Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Public Memory: How Vietnam Veterans are using Technology to Make Private Memory Public, Dennis Woytek (Spring 2009)
Algorithm for Learning from a Random Walk Oracle, Xiaolin Yang (Summer 2009)
Design and Synthesis of Benzimidazoles as CDK5 Inhibitors and Progress toward the Total Synthesis of Tubulysin D, Shuyan Yi (Spring 2009)
A Phenomenological-Hermeneutic Analysis of Experimental Infant Research, James L. Yu (Fall 2009)
Cultural and Intellectual Responses to the Black Death, Brian David Yurochko (Fall 2009)
The Impact of Early Childhood Education Upon the Black-White Achievement Gap, Linda Zane (Fall 2009)
Synthesis of Pyrrolo[2,3-d]Pytimidines and Pytimido[4,5-b]Indoles as Inhibitors of Multiple Receptor Tyrosine Kinases, Folate Metabolizing Enzymes and Tubulin, Nilesh Zaware (Fall 2009)
TRPV1 mRNA is Differentially Expressed in Different Vertebral Levels of Rat Dorsal Root Ganglia Following Sciatic Nerve Injury, Bree Zeyzus Johns ( 2009)
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
An Examination of the Use of Digital Historical Resources for the Teaching of the Civil War in South Central Pennsylvania Public Schools, James R. Beeghley (Fall 2008)
The Steroid Sulfatase Inhibitor (p-O-Sulfamoyl) - Tetradecanoyl Tyramine (DU-14) Enhances Memory Retention in Passive Avoidance in Rats with Hippocampal Cholinergic Deficit, Phebian Arinola Abitoye (Spring 2008)
Logarithm, Joo Yi Ahn (Fall 2008)
The Perceptions of Taproot Teachers and Their Sustaining Force on a Year-Round Educational Program, Wilma Jean Allen (Summer 2008)
Nurses' Attitudes Towards Continuing Formal Education: A Comparison by Level of Education and Geography, Tanya Altmann (Summer 2008)
Need Not Necessity: Purgatorial Torment and Healing in Medieval and Early Modern Drama, Nicole Andel (Spring 2008)
Health Promotion and Disease Management in Primary Care: A Comparison of Nurse Practitioner and Physician Practice Patterns on Four Selected HEDIS Outcomes, Tammy Harding Anderer (Spring 2008)
On the Use and Abuse of Nietzsche for Marketing Communication: Examining Consumer Suspicion toward Advertising, Daniel Ulf Assmus (Spring 2008)
The Role of State Policy in the Pennsylvania Renewable Energy Sector: A Qualitative Study of Business Perspective, Lindsay Baxter (Fall 2008)
Gene Regulation Through Artificially Induced DNA Conformational Changes, David Bednarski (Spring 2008)
An Analysis of Beginning Counselor Education Master's Degree Candidate's Ability to Make Ethical Decisions Based on the American Counseling Association's Ethical Standards After Having Completed a Course in Professional Ethics, Richard Joseph Behun (Spring 2008)
Early Attachment Stress, Attentional Control Dysfunction and Problems with Self-Regulation, Joshua David Bernstein (Spring 2008)
Student Assistance Program Outcomes of Students at Risk for Suicide, Virginia Biddle (Summer 2008)
A Comparison of Bayesian Regression Models Applied in Knot Theory, Sevcan Bilir (Summer 2008)
Analysis of the Effects of Patient Position and Bladder Volume on Urinary Bladder Pressure, Chad C. Brown ( 2008)
"How Do We Make that Change?" Analysis of Transformative Dialogue in a Community Initiative, Tanya A. Brown ( 2008)
Entrepreneurial Organizational Characteristics in Hawaiian Elementary Schools: Its Relationship to School Characteristics and Student Achievement, J. Patrick Byrne (Summer 2008)
The Effect of Selective Cholinergic Lesion of Medial Septum on Recognition Memory, Li Cai (Fall 2008)
Edith Stein: The Rhetoric of Responsibility, Melissa Chastain (Spring 2008)
Assimilation, Thomas C. Childs (Spring 2008)
A Poetics of the Soul: Devotional Poetry in Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; and Christina Rossetti, Heather Cianciola ( 2008)
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Rhetoric of Social Change, 1897-1907: Attitude as Incipient Action, Fendrich Clark ( 2008)
Social Presence, Satisfaction, and Perceived Learning of RN-to-BSN Students in Web-Based Nursing Courses, Susan Cobb (Summer 2008)
An Examination of Pharmacy Faculty Quality of Work Life: Work Satisfaction, Turnover Intentions, and Self-efficacy, Mark H. Conklin (Spring 2008)
Teacher Perceptions of the Components of New Teacher Induction and Mentoring Programs, Jane Coughenour (Summer 2008)
Listening Between the Lines: A Rhetorical Analysis of Conservative Talk Radio, Kelley Crowley (Fall 2008)
