Dunn, Rochelle L

The purpose of this study was to answer the followingresearch questions: What are the knowledge and competencies ofeffective school counselor supervision? Can the knowledge andcompetencies of school counselor supervision be measured in avalid and reliable manner? Three stages were utilized to addressthese two questions. Phase One involved both a thorough review ofthe literature surrounding school counselor supervision and afocus group with practicing school counselors. Both the reviewand the foc...

Lal, Priya Kumari

Objectives: Previous studies of phenols such asbioflavonoids and phenolic acids at sites other than the brainhave shown that their consumption decreases the risk of cancer.However, there are no studies of maternal prenatal consumption ofbioflavonoids and phenolic acids and the subsequent risk ofchildhood brain cancer (CBC). This study focused on the two mainphenols: (i) bioflavonoids of which the most common in theAmerican diet are: quercetin (70%), kaempferol (16%), andmyricetin (6%); and (ii) ...

Bathke, Deborah J.

Climatic information available from the spatiallyextensive suite of firn and ice cores collected under the Programfor Arctic and Regional Climate Assessment (PARCA), inconjunction with other data, provides an unparalleled opportunityto investigate accumulation changes over the Greenland ice sheetand to assess its ability to record and preserve a history ofNorth Atlantic climate variability. The ice core derivedaccumulation histories demonstrate that the influence ofglaciological noise on the cli...

Cognard-Black, Andrew James

There is theoretical disagreement about the relativeimportance of scholarly productivity and PhD department prestigein determining job market success among new doctorate recipients.The degree to which productivity determines professionalrewards--including employment in higher education--is importantboth because meritocratic sensibilities dictate that talent andhard work should matter more than who one knows or where onecomes from and, further, because the integrity of academia is atstake when re...

Havas, Fabien

This dissertation describes efforts towards a totalsynthesis of manzamine A and cylindrospermopsin, and thedevelopment of a novel variant of the Dowd rearrangement.Manzamine A is a marine sponge alkaloid with a complex structureand potentially valuable biological activity. This thesisdescribes an approach to a manzamine A substructure involving anasymmetric Birch reductive alkylation of the amide derived from(L)-prolinol methyl ether and 2-methoxybenzoic acid as a keystep. Another key step was p...

Varekojis, Sarah Meredith

The primary purpose of this study was to describe therelationship between functional health literacy level and smokingcessation outcomes. The study measured selected independentvariables that have been previously identified as beingassociated with successful smoking cessation, as well as thefunctional health literacy of the participants, to determinewhether or not the combination of these variables is correlatedwith self-reported successful smoking cessation, the dependentvariable. The study pop...

ZHOU, YI

Mercury is one of the most hazardous contaminantsdistributed in the environment. Inorganic mercury may betransformed to more toxic organic methylated species.Methylmercury (MeHg), the most toxic form of organic mercury, isreadily bioaccumulated in aquatic food chain. Anoxic aquaticsediment has been considered to be one of the most importantmercury methylation sites. Scientists and researchers generallyagree that mercury methylation is primarily a microbial processcatalyzed by enzymes. Sulfate re...

DHAR, MEGHNA

Web proxy caching servers play a key role intoday��s Web infrastructure because of the increase in HTTPtraffic. Most contemporary caching web proxies usegeneral-purpose file systems to store web objects. Proxies, e.g.,Squid or Apache, when running on UNIX system use the standardUNIX file system (UFS) for this purpose. Previous studies haveshown that disk I/O is one of the major performance bottlenecksof proxy servers. Most conventional file systems do not work wellfor proxy server workloads and ...

BALTZER, TATIANA

A pilot study examined caregivers�� expectanciesof their child��s speech-language therapy prior totreatment. Specific caregiver and family characteristics (i.e.socioeconomic status, caregiver stress levels, and family status)were analyzed to determine if these predicted high or lowexpectancies of speech-language therapy. Because of the lownumber of participants (15 respondents), the present study is notrepresentative to draw conclusions about caregiver expectancies.Likely due to the small sample...

PAUL, SURESH LAZARUS

The purpose of this thesis is to study thepoint-to-point navigation of an AGV in an unstructuredenvironment. The problem under consideration is to compute theminimum distance of traverse of the AGV through a set of knownpoints, where the routing through these points would determinethe efficacy of the AGV to navigate the domain. The criticalityof this study is to enhance the response of the AGV in exploringa specific domain. This response time is vital for minimizingpower and fuel requirement of ...

