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Dissertations from 2012 2012

Intense Adolescent Work and Deviance: Theoretical Mechanisms and Long-Term Outcomes, Gregory Rocheleau

Voices Unheard: Using Intersectionality to Understand Identity Among Sexually Marginalized Undergraduate Students of Color, Elizabeth Russell

A Multiscale Spatial Analysis of Oak Openings Plant Diversity with Implications for Conservation and Management, Timothy Schetter

Multidisciplinary Approach to Bat Conservation in the Oak Openings Region of Northwest Ohio, Jessica Sewald

The Effect of Marriage and Employment on Criminal Desistance: The Influence of Race, Nicole Shoenberger

Development and Validation of a Measure of Workplace Climate for Healthy Weight Maintenance, Katherine Sliter

But We're Here to Help! Positive Buffers of the Relationship between Victim Incivility and Employee Outcomes in Firefighters, Michael Sliter

Use of Rasch Rating Scale Modeling to Develop and Validate a Measure of District-Level Characteristics and Practices Identified to Improve Instruction and Increase Student Achievement, Paul Soska

A Study of the Relationship Between Traditional Peking Opera and Contemporary Western Percussion Music in Mu Kuei-Yin in Percussion by Chien-Hui Hung, Isabelle Streng

Manufacturing Identity: Peasant Workers' Spatial Production in China, Kang Sun

Exploring a Relationship between Worker' Perceptions of Leaders and Workers' Self-Efficacy in Social Services, Michele Toth

To Be or Not To Be a Protrusion: Unraveling the Determinants of Protrusion Formation, Mita Varghese

The Media is the Weapon: The Enduring Power of Balkan War (Mis)Coverage, Christian Vukasovich

A Neighborhood-Centered Approach to Developmental Contexts: An Application to Three Risk Behaviors in Adolescence and Young Adulthood, Tara Warner

Memory and Meaning: Constructed Commemoration in a Nation's Capital City, Eric Weeks

Digitizing Third World Bodies: Communicating Race, Identity, and Gender through Online Microfinance/A Visual Analysis, Franklin Nii Amankwah Yartey

Teen Dating Violence Victimization in a Life-Course Perspective: Linkages to Delinquency and Adult Criminal Behavior, Lecinda Yevchak

The Rhetorical Uses of Multiculturalism: An Ideographic Analysis of the European Union and Macedonian Discourses in the Dialogue for EU Accession, Linda Ziberi

Dissertations from 2011 2011

Base Triples in RNA 3D Structures: Identifying, Clustering and Classifying, Amal Abu Almakarem

Voicing the Voiceless: Feminism and Contemporary Arab Muslim Women's Autobiographies, Taghreed Abu Sarhan

Social Work Field Instructors’ Perceptions of Core Attributes: Implications for Leadership and Gatekeeping, Margaret Adams

Silence as a Rhetor's Tool: Rhetorical Choices for and uses of Silence, Suzan E. Aiken

Abusive Supervision as a Predictor of Deviance and Health Outcomes: The Exacerbating Role of Narcissism and Social Support, Katherine Alexander

YouTubing Difference: Performing Identity in Online Do-It-Yourself Communities, Samara Anarbaeva

Sugar, Salt, and Fat: Michelle Obama's Rhetoric Concerning the Let's Move! Initiative, Binary Opposition, Weight Obsession, and the Obesity Paradox, Jenny A. Armentrout

Adolescents' Perceptions of Rejection Status and Potentially Rejecting Situations, Tracie Baker

First-Generation College Students Transitioning to Graduate Teachers of Writing: A Proposed First-Generation Pedagogy, Emily Jordan Beard

The Experiences of Latina Students at a Predominantly White University, Mary Begley

Using the Health Belief Model to Predict Injecting Drug Users' Use of Harm Reduction, Erin Bonar

Isolated Incidents or Deliberate Policy? Media Framing of U.S. Abu Ghraib and British Detainee Abuse Scandals During the Iraq War, Ramune Braziunaite

Examining Empathy, Cognitive Distortions, and Social and Physical Aggression in Delinquent and Non-Delinquent Adolescents, Angela Capuano

