Dissertations
Dissertations from 2008
The First Amendment and Academic Freedom: Faculty as Employees and Citizens, Louis Benedict
The influence of representational processes on the numerical distance effect, Neil Berg
Victim offender communication in felony cases: An archival analysis of Ohio's Office of Victim Services dialogue program, Ian M. Borton
Comparing the Dominance Approach to the Ideal-Point Approach in the Measurement and Predictability of Personality, Alison Broadfoot
Mining the Past: Performing Authenticity in the Country Music Biopic, Molly Brost
Me and My Shadow: An Exploration of Doppelganger as Found in the Music and Text of Susan Glaspell's The Verge, Terri Brown
Jesus in the Movies: A Rhetorical Analysis of Selected Films from 1912-2004, Aaron V. Burton
Cultural Values and Expectations of Female Leadership Styles in Non-Profit Organizations: A Study of Rotary Clubs in Taiwan and the United States, Chin-Chung Chao
Estimating Performance Mean and Variability With Distributional Rating Scales: A Field Study Towards Improved Performance Measurement, Mahyulee Colatat
Audience Matters: Exploring Audience in Undergraduate Creative Writing, Christine Peters Cucciarre
Dragging Identity: A Critical Ethnography of Nightclub Space (s), Andrea M. Davis
Job Demands, Control, and Support: Looking at Engagement, Gabriel De La Rosa
Isolation of Bacteria and Fungi from Lake Vostok Accretion Ice, Tom D'Elia
Billy Graham, Elmer Gantry, and the Performance of a New American Revivalism, Kurt Edwards
Liberal Cosmopolitanism and Economic Justice, Katherine Erbeznik
Social dominance: a behavioral mechanism for resource allocation in crayfish, Kandice Fero
A Practical Distinction in Value Theory: Qualitative and Quantitative Accounts, Galen Foresman
Not Your Typical “Pretty Woman”: Factors Associated with Prostitution, Wendi Goodlin
How Much Diversity is Diversity?, Ashley Guidroz
Structure and Exciton Coupling in Jet-Cooled Bichromophores, Abdulhamid Hamza
Characterization of a Small Ribozyme with Self-Splicing Activity, Lorena Harris
Behind the Smile: Negotiating and Transforming the Tourism-Imposed Identity of Bahamian Women, Dellareese Higgs
Exploring Attitudes toward People Who Stutter: A Mixed Model Approach, Stephanie Hughes
Phosphonates Utilization in Marine and Freshwater Picocyanobacteria, Irina Ilikchyan
Performing Blackness at the Heart of Whiteness: The Life and Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Christopher Johnston
Lady Liberty: Intertextual Performances of Gender and Nation, Parisa Joyce
Tragic Dilemmas, Virtue Ethics and Moral Luck, Leanne Kent
Smart Polymer Materials, Thilini Kuruwita-Mudiyanselage
Feminist and other Intertwining Pedagogies of Writing Instruction in The University of Findlay's Intensive English Language Program, Erin Knoche Laverick
Female Fabrications: An Examination of the Public and Private Aspects of Nüshu, Ann-Gee Lee
The Re-Construction of the Taiwanese Identity in the Process of Decolonization: The Taiwanese Political Songs Analyses, Pei-Ling Lee
A Quantitative and Qualitative Inquiry into the Call to Serve Among Non-Traditional Undergraduate Social Work Students, Joyce Litten
Going With Your Gut: An Investigation of Why Managers Prefer Intuitive Employee Selection, Michael Lodato
Sacred Sport: A Study of Student Athletes' Sanctification of Sport, Quinten Lynn
A Study of the Career Paths and Leadership of Male Principals in the Elementary Schools of Onio, Martin Miller
Rape and Infanticide in Maryland, 1634-1689: Gender and Class in the Courtroom Contestation of Patriarchy on the Edge of the English Atlantic, Amanda Miracle
University Diversity Training Needs Assessment: The Perspectives of African, Latina/o, Asian, Pacific Islander, and Native American Students, Emily A. Monago
The Role of User Motivations in Moderating the Relation Between Video Game Playing and Children's Adjustment, Valerie Moyer
A Test of Elaborated Intrusion Theory: Manipulating Vividness of Imagery Interventions on Cigarette Craving, Shanna Murray
The Relationship Between Geometric Shape and Slope for the Representation of a Goal Location in Pigeons (Columba livia), Daniele Nardi
Richard Nixon and Europe: Confrontation and Cooperation, 1969-1974, Luke Nichter
Does Working Hurt? How Welfare Reform Work Policies Affect Child Well-Being, Aurea Osgood
Materials and Strategies in Optical Chemical Sensing, Manuel Palacios
Design and Synthesis of Organic Materials for Optoelectronics, Sujeewa Palayangoda
Conversational Repair Strategies in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Biji Philip
Living with Serious Mental Illness: The Role of Personal Loss in Recovery and Quality of Life, Danielle Potokar
