Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Gene expression of Saccharomyces cerevisiae exposed to commercial wood preservatives by DNA Microarray Analysis and RT-PCR, Madison M. Stevens
The determinants of obesity rates: A municipal-level Empirical Analysis, Elena Triebskorn
An Empirical Test of Hirschi's Theory of Delinquency, Barbara R. Vanderpool
Portraiture in Colonial Virginia: A Transatlantic Narration of Identity, Erin West
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Making the Grade: Authentic Assessment through Music Portfolios, Kendra June S. Aylor
Positive Breathing Techniques for Vocal Health in High School Choral Curriculum, Cynthia C. Breckenridge
The Cross Beyond the Wall: Protestant Christianity in Communist China, Jennifer Clapp
Alcoholic Beverage Sales to Underage Buyers in The Commonwealth of Virginia: Deterrence and Equality, William L. Goodman
Two-Stage Least Squares: Simultaneous Determination of Days on Market, Length of Contract, and Percentage Overpriced, Caitlin Hooe
STOCK REPURCHASE ANNOUNCEMENTS: A TEST OF MARKET EFFICIENCY, Nicholas A. Kinsler
Successful Teaching Strategies in Band Programs with At-Risk Students, Kevin D. Lewis
Application of the Probability Distribution of Distances in a Layered Sphere to Electrostatic Energy, Neal Livesay
Statistically Designed Experiments in the Examination of Factors Influencing Regioselectivity in Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution Reactions, Jason Adam Mann
Integrating Handel's Oratorios into the Middle School Repertoire: Arranging for Middle School Choirs, Maya Louise Neely
The Reality of Happily Ever After: Charlotte Bronte's Revision of Fairy Tales in Jane Eyre, Sarah Rice
MANACLED DESIRES: WILLIAM BLAKE'S STRUGGLE FOR SEXUAL AUTONOMY, Cheryl Adams Rychkov
"There's Nothing Like Dancing, After All" Gender as Performance in Jane Austen's Dance Scenes, D. Nicole Swann
Bat community dynamics and foraging activity patterns in young regenerating Southern pine plantations and mixed hardwood forests, Kathryn Marie Womack
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Transitioning the Struggling Reader: Evaluating the Effects of Middle-School Direct Instruction on Traditional High-School Learning in the English Classroom, Sarah Tanner Anderson
WHY SIZE MATTERS: FLASH FICTION IN HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH, Wayne R. Ashby
SWIMMING LESSONS, Kathy Cole
Between Desire and Reality: Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and the Single Woman in Eighteenth-Century England, Jessica L. Cook
Two-Stage Least Squares: Simultaneous Determination of Days on Market and Length of Listing Contract, Matthew Joseph Davis
PRACTICAL PIECES AND OTHER STORIES, Rebecca Lynn Haigh
LOSS AND GRIEF: A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR EXAMINING THE UNANTICIPATED CONSEQUENCES OF INCARCERATION, Lyria Belle Hailstork
The Power of the American Indian Grandmother: Leslie Silko's Ceremony and James Welch's Winter in the Blood, Lorie Southall Keener
The Byronic Heroine, Jessica M. Laffoon
An Exploratory Study of the Affect of Role Strain And The Juvenile Justice System's Division in Power on Juvenile Probation Officers, Kirsten W. Parker-Smith
"WHAT MAN AS MADE OF MAN": FROM BRITISH ROMANTICISM TO NEO-ROMANTICISM, Melissa A. Pelletier
Ordinary Mermaids and Other Stories, Desiree Sholes
OUT HERE, LISTENING, Amy Whipple
Historical Analysis of Gang Formation and Structure: Case Study of the Gangster Disciples, Benjamin A. Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
From the Illuminating Moon to the Radiating Sun: The Philosophical Writings of Emerson and Nichiren, Sharon Mitsue Blythe
MINIMIZING MARKET DURATION: THE STRATEGIC SELECTION OF THE LISTING BROKERAGE FIRM, David L. Ellis Jr.
An Empirical Analysis of Child Custody Decisions: A Mulitnomial Logit Analysis of Case Level U.S. Data, Susan Gardner
Effects of Visual Distractions in the Classroom Environment on the Time on Task of Elementary Students with ADHD, Kate E. S. Harris
Applications of Geometric Probability Techniques to the Probability Distribution of Distances in a Layered Sphere, Duane Smalley
THINGS WE DON'T SAY & OTHER STORIES, Frances A. Stubbs
BEASTS AND OTHER STORIES, Amanda Walton
I am Elizabeth Gaskell: The Literary Evolution of Elizabeth Gaskell throughout Mary Barton, North and South, and Wives and Daughters, Jessica Leigh Watkins
Child Pornography: a Social Problem, W. Richard Wiita
Police Socialization: An Exploratory Study At the Academy Level, Jennifer E. Willoughby
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
RED BAT (LASIURUS BOREALIS) HABITAT USE IN ACTIVELY MANAGED FORESTED LANDSCAPES OF THE VIRGINIA PIEDMONT, Kathryn A. Durkee
Child Welfare Non-Compliance Issues And The Impact These Issues Have On Children And Families, Celia A. Falls-Ayers
Islands: Jewish Themes and Images in Selected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser, Wendy Susan Howard Gray
Impact and Relationships of Mental Health Issues, Child Maltreatment, and Juvenile Delinquency, Rebecca M. Harris
Methods of Enhancing Communication in Preschoolers with Autism, Pam Headley
Effects of a Positive Behavior Support System on a Rural Middle School, Jessee Megan Helbert
Teaching Today's Diverse Student Population in Schools, Elizabeth F. Hurdle
The effects of Direct Instruction Reading on the Behavior Referral Rates of Rural Elementary Students, David Jarman
WHAT FACTORS MOTIVATE THE CORPORATE DIVIDEND DECISION?, Sharon L. Kania
Effects of a School-Wide Behavior Intervention Plan on a Rural Middle School, Patricia H. Rousis
From the Stage to the World: The Moralizing Methods of Sir Richard Steele, Shelah Y. Simpson
Public Goods and Political Structures: The Story of Reston, VA, Josh Stanfield
A New Search for the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment, Crystal Storey
Special Education Teachers' Collection and Use of Data to Measure Student Progress, Crystal Thacker
Current Special Educator and General Educator Perceptions of Inclusion and Collaboration as a Service Delivery Model in a Middle School Educational Setting, Kathryn Wilkens and Peggy L. Tarpley, Ph.D.
