Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Meeting the Absurd: Camus and the Communication Ethics of the Everyday, Brent Sleasman (Fall 2007)
Spiritual Leadership as an Effective Leadership Style for the Public School Superintendent, Sherri Smith ( 2007)
Looping: the Impact of a Multi-Year Program on the Academic Progress, Retention, and Special Education Placements of Students in Two South Central Pennsylvania Schools, Joseph Snoke (Summer 2007)
Utilizing Environmental Factors and Basic Principles of Pragmaticism to Establish a Theoretical Framework for Integrating Learning Object Based Instruction (LOBI) into K-12 Instructional Practice, Alex Stone (Spring 2007)
The Mathematics behind Speciated Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry, Jingyan Sun ( 2007)
The Elgamal Cryptosystem is better than Th RSA Cryptosystem for Mental Poker, Ipek Tetikoglu (Spring 2007)
School Success Among African American Male Adolescents: An Existential Examination of Protective Factors, Carol Thomas ( 2007)
An Examination of Selected Noncognitive Variables and NCLEX-RN Success of Baccalaureate Nursing Students, Kathryn Tinkelenberg (Spring 2007)
A Comparison of Self-Acceptance among Counselor Education Master's Degree Students at the Beginning, Practicum Level, and Graduation from Their Program of Studies, Baljinder Uppal (Summer 2007)
A Model for Humane Economic Development: Hernando de Soto, Property Rights, and the Preferential Option for the Poor, Robert Van der Waag (Spring 2007)
Effect of Steroids and Sulfated Steroids on Growth of the Human MG-63 Osteoblast-like Cell Line, Laura Vollmer (Summer 2007)
Nondestructive Prediction of Drug Release from Tablets Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Randall Voytilla (Spring 2007)
Cyclic Metalated Nitriles: Alkylations and Cyclizations, Guoqing Wei (Fall 2007)
Metalated Nitriles: Cation-Controlled Cyclizations, Yunjing Wei (Spring 2007)
African American Perceptions of Childhood Behavioral Disorders and Mental Health Services, Chant Wellington (Spring 2007)
A Narrative of Charitable Acknowledgment: Reframing Interpersonal Communication in Intimate Relationships, Cory Williams ( 2007)
Structure and Mobility through Capillary Electrophoresis, John T. Williams ( 2007)
Action Research: An Investigation of Teacher Perceptions of a Job-embedded Professional Development Program in a Suburban High School, Kenneth Williams ( 2007)
Confidence and Willingness among Preservice Teachers to Use Technology to Support Learner-Centered Strategies that Address the Diverse Needs of Students: A Multimedia Experience, Junko Yamamoto (Spring 2007)
Advertising as Epideictic Rhetoric and Its Implications for Ethical Communication, Cem Zeytinoglu (Fall 2007)
MP3 and Culturally Free, Michelle Zuckerman-Parker (Fall 2007)
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
"Doing the Right Thing": A Study of Cross-Generational Eldercare Decision-making in Community and Disease Context, Jeannie Baron-Yenerall (Summer 2006)
A molecular dissection of the mating system in the bluntnose minnow, Pimephales notatus, Rebecca Abrasheff (Spring 2006)
Authentic Dasein as Pathway to Heideggerianism as a Political Philosophy - a Political Vibration of Being and Time, Thomas Akpen (Summer 2006)
Catholicism and Orthodoxy: The "Struggle" for "Reunion" from the Second Vatican Council to the Holy Year 2000, M. Paracleta Amrich (Spring 2006)
Identification of Gene Products Involved in Glycerophosphoinositol Metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Puneet Anand (Fall 2006)
How Principals Lead to Promote Inclusive Practices: A Descriptive Study, Janet Armstrong (Summer 2006)
Preparing Preservice Teachers to Use Positive Behavior Supports in General Education Classrooms, Ruth Auld (Spring 2006)
"Doing the Right Thing": A Study of Cross-Generational Eldercare Decision-making in Community and Disease Context, Jeannie Baron-Yenerall (Fall 2006)
Trinitarian Pneumatology and a Contemporary Theology of Mary: an Analysis and Reinterpretation, Joyce Bautch (Fall 2006)
Molecular Genetic Analysis of Division and Development in Streptomyces coelicolor, Jennifer Ann Bennett ( 2006)
Does Caring Matter?: A Qualitative Study of Urban African American Alternative School Students Perceptions of Their School Experiences, Past and Present, Victoria Berger (Spring 2006)
Bayesian Analysis of Discrete Longitudinal Data, Nicholas Bernini (Spring 2006)
A Comparison of Quality of Life in Adult Patients with Heart Failure in Two Medical Settings: A Heart Failure Clinic and a Physician Practice, Janet Bischof (Fall 2006)
