Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Maintaining diversity in the shadows of conformity: Can a systematic attempt to maintain a university's distinctive mission override societal pressures for conformity?, Delrina Marie Clarin
An Education in Virtue: Didacticism and Audience in Elizabeth Gaskell's "Ruth" and Charlotte Yonge's "The Heir of Redclyffe", Tayce Langley Clarke
On the Path to Paterson: Prose and the Search for the American Language, Mary Carolyn Click
The Narrator in the Middle English Bird Debates: A Dynamic Convention, Stephen B. Constantelos
The use of visualization in the treatment of substance abusing adolescents, Candice Jane Cook
Reproductive Biology of Spanish Mackerel, Scomberomorus maculatus, in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Cynthia L. Cooksey
Expression of the xenobiotic transporter P-glycoprotein in the mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus), Peter S. Cooper
Breeding Ecology, Success, and Population Management of the Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia, Robert Richard Cross
Wild, Wearable, and Seaworthy, Frances Evelyn Davey
A Knowable World: America, the City, and the Thematics of Book Five of William Carlos Williams' "Paterson", Gaston De Bearn
Trains, Trucks, and Traffic Jams: The Rise of Automotive Transportation, 1880-1956, Anthony Roland DeStefanis
Contributions to the life history of juvenile blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis): Phototactic behavior and population dynamics, Douglas A. Dixon
The Meteorological Effects of the Kuwait Oil Fires, Patrick Kevin Dowling
An Archaeological Assessment of St Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles, John Arnold Eastman
Mouth with Myriad Subtleties: Race, Gender, Audience, and Authorship in Charles W Chesnutt's "The Conjure Woman", Kristin Margaret Edmonds
Synthesis and Characterization of Cyclic Arylene Ether Oligomers, David Lewis Eldridge
Work and Play: Recreation and Reality in a Southern Female Textile World, Beth Anne English
Institutional culture and support for faculty scholarship in a Virginia community college, Sarah Louise Etkin
Lead Poisoning from the Colonial Period to the Present, Elsie Irene Eubanks
"Mattering" doesn't matter: An analysis of adult undergraduate persistence patterns, Terri Laskey Fauber
The impact of sick building syndrome on selected variables associated with school effectiveness, Caryl Shannon Felty
Spectroscopic Characterization of Hg(II) Coordination Complexes, Sharon Rosemary Fitzhenry
Phylogeny of the Haplosporidia (Eukaryota: Alveolata) Based on Small Subunit Ribosomal RNA Gene Sequence, Brenda Sandy Flores
Temporal variablity of the pycnocline in the mid-Chesapeake Bay, Linda Jane Frizzell-Makowski
Quantification of Tidal Creek Network Patterns using Fractal Methods, David C. Fugate
Level and Stability of Day to Day Psychological Well-Being and Vulnerability to Depression, Shelly Lyne Gable
Idol Worship: Religious Continuity among Aztec, Inca, and Maya Cultures in Colonial Latin America, Robert C. Galgano
The characteristics and degrees of de facto consensus concerning the mission of K-12 public education in Virginia, Christopher Ryan Gareis
Perkinsus marinus Extracellular Proteases: Modulation of Production by Environmental Factors and Effects on the Host Defense Parameters of the Eastern Oyster Crassostrea virginica, Kathleen A. Garreis
The comparison of student engagement rates during classroom discourse, cooperative learning, and lecture methods of instruction in secondary schools, Wendy Meadors Geiger
Field and Laboratory Evidence of Pheromone Mediated Mating Behavior in the Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus, Donald S. Gibbs
Synthesis and characterization of boron-containing polymeric materials for neutron shielding applications, Michael B. Glasgow
Calamus, Drum-Taps, and Whitman's Model of Comradeship, Charles B. Green
Gaseous flux and distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons across the air-water interface of southern Chesapeake Bay, Kurt E. Gustafson
The projector basis method for electronic band structure calculations, Christopher Haas
New Kent County, Virginia Bets on Gambling: Government Program or Business Strategy?, Alexandra Elaine Sasser Hall
Segregation and the Politics of Race: Mary McLeod Bethune and the National Youth Administration, 1935-1943, Joel Bennett Hall
Faculty moonlighting: An exploratory study of the motivation for seeking outside employment and its relationship to the effectiveness of community college faculty, Joanna Davis Hanks
Multisystemic assessment and intervention: Effects of joining systems in the process of family therapy, Gail Bareford Hardinge
Comprehensive services for students with serious emotional disturbance: An analysis of state legislation and policy, Elizabeth B. Hill
Autoecology of Paraprionospio pinnata (Polychaeta: Spionide) along an Estuarine Gradient, Elizabeth K. Hinchey
Edna Pontellier's Impossible Dream: Fantasy and Reality in "The Awakening", Ronda Marie Holm
Monitoring and modeling of infiltration, polymerization, and degradation phenomena in polymeric systems, David K. Hood
A study of the effect of interactive language in the stimulation of cognitive functioning for students with learning disabilities, Kathleen Ricards Hopkins
Ship of wealth: Massachusetts merchants, foreign goods, and the transformation of Anglo-America, 1670-1760, Phyllis Whitman Hunter
The Preparation, Structure and Reactivity of [([eta]6-Arene)Mn(CO)3]+and [([eta]5-Cydlohexadienyl Enone)Mn(CO)3] Complexes, John Derek Jackson
"Female instruction and improvement": Education for women in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, 1785-1835., Mary Carroll Johansen
A grammar-based technique for genetic search and optimization, Clayton Matthew Johnson
A Distinctive Chest of Drawers: using Material Culture to Interpret the Past and the Present, Jessica Williams Johnston
The strong force: Two calculations of strong interaction phenomena, Richard L. Kahler
Perot Activism in 1992: Implications for the Republican Party, Jonathan Gabriel Kajeckas
An investigation of the achievement of 4 x 4 block-scheduled advanced placement calculus AB students, Carolyn Marie Keen
Guided imagery as a psychoneuroimmunological intervention for HIV-positive individuals, Christopher Dale Keene
The Development of Affinity Maturation in Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus mykiss, Ing Wei Khor
Modeling storm-induced sediment transport on the inner shelf: Effects of bed microstratigraphy, Baeck Oon Kim
Managing change for a distance learning initiative: An evaluation, Jeanie Pollard Kline
Low-Valent Metal Complexes as Reductive Coupling Agents for Smoke Suppression in Poly(Vinyl Chloride), Panagiotis Ioannou Kourtesis
Structured eigenvectors, interlacing, and matrix completions, Brenda K. Kroschel
Toward a More Inclusive Structure of Sport: Is Participation in Coeducational Physical Activities Related to Perceptions of Gender and Athletic Ability?, Rachel M. La Croix
The Power of the Privy: Mediating Social Relations on a 19th Century British Military Site, Joseph Henry Last
An evaluation of the academic outcomes of the Upward Bound program at Virginia Union University, James Edward Laws Jr.
