Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Case Study: Nicosia Master Plan; Cooperation in the Midst of Conflict, Doga Akinci (Spring 2004)
Analysis of Factors that Influence Member Turnover in a Health Insurance Plan, Sara Bennett (Spring 2004)
From Virtue to Sympathy: Perspectives in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Literature on the Disintegration of the Social Bond, Andrea Beranek (Spring 2004)
Analysis of Specific Cis-acting DNA Sequences of the Himar1 mariner Transposon, Beth Berta (Spring 2004)
Faith-Based Organizing and Partnerships in a Pittsburgh Neighborhood: A Look at East Liberty, Damon Bethea (Spring 2004)
The Self-perceptions of Adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Patricia Bitar (Spring 2004)
A Proposed Algorithm Toward Uniform-distribution Monotone DNF Learning, Wenzhu Bi (Summer 2004)
Reflections on Teaching in a Catholic High School: A Qualitative Case Study, Daniel Blout (Spring 2004)
A Piecewise Linear Generalized Poisson Regression Approach to Modeling Longitudinal Frequency Data, Jennifer Borgesi (Spring 2004)
The Emergence of the Rakish Character in Seventeenth-Century English Literature, Julia Bowen (Spring 2004)
Being-in-the-Web: A Philosophical Investigation of Digital Existence in the Virtual Age, Diane Bowser (Fall 2004)
The Regulation of GIT1 Transcription in Response to Nutritional Factors, Wei Cheng (Summer 2004)
Post-Conciliar Models of Sin and Reconciliation: Towards a Contemporary Paradigm, James Cross (Spring 2004)
Desistance From Crime: A Study of Ex-Inmates' Desistance Narratives, William Culley (Spring 2004)
From philosophy to practice: A hermeneutic analysis of existential-phenomenological psychotherapy, David Danto ( 2004)
Connections between gendered constructions and women's lived experiences in light of feminist awareness: An empirical hermeneutic study, Erin Danto ( 2004)
Comparing Perceptions of Effective Characteristics of Middle School Advisors from Administrators, Teachers, and Students, Kevin Deitrick (Fall 2004)
Duquesne University IDPEL Cohorts: A Laboratory for Leadership?, Phillip Diller (Fall 2004)
Mourning, Evil and Grace: A Hermeneutical-Phenomenological Approach, James Dubose ( 2004)
Development of Near-IR Spectroscopic and Imaging Methods for Process Control of Pharmaceutical Powder Blending, Arwa S. El Hagrasy (Spring 2004)
Encountering Ourselves Through Photography: A Visual, Ethnomethodological Inquiry into Identity, Sonja Embree (Fall 2004)
A Historical Study of the Emergence of Social Movements: Case Study of the Sierra Leone Women's Forum in the 1990s, Agnes Mariama Farma (Spring 2004)
Internet Dwelling, Cyborgs, and the Matrix of Modernity: An Empirical Inquiry with Critical-Hermeneutic Features, Andrew Felder (Fall 2004)
Thinking Outside Pandora's Box: Now That the Idea of God Has Been Declared Dead, Has All Hope Been Lost for Philosophy and Humankind?, Mary Ann Fenicato (Fall 2004)
The Poetics of Childbearing: A Sociohistorical Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Study of Pregnancy and Childbirth, Stacy Giguere (Spring 2004)
The Impact of Traditional Shona Beliefs on HIV/AIDS Intervention Work in Zimbabwe, Brian Goercke (Summer 2004)
Neurosis and Fantasy: Lacanian Theory and Case Conceptualization Through Three Case Studies, Yael Goldman (Spring 2004)
Integrating Deleuze and Guattari's Theory of Difference Into the Practice of Object Relations Therapy, Amy Goodson (Spring 2004)
Is the Creation of a Kosovar Military a "Wicked Problem"?, Violeta Hamidi (Fall 2004)
Effectiveness of Staged Partner Training on Conversational Interactions Involving a Person with Severe Aphasia, Kelly M. Hanna (Summer 2004)
The importance of CMOS sensor surface topography in the attachment, proliferation, and differentiation of human adult mesenchymal stem cells, Christa Y. Heyward (Summer 2004)
Struggling with Location: A Collaborative Qualitative Study of Multicultural Counseling Competence in U.S. Psychology, Jenny Hwang (Fall 2004)
A Study of the Principle of Subsidiarity in Catholic Social Thought: Implications for Social Justice and Civil Society in Nigeria, Simeon Iber (Fall 2004)
Application of Symphonology Theory in Patient Decision-Making: Triangulation of Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, Margaret Irwin ( 2004)
