Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) make VCU student research and creativity available online as full-text documents and multimedia presentations for use by the university community and others involved in research.
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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 2013
Art and Becoming-Animal: Reconceptualizing the Animal Imagery in Dorothea Tanning's Post-1955 Paintings, Samantha Karam
Attire and Appearance of Orthodontists: A Survey of Parent Preferences, Gillian Kelly
THE TICKING OF THE “BIOLOGICAL CLOCK”: WORRY ABOUT FUTURE FERTILITY IN NULLIPAROUS WOMEN, Karen E. Kersting
Regularities in the Augmentation of Fractional Factorial Designs, Lisa Kessel
NOT ANOTHER SPACE SUIT: Fusing Technology and Indigenous Solutions To Facilitate Thermal Comfort, Alia Khairat
Microtrauma, Katelyn Kiley
A STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TWO ALTERNATIVE MIDDLE SCHOOLS: HOW PREPARED ARE STUDENTS FOR HIGH SCHOOL SUCCESS?, Theresa Kilmer
ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND CORRUPTION: A MULTIPLE CASE STUDY OF NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN KENYA, Douglas Kimemia
The Effects of Tarsh Overexpression on Lung Carcinomas, Young Kim
Enigmatic Allegory, Sara Virginia Kinsey
Birds of Prey, Shauna Kirkland
Laughing Together: Comedic Theatre as a Mechanism of Survival during the Holocaust, Robin Knepp
EXAMINING THE CSI EFFECT AND THE INFLUENCE OF FORENSIC CRIME TELEVISION ON FUTURE JURORS, Christopher Kopacki
Autonomous Systems, Karolis Kosas
Race, Power, and White Womanhood: The Obsessions of Tom Watson and Thomas Dixon Jr., Tara Nicole Kowasic
My Garden, Bianca Kramer
Family Processes as Moderators of the Impact of Peer, School, and Neighborhood Influences on Adolescent Aggression, Alison Kramer-Kuhn
Locus, Claire Krueger
An Analysis of the External Environmental and Internal Organizational Factors Associated With Adoption of the Electronic Health Record, Clemens Kruse
Do it Yourself: A Content Analysis of Free Pornographic Tube Sites, Jill Kubichan
Understanding the Public's Attitudes Toward Tissue Donation: A Multi-Method Approach, Lindsey Kurland
Design of Engineered Biomaterial Architectures Through Natural Silk Proteins, Nicholas Kurland
Effect of cannabinoids on pain-stimulated and pain-depressed behavior in rats, Andrew Kwilasz
Development of Pectoral Apparatus in Ictalurid Catfish, Shweta Lahiri
Barriers for Foreign-Born Students in Elite Post-Secondary Education in the United States, Charmian Lam
Transcriptional crosstalk between helper bacteriophages and Staphylococcal aureus pathogenicity islands, Kristin Lane
Four Virtues: Interventions for Goodness' Sake, Caroline Lavelock
Forced Kinship, Lauren Leake
A Kalman Filter Based Attitude Heading Reference System Using a Low Cost Inertial Measurement Unit, Matthew Leccadito
Broken News: Market Segmentation and Selective Exposure in Online News, Deidra Lee
DRUG DELIVERY MICRODEVICE: DESIGN, SIMULATION, AND EXPERIMENTS, Jae Hwan Lee
The Development and Gentrification of Musical Commerce in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1716-1775, Joshua R. LeHuray
Examining the Relations Between the Mental Health and Physical Health of Caregivers of MS in a Mexican Sample, Gillian Leibach
Tobramycin Disposition in the Lung Following Airway Administration, Min Li
The Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Auditor Judgment, Yang Ling
STUDIES OF PERFORMANCE AND PREDICTABILITY OF CACHE-LOCKING, Matt Loach
Dissecting Emotion, Jennifer LoPresti
Horse Grenade, Ross Losapio
Disruptive Transformations in Health Care: Technological Innovation and the Acute Care General Hospital, D. Pulane Lucas
Visual Attention Bias and Body Dissatisfaction in Eating Disorders, Janet Lydecker
The Impact of Imprecision in HCV Viral Load Test Results on Clinicians’ Therapeutic Management Decisions and on the Economic Value of the Test, Roberta M. Madej
EXAMINATION OF THE EFFECT OF DIFFERENT TRAINING METRICS ON PERFORMANCE OF A MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY TRANSFER TASK, Cristofer Madera
REFORESTATION OF RED SPRUCE (PICEA RUBENS) ON THE CHEAT MOUNTAIN RANGE, WEST VIRGINIA, Justin Madron
Shaping This Space Between Us: using a reflexive journaling process to explore the complex and malleable space in which identity exists, Lina MaHusain
Characterization of cyclic di-GMP binding by the sole Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia hermsii PilZ domain-containing proteins, Katherine Louise Mallory
A Hole in the Wall, Carl Marin
THE ACTIVATION, RECEPTOR COMPLEXING AND ENDOGENOUS REGULATION OF THE TYPE-I INTERFERON RESPONSE AS IT PERTAINS TO INNATE IMMUNITY, James D. Marion Jr.
