Theses/Dissertations from 2015
A Psychometric Examination of Prosocial Behavior Across Cultural Contexts, Thomas Knight (Summer 2015)
Improving Higher Education Attainment Among African American Women, Renee Knox (Fall 2015)
Moral Courage: A Requirement for Ethical Decision Making in Nursing Home Leadership, Shelley Kobuck (Spring 2015)
Beyond Biology: Bases For a Child-Centered and Functional Account of Parenthood, Jacob Kohlhaas (Summer 2015)
En Route To Communicative Praxis: Understanding Natural Law and Several Communicative Implications, Rachel Ann Kosko (Fall 2015)
Women In Alcoholics Anonymous: A Qualitative Research Study, Ariel Larson (Summer 2015)
The Church as a Theophanic Community, Daniel Levis (Spring 2015)
Increasing the Number of African American Students in Undergraduate Level Classes of Chinese: A Call to Action, Huiwen Li ( 2015)
Housing-Related Migration in the Marcellus Shale Region of Pennsylvania, Annette M. Mackay (Fall 2015)
The Visible and Invisible Aspects of Miscarriage: A Phenomenological, Hermeneutic, Imaginal Study, Denise M. Mahone (Spring 2015)
A comparison of two interventions in a response to intervention (RtI) framework across student problem type, Lisa Maloney ( 2015)
An Examination of the Sources of Resiliency Possessed by Teachers of Students At-Risk of Not Meeting Graduation Requirements, John H. Mayberry (Summer 2015)
Well Water Quality in Southern Butler County, Pennsylvania, Scott Mayes (Spring 2015)
The Impact of Demographic Variables on Differentiation of Self During the Course of Counseling, Kenneth C. Messina (Fall 2015)
Terrorist Kidnappings for Ransom: Explaining Hostage Outcomes, Stephanie Mullen (Spring 2015)
An Examination of Factors that Contribute to Binge Eating among Bariatric Patients, Erin Neuman-Boone (Summer 2015)
Sin and the Story of Salvation: The Theology of Atonement in Light of Biblical Narrative Theology, Mark Ortwein (Spring 2015)
Losing Schools to the Economic Chasm: A Multiple Regression Analysis of Family Income and School Performance Profile Scores, Lisa Over (Spring 2015)
The Impact of Structured Prebriefing on Nursing Students' Competency Performance, Clinical Judgment and Experience in Simulation, Karin Page-Cutrara (Fall 2015)
Clinical, Economic, and Humanistic Impact of Sofosbuvir-Based Regimens in Hepatitis C, Mousam Parekh (Fall 2015)
How Motivational Interviewing Affects the Motivation, Self-Efficacy, and Outcome Expectancies of Adjudicated Adolescents in a School Setting, Sarah Paret Rabkin ( 2015)
Facilitating Healthy Interpersonal Relationships for Adolescents with Autism: An Examination of Knowledge Acquisition and Retention Over Time, Elizabeth Pask (Summer 2015)
Macrophage COX-2 As a Target For Imaging And Therapy of Inflammatory Diseases Using Theranostic Nanoemulsions, Sravan Kumar Patel (Spring 2015)
Topographical Differences in Stress Vulnerability in Experimental Parkinson's Disease, Jessica M. Posimo (Fall 2015)
Spinoza's Ethology: Recognizing Dynamic Transitions Between Imagination, Reason, and Intuition, Christina Rawls (Fall 2015)
Microbial Arsenic Transformation in Near Subsurface Environments, Robert James Reiter (Fall 2015)
How Graduate Counselor Education Students Articulate Professional Purpose as It Relates To Clinical Population Selection, Christina M. Riga (Fall 2015)
The Relationship between a Theological Understanding of Marital Commitment and a Juridical Articulation of Marital Consent in Sacramental Marriages in the United States, Angela Robb (Spring 2015)
The Unguided Journey: The Impact of Racial Oppression on the Career Development Process of African-American Emerging Adults, Fawn Robinson (Spring 2015)
An Exploration of the Culture Care Experiences of Puerto Rican Families with a Child with Special Health Care Needs as Perceived by the Family Caregiver, Karen S. Rousseau (Fall 2015)
Experiences of Playing Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games: A Phenomenological Exploration, Jacob Rusczek (Summer 2015)
After the Dust Settles: Experiences of Haitian Earthquake Survivors and Implications for Psychosocial Support, Florence Saint-Jean (Spring 2015)
Inheriting Nietzsche: The Frankfurt School and Foucault on the Foundation of Critique, George Shea (Spring 2015)
How to Attain Sustainable Education in Sierra Leone: A Policy Design For Sanda Tendaren Chiefdom, Ahmed Lamin Sheriff (Fall 2015)
