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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 2017
Effects of prescribed fire on Cope’s Gray Treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis) across habitat scales and life stages, Logan McDonald
Behavioral responses of sub-adult Atlantic Sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus) to electromagnetic and magnetic fields under laboratory conditions, Andrew McIntyre III
Communication, Empathy, and Trust: Exploring Teachers' Partnerships With the Families of Their Most Challenging Students, Kimberly W. McKnight
D is for the most cherished sense (whence it comes and wither it goes), Hallie S. McNeill
USING CLASSROOM SOCIAL DYNAMICS TO UNDERSTAND CLASSROOM ADJUSTMENT BY STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES, Meera Mehtaji
Novel Role of the Nociceptin System as a Regulator of Glutamate Transporter Expression in Developing Astrocytes, Logan Meyer
Effects of Cumulative Risk on Asthma Outcomes in Urban Children and Adolescents, Samantha A. Miadich
The Effects of Disturbance and Species Specific Interactions on Diversity in an Agent Based Forest Simulation, Matthew E. Mills
Mathematical Models of the Inflammatory Response in the Lungs, Sarah B. Minucci
SELF-FORGIVENESS IN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS: THE IMPACT ON THE PERPETRATOR AND THE RELATIONSHIP, Jaclyn M. Moloney
The Dual Faces of Misery, Arden Moscati
SYNERGY: GAME DESIGN + QUR'AN MEMORIZATION, Sultana Jesmine Moulana
Short-term Effects of Nutrients on a Barrier Island Grassland Community, Ashley Moulton
Your Turn, Doctor, Leyla Mozayen
Development of My Footprint Calculator, Karthik Mummidisetti
Computational Fluid Dynamics in a Terminal Alveolated Bronchiole Duct with Expanding Walls: Proof-of-Concept in OpenFOAM, Jeremy Myers
One in Eight: Deciding to Pursue a College-Going Possible Self in a High-Poverty High School, David B. Naff
Sol-Gel Chemistry: An Advanced Technique to Produce Macroscopic Nanostructures of Metal and Semiconductor Colloids, Lamia Nahar
Optical Spectroscopy of Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Heterostructures and Group-IV Alloy Quantum Dots, Tanner A. Nakagawara
NETWORK ANALYTICS FOR THE MIRNA REGULOME AND MIRNA-DISEASE INTERACTIONS, Joseph Jayakar Nalluri
Interleukin-18 as a Therapeutic Target in Western-diet Induced Cardiomyopathy, Pratyush Narayan
The Odcombian Climber: How Thomas Coryate Employed Media for Social Advantage, Julian T. Neuhauser
An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship among Social Institutions and Juvenile Arrests in Virginia, Linh Thi T. Nguyen
The Characterization of Chimeric Chaperone Flagrp170 as a Novel Radioprotectant, Tyler L. Nguyen
THE TEA PARTY VERSUS PLANNING: A STUDY OF TEA PARTY ACTIVISM AND ITS IMPACT ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT PLANNING, Spencer A. Norman
Planar Refrains, stephen anthony nunes
USING HYDROPATHIC MOLECULAR MODELING TOOLS TO ENHANCE UNDERSTANDING OF PROTEIN-LIGAND INTERACTIONS IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, AHMAD J. OBAIDULLAH
"Our Captain is a Gentleman”: Officer Elections among Virginia Confederates, 1861-1862, Ryan C. O'Hallahan
Lived Experiences of School Counselors Who Address Mental Health Needs Through Evidenced-based Educational Programs, Kelley Yvette Olds
The Lens of Trauma: Montage Poetics in H.D.’s Trilogy, Emily Olsen
Emporium, John C. Orth
