Masters Theses

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Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Teaching for artistic behavior: A collective case study, Caroline L. Nesmith

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Examining latent change classes: An application of factor mixture modeling to change scores, Thai Q. Ong

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Trying to restrict her range: The backlash in response to Ree Drummond, “The Pioneer Woman,” and Drummond’s agency in constructing and profiting from a 21st century pioneering persona, Jennifer R. Oskin

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Shift; Explorations in a changing sense of self, Tara J. Ott

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The effects of differentiated instruction on student engagement, student satisfaction, and quality of student artwork in the high school art classroom, Lindsey R. Perrault

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The effects of chronic partial sleep deprivation and chronic voluntary alcohol consumption on ΔFos B accumulation, Kristian Ponder

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Contesting “obligation”: Memory, morality, and the (re)Construction of divestment narratives, Christina Quint

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Staging a successful political campaign in the digital era: How to respond to natural disasters on social media, Erin Rider

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Generalization of joint attention: Using parent child interaction therapy to program social skills in children with developmental disorders, Thomas E. Rigg

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The effect of sleep restriction on coagulation and fibrinolysis after heavy exercise, Paul A. Roberson

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An epic teaching experience: A case study of pedagogically innovative undergraduate classrooms, Tiffany T. Runion

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The effects of virtual coaching on olympic lift performance, Julia M. Santos

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Nutritional and physical activity behaviors of certified athletic trainers in the collegiate setting, Danielle M. Scanlon

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Disordered eating behaviors in collegiate athletes, Kelly M. Schatzlein

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Good Union people: Enduring bonds between black and white Unionists in the Civil War and beyond, James Schruefer

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The urban heat island effect in Malta and the adequacy of green roofs in its mitigation, Jonathan Scicluna

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Athletic trainers' or athletic training students' perceptions of sexual harassment by student-athletes in the collegiate setting, Amber M. Simmons

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Academic support of student-athletes: A cross-conference comparison, Rachel F. Simon

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A tank full of wishful thinking: Crystallizing the rhythms of the road, Leanna K. Smithberger

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An examination of the psychometric properties of and validity evidence for the Alliant Intercultural Competency scale, Elizabeth L. Smith

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The Watch Tower Bible and Tract society: How Jehovah’s Witnesses denounced and resisted the Nazi regime, Elena Sorchiotti

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Inter-professional collaboration: The impact of serial versus merged treatment on the behavior of children with autism spectrum disorder, Robyn Starry

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Their swords, our plowshares: "Peaceful" nuclear weapons, propaganda, and Cold War memory expressed in film: 1959-1989, Michael A. St. Jacques

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Understanding the human domain: Modification and utilization of a leopold matrix to assess the impact of activity based intelligence and open source information or other proposed solutions, Kenneth Sydnor

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The effect of sex and footwear on dynamic changes during the loaded barbell back squat, Ameera N. Teal

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The effect of water quality on the survival and fitness of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) eggs, alevins and fry in aquaculture and deep springs along the South River in Waynesboro, VA, Thomas D. Teears

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Improving the security of wireless sensor networks, Mauricio Tellez Nava

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Home starts from within, Joliza G. Terry

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Prioritizing eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) for secondary imidacloprid treatment against the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae) in Shenandoah National Park, Katelyn Walters

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A dissonance intervention to reduce implicit prejudice against Arab Muslims, Cheryl Alyssa Welch

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Context effects of false remember responses in older and younger adults, Casey M. Williamson

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In search of Askia Mohammed: The epic of Askia Mohammed as cultural history and Songhay foundational myth, Joe Wilson

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Effect of distance caregiver coaching on functional skills of a child with traumatic brain injury, Michelle R. Witt

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Fort Hunt's P.O. Box 1142, Lindsey Wood

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Effects of a low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet on power lifting performance and body composition, Jessica L. Agee

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Competitive drive in varsity and club collegiate student-athletes: The correlation between motivation, influences, and coach-athlete relationship, Carolann R. Baldridge

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Inner sound: Contemporary abstract photography in the wet-plate collodion process, Brian Barger

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International distance coaching of therapists to improve verbal behavior by children with autism, Ana Barkaia

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American identity crisis, 1789-1815: Foreign affairs and the formation of American national identity, George E. Best

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Policing Charities: A genealogy of the American nonprofit in the context of neoliberalism, Jaclyn Carroll

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The sentence continues: Breaking silences and becoming authors through The Semicolon Project, Brooke E. Covington

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The struggle in the Shenandoah: The relationship between tactics and attrition in the Shenandoah Valley Campaigns of 1864, Joseph A. D'Arezzo

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‘Our sentiments of sympathy for the late unwarranted, cruel, and barbarous massacre’: The American Jewish response to the Damascus Affair, Matt B. Darroch

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Place, space, and family: A rhetorical analysis of the resistance rhetoric of Judy Bonds, Alex K. Davenport

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Making sense of mediation: The intersection of critical event narratives at a community conflict resolution center, Eric Dirth

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The misconception of knowing, the invention of time; curiosities & introspections of vernacular photography, Patricia D. Drummond

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The effect of controlled burns on abundance of woody species at Buck Mountain, West Virginia, Barry E. Edgar

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Using capture-mark-recapture techniques to estimate detection probabilities & fidelity of expression for the critically endangered James spinymussel (Pleurobema collina)., Alaina C. Esposito

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Vanguardia mujerista haciendo escuela: An oral history of Cuban feminism, Marie Eszenyi

