Theses/Dissertations from 2018
An Ethical Framework For Communication of Prognosis in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Amanda Mattone (Spring 2018)
H. Odera Oruka and the Right to a Human Minimum: A Sagacious Quest for Global Justice, Michael Kamau Mburu (Spring 2018)
Jean-Luc Marion and Gianni Vattimo’s Contributions for the Postmodern Faith, Michael McGravey (Spring 2018)
Communication Ethics: Ellul's Complexity of Form, Marianne Pabis (Spring 2018)
American Myth and Ideologies of Straight White Masculinity in Men's Literary Self-Representations, Mary Parish (Spring 2018)
Comparison of Two Methods of Pediatric Triage Education, Catherine Recznik (Spring 2018)
Semantic Realism and Historicity: Brandom, Habermas and Hegel, Norman Schultz (Spring 2018)
An Ethics of Care Approach to Managing the Burden of Alzheimer's Disease, Carrie L. Stott (Spring 2018)
The Core Relation Between Hospitality (Philoxenia), Dignity and Vulnerability in Orthodox Christian Bioethics: A Contribution to Global Bioethics, Rabee Toumi (Spring 2018)
The Title, Laurent Turgeon-Dharmoo (Spring 2018)
Toward a New Reading of Cicero's De Finibus, Kelsey Ward (Spring 2018)
Jon Sobrino’s Liberation Christology and Its Implication for the “Crucified People” of the Niger Delta Region in Nigeria., Augustine Wayii (Spring 2018)
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Synthesis of 2,4,6-Substituted Pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidines as Potential Anticancer Agents, Si Yang (Fall 2017)
On the Cover of The Rollin’ Stone: How Rolling Stone Magazine Frames Politics and News, Ashley Anne Walter (Spring 2017)
The Church in Dialogue with Other Religions in the Postmodern World: Reflecting Beyond Nostra Aetate., Daniel Aboagye Adjei (Fall 2017)
Determining the Specific Transition Needs of Military and Veteran Students (MVS), A Qualitative/Mixed Methods Study, Donald Accamando (Spring 2017)
Public Health Disasters: A Global Ethical Framework, Michael Olusegun Afolabi (Spring 2017)
Indirect Bullying and Conflict Management Skills in Childhood and Adolescence, Charles Albright (Fall 2017)
Cultural Care and Inviting Practices: Building Relationships in an Urban Elementary School. Teacher Perspectives in Forming Positive Teacher-Student Relationships Based on Care and Equity, Eva J. Allen (Summer 2017)
The Ethical Obligation for Disclosure of Medical Error in the Intensive Care Unit, Saleh A. Alnahdi (Spring 2017)
Self-Efficacy and the Interaction Model as Predictors of Student Satisfaction and Perceived Learning in Online Learning Environments, Emtinan Alqurashi (Fall 2017)
Altruism, Autonomy, and Human Dignity for the Sustainability of Post-Mortal Organ Donation, Aiyub Mohammad Fahad Alwehaibi (Spring 2017)
Text Based Analysis in the Undergraduate Classroom, Katelyn Antolik (Fall 2017)
Solidarity with the Vulnerable: Global Healthcare Ethics in Spiritan Perspective, Chike Anyigbo (Fall 2017)
An Ethical Framework for Global Governance for Health Research, Kiarash Aramesh (Spring 2017)
Culture Counts: Examining the Effectiveness of a Culturally Focused Empowerment Program For At-Risk Black Girls, Candice Nicole Aston (Summer 2017)
Outsourcing Our Memory 2.0: Using Walter Ong's Orality/Literacy Studies to Recognize Technologies Effects on Memory, Rishi Raj Bahl (Spring 2017)
Using Educational Data Mining Techniques to Analyze the Effect of Instructors’ LMS Tool Use Frequency on Student Learning and Achievement in Online Secondary Courses, Jonathan Barkand (Fall 2017)
Trauma and Aggression in Juvenile Offenders, Cassandra M. Berbary (Summer 2017)
Examining the Role of Ethnic Identity in the Relationship Between Characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorders and Eating Disorders, Ashley Bojorquez (Fall 2017)
A CACREP-Informed Counselor Educator Developmental Model: Identifying Counselor Skills and Supports Needed For Neophyte Counselor Educators, Ryan Bowers (Spring 2017)
Youth Bear Witness to Mentoring of the Black Church for College Readiness, Mary Louise Buckley (Summer 2017)
Universal Principles of Bioethics and Patient Rights in Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Abdulbasit Bukhari (Spring 2017)
Reading the Culture Wars in the New Academic Novel, 1984-Present, Ian Butcher (Fall 2017)
Occupational Profiles of At-Risk Youth: A Multi-Case Study, Abigail Catalano (Fall 2017)
