Theses/Dissertations from 2008
The Experience of Older Men Living Alone: A Phenomenological Perspective, Leslie Susan Yetter (Fall 2008)
"They Just Want Someone They Can Talk To:" Administrative Perceptions of Prison Grievance Resolution Programs, Erica Paige Zaveloff (Spring 2008)
A Chinese Version of an Authorship Attribution Analysis Program, Mengjia Zhao (Summer 2008)
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
The Effects of Curriculum Structure on the Achievement of Grade 3 and Grade 5 Mobile Students as Measured by the Maryland School Assessment, Sonya Barnes (Spring 2007)
Acquisition and Retention of CPR Knowledge and Skills for Junior Level Baccalaureate Nursing Students, Andrea Ackermann (Summer 2007)
Increasing Empathy in Middle School Youth: Effects of Social Skills Training on Sixth Grade Students, Lenora Angelone (Fall 2007)
Effect Of Neurosteroid Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate (DHEAS), Samreen Arshad (Spring 2007)
Liturgical Inculturation: A Theological Appraisal of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) in the Context of Selected African Initiation Rites, Uche John Asomugha (Fall 2007)
Dwelling among Mortals: Narratives of Disability and Revelation in Twentieth-Century American Fiction, Jenny Bangsund (Spring 2007)
Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE) Analysis of Microbial Diversity in Environments Impacted with Inorganic or Organic Arsenic, Rishu Bansal (Fall 2007)
Regulation of Steroid Sulfatase by Glucocorticoids in Human Breast Cancer and Bone Cancer Cell Lines, Suman Barua (Fall 2007)
Structural Indicators of Index Crime Rates in Metropolitan Counties for 1990 and 2000, Jacob Becker (Summer 2007)
Self-forgiveness: A narrative phenomenological study, John Beiter (Spring 2007)
The Postmodern Turn in Higher Education: Incorporating Narrative Literacy into the Discipline of Communication, Leeanne Marian Bell ( 2007)
Reflective Analysis of the Role Spirituality Plays in Educational Leaders' Coping Successes with a Focus on Gender Divergence, Bettie Bertram (Spring 2007)
Examining the ways and extent to which counselors in Botswana are utilizing indigenous cultural practices and structures, Dan-Bush Bhusumane (Summer 2007)
School Counselors Perceptions of the Importance and Need for Appropriate Training Regarding Preparedness to Deal with Specific Crisis Situations in Schools, Tina Bigante (Summer 2007)
Cloning and Heterologous Expression of the napA Gene from Sulfurospirillum barnesii, Lina Bird (Summer 2007)
Showing what we see: psychoanalytic vision, transparency, and linguistic pragmatics, Scott Bortle ( 2007)
Site Directed Mutagenesis of Lozenge: A Yeast Two-hybrid Analysis of Transcription Factor Protein Interaction, Lailla Boumaza (Summer 2007)
Teacher Philosophy of Differentiated Instruction: Teacher Perception Compared to Principal Perception, James Bradley (Spring 2007)
The Molecular and Genomic Evolution of the Relaxin Gene Cluster in Hominoid Primates, Heather Marie Brockway (Summer 2007)
Neural Network Prediction of Math and Reading Proficiency as Reported in the Educational Longitudinal Study 2002 Based on Non-Curricular Variables, Jason Brown ( 2007)
The Development of Small Christian Communities in the Catholic and Among the Lugbara People of Uganda After the Second Vatican Council: A Historical, Theological and Pastoral Investigation, Diego Cadri (Summer 2007)
Civic-ness in the Caribbean: Civic Society and Governance in Barbados and Jamaica, Liam Carstens (Spring 2007)
The Impact of Teaching Explicit Listening Strategies to Adult Intermediate- and Advanced-Level ESL University Students, Jeanette Clement (Spring 2007)
Integration of Multivariate Simulation and Method Understanding for Efficient, Science-Based Process Analytical Systems Development, Robert Cogdill (Spring 2007)
Microbial Transformation of 3-Nitro-4-Hydroxybenzene Arsonic Acid (Roxarsone), Bryan Crable (Spring 2007)
The Experience of Transitioning to the Caregiving Role for a Family Member with Alzheimer's Disease or a Related Dementia, Kathleen Czekanski (Summer 2007)
Oncology Nurses' Attitudes toward Cancer Clinical Trials and Their Perceptions of Patients' Understanding, Paul D'Amico (Spring 2007)
The Bloody Truth: A Psychological and Cultural Study of Menstruation as Lived and Experienced by Women, Carolyn DeForest (Spring 2007)
Social Competence Difficulties, Loneliness, and Victimization by Peers as Predictors of Eating Disturbance in Young Girls: A Longitudinal Investigation, Marissa Deleel (Summer 2007)
Chemical and Physical Influences of Salts on CO2 Solubility and Water Phase Changes, Thomas Dick (Spring 2007)
Adolescent Males Involvement in Pregnancy Prevention: Deliberate Action to Protect Future Goals, Judy Didion (Fall 2007)
