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Dissertations from 2011 2011

The Consequences of Violence: Perpetration, Victimization, and their Joint Influence on Well-Being throughout the Life Course, Andrew Wilczak

Religious Media Use And Audience's Knowledge, Attitude, And Behavior: The Roles Of Faith Motivation, Program Appeals, And Dual Information Processing, Kisung Yoon

Hedonic Hunger and Self-Control: The Impact of Palatability, Power of Food and Dietary Restraint on Self-Control Depletion, Kathleen Young

Dissertations from 2010 2010

When Mom has a Serious Mental Illness: The Mother-Young Adult Relationship, Caregiving, and Psychosocial Adjustment, Kristen Abraham

Millennial Students Relationship with 2008 Top 10 Social Media Brands via Social Media Tools, Alisa L. Agozzino

Preparing Doctoral Students in Rhetoric and Composition for Faculty Careers that Contribute to the Public Good, Stephanie M. Anderson Quinn

The Gendered Nature of Student Affairs: Issues of Gender Equity in Student Affairs Professional Associations, Evelyn Ashley

Women's Pilgrimage as Repertoiric Performance: Creating Gender and Spiritual Identity through Ritual, Vanessa Baker

The Vietnam War Dissent of Ernest Gruening and Wayne Morse, 1964-1968, Alvin Beggs

Selling the Splat Pack: The DVD Revolution and the American Horror Film, Mark Bernard

Re-Producing Masculinities on YouTube: A Cyberethnography of the MighTMenFTM Channel, Brett Billman

Pressed between the Pages of My Mind: Tangibility, Performance, and Technology in Archival Popular Music Research, Rebekah Burchfield

On Flips of Unitary Buildings, Benjamin Carr

An Examination of the Relationship Between Personality Type, Self Perception Accuracy and Transformational Leadership Practices of Female Hospital Leaders, Gretchen Carroll

Epideictic Without the Praise: A Heuristic Analysis for Rhetoric of Blame, Elizabeth L. Church

Transitioning to E-Portfolios in a First-Year Writing Program, Brittany Barger Cottrill

Wars Without Risk: U.S. Humanitarian Interventions in the 1990s, R Laurent Cousineau

Predicting Student Success on the Third Grade Reading Achievement Assessment in Ohio, Todd Cramer

The Association between Acceptance and Health for Individuals who are HIV-Positive, Eileen Delaney

Remediating Democracy: Youtube and the Vernacular Rhetorics of Web 2.0, Erin F. Dietel-McLaughlin

Femtosecond Dynamics of Small Polyatomic Molecules in Solution: A Combined Experimental and Computational Approach, Patrick El-Khoury

Carbazole Based Ambipolar Compounds: A Study of Their Intramolecular Charge Transfer Properties, Leandro Estrada

Seeking Your Center: Assessing a Computer-Based Psychoeducational Intervention for Spiritual Struggles in College Freshmen, Carol Faigin

Community-Based Theater and Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities: An Investigation of Individual and Group Development, Social Activism, and Community Integration, David Faigin

Institutions of Integration: The Incorporation of Frontiers in Modern Democracies, 1864-1912, Soren Fanning

Style Matters: Worship Preferences of University Students Regarding the use of Music and Technology, Daniel D. Fultz

Evaluating a Spiritually Integrated Intervention for Depressed College Students, Meryl Gibbel

Staging Orson Welles, Matthew Gretzinger

Hormones and social behavioral development: Influences of corticosterone in the neonate rat, Kelley Harmon

Understanding Explicit and Implicit Anti-fat Attitudes and their Relations to Other Prejudiced Attitudes, Controllability Beliefs and Social Desirability in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults, Jessica Hauser

Anatomy and Evolution of Morton Subotnick’s In Two Worlds for Alto Saxophone and Interactive Computer, Jeffrey Heisler

An Examination of the Impact of the IEP Team Composition and Transition Planning Upon the Success of Students with Disabilities in Urban Districts, Petrina Hill

Examining Factors of Acculturative Stress on International Students as They Affect Utilization of Campus-Based Health and Counseling Services at Four-Year Public Universities in Ohio, Paul Hofmann

Values and Organizational Culture Perceptions: A Study of Relationships and Antecedents to Managerial Moral Judgment, Kristine Hoover

