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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 1990
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
The Effects of War as a Basis to Consider Six Novels by Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nancy Weston Noel
HEALTH PERCEPTION, ANGINAL SYMPTOMS AND LIFE SATISFACTION AFTER CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS AND PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY, Diana Creger Porter
ILLNESS BEHAVIOUR QUESTIONNAIRE AS A PREDICTOR OF PROBLEMATIC AND APROBLEMATIC PATIENTS WITH A PAINFUL UPPER EXTREMITY, Suzanne S. Seay
An Evaluation of Two Training Programs Designed to Enable Hostages to Cope More Effectively with Captivity Stress, Thomas Strentz
William Rimmer's Concept of the Heroic Male Nude, Malinda Wyatt
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
The Effects of Needle Play on Pre-School Children's Anxiety Concerning Injections, Michelle Anne Belyea
Designing a Relational Data Base for a Problem Solving Environment, Kathryn S. Dawson
Proliferation of Schwann Cells Induced by Axolemmal and Myelin Membranes, Michael Paul Dinneen
Alterations in Blood-Brain Barrier Function Following Acute Hypertension: Comparison of the Blood-to-Brain Transfer of Horseradish Peroxidase with That of Alpha-Aminoisobutyric Acid, Mary Draper Bennett Ellison
Dissection of Microphage Activation Using T Cell Hybridoma Derived Lymphokines, William S. Futch Jr.
Chemical Studies on Oxomolybdenum(VI,IV) Complexes as Bioinorganic Models for the Molybdenum Oxidases, James Thomas Lyon III
The Role of Salicylates on Thermoregulation and Respiration on the Male Human During Exercise, Riad Mahayni
Qualitative and quantitative morphology of lateral rectus motoneurons of the principal abducens nucleus, Helen Russell-Mergenthal
Evaluation of Analytical, Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Methods for the Study of Digoxin, Santosh John Vetticaden
A descriptive study of the relationship of teaching level and subject area assignment to teachers' attitudes toward critical thinking, Patricia Barnes Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Effects of N-substituents on the Polymerization Properties of Maleimide, Dilip R. Abayasekara
Toward a Normative Computer-aided Contingency Planning Protocol, Peter H. Aiken
FIRO-B PROFILES OF PHYSICAL THERAPY STUDENTS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES IN CLINICAL EDUCATION, Nora Donohue
National Certification As A Performance Measure: Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, 1977-1982, Barbara Hall Dunn
A Comparison of the Effects of Two Exercise Programs on Children's Self-Concept, Locus of Control, and Mood, Lynne Blanken Einhaus
The Relationship Between Oral Contraceptives and Intraepithelial Neoplasia of the Uterine Cervix, Barbara Jeannette Fox
Interpersonal Perceptions as Function of Personality Styles, Suzanne R. Gascoyne
Use of an External Inhibition Procedure in the Treatment of Spider Phobic Subjects, Jerome D. Gilmore
An Interactional/Social Psychological Approach to Defiance and Therapeutic Paradox, Glenn Thomas Gould
Relations between Parents' Expressive and Instrumental Traits and Expectations and Several Early Adolescent Outcomes, Grayson N. Holmbeck
A DESCRIPTION OF THE THEATRE CURRICULUM AT HOPEWELL HIGH SCHOOL, Don P. McMillan
The Use of Music and Art as Directorial Tools in a Production of Kevin O'Morrison's Ladyhouse Blues, Roseann Sheridan
The effect of social support on the blood pressure of mild and moderate hypertensives, Edith Price Vaughan
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Coxsackievirus B4 Induced Diabetes in Cd-1 Mice, Mary C. F. Anderson
Interactions Between Murine Peritoneal Macrophages and Naegleria Fowleri, Leigh Ann Belcher
The Formulation of an Adult Dramatic Program for the Division of Recreation and Parks in Henrico County, Virginia, Sandra Bishop
Distribution of Imipramine, Desipramine and Their Principal Metabolites Between Plasma, Red Blood Cells and Brain in Humans and Animal Models, Stuart Chapman Bogema Jr.