Masters Theses

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Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Effect of temporal parameters on the perception of foreign accent in synthesized speech, Ashley Assgari

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Interleukin-3-deficient mice have increased resistance to blood-stage malaria, Sarah Rebekah Auclair

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Before, upon, and beyond the podium: Reflections by retired orchestra directors, Joseph Daniel Austin

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Interactive instructional technology to bring art students meaningful museum experiences, Sarah Elizabeth Brown

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Using pedagogical and rhetorical strategies to examine the medical ethics of human egg donation, Emiline Grace Buhler

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The science of charity: The social network that restructured law and order in Baltimore, 1881-1901, Hope Elizabeth Byers

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Haunted by Hitler: German film of the 2000s and the discourse of Germans as victims, Christopher John Carlberg

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Peer critique in the secondary art classroom: Strategies for best practices, Krista Nicole Castrodale

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Characterization of Vibrio vulnificus strains using phenotypic and genotypic assays, James Conrad

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Meditation on the middle ground, Jennifer Chandler Creef

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Muscle physiology and performance during intensified cycle training: Impact of carbohydrate-protein supplementation, Andrew Christian D'Lugos

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Elementary music teachers in urban, high-poverty schools who remain in their position: A descriptive study, Heather Marie Eberly

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Effects of running sprint interval training versus traditional endurance exercise on metabolic indices in sedentary, overweight and obese women, Jennifer Lynn Espinoza

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From swamps to swamping: The usage and perceptions of swamps by African-Americans in Antebellum and Postbellum Arkansas and Louisiana, Tessa Annette Neblett Evans

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Perceived difficulty differences in print and online patient education materials, Michael Arlington Farnsworth

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Tried it with glasses off too; Sometimes., Nolan John Fedorow

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Examining the effectiveness of ecotourism as a funding source for protected area management in Guyana, Jordan S. Flagel

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Utopia for the mind: American treatment of insanity in the nineteenth century, Lauren Fleming

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An exploration of a sport club president’s experience, Megan Lynn Flosdorf

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Towards construct validity: Investigating the structure of the mental toughness in Sport Questionnaire (MTSQ-32), Kelly Jane Foelber

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Polyculture bioremediation: An analysis of potential nitrogen assimilation and removal by Mya Arenaria, Gracilaria Tikvahiae and Ulva Lactuca harvests in the Corsica River, MD, Kathleen Hemeon

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Envisioning the apocalypse: (Dis)Order, progress, and Brazil’s Canudos War, 1896-1897, Gray Fielding Kidd

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The interaction of patience and resistance to miserly information processing on life outcomes, Tristan Kirkman

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An analysis of U.S./Canadian fisheries policy in regards to Pacific salmon and the preservation of indigeneity in the Pacific Northwest, Michael James Lockwood

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Colloidal and biological properties of triscationic amphiphiles with one or two tails, John N. Marafino

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Profile of the unfolded protein response in C. elegans depleted of the translational chaperone, NAC., Caylin S. Murray

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Congressional sovereignty: Imperialism in a Republican Union, Casey Jack Musselman

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The role of ephrin-B3 on midbrain topography and auditory function, William Andrew Noftz

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Auditory masking in spontaneously hypertensive rat: An examination of the continuum of impulsivity, John Joseph O'Malley

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How do we conceptualize depression?: A mixed methods study, Mariafé Taeví Panizo

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Student’s achievement and artistic growth through the implementation and enrichment of the visual journal, Emily Nannette Quesenberry

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The effects of having teachers implement teacher child interaction training on language and communication development, Chelsea Ann Rainear

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Automated snort signature generation, Brandon Rice

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Demon rum in the City of Churches: A spirited fight for alcohol reform in Danville, Virginia, 1883-1933, Evelyn Dawn Riley

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Lessons learned from the Bosnian Conflict, Ahmed Saeed

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Performance quantification of extensive green roof substrate blend: Expanded shale and biochar, James Sheats

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The effects of chronic, partial sleep deprivation on risk-taking behavior in rats, Ashley Marie Shemery

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Merge of behavior analysis procedures into a speech-language pathology autism clinic, Elizabeth Simons

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Creativity in the elementary art classroom: Incorporating strategies for encouraging creativity, Hannah Kim Sions

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Elias Boudinot and the missionaries to the Cherokee, Gregory McDonald Siron

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The relationship between riparian zone width and floristic quality in Shenandoah County, Virginia, Jamie D. Smith

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The status of middle and high school string orchestra programs in Virginia public schools located in midsized urban settings, Keara Lea Smith

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Assessing ethical reasoning skills: Initial validity evidence for the Ethical Reasoning Identification Test, Kristen Lynn Smith

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Effects of fine sediment on juvenile brook trout habitat use and social interactions, Kyle Snow

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Why haven't technologies fixed open source intelligence?, Timothy Sparks

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The effects of obstructive sleep apnea on autonomic function during steady-state exercise, Courtney Sutton

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The effects of constructive language instruction and cooperative learning on the quality of artwork at the middle level, Laura Allison Thompson

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Using Microsoft Powerpoint© to conduct a Paired Stimulus Preference Assessment, Andrew M. Tiry

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Exploration of genomic determinants for host range in phages of pathogenic and non-pathogenic mycobacteria, Anisa Christine Tracy

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Learning to see, Jade Webber

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Exercise and time of day: Influence on hunger and caloric intake among overweight/obese adults, Molly C. Weber

