Dissertations
Dissertations from 2009
Playing (with) Space in The Author on the Wheel, Hope Bernard
Minimal Prime Element Space of an Algebraic Frame, Papiya Bhattacharjee
Creating Connections: Economic Development, Land Use, and the System of Cities in Northwest Ohio During the Nineteenth Century, Matthew Bloom
From 'The Wizard of Oz' to 'Wicked': Trajectory of American Myth, Alissa Burger
Desert in Context, Peter Celello
A Qualitative Exploration of the Experiences of College Students in a Skill-Building Course for First-Year Students, Renita Clark
Melvene Draheim Hardee: Music Maker and Dreamer of Dreams, Sally Click
Those Who Just Said “NO!”: Career-Life Decisions of Middle Management Women in Student Affairs Administration, Kathleen Collins
Foods That Matter: Constructing Place and Community at Food Festivals in Northwest Ohio, Nathan Crook
The Relationship Between Parental Notification and Recidivism and Retention of Students Who Violated the University Alcohol Policy, Christie Cruise
Examining the Meaning-Making of Hiv/Aids Media Campaign Messages: A Feminist Ethnography in Ghana, Phyllis Dako-Gyeke
National Job Satisfaction of Enty- and Mid-level Student Affairs Professionals, Denise Davidson
Exploring Mentoring Relationships Between African American High School Males And African American Male Principals, Lamandren Derrick
Understanding the Relationship between Spiritual Struggles and Physical Health: A Physiological Study, Kavita Desai
On The Cyclicity And Synthesis Of Diagonal Operators On The Space Of Functions Analytic On A Disk, Ian Deters
Explaining the Gender Gap in Sentencing Outcomes: An Investigation of Differential Treatment in U.S. Federal Courts, Jill Doerner
Cp(X,ℤ), Kevin Drees
Professional Citizenship and Otherness Leadership Development: Examining the Relationships among Meaning, Moral Reasoning, and Diversity Competencies of Graduate Students, Alexander Edwards
Towards the Horsewoman: Performing Femininity in the American Horse Training and Riding Arenas, Season Ellison
Bottom-Up Design of Synthetic Photoactive Metalloproteins, Jiufeng Fan
Rhetoric and The Scholarship of Engagement: Pragmatic, Professional, and Ethical Convergences, Heather Renae Fester
The Multimodal Kitchen: Cookbooks as Women’s Rhetorical Practice, Elizabeth Jean Fleitz
To Be Or Not To Be…Motivated: A Comparison Of Students' Goal Orientation Within Direct Instruction And Constructivist Schools, Courtney Galliger
A Ten-Year Study of the Conditional Effects on Student Success in the First Year of College, Brady Gaskins
Spectroscopic Investigation of the Excited State Properties of Platinum(Ii) Charge Transfer Chromophores, Elena Glik
An Examination of Involvement Behaviors and Minority Student Retention at Academic Medical Institutions, Shanda Gore
The Art of Heterotopian Rhetoric: A Theory of Science Fiction as Rhetorical Discourse, Robert Christopher Graves
The Professional Preparation of Academic Deans, Margo Greicar
Modification of Weight Bias: Examining the Effects of Social Influence on the Expession of Anti-Fat Attitudes, Jessica Harper
An Examination of Evaluation Plan Quality in Human Service Nonprofit Organizations, Sarah Harrison
Factors that Predict Quality Classroom Technology Use, Tricia Hastings
Analyzing Life History Characteristics of Lake Erie Fishes: Migration and Philopatry, Todd Hayden
Use and Influence of Amateur Musician Narratives In Film, 1981-2001, Colin Helb
Bioluminescence Imaging of Transgene Expression at the Wholemouse Level and in the Mesencephalic Trigeminal Nucleus, Daniel Hiler
The Relationship between Students' Reading Performance on Diagnostic Assessments and the Third Grade Reading Achievement Test in Ohio, Jamie Hollinger
“I’m Not as Bad as I Seem to Be”: Understanding the Identities of Female Ex-Offenders, Nikki D. Howard
Influence of Hmgb1 on Estrogen Responsive Gene Expression and Nucleosome Structure, Sachindra Joshi
Goal Location Memory in Pigeons: Roles of the Hippocampal Formation and Visual Wulst, Meghan Kahn
Patterns of Access and Use of Online Health Information among Internet Users: A Case Study, Rucha S. Kavathe
New Professionals' Perspectives of Supervision in Student Affairs, Jeffrey Kegolis
Academic Honesty: Is What Students Believe Different From What They Do?, Kim Kirkland
From Colonial Elitism to Moi’s Populism: The Policies and Politics of University Education in Kenya, 1949-2002, Michael Kithinji
A longitudinal analysis of the role of religious appraisals and religious coping in adults' adjustment to divorce, Elizabeth Krumrei
From Girlfriend to Gamer: Negotiating Place in the Hardcore/Casual Divide of Online Video Game Communities, Erica Kubik
Risky Living: A Comparison of Criminal Risk-Taking and Risk Perception in Adolescent and Young Adult Non Offenders and Offenders, Kimberly Laurene