Characterization of Steroid Sulfatase in Human and Mouse Tissues and in the Mouse MC3T3-E1 Pre-Osteoblastic Cell Line, Heidi DiFrancesca (Fall 2007)
"This Flesh Will Rise Again": Retrieving Early Christian Faith in Bodily Resurrection, J. Douglass (Fall 2007)
The Governor's Commission on Training America's Teachers: Response From Pennsylvania's Elementary School Principals, Linda Echard (Fall 2007)
Scientific Evolution, Creation Theologies and African Cosmogonies in Dialogue: Toward a Christian Theology of Evolution, Ameh Ejeh (Fall 2007)
Small Farmers and the Agro-Industrial Production and Services Cooperative of Coronel Oviedo: Opportunities for Growth, Tara Farnan (Spring 2007)
Perceptual Differences in the Conversational Performance of People with Severe Expressive Aphasia Using Three Types of Visual Screen Displays on Speech Generating Devices, Laura Figley (Summer 2007)
Congruency of Stakeholder Perceptions on the Introduction and Presence of Leadership Qualities and Characteristics of a New University President, Leslie Folmer Clinton ( 2007)
Internet Use in Teacher Preparation Programs: The Relationship between Pedagogy and Practice in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, Leighann Forbes (Fall 2007)
Confocal and Tem Analysis of Microbial Communities in Modern Stromatolites at Highborne Cay, Bahamas, Jonathan Franks (Fall 2007)
Microsatellite Analysis of Genetic Population Structure and Gene Flow in Populations of the Federally Threatened Cherokee Darter, Etheostoma Scotti, Jennifer Gabel (Fall 2007)
The Crazy Ideas You Had: The Impact of a Literacy Course Design, Delivery, and Teacher on Preservice Teachers' Reading Attitudes, Susan Gebhard (Spring 2007)
Metalated Nitriles: Diastereoselective Internal Asymmetric Induction, Somraj Ghosh (Spring 2007)
Thinking Outside of the Box: Blended Learning as an Alternative to Traditional Learning, Brett Gilliland (Summer 2007)
"Lost in a Forgetfulness of My Real Self": The Performative Bodies of Charlotte Charke and Cindy Sherman, Danielle Gissinger (Summer 2007)
"Lost in a Forgetfulness of My Real Self": The Performative Bodies of Charlotte Charke and Cindy Sherman, Danielle Gissinger (Summer 2007)
Characterization of FtsZ-Associated Proteins in Streptomyces Species, Haddon Goodman (Summer 2007)
An Exploration into Factors Contributing to Patient-Initiated Termination from Addiction Treatment Programs by Opioid-Dependent Persons, Neil Gregory (Fall 2007)
Effects of Social and Emotional Skills Training on Sixth Grade Students' Knowledge of Prosocial Skills and Their Attitude toward Violence, Elizabeth Gruber (Fall 2007)
Alkenenitriles: Conjugate Additions and Cyclization Reactions, Subrahmanyam Gudipati (Spring 2007)
Contributions of Meaning by Service Professionals to the Phenomenon of the Experience of Coping for Women in the Spectrum of Domestic Violence Abuse: A Leadership Perspective, Lisa Haeseler (Spring 2007)
Patient Experiences with the New Nurse Practitioner Role in New Brunswick Canada, Trudean Hahn (Fall 2007)
Transfer of Cu(I) between Metal Binding Sites and the Development of Cu(I) Force Field Parameters Using Charmm, Melinda Ann Harrison (Summer 2007)
Genetic population structure and breeding parameters of three Pennsylvania State threatened darter species: Etheostoma camurum, E. maculatum and E. tippecanoe, Laura Howell (Fall 2007)
Project Camelot and Military Sponsorship of Social Science Research: A Critical Discourse Analysis, Ryan Hunt ( 2007)
Prison Education Program Participation and Recidivism, Zarona Ismailova (Spring 2007)
Specificity of DNA Binding and Dimerization of CspE and CspE Mutants from Escherichia Coli, Danielle Johnston (Spring 2007)
A Comparison of Anxiety Levels Among Women in Mixed Gender Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities and Women-Only Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities, Veronica I. Jones ( 2007)
Is there a place for sexual difference in Ernesto Spinelli's existential phenomenological psychology? An Irigarayan response to the work of Ernesto Spinelli, Aloysius Joseph ( 2007)
Examining Factors That Affect Graduation Rates For Pennsylvania Students With Disabilities in Three Intermediate Unit Areas, Linda Jukes (Spring 2007)
Lived Experiences: An Examination of Older Adults' Late-stage, Life-span Ecological Transition from a Home Residence to an Assisted Living Facility, Christin Jungers (Spring 2007)
Fate of the vegetal yolky cells in the direct developing frog Eleutherodactylus coqui, Uma Karadge (Summer 2007)
John and Charles Wesleys' "Hymns on the Lord's Supper" (1745): Their Meaning for Methodist Ecclesial Identity and Ecumenical Dialogue, Aaron Kerr ( 2007)