Environmental Equity: Gradient Measures of Race and Social Class in the Areas Surrounding Pennsylvania Superfund Sites, Mark A. Jablonski (Summer 2004)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1244 Pilin Glycan: Surface Location and Induction of Immune Response, Erica Sentgeorge Jewell (Summer 2004)
Figuring Zarathustra, Paul D. Kinsman (Spring 2004)
Using Vignettes to Develop Higher-Order Thinking and Academic Achievement in Adult Learners in an Online Environment, Maria Helen Zanoni Kish (Spring 2004)
Experiences of Pain in Elderly Patients Having Total Knee Arthroplasty, Catherine Kleiner (Fall 2004)
A Comparison of the Perceptions of the Importance of Formal Supervision Training Between Formally Trained Counselor Supervisors and Non-Formally Trained Counselor Supervisors, Maura Krushinski (Fall 2004)
An analysis of the use of web-based instruction in the Physical Education and related Departments in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, Joanne Leight (Fall 2004)
Assessing the Frequency and Influences of Secondary Traumatic Stress Symptoms Among Crisis Intervention Workers, Mark F. Lepore (Summer 2004)
Measuring Educational Gains and Setting Consequences: Charter Schooling and the No Child Left Behind Policy, Erin Lyttle (Fall 2004)
Searching for Mother: Chicana Writers Revise and Renew Malinche and Guadalupe, Diane L. Maldonado ( 2004)
The Baby Out With the Bathwater! Securitization of Corruption and its Impact on Human Security, Shabnam Mallick (Spring 2004)
The Appropriation of the Prospect of Taking Medication for Psychological Complaints: An Empirical-Phenomenological Investigation, Daniel R. Mangine (Spring 2004)
Whiteness as Experienced by People of Color: An Empirical Phenomenological Study, Darryl Mars (Spring 2004)
The Later Heidegger and Contemporary Theology of God, Daniel Martino (Fall 2004)
The Impact of Managed Care Organizations on Pennsylvania Certified Addiction Counselors' Global Assessment of Functioning Rating of Substance Dependent Patients, John D. Massella (Spring 2004)
Examination of the Growth and Development of the Long Term Community Based Jazz Workshop Inc. Program, Anthony McBride (Fall 2004)
Assessment of Constructs Related to Childhood Aggression, Susan B. McLaughlin ( 2004)
Practice, Practice, Practice: Innovative Feminist Literary Criticism, Laurie McMillan (Fall 2004)
The Role of Teacher Education Experiences in Addressing the Concerns of Apprentice Teachers, Mary McVey (Fall 2004)
Up in Smoke: Evaluating Tobacco Use among Native American Adolescents in Montana, Daria Meyer (Spring 2004)
The Role of LOZENGE in Drosophila melanogaster Photoreceptor Axon Extension and Synaptogenesis, Julie Meyers (Fall 2004)
The Influence of Conflict Resolution Training On the Reduction of Ethnic Prejudice Between Greek and Turkish Cypriot Young Adults, Anna Misiaouli (Fall 2004)
Teacher of Holiness: The Holy Spirit in Origen's Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, Maureen Beyer Moser (Spring 2004)
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter: A Critical Resource Guide and Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography of Literary Criticism, 1950-2000, Kimberly Free Muirhead (Spring 2004)
Recognizing a Different Other: A Neo-Kleinian Analysis of Lesbian Relationship Violence, Jacqueline Ann Neilson (Summer 2004)
Feuerbach in Context: A Philosophical Reassessment, Joseph Penlong Nietlong (Fall 2004)
Chemistry of Dithiolenes and Their Nickel and Molybdenum Complexes, Archana Nigam (Spring 2004)
The Language Economy: Literature, Violence, Ethics in Sartre, Blanchot, and Said, Agnieszka Patkowska (Summer 2004)
Examining the Perspectives of an Interdisciplinary Treatment Team Regarding the Implementation of a Sensory Motor Group Trauma Curriculum in a Child and Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program, Barbara Peck (Fall 2004)
Political Scandals and Policy Creation, Keely Peterson (Spring 2004)
Optimization Techniques for Image Restoration, Melissa Pirolli (Spring 2004)
Outcomes of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation's Curriculum-Mentoring Project, Ingrid Mary Provident (Spring 2004)
Evaluating Human Adult Mesenchymal Stem Cells and MG-63 Cells on Vitoss, ChronOS Granulat and ChronOS For Use in Bone Tissue Engineering, Hina Qidwai (Summer 2004)