SAPROO, MONIKA

Ohio Department of Transportation started a program ofreplacement of bridge decks by high performance concrete decksbut the decks started showing cracks after just six to eightmonths or a season of construction. This study was taken up toascertain the causes of this early cracking with emphasis on thestudy of the role of temperature and restrained shrinkage incracking. Analysis of data from ODOT about its previously castdecks about their location, mix design, slump, compressivestrength, average ...

ALHAJ ALI, SOUMA MAHMOUD

Robots have been used in manufacturing and serviceindustries to improve productivity, quality, and flexibility.Robots are usually mounted on a fixed plate, or on rails, and canmove in a limited manner. The success of robots in theseenvironments encourages the use of mobile robots in otherapplications where the environments are not structured, such asin outdoor environments. This dissertation presents thedevelopment of an autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidancesystem for a Wheeled Mobile Rob...

EDER, ERIC WILLIAM

Bridges B-0071, and B-0171 in Hamilton County, Ohiohave been in service for about fifty years. They are short spanbridges with prestressed concrete girders. Until late 2001, theyhad conventional reinforced concrete decks. On November third ofthat year the ribbon was cut to reopen the bridges, now withFiber Reinforced Polymer Decks. One of the bridges also had thegirders replaced. These are the only bridges in existence thathave FRP decking on concrete girders. The Hamilton CountyEngineers Office...

HEATON, PAMELA CHRISTINE

Objectives: To determine the impact of leukotrienemodifiers on subsequent emergency room visits, hospitalizationsand steroid bursts; and to estimate whether leukotriene modifieruse is cost-effective. Methods: This study was a retrospective,longitudinal study of asthmatic patients in the fee-for-serviceOhio Medicaid program. The study population included 11,533 adultpatients and 18,563 pediatric patients who had an asthmadiagnosis during 2001. The rate of adverse outcomes and logisticregression w...

HESTER, JEFFERY DEAN

Using solid phase phosphoramidite DNA synthesis,oligonucleotides were spin-labeled either with a novelnitroxide-labeled phosphoramidite synthesized in our laboratoryor with commercially available modified phosphoramiditescontaining primary amine-adopting groups. Oligonucleotides withprimary amine-adopting groups were then conjugated with a proxylnitroxide-labeled succinimidyl ester. Fluorescent-labeledoligonucleotides were synthesized similarly to the spin-labeledoligonucleotides except fluoroph...

Driscoll, Kelly A.

Title from PDF of title page. | Document formatted into pages; contains 130 pages. | Thesis (M.A.)--University of South Florida, 2003. | Includes bibliographical references. | Text (Electronic thesis) in PDF format. | ABSTRACT: Indian Key Historic State Park is a small island located on the Atlantic Ocean side of the Florida Keys, near Islamorada. Before it was bought by the state of Florida in 1970, Indian Key had been the setting for a number of historically significant activities. The most we...

Tringali, Michael D.

Includes vita. | Title from PDF of title page. | Document formatted into pages; contains 241 pages. | Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of South Florida, 2003. | Includes bibliographical references. | Text (Electronic thesis) in PDF format. | ABSTRACT: Genetic changes likely occur in wild fish populations as a consequence of interactions with cultured fish, but to what extent do those changes threaten the maintenance of natural genetic diversity and population viability? Following a review and categori...

Kilbourne, Kelly Halimeda.

Title from PDF of title page. | Document formatted into pages; contains 79 pages. | Thesis (M.S.)--University of South Florida, 2003. | Includes bibliographical references. | Text (Electronic thesis) in PDF format. | ABSTRACT: Monthly d18O and Sr/Ca records generated from modern and fossil corals from Southwestern Pacific Ocean sites in the Republic of Vanuatu are used to assess the differences in mean climate state, seasonality, and interannual variability between a glacial and interglacial per...

Evans, Melissa Cheryl Foster.

Includes vita. | Title from PDF of title page. | Document formatted into pages; contains 236 pages. | Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of South Florida, 2003. | Includes bibliographical references. | Text (Electronic thesis) in PDF format. | ABSTRACT: Particulate nitrates play important roles in the atmosphere. They consist mainly of NH4NO3 and NaNO3, products from the reactions of gaseous HNO3 with gaseous NH3 and sea salt, respectively. The gas-to-particle phase conversion of nitrate changes its dep...

Edminster, Judith Rhoades.

