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Theses from 2015

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Broadening the functional interactions of Ded1, a Saccharomyces cerevisiae DEAD-box ATPase involved in translation initiation, Audrey Kindsfather

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A computational investigation of halogen bonding with halomethanes and their group 14 analogues, William Kretz

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"Measure then punish or reward:" an analysis of the intersection of history and policy in the U.S. k-12 public school system, Hannah Leedle

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Multi-wavelength collisional quenching to study ligand-protein interactions in glutamate dehydrogenase, Chun Li

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From prisons to asylums, and back : mental health policy in the age of neoliberalism, Michele Martin

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The Taylor Rule with real-time data and an analysis of its impact on historical policy analysis, Morgan McKee

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Flying the coop : does holistic processing in bird experts generalize across region?, Wesley Meredith

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In the midst of life we are in death : suicide coverage in the South during the Civil War era, India Miller

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In the midst of life we are in death : suicide coverage in the South during the Civil War era, India Miller

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The dark side of volunteering : when helping might hurt, Emily Morse

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Implicit theories of self-regulation among adults with ADHD, Lauren Oddo

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Isolation of microbial NRPS and PKS gene clusters for natural product isolation, Danielle N. O'Hara

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The application of formyl group activation of brompyrrole esters to a formal synthesis of lycogarubin C, Jon Patteson

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Effects of altered regulation of synaptotagmin 1 in a Drosophila model of Machado-Joesph disease, Rachel Pearcy

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The Lorax : Capitalism, Ecocentrism, and the Apocalypse, Casey Schmidt

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Who do we help?: how morality salience, changing demographics, and ideology shape pro-social behavior, Ann Louise Seaton

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Death in children's fantasy literature from 1900 to the present, Katherine Skipper

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Depression and social functioning : examining two interpersonal theories, Caroline B. Smith

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Mindsets matter: increasing participation in STEM through growth mindsets, Madeline Soskin

Investigating the flap dynamics of HIV-1 protease using multiple force fields, David R. Stevens

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Handing over the fork : eating and the neoliberal authority in contemporary American fiction, Jen Swegan

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The role of entropy and conformational plasticity in nucleotide interactions with glutamate dehydrogenase, Angela Tata

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Long-term effects of reproduction of Spinophilin concentration in the brain, Nora Tocheny

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Cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer blocks replication in bacillus dna polymerase, Amanda Rose Walsh

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Development of a genetic over-expression system for the freshwater sponge Ephydatia muelleri, Joe Walsh

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Neurological changes of motherhood : behavior, anatomy, and transcriptional regulation, Shannon Weber

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Silyl triflate-mediated openings of epoxides, Nicholas Clayton Yeutter

Theses from 2014

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A mechanism for annealing bicyclic polyyne rings into fullerenes, Alexis Achey

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A mechanism for annealing bicyclic polyyne rings into fullerenes, Alexis Jacqueline Achey

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Animal allure : postcolonial (non) human sexuality in Indra Sinha's Animal's People and J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Kerry Boland

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Intuition and its proper uses, Chris Boss

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Addition reactions of electron-deficient cyclopropanes catalyzed by calcium(II) complexes, Caroline M. Braun

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Conformational analysis of oligomeric models of siloxane, silazan and siloxazane ladder polymers, Idil Cazimoglu

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What was he thinking? Dr. William Cooper's decision to increase the University of Richmond's tuition by 31 percent in 2005, Rooney V. Columbus

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The effect of race in primary and secondary school achievement : evidence from Virginia, Khanh Doan

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The effect of race in primary and secondary school achievement : evidence from Virginia, Khanh (Miki) Doan

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Leadership with liberal arts : from Ehebia to Jepson, Shaye Ellis

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Vesicular monoamine transporter-1: association with neuropsychiatric disorders, Yingying Geng

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Naphthyridyl-pyridine : novel ligands, tm-complexes, and strategy for photochemically driven reduction of CO₂ to methanol, Jessica A. Griswold

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Naphthyridyl-pyridine : novel ligands, tm-complexes, and strategy for photochemically driven reduction of CO₂ to methanol, Jessica A. Griswold

Understanding large numbers in politics, Brian Guay

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The case of "who's looney now?" : psychologists, psychiatrists, the public, and contested notions of insanity in turn-of-the-twentieth century America, Amanda Lynn Haislip

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Formyl group activation of bromopyrrole suzuki cross-coupling: application to a formal synthesis of lamellarin g trimethyl ether, Andrew Harrison

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Statistical analysis of the variability and reliability of eye-tracking test in measuring mild traumatic brain injury, Xi He

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Fatherland and femininity : perceptions of German women civilizers in Deutsch-Südwestafrikia, 1894-1914, Sean Hickey

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Multi-technique quantitative analysis and socioeconomic considerations of lead, cadmium, and arsenic in children's toys and toy jewelry, Margot Hillyer

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The forces of value: structure and content of self-reported values by civilian and military science students, Shelly Holland

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Le mercantilism : une relique tout à fait moderne une étude du commerce chinois en Afrique subsaharienne, Molly A. Kiniry

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Postcolonial beasts of burden : embodiments of the non-human in The Lives of Animals and Animal's People, Phoebe Krumich

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Application of Carhart four-factor model to the AAII-generated portfolios, Teo Lagvilava

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Queering la politique LGBTQ en France : entre l'universalisme et la particularité, l' hétérosexualité et les identités non-normatives, le mariage et la libération totale de la communauté queer, Erik Lampmann

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The effects of polysubstituted pyrrole JG-03-14 on murine macrophage activity, Clarke P. Lewis

