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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 1992
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
Imide/Arylene Ether Copolymers, Brian J. Jensen
STRESS AND SOCIAL SUPPORT OF PARENTS WITH AN ADULT MENTALLY RETARDED CHILD, Nancy Patricia Kropf
ROLE OF NEWLY SYNTHESIZED STEROID HORMONE ANTAGONISTS IN ADRENOCORTICO-STEROID HORMONE-INDUCED HYPERTENSION, Justicia Opoku-Edusei
Hospital Quality Assurance and Outcomes of Hospitalization, Patricia A. Rowell
Molecular and Cytogenetic Characterization of de novo Acrocentric Rearrangements in Humans, Lisa Gail Shaffer
The Analysis of 3-Channel "Vector" Visual Evoked Potentials and Possible Neuroanatomical Correlates, Lance Mitchell Siegel
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
An Exhibition of Recent Work by Robert Colescott, Susanne K. Arnold
Efficiency of the Thermal Jacket on the Delivered Temperature of Prewarmed Crystalloid Intravenous Fluid, Danny R. Bowen
Biochemical Characterization of the Axolemmal Mitogen for Cultured Schwann Cells, Mark A. DeCoster
A Critical Analysis of CBS Evening News Coverage of Two U.S.-U.S.S.R. Summit Meetings: Vienna 1979 and Geneva 1985, James M. Ellis Jr.
Reactions of Substituted Pyridinium Salts with Cyanide; Formation and Metal Complexes of 2,2'bis (hydroxymethyl)-4,-4'bipyridine, Dorothy N. Eseonu
Organ Doses in Routine Radiographic Procedures, Yang Han
SENSORY REGRESSION TIME FROM SUBARACHNOID BLOCK WITH HYPERBARIC 0.75% BUPIVACAINE IN THE OBESE PATIENT, George Leslie Hilton
CHARACTERIZATION OF STEROID-17,20-DESMOLASE AND 20α-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE FROM CLOSTRIDIUM SCINDENS, Amy Elizabeth Krafft
Evaluation of the Antagonism of Nicotine by Mecamylamine and Pempidine in the Brain, Thomas Jeffrey Martin
IMMUNOMODULATORS IN SENESCENT MICE, Kevin R. McCormick
AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCES IN THE MOVEMENT PATTERNS OF ADOLESCENTS 11, 14, AND 17 YEARS OF AGE RISING TO STANDING FROM SUPINE ON A BED, Jeanne O'Neil McCoy
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Modeling the Determinants of Hospital Mortality, Abdolmohsin S. Al-Haider
Home Teaching: Effect on Compliance, Hospital Readmissions and Days of Rehospitalization for Patients with Chronic Congestive Heart Failure, Betty Sue Holliday Ashby
Federal Narcotic Violators and the Dispositions Received Through the Courts with an Emphasis on Cocaine Offenders, Phyllis Rena Baker
The Effect of Man on the Landscape and the Effect of Land on the Manscape: Or Contingent Plans for Knowing a Mountain, Taylor Scott Baldwin
Perceived Stressors of Hospitalized Antepartal Adolescents, Rita Murphy Ciavarelli
Chinese Cultural Center, Wei Dong
Sociometric Categorization of Children: An Empirically Based Method, Robert S. Falk
The Relationship Between Position and Incidence of Spinal Headache Following Spinal Anesthesia in the Young Adult Female, Royce A. Fishell
The Effect of Pre-emergence Gastric Aspiration on Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting Following Abdominal Surgery, Marc Alan Friedberg
Corticosteroid Effects and Senescence in Cultured Endothelium, Stephen A. Gudas
Marco Polo, John Gunther Hoppenthaler
Glucocorticoid-Responsive Hepatic Cytochromes P-450 in the Rat: Multiplicity and Differential Regulation, Keith Alan Hostetler
New Antimuscarinic Agents for Improved Treatment of Poisoning by Cholinesterase Inhibitors, Robert Lee Hudkins
Proliferation and Differentiation of Mast Cell Progenitors, Daniel Lee Jarboe
THE PERCEPTIONS OF VIRGINIA PUBLIC SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS WITH RESPECT TO KEY ELEMENTS OF THE VIRGINIA PUBLIC PROCUREMENT ACT, Gwen Edwards Lilly
