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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 2024
Utilizing Hemoglobin Binding Kinetics and X-ray Crystallography in Sickle Cell Disease Drug Development, Ahmed Alghamdi
SYMMETRY ANALYSIS OF THE CANONICAL CONNECTION ON LIE GROUPS:CO-DIMENSION TWO ABELIAN NILRADICAL WITH ABELIAN AND NON ABELIAN COMPLEMENT, nouf alrubea almutiben
The Patient Experience of Language Discordance and Interpreter Services in the Emergency Department, Keri L. Baker
Development of an ex vivo assay to investigate streptococcal-platelet interactions, Jasmine Benbei
Variability in Perceptions of Complementary Health Approaches Among Graduate Student Trainees, Delaney C. Bilodeau
CHRONOBIOLOGY OF MEAL TIMING IN EARLY-STAGE HYPERTENSION: EFFECTS ON RENAL AND VASCULAR FUNCTION, Natalie J. Bohmke
A Precision-Controlled Investigation Into The Fundamentals Which Drive The Incredible Superhydrophobic Properties Of Soot, Ashton Bressler
Surface Engineering on Functional Materials for Sustainable Environmental Research, Jianping Chen
They Tried to Kill Your Favorite Bad Bitch: A Look into Digital Misogynoir and How the Girlies Clap Back and Bring Wreck on Twitter, KaLyn T. Coghill
Implications of Extremity: the Digital Nexus between Black Metal Subculture and Right-Wing Extremism, Samuel G. Crawford
Developing and Testing a Model of Discrimination, Internalized Oppression, Mental Health, and Suicidality in Disabled Transgender and Gender Non-binary (TGNB) Individuals, Stephanie L. Cull
A Study of the Effectiveness of the National Inclusive Curriculum for Health Education in Undergraduate Medical Education, Kayla Diggs Brody
“I KNOW WHAT NOTHING MEANS”: NOSTALGIA, HOPE, AND THE POSTMODERN SEARCH FOR THE SUBLIME, Kathryn L. Donati
Functional Monitoring for Run-Time Assurance of a Real-Time Cyber Physical System, Matthew W. Gelber
Frozen by worry and fatigue? A mixed methods approach to understanding the lived experiences of freezing of gait, Sarah M. Ghose
Penalized Interpolating B-splines and Their Applications, Kylee L. Hartman-Caballero
Outcomes of Anterior Crossbite Correction on Alveolar Bone Morphology in Patients with Cleft Lip and Palate, Katherine J. Hayes
Validation of a Screening Tool for Sleep Apnea in Children, Brandon Khor
The Effect of Local Anesthesia When Used in Dental Restorative Cases Under General Anesthesia on Control of Postoperative Comfort, Elizabeth S. Kleefisch DDS
I am Who I am, Yifei Kong
A Man of Double Deed, Gilad Leiba
Shinners, Alexis E. Mabry
Graph Coloring Reconfiguration, Reem Mahmoud
Mechanistic Analysis of Four-Way DNA Junctions and Cytokine-Binding Aptamers for Therapeutic Interventions, Roaa S. Mahmoud
Essays on the Impacts of MACRA 2015 and Market Dynamics on Quality, Billing, and Fraud in the U.S. Healthcare System, Mahmoud Manouchehri Amoli
Humans Are Dust, Chelsea Nanfelt Rowe
Representation Matters! Media’s Impact on BIPOC Participation in Outdoor Recreation, Latryce Noel
Nurse-Led Home Visitation and Parental Reasoning About Child Discipline: A Realist Evaluation of Perceived Influential Mechanisms, Jeniece S. Roane
Adaptive Multi-label Classification on Drifting Data Streams, Martha Roseberry
Advanced Manufacturing Methods to Produce Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients via Parametric Control of Crystallization, Michael Scott
The Role of Sleep and Social-Ecological Supports in the Association between Racial Discrimination and Cardiometabolic Risk in Black Youth, Jelaina R. Shipman-Lacewell
Investigating The Ultrafast Dissociation Dynamics of Energetic Materials Using Femtosecond Time-Resolved Mass Spectrometry, Jacob M. Shusterman
REDESIGN, EVALUATION, AND VALIDATION OF A COMMERCIALLY VIABLE HIGH-RESOLUTION MELT BASED MIXTURE SCREENING TOOL, Chastyn Smith
From Suicidal Ideation to Suicide Attempt: Clarifying the Role of Painful and Provocative Events, Mallory Stephenson
Living the American DREAM? College Experiences of Undocumented Students in an Era of Rising Xenophobia and Political Turmoil, Sandra Y. Ting Ph.D.
