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Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Development of Nano-scale Featured Materials for Electrode Modification and Solid Supports., Amy Rue

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EVALUATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES PROVIED IN A UNIVERSITY-BASED PRIMARY CARE CLINIC, Elizabeth Sadock

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Role of Extracytoplasmic Function Sigma Factors in Porphyromonas gingivalis, Suhasini Yanamandra Sai

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Between City Street and River Bed: An Urban Indoor Park, Meredith Salley

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO K-MEANS CLUSTERING AND REGRESSION VIA CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS, Raied Salman

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Characterization of Superhydrophobic Surfaces Fabricated Using AC-Electrospinning and Random Particle Deposition, Mohamed Samaha Jr.

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UNCONVENTIONAL SUPERHALOGENS: DESIGN AND APPLICATIONS, Devleena Samanta

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The Unclothed Body in Francisco Goya's The Disasters of War, Elizabeth Sanderford

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INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF α6 and α4 CONTAINING NEURONAL NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTORS IN NICOTINE AND COCAINE CONDITIONED PLACE PREFERENCE TESTS IN MICE., Sarah Sanjakdar

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SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF DOXORUBICIN CARRYING CETUXIMAB-PAMAM DENDRIMER BIOCONJUGATES, GUNJAN SAXENA

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REDUCING RECIDIVISM IN RETURNING OFFENDERS WITH ALCOHOL AND DRUG RELATED OFFENSES: CONTRACTS FOR THE DELIVERY OF AUTHENTIC PEER BASED RECOVERY SUPPORT SERVICES, Sarah Scarbrough

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The Play's the Thing: An Examination of Play's Role in the Cognitive Development of Adolescents, Ian Scheu

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The Anatomy of Expression: Explorations on the Intersection of Acting and the Alexander Technique, Kelley Schoger

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Using macroinvertebrate community composition to distinguish between natural and anthropogenic sedimentation, Amanda E. Schutt

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Development, Optimization, and Twisted Adjustment of an Axial Flow Blood Pump for Fontan Patients, Michael Sciolino

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Circuit Development in the Dorsal Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (dLGN) of the Mouse., Tania Seabrook

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TGF-beta Receptors and Alcohol Sensitivity in Drosophila, Kristyn Sennett

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TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY ASSESSMENT USING THE INTEGRATION OF PATTERN RECOGNITION METHODS AND FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS, Aghazadeh Babak Seyed

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Dismemory: On history, the Southern imaginary, and abusing the visual record, Matthew Pendleton Shelton

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THE ROLE OF R7 REGULATORS OF G PROTEIN SIGNALING IN THE RETINA, Hoon Shim

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Sex-specific Habitat Use and Responses to Fragmentation in an Endemic Chameleon Fauna, Philip Shirk

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Tuning Parameter Selection in L1 Regularized Logistic Regression, Shujing Shi

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Compliance-free Class II correction and its relationship to vertical facial characteristics, Michael Shoff

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FUNCTIONAL AND BIOCHEMICAL CONSEQUENCES OF SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS IN THE HUMAN VESICULAR MONOAMINE TRANSPORTER 1 GENE (SLC18A1) By Sally Gamal Shukry, B.S., Sally Gamal Shukry

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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRINCIPALS’ SENSE OF ACHIEVEMENT AND TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THEIR PRINCIPALS’ LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS, Javaid Siddiqi

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Life, The Multiverse, and Everything: How Crisis on Infinite Earths Changed DC Comics, Kate Simonsen

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SYNTHESIS AND BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF SECOND GENERATION ANIBAMINE ANALOGUES AS NOVEL ANTI-PROSTATE CANCER AGENTS, Shilpa Singh

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Non-Invasive Intracranial Pressure Method and Monitor, Tarun Sinha

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Non-canonical roles for STAT1 and STAT2 in mitochondrial biogenesis and fasting homeostasis., Jennifer Sisler

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Broad to Marshall Bridge | A City Block Interior That Separates and Connects Place, Emily Smith

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An Analysis of the Effect of Lecture Capture Initiatives on Student-Athletes at an NCAA Division I Institution, Gregory Smith

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Theorizing Digital Narrative: Beginnings, Endings, and Authorship, Jennifer Smith

