Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Dark matter in the heavens and at colliders: Models and constraints, Reinard Primulando
A Study of Vertical Patterns and Mechanisms of Along-Channel Estuarine Circulation, Qubin. Qin
Transcriptional Regulation of the Acetone Carboxylase Operon via Two-Component Signal Transduction in Helicobacter pylori, Vanessa H. Quinlivan-Repasi
Effects of Nucleophile Strength on Selectivity in BiBr3 Catalyzed Cyclic Ether Construction, Ajara A. Rahman
A Case Study in the Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs): the Islands of Bonaire and Curacao, Dutch Caribbean, Noelle J. Relles
Towards Confident Body Sensor Networking, Zhen Ren
Interannual and Regional Differences in Krill and Fish Prey Quality along the Western Antarctic Peninsula, Kate E. Ruck
Literacy self-efficacy and achievement of secondary students with disabilities, Mary Mau Runnells
Fluorescence Quenching of PPV-SO and Bodipy-Naphthalene Systems, Brooklynd Dawn Saar
Luminescent Nitrogen and Sulfure Adducts of CuI Disubstituted Piperazine Complexes, Jason P. Safko
Effects of Life History and Physical Variables on Winter Distribution of Blue Crabs in Chesapeake Bay, Gabrielle G. Saluta
Sexual Indiscretions in Virginia's Colonial Capital, Sarah Rebecca Schmidt
Unprecedented Restoration of a Native Oyster Metapopulation, David M. Schulte
Emancipated Foster Youth's Transition from Care to Virginia Community Colleges, Shylan E. Scott
"Excellent Clay for Pots": An Archaeological and Microscopic Investigation of Barbadian Redware during the Early Colonial Era, Erik andre Siedow
From the Inside Out: An In-Depth Look into the Lives of Students with Dual Exceptionalities, Monique S. Sims
A Bold Promise: Black Readjusters and the Founding of Virginia State University, Leigh Alexandra Soares
"What is the Best and Most Typical": Nostalgia, Transgression, and Capitalism at the Virginia State Fair, 1946-1976, Sarah Stanford-McIntyre
"I Will Commence with My News": Elite Youth Culture and Communities of Knowledge in Early Nineteenth Century Williamsburg, Holly Nicole Stevens
Nuclear Export Dynamics of Thyroid Hormone Receptors, Kelly Sue Subramanian
Mobile Animals as a Potential Dispersal Mechanism in Zostera marina (Eelgrass), Sarah E. Sumoski
Distribution and Feeding Ecology of Bathylagus euryops (Teleostei: Microstomatidae) along the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge from Iceland to the Azores, Christopher J. Sweetman
Benjamin Smith Barton, "MD": The American Performance of Scientific Authority in a Trans-Atlantic World, Ryan Bartholomew Tanner-Read
Developing an Unstructured Grid, Coupled Storm Surge, Wind Wave and Inundation Model for Super-regional Applications, Yi-Cheng Teng
Down the Great Wagon Road: The Ironworking Pennybackers of Shenandoah County, Virginia, Sarah E. Thomas
An input centric paradigm for program dynamic optimizations and lifetime evolvement, Kai Tian
Dimensions of Principal Support Behaviors and their Relationship to Organizational Citizenship Behaviors and Student Achievement in High Schools, Jennifer A. Tindle
Thermochemistry of Amino Acids and Constrained Diamines, Erica Jane Tullo
Patterns of Population Structure and Historical Dispersal in Squaloid Sharks: A Species-Level Approach using Molecular Markers, Ana Christina Pimenta Verissimo
Rogue Fishermen: Codfish, Atlantic Items, and the Isles of Shoals, Megan Victor
Maximizing Archaeology's Relevance to its Publics through a Pragmatist Framework, Kelley Marie Walter
Morphological Study of Dbx1+ Respiratory Rhythm-Generating Neurons in PreBoetzinger Complex in Neonatal Mice, Krishanthi Tharanga Harshani Weragalaarachchi
The Role of Benthic Nitrogen Fixation as a Source of New Nitrogen to the New River Estuary, NC, Meaghan L. Whitehead