The Adult Learner in the Online Writing Course, Cheryl A. Hoy

Remediating the Professionalization of Doctoral Students in Rhetoric and Composition, Meredith Graupner Hurley

Internet Technology Use and Economic Development: A Case Study of the Rural Population of Ihiala Village in Southeastern Nigeria, Primus Chuks Igboaka

A Mixed Methods Approach to Evaluating Treatment Outcomes for an Eclectic Approach to Intensive Stuttering Therapy, Farzan Irani

A Clean (Dollar) Bill of Health: Understanding Parental Socioeconomic Disparities in Child Health as Functions of Timing, Transitions and Exposure, Antwan Jones

The influence of goal orientation on Karasek's (1979) job demands-control model, Jason Kain

Detection of Influenza A Viruses From Environmental Lake and Pond Ice, Zeynep Kocer

Oxidation of Nucleic Acids: Chemistry of Purine Quinones and Development of Novel Photooxidizing Agents, Dmitry Komarov

Masculinity and Men's Intimate and Fathering Relationships: A Focus on Race and Institutional Participation, Kristy Krivickas

Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer for Long-Lived Charge Separation and Photocatalytic Water Splitting, Pavel Kucheryavy

Stimuli-Responsive Polymers, Erandimala Kulawardana

What is Hawaiian?: Explorations and Understandings of Native Hawaiian College Women's Identities, V. Leilani Kupo

Characteristics and Motivational Factors of Major Donors to Bowling Green State University, Marcia Latta

I've Got a Story to Tell: Critical Race Theory, Whiteness and Narrative Constructions of Racial and Ethnic Census Categories, Candice J. LeFlore-Munoz

Compulsive Text Messaging: Do Youth Need to Kick the Habit?, Kelly Lister

Scripts for Online Dating: A Model and Theory of Online Romantic Relationship Initiation, Bridget L. Long

Institutional Resource Allocation, Student Engagement, and Student Satisfaction at Ontario Universities, Alana Malik

Woman Writes Herself: Exploring Identity Construction in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Pioneer Girl.”, Nicole Mancino

Understanding Succession Planning and Management Efforts at Midwestern University: A Mixed Methods Study, Peter Mateso

Age Differences in Processing Strategies of Emotionally Difficult Trade-off Decisions, Xiaodong Ma

“It’s About Give and Take”: The Importance of Parental Felt Obligation in Adolescence, Christine McAuliffe

Resisting and Reconciling a Virtual Age: Performing Identities and Negotiating Literacies in Shifting Mid-life Workspaces and Immersive Online Environments, Sue Ellen McComas

Effects Of Rhythmic Context on Time Perception in Individuals with Parkinson Disease, Nathaniel Miller

Political Melodies in the Pews?: Is Black Christian Rap the New Voice of Black Liberation Theology?, David Moody

Anxiety and Cognitive Performance: A Test of Predictions Made by Cognitive Interference Theory and Attentional Control Theory, Jebediah Northern

Paranemic and Receptor-Loop RNA Motifs: Versatile Interactions for Biosensing Platforms and Nanotechnology Scaffolds, Irina Novikova

Quasi-Unconditionality: Higher Call to the Virtue of Forgiveness, Fred Olwendo

Heteroleptic osmium(II) polypyridine complexes and carbazole-based chromophores as sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells, Anthony Onicha

An Examination of the Implications of Intrinsic Religiousness and Social Identification with Religion on Intercultural Communication Apprehension and Conflict Communication in the Context of Cultural Adaptation, Deepa Oommen

Development and Implementation of Implicit Association Tests for Perceptions toward Stuttering Speakers and Fluent Speakers, Scott Palasik

John Dewey's Theory of Growth and Amy Allen's Feminist Theory of Power Applied to the Work of Domestic Violence Shelters, Robyn Peabody

Synthesis and Studies of Materials for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, Cesar Perez-Bolivar

A Hermeneutical Ontology of Cyberspace, Cristian Pralea

The Role of Individual Differences in the Job Choice Process, Shuang-Yueh Pui

Proposed Exercises for Memory and Emotion in Acting Pedagogy: A Shared Narrative with Science, Ellen Rooney