African American Males and Issues of Fatherhood: An Examination of the Sweat Lodge as a Psychosocial and Spiritual Intervention, Jay E. Darr (Spring 2008)
African American and Latino Relations: A Case Study of Philadelphia Neighborhoods, Yasmeen Davis ( 2008)
Culture Care Education and Experiences of African American Students in Predominantly Euro American Associate Degree Nursing Programs, Lana Marie deRuyter (Spring 2008)
Kenosis as Performance of Power in the Theology of Julian of Norwich, Patricia Donohue (Spring 2008)
Mounting the Stage of the World: Theory of the Subject as Actor in the Parallel Positions of Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Jean-Paul Sartre, Eric Duffy (Fall 2008)
The Effect of Self-Determination Instruction on Students with Learning Disabilities in the IEP Transition Process, Michael John Dunsmore (Spring 2008)
Do Test Scores Frame the Portrait of the School? Analyzing the Impact of School Context Variables on Secondary School Level Mathematics Proficiency Scores from the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA), Patrick Dworakowski (Spring 2008)
The Symbiotic Relationship Between New Principals and the Climate of the Schools in which They Lead, Eric C. Eshbach (Spring 2008)
Barriers to Parental Involvement in the Seneca Valley School District, Jeffrey Fuller (Fall 2008)
A Study of the Relationship between Selected School Building Facility Components and Student Achievement in Pennsylvania Middle Schools, Cynthia Fuselier (Summer 2008)
(Self-)Translation and Melancholia: Becoming-In-Language A Psychoanalytic View, Emilija Georgievska-Nanevska (Fall 2008)
(Self-)Translation and Melancholia: Becoming-In-Language A Psychoanalytic View, Emilija Georgievska-Nanevska (Fall 2008)
Use of Cooperative Learning and Computer Assisted Instruction to Investigate Mathematics Achievement Scores, Student's Attitude toward Cooperative Learning and Confidence in Subject Matter, Kathy R. Griffin (Spring 2008)
Assessing the Efficacy of a Five-Week Summer Treatment Program for Children with ADHD, David Haschak (Summer 2008)
The Influence of Technology on Adolescent Development: An Eco-Cultural Analysis of Cybersocial Activity, Stephanie Helsel (Summer 2008)
Evolution of Prostatic Acid Phosphatase (ACPP) Expression in Hominoids, Kathryn Hooper-Boyd (Summer 2008)
Role Perceptions of Hospital Based Nurse Case Managers, Kimberly C. Hopey (Fall 2008)
The Educational Journey of Three Adults with Learning Disabilities: A Demonstration of Resiliency, Lori Hufnagel Buglak ( 2008)
The Problem of Substantial Generation in Aristotle's Physical Writings, Michael Ivins (Summer 2008)
Rhetoric of Kerygma: A Study in Papal Genres, Tae Jung (Summer 2008)
Early Childhood Classroom Quality and Preschool Learning Behaviors, Steven Placid Kachmar (Spring 2008)
The Story in the Soil: Toward an Agrarian Rhetoric of Property, Bryan L. Kampbell (Fall 2008)
A Question of Numbers: Aristotle's Critique of Platonic Mathematical Objects, Form-Numbers, and First Principles in "Metaphysics" M-N, Emily Catherine Katz (Spring 2008)
Organizational Alienation and Minority Students, Danielle Kilchenstein (Summer 2008)
Developing Higher Consciousness: The Effects of Mantra Meditation on the Development of Self-Actualizing Qualities in Teachers, Lisa M. Klein (Spring 2008)
The Process of Parental Bereavement Following the Violent Death of a Child, Suzanne Kandlbinder Kuhn ( 2008)
Atrazine and Info-disruption: Does the pesticide atrazine disrupt the transfer of chemical information in the terrestrial salamander, Plethodon shermani?, Stephanie Lanzel (Summer 2008)
Aesthetic Pedagogy: Kierkegaard and Adorno on the Communication of Possibility, Clifford Gentry Lee ( 2008)
Working Memory Deficits in Children: Contributions of Executive Control Processes and Symptoms of ADHD, Stacie Leffard (Summer 2008)
Calibration of a Materials Informatics Database for Prediction of Mechanically Activated Amorphization in Small Molecule Organic Solids and Sample Porosity Corrections of MDSC Thermal Conductivity Measurements, Yannan Lin (Spring 2008)
Metalated Nitriles: Selective Formation and Alkylation, Wang Liu (Spring 2008)
A Critical Analysis of a Paraprofessional Training Program: Teacher Aides Managing Their Journey to Self-Sufficiency, Linda Thornton Lockett (Fall 2008)
Teachers' Attitudes Toward Teacher Evaluation In High and Low Achieving Middle Schools As Measured By The Pennsylvania State System of Assessment, Janell Logue-Belden (Spring 2008)
