Browsing ETDs: Virginia Tech Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Title
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I Am A Lonely Engineer
(Virginia Tech, 2015-06-01)I Am a Lonely Engineer is a collection of poems dealing with the emotional fallout of a speaker whose life has been uprooted by the absence of his father. Through a series of semi-surreal narratives, the speaker eventually ... -
I Am Because We Are: Africana Womanism as a Vehicle of Empowerment and Influence
(Virginia Tech, 2008-06-16)The purpose of this research project has been to shed light on the experiences of Black women in Afrocentric groups' Nation of Gods and Earths, the Black Panther Party, and Rastafarians' that operated on the fringes of ... -
I Can See What You Are Feeling, but Can I Feel It? Physiological Linkage while Viewing Communication of Emotion via Touch
(Virginia Tech, 2022-05-20)Past research has demonstrated that emotions can accurately be communicated via touch (e.g., Hertenstein, Keltner, App, Bulleit, and Jaskolka, 2006). In stranger female dyads, physiological linkage plays a role in the ... -
"I don't want to go up the hill": Symbolic Boundary Work Among Residents of an Assisted Living Community
(Virginia Tech, 2009-08-14)In this study I explore boundary work processes that older adults do which influences friendships among residents of a progressive care retirement community. Accounts of boundary work as mechanisms for including some and ... -
I Had My Senior Year Taken From Me: Understanding Emerging Adults' Coping Strategies while Transitioning to College during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Virginia Tech, 2023-05-15)Times of transition are laden with ambiguity, and the move from high school to college has an additional component of role changes to add to this uncertainty. In the spring and summer of 2020, this transition was disrupted ... -
I Lost My Family: Grief, Loss, and Identity Formation of Adopted and Fostered American Indian Individuals
(Virginia Tech, 2020-06-19)American Indian individuals, families, and communities have experienced historical waves of separation from relocation to boarding schools to systematic child removal. Fostered and adopted American Indian individuals ... -
"I no longer teach history, I teach S.O.Ls:" Navigating the curricular and instructional minefield of a high-stakes educational environment
(Virginia Tech, 2018-12-03)Over the last several decades, the field of education has the seen the introduction and normalization of high-stakes standardized testing as part of the educational routine. With this introduction, questions concerning ... -
"I Want to be Free the Lebanese Way": An Interpretive Phenomenology Examination of Lebanese American Queer Youth's Experiences of Family Secrecy
(Virginia Tech, 2022-06-21)Limited knowledge is available around the experiences of queer Lebanese American young adults, specifically around family secrecy around their sexuality. This gap in the marriage and family therapy research has significant ... -
I Woke Up a Ghost
(Virginia Tech, 2016-07-07)I Woke Up a Ghost is a collection of poems interacting and reacting to the death of a mother in the speaker's childhood. Through examining various relationships and states of mind, the speaker seeks new ways to imaginatively ... -
I Would Never Set Foot On American Soil Again: Religion, Space, and Gender: American Missionaries in Korea
(Virginia Tech, 2021-09-29)By using three lenses of analysis not often used together, theology, space and gender, this dissertation explores the decisions, practices, and gender dynamics of one group of Protestant religious imperialists of the late ... -
I'm the Smart Kid: Adult Attitudes and Perceptions about Enrichment and Special Education
(Virginia Tech, 2019-05-17)Within the educational community, there is a growing shift towards the development of essential skills, emphasizing process-skills over mastery of content. This shift is mirrored in the rapid changes in workplace-related ... -
I, Crystallization and morphological studies of ICI's intermediate temperature semicrystalline (ITX) polymer and, II, The influence of deformation (shear strain) during bond formation on adhesive bond strength
(Virginia Tech, 1995)Results for two unrelated studies are included in this dissertation. The primary investigation focused on evaluation of the crystallization conditions utilized in commercial consolidation of ICI's semicrystalline "ITX" ... -
I. A search for organic compounds as colorimetric quantitative reagents for inorganic ions ; II. A study of the reaction between 2 acetamino 6 amino benzo thiazole and chloroiridic acid
(Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, 1940)The reaction between 2 acetamino 6 amino benzo thiazole and chloroiridio acid is not sensitive enough to be of importance as a colorimetric quantitative reaction. IrCl₆-- can be detected with this organic compound if ... -
I. Collagen-like polypeptides. II. Helix-turn-helix peptides and turn mimetics
(Virginia Tech, 2008-07-25)Collagen is one of the most important and abundant proteins in mammals. It consists of three left-handed PPII helixes coiled along a common axis to form a very compact right-handed super helix. The primary structure is ... -
I. Functionalization and Investigation of Highly Efficient Hosts for Use in Macromolecular Self-Assemblies and II. The Design and Synthesis of ROMP Imidazolium Systems for Use as Mechanical Actuators
(Virginia Tech, 2016-06-09)Recent advancements in supramolecular chemistry have given a wealth of strongly binding host-guest combinations. However, the deployment of these systems into meaningful constructs has been hindered due to difficulty of ... -
I. Isolation and Characterization of Bioactive Compounds From Suriname and Madagascar flora. II. A Synthetic Approach to Lucilactaene
(Virginia Tech, 2005-11-28)As part of an International Cooperative Biodiversity Group (ICBG), extracts of plants from Suriname and Madagascar were bioassayed for cytotoxicity and antimalarial activity. Six cytotoxic extracts and one potential ... -
I. Solubility and blend studies of nitrocellulose II. Relaxation properties of thin film coatings: the role of surface topography
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1988)In the first part of this two part thesis, interaction parameters of nitrocellulose with various solvent systems were investigated by Inverse Gas Chromatography. From these data, the solubility parameters of nitrocellulose ... -
I. The separation and identification of hadromal by Grafe's method ; II. Synthesis of a 2-naphthopyrlium salt
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Neoseiulus fallacis (Garman) (Acari: Phytoseiidae) as a potential biological control agent for spider mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) in Virginia vineyards
(Virginia Tech, 2001-01-18)Outbreaks of spider mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) in vineyards have been increasing with the expansion of the industry in Virginia. Only three effective acaricides are registered on grapes and as resistance begins to occur, ...
