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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
Effects of leaf litter diversity on nutrients and mosquito communities in Neotropical artificial tree holes, Rachel Komosinski
Investigating a Model for Fetal Alcohol Damage in Caenorhabditis elegans, Lindsay Kondo
Parameter Tuning for Optimization Software, RadhaShilpa Koripalli
PREPARATION AND EVALUATION OF DECONSTRUCTION ANALOGS OF 7-DEOXYKALAFUNGIN AS AKT INHIBITORS, Sudha Korwar
1700 Library: A Public Library in Scott's Addition, Anna Kreyling
Effectiveness of Sensory Integration and Behavioral Interventions on Nonengagement in Preschool Aged Children, Tiffany Kuyper
A brief problem-solving intervention for caregivers of children with cancer, Jennifer Lamanna
Otx but not Mitf transcription factors are required for zebrafish RPE development, Brandon Lane
Analysis of the Fish Community on Tidal-Freshwater Constructed Reefs, Briana Langford
Effects of Early Alcohol Exposure on Ocular Dominance Plasticity, Crystal Lantz
Journeys and Destinations, Houston LeeAnne Lawrynas
UNACCOMPANIED REFUGEE MINORS AND THEIR STRATEGIES TO NAVIGATE A NEW WORLD: A GROUNDED THEORY, Justin Scott Lee
PREDICTION OF RESPIRATORY MOTION, Suk Jin Lee
The Need for Collaboration in Planning Efforts during Natural Disasters: An Evaluation of the City of Richmond, Virginia, Jocelyn Leitch
The Pharmacist Supply in the United States, 1994-2009: A Population Ecology Perspective, Kevin S.J. Lett
Blues Trope as a Cultural Intersection in Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar and Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues, Julia Leuthardt
Portraits as Relic: A Set of Nineteenth-Century Tibetan Lineage Paintings of the Dalai Lamas, Rachel Levy
Youth Hostel: Interior Porches Connecting A Home Away From Home And The City Outside, Li-Wen Lin
Efficacy of REACH Forgiveness for Foreign and Virginia Students, Yin Lin
EFFECTS OF STRAIN ON DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF FERROELECTRIC Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3 FILMS, Hongrui Liu
Investigation of doped ZnO by Molecular Beam Epitaxy for n- and p-type Conductivity, Huiyong Liu
Identification and Quantification of Protein Carbonylation by Mass Spectrometry, Qingyuan Liu
The Effect Of Physician Ownership On Quality Of Care For Outpatient Procedures, Xinliang Liu
Efficiency droop mitigation and quantum efficiency enhancement for nitride Light-Emitting Diodes, Xing Li
The Impact of Service-Learning among Other Predictors for Persistence and Degree Completion of Undergraduate Students, Kelly Lockeman
The Multiple Perspectives of the Lived Experience of Civil Detainment, Linda Love
School Counselor Training: Differentiated Site Supervision Based on Prior Work Experiences, Rachel Loving
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