About this Collection
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.
The Theses and Dissertations were published between 1964 and 2006.
The works are also available in the following collections:
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
The Influence of Oswald Spengler on the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Patricia Blackburn Thomas
The Effect of Stimulus Wave Form on the Perception of Brightness, John S. Tootle
Eugene Talmadge and the New Deal 1933-1936, Clemmie Jo Wilkinson
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Admissions and Recidivism in a VA Hospital: A Test of the Durkeimian Hypothesis, Turner Carlton Allen
Education and Experience of Signal Corps Officers Compared with Academic Standing in the Signal Officer Advanced Course, Edwin R. Baldwin
Autonomic Responding as a Function of Anxiety Hierarchy Stimulus Position within Systematic Desensitization, William Birt Dowling
In-Plant Printing Needs at Georgia Southern College, Thomas Olin Dye
A Study to Determine the Validity of Using Certain Predictors to Select Potential Absent without Leave Personnel, George Orean Dykes Jr.
Effects of Reward on Intrinsic Motivation, Mary King Flowers
Influence of Tactical Communication Systems upon Military Tactics During World War I, Paul Dallas Grant
The Battle of Fort Donelson: The Technology and Significance, Edward Patrick Hamilton
The Demand for Industrial Photography in Eastern Georgia, Charles C. Irby
The Relation between Measured Intelligence and Acquisition of Stabilometer Performance in Retarded and Normal Children, James A. Jordan Jr.
Management of Tactical Automatic Switching Systems, Bruce Arthur Kind
The Existentialist Woman in John Fowles' Novels, Cheryl Reis MacMillan
A Justification for Conducting Personal Financial Management Instruction at Fort Gordon, Georgia, Stanley Andrew Marczak Jr.
The Use of Wire and Cable as a Communications Media in the United States Army, John Erwin McNett
The Effects of Two Time-Out Procedures on Bar Pressing Behavior Maintained by a Random Interval Schedule of Reinforcement, William Zachary Mercer
Design of a Computer Automated Country Information Storage and Retrieval System Written in a Compiler-Level Language, Conrad Bonifay Myrick
To Determine the Feasibility of Utilizing Direct Solar Energy in Industry to Lower Electric Power Cost and to Conserve Natural Resources, Miles Kirkpatrick Pfeiffer Jr.
Reproductive Morphology and Spermatogenesis in Demanyssus gallinae (Degeer) (Mesostigmata: Dermanyssidae), J. Mathews Pound
Technology A Game for Three, Four or Five Players, Hayden Clarence Poynter Jr.
The Effect of Stimulus Complexity on Form Recognition in Binocular Rivalry, Stephen W. Rogers
A Study to Determine Student Interests in the Occupational Field of Industrial Photography, Joel Dwain Shaw
The Internal Anatomy and Histology of Adult Antricola mexicanus Hoffman (Acari: Argasidae), Richard Peter Smith
Technology for Industrial Development of Developing Countries, Mohammad Tabie
The Role of Technological Ecology in Impeding the Application of Known Technology, Mohammad K. Tahanha
Nature and Nature Imagery in Jewett's Shorter Fiction, Teresa Thomas
An Attitude Survey of Bryan County Area Car Buyers on Automobile Safety Devices, John D. Versaggi
A Study of the Potential Growth of the Channel Catfish Industry in Georgia, John W. Whetsell
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
To Determine the Feasibility of Solar Energy for Home Heating Systems, Edward Harris Blackmon
Sport, Popularity, and Academic Achievement in Relation to Student Preference, Peer Acceptance, and Perception to Parental Preference of Elementary School Children, Hugh Troy Buchanan Jr.
An Analysis of Labor Turnover in a Georgia Paper Company, Rodney Lee Carter
The Ohio State University Cardiovascular Fitness Test: A Modification for College Women, Nancy Rose Dillard
Stimulus Control in the King Snake (Lampropeltis getulus getulus), Hugh Robert Fannin
A Study to Determine the Optimum Time to Teach Basic Electronics to Signal Corps Officers, Robert Clinton Hill
The Importance of the Continuous Sine Wave Average Power Rating Method as the Criteria for Determining the Output Power of an Audio Amplifier, William Thomas Johnson Jr.
Operant Conditioning in the King Snake (Lampropeltis getulus getulus), Grover Dwight Lindsey
An Environmental Analysis and Design for Georgia Southern College, Wayne S. Lynn
Relationships between Autonomic Activity and Stuttering Therapy, Ralph Steve McCallum
Inter-Analyst Reliability and Time Measures for the Automated and Manual Flesch Counts, William Charles McDaniel
Integration of Communications Center/Message Center Functions within United States Army Tactical Command Signal Units, Joseph George Mikula
The Theme of Deliverance in the Poetry of James Dickey, John Atys Mills
Prey-Scented Water Reinforcement in the King Snake (Lampropeltis getulus floridana), Thomas Van Morgan
Comparative Histology and Histochemistry of the Male Genital Accessory Glands of Dermacentor variabilis (Say and Argas radiatus (Railliet), Richard W. Murphy
The 1907 Georgia Prohibition Act, Max O'Neal
A Developing Self as Revealed through the Royalty Imagery in the Poems and Letters of Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt
Comparative Cost Analysis of Implementing Computer Assisted Instruction on General Purpose Computers, Minicomputers, or Time-Shared Systems, William Henderson Trueheart Junior
A Comparison of Black First Graders' Listening Comprehension of a Peer-Prepared Story Told in Black English or Standard English, Arthur J. Weaver Jr.
