Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Complimentary Reactivity from C- And N- Metalated Nitriles, Ping Lu (Spring 2010)
An Investigation of the Role of Aquatic Plants in the Cycling of Phosphorus and Nitrogen in Murphy's Bottom Lake, Armstrong County, PA, Melanie Ann Mathews (Summer 2010)
Political Violence in South Africa: A Case Study of "Necklacing" in Colesberg, Sipho Mbuqe (Summer 2010)
Graduate Recital, Cello, Caitlin McConnell (Spring 2010)
Active and Passive Rorschach Movement Responses: Toward a Historically and Experientially Grounded Revision of Scoring Criteria, Patrick James McElfresh (Spring 2010)
Paddy and the Public: Irish Immigrants, New York City, and Mass Culture, 1830-1860, William Patrick McGovern (Spring 2010)
Graduate Recital, Clarinet, Maegan McHugh ( 2010)
Assessing the Learning Needs of South Carolina Nurses by Exploring their Perceived Knowledge of Emergency Preparedness, Anne Elizabeth McKibbin (Summer 2010)
Flirting as a Liminal Experience: A Dialogue between a Philosophical-Phenomenological Understanding of Liminality and an Empirical-Existential Study of Flirting, Rune Lassen Mølbak ( 2010)
Development of Multivariate Powder X-ray Diffraction Techniques and Total Scattering Analyses to Enable Informatic Calibration of Solid Dispersion Potential, Michael Moore ( 2010)
Discovering the Healthcare Beliefs and Practices of Rural Mestizo Ecuadorians: An Ethnonursing Study, Julie A. Moss (Summer 2010)
A Vast and Varied Opposition: The Shifting War Democrat - Peace Democrat Continuum in Civil War Pennsylvania, Jonathan David Neu (Spring 2010)
An Assessment of David Hollenbach's Contribution to the Debate on Human Rights and its Future Promise, Joseph Oppong (Spring 2010)
Aza-bix(oxazoline) Copper Complexes Immobilized onto Self-Assembled Monolayers Supports: Surface Environment, Recycling, and Versatility Study, Christy Paluti (Fall 2010)
Graduate Recital, Violin, Matthew Pickart (Spring 2010)
Graduate Recital, Bassoon, Diana Pierce (Spring 2010)
Harmony in Time: Memory, Consciousness, and Expectation in Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata, Op. 53, Andrew S. Powell (Spring 2010)
Unconventional Natural Gas Development as a Reasonable Alternative for Energy Strategy and Policy: Implications for the People's Republic of China, Ekaterina Pushkareva (Spring 2010)
"If We Shadows Have Offended": Reflections of Social Attitudes Toward Reform in Late Medieval and Reformation Dream Visions, William A. Racicot (Spring 2010)
Hospital Resource Utilization among Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - An Analysis of 2002 - 2005 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Data, Pallavi Balwant Rane (Spring 2010)
Roots: Agrarian Movements and the Importance of Ground within the Philosophy of Communication (A Synecdoche), Maryl Roberts McGinley (Fall 2010)
Convalescence, Adam D. Rook (Summer 2010)
Saint-Saens' "Other": Orientalism in Samson et Dalila, Elizabeth Janelle Sallinger (Spring 2010)
Beyond Dissolution and Dispersion: A Phenomenological Analysis of Student Perception as Related to Resiliency, Franny Jo Serenka (Spring 2010)
Effect of Melatonin on Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells and a Study on C-Terminal Domains of MT1 and MT2 Melatonin Receptors, Shalini Sethi (Fall 2010)
Multivariate Outlier Mining Using Cluster Analysis: Case Study - National Health Interview Survey, Md Monir Hossain Sharker (Fall 2010)
The Rhetorical Marketplace: Interpreting the Rhetoric of Marketers and Consumers as Civil Public Discourse, Casey Joseph Slott (Spring 2010)
Organ Donation in Japan: A Longitudinal Study of Quality of Life of Living Liver Donors, Etsuko Soeda (Summer 2010)
Sensation Rebuilt: Carnal Ontology in Levinas and Merleau-Ponty, Tom Sparrow (Spring 2010)
Reducing Defaults in Microfinance: A Case Study of Fundación Integral Campesino (FINCA) Costa Rica, Katherine Stackel (Spring 2010)
Graduate Recital, Euphonium, Jeffrey A. Stentaford (Spring 2010)
Describing Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Processes in Adolescents with and without Psychopathic Traits: Examining Rorschach Variables, Vanessa Rae Talkington (Summer 2010)
Student Perceptions of the Integration of Faith and Learning in a College Foreign Language Course, Patricia Tinkey (Fall 2010)
