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A Numerical Simulation And Statistical Modeling Of High Intensity Radiated Fields Experiment Data, Laura Smith
A Numerical Simulation And Statistical Modeling Of High Intensity Radiated Fields Experiment Data, Laura Smith
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Shenandoah Valley Earthenware As Symbols Of Identity, Sunyoon Park
Shenandoah Valley Earthenware As Symbols Of Identity, Sunyoon Park
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No abstract provided.
Allozyme Variation In American Ginseng, Panax Quinquefolius L (Araliaceae): Implications For Management Of Wild And Cultivated Populations, Holly Jean Grubbs
Allozyme Variation In American Ginseng, Panax Quinquefolius L (Araliaceae): Implications For Management Of Wild And Cultivated Populations, Holly Jean Grubbs
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No abstract provided.
"The Little Stop Before The Words": Bildungsroman And The Building Of A Colonial Discourse In Rudyard Kipling's "Kim", Adam Keith Pfeffer
"The Little Stop Before The Words": Bildungsroman And The Building Of A Colonial Discourse In Rudyard Kipling's "Kim", Adam Keith Pfeffer
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No abstract provided.
The Relationship Between Conceptual Level And Moral Development Of Substance Abuse Prevention Professionals Working In Higher Education And Their Comprehensiveness Of Programming, Mary Katherine Crozier
The Relationship Between Conceptual Level And Moral Development Of Substance Abuse Prevention Professionals Working In Higher Education And Their Comprehensiveness Of Programming, Mary Katherine Crozier
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Alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs are prevalent on American college and university campuses. The higher education literature is replete with research on prevalence rates (Presley, Meilman, and Cashin, 1998; Wechsler, Lee, Kuo, and Lee, 2000), substance abuse prevention theories (Gonzales, 1994), history of substance abuse prevention (O'Bryan and Daughtery, 1992), and descriptions of prevention programming (anderson and Milgram, 1996; Mills-Novoa, 1994). There is, however, little research on the substance abuse prevention professionals who are charged with developing and offering prevention programming in higher education.;This study is one of the first to examine the substance abuse prevention professional in higher education. …
Assessment Of Development Impacts On Coastal Zone: Integrated Approach, Northampton County, Eastern Shore, Virginia, Sarunas Zableckis
Assessment Of Development Impacts On Coastal Zone: Integrated Approach, Northampton County, Eastern Shore, Virginia, Sarunas Zableckis
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
New Dimensionless Indices Of Structural Habitat Complexity, Aaron Bartholomew
New Dimensionless Indices Of Structural Habitat Complexity, Aaron Bartholomew
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Ecologists have long known that complex habitats often provide prey with refugia from predation in a wide variety of habitat types and for a wide variety of prey species. Despite the recognized importance of structural habitat complexity, ecologists have measured complexity in many different ways. I propose four new indices of structural habitat complexity that are dimensionless, that can be applied across various habitat types and scales, and that directly measure how structural complexity interferes with a predator's foraging ability. These indices are: (1) Ct/At, the total area of cover within a habitat (Ct) divided by the area of the …
Faculty And Multicultural Education: An Analysis Of The Levels Of Curricular Integration Within A Community College System, Lillian Hoggard Williams
Faculty And Multicultural Education: An Analysis Of The Levels Of Curricular Integration Within A Community College System, Lillian Hoggard Williams
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The composition of the United States population and its workforce is changing rapidly with a projected increase from 249 million in 1990 to 355 million by the year 2040. The majority white population is projected to only grow by 25 percent during this time period while the Latino, and Hispanic populations in the United States are projected to increase by 187 percent. Consequently, the current minorities will constitute more than half of the nation's total population by mid century and comprise a disproportionately large segment of the workforce. as a result of these changing demographics and increasing economic globalization, America's …
The Press And The Prisons: Union And Confederate Newspaper Coverage Of Civil War Prisons, Elizabeth C. Bangert
The Press And The Prisons: Union And Confederate Newspaper Coverage Of Civil War Prisons, Elizabeth C. Bangert
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No abstract provided.
