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The Effect Of Pimozide And Apomorphine On Dopamine-Induced Renin Release, Tissue Renin Content, And 3'5'-Adenosine Monophosphate Levels In Rat Venal Cortical Slices, Visalakshi Rao

Master's Theses

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Religious Experience, Personality Style, Moral Character, And Social Intelligence In Relation To Performance On Interpersonal Helping Skills, Donald Joseph Miro

Master's Theses

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Client Characteristics Related To Retention In A Drug Abuse Inpatient Program, Paul Fedirka

Master's Theses

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Sequential Ultrastructural And Histochemical Alterations Associated With Atresia Of The Preovulatory Follicle In The Rat, Mary Cristine England-Charlesworth

Master's Theses

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Role-Taking Abilities And Intellectual Level In Disturbed And Normal Adolescent Girls, Claudia Devries Beversluis

Master's Theses

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The Effects Of Ego-Threat And Task Importance On The Anagram Performance Of Depressed-Anxious, Nondepressed-Anxious, And Nondepressed-Nonanxious College Students, Matthew M. Zarantonello

Master's Theses

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Misunderstood Mystic: An Analysis Of Alfred Loisy's Un Mythe Apologetique, Patricia Prendergast

Master's Theses

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Social And Political Perspectives In The Thought Of Søren Kierkegaard, David Bruce Fletcher

Master's Theses

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Comparison Of The Levels Of Political And Economic Development In Latin America, Carolyn Hostetler Anderson

Master's Theses

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A Systematic Presentation Of Development Of Dogma In The Theology Of Karl Rahner, Linda Rasinski

Master's Theses

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Determination Of The Gingival Inflammatory Levels Associated With Abutment Teeth Used For Fixed Prosthodontics, Thomas E. Yuhas

Master's Theses

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Studies On The Mechanism Of Reaction Of Papain With N-Acetyl-L-Phenylalanyl Glycinal, A Model For An Elementary Step In Catalysis, Thresiamma Kuppy

Master's Theses

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Justification Of Civil Disobedience By Groups And Individuals, Gregory Kepferle

Master's Theses

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Patient Self-Reports Of Nursing Care Received Preoperatively In The Operating Room, Karla M. Fogel

Master's Theses

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The Relationship Between Nursing Care Activities And The Opportunity For Sleep For Patients In A Medical Intensive Care Unit, Sharon M. Burns-Stewart

Master's Theses

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Effect Of Hand And Pillow Methods Of Incisional Splinting For Postoperative Deep Breathing And Coughing On Vital Capacity And Inspiratory Pressure In Cholecystectomized Patients, Kay Etta Fraulini

Master's Theses

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The Concept Of Self In Role Of Nurses Working On The Critical Care Unit As Compared To Nurses Working On The General Unit, Cheryl Mae Goldberg

Master's Theses

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Detente: The Great Foreign Policy Debate, George Allen Sufana

Master's Theses

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A Drift Towards Nostalgia: The River Trip As Journal Of A Changing View Of American Wilderness, Richard D. Davis

Master's Theses

As early as the 1820s and 1830s, observers of the American scene, such as George Catlin, John James Audubon, and Alexis de Tocqueville, were expressing misgivings over the rapid settlement of the American West. In their concern over the passing of pristine landscapes and native cultures was a note of nostalgia for an earlier time, the era of exploration, whose journals echoed the freshness of discovery and spoke of the beauty and inexhaustible promise of the New World. The elegiac tone has become more explicit in our own time. In the works of twentieth century writers is seen a haunting …

Sex And Age Differences In The Labeling And Intensity Of Emotion, Marita Leonie Desselles

Master's Theses

In the present study, the relationship of sex and age of subject to emotion labeling, affect intensity and gender identity was examined. Subjects were 120 naive volunteers recruited from University of Rich-

mond undergraduate classes and community organizations, 60 of whom were male and 60 female. All participants were administered the Emotion Research Questionnaire (ERQ) along with the Bern Sex Role Inventory (BSRI). Dependent variables were the total number of anger responses (ERQ-A), Mean Affect Intensity (MN-INT) , Mean Anger Intensity (A-INT) and Mean Fear Intensity (F-INT). The BSRI gave Masc (BEM-M) and Fem (BEM-F) scores for each subject. Results …

The Importance Of An Educational Phase To The Stress Inoculation Of Anxiety, Susan Elizabeth Naggs

Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to examine the importance of an educational component to the stress inoculation training (SIT) package, as well as the generalization of such training to non-targeted stressors. Twenty-eight students from introductory speech classes at the University of Richmond were matched in sets of four and placed into one of the following groups: Ed only, Skills only, Combo, and No treatment Control. Pre and post measures of anxiety were obtained through the administration of the STAI, SE, TAS, and AAT scales. The three treatment groups attended a speech anxiety workshop where various components of the SIT …

Images Of Women And Men In Contemporary Pop Song: Production And Perception, Gloriaa Norgang

Master's Theses

This study explored the images of women and men presented in the 1978 top 25 pop songs. An evaluation of these images was made by 23 women and 21 men. Each evaluator chose one of seven descriptors (objectifier, diminutizer, user, appreciating, used, diminutized, and objectified) to describe each female and male character in each pop song. Chi square analyses indicated that the sex of character effect on the descriptor frequencies was significant for women and men evaluators. Differences between women and men evaluators were not significant for female nor male characters. Analyses of data from both women and men evaluators …

