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A Tale Of Two Vicars: Thomas Stothard's And Thomas Rowlandson's Illustrations Of "The Vicar Of Wakefield", Katherine W. Rawson
A Tale Of Two Vicars: Thomas Stothard's And Thomas Rowlandson's Illustrations Of "The Vicar Of Wakefield", Katherine W. Rawson
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No abstract provided.
From Story To Statistics: A Systematic Structure For Documenting International Relations Events, David A. Casey
From Story To Statistics: A Systematic Structure For Documenting International Relations Events, David A. Casey
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Subtle Sentry: State Public Records Laws And The Availability Of Government Information, Grace I. Lessner
Subtle Sentry: State Public Records Laws And The Availability Of Government Information, Grace I. Lessner
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Mediating The Influence Of Deviant Peers, John William Breitbeil
Mediating The Influence Of Deviant Peers, John William Breitbeil
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Some Applications Of Mean Field Theory In Strong-Interaction Physics, Bryan Edward Barmore
Some Applications Of Mean Field Theory In Strong-Interaction Physics, Bryan Edward Barmore
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Mean-field theory is a powerful tool that allows for significant insight into the very complicated problems of nuclear physics. By reformulating the many-body problem into a one-body, self-consistent system, much can be learned and explained.;In the framework of the sigma-omega model of the nucleus taken in relativistic mean-field theory, the radiation of vector mesons is studied. In the sigma-omega model there is a massive vector meson that couples to a conserved baryon current. During a relativistic heavy-ion collision, the nuclei (collections of baryons) undergo extreme deceleration. The vector mesons are radiated via a bremsstrahlung mechanism during the deceleration. We find …
The Domestication Of History In American Art: 1848-1876, Jochen Wierich
The Domestication Of History In American Art: 1848-1876, Jochen Wierich
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation traces the decline of history painting and its domestication in Other artistic forms in the United States. In the three decades between the Mexican-American War and the Centennial, the market for historical art went through a major transformation. Artists shifted from historical to contemporary subjects or represented historical themes in everyday-domestic settings. Monumental history painting, which was supported by art unions and private patrons during the antebellum period, came under critical attack and lost its status as a form of high art. Critical opinion turned especially against paintings of historical struggle and heroic sacrifice which seemed to be …
Cell-Cell Interactions In The Development Of The Vascular System Of Xenopus, Krista Marie Stimson
Cell-Cell Interactions In The Development Of The Vascular System Of Xenopus, Krista Marie Stimson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Selective Selenoxide Elimination On The Secondary Face Of Beta-Cyclodextrin, Ahmed M. Hafez
Selective Selenoxide Elimination On The Secondary Face Of Beta-Cyclodextrin, Ahmed M. Hafez
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Carnival Morality: The Freedom Of Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun", Stephen Clawson Robertson
Carnival Morality: The Freedom Of Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun", Stephen Clawson Robertson
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No abstract provided.
Ralph And Lily: Victims In A Boundary World, Regina Marie Lucas
Ralph And Lily: Victims In A Boundary World, Regina Marie Lucas
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No abstract provided.
"Struck In Their Hearts": David Zeisberger's Moravian Mission To The Delaware Indians In Ohio, 1767-1808, Maia Turner Conrad
"Struck In Their Hearts": David Zeisberger's Moravian Mission To The Delaware Indians In Ohio, 1767-1808, Maia Turner Conrad
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In 1767 David Zeisberger began his Moravian mission to the Delaware Indians in Ohio. He led this mission until his death in 1808. While Zeisberger and his assistants required conformity in matters religious, the converts did not have to make enormous changes in their traditional beliefs. The Delaware converts also did not have to alter their traditional economic, medical, housing, and diplomatic practices.;The goal of this study is to understand why hundreds of Delawares chose to convert, and why as many more chose to live at the mission. Many Delawares hoped to return to the peaceful life they had previously …
The Enduring Villain: Germans As Nazi Stereotypes In American Cinema, Christine Lokotsch Aube
The Enduring Villain: Germans As Nazi Stereotypes In American Cinema, Christine Lokotsch Aube
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No abstract provided.