Kantian Meadows: A Just Nursing Home Grounded in the Categorical Imperative, Faith Bjalobok (Spring 2006)
Outgrowth Formation in MT1-CHO Cells is Dependent Upon Gi Protein Activation, Elevated and Sustained MAP Kinase Activation and Intact Microtubules, Corry Bondi (Fall 2006)
Component Processes in the Predictors of Reading Achievement: Direct and Indirect Effects, Bryson Bresnahan (Fall 2006)
Assessing the Effectiveness of a Community's Collaborative Efforts in Meeting the Needs of At-Risk Students: Setting the Stage for the Advancement of Alternatives in an Urban Public Education System, Michael B. Brinkos (Summer 2006)
The Effectiveness of the BICUM Study-Reading Instructional Strategy on Reading Comprehension and Self-Efficacy Levels of First-Year, First-Semester College Students Enrolled in a Three-Credit Developmental Reading and Study Skills Course, Gwendolyn Brown-Durham (Summer 2006)
Depression, Volition, and Death: The Effect of Depressive Disorders on the Autonomous Choice to Forgo Medical Treatment, Matthew Butkus (Spring 2006)
Parent Involvement in Special Education: Initial Barriers to Participation, Lelona Carey (Summer 2006)
Advanced Image Processing Methods for Automated Quantitative Microstructural Analysis, Jonathan Chambers (Spring 2006)
How Perioperative Define, Attribute Causes of, and React to Intraoperative Nursing Errors, Robin Chard (Fall 2006)
Telementoring And Computer Mediated Discussions: A Description Of Online Instructors' Support, Mary Sue Cicciarelli (Fall 2006)
Perceptual Coherence: Multisensory Perception and Embodied Dynamics, Matthew C. Costello (Spring 2006)
Plato's View of Tyranny, Antonis Coumoundouros (Spring 2006)
Sustaining Child Outcomes from the Early Childhood Initiative Project: Evaluation of School Age Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Amy Crans-Stafford (Fall 2006)
The Rhetoric of Race: Toward a Revolutionary Construction of Black Identity, Maria Davidson (Spring 2006)
Creating A Healthcare Culture Of Patient Safety: A Retrospective Analysis Of Change Readiness Associated With The Implementation Of Computerized Provider Order Entry, Bonnie Dean (Fall 2006)
Human Development in Populorum Progressio: Challenging Uganda's Development Claims, Peter Debo (Fall 2006)
Educational Initiatives Promoting Women Entrepreneurs: The Significance of a PowerLink Panel On Women Entrepreneurs, Kathleen DeRose (Fall 2006)
Between Humanity and Divinity: Christ Consciousness in Jacques Maritain's On the Grace and Humanity of Jesus and the Epistemology of Michael Polanyi, Stephen Doering (Fall 2006)
Disenfranchising the Black Other: A Critique of American Drug Laws, Heather Dorsey (Spring 2006)
The lived experience of Lebanese oncology patients receiving palliative care, Myrna Doumit (Spring 2006)
Perceptions of elementary, middle/junior-high, and high school principals on the importance of having specific supervisory skills and specific supervisory training to supervise school counselors, John Duffy (Fall 2006)
Truth as Relationship: The Psychology of E. Graham Howe, Ian Charles Edwards ( 2006)
Microbial Transformation of Arsenic and the Characterization of Clostridium sp. strain OhILAs, Edward Fisher (Fall 2006)
Participant Feelings and Views of the IDPEL Center Adventure Program and its Effect on the Self-Efficacy and Personal Leadership Development, Maurice Flurie III (Fall 2006)
Approximating Interfacial Adhesion Energies of Thermal Barrier Coatings, Richard Foukes (Fall 2006)
School Administrators' Perceptions of the CACREP School Counseling Standards, Sandra M. Frey-Mckeown ( 2006)
The Impact of "Parents Feeling Capable" Treatment on the Self-Efficacy of Low Socio-Economic Parents, L. Robert Furman (Summer 2006)
Evaluation of the In Vitro Biocompatibility of Novel Polyurethane Materials for Use in Bone Tissue Engineering, Katie Gallagher (Spring 2006)
Lyric Subjectivity, Ethics, Contemporary Poetics: Claudia Rankine, Fanny Howe, Elizabeth Robinson, Maureen Gallagher (Spring 2006)
Quo Vadis: An Integrated Direction for Catholic Media Technology Engagement, Eugene M. Gan (Spring 2006)
The Experience of Being a Full-Time Nursing Faculty Member in a Baccalaureate Nursing Education Program, Elizabeth A. Gazza (Fall 2006)
The Role of Christian Faith in Public Moral Discourse: A Comparison of Selected Works from H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Stanley Hauerwas, and Richard A. McCormick, Andrew William Getz (Fall 2006)
Family Identity Discourse: A Study of Ego Development in Sibling Relationships, Jamie Ghany (Spring 2006)
The Forgotten Gift: An Exploration of Student and Teacher Perceptions of Giftedness, Lori Gornall (Summer 2006)