Synthesis of Intermediates of Receptor-Subtype Selective LPA Antagonists, Danielle Zafrane
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
The Effect of Funnix Math on Pre-kindergarten Student's Achievement in Mathematics, Michelle E. Andreoli
A Review of General Education Teachers' Perceptions of Classroom and Instructional Accommodations for Students with Disabilities, Jennifer Askue-Collins
The Relationship Between Religious Programs and Peer Relationships of Adults with Mental Retardation, Cecilia D. Beasley
The Effect of Direct Instruction Reading Remediation for Fourth Graders, Jonathan Collins
Physical, Social, and Documentary Genocide: The Monacan Indian Nation v. The Commonwealth of Virginia, Michael C. Cundiff
Defining the Period and Style of Constructivism, Aaron Gamble
Reducing the Stereotypic Behavior of Individuals with Mental Retardation Using Response Cost within Applied Behavior Analysis, Crystal Holmes
THE INFLUENCE OF CELTIC MYTH AND RELIGION ON THE ARTHURIAN LEGENDS, Gretchen Koenig
Lambs of a Foreign God: Christianity in African-American Literature, Maryam F. Mujahid
Composite Index Score and Standards of Learning Test Results: Is there a Correlation?, Leslie M. Murphy
Fecal Coliform Contamination during Rain Events in Sayler's Creek, Virginia, Blake Robertson
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
ETHNOHISTORY AND PALEOPATHOLOGY OF A LATE WOODLAND DOG, Brendan Burke
To glory or to ruin : Guinevere and Vivien in Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the king, and Edwin Arlington Robinson's Merlin and Lancelot, Eunice W. Carwile
RE-EXAMINING VONNEGUT: EXISTENTIAL AND NATURALISTIC INFLUENCES ON THE AUTHOR'S WORK, Marybeth Davis
Selling the "Professional" Housewife: Editorial Strategy in Ladies Home Journal 1905 and 1955, Amanda Ellington
"We Were There": Anatomy of a Successful Series of Historical Novels for Young People, Deanna Lee Gasteiger Schwartz
Effects of Sensory Stimulation on Behavior in Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Cecilia Gibson
A Comparison of Clearcut and Shelterwood Harvesting Effects on Understory Vegetation in Central Virginia Piedmont Forests, Lorelei J. Hartman
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MOLE SALAMANDER AMBYSTOMA TALPOIDEUM IN VIRGINIA, Michael Scott Hayslett
Time Out, Tune In: Paul Desmond and Musical Coherence in the Odd-Metered Jazz of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Gary E. Jack
GUENEVERE'S CONFLICT: PAGAN LOVE OR CHRISTIAN ETHICS, Jacquelyn Sweeney Johnson
The Power of the Supernatural in Four Shakespearian Plays, Amy M. Lyon
Pivotal Transformations: The Changing Voice in Anne Sexton's Poetry, Lara L. Plate
Praise and Its Effects on Trust, Help-Seeking Behavior, and Self-Perception of Students with Disabilities, Regina L. Rice
The Impact of Cross-State Lottery Competition on Revenues and Economic Welfare: An Empirical Analysis, Russell R. Vane
SHAKESPEARE'S TWIST: THE TRAGIC WITHIN SOME COMEDIES, Susan Dettweiler Wilhide
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
CLOSING THE LOOP: RECYCLING, REFORMULATION, AND REUSE IN PRINCE EDWARD, AMELIA, BUCKINGHAM AND CUMBERLAND COUNTIES, Andrea Louise Bridge
Pyramid Schemes: an exploratory study into an emerging form of white-collar crime, Matthew V. Carter
Reading and Phonological Awareness Gains in a Second/Third Grade Bridge Class, Lian Chen
BREEDING BIRD COMMUNITY RESPONSE TO VEGETATION SUCCESSION IN HARDWOOD SHELTERWOOD CUTS IN THE VIRGINIA PIEDMONT, Pamela Coleman
The Effects of a Direct Instruction Versus a Non-Direct Instruction Classroom Environment on Behavior Patterns At the Middle School Level, Pamela D. Davis
The Differences Between Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals and William Wordsworth's Poetry: Applying the Principles of "Preface", Susan Dean Elzey
The Many Faces of Cinderella: An Analysis of Cinderella From Perrault to the Present, Laura Nicole Eynon
Teachers' Perceptions on Special Education Students' Social Skills and the Effect of Peer Perceptions in the General Educational Classroom., Erin E. Harman
Zwei Deutsche Weihnachtsmarkte: Dauer im Wechsel, Leslie S. Hartzog
Setting the Hook of Realism: A Study of the Early Career of William Dean Howells, George C. Lanum III