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Theses from 2006

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The Mrs. Browns of Modernism, Kathleen O'Donnell

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Pilgrimage of dignity : Pope John Paul II's June 1979 visit to Poland, Przemyslaw P. Polaski

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The impact of gender-linked tasks on female and male leaders, Ashley Pyle

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The role of heat shock protein 27 phosphorylation in matrix metalloproteinase 2 secretion and activation in response to heat stress in U87 gliomas, David M. Raiser

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Complicating "female suicide bombers" : violence, agency and gender in the rhetoric of shahida, Chelsea Rock

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American travelers in Palestine : origins of Holy Land discourse in nineteeth-century America, Matthew R. Scutari

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Glutamate dehydrogenase : an investigation of conformational stability, enzyme flexibility, and allosteric regulation, Sarah A. Wacker

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Social hierarchy in leaderless groups, Angie B. White

Theses from 2005

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The effect of norepinephrine on the production of interleukin-6 (IL-6) in the raw 264.7 macrophage cell line, Andrew R. Callison

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The effect of norepinephrine on macrophage cytolytic activity, Lindsey Drake

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American prisoners of war in Vietnam tell their stories, Ryan Frost

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Morphological variation of the South American toad genus Melanophryniscus, Kristen Virginia Gandee

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Allomorphic flowers in Acalypha Deamii, Lauren Kelley

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Kieft's War and tributary politics in eastern woodland colonial society, Nicholas Klaiber

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The rhetoric of pedagogy and the pedagogy of rhetoric, Jennifer G. Moore

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From opposing sides : the duality of citizens' and their government's views on town squares, Zachary Powell

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Postcolonial melodrama : The satanic verses, The mimic men, The namesake, Jason Przybylski

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The effects of Instant Messenger on the undergraduate experience, Kimberly Schaefer

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Modulation of hHsp70 and dCBP in a full-length Drosophila model of MJD, Jason Sebesto

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"I respectfully dissent" : intellectual leadership in the nation's highest court, Alison M. Smith

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The effect of heat shock upon p53, Hsp27 and MMP2 synthesis and activation in the U87 and T98 human glioma cell lines, Cristina Stingo

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The politics of judicial restraint : the Rehnquist court and the new federalism, Sarah J. Vinson

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Ecological niching in an interactive simulation, Ryan T. Webb

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Treasuring identity : subject-object relations in Beowulf, Becky Workman

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Relative difference sets in 2-groups : a group cohomological viewpoint, Brian Wyman

Theses from 2004

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From being to doing : the impact of modernization on cultural values, cultural conceptions of time, and effective leadership, Ryan S. Babiuch

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Whipping up a region : how the North taught the South to cook "Southern", Erin D. Bartels

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Investigation of the role played by the regulatory function of the Pst phosphate transport system in Shigella flexneri plaque formation ability, Adriane M. Boyle

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Discovering the potential for advancements in intrusion detection systems, Kenneth J. Buonforte

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Regulation of membrane type-l matrix metalloproteinases by Tyrosine phosphorylation in human glioma cells, Emily Clark

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The social and legal aspects of colonial witchcraft : a comparison of Virginia and Bermuda, Leigh Anne Collier

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Out of sight, out of mind? : American citizens and the genocide in Rwanda, Colette T. Connor

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The effect of TGF-Beta on the phosphorylation of MT1-MMP and MMP2 activity in the U87 glioma cell line, Megan Cox

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Valuing servants ends : a new theory of ethical service, Patricia Grace Devlin

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Synthesis of β-chloroenal derivatives on the path to biologically active multi-substituted pyrroles, David Driscoll

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"Their shoes yet new" : the immigrant image in the Baltimore riots of 1812 and the disagreement over nationality, John K. Dunn Jr

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Illuminating a space for women and rhetoric, Lindsey M. Fox

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Development of lymphatic hearts in Ambystoma mexicanum, Tanya Giannantonio

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The effect of epidermal growth factor on MMP-production and activation in human glioblastoma multiforme cell lines U87 and LNZ, John Goreczny

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Antibiotic resistance in aquatic bacteria, Lily Hayes

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Michel Foucault : power/knowledge and epistemological prescriptions, Martin A. Hewett

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Creative redemption and complete affirmation in Nietzche's Thus spoke Zarathustra, Matthew Homan

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Development of lymphatic hearts in Ambystoma mexicanum and a comparison with that found in Xenopus, Stefany Honigbaum

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The Robert W. Ryerss Museum and Library : a case study in upper class philanthropy in late Victorian Philadelphia, Laura L. Keefe

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Securing distributed computations : in search of reliable large-scale compute power and refreshed redundancy, Edward P. Kenney

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Only in story a world : atheistic metanarrative in LeGuin, Pullman and Wolfe, Samuel N. Keyes

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Discerning the roles of PstS and PhoB in phosphate-mediated gene regulation and the ability of Shigella flexneri to survive and multiply in human epithelial cells, Laura Liefer

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London coffee houses : the first hundred years, Heather Lynn McQueen

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Type of muscle present in adult Amphibian lymphatic heart based on the DNA sequence of the Myosin heavy chain, Maribeth Morral

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The effects of TGF-B on the interactions of matrix metalloproteinases MT1-MMP and MMP2 and tissue inhibitor metalloproteinase TIMP2 in the human glioma cell, Emily A. Newman

