Theses/Dissertations from 2005
The Development of the CALIPSO LiDAR Simulator, Kathleen A. Powell
Quantum Monte Carlo method for boson ground states: Application to trapped bosons with attractive and repulsive interactions, Wirawan Purwanto
A national study of scientific talent development in Singapore, Chwee Geok Quek
Facing independence: American Revolutionary portraits within the context of British identity, Susan Jensen Rawles
An Investigation of Programmer-Identified Concerns, Meghan Kathleen Revelle
Interpersonal Behavior in Borderline Personality, Kimberly Ann Ryan
Factory: A n Object-Oriented Parallel Programming Substrate for Deep Multiprocessors, Scott Arthur Schneider
Shore-Oblique Bars, Nearshore Gravel Outcrops, and their Correlation to Shoreline Change, Courtney A. Schupp
The interaction between stratification, circulation, and sediment transport in a partially-mixed estuary, Malcolm E. Scully
Response to Selection of Peromyscus leucopus: Response of Spermatogenesis and Reproductive Behavior to Selection on Gonadal Development in an Outbred Population of White-Footed Mice (Peromyscus leucopus), Kathleen Rathbun Sharp
Integrating the Personal and the Political: The Body Politics in "Daughter of Earth", Han Shen
The plain houses and people of Loudoun Valley, Robert D. Shuey
Absconded: Fugitive slaves in the "Daybook of the Richmond Police Guard, 1834--1844", Leni Ashmore Sorensen
Mission San Juan Bautista: Zooarchaeological Investigations at a California Mission, Michelle C. St. Clair
Flag Planting and Mapmaking: English Claims to North America, andrew Keith Sturtevant
Monte Carlo simulations of ferroelectric crystal growth and molecular electronic structure of atoms and molecules, Malliga Suewattana
The Rising of 1798 and the Political Foundation of Irish-American Identity, William A. Sullivan
Vibrational lifetimes of hydrogen and oxygen defects in semiconductors, Baozhou Sun
Transfer of Essential Fatty Acids by Marine Plankton, Adriana J. Veloza
Reproductive Attributes of Polynoid Polychaetes from Hydrothermal Vents on the East Pacific Rise, Jessica Lynn Wallace
Hypoxia in Shallow Coastal Waters: A Case Study in Onancock Creek, Virginia, Taiping Wang
Sources of Sedimentary Organic Matter in the Mississippi River and Adjacent Gulf of Mexico, Elizabeth J. Waterson
Impact of large scale substrate roughness on giant magnetoresistive thin films, Shannon M. Watson
Predicting the outcome of leadership identification from a college student's experiences, Robert G. Wood
(Un)conventional coupling: Interracial sex and intimacy in contemporary neo-slave narratives, Colleen Doyle Worrell
Synthesis and Characterization of Hydrogen-Rich Polyimide Materials for Radiation Shielding, Sha Yang
Photochemical modification of polyethylene terephthalate surface, Zhengmao Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
"of More Consequence Than the President": Frances Folsom Cleveland and the Role of First Lady in the Late Nineteenth Century, Ellen E. Adams
Porcupines and Potsherds: Archaeology and Education for Students in a Museum Setting: A Critical Approach, Emily Catherine anderson
Spontaneous pulse formation in bistable systems, George A. andrews
Runtime support for load balancing of parallel adaptive and irregular applications, Kevin James Barker
Childhood, Colonialism and Nation-Building: The Role of Childhood in the Construction of Race, Class and Gender in Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Virginia, Autumn Rain Duke Barrett
Domestic Brick Architecture in Williamsburg: A Comparative Study of Eighteenth-Century Brick Houses in Williamsburg, Annapolis, and Charleston, andrew Craig Barry
Optical Instruments Used with Prints in the Eighteenth Century, Laura Pass Barry
Space and Power in Eighteenth-Century Ephrata, Pennsylvania, Courtney J. Birkett
"I Looked to the East---": Material Culture, Conversion, and acquired Meaning in Early African America, Jason Boroughs
Status, Dominance, or Prestige?: Domains of Self-Esteem as Moderators of Reactions to an Embarrassing Situation, Nicole Reed Buttermore
Kulikoff Versus Buttenhoff-Lee [sic]: An Evaluation of African-American Populations in the Chesapeake 1740-1800, Beresford R. Callum
New Deal Housing on the Virginia Peninsula: Challenging Jim Crow Paternalism at Swantown and Aberdeen Gardens, Frederick James Carroll
A national study of curriculum policies and practices in gifted education, Kimberley Lynn Chandler
Building Internet caching systems for streaming media delivery, Songqing Chen
An analysis of alternate assessment policy: Findings from six states, Tamra Roberts Cobb
Lookahead scheduling in a real-time context: Models, algorithms, and analysis, Benjamin J. Coleman
Effects of Overexpressing Alternative Isoform Pax-5E in Vivo, Suzanne Elizabeth Cole
Building "the machine": The development of slavery and slave society in early colonial Virginia, John C. Coombs
Confronting democracy: Edward Coles and the cultivation of authority in the young nation, Suzanne Cooper Guasco
Energetically Costly Mate Sampling and Female Zebra Finch Choice, Timothy Ryan Crabtree
The Politics of Emasculation: The Caning of Charles Sumner and Elite Southern Manhood on the Brink, James Corbett David
Vegetation Dynamics of a Tidal Freshwater Marsh: Long-Term and Inter-Annual Variability and their Relationship to Salinity, Sarah B. Davies
Metapopulation Dynamics, Habitat Quality, and Spatial Scale: Variation in Reproductive Output of the Baltic Clam, Macoma balthica, in Shallow Systems of the Chesapeake Bay, Kristen Adams Delano
Warfighter-Peacekeeper Psychological Aptitude: Assessing the Soldier's Psychological Aptitude for Effective Performance in Combat or Traditional Peacekeeping Operations, Matthew Charles Densmore