Continuous flow as a process intensification tool for the preparation of pharmaceutically relevant N-heterocycles, John W. Tomlin Jr
THE INFLUENCE OF FLAVOR ON THE ABUSE LIABILITY OF A HEATED TOBACCO PRODUCT AND ITS FEASIBILITY AS A MENTHOL CIGARETTE SUBSTITUTE, Augustus White
Effects of Mindfulness Training on Prosocial Responses in Intergroup Relations: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial, Denise Yiran Zheng
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
ASSESSING DRUG DEVELOPMENT PROPORTIES OF ANTITHROMBOTIC AND ANTI - CANCER AGENTS, Elsamani I. Abdelfadiel
The Aging Epigenome and the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor in the Regulation of Drug Metabolism, Sara Abudahab
NOVEL STRATEGIES IN HEAD AND NECK TUMOR THERAPY; CONTRIBUTION OF SENESCENCE IN THERAPY RESPONSE, AND RESISTANCE DEVELOPMENT AFTER CISPLATIN TREATMENT, Fereshteh Ahmadinejad
Exploring the discriminative stimulus effects of e-cigarette aerosols in rodents, Yasmin Alkhlaif
OVERCOMING CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES IN KIDNEY DISEASE TREATMENT THROUGH METABOLOMIC AND DATA SCIENCE APPROACHES, Monther Alsultan
Saudi Mediated Public Diplomacy: Exploring the Agenda Building of Government-Sponsored News Before and After the Vision 2030 Announcement, Yahya Alzahrany
Low efficacy mu-opioid receptor agonist as a candidate opioid use disorder medication, Michelle Arriaga
Irene Cox, Lindsey Arturo
Fascism in Sci-Fi: "Mobilizing Passions" in Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers, Alton C. Ayers
A standardized pipeline for isolation and assembly of genomes from symbiotic bacteria in whole louse genomic sequence data., Mohammad Mikail I. Bala
Population Demography of a Neotropical Migratory Songbird in the Face of a Changing Climate, Adele Balmer
LEARNING-Driven FRAMEWORKS FOR SELF-DRIVEN PROTOCOLS for NEXT-Generation NETWORKS, Hannaneh Barahouei Pasandi
Identification of Adverse Drug Events from the FAERS Database Utilizing the Low-Code KNIME Platform, Lama Basalelah
Buckets in a Deep Well: Essays About Shakespeare’s History Play Characters and an Original Drama, Brian C. Bassett
Rainbow Turan Methods for Trees, Victoria Bednar
Time of Eating and Mortality in U.S. Adults with Heart Failure: Analyses of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2003-2018, Hayley E. Billingsley
Assessing the Perceived Impact of a Local, Community-Engaged Mural Project on Preservice Art Educators in Foundational Coursework, Caitlin M. Black
Quantitative Changes in Hippocampal CCR5+ Microglia with the Administration of Maraviroc (MVC): Does Sex Matter?, Ama S. Boakye-Agyei
Machine Learning Models to automate Radiotherapy Structure Name Standardization, Priyankar Bose
Biting Range, effie bowen
Pre-clinical trials with precision-medicine based therapeutics in basal-like patient-derived xenografts, David C. Boyd
Estimating Cumulative Spatial Risk Over Time and Extending Mixture Modeling in a Bayesian Framework, Joseph Boyle
Body-interfaced optochemical sensors and nanoparticles for bioimaging and analysis of essential biomarkers and bacteria, Brock A. Brady
Breaking Bread & Boundaries : Finding Home In Every Bite, Steffi Ann Braganza
