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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 1995
The Computer Age and Planning: A Survey of Technological Infusion, Robert Skot Bayers
Role of Perceived Competence in the Behavior of Socially Anxious Persons in Problem-Solving Groups, Scott D. Bradshaw
The Relationship Between Physician Personality Type and Medical Malpractice Risk, Thomas H. Casey
The Linkage Between Hospitals and Nursing Homes: Alternative Approaches to Minimizing Transaction Costs, Herng-Chia Chiu
Attachment, Social Support, and Violence in Adolescent Delinquents, James R. Craft
Candido Portinari: Brazilian Artist as Cultural Ambassador: A Re-Examination of the Library of Congress Murals, Karen D. Daly
Statistical Methods for Detecting and Characterizing Departures from Additivity in Multi-Dimensional Drug/Chemical Mixtures, Kathryn S. Dawson
An Empirical Examination of the Major Organizational Dimensions that Influence the Perceived Quality of Federal Personnel Office Services, John Elton Dunning
Determinants of Continuity of Care for Persons Transitioning from State Psychiatric Facilities to Communities, Sarah P. Farrell
Prevention as a Component of Homeless Policy: A Longer-Term Evaluation of the State of Virginia's Homeless Intervention Program, Emma Kathleen Flaherty
Attorney and Judicial Perceptions of the Credibility of Expert Witnesses in Child Custody Cases, Michael T. Foot
"COLD CASE" INVESTIGATIONS WITHIN FAIRFAX COUNTY: TURNING THE LIABILITY OF TIME INTO AN ASSET, Rodney L. Gohn
The Role of Follicular Dendritic Cells in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Pathogenesis, Sonya Lynn Heath
A NATIONAL SURVEY OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: AN ASSESSMENT OF CURRENT PRACTICE, ATTITUDES, AND TRAINING NEEDS REGARDING THE TRANSITION PROCESS FOR STUDENTS WITH SEVERE DISABILITIES, Katherine Josephine Inge
The Iconography of the Sacred Mother of Santa Maria Tonantzintla, Julia Stephens May
An Evaluation of a Program for Incarcerated Mothers: Parenting Training and the Enhancement of Self-Esteem, Alvin R. Moore
Phosphorus Bearing Substrates in Ring Expansion Reactions, Bradley K. Norwood
NMDA Receptor-mediated Synaptic Plasticity in Developing Mammalian Visual Pathways, Gregory S. Perens
"Writing a Picture": Adolph Gottlieb's Rolling and Yoshihara Jiro's Red Circle on Black, Ginger Suzanne Russell
Current Management of Computerized Personnel Files in Virginia Public Schools: A Legal and Policy Analysis, Andrew Jameson Smith
The Impact of the Tau Mutation on Reproductive Function in the Golden Hamster, Eliza Leake Thomasson
A generalized system performance model for object-oriented database applications, Ellen Moore Walk
ORGANIZATIONAL SLACK, EFFICIENCY, AND QUALITY OF CARE IN ACUTE CARE HOSPITALS, Kyung II Youn
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Regulatory Analysis of Vimentin Expression in Metastatic Versus Nonmetastatic Breast Cancer Cell Lines, Danielle N. Bird
A Causal Model of Hospital Volume, Structure and Process Indicators, and Surgical Outcomes, Myra Boles
Review of the p53 Tumor Suppressor Gene and its Role in Gliomas, James Dearing Christian
The Impact of Advanced Information Technologies on Architecture and Engineering Design Firms: A Field Study, McDonald Davis III
ADVERTISING BUDGET REDUCTION IMPACTS ON EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION: A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS : Evaluation of Virginia State Parks 1994 Advertising Campaign, Lois Ann delBueno
Predictors of General and Dating-Related Conflict Among Parents and Middle Adolescents: The Active Role of the Adolescent, Bonnie Brodzeller Dowdy
Synthesis as a Method for Elaboration, Polly Johnson
The impact of telecommuting on the supervisory performance appraisal process, Margaret A. Klayton
Einstein's Equations in Vacuum Spacetimes with Two Spacelinke Killing Vectors Using Affine Projection Tensor Geometry, Miles D. Lawrence
The Standardized Influence Matrix and Its Applications to Generalized Linear Models, Jiandong Lu
Characterization of fibroblasts with a unique defect in processing antigens with disulfide bonds, Brian J. Merkel
Validation of a Virginia Work Release Risk Prediction Model: A Methodology For the Improvement of the Reliability of Correctional Decision Makers, William Nathan Osborne Jr.
