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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
Factors Affecting Webmasters' Sense of Responsibility for Information Accuracy, Cornelius Hughes Garretson
Mosquitoes and Other Diptera Associated with the Burrows of Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) in Southeast Georgia, Bagie Mariam George
Applying the Chebyshev Semi-Iterative Method When the Bounds of the Eigenvalues Are Unknown, Javier Gómez Grande
Economic Status and Its Affect on the Educational Achievements of Young African-American Adults, Sha-Rhonda Michea Green
Biomorphic Improvisations as an Image Making Strategy, Patrick William Hickey
An Assessment of Perceptions of Career Services Providing Job Search and Survival Skills Training, Brett D. Hobby
Small Miracles: Propagation Efforts Using Plants in the Family Hamamelidaceae, Martha Sasser Joiner
The Relationship between Dietary Fiber and Blood Pressure in African-American Women, Donald Jordan
Arboreal Alphabet, Kim Keats
Relationship Between Participation in the Minority Advisement Program and Student Retention and Achievement, Ian Arthur King
The Recovery of Titanium Dioxide from Waste Sludge Using Waste Acid As a Source, Michael L. King
An Examination of the Academic Advising Process in the College of Education as Perceived by Undergraduate Students, and the Advisement Center's Pursuit to Provide Quality Academic Advising, Deborah Kittrell-Mikell
Ordering Chaos: Marie Corelli and the Value of Popular Culture, Tamee Bowers Livingston
"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