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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.
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
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Adrenal Expression Of Cyp17 And Hsd3b1 Mrna In Peromyscus Maniculatus Bairdii, Brian Thomas Lovitt
Adrenal Expression Of Cyp17 And Hsd3b1 Mrna In Peromyscus Maniculatus Bairdii, Brian Thomas Lovitt
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
In The Mind And Bed Of The Beholder?: Individual And Situational Differences In The Experience Of Sexual Interactions, Carrie Veronica Smith
In The Mind And Bed Of The Beholder?: Individual And Situational Differences In The Experience Of Sexual Interactions, Carrie Veronica Smith
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Suspicion: Assimilation And Contrast Effects Of A Primed Social Evaluative Mind-Set, J. Patrick Boyle
Suspicion: Assimilation And Contrast Effects Of A Primed Social Evaluative Mind-Set, J. Patrick Boyle
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
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
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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 …
Algorithms For Operations On Probability Distributions In A Computer Algebra System, Diane Lynn Evans
Algorithms For Operations On Probability Distributions In A Computer Algebra System, Diane Lynn Evans
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
In mathematics and statistics, the desire to eliminate mathematical tedium and facilitate exploration has lead to computer algebra systems. These computer algebra systems allow students and researchers to perform more of their work at a conceptual level. The design of generic algorithms for tedious computations allows modelers to push current modeling boundaries outward more quickly.;Probability theory, with its many theorems and symbolic manipulations of random variables is a discipline in which automation of certain processes is highly practical, functional, and efficient. There are many existing statistical software packages, such as SPSS, SAS, and S-Plus, that have numeric tools for statistical …
Ultrasonographic Measurement Of Periodontal Attachment Levels, John Edward Lynch
Ultrasonographic Measurement Of Periodontal Attachment Levels, John Edward Lynch
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Periodontal disease is one of the two major causes of tooth loss today, and has been associated with several systemic diseases, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, and adverse pregnancy outcomes. Unfortunately, the most widely used diagnostic tool for assessment of periodontal diseases, measurement of periodontal attachment loss with a manual probe, may overestimate attachment loss by as much as 2mm in untreated sites, while underestimating attachment loss by an even greater margin following treatment. Manual probing is also invasive, which causes patient discomfort.;This work describes the development and testing of an ultrasonographic periodontal probe designed to replace manual probing. …
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.
"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
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
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
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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 …
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
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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 …
Qcd, Deep Inelastic Scattering, Confinement And Quark -Hadron Duality In 1 + 1 Dimensions, Zoltan Steven Batiz
Qcd, Deep Inelastic Scattering, Confinement And Quark -Hadron Duality In 1 + 1 Dimensions, Zoltan Steven Batiz
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
We study the onset of scaling in deep inelastic scattering from quark-antiquark bound states (mesons) using covariant models. Assuming some simple non-confining interactions in 1 + 1 dimensions, we prove the self-consistency of the covariant models. The counting rules related to charge conservation, and to momentum conservation are the same as the bound state normalization condition. We also find a qualitatively correct quark distribution function. We investigate duality for the case of QCD2 ('t Hooft model). Solving some few body equations, we clarify the concept of confinement and find a relationship between confinement and quark-hadron duality. to understand how this …
"The Freemasonry Of The Race": The Cultural Politics Of Ritual, Race, And Place In Postemancipation Virginia, Corey D. B. Walker
"The Freemasonry Of The Race": The Cultural Politics Of Ritual, Race, And Place In Postemancipation Virginia, Corey D. B. Walker
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
African American cultural and social history has neglected to interrogate fully a crucial facet of African American political, economic, and social life: African American Freemasonry. "The Freemasonry of the Race": The Cultural Politics of Ritual, Race, and Place in Postemancipation Virginia seeks to remedy this neglect. This project broadly situates African American Freemasonry in the complex and evolving relations of power, peoples, and polities of the Atlantic world. The study develops an interpretative framework that not only recognizes the organizational and institutional aspects of African American Freemasonry, but also interprets it as a discursive space in and through which articulations …
