Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Advocacy Networks in the Marcellus Shale Area: A Study of Environmental Organizations in Northeastern and Southwestern Pennsylvania, Erin Pischke (Spring 2013)
Computational Modeling of the Binding of Amyloid-Beta to Neprilysin for Facilitating the Development of a Potential Alzheimer's Disease Therapy, Darrick E. Pope (Spring 2013)
Are Bribes the Only Way to Get Things Done? An Analysis of Public Perception and Willingness to Pay Bribes in Armenia, Arpine Porsughyan (Fall 2013)
Synthesis and Molecular Modeling Studies of Bicyclic Inhibitors of Dihydrofolate Reductase, Receptor Tyrosine Kinases and Tubulin, Sudhir Raghavan (Fall 2013)
Taming a Monstrous Genre: Vexed Author-Figures and their Lethal Texts: 1719 to 1824, Madhuchhanda Ray Choudhury (Fall 2013)
Little Sewickley Creek: The Redesignation Process of a High Quality Stream to an Exceptional Value Stream, Nathan Todd Reinhart (Spring 2013)
Excess Valency as an Intrinsic Scale of Lewis Basicity, Joseph J. Rosmus ( 2013)
Effects of Temperament, Attachment, and Parental Sensitivity on the Development of ADHD, Danielle C. Rubinic (Summer 2013)
Defining Success in Anti-Trafficking Policy: An Analysis of the U.S. State Departments Criteria for Combating Human Trafficking, Jenna Sellitto (Spring 2013)
Sadra and Hegel on the Relationship between Essence/Existence and Subject/Object, Kamal Abdulkarim Shlbei (Spring 2013)
Women Don't Ask: But Why Aren't They Willing to Learn How? Testing a Four Factor Model, Jared Dudley Simmer (Summer 2013)
Conceptualizing Integration: Resettlement Experiences of Bhutanese Refugees in Pittsburgh, PA, Andrew J. Smith ( 2013)
Living with Dying in the Pediatric ICU: A Nursing Perspective, Debra Stayer (Summer 2013)
Assessing the Effectiveness of Mentoring Programs on At-Risk Youth, Charlotte Emilie Steppling (Spring 2013)
Aristotle's Ethics: A Viable System for Today's Life and Business, James H. Stover (Fall 2013)
Efficacy of a School-Wide Teambuilding Program for Increasing School Belonging Amongst Elementary Children, Michelle Street (Fall 2013)
Emotional Intelligence of Entrepreneurs, Eric P. Swift (Fall 2013)
A Study of Special Education Teachers' Knowledge of Assistive Technology for Children with Reading Difficulties, Randal Todd Sydeski (Summer 2013)
Combating Budgetary Complications from the Marcellus Shale: The Case for a Pennsylvania Gas Fund, Daniel Ray Thompson ( 2013)
An Examination into the Learning Pattern Preferences of Students in Special Education, Jaime Lynn Thone (Spring 2013)
Community Development for the 21st Century: Asset-building and the Resurgence of Pittsburgh, Jason D. Tigano (Fall 2013)
Evaluation of DNA Barcoding as a Technique for Elucidating the Diet of Louisiana Waterthrush Nestlings, Brian K. Trevelline ( 2013)
Towards A Black Catholic Theology of Reconciliation-Tucker, Margretta Stokes Tucker ( 2013)
An Ethical Justification of Weight Loss Surgery, Amy Marie VanDyke (Spring 2013)
An Exploration of the Development of Empathy in a Clinical Sample of Preschoolers in Relation to Child and Family Factors, Lindsey G Venesky (Spring 2013)
Classical Antifolates: Synthesis of 5-Substituted, 6-Substituted and 7-Substituted Pyrrolo[2,3-d]Pyrimidines as Targeted Anticancer Therapies, Yiqiang Wang ( 2013)
Authority and Personality in M.M. Bakhtin's "Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity", Joel Scott Ward ( 2013)
Illegitimate Celebrity in the British Long Eighteenth Century, Melissa Wehler (Spring 2013)
Adolescents Who Stutter: Perception of Effective Therapy Techniques, Megan Weigel (Summer 2013)
Relationship between Social Cognition, Language, Executive Functioning and Theory of Mind Ability in High-Functioning Autism, Meghan E. Wendelken (Summer 2013)
Blogging: Public, Private or Social Rhetoric?, Kristin Roeschenthaler Wolfe ( 2013)
Somali Immigrant Perceptions of Mental Health and Illness: An Ethnonursing Study, Kimberly Michelle Wolf (Fall 2013)
Impediments to Effective Decentralization in Azerbaijan: The Problem of Competencies and Resources in Local Self-Government, Elvin Yusifli (Summer 2013)