Applications of Differential Functioning Methods to the Generalized Graded Unfolding Model, Nathan Carter

“A Correct and Progressive Road”: U.S.-Turkish Relations, 1945-1964, Michael Carver

A Comparison of Academic Administrators and Enrollment Managers' Perceptions of Undergraduate Enrollment Management Functions at a Subset of Four-Year Public Institutions, Lisa Cesarini

Behavioral Genetic Characterization of Hunting in Domestic Dogs, Canis Familiaris, Budhaditya Chowdhury

Postmarital Union Formation and Childbearing, Jessica Cohen

Digital Media Ethics in the Writing Classroom, Toby F. Coley

Rethinking Artaud's Theoretical and Practical Works, Rob Connick

Honoring Their Services: Why Blacks in the United States Should Be Paid Reparations, Carolyn Council

Latino/as in Higher Education: Modes of Accommodation in First-Year Writing Programs, Vanessa Michelle Cozza

Development and fundraising practices in divisions of student affairs at 4-year, public universities, Peggy Crowe

The Virtual Hand: Exploring the Societal Effects of Video Game Industry Business Models, Mark Cruea

“Well, It Is Because He’s Black”: A Critical Analysis of the Black President in Film and Television, Phillip Cunningham

Cosmopolitan Ethics and the Limits of Tolerance: Representing the Holocaust in Young Adult Literature, Rachel Dean-Ruzicka

Stable Hetero-Acene Analogs of Heptacene: The Synthesis and Study of their Conductive Properties in Organic Transistors And The Photo-induced Formation of Quantum Dot – Conductive Polymers (QD:CP) for Application in Photovoltaics, Puran De

How Do General Evaluations of Corporations Develop? Test of an Impression Formation Model, Dalia Diab

Regulation of Ecdysone 20-Monooxygenase Activity in the Tobacco Hornworm, Manduca sexta and the Apparent Occurrence of this Activity in Ascaris suum (Nematoda), Christopher Drummond

Synthesis of High Triplet Hosts for Phosphorescent Organic Light Emitting Diodes, Selin Ergun

Composing Rhetoric and Composition Program Websites: A Situated Study and a Heuristic Model, Joey Jason Erickson

Hackers, Cyborgs, and Wikipedians: The Political Economy and Cultural History of Wikipedia, Andrew Famiglietti

A Longitudinal Analysis of Outcomes Associated with Ohio's Postsecondary Enrollment Options Program, Mary Geise

Worry, Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia, and Health Behaviors, Paul Goetz

Jamaican Immigrant Union Formation Patterns: A Test of Assimilation Theories, Natalee Gooden

Freeborn Men of Color: The Franck Brothers in Revolutionary North America, 1755-1820, Shirley Green

Living in the Community with Serious Mental Illness: Community Integration Experiences of Clubhouse Members, Shinakee Gumber

“You’ve Seen the Movie, Now Play the Game”: Recoding the Cinematic in Digital Media and Virtual Culture, Stefan Hall

A Test of an Auditory Motion Hypothesis for Continuous and Discrete Sounds Moving in Pitch Space, Molly Henry

Examples of Diagonal Operators That Fail Spectral Synthesis on Spaces of Analytic Functions, Melanie Henthorn

Using Spiritual Resources to Prevent Declines in Sexuality among First-Time Parents, Krystal Hernandez

Negotiating Gendered Expectations: The Basic Social Processes of Women in the Military, Manda Hicks

Constructing the End: Framing and Agenda-setting of Physician-assisted Suicide, Kyle Holody

The Perceptions of Adolescents Who Stutter Regarding Communication with their Parents, Charles Hughes

The Wild Things, Joanne Joys

Marriage in Japan: attitudes, intentions, and perceived barriers, Sayaka Kawamura

Part I: Synthesis and Study of Nonacene Derivatives; Part II: Optoelectronic Properties of Metal-Semiconductor Nanocomposites in Strongly Coupled Regime, Dmitriy Khon

Engineering of Semiconductor Nanocomposites for Harvesting and Routing of Optical Energy, Maria Kirsanova

