This collection contains theses, dissertations, problem reports, and project reports (ETDs) from West Virginia University graduate students.
Students: See Prepare Your ETD for formatting requirements before you Submit your ETD
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Effects of rate of feedback and reinforcement on novel responding, Vennessa L. Walker
Benjamin: "Another Part of the Forest"., Jonathan Alan Walton
Development of outdoor recreation resource amenity indices for West Virginia, Jing Wang
Synthesis of polycyclic aromatics having unusual molecular architectures via cascade cyclization reactions of enyne -allenes, Yu-Hsuan Wang
West Virginia agricultural education teachers' perceptions on involving students with exceptionalities in agricultural classrooms and laboratories., Ashley D. Watts
Impact of mine land reforestation and revegetation on water quality in a Mid-Appalachian watershed: A stream monitoring study., Honghong Wei
The evolving process of scenic design in Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest"., Mary Taber Weisse
Levels of stress and mechanisms of coping among male freshman athletes, Gregory A. White
Long-term follow-up of patients treated with the edgewise crowned Herbst appliance in the mixed dentition, Timothy G. Wigal
Design and implementation of a multithreaded softcore processor with tightly coupled hardware real-time operating system, Terance Prabhasara Wijesinghe
'Getting It Right': Three Essays in International Development., Claudia R. Williamson
Exchange of the feminine: Representations of multiple marginality in contemporary West Virginia fiction., David E. Wilson
The correspondence between experimental data and computer simulation of Friction Stir Welding (FSW)., Jerry C. Wong
Investigation of mud filtrate invasion using computational fluid dynamics, Suyoun Won
Design Validation Methodology Development for an Aircraft Sensor Deployment System, Zenovy S. Wowczuk
Communicative functions of young children's visual art, Clover Simms Wright
Experimentalism, relativity and quantum mechanics at a land grant institution: West Virginia University, 1920-1960., Eric S. Wright
Sensitivity analysis of reliability for structure-based software via simulation, Jun Xu
Cellular mechanisms of effects of sphingosine 1 -phosphate on vascular endothelial barrier, Mei Xu
Electrical and optical properties of zinc oxide for scintillator applications, Xiaocheng Yang
Gender and livelihoods: Mapping the economic strategies of porters in Accra, Ghana., Muriel A. Yeboah
Development of fabrication processes for silicon and gallium nitride photonic crystal structures., Satish Yeldandi
In vitro elucidation of the metabolic fate of the anticancer drug busulfan, Islam Rasem Younis
Profiling, extracting, and analyzing dynamic software metrics, Jeffrey T. Zemerick
Selenite removal using GAC based iron-coated adsorbents, Ning Zhang
Toward the synthesis of polycyclic aromatic compounds as nano-carbon cages, Ruoxin Zhang
Video modeling via implicit motion representations, Yunfei Zheng
Cycles in graph theory and matroids, Ju Zhou
(Trans)forming belief, transforming desire: An analysis of conversion and belief in contemporary American fiction., Anthony Zias
Rates of swim bladder parasite infection and PIT tag retention in upstream migrant American eels of the upper Potomac River drainage, Jennifer L. Zimmerman
Design guidelines for FRP honeycomb sandwich bridge decks, Bin Zou
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Exploring faculty changes in science courses at Maryland community colleges in response to the Associate of Arts in Teaching degree option for elementary education majors, Bettie Cecelia A'Hearn
A robust hybrid-ARQ protocol for relay networks., Syed Amaar Ahmad
Feasibility of using wearable devices for collecting pedestrian travel data, Rohit Ajmera
Effects of the common pesticide methoxychlor on ovarian steroidogenesis, Yucel Akgul
An annotated bibliography of selected choral works set to the text of Robert Frost., Brent J. Alexander
Leadership personality, power, and economic interdependence. Panel data analysis of the foreign policy behavior between Saudi Arabia and the United States from 1965 to 2005., Ali Hussain Algahtani
Teacher perceptions of the effectiveness of the Social Studies Teacher Training Program at Tabouk Teachers' College in Saudi Arabia, Awad Hamad Alhwiti
Product design for energy reduction in concurrent engineering: An Inverted Pyramid Approach., Nasr M. Alkadi
Choice among stimuli in equivalence classes, Christina Alligood
Continuity and change in the revolutionary Iran foreign policy: The role of international and domestic political factors in shaping the Iranian foreign policy, 1979-2006., Ibrahim Mahmoud Alnahas
Saudi English as a foreign language learners' attitudes toward computer -assisted language learning, Mishal H. Al Shammari
Electronic instrumentation of coal slurry impoundments for real-time data collection to support automated monitoring, James A. Altobello
Analysis of a 2007 EPA compliant diesel particulate matter sampling system, Robin W. Ames
A Web-based tool for analysis of crime laboratory data., Ramesh Annabathula