Exploring Meanings of Identity, Selfhood, and Migration in the Lives of First- Generation Gujarati Asian Indian Americans: A Narrative Study, Reena Sheth (Spring 2015)
Critical Pragmatism: Peirce and Marcuse on the Socio-Political Influences on Human Development in Advanced Industrial Societies, Clancy Smith ( 2015)
G Quadruplex RNA Structures in PSD-95 Mrna: Potential Regulators of Mir-125a Seed Binding Site Accessibility, Snezana Stefanovic (Spring 2015)
Sin, History, and Liberty: Milton, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and Anne Grant in the Eighteen Hundreds, Justin Stevenson (Summer 2015)
Assessing the Efficacy of Pre-Service Trainings for Treatment Foster Parents, Amy Strickler (Spring 2015)
An Exploration of Differences in Group Perceptions of Diversity and Faculty-Student Engagement Between African American and White American, First-Time Students Enrolled in Community College, Michelle Talbert-Horsey (Summer 2015)
Near-Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy-based Pharmaceutical Process Analytical Technology (PAT) Systems: Risk and Performance, Sameer Talwar (Fall 2015)
Near-Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy-based Pharmaceutical Process Analytical Technology (PAT) Systems: Risk and Performance, Sameer Talwar (Summer 2015)
Role of greenhouse gas inventories in climate change mitigation at institutions of higher education, Sadaf Tehmina (Spring 2015)
Online Multimedia Learning: Predicting Learner Media Selections in the Visual and Verbal Domains, Natalie Toomey (Fall 2015)
The Erotic Charms of Platonic Discourse: Mythmaking, Love Potions, and Role Reversals, Dana Trusso (Spring 2015)
Analysis of Factors Contributing To Early Adoption of Multi- Municipal Comprehensive Plans in Pennsylvania, Karen Vanderhoff (Summer 2015)
Rethinking Multiplicity After Deleuze and Badiou, Becky Vartabedian (Fall 2015)
Cytokine Dynamics, Diagnosis and Treatment of Neuroinflammation In Chronic Constriction Injury Rat Model, Kiran Vasudeva (Summer 2015)
Cytokine Dynamics, Diagnosis and Treatment of Neuroinflammation In Chronic Constriction Injury Rat Model, Kiran Vasudeva (Spring 2015)
Visionary Nonconformity: Miltonic Resonances and the Poetics of Religious Dissent in the Long Eighteenth Century, Matthew Vickless (Fall 2015)
A Constructive Account of Children's Moral Agency Drawing on Thomas Aquinas's Theory of Emotions, Ann Vinski (Spring 2015)
The Measurement of Counselors' Emotional Intelligence and Client Treatment Outcomes in Addiction Treatment Settings, VonZell Wade (Fall 2015)
Designing Accessible Mental Health Care in an Urban Community: Lived Experiences of Key Stakeholders Planning Emergent Community-Based Services, Matthew Walsh (Summer 2015)
Perceptions of Expert Practice by Active Licensed Registered Nurse Therapeutic Touch® Practitioners, Tamara Lynn Wardell (Fall 2015)
Monoamine Transporter Photoaffinity Ligands Based On Methylphenidate and Citalopram: Rational Design, Chemical Synthesis, and Biochemical Application, Nageswari Yarravarapu (Spring 2015)
A Comparison of Two Self-Managed Spelling Interventions: Cover, Copy, and Compare and Taped Spelling Intervention, Menas Zannikos (Summer 2015)
Rethinking Ethics Assessment in Health Technology Assessment: A Nonlinear Approach, Aimee Zellers (Spring 2015)
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Men in Nursing: Masculine Gender Role Stress and Job Satisfaction, Anita Bailey (Spring 2014)
The Existential Phenomenology of Hazel E. Barnes: Toward a Theory of Existential Leadership, Jen Jones (Spring 2014)
Dopamine Transporter (DAT), Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor (nAChR), and Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 2 (mGlu2) Irreversible Probes For Identifying Anti-Psychostimulant Therapeutics, Shaili Aggarwal (Fall 2014)
Cultivating a Culture of Success in Catholic Secondary Schools in Tanzania, Peter Felix Asantebwana (Fall 2014)
Merleau-Ponty and Levinas: Traces of Childlike Peace in a World at War, Brock A. Bahler (Summer 2014)
An Examination of the Utility and Acceptability of Strength-Based Assessment in the Schools, Kaleigh Bantum (Summer 2014)
Women and the American Wilderness: Responses to Landscape and Myth, Gina Bessetti-Reyes (Spring 2014)
