Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Communicating through Cork: Marcel Proust's Performative Call to Philosophy of Communication, David DeIuliis (Fall 2015)
Design and synthesis of pyrimido[4,5-b]indoles and furo[2,3-d]pyrimidines as single agents with combination chemotherapy potential or as inhibitors of tubulin or thymidylate synthase, Ravi Kumar Vyas Devambatla (Spring 2015)
Reintroducing Invention to Innovation: Investigating the White Space in Marketing Innovation, Mandy E. Dlugos (Fall 2015)
Online Knowledge Sharing: Investigating the Community of Inquiry Framework and Its Effect on Knowledge Sharing Behavior in Online Learning Environments, Anne Doring (Fall 2015)
The Feasibility, Acceptability, and Effectiveness of a School-Based Motivational Interviewing Intervention for Adolescent Females, Vanessa Durand (Summer 2015)
The Effects of Stressors and Stress Hormones on Behavior, Physiology, and Disease Susceptibility in Terrestrial Salamanders, Christopher Fonner (Summer 2015)
Techniques for Estimating the Variance of Specific Estimators within Complex Surveys, Laura Marie Galiardi (Fall 2015)
Organizational Ethics for Sponsorship and Governance in Catholic Healthcare, Alex Garvey (Spring 2015)
Severely Stressed Astrocytes Adapt to Injury and Still Protect Neighboring Neurons, Amanda Marie Gleixner (Fall 2015)
The Relationships of Word Processing in Academic Work and Student Achievement Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, Amos Glenn (Spring 2015)
Non-Traditional Therapeutic Interventions for At-Risk Youth & Students with Complex Support Needs: Equine Therapy, Erin J. Grimm (Fall 2015)
Emotion Regulation and Adherence to Display Rules after Experiencing Childhood Trauma, Courtney Hagan (Fall 2015)
Trauma at the Limit: Bearing Witness to the Impossible of Survivor Testimony, Travis J. Hall ( 2015)
Development of Extraction Method for Persistent Organic Pollutants in Water and Dietary Supplement Using Stir Bar Sorptive Extraction and Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry, Weier Hao (Spring 2015)
An Interactional Analysis of Adult Cognitive Assessment, William Hasek (Summer 2015)
Deus in se et Deus pro nobis: The Transfiguration in the Theology of Gregory Palamas and Its Importance for Catholic Theology, Cory Hayes (Spring 2015)
Interaction Effects of Parenting Styles and Child Temperament: Motor, Cognitive, and Language Development in Children Prenatally Exposed to Alcohol, Jenna Hennessey (Spring 2015)
Evolution of Prostate Specific Gene Expression Associated With Post Copulatory Sexual Selection, Scott Hergenrother (Spring 2015)
"A Stranger to the World": Women, Bisexuality, and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England, Jade Higa (Fall 2015)
A New Ethical Model for The Analysis of Care for Refugee Women Who Experience Female Genital Cutting, Sharon R. Higginbothan (Fall 2015)
Teachers' Perceptions of an Online Social Network as an Instructional Platform: The Impact of an Edmodo-Based Professional Development Workshop, Ashley Hodge ( 2015)
Exploring autism prediction through logistic regression analysis with corrections for rare events data, Jennifer Hunter (Spring 2015)
Modeling the Binding of Inhibitors/Drugs to the Human Serotonin Transporter, Kalyan Immadisetty (Spring 2015)
Predictors of Breast Cancer Screening and Cancer Genetic Services Use among Young African American Female Breast Cancer Survivors: A Secondary Data Analysis, Tarsha Jones (Spring 2015)
Multi-Component Characterization of Strain Rate Sensitivity in Pharmaceutical Materials, Jeffrey Michael Katz (Fall 2015)
Relationship of Uncertainty, Perceived Threat, Stress, Positive Appraisal, and Daily Spiritual Experiences in Women with Breast Cancer: A Transitions Perspective, Sharon Kern (Summer 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 (Summer 2015)
Near-Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy-based Pharmaceutical Process Analytical Technology (PAT) Systems: Risk and Performance, Sameer Talwar (Fall 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 (Spring 2015)
Cytokine Dynamics, Diagnosis and Treatment of Neuroinflammation In Chronic Constriction Injury Rat Model, Kiran Vasudeva (Summer 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)