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Part of University Archives: This series has been selected for inclusion in the VCU University Archives for its enduring administrative, fiscal, legal, or historical value.Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Perceived Stress and Surgical Wound Cytokine Patterns, Valentina Lucas
The severity of stages estimation during hemorrhage using error correcting output codes method, Yurong Luo
A Pedagogical Perspective on Storytelling through Movement and Dance, Penny Maas
Gβγ acts at an inter-subunit cleft to activate GIRK1 channels, Rahul Mahajan
The effect of esthetic crown lengthening on perceptions of a patient’s attractiveness, friendliness, trustworthiness, intelligence, and self-confidence, Samuel Lyon Malkinson
A Lexicographic Product Cancellation Property for Digraphs, Kendall Manion
Periodontal Resident Self-Assessment of Ergonomics Before and After Videotaped Surgeries, Corin Marantz
No Greater Weight, Lea Marshall
Sorafenib enhances pemetrexed-induced cytotoxicity through and autophagy-dependent mechanism in cancer cells, Bareford Mary
Plantar Measurements to Determine Success of Surgical Correction of Stage IIb Adult Acquired Flatfoot Deformity, Erika Matheis
Predictors of Sexual Relationship Power, Communication and Sexual Decision Making among Latino Couples, Yui Matsuda
PERSISTENCE TO DOCTORAL COMPLETION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN AT PREDOMINATELY WHITE UNIVERSITIES IN ONE MID-ATLANTIC STATE, Kimberly Matthews
The Correlation between Land-use Mixture and Home-based Trips (The case of the city of Richmond), Yin-Shan Ma
Total Variation Based Restoration of Bilevel Waveforms, Rebecca McCarter
Unravelings, Megan McConnell
Warm Compression – Damp Gestures, Melanie McLain
IN VIVO IMMUNOTOXICOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF ELECTROSPUN POLYCAPROLACTONE (EPCL) AND INVESTIGATION OF EPCL AS A DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR IMMUNOMODULATORY COMPOUNDS, Colleen McLoughlin
Biobehavioral Correlates in Fibromyalgia, Ann Trivigno McNallen
GENERATION, MECHANICAL AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS, AND FEM SIMULATION OF FRACTURE OF REPEATABLE RANDOM ROUGH SURFACES, Hector Medina
ACID-BASE CATALYSIS IN PROTON-COUPLED ELECTRON TRANSFER REACTIONS (PCET): THE EFFECTS OF BRÖNSTED BASES ON THE OXIDATION OF GLUTATHIONE AND HYDROQUINONE, Ramos Jonnathan Medina
Bad Infinity (or) Some Examples of Displacement, Andrew Meerow
A LOGISTIC REGRESSION AND DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION ANALYSIS OF ENROLLMENT CHARACTERISTICS OF STUDENT VETERANS WITH AND WITHOUT DISABILITIES, Yovhane Metcalfe
Piecing, Ginger Metzger
Elucidating Genetic and Environmental Influences on Alcohol-Related Phenotypes, Jacquelyn Meyers
Score for the Big Bang: The Universe as Voice, Ander Mikalson
A NEW APPROACH TO DRIED BLOOD SPOT ANALYSIS FOR NEWBORN SCREENING USING HIGH RESOLUTION LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY, John H. Miller IV
The “Man Walks Outside Time Now”: Verbal Representations of Photographic Images in the Poems of Larry Levis, Lauren Miner
INFLUENCE OF ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE UPON THE DEPOSITION BEHAVIOR OF PHARMACEUTICAL AEROSOLS WITHIN CASCADE IMPACTORS, Megha Mohan
ARTEMIS AND METNASE MEDIATED PROCESSING OF 3΄-BLOCKED DNA LESIONS: ROLE IN RADIO/CHEMORESISTANCE AND DNA REPAIR, Susovan Mohapatra
OPTIMIZATION OF FEATURE SELECTION IN A BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE SWITCH BASED ON EVENT-RELATED DESYNCHRONIZATION AND SYNCHRONIZATION DETECTED BY EEG, Mason Montgomery
THE EFFECT OF LEGAL STATUS ON RESPONSES TO BRIEF MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING WITH SUBSTANCE USERS, Thomas Moore
EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF GENES INVOLVED IN VASCULAR DYSFUNCTION IN PREECLAMPTIC WOMEN, Ahmad Mousa
Characterizing the interaction between VE-PTP, Tie2 and VE-Cadherin, Sharif Ossai Muhammad
ROLE OF LYSOPHOSPHATIDIC ACID IN REGULATION OF CANCER CELL METABOLISM, Abir Mukherjee
The Role of MAGL Inhibition in Nicotine Withdrawal and Reward, Pretal Muldoon
ASSESSMENT OF THE ROLE OF SOLUTE CARRIER DRUG TRANSPORTERS IN THE SYSTEMIC DISPOSITION OF FLUOROQUINOLONES: AN IN VITRO - IN VIVO COMPARISON, Aditi Mulgaonkar
SPAG16 is a Bifunctional Gene Regulating Male Fertility, David R. Nagarkatti-Gude
Novel Fluorous Hybrid Surface Modification Characterized by Wetting Dynamics, Morphology and Nanomechanics, Sithara Nair
Institutionalization of Information Security: Case of the Indonesian Banking Sector, Muhamad Faisal Fariduddin Attar Nasution
Applications of Sure Independence Screening Analysis for Supersaturated Designs, Lindsey Nicely
The Three Principles (for -2012), Nikolai Noel
Suspended Polypyrrole Films Supporting Alamethicin Reconstituted Bilayer Membranes, Robert Northcutt
Fullerene C70 derivatives dampen anaphylaxis and allergic asthma pathogenesis in mice, Sarah Norton