Computational Investigation of the Photoisomerization of Novel N-Alkylated Indanylidene Pyrroline Biomimetic Switches, Mikhail Ryazantsev

Influence of HMGB1 on Nucleosome Structure and Estrogen Receptor Binding Affinity to Concensus Estrogen Response Element on Nucleosomal DNA, Yaw Sarpong

The Relation of Response Evaluation and Decision Processes and Latent Mental Structures to Aggressive and Prosocial Response Selection, Kristyn Saveliev

Eric Bentley’s “Double” Lives, Timothy Schaffer

Placing One Program's Assessment and Its Effects on a Novice Teacher, Jeremy Lee Schnieder

Remediating Rhetorical Room at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair: Lucy Stone, Mary Cassatt, and Ida B. Wells, Yvonne R. Schultz

Rewiring Difference and Disability: Narratives of Asperger's Syndrome in the Twenty-First Century, Neil Shepard

Microarray Analysis of Differential Expression of Genes in Shoot Apex and Young Leaf of English Ivy (Hedera helix L. cv. Goldheart), Seung-Geuk Shin

What Are Little (Empowered) Girls Made Of?: The Discourse of Girl Power in Contemporary U.S. Popular Culture, Rosalind Sibielski

The Use Of Storytelling In Nursing Education, Susan Sochacki

Musical Theatre in the Mountains: An Examination of West Virginia Public Theatre's History, Mission, Practices, and Community Impact, David Sollish

Hispanic Youth and Delinquency: A Longitudinal Examination of Generational Status, Family Processes, & Neighborhood Context, Danielle Soto

A Cultural Analysis of Chen Yi's Si Ji (Four Seasons) For Orchestra, Timothy Stulman

Adolescent Union Beliefs and Expectations: A Focus on Participants in Relationship Education Programs, Deanna Trella

Employment Recruiters’ Differentiation of Candidate Characteristics: Does Study Abroad Make a Difference?, Jessica Turos

Mitochondrial Transhydrogenations in Manduca sexta: Relationship between Reversible NADPH → NAD⁺ Transhydrogenase and Ecdysone 20-Monooxygenase in Fifth Instar Larvae, Kurt Vandock

Silencio: The Spectral Voice and 9/11, Lloyd Vayo

Leadership Education Reconsidered: Examining Self-Perceived Leadership Styles and Motivation Sources Among Undergraduate Leaders, David Wagner

The Relationship Between Students’ Performance On The Cognitive Abilities Test (Cogat) And The Fourth And Fifth Grade Reading And Math Achievement Tests In Ohio, Chad Warnimont

“I Laid my Hands on a Gorgeous Cannibal Woman”: Anthropophagy in the Imperial Imagination, 1492 – 1763, Kelly Watson

Competitive interactions between young-of-the-year smallmouth bass (Micropterus Dolomieu) and round goby (Apollonia melanostomus), Christopher Winslow

Dancing in the Tension between the Global and National: Seeing Chinese Television Industry through Phoenix Satellite TV, Shuang Xie

World War II Internment Camp Survivors: The Stories and Life Experiences of Japanese American Women, Precious Vida Yamaguchi

Attitudes Toward Holistic and Mechanical Judgment in Employee Selection: Role of Error Rate and False Positive and False Negative Error, Maya Yankelevich

The Piano Etudes of David Rakowski, I-Chen Yeh

Weaving Web 2.0 and the Writing Process with Feminist Pedagogy, Ruijie Zhao

Ultrafast Photophysics and Photochemistry Of Hexacoordinated Bromides of Pt(IV), Os(IV), and, Ir(IV) in the Condensed Phase Studied by Femtosecond Pump-Probe Spectroscopy, Igor Zheldakov

Dissertations from 2009 2009

Photocurrent Spectroscopy of CdS/Plastic, CdS/Glass, and ZnTe/GaAs Hetero-pairs Formed with Pulsed-laser Deposition, Krishna Acharya

Service Without a Smile?! Exploring the Roles of Customer Injustice, Anger, and Individual Differences in Emotional Deviance, Patricia Barger

Lawfare: Use of the Definition of Aggressive War by the Soviet and Russian Governments, Christi Bartman

Why do I have to switch to DTV? An Analysis of Public Interest in the Digital Television Transition, James A. Baumann