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Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Thesis: Negative Cooperatively in the Binding of 3-Aminopyridine Adenine Dinucleotide to L-α-Glycero-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase, David Wheeler
Dissertation: A Comparison of Parenting Profiles of Adolescent Mothers, Willar F. White-Parson
Dissertation: Effects of Encoding Variety and Concurrent-Task Practice on the Transfer and Retention of Complex Skill, Peter S. Winne
Thesis: Implementation of Uniform Perturbation Method for Potential Flow Past Axisymmetric and Two-Dimensional Bodies, Tin Chee Wong
Thesis: A Comparison and Integration of Expectancy Theory and Task Dimensions with ROTC Cadets, Steven B. Woods
Dissertation: A Theoretical Model for Calculation of Molecular Stopping Power, Yuan-Jian Xu
Thesis: I.G. Farben's Petro-Chemical Plant and Concentration Camp at Auschwitz, Robert Simon Yavner
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Thesis: Application of the Method of Lines for Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equations Using a Nonuniform Grid Distribution, Jamshid Samareh Abolhassani
Thesis: The Effects of Dominant Species Removal on Subtidal Community Development, H. Russell Barker Jr.
Thesis: The Effect of Crowding on Growth of the Cichlid Fish, Oreochromis Mossambicus, Bonnie A. Barrows
Dissertation: A Study of the Effectiveness of Selected Aspects of the Developmental Education Program at an Urban Multicampus Community College, Michael Anthony Barton
Thesis: The Rhetorical Factors Applied to the Reorientation of American Public Opinion Toward the Soviet Union Immediately After June 22, 1941, Stanley Paul Berry
Thesis: Seventeenth Century Settlement of the Nansemond River in Virginia, Emmett Edward Bottoms
Thesis: The Effect of Therapeutic Touch on Anxiety and Physiological Measures, Marie Nicholas Bremner
Thesis: Input and Distribution of Sewage Derived Sedimentary Material Adjacent to Chesapeake-Elizabeth Sewage Outfall, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Robert Carroll Brown
Thesis: Simultaneous Functional Hermaphroditism in the Shrimp Hippolysmata wurdemanni (Gibbes) (Decopoda: Caridea: Hippolytidae), Marie Hollister Bundy
Thesis: Investigation of the Substrate Binding Site of NAD Glycohydrolase in Human Seminal Plasma, Sau C. Cheung
Thesis: Design of Efficient Algorithms Through Minimization of Data Transfers, Yong Mo Chong
Dissertation: Oculometric Indices of Simulator and Aircraft Motion, James Raymond Comstock Jr.
Thesis: The Effects of Dredged Materials on the Copeod, Acartia Tonsa, Renee Suzanne Crouch
Thesis: An Analysis of the Correlation Between Nurses' Attitudes Toward Death and Their Presence with the Dying Patient, Uvonna Weeks Daniels
Thesis: A Comparative Study Between a Readiness Measure and an Achievement Test as Measured by the Metropolitan Readiness Test and the Science Research Associates Achievement Series, Linda L. Ditchburn
Thesis: In Favor of Capital Punishment: A Blending of Philosophical Perspectives, James Charles Donnelly
Thesis: Variability of Atmospheric Hydrocarbon Concentrations and Deposition Rates, Charles Thomas Farmer
Thesis: Transient Two Dimensional Ground-Water Flow: A Comparison of Computed and Analytical Results, Robert Jan Fennema
Thesis: Analysis and Stability of Closed Surge Tanks, John Emory Fowler
Thesis: Treatment Process Optimization at the Lee Hall Water Treatment Plant Newport News, Virginia, Marcy Granum Garnett
Dissertation: Protein Contributions of the Male Accessory Organs to the Composition of Human Seminal Plasma as Determined by High Resolution Two-Dimensional Electrophoresis, Edward E. Gaunt
