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Mark Twain's Zoo: The Higher Animals, Iva A. Walker
Mark Twain's Zoo: The Higher Animals, Iva A. Walker
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Quebec Nationalism And Separatism: A Study Of A Continuing Canadian Crisis, Robert Michael Berry
Quebec Nationalism And Separatism: A Study Of A Continuing Canadian Crisis, Robert Michael Berry
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Dynamics Of Population Growth In Rural Counties: A Study Of Mathews County, Virginia, Michael Hunley Dewitt
Dynamics Of Population Growth In Rural Counties: A Study Of Mathews County, Virginia, Michael Hunley Dewitt
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Impact Of Feminism On Subjective Class Identification, Emilie Patricia Walter
The Impact Of Feminism On Subjective Class Identification, Emilie Patricia Walter
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Deterrent Efficacy Of Capital Punishment On The Homicide Of Law Enforcement Officers, Christina Beth Yaw
The Deterrent Efficacy Of Capital Punishment On The Homicide Of Law Enforcement Officers, Christina Beth Yaw
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Hilda: The Flexible Design And Implementation Of A Database Machine Executive, Paul Anthony Fishwick
Hilda: The Flexible Design And Implementation Of A Database Machine Executive, Paul Anthony Fishwick
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Symbolic Significance Of The Houses In William Faulkner's "Light In August", Wendy Van Epps
The Symbolic Significance Of The Houses In William Faulkner's "Light In August", Wendy Van Epps
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
A Statistical Model To Predict The Incidence Of Pathogenic Protozoa (Amoebida: Acanthamoebidae) In Oceanic Sediments Using Surrogate Variables, Carl Robert Berman Jr
A Statistical Model To Predict The Incidence Of Pathogenic Protozoa (Amoebida: Acanthamoebidae) In Oceanic Sediments Using Surrogate Variables, Carl Robert Berman Jr
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Surrogate contaminant variables (heavy metals, organics, physical oceanograpic data) can be used to predict the incidence of positive cultures of Acanthamoeba sp. in oceanic sediments. Amoebae data are drawn from five years of study involving stations in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, the New York Bight, and the Philadelphia-Camden dumpsite, and associated pollution parameters are drawn from literature sources, computerized marine pollution data bases, and other archives. The Statistics Analysis System (SAS) MAXR('2) improvement technique (stepwise regression) and general linear model procedures are used to generate correlations for surrogate variables and produce final predictive models and tables. Model procedures for the …
In Vitro Steroid Biosynthesis By The Adrenal Tissue Of Prairie Deermice (Peromyscus Maniculatus Bairdi) From Laboratory Populations, Richard Paul Tucci
In Vitro Steroid Biosynthesis By The Adrenal Tissue Of Prairie Deermice (Peromyscus Maniculatus Bairdi) From Laboratory Populations, Richard Paul Tucci
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Pion Production And Absorption In Helium Isotopes, Vanamali Raghunathan
Pion Production And Absorption In Helium Isotopes, Vanamali Raghunathan
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Pion production and absorption mechanisms are studied in the exclusive and inclusive reactions ('3)He(p,t(pi))p, and ('3,4)He((pi)('(+OR-)),p)X. The data for these two reactions were obtained from the experiments done at TRIUMF and LAMPF laboratories. The behavior of the data obtained in the exclusive reaction suggests deviations from the Impulse Approximation. The data of the inclusive reaction suggests the formation of a (DELTA) in the unobserved system X.
"Innocent And Necessary": Music And Dancing In The Life Of Robert Carter Of Nomony Hall, 1728--1804, John R. Barden
"Innocent And Necessary": Music And Dancing In The Life Of Robert Carter Of Nomony Hall, 1728--1804, John R. Barden
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Declining Student Enrollment In Virginia 1972-1981 : An Examination Of Its Extent, State Board Of Education Policies, And Changes Effected By Selected School Divisions, Edward Hughes Pruden
Declining Student Enrollment In Virginia 1972-1981 : An Examination Of Its Extent, State Board Of Education Policies, And Changes Effected By Selected School Divisions, Edward Hughes Pruden
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purposes of the study were to determine: to what extent student enrollment has declined in the state and in local school divisions in Virginia during the decade 1972-1981; what policies, if any, have been enacted by the State Board of Education relative to declining enrollment; and what effect a severely declining enrollment may have had in the areas of formal curriculum, professional personnel, and school organizational patterns and utilization of buildings.;It was found that during the decade studied: (1) statewide enrollment declined overall by less than six percent; (2) 62 percent of the divisions experienced a net loss in …
Energy Utilization In Bay Anchovy And Black Sea Bass Eggs And Larvae Contrasting Ecological Roles, John Wotring Tucker Jr
Energy Utilization In Bay Anchovy And Black Sea Bass Eggs And Larvae Contrasting Ecological Roles, John Wotring Tucker Jr
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The objective of this study was a comparison of developmental changes and energy utilization in eggs, unfed larvae, and fed larvae of two marine fish species that both have pelagic early stages, but differ in phylogeny and early life ecology. The bay anchovy (Anchoa mitchilli), a clupeiform, spawns in estuaries and shallow coastal waters. The black sea bass (Centropristis striata striata), a perciform, spawns offshore at 15-50 m depths. Densities of zooplankton eaten by first-feeding fish larvae are normally higher in coastal waters than offshore. An important determinant of survival of larval fishes is their ability to fulfill nutritional requirements …
Striped Bass Management In The Chesapeake Bay, Thor John Lassen
Striped Bass Management In The Chesapeake Bay, Thor John Lassen
