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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 2015
Evaluation of a Novel Myoelectric Training Device, Joshua A. Arenas
Adherence to and Competence in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth Anxiety: Psychometric Evaluation, Cassidy C. Arnold
Dispersal: a multidisciplinary investigation of plant life, Alexandra E. Arzt
HETEROATOM-DOPED NANOPOROUS CARBONS: SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND APPLICATION TO GAS STORAGE AND SEPARATION, Babak Ashourirad
An Exploration of Costume Design For David Emerson Toney's "Frankenstein: Dawn of a Monster", Emily Atkins
Elucidating the Role of Endogenous Electric Fields in Regulating the Astrocytic Response to Injury in the Mammalian Central Nervous System, Matthew L. Baer
Urban Energy, Liz Bahl-Moore
Gender and Representative Bureaucracy: The Career Progression of Women Managers in Male-Dominated Occupations in State Government, Velma J. Ballard
MEASUREMENTS AND MODELING OF HYDROCARBON MIXTURE FLUID PROPERTIES UNDER EXTREME TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE CONDITIONS, Babatunde A. Bamgbade
ESTHETIC PREFERENCES OF MAXILLARY INCISOR LABIOLINGUAL INCLINATION ACROSS RACES, Elvi M. Barcoma
Oasis Link, Sarah Baugh
Black Box Warning, Amanda L. Bausch
Functional Characterization of rai1 in Zebrafish, Joshua S. Beach
Restorative Characteristics of Intrapulpally Cracked Teeth, Charles M. Beavers
RHEB DYNAMICS ON LYSOSOMAL MEMBRANES DETERMINES MTORC1 ACTIVITY AFTER LOSS OF P53 OR ACTIVATION OF AMPK, Catherine M. Bell
Cloud & Field, Justin Belote
Take five? Examining the impact of microbreak duration, activities, and appraisals on human energy and performance, Andrew Bennett
One Script, Two Perspectives: Generation Me and The Staging of Really Really, Jorge A. Bermudez
CONSEQUENCES OF VINE INFESTATION: LINKING ABIOTIC INFLUENCES AND BIOTIC INTERACTIONS TO SUCCESSIONAL AND STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN COASTAL COMMUNITIES, Spencer N. Bissett
African Sleeping Sickness in British Uganda and Belgian Congo, 1900-1910: Ecology, Colonialism, and Tropical Medicine, dana bivens
IN-VITRO ASSESSMENT OF A NOVEL BRACKET'S EFFECT ON RESISTANCE TO SLIDING, James Blackburn
Structural Determinants of Abuse-Related Neurochemical and Behavioral Effects of Para-Substituted Methcathinone Analogs in Rats, Julie S. Bonano
Scoring and Validation of the Cystic Fibrosis Disclosure Questionnaire, Adrienne P. Borschuk
ENHANCED NANOPORE DETECTION VIA DIFFUSION GRADIENTS AND OPTICAL TWEEZERS, Kyle T. Brady
Determinants of Stress and Effects on Performance in Internal Medicine Residents, Sarah Braun
RESPONSES OF THE CATALPA SPHINX, CERATOMIA CATALPAE, AND ITS PRIMARY PARASITOID, COTESIA CONGREGATA, TO VARYING LEVELS OF IRIDOID GLYCOSIDES IN CATALPA, Jessica L. Bray
An Evaluation of the Raise 5 Project: Preventing HIV and Substance Abuse among African American College Students, Joshua K. Brevard
The Synthesis of Solid Supported Palladium Nanoparticles: Effective Catalysts for Batch and Continuous Cross Coupling Reactions, Kendra W. Brinkley
On the Embeddings of the Semi-Strong Product Graph, Eric B. Brooks
On the Edge, Dale M. Brumfield
Visual-Audio Media: Transformation and Communication, Alexander Bruno
Normalizing Tumor Vasculature Using Sepiapterin to Increase Radiosensitivity, Ninu Bruno
THE NATIONAL BOARD CERTIFICATION PROCESS AS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: PERCEPTIONS ABOUT THE IMPACT THAT CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PROCESS HAD ON PROFESSIONAL GROWTH, Heather J. Bumgarner
AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN’S PERCEPTIONS OF HIV PREVENTION COMMUNICATION WITH THEIR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PROVIDERS, Valerie Burge-Hall
Curiosity and Compassion: Curiosity and Attachment Security's Relationship with Empathic Responding to Hardship, Athena H. Cairo
Femtosecond Laser Beam Propagation through Corneal Tissue: Evaluation of Therapeutic Laser-Stimulated Second and Third-Harmonic Generation, William R. Calhoun III
Conduction states of the human dopamine transporter, Krasnodara Cameron
Bracquemond, Ruskin, the Haviland-Hayes Service, and Rookwood: Japonisme and Permanence in Art Pottery, Emily G. Campbell
Beautiful Boys: A Novel, Justin Carmickle
The Richmond Maker Museum: The Evolution of Process, Erin E. Casey
DECREASED SOUND TOLERANCE (DST): PREVALENCE, CLINICAL CORRELATES, AND DEVELOPMENT OF A DST ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT, Therese Verkerke Cash
TOLERANCE OF THYMINE GLYCOL AT THE BLUNT DNA DOUBLE STRAND BREAK FOR NONHOMOLOGUS END JOINING REPAIR AND INTERFERENCE BY BASE EXCISION REPAIR, Sri Lakshmi Chalasani
Measuring mental health provider stigma: The development of a valid and reliable self-assessment instrument, Jennifer L.K. Charles
Reproductive Health and Behavior: The Role of Abuse and Couple Pregnancy Intent, Susan Cha
