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The works in this student research collection have been approved by the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University as partial fulfillment of the requirements for Master's and Doctorate degrees conferred by the University.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1997
"The Second Night's Stop": Effects of U.S. Highway 301, Tourism, and Interstate 95 upon Statesboro, Georgia, 1950-1975, David T. Martin
The Anxieties of Language in Wuthering Heights, Sherry L. Mashburn
Comparative Cronyism: The White House Staff Appointments of Carter and Clinton, Deborah Majors Meyer
Toward a Deeper Resemblance, Dixie Dial Moore
Recruitment Patterns and Culturing Techniques of the Eastern Oyster Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin) in a Coastal Georgia Tidal Creek System, Deborah Ann Moroney
Spiroplasma (Entomoplasmatales) Associated with Two Tabanid (Diptera) Flies, Chrysops brimleyi and Hybomitra difficilis and a Simplified Medium for Tabanid Spiroplasmas, Rebekah Wilbourn Moulder
Derivation and Implementation of a New Boolean Function Minimization Algorithm Using Hypercube Principles, Heather Ann Olejcak
United States Department of Education Institutional Quality Assurance Program: An Evaluation of Specific Interventions at Georgia Southern University, Lisa Lynn Pajari
Charles C. Jones, Jr. : Resilient Southerner, Daniel J. Pfeifer
Dimensions of Capacity for Shared Decision Making, Cheryl Grayson Reynolds
Genetic Analysis of an Insertional Translocation in an Osmotic-Sensitive Mutant of Neurospora crassa, Amy Richardson
Fusing Hetergeneous Fuzzy Data for Clustering, Gerald Wesley Rogers
Soulful Art-Making and The Unconscious Mind, Ferdinand Rosa
The Role of Hope in the Relationship between Self-Esteem and Aggressive Reactions to an Ego Threat, Andria Foote Schwegler
"Trapped Between Two Worlds" A Comparative Study of Comanche Reactions to Spanish New Mexico and the Republic of Texas, Brandy Berlin Scott
Accuracy in Deception Detection in the Self and Others When Using "Why" versus "What" Thinking, Dina J. Shaneberger
The Relationship between Religiosity and Alcohol Use among First Year College Students, Elizabeth Louise Shelly
Nest Box Use, Reproductive Success, and Nestling Growth of American Kestrels (Falco sparverius) Nesting along the Coastal Plain of Georgia, Walter Roy Shuford
The Intertextuality of Matthew Arnold's Poetry in the Fiction of John Fowles, Ann Layne Smith
Tree Elevation Preferences of Nantucket Pine Tip Moths (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) and Their Parasitoids on Loblolly Pines, Jennifer Taylor
Tolkien's Audiences and the Rhetoric of Childhood, Joseph Terry Thomas Jr.
The Effects of Creatine Supplementation on Repeated Sprint Performance, Eric J. Thoresen
The Effects of Cryotherapy Applied through Various Barriers, Kavin KW Tsang
The Ten Components of Shared Governance and Their Relationship to the Three Core Premises of School Improvement, Marjorie Pitman Varnadoe
Chaucer in Dryden's Fables: A Seventeenth Century Translation Theory, Jennifer Caroline Waite
Doppelgangers: A Photographer's Journey Into Light and Shadow, Cindy Wallace
The Perceptions of Long-Term Georgia Public School Superintendents on Education and Reform: 1975-1995, Robert E. Waller
Saying Grace: A Collection of Short Stories, Tina Floyd Whittle
"Absolute Necessity of Success" A History of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron under the Command of Rear-Admiral Samuel Francis DuPont, 1861-1863, Bradley Michael Winn
An Investigation of Self-Perception of Intuition in Nurse Practitioners, Melissa Woo-Whetstone
Object-Oriented Interactive Network Communication Programming in Java, Delong Yang
Gender Differences in Perception of Female vs. Male Initiation of Condom Use: The Influences of Sexual Standards and Knowledge of Risk Behavior, Debra J. Young
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
The Effects of Prophylactic Taping on Ankle Joint Motion and Performance, Brad Trower Atc
(En)Gendered Performances and the Problematics of Identity Construction in Contemporary Gay Literature, William Paul Banks
An Analysis of Shewhart Quality Control Charts to Monitor Both the Mean and Variability, Keith Jacob Barrs
Implementing Different Linear Solvers for Solving Stiff Ode Problems, Billy Robert Bowen
Bionomics of Culicoides Spp. in Bulloch County, Georgia and Belize, Central America, Deborah Sheryl Brickle
Stations, Colette Eileen Briere
School-Business Partnerships in Georgia: Awareness and Attitudes of Secondary School Principals, Paul M. Brinson Jr.
