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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
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
An Extension Of Dyadic Counseling To Multi-Family Group Training With Application For Head Start Families, Janet J. Zanetti
An Extension Of Dyadic Counseling To Multi-Family Group Training With Application For Head Start Families, Janet J. Zanetti
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of one short-term training model, Parents and Children Together (PACT), on parent stress and child behavior for families enrolled in the Head Start program. PACT is a program of structured play activities designed to replicate the interactions between parents and children during the first developmental stage of life. PACT has been adapted, by the researcher, from a program called Theraplay developed for Head Start children by Ann Jernberg (1967).;Thirty families completed the study. Experimental and Control groups were formed from volunteer participants. Only Experimental subjects received training. Sessions were held …
The Role Of Epibenthic Predators In Structuring Marine Soft-Bottom Communities Along An Estuarine Gradient, Rochelle D. Seitz
The Role Of Epibenthic Predators In Structuring Marine Soft-Bottom Communities Along An Estuarine Gradient, Rochelle D. Seitz
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
A unifying theory of community regulation in soft-bottom systems remains elusive, despite extensive field studies on factors controlling community structure. Here, I have (1) reviewed models of community regulation, (2) examined the role of predation in controlling benthic diversity along a salinity gradient, (3) examined effects of predation upon an abundant bivalve, Macoma balthica, and (4) revised a model of community regulation in an estuarine soft-bottom system. The Menge and Sutherland (MS) "consumer stress model" posits that consumers feed ineffectively in harsh environments, and the importance of physical disturbance, competition and predation varies with recruitment, environmental conditions, and trophic position. …
Water Quality Modeling As An Inverse Problem, Jian Shen
Water Quality Modeling As An Inverse Problem, Jian Shen
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
An inverse mathematical estuarine eutrophication model has been developed. The model provides a framework to estimate unknown parameters by assimilation of the concentration data of those state variables. The inverse model developed is a laterally integrated, two-dimensional, real-time model which consists of a hydrodynamic model, an eutrophication model and an adjoint model. The hydrodynamic model provides the dynamic fields for both the eutrophication model and the adjoint model. The eutrophication model simulates eight water quality state variables which are phytoplankton, organic nitrogen, ammonium nitrogen, nitrite-nitrate nitrogen, organic phosphorus, inorganic (ortho) phosphorus, carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand and dissolved oxygen. The adjoint …
Field And Laboratory Evidence Of Pheromone Mediated Mating Behavior In The Blue Crab, Callinectes Sapidus, Donald S. Gibbs
Field And Laboratory Evidence Of Pheromone Mediated Mating Behavior In The Blue Crab, Callinectes Sapidus, Donald S. Gibbs
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The John Page House Site: A N Example Of The Increase In Domestic Brick Architecture In Seventeenth-Century Tidewater Virginia, Dwayne Webster Pickett
The John Page House Site: A N Example Of The Increase In Domestic Brick Architecture In Seventeenth-Century Tidewater Virginia, Dwayne Webster Pickett
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
An Archaeological Assessment Of St Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles, John Arnold Eastman
An Archaeological Assessment Of St Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles, John Arnold Eastman
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Synthesis And Characterization Of Cyclic Arylene Ether Oligomers, David Lewis Eldridge
Synthesis And Characterization Of Cyclic Arylene Ether Oligomers, David Lewis Eldridge
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
An Education In Virtue: Didacticism And Audience In Elizabeth Gaskell's "Ruth" And Charlotte Yonge's "The Heir Of Redclyffe", Tayce Langley Clarke
An Education In Virtue: Didacticism And Audience In Elizabeth Gaskell's "Ruth" And Charlotte Yonge's "The Heir Of Redclyffe", Tayce Langley Clarke
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Level And Stability Of Day To Day Psychological Well-Being And Vulnerability To Depression, Shelly Lyne Gable
Level And Stability Of Day To Day Psychological Well-Being And Vulnerability To Depression, Shelly Lyne Gable
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Synthesis And Characterization Of Boron-Containing Polymeric Materials For Neutron Shielding Applications, Michael B. Glasgow
Synthesis And Characterization Of Boron-Containing Polymeric Materials For Neutron Shielding Applications, Michael B. Glasgow
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The development of boron-containing polymeric materials for neutron shielding applications was undertaken. Three types of materials were characterized for physical and thermal properties: boron powder-filled epoxy composites, carborane polyamides having boron chemically bonded into the polymer, and boron-loaded polyimide thin films. Addition of amorphous submicron boron powder did not affect significantly the thermal performance of the epoxy. The 17% boron loading produced a 26% increase in compressive failure strength and a 68% increase in the compressive modulus. 0.125 inch thick specimens containing 17% boron absorbed 92% of incident neutrons from a 5-Curie Pu/Be source compared with {dollar}<{dollar}1% for the neat epoxy. Dispersion of the boron in the epoxy was improved with the addition of larger size crystalline boron powders. Carborane polyamides containing up to 35% boron were thermally stable up to 400{dollar}\sp\circ{dollar}C in air. The polymers had hydrogen/boron ratios from 2.0 to 3.8 and were soluble in several organic solvents. Polymer solutions were processed into clear, colored thin films. Boron-filled polyamic acid solutions of a PMDA-ODA polyimide containing up to 10% boron were processed into thin films. Neutron absorption of the opaque films measured in a 5-Curie Pu/Be neutron source was linear with boron concentration and film thickness. The fraction of neutrons absorbed varied linearly with boron concentration and film thickness. The applicability of boron-containing materials to the aerospace, nuclear power and accelerator industries was investigated.
The Strong Force: Two Calculations Of Strong Interaction Phenomena, Richard L. Kahler
The Strong Force: Two Calculations Of Strong Interaction Phenomena, Richard L. Kahler
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Because the theory of strong interactions is mathematically intractable, it is necessary to make approximations which preserve phenomenological features of the theory in order to get answers to practical questions. This thesis explores two such techniques: (1) the chiral bag model is used to investigate the nucleon-nucleon potential and (2) perturbative QCD is used to investigate the pion form factor. An extensive introduction is presented to make the thesis more understandable to a wider audience of people otherwise unfamiliar with particle physics.
Reproductive Biology Of Tautog, Tautoga Onitis, In The Lower Chesapeake Bay And Coastal Waters Of Virginia, Geoffrey Gordon White
Reproductive Biology Of Tautog, Tautoga Onitis, In The Lower Chesapeake Bay And Coastal Waters Of Virginia, Geoffrey Gordon White
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.