The need for attention to cognitive development in the preparation and practice of mental health counselors as advocates for social justice., Mary Whitfield-Williams
I'm Really Just an American: The Archaeological Importance of the Black Towns in the American West and Late-Nineteenth Century Constructions of Blackness, Shea Aisha Winsett
Evaluating the Impact of Stock Structure Uncertainty in Stock Assessments of Sailfish in the Atlantic Ocean, Catarina Wor Lima
The Effects of Salinity Pulses of Varying Duration and Intensity on Three Freshwater Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Species, Rebecca Wright
Discovering New Vulnerabilities in Computer Systems, Zhenyu Wu
Surface Impedance of Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) Materials, Binping Xiao
Locality Enhancement and Dynamic Optimizations on Multi-Core and GPU, Zheng Zhang
To and from Places Beyond: Examining Low-Fired Coarse Earthenwares and Informal Trade Networks among Enslaved Bermudians in the 18th and 19th Centuries, Sarah Helen Zimmet
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Ellen Churchill Semple and American geography in an era of imperialism., Ellen Elizabeth Adams
Academic optimism and instructional leadership in urban elementary schools, Angela M. Allen
Enhanced Field Emission from Vertically Oriented Graphene by Thin Solid Film Coatings, Michael Bagge-Hansen
Student trust in teachers and its relationship to student identification with school, student perceptions of academic press, and achievement, Regina A. Bankole
Production of Cyclohexylene-Containing Diamines in Pursuit of Novel Radiation Shielding Materials, Norah G. Bate
Effects of Dietary Mercury Exposure on Spatial Memory of Zebra Finches, Taeniopygia guttata, Amanda Mae Bessler
The "Extraordinary" Case of James Allen: A Study of Gender and Sexuality in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain, Maria Dale Booth
Professional development practices in literacy and technology integration at socioeconomically different schools, Kendra M. Boykin
The Impacts of Shoreline Development on Shallow-Water Benthic Communities in the Patuxent River, MD, Cassie D. Bradley
Black Masculinities as Marronage: Claude McKay's Representation of Black Male Subjectivities in Metropolitan Spaces, Jarrett Hugh Brown
Middle school students' participation in extracurricular activities: Relationships to school identification and achievement, Stenette Byrd III
Educational efficiency in Virginia Public School Divisions, Clinton Robert Calzini
Investigation of Ultrasonic Wave Scattering Effects using Computational Methods, Cara Ann Campbell Leckey
Transpacific Internments: Constructing "Little America" and Dismantling "Little Tokyo", Jack Edward Cohen
A measurement of neutrino oscillations with muon neutrinos in the MINOS experiment, Stephen James Coleman
Genetic Diversity of the Pathogen Streptococcus parauberis Isolated from Bovine and Piscine Hosts, Stephen Douglas Cole
Deep-Pelagic (0-3000m) Fish Assemblage Structure Over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Area of the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone, April B. Cook
Steadfast in their ways: New England colonists, Indian wars, and the persistence of culture, 1675-1715, David Michael Corlett
Art/Self: Martha Ann Honeywell and the Politics of Display in the Early Republic, Laurel Richardson Daen
Searching for the Seed Plant Ethylene Pathway in a Basal Plant Lineage: A Genomic Approach, Ashley R. DeCarme
"Justice is a Perpetual Struggle": The Public Memory of the Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis., Erin Krutko Devlin
Growing up with violence: Examining the role of moral development in mediating the effects of community violence exposure., John A. Dewell
Determining Reliability in Indian Captivity Narratives, Heather Nicole DiAngelis