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Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Narratives on the 1585 Relación Geográfica Map of Santiago Atitlán, Kaitlan Smith

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Artist Alien Ghost Juggler: Performance of “Troilus and Cressida” as Graduate Thesis, Vladislav Smolkin

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Describing High School Readiness; Implementing School-Wide Positive Behavior Supports, Emily Snead

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IN VITRO IN VIVO METHODS AND PHARMACOKINETIC MODELS FOR SUBCUTANEOUSLY ADMINISTERED PEPTIDE DRUG PRODUCTS, Amit Somani

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DIGITAL NATIVE PRESERVICE TEACHERS: AN EXAMINATION OF THEIR SELF-EFFICACY BELIEFS REGARDING TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION IN CLASSROOM SETTINGS, Sarah Parker Southall

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There is a Beginning, Catherine Stark

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Heat Transfer Enhancement using Iron Oxide Nanoparticles, Dale Stuart

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Identifying Sortase A Variants With Higher Catalytic Effeciency, Muna Suliman

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ALIGNING SECURITY AND USABILITY OBJECTIVES FOR COMPUTER BASED INFORMATION SYSTEMS, Santa Ram Susarapu

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The Effect of Oral Care on Intracranial Pressure in Critically Ill Adults, Christina Szabo

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Assessing the Effects of Stress Resilience Training on Visual Discrimination Skills: Implications for Perceptual Resilience in U.S. Warfighters, Andrea Taylor

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Whiff of Black Ice, Alina Tenser

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Frames for Hilbert spaces and an application to signal processing, Kinney Thompson

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A Water Quality Investigation of Kimages Creek, Michael Trop

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The Impact of Sincerity of Terrorists on Committing Terrorist Activities in Turkey, Ahmet Turer

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The Portrait Prints of Mehmed II, Saskia Turpijn

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Neighborhood Inclusion and Quality in Richmond, VA: An Empirical Review of Neighborhoods in the Richmond Region Based on Factors of Racial and Economic Inclusion and Quality of Life., Samuel Tuttle

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Law Enforcement Intelligence Recruiting Confidential Informants within “Religion-Abusing Terrorist Networks”, Hursit Ucak

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AN INVESTIGATION OF INTERNAL CONTROL RELATED FRAUDS AND AUDITOR LITIGATION: PRE- AND POST- SARBANES-OXLEY, SECTION 404, Ifeoma Udeh

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Mass Spectroscopic Identification and Quantification of Protein Carbonyls, Zafer Ugur

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The Social Work Perspective on English Language Learners Entering Special Education, Kerry Fay Vandergrift

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NOVEL STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE METABOLIC PARAMETERS AND PRECONDITION DIABETIC HEARTS AGAINST ISCHEMIA/REPERFUSION INJURY, AMIT VARMA

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Choosing Surgical Birth: Personal Choice and Medical Jurisdiction, Alexandria Vasquez

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DETERMINATION OF EFFECTIVE TRAINING METHODS TO LEARN A LAPAROSCOPIC CAMERA NAVIGATION TASK UNDER STRESSFUL ENVIRONMENTS, Devnath Vasudevan

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TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING THE MECHANISM OF ACTION OF ABUSED CATHINONES, Rakesh Vekariya

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OPPOSING ROLES OF THE μ-OPIOID AND NOCICEPTIN/ORPHANIN FQ RECEPTORS IN OLIGODENDROCYTE DEVELOPMENT AND MYELINATION, Allison Vestal-Laborde

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IMPACTS OF RDX SOIL CONTAMINATION ACROSS AN AGE GRADIENT FOR THE NATIVE SHRUB MORELLA CERIFERA., Stephen Via

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THE EFFECT OF A NAVIGATIONAL AID ON TRAINING OF A MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY CAMERA TASK, Ketan Vidwans

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But From This Moment On We Know Nothing, Jacob Vincent

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CHARACTERIZATION OF MICROSATELLITE LOCI AND PILOT POPULATION GENETIC ANALYSIS IN HICKORY SHAD, ALOSA MEDIOCRIS, FNU Vishakha

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White Sands, Laura Vitale

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POPPIES AND PTSD: OPIOID INFLUENCE ON A PRECLINCAL MODEL OF POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER., Sarah Vunck

