Theses/Dissertations from 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)
Rethinking Death and Donation: Mediating Death at the End of Life in the Wake of Brain Death's Failings, David Scott Henderson (Summer 2009)
Evaluation of PilO Substrate Specificity Using Normally Non-Glycosylated Proteins in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Matthew A. Henkel (Spring 2009)
Imag(in)ing Neuro-Psychology: A Multi-Perspectival, Critical, Autoethnographic Study, Kristen Hennessy (Summer 2009)
The Innermost Point, David Hidek (Fall 2009)
Bridges and Borders: An Autoethnographic Account of the Confluence of Borderline Pathology, Countertransference, and Therapist Subjectivity, Kimberly S. Hodge (Spring 2009)
The Application of Bernard Lonergan's Theory of Conversion to the Three Main Characters in Susan Howatch's Novels of the Starbridge Series, Teresa Hunt ( 2009)
The Experiences of Japanese Men during the Transition to Fatherhood, Hiroko Iwata (Fall 2009)
Oil and Paper: Ownership, Economic Development, and Iraq's 2007 Draft Oil and Gas Law, Peter Jackson ( 2009)
From Forfeited Agency to Communities of Hope: Reinventing Ethos through Narratives of Remembering and Forgetting, Linda Janus (Fall 2009)
Modulation of Dendritic Cells with the Interleukin-10 Gene on Polycation-Modified Polymeric Particles, Liang Jia (Fall 2009)
The Editor, the Preface, and the Eighteenth-Century Edition: A Critical Bibliographic Study, Jessica Jost-Costanzo (Fall 2009)
Human Development as Integral Development: The Social Teaching of the Church in an African Context, Joseph Kariuki Kamau (Fall 2009)
Slaying the Dragon: An Analysis on How to Dismantle Terrorist Organizations, Caroline Kelly ( 2009)
High School Graduates Report on Reform Efforts in Their High School Senior Year, Wayde Killmeyer (Fall 2009)
A Study of the Relationship between CBT Developers' Multiple Intelligences Dispositions and the Design of Computer-based Training, Nancy King (Summer 2009)
The Identification and Characterization of Estrogen Receptors in the Mouse and Human Lens and Their Role in Cataract Development, Mary Rachel Kirker (Fall 2009)
The Architecture of the Great House in the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel, Julie Kloo (Fall 2009)
Teacher Education and Technology Integration: How Do Preservice Teachers Perceive Their Readiness to Infuse Technology into the Learning Environment?, Anne Koch ( 2009)
The Lived-Experiences of Clinical Supervisors in Rural Mental Health Settings, Lauren Kuhn ( 2009)
A School for Our Children: A Case Study of a School Closing the Student Achievement Gap, Monica Diane Lamar (Spring 2009)
A Study of the Development of Leadership Skills of Duquesne University IDPEL Cohort Members as Measured by the Strategic Leadership Selection Interview, Michael A. Latusek (Summer 2009)
Synthesis and Physicochemical Characterization of Diamond-Like Semiconductors and Intermetallic Compounds Using High Temperature Solid-State Synthesis, Polychalcogenide Flux Synthesis and the Solid-State Microwave Synthetic Method, Jonathan Lekse (Fall 2009)
Parental Involvement with Special Needs Children in A Rural School District, Mary Elizabeth Lenda (Summer 2009)
The Influence of Heel Height on Sagittal Plane Knee Kinematics during Landing Tasks in Recreationally Active Collegiate Females, Kelly Lindenberg (Fall 2009)
Use of the Electronic Health Record in Private Medical Practices, Archish Maharaja ( 2009)
An "Island" Study Abroad Program and Its Impact on the Intercultural Sensitivity and Cross-Cultural Adaptability of Its Participants: Perspectives from a Research Intensive University, Gita Maharaja ( 2009)