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Theses from 1973
The effect of fading to train b-d and p-q discrimination in children with specific learning disabilities, Janet L. Culbertson
"Mercy seasons justice", Robert Freeman Davidson
Martial's and Juvenal's attitudes toward women, Lawrence Phillips Davis
An analysis of differentiating personality factors between incarcerated heroin addicts and non-addicts, Richard Whitely Davis
The nature of miniature melanocytes in murine epidermis, John Thomas Earnhardt
A political history of the poll tax in Virginia, 1900-1950, Conley L. Edwards
The effect of functional cecotomy on food and water intake in the rat, Stephen P. Farr
Measuring attitudes toward work of males and females from a student population and from a bank population, Edward Henry Foley
Patterns of the negative epic quest and three modern novels by Andre Gide, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, and Malcolm Lowry, John Robert Greer
An orientation of the theoretical aspects of verbs in English, Mostafa Hedayatnia
Evidence for an ambidirectional magnesium-activated, sodium-potassium dependent adenosine triphosphatase, John Dale Hempel
The effects of ultraviolet irradiation on the pigment cells of the PET/Wmr mouse epidermis, Vaughan Henry Howard Jr.
Personality differences between males and females in a student and bank management sample, Michael G. Howie
The search for liberty in the theatre of Alfonso Sastre, Dorothy Thornton Hunter
Chaucer's Criseyde : the pressures of the courtly love code, Betty Ann Jaffee
Sherwood Anderson, Christopher Sergel, and Winesburg, Ohio, Frank Stoddert Johns
Lord Birkenhead and the Irish question, Robert Allen Armistead Kester
The legal status of the Virginia high school principal in maintaining pupil discipline, Barry Jason Last
Effects of temperature and Ph on the growth and composition of the sporophyte and gametophyte generations of Allomyces arbusculus Butler (1911), Lawrence Wayne Lenz
A comparative analysis of the student movements in the United States and Japan, 1964-1970, Charlotte Jackson Lerch
Characters as functions of landscape in seven poems by Lawrence Durrell, Richard King Leroy
An interpretation of ecstasy as found in the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Thomas B. McCary
Predicting primary productivity in Westhampton Lake, Richmond, Virginia., Gary Newton Moore
The speech of the andean mestizo in the novels of ciro alegria, Catherine Thorburn Neale
Weight loss as an operant response, John Emerich Orban
Characteristicas psicologicas de "El señor presidente de Miguel Angel Asturias, Estela Alonso Pandiello
Effectiveness of experimenter-supplied and subject-originated first letter and descriptive sentence mnemonics in learning word pairs, Michael B. Pines
Determinism and freedom of choice operating through five experiences in psychological development in the lives of three of George Eliot's heroines, Elisabeth Even Sale
Synthesis and selected reactions of [pi]-(arene) chromium tricarbonyls, Anthony L. Scaggs
The effect of progesterone on food and water intake and weight in the adult male rats after stomach loads of hypertonic saline, Michael D. Smith
Ferroxidase-II: a blood serum lipo-protein, Christine Shih Ming Sung
Theses from 1972
Selected aspects of Interstate 295 : the interstate highway system of Virginia, Gilray Moyes Anderson
To revitalize the flaccid garden : a study of Milton's Paradise regained, Daniel Clyde Bartges
A correlation of the idealized heat of vaporization to molecular weight, Harold Earl Bennett
A study of the kinetics of light induced modulation of absorption in zinc selenide, Herbert Seth Berman
Myths and legends in the stories of Eudora Welty, Robert Keith Brower
Quantitative growth relationships of Microcoleus vaginatus (gom.) ex Drouet and Alcaligenes sp. in a sucrose-salts medium, James Rexford Brownell
Spacing and orientation of the siphons of the tunicate, Styela plicata, Alfred Page Chestnut
Teacher use of stimulus discrimination and response cost as techniques for reducing socially maladaptive student behaviors in a secondary classroom, Thomas J. Doland
A survey of fresh-water oligochaeta and their commensal ciliates from the Richmond, Virginia area, Elsa Queen Falls
Speed of conflict resolution as related to the Taylor manifest anxiety scale, Jeffrey Carter Fracher
Memory facilitation as a function of category cues and stimulus list construction, Janet Sanford Graves
The role of the adrenal gland in the survival of white rats subjected to the parotid toxin of the toad, Bufo marinus, Mark A. Green
An electrophoretic comparison of the gill plasma membrane proteins of freshwater and saltwater-adapted killifish, Fundulus heteroclitus, Earl Dean Hammit
Irony in the book of Job and three modern adaptations : J.B., A Masque of reason, and "A Job of the plains", Becky Bartholomew Hawkins
The orderly chaos of Camilo José́ Cela, Christian William Hearon
