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Investigating The Viability Of Yeast Expressing Histone From Extrachromosomal Dna : Progress In Construction Of A Plasmid Bearing One Copy Of Each Yeast Histone Gene, Ralph Donaldson Hellams Jr.

Master's Theses

Much of the current information on histones has been based on in vitro studies. The original goal of this research was to construct a mutant strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae containing all chromosomal copies of the yeast histone genes made nonfunctional. This project would demonstrate whether such a strain could be rescued by a plasmid carrying the wild-type copies of the four core histone genes. Furthermore, this yeast strain construct would allow future investigations to take advantage of histone mutant analysis in vivo. The critical step in beginning this work was the construction of a plasmid which contained the genes …

"This Enterprise Non Shall Partake With Me." : Milton's Conquering Of His Precursors Through Orphean Allusions, Kathryn Nyreen Cooke

Master's Theses

Within his poetry and prose, John Milton shows a respect for the authors of antquity while simultaneously seeking his own voice, a style that makes him different from and better than his predecessors. Milton's works contain expressions of these Renaissance characteristics: the appreciation of the Classics, the search for a more personal relationship with God, and the attempt to achieve some individuality; however, even in the smallest of literary figures such as the Orphean allusions, the need to combine a respect for the past with the ambition for a uniquely personal voice as a poet exists. The isolation of the …

Defining Codependency : A Factor Analytic Approach, Kimberly A. Elliott

Master's Theses

This study examined the construct validity of the Friel Inventory, via relationship with the ACL. A factor analysis of the ACL scores collected from 89 introductory psychology students was conducted. These factors were then correlated with the items of the Friel Inventory, which was from the same subjects. The purpose was to determine if codependence, as measured by the Friel Inventory, was a unique construct or a combination of well researched personality traits, as measured by the ACL. The findings supported the former as the correlations among the Friel Inventory items and the ACL factors yielded no relationships above that …

A Study Of Carbon Impurities In Magnesium Oxide Using Ultra-High Resolution Infra-Red Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy, James Patrick Trice

Master's Theses

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Relationship Between Stage And Strength For People With Parkinson's Disease, Robert D. Austin

Master's Theses

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Choral Anthems In English: A Representative Survey For The Church Musician, Mary Anne James

Master's Theses

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Short Sleep And Exercise Effects On The Multidimensional Activation Model, Larry L. Crane

Master's Theses

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The Origin Of Integration In Virginia's Public Schools : A Narrative History From 1951-1959, James Morrman Weigand

Master's Theses

This thesis traces the origins of integration in Virginia's public schools from a strike for equal facilities by black students in Prince Edward County in 1951 to Governor Almond's capitulation of the resistance movement in 1959. The 1951 student strike became a law suit challenging the constitutionality of Virginia's segregation laws. It was one of four cases heard collectively before the United States Supreme Court in 1954 as Brown v. Board of Education. Virginia resisted the Court's decision until 1959.

The thesis relied upon newspaper accounts and personal interviews. It concluded that a fear of amalgamation of the races and …

Immunolocalization And A Study Of Adhesive Properties Of Pas Iv, Sheetal A. Pandya

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Culture En DéPit Du Colonialisme : La Politique FrançAise Au Viet-Nam, BiểU Chí PhạM

Master's Theses

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Physical Modelling Of Transpressional Strike-Slip Faulting : Implications For Deformational Styles Surrounding The San Andreas Fault Zone, John M. (John Michael), 1940- Wallace

Master's Theses

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Cryobiolistics : Transformation Of Plant Cells Using Frozen Dna As Microprojectiles, James M. Gilmore

Master's Theses

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Tidepool Selection And Homing Behavior Of The Bald Sculpin, Cinocottus Recalvus, On The Central California Coast : With Notes On Other Intertidal Fish Species, Beverly M. Hann

Master's Theses

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The Mixed-Up Adventures Of Morgan Rio : Reading Sequences And Narrative Cohesion, Louis Dimonaco

Master's Theses

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Long Range Organization Of Alphoid Sequence On Human Chromosome 21, Malini Chawla

Master's Theses

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Disarming The Demon: Dealing With Denial In Alcoholism Intervention, Brynn Marie O'Brien