Why Do Mommy and Daddy Love You More? An Investigation of Parental Favoritism from an Evolutionary Perspective, Anthony Lauricella
The Relationship between Classroom Climate Variables and Student Achievement, Suzanna Leone
Interspecies aggression and social dominance in crayfish, Xin Luan
Space Oddities for the Age of Space Tourism, Michael Lupro
Casual Sex in Adolescence and Young Adulthood: A Mixed Methods Approach, Heidi Lyons
Theory of Mind, Social Information Processing, and Children's Social Behavior, Sarah Martin
Role of Meaning Making in the Association between Multiple Interpersonal Traumas and Post-Traumatic Adaptation, Sarah McElroy
A Phenomenological Study of the Experience of Respondents in Campus-Based Restorative Justice Programs, Peter Meagher
An Examination of Individual Differences in Communication-Related Social Cognitive Structures in Association with Selling Effectiveness, Michael J. Meredith
A Perfectionist Defense of Free Speech, Jonathan Miles
Platinum(II) Terpyridyls: Excited State Engineering and Solid-State Vapochromic/Vapoluminescent Materials, Maria Muro
The Roles of Mentoring and Family Support in the Development of Asian Pacific American Female Leaders, Glenellyn Naber-Fisher
Physical and Psychological Correlates of the Drive for Muscularity: Gender and Grade Differences, Jennie Neufeld
Being Interim: Leading in a Transitional Appointment, Gina Ondercin
Father Involvement and Relationship Quality among Cohabiting Parents, Lauren Rinelli
Reel Gender: Examining the Politics of Trans Images in Film and Media, Joelle Ryan
A Multitrait-Multimethod Approach to Isolating Situational Judgment from Situational Judgment Tests, Nicholas Salter
Culture, Crisis, and Community: Christianity in North American Drama at the Turn of the Millennium, John Sebestyen
Structural Disadvantage, Heterosexual Relationships and Crime: Life Course Consequences of Environmental Uncertainty, Patrick Seffrin
Estimation of Qvf Measurement Error Models Using Empirical Likelihood Method, Naima Shifa
Relationship Between Music Educators' Ethical Awareness and Students' Sense of Belonging and Academic Achievement, Joan Simonis
Regulation of the Menkes Protein in neuroendocrine Cells in Response to Copper, Prashant Singh
A Tradition Her Own: Womanist Rhetoric and the Womanist Sermon, Toniesha Latrice Taylor
“Three-Skill” of Effective Administrators and Their Comfort Level in the Conduct of the Performance Evaluations of School Psychologists, Clarence Thomas
Investigation of the Relationships among Socially Interactive Technologies, Communication Competence, Social Cognition, and Formal Written Discourse, Jacob Stephen Turner
Analysis and Characterization of Microbes from Ancient Glacial Ice, Ram Veerapaneni
Autonomy and the Utilitarian State, Steven Weimer
The Effect of Faculty-Student Interactions on Student Engagement at Community Colleges, Angie Williams-Chehmani
Miss Homegrown: The Performance of Food, Festival, and Femininity in Local Queen Pageants, Heather Williams
Preparation of Graduate Assistants Teaching First-Year Writing at Ohio Universities, Amie Caroline Wolf
Zebra Mussel (Dreissena Polymorpha) Promotion of Cyanobacteria in Low-Nutrient Lakes and the Subsequent Production and Fate of Microcystin, M. Megan Woller-Skar
De Novo Design of Metalloproteins with Variant Hydrophobic Cores, Fei Xie
Role of Calling in Emotional Labor, Jennifer Yugo
Characterization of the Metal Binding Properties of De Novo Designed Coiled Coil Metalloproteins, Xianchun Zhu
Dissertations from 2008
A Psychological Measure of Islamic Religiousness: Evidence for Relevance, Reliability and Validity, Hisham Abu Raiya
Carbazole-Based Emitting Compounds: Synthesis, Photophysical Properties and Formation of Nanoparticles, Ravi Adhikari
The Girls of MySpace: New Media as Gendered Literacy Practice and Identity Construction, Jennifer Marie Almjeld
Stabilized Metal Nanoparticle-Polymer Composites: Preparation, Characterization and Potential Applications, Kelechi Anyaogu
Characteristics and Career Path Barriers of Women Superintendents in Ohio, Melissa Askren Edgehouse
Finite Elements and Practical Error Analysis of Huxley and EFK Equations, Champike Attanayake
From Cyberspace to Print: Re-examining the Effects of Collaborative Online Invention on First-year Academic Writing, Florence Elizabeth Bacabac
Motivated Stereotyping of Women: Sources of Justification for Derogating Female Therapists, Amy Barnhart Miller
Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn: The Lived Experience of International Teaching Assistants at a Midwestern University, V. Lynne Bates Holland
Competing Identities: Representations of the Black Female Sporting Body from 1960 to the Present, Ramona Bell