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 1998
The Effect of a Museum-Based Education Program on Children's Attitudes, Tamara Richael Jarrett
The Use of Therapeutic Touch as a Treatment Modality, Kristen Lynn Karchnick
Teachers' Life Histories as Curriculum Context, Rebekah D. Kelleher
Georgia's Lottery Funded Prekindergarten: Is It Working in Rural Georgia?, Elizabeth Jenkins Kimball
Role Expectations for School Psychologists Held by Principals and School Psychologists, Lewis Kimball
The Effects of Fish Chemical and Visual Cues on Behavior and Development on Larval Mole Salamanders, Ambystoma talpoideum, Laura L. Kohnke
By So Many Threads: Mary Johnston's Diary and the Civil War Novels, Sudy Vance Leavy
Relational Database Design with Object-Oriented Modeling, Radojka Lesaja
Factors Affecting Biparental Care in the American Kestrel Falco sparverius, Stacy Ann Lindemann
The Effects of Aerobics and Walking on Social Physique Anxiety and Self-Esteem of Female College Students, Jessica L. Lloyd
The Life of Sarah Grimke: A Futile Search for Fulfillment, Courtney Lowe
Molecular Studies of Hydrogen Transport Proteins in the Gill Epithelia of Marine Fish, Laura Ann MacKenzie Ingano
Characterization and Genetic Analysis of SS-462, an Osmotic-Sensitive Mutant of Neurospora crassa, Katrina LaTrese Mack
Do Endoparasites and Hematophagous Ectoparasites Have an Effect on Reproduction in the Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis)?, Kristina M. Mataxas
Identity Salience and Role Commitment among University Presidential Wives, Janeva McCollough
John Donne: Wholly Divided, Elizabeth Head Meehan
Early Anogenital Stimulation and Juvenile Play Behavior in Rats, Penny S. Mills
Effects of Southern Flying Squirrels (Glaucomys volans) on Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis) Nesting Success, Lee Robert Mitchell
The Nature of the Assistant Principalship in Relation to the Principalship, Linda A. Olson
Generalized Fuzzy c-Means Clustering, Dessa Darlene Overstreet
Alternative Forms of Seasonal Variation in Childhood Epidemics, Thomas Reed Park III
Flawed and Spiritless: The Nineteenth-Century Church as Portrayed in Mary Wilkins Freeman's Short Fiction, Carolyn Paige Priester
Enamel Thickness in the Deciduous Molars of Modern Humans, Judson K. Rahn
Predation and Competition in a Periodically Pulsed Chemostat, Angelia Gayle Rowe
Group Routines and Social Loafing: Is Performance Motivation Stored as Procedural Memory?, Robin Seely Salter
Stochastic Analysis of Quality Control Charts Using Integral Equations, Kenneth Adam Scharnagl
The Effect of Work-Family Roles on Satisfaction for Military Officers' Wives, Clarice K. Shuman
"...Passing Through a Crucible..." Savannah's "Better Class" of Blacks during the Progressive Era 1897 - 1917, Mary Shannon Sineath
Biology and Behavior of the Nantucket Pine Tip Moth Rhyacionia frustrana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) and Hyssopus rhyacioniae (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), Delbert Lee Smee
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Arthrography, and Ultrasound in Diagnosing Rotator Cuff Tears: An Evaluation of Agreement, Andrea Solsona
Comparisons of Enamel Thickness in the Anterior Dentition of Old World Monkeys, Christopher P. Strickland
Leadership Attitudes and Job Satisfaction in Physical Therapy Clinical Education, Elizabeth Anne Weekley Thompson
Seasonal Activity and Diversity of Snakes Utilizing Temporary Wetlands in Southeastern Georgia, Michael Robison Walden
Analyzing Educational Change: Grouping Practices of Three Georgia Schools, Susan Elizabeth White
The Effects of a Goal Setting Intervention and Dispositional Optimism/Pessimism on Selected Golf Skills: A Qualitative Design, Matthew James Wilson
Precession of the Equinoxes, Patricia Viale Wuest
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
A Study of the Capabilities of Automated Leather Hide Nesting and Cutting Equipment and Its Need in the Leather Goods Industry, Brian Lee Attaway
Bar Coding and the Construction Industry in Georgia and Alabama, Herbert Marion Barber Jr.
Metric Analysis of the Neonatal Line in Human Enamel, Jenifer McCloskey Barrett
Acute and Chronic Exposure to Lead: Cellular and Behavioral Effects on the Pond Snail Helisoma trivolvis, Virginia T. Bennett
Physiological and Psychological Effects of Yoga, Anna E. Bergenstrahle
Selection and Assignment of Georgia Teacher Support Specialists (Mentors): Perceptions of Principals and Beginning Teachers, Nelda Rose Anvik Bishop
A Portrait of the Principalship in Georgia, Charles Edwin Boyer
A Research Study on the Effect of Social Support on Maternal Anxiety in High-Risk Pregnancy, Kathleen R. Bridges
The Effects of Resistance Training in an Individual with Paraplegia, Christine M. Dickerson
Statistical Analysis of Enamel Thickness in Hominoids, Larry Benton Dyal Jr.
A Search For Center, Dorothy Fletcher Eckmann
Site Selection by Intestinal Helminths of the Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) with a Review of Previously Reported Helminths from Georgia, Ronnie Darrell Ellis
An Examination of Life Values Among Collegiate Athletes, Ian-Nicolas Fernandez
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