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Say Hello to My Little Friends! Investigating the Influence of Exaiptasia diaphana Symbiotic State on the Feeding Ecology of the Nudibranch, Berghia stephanieae
(2023-05)Mutualistic cnidarians are crucial to the success of biodiverse and economically valuable marine ecosystems, with coral reef ecosystems in particular holding immense ecological and economic importance. However, natural ... -
Nurse Educator Scholarship & Qualitative Research
(2023-04)Nurse educators have many roles and responsibilities in addition to teaching including service, clinical practice, and scholarship. One way a nurse educator can achieve scholarship is through qualitative research that can ... -
Reaching into the Present, Growing Out of the Past: The Neo-Slave Narrative’s Innovation on Historical Slave Narratives and Contemporary Black Consciousness
(2023-05)My thesis, “Reaching into the Present, Growing into the Past: The Neo-Slave Narrative’s Innovation on Historical Slave Narratives and Contemporary Black Consciousness,” approaches the neo-slave narrative genre as an ... -
The Social History of Photography in Baltimore, Maryland, 1839-1930
(2023-05)Before the fall of 1840, American locksmith-turned-telescope maker Henry Fitz Jr. opened Maryland’s first-ever daguerreotype studio in Baltimore. Fitz introduced the city to portrait photography from his third-floor studio ... -
Faux frogs, foam nests, and females: Mate choice as an evolutionary driver of conspicuous mating signals
(2022-12)Chapter 1 - Across many taxa, males gather in leks to perform multisensory courtship displays for females. Changes in the sensory scene over the course of mate evaluation are inevitable during a lek. This dynamic nature ... -
Analyzing the Effects of Mercury on Acetylcholinesterase In Vitro
(2022-06)This study aims to establish a viable method for testing the relationship between low doses of inorganic mercury and the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE) in vitro. Mercury has been identified as a heavy metal that can ... -
Wrestling with Writer's Block: Pedagogical Interventions that Work and Why
(2022-05)"Wrestling with Writer's Block: Pedagogical Interventions that Work and Why" presents a study about first year composition students' experiences with writer's block and how understanding one's writer identity and writing ... -
The Walking Icelanders: Revenants in the Íslendingasögur
(2022-05-20)This study analyzes the revenants found in six different sagas from the Íslendingasögur, or Icelandic Family Sagas. Revenants are those people who die and then reanimate post-mortem to haunt the living, or pre-mortem. This ... -
Snack-Sized Turtles? Investigating Size Class Distributions and Predation of the Endangered Spotted Turtle (Clemmys guttata)
(2021-11)Reptiles are experiencing decreased population sizes and declines in number of populations. Despite this overall pattern, for many species, there remains insufficient data to understand population trends, let alone the ... -
Factors contributing to retention of hospital nurses in urban and rural areas
(1994)The purpose of this study was to learn about the characteristics of nurses who have maintained employment relationships with hospitals and to identify differences in characteristics among nurses working in urban and ... -
Nurses' attitudes toward the use of computers in nursing practice
(1989)The use of computers in nursing practice is creating significant economic, political and social change within the nursing profession. Nurses' attitudes toward computers and their use in nursing practice will influence the ... -
Aphra Behn: Libertine? Or marital reformer? A history, with an examination of several plays and fictions
(1998)Aphra Behn was an important female writer in the Restoration era. She wrote twenty or more plays which were produced on the London stage, as well as a dozen or more novels, several volumes of poetry, and numerous translations. ... -
The effectiveness of an applied psychology course with nonpsychology graduate students
(1986)This research assessed the effectiveness or value of an applied psychology course with nonpsychology graduate students. Twenty-four graduate students who enrolled in an applied psychology course at Salisbury state College ... -
Discriminative differences among high, medium, and low worriers and their ability to discriminate high, medium, and low anxious material
(1997)This study investigated the discriminative abilities of 173 undergraduate males and females who were presented with scenarios in which levels of worry were manipulated. The Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ: (Meyer, ... -
Multiple roles, well-being and the clergy wife
(1997)Women in particular have been viewed as potentially vulnerable to role conflict because of their multiple roles. The impact of these multiple roles on the mental health of a woman remains unclear. The purpose of the study ... -
Relationship between gender role orientation, role strain, and level of well-being in multiple role nursing students
(1995)The purpose of this research study was to explore the outcomes of multiple role involvement for women actively enrolled in a formal program of nursing education. The relationship between gender role orientation and level ... -
Rediscovering free blacks In Somerset County, Maryland, 1663-1863
(1993)From the first days of settlement by non-native-American pioneers. free blacks counted themselves among the inhabitants of Somerset County, part of Maryland's Eastern Shore. The most well documented of these free black ... -
Validity of the cognitive skills index on the Test of Cognitive Skills - Second Edition as a measure of Intelligence with special education children
(2003)For many elementary and secondary school students, a standardized group ability test score may be found in their cumulative record. such results are often used for placement in instructional programs. However, with ... -
Discordant warriors: Maryland's Revolutionary War militia
(1992)The American Revolution proved not to be a propitious occasion for the Maryland militia. As Maryland remained on the periphery of the conflict, the state's militia devoted more energy to making war upon itself and the ... -
The naturalism of Richard Wright: An examination of the naturalistic imagery in Wright's short fiction
(1998)This thesis investigates the naturalism, including animal and natural imagery and metaphor, dehumanization of characters, devolution of characters, etc., within Richard Wright's short fiction in order to determine whether ...
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