NIR Chemical Imaging as a Tool for Understanding blending of Pharmaceutical Materials and Optimization of Blending Process Control, Hua Ma (Fall 2008)
Seizing the Catholic Moment: Kairos and the Rhetoric of Diocesan Administration, Craig Maier (Fall 2008)
The Enlarged Mentality: Common Ground for Leadership, Susan B. Malcolm (Spring 2008)
A Comparison of Coping Responses to Stress Among Counselor Education Students at the Beginning Stage, Practicum Stage, and Graduating Stage from their Program of Studies, Jill Maloney ( 2008)
A Study of Administrators' Attitudes and Perspectives of Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports, Michael Markoe (Summer 2008)
A Study of Health Care Practices and Health Beliefs of Puerto Rican Women in Southeastern Pennsylvania, Lorraine Martin-Plank (Summer 2008)
H.P. Lovecraft and the Modernist Grotesque, Sean Elliot Martin ( 2008)
Being a Leader in Higher Education with a Concealable Differences: Empathic Executives with a Call to Action, Dennis H. Mathes (Spring 2008)
Maria Schneider's "Hang Gliding": Dual Analyses for a Hybrid Musical Style, Elizabeth McKinney (Spring 2008)
Homiletics at the Threshold: Pope Benedict XVI's Invitation, Joseph Mele (Summer 2008)
Interactions of the Fragile X Protein Family with the G Quadruplex Forming RNA Targets, Lakshmi Menon (Summer 2008)
Framing Strategies of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Advocacy Organizations: The Case of Let California Ring's 'Garden Wedding' Commercial, Helena Mica (Summer 2008)
Influence of a Collaborative Norming Process on Teacher Perceptions of Middle Level Team Structure and Development, Brian Miller ( 2008)
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Land of Confusion - a film by Jeremy Zerechak Music Composed by Joseph Miller, Joseph Miller ( 2008)
A Fourier Solution for Electromagnetic Scattering by a Covered Rectangular Cavity, Jessica Moser ( 2008)
Look(in)g Asian, Accenting English: An Autoethnography of Interstitial Cultural Identity, Akiko Motomura (Fall 2008)
Lived Experiences of Widows in Botswana: An Ethnographic Examination of Cultural Rituals of Death, Loss, Grief, and Bereavement: Implications for Counseling, Sithandazile Hope Msimanga-Ramatebele (Fall 2008)
The Impact of Personal Response Systems on Student Learning in Undergraduate Business Courses, Jennifer Nightingale (Fall 2008)
Perceived Character Development in a Mentoring Relationship from the Voices of Students and Their Student Affairs Mentors, Gregory Ochoa (Summer 2008)
The Maquiladora Murders: Gendered Violence and Narrative Conflict, Katherine Pantaleo (Spring 2008)
Resource Utilization Among Inpatients with Rheumatoid Arthritis - An Analysis of 2002 - 2004 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Data, Hemangi Haresh Parekh (Spring 2008)
Assessing College Students Readiness To Change Alcohol Use Behavior Related to Perceptions of Alcohol Effects on Sexual Assault, Patricia Pasky McMahon (Fall 2008)
The Sword of Truth, Tribute Synthesizer Suite, Jay Pellis (Summer 2008)
Design, Syntheses, Characterization and Substrate Transformation by Model Oxo-Molybdenum Complexes of Dithione, Inoka Eranda Perera (Fall 2008)
Show and Tell: Learning with Interactive Videoconferencing in Kindergarten, Debra Piecka (Fall 2008)
Health Seeking Behaviors: Life Histories of African Americans who are Older, Have a Low Income, and Live in Rural South Alabama, Leigh Ann Chandler Poole (Spring 2008)
Modification of Nitinol Nickel and Titanium Oxides with Self-Assembled Monolayers and POlymers for Corrosion Mitigation in Biomtaerial Applications, Rosalynn Quinones-Fernandez (Summer 2008)
The Occurrence Of Moral Distress In Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Linda Radzvin (Summer 2008)
Acidification and Stress Physiology in a Plethodontid Salamander, Desmognathus ochrophaeus, Lauren Ricciardella (Summer 2008)
Probing the Novelties of Alkalilimnicola ehrlichii strain MLHE-1 with Genomic and Proteomic Approaches, Christine Richey (Summer 2008)
The Adaptive Cross Approximation Algorithm Applied to Electromagnetic Scattering by Bodies of Revolution, Brent D. Rogus (Fall 2008)
"Is Not the Past All Shadow?": History and Vision in Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats, Timothy Ruppert (Spring 2008)
Mechanistic and Clinical Studies of Platelet Rich Plasma: A Simple Clinical Method for Enhancing Bone and Soft Tissue Healing, James L. Rutkowski (Fall 2008)