A Tradition Of Doubt: Women And Slavery In Nineteenth-Century Virginia, Leslie C. Hunt
A Tradition Of Doubt: Women And Slavery In Nineteenth-Century Virginia, Leslie C. Hunt
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No abstract provided.
Raising Their Voices: Women, Articulation And Power In Shakespeare's Henriad, Jennifer Zawadzinski
Raising Their Voices: Women, Articulation And Power In Shakespeare's Henriad, Jennifer Zawadzinski
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No abstract provided.
Optimal Educational Experiences And Their Relationship To Self-Concept And Flow In Adolescent High-Ability And Gifted Learners, Lisa Ann Schenkel
Optimal Educational Experiences And Their Relationship To Self-Concept And Flow In Adolescent High-Ability And Gifted Learners, Lisa Ann Schenkel
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No abstract provided.
Characterizing And Monitoring Changes In State Of Polymers During Cure And Use -Aging, Andrew Orschel Meyer
Characterizing And Monitoring Changes In State Of Polymers During Cure And Use -Aging, Andrew Orschel Meyer
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Multi Angle Laser Light Scattering (MALLS) and Frequency Dependent Electromagnetic Sensing (FDEMS) provide unique characterizations of polymer systems during cure and use-aging. This research illustrates how MALLS is an extremely accurate technique for absolute characterization of macromolecules, giving molecular weight and size information that other widely used and accepted techniques are incapable of measuring. Application of MALLS to monitoring the changing state of a polyamide-11 system in a water aging environment led to the discovery of an equilibrium molecular weight which is the result of two competing reactions, hydrolysis-degradation and a newly discovered recombination-polymerization reaction. The discovery of this recombination …
The Impact Of School And Contextual Factors On The Graduation Rates Of Virginia Migrant Students, Denise Chapell Perritt
The Impact Of School And Contextual Factors On The Graduation Rates Of Virginia Migrant Students, Denise Chapell Perritt
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No abstract provided.
Systemic Reform: The Impact Of North Carolina's State-Initiated Policies On Local Gifted Programs, Elissa Fern Weisner Brown
Systemic Reform: The Impact Of North Carolina's State-Initiated Policies On Local Gifted Programs, Elissa Fern Weisner Brown
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No abstract provided.
A Study Of Metaphor Development In Young Gifted Children, Catherine Anne Little
A Study Of Metaphor Development In Young Gifted Children, Catherine Anne Little
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No abstract provided.
Ged Diploma Graduates: Performance, Persistence, And Attrition In Four -Year Postsecondary Education Institutions, Monica A. Osei
Ged Diploma Graduates: Performance, Persistence, And Attrition In Four -Year Postsecondary Education Institutions, Monica A. Osei
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Individuals who pass the General Educational Development (GED) exam often pursue higher education. Although GED diploma students tend to enroll in two-year colleges, an increasing number are enrolling in four-year postsecondary education institutions. GED diploma college students are characterized as nontraditional students and usually possess risk factors that impede academic performance and cause attrition. Collective data and analysis of their academic performance and persistence and attrition behavior is needed to determine their success in attaining a bachelor's degree.;The purpose of this study was to analyze the academic performance and persistence and attrition behavior of GED diploma undergraduates who applied directly …
Effects Of Humic Acids And Salinity On Pesticide Bioavailability And Toxicity As Estimated By Spme And Toxicity Tests, Laurent C. Mézin
Effects Of Humic Acids And Salinity On Pesticide Bioavailability And Toxicity As Estimated By Spme And Toxicity Tests, Laurent C. Mézin
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The interactive effects of humic acids (HAs) and salinity on the bioavailability and toxicity of the pesticides chlorpyrifos and 4,4'-dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) were investigated. The effects of various HAs on the toxicity of chlorpyrifos were initially assessed with the chronic MicrotoxRTM test. Environmentally relevant concentrations of Aldrich, Peat, Leonardite and Suwannee River HAs had no significant effect on the toxicity of either chlorpyrifos or copper (Cu), the test's positive control. as reductions in contaminant toxicity had previously been reported for some contaminants by HAs, it appeared that salinity might be a mitigating factor. Thus salinity effects were further investigated with Aldrich …