THE ATLANTIC BLUEFIN TUNA: A PUBLIC POLICY APPROACH TO SAVING AN ICONIC SPECIES, Timothy Patrick O'Brien
Auto Tune, Dana Ollestad
Thermal Quenching of Photoluminescence from GaN, Anita Olsen
An Agent Based Model of Tumor Growth and Response to Radiotherapy, Nicole O'Neil
DYNAMICS OF SUBSTRATE INTERACTIONS IN tRNA (m1G37) METHYLTRANSFERASE: IMPLICATIONS FOR DRUG DISCOVERY, Maria Kiouppis Palesis
Adolescent Girls' Experience of Binge and Loss of Control Eating, Allison Palmberg
Addressing Increased Ridership and Demand: GRTC – CARE Paratransit Service Sustainability for the City of Richmond, Ashray Pande
Investigating the transcriptional regulation by OxyR in Porphyromonas gingivalis., Anuya R. Paranjape
An Analysis of the Perceptions of African American Churches in their Delivery of Health and Human Services in Southeast DC, Dennis Parker
Finite-Difference Time-Domain Modeling of Nickel Nanorods, Joseph Steele Parris
Angles in Light, Terry Pearson
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VISUAL AIDS IN MOTIVATIONAL COUNSELING ON ORAL HEALTH LITERACY, Christian Peck
The Call Center Scheduling Problem using Spreadsheet Optimization and VBA, Katherine Perry
On the genetic and environmental associations between body composition, depression symptoms and smoking behavior., Roseann Peterson
Signaletics, Emilia Phillips
Youth Development and Cycling Center: Transforming Space to Create Places for Growth, Exploration and Community., William Poole
Rhythms Of Times And Places, Bettye Pope
Reckless Hope, Jesse Potts
Understanding Experience: Reflections on the Empowering Nature of Story, Sarah Provencal
Someone Else's Story, Brigette Pugh
Exploring the Social Determinants of Sexually Transmitted Disease and High-Risk Sexual Behaviors, River Pugsley
Elevating Endogenous Cannabinoids Reduces Opioid Withdrawal in Mice, Divya Ramesh
Teller Machine, Reid Ramirez
QUANTIFICATION OF PRETERM INFANT FEEDING COORDINATION: AN ALGORITHMIC APPROACH, Pallavi Ramnarain
A STUDY TOWARDS DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATED HAPTIC USER INTERFACE (AHUI) FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED, Ravi Rastogi
Symptom Clusters in Lung Cancer Patients, Debra Rattican
PARENT AND PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVES ABOUT AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS IN SOUTH INDIA: BELIEFS, PRACTICES, AND PARENT-PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS., Neeraja Ravindran
Stakeholder Views on Children’s Mental Health Services, Adriana Rodriguez
Antinociceptive Effects of Monoamine Reuptake Inhibitors in Assays of Pain-Stimulated and Pain-Depressed Behaviors, Marisa Rosenberg
Hybrid spintronics and straintronics: An ultra-low-energy computing paradigm, Kuntal Roy
Development of Nano-scale Featured Materials for Electrode Modification and Solid Supports., Amy Rue
EVALUATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES PROVIED IN A UNIVERSITY-BASED PRIMARY CARE CLINIC, Elizabeth Sadock
Role of Extracytoplasmic Function Sigma Factors in Porphyromonas gingivalis, Suhasini Yanamandra Sai
Between City Street and River Bed: An Urban Indoor Park, Meredith Salley
CONTRIBUTIONS TO K-MEANS CLUSTERING AND REGRESSION VIA CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS, Raied Salman
Characterization of Superhydrophobic Surfaces Fabricated Using AC-Electrospinning and Random Particle Deposition, Mohamed Samaha Jr.
UNCONVENTIONAL SUPERHALOGENS: DESIGN AND APPLICATIONS, Devleena Samanta
The Unclothed Body in Francisco Goya's The Disasters of War, Elizabeth Sanderford
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF DOXORUBICIN CARRYING CETUXIMAB-PAMAM DENDRIMER BIOCONJUGATES, GUNJAN SAXENA
REDUCING RECIDIVISM IN RETURNING OFFENDERS WITH ALCOHOL AND DRUG RELATED OFFENSES: CONTRACTS FOR THE DELIVERY OF AUTHENTIC PEER BASED RECOVERY SUPPORT SERVICES, Sarah Scarbrough
The Play's the Thing: An Examination of Play's Role in the Cognitive Development of Adolescents, Ian Scheu
The Anatomy of Expression: Explorations on the Intersection of Acting and the Alexander Technique, Kelley Schoger
Using macroinvertebrate community composition to distinguish between natural and anthropogenic sedimentation, Amanda E. Schutt
Development, Optimization, and Twisted Adjustment of an Axial Flow Blood Pump for Fontan Patients, Michael Sciolino
Circuit Development in the Dorsal Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (dLGN) of the Mouse., Tania Seabrook
TGF-beta Receptors and Alcohol Sensitivity in Drosophila, Kristyn Sennett
TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY ASSESSMENT USING THE INTEGRATION OF PATTERN RECOGNITION METHODS AND FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS, Aghazadeh Babak Seyed
Dismemory: On history, the Southern imaginary, and abusing the visual record, Matthew Pendleton Shelton
THE ROLE OF R7 REGULATORS OF G PROTEIN SIGNALING IN THE RETINA, Hoon Shim