Thesis: The Effect of Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons on the Fecundity of Acartia tonsa (calanoid Copepoda), Juanita Y. Grabarczyk
Thesis: Polychlorinated Biphenyl Levels in the Ocean Scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) Gmelin from the Philadelphia Sewage Sludge Disposal Site, Guy Jeffrey Hall
Thesis: The Effects of the Mud Snail Ilyanassa obsoleta (Say) Upon the Benthic Community of Broad Bay, Virginia, Wick Timothy Harlan
Thesis: Psyche and Time: The Phenomenology of Time Consciousness, Sharon Fleet Hartman
Thesis: The Effects of Goal and Feedback Specificity of Task Performance, Emily Johnson Hawes
Dissertation: A Model of the Population Dynamics of the Blue Crab in Chesapeake Bay, Betty Springer Hester
Thesis: Determination of N,N'-Diphenylguanidine in Biological Tissues and Fluids Using High Pressure Liquid Chromatography, Edward Sidney Hunter III
Thesis: Social Sensitivity in Adolescents and Adults with Learning Disabilities, Patricia Anne Jarvis
Thesis: An Arms Race in Outer Space Between the United States and the Soviet Union Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy, Gary Morgan Jensen
Thesis: The Effect of a Cardiac Education Program on the Knowledge, Stress, and State Anxiety Levels of First Time Post Myocardial Infarction Patients in a Post Coronary Care Unit, Jeanine L. Johns
Dissertation: An Error-Dependent Model of Instrument-Scanning Behavior in Commercial Airline Pilots, Dennis H. Jones
Thesis: The Effects of Amphetamine and Ethanol on Habituation of Exploratory Responses of Rats in Novel and Familiar Environments, Kuen-Teng Kao
Thesis: The Effect of Sea Nettle Abundance on the Food Chain of the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Michael Glenn Kelly
Thesis: Effect of Transducer Size on the Statistical Properties of a Simulated Turbulent Wall Pressure Field, Mehdi R. Khorrami
Thesis: Effects of the Rater's Sex and Sex-Role Orientation and the Applicant's Physical Attractiveness Sex and Qualifications on Resume Evaluation, Robert N. Kilcullen
Thesis: The Distribution of Phytoplankton in Frontal Regions of the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Richard V. Lacouture
Thesis: Viscous Modeling and Computation of Leading-And Trailing-Edge Vortex Cores of Delta Wings, Balakrishnan Lakshmanan
Thesis: The Renascence of Classical Thought and Form in the Carolingian Period, Sara James Laster
Thesis: Determination of Erythrocyte Zinc Concentrations Using Zeeman Effect Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy, Tanya Maranda Lewis
Thesis: A Study of Increased Flow Off the Eastern Seaboard of the United States Within Four Synoptic Flow Patterns During the Winter Months, John Dale Liechty
Thesis: The Use of Complex Versus Normal Modes in Structural Model Improvement, Chih Lin
Thesis: High Resolution Two Dimensional Electrophoresis of Soluble Proteins in Human Spermatozoa, Hsing-Ying Liu
Thesis: The Growth and Feeding Behavior of Juvenile Spot, Leiostomus xanthurus Lacepede, in the Nursery Region of the James River, Virginia, John Thomas McCambridge Jr.
Thesis: Circuit Analysis of a Gas Flow Switch, Teri Marie Owens
Thesis: The Relationship of Size Class Distribution to Migratory Behavior in Brown Shrimp (Penaeus aztecus) in Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, Mario A. Paula
Thesis: Locus of Control As A Function Membership in Alcoholics Anonymous, Christine B. Philput
Thesis: Three Disappearances, Mari LoNano Polansky
Thesis: Experiments Conducted on the Electron Beam Produced by a Dense Plasma Focus, Mark Steven Pronko
Thesis: Adaptations of Dolphin Vision to the Oceanic Environment, Andre Rivamonte
Thesis: A Quantitative Study of the Aquatic Macroinvertebrates in an Irregularly Flooded Salt Marsh, Smith Island, Virginia, Leon L. Robert Jr.
