Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Graduate Recital, Flute, Deidre Huckabay (Spring 2011)
Three States of the Mind's Eye, Lindsay Huddleston (Spring 2011)
The Lived Experience of Mental Health Workers in a Residential Treatment Facility who Work with Multiply Traumatized Children and Self-Identify as Experiencing Vicarious Trauma and Compassion Satisfaction, Debra Hyatt-Burkhart (Spring 2011)
Adult Students' Perception of the Congruence of Hybrid Courses with Their Adult Learning Needs and Their Satisfaction, Rubina Iqbal (Fall 2011)
Providing Culturally Appropriate Services to Immigrant Children and Families Involved with the Allegheny County Department of Human Services, Turan Jafarova (Spring 2011)
Design and Synthesis of Novel Benzimidazoles and Aminothiazoles as Small Molecule Inhibitors of CDK5/p25, Prashi Jain (Fall 2011)
p,p' DDE Regulated Gene Expression and Possible Mechanisms of Action in Breast Tumor, Nakpangi Johnson ( 2011)
"This Is Me Right Here": August Wilson and Pittsburgh's Hill District, Betina Jones ( 2011)
Kierkegaard's Ethics of Repetition: A Re-examining of the Ethical in the 1843 Authorship, Grant Julin (Summer 2011)
Graduate Recital, Trumpet, Oskar Karst (Spring 2011)
The Development and Construction of the Social and Clinical Assessment for Linking Eating Disturbances with Treatments (SCALED-->TX): A Preliminary Psychometric Evaluation, Jamie M. King (Spring 2011)
Hezbollah Operations in the Tri-Border Area of South America, Nicholas Kleck (Spring 2011)
We - For The Other: Solidarity as an Enactment of Ethical-Empathetic Subjectivity (An Analysis of the Philosophical Projects of Emmanuel Levinas and Edith Stein, and the Concept of Solidarity), Karen M. Kolano (Fall 2011)
Daily Nocturnal Melatonin Supplementation in Perimenopausal Women: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Pilot Study Examining the Effects of Melatonin on Bone Health and Quality of Life, Mary Kotlarczyk (Fall 2011)
Development of Topical Ophthalmic In Situ Gel-Forming Estradiol Delivery System Intended for the Prevention of Age-Related Cataracts, Udaya Kanth Kotreka (Summer 2011)
By Any Means Necessary: The Quandary the CIA Now Faces In Light of Employing Enhanced Interrogation Methods to Combat the War on Terror, Joshua Laufer (Spring 2011)
Structural Determinants for Inhibitor Recognition by the Dopamine Transporter, Yi Liu ( 2011)
Mediation and Middlemen Undone: The Demise of the Colonial Go-Between in Revolutionary New York, Jenna Lusk (Spring 2011)
The Contribution of Foundational New Testament Theological Themes to the Meaning of Basic Bioethics Principles, R. Dennis Macaleer (Fall 2011)
Graduate Recital, Bass Trombone, Jack Madden (Spring 2011)
Cyanate Formation Following 2-Chloroacrylonitrile Exposure and the Role of Cytochrome P-450, Paul Malichky (Spring 2011)
Worktime in the United States Steel Industry, 1870-1939, Jared Mansfield (Summer 2011)
The Narrative Subject and Place, Keith Martel (Fall 2011)
Measuring Prosocial Behavior Through the Implementation of a Violence Prevention Intervention, Erin Lindsey Martin ( 2011)
Determination of Trivalent and Hexavalent Chromium with Mass Balance in Dietary Supplements Using Speciated Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry, Naudia Martone (Fall 2011)
Teachers' Knowledge and Misconceptions of Postconcussion Symptoms, Erika Leigh Beckman McCoy (Spring 2011)
Finding voice: An introduction to philosophy and psychotherapeutic practice, Ryan Mest (Spring 2011)
Influences on the Reentry and Rehabilitation of Ex-Offenders: A Case Study of First Step Recovery Homes, Luke Christopher Moos (Summer 2011)
Examining Sleep Problems in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Susan Moschos (Summer 2011)
Salvation of the Damned Within the 'Periphyseon', Jonathan Mounts (Spring 2011)
Graduate Recital, Collaborative Piano, Catherine Muldowney (Spring 2011)
The Factors that Influence the Attitudes of Teachers and Administrators Affliliated with the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) Regarding the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities, Shannon McQuone Mulholland (Summer 2011)
Wallace Stegner's Wolf Willow and 1960s Critical Essays: Renarrativizing Western American Literature for the West and for America, Ruth Newberry (Fall 2011)
Attachment and Anxiety in Aggressive Children and Adolescents, Erinn Obeldobel (Summer 2011)