DEVELOPMENT OF SOLID SUBSTRATE LUMINESCENCE AND CHROMATOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES FOR CHEMICAL ANALYSIS, William J. Long
THE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF SYSTEM ACQUIRED HOSPITALS, Janet Lynch
ELECTROCHEMICAL AND SURFACE ENHANCED RESONANCE RAMAN STUDY OF HEME PROTEINS AT BARE METAL ELECTRODES, David Edward Reed
PHENOTYPIC AND FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF Ia+ AND la- SUBLINES OF THE HUMAN MONOCYTE-LIKE CELL LINE, U937, Coles Meredith Squire
Mechanisms of Tolerance to the Effects of Clozapine and Pimozide on a Multiple Fixed Interval 60-second Fixed Ratio-30 Food Reinforcement Schedule in Rats, Heidi Freese Villanueva
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Health Locus of Control Belief and Health Behavior in Patients with Job Related Injuries, Elnora H. Allen
Nursing in the University: An historical analysis of nursing education at the Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia School of Nursing, Betsy Ann Bampton
The Effect of Utilization Controls on HMO Enrollees' Health, Satisfaction with Care, and Disenrollment, Barbara Stewart Brown
Alternative Pharmacokinetic Models in End Stage Renal Disease During Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis, Eugenio Cefali
An Assessment of Pain Responses During Stages of Pregnancy, Ann H. Dunbar
False positive rates encountered in the detection of changes in periodontal attachment level, John C. Gunsolley
The Role of Familial Conflict in the Adaptation to Menarche: Sequential Analysis of Family Interaction, Grayson N. Holmbeck
An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Substance Abuse Awareness and Prevention Program Developed for use with University-Level Varsity Student-Athletes, Robert Joseph Marcello
NURSE PRACTITIONERS' PERCEPTIONS AND BEHAVIORAL INTENT TOWARD PRIVATE PRACTICE AND PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY, Steven David Mitnick
EXTENT OF PARTICIPATION IN THE STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS BY EXECUTIVE NURSES IN VIRGINIA'S ACUTE CARE HOSPITAL, Mary R. Pippin
Differences in Nursing Home Utilization and Clinical Outcome in Veterans Administration Nursing Home Patients, Christine M. Sheehy
Comparison of Virulent and Avirulent Legionella pneumophila and Evaluation of Fish as a Potential Environmental Reservoir/Experimental Model, Sandra Reading Sommer
The effect of a cardiovascular risk factor education program on health behaviors of selected school age children, Terry M. Tuck and Sharon K. Williams
Control of Hospital Strategy in Small Multihospital Systems, Lora Hanson Warner
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
Age and Experience Differences in Posture and Movement of Children While English Horseback Riding at a Walk, Mary Katherine Belissary
Synthesis of Polyhydroxybenzene Derivatives for Evaluation as Antitumor Agents, Douglas L. Brown
Essay Writing in College Mathematics and Its Effect on Achievement, Gerald Lee Burton
Phonetic Ambiguity Perception in Reading Disabled and Non-disabled Children and Adolescents, Elizabeth A. Carter
The Synthesis and Characterization of Some Thermally Stable Polypyrazoles and Acetylene Terminated Aspartimides, John W. Connell
Characterization of a Staphylococcal Trimethoprim Resistance Gene, Jerald Preston Coughter
The Incidence of Auscultatory Gaps in Hospitalized Adults, Elizabeth Tayloe Courts
Prediction of children's sociometric status from adult ratings, Robert S. Falk
Degradation of Human Anaphylatoxin C3a by Rat Peritoneal Mast Cells: A Role for the Secretory Granule Enzyme Chymase and Heparin Proteoglycan, James Edmund Gervasoni Jr
ELECTROCHEMICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE, pH, AND ELECTROLYTE ON THE ELECTRON TRANSFER REACTIONS OF CYTOCHROME C, Kent Brian Koller