War and Witness in the Poetry of H.D., Denise Levertov, and Carolyn Forche, Katelyn Bienas (Spring 2014)
Graduate Students' Perception of Curriculum-Based Efficacy of the Acquisition of Multicultural Counseling Skills, Demond Ethridge Bledsoe (Summer 2014)
Awakned To A Life: An Existential- Phenomenological Examination Of The Lived Experience Of Recovery From Eating Disorders, Anthony Micheal Boone ( 2014)
Detecting the Presence of Total Coliforms and E. coli in Private Well-Water in South Western Pennsylvania, Matthew Bricker (Spring 2014)
Embracing Commonplace: Creating Ground for a Life of Rhetorically Engaged Civic Action, Jill K. Burk (Spring 2014)
Becoming a Sex Offender: A Study of Constitution at the Intersection of the Mental Health and Legal Systems, Jessica Callanan (Fall 2014)
Stages of Belief: The Nature of Audience Response in Medieval and Early Modern Drama, Rebecca Cepek (Spring 2014)
Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Diphenylamines as MEK5 Inhibitors, Suravi Chakrabarty (Fall 2014)
Sojourning in the Margin: Living as Wives of International Students, Mengchun Chiang (Fall 2014)
Effect of an Experiential Learning Model for Simulation Design on Clinical Nursing Judgment Development in Pre-Licensure Baccalaureate Nursing Students, Joyce Victor Chmil (Spring 2014)
Mongolian Folklore Expressed through Music Technology Original Multimedia Soundtrack on Horseback, Xinlei Chu (Spring 2014)
All of a Sudden: The Role of Ἐξαίφνης in Plato's Dialogues, Joseph J. Cimakasky (Spring 2014)
The Rhetoric of Benjamin Franklin as an Ethical Model for the Practice of Sales, Mark Craig ( 2014)
The A Priori Nature of the Political: Democracy and Scientific Method in Thomas Hobbes, Patrick Craig ( 2014)
Determination of the Expression Patterns of the Nine CSP Genes in Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655 and the Growth Defects Associated with Deletion of These Genes, Tiffany R Czapski (Summer 2014)
Molecular Evolution of Hominoid Primates: Phylogeny and Regulation, Ranajit Das (Fall 2014)
Impact of Preschool Education on the Academic Achievement of Low Socio-Economic Status Elementary Students, Gary Dawson (Spring 2014)
The Nation as a Communicative Construct: Toward a Theory of Dialogic Nationalism, Joseph T. DeCrosta (Spring 2014)
Virtualizing The Word: Expanding Walter Ong's Theory Of Orality And Literacy Through A Culture Of Virtuality, Jennifer Camille Dempsey (Spring 2014)
Writing The Next Galileo, a Children's Musical, Joseph Domencic (Summer 2014)
Isolation and Characterization of Salinivibrio sp. Strain LP-1 from an Impoundment Used for Marcellus Shale Waste Waters, Oliver B. Dugas (Spring 2014)
Conscience and Community: Exploring the Relationship between Conscience formation and Systemic Corruption (in Nigeria), Augustine E. Ebido (Spring 2014)
The Event of Revolution, Nathan Eckstrand (Fall 2014)
Investigating Variability in Teaching Performance...Seeking Pathways to Excellence, Francine Endler (Summer 2014)
The Effect of Education on Elder Abuse, Kathleen M. Evanina (Spring 2014)
The New Endangered Species: Community-Anchoring Public Schools, Karen Ferrick-Roman (Fall 2014)
Primitive Defenses and Unilateral Termination of Psychotherapy: Are the Lerner Defense Scales Useful in Predicting Premature Termination in Psychotherapy?, Teal Fitzpatrick ( 2014)
Beyond Symptom Accumulation: A Lacanian Clinical Approach to Obsession - A Case Study and Theoretical Exposition, Julie L. Futrell (Summer 2014)
Road Narratives as Cultural Critiques: Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, and William Least Heat-Moon, Jesse Gipko (Fall 2014)
Impact of Students' Perception of Safety on Academic Success, Daniel Gittins (Fall 2014)
"The fullest possible account": Knowledge and Exceptionalism in Post-9/11 Literature, Lee Ann Glowzenski (Summer 2014)
Samuel de Champlain and the French Wars of Religion, Benjamen N. Goff (Spring 2014)
Black Existential Philosophy: Truth in Virtue of Self-Discovery, James B. Haile (Spring 2014)
In Silico-Guided Design of Novel-Scaffold Therapeutics Targeting the Dopamine D3 Receptor, Debesai Gaim Hailemicael (Fall 2014)
Semantically-Based Therapeutic Approach Through Aided Language Stimulation in a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Annemarie Rozier Hall ( 2014)