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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 1981
Stages of Adult Development for Women Religious and Married Women, Ellen Rufft
Synthesis and biological evaluation of sparsomycin analogues, Scherer Preston Sanders
The Relationship between Self-Concept and Locus of Control in Physically Abused Women, Betsy Wright Shires
Interactionist Strategies for Assessing Personality and Behavior Differences Among Female Intercollegiate Athletes and Nonathletes, Frances Stewart
AN EVALUATION OF A CORONARY EDUCATION PROGRAM, Anne Broaddus Sydnor
Self-perceived needs of adult males and their significant others following colostomy for colo-rectal cancer, Derry Ware
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
The Relationship Between Self-esteem and Duration of Low Back Pain, Betty Sue Holliday Ashby
The Chronic Effects of Estradiol Benzoate on Ventricular Myocardial Blood Flow in the Adult Female Rat, Stephen Maurice Ashe
Loneliness: A Study of Adult Clinic Patients with Metastatic Cancer, Katherine Norfleet Berry
An Interphysiographic Analysis of Herb and Shrub Vegetation in Virginia Forests, Stephen James Binns
A Sourcebook for the Production of Musical Dramas and Programs in the Elementary School, Carole Elizabeth Bradley
An Analysis of the Fit of the Negative Binomial Distribution to Frequencies of Episodes of Illness, Philip Melville Brennan Jr.
The Effect of Three Different Types of Feedback on the Amount of Force Generated During Isometric Contraction of the Triceps Brachii Muscle, Cindy I. Buchanan
Wolf: A Screenplay, Thompson Crane-Baker
Autonomic Responses of Normals and Depressives to Stress Inducing Stimuli, Dennis Donat
The Relationship Between Maternal Self-Concept and Demonstration of Adaptive Behavior, Barbara Woodland Fleming
REGULATION OF CARTILAGE ACID HYDROLASES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO SKELETAL GROWTH, John Richard Hubbard
INVESTIGATION OF A FACTOR RELEASED BY NEOPLASTIC CELLS WHICH PRODUCES A CHEMOKINETIC RESPONSE IN ACTIVATED MACROPHAGES, Richard Durelle Lane
CLEAN TECHNIQUE INTERMITTENT CATHETERIZATION AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE INDWELLING URETHRAL CATHETER, Christine Heuston Lessels
GENETIC HETEROGENEITY IN COMPLEMENTATION GROUPS OF PROPIONIC ACIDEMIA, Catherine McKeon
Psychopharmacological Analysis of Central Muscarinic and Nicotinic Receptors, Leonard T. Meltzer
THE EFFECTS OF PREPARED CHILDBIRTH ON LENGTH OF LABOR IN LOW-RISK PRIMIPARAE, Beth S. Mollick
Age Differences in Attributions of Causality: Implications for Intellectual Assessment, Thomas R. Prohaska
Efficacy of salinomycin on infections of plasmodium berghei in male ICR mice, Anthony Stephen Tokarz
Personality correlates of musical talent, Walter W. Tunstall
Comparison of burned patients' perception of pain with nurses' perception of patients' pain, Merri Diane Walkenstein
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
A Question of Influence: William Cowper Brann and Henry Louis Mencken, Dale Owen Bishop
The Invalid: A Play, Robert Blumenstein
Oncogenic Transformation by Herpes Simplex Virus, James Christian Burns
Characterization of the Bursicon-mediated Pathway for Membrane Permeability Enhancement in the American Cockroach, Periplaneta americana, David Alan Compton
The Measurement of Anger in Children: A Multi-Modal Approach, Edward Shirrell Eastman Jr.
