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Theses/Dissertations from 2001
The Effect of Space and Furnishings on Academic Readiness Scores of West Virginia Preschoolers, J. Elise Coccari
Audrey Flack's Vanitas Series: a DBAE perspective, Lee Anna W. Collins
Chronic pain: a study of low back pain patients from southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, Nickandrea M. Cooke
Black out-migration from West Virginia in the context of racial discrimination in employment in the coal industry: 1935-1955, Megan E. Cox
Running Water Cuts Deep: An Action Research Study of At-Risk Students in a Rural High School, Lara K. Dial
Natural succession of benthic populations in constructed sediment ponds and ditches in southwestern West Virginia, Robin E. Dolin
Analysis of E. coli DNA from selected source(s) using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, Sheema Doshi
Cooperativity of DNA object self-assembly, Ava Caudill Dykes
The effects of a low-intensity exercise program on the fitness level of a 22 year-old female with congenital univentricular heart repair, Alice A. Elkins
The effect of residence type on adjustment to college, Matthew J. Facemire
A Natural History Study of Desmognathus welteri in West Virginia, Zachary Ira Felix
Selling with a visual aid, Michelle Fields
Shooting for the stars: American gun advertising and technology during the Cold War, Angela R. Frye
Taking a step back: an analysis of the unresolved core issue of constitutional validity in the campaign finance reform debate, Scot A. Ginther
Student victimization and its relation to school violence, Heidi Gregoire
The trial of Maurice Papon and French national consciousness, Mary Guillochon
Examination of IV antibiotic use and length of stay in community-acquired pneumonia patients, Shane Hammock
Genomic diversity of pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic fibrosis, Nathaniel Edwards Head
An investigation of the prevalence of disordered eating behaviors in dietetic students, Brandi Elizabeth Hicks
Individual differences and the effects of time of day and interference on memory, Keelon L. Hinton
The Language of Art: A Conversation Between Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, Marisa Jones Hooser
Spanish women and the Sección Femenina: rhetoric, imagery, and ideology, Julia Hudson-Richards
Roots and wings, Charles Eugene Hughes Jr.
The narratology of Jennifer Johnston's novels, Robert N. Hutton
Race vs. threat: how teens perceive violence as a function of race, Corey R. Layne
Factors influencing spatial variability in soil nitrogen (N) dynamics in N-treated and untreated watersheds of the Fernow Experimental Forest, West Virginia, Nikki Lenore Lyttle
The Conners' Continuous Performance Test, Karrie Mace
Comparison of NCAA division I, II, & III athletic training positions regarding duties and compensation, Lance David Markham
A Matter of Respect: The Mother-Home Visitor Relationship in the Healthy Families America Program, Sarah Mullins
The Relationship Between Attention and Memory and School Readiness in West Virginia Preschoolers, Brenda Carol Parker
The Relationship Between Attention and Memory and School Readiness in West Virginia Preschoolers, Brenda Carol Parker
The Relationship Between Receptive Language Skills and School Readiness, Patricia Slack Hines
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO AND ACADEMIC READINESS IN WEST VIRGINIA PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS, Michael A. Smith
Characterization and regulation of Skn-directed autoimmune skin lesions, Pamela Jane Staton
A Site Specific Impact Study: Valley Fill Construction Impacts on Water Chemistry and Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages, Terry Morton Tomasek
Distribution, Morphometries, and Tooth Morphology of the Genus Desmognathus in West Virginia, Jessica Ann Wooten
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
MacArthur Story-Stem Battery and gender differences, Gina Arnett
The Stroop Color Word test and learning disabilities, Nathan E. Arnett
The effects of early childhood sexual abuse on substance use among adolescent females housed in an emergency shelter, Randa Bahmed
Mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene as a tool for scorpion systematics, Mark D. Barker
An investigation of the importance parents ascribe to quality criteria established by a national early childhood accrediting agency, William Clayton Burch
The effects of anxiety management and study skills training on test anxiety in college students, Karen Carter-Harvey
A study of a manufacturing consortium pre-employment training program, Carol L. Crotty
President Clinton's crisis rhetoric and the post-Cold War world: a dramatistic perspective, Christopher R. Darr
Does the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children / 3rd edition discriminate between LD and non-LD children, ages 9 to 16 years old?, Matthew E. Dehmlow
The grooved pegboard test with LD and Non-LD children, Aimee H. Earley
The ability of Trail Making Test Parts A and B for children and adolescents to discriminate between learning disabled students and non-learning disabled students, Glorene K. Evilsizor