Demersal predator exposure to toxic organic contaminants: Direct effects of macrofauna in trophic transfer, Patrick Winfield Lay
Gender Differences in Knowledge of and Interest in Current Social and Political Events, Richard Eric Lellinger
"The road to ruins and restoration": Roland W Robbins and the professionalization of historical archaeology, Donald Walter Linebaugh
Lipid Class Composition of Oysters, Crassostrea virginica, Exposed to Sediment-Associated PAHs, Tong Li
A Parlor in the Penitentiary: Prisons and Reading in Victorian America, Jennifer D. Luff
Adult attentional functioning in families with children diagnosed as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, Michael C. McDonough
A comparison of the polarization observables for the d(e, e'p) and P(e, e'p) reactions at quasi-free kinematics, Justin I. McIntyre
Marston Parish 1654-1674: A Community Study, Jane Dillon McKinney
Exploring current approaches to status variability in the seventeenth century Chesapeake, Pegeen Amy McLaughlin
The Other Faces of Mount Rushmore: Tourism, Advertising, and the Commodity of Experience, Jill Angela McNutt
Sugar Chests in Middle Tennessee, 1800-1835, Anne Shelton McPherson
Fort Hill: A Representative of the Structural and Social Hierarchy and Harmony of Greek Revival Architecture, Beth Ann Spiryson McPherson
"Small though the spot is": Settlement in Devonshire Parish, Bermuda, 1622-1798, John David Metz
Paine, Blake and Hegemony, Grace Moore
Labor at home: The domestic world of workers at the Du Pont powder mills, 1802-1902, Margaret M. Mulrooney
The Search for Completion in Toni Morrison's "Sula", Elizabeth Bowler NcNeer
Exchanges of Dissolved Inorganic Nitrogen and Dissolved Organic Carbon between Salt Marsh Sediments and Overlying Tidal Water, Betty Berry Neikirk
Subadult loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) behavior in St. Mary's entrance channel, Georgia, United States, David A. Nelson
Effects of Periodic Environmental Hypoxia on Predator Utilization of Macrobenthic Infauna, Janet A. Nestlerode
Surface reflection hyperthermal neutral stream source, Christopher A. Nichols
The Heavens or the Abyss: A Reading of Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth" as a Romance, Joseph Rives Nicholson
Effects of Electron Irradiation and Percent Composition on the Glass Transition Temperature and Damping of Boron-Epoxy Composites, Ian Ivan Nieves
Synthesis and Characterization of Poly(Carborane-Sulfone), Beth Le Ogura
Issues of power and centrality in United Methodist ministers' occupational activities: Implications for professional education, Richard Bruce Osmann
The Influence of Location, Seagrass Species and Water Depth on the Settlement and Distribution of Early Stage Blue Crabs, Renee A. Pardieck
An Analysis of the Effects of Sea Level Rise on the Salt Marshes of Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina, Christopher Robert Perle
"As If I Were a Confederate Soldier": Mary Greenhow Lee and the Civil War She Waged in Winchester, Virginia, Sheila R. Phipps
The John Page House Site: A n Example of the Increase in Domestic Brick Architecture in Seventeenth-Century Tidewater Virginia, Dwayne Webster Pickett
Liberalism and Toleration: Competing Concepts of Toleration in Liberal Thought, Jonathan Parks Pierpan
The role of microbial food webs in benthic-pelagic coupling in freshwater and marine ecosystems, Adele J. Pile
John Donne's Thwarted Redemption of Poetry in "A Valediction: of the Booke", Patrick Lee Plaisance
Working with Tools: Work, Identity, and Perception Communicated through the Material Culture of Work in the Context of the Rideau Canal Construction 1826-1832, Suzanne Elizabeth Stella Plousos
Schizotypy and Extroversion-Introversion: Correlation and Electrodermal Activities in Emotions, Kai Qu
Evaluating the Genotoxicity of Quinacrine in Mammals using the Sister Chromatid Exchange Test, Sutapa Ray
The relationship between moral and ego development and treatment foster parent effectiveness and attitudes, Brent Gentry Richardson
Tapping hidden talent: The identification of culturally diverse students for gifted education programs in the southeastern United States, Priscilla Richmond
The juggling act female administrators perform between their professional and nonprofessional lives, Betsy Taylor Roesch
The Spirit of the Times: Church, State and Revolution in Virginia, Kenneth William Rosenfeld