A Study of the Relationship Between Maternal Employment History and a Woman's Sex Role Orientation and Career Development, Susan Elizabeth Ellett
TO CLOTHE A FOOL : A Study of the Apparel Appropriate for the European Court Fool 1300 - 1700, Virginia Lee Futcher
A study to compare the strength changes after training the abductor digiti minimi in young adults and in geriatric adults, Timothy Lee Kauffman
Life Change Events in Patients with Minor Injuries, Janice VanDenburg Keitz
THE RESPONSIVENESS OF MURINE TUMORS TO MALEIC VINYL ETHER, Paal Christian Klykken
Intravenous Infection of Mice with Naegleria fowleri, Richard G. May
ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY OF PERITONEAL EXUDATE CELLS OF MICE AGAINST INFECTION WITH HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS TYPE 2, Margaret Byrd McGeorge
ACTIVITIES OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS AS IDENTIFIED BY MEDICAL DIRECTORS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES, Candace Beaman Moore and Miriam Lee Gottlieb
An Examination of Intellectual Functioning, School Achievement, and Personality Characteristics of Male Juvenile Delinquents, Robert A. Rymer
THE EFFECTS OF STREPTOZOTOCIN-INDUCED DIABETES ON RESPONSES TO OPIATES AND OTHER CENTRALLY-ACTING PHARMACOLOGIC AGENTS, Glenn Stuart Simon
THE BIOLOGICAL AND STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TRANSFERABLE BACTEROIDES R PLASMIDS, Rodney A. Welch
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
The Ascription of Mental Illness: Inside Societal Reaction, Kevin H. Ferguson
The Effect of the Interviewer's Status Upon the Linguistic Style and Impact Messages Cenerated by the "Obsessive Personality", VIncent B. Greenwood
EARLY SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS, Patricia McCook Rager
Direct Determination of Pentachlorophenol by Differential Pulse Polarography, Albert L. Wade
Changes in Serum Osmolality and the Clinical Manifestations of the Dialysis Disequilibrium Syndrome, Donna L. Young
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
Interactions of Ethanol and Methadone, Vijay Aggarwal
Critical Expression and Subsequent Physiological Response as a Function of Selected Situational Variables, Thomas M. Beall
Direct Chemical Evidence for a Supramolecular Protein Structure in the Nuclear Envelope, David Lee Cochran
Graduate Body of Work, Paul DiPasquale
A Study of the Identification of Medically Important Streptococci, Margaret Antoinette Hardy
Conceptual Art: Historical Antecedents, Philosophies, and Form, Brigette Newberry
Twelve Representative Patterns of the Period 1920 through 1945, Henry Charles Swartz
Paul Hindmith's Sonata for Clarinet and Piano: A Lecture Recital, Chang-Su Yi
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
Dialogues in Light and Temperature, Stephen Althouse
The Effects of Chronic Anaerobic Infection on Atherosclerosis in Rabbits, Janet Smitheran Bissell
Incorporation of Phosphoproteins and Phenol-Bound Proteins into the Cuticle of Periplaneta americana, Joseph Atchison Florence IV
The Influence of Population Knowledge and Concern on Acceptable Family Sizes and Expected Family Size, Nancy Ross Hugo
Prostaglandin Synthesis in the Feline Adrenal Cortex, Suzanne Gale Laychock
SEXUAL ADJUSTMENT AFTER MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, Brenda Hove Long
Synthesis of TCNE and TCNQ Derivatives and the Preparation of Conducting Polymers, Michael L. Runge
A Spectrophotofluorometric Analysis of Serum Vitamin A Levels in a Defined Population, James Ronald Schroeder
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Distribution and Effects of Bacterial Endotoxin, Anne Carter Adams
The Porcelain Groups, Robert Edward Chance
The Bending of Wood With Steam, James H. Cottey Jr.
