Theses/Dissertations from 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)
Efficacy of a Direct Instruction Approach to Promote Early Learning, Jennifer Lee Salaway (Spring 2008)
Evaluation of Attention and Executive Control within a Model of Gf-Gc Cognitive Functioning, Adam Scheller (Summer 2008)
Why Parents Choose Catholic School: A Social Theory Understanding, John M. Schultz ( 2008)
Optimization of the Synthesis of Carbon Modified (CM)-n-TiO2, (CM)-n-Fe2O3, and (CM)-p-WO3 Semiconductors for Efficient Photoelectrochemical Splitting of Water, Yasser Shaban (Summer 2008)
Development and Construct Validation of the Pharmacists' Care of Migraineurs Scale, Neel Shah ( 2008)
Conflict Management Styles among Elder African Americans when Coping with Racism, Yvettta Lynne Shipman (Spring 2008)
Maximizing Special Education Teacher Retention: Teacher's Perceptions of Administrative Support in Pre K-12 Public Schools as Implications for Improvement, Dawn R. Showers (Spring 2008)
Analysis of Scoring Music to Visual Media, Barak Shpiez (Spring 2008)
Reliability of Urinary Bladder Pressure Measurement in Critical Care, Melanie Horbal Shuster (Spring 2008)
From the Margins to the Center: A Qualitative Study Giving Voice to Black Women in Athletic Training Education Programs, Bonnie J. Siple (Spring 2008)
Towards a Hermeneutical Understanding of the Listening Process, Molly Mae Stoltz ( 2008)
Predicting Performance on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment Using the Developmental Reading Assessment and the 4Sight Predictive Benchmark Assessment, Todd B. Stoltz ( 2008)
A Contemporary Consideration of the Role of Metaphysics in Systematic Theology: The Contributions of Pope John Paul II and Claude Tresmontant, Daniel M. Strudwick (Spring 2008)
The Effect of International Short-Term Mission Trips on Intercultural Sensitivity in Secondary Christian School Students, Conrad Swartzentruber (Spring 2008)
The Synthesis and Physicochemical Characterization of New Monothiophosphate Materials, Nathan Takas (Fall 2008)
A Story Only We Can Tell: The Lived Experience of Black Women Teachers in White Rural Schools, Maria Tucker ( 2008)
Transatlantic Acts: Nation, Self-Narration, and Celebrity in Victorian and Modernist Women's Autobiography, Kristianne Kalata Vaccaro (Fall 2008)
Emergency Contraception, Catholic Hospitals, and Rape, Valerie Violi-Satkoske (Fall 2008)
The Effects of Fluency-Building Strategies on the Oral Reading Rates of First-Grade Students, Holly Walker (Fall 2008)
Primary and Secondary Causality in the Thought of St. Anselm: A Speculation on Divine Omniscience, Predestination and Grace in the Context of Human Freedom and Spirituality, Kent Wallace (Spring 2008)
The Effects of the Toyota Production System on Student Academic Performance, Danny Ray Webb ( 2008)
Worker Commitment: A Comparison Study of American and Japanese Organizations in Thailand, Chongyi Wei (Spring 2008)
William Dean Howells and the New Science: Darwinian Evolution and the Rise of Realism, Stephen Wells ( 2008)
Examining the Effectiveness of a Site-Based Alternative Education Program for At-Risk High School Students, Keith Wolfe ( 2008)