Eye Safety in Educational Institutions in the State of Georgia, Scott H. Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
The Awakening to Reality in British War Poetry, 1789-1945, Dennis Aughtry
Two Objective Techniques for Measuring Characteristics of an Instructor's Grading Practices, Roger Allan Bell
The Demoralization of an Army: The Vietnam Experience, Raymond E. Bess
A Validation of the 600, 900 and 1200 Yard Run-Walk Tests, Judson Leo Biasiotto
Recall as a Function of Interpolated Task Difficulty, Robert Frederick Carlson
Comparisons of Fitness Levels and Personality Traits of College Freshman Experiencing Varying Degrees of High School Physical Education and Sport Participation, Geoffrey C. B. Elder
The Satiric Techniques of George Orwell, Teresa Anne Elder
Flannery O'Connor's Humor: A Study of Background and Approach, Stanley O. Hamby
Test-Retest and Inter-Analyst Reliability of the Automated Readability Index (ARI), Flesch Shading Ease Score, and the Fog Count, Robert Derald Hartley
The John Birch Society: An American Enigma, Sherry D. Hearn
The United States Army Southeastern Signal School Data Communications Terminal Specialist Course Prerequisite Criterion, Reese Preston Herron Jr.
Modification of the Behavior of an Autistic Child, Thomas Harold Hodgson
A Study Designed to Identify Attitudes toward an All-Volunteer Army, Gerald J. Lazzaro
Invisible No More: Black American Scientists and Inventors, John L. Mason
Effect of Four Fatigue Levels on Performance and Learning of a Novel Dynamic Balance Skill, Dennis Michael Pack
Proboscipedia, A Homeotic Mutant in Aedes aegypti (L.) (Diptera: Culicidae), John Roach Roberts Jr.
Black Midas: Arthur George Gaston, Patricia Thompson Stelts
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Validation of Automated Readability Index for Use with Peer-Prepared Adult Reading Materials, Patricia Tanner Anderson
Richardson's Use of Clothing in Pamela as a Symbol Relative to Virtue, John Robert Brewer
John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, 1817-1825, Arthur L. Freeland
The Jordan Canonical Form, Richard A. Freeman
Thematic Patterns in the Seasonal Poetry of Emily Dickinson: A Study of Explicit and Implicit Motifs in Selected Poems, Jacqueline Fellows Frier
Vision versus Touch in a Study of Size Discrimination, Using Magnification and Sex as Variables, Joseph Thomas Greene Jr.
The Perception of Depth as a Function of Four Conditions of Outline and Four Conditions of Texture, Edwin L. Haire
Release from Proactive Inhibition as a Function of SAT Verbal Level, Gerald Howard
Effects of Audience and Anxiety Level on Performance and Learning of a Complex, Gross Motor Skill by College Women, Vann Quincey Hutchinson
The Jews of Savannah 1733-1860, Esther Raines Mallard
Reinforcer Effects in Multiple Fixed Interval Behavior, Gerald A. Mayes
Response Rate Controlled by Two Liquid Reinforcers in a Multiple Schedule, Randall Lee Morton
Dogmatism and Sensory Discrimination: An Empirical Investigation, Keith Pase Jr.
Validation of Ten Methods for Determining a Representative Reaction Time Score, John Kenneth Purcell
Group Shaping of a Coloring Response in Retardates, Cynthia Corr Smith
The Effects of a Slide Presentation of Georgia Southern College and Its Recreation Curriculum on Selected High School Students for Future Recruitment Purposes, Linda Beth Tucker
The Refractory Response of the White Swiss Strain of Mus musculus to Infection with Taenia taeniaeformis, Hugh Michael Turner
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
A Comparison of Auto-Shaping with Operant Shaping in the Acquisition of a Bar Press Response, Charles Buren Altman
Release from Proactive Inhibition as a Function of Pleasantness and Unpleasantness of Encoded Verbal Materials, Fulton Cooper
Validation of the Automated Readability Index for Use with Technical Materials, Leroy John Delionbach
A Comparison of a Programmed and a Non-Programmed Text on Evolution for the Fifth Grade, Robert Purdy Fishburne Jr.
The Dodge Commission and the Root Reforms, Jamie R. Hendrix
The Identification and Analysis of Sources which Influenced Georgia Southern College Students Enrolled as Recreation Majors to Select This Field of Study, Phillip Madison Hodges
The Short Stories of Robert Penn Warren: A Critical Analysis, Nancy Humma
The Effect of a Remotivation Technique on Nine Selected Nursing Home Patients Diagnosed as Confused, Claudia Tucker McNair
Keep 'Bama White, Ann Mitchell
The Effects of Constant versus Variable Delay of Reinforcement on Running Speed during Non-Reinforced Trials, Alynn Jay Plaisted
A Demonstration of Auto Shaping in Institutionalized Retarded Children, Paul Douglas Watson
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Studies in the Wood Anatomy of Elliottia racemosa Muhl., and Three Closely Related Genera, Kalyan P. Basu