MONITORING NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKADE AT THE ADDUCTOR POLLICIS AND ORBICULARIS OCULI WITH SPLIT DOSING OF MIVACURIUM CHLORIDE, Stephen F. Palmerton
Florine Stettheimer: a Re-Appraisal of the Artist in Context, Melissa (Liles) Parris
CLONING, EXPRESSION, PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF DOMAIN B OF WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ, Ann C. Rice
The Relationship Between Task Performance And Perceived Quality Of Life Of Families With Adopted Special-Needs Children, Bibhuti Kumar Sar
MODULATION OF THE HUMORAL IMMUNE RESPONSE BY THE SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM, Tracey Lynn Spriggs
Adjusting Holt-Winters Exponential Smoothing for External Intervention: A Mathematical Technique for Making Quasi-Judgmental Adjustments For Anticipated Changes, Daniel Wayne Williams
Radiosurgery for Malignant Brain Tumors, Michael Jino Yun
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Design and Evaluation of an Augmentative Communication Aid for Multiply Impaired Individuals, Mark S. Annett
An Investigation of Bank Lending Practices To Test Portfolio Theory and Theories of Credit Rationing and Customer Relationships, Christine Chmura
Comparison of Succinylcholine Induced Fasciculation Attenuation with Defasciculating Doses of Vecuronium and Mivacurium Based on Ideal Body Weight, Marvin E. Early
PERCEIVED IMPORTANCE OF CLINICAL TEACHING CHARACTERISTICS FOR NURSE ANESTHESIA CLINICAL FACULTY, William Hartland Jr.
Immunomodulatory Effects of Transforming Growth Factor-β on T Lymphocytes, Thomas Harris Inge
CHARACTERIZATION OF A PROMOTER REARRANGEMENT AND A SECOND PROMOTER IN THE HUMAN C-MYB PROTO-ONCOGENE, Sarah Margaret Jacobs
IDENTIFICATION OF REGULATORY MECHANISMS OF GENES ENCODING CITRATE SYNTHASE IN THE YEAST Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Christine Smith Kell
Sjögren-Larsson Syndrome: Genetic Studies and Biochemical Characterization of Human Fatty Aldehyde Dehydrogenase, Todd L. Kelson
The Diffusion of Public Defenders in Virginia: A Study in Organization Adaption and the Relationships Between Values, Decisionmaking Processes, and Organizational Output, Cyril Woodvil Miller, Jr.