Eye Movement Control: An Index for Athleticism, Brittany L. OShea
Discovery and Characterization of Cytomegalovirus Inhibitors using Reporter-based Antiviral Assays, amine ourahmane
UNDERSTANDING OVER-THE-COUNTER MEDICATION USE AND DECISION-MAKING AMONG COMMUNITY-DWELLING US OLDER ADULTS: A MIXED-METHODS APPROACH, Yoshita Paliwal
Role of mitochondrial beta-oxidation in ethanol response: A candidate gene study using Caenorhabditis elegans, Harini Pallikarana Tirumala
Fabrication of flexible, biofunctional architectures from silk proteins, Ramendra K. Pal
Big Data Visualization Platform for Mixed Reality, Aliakbar Panahi
MAST CELL ACTIVATION BY DIVERSE STIMULI CAN BE SUPPRESSED BY STEROID THERAPY AND TARGETING THE FYN-STAT5B CASCADE, Anuya Paranjape
A Comparison of Moderate Oral Sedation Drug Regimens for Pediatric Dental Treatment: A Pilot Study, Ojas A. Parikh
Respiratory Prediction and Image Quality Improvement of 4D Cone Beam CT and MRI for Lung Tumor Treatments, Seonyeong Park
Internet-based Behavior of IT Professionals: Implications for Online Ergonomic Education to Prevent Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders, Priyadarshini Pattath
The Impact of Objective Quality Ratings on Patient Selection of Community Pharmacies: A Discrete Choice Experiment and Latent Class Analysis, Julie A. Patterson
GOMDS - GRUMPY OLD MEN DOING SHAKESPEARE; THE COMEDY OF ERRORS AS METAPHOR FOR LIFE, AGING, AND BUILDING COMMUNITY, Elizabeth B. Pedersen
Investigations into structure and properties of atomically-precise transition metal-chalcogenide clusters of CrTe and ligated Cr6Te8(PEt3)6, Anthony F. Pedicini
DESIGN FOR DISASSEMBLY - A CIRCULAR APPROACH, Wajiha Pervez
A Dialogue of Learning: The Exploration of a Service-Learning Practicum and the Development of Democratic Educational Values, Margaret P. Pienkowski
MODELING PSYCHOLOGISTS’ OPENNESS TO PERFORMING CLINICAL WORK WITH TELEPSYCHOLOGY, Bradford S. Pierce
Parametric, Nonparametric and Semiparametric Approaches in Profile Monitoring of Poisson Data, Sepehr Piri
Contribution of ASC-Inflammasome to Vascular Endothelial Dysfunction: Role of RNA Receptor RIG-I, Ashley Pitzer
Comparison of intraoral and extraoral scanners on the accuracy of digital model articulation, Jason L. Porter
Deletion of Cardiac miR-17-92 Cluster Increases Ischemia/ Reperfusion Injury via PTEN Upregulation, Meeta B. Prakash
Immersive Theater & The Physical Narrative, Lauren Prisco
Walking in beauty: Responsive and responsible health and healing among Virginia American Indian people, Amy J. Prorock-Ernest
THE MEDIATING ROLE OF MENTAL HEALTH IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DISCRIMINATION AND RISKY BEHAVIORS IN LGBT ADULTS IN LATIN AMERICA, Annie Rabinovitch
Implementing Integrated Care in Family Medicine: Description and Outcomes in an Underserved Population, Zach Radcliff
Comparisons of Isogenic Trisomic and Disomic Cells from People with Mosaicism for Down Syndrome Unmask Cellular Differences Related to Trisomy 21, Kelly A. Rafferty
COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF DIFFUSION MODELS AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL INTELLIGENCE ON ELECTROCHEMICAL PROCESS OF U AND Zr DISSOLUTIONS IN LiCl-KCl EUTECTIC SALTS, Samaneh Rakhshan Pouri
Focused Attention vs. Open Monitoring: An Event-Related Potential Study of Emotion Regulation by Two Distinct Forms of Mindfulness Meditation, Tarah L. Raldiris
