John Johns Trigg of Bedford County, Virginia, was a veteran of the American Revolutionary War. As a Captain, he fought and witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis' army at Yorktown. From his days as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1784-1792, and of the Virginia Convention of 1788, Trigg consistently opposed any resolution which he believed might stifle the growth of his own state. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1797 and served in the next three succeeding congresses until his death in 1804. Trigg was never a prominent figure in his own right, but he did oppose any attempts to centralize power. During his time in Congress, his importance lay in his unswerving loyalty to the Republican party. This was particularly true during the dark days of the Alien and Sedition Acts when men like Trigg were sorely needed in congress to temper, since unable to smother, the fire of the Federalists. During President Jefferson's first term in office, 1801-1805, John Trigg could be described as a "regular republican." He voted on all issues as a stanch supporter of the new Republican administration. When time came to undo the Federalist's legislation which Adams had passed, he was again to be counted on as a follower of the Republican program. / Master of Arts

The purpose of this study was to determine if relationships existed between birth order, fashion opinion leadership and clothing conformity. The sample consisted of 60 first borns and 60 subjects from other ordinal positions. The instrument used in this research consisted of three parts: Schrank's (1970) Fashion Opinion Leadership (FOL) and Attitudes-Toward-Conformity and the nine statements forming Borsari's subscale of the revised Creekmore's "Importance of Clothing" questionnaire (1978). T-tests revealed that there was no significant differences between the mean scores of the first borns and those in other ordinal positions on the FOL inventory and both conformity measures. A significant difference was found between sex and the FOL scale, females were more likely to be fashion opinion leaders. The results of analysis of variance indicated that there was a significant difference between college attended and scores on the FOL and Schrank's conformity measure. Home Economic students were more likely than the students in Business and Arts and Sciences to be fashion opinion leaders and more likely than students in Agriculture and Life Sciences, Architecture and Arts and Sciences to conform. The results from a correlation showed that the validity of the two conforming measures was significant at the .05 level. / Master of Science

Three test methods were employed to characterize the response of unidirectional Boron/Aluminum metal matrix composite material under monotonic and cyclic loading conditions, namely: Iosipescu Shear, Off-Axis Tension and Compression. The characterization of the elastic and plastic response includes the elastic material properties, yielding and subsequent hardening of the unidirectional composite under different stress ratios in the material principal coordinate system. The elastic response is compared with the prediction of the transformation theory, based on the far field stress ōₓₓ, the Pagano-Halpin Model, and finite element analysis. Yield loci were generated for different stress ratios and were compared for the three different test methods, taking into account residual stresses and specimen geometry. The yield locus for in-plane shear was compared with the prediction of an analytical micromechanical model. The influence of the scatter in the experimental data on the predicted yield surface was also analyzed. Likewise the experimental material strength in tension and compression was compared with the Maximum Stress and the Tsai-Wu failure criterion. / M.S.

A mail questionnaire was employed to measure the attitudes of Virginia resident hunters toward game laws and regulations, sportsmanship in hunting, game law violations, game law enforcement, and Virginia game wardens; to determine background and hunting-related correlates of attitudes; and, to compare the ability of three social psychological models to predict the attitudes of Virginia hunters toward game laws and regulations. An initial mailing of a 17-page questionnaire and three follow-up reminders yielded a usable return of 1,245 (40.0 percent) questionnaires. A comparison of responses of respondents and telephone-interviewed nonrespondents suggested that nonresponse bias was negligible. Attitudes toward game laws and regulations, sportsmanship in hunting, game law enforcement, and Virginia game wardens were generally favorable. Mean attitude scores were in the upper range of possible mean scores. Attitudes toward game law violations were bimodally distributed. Approximately one-half of the sample was opposed to game laws violations, 11 percent were neutral, and 36.6 percent favored game law violations. Few background and hunting-related variables were associated or correlated with most or all of the five attitudes. Important negative correlates of most or all of the five attitudes were reported irritating 1977-78 warden contacts; reported irritating warden contacts in the past; the number of times a respondent reported having been bothered by a warden contact; receiving a warning or a citation for violation of a game law or regulation during the period 1973-1978; and, the number of warnings and citations received for violation(s) of game laws and regulations from 1973 to 1978. The three social psychological models tested were Fishbein’s beliefs-based model, Rosenberg’s value importance-perceived instrumentality model, and a modification of Fishbein's subjective behavioral norm. Population-modal beliefs were employed in Fishbein's beliefs-based model, Rosenberg's model employed hunting activities, and Fishbein's subjective norm model contained modal referents. Fishbein's beliefs-based model had a correlation of 0.29 with attitudes toward game laws, Rosenberg's model had a correlation of 0.12 with attitudes, and Fishbein’s subjective norm had a correlation of 0.30 with attitudes. The hypothesis that the models were related in an additive manner to attitudes toward game laws was not supported. Rosenberg's model did not achieve significance in a multiple regression model. Fishbein's two models met a retention criterion in the final model but were also interactive as evidenced by the significance of the interaction term. Fishbein’s two models appear to have both additive and multiplicative influences on attitudes toward game laws and regulations. The final model accounted for 16 percent of the variance in attitudes toward game laws and regulations. Fishbein’s beliefs-based model was supported by a superior performance over a model created by investigator-developed beliefs. A modification of Fishbein’s model of a subjective behavioral norm and a measure of a generalized subjective attitude norm each accounted for nine percent of the variance in attitudes toward game laws and regulations. Hunter perceptions of warden contacts as being irritating, the number of perceived irritating contacts with wardens, and receiving a citation for violation of game laws and regulations appear be the only significant hunting-related factors identified in this study related to unfavorable attitudes among hunters towara game laws and regulations. / Ph. D.

Tomando como objeto de estudio “La Biblia de 42 líneas impresa por Johann Gutenberg” en el Bloque Uno se comprenderán los orígenes de la industria gráfica a partir de una visión histórica de la vida de Gutenberg, Fust y Schöffer. En el Bloque Dos, se desarrolla el panorama de cómo se llega a la resolución gráfico-operativa que hizo posible la realización de los tipos móviles y su utilización en la imprenta. En la primera parte, se describen los elementos que se tenían antes de empezar la impresión; en la segunda, se analizan los elementos propios de la Biblia de 42 líneas; y en la tercera, se explica de cómo se realizó el paso hacia los tipos móviles. En el Bloque Tres, la parte práctica se divide en dos. Describe por un lado la presentación del catálogo digital de los tipos de la Biblia llamado “ginyB42” y por el otro, el análisis de clusters para comprobar con exactitud la existencia de diversas matrices de fundición para una misma letra. / The object of study in the present monographic research is the 42-line Bible allegedly printed by Johannes Gutenberg, in Block One will understand the origins of the printing industry from a historical view of the life of Gutenberg, Fust and Schöffer. In Block Two, our objective is to demonstrate that the graphic-operative solution that made possible the transition from calligraphy to movable types In Block Three, first introduce the digital catalogue of the Bible type called "ginyB42" and then, the cluster analysis to interpret a reality by means of a verification system that has served to mark with accuracy the existence of several font matrices for a same letter.