DAY FOLDER, Raewyn Martyn
The Effects of Gain of Function Mutant p53 and p63 on EPS8 and CXCL5 Expression in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Rubana Masood
"Nightfall", Gentry Matthew
THC-MEDIATED INDUCTION OF ΔFOSB AND ITS MODULATION OF CB1R SIGNALING AND ADAPTATION, Lazenka Matthew
Red Bones and Earth Mothers: A Contemporary Exploration of Colorism and its Perception Among African American Female Adolescents, Morgan Maxwell
Orthogonal Expression of Metabolic Pathways, George Howard McArthur IV
Local Roots, National Trend: The Richmond Printmaking Workshop (1978-1991), Alicia McCarty
Spatial and temporal estimation of nanomechanical properties via Atomic Force Microscopy, Eric McCullough
Three-dimensional soft tissue changes upon smiling, Clayton McEntire
Negotiating the Double Mandate: Mapping Ethical Conflict Experienced by Practicing Educational Leaders, Jeffrey McGee
The Impact of Perpetrator Gender on Child Protective Services Sexual Abuse Cases: A National Picture, David Axlyn McLeod
CAMK-II: AN INTEGRAL PROTEIN IN CELL MIGRATION, Jamie Josephine Avila McLeod
Remembering to Look Down: A Thing not a Thesis, George Ian McMahon
The Effect of Temperature on the Electrical and Optical Properties of p-type GaN, Joy McNamara
Art Education and the Encouragement of Affective and Cognitive Empathy in Early Childhood, Luke Meeken
Setting The Nutritional Agenda: An Analysis of Nutrition Blog Sourcing, Shana Meganck
COMPARISON OF ORAL KETAMINE-MIDAZOLAM AND CHLORAL HYDRATE-MEPERIDINE-HYDROXYZINE SEDATION REGIMENS IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY, David Merrell
A SYSTEMS BIOLOGY APPROACH FOR UNDERSTANDING INFLAMMATION IN THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT OF A CROHN’S PATIENT, Gigi Meyer
SUBDUER, Lauren B. Miller
Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing, Joseph Minek
A Comparison of Legal Literacy Among Teacher Subgroups, Candace Mirabile
THE DESIGN AND VALIDATION OF A COMPUTATIONAL MODEL OF THE HUMAN WRIST JOINT, Afsarul Mir
Characterization of potential interactions between transferrin binding proteins in Neisseria gonorrhoeae, SHRENI MISTRY
Forever starts now, Lior Modan
ALCOHOL AND MEDICATION USE IN COMMUNITY-DWELLING OLDER ADULTS: UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECT OF ALCOHOL AND CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM-ACTING MEDICATIONS ON THE RISK FOR FALLS, Maitreyee Mohanty
Missing Data in the Relational Model, Marion Morrissett
Environmental regulation of tidal wetland microbial communities and associated biogeochemistry, Ember Morrissey
Kinetics and mechanisms of accumulation for liposomal ciprofloxacin into rat alveolar macrophages, Sayeed Mossadeq
The Impact of Black Teacher Mentors on White Beginning Teachers, Wendi Moss
Uncovering the molecular pathways of MBD5 in neurodevelopmental disorders, Sureni Mullegama
Regulation of Gastrointestinal Smooth Muscle Function by Hydrogen Sulfide, Ancy Nalli
Identification of Multiple Levels of Trauma Induced Coagulopathy, Jason Newton
MULTIPLE-INSTANCE AND ONE-CLASS RULE-BASED ALGORITHMS, Dat Nguyen
The Role of CaMK-II in Skeletal Muscle Function and Swimming Behavior in Zebrafish, Minh Nguyen
Visual Communication on Cajamarca Ceramics from pre-Hispanic Peru, 1000 - 1460 CE, Jeanette Nicewinter
Correlates and Predictors of Risky Sexual Partnering, Jennifer Nield
The effect of concurrent cognitive-visuomotor multitasking and task difficulty on dynamic functional connectivity in the brain, Plamen Nikolov
Real time monitoring of surface chemical events by streaming potentials in microfluidic channels, KENJI NOKURA
Localization of Auditory Spatial Targets in Sighted and Blind Subjects, Richard Nuckols