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Theses from 1978
Reading ability and visual and auditory incidental learning in learning disabled adolescents, Brenda G. Miller
The investigation of 3,4- dipheny1-3- cyclobutene-1, 2-dione as a precursor to a bis-ketene, John Dana Myers
The diplomatic mission of Alexander Wilbourne Weddell at the inter-American conference for the maintenance of peace December 1-23, 1936, Peter Nicholas Pross
Analysis of the use of video tape in the assessment center method, David Carrington Purdy
The use of covert reinforcement in the modification of external locus of control, Vincent Rose
The females within the design/debris motif in three novels by John Hawkes, Evelyn Carol Sweet
The effect of various cognitive strategies in the control of public speaking anxiety, G. Rex Walker
Theses from 1977
Efficacy, contrast effect and differential effectiveness of two time-out durations in the treatment of two autistic children, Susan Adell Blankenbaker
Correlating locus of control with the motive to avoid success, Gary W. Embrey
The effect of explanation on the art preferences of liberals and conservatives, Joseph Fay
The effect of two exercise programs on positional kinesthetic awareness in college varsity swimmers, Brenda Dianne Glascock
Alienor of Aquitaine : her literary role and influence in the twelfth century, Janet Parrish Harris
Modernization in the Virginia General Assembly : the Commission on the Legislative Process 1972-73, Richard Kirk Jonas
Antithesis and reconciliation in W. B. Yeats' "Under Ben Bulben", Cary Albert McBean
The Leader's Method and the Follower's Outcome: Predictors of Future Interaction, Geoffrey J. Nimich
The use of a repeated carbohydrate loading diet upon the swimming performance of male albino rats, Charles A. Patton
Life satisfaction and aging: a comparison of life satisfaction index A, The Tennessee self concept scale and correlates, Ann Rowley Penberthy
Methodist circuit-riders in America, 1766-1844, William A. Powell Jr.
The effects of litter size on behavioral development and adult emotinoality in the rat, Elizabeth N. Pully
Justices of the peace and magistrates in Virginia and West Virginia, Krista Unterzuber
Relationship of state-trait anxiety and type of practice to reading comprehension of college students, Lewis R. Waid
Number conservation as related to type of transformation, Marsha Taliaferro Will
The Relationship of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia with the Negro Slaves 1830 to 1860: Success or Failure?, Elisabeth Evans Wray
The Spirit Mercurius of Rabelais, Dorothy S. Wyatt
Theses from 1976
School morale and self-esteem involving adolescents with learning disabilities, Ted E. Barrett
Lex Romana familiae, Patsy Lewis Barr
Arbitrator of constitutional crisis : a study of Edward Coke: 1607-1628, Francis Reames Beers
Auditory or visual perception : which is the better predictor of reading comprehension, Thomas Spencer Chalkley Jr.
Predicting leader emergence within fielder's contingency model of leadership effectiveness, Helen Ferguson Daniel
The use of territory as a natural reinforcer in the modification of academic performance and disruptive classroom behaviors, Sherwin Lynnwood Davis
The modification by temperature of the effects of mammalian follicle stimulating hormone and 17B-estradiol on the process of vitellogenesis in the lizard, Anolis carolinensis, Susan Howard Early
The effects of live modeling and specificity of verbal reinforcement on the modification of classroom behavior, James Joseph Fox III
A study of the symbol of the cross in Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, Eugene Freedman
The relationship between gill Na+ + K+ -activated adenosine triphosphatase activity and sodium regulation in acclimation of the blue crab, John Lewis Harris
Anais Nin's Under a glass bell : from interior fatality to psychological motion, John Harty
Retention as a function of transfer paradign and introversion-extroversion, Glenna F. Hasslacher
An Fe (III) - initiated oxidase reaction with ferroxidase-II, Glenn Alexander Hegamyer
The effect of non-directive play therapy upon self-concept in young children, Cheryl Hiltebeitel
The role of an eyestalk extract in the regulation of the blood sodium and calcium concentrations of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus, Gregory Martin Ivy
Effect of massed and disturbed practice on reading comprehension for high and low anxious college students, Robert C. Kanoy
Seasonal nearshore distributions of fishes in a piedmont section of the James River, Virginia, Eugene George Maurakis
La grammaire générale et la linguistique générale : étude sur le rationalisme et l'empirisme dans les théories linguistiques des dix-septième et dix-huitième siècles, Jacqueline McDonald
A three step strategy for training a beginning teacher to use positive social reinforcement in the classroom, Robert D. Morris
The effects of prolonged ultraviolet irradiation on the pigment system of PET/Wmr mouse epidermis, Penny Suzanne Nair
The effect of photoperiod on the regressive phase of the ovarian cycle of the lizard, Anolis carolinensis., John Dickens Pinch
The effects of rules and instructions, consultant feedback, and teacher self-monitoring on teacher and student behavior during consulting and non-consulting periods, Kenneth Slater Roach
The synthesis of some potential antimalarials : the 3-(4- choloropheny1) -5, 7- dichloronaphthylaminoalcohols, Dwight Allen Shamblee
Theses from 1975
Educational ability, practice and short term memory, Barbara Jean Arthur
An argument for the unconstitutionality of de facto racial segregation in public education, Craig Stover Cooley
The relationship of resting cardiac activity and locus of control to impulse control, Carol Kress Coukos
Effects of the toxins of Lophopodella carteri (ectoprocta), on blood lactate and electrolytes of Lepomis macrochirus (bluegill), Robert Fisher Dance
The effect of interpersonal trust, s̲ naivete, and the use of deception upon s̲ perceived demand awareness, Robert George De Laney
A revival of the Gothic tale in French twentieth century literature : Claude Seignolle, Eric Deudon
A certain solid ground : the Mary-Martha motif in the fiction of Katherine Anne Porter, Rosemary Mulvaney Dietrick
A study of the electrolytic oxidation of antioxidants at a stationary platinum microelectrode, Mark Anthony Forte
Effects of the toxins of the ectoproct, Lophopodella carteri, on oxygen consumption in gill tissues of the bluegill, Lepomis macrochirus, Barbara Harper Green
Photochemical behavior of some nitrogen heterocyclics, James Wesley Harris
Reduction of rocking in the adult retardate using overcorrective techniques, James Gill Hatfield
Actions of mammalian gonadotrophins in female Anolis carolinensis (green anole) within selected parameters of photoperiod and temperature, Frank Loving Holt Jr.