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Interrelationship Between Moral Judgment, Sex Role Development And Perceived Parental Childrearing Practices, Christine Tracey Laws
The Interrelationship Between Moral Judgment, Sex Role Development And Perceived Parental Childrearing Practices, Christine Tracey Laws
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Faculty's Relationship To The Identity Problem Of The Community College : A Study Of Faculty Support For Specific Institutional Directions For The Virginia Community College System, Barbara Kate Townsend
Faculty's Relationship To The Identity Problem Of The Community College : A Study Of Faculty Support For Specific Institutional Directions For The Virginia Community College System, Barbara Kate Townsend
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this study was to determine Virginia Community College System (VCCS) faculty preferences for four possible institutional directions for the VCCS and to explore possible relationships between specific faculty characteristics and preferences for the individual directions. Information derived from the study was to be used to clarify whether or not community college faculty support the broad institutional directions by community college leaders in their efforts to instill a strong identity for this institution.;The population for this study was all full-time teaching faculty in the VCCS for the academic year 1982-83. 323 faculty were systematically selected after first being …
Organic Toxic Substances Monitoring In Virginia, Robert Emile. Croonenberghs
Organic Toxic Substances Monitoring In Virginia, Robert Emile. Croonenberghs
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This project attempts to identify toxic organic substances used in Virginia, which cannot be detected by conventional analytical procedures. A list from the Virginia Bureau of Toxic Substances Information which contained substances reported as used in manufacture or produced in Virginia was cross-referenced with the Master File of toxic substances compiled pursuant to the Toxic Substances Control Act. Organic chemicals appearing on both lists were thus identified as toxic substances used in Virginia, and were the subjects of this research. Due to the reporting requirements of the Virginia Toxic Substances Information Act, the 113 "compounds" do not include substances used …
The Development Of An Exceptional Brethern Ministers Scale For The California Psychological Inventory, James Ralph Hutchison
The Development Of An Exceptional Brethern Ministers Scale For The California Psychological Inventory, James Ralph Hutchison
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this study was to develop an Exceptional Brethren Ministers Scale for the California Psychological Inventory. This scale was designed to differentiate between effective and ineffective parish pastors in the Church of the Brethren.;The procedure involved the identification of two groups of parish clergy in the Church of the Brethren. These groups were formulated using a Pastoral Effectivenes Rating Form, (PERF). A list containing 160 items was circulated among a group of experts in ministry in the Church of the Brethren for their appraisal. The experts rated each item according to its efficacy in discriminating between effective and …
The Short Term Effects Of A Developmentally Based Substance Abuse Program With Incarcerated Youth, Everett Gerard Mclaren Jr.
The Short Term Effects Of A Developmentally Based Substance Abuse Program With Incarcerated Youth, Everett Gerard Mclaren Jr.
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this study was to provide a group experience to a high risk population which addressed the problems of chemical use. The study attempted to evaluate the impact of a developmentally focused prevention program on the range of developmental skills in a population of high risk youth.;The subjects for this study were drawn from a population of young adolescent boys who had been committed to the State Department of Corrections and placed at Barrett Learning Center. Subjects were randomly selected from those youth who entered the institutional population between November 1, 1981 and February 1, 1982.;Twenty-four subjects were …
The Peregrine Falcon In Virginia: Survey Of Historic Eyries And Reintroduction Effort, Johannes Kurt Gabler
The Peregrine Falcon In Virginia: Survey Of Historic Eyries And Reintroduction Effort, Johannes Kurt Gabler
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Solvolysis Of 1-T-Butylvinyl Trifluoromethanesulfonate, Barbara L. Gross
Solvolysis Of 1-T-Butylvinyl Trifluoromethanesulfonate, Barbara L. Gross
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Catastrophes In The Elmo Bumpy Torus, Alkesh R. Punjabi
Catastrophes In The Elmo Bumpy Torus, Alkesh R. Punjabi
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Experimentally it is observed that the plasma in Elmo Bumpy Torus (EBT) shows discontinuous changes in the electron line density, electron and ion temperatures and fluctuation levels as the ambient gas pressure or electron cyclotron heating is varied continuously. We use the Point Model of Hedrick et al. for the toroidal core plasma in EBT. The Point Model is not a gradient dynamic system. Hence the Elementary Catastrophe Theory is not directly applicable to the Point Model. Nonetheless, the Point Model equilibria will be shown to exhibit properties which are quite akin to the canonical cusp catastrophe. The ambipolar electric …
Long-Time States Of Inverse Cascades In The Presence Of A Maximum Length Scale, Murshed Hossain
Long-Time States Of Inverse Cascades In The Presence Of A Maximum Length Scale, Murshed Hossain
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
It is shown numerically, both for the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations and for two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics, that the long-time asymptotic state in a forced inverse-cascade situation is one in which the spectrum is completely dominated by its own fundamental. The growth continues until the fundamental is dissipatively limited by its own dissipation rate. An algebraic model is proposed for the dynamics of such a final state.