Target Based Design And Synthesis of Heterocycles in the Potential Treatment of Cancer and Opportunistic Infection, Shruti Choudhary (Fall 2017)
Perceptions and Predictions with School Climate: Analyzing the Comprehensive School Climate Inventory, Danielle Cimorelli (Summer 2017)
The Decline and Recovery of Thermal Oxidative Stability of Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel Blends, Abigail Schoor Cohen (Fall 2017)
The First Life Journey of Many: The Lived Experience of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning Individuals Who Were Raised Within the Catholic Church on Their Coming Out Process, Michelle Colarusso (Fall 2017)
Refugee-Led Organizations and the Obstacles They Face: A Comparative Study of Syria Bright Future and the Bhutanese Community Association of Pittsburgh, Priscila Elizabeth Cordoba Montoya (Summer 2017)
Quality of Care in Patients with Cirrhosis and Ascites, Hepatic Encephalopathy or Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis, Ankur Dashputre (Summer 2017)
Becoming a Priestly People: A Biblical Theology of Liturgical Sacrifice as Spiritual Formation, Ximena DeBroeck (Spring 2017)
An Investigation of a Peer Coaching Model on the Professional Learning and Teacher Self-Efficacy of Elementary Literacy Teachers, Amy M. Dellapenna (Summer 2017)
Emotions, Intuitions and Risk Perception in Critical Care, Oleksandr Dubov (Fall 2017)
"Unorthodox Conduct": Re-membering Queer Africa in Literature and Film, Matthew Patrick Durkin (Spring 2017)
The Challenge of Enhancement & Adaptability in Healthcare: An Ethical Framework for Organizations, Gary Edwards (Fall 2017)
An Ethical Argument for a Specific Model of Palliative Care in Nigeria, Dozie Egbe (Spring 2017)
The Lived Experience of Trauma Counselor Supervisors, Nancy N. Fair (Summer 2017)
Hospitality in Communication: Applying the Rule of Saint Benedict to the Home, Karen Fetter (Fall 2017)
Structure & Simulation: Growth and Evolution in Generative Music, Dane Filipczak (Spring 2017)
The neonatal anti-viral response fails to control measles virus spread in neurons despite interferon-gamma expression and a Th1-like cytokine profile, Priya Ganesan (Fall 2017)
The Normative Approach of the Catholic Tradition in the Ethical and Religious Directives for Resolving Ethical Dilemmas Regarding Medical Technology, David G. Garvis (Fall 2017)
The Lived Experience of Individuals Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) While Residing in a Rural Region of Northern Appalachia, Renee Elizabeth Gilhousen (Spring 2017)
The Lived Experiences of School Counselors Participating in Yoga: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of Self-Care, Susan Giovengo-Gurrera (Spring 2017)
Trauma-Focused Therapists’ Perceptions and Lived Experiences of Evidence-Based Practices (EBPS) when Delivering Sexual Trauma Interventions to Clients, Carlos Eduardo Golfetto (Summer 2017)
Retention and Attrition in Bariatric Surgery Research: A Qualitative Study, William F. Gourash (Summer 2017)
Relevant Versus Extraneous Music in Multimedia Instruction: A Study of the Coherence Principle, Jonathan Gunnell (Fall 2017)
The Relationship between Testing Frequency and Student Achievement in Eighth-Grade Mathematics: An International Comparative Study Based on TIMSS 2011, Ufuk Guven (Spring 2017)
Clients' experiences of recovery-oriented care for schizophrenia: A qualitative research study, Sarah A. Hamilton (Fall 2017)
The Complete Poems of Anne Bannerman, Matthew Heilman (Fall 2017)
Distribution Changes, Genetic Population Structure, and a Novel Environmental DNA (eDNA) Detection Method for Darters (Subgenus Nothonotus) in the Upper Ohio River Watershed, Anthony S. Honick (Summer 2017)
A Bioethics Tool for the Implementation of Global Principles by the Pharmaceutical Industry, Daniel J. Hurst (Fall 2017)
Modeling the Binding of Neurotransmitter Transporter Inhibitors with Molecular Dynamics and Free Energy Calculations, Bernandie Jean (Summer 2017)
Theory of Subjectification in Gilles Deleuze: A Study of the Temporality in Capitalism, Boram Jeong (Summer 2017)
Schelling's Ages of the World: The Beginning of the Beginning, Andrew Jussaume (Fall 2017)
An Examination of Different Motivational Orientations That Drive Graduate Students To Continue/Complete Their Education in the U.S, Cebrail Karayigit (Summer 2017)
Structure or Knot: What Phenomenology and Asperger’s Syndrome can Teach Lacanian Psychoanalysis About Subjective Constitution, Shannon D. Kelly (Summer 2017)