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Identification of Desirable Pharmacy Preceptor Characteristics and Behaviors: A Qualitative Content Analysis Approach, Janet Astle (Summer 2012)
Medication Expenditure and Resource Utilization Among Patients with Musculoskeletal Disorders: Analysis of 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Data, Nipun Atreja (Spring 2012)
A Survey of Pennsylvania School Principals' Perceptions of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification Process and the Leadership Roles of National Board Certified Teachers, Amy Balbach (Summer 2012)
Rooftop Gardening in an Urban Setting: Impacts and Implications, Lisa Barreiro (Spring 2012)
Gesture Production, Motor Skills, and Disfluencies Observed in Typically Developing Preschoolers, Christina Beatty (Summer 2012)
The Rhetoric and Philosophy of Education: Finding Whole Learning in an Age of Mechanistic Pedagogy, Georgia Bedford (Summer 2012)
Graduate Recital, Voice, Rebecca Belczyk (Spring 2012)
The Relationship Between Barcode Medication Administration Satisfaction and the Use of Workarounds Among Registered Nurses, Sally Bennett ( 2012)
The Awareness of Computer-Mediated Communication's Social Presence for Virtual High School Students, Heather Bigley (Spring 2012)
Corporate Social Responsibility: Engaging Communicative Praxis in an Era of Neoclassical Economics, Kenneth Bohl (Spring 2012)
The Reliability and Validity of the Triage Assessment Scale for Students in Learning Environments; Middle Schools, Jamie Brownfield (Spring 2012)
NIMBY Effects on Low-Income Housing Policy: A Case of Two Cities, Russell Brown ( 2012)
Perceptions of Opportunity Among Youth Served by the Allegheny County Department of Human Services: A Program Evaluation Study of the Partnership for Youth Transition, James Caldwell (Summer 2012)
The Mill: Analysis of the Original Score and Film, Christopher Catone (Spring 2012)
Computational Ligand-Based CNS Therapeutic Design: The Search for Novel-Scaffold Norepinephrine Transporter Inhibitors, Anna Chaly (Fall 2012)
Black Men's Responsible Fatherhood Narratives: Fatherhood, Responsibility, Race, and Gender, Shane Chaplin (Summer 2012)
Association Between Obesity and Therapeutic Goal Attianment in Patients with Concomitant Hypertension and Dyslipidemia, Ishveen Chopra ( 2012)
Interpreting the Culture of Ubuntu: The Contribution of a Representative Indigenous African Ethics to Global Bioethics, Leonard T. Chuwa (Fall 2012)
Graduate Recital, Clarinet, Flute, Bassoon, Christopher Ciarlariello (Spring 2012)
Improving Search Results with Automated Summarization and Sentence Clustering, Steven Cotter (Spring 2012)
Character Education: A Relationship with Building Health, Robert Crider (Spring 2012)
The Lived Experience of Parenting a Child Adopted from an Institution in Eastern Europe, Kimberly A Curry-Lourenco (Fall 2012)
The Lived Experience of Counselor Education Doctoral Students in the Cohort Model at Duquesne University, Shirley A Devine (Fall 2012)
Democratically Engaged Community-University Partnerships: Reciprocal Determinants of Democratically Oriented Roles and Processes, Lina Dee Dostilio (Spring 2012)
Enrichment, Characterization and Identification of Microbial Communities Associated with Unconventional Shale Gas Production Water, J. Lucas Eastham (Summer 2012)
Examining Cross-Cultural Counseling Competencies of Substance Abuse Counselors in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Abdelhadi Elamin ( 2012)
The Efficacy of a Social Skills Group in the Treatment of Children and Adolescents with an Autism Spectrum Disorder, Colleen M Evans (Fall 2012)
Graduate Recital, Vocal Performance, Christopher Fiano (Spring 2012)
Coming to Terms with Abusive Childhood Sexual Experiences: A Listening Guide Study of Women's Stories, Melissa Geib (Spring 2012)
Graduate Recital, Violin, Ingrid Gerling (Spring 2012)
Reducing the Use of Seclusion and Restraint in Segregated Special Education School Settings Through Implementation of the Collaborative Problem Solving Model, BethAnn Glew (Spring 2012)