Determining the phylogenetic relationships among the northern pike (Esox lucius), the muskellunge (Esox masquinongy), and the silver pike, Steven W. Foster
Whole animal and cellular strategies in the regulation of bone mass in the rat, Weidong Geng
The creative writer: an examination of early childhood environment, psychopathology, and personality traits, Cynthia I. Hagan
Habitat utilization of fish species on the Ohio River: preliminary development of a multi-metric habitat index, James P. Hawkes
Gender problems: a sociolinguistic study of the grammatical gender problems that face the learners of Arabic as a second language, Nohad Hemmoudeh
The relationship between age, years of service, gender, education, and job satisfaction among mental health professionals, Veria L. Hicks
Arthropod succession on rat carrion in West Virginia, Aimee M. Hildreth-Whitehair
The Sedition Act of 1798 and the incorporation of seditious libel into First Amendment jurisprudence, Christopher D. Jenkins
The difference in pain tolerance between NCAA Division 1-A male and female athletes, Mollie K. Karabatsos
A union man: the life of C. Frank Keeney, Charles Belmont Keeney III
Attitudes of college students toward people with disabilities, Doris M. King
"Expansion of the citizenship role": altruistic behaviors of Buffalo Creek residents following the flood, Julia Ann Lewis
A holistic approach to managing behavioral issues with persons with mental retardation in extended care facilities, Darrell Lilly
Feature extraction in geobiophysical modeling of mining activity impacting Dewey Lake, Kentucky, Sean K. Litteral
The life history of the cave salamander, Eurycea lucifuga Rafinesque, in West Virginia, Andrew James Longenecker
Changes among Ohio River fish populations due to water quality improvements and high-lift dams, Benjamin Lowman
Levels of stress between cooperative education students on-placement and pending placement, Judy L. Mainzinger-Rathbun
Wading in the Lethe, Honor J. McCain
Use of the Visual-Motor Integration Test to discriminate learning disabled from non-disabled children and adolescents, Michelle McFarland
The effects of a functional derotational knee brace on the single-leg hop, timed-hop, and stability of NCAA Division II athletes, Heidi E. Moran
Response properties of tibial campaniform sensilla on the cockroach leg in restrained preparations and freely moving animals, Angela L. Ridgel
Computer Simulation for Feature Extraction in Pattern Recognition and Geobiophysical Modeling in Mountaineous Wetland Delineation, Natalie Ripsher
Current first aid and CPR credentials of selected head high school athletic coaches in West Virginia, Amy Robinson
Ecology and Sympatric Relations of Crevice Salamanders in Randolph County, West Virginia, Jayme Linn Waldron
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Depression in women with heart disease, Kimberly M. Ashcraft
A medicinal plant survey in marketplaces of Ecuador, Pamela Bailey
In the shadows: the search for identity in the writings of Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherrie Moraga, Sandra Cisneros, and Julia Alvarez, Marcy Wood Benincasa
The effects of music therapy on reducing depression among the hospitalized elderly diagnosed with dementia, Alan J. Blosser
The Conners' Continuous Performance Test compared with the attention problems scale of the Child Behavior Checklist in ADHD children, Krista J. Burdette
The role of community in two novels by Barbara Kingsolver, Rebecca K. Calwell
A fisherman's heritage, Matthew G. Cooke
Interaction of laminin beta2 with eps8 and desmin in muscle cells, Luke Xueliang Cui
Effects of perceived verbal aggressiveness and proxemic violations on attributions of source blameworthiness for sexual harassment, Evelyn René Davis
The cardiovascular and metabolic adaptations to iso-caloric moderate intensity and high intensity exercise, Summerson Desmond
Fabrication of protein arrays using electron beam lithography, Duy-Bao Phan Dinh
The acquisition and quantitative analysis of digitally generated Fourier transforms resulting from the physiognomy of various tree and shrub species, Alicia Eldridge-Spears
The effects of color contrast on performance of the WAIS-R digit symbol subtest, Wendell S. Francke
The relationship between Ohio River Bass Tournament success rates, forage fish abundance and environmental conditions, Jeffrey V. Ginger
Benthic biodiversity and physico-chemical parameters of acid mine drainage, acid impacted and nonimpacted streams, Stephen D. Greene
A cross-validation of the Marshall University step test on college males and females age 18-24, Mary Robin Hampton
A new model for predicting probabilities of viable pregnancy and multiple gestations for i̲n̲ V̲i̲t̲r̲o̲ fertilization, Ray Vernon Haning Jr.
William Lowther Jackson and the Civil War in West Virginia's mountains, Ronald V. Hardway
Treatment for the homeless mentally ill, Joyel Harless
London's air defense during the First World War: the scene from the ground, Dale Edward Hatfield
Ordinary Children Extraordinary Legacies: Childhood During the American Civil War, Deborah S. Holder