Modeling Of Critically-Stratified Gravity Flows: Application To The Eel River Continental Shelf, Northern California, Malcolm E. Scully
Modeling Of Critically-Stratified Gravity Flows: Application To The Eel River Continental Shelf, Northern California, Malcolm E. Scully
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An analytical and numerical model are presented and applied to predict gravitydriven transport and deposition of fluid mud layers that form within the wave boundary layer on the continental shelf off the Eel River in northern California. Observations indicate that following floods of the Eel River down-slope transport of fluid mud trapped within the wave boundary layer is the dominant across-shelf transport mechanism. The models are based upon the assumption that following significant floods, an abundant supply of easily suspended fine sediment is delivered to the coastal ocean, allowing a negative feedback mechanism to maintain the near-bed Richardson number at …
Vitellogenin -- A Biomarker Of Exposure To Environmental Estrogens For Mummichog (Fundulus Heteroclitus) From A Creosote-Contaminated Site?, Sara Mirabilio
Vitellogenin -- A Biomarker Of Exposure To Environmental Estrogens For Mummichog (Fundulus Heteroclitus) From A Creosote-Contaminated Site?, Sara Mirabilio
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Vitellogenin (VTG) is widely used as a biomarker for environmental estrogens and reproductive disruption in fish. Vitellogenesis is the process by which yolk is formed. The endpoint is most sensitive in male fish where vitellogenesis is an abnormal process. Research examining effects of environmental mixtures of chemicals (e.g. creosote) on vitellogenesis is limited. This study examines plasma VTG expression in both male and female mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus, collected from a creosote-contaminated site and two reference sites in lower Chesapeake Bay, USA, and in wild-caught male reference fish exposed in the laboratory to creosote-contaminated sediment. Further, this study uses tissue somatic …
Cobia (Rachycentron Canadum) Aquaculture: Captive Growth Rates And Product Quality Evaluation, David Patrick Kilduff
Cobia (Rachycentron Canadum) Aquaculture: Captive Growth Rates And Product Quality Evaluation, David Patrick Kilduff
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Topics In Physics Beyond The Standard Model, Alfredo Aranda
Topics In Physics Beyond The Standard Model, Alfredo Aranda
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
In this dissertation we address three issues related to physics beyond the Standard model: flavor and the use of discrete gauge symmetries, the dynamical breaking of electroweak symmetry, and the addition of a U(1) gauge symmetry to the Standard model in order to suppress proton decay. We present: (i) A model of flavor based on the double tetrahedral group that leads to acceptable quark and lepton masses as well as mixing angles. Furthermore it gives solutions for the atmospheric and solar neutrino problems. (ii) A model of bosonic topcolor in which the breaking of electroweak symmetry occurs dynamically through the …
Phenomenology Of The Su(2)(L) X Su(2)(I) X U(1)(Y) X U(1)(Y') Model, Shuquan Nie
Phenomenology Of The Su(2)(L) X Su(2)(I) X U(1)(Y) X U(1)(Y') Model, Shuquan Nie
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We consider the effective low-energy SU(2) L x SU(2)I x U(1)Y x U(1)Y' model, which is based on the E6 grand unification theory. SU(2)I is a subgroup of SU(3) R and commutes with the electric charge operator.;Higgs bosons in the Standard Model and two-Higgs doublet models are reviewed and studied first. The flavor-changing neutral currents and their effects on the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon are discussed. Bounds on masses of Higgs bosons are obtained by requiring that the vacuum is stable and perturbation theory is valid up to a large scale. We introduce Higgs multiplets including two neutral …
Solid State Nmr Characterization Of Structural And Motional Parameter Distributions In Polyamidoammonium Dendrimers, Dariya Ivanovna Malyarenko
Solid State Nmr Characterization Of Structural And Motional Parameter Distributions In Polyamidoammonium Dendrimers, Dariya Ivanovna Malyarenko
