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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
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
QUANTIFICATION OF PRETERM INFANT FEEDING COORDINATION: AN ALGORITHMIC APPROACH, Pallavi Ramnarain
A STUDY TOWARDS DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATED HAPTIC USER INTERFACE (AHUI) FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED, Ravi Rastogi
Symptom Clusters in Lung Cancer Patients, Debra Rattican
PARENT AND PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVES ABOUT AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS IN SOUTH INDIA: BELIEFS, PRACTICES, AND PARENT-PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS., Neeraja Ravindran
Stakeholder Views on Children’s Mental Health Services, Adriana Rodriguez
Antinociceptive Effects of Monoamine Reuptake Inhibitors in Assays of Pain-Stimulated and Pain-Depressed Behaviors, Marisa Rosenberg
Hybrid spintronics and straintronics: An ultra-low-energy computing paradigm, Kuntal Roy
Development of Nano-scale Featured Materials for Electrode Modification and Solid Supports., Amy Rue
EVALUATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES PROVIED IN A UNIVERSITY-BASED PRIMARY CARE CLINIC, Elizabeth Sadock
Role of Extracytoplasmic Function Sigma Factors in Porphyromonas gingivalis, Suhasini Yanamandra Sai
Between City Street and River Bed: An Urban Indoor Park, Meredith Salley
CONTRIBUTIONS TO K-MEANS CLUSTERING AND REGRESSION VIA CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS, Raied Salman
Characterization of Superhydrophobic Surfaces Fabricated Using AC-Electrospinning and Random Particle Deposition, Mohamed Samaha Jr.
UNCONVENTIONAL SUPERHALOGENS: DESIGN AND APPLICATIONS, Devleena Samanta
The Unclothed Body in Francisco Goya's The Disasters of War, Elizabeth Sanderford
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF DOXORUBICIN CARRYING CETUXIMAB-PAMAM DENDRIMER BIOCONJUGATES, GUNJAN SAXENA
REDUCING RECIDIVISM IN RETURNING OFFENDERS WITH ALCOHOL AND DRUG RELATED OFFENSES: CONTRACTS FOR THE DELIVERY OF AUTHENTIC PEER BASED RECOVERY SUPPORT SERVICES, Sarah Scarbrough
The Play's the Thing: An Examination of Play's Role in the Cognitive Development of Adolescents, Ian Scheu
The Anatomy of Expression: Explorations on the Intersection of Acting and the Alexander Technique, Kelley Schoger
Using macroinvertebrate community composition to distinguish between natural and anthropogenic sedimentation, Amanda E. Schutt
Development, Optimization, and Twisted Adjustment of an Axial Flow Blood Pump for Fontan Patients, Michael Sciolino
Circuit Development in the Dorsal Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (dLGN) of the Mouse., Tania Seabrook
TGF-beta Receptors and Alcohol Sensitivity in Drosophila, Kristyn Sennett
TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY ASSESSMENT USING THE INTEGRATION OF PATTERN RECOGNITION METHODS AND FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS, Aghazadeh Babak Seyed
Dismemory: On history, the Southern imaginary, and abusing the visual record, Matthew Pendleton Shelton
THE ROLE OF R7 REGULATORS OF G PROTEIN SIGNALING IN THE RETINA, Hoon Shim
Sex-specific Habitat Use and Responses to Fragmentation in an Endemic Chameleon Fauna, Philip Shirk
Tuning Parameter Selection in L1 Regularized Logistic Regression, Shujing Shi
Compliance-free Class II correction and its relationship to vertical facial characteristics, Michael Shoff
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
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRINCIPALS’ SENSE OF ACHIEVEMENT AND TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THEIR PRINCIPALS’ LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS, Javaid Siddiqi
Life, The Multiverse, and Everything: How Crisis on Infinite Earths Changed DC Comics, Kate Simonsen
SYNTHESIS AND BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF SECOND GENERATION ANIBAMINE ANALOGUES AS NOVEL ANTI-PROSTATE CANCER AGENTS, Shilpa Singh
Non-Invasive Intracranial Pressure Method and Monitor, Tarun Sinha
Non-canonical roles for STAT1 and STAT2 in mitochondrial biogenesis and fasting homeostasis., Jennifer Sisler
Broad to Marshall Bridge | A City Block Interior That Separates and Connects Place, Emily Smith
An Analysis of the Effect of Lecture Capture Initiatives on Student-Athletes at an NCAA Division I Institution, Gregory Smith
Theorizing Digital Narrative: Beginnings, Endings, and Authorship, Jennifer Smith
Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Narratives on the 1585 Relación Geográfica Map of Santiago Atitlán, Kaitlan Smith
Artist Alien Ghost Juggler: Performance of “Troilus and Cressida” as Graduate Thesis, Vladislav Smolkin
Describing High School Readiness; Implementing School-Wide Positive Behavior Supports, Emily Snead
IN VITRO IN VIVO METHODS AND PHARMACOKINETIC MODELS FOR SUBCUTANEOUSLY ADMINISTERED PEPTIDE DRUG PRODUCTS, Amit Somani
DIGITAL NATIVE PRESERVICE TEACHERS: AN EXAMINATION OF THEIR SELF-EFFICACY BELIEFS REGARDING TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION IN CLASSROOM SETTINGS, Sarah Parker Southall
There is a Beginning, Catherine Stark
Heat Transfer Enhancement using Iron Oxide Nanoparticles, Dale Stuart
Identifying Sortase A Variants With Higher Catalytic Effeciency, Muna Suliman
ALIGNING SECURITY AND USABILITY OBJECTIVES FOR COMPUTER BASED INFORMATION SYSTEMS, Santa Ram Susarapu
The Effect of Oral Care on Intracranial Pressure in Critically Ill Adults, Christina Szabo
Whiff of Black Ice, Alina Tenser
Frames for Hilbert spaces and an application to signal processing, Kinney Thompson
A Water Quality Investigation of Kimages Creek, Michael Trop
The Impact of Sincerity of Terrorists on Committing Terrorist Activities in Turkey, Ahmet Turer
The Portrait Prints of Mehmed II, Saskia Turpijn
Law Enforcement Intelligence Recruiting Confidential Informants within “Religion-Abusing Terrorist Networks”, Hursit Ucak
Mass Spectroscopic Identification and Quantification of Protein Carbonyls, Zafer Ugur
The Social Work Perspective on English Language Learners Entering Special Education, Kerry Fay Vandergrift