Theses/Dissertations from 2016
A Genetic Programming Approach to Solving Optimization Problems on Agent-Based Models, Anthony Garuccio (Spring 2016)
Leaps of faith: Trainees' experiences of not knowing in psychotherapy, Rachel Francine Gottlieb (Fall 2016)
Justifying War in Ukraine: An Analysis of Speeches, Excerpts and Interviews by Vladimir Putin, Irene Goudimiak (Spring 2016)
Common Techniques in Graceful Tree Labeling with a New Computational Approach, Michael Guyer (Spring 2016)
Early Greek Philosophy and the Discovery of Nature, Justin Habash (Fall 2016)
The Natural Embroidery of Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko, Sarah Rose Hancock (Spring 2016)
Characterization of Streptomyces coelicolor ParH in development-associated chromosome segregation, Metis Hasipek (Spring 2016)
The Return of Participatory Scriptural Hermeneutics in Evangelicalism: An Augustinian Philosophy of Communication, Joshua David Hill (Fall 2016)
Social Functioning Characteristics of a Young Adult with a History of Childhood Apraxia of Speech, Nicole Anne Hill (Summer 2016)
22: A Series Of Original Programmatic Compositions, Jason T. Hoffmann (Spring 2016)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Marshall McLuhan and Communication Ethics: The Taming of Americanitis, Julie A. Cramer Hunsberger (Fall 2016)
The Ethical Analysis of the Connection between Hope and Fertility Preservation, Leah Jeunette (Fall 2016)
Microflora of the equine gut and its ramifications on the development of laminitis; A comparison of fecal and cecal diversity and Illumina and Roche 454 sequencers, Matthew John Jevit (Summer 2016)
Inequity within Chinese Higher Education with the Focus on Henan Province, Zhe Ji (Spring 2016)
Making Sense of Sensory Processing: A Pilot Program for Parents and Teachers Educating the Use of Sensory Intervention in Pediatric Occupational Therapy, Kelsey Kinnare (Fall 2016)
Sexual Desire(s) and the Desire for Intimacy: An Autoethnographic Exploration, Nikolaos D. Kiskiras (Summer 2016)
Mary Parker Follett: Toward Organizational Communication Ethics in a Flattening and Fearful World, Stephen Kriss (Spring 2016)
Group External Memory Aid Treatment for Mild Cognitive Impairment, Alyssa Lanzi (Summer 2016)
A Randomized Controlled Trial Assessing the Impact of an Innovative Approach to Educating New to Practice Nurses, Evelyn Lengetti (Fall 2016)
Every Parent's Worst Nightmare: Surveillance of Criteria-based, Rampage School Shooters, 1995-2015, Paul Lomax (Fall 2016)
Development of Reading Comprehension Skills Among Students With Intellectual Disabilities Using Technologically-Based Reading Programs, Ella Macklin (Fall 2016)
Exploring Variables of Post-Operative Depression, Mary Malitas (Fall 2016)
Lifting the veil of invisiblity: an interpretative phenomenological study of student perception as related to resiliency, Jennifer Mann (Spring 2016)
Analysis of the Water Quality of the Kiskiminetas River System and Its Impacts on the Allegheny River, Pennsylvania, Emily Catherine Mashuda (Summer 2016)
An Investigation of How Accountability Systems Influence the Design and Development of Student Centered Learning Environments, Peter James Mathis (Spring 2016)
Parent and Teacher Perceptions of Employment Readiness of Students with Intellectual Disabilities, Lindsay Ann McGuirk (Fall 2016)
An Imaginative Theory of Doctrinal Development: An Attempt to Open Western Traditions to Contextual Faith, Caesar Montevecchio (Fall 2016)
Attitudes of Pre-service Teachers Toward Computational Thinking in Education, Bekir Mugayitoglu (Fall 2016)
Registered Nurses’ Perceptions of Organizational Power and Its Relationship to Perception of Physician-Perpetrated Verbal Abuse, Stress, and Coping, Michael Neiswonger (Fall 2016)
A Decade (2005-2015) of Unconventional Shale Gas Development in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and its Environmental Impact, Colleen Nolan (Fall 2016)
Impact of N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine on the Pathology of Experimental Parkinson’s Disease in Vivo, Negin Nouraei (Fall 2016)
Beyond skill: The role of mindset and grit in reducing counselor burnout, Bethany Novotny (Summer 2016)
"A Multitude of Little Luminosities": Dissociative Multiplicity as an Image of and Invitation to Psyche, through a Case of Dissociative Identity Disorder, Camille O'Connor (Fall 2016)
Rebuilding the Catholic Brand in America: An Isocratean Perspective, Dominic Mamimilian Ofori (Spring 2016)