A Robe Of Eloquence: Speech And Power In The Life And Lectures Of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Nelson
A Robe Of Eloquence: Speech And Power In The Life And Lectures Of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Nelson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Competencies Of The Twenty-First Century Superstore Manager: Implications For Professional Postsecondary Education, Robert Stephen Kelley
Competencies Of The Twenty-First Century Superstore Manager: Implications For Professional Postsecondary Education, Robert Stephen Kelley
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
In recent years, supermarkets have become more complex and challenging to operate. Many supermarkets offer an expanded selection of products and services not found in the traditional format. These new generation supermarkets have been labeled by the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) as superstores. The purpose of this study was to identify a competency model needed to successfully operate a superstore over the next 5-10 years. In addition, the study sought to identify the core competencies that formulate the superstore competency model and to compare the results of the model to the Contemporary Store Manager Model which was created from a …
Jamaica Kincaid And The Rewriting Of Other As Self, Michelle Collette Beal
Jamaica Kincaid And The Rewriting Of Other As Self, Michelle Collette Beal
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
On The Front Lines Of Freedom: Black And White Women Shape Emancipation In Virginia, 1861-1890, Antoinette G. Van Zelm
On The Front Lines Of Freedom: Black And White Women Shape Emancipation In Virginia, 1861-1890, Antoinette G. Van Zelm
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Black and white women in Virginia were on the front lines of the struggle over emancipation during and after the Civil War. Between 1861 and 1890, both former slave and former slaveholding women shaped black freedom and thereby re-invented themselves as citizens within their local communities.;Focusing on women who lived in the southeastern and south-central regions of Virginia, this study expands the narrative of Southern history to encompass the vigorous contest between black and white women over the meanings of slavery, the war, and freedom. Based on federal records and private papers, this dissertation assesses women's ideas about the end …
Ethanol Preference In Peromyscus: An Association With Compromised Ethanol Metabolism, James Scott Lowman
Ethanol Preference In Peromyscus: An Association With Compromised Ethanol Metabolism, James Scott Lowman
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Effects Of Increased Inundation And Wrack Deposition On Photosynthesis And Respiration In A Virginia Salt Marsh, W. David Miller
The Effects Of Increased Inundation And Wrack Deposition On Photosynthesis And Respiration In A Virginia Salt Marsh, W. David Miller
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
American Newsreels Of The 1930s, Dennis Marklin Gephardt
American Newsreels Of The 1930s, Dennis Marklin Gephardt
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
An Evolutionary-Psychological Interpretation Of Self-Esteem, Jeffrey Edward Glenn
An Evolutionary-Psychological Interpretation Of Self-Esteem, Jeffrey Edward Glenn
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Romantic Relationship Schema Complexity, Kristopher J. Preacher
Romantic Relationship Schema Complexity, Kristopher J. Preacher
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Resilience Profiles Of Young Children In Special Education And Poverty-Related Programs: The Role Of Protective Factors, Evelyn Reed-Victor
Resilience Profiles Of Young Children In Special Education And Poverty-Related Programs: The Role Of Protective Factors, Evelyn Reed-Victor
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
A Statewide Survey Of Professionals' Opinions And Practices Concerning The Assessment Of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder In Children, Roberta Waller Thompson
A Statewide Survey Of Professionals' Opinions And Practices Concerning The Assessment Of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder In Children, Roberta Waller Thompson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this study was to investigate current practices used by clinicians when diagnosing children with AD/HD as well as to explore possible relationships between practices, professional disciplines, opinions, and theoretical leanings.;The study utilized a researcher designed questionnaire mailed to licensed Psychiatrists, Pediatricians, Clinical Psychologists, and Counselors in Virginia. The sample included 274 professionals.;Hypotheses examined relationships between professional discipline and use of assessment methodologies, consultation practices, and classification system preferences, as well as relationships between opinions about classification and assessment of AD/HD and practitioners' opinions about assessment practices.;It was found that physical examination was the only variable with any …
Physical Parameters Affecting Incubating Temperatures In Loggerhead Sea Turtles, Caretta Caretta, In Virginia, William Mason Jones
Physical Parameters Affecting Incubating Temperatures In Loggerhead Sea Turtles, Caretta Caretta, In Virginia, William Mason Jones