Through love to death : the structure of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The house of life, Michael Dennis Hughs
A partial test of the contingency model on adult-led groups of children, Jeffrey Wayne Jones
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., and the Mexico City conference of 1945, William A. Kowba
Estructura y sentido en las "Novelas ejemplares de Cíbola", Dulce Maria H. Lawrence
The progressive impact of the creative artists of Á la recherche du temps perdu upon Marcel's perception of the essential reality, Heloise Bertman Levit
L'imagination - une triade - dans A la recherche du temps perdu, Lucie McLawhorn
Melanin in the longnose gar, Lepisosteus osseus, George William Minson
An analysis of form and vision in Chekhov's major plays, Mary Moylan Oppenheimer
An atomic absorption method for determining micromolar quantities of primary aliphatic amines in the presence of secondary and tertiary aliphatic amines, Nathalie Harwood Perkins
Images of despair and hope in three plays by Jean-Paul Sartre, Philip Lewis Preston
Populations of Lepomis auritus (redbreast sunfish) in a thermally influenced section of the James River, Virginia, John Rawls Saecker
The effects of topical nitrogen mustard on the pigment system in PET/Wmr mouse epidermis, Ronald Lee Salisbury
Closed-loop theory and the partial recall hypothesis : explanations of the sources of information about knowledge in memory, Thomas Beverly Watkins
Test for a learned drinking response : support for appetitive preparedness, Brian L. West
The Effects of Crowding on the Dominance Behavior of Laboratory Rats as Assessed by Three Measures of Dominance, Barbara C. Worthington
Theses from 1974
Oreste poursuivi par les furies dans l'andromaque de Racine et Les mouches de Sartre, Ann Harrington Archer
Memories and dreams : a Freudian look at Proust, Barbara Alexander Baroody
Goe, and finde a mistris : the concepts of woman in the poetry of John Donne: the Elegies, the Anniversaires, the Songs and sonets, Leanne Wade Beorn
Absolute and relative bidirectional transfer in verbal conflict resolution tasks, John Milam Brame
Shakespeare's treatment of love : the mature tragedies, Albert E. Clark
The moral of Ulysses, Charles Carlyle Cosby
Age and sex differences, meaningfulness and formal similarity in a verbal discrimination task, Aleen Burke Dempster
Experimenter-supplied versus subject-originated descriptive sentence and mediation mnemonics in a modified paied-associate learning task, Jospeh Albert Garten
Discharge responses of the nematocysts of the stinging nettle Chrysaora quinquecirrha to external stimuli, Christa Merz Hubbard
In vitro effects of prolactin, cortisol, aldosterone, and cyclic amp on branchial Na+, K+ - activated ATPase of the killifish, Fundulus heteroclitus, Stephen Burke Kerby
The United States Supreme Court and the protection of individual privacy, Elizabeth P. Martin
The effects of the toxins of Lophopodella carteri (ectoprocta) on the blood gas properties of the bluegill Lepomis macrochirus, Robert Allen May
The complexity of Roman suicide, Carmine Anthony Ruff
The effect of special class placement and remediation on the self-concept of the learning disabled child, Marianne Seibert
Direct and indirect speeches in Tacitus' Historiae, Francess Butt Slaughter
The effect of public commitment on attitudes in consonant and dissonant situations, Mark Joseph Slichter
The destructive Messiah : a study of Henrik Ibsen's search for truth as portrayed by rebel heroes in Brand, An enemy of the people, and The wild duck, Susan Taylor Soyars
Milton's Eve : a comparison with Eve in the major analogues preceding Paradise Lost, Charlene Dellinger Wheeler
A comparative study of fish populations in the vicinity of a thermal discharge in the James River, Virginia, Judson Wayne White
Langerhans cells and the architecture of the epidermis in the chick and mouse, William Clyde Williams
Reconstructing Shabazz : images of the black man in four black plays, Joyce Wise
Theses from 1973
Verbal conflict resolution as related to the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey and the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale, Douglass R. Bloomfield
Conflict of interest : some selected legislative responses at the national and state levels, Berndt Harry Bohm
Aromatic solvent induced shifts of trifluoromethyl pyrazoles, Manuel Constantine Bourlas
Differential assessment of retrograde amnesia produced by Hypothermia following one-trial avoidance conditioning, Duane E. Brookhart
Differential approaches to the reduction of phobic anxiety responses, Bruce W. Bundy