Graduate Recital, Trumpet, Carlos Ortiz IV ( 2011)
The Resident Assistant as Paraprofessional Counselor and Crisis Interventionist: A Study of Lived Experience, Eric W. Owens (Spring 2011)
Optimization of Calcium Aluminate for use as a Bone Scaffold Material Through Physical and Chemical Surface Modification, Rachelle Nicole Palchesko (Spring 2011)
A Descriptive Case Study of 21st Century Skills in Schools: Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities of Adaptive Change and Innovation for Educational Leaders and the Schools They Lead, Sharon Perry ( 2011)
Private Reader, Public Redactor: Narrative Strategies of the Nineteenth-Century Female Revisionist, Amy Criniti Phillips (Spring 2011)
Graduate Recital, Trombone, Aaron Pisula (Spring 2011)
A Comparison of the Online Sexual Behavior Scores of Persons with a Sexual Addiction, in Comparison to Persons Wondering If They Have a Sexual Addiction as Measured by the Online Sexual Addiction Questionnaire (OSA-Q), Adam Buzzinotti Purcell (Summer 2011)
The Effects of Fluency-Based Instruction on Skill Acquisition in Children Diagnosed with Landau Kleffner Syndrome, Melissa Kuban Ramirez (Fall 2011)
German Idealism, Analytic Philosophy, and Realism, Patrick J. Reider (Fall 2011)
Synthesis of Functionalized Organic Molecules Using Copper Catalyzed Cyclopropanation, Atom Transfer Radical Reactions and Sequential Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition, Carolynne Lacar Ricardo (Fall 2011)
Gay identity formation: An (auto)ethnographic look at gay volleyball, G. Keilan Rickard (Fall 2011)
The Experience of Being Thrown Back in Encounters for Adults who were Physically Abused as Children by a Parent or Caregiver: An Empirical-Phenomenological Investigation, Jean Risko (Fall 2011)
Parent-Child Interaction in the Formation of Emotional and Social Competence: The Impact of Individual Differences and Cultural Variability, Kristin Rispoli (Summer 2011)
Tehillim, Glenn Rudolph (Spring 2011)
Women and the Suburbs in Late 20th and Early 21st Century American Film and Fiction, Beth Buhot (Mary) Runquist (Fall 2011)
Non-Being and Memory: A Critique of Pure Difference in Derrida and Deleuze, Frank Scalambrino (Summer 2011)
Graduate Recital, Voice, Jessica Scheer (Spring 2011)
Enhancing Publicity and Promotion: Applying Gerard Hauser's Theory of Reticulate Public Spheres to Encourage Discourse for Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC), Stephanie Selker (Summer 2011)
Essential RNA-RNA Interactions within the Hepatitis C Virus Genome as Potential Targets for Peptide Nucleic Acid Based Therapeutic Strategy, Sumangala Shetty (Spring 2011)
Doctoral Students' Experience with Using the Reflecting Team Model of Supervision Online, Jodi Sindlinger (Summer 2011)
Homosexuality and the Formation of Conscience: An Examination of Traditional Catholic Anthropological, Theological, and Ethical Evaluations in Light of Contemporary Moral Markers, John Slovikovski (Spring 2011)
The Impact a Technology Leader and Their Leadership Style Makes in K-12 Classroom Teacher's Implementation of Technology, Molly S. Smith ( 2011)
Nitrate metabolism in the Epsilonproteobacteria: Campylobacter jejuni and Sulfurospirillum barnesii, Courtney Sparacino-Watkins (Summer 2011)
Direct Incremental Costs in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Asthma in United States - An Analysis of 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Data, Bhavini Srivastava (Spring 2011)
Neurosis or Perversion? A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Diagnostic and Clinical Approach to the Treatment of Paraphilia at a Forensic Outpatient Setting: A Case Study and Exegetical Method, Stephanie Swales (Summer 2011)
Assessing Common Variance in Psychopathy Measures, Rochelle Taormina (Spring 2011)
Rhetoric of Reconciliation: Implications from Bonhoeffer's [Work] for a Communicative Praxis of Reconciliation Grounded in Christian Narrative, Charles E. Thomas ( 2011)
Norming of the Executive Control Battery in Children, John Thornton (Spring 2011)
Theological and Ecological Foundations for Youth Ministry in Relation to the Archdiocese of Mbarara, Uganda - East Africa, Leo Tinkatumire (Fall 2011)
Development And Psychometric Evaluation Of An Instrument To Assess The Treatment Fidelity Of A Brief Opportunistic Intervention To Reduce Substance Use Among Pregnant Women, Antonia Torrey (Summer 2011)