Domination Numbers of Semi-strong Products of Graphs, Stephen R. Cheney
THE EFFECT OF DEXAMETHASONE ON IL-33-MEDIATED MAST CELL ACTIVATION, Oksana I. Chernushevich
Trash Like Me: Stories & Essays, Taryn C. Chesshire
MIRNAS AS BIOMARKERS FOR PROSTATE CANCER PROGRESSION, Gene C. Clark
Predicting Depression Symptoms Among College Students: The Influence of Parenting Style, Sarah Whitmire Clark
Tracing Motion, Stephanie M. Clark
The Effects of Fatigue on Lower Extremity Kinetics and Kinematics in Subjects with Known Ankle Instability, Lindsay E. Clayton
A CONTINUOUS PROCESS TOWARDS THE SYNTHESIS OF QUINOLONES, Stevara N. Clinton
An Impossible Alternative: Orientalism and Margaret Bourke-White's "A Moneylender's House" (1947), Sharayah Cochran
Identifying Problems during Transitions of Care and Reasons for Emergency Department Utilization in Community-Dwelling Older Adults, Antoinette B. Coe
ANALYTICAL METHOD DEVELOPMENT FOR THE DETECTION AND ANALYSIS OF PROTEIN CARBONYLS, Chelsea M. Coffey
RELATIONAL COORDINATION: AN EXPLORATION OF NURSING UNITS, AN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT AND IN-PATIENT TRANSFERS, Mary Coffey
Expressionism and Ethnography: Max Pechstein in Nidden and Palau, Roland M. Coffey
Examination of lower extremity mechanics during three landing tasks and injury prediction ability of those models as compared to a functional test, Timothy G. Coffey
THE EFFECTS OF FAMILY FUNCTIONING AND TANGIBLE SUPPORT ON TREATMENT OUTCOMES IN AN OPIOID ADDICTED POPULATION, Nathasha N. Cole
Z Axis Follies, Adam Collignon
G.A.M.E.: A Hypermedia Edition of James McNeill Whistler’s The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, Amy Colombo
High School Teacher and Administrator Perceptions of Student Health Promotion: An Exploratory Study, Sarah B. Conklin
Gas Phase Studies of Organic Reaction Mechanisms, Keyanna M. Conner
Censoring and Fusion in Non-linear Distributed Tracking Systems with Application to 2D Radar, Armond S. Conte II
Living in a Gangsta’s Paradise: Dr. C. DeLores Tucker’s Crusade Against Gansta Rap Music in the 1990s, Jordan A. Conway
The role of ADAM10, ADAM17, and Spag6 in humoral immunity and secondary lymphoid tissue architecture, Lauren Folgosa Cooley
An Applied Mathematics Approach to Modeling Inflammation: Hematopoietic Bone Marrow Stem Cells, Systemic Estrogen and Wound Healing and Gas Exchange in the Lungs and Body, Racheal L. Cooper
Development of Irreversible Substrate Competitive Probes for PKA Activity, Robert A. Coover
Therapist Adherence to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxious Youth Across a Case, Julia R. Cox
Individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Predictive Factors for Successful Occupational Performance, Mary Culshaw
Targeting Autophagy in Multiple Myeloma, Yun Dai
Regulation of Tie2 Extracellular Complex Formation in Angiogenesis, Annamarie Dalton
Dysregulation of microRNAs in Blood as Biomarkers for Diagnosing Prostate Cancer, Rhonda W. Daniel
FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSES IN VIRGINIA WOMEN 40-64 YEARS OLD WHO UTLIZED THE EVERY WOMAN’S LIFE PROGRAM 1998-2012, Melanie C. Dempsey
THE OBJECT INBETWEEN, Lucy L. Derickson
The Communion of Saints, Christian Detisch
Reflective Curiosities, Mary O. Dickerson
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER NESTLING DIET AND GROWTH IN RESPONSE TO VARIATION IN AQUATIC AND TERRESTRIAL FOOD AVAILABILITY, Jenna C. Dodson
Spiking Neural Networks: Neuron Models, Plasticity, and Graph Applications, Shaun Donachy
INTERDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SCIENCE & THEATRE, Jessica N. Dotson
Dual PI3K/mTOR Inhibition with BEZ235 Augments the Therapeutic Efficacy of Doxorubicin in Cancer without Influencing Cardiac Function, David E. Durrant
The Effect of Optogenetic Manipulation of SS interneurons within Malformed, Epileptogenic Cortex, Nicole Ekanem
Four Walls, Leia El-Darwish
Conjoined Lucuma Fruit Vessels: Evolution & Context in Nasca Art, Carley Elder
The Orphanage of Things: A Narrative of Abandonment, Malaz Elgemiabby
Crown size comparisons in patients with unilateral palatally displaced canines, Joseph Eliason and Steven J. Lindauer
Mast Cells In Kainate Receptor Knockout Mice, Andrea J. Elkovich
Edgar Allan Poe and Science: Unraveling the Plot of the Universe, Murray S. Ellison
Design of an All-In-One Embedded Flight Control System, Joel D. Elmore
Impact of E-cigarettes on Physician Recommendations of Tobacco Use Cessation Pharmacotherapy, Omar El Shahawy
Relieving Post-stroke Fatigue Using a Group-based Educational Training Approach, Catherine E. Emery
Race & Non-Racial Characteristics in Sentencing Length and Sentencing Type Disparity, Davis A. Estes
Social Studies, Donna B. Evans
GROWING UP IN IRELAND: FACTORS IMPACTING SLEEP PATTERNS OF PRETERM INFANTS, Joanne Fallon
ΛCDM Cosmology + Chaotic Inflation, Peter A. Farago
Fallen/Lifted, Hillary Waters Fayle
Expanding Eco-Visualization: Sculpting Corn Production, Jennifer E. Figg