Interpersonal APProach to Dementia: An iPad-Based Program for Caregiver Education and Decreasing Problem Behaviors in Older Adults with Cognitive Impairments, Anna Olexsovich (Fall 2016)
Utilization of Fluorescent Chemosensors to Quantify Pb2+ in Aqueous Media, Aria Parangi (Fall 2016)
The Importance of Differentiating Between Traits of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Callous and Unemotional Traits, Kristen Parys (Summer 2016)
IMC: Its Rhetorical and Philosophical Foundation and Impact, Allison Raemore Peiritsch ( 2016)
Adopting the UNESCO Ethics Model to Critique Disease Mongering, Barbara Postol (Spring 2016)
Transforming Traditional Practices Of Teacher Preparation To Meet Changing Needs Of Digital Learners: A First Step Intervention By Assessing And Addressing Needs Of Pre-Service Teachers In A Dual Learning Environment, Susan Poyo (Spring 2016)
Student Engagement and Its Relationship to Mobile Device Ownership and the Role of Technology in Student Learning, Robin R. Pynos (Summer 2016)
Vico's Narrative Art: From the Forests to the Academies, Ariana Ragusa (Fall 2016)
Happily Ever After? Ambiguous Closure in Modernist Children's Literature, Marcie Panutsos Rovan (Spring 2016)
An Investigation of the Impact of the Formative Learning Cycle on Student Self-Regulation to Confidently Produce Quality Homework, Jessica Sapsara (Spring 2016)
A Study on Conscience: The Content and Function, Nalan Sarac (Summer 2016)
Schools as Systems of Care Supporting Mental Wellness in Schools: Teacher Perceptions and Roles, Tracy Lynn Scanlon Limegrover (Fall 2016)
The Hometown Band Director: An Autoethnographic Study on the Needs of Rural High School Instrumental Music Educators, Jonathan George Schaller (Summer 2016)
The relationship between healthcare services and financial burden among families of children with autism spectrum disorders: A US perspective, Darshini Dhanraj Shah (Fall 2016)
PEP Talks: Partnerships for Educational Planning Talks, Audra Sitterly (Fall 2016)
Unlikely Partners: Collaboration Between Colonizationists and Radical Abolitionists in Washington County, Pennsylvania, during the 1830s, Joseph Andrew Smydo (Spring 2016)
Instructional School Gardens: Opportunities for and Barriers to Scaling, Patricia Sprague (Summer 2016)
Memory, Phantasia, and the Perception of Time: A Commentary on Aristotle’s De Memoria Et Reminiscentia, Evan Strevell (Fall 2016)
Novel TRAF6-Protein Interactions and the Molecular Mechanisms by Which They Regulate TRAF6 Dependent Signaling, An-Jey Andrew Su (Summer 2016)
The Megaphone of the Soul: Resistance of Fraudulent Technological Idolization by Recognizing the Power of Human Choice in Media Ecology, Richard L. Talbert (Spring 2016)
Techno-Racism: Heidegger's Philosophy of Technology and Critical Philosophies of Race, James Michael Taylor (Fall 2016)
Variation in the amphibian hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis: Patterns, mechanisms, and implications, Jessica Thomas (Summer 2016)
Protein-Protein Interactions of Human Mitochondrial Amidoxime-Reducing Component in Mammalian Cells, John Thomas (Fall 2016)
Surface and Ground Water Quality Within the Cross Creek Watershed, May 2015-2016, Tyler Umstead (Summer 2016)
Towards Structural Determination of Human α1-Glycine Receptor Allostery, Rathna Jyothi Veeramachaneni (Spring 2016)
Towards Structural Determination of Human α1-Glycine Receptor Allostery, Rathna Jyothi Veeramachaneni (Spring 2016)
Disabling Psychology: A Crip Analysis of Deaf and Blind Psychotherapists in Practice, Kathryn Irene Wagner (Summer 2016)
A Qualitative Analysis of the Native Advertising Model with Reference to the Conventions of Journalism, Aaron Warnick (Spring 2016)
Differences in Peer Bullying Victimization by Race and Gender: The Impact of Proficiency, Enjoyment, and Confidence in Math and Science, Daniel S. Wells (Summer 2016)
The Lived Experience of Black Nurse Faculty in Predominately White Schools of Nursing, Lisa Whitfield-Harris (Summer 2016)
My Social Toolbox: Building a Foundation for Increased Social Participation Among Children With Disabilities, Brooke Willis (Fall 2016)
Multifaceted Traumatization: Direct and Vicarious Exposure of EMS Personnel Who Responded To a Suicide Where Loved Ones of the Deceased Were Present, Mallory Rae Wines (Spring 2016)
A Dynamic System: Restraints, Violence, Compassion Satisfaction, and Supervision, Thomas Michael Workman (Summer 2016)