Title from PDF of title page. | Document formatted into pages; contains 215 pages. | Originally submitted in HTML and can be accessed at http://www.lib.usf.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-04102002-122814/unrestricted/default.htm | Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of South Florida, 2002. | Includes bibliographical references. | Text (Electronic thesis) in PDF format. | ABSTRACT: Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) are an evolving genre of graduate student research that is gaining widespread acce...

Parrish, Denise (Denise Lynn)

Professional research project (Au.D.)--University of South Florida, 2003. | Title from PDF of title page. | Document formatted into pages; contains 25 pages. | Includes bibliographical references. | Text (Electronic thesis) in PDF format. | ABSTRACT: Understanding speech in background noise is occasionally difficult for normal hearing listeners and is often impossible for the listener with sensorineural hearing loss. The ability to understand speech in noise depends upon multiple factors such as...

Lamb, Lisa Nicole.

Title from PDF of title page. | Document formatted into pages; contains 309 pages. | Thesis (M.A.)--University of South Florida, 2003. | Includes bibliographical references. | Text (Electronic thesis) in PDF format. | ABSTRACT: This thesis describes the archaeological investigation of the Warehouse Complex on Indian Key (8MO15), Monroe County, Florida, through the study of the ceramics recovered from excavations conducted there by the State of Florida from 1972 to 1973 and by the University of S...

John, David E. (David Eric)

Title from PDF of title page. | Document formatted into pages; contains 322 pages. | Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of South Florida, 2003. | Includes bibliographical references. | Text (Electronic thesis) in PDF format. | ABSTRACT: Ground water resources are heavily used for drinking water supply and often as a receptacle for waste water. One concern is the possible contamination of wetland areas by ground water receiving septic system infiltration. To investigate this, two tracer studies were perf...

Wang, Hui.

Mode of access: World Wide Web. | Title from title page screen (viewed on Mar. 24, 2004). | Thesis advisor: Lee D. Han. | Document formatted into pages (xiii, 139 p. : ill. (chiefly col.)). | Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2003. | Vita. | Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-121). | Although many studies on shortest-path algorithms have been conducted in the past, few of them have considered the time and effort required to obtain and update the weight property of t...

Pyle, April Dawn, 1974-

Title from title page screen (viewed on Sept. 5, 2002). | Thesis advisor: Mary Ann Handel. | Document formatted into pages (xviii, 337 p. : ill (some col.)) | Vita. | Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2002. | Includes bibliographical references. | Mode of access: World Wide Web. | Successful transition through meiosis is required for production of chromosomally-balanced gametes. When chromosome segregation goes awry during meiosis, aneuploidy can occur. Unfortunately, the me...

Jager, Henriette I., 1957-

Vita. | Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2000. | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 225-253) | System requirements: Web browser and PDF reader. | Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Harrison, Virginia Anne, 1976-

Mode of access: World Wide Web. | Title from title page screen (viewed on May 13, 2004). | Thesis advisor: J. Larry Wilson. | Document formatted into pages (viii, 58 p. : col. ill., col. maps). | Thesis (M.S.) -- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2004. | Vita. | Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-57). | The Pigeon River has a history of degraded water quality that lasted nearly seven decades, from 1908 until the 1970s, thereby resulting in the loss of many native species. In recent yea...

Duncan, Jeffrey Robert, 1964-

Title from title page screen. | Document formatted into manuscript-like pagination: vii, 98 leaves : ill. | Vita. | Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2001. | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-86). | Mode of access: World Wide Web. | Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Patel, Nrupali, 1978-

Mode of access: World Wide Web. | Title from title page screen (viewed on Mar. 29, 2004). | Thesis advisor: Neal Stewart. | Document formatted into pages (ix, 86 p. : ill. (some col.)). | Thesis (M.S.) -- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2003. | Vita. | Includes bibliographical references (p. 78-85). | Plant biotechnology is a diverse field that is expanding from agricultural research towards environmental applications. The focus of this project was to exploit vegetative effects, such as phot...

Girard, Steven Richard,

Mode of access: World Wide Web. | Title from title page screen (viewed on Mar. 25, 2004). | Thesis advisor: R. B. Richards. | Document formatted into pages (xii, 66 p. : ill.). | Thesis (M.S.) -- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2003. | Vita. | Includes bibliographical references (p. 48-50). | The United States Naval Test Pilot School (USNTPS) experienced a helicopter mishap on 05 August 2001. The USNTPS Commanding Officer believed that this mishap occurred in large part due to the extremely ...