Answering the Call of Duty: Composition Pedagogy Problems, Multimodal Solutions, and Gaming Literacies, Bobby James Kuechenmeister

Using Molecular Probes to Detect Cyanobacterial Communities and Phosphorus Utilization in the Great Lakes, Olga Kutovaya

Tracing the Path of Power through the Fluidity of Freedom: The Art of Parkour in Challenging the Relationship of Architecture and the Body and Rethinking the Discursive Limits of the City, Matthew D. Lamb

Does the Number of College Credits Earned in a Tech Prep and Postsecondary Enrollment Options Program Predict College Success?, Bruce Meyer

Unmasking Talchum: An Embodied Inquiry into Korea's Masked Dance-Drama, J.L. Murdoch

Photoaffinity Labeling Strategies Using Purine Nucleic Acid Bases, Denis Nilov

Self-Objectification among Overweight and Obese Women: An Application of Structural Equation Modeling, Marissa Oehlhof

A Place Apart: The Role of Nostalgia in a Detached Community, Martin Otto Zimmann

Applications of Entire Function Theory to the Spectral Synthesis of Diagonal Operators, Kate Overmoyer

The Relationship Between Principals’ Confidence, Humility, and Effectiveness: A Study of Teacher Perceptions, Brenda Oyer

Early Events in Photochemistry of Aryl Azides Used as Photoaffinity Labeling Agents, Maxim Panov

New Carbazole-, Indole-, and Diphenylamine-Based Emissive Compounds: Synthesis, Photophysical Properties, and Formation of Nanoparticles, Krishna Panthi

Institutional Politics and the U.S. Government’s “Philippine Problem”, Steven Pedler

(Dis)Articulating the Frontier Body: Artifacts, Appendages, and Spectres in the Discourse of the American West, Charlotte Quinney

Consuming Liberation: Playgirl and the Strategic Rhetoric of Sex Magazines for Women 1972-1985, Chadwick Roberts

Collaborative Relationships Between Faculty and Student Affairs Professionals: A Case Study, Michelle Rodems

Revelations from the Dead: Using Funeral Home Records to Help Reconstruct the History of Black Toledo, Camillia Rodgers

The Evolutionary History, Demographic Independence and Conservation Status of Two North American Prairie Bird Species: The Greater Prairie Chicken and the Lark Sparrow, Jeremy Ross

As Seen on TV: Brand Placement and Its Influence on the Identity of Emerging Adults, Brittany Rowe-Cernevicius

Addressing the Effects of Poverty on Early Language Development: A Feasibility Study for a Novel Parent Language Stimulation Program, Emily Rusnak

Resident Advisor Selection: Is a Broad Measure of Personality a Good Predictor of Resident Advisor Performance?, Andrew Sadouskas

Coworker Incivility and Incivility Targets’ Work Effort and Counterproductive Work Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Supervisor Social Support, Kenji Sakurai

Neo-Aristotelian Flourishing and Tragic Dilemmas, Sangeeta Sangha

Examination of the Impact of Prior Teaching Experience on the Self-Efficacy of School Counselors in the State of Ohio, Michael Scoles

Optimally Clean Rings, Daniel Shifflet

Flavins and Their Analogues as Natural and Artificial Catalysts, Vincent Sichula

A Study of Motherhood and Perceived Career Satisfaction of Women in Student Affairs, Kacee Snyder

Fast ForWord: An Investigation of the Effectiveness of Computer-assisted Reading Intervention, Penny Soboleski

Coping with Stuttering, Eric Swartz

Communicating Support: Where and how Army Spouses Seek Community, Brigit Talkington

Carbazole-Based, Self-Assembled, Π-Conjugated Systems As Fluorescent Micro And Nanomaterials - Synthesis, Photophysical Properties, Emission Enhancement And Chemical Sensing, Karasinghe Upamali

Characterization of Polyamine Transporters from Rice and Arabidopsis, Gopala Vaishali Mulangi

Children's Coping with Chronic Kidney Disease and Concurrent Adjustment, KristiLynn Volkenant

Photoaffinity Labeling Via Nitrenium Ion Chemistry: The Photochemistry of 4-aminophenylazides, Valentyna Voskresenska