Amixicile Inhibits Anaerobic Bacteria within an Oral Microbiome Derived from Patients with Chronic Periodontitis, Kane Ramsey
LUNG DISPOSITION MODEL-BASED ANALYSES OF CLINICAL PHARMACOKINETIC PROFILES FOR INHALED DRUGS, Anuja Raut
Sleep and Pain in Older Adults: The Role of Negative and Positive Affect, Scott Ravyts
A Range-wide Assessment of Migratory Connectivity for the Prothonotary Warbler Using Stable Hydrogen Isotopes, Jessica Reese
Spooky Action At A Distance, Jonathan A. Rehwoldt
Nature Nurtures, Moriah Rhodes
Optimization of in vitro transcription/translation conditions for in vitro compartmentalization studies and synthesis of 4-fluorohistidine, Christine Ring
Advocate or Traditional Bureaucrat: Understanding the Role of ESL Supervisors in Shaping Local Education Policy toward Immigrant Communities, Grant E. Rissler
EXPANDING MONOAMINE TRANSPORTERS PHARMACOLOGY USING CALCIUM CHANNELS, Iwona Ruchala
Wake the Devil, Ricardo Ruiz
William Holman Hunt’s Portrait of Henry Wentworth Monk, Jennie Mae Runnels
Heme Oxygenase 1 expression after traumatic brain injury and effect of pharmacological manipulation on functional recovery., Nicholas H. Russell
MODERATE SEVERITY DISTURBANCE HAS SIMILAR EFFECTS ON THE PRODUCTION OF THREE FORESTS NESTED WITHIN THE UPPER GREAT LAKES LANDSCAPE, Benjamin Tai Sagara
Hub Proteins, Paralogs, and Unknown Proteins in Bacterial Interaction Networks, Neha Sakhawalkar
Decomposition Algorithms in Stochastic Integer Programming: Applications and Computations., Babak Saleck Pay
open / close: assimilating immersive spaces in visual communication, Anika Sarin
Upper Elementary Reading Instruction in the Age of Accountability: Balancing Best Practices with Pressures to Achieve on High-Stakes Tests, Christina H. Saunders
Drinking Motives Underlying Internalizing and Externalizing Pathways to Alcohol Misuse in College Students, Jeanne Savage
Socioecological Aspects of Tobacco Use in College Populations, Michael D. Sawdey
positions of place: converging viewpoints in visual communication, Gregory J. Schmidt
IN SEARCH OF A FUNCTION FOR AN UNCHARACTERIZED CONSERVED PROTEIN IN Streptococcus sanguinis SK36, Ayana Scott-Elliston
PNPase IN C. ELEGANS: MUTAGENIC ANALYSIS TO COMPLEMENT KNOCKDOWN STUDIES, Danielle K. Seibert
E-cigarettes and Smoking Cessation: Economic Impact on Current Smokers with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Anal A. Shah
The Identity Formation of South Asians: A Phenomenological Study, Shabana Shaheen
PO2 dependence of oxygen consumption in skeletal muscle of hypertensive and normotensive rats, Habiba Shah
A Roadmap for Development of Novel Antipsychotic Agents Based on a Risperidone Scaffold, Urjita H. Shah
Structure-Activity Relationship Studies of Bupropion and Related 3-Substituted Methcathinone Analogues at Monoamine Transporters, Abdelrahman R. Shalabi
Skinface, Islam Shehab
Altering a Runner’s Foot strike using a Modified Elliptical Trainer, Daniel Shull
Engineering Icephobic Coatings: Surface Characterization of Pt cured Silicones, Sithara Shylaja Nair
Come Fly with Me: Using Amixicile to Target Periodontal Pathogens and Elucidating the Innate Immune Response in Drosophila melanogaster, Kathryn Sinclair
Theatrical Texts and Contexts: Poe and Hawthorne’s Fictional Women, Savannah M. Singletary
Restoration, Shannon M. Slaight-Brown
Taken back by the ballpark: The role of nostalgia in the Minor League Baseball spectator experience, Mark A. Slavich