Co-Sleeping with Her Baby: A Qualitive Study of Adaptive and Prescriptive Voices in Parenting Decision Making, Elizabeth A. Tran (Summer 2011)
Relationships Among Early Literacy Curriculum Based Measurement and Reading State Criterion Tests Over Time, Lynn Utchell (Summer 2011)
Best Practices in Authorship Attribution of English Essays, Darren Vescovi (Fall 2011)
Neuroendocrine Mechanisms Mediating Pheromonal Modulation of Behavior in Terrestrial Salamanders, Corina Wack (Summer 2011)
Novel Sample Preparation and TOF-MS Analysis of Environmental and Toxicological Analytes Using EPA Method 6800, Rebecca Wagner ( 2011)
Examining the Association Between Peer Rejection, Loneliness, and Depressive Symptoms in Children and Adolescents, Beth Whipple (Summer 2011)
Transmissive Olefination of Alkenenitrile and Allylic Halides, Lihua Yao (Spring 2011)
Living with Schizophrenia: A Phenomenological Investigation, Andri Yennari (Fall 2011)
Understanding the Effect of Cation and Solvation on the Structure and Reactivity of Nitrile Anions, Michael Zeigler ( 2011)
Understanding the Effect of Cation and Solvation on the Structure and Reactivity of Nitrile Anions, Michael Ziegler (Fall 2011)
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Perceptions of Counselor Education Students Regarding their Reactions to Client Suicide, Renée Anderson (Spring 2010)
Graduate Recital, Violin, Rochelle Agnew (Spring 2010)
Exploration of TRPV1 Splice Variant Expression in Rat Dorsal Root Ganglia Following Sciatic Nerve Injury, Karl A. Andersen (Summer 2010)
Valleys of the Shadow of Death: The Apocalypses of the Inferno and One Hundred Years of Solitude, Deirdre Ann Assenza (Summer 2010)
A Study of Plato's Cratylus, Geoffrey Scott Bagwell (Spring 2010)
Kinetic and Thermodynamic Studies of Copper-Catalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Processes in the Presence of Free-Radical Diazo Initiators as Reducing Agents, Marielle Nicole Cajita Balili (Spring 2010)
Family Cap Programs: The Future of Pennsylvania Welfare Reform, Robin Barngrover (Spring 2010)
Nicomachean and Neo-Aristotelian Ethics and Shakespeare's Tragedies, Janine Bayer (Fall 2010)
Indicators of Linguistic Processing Constraints in the Narratives of Individuals with High-Functioning Autism, Katherine Michael Belardi (Summer 2010)
Graduate Recital, Trumpet, Nicholas Benner (Spring 2010)
An Exploration of the Role of Occupation in School-Based Occupational Therapy Practice, Jeryl Benson (Fall 2010)
Graduate Recital, Trumpet, Christine Betschart (Spring 2010)
The Multicolored Patchwork Portraiture of an Effective Veteran High School Special Education Teacher Amidst the Tempest of the High Stakes Testing Movement, Vaughn Bicehouse (Fall 2010)
Transcending Private Friendships to Public Hearts: Implications of Interracial Friendships for Public Life, Danielle L. Blackburn (Spring 2010)
Compressive Sensing, Joshua Booth (Fall 2010)
Design and Synthesis of CDK-5 and MEK-5 Inhibitors and Synthesis towards Tubulysin Analogs, Ishveen Kaur Chopra ( 2010)
American Health Care: Justice, Policy, Reform, Carolyn Conti (Fall 2010)
Solution to the Ukrainian Gas Crises and Achievement of Energy Efficiency of Ukraine through the Development of Coalbed Methane, Valeriya Denisenko (Summer 2010)
Semantic Processing in Adults with High Functioning Autism, Katherine Deragon (Summer 2010)
Clinical Trial of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Antiretroviral Side Effects in HIV Patients, R. Eric Doerfler (Fall 2010)
System Transformation in the Context of Building an Integrative System in the Child Welfare System in Allegheny County through Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths Assessment, Svetlana Doni (Spring 2010)
Morphological and Genetic Investigations of Pennsylvania Populations of the Channel Shiner, Notropis wickliffi, Stephanie Ann Dowell (Spring 2010)
Rights in Flux: The Rights of Afghan Women in Different Eras, Kelly Anne Drevitch (Spring 2010)
An Inquiry of the Lived Experiences and Contextual Understandings of Early Childhood Special Educators Related to Children's Trauma, Alison DuBois ( 2010)
Habermas and the Feminist Engagement with Communicative Ethics: Solidarity and Utopian Interests as a Corrective to Normative Political Problematics, Taine Duncan (Fall 2010)
Structural and Mechanistic Aspects of Copper Catalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Addition Reactions in the Presence of Reducing Agents, William Eckenhoff (Fall 2010)