The Experiences of Counseling Victims of Trauma as Perceived by Master's Level Post-Practicum Students, Elizabeth More Ventura (Summer 2010)
A Comparative Study of the Factors that Contribute to the Success of Non-Violent Revolutions, Nicholas P. Vucic (Fall 2010)
Classical and Nonclassical Antifolates: Synthesis of Furo-[2,3-d] Pyrimidines Pyrrolo[2,3-d]Pyrimidines and Pyrimido-[4, 5-b]-Indoles, Lei Wang (Fall 2010)
Graduate Recital, Voice, Ashleigh Weimer (Spring 2010)
Mothers Behind Bars: The Lived Experience, Annette Weiss (Fall 2010)
Children with Mental Retardation / Intellectual Disability: The Function of Adaptive Behavior and Parental Stress Across Childhood, Wendy Westwood (Fall 2010)
Basic Knowledge in Critical Care: A Comparison of Experienced and Newly Graduated Nurses Augmented with an Examination of Newly Graduated Nurses' Experiences Making Clinical Judgments, Lynn Wiles (Fall 2010)
Sex, Entrepreneurship, and Benefits: The Role of Small Business Owners in Promoting Gender Equity in the Workplace through Benefits Offerings, Iris Winter (Summer 2010)
Community Partner Perspectives of Community-University Partnerships that Support Service Learning, Anne Marie Witchger Hansen (Summer 2010)
The Transcendent Comedy of the "Canterbury Tales": Harmony in "Quyting," Harmony in Fragmentation, John Zedolik (Spring 2010)
Synthesis of Bicyclic Pyrrolo[2,3-d]Pyrimidines, and Tricyclic Indeno[2,1-d]/[1,2-d]Pyrimidines as Receptor Tyrosine Kinase (RTK) Inhibitors and Antimitotic Agents, Ying Zhao (Spring 2010)
A Peptide-Based Platform for Displaying Antibodies to Engage T Cells, Ying Zheng (Fall 2010)
Graduate Recital Trombone, Quinton Zigler (Spring 2010)
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
The Synthesis of Bicyclic Pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidines as Inhibitors of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases, Microtubules or HSP90, Sonali Kurup (Summer 2009)
Synthesis of 2,4-Diaminopyrido [2,3-d] pyrimidines and 2,4-Diaminoquinazolines as Inhibitors of Dihydrofolate Reductase and as Anti-tumor Agents, Ona Adair (Spring 2009)
The Transformation of Kant's Transcendental Idealism: Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre, Kenneth Angwe Agede (Fall 2009)
From Civil War to Civil Rights and Beyond: Remembering the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March, Todd Allen (Spring 2009)
An Examination of Racial Differences in Anxiety Disorder Symptom Structure and Trajectories among Pre-Adolescent Female Youth, Cynthia Altman ( 2009)
A Study of the Effects of Parental Involvement on the Success of Students on a High-Stakes Examination, Jill Ashbaugh (Fall 2009)
Perceptions of Marital Satisfaction among Coptic Orthodox Christian Egyptian-American Husbands and Wives, Monir Fuad Nazir Atta-Alla (Summer 2009)
Two Tongues for a Dream: A Hermeneutic Study, Marta Bachino (Fall 2009)
PTH Type I Receptor Regulatory Proteins and PTHrP in Breast Cancer, Heather I. Ballance (Fall 2009)
Ekphrastic Medieval Visions: A New Discussion in Ekphrasis and Interarts Theory, Claire Barbetti (Fall 2009)
Principal Perspectives toward Parental Involvement in Pennsylvania Public High Schools, Hollis Batista (Spring 2009)
A Comparison of Leadership Capacity of Intercollegiate Student-Athletes to Full Time Students that are not Athletes at a Division II Institution, Chad Bennett (Summer 2009)
Levinasian Ethics in Clinical Psychology: The Attitude of Attending, Leora Bernstein (Spring 2009)
Engineering the Mosquito Symbiont Pantoea agglomerans to secrete Anti-Plasmodium Inhibitory Proteins, Dawn C. Bisi (Fall 2009)
A Hermeneutic Exploration of the Literature of Technology: Prometheus Bound, Frankenstein and Battlestar Galactica, William Blais (Fall 2009)
Culture Care Beliefs, Meanings and Practices Related to Health and Well-Being of South Sudanese "Lost Boy and Lost Girl" Refugees, Margaret Bowles (Summer 2009)
Why People Fail to use Condoms for STD and HIV Prevention, David T. Brunner (Spring 2009)
Understanding a Woman's Moral Obligation to her Fetus: Maternal-Fetal Conflict as a Covenant Relationship, Marianne Burda (Spring 2009)
Foster Mothers' Experience of Parenting a Foster Child with Attachment Problems: An Empirical Phenomenological Investigation, Cynthia Byers (Fall 2009)
The Reader of Milton's "Higher Argument" in Paradise Lost, Patricia A. Callahan (Spring 2009)
