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18 U.S.C. Sec. 924(C)(1)(A)(III) Does Not Require Proof of Intent to Discharge a Firearm in Order to Impose a Ten-Year Sentencing Enhancement on a Defendant: Dean v. United States, Jessica Gibson

75 Pa. Cons. Stat. Sec. 3802 (a)(1) is a While Driving Offense: Commonwealth v. Segida, Allison Lachat

Acquisition and Retention of CPR Knowledge and Skills for Junior Level Baccalaureate Nursing Students, Andrea Ackermann

A Decade (2005-2015) of Unconventional Shale Gas Development in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and its Environmental Impact, Colleen Nolan

A molecular dissection of the mating system in the bluntnose minnow, Pimephales notatus, Rebecca Abrasheff

"A Multitude of Little Luminosities": Dissociative Multiplicity as an Image of and Invitation to Psyche, through a Case of Dissociative Identity Disorder, Camille O'Connor

Analysis of Factors that Influence Member Turnover in a Health Insurance Plan, Sara Bennett

An Analysis of Beginning Counselor Education Master's Degree Candidate's Ability to Make Ethical Decisions Based on the American Counseling Association's Ethical Standards After Having Completed a Course in Professional Ethics, Richard Joseph Behun

An Imaginative Theory of Doctrinal Development: An Attempt to Open Western Traditions to Contextual Faith, Caesar Montevecchio

Animal Owners in Pennsylvania are Not Afforded an Absolute Right to Kill Their Healthy Animal: Commonwealth v. Kneller, Erika Farkas

A Randomized Controlled Trial Assessing the Impact of an Innovative Approach to Educating New to Practice Nurses, Evelyn Lengetti

Attitudes of Pre-service Teachers Toward Computational Thinking in Education, Bekir Mugayitoglu

Authentic Dasein as Pathway to Heideggerianism as a Political Philosophy - a Political Vibration of Being and Time, Thomas Akpen

Bayesian Analysis of Discrete Longitudinal Data, Nicholas Bernini

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Africa: Fifty Years of Independence: Religion, Unity, Theology & Reinventing Africa Volume 23

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Africa in Transition: Economy, Politics and a Christian Response Volume 10

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- All Have the Same God? Approaches to the Question of God in Emergent African Theologies Volume 21

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Alternative Voices in the Mission Project: The Challenge of Evangelization in West Africa Volume 16

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Christian Mission in the Third Millennium Volume 9 Numbers 1-2

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Christian Theology and Social Relevance: Ethical, Economic and Social Implications of Solidarity Volume 24

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Church and Politics in Nigeria Volume 2 Number 1

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Conflict and Reconcilliation: Towards Jubilee 2000 Volume 11

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Democratization Process in Africa: Multiethnicity and African Nation-States Volume 5 Number 2

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Ecumenical Commitment Volume 20

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Good News to the Poor of Africa and the World: Millennium Edition Volume 12

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Grassroots Women Arise Volume 6 Number 1

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Human Rights: The African Perspective Volume 4 Numbers 1-2

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Inculturation: Continuity and Change in the African Church Volume 8 Number 2

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Inter-Religious Dialogue Volume 15

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Migration and Relevance of Christian Mission: Visibility of Invisible Africans Volume 18

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Nigeria: Religion and Conflict Resolution Volume 14

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Peace Building, Social Transformation and Religion in Africa: Contextual Theological Reflection Volume 25

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Power, Authority, and Leadership: African and Christian Volume 6 Number 1

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Power of the Powerless! Solidarity and Collaboration as Mission Volume 17

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Structural Adjustment Programmes: An African Christian Response Volume 5 Number 1

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- The Dialogue of Civilisations: Dialogue of Cultures Volume 13

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- The Power Game: Kaduna Mafia and the Church in Nigeria Volume 2 Number 2 - Volume 3 Number 1

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Twenty Years of Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology Volume 19

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Unity in Diversity: Cultures, Religions and Church Impacting Society Volume 22

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Violence and State Security Volume 6 Number 2

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology -- Violence and State Security Volume 7 Numbers 1-2

Capital Punishment for the Rape of a Child is Cruel and Unusual Punishment under the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution: Kennedy v. Louisiana, Brian Lucot

Case Study: Nicosia Master Plan; Cooperation in the Midst of Conflict, Doga Akinci

Challenging the Discretionary Aspects of a Sentence in Pennsylvania: Commonwealth v. Mastromarino, Edward T. Pollock

Christian Supersessionism and the Dilemma of Dialogue in Jos Nigeria: Exploring Panikkar’s Dialogical Dialogue as a Paradigm for Interreligious Dialogue, Martin Ahiaba

Commonwealth May Involuntarily Administer Antipsychotic Medication to Inmates to Render Them Competent to Participate in Post Conviction Relief Act Proceedings: Commonwealth v. Sam, Joseph M. Stichler