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Detailed physical profile of eight transplanted loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta, nests were obtained from Virginia and northeastern North Carolina and reburied in Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge (BBNWR), Virginia Beach, Virginia during the summers of 1987, '88, and '89 to determine if the physical location of the egg within the nest had an affect on sex determination. Transplanted nests were reburied in sandy substrate at a depth of 15-60 em on south facing dunes, and a Campbell Scientific data-logger logged synchronously environmental data. The following data were collected: temperatures at various locations within a nest, net absorbed radiation, ambient …
Distribution, Partitioning And Fluxes Of Dissolved And Particulate Organic Carbon, Nitrogen And Phosphorus In The Eastern North Pacific And Southern Oceans, Ai Ning Loh
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Influences Of Self In Career Decision-Making Among Gifted Adolescents Attending Governor's School In Science And Technology, William Rutledge Orton
Influences Of Self In Career Decision-Making Among Gifted Adolescents Attending Governor's School In Science And Technology, William Rutledge Orton
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this study was to investigate conflict in educational and career decision-making of gifted adolescents who had attended a summer residential program in science and technology. The sample consisted of 147 gifted and talented young men and women who attended the Virginia Governor's School in Science and Technology in either 1990 or 1995. Subjects completed the Minnesota Importance Questionnaire (MIQ) as a measure of work needs and values, and an investigator-designed questionnaire that probed the path of their career decision-making. Results on the MIQ indicated the 1990 cohort was significantly higher on the needs subscales of achievement, altruism, …
Designing Carolina: The Construction Of An Early American Social And Geographical Landscape, 1670-1719, Meaghan N. Duff
Designing Carolina: The Construction Of An Early American Social And Geographical Landscape, 1670-1719, Meaghan N. Duff
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study explores the promotion, population and settlement of the Carolina lowcountry and evaluates the colony's pioneer years, the period before an English-dominated plantation society achieved supremacy. Many designers participated in the construction of proprietary South Carolina's social and geographical landscapes. The explorers and propagandists who first characterized the colony for European audiences developed the region in the minds of potential emigrants. their recruitment campaigns determined in part the people who colonized the province. The Lords Proprietors and their agents, who devised an elaborate settlement program set forth in the Fundamental Constitutions and other land policies, influenced how Carolina evolved …
A Search For Lepton Flavor Violation In The Neutral Kaon System, Christopher Henry Hoff
A Search For Lepton Flavor Violation In The Neutral Kaon System, Christopher Henry Hoff
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The conservation of separate lepton number is an ad hoc conservation principle in the Standard Model but several non-Standard Model theories allow violation of separate lepton number conservation. A very sensitive search for lepton flavor violation in the neutral kaon system, via the decay K0L→me , was undertaken by Brookhaven National Laboratory Experiment 871 (E871) during the 1995 and 1996 AGS HEP running periods. No K0L→me decays were observed and a single event sensitivity (SES) of 1.97x10-12 was achieved. This single event sensitivity corresponds to an upper limit on the branching fraction of BK0L→m e<4.53+/-0.21+/-0.46x 10-12 at a 90% confidence level.
Stability Of Quark-Antiquark Models Of Mesons: A Study On The Validity Of The Spectator, Dirac, And Salpeter Equations, Michael Uzzo
Stability Of Quark-Antiquark Models Of Mesons: A Study On The Validity Of The Spectator, Dirac, And Salpeter Equations, Michael Uzzo
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Mesons are made of quark-antiquark pairs held together by the strong force. The one channel spectator, Dirac, and Salpeter equations can each be used to model this pairing. We look at cases where the relativistic kernel of these equations corresponds to a linear combination of scalar exchange and vector exchange. The vector exchange will be either the time-like component or the full four vector. The systems covered here are referred to as quasirelativistic, which means retardation, regularization, and form factors are not included. Since the model used in this paper describes mesons which cannot decay physically, the equations must describe …
The Role Of Adsorbed Oxygen In Secondary Emission From Metallic Substrates, Scott Gregory Walton
The Role Of Adsorbed Oxygen In Secondary Emission From Metallic Substrates, Scott Gregory Walton
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Low energy, ion- and photon-induced secondary electron and anion emission from metallic substrates has been investigated as a function of adsorbate coverage. Sodium positive ions (Na+), with kinetic energies up to 500 eV, and photons, with energies up to 23 eV, are utilized to initiate secondary emission. The principal adsorbate is oxygen with coverages ranging from none to a few monolayers.;For ion-induced emission, the secondary electron and negative ion absolute and relative yields from 302 stainless steel and polycrystalline tungsten (W) have been measured as a function of both impact energy and oxygen coverage. Additionally, the yields from a "technical" …