http://hdl.handle.net/10288/6 Research of William and Mary Students Search the Channel search http://dspace.swem.wm.edu/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/10288/1601 Title: Model-Assisted Pattern Search<br/><br/>Authors: Siefert, Christopher M.<br/><br/>Description: Computer simulations of complex physical phenomena are used in many contexts, including that of engineering design. Increasingly scientists and engineers have also been trying to optimize problems defined by such simulations (e.g. to determine design parameters for a physical product). However, these problems often have several features that hinder the use of standard optimization techniques. The lack of derivative information and numerical error induced by the simulation can cause problems for derivative-based optimization methods. Likewise, extreme computational expense can make the use of direct search methods problematic. The Model-Assisted Pattern Search (MAPS) algorithm, which is the subject of this research, attempts to address the issue. While maintaining a pattern search framework, MAPS makes use of easily constructed surrogates to the objective function in order to speed the optimization process. Numerical results for MAPS and several other algorithms are presented here for a variety of different objective functions. http://hdl.handle.net/10288/1593 Title: A Study of the Effects of the Return of World War II Veterans on Collegiate Football in the Southern Conference<br/><br/>Authors: Creekmur, Louis<br/><br/>Description: This thesis is not yet available online pending approval of the copyright holder. The purposes of the study are to determine the effects of the return of World War II veterans on collegiate football in the Southern Conference during the immediate post-war years (1946-1949) in regard to (1) coaching procedures, (2) training regulations, (3) practice schedules, (4) actual gam conditions, and (5) scheduling of football games between colleges. http://hdl.handle.net/10288/1592 Title: Fugitives in Freedom: Recent Central American Immigration to the United States<br/><br/>Authors: Hancock, Mattelynn Grace<br/><br/>Description: This thesis is not yet available online pending approval of the copyright holder. For nearly four centuries, immigrants have sought the land now thought of as the United States of America. To say that they have come in search of a better life belittles the lives they have left behind. Immigrants' reasons for coming to the United States are as varied as American responses to their arrival. Only by acknowledging and exploring those motivations and receptions can we understand the range of immigrant experience. http://hdl.handle.net/10288/1563 Title: Interview with Liudmila Danilenko<br/><br/>Authors: Argodale, Sarah; Roberts, Michael; Terrill, Bryan; Elena, Prokhorova<br/><br/>Abstract: Liudmila Danilenko lives in St. Petersburg, Russia. William and Mary students interviewed her about her movie going experience in July 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10288/1560 Title: To Be Amiable and Accomplished: Fitting Young Women for Upper-Class Virginia Society 1760-1810<br/><br/>Authors: Eberlein, Tori<br/><br/>Description: Young women needed to be equipped with suitable skills and attitudes in order to assume their adult role in upper-class Virginia society (1760-1810). Prescriptive writings of parents, relatives, and friends, and guidelines found in widely-published ladies morality books provided an outline of the ideal qualities a young woman should posses. Literacy, particularly the ability to write well, was a vital part of a young woman's education. Although a young woman was supposed to study some academic subjects, such as geography and French, other areas of study were thought to be unsuitable. Musical training, dancing and drawing were widely encouraged accomplishments. Ideally, appropriate education and social training produced young women who were loved and admired in Virginia society.