The Morphologic Changes in the Muscles of Mastication Due to Direct Intramuscular Injection of Lidocaine, Carbocaine, Procaine and Citanest, Kurt Elliot Friedman
METASTATIC PATTERNS AND FUNCTIONAL DISABILITY IN DISSEMINATED BREAST CARCINOMA, Stephen Adam Gudas
AN EVALUATION OF CENTRIFUGED vs ELECTRONICALLY DETERMINED HEMATOCRITS IN ASSESSING THE DEGREE OF POLYCYTHEMIA IN CYANOTIC CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE, Marsha Rene Jones
The Importance of Viewer Perception in the Work of Josef Albers, Gail McCain
A COMPARISON OF ACROSOMAL PROTEINASE ACTIVITY IN THE MALE AND FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE TRACTS OF THE GUINEA PIG, Thomas Joseph Morris
A Survey of Parental Knowledge of Asthma, Nancy Aldred O'Donnell
FOOD HABITS OF THE GAME FISHES OF LAKE ANNA, VIRGINIA, Thomas Kenneth Rohrer
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
The Two-Way Mixed Model Analysis of Variance, Kenneth Davis Buckley
Activation of the Gamma Motor System in the Cat Following Selective Stimulation of the Motor Cortex and the Pyramidal Tract, James Elliott Forbes
CORTICOSPINAL FIBERS IN A PROSIMIAN PRIMATE, GALAGO, George Edward Goode
HEPATIC ORNITHINE METABOLISM IN HYDRAZINE-TREATED RATS, Van Saxton Hubbard
THE EFFECT OF SECURITY AND DOMINANCE ON TASK PERSEVERANCE, Gary M. Katz
The Relationship of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire Inventory to Clients of a Methadone Maintenance Program, Margaret Ann Neale
THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN IDEA, Marianne Stikas
A Critical Analysis of Marcel Duchamp's Final Work, Donald Ziegler
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
A Comparison of Microbial Contamination in Commercial Intravenous Fluids Packaged in Glass and Flexible Plastic Containers, James Bruce Guynn
STUDIES OF TERATOGENIC VIRUSES: MINUTE VIRUS OF MICE AND COLORADO TICK FEVER VIRUS, Robert Eldred Harris
THE EFFECT OF AFLATOXIN B1 ON GROWTH RATE AND IRON METABOLISM IN JUVENILE MONGOLIAN GERBILS (Meriones unguiculatus), William Stanley Hastings Jr.
The serlogical specificity of the lectin from Lens culinaris, Deborah Ward Heritage
The Molecular Nature and Replication of R Factor 222 in Proteus Mirabilis, Dennis Jon Kopecko
MODULATION OF CORTICAL AND PYRAMIDAL TRACT INDUCED MOTOR RESPONSES BY ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF THE BASAL GANGLIA, Roberta Ann Newton
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Effect of D-amphetamine, Guanethidine, Disulfiram, and Stress on Gastric Ulceration in the Rat, Thomas M. Beall
THE ANATOMICAL RELATIONSHIPS, ULTRASTRUCTURE, AND FUNCTION OF THE PINEAL GLAND IN SOME COMMON LABORATORY RODENTS, Joseph Chester Gregorek
AN ULTRASTRUCTURAL STUDY OF TUBULES, VASCULATURE AND INTERSTITIUM IN HUMAN RENAL HOMOGRAFTS, Marilyn Hatch
STATEMENT REGARDING MAGNIFICAT, John Stanley Hilliard
MECHANISMS OF DRUG DISTRIBUTION IN RAT SUBMAXILLARY GLAND IN VITRO, James W. Putney Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Differential Effects of Reward and Punishment on Subsequent Altruistic Behavior, Sharon Browning
A Variation of the Standard Steepest Ascent Search Procedure for Response Surface Experiments, George Whitfield Cobb
Characterization of Deoxyribonucleic Acid from Actinomycetes, Lynn William Enquist
Glycogen Levels in Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle of Rats Recovering from Exercise, Walter Talley Judd
GROUP SEQUENTIAL METHODS FOR CLINICAL TRIALS APPLIED TO THE LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODEL, Joy Duci Mele
AN EASY ACCESS INTERACTIVE STATISTICAL SYSTEM FOR USE AND TRAINING IN BIOMETRY, Amos Addison Slaymaker Jr.
An exploratory study to determine the emotional needs of terminally ill patients, June Hudnall Turnage