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The right to the city : an exploration of citizenship, space, and process in São Paulo and Cape Town, Amanda Lineberry

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If at first you don't succeed : revise, revise the data again, Katherine E. Marsten

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Host-specialization of Bartonella in flea vectors collected from black-tailed prairie dogs, Mark D. Massaro

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A conservative isoleucine to leucine mutation of Klentaq1 dna polymerase 1 induces conformational change for cold-sensitive phenotype, Emma Caroline Materne

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Addition of in situ-generated enol silanes and zinc acetylides to nitrones mediated by trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate, Erin Nicole Maxwell

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Contentious kink : racial discourse in BDSM subcultures, Dana McLachlin

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The economics of remanufacturing with competing manufacturers, Audra Meade

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Do the inter-nucleotide domain loops act as an entropic sink in the catalytic activity of 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase (3pGDH)?, Cristina Adelia Meeham

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An exploratory study of gait and balance in children with autism spectrum disorders, Krystal Mircovich

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Macroeconomic surprise, forecast uncertainty, and stock prices, Alphonce M. Mshomba

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One-pot Heteroconjugate addition-diels-alder reactions and acetate-catalyzed aldol reactions of α-silyl nitriles, Carly Mueller

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The homologous conjugate addition of heteroaromatic compounds to donor-acceptor cyclopropanes, Kristen L. Murphy

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Younger adults' and older adults' perceptions of competence for older targets labeled 'in good health' versus 'has Alzheimer's disease,' 'has early stage Alzheimer's disease,' or 'has late stage Alzheimer's disease', Alissa Nizinski

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Younger adults' and older adults' perceptions of competence for older targets labeled 'in good health' versus 'has Alzheimer's disease,' 'has early stage Alzheimer's disease,' or 'has late stage Alzheimer's disease', Alissa Nzinski

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Construction of a functional ha-epitope tagged aqk2p channel with surface expression, Ariana A. Prinzbach

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The influence of political belief on the number and relative wage of government employees : an examination of California counties, Devin Ralston

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The Cost-of-carry model and volatility : an analysis of gold futures contracts pricing, Edward M. Riley III

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The mis-regulation of the dJNK pathway in a drosophila model of Machado-Joseph disease influences neurodegeneration, Catherine Marie Romberger

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Links between friendship, psychological symptoms, and academic adjustment in an emerging adulthood sample, Lisa Sample

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The effects of coal mining on health in Appalachia : global context and social justice implications, Adrienne Schmidt

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shift : for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano, and percussion, Robby Schranze

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Quantum mechanical characterizations of tetraradical-producing cyclizations, and an extended multireference electronic structure study of 2, 5, 7, 10-tetradehydronaphthalene, Jeffrey B. Schriber

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Between flower and wave : discordia concors and the case for a transitional florimell in Spenser's Faerie Queene, Grayson Shelor

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Prendre ses responsabilités : l'évolution d'une phrase l'évolution du discours de la politique étrangère française 2003-2013, Emily Shuman

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Comparing two methods for quantifying cold tolerance in Mimulus, Clifford J. Smith

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Relations between social identity, interpersonal competence and self-esteem in emerging adults, Kelsea Starr

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Emerging adults' friendships and group identification : differential associations with well-being, Ethan Wolf

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Regiospecific functionalization of pyrroles using formyl-group activated suzuki coupling: application to a formal synthesis of polycitones a and b and polycitrin a, Michael Wormald

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A bad following: the big five factors of personality and follower reactions to unethical leader behavior, Rose Wynn

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Algebras of toeplitz matrices, Qingyang (Jocelyn) Xue

Theses from 2013

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Potent mutagens have positive and negative effects on viral fitness of Reovirus in vitro, Jennie Altman

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Difference sets in non-abelian groups of order 256, Taylor Applebaum

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The effect of implicit theories on eating behavior, Lisa Auster-Gussman

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A language for incomprehensibility : Virginia Woolf's reconstructions of trauma and grief in response to World War I, Shannon Biello

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Bernardo del Carpio dans le thé́âtre du Siècle d'or espagnol : à̀ la recherche de la légitimité du pouvoir impérial. (Une analyse sure le rôle du héros médiéval dans l'œuvre de Juan de la Cueva et Lope de Vega), Lorena Esmeralda Bolaños

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Homo homini lupus est : quand l'individualisme effréné éclipse la solidarité ; une comparaison franco-américaine des fondations philosophiques sous-jacentes le traitement national du droit de santé, Liz Brunello

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Life in the hopeless emptiness : the search for authenticity in Revolutionary Road, Austin Marie Carter

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Utah statehood : the normalization of Mormonism for U.S. security, Justin Chew

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Mathematical models of plasmid dynamics, Natalie M. Clark

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Conforming individualism : images of self and family in Jeanette Walls's the glass castle, Michael Doss

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Generalization of expert face processing takes time, Karen Duan

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The future of geography in health policy : the applicability of the Dartmouth Atlas to health reform in the United States, Catherine Chase Eager

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Syntheses of key intermediates of ningalin C, Lauren Firich

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From mind to machine : parity affects in the attentional set-shifting task in animal and machine models, Katie Coren Freeman

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Monolayer-protected nanoparticle doped Xerogels as functionional components of amperometric glusoe biosensors, Michael Hartley Freeman

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Identifying possible regulators of Ded1, a DEAD-box ATPase protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Lisa Faye Fronek

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Synthesis of 8-oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine triphosphate analogues and investigations into the promutagen potential of 8-oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine, Michael Ghio

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Presidential Debate Format and Perceptions of Personality: Warmth Matters, Joseph B. Greener