Relationships Among the Distribution of Terminal Fields of Sensory Afferent Projections to the Deep layers of the Superior Colliculus within the Cat, Wayne Thomas Shaia
Subjectivity Of Estimating Blood Loss Among Health Care Providers In The Operating Room, Hugh Andrew Siegel
Mechanisms of Complement Resistance by Pathogenic Naegleria fowleri Amoebae, Denise Marie Toney
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Oculomotor Deficits in Diseases of the Basal Ganglia: Parkinson's and Huntington's Diseases, Todd B. Baird
Mature Women Students: Effects of the Gender Division of Labor on Education, Sarah Jane Brubaker
Regulation of Phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase Activity in Rat Pancreatic Acini, Bruce R. Conway
Rituals, Cindy Lynn Cunningham
A Study of Virginia Public-school Affiliated GED Instructors Who Teach Writing Skills for the Essay Component of the GED Writing Skills Test, Rodger Leonard Doss
The Effect of Tourniquet Application On Systemic Coagulation, Christa Choate Hudalla
Weird People, Joy Marie Humphrey
Evidence That Nicotine Can Acutely Desensitize Central Nicotinic Cholinergic Receptors In Vivo, John Randolph James
I Have Kept My Heart Yellow: Stories, Eileen A. Joy
THE EFFECT OF BODY POSITION CHANGES ON ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION IN OBESITY AS MEASURED NONINVASIVELY BY PULSE OXIMETRY, Anna Marie Angela Klosterman
MISSING DATA IN REPEATED MEASUREMENT STUDIES, Kejian Niu
An analysis of the values influencing neonatal nurses' perceptions and behaviors in selected ethical dilemmas, Deborah A. Raines
The Social Construction of Abortion, Alexis Lora Ruffin
Stem Cell Factor in Mast Cell and Schwann Cell Proliferation and Hyperplasia, John Joseph Ryan
EVALUATION OF QUANTITATIVE ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY FOR ASSESSMENT OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANT RESPONSE, Patricia W. Slattum
Adult Sibling Loss: Family Dynamics and Individual Adult Sibling Loss: Family Dynamics and Individual Characteristics, Stephen D. Stahlman
Resonance Raman spectra of chloroperoxidase reaction intermediates, Ann Marie G. Sullivan
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Mechanisms of Regulation of the Human c-myb Proto-oncogene During Myelomonocytic Differentiation, Lawrence H. Boise
Divine Imagination: Correlations Between the Kabbalah and the Works of William Blake, Mikell Waters Brown
Finessing for the Queen of Trumps, Ann Burrus
The Problem of Mutual Exclusion: A New Distributed Solution, Rajeev Chawla
Perceptual and Cognitive Abnormality Model of Hypochondriasis: Psychological Correlates of Amplification and Misinterpretation, James R. Craft
The Effects of Carboxyl-group Specific Modification and Triiodo-L-thyronine on Cardiac Sodium Channels, Samuel C. Dudley
Job Satisfaction of Nurse Anesthesia Faculty: A Preliminary Study, James Patrick Embrey
THE EFFECTS OF CONCENTRIC AND ECCENTRIC CONTRACTIONS PERFORMED AT EQUAL POWER LEVELS ON SKELETAL MUSCLE FIBER HYPERTROPHY, Thomas Philip Mayhew
IDENTIFICATION OF DQ ALPHA POLYMORPHISM USING THE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION, Richard Mello
A Case Study of an Effective Board of Directors of a Nonprofit Organization: Perceptions, Processes, Characteristics, and Diversity, Marcia Cohen Penn
Classification of Newborns Based on Maturity Rating and Intrauterine Growth at the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals, Lydia Holmes Sund
Geriatic Nurse Practitioner's Health Promotive Behaviors: A Test of Theory of Reasoned Action, Sandra L. Venegoni
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
A Study of Art Unions in the United States of America in the Nineteenth Century, Jane Aldrich Dowling Adams
From Constructivism to Deconstructivism, Gladys Brenner
Adolescent Pregnancy and Loneliness, Estelle M. Brodeur
Immunodominant Antigens of Actinobacillus Actinomycetemcomitans in Antibody Positive Subjects, Joseph V. Califano
Integrating a Kodaly Music Curriculum into a Developmental Early Childhood Program, Phyllis Entin
Purification and Characterization of Two Oxidoreductases Involved in Bile Acid Modification by the Intestinal Anaerobe Eubacterium sp. VPI 12708, Clifton Franklund
The "New Age Movement": A Case Study, Zachary Grant Goodell
Expression of an Expectation of a Future Desire to Move by Older Community-Dwelling Adults, Brenda K. Goodman
EXPOSURE TO PHOSPHINE GAS DURING APPLICATION OF MAGNESIUM PHOSPHIDE IN STORED PRODUCT WAREHOUSES, Mark Anthony Harrison
Professionalism and Job Satisfaction of Registered Nurses in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Elisabeth B. Hutton