Theses/Dissertations from 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)
Attending Intending: Meaning and Making Sense in Husserl and Wittgenstein, Matthew Radford Morgan (Fall 2006)
Good Moments in Gestalt Body Process Psychotherapy: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study, Barbara Jean Nagrant (Spring 2006)
Clan Politics: Explaining the Persistence of Subethnic Divisions in Tajikistan: The Comparative Approach, Navruz Nekbakhtshoev (Summer 2006)
Reading Specialist Practices at the Third Grade Level in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Bernadette Josephine Nemeth (Fall 2006)
The Influence of Lozenge on Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 69D Expression, Barbara Nightingale (Summer 2006)
Julius K. Nyerere: Radical Equality and Socialism (Ujamaa), Casimir Nyaki (Fall 2006)
The Rhetoric of Collaborative Ministry: A Perspective on Ministry Based on Augustine's Rhetorical Theory with Particular Reference to Abakaliki Diocese, Chux Cornelius Okochi (Summer 2006)
An Investigation of Psychosocial Functioning for Children and Adolescents Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorders, Maura Paczan (Fall 2006)
An Analysis of Perfusion Technology Preadmission Factors on Academic Success and American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion Certification Achievement, David Palmer (Summer 2006)
Characterization of the Metal Binding and Dimerization Properties of the Copper(I) Responsive Repressor Protein from the Enterococcus hirae Copper Homeostasis System, Kristina O. Pazehoski (Fall 2006)
Detection and Management of Elder Abuse: Nurse Practitioner Self-Perceptions of Barriers and Strategies, Catherine Pearsall (Summer 2006)
An Examination of the Changes in Depression, Anxiety and Quality of Life Among Patients Who Undergo Gastric Bypass Surgery, Thomas Petrone (Spring 2006)
Perceptions of Good Psychotherapy in a Community Mental Health Setting: Exploring the Contextual Nature of Treatment, Lisa Phillips (Spring 2006)
Negotiating Boundaries from Within: A Feminist-Psychodynamic Investigation of Bulimia and Emotional Expression in Context, Deborah Pollack (Summer 2006)
When Wombs Became Weapons: Women, Policy, and Propaganda in the Third Reich, Melanie Predis (Spring 2006)
Nietzsche's Dialogic Ethic After Illusion: Rhetoric and Difference, John Prellwitz (Fall 2006)
Transparency, Accountability and Public Participation as Foundations for Effective Operations of Natural Resource Funds: Implications for the Russian Stabilization Fund, Lada Progunova (Spring 2006)
From Communicative Silencer to Responsive Listener: Participation and Public Dialogue in Benin, André Quenum (Summer 2006)
A Mechanistic Evaluation of how Melatonin Enhances Alkaline Phosphatase Activity in Human Adult Mesenchymal Stem Cells, Nicholas Radio (Spring 2006)
Dopamine Uptake Inhibition Potency Fluctuations of Cocaine at the Dopamine Transporter, Suneetha Ramanujapuram (Summer 2006)
Won't You Be My Neighbor?: Child Abuse in a Community Context, Gabrielle Rebottini (Spring 2006)
The Meaning of Health among Midlife Russian-Speaking Women in the United States, Lenore Resick (Spring 2006)
The Building of a New Left Conglomerate in the City of Ann Arbor: VOICE, the Black Action Movement, and the Human Rights Party (1965-1975), Terrence Restivo (Spring 2006)
Normative practices and normative identities: A critical feminist investigation of pregnancy ultrasound, Bethany Riddle (Spring 2006)
Genetic Population Structure of the Federally Endangered Etowah Darter, Etheostoma etowahae, Shane Ritchea (Summer 2006)
"Teamsters are Beautiful" in the Twenty-first Century: The 'Sisterly' Organizing Rhetoric of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Elesha Ruminski (Summer 2006)