Thesis (M.S.)--Georgia Southern University, 2005. / "A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Science in the Department of Public Health" ETD. Includes bibliographical references (p. 37-41) and appendices.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Georgia Southern University, 2005. / "A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education" ETD. Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-187) and appendices.

Thesis (M.S.)--Georgia Southern University, 2006. / "A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Science" ETD. Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-80)

Thesis (M.S.)--Georgia Southern University, 2006. / "A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Science" ETD. Includes bibliographical references (p. 62-65) and appendices.

Thesis (Ph.D. (Political & International Studies)) - Rhodes University, 2007.

Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2007. / Thesis Advisor(s): Jessica Piombo, Tuong Vu. "June 2007." Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-87). Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University.

Using an experimental pressure chamber the rates of descent and the maximum depths of buoyancy equilibrium of some cichlid fishes were tested. Tilapia mossambica juveniles could descend to depths greater than 30 metres very rapidly. At 22°C small sub adult male fish (length ± 160 mm) could descend to a maximum buoyancy depth of 20 metres, small sub adult females to 13 metres while large adults (length ± 200 mm) of both sexes could descend to 11 metres. The fish generally take 4 to 5 days to reach their maximum equilibration depth. At 30°C mature adult male and female T.mossambica increased their maximum equilibration depth to 20 metres and at 15°C showed a decrease to a maximum depth of 6.7 metres. Temperature affects the rates of descent in a similar manner. T.rendalli can descend to 7.5 metres at 22°C. T.sparmanii can descend to 15 metres at 22°C. Hemihaplochromis philander fry and young juveniles are not affected by pressure. Adult males can descend to 16 metres at 22°C and 20 metres at 30°C. Adult females can descend to 26 metres at 22°C and 27 metres at 30°C. In T.mossambica oxygen appears to be the only gas secreted into the swimbladder to compensate for buoyancy loss. The haemoglobin of T.mossambica showed a marked Bohr and Root effect. Increased rates of descent with increased temperature are believed to be due to increased O₂ uptake, heart output etc. rather than as a direct effect of blood chemistry. The swimbladder wall of T.mossambica is extremely thin (2.8 ∕∪ m) and consequently a large amount of gas is lost through passive diffusion. Diffusion is not affected by temperature, consequently the increased secretory rates at higher temperatures are not balanced by a proportionately higher diffusion loss, thus enabling the fish to maintain a deeper buoyancy equilibrium at higher temperatures. Summary, p. 62-63.

A stepped heating gas extraction technique has been developed which is capable of isolating C02 released by fluid inclusions from that released by contamination and other sources. In some cases specific generations of inclusions may be extracted. This technique represents a significant advance in the measurement of carbon isotopes from fluid inclusions. Isotopic results are reproducible to ± 0.296 for gas-rich samples, but sample heterogeneity results in variable yield measurements (occasionally up to 200%). The technique has been applied to charnockites and related rocks from South India to constrain the role of C02 in their petrogenesis. Results from a data base of 65 samples show that charnocidtes released more inclusion-C02 than did associated amphibolite facies gneisses, implying that C02 plays a significant role in charnockite formation. Field observations and theoretical phase equilibria, suggest incipient charnockites (partially transformed gneiss) form by sub-solidus transformation (induced by influx of C02) and by melting (triggered by influx of mixed C02-H20). This melting reaction occurs at least 50°C below vapour-absent melting, so it may be an important mechanism for granulite and granite formation in the middle and lower crust. Massive charnockites (monotonous granulite) are believed to form mainly by direct crystallisation from a H20-poor, C02-rich melt. 513C values support radiogenic and field evidence for at least two charnockite formation events in South India. The 2500 Ga event at the southern margin of the Archxan Craton yields a range of 613C values (-4%o to -13%o), tentatively interpreted as C02 derived from subducting sediments. The younger event (500 Ma) affects the southern blocks (of probable early Proterozoic age), and is characterised by a bimodal distribution of 813C values (-6%o to -7%o and -9%o to -13%o). A sub-continental lithospheric source of C02 (transported by magmas associated with crustal extension) is suggested by the heavier values. The lighter isotopes result mainly from mixing between this mantle source and organic graphite, but inclusion capture during an earlier event cannot be ruled out in a few cases. C02-rich fluids are found to propagate by advective fluid flow through a microhydraulic fracture mechanism. A detailed case study of local charnockite formation indicates that isotope and reaction fronts are diffuse, almost over the entire distance of fluid flow (60 m), and fluid/rock disequilibrium suggests that fluid-rock ratios must be treated with care.

Salt Lick Prayer is a collection of poems divided into three parts. The first section includes poems that address the author's childhood years, and focus on themes of family, nature, and religion. The second section focuses on poems that explore the life of the author's great, great grandfather, and the third section deals with the author's great grandmother and grandparents.