Development, Research and Validation of Environmental Speciation Methods; and Evaluation by Speciated Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry in Mercury and Chromium Speciation Analysis, G. M. Mizanur Rahman (Summer 2004)
The Effects of the Manager's Behavior on the Retention of High Potential Employees for Different Generations, Kimberlee Rhule (Fall 2004)
Jubilee Magazine and the Development of a Vatican II Ecclesiology, Mary Rivera (Fall 2004)
The Rhetorical Dimensions of Radio Propaganda in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945, Frank Rybicki (Summer 2004)
An Examination of Standardized Language, Mathematics, and Reading Achievement Testing Results when Compared for Middle School Aged Student Leaders and Non-Student Leaders, Susan Schaming (Summer 2004)
Struggling with Location: A Collaborative Qualitative Study of Multicultural Counseling Competence in U.S. Psychology, Demmler Schenck (Fall 2004)
The Impact of Utilizing High-Fidelity Computer Simulation on Critical Thinking Abilities and Learning Outcomes in Undergraduate Nursing Students, Lori Schumacher ( 2004)
Teaching Science Through Inquiry in K-5 Classrooms: Analysis of Change in Practice, Joseph Sciulli (Spring 2004)
A Comparison of the Behavioral Adjustment of First-Grade Students that Attended a Full-Day Kindergarten Program and First-Grade Students that Attended a Half-Day Kindergarten Program, Denise Shaffer (Summer 2004)
Understanding the Organ Music of Olivier Messiaen: Optical Illusions Versus Aural Realities, Krista Shinew (Spring 2004)
Identification of protein interaction between the Drosophila Runx1 transcription factor Lozenge and ETS-1 factor Pointed using site directed mutagenesis and yeast two-hybrid analysis, Shalini Singh (Summer 2004)
Latin American Polystylism: Structure and Form in Osvaldo Golijov's La Pasión Según San Marcos, Richard Skirpan (Spring 2004)
Vitellogenin Induction as a Biomarker for Environmental Estrogens in Xenopus laevis, Jamie Skoloda (Fall 2004)
Happily Ever After: A Study of Social Correlates of Marital Unhappiness and Policy Implications, Benjamin Sprajcar (Spring 2004)
Template Mediated Nanocluster Formation, Glen Spreitzer (Fall 2004)
Defining the Church's Advocacy Role to the Modern Prison System, Timothy Swope (Spring 2004)
Development of a Biochemical Probe for Arsenate Respiring Bacteria using Bacillus selenitireducens strain MLS10, Mirunalni Thangavelu (Summer 2004)
Learning to be Free: The Print Media of Cotonou, Benin, Stephen Urbanski (Spring 2004)
Functional Characterization of the csp Homologs of E. coli K-12, Christina Ventrice (Spring 2004)
"Buck v. Bell: Brainchild of American Eugenists", Christine Vulgaris-Brehm (Fall 2004)
"Buck v. Bell: Brainchild of American Eugenists", Christine Vulgaris-Brehm (Fall 2004)
The Role of Political Behavior and Socio-Economic Development in the Transition and Consolidation of Liberal Democracy in Sub Saharan Africa, Godfrey Wachira (Fall 2004)
Teacher Perceptions Concerning Bullying and Victimization, Janet Walsh ( 2004)
Plato's Villains: The Ethical Implications of Plato's Portrayal of Alcibiades and Critias, John Baynard Woods Jr. (Fall 2004)
Improving the Study of Gene Rearrangement in Bayesian Phylogeny, Xiting Yang (Summer 2004)
Assessment of Differences in the Balanced Emotional Empathy among Beginning, Practicum and Graduating Students in a Counselor Education Program, Frank Yesko (Spring 2004)
Unsaturated Nitriles: Stereoselective Annulations and Alkylations, Zhiyu Zhang ( 2004)
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Principles of Chemical Reactivity on the Diels-Alder Reaction in Ionic Liquids and Lewis Acid Catalysis using Large-Scale Computations, Orlando Acevedo (Spring 2003)
Socratic Encounters: Plato's Alcibiades, Andre Archie (Fall 2003)
Interart Studies from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era: Stylistic Parallels between English Poetry and the Visual Arts, Roberta Aronson (Fall 2003)
Teaching Styles and Student's Perception of Teaching Effectiveness in Counselor Education, Mwangi K. Benedict (Summer 2003)
Evaluation of Smoking Prevention Television Advertisements by Middle School Youth: Effects of Gender, Ethnicity, and Grade Level, Anne Bongiorno (Summer 2003)
Cloning and expression of Dazl in Rana pipiens, Jamie Boorech (Summer 2003)