A Meta-Analysis Of The Effectiveness Of Educational Treatment Programs For Emotionally Disturbed Students, Claire Millhiser Rosenbaum
A Meta-Analysis Of The Effectiveness Of Educational Treatment Programs For Emotionally Disturbed Students, Claire Millhiser Rosenbaum
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this study was to identify and compare the effects of educational treatment programs for emotionally disturbed students. In addition, the study explored whether programmatic or demographic variables interacted with the treatment programs to affect the outcome measures.;Two hundred twenty studies were integrated using the meta-analysis technique. The analysis involved more than 2,300 research subjects and yielded 235 measures of effect size, which were calculated on outcome areas of general achievement, mathematics achievement, reading achievement, and social skills. Variables investigated were age, diagnosis, SES, IQ, length of program, program setting, and program facilitator.;It was hypothesized that (1) there …
A Study Of An Intervention Designed To Increase Awareness Of The Effects Of Sex Role Socialization On The Attitudes, Cognitions, And Behaviors Of Black High School Girls, Mary Elizabeth Hubbard Lewis
A Study Of An Intervention Designed To Increase Awareness Of The Effects Of Sex Role Socialization On The Attitudes, Cognitions, And Behaviors Of Black High School Girls, Mary Elizabeth Hubbard Lewis
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of sixteen structured group sessions on black high school girls' attitudes toward the rights and sex roles of women, cognitions about the "ideal" woman, and expressed interests in careers in science and engineering.;The literature indicates that individuals select and enter career fields based partly upon their perceptions that certain career areas are more appropriate for one sex than for another. The resulting phenomenon is known as "occupational sex-typing" or segregation of the sexes by occupation.;The research design for this study was a pretest-posttest control group design. The samples consisted of …
The Just Objects Of War: Conduct Of Union Troops Toward Non-Combatants And Private Property In Alabama, 1862--1865, Ronald Edward Colvin
The Just Objects Of War: Conduct Of Union Troops Toward Non-Combatants And Private Property In Alabama, 1862--1865, Ronald Edward Colvin
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
A General Theory Of Electron Detachment In Negative Ion Collisions, Tzuu-Shin Wang
A General Theory Of Electron Detachment In Negative Ion Collisions, Tzuu-Shin Wang
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
In this thesis a general theory of electron detachment in slow collisions of negative ions with atoms is presented. The theory is based upon a semiclassical close-coupling framework, following the work of Taylor and Delos. The Schrodinger equation is reduced, under certain assumptions, to a non-denumerably infinite set of coupled equations. We develop a new method for solving these equations that is more general than the methods used by Taylor and Delos. A zero-order approximation of our solution is applied to the case of H('-)(D('-)) on Ne collisions, the results are compared with the experimental data, and we find good …
Thomas, Lord Seymour Of Sudeley: Treason And Power In Tudor England, Diane Lucille Dunkley
Thomas, Lord Seymour Of Sudeley: Treason And Power In Tudor England, Diane Lucille Dunkley
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Effectiveness On Problem Resolution Of Three Different Treatment Modalities : Client-Centered, Rational Emotive Therapy And Paradoxical Directives, Michael Wagner Gombatz
The Effectiveness On Problem Resolution Of Three Different Treatment Modalities : Client-Centered, Rational Emotive Therapy And Paradoxical Directives, Michael Wagner Gombatz
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The effectiveness of paradoxical directives (PD) as a technique was compared to client-centered (CC), rational emotive therapy (RET) and wait-list control. Subjects who received PD treatment would (1) evaluate self-rated problem relief as more greatly improved than subjects in the CC, RET and/or control group (CG); (2) rate the quality of the relationship as measured by the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory (RI) higher than subjects in the CC and RET groups; (3) express a greater willingness to reveal themselves to a counselor as measured by the Willingness-to-Disclose Questionnaire (WTD) than subjects in the CC, RET, and/or CG; (4) show self-reported lower …
Benthic Polychaeta Of The Middle Atlantic Bight: Feeding And Distribution, Gary Russell Gaston
Benthic Polychaeta Of The Middle Atlantic Bight: Feeding And Distribution, Gary Russell Gaston
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Patterns in the distribution of feeding-biology categories of polychaetous annelids were used to characterize benthic habitats of the Middle Atlantic Bight. Feeding biology classifications were based on recent publications regarding polychaete feeding and on gut-contents analyses of polychaetes collected in the study area. Proportion of carnivorous polychaetes was greatest in coarser sediments, and decreased significantly with depth across the continental shelf. Surface deposit feeders numerically dominated most habitats. Abundance of surface deposit feeders decreased across the continental shelf and sharply increased at the shelf break, paralleling the pattern of water-column production. Proportion of subsurface deposit feeders was greatest in fine-sediment …