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Theses/Dissertations from 1999

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Natural History of the Northern Spring Salamander Gyrinophilus porphyriticus porphyriticus at the Westvaco Wildlife and Ecosystem Research Forest in Randolph County, West Virginia, Brian A. Lindley

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Clarification of the hybrid origin of carex x deamii Herm. (Cyperaceae) based on macro and micro morphological characters, Paul B. Marcum

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An analysis of the training methods utilized in business and industrial organizations by West Virginia training professionals, Kelli R. Mayes

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The effect of music on visuospatial memory, James L. McCracken

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Food habits of Salmo trutta and Salvelinus fontinalis (Pisces: Salmonidae) in relation to seasonal changes and mitigative liming effects in Dogway Fork of the Cranberry River, West Virginia., Jason A. Morgan

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Preparation of N-(Haloaryl) succinimides, Okey Noe II

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To educate the Heathen: a comparison of the treatment of the native peoples of the United States, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, Howard R. Nolen

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Using selective MMPl-2 clinical scales to predict the severity of prison infractions for first degree murderers in a maximum security prison, Margarita Lynn Pauley

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Linguistic communication skills in rural Appalachian preschoolers, Brenda Pinkerman

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The Bank of Gallipolis: its place in national banking history, William E. Plants

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Feeding niches of forest salamanders: indirect effects of gypsy moth pesticides on prey selection and potential overlap between adults of six species, Sandra Raimondo

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It wasn't always like this with me, Greg Rickard

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Patient/physician communication: a comprehensive review of the medical literature, 1989 to 1998, David L. Rodgers

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Ecology and natural history of Rana clamitans melanota in West Virginia, Alison M. Rogers

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Distribution of the Sucker Family (Pisces: Catostomidae) in the Ohio River, Tara L. Rose

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Belles Among the Bluffs : The Experiences of Women During the Siege of Vicksburg, Shannon Ewing Sexton

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A Vegetation Analysis of Plant Communities in and Around Selected Holding Ponds at McClintic Wildlife Management Area, Mason County, West Virginia, Russell Bowman Shrader

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The role of retinoids and protein kinase C in vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and function, Shaoshan Wang

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Natural History of the Marbled Salamander, Ambystoma opacum (Gravenhorst), in West Virginia, with Special Notes on Reproduction and Larval Development, Jason J. Watkins

Theses/Dissertations from 1998

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Adolescent depression: the influence of self-esteem, self-consciousness and gender, Kevin W. Adams

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Life history, ecology, and low pH tolerance of the freshwater prawn, Palaemonetes kadiakensis Rathbun, in a mitigated wetland of the Green Bottom Wildlife Management Area, West Virginia, Jennifer Ann Aderman

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The mechanics and regulation of rat aortic smooth muscle contraction: implications of cytoskeletal remodeling, protein phosphorylations, and microtubule-based kinase transport, Alison Summers Battistella-Patterson

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Progestin stimulation of the protooncogene c-̲m̲y̲c in T47D human breast cancer cells, Kristy Ann Blankenship

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An assessment of the prevalence of the bass tapeworm, Proteocephalus ambloplitis, and other parasites in five species of basses from river and lake ecosystems in West Virginia, J. Alyce Bradbury

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Leisure and Delinquency: A Comparative Study of the Link Between Leisure Activities and Delinquency, Patricia L. Brougham

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The brief life of the anthropoid animal: a collection of translated poems from Brief Life and The Anthropoid Animal, Marina Primo Busatto

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Molecular mapping of the fatty (f) (formerly corpulent) gene in the LA/N rat obesity model, Kenneth G. Butz

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Genesis 2:26, Michael G. M. Cornelius

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"The boys'll listen to me": the labor career of William Blizzard, Shae Ronald Davidson

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Martha Stewart Weekdays: A Symbolic Construction of the Image of Woman, Holly Lorraine Dent

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The narrative voice of Lee Smith: emergence of a passionate narrative voice through body and spirit, Judith A. Eddy

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Seniors' knowledge of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation in urban versus rural West Virginia, Debra S. Evans