Strada, Dominick Joseph, 1969-

Title from title page screen (viewed on Sept. 5, 2002). | Thesis advisor: Fred Stellar. | Document formatted into pages (xv,179 p. : ill (some col)) | Vita. | Thesis (MS) -- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2002. | Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-97). | Mode of access: World Wide Web. | Vertical replenishment (VERTREP) of underway fleet naval vessels by helicopter is the primary mission of the MH-60S helicopter and is absolutely critical to sustaining fleet combat readiness at sea....

Ashby, Alison Aria, 1980-

Mode of access: World Wide Web. | Title from title page screen (viewed on Mar. 22, 2004). | Thesis advisor: J. Larry Wilson. | Document formatted into pages (viii, 54 p. : col. ill.). | Thesis (M.S.) -- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2003. | Vita. | Includes bibliographical references (p. 50-53). | Production of freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) in temperate regions has gradually increased over the past decade due to advances in research. However, production is limited to one sea...

Shuai, Hua

Wind speed data of multi-heights have been examined to investigate thespatial and temporal characteristics of coherent structures in thenear neutral marine atmospheric surface layer. With Taylor s hypothesis,the temporal velocity signals have been transformed to spatialfluctuations and then visualize these spatial velocity fluctuations toidentify the coherent structures.It has been confirmed that there exist similar coherent structures in themarine atmospheric surface layer to those in laborator...

McKeel, Scott Andrew

The current state of transition region modeling is investigated through a literature search. The six most promising transition regionmodels from the literature search were implemented in the Navier-Stokes code GASP. Baldwin-Lomax is an algebraicturbulence model in which the authors discuss how it can be used to simulate the transition region. Wilcox developed aprocedure to use the low-Reynolds number k - w model as a transition region model where a roughness strip is used to fix thetransition po...

Jenkins, Paul Richard

With the increasing interest in the indoor air environment over the last 30 years has come the need for control devices that can improve the quality of air that people breath. To answer this need, many devices have been developed and are currently in use. This thesis utilizes Ultra-violet light to eradicate the bacteria. A portable unit was constructed that contains the light bulb and fan. Two different trials were conducted: Controlled Laboratory trials and Fish Culture Room Trials. TheControll...

Walters, JoAnn E.

The purpose of this study was to provide an in-depth explanation of the development of coordinated services during the last four years at a selected number of Project Success pilot sites, and to identify critical factors that emerged which are associated in the literature with effective school-linked strategies. The research questions guiding this study were: (1) What common elements developed that crossed all selected sites, and what individual differences emerged among the sites? (2) What orga...

Zhang, Xunzhong

A series of studies were conducted to examine the antioxidantstatus, drought and disease tolerance, and growth responseto foliar application of soluble seaweed (Ascophyllumnodosum) extracts (SE) and humic acid (HA; 25% active HA or2.9% active HA) in tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb),Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.) and creepingbentgrass (Agrostis palusttis Huds.) grown under low(-0.5 MPa) and high (-0.03 MPa) soil moisture environments.<p>Foliar application of humic aci...

Zaveri, Rahul A.

Accurate simulations of the global radiative impact of anthropogenicemissions must employ a tropospheric chemistry model that predictsrealistic distributions of aerosols of all types. The need for a sucha comprehensive yet computationally efficient tropospheric chemistrymodel is addressed in this research via systematic development of thevarious sub-models/mechanisms representing the gas-, aerosol-, andcloud-phase chemistries.The gas-phase model encompasses three tropospheric chemical regimes -b...

Moss, Larry Reynolds

The following report presents the preliminary design and prototype development phase of a technology insertion program implemented by this author to extend the service life and to improve the performance of the United States Navys Bathythermograph Data Recorder System onboard Submarines (AN/BQH-7) and Surface Ships (AN/BQH-7A). The performance upgrade will increase the Fleet Users ability to measure sonar performance and will provide more accurate salinity measurements used for submarine ballast...

Seevers, Gary L. Jr.

Distance education is one means of delivering theological education which is being used increasingly. Thisdelivery method is particularly helpful to nontraditional students who desire higher education but who cannotleave family and work commitments for residential study. For some in both developing and developedcountries, distance education is the only route open to higher theological education. Criteria for assessingeffective delivery of distance education have not been established in the liter...

Childress, Vincent William

This study investigated the effects of technology education, science, and mathematics (TSM) curriculumintegration on the technological problem-solving ability of eighth grade technology education students. Theresearcher used a quasi-experimental, nonequivalent control group design to compare the performance ofstudents receiving correlated TSM integration to those not receiving integration in an adapted Technology,Science, Mathematics Integration Project Activity (LaPorte & Sanders, 1993)...