Developing Your Community Toolbox: An Online, Face-to-Face, and Hands on Training Program, Erin Wynne (Fall 2016)
Social Dimensions of Alzheimer’s Disease Among Caregivers in Oaxaca, Mexico, Jonathan Yahalom (Summer 2016)
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Development of a Modified Calcium-Based Composite Ceramic Bone Graft Material, Gavin Buckholtz (Summer 2015)
Ground Reaction Forces Are Predicted With Functional and Clinical Tests in a Healthy Collegiate Population, Paul Cacolice (Summer 2015)
Characterization and Regulation of Steroid Sulfatase in the Human MG-63 Pre-osteoblastic Cell Line, Natasha Dias (Summer 2015)
Low Health Literacy Interventions and Resources Used At Community Health Centers Using Decision Support from the Care Model, Cynthia Schaefer (Summer 2015)
Crystal Structure, Electronic Structure, and Physicochemical Characterization of I2-II-IV-VI4 and I4-II-IV2-VI7 Diamond-Like Semiconductors Prepared by High-Temperature Solid-State Synthesis, Charles Sinagra (Summer 2015)
Bringing Frames into Focus: Reading Middle English Literature, Jeffery Stoyanoff (Summer 2015)
Development of a Kinetic Model to Investigate the Effect of Compositional Variation and a Processing Condition on the Solid-State Degradation of Gabapentin, Akshata Nevrekar (Spring 2015)
Role of Mechanical Stress, Excipients and Coprocessing On Tablet Mechanical Properties, Rahul Roopwani (Spring 2015)
Macrophage COX-2 As a Target For Imaging And Therapy of Inflammatory Diseases Using Theranostic Nanoemulsions, Sravan Kumar Patel (Spring 2015)
Efficiently Learning Monotone Decision Trees with ID3, Pamela Thompson (Spring 2015)
An Enhanced Model for Parental Decision Making for Pediatric Care, Jillian Walsh (Spring 2015)
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Pilin Glycosylation: The Role of the Pilin Glycan in Pilus Solubility, Function, and Assembly Blank, Tara Allison (Spring 2015)
Comparison of a Video Game Based Learning Environment and a Traditional Learning Environment, Jessica Barron ( 2015)
A Comparative Analysis of Two Low-Acuity Flow Processes in the Emergency Department, Aaron Bellow (Spring 2015)
Covenant Consent: A Revised Consent Model For Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation, James Benedict (Spring 2015)
Poverty and the Challenge of Quality Primary and Secondary School Education Access in Mara-Tanzania, Agnes Bhoke-Africanus (Fall 2015)
Promoting an Equitable Eating-Out Food Environment through the Application of a Food Justice Frame: A Case Study, AJ Bisesi (Fall 2015)
Novel Solid-Phase Extraction Techniques for Biological and Environmental Analysis Using Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry, Andrew Boggess (Spring 2015)
Going Viral: A Critical, Post-Structural Exploration of Feminist Culture Jamming As Cultural Therapeutic, Leah Boisen (Fall 2015)
Secretion of Malaria Transmission-Blocking Proteins from Paratransgenic Bacteria, Nicholas Bongio (Spring 2015)
Synthesis, Structure Elucidation and Physicochemical Characterization of Li2-Ii-Iv-S4 Diamond-Like Semiconductors: Study of Nonlinear Optical Properties, Magnetism, and Lithium Ion Conductivity, Jacilynn Brant (Spring 2015)
Influences of Preschool on Social-Emotional Development for Children with Disruptive Behavior Disorders, Sierra Brown ( 2015)
Examining the Use of Mindfulness Meditation to Enhance Attention Regulation Efficiency in Nursing Students, Kathleen Burger (Spring 2015)
My Blood of the (New) Covenant: An Assessment of René Girard's Soteriology in Light of the Covenantal Milieu of the Last Supper Sayings, Benjamin Burkholder (Spring 2015)
From Their Own Voices: The Lived Experiences of African Americans Exposed to Jim Crow, Janelle R. Carter (Fall 2015)
Genomes of Three Arsenic Metabolizing Bacteria, Xue Chen ( 2015)
Computational Characterization of Carboxyphosphate, Traci M. Clymer (Fall 2015)
Health Literacy, Health Disparities and Sources of Health Information in US Older Adults, Carolyn Cutilli (Spring 2015)
Understanding the Solid State, Solubility and Dissolution Behavior of Cefuroxime Axetil Diastereomers in Interactive Mixture Formulations, Namita Dalal (Fall 2015)
LGB Sexual Orientation and Perceived Parental Acceptance, Sarah Dalton ( 2015)
Using Co-Curricular Programs to Build College Student Self-Efficacy: A Pathway to Second-Year Student Persistence, Benjamin R. Davis ( 2015)