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Seeking Freedom through Self-Love in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Beloved, Stephanie Walker

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The Dragons in your Dreams, Jacquelyn Walther

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DIFFUSE TRAUMATIC AXONAL INJURY WITHIN THE VISUAL SYSTEM: IMPLICATIONS FOR VISUAL PATHWAY REORGANIZATION, Jiaqiong Wang

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The Role of Zinc Particle Size and Loading in Cathodic Protection Efficiency, QIANG WANG

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Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Implications for School Systems and School Personnel, Carmen Y. Ward

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Family Matters, Heather Warstler

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Design Invites Stories: a mental health facility, Christina Lee Waters

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Factors Associated with Access to Palliative Care in a Large Urban Public Teaching Hospital with a Formal Hospital-Based Palliative Care Program, Leland Waters

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Empires of the Air, Gregory Osina Weatherford

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Expression of Foreign Genes in the Pseudomonas Bacteriophage Pf3, Krystin Weathers

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A Multifaceted Approach Identifies ErbB2 and ErbB3 proteins and microRNA-125b as Key Contributors to Prostate Cancer Progression, Danielle Weaver

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Visual Exploration of Cultural Intersections, Sarah Weber

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BEHAVIORAL PHENOTYPING OF THE DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS PROPERTIES OF THE ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC DRUG CLOZAPINE IN 129S2/HSV MICE, Kevin Webster

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Transferrin binding protein B structure, function, and export in Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Meredith L. Weck

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Between Floors: The Ups and Downs of Mediated Narrative, Melinda White

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Performing Transition: Depictions of the Transgender Experience, T K. Widmer

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Authority through Polyvocality in The Poisonwood Bible, Emily C. Williams

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THE EFFECTS OF RIVER SEDIMENT, ENDOSULFAN, AND MODERATE HYPOXIA ON BLUE CRABS (CALLINECTES SAPIDUS) FROM THE TIDAL, FRESHWATER JAMES RIVER, Laura Williams

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Using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) to identify and predict microRNAs (miRNAs) potentially affecting Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder, Vernell Williamson

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Radiation Sensitization of Breast Cancer Cells by Vitamin D Through the Promotion of Autophagic Cell Death, Eden Wilson

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Fabrication of Anisotropic Sol-gel Materials by Photo-Crosslinking, Charles Wingfield

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Accurate Methodology for Monitoring Biomembrane Events, Christine A. Winschel

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Parental and Family Predictors of Adolescent Weight Loss and Health Change in a Multidisciplinary Obesity Intervention, Jacqueline Woods

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Hearts and Trees, Hilary Woznica

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Improve the Performance and Scalability of RAID-6 Systems Using Erasure Codes, Chentao Wu

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Segmentation and Fracture Detection in CT Images for Traumatic Pelvic Injuries, Jie Wu

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CROSSTALK BETWEEN LYSOPHOSPATIDIC ACID (LPA) AND TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA (TGFβ) IN BREAST AND OVARIAN CANCER CELLS, Jinhua Wu

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AlGaN/GaN Dual Channel HFETs and Realization of GaN Devices on different substrates, Mo Wu

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RESPONDING TO THE CHILD WELFARE WORKFORCE CRISIS HERE AND NOW: A CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING SUPERVISION, Abigail K. Wyche

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Using Genetic Information in Risk Prediction for Alcohol Dependence, Jia Yan

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Spatial distribution and modulation of nitric oxide synthase in a hypertensive rat model, Andrew Yannaccone

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The Current Status of Social Media use among Nonprofit Human Service Organizations: An Exploratory Study, James Young

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ENGINEERING OF POLYAMIDOAMINE (PAMAM) DENDRIMERS FOR GENE AND DRUG DELIVERY, Quan Yuan

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PARENTAL UNDERSTANDING OF ANESTHESIA RISK FOR DENTAL TREATMENT, Andrew Zale

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BIOCHEMICAL ACTIONS OF A NOVEL CIS-TERPENONE, Lin Zhang

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TOWARDS AN INCENTIVE COMPATIBLE FRAMEWORK OF SECURE CLOUD COMPUTING, Yulong Zhang