Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Investigating Scale Errors: Independent Systems of Object Representation or Simple Motor Priming, Natalie Hiromi Brito
A study of the evaluation procedures for professional development among public school districts in Virginia, Colleen Cannington Bryant
Stable Isotope Dynamics in Summer Flounder Tissues, with Application to Dietary Assessments in Chesapeake Bay, Andre Buchheister
Cortical Signal Modulation with Mental Practice, Whitney Graham Cole
Mercury Levels in Newly Independent Songbirds, Anne Moire Condon
Impacts of gelatinous zooplankton on dissolved organic matter cycling and bacterioplankton communities in the York River Estuary, Robert Howard Condon
A Bio-Economic Feasibility Model for Remote Setting: Potential for Oyster Aquaculture in Virginia, Michael Spohn Congrove
Novel Approaches to the Fabrication of Highly Conductive Silver Surfaces Well Adhered to Polyimide Substrates, Luke Michael Davis
As particles collide: Extra dimensions and heavy leptons, Erin Kathleen De Pree
Markov chain models of instantaneously coupled intracellular calcium channels, Hilary DeRemigio
Education, Literacy and Ink Pots: Contested Identities in Post-Emancipation Barbados, Sean Edward Devlin
Controls on Erodibility in a Partially Mixed Estuary, York River, Virginia, Patrick J. Dickhudt
Community dynamics in submersed aquatic vegetation: Intermediate consumers as mediators of environmental change, James G. Douglass
Teachers' attitudes and practices toward differentiating for gifted learners in K--5 general education classrooms, J. Denise Drain
Zooplankton Community Structure in a Cyclonic and Mode-Water Eddy in the Sargasso Sea, Bethany Rose Eden
An exploratory study of creativity -fostering teacher behaviors in secondary classrooms, Matthew J. Edinger
An Evaluation of Norovirus Persistence in Estuarine Water and of Methods for its Detection in Treated Sewage Effluent, Margaret H. Fagan
The Survival Benefit of Benthic Macroalgae Gracilaria vermiculophylla as an Alternative Nursery Habitat for Juvenile Blue Crabs, Justin A. Falls
You're in the Army now: The Students' Army Training Corps at selected Virginia universities in 1918, Michael J. Faughnan
Classification of non-heat generating outdoor objects in thermal scenes for autonomous robots, William L. Fehlman
Measurement of inclusive proton double -spin asymmetries and polarized structure functions, Robert G. Fersch
The Farthest Post: Fort Astoria, the Fur Trade, and Fortune on the Final Frontier of the Pacific Northwest, Bronwyn M. Fletchall
Exploration of gendered patterns in counseling students' perception of training experiences, Yukio Fujikura
Subjugated history: Empire, education, and espionage, Guruprasad Ghosh
Broad Spatial Trends in Osprey Provisioning, Reproductive Success, and Population Growth Within Lower Chesapeake Bay, Kenneth andrew Glass
Accounting for Political Virtue: Consumer Choice and the Non-Consumption Movement in Revolutionary New York City, Melissa Faith Gray
Nuclear Export of the Thyroid Hormone Receptor [Alpha], Matthew Edward Grespin
Markov chain models of calcium puffs and sparks, Jeffrey R. Groff
A comparison of elementary, middle, and high school principals' teacher selection practices and perceptions of teacher effectiveness, Sharmaine Denise Grove
Interactions between Feather-Degrading Bacteria and Feather Coloration, Alexander Rahn Gunderson
Organizational justice perceptions in Virginia high schools: A study of its relationship to school climate and faculty trust, Stephanie L. Guy
Acoustic measurements of cohesive sediment transport: Suspension to consolidation, Ho Kyung Ha
Puzzles of the Past: The Life of Josiah Parker (1751-1810) and the Revolutionary Generation, William Mark Hains
Natural mortality of blue crab: Estimation and influence on population dynamics, David A. Hewitt
Pair counseling for high school students: Improving friendship skills, interpersonal relationships, and behavior among aggressive and withdrawn adolescents, John Kent Horton
Synthesis and field emission properties of carbon nanostructures, Kun Hou
In the pale's shadow: Indians and British forts in eighteenth-century America, Daniel Patrick Ingram
Performances of Black Female Sexuality in a Hip Hop Magazine, Tova Joanna Johnson
Vascular Flora of the Totuskey Creek Watershed, Richmond County, Virginia, Christopher W. Johnstone
Conflict Amid Conversion: Mormon Proselytizing in Russian Finland, 1860-1914, Zachary R. Jones
The impact of legislation and litigation on the education of students with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Selena Michelle Joy
A World in Miniature: James Butcher and the Transformation of African American Politics & Society in Washington, D.C, 1900-1940, Maria Alexandria Kane
Methods for stabilizing high Reynolds number Lattice Boltzmann simulations, Brian Robert Keating
Negotiating the Companionate Ideal: Religion, Emotion, and Power in the Courtships of Louisa Maxwell Holmes Cocke, Lindsay Mitchell Keiter
Plastic Capital: Wilmington, Delaware and the Deregulation of Consumer Credit, Carolee Anne Klimchock
Re-Taking it to the Streets: Investigating Hip-Hop's Emergence in the Spaces of Late Capitalism, Kevin Waide Kosanovich
A Stranger in the Land?: Reassessing the Political Writings of Gershom Bulkeley, Jeffrey W. Kuckuck
