learning for students with special needs and (b) how do these behaviors relate to leadership behaviors that have been identified as facilitative of teacher collaboration? First, a multiple-site descriptive case study was conducted and, using nomination criteria, five sites in four school districts were selected. The data collection involved the verification of the nomination criteria through observations and the collection of data through interviews with principals …
Archaeology Goes To School: A Cooperative Approach To Teaching History Through Archaeology, Paul David Schuster
Archaeology Goes To School: A Cooperative Approach To Teaching History Through Archaeology, Paul David Schuster
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Evaluating The Genotoxicity Of Quinacrine In Mammals Using The Sister Chromatid Exchange Test, Sutapa Ray
Evaluating The Genotoxicity Of Quinacrine In Mammals Using The Sister Chromatid Exchange Test, Sutapa Ray
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.