Browsing W & L Historic Theses by Title
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Evolved Recursive Distributed Representations
Computer Science has become increasingly biologically inspired, with neural networks and evolutionary computing gaining increased prominence in the field. Recently, several difficulties with modeling connectionist networks ... -
An Examination of Malory's Arthur or There and Back Again
In its broadest intent, this thesis will examine the dynamic nature of Arthur's kingdom: what it was before Arthur's arrival, what exactly were its Heroic, Worshipful and True attributes, and why and how Arthur's kingdom ... -
An Examination of the Concept of Faith as Contained in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
The problem that interests me and that will be the subject of this paper can be stated briefly as the relationship between 'faith' and 'reason'. I will not offer a precise definition or way of characterizing faith at first, ... -
An Examination of the Kinetics of the Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (ROMP) of a 7-oxanorbornene Derivative with Grubbs' Catalyst
The study of ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) has become increasingly important over the past two decades. ROMP is unusual in that it provides a route to polymers with a high degree of unsaturation in the ... -
An Experimental Study of Selected Remedial Reading Techniques
Throughout the past two decades a great deal or attention has been focused upon the correction of poor reading habits. Reliable clinical procedures aimed at correcting defective reading habits have been brought into use ... -
Exploring Text-Based Analysis of Test-Case Dependencies of Web Applications
Web applications must be reliable as the number and popularity of web applications increases. Web applications are difficult to test because of the large input space and frequent changes. Thus their characteristics demand ... -
Extension and Improvements of Washington and Lee University Campus, Lexington, Virginia
The extensions and developnents of Washington and Lee Campus discussed in this thesis are considered by the authors as necessary and important to properly open and prepare the way for the future University. The University ... -
Factors Influencing a Battered Woman's Decision to Return to the Abusive Situation: An Empirical Investigation Considering Learned Helplessness and Survivor Theory
This thesis will focus on presenting information to support different models that attempt to explain the behavior of abused women. The thesis wilJ describe the steps a woman takes throughout her relationship to protect ... -
The Fall of France as Viewed from French West Africa
My paper follows a chronological trajectory, commencing with the build-up to World War Two, moving through the dr6le de guerre, and finally the Battle for France. Chapter I shows how the colonial regime prepared their ... -
Filtering Software: Can Technology Provide a Viable Alternative to Internet Regulation?
Existing research demonstrates that filters are not the cure-all for child online protection that software companies and even the Supreme Court suggest. Filtering packages have several noteworthy pitfalls, as noted in ... -
Flaubert et la Francaise au XIXe Siecle: l'idiot(e) de la Famille
Le 29 janvier 1857, Gustave Flaubert et son oeuvre Madame Bovary etaient mis en jugement pour l'outrage a la morale publique et religieuse et aux bonnes moeurs. Cependant, les raisons pour lesquelles on a poursuivi l'auteur ... -
Fluoremetry: H-ion, Influnce of pH and Certain Neutral Salts upon the Fluorescence of Sulfonic Acids
The method for the quantitative deternination of substances in solution by comparative fluorescence, as suggested by L. J. Desha. # Journal of American Chemical Society, Vol. XVII Number 7, July, 1920, seems to warrant a ... -
Fold Simplification and Fault Estimation for Inverse Modeling of Fault-Bend Folding
It has been long recognized that many folds observed in the field and in seismic reflection data are created as stratigraphic layers are displaced over nonplanar fault surfaces. As material is moved over a bend in a fault, ... -
Folk Psychology, Parallel Processing, the Intentional Stance, Supervenience, Multiple Realizability, and Some Hard Problems: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Brain
The objective of this paper is to suggest that folk psychology is the most deeply entrenched myth in the history of the human race. Yet, it appears that -- considered as a theory of how the mind works -- we have ample ... -
Foreign Trade and Ecuadorian Regional Development: Cuenca's "Panama" Hats, 1900-1970
I believe that this thesis will present a significant summation of the economic, social, cultural, and to a limited extent the political realities as they relate to the dominant industry of the Austro region of Ecuador ... -
Four Great Elegies of the English Language: The Book of the Duchess, Lycidas, In Memoriam, and Adonais; A Comparison and Study
. . . Having thus considered the general nature and something of the background of the elegy, let us enter upon I a more direct consideration of the four particular examples which we have taken as representing the ... -
Franciscan Art as Propaganda: The Conventuals and the Chapel of Saint Martin in San Francesco at Assisi
The Chapel of Saint Martin is noteworthy not only because of its subject matter, but also because of the relatively little information known about its commission and patron. This paper will not address all these issues, ... -
From Apartheid to Democracy: A Study of Religion and the Law in a Changing South Africa
This paper seeks to examine how religion and religious freedom will fare in the new democratic South Africa. This is not an easy task, for the democracy is young and religious freedom is not a burning issues at the present ... -
From Gangbuster to War Crimes Prosecutor: Joseph Berry Keenan and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 1946-48
Of the many efforts to reform Japan, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East has been praised as "one of the bes t examples of international cooperation displayed during the occupation of Japan." [2] The New ...