A Figurative Artist's Move toward Formalism, Beryl Brooks
An Exploratory Study of the Cultures of Nursing Units That Share Staff and Those That Do Not Share Staff, Nancy T. Brown
Characterization and Genetic Analysis of the OS-8 Locus of Neurospora crassa, Christie Elaine Canady
Differential Behavior Citations through Misinterpreting Ethnic Behavior in Disciplinary Situations, Debra Ann Carlson
The Influence of George Herbert on Emily Dickinson, Maris Wickenheiser Cato
Characterization, Genetic Analysis and Reversion of a Fungicide-Resistant Mutant of Neurospora crassa, Regan Matteil Challinor
Risk Factors in Headache and Temporomandibular Dysfunction, Claude Ervin Davis III
Differences in the Decision to Donate Organs Based on Knowledge Level about Organ Donation: A Retrospective Descriptive Survey, Cyndi Bletzacker Faudree
Ideologically-Motivated Censorship in the Academy: An Historical and Philosophical Perspective, Aaron Edward Finley
Georgia's Dilemma: Minority Representation in the 1990s, Pearl K. Ford
The Effects of Enacted Fantasy Aggression on Psychophysiological Arousal Resulting from Frustration, Paul Stephen Foster
The Identification and Description of Four Forest Communities Located on the Floodplain of the Ogeechee River in Jefferson County, Georgia, Anna Hodges Franklin
Treadmill Testing and Women in a Rural Community, Tammy Perry Garrish
The Effect of Controlled Burning on Neotropical Migrant Bird Species at Fort Stewart, Georgia, Jana Gravitt Goss
Academic Intervention for Enhancing the Academic Achievement of the At-Risk Student at Armstrong State College, Gary Arnold Guillory
The Effects of Motor Oil and Silt on Growth and Metamorphosis of Two Ambystomatid Salamanders, Kevin Hancock
Eating Attitudes, Locus of Control, and Perceptions about Attractiveness, Patricia I. Hernandez
Factors Associated with the Larviculture of the Southern Atlantic Surfclam, Spisula solidissima similis (Say, 1822), Dorset Harlan Hurley
Population Biology of the Gopher Tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus, in Southeast Georgia, Douglas N. Jones Jr.
Nursing Student Attitudes towards Persons with AIDS, Marion Faith Gudinsky Kreisel
Edmund Calamy and the Search for a Presbyterian Religious Settlement in Seventeenth-Century England, David W. Lattner
The Relationship Between Leadership Styles of Georgia Elementary School Principals and Selected Biographic and Demographic Variables, Cynthia Cahill LoMonaco
Nursing Staff Education in Community Health Centers: Meeting the Needs of the Older Adult, Daisy P. Mathis
A Survey of Foot Care Knowledge and Habits in Chatham County, Georgia, Barbara Lewis McCarthy
Seed Ecology of Bunchgrasses of Longleaf Pine-Wiregrass Communities at Fort Stewart, Georgia, Alison J. McGee
The Influence of Strength and Endurance Weight Training on Social Physique Anxiety in Women, Donna McKenna
Implementing Site-Based Management in the Rural South: The Process and the Challenge, Linda Gail McQuaig
Athletic Health Care Services in Georgia's Secondary Schools, Frank Heath Mills
Probability Limits for Shewhart Phase I x̄-Charts, Philip B. Newton
Animal Preference as a Projective Technique: A Comparison of Projected Aggression by Violent and Nonviolent Prison Inmates and Students, Angelita Nicholson
Optimization of the Long Jump, Lisa Michelle Norton
"I Will Survive!" Indian Captivity Narratives of the Northern British American Colonies and United States as well as of French Canada 1642-1815, Paul David Peacock
The Role of the Bobwhite Quail (Colinus virginianus) in the Enzootic Cycle of the Etiologic Agent of Lyme Disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, Joseph B. Phillips
The Histological Effects of Trypanosoma cruzi on Raccoons (Procyon lotor) from Georgia, U.S.A., Stephanie M. Pietrzak
Preterm Birth Prevention Programs: Impact on Prematurity, Barbara Lee Richards
Analysis of the Run Sum Chart with Applications in the Clinical Chemistry Laboratory, Holley Shae Ross
Reproductive Ecology of Pinckneya bracteata (Bartram) Raflnesque (Rubiaceae), George H. Rountree
Commitment to Training among Dislocated Workers in Savannah, Georgia, Patrick J. Saucier
Comparison of Perceptions of Second-Year Teachers and Middle-Level Principals of the First-Year Teaching Experience in Georgia Middle Schools, Brenda Shuman-Riley
In Search of a Personal Deity: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Christabel", Bettie Kathryn Robbins Smith
Effects of Diazepam and Midazolam on Visual Discrimination in White Carneaux Pigeons, Elisa Nicole Sullivan
The Effect of Sex Ratio on the Opportunity for Sexual Selection for the Southern Green Stink Bug, Nezara viridula, Frank Thompson
Species Composition and Habitat Use of Neotropical Migrants at Fort Stewart Georgia, Stacy Turfler
Horseshoe Bend: Epic Battle on the Southern Frontier, Jonathan Scott Turner
Investigation of Sexual, Transplacental, and Contact Transmission of the Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, in Laboratory Hamsters, Julie E. Van Eycke
Comparison of the Effectiveness of Epidural and Conventional Analgesia on Post Total Knee Replacement Patients, Joanette Reusi Vargas
Biology of the Nantucket Pine Tip Moth (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) and the Associated Parasitoid Complex in Bulloch County, Georgia, Marvin Leonard Wells
Effects of Body Composition on Work Estimates: Comparison between Treadmill and Fastrack Ski Simulator, Lincoln James Wills
Examining U.S. Foreign Policy towards Nicaragua during the 1980s: An Application of Man, the State, and War, Fleta Sophia Wood
Change Theory in the Middle: An Ethnohistory of a Rural Georgia Middle School, Jody Jones Woodrum
Implications of State Board Policy IHA 160-4-2-.13 Statewide Passing Score for Georgia Public High Schools, Linda LeCompte Wright
An Intramuscular Comparison of Two Forms of Cryotherapy: Ice Massage and Ice Bag, Jeri Ellen Zemke
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
The History of Speech Recognition Systems from 1980 through 1994, Javad Abolghassem
Automatic Processing of Stereotypes in African-Americans and Caucasians, Julie A. Biskner
Exploring the Effects of Total Quality Management/Continuous Quality Improvement Educational Inservices on Customer Perception of a Wellness Center's Service Orientation, Christopher Barry Boyette
The Use of American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) Nest Boxes by American Kestrels and Other Secondary Cavity Nesting Birds in South Georgia, Timothy F. Breen
Genetic Analysis and Characterization of SS-788 and SS-1044, New Osmotic-Sensitive Mutants of Neurospora crassa, Scott McCollum Buntin