Confusion and Inconsistencies Surrounding the Exigency Component for Warrantless Vehicle Searches under Article I, Section 8, Elizabeth Fischer

Counsel Must Advise Their Clients When Criminal Conviction Would Result in Deportation: Padilla v. Kentucky, Joshua Gallo

Courts are Permitted to Reject and Vary Categorically from the Crack Cocaine U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Based on Policy Disagreements with Those Guidelines: Spears v. United States, Michael C. Kilmer

Courts Must Give Adequate Consideration to Statutory Sentencing Factors: United States v. Olhovsky, Danielle Diethorn

Criminal Defendants in Pennsylvania, While Constitutionally Entitled to the Right to Counsel, May Forfeit That Right if They Undertake Extreme Dilatory Conduct: Commonwealth v. Lucarelli, Amanda Kraft

Criminal RICO Enterprise via Salerno, Milken, and Cianci, The, Benjamin Zev Koblentz

Defendant Must Prove That Mental Retardation Existed before the Age of Eighteen in Order to Be Protected from the Death Penalty: Commonwealth v. Vandivner, A, William Grant

Design and Synthesis of Pyrimidine Fused Heterocycles as Single Agents with Combination Chemotherapy Potential, Roheeth Pavana

Developing Your Community Toolbox: An Online, Face-to-Face, and Hands on Training Program, Erin Wynne

Development of Reading Comprehension Skills Among Students With Intellectual Disabilities Using Technologically-Based Reading Programs, Ella Macklin

Dialogue as the Labor of Care: Welcoming a Unity of Contraries, Marie Baker-Ohler

Does Caring Matter?: A Qualitative Study of Urban African American Alternative School Students Perceptions of Their School Experiences, Past and Present, Victoria Berger

"Doing the Right Thing": A Study of Cross-Generational Eldercare Decision-making in Community and Disease Context, Jeannie Baron-Yenerall

Early Greek Philosophy and the Discovery of Nature, Justin Habash

Eudaimonia: Utilizing Aristotle's Good Life to Inform Organizational Communication to Reimagine Human Resources Management, Matthew Anthony Fuss

Every Parent's Worst Nightmare: Surveillance of Criteria-based, Rampage School Shooters, 1995-2015, Paul Lomax

Exploring Variables of Post-Operative Depression, Mary Malitas

Fourth Prophylactic Test Guarding an Individuals' Fifth and Sixth Amendment Rights to Counsel Goes Too Far: Montejo v. Louisiana, A, Gregory Dapper

From Virtue to Sympathy: Perspectives in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Literature on the Disintegration of the Social Bond, Andrea Beranek

Gene Regulation Through Artificially Induced DNA Conformational Changes, David Bednarski

Habeas Corpus Relief Will Not Be Granted to American Citizens Seeking to Avoid Prosecution in Foreign Sovereign Nations: Munaf v. Geren, Ryan Duty

How Principals Lead to Promote Inclusive Practices: A Descriptive Study, Janet Armstrong

If an Incompetent Criminal Defendant Shows That Counsel was Ineffective and Did Not Follow Reasonable Professional Standards, the Conviction Will Be Reversed and Remanded in Order to Provide Further Proceedings on His Competency: Hummel v. Rosemeyer, Gillian Pavlek

Impact of N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine on the Pathology of Experimental Parkinson’s Disease in Vivo, Negin Nouraei

Instructional School Gardens: Opportunities for and Barriers to Scaling, Patricia Sprague

Interart Studies from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era: Stylistic Parallels between English Poetry and the Visual Arts, Roberta Aronson

Interpersonal APProach to Dementia: An iPad-Based Program for Caregiver Education and Decreasing Problem Behaviors in Older Adults with Cognitive Impairments, Anna Olexsovich

Introduction, DCLJ DCLJ

Leaps of faith: Trainees' experiences of not knowing in psychotherapy, Rachel Francine Gottlieb

Macrophage COX-2 As a Target For Imaging And Therapy of Inflammatory Diseases Using Theranostic Nanoemulsions, Sravan Kumar Patel

Making Sense of Sensory Processing: A Pilot Program for Parents and Teachers Educating the Use of Sensory Intervention in Pediatric Occupational Therapy, Kelsey Kinnare

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Marshall McLuhan and Communication Ethics: The Taming of Americanitis, Julie A. Cramer Hunsberger

Media Literacy and Critical Thinking: Is There a Connection?, Edward Arke

Memory, Phantasia, and the Perception of Time: A Commentary on Aristotle’s De Memoria Et Reminiscentia, Evan Strevell

My Social Toolbox: Building a Foundation for Increased Social Participation Among Children With Disabilities, Brooke Willis

Near-Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy-based Pharmaceutical Process Analytical Technology (PAT) Systems: Risk and Performance, Sameer Talwar