Salt Appetite During Acute Sodium Deficiency In The Gerbil, Elvira K. Perewiznyk

Master's Theses

In the present study, two experiments were conducted to examine the gerbil's response to acute sodium deficiency. Adult male gerbils were either exposed to a 1% b.w. subcutaneous injection of 1.5% formalin or a vehicle control injection. Within each injection level, half the animals were further assigned to either an isotonic saline or a water vehicle. Immediately following the injection, each S had access to isotonic saline and water as their drinking fluid. The formalin dissolved in water group displayed a significant increase in saline consumption, but at the same time decreased their water intake, in comparison to the water …

Growth And Food Habits Of Micropterus Salmoides In Westhampton Lake, Richmond, Virginia, Charles H. Rawls Jr.

Master's Theses

Age, growth, and food habits of the population of Micropterus salmoides (largemouth bass) in Westhampton Lake were studied from September to November 1978. Two year classes (0 and I) were identified by determining numbers of annuli on the scales of the fish. Growth data indicated that the bass attain a size of 254 mm (10 in.) near the end of their second summer. The length-weight relationship was log W = -4.6829 + 2.9153 log TL. The Fulton condition factor for the population was 1.40. Food habits were described by numerical and frequency of occurrence methods. Young of the year sunfish …

The Interacting Effects Of Tetraiodothyronine And Epinephrine On The Activities Of Na+ + K+ -Dependent Adenosine Triphosphatase, Hexokinase And Pyruvate Kinase In The Cardiac Tissue Of White Rats, Timothy Joseph Dietrick

Master's Theses

The interacting effects of tetraiodothyronine (T4) and epi- nephrine on Na++K+-dependent ATPase, hexokinase, and pyruvate kinase in cardiac tissue of white rats were investigated in an attempt to elucidate the hormonal regulation of heart metabolism. Previous evidence has shown that 90% of the increase in oxygen consumption exhibited by hyperthyroid rats was due to an activation of Na++K+- dependent ATPase. In addition, hypothyroidism in sheep was re­ ported to lower cardiac Na++K+-dependent ATPase activity as well as 8-adrenergic binding sites for epinephrine. As T4 and epinephrine enhance carbohydrate metabolism, hexokinase and pyruvate kinase, two essentially irreversible glycolytic enzymes, were also …

Avoidance Learning Of Anxiety : An Application Of Signal Detection Theory, Maribeth Ekey

Master's Theses

The purpose of the present study was to test the appli­ cation of Signal Detection Theory to a model for the development of anxiety. An attempt was made to condi­ tion anxiety responses to decreasing magnitudes of a noxious stimulus through the negative reinforcement of avoidance behavior. An analogue based on Mandler and Watson's (1966) interruption theory was designed. Data from 32 male and female volunteers from the University of Richmond subject pool were used in the final analy­ sis. All students were pretested with Sarason's (1972) Test Anxiety Scale and placed in high- and low-anxiety groups according to …

The Military Career Of John Churchill, Duke Of Marlborough, Eugene H. Grayson

Master's Theses

The prpose of this thesis is two-fold: First, it is the author's intention to present a short biography of John Churchill from his birth in 1650 to the outbreak of the great continental war of 1700. The second and primary purpose is to evaluate Marlborough 's military role during the War of Spanish Succession, while serving as Commander in Chief, Allied Armies, on the Continent. The four major battles to be emphasized in this section are Blenheim, 1704; Ramilles, 1706; Oudenarde, 1706; and Malpaquet, 1709, with primary emphasis on Blenheim. The central theme of this thesis is to illustrate how …

A Validation Study For The Position Of Bank Teller Utilizing The Job Matching System, Richard Dennis Newcomb

Master's Theses

This study attempted to validate the Job Matching System utilizing both objective and subjective proficiency measure. The participants were tellers from two area banks. It was found that the Match Index scores (r) that were obtained from the administration of the Life Activities Inventory could be used to predict success on the jo (with success defined as above or below average proficiency levels_ whether objective or subjective it was shown that the Job matching System, with certain notation, did not show adverse impact for any of the minority groups included in this study. Certain limitations upon the results of this …

A Test Of Two Theories Of The Necker Cube Reversal Illusion, Phillip Powers Woodson Jr.

Master's Theses

The Necker cube reversal illusion was used to test the satiational and constructional theories of this illusion in an experimental paradigm. The paradigm involved one group of 51 university students who were tested under three experimental conditions. All three test sessions involved their watching a Necker cube for a continuous 2 minute period. Each session was separated by at least a 1-day interval. One session involved the plain cube. Another session involved a fixation mark in the center of the cube and a third session had the mark sequentially appearing in four different locations in the central region of the …

Field Dependence And Recall Of Related And Unrelated Lists Of Words, Lynda L. King

Master's Theses

This study dealt with the particular cognitive style known as field-independence and field-dependence as an influential factor upon the number of words recalled from categorized and uncategorized lists of words across three trials. After being tested for cognitive style using Witkin's Group Embedded Figures Test, 6 subjects from each of three identified styles, field-independent, medium, and field-dependent, were given a related (categorized) list of words while 6 different subjects from each of the cognitive styles were given an unrelated (uncategorized) list of words. Each word list was presented three times with recall after each trial for every subject being recorded. …