An Examination of the Perceptions of Elementary School Counselors Regarding Grade Retention, Mariellen Kerr ( 2007)
Between Johannesburg and Jerusalem: A Comparative Analysis of Non-Violence as a Strategy for Political Change; the Case of Apartheid South Africa and the Occupied Territories of Palestine/Israel, Hassan Khannenje (Summer 2007)
Identification of Black Cohosh-Regulated Markers in Mammary Tumors from MMTV-neu Mice, Mary Kotlarczyk (Fall 2007)
Biochemical Analysis of Cell Division Protein Complexes in Streptomyces coelicolor, Allen M. Kotun ( 2007)
Positioning for Acceptance: How Women with HIV Infection Manage Their Relationships, Mary Kozy (Fall 2007)
Releasing Our Technological Imaginations: A Translation of Maxine Greene's Aesthetic Educational Theory into the Language of Instructional Technology, Mara Linaberger (Spring 2007)
Quantitative Method Development for Organic Environmental Compounds Automating Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry, David Neal Lineman (Spring 2007)
Molecular Dynamics Simulation Studies of DNA and Proteins: Force Field Parameter Development of Small Ligands and Convergence Analysis for Simulations of Biomolecules, Anne Loccisano (Fall 2007)
The Impact of Organizational Culture, Feminist Theory and Leadership of the First Seven Presidents on the Historical Development of Mercyhurst College (1926-1972), Mary Lee Lynch ( 2007)
A Philosophical Commentary on Aristotle's De Spiritu, Patrick Macfarlane (Fall 2007)
Learning by Wandering: Using Technology to Nourish the Spirit, Marie Martin (Spring 2007)
The Turn to the Neighbor: Emmanuel Levinas's Conceptual Affinities with Liberation Theology, Alain Mayama (Fall 2007)
The Relationship Between Soldier and Military Working Dog During the Vietnam War: An Empirical Existential Phenomenological Study, Sherri McGraw (Spring 2007)
Smoke and Mirrors: A Cultural-Psychological Analysis of Tobacco Use, Michael Melczak (Fall 2007)
A Comparison Between Habitual Pitch and Optimum Pitch in Preschool-Aged Children, Katie Micco (Summer 2007)
Following the Letter: Case Studies in the Application of Lacanian Theory to Psychotherapy, Michael Miller (Spring 2007)
Combating Red Brigades and Al Qaeda: The Evolution of Counterterrorism, Riccardo Monaco (Spring 2007)
Psychopathic traits and social-cognitive processes in aggressive youth, Colleen Morris (Spring 2007)
The Politics of Medical Syncretism in the Ghanaian National Healthcare System, Mark Morrison ( 2007)
Exploration Seeking Reclamation: The Significant, Integrating Distinction of Hope as Irascible Passion and as Theological Virtue in St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, Marie Mulloney (Spring 2007)
An adequate account of the sensible world: Aristotle and Merleau-Ponty. A comparative study, Pachomius Okogie (Spring 2007)
Demystifying A Sexual Perversion: An Existential Reading of Sadomasochism and Erich Fromm's Call to Love, Salvatore Palazzolo (Summer 2007)
Interfacial Properties of Oligo (ethylene glycol)-Terminated Self-Assembled Monolayers on Stainless Steel 316L, Kelly Papariella (Fall 2007)
From the Bottom up: Isaac Craig and the Process of Social and Economic Mobility During the Revolutionary era, Melissah Pawlikowski (Spring 2007)
[un]Defining Poetry: The Poetry of René Magritte and Art of Steve McCaffery, Courtney Pfahl (Fall 2007)
Sacrament of Deification: The Eucharistic Vision of Alexander Schmemann in Light of the Doctrine of Theosis, Janet Puppo (Spring 2007)
Surface Modification of Stainless Steel 316L for Application in Biomaterials, Aparna Raman (Fall 2007)
Life of the People, Body of the People: Re-reading the Imagery of the Body Politic, Wade Roberts (Spring 2007)
To Blog or Not to Blog? A Comparative Study of the Effects of Blogging in the Teaching of Writing in the High School Classroom, Nicole Roth (Spring 2007)
Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice: Involving Group Therapists in the Development of Clinically Relevant Research Questions and Methodologies, Mandy Schleifer (Summer 2007)
Pediatric Physical Therapists and Evidence Based Practice: A Participatory Action Research Project, Joseph Schreiber (Summer 2007)
Quantitative Differences in the Conversational Performance of People with Severe Expressive Aphasia Using Three Types of Visual Screen Displays on Speech Generating Devices, Jennifer Seale (Summer 2007)
Provinciality Is a Boon, Not a Curse: Renewing Mahatma Gandhi's Call for Swadeshi in a Global Economy, Reshmi Sen (Fall 2007)
Differences in Types and Severity of Consequences of High-Stakes Testing as Realized Between Low and High Performing High Schools and the Impact on the Instructional Programs in Their Schools, Samuel Signorino (Summer 2007)