Need Not Necessity: Purgatorial Torment and Healing in Medieval and Early Modern Drama, Nicole Andel

Nurses' Attitudes Towards Continuing Formal Education: A Comparison by Level of Education and Geography, Tanya Altmann

Occidentalism in Late Nineteenth Century Egypt, Alaa Bayoumi

On the Use and Abuse of Nietzsche for Marketing Communication: Examining Consumer Suspicion toward Advertising, Daniel Ulf Assmus

Parent and Teacher Perceptions of Employment Readiness of Students with Intellectual Disabilities, Lindsay Ann McGuirk

PEP Talks: Partnerships for Educational Planning Talks, Audra Sitterly

Preparing Preservice Teachers to Use Positive Behavior Supports in General Education Classrooms, Ruth Auld

Principles of Chemical Reactivity on the Diels-Alder Reaction in Ionic Liquids and Lewis Acid Catalysis using Large-Scale Computations, Orlando Acevedo

Protein-Protein Interactions of Human Mitochondrial Amidoxime-Reducing Component in Mammalian Cells, John Thomas

Recipe for a Hot and Fresh Pursuit under Sec. 8953(a)(2) of the Municipal Police Jurisdiction Act: Commonwealth v. Peters, The, Krystal A. Omps

Registered Nurses’ Perceptions of Organizational Power and Its Relationship to Perception of Physician-Perpetrated Verbal Abuse, Stress, and Coping, Michael Neiswonger

Regulation of Steroid Sulfatase by Glucocorticoids in Human Breast Cancer and Bone Cancer Cell Lines, Suman Barua

René Girard, Sacrifice, and the Eucharist, Michael Joseph Darcy

Schools as Systems of Care Supporting Mental Wellness in Schools: Teacher Perceptions and Roles, Tracy Lynn Scanlon Limegrover

Self-forgiveness: A narrative phenomenological study, John Beiter

Sleepwalking Used as a Defense in Criminal Cases and the Evolution of the Ambien Defense, Beth E. Teacher

Socratic Encounters: Plato's Alcibiades, Andre Archie

Structural Indicators of Index Crime Rates in Metropolitan Counties for 1990 and 2000, Jacob Becker

Table of Contents, DCLJ

Table of Contents Issue 1, DCLJ DCLJ

Techno-Racism: Heidegger's Philosophy of Technology and Critical Philosophies of Race, James Michael Taylor

The Church and the Voice of the Other: The Growth of the Faith Community and Dialogue in the Church, John Amankwah

The Effect of Melatonin Upon Post-Acute Withdrawal Among Males in a Residential Treatment Program (M-Paws): A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled Trial, Corry D. Bondi

The Ethical Analysis of the Connection between Hope and Fertility Preservation, Leah Jeunette

The Necessity for Communicative Engagement Capability in Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions, Elizabeth Ann DuWaldt

The Perceptions of Taproot Teachers and Their Sustaining Force on a Year-Round Educational Program, Wilma Jean Allen

The relationship between healthcare services and financial burden among families of children with autism spectrum disorders: A US perspective, Darshini Dhanraj Shah

There's No Place Like Home? The Effects of Childhood Themes on Women's Aspirations Toward Leadership Roles, Janet Wojtalik

The Return of Participatory Scriptural Hermeneutics in Evangelicalism: An Augustinian Philosophy of Communication, Joshua David Hill

The Role of Rhetoric: Ong’s Ramus Research as a Hermeneutic Opening for Mediated Communication, Melinda Farrington

The Steroid Sulfatase Inhibitor (p-O-Sulfamoyl) - Tetradecanoyl Tyramine (DU-14) Enhances Memory Retention in Passive Avoidance in Rats with Hippocampal Cholinergic Deficit, Phebian Arinola Abitoye

Third Circuit Appellate Waivers: The Mysterious Miscarriage of Justice Standard, Kristine Malmgren Yeater

Title Page, DCLJ

To Justify a Lawful Traffic Stop in Pennsylvania, Law Enforcement Officials Must Possess a Reasonable Suspicion That the Driver is in Violation of the Vehicle Code: Commonwealth v. Anthony, Shane Sarver

Under the Independent Source Doctrine, Evidence Uncovered in a Search Will Not Be Suppressed When the Search Warrant, Excised of Any Previously Illegally Obtained Evidence, Contains Probable Cause: United States v. Price, Kristine Malmgren Yeater

Utilization of Fluorescent Chemosensors to Quantify Pb2+ in Aqueous Media, Aria Parangi

Vico's Narrative Art: From the Forests to the Academies, Ariana Ragusa

Warrantless Arrests Based on Probable Cause and Subsequent Searches Incident to Those Arrests Do Not Violate the Fourth Amendment: Virginia v. Moore, Brian Walsh