The Effects of a Violence Prevention Intervention on Prosocial Behavior and Perception of School Safety, Cheon Carlon Graham ( 2012)
Flourishing Selfhood in Aristotle and Authentic Selfhood in Heidegger, Jacob Graham ( 2012)
Graduate Recital, Saxophone, Abby Gross (Spring 2012)
Beyond the Brandopolis: A Communicative Approach to City Promotion and Marketing, Kasey Clawson Hudak (Fall 2012)
Using Virtual Worlds to Identify Multidimensional Student Engagement in High School Foreign Language Learning Classrooms, Laura Beth Jacob (Fall 2012)
Quality of Life of Parental Caregivers of Children (1-36 Months) With a Tracheostomy, Rachel A Joseph ( 2012)
Thermal Oxidative Stability of Middle Distillate Fuels: Chemistry of Deposit Formation & Stabilization, Christopher Kabana (Spring 2012)
Diverse Sample Analysis and Sample Preparation Studies Utalizing AP - MALDI-TOF-MS, Sara May Kallop (Summer 2012)
Characterization of the nutritional endoderm in Eleutherodactylus coqui, Uma Karadge (Fall 2012)
Decision Making at College Student Newspapers, Roger Kelley (Spring 2012)
Theory of Mind, Pragmatic Language, and Social Skills in Male Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Gary Koch ( 2012)
The Ethical Significance of the Virtuous Organization Inspired by Catholic Mission for the Delivery of Health Care, Theadora Krause (Summer 2012)
Graduate Recital, Viola, Kate Kroko (Spring 2012)
Inhibiting Bacterial Biofilm Formation on Stainless Steel 316L Using Self-Assembled Monolayers, Kristen Marie Kruszewski (Fall 2012)
Beyond Tolerations and Accomodation: Amicable Religious Coexistence in the Late Medieval Balkans, Marianne Kupin (Spring 2012)
John Henry Newman and Georges Florovsky: An Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue on the Development of Doctrine, Daniel Lattier (Fall 2012)
Challenging the Nation: English Women's Novels, 1915-1927, Jennifer L. Lauren (Fall 2012)
On New Rhetoric, John Henry Newman and the Language of Metaphors: Implications for Branding Higher Education, Jennifer Lynn Lawler-Brunner (Fall 2012)
Executive Function Variance in a School-Based Behavioral Screener, Ryan Lenz ( 2012)
Student Peer-Group Focusing in Psychology Training: A Phenomemological Study, Amanda Burleigh Lowe (Summer 2012)
Rhetorically Ascribed Meaning in Marketing: The Role of Narrative in Establishing Exchange Value, Paul A Lucas (Summer 2012)
A Research Study of Transformational Leadership Comparing Leadership Styles of the Principal, Kathleen Luft (Spring 2012)
Improvement of Release Criteria for Immediate Release Solid Oral Dosage Forms, Phillip Lunney (Summer 2012)
Effectiveness of manual gesture treatment on residual /r/ articulation errors, Jessica Lynch ( 2012)
Bayesian Regression Inference Using a Normal Mixture Model, Hernan Maldonado ( 2012)
Structure Based Ligand Design for Monoamine Transporters and Mitogen Activated Kinase 5, Sankar Manepalli (Spring 2012)
The Effectiveness of Creating a Sense of Community in Online Learning with Social Awareness Information, Darren Mariano (Spring 2012)
Communicative Meaning: Otherwise than the Denial of Death, Douglas John Marshall ( 2012)
Self-Report Anxiety and Depression Ratings Among Adolescents with an Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Comparison of Individuals with and without a History of Sexual Offending, Stephanie N Marshall ( 2012)
The Effect of Risk Assessment on Racial Disproportionality in the Child Welfare System, Joseph Martin ( 2012)
Identity and Christ: The Ecclesiological and Soteriological Implications of Raimon Panikkar's Cosmotheandric Theology, Michael Martocchio (Spring 2012)
Graduation Recital, Piano, Jamie Mazza (Spring 2012)
St. Catherine of Siena: Vocation as Engaged Scholarship, Christina McDowell (Spring 2012)
The Effects of Classroom Response Systems on Student Learning and Engagement, Michael McNally (Summer 2012)
The Federal Workforce Development Program: An Analysis of Probationers and Characteristics Associated with and Predictive of Successful Reentry, Kelley McNichols (Summer 2012)
Computational techniques to illuminate secrets of the monoamine transporters, Bonnie A. Merchant (Fall 2012)