How Teacher-Student Relationships Shape Student Engagement and Interest in Science, Destini N. Braxton
Adolescent Binge Ethanol-Induced Dysregulation of H3K36 Methylation May Underlie Persistent Memory Deficits, Emily Brocato
Design and fabrication of multifunctional substrates for tissue interfacing biodevices, Anne Katherine Brooks
Driving Native-Like Zonal Enthesis Formation In Engineered Ligaments Using Developmentally Inspired Mechanical Cues, Michael E. Brown
The Exhibition Catalog as Medium: Mid-Twentieth-Century American Exhibition Catalogs as Documents and Autonomous Artifacts, Sarah A. Burgos
Thermal Performance and Fluid Flow Studies of Twisted Tape Inserts Using Scaled Surrogate Fluids for Molten Salt Energy Applications, Arturo Cabral
Enhancing Neuromorphic Computing with Advanced Spiking Neural Network Architectures, Paolo Gabriel Alejandro Cachi Delgado
New River Kids: Stories, Brenna Camping
Morphic Radiance, Daniel Carbone
Model-based Imputation of Below Detection Limit Missing Data and Group Selection in Bayesian Group Index Regression, Matthew Carli
Thrive: Empowering Women's Health Through Healing Design, Tawny Chamberlain
Clothing Characteristics and Their Effects on Individuals in the Workplace, Yingyi Chang
A Six-Month Comparison of Orthodontic Pain Associated with Fixed Edgewise Appliances and Clear Aligners, Victor Chan
Inactivation of Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase Protects Against Ischemic Reperfusion Injury-induced Renal Fibrogenesis, Chaoling Chen
Vesptures, Nyasha T. Chigama Ms
Acculturative Stress and Quality of Life among Older Korean Immigrants: Do Religiosity and Resilience Matter?, Sunghwan Cho
STRENGTH SCALING A GENERIC UPPER LIMB MUSCULOSKELETAL MODEL TO REPRESENT INDIVIDUALS WITH PARAPLEGIA, Yeajin Cho
Metalloglycomics of Platinum and Cobalt Coordination Complexes, Jessica Christian
QVOICES: Queer Voices in Oncology Igniting Change through Empowered stories of Survivorship, Viktor Clark
Demonstrated Sensitivity, Kate Crankshaw
Norteada - In the Greater Geologic Span of Time, Just Fine, Clara Cruz
Physical Activity in Adolescents with and without ADHD: Longitudinal Associations with Sleep, ADHD, and Internalizing Symptoms, Caroline N. Cusick Lowman
Isoprenylation Inhibition Significantly Reduces IgE Mediated Mast Cell Function and Allergic Disease, Jordan Dailey
Driven by Personality: Exploring the Relationship between Custom Cars and Self-expression, Tharwa Dalansi
Quantifying Fibronectin Mechanical Properties using Antibody-Mediated Optical Tweezing (AMOT), Caleb Dalton
Exploring the Relationship Between the Epigenome and Metabolism in MYCN-Amplified Neuroblastoma, Krista M. Dalton
STAGE-STRUCTURED PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTIONS IN A WARMING WORLD: A CASE STUDY IN RIVERINE ROCK POOLS, Andrew T. Davidson
Using Bovid Tribe Proportions to Reconstruct Paleoenvironments of Eastern African Paranthropus, Lisa Day
The Ideal Case of the IF:Gathering: Examining Agency, Authority, and Precarity through a Digital Content Analysis of an Influential Women’s Evangelical Parachurch Organization, Elizabeth A. Deere
MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF PREMOLARS AND ITS RELEVANCE TO ROOT CANAL ANATOMY, James DeGracie