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Group productivity and how it is affected by an imposed group structure, Vicki Fenwick

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The effect of tape and neoprene ankle supports on balance in athletes with injured ankles, Tara Michelle Gerlach

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Thy will be done, my will be done: a comparative analysis of the diary of Susanna Gordon Waddell, 1863-1867 and selected letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, 1862-1864, Leann Elizabeth Ginther

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A study of job satisfaction of female administrators in the National Education Association and its affiliates, Jacqueline G. Goodwin

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A content analysis of televised health news coverage within the Huntington, West Virginia designated market area, Leigh Suzanne Hall

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The clinical utility of the Jesness Inventory, Stephanie J. Hayes-Harris

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From the southeast to Fort Ancient: a survey of shell gorgets in West Virginia, Darla Spencer Hoffman

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Concurrent validity of the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale, Kathryn L. Ingles

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The role of domain I in laminin chain assembly, George D. Kamphaus

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Henry Norris and the Boleyn faction: 1528-1536, Jeff Lavender

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Holistic approaches in a secondary discipline-based art education curriculum, Jennifer Hicks Limle

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Occupational titles and the perception of gender, Cynthia A. Lokey

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A comparative study of catholic and non-catholic students in a catholic secondary school, wheeling central catholic high school, with respect to their religious knowledge and religious practices, Mary Aileen Mansuetto

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Modernization and migration in Indonesia, I Wayan Mastriyana

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Creation Acts, Paul Brian McCoy

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Business technology: new avenues for sexual harassment in the workplace, Terri Stone Meadows

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The use of isoelectric focusing to assess the genetic diversity of the cyprinid fishes: Rhinichthys cataractae and Rhinichthys atratulus in West Virginia, Fauzia Alam Miah

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Conduct disorder questionnaire, Dwayne L. Milam

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A critical view of Kai Erikson's Everything In Its Path: the current state of Appalachian studies, Matthew Franklin Moore

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Influences of acid mine drainage on water chemistry of Blackwater River Watershed, Carla C. Morato-Lara

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Chi square analysis of the supported employment and unsuccessful placement survey to assess individualized needs when program planning, Melissa S. Nelson

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Peer evaluation: design and implementation of the peer evaluation format, Christopher F. Nichols

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Differences in lean and obese skeletal muscle myoblasts of adult and post-natal LA/N (faf) rats: a confocal description of the skeletal muscle myoblast, J. Adam Noah

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The use of emergent rocks as refugia for the Cheat Mountain salamander, Plethodon nettingi green, Beth Anne Pauley

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Ecological life history of Caenis amica Hagen (Emphemeroptera: caenidae) from the mitigated area of Green Bottom Wildlife Management Area, Cabell County, West Virginia, Gail Lynn Perrine

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In the fullness of time: the literature of Denise Giardina, Cathy Pleska

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Narrative voicings in the novels of Roddy Doyle, Larry Poe

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Approaches to a generalized synthesis for hexaphenylbutadiene, Karena Kaye Linkenhoger Robinson

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Characterization of the promoter and upstream activation sequences of sporulation-specific genes SPR1 (SSG1) and SPR2 in saccharomyces cerevisiae, Sharmini S. Soosaithasan

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Ecology and natural history of the cow knob salamander, Plethodon Punctatus Highton, in West Virginia, Robert B. Tucker

Theses/Dissertations from 1997

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Christina Rossetti: Pre-Raphaelite poet, Linda S. Baird

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The relationship between public-sector higher education level-four grievant variables and third-party discipline and discharge arbitration case determinations at the West Virginia Education and State Employees Grievance Board years 1985-1995, E. Jane Barnes

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Predicting Direct Care Staff Tenure: The Development and Use of a Weighted Application Process, Jimmy Beirne

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Determination of selected hydrocarbon concentrations in reformate using near infrared spectroscopy, Roy Roger Bledsoe Jr.