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Emergency cardiac care in athletic training education, Erica M. Filep

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The rough south and new southern studies: Crossroads and constellations, Amanda Freeman

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Comparison of the antibacterial, colloidal, and hemolytic properties of novel triple-headed, triscationic amphiphiles, Tara Gallagher

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The effect of run sprint interval training on prediabetic adults: Health related quality of life, perceived enjoyment, and exercise adherence, Nicole M. Gilbertson

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The use of differential reinforcement to increase participation/engagement in children with autism in an inclusion setting, Kayla Gionti

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Multicultural to intercultural art education, Kathryn A. Gong

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Enhancing psychology majors’ meta-cognitive understanding of desirable workplace skills using a short discussion-based in-class activity, Alena S. Gordienko

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Occupy the future: A rhetorical analysis of dystopian film and the Occupy movement, Justin J. Grandinetti

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"Ruin and desolation scarcely paralleled" : An examination of The Virginia Flood of 1870’s aftermath and relief efforts, Paula Fielding Green

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Propensity score matching in higher education assessment, Heather D. Harris

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The effect of run sprint interval training on diabetic metabolic markers in prediabetic adults, Kathryn L. Hilovsky

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Myside bias in probabilistic ethical decision making, Richard E. Hohn

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Identity disclosure in lesbian, gay, and bisexual patient-provider communication, Nicole Hudak

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Predicting bystander attitudes using rape myth acceptance and adherence to the commodity model of sex, Kimberly J. Johnson

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Her Majesty's dignity: Secularization in the age of Reformation, Catherine Larson

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Exploring graduate student parent experiences: How to better support and reduce attrition in an underserved population, Christine R. Leaman

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Memory as torchlight: Frederick Douglass and public memories of the Haitian Revolution, James Lincoln

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Drive toward freedom: African American: The story of black automobility in the fight for Civil Rights, Xavier Macy

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Stokesville, Virginia: An enduring depot for an ephemeral town, MaryAnn A. Mason

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Educating the modern woman: Girls’ college preparatory schools in Virginia, 1900-1930, Eliza McGehee

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Satellite cell behavior in cyclists following intensified training with and without protein supplementation, Alec I. McKenzie

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Ang Buhay sa Nayon-Life in the Valley: An oral history project with the Shenandoah Living Archive, Hannah Moses

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Organizational use of social media: The shift in communication, collaboration and decision-making, Dhruvi A. Naik

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Efficacy according to viewing length and video content of promotional videos for sustainability graduate education., Bryan T. Ogden

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Impacts of consumer horticulture on stormwater and nutrient management: Investigating public perception, knowledge, and practices in the Shenandoah River Watershed, Christopher P. Parker

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The influence of the CYP1A2 polymorphism on the effect of caffeine ingestion and mouth rinsing on 3km cycling performance, Mark W. Pataky

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Norris Dam: To build or not to build? A museum outreach program, Jeanette Patrick

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Detecting changes in auditory events, Rachael B. Peck

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The effects of ordinal data on coefficient alpha, Kathryn E. Pinder

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Training graduate clinicians to implement speech language pathology, occupational therapy and applied behavior analysis goals in their treatment sessions, Courtney E. Powers

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Persons can speak louder than variables: Person-centered analyses and the prediction of student success, Elisabeth M. Pyburn

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Analysis of real-world passwords for social media sites, Mark J. Quinn

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Traumatic experiences and cognition: How do static and dynamic variables contribute to current functioning?, Cathryn Richmond

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The Monroe Doctrine as the transparent veil of isolation during the League of Nations debate, Luther D. Roadcap

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Establishing conditioned reinforcers in children with autism spectrum disorder, Kristen Rollman

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Characterization of the C. elegans nascent polypeptide associated complex (NAC) function under stress, Jonathan E. Sandoval

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The association between sleep quality, physical inactivity, and risk of developing metabolic syndrome, Matthew Scott

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Sleep deprivation and voluntary alcohol consumption in adolescent rats, Sancho N. Sequeira

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Cultivating capitalism: Sea Island Cotton, planter identity, and Atlantic connections in Antebellum Beaufort County, South Carolina, Cameron M. Shirley

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Let’s chat: Willingness to communicate and the development of a destigmatizing campaign, Ethan D. Smith

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Interpretation training manual for the Frontier Culture Museum, Megan T. Sullivan

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The psychological response to a low carbohydrate ketogenic diet in combination with a six-week strength training protocol, Matthew T. Thorp

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Immersion, Jennifer M. Tremblay

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The evolutionary selective pressures exerted on A3 actinobacteriophages, Cheyenne Weeks-Galindo

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Delay discounting: Are magnitude effects moderated by domain effects?, David A. Williams Jr.

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Identification of three novel genes, PPK12, PPK23, and PPK25, involved in noxious cold detection in Drosophila, Benjamin Williamson

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Policy context of the endemic flora of the Maltese Islands in a changing taxonomic landscape, Clara Agius

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The influence of a CYP1A2 polymorphism on the hemostatic response to caffeine, Joseph James Aiello

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Basra's high hope: An American missionary school in Iraq during the World War Era, Israa Alhassani

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"Young bloods of the South:" The Confederate use and efficacy of irregular warfare in the American Civil War, Lucas Allamon

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Offshore wind energy in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Region and the EPA clean power plan proposed rule, Kamil E. Armaiz Nolla