Guarding capital: Soldier strikebreakers on the long road to the Ludlow massacre, Anthony Roland DeStefanis
Stability at Hydrothermal-Vent Mussel Beds: Dynamics at Hydrothermal Vents: Evidence for Stable Macrofaunal Communities in Mussel Beds on the Northern East Pacific Rise, Jennifer Carolyn Dreyer
Dynamics of the host-parasite interaction: in vitro correlates of Crassostrea-induced modulation of Perkinsus marinus function, Christopher G. Earnhart
Neuronal Responses to Melatonin in Peromyscus leucopus: A Candidate Mechanism for Circadian and Seasonal Temperature Regulation, Christopher Robert Fetsch
Supervising paraeducators: Practices and perceptions of special education teachers, Loury Ollison Floyd
Cutting up the melon: A case study of academic earmarking at selected institutions, Sherrell Anthony Foster
Relationships among queer theory pedagogy, sexual orientation competency, and multicultural environment in counselor education training programs, Dennis Allen Frank
Pathobiology of mycobacteria in striped bass (Morone saxatilis), David T. Gauthier
Structured Writing and Humor: The use of Humor as a Component in Structure Writing and its Effect on Health Symptoms and Perceived Stress, Evie J. Gerber
Solid state NMR characterization of conductive polyanilines, Yanina Anatolievna Goddard
Passing into print: Walt Whitman and his publishers, Charles B. Green
An exploration of the relationship between school counselors' moral development, multicultural counseling competency, and their participation in clinical supervision, Timothy J. P. Grothaus
Ichthyofaunal and dietary analysis of sympatric piscivores in a Chesapeake Bay littoral zone: Including bioenergetic models of growth and diel temperature sanctuary use, Christian Harding Hager
An examination of the relationship between ego development and parenting styles, Cheri R. Harrell
"An Object Best Worthy of Succor": White Virginia Women and the African Colonization Movement, 1825-1840, Caroline Simmons Hasenyager
A Framework for Implementing Bioinformatics Knowledge-Exploration Systems, John A. Hayes
A study exploring the educational needs of African-American pastors' wives within Baptist congregations, Jocelyn Georgette Henry-Whitehead
The connection between qualities of effective teachers and selection interviews: The development of a teacher selection interview protocol, Jennifer Lilliston Hindman
White Squaws: Work as a Factor in Choosing Indian Life, Karen L. Hines
Do Sulfide-Oxidizing Bacteria Produce Light?, Rachel Elizabeth Ann Horak
Survival and Habitat Preferences of White Marlin (Tetrapturus albidus) Released from the Western North Atlantic Recreational Fishery, Andrij Z. Horodysky
Ultrasonic signal detection and recognition using dynamic wavelet fingerprints, Jidong Hou
A mission in transition: Legitimacy, philosophical fit and student affairs cultures, Kevin Michael Hughes
Binding studies on molecularly imprinted polymers, Lucy Yue Hu
Recommended practices for effective teaching in the International Baccalaureate Program: An examination of instructional skills, assessment practices, and teacher-efficacy beliefs of IB teachers, Linda Prince Hutchinson
Montpelier: The history of a house, 1723-1998, Matthew Gantert Hyland
Reproductive Biology of American Shad, Alosa sapidissima, in the Mattaponi River, Aaron Reid Hyle
The impact of cognitive development on compassion fatigue in emergency response personnel, Aaron Hugh Jackson
A Multidimensional Model of Sociosexuality, Jenee James
Efficient caching algorithms for memory management in computer systems, Song Jiang
Seeking the Living among the Dead: African American Burial Practices in Surry County, Virginia, Deanda Marie Johnson
Organizational citizenship behaviors of middle school teachers: A study of their relationship to school climate and student achievement, Marsha Moye Jurewicz
Control of integrable Hamiltonian systems and degenerate bifurcations, Christopher W. Kulp
Assessing anthropogenic and natural impacts on ghost crab ( Ocypode quadrata) populations at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina, Cynthia B. Landry
Bird Conservation Value of Golf Courses, Joshua Elliott LeClerc
Ultrasonic guided wave tomography of pipes: A development of new techniques for the nondestructive evaluation of cylindrical geometries and guided wave multi-mode analysis, Kevin Raymond Leonard
Investigation of Relationships between Short-Term Photosynthetic Performance and Long-Term Growth of Zostera marina, Elizabeth Amy Lewis
Specification and Determination of GABAergic and Glutamatergic Neural Phenotypes in Xenopus laevis, Mei Li
"After Me Cometh a Builder": The Symbolic Landscape of Secretary Nelson's Yorktown Estate and its Transformation, Hank D. Lutton
Pay for Labor: Socioeconomic Transitions of freedpeople and the Archaeology of African American Life, 1863-1930, Shannon Sheila Mahoney
Optimizing combat capabilities by modeling combat as a complex adaptive system, Steven Mains
Calming minds and instilling character: John Minson Galt II and the patients' library at Eastern Asylum, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1843--1860, Bettina Jean Manzo
"I Like Things Simple, but it Must Be Simple Through Complication": Re-Reading Gertrude Stein, Hilary Jennifer Marcus
The Influence of Salinity on Diet Composition, Provisioning Patterns, and Nestling Growth in Bald Eagles in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Ann Catherine Markham
Files as first-class objects in fault -tolerant concurrent systems, Robert Edwin Matthews
The Origins of the Presidential Election: The Creation of the Electoral College through the First Federal Elections, Giacomo Mazzei