A validation of the psychologist's narrative report in predicting "successful" bank managers, Peter Stephen Horos
Linwood Holton's long quest for the governorship of Virginia and its impact on the growth of the Republican Party, Jack R. Hunter
One-trial versus incremental learning : a re-evaluation employing signal detection theory, James William Hyams
A spectrophotometric study of the reaction between benzoyl peroxide and N, N-dimethyl-P-phenylenediamine, Bertha Cosby King
The Glasgow paradox : a study of Ellen Glasgow's sad ladies, Frank Alexander Lovelock
The effects of estradiol and thyroxine on the plasma and liver proteins of the thyroidectomized water snake, Albert D. Morrongiello
Chaucer's Knight's tale : a symbolic reading, Naomi Pasquine
Chelation of two polyhydroxyamines with copper (II) ion, David H. Powell
Recognition and recall as measures of retention on a paired associate task, David F. Prim
DDT inhibition of (Na+, K+)-activated ATPase in gill tissue of Fundulus heteroclitus, Nancy McCutcheon Slate
Isolation and Identification of the Toxic Principle in the Tissues of the Ectoproct Lophopodella carteri (Hyatt), Donald Coleman Smith
Principles of control theory as applied to a thermostat, Joseph Peter Stidham
The participation of the Richmond negro in politics, 1890-1900, Joe B. Wilkins
Theses from 1971
Melville's America : democratic brotherhood, Nancy Yeager Bailey
The induced differentiation of mouse ectoderm to epidermis by growth on freeze-thawed dermis, Albert Joseph Banes
The contributions and effects of the drama on Paradise lost, Robert Elliott Bayliss
Reason, time, and redemption in Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Diane S. Bonds
The Southern planter, 1841-1861, Frederick Francis Carr Jr.
The protagonists of John Updike, Charles Monroe Cock
Substituted ℓ-dialkylaminomethyl-3-phenyl-1-naphthalenemethanols, Richard Elroy Davis
A determination by thin-layer chromatography of the chemical nature of the poison produced by the bryozoan lophopodella carteri (Hyatt), John Michael Dolan
An investigation of differential reinforcement effectiveness as a function of type of task, Jeffrey W. Erickson
Laser induced optical modulation in zinc selenide, Donald Edward Everett
The civil rights position of Hugh D. Scott in Congress, 1941-1965, Michael Merle Fehl
A follow-up study of the vocational choices of three hundred twenty-four eigth grade pupils to determine the validity of their vocational choices ten years later, Jean Lankford Fountain
J. Sidney Peters and Virginia prohibition, 1916-1920, Hugh Harrington Fraser
A comparative study of solubilized proteins from phycomyces blakesleeannus by disc electrophoresis, Douglas Burton Gillespie
Intestinal absorption and lipolysis of safflower oil and other unsaturated vegetable oils in rats, Robert Leslie Gregory
Synthesis of chromium tricarbonyl complexes of 1,3-diaryl-2-propyl methanesulfonates, Ashby French Johnson
Satire : the classical genre of dissent : Juvenalian influence on Samuel Johnson's London, Geraldine Katner Jones
The reaction to enclosure in Tudor policy and thought, Kenneth Michael Kines
Mrs. Gaskell's Industrial Novels: Mary Barton and North and South, Yvette D. Marambaud
The symbolist and decadent elements in the lyrical dramas of Oscar Wilde, Nancy G. Nuckols
A study of the acetic anhydride method for the determination of citric acid, Russell Kent Odland
The selection of bank management trainees: a validation study, James G. Overton
Proactive transfer and acoustic similarity in short-term paired-assoicate learning, Richard James Pittman
Influence of vicarious reinforcement on an observer's speed of conflict resolution, Nola R. Powell
Images of creation and destruction in the early poetry of Dylan Thomas, Willard Liston Rudd
A study of a divalent cation-selective electrode, William Stanhope Ryan Jr.
"The beau ideal of a soldier" : Brigadier General Charles Dimmock, Eugene M. Sanchez-Saavedra
A comparative investigation of the relationship between algebra grades and differential aptitude test subtests to geometry grades, Barbara Jean Southall
Symbol and mood in Tennyson's nature poetry, Margery Moore Taylor
Caesar in Spain : an economic policy?, Robert O. Turek
Harry F. Byrd and the Democratic presidential nomination of 1932 : party politics and the Byrd campaign, Tyson Van Auken
The comic vision of Samuel Beckett, James Ambrose Walsh
Sherwood Anderson : an experiment in journalism, Carol Senell Ware
Existentialism as Reflected in the Imagery of William Styron's Work, Sally Yates Wood
Theses from 1970
Shakespeare's treatment of kingship in the Lancastrian tetralogy, June Stemen Allman
The effects of estradiol and growth hormone on liver and plasma protein of the hypophysectomized water snake, Terry Chong Der
A historical survey of changes in education in Madison county 1792-1970, John Edward Dwyer
An examination of the influence of August Strindberg upon Eugene O'Neill, Mary Emily Parsons Edwards
Ring Lardner as dadaist, Buford Donald Fisher