Thesis: Experiments on Melting Around an Isothermal Horizontal Cylinder Under Computer Control, Timothy Moore Rothgeb
Thesis: Valuing in the Arts, Nonna B. Runner
Dissertation: Stability Analysis of Closed Surge Tanks By Phase-Plane Method, Mostafa A. Sabbah
Thesis: Homing and Ecology in the Southern Flying Squirrel, Glaucomys volans in Southeastern Virginia, Sherrie Lynn Sawyer
Thesis: Character and Mood in Prose: Nine Original Pieces, Georgianna A. Schroeder
Thesis: The Development of Learned Helplessness in Retarded and Non-Retarded Children, Jennifer Miller Schwartz
Dissertation: Employee Perceptions of Performance Appraisal Systems: Causal Determinants of Fairness, Accuracy, and Acceptability, Michael Dale Secunda
Thesis: Large Amplitude Free Flexural Vibrations of Laminated Composite Plates of Arbitrary Shape, Mo-How Shen
Thesis: A Comparative Study of Teacher Burnout in Regular and Special Elementary and Secondary Teachers, Carolyn Yvonne Wells Simmons
Dissertation: Implementation Evaluation of a Social Detoxification Program, Thomas M. Slaven
Thesis: Kuropatkin in Manchuria, Merlin Van Statzer
Thesis: Evaluating the Effects of Alum with Polyelectrolyte Coagulant Aids in Treatment of Low Turbidity Waters, Kenneth John Stockwell
Dissertation: On the Space Shuttle Wing Thermal-Structural Analysis, Kumar Krishna Tamma
Thesis: Stress Appraisals and Performance in an Academic Setting, Michele Terranova
Dissertation: Close-Coupling Calculations for NaAr, NaNe, and NaHe, Linda Lindroth Vahala
Thesis: Registered Nurses' Ability to Discriminate Similar Human Need Fulfillment Alterations Specific to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and to Diabetes Mellitus, Kathleen Bowen Waite
Thesis: Collision-Induced Bands of Lithium-Rare Gas Molecules, Wen Jong Wang
Thesis: The Effects of Varying Doses of Orally Ingested Bee Pollen Extract Upon Total Exercise Time to Exhaustion Performance Recovery and Ratings of Perceived Exertion, Michael Lee Woodhouse
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
Thesis: The Evening Parade A History of the Marine Corps' Most famous Ceremony, John H. Admire
Thesis: An Approach for Including Reliability in Control System Designs, Ime Isaac Akpan
Thesis: An Analysis of a Sample of Parents and University Freshmen in Regard to Their Attitudes Toward the Needs of Sex Education in Community Schools, Linda C. Aleksa
Thesis: A Laboratory Study of Nongenetic Embryonic Adaptation to Salinity and Its Subsequent Effects Upon Larval Development of the Grass Shrimp Palaemonetes pugio Holthius, Paul Jay Anninos
Thesis: Some Effects of the Polychaete Nereis Succinea Frey and Leukart 1847 on the Distribution of Copper Cadmium and Zinc in Sediments and Water, Gabriela Kitzig August
Thesis: Variation in Leaf Macronutrients of Overstory Trees as Influenced by Species Season and Soil Type in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia, Bruce J. Bandle
Thesis: Old Dominion University Master of Science in Dental Hygiene Degree Program: Graduate and Employer Survey, Deborah Blythe Bauman
Thesis: Children's Representation of Spatial Information, Rebecca L. Beard
Thesis: The Effects of Exercise on Women's Self-Esteem, Wendy Laurie Biddle
Thesis: Client Acceptance of the Role of the Nurse Practitioner, Mary Elizabeth Butt
Thesis: Dental Hygiene Students' Perceptions About the Behavioral Characteristics of the Effective Clinical Teacher, Frances Gaby Carson
Thesis: Influence of Touch and Preferences for Control on Visual Behavior, Teresa Whitehurst Caudill
Thesis: An Analysis of the Relationships Between Environmental Stimuli Personality Variables and Levels of Burnout in Intensive Care Nurses, Catherine Via Cauthorne
Thesis: Application of Least-Squares Method to the Determination of Orthotropic Elastic and Photoelastic Constants, R. G. Chermahini
Thesis: Development of a Procedure for Analysis of High Density Lipoprotein Subclasses, Chan Chin
Thesis: An Ecological Study of the Troglobitic Cirolanid Isopod Antrolana lira Bowman from Madisons Saltpetre Cave and Stegers Fissure, Augusta Co., Virginia, T. Lynn Collins
Dissertation: Electroimmunoassay a New Competitive Protein Binding Assay Using Antibody Selective Electrodes, George Raymond Connell
Thesis: Electroimmunoassay: A New Competitive Protein Binding Assay Using Antibody Selective Electrodes, George Raymond Connell
Thesis: Forgotten Campaign: The Siege of Suffolk, April 11 - May 4, 1863, Steven A. Cormier
Thesis: Charles M. Davies (1828-1910): Cleric, Writer, Educator, Spiritualist, Thomas M. Costa
Thesis: Determining the Uptake and Possible Assimilation of the Plant Component of Spartina Detritus by Palaemonetes Pugio Using a Rapid Radiolabeling Method, Michael Peter Crosby
Dissertation: Improved Finite Element Methodology for Integrated Thermal-Structural Analysis, Pramote Dechaumphai
Thesis: Food Habits and Ecology of Beavers in Southeastern Virginia, John Lennox Echternach Jr.
Thesis: Victim-Defendant Relationship and Juror Attitudes Towards Rape as Mediators of Attribution of Responsibility for Rape, Robert L. Fauber Jr.