"Goods -- Agreeable to the Association": The Scottish Merchant Trade and Early Tea Boycotts in Virginia, Angelika Ruth Kuettner
Correction of finite size errors in many-body electronic structure calculations, Hendra Kwee
Testing Multiple Sociometer Theory: Predicting Physical and Psychological Abuse in Dating Couples from Domain-Specific Self-Esteem Measures, Jonathon G. LaPaglia
Effects of Urban Development on Breeding Bird Diversity: The Role of Diet and Migration, Elise Anne Larsen
Effects of Shoreline Development and Oyster Reefs on Benthic Communities in Lynnhaven, Virginia, Amanda Sue Lawless
Residential Schools and Gifted Students, Marvin M. Lee
Nicotine Facilitates Trace Fear Conditioning in Normal and FASD Rats Tested as Adolescents, Mary Elizabeth Levillain
Analysis of Sequence Variation at Two Helicobacter pylori Genetic Loci Potentially involved in Virulence, George Warren Liechti
Pathogenicity of the purportedly toxic dinoflagellates Pfiesteria piscicida and Pseudopfiesteria shumwayae and related species, Vincent J. Lovko
A Molecular Analysis of Atlantic Menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) Stock Structure, Abigail J. Lynch
Advanced Placement world language teacher perceptions of high ability students and differentiated instruction., Bronwyn MacFarlane
Idiopathic Lesions and Visual Deficits in the American Lobster (Homarus americanus) from Longs Island Sound, NY, Christopher Robert Magel
Formal analysis of firewall policies, Robert Mathias Marmorstein
The Militarization of Agriculture: Cold War, Foreign Aid, and the Expansion of the American Agricultural Welfare System Under President Eisenhower, Alan Herbert Matzner
The CIA & the cult of secrecy, David Shamus McCarthy
You(S) on the Tube: Deconstructing (American) (Cyber) Selves Inscribed in the Diary Blog and Diary Vlog, Ryan James McDonald
Exploring relational processes in families of gay youth, Gregory Scott Meek
A Modern Sediment Budget for the Continental Shelf off the Waipaoa River, New Zealand, andrea J. Miller
Breaking the Mold: Sugar Ceramics and the Political Economy of 18th Century St Eustatius, Derek Robert Miller
Twine-Top Modifications of Sea-Scallop Dredges: Reducing Yellowtail-Flounder Bycatch, Kelli A. Milleville
Nearshore morphology and lithology: Links to framework geology and shoreline change, Jennifer L. Miselis
Automatically Generating Random Test Data for Relevant and Implicitly Defined Subdomains, John Alexander Murphy
Celebrity and the national body: Encounters with the exotic in late nineteenth-century America, Caroline Carpenter Nichols
Organotitanium-Aluminum Promoted Carbometalations of Alkynols: Substituent Effects, Nikola A. Nikolic
A critical examination of practices and perceptions of current performance evaluation models for theatre arts teachers in Virginia, Shelley L. Nowacek
Forgotten masters: Institutional slavery in Virginia, 1680--1860., Jennifer Bridges Oast
Mechanisms underlying inspiratory burst generation in preBotzinger complex neurons of neonatal mice, Ryland Weed Pace
The Drug Trade in Early North America, Laura Elizabeth Passic
Sharing Social Pain: Social Comparison and Affiliation After Social Exclusion, Richard Shepherd Pond
Clay Landing: A Nineteenth Century Rural Community on the Florida Frontier, Jill Catherine Principe
A versatile imaging system for in vivo small animal research, Jianguo Qian
Blurring Boundaries: The Rorschach Idea in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture, James Edward Rainey
Faculty trust and its impact on voluntary teacher turnover intentions, Loree Cobb Reid
The principal's workday: A comparative analysis of performance standards and principal practice, Holly Elizabeth Baker Richard
Topics in mode conversion theory and the group theoretical foundations of path integrals, Andrew Stephen Richardson
The impact of leadership and other factors on successful International Baccalaureate Diploma Programs in the United States, Randi Reigel Riesbeck
Sediment Transport and Erodibility in the York River Estuary: A Model Study, Jeffrey Paul Rinehimer
Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling of the Thyroid Hormone Receptor, Vincent R. Roggero
Age, growth, and demography of the sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, over temporal and spatial scales, Jason G. Romine
Recent Sedimentation Patterns and Facies Distribution on the Waipaoa River Shelf, N.Z, Lila Eve Rose
Interpreting "Green" Design in Old Buildings, James Erik Rosenthal
Women's perceptions of high risk drinking: Understanding binge drinking in a gender biased setting, Jill Lynne Russett
Escaping into the Prison Civil War Round Table, Jackson Norman Sasser
The diasporic world of the Great Dismal Swamp, 1630 -1860, Daniel O. Sayers
The semiclassical description of the energy spectrum of hydrogen in near-perpendicular fields, Christopher Robert Schleif
A study of the relationship between the mathematics and reading achievement of students with disabilities and inclusive practice in elementary schools, Sharon E. Siler
Imagery and Food Cravings: Imagining Eating Enhances the Experience of Eating, Shereen A. Singer
History, Memory, and [Archaeological?] Heritage at Nombre De Dios, Panama, Meghan Habas Siudzinski
The impact of district and school climate on student achievement, Kathleen M. Smith