The politics of health promotion: Analyzing healthy public policy's impact on tobacco control in United States and South Africa., Frederick Appah
The effects of diesel fuel density on fuel consumption measurements of portable in-use emissions measurement systems., Micah Arter
Federalism, multi-level governance and tobacco control: Comparative public policy in the United Kingdom and South Africa., Bossman E. Asare
That Much, Trina Askin
Simulation of friction stir spot welding (FSSW) process: Study of friction phenomena., Mokhtar Awang
Using the social cognitive theory to investigate physical activity in middle-aged and older married couples: A dyadic perspective., Brian J. Ayotte
Molecular mechanisms of chromium(VI)-induced apoptosis and malignant transformation, Neelam Azad
Characterization of skeletal muscle performance and morphology following acute and chronic mechanical loading paradigms, Brent A. Baker
A hybrid approach to expert and model based effort estimation., Daniel Ryan Baker
Factors regulating arteriolar tone during microvascular growth, Julie Balch Samora
Mechanical evaluation and FE modeling of composite sandwich panels, Ashish S. Bambal
"Pleasure is the law": Pelleas et Melisande as Debussy's decisive shift away from Wagnerism - DMA Research Project., Stephen Anthony Barr
Stand dynamics of an old-growth hemlock-hardwood forest in West Virginia, Nathan R. Beane
Agglomeration, spatio-economic clustering and competitive performance: Methodological approaches and empirical evidence from the U.S., Gashawbeza W. Bekele
A reexamination of species boundaries between Allium burdickii and Allium tricoccum (Liliaceae)., Rachel A. Bell
Examining therapists' perceptions of confidentiality across various therapeutic environments, professional organizations, and client development (an exploratory study)., Traci Aaron Berry-Harris
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of Gadd45α in response to arsenic., Deepak Bhatia
Analysis of motor activity of recombinant myosin-1c, Anindita Biswas
Permanent Novelty, Sean Blair
Indian warfare, household competency, and the settlement of the western Virginia frontier, 1749 to 1794, John M. Boback
Data discretization simplified: Randomized binary search trees for data preprocessing., Donald Joseph Boland Jr.
The how's and why's of fashion-costume design process for "A Flea in Her Ear"., Trevor Bowen
Dissolution and diffusion characteristics of 316L stainless steel in molten zinc containing variable concentrations of aluminum, Mark A. Bright
Architecture for an automated IRC investigation tool, Dugald A. Brown
Mathematics vocabulary instruction for current non-proficient students with and without IEPs: A study of three methods of instruction., George D. Brown
Methods of season extension for market gardeners, Natalie R. Bumgarner
Development of water production type curves for horizontal wells in coalbed methane reservoirs, Praveen Kumar Burka Narayana
The development of policies and procedures for eating disorder referral for collegiate athletes at the Division III level., Emily A. Burmeister
Comparison of two electrofishing gears (backpack and parallel wires) and abundances of fishes of the upper Greenbrier River drainage, Angela D. Burns
Exploring the use of human metrology for biometric recognition, Nikhil Mallikarjun Reddy Burri
An analysis of word structure knowledge in preservice teacher preparation programs., Keely Camden
The effects of wiki- and blog-technologies on the students' performance when learning the preterite and imperfect aspects in Spanish., Daniel Alex Castaneda Vise
The effect of computer-based authentic assignments on learners' foreign language abilities and intrinsic motivation., Aurora Castillo
Marine paleoecology of the Fivemile Member of the Hinton Formation, Upper Mississippian, West Virginia and Virginia, Thomas R. Cawthern
User habitation in keystroke dynamics based authentication, Qi Cheng
Coded continuous-phase FSK: Information theoretic limits and receiver design., Shi Cheng
Accelerated ageing tests and long-term prediction models for durability of FRP bars in concrete, Yi Chen
Sensor validation scheme with virtual nitrogen oxides sensing for heavy duty diesel engines., Victor C. Chew
Social rank and social anxiety, Jennifer A. Chrystan
The synthesis of 3-ethoxyindoles, koniamborine, salviadione and studies toward fistulosin utilizing palladium-catalyzed reductive N-heteroannulation., Ronald W. Clawson
TEMPtEd: Development and psychometric properties of a tool to evaluate materials used in patient education., Laura H. Clayton
The effect of α-aminoadipate δ-semialdehyde synthase knockdown on the lysine requirement and urate oxidase knockdown on oxidative stress in a murine hepatic cell line., Beth Marie Cleveland
Mining history: Extracting qualitative and quantitative resources for the discovery of Appalachian cultural landscapes., Hannah Leigh Cole
World of Seeming, Amy Colombo
The emerging geographies of work and identity: Exploring alternative employment strategies and work subjectivities of women with multiple sclerosis (MS)., Kimberly Lynne Cordingly