Dietary Bioarchaeology: Late Woodland Subsistence within the Coastal Plain of Virginia, Berek J. Dore
Ghosts on the Coast of Paradise: Identifying and Interpreting the Ephemeral Remains of Bermuda's 18th Century Shipyards, Joel Garrett Dworsky
"By Measures Taken of Men": Clothing the Classes in William Carlin's Alexandria, Katherine Eileen Egner
SUMO-Dependent Substrate Targeting of the SUMO Protease Ulp1, Zachary Cole Elmore
Totus Mundus Agit Histrionem': Identity and Politics in Eighteenth-Century English and Colonial American Theatre, 1752-1776, Abigail Calvert Fine
Particular and Purposeful Visions: How the Richmond School of Social Work Engaged the Nation and World from 1917 to 1939, Kelly Finefrock-Creed
The elephant in the room: Deconstructing the place of conservatives in the student affairs profession, Jodi Fisler
On the Backs of Horses: The Great Epizootic of 1872, Jeffrey Michael Flanagan
Comparing Terrors: State Terrorism in Revolutionary France and Russia, Anne Cabrié Forsythe
To Seek The Good, the True, and Beautiful: White, Greek-Letter Sororities in the U.S. South and the Shaping of American 'Ladyhood,' 1915--1975, Margaret Lynn Freeman
Abiotic Release of Low Molecular Weight Nitrogen from Effluent Organic Nitrogen, Carolina P. Funkey
For their Maintenance and Education: An Analysis of Children Entering Christ's Hospital, London, 1763-1803, Kaitlyn Elizabeth Gardy
The Wondrous Chain of Providence: Thomas Prince, the Puritan Past, and New England's Future, 1660-1736, Thomas Joseph Gillan
Characterization of PA-11 Flexible Liner Aging in the Laboratory and in Field Environments Throughout the World, Arthur Jaeton Mitman Glover
Treatment of Synchronizations in Compiling Fine-Grained SPMD-Threaded Programs for CPU, Ziyu Guo
Spontaneous Categorization: Assessment of Implicit Stereotype Content Awareness, Ivo Ivanov Gyurovski
Reactive Sulfur: Redox Reactions of Cysteines and Methionines in the Cytoskeletal Protein Tubulin, Tara Dawn Hagedorn
An Investigation of the Polymorphic arsS Gene of Helicobacter pylori, Daniel Ross Hallinger
A critical look at minority student preparation to counsel white clients, Natoya Hill Haskins
Net Microbial Activity, Vegetation Dynamics, and Ecosystem Function in Created and Natural Palustrine Forested Wetlands in Southeastern Virginia, USA, Christian A. Hauser
An Interpretive Plan for the Newry, South Carolina Cotton Mill Museum, Callie Pettit Hawkins
Behavioral and Mechanical Particle Selectivity in a Suspension-Feeding Detritivorous Fish, Matthew Kyle Heidman
Shellfishing, Ceramics, and Gender: Shell Midden Ceramics from the Kiskiak Site, Jessica Marie Herlich
Teaching at the interface: Curriculum and pedagogy in a teachers' institute on Virginia Indian history and cultures, Lisa L. Heuvel
Understanding the Origins, Dispersal, and Evolution of Bonamia Species (Phylum Haplosporidia) Based on Genetic Analyses of Ribosomal RNA Gene Regions, Kristina M. Hill
Visual Attention and Distraction: Contribution of Orexins, Adam Harrison Hirsh
An examination of the similarities and differences in mental health status, working alliance, and social persence between face-to-face and online counseling., Courtney M. Holmes
The Total Synthesis of the Lolium Alkaloids, Michael Todd Hovey
Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Fecal Coliform Distribution in Virginia Coastal Waters, Jie Huang
Development of a Method for Quantifying the Air-Sea Flux of Volatile Organic Carbon, Emily A. Jayne
Shahrazad in the White City: Muslim Women's Agency through Performance at the Columbian Exposition, Alexandra Me'av Anne Ellinwood Jerome
Analysis and Approximation of Optimal Co-Scheduling on CMP, Yunlian Jiang
Measurement of the Target-Normal Single-Spin Asymmetry A(n,y) in the Deep Inelastic Region from the Reaction Helium-3 (e,e'), Joseph M. Katich