A Study Of The Congruence Between The Transition Planning Process And First -Year Outcomes For Students With Learning Disabilities, Donna Marie Sabel
A Study Of The Congruence Between The Transition Planning Process And First -Year Outcomes For Students With Learning Disabilities, Donna Marie Sabel
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Through quantitative and qualitative methods this study examined the transition planning process in Virginia's Henrico County Public School Division for secondary students with learning disabilities in an effort to determine the extent to which postsecondary outcomes identified in their transition plans were achieved. Specific objectives of the study were (a) to determine the congruence between written objectives in exiting students' transition plans and identified recommended practices in the literature, (b) to determine the congruence between the transition plans developed for students with learning disabilities and their postsecondary outcomes, (c) to determine the extent to which identified recommended practices in students' …
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
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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 …
Molecular Characterization Of Cultured Perkinsus Marinus Isolates, Gwynne D. Brown
Molecular Characterization Of Cultured Perkinsus Marinus Isolates, Gwynne D. Brown
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Perkinsus marinus is the causative agent of the oyster disease Dermo in the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica. In vitro propagation of the parasite has led to the establishment of multiple isolates by several investigators. Little work, however, has been done to characterize different isolates. In this study multiple isolates were examined for genetic and biochemical diversity. at two loci, the ITS region and the ATAN region, there was as much intra-isolate genetic variation among DNA sequences of some isolates as there was inter-isolate variation. Variation was also observed at a third loci, a subtilisin-like serine protease gene. This is the …
Use Of Pop-Up Satellite Tag Technology To Estimate Survival Of Blue Marlin (Makaira Nigricans) Released From Pelagic Longline Gear, David Kerstetter
Use Of Pop-Up Satellite Tag Technology To Estimate Survival Of Blue Marlin (Makaira Nigricans) Released From Pelagic Longline Gear, David Kerstetter
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Spatial And Temporal Variability Of Physical And Biological Mixing In The York River Subestuary, Tara A. Kniskern
Spatial And Temporal Variability Of Physical And Biological Mixing In The York River Subestuary, Tara A. Kniskern
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Broadcast Distributed Shared Memory, Philip Ragner Auld
Broadcast Distributed Shared Memory, Philip Ragner Auld
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Distributed shared memory (DSM) provides the illusion of shared memory processing to programs running on physically distributed systems. Many of these systems are connected by a broadcast medium network such as Ethernet. In this thesis, we develop a weakly coherent model for DSM that takes advantage of hardware-level broadcast. We define the broadcast DSM model (BDSM) to provide fine-grained sharing of user-defined locations. Additionally, since extremely weak DSM models are difficult to program, BDSM provides effective synchronization operations that allow it to function as a stronger memory. We show speedup results for a test suite of parallel programs and compare …
Monument To Sentiment: The Discourse Of Nation And Citizenship At The Oklahoma City National Memorial, Caroline Carpenter Nichols
Monument To Sentiment: The Discourse Of Nation And Citizenship At The Oklahoma City National Memorial, Caroline Carpenter Nichols
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"Gershwin Gone Native!": The Influence Of Primitivism And Folk Music On "Porgy And Bess", Katherine Dacey
"Gershwin Gone Native!": The Influence Of Primitivism And Folk Music On "Porgy And Bess", Katherine Dacey
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
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Orphic Descent In "Lord Jim", Sonya Willie
Orphic Descent In "Lord Jim", Sonya Willie
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Women In Blue: Women In The Us Navy During World War Two, Zoe Catherine Robinson
Women In Blue: Women In The Us Navy During World War Two, Zoe Catherine Robinson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Reprinting Culture: Book Publishing In The Early Republic, Virginia L. Montijo
Reprinting Culture: Book Publishing In The Early Republic, Virginia L. Montijo
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Hannah And Priscilla: The Education Of Slave Girls And Planters' Daughters In Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Amber Esplin
Hannah And Priscilla: The Education Of Slave Girls And Planters' Daughters In Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Amber Esplin
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Valuable Possessions: Wealth, Prestige, And Social Mobility In The Colonial Chesapeake, Whitney L. Battle
Valuable Possessions: Wealth, Prestige, And Social Mobility In The Colonial Chesapeake, Whitney L. Battle
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Level And Instability Of Global And Domain-Specific Self-Esteem As Differential Predictors Of Aggression, Gregory Daniel Webster
Level And Instability Of Global And Domain-Specific Self-Esteem As Differential Predictors Of Aggression, Gregory Daniel Webster
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.