West, Benjamin C.

A questionnaire was sent to 1,506 randomly selected agricultural producers and homeowners inVirginia during 1996 to determine perceptions about deer damage and management during 1995(response rate 52%). Overall, 58% of respondents experienced damage by deer to their plantingsduring 1995. Producers (71%) were more likely to experience deer damage than homeowners(37%) Among farmers, producers of soybeans, tree fruits, and peanuts were most likely toexperience damage and generally rated it as being...

Lowery, Kristen Mary

A dynamic simulation of the response of an inflatable dam subjected to a flood was carried out todetermine the survivability envelope of the dam where it can operate without rupture, or overflow. A fullynonlinear free-surface flow was applied in two dimensions using a mixed Eulerian-Lagrangian formulation.An ABAQUS finite element model was used to determine the dynamic structural response of the dam. Theproblem was solved in the time domain which allows the prediction of a number of transient ph...

Thomas, Pamela Jo

A study of 12 expansive soils in four major physiographic provinces in Virginia was initiated to examine and quantify the relationship between shrink-swell potential, shrink-swell indices, and soil properties. The mineralogy classes, soil series, and (physiographic provinces, parent materials) examined include smectitic -- Jackland and Waxpool (Triassic, diabase), Iredell (Piedmont, hornblende); vermiculitic -- Kelly (Triassic, thermal shale); kaolinitic -- Cecil (Piedmont, granite gneiss), Davi...

Lener, Edward F.

<CENTER>MINERAL CHEMISTRY OF HEAVY MINERALS IN THE OLD HICKORY DEPOSIT, SUSSEX AND DINWIDDIE COUNTIES, VIRGINIA</CENTER><P><CENTER>Edward F. Lener</CENTER><P><CENTER>(ABSTRACT)</CENTER><P>The Old Hickory is the largest of a series of Pliocene (?) age heavy mineral sand deposits in Virginia and North Carolina. The high density of heavy minerals allows for selective concent...

Davidson, Christopher Bryn

As populations of the European gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar L.) move into the southeast, laboratory studies indicate that the potential exists for defoliation andpossible tree mortality in mixed pine-hardwood stands. This dissertation describes a field study that was initiated to determine the susceptibility and vulnerability of pure and mixed stands of loblolly pine, oaks and sweetgum in pine-oak and pine-sweetgum cover types in the Atlantic Coastal Plain physiographic province. Sixteen stands ...

Miller, Daniel James

The Upper Mississippian Hinton, Princeton, and Bluestone formations of southern West Virginia constitute a wedge of strata that filled the Appalachian basin over a ~7 million year time interval. Seventeen transgressive-regressive sequences comprise the study interval in the basin depocenter. Five sequence types defined by the degree of incision and the thickness/ character of dominant facies include: 1) major incised valley-fill to coastal plain, 2) major incised valley-fill to deltaic, 3) minor...

Phillips, Jennifer Brooke

The ability of an upflow, denitrifying biofilter using a fermentation generated carbon source to treat the high nitrate concentrations typically seen in recirculating aquaculture systems was studied using a synthetic nitrate wastewater supplied at two nitrate loadings, 1.13 and 2.52 kg NO3-N/m3/day. A supplemental carbon source was provided primarily through the fermentation of fish food which generated volatile fatty acids (VFA) in the form of acetic, propionic, isobutyric, n-butyric, 2-methylb...

Toporkov, Jakov V.

A numerical study of electromagnetic scattering by one-dimensional perfectlyconducting randomly rough surfaces with an ocean-like Pierson-Moskowitz spectrum ispresented. Simulations are based on solving the Magnetic Field Integral Equation (MFIE)using the numerical technique called the Method of Ordered Multiple Interactions(MOMI). The study focuses on the application and validation of this integral equation-based technique to scattering at low grazing angles and considers other aspects ofnumeri...

Klawiter, Kathryn Alyce

This project investigates the effect of plasticulture andcopper-based crop protectants on water quality on theEastern Shore of Virginia. Water and sediment copperconcentrations in both plasticulture and non-plasticulturecontaining watersheds were measured to determine the scopeof copper in Eastern Shore tidal creeks. Runoff from avariety of land-uses including agricultural,plasticultural, residential and natural areas werecollected and measured for copper to determine wherecopper-containing runo...