Shadowless, Stephen Groves (Spring 2006)
Federal Policy Responses to the 9/11 Attacks: An assessment of the policy making process since September 11, 2001, Ian J. Harlow (Spring 2006)
Interpreting Interpretation in Psychoanalysis: Freud, Klein, and Lacan, Lynn Christine Harper (Spring 2006)
The Effects of Women's Health and Life Experiences on Surgical Intervention, Debra Jeanne Hastings (Spring 2006)
Adolescent Female Embodiment As A Transformational Experience In The Lives of Women: An Empirical Existential-Phenomenological Investigation, Allyson Havill (Summer 2006)
An Assessment of the Levels of Stress Among Beginning Counselor Education Graduate Students, Students Beginning the Counseling Practicum and Students Graduating from their Program of Studies, Richard Christian Hoffman ( 2006)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1244 pilin glycosylation: substrate specificity, glycan functionality, and application for vaccine development, Joseph Horzempa (Summer 2006)
The Effect of PAPP-A on the Proliferation and Differentiation of MG-63 and Human Adult Mesenchymal Stem Cells, Shelby Hott (Summer 2006)
HOPE VI: A Case Study of Pittsburgh and New Orleans, Amy Ingram (Spring 2006)
Oxygen Atom Transfer Chemistry of [Mo(VI)O2]2+ Cores and Geometric Rearrangement in [Mo(V)O]3+ Cores: Reactivity, Mechanisms and Electronic Structure of Functional Molybdoprotein Model Systems, Brian William Kail (Summer 2006)
Steel Matters: Communicative Praxis of Community Relations in a Pluralistic Postmodern Society of Information Empowerment, Susan Kapusta (Fall 2006)
Courage for a Brave New World: Medical Genetics, Evolution, and a Roman Catholic Approach to Human Gene Transfer, Nicholas Kockler (Summer 2006)
Enological Characteristics of White Oak in the United States, Paul Michael Kolesar (Fall 2006)
Development of particle-based systems for the delivery of oligonucleotides into primary dendritic cells, Jeffrey Ryan Kovacs (Spring 2006)
Property Rights as a Precondition to Development: A Case Study of Jamaica, Leah Kral (Spring 2006)
Determinants of Attitudes and Perceptions Concerning Married Women in the Labor Force, Kristy Margaret Krivickas (Summer 2006)
Being Touched by Music: A Phenomenological-Hermeneutical Approach to Understanding Tranformational Musical Experience, Kurt Kumler (Summer 2006)
Teacher-School Board Member Trust Relationships and Their Perceived Influence on School Effectiveness, Pamela A. Lenz ( 2006)
The Political Process Model: A Case Study of the Alaskan Native Land Rights Movement, 1959-1971, Kristine Michelle Liebner (Spring 2006)
Natural selection and the evolution of the invasive trophoblast in hominoid primates, Paul Michael Litman (Fall 2006)
A Machine-Aided Approach to Intelligent Index Generation, Shelly Candita Lukon (Fall 2006)
Structural and Thermodynamic Study of the Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein Interactions with G Quartet Forming MAP1B RNA, Samantha Ann Mader (Spring 2006)
A Study of the Relationships between Superintendent Longevity, Board Member Longevity, Board Member Training, and School Districts Demonstrating Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) During the 2004-2005 School Year, Edward Maritz Jr. (Summer 2006)
Solid-Phase Induction of Xenopus Laevis Animal Caps by FGF-2: A Novel Developmental Approach, Peter Maropis (Summer 2006)
Crisis or Opportunity: An Investigation to Determine the State of Graduate Programs in Adult Education in the United States and Recommendations for Survival in the 21st Century, James J. McCarron (Summer 2006)
Values as a Component of Leadership and Their Relationship to organizational Efficacy and Culture; An Ethnographic Study of Leaders' influence at a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Organization 1965-2005, Emma Lee McCloskey (Summer 2006)
A Descriptive Study of Authentic Leadership, Teacher Empowerment, and Organizational Climate, Elizabeth McMahon (Fall 2006)
Portraits Through the Lens of Historicity: The American Family as Portrayed in Ladies Home Journal 1950-1959, Nancy Patton Mills ( 2006)
Community and The Meal: A Rhetorical Investigation, Richard J. Mills Jr. ( 2006)
A Quantitative Approach Towards Establishing Normal csp mRNA Accumulation Patterns in Escherichia coli K12, Khadijah Aisha Mitchell ( 2006)
Heart Matters: Contemporary American Fiction by Women and the Sentimental Tradition, Kara L. Mollis (Spring 2006)
Economic Instruments for Water Pollution Control Policy making issues: Experiences from Colombia, Monica Mildrei Montoya (Summer 2006)