Theses/Dissertations from 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
Russell Kirk and the Rhetoric of Order, Eric Grabowsky (Fall 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)
Activity Analysis of the Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein Isoforms 1, 2 and 3: Recombinant Bacterial Expression and Purification with Subsequent Quantitative Analysis of Binding to in vivo Target G quadruplex Forming Ribonucleaic Acids and Regulation of Translation, Timothy Lee Evans (Summer 2010)
Graduate Recital, Soprano, Kaleeya Furlow (Spring 2010)
A Higher Public Spirit and a Better Social Order: The Civic Club of Allegheny County, 1895-1930, Aaron Matthew Gallogly (Spring 2010)
Graduate Recital, Saxophone, Xin Gao ( 2010)
Personal Digital Assistants: Their Influence on Clinical Decision-Making and the Utilization of Evidence-Based Practice in Baccalaureate Nursing Students, Carol S. Gorelick (Spring 2010)
Leadership in Youth Baseball: Awareness of Health & Safety Issues, Keith Gorse (Summer 2010)
Graduate Recital, Cello, Eleanor Graham ( 2010)
Characterization of structurally diverse inhibitors at the monoamine transporters, Yurong Huang (Summer 2010)
Graduate Recital, Flute, Joo Yeon Jung (Spring 2010)
Executive Functioning in Asperger's Disorder and Nonverbal Learning Disabilities: A Comparison of Developmental and Behavioral Characteristics, Nathan E. Kegel (Fall 2010)
Elective Affinities: Heidegger and Adorno, Michael Kilivris (Fall 2010)
Making Peace (Peacemaking) in Uganda: Theological Underpinning and Pastoral Ministries, Michael Komakec (Fall 2010)
Performing to Reclaim: War Trauma and Female Non-Combatant Recovery in Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf, and H.D., Rita Allison Kondrath (Spring 2010)
An Application of Spectral Translation and Spectral Envelope Extrapolation for High-frequency Bandwidth Extension of Generic Audio Signals, Alexei Kontsevoi (Summer 2010)
An Examination of State and Trait Anxiety Levels among College Students Based on the Students' Alcohol Usage, Richard Kovalesky (Summer 2010)
Targeted Lipidomics: Analytical Strategies for Fatty Amides, Kristin Marie Kroniser (Spring 2010)
"Through the Story": Organizational Recasting and the Necessity of Narrative-Driven Internal Branding, Jeremy Langett (Spring 2010)
The Pathway to Making Change: How Parents Promote Health for Their Overweight or Obese Child, Jennifer S. Laurent (Summer 2010)
Working with the Drive: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Approach to the Treatment of Addictions, Cristina Laurita (Summer 2010)
Food and Social Life in Puglia: A Comparison Family Food Worlds in Northern and Southern Italy, Jennifer Lawer (Summer 2010)
Anxiety in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: An Examination of Reporting Trends Among Children, Parents, and Teachers, Cathryn A. Lehman (Fall 2010)
The Rhetoric of Transitional Justice: Negotiating the Years of Lead in Morocco, Fadoua Loudiy (Fall 2010)
Lay Ecclesial Ministry as Vocation: A Particular Call To Mission for Laity in the Roman Catholic Church, Shannon Loughlin (Fall 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)