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Run sprint interval training perceived as highly enjoyable despite high session RPE in sedentary, overweight/obese women, Taylor K. Wenos

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Investigating the discrepancies between student perceptions and faculty expectations of graduate-level statistics preparation, Devon Hopkins Whetstone

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Training graduate clinicians to implement speech language pathology, occupational therapy and applied behavior analysis goals in their treatment sessions, Heather B. White

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The variety show: Why classical string musicians are exploring a multistyle approach to teaching, Kelly C. Wiedemann

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Limited war, limited enthusiasm: Sexuality, disillusionment, survival, and the changing landscape of war culture in Korean War-era comic books and soldier iconography, Joshua K. Akers

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Evaluating resources available to transitioning military service members, Marissa Kaeli Bamford

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Assessment of seawater quality: Do public perceptions of seawater quality match indications given by macroalgae?, Angela Bartolo

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Visual art assessment for middle school students, Kathryn Batlle

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The ergogenic effects of glucose and fructose coingestion during prolonged cycling, Daniel A. Baur

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Feasibility study of installing artificial bathing platforms at the northeast coast of Malta, Darren Bianco

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Probiotic bioaugmentation of an anti-Bd bacteria, Janthinobacterium lividum, on the amphibian, Notophthalmus viridescens: Transmission efficacy and persistence of the probiotic on the host and non-target effects of probiotic addition on ecosystem components, Molly Bletz

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The effects of caffeine and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep deprivation on free operant responding under a VI 30-S schedule of reinforcement, Curtis Allen Bradley

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"We long for a home": American discourses on Jewishness after the Second World War (1945-49), Samantha M. Bryant

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Policy recommendations for integrating elearning and education for sustainable development cross-curriculum learning areas into the Maltese state education system, Terry A. Buchanan

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Occurrence, survival, and persistence of the fecal indicator bacterium, Enterococcus mundtii, in soils of a contaminated watershed, Marc Carpenter

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Public perception on the state of air quality in Malta, Nikolas Cassar

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Student engagement in the assessment context: An examination of the Cognitive Engagement Scale-Extended Version (CES-E), Ashley Brianne Charsha

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Electronic voting: Methods and protocols, Christopher Andrew Collord

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Agricultural/forestal districts: Surveying AFD landowners in Augusta County and the city of Staunton to determine areas for program improvement and program promotion strategies, Martin Driver

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Training practicum students in child-directed interaction (CDI) and incidental teaching (IT): Efficacy of immediate bug-in-the-ear feedback, Alicia C. Faller

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Effects of carbohydrate + protein co-ingestion during and following exercise on cardiovascular adaptations and exercise tolerance during intensified cycle training, Justin Faller

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Sustainable management of the main two Maltese indigenous grape varieties for winemaking, Jonathan Falzon

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A resilience assessment of the Ramla Valley System, Gozo, Mykel Fenech

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"Rooted deeply in our past": A landscape history of Brunswick, Maryland, Alyssa R. Fisher

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Kaczynski is to Walden as a Predator Drone is to Batman., Evan Fitzgerald

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Giant ants and killer children: Fear and popular culture in 1950s America, Kathleen Elizabeth Ford

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The Wrong track: Errors in American tank development in World War II, Jacob Fox

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Citizens of the empire: A molding of Victorian childhood identity, Christopher B. Gallagher

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The potential for replication and transmission of antibiotic resistance plasmids in an E. coli population in agriculturally impacted stream sediment, Erika Gehr

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“This is a cause worth dying for:” Sarah and Angelina Grimké and the development of a political identity, Erin K. Gillett

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System dynamics modeling study of the possibility of endemic measles in the state of Virginia, Ivan W. Gowe

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Class control: An adaptable and self configuring classroom control system, Thomas Grimes

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Arterial adaptations to training among first time marathoners, Nicole Hafner

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Retaliation with restraint: Destruction of private property in the 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Jeannie Cummings Harding

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The integration of 18th and 19th century subsistence farming practices into the planning and x-zoning laws of the city and county of Baltimore, Clayton A. Hayes

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Lost Cause campuses: Confederate memory and Lost Cause rituals at the University of Mississippi and University of Virginia, Jeffery Hardin Hobson

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Improving the energy efficiency of dehumidification technology at a large facility in Florida, Brandon Willson Hoilett

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Association of habitual snoring with carotid intima-media thickness in young men, Sarah C. Jacoby

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Data carving parser generation, Benjamin Nathaniel Kelley

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A path to a renewable energy system: A financing and regulatory model, Edward Patrick Kelly

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Assessing intervention fidelity in a randomized field experiment: Illuminating the black box, Jeff John Kosovich

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Analysis of international EPC projects using SCOR model, MoneteCarlito simulation, and relationship management, Xiaopeng Liang

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Microbial dynamics and core microbiome of red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus), Andrew Howard Loudon

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To move or not to move: The impact of instruction on planning and the role of inhibitory control, Sarah Anne Marrs

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A board game simulator for promoting system thinking for sustainable pastoralism among Maasai in Southern Kenya, Jacob Loorimirim Mayiani

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Potential energy savings when using saline water for cooling chillers in Malta, Mireille Micallef

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The inclusive art classroom: Time and strategies, Margaret Harrison Vaughan Miller

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Developing a measure of student resume quality in student affairs assessment: An application of generalizability theory, Oksana Naumenko

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The importance of fraud detection techniques from the Enron case and the T.J. Maxx data breach, Luyao Peng