Barriers and Facilitators to Diabetes Self-Management in a Primary Care Setting – Patient and Physician Perspectives, Rahul Khairnar (Spring 2017)
Mammography Utilization in African American Women, April D. Kidd (Fall 2017)
Drawing Conclusions about Aphasia: An Examination of the Relationship between Word Retrieval, Drawing, and Semantics, Joanne Kinney (Summer 2017)
Relational Interreligious Dialogue: Interdisciplinary Arguments from Creator/Creature Theology and Quantum Entanglement, Joyce Ann Konigsburg (Spring 2017)
Parents of Children Who Had Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy: A Mixed-Methods, Exploratory Study, Natalene Kramer (Fall 2017)
Experiences and Perceptions of Rural Postpartum Women With Substance Use Disorders Inclusive of Opioids Regarding Their Care, Debra Kramlich (Summer 2017)
Impact of anti-viral immunity on neural stem/progenitor cell activity and implications for CNS development, Apurva Kulkarni (Summer 2017)
Reconstructing the War in Iraq: Post-9/11 American War Fiction in Dialogue with Official-Media Discourse, Ashley Kunsa (Spring 2017)
Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of the Self: Living in the Truth, Fergus James Laughland (Summer 2017)
A Systems Approach to Moral Distress in Long Term Care, Margaret Lemley (Fall 2017)
My Do Over: A Case Study of an Intentional Focus on Relationship Building, by the School Leadership, in a Newly Formed School, Jean Marie Livingston (Spring 2017)
"Can You Hail Me Now?": Brand, Identity, and Althusserian Ideological Interpellation, Jenna Lo Castro (Fall 2017)
Job Satisfaction and Empowerment of Self-Employed Nurse Practitioners: A Mixed Methods Study, Catherine Lyden (Spring 2017)
Water Quality Analysis of Watersheds in Southwestern Pennsylvania, Linnea Ellen Manley (Spring 2017)
Neuronal GQ Structures in Neurodegeneration, Damian S. McAninch (Summer 2017)
Elemental trauma: A case study of living with contaminated water near sites of Marcellus Shale gas extraction, Christopher John McCann (Summer 2017)
The Ethics of Futility Across the Age Continuum, Katherine D. McCord (Spring 2017)
Integrated Marketing Communication as Epideictic Rhetoric and Its Implications for Ethical Branding, Tricia McFadden (Fall 2017)
Toward a Theory of Action: Opportunities Embedded in Counseling Theory for School Counselors to Improve Their Perceptions of and Approaches toward Their Relationship with Their School Principals, Stephanie A. McHugh (Spring 2017)
Predicting Bankruptcy and Catastrophic Loss: A Portfolio Approach, Michael McKibben (Spring 2017)
Examining the Relationship between Technology & Engineering Instruction and Technology & Engineering Literacy in K-8 Education, Tamarra L. Mitchell (Summer 2017)
Discovery of Pyrimidine-based Heterocycles as Single Agents With Combination Chemotherapy Potential And As Inhibitors Of Purine Nucleotide Biosynthesis For The Treatment of Cancer, Rishabh Mohan (Fall 2017)
A Day Through My Eyes: Improving Visual Perceptual Training For School Staff Members Working With Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Abigail Moonis (Fall 2017)
The Ethical Right to Healthcare in the Affordable Care Act, Stella Morden (Spring 2017)
Improving the Practice and Culture of Early Learning in Ohio, Diana Morello-DeSerio (Fall 2017)
Exiles on Main Street: A Pedagogy of Popular Music Through Technology and Aesthetic Education, Jordan Mroziak (Spring 2017)
Dialogic Praxes in Gabriel Marcel’s Philosophy: Hope for Being in a Technological World, Margaret M. Mullan (Fall 2017)
Examining the Moderating Effects of Racial Socialization on Teacher Discrimination for the Psychological Outcomes of Black Middle School Girls, Kayla Nichols (Summer 2017)
Does Speech-To-Text Assistive Technology Improve the Written Expression of Students with Traumatic Brain Injury?, Michaela Ann Noakes (Summer 2017)
Sacramental Theology of Elochukwu Uzukwu in Light of Vatican II and Its Application in African Contexts, Emmanuel Osigwe (Fall 2017)
A Review of 'Big Data' Variable Selection Procedures For Use in Predictive Modeling, Sarah Papke (Summer 2017)
“Forming Ranks”: The Impact of Negative-Destructive Leadership in The Aftermath of Military Sexual Assault and Reporting, Jessica Payton (Fall 2017)
Effects of Anxiety Treatment Using Coping Cat on Problem Behaviors in the Classroom, Kristen Elise Pearson (Summer 2017)