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The characterization of narrow distributions of structural and motional parameters, and their evolution during the broad glass transition, is performed for deuterated PAMAM dendrimer salts using solid state NMR. The broadening of deuteron quadrupole echo (QE) lineshapes is consistent with the presence of narrow hydrogen bond length distribution (sigmar < 0.25 A) at the spacer amide and branching tertiary amine sites. The temperature dependent averaging of the experimental lineshapes is explained on the basis of fast planar librations in the dendrimer interior, and fast rotation and intermediate regime libration (in an asymmetric cone) of the dendrimer termini. The amplitudes of libration are temperature dependent and higher for low generation dendrimers, while librational rates show Arrhenius behavior only within the glass transition region. In this region, the width of log-normal distribution of rates increases with temperature at sites associated with chlorine counterions. The largest distributions are still less than one order of magnitude wide, unlike the dendrimer in solution or the linear polymers. Interpenetrated low generations (G < 3), uniform intermediate generations (G = 3--5) with surface network, and backfolded high generations (G > 5), are distinguished by interior and termini dynamics.;In the regime of fast motion QE lineshapes are highly sensitive to the presence of narrow structural and motional parameter distributions, and provide constraints on motional geometry independent of rates. The precise characterization of narrow log-normal rate distributions in the intermediate regime can be …
A Publisher's Hand: Strategic Gambles And Cultural Leadership By Moses Dresser Phillips In Antebellum America, Marykate Mcmaster
A Publisher's Hand: Strategic Gambles And Cultural Leadership By Moses Dresser Phillips In Antebellum America, Marykate Mcmaster
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This study examines the life and business career of Moses Dresser Phillips (1813--1859), an important, but previously neglected, member of the Antebellum literary marketplace. If mentioned in discussions of Antebellum publishing at all, Moses Dresser Phillips is usually noted for choosing to create the Atlantic Monthly, one of his most distinguished achievements, or for deciding not to publish Uncle Tom's Cabin, one of his most costly errors. Although one of the most powerful figures in the literary marketplace, Phillips died in 1859 at age forty-six. Life dealt him a short tenure as a result of the stress caused by the …
Measurement Of The Strange Sea Of The Proton, Gary A. Rutledge
Measurement Of The Strange Sea Of The Proton, Gary A. Rutledge
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The differential cross section for elastic scattering of longitudinally-polarized electrons from protons exhibits a parity-violating asymmetry, due to the interference between weak and electromagnetic amplitudes. The asymmetry is extracted from the detector counting rates as APV = ( Dr - Dl)/(Dr + D l) where Drl are related to the right (left) differential cross sections sigmar, sigmal respectively. Thus APV = (sigmar - sigma l)/(sigmar + sigmal) for right-handed and left-handed electrons. This asymmetry is sensitive to the presence of strange sea quarks in the proton, in particular to the strange vector matrix elements GsE and GsM .;In an experiment …
Rethinking The Red Scare: The Lusk Committee And New York State's Fight Against Radicalism, 1919--1923, Todd J. Pfannestiel
Rethinking The Red Scare: The Lusk Committee And New York State's Fight Against Radicalism, 1919--1923, Todd J. Pfannestiel
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This study re-examines the Great Red Scare that followed the First World War in an effort to more accurately determine its origins, tactics, duration, and conclusion. Specifically, it analyzes the efforts of the Lusk Committee, New York State's joint legislative committee to combat radicalism, between 1919 and 1923.;Prior studies agree that the Red Scare was intense and brief in duration. Physical raids upon Socialist Party, Communist Party, and Industrial Workers of the World offices dominated the episode, culminating with Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer's infamous national raids in January, 1920. His heavy-handed tactics, which failed to uncover any serious revolutionary …
By The Side Of The Road: An Interpretive Look At Road Menders' Houses, Aida Belã©N Rivera-Ruiz
By The Side Of The Road: An Interpretive Look At Road Menders' Houses, Aida Belã©N Rivera-Ruiz
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No abstract provided.
Structures, Fields, And Farmsteads Of Early America: Post-Revolutionary Class Relations In Tidewater Virginia, Chad C. Long
Structures, Fields, And Farmsteads Of Early America: Post-Revolutionary Class Relations In Tidewater Virginia, Chad C. Long
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No abstract provided.
Moravian Missions To The Delaware Indians, 1792-1812, Jessica Maul
Moravian Missions To The Delaware Indians, 1792-1812, Jessica Maul
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No abstract provided.