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A comparative study of the benthic population in weir ponds draining watersheds of the Fernow Experimental Forest, Parsons, West Virginia, Kevin Dwayne Brittingham

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Urban Renewal: The Huntington Experience, Mark B. Bugher

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Relationship of resting and submaximal cardiovascular measures to VO[2]max in untrained children, Thomas A. Cappaert

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Re-evaluating the major stressors of policing, James Walter Carter II

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A survey of Army Reserve Officer Training Corps instructors to determine the importance of integrating news media training into the cadet curriculum, Kent P. Cassella

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Standardization, compromise, or specialization: a content analysis of magazine advertisements in America and Taiwan, Yi-Fan Chen

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Personality factors linked to workplace aggression as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Scott A. Cottrell

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A study of self-esteem comparing special education with regular education students during the middle school years, Debra A. Davis

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The influence of parental attitudes on childhood perceptions of control over chronic illnesses: comparison of urban and rural populations, Lesley A. Epperly

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The Gordon Personal Profile-Inventory as a selection instrument, Patrick Y. Fisher

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Coyote tracks: examining the trickster in the works of Leslie Marmon Silko, Jeffrey A. Green

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"It don't mean a thing if it got that swing": Langston Hughes's musical-poetic fusion of the vernacular and literary traditions, John Hall

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Dietary intakes from rural, community-based elderly as a determinant of food availability, Kelli Jo Hall

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Rural education and rural community viability, Patricia Cahape Hammer

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Stratigraphy and deposystem analysis of Middle Pennsylvanian Strata (Breathitt Group/ Pottsville and Allegheny formations) in the vicinity of Greenup, Kentucky and Ironton, Ohio, Terry Hamrick

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Radio advertising decision-making in the Tri-State --: Huntington, West Virginia; Ashland, Kentucky; and Ironton, Ohio radio market, Terry L. Hapney Jr.

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Ecological life history of Crangonyx pseudogracilis Bousfield (Crustacea: Amphipoda) in the Green Bottom Wildlife Management Area, Cabell County, West Virginia, Andrea Leigh Henry

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Vertical, longitudinal and seasonal variation in the benthic fauna at the Fernow Experimential Forest, Parsons, West Virginia, Robert William Hood

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An Ecological Study of Shale Barren Rock Cress (Arabis serotina Steele) at Little Fork Shale Barren, Pendleton County, West Virginia, Robert J. Jarrett

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Natural History of the Four-toed Salamander, Hemidactylium scutatum, in West Virginia, Sandra L. Kilpatrick

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A city's dichotomous response to postwar change: Charleston, West Virginia, 1919-1923, Dwayne L. Ledsome

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An immunomodulating mycotoxin interferes with the development of autoimmune diabetes in diabetes-prone BB/Wor rats, Honggang Liu

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In vivo incorporation of tritium to measure lipogenesis in red skeletal muscle: significance of a nonlipogenic diet in LA/N-fa(k)("corpulent") and Zucker fa rat strains, Karin Traci Mann

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Military public affairs practitioners' and civilian journalists' perceptions of Army crisis communications, Michelle L. Martin

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Effects of estrogen in a place preference conditioning paradigm using non-sexual social interaction to condition female rats, Timothy D. Maze

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Effects of creatine supplementation on muscular strength and power development in well-trained football players, Josef D. McQuain

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Observations on reproduction, isozyme patterns, and meristics in mosquitofish (Pisces: Poeciliidae) from West Virginia, Matt McReynolds

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Diet and growth of larval and juvenile grass pickerel, Esox americanus vermiculatus, and central mudminnow, Umbra limi, in the Green Bottom Wildlife Management Area, Cabell County, West Virginia, Erica Midkiff

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Religion and coping with chronic illness: a comparison of rural and urban communities, Christina Mullins

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Attachment and the development of eating disorders as measured by the “APDQ”, Colleen D. O'Pell

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The effects of cognitive-behavioral therapy on anxiety among the elderly in a nursing home setting, Lawrence David Parker

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Effects of student nonverbal and verbal immediacy behaviors on teachers' behaviors and perceptions, Nina C. Persi

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Women in the West Virginia state legislature 1923-1997, Jo Boggess Phillips

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Natural History of the red-spotted newt, Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens (Rafinesque), in West Virginia, Jennifer M. Piascik