Aesthetics in the Ecotheology of Sallie McFague: A Critique and a Proposal for a Theological Aesthetics of Nature, Mary-Paula Cancienne (Spring 2009)
Aesthetics in the Ecotheology of Sallie McFague: A Critique and a Proposal for a Theological Aesthetics of Nature, Mary-Paula Cancienne (Spring 2009)
Anointing as the Iconic Interruption of the Loving God, Ellen Cavanaugh (Fall 2009)
Justification and Good Works: A Study of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, Justin Chay (Fall 2009)
Classification Tree Models for Predicting Cancer Status, Pu Chen ( 2009)
Marketing Otherwise in Sports: Exploring the Communicative Intersection of Marketing and Sustainability within Limits, Dorene Ciletti (Summer 2009)
An Evaluation of the Efficacy of Morinda citrifolia (Noni) on the Development and Progression of Breast Cancer in the MMTV-neu Mouse Model, William Clafshenkel (Spring 2009)
Fitzgerald in the Late 1910s: War and Women, Richard M. Clark ( 2009)
Using the Activity Vector Analysis to Determine Teacher Dispositions for Charter School Teachers in Urban High Schools, Linda M. Clautti (Spring 2009)
Zinc-Mediated Dimerization of Proteins through a -CxCxxxxCxC- Sequence, Tyler Collins ( 2009)
The Use of Relational, Social, and Overt Aggression in Overtly-Aggressive and Non-Overtly-Aggressive Females, Leigh Ann Comstock (Fall 2009)
"Falling to a devilish exercise": Magic and Spectacle on the Renaissance Stage, Shayne Confer (Fall 2009)
Examining Novice Teacher Development through the Clinical Supervision Process: A Participatory Action Research, Chad Daloia (Spring 2009)
Dialogues between Feminists and Jacques Lacan on Female Hysteria and Femininity, Katerina Catherine Daniel (Spring 2009)
A Case Study of the State University, Extension, and the College of Agriculture as They Explore and Implement a Metro Research and Outreach Initiative, Deno DeCiantis (Spring 2009)
Characterization of Linear Chromosome Segregation and Condensation of Streptomyces coelicolor, Rebekah M. Dedrick (Spring 2009)
Cohabitation: A Critical Assessment in View of Pope John Paul II's Christian Anthropology and Theology of the Body, Daniel A. Dentino (Spring 2009)
An Evaluation of the Global Institute for Leadership Development - Gild 2008 as a Provider of Custom Executive Education, Don DiGirolamo (Summer 2009)
Discerning Redeeming Communities: Rita Nakashima Brock and Elizabeth A. Johnson in Dialogue, Alison Downie (Spring 2009)
The Lived Experiences of Evangelical Christian Men Who Self-Identify as Sexual Addicts, Kailla Edger (Summer 2009)
Selective Lesion of Cholinergic Neurons of the Septal-Hippocampal Tract: Memory and Learning, Nicholas Fitz (Spring 2009)
A Unity of Contraries: Dorothy Day and the 'No-Alibi' Rhetoric of Defiance and Devotion, Catherine Carr Fitzwilliams (Summer 2009)
Public School Board Governance Practices in Western Pennsylvania and AYP Scores; Is There a Relationship?, Kyle William Foust (Fall 2009)
Rage From Within the Machine: Protest Music, Social Justice, and Educational Reform, a Collective Case Study, John A. Giancola Jr. (Fall 2009)
A Case Study on the Barbara L. Jackson Scholars Mentoring Program and its Role in the Doctoral Preparation of Jackson Scholars for the Professoriate in Educational Administration at Predominately White Institutions, Cosette M. Grant (Spring 2009)
Neuropsychological Deficits in Adolescents with Psychopathic Characteristics: Callous and Unemotional Symptoms, Tara Greene (Summer 2009)
The Characteristics and Functions of Humor in Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Study, Joshua Gregson (Fall 2009)
The Impact of Combat Trauma on Veterans' Family Members: A Qualitative Study, Jackie Grimesey (Spring 2009)
Principles for Developing Inculturated Theology in the Diverse African Context: Steps beyond Traditional Heritages, Jane Catherine Hagaba (Fall 2009)
Graduate Recital, Saxophone, Colette Hall ( 2009)
Roses that Grew from the Concrete: A Critical Investigation of the Intersection of Race and Gender on the Lived Experiences of African American Male Senior Student Affairs Officers at Predominately White Institutions, Rahmon S. Hart (Spring 2009)
Do Benchmark Assessments Increase Student Achievement on State Standardized Tests?, Patrick Hefflin (Summer 2009)
Counselor Trainee Perceived Supervisory Effectiveness: An Investigation of Counselor Trainee Cognitive Style and Supervisor Supervisory Style, Melinda Jean Heher (Fall 2009)