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Narrating the middle ground : b the examination of objects in the modern genre of immigrant fiction, Meagna A. Patinella

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Technology and the 'Self', Ryan Rinn

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Invasive exotic plants at the University of Richmond, Bethany K. Shewmaker

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A case study of events and examples : history in Arundhati Roy's The god of small things, Michell C. Smith

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Regulation of limb development in frogs, Kathryn Starkweather

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Factorization of polynomials and real analytic function, Radoslaw L. Stefanski

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The effect of epidermal growth factor and Concanavalin A on MMP-2 and MMP-9 activity in human glioblastoma mulitforme cell lines U87 and LNZ-308, Samantha Weed

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Women leaders combining a career in higher education with raising a family : a study of leadership, Anne Simmons Williamson

Theses from 2003

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The regulation of cellulase in three microbial isolates: Cellulomanas cellulans, Bacillis cereus and Deinococcus sp. Mbic3950, Elizabeth M. Cook

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Vesticular monomine transporters in macrophages, Randall R. De Martino

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The effect of slavery on southern farmland values in the antebellum and postbellum era, Brandon Devlin

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Cultural imposition or cross-cultural communication: an auto-ethnographic exploration of Christian missionary rhetorics, Marian Draffin

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Preliminary, ultrastructural investigation of culturing techniques and calcification of the ciliate Coleps, Jennifer Dupont

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American identity in the Illinois Territory, 1809-1818, Daniel Northrup Finucane

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Preliminary work done on a family of dienesters, specifically ethyl-5-chloro-5-phenyl-pentadienoate, Katie Griffin

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The effect of the epidermal growth factor and Concanavalin A on MMP-2 and MMP-9 activity in human glioblastoma multiforme cells, Sarah Hartigan

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Threonine phosphorylation as an additional mechanism of regulation in membrane-type 1 matrix metalloproteinase (MT-1 MMP), Gabe Hillegass

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Auto-ethnography as a communicative and therapeutic means of addressing eating disorders, Julie Irvin

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The Christian century and the fluidity of American ideologies, 1919-1932, Michael Levin

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The effect of TGF-β on phosphorylation of MT1-MMP and MMP-2 activation in human glioma cells, Karen A. Lewis

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A blueprint for environmental sustainability along the James River, Trevor S. MacDougall

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Fecal coliforms and antibiotic resistance of Tuckahoe Creek, Catherine C. Parker

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The effect of green tea flavanols on inhibiting MMP-2 activation in human glioma cell line U87, Amorette Rofe

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The new top hats at Westminster : a longitudinal study of the effects of the British general election of 1906 on the Liberal Party, Michael Rosenberger

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Leading a 'torn country' : Turkey's ideological and civilized divide, Joshua Walker

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An unbiased stereological assessment of articular cartilage composition in the canine patellofemoral joint, Kathryn Winslow

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Trusting organizations : organizational structure, trust, and the implications for leaders, Jeremiah Robert Winters

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Stage-dependant expression of a myosin gene in lymph heart of Xenopus laevis tadpoles, Michael Wolf

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The ethics of service : a new approach to service learning, Jonathan C. Zur

Theses from 2002

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The rhetoric of legality vs. the rhetoric of morality : seeing justice through the eyes of dramatic works, Hannah C. Bate

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The Gray Ghost's sanctuary: civilians in Mosby's Confederacy during the Civil War, James J. Cain

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Self-similarity in network traffic, Francisco Chinchilla

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The application of β-chloroenones to the synthesis of bioactive pyrroles, Scott Cutro

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Julian as fanatic ideologue: an explanation for the Persian Invasion of A.D. 363 /, Dallas DeForest

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An examination of microorganisms and their antibiotic resistance patterns in rural, urban, and tidal water samples, Caroline K. Elkins

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NUDIX hydrolases: a family of versatile, widely distributed, housecleaning enzymes, Brian Foster

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Rethinking the great divide : a rhetorical study of orality, literacy and the human experience, Danielle L. Joyce

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The Victorian construction of Sappho, 1835-1914, Megan Kulp

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Locating postmodern epistemology, organizational structure and postcolonial workers in the knowledge rhizome, Viren Mascarenhas

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Complement resistance in Agrobacterium tumefaciens isolates, Michael E. McCormick

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Nationalism and the public sphere : debating the limits of patriotism in popular music since September 11th, Mark Melvin

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Escaping the auction block and rejecting the pedestal of virtue : slave narratives redefine womanhood in nineteenth-century America, Candice E. Renka

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Identification of catecholamine-synthesizing enzymes in macrophages, Julie Rumble

Theses from 2001

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The Lithuanian-Polish dispute and the great Powers, 1918-1923, Peter Ernest Baltutis

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New Jersey women and their strategies for exerting power in marriage, 1770-1800, Jacqueline Deyo

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Development of a p53 functional assay for characterization of T98G, U251, and U87glioblastoma cell lines, Melissa A. Hull

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Invasion of mouse fibroblasts and macrophages by human isolates of Agrobacterium, Karmon Leigh Kriechbaum

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Development of a p53 functional assay for use in the U373 human glioblastoma cell line, Lorraine C. Larsen

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Leon Trotsky and the struggle for power in communist Russia, 1921-1923, David William McAloon

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Characterization of a non-ribosomal peptide from agrobacterium tumefaciens, Graham Strub