Master's Theses

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The Measurement Of Empathic Skill Levels In Community College Nursing Students, Margaret Laurence-Becker

Master's Theses

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Prevalence Of Mild Hearing Loss In School-Age Children Enrolled In Special Education, Susan B. Denney

Master's Theses

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Virginia, The United States And The World : The Effects Of Political, Cultural And Economic Factors On Export Activity, Kimberly Sue Williams

Master's Theses

During the Middle Ages, the "marketplace" may have consisted of one village; products were made and sold locally. From a business person's perspective, there was little need to find out about the preferences of people in another town, let aone on another continent. In the middle of the twentieth century, American made products were sold in America; there was not much incentive to find about the tastes of people in another country. Business in the 1990's is different. Today there is a "global marketplace." Technology has made the planet smaller, facilitating communication and transportation between nations. The world today, in …

Atrial Natriuretic Factor In Meriones Unguiculatus, The Mongolian Gerbil, Kyriakos Tarasidis

Master's Theses

The basis for the great osmoregulatory ability in Meriones unguiculatus, the Mongolian gerbil, has been studied previously, but as yet no clear mechanism has been determined. The present study investigated the level of cardiac atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) under high and low sodium stress. In addition, cardiac ANF values for the Mongolian gerbil were compared with another desert mammal (Mesocricetus auratus, the Syrian golden hamster) and a non-desert mammal, (Rattus norvegicus, the white rat). ANF was found to exist in the hear atria of the Mongolian gerbil at a level of 388±66 µg ANF/g tissue. High and low sodium stress …

The Voice Unbound : Mary Shelley's Vision Of Romanticism, Courtenay Noelle Smith

Master's Theses

Mary Shelley was propelled into fame while still a teenager because of her powerful and "gothic" novel Frankenstein. This novel and several facts about the author's personal life have kept her in the public eye since her death. Though Frankenstein has long been a subject of scholarship, Mary Shelley has been little studied directly in relation to the great literary movement, Romanticism, in which she participated Romantic literature is pervaded by numerous political and aesthetic tensions, in particular the paradox of the ideals of genius and fellowship. In many of the Romantic works readers and scholars will find that the …

Cumberland County, Virginia, In The Late Antebellum Period, 1840-1860, William Maphis Whitworth Jr.

Master's Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to examine and describe the lives of the citizens of a rural, agricultural Virginia County which had a social and economic order based on the institution of slavery. This system was dominated by a wealthy white minority which had the ability to use the existing components of government to perpetuate itself. All aspects of the county were explored, including its origins, geography, population, county court system, representation in state and federal government, economy, transportation, communication, religion, education, and health care.

There was an abundance of available primary sources which gave insights into the county's …

Vietnam In Turmoil : The Japanese Coup, The Oss, And The August Revolution In 1945, Edward Tayloe Wise

Master's Theses

World War II brought about the demise of colonialism. The Japanese overthrew the French Indochinese government in March 1945. Their establishment of a puppet government encouraged the Vietnamese to seek independence. Ho Chi Minh, who had a Communist background, was ready to lead his nation, and was assisted in that undertaking by the United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor of the Central Intelligence Agency. This work explores Ho Chi Minh's nationalist and Communist background along with the role that the OSS played in his rise to power in 1945.

Primary sources include U.S. Government documents and many …

Background Metal Concentrations In Soils In Northern Santa Clara County, California, Christina Marie Scott

Master's Theses

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Isolation Of A Cdna Clone Of Gp-80 From A Lambda Gt-11 Mammary Tissue Library, Shanavaz Loharasp Nasarabadi

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Digital Control Of A Turbine-Driven Pumping System, John Zerwekh

Master's Theses

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The Effect Of Feedback Message Characteristics And Perceived Relationship On Responses To Feedback, Gwen Naftaly Carscadden

Master's Theses

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Emile Zola Et L'Impressionnisme, Eva Forsberg-Rider

Master's Theses

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Charge Injection Cancellation In Analog-To-Digital Converters, Michael K. Mayes

Master's Theses

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The Miocene Dike Swarm Of The Mohave Mountains, Arizona : Petrography, Geochemistry, Geochronology, And Paleomagnetism, Victoria L. Pease

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.