The Fattening House: A Narrative Analysis of the Big, Black and Beautiful Body Subjectivity Constituted On Large African American Women, Angela Denise Prater
The L Word Menace: Envisioning Popular Culture as Political Tool, Marnie Pratt
Photophysical Properties of Metallotetraphenyltetrabenzoporphyrins: Insights From Experimental and Theoretical Studies, Garusinghe Rajapakse
Elucidating The Role of Phosphorylation on Trafficking of Menkes Protein in AtT-20 Wild Type Cells, Shruta Rege
Riding Out the Waves: Community College Transfers Graduating with Bachelor's Degrees, Tamara Rice
Technoculture in Practice: Performing Identity and Difference in Social Network Systems, Natalia Rybas
Community Revisited: Invoking the Subjectivity of the Online Learner, Sergey Rybas
Academic and Disciplinary Outcomes Following Adjudication of Academic Dishonesty, Casey Sacks
Acquiring Literacy: Techne, Video Games and Composition Pedagogy, James Robert Schirmer
Like the Last 30 Years Never Happened: Understanding Detroit Rock Music Through Oral History, Jason M. Schmitt
The Effectiveness of an Acceptance and Commitment Intervention for Work Stress, Heather Schwetschenau
Ethics of Identification in the Organizational Production of the War on Terror: The Rhetoric of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ross B. Singer
Family webs: The impact of women's genealogy research on family communication, Amy M. Smith
An Exploration of the Effects of Student Characteristics and Engagement Practices on Academic Success for Low-Income Students, Julie Snyder
Predicting the Structure of RNA 3D Motifs, Jesse Stombaugh
Social Cognitive Mediators and Moderators of the Relation Between Experiences of Community Violence and Adolescent Outcomes, Cheryl Sybesma
Foreigners’ Archive – Contemporary China in the Blogs of American Expatriates, Qi Tang
“British in Thought and Deed:” Henry Bouquet and the Making of Britain’s American Empire, Erik Towne
Social Networks of NCAA Division I College Athletes: Relationships Between Network Structure, Personal Goal Orientation, and Well-Being Correlates, Erin Vasconcelles
The Role of Mentoring, Family Support and Networking in the Career Trajectory of Female Senior Leaders in Health Care and Higher Education, Kimberly Watson
Engaged to Serve: The Relationship Between Employee Engagement and the Personality of Human Services Professionals and Paraprofessionals, Cristina Wildermuth
Synthesis and Photophysical Properties of 3D Substituted Heterohelicenes and their Derivatives, Hu Ying
Layered Motherhood for Chinese Mother Bloggers: A Feminist Foucauldian Analysis, Yahui Zhang
Dissertations from 2007
Learning Disabilities and Success in Post-Secondary Education: How Students Make Sense of Their Experiences at a Canadian University, Carla Abreu-Ellis
Pimps and Ferrets: Copyright and Culture in the United States, 1831-1891, Eric Anderson
The Relationship Between Phonological Working Memory, Phonological Sensitivity, and Incidental Word Learning, Vijayachandra Angalliramachandra
Race, Memory, and Communal Belonging in Narrative and Art: Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue, 1948-1996, Matthew Barbee
Impact of Vividness of Smoking Imagery and Complexity of a Task on Intensity of Nicotine Craving, Chelsea Baylen
An Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Role of Crayfish Major Chelae in the Discrimination of Conspecific Odours: from Morphology to Behaviour, Rachelle Belanger
The Relationship Between Education and Leadership Behaviors in New Graduate Baccalaureate Educated Nurses and New Graduate Associate Degree Educated Nurses, Susan Bernheisel
Using Chimeras to Evaluate Cross-Talk, Energy Transfer, and Protein-Protein Interactions in the TonB and TolA Systems, Kerry Brinkman
The Role of Acceptance in Appraisal and Coping with Migraine Headaches, Christine Chiros
Work Relationships as Investments: The Unexplored Component of Continuance Commitment, Melissa Cohen
Girls Who (Don’t) Wear Glasses: The Performativity of Smart Girls on Teen Television, Sandra Conaway
Need for Recovery and Ineffective Self-Management, Christopher Cunningham
Motivation Matters: A Critical Analysis and Refutation of Evolutionary Arguments for Psychological Altruism, Fred Curry
Recounting the School Experiences of Adults Who Stutter: A Qualitative Analysis, Derek Daniels
From Worker to Retiree: a Validation Study of a Psychological Retirement Planning Measure, Guyla Davis
Toward Seamless Transition? Dual Enrollment and the Composition Classroom, Christine M. Denecker
Study Behavior of Nursing Students, Lori Doll-Speck
Inter- and Intraspecific Variation in the Superfamily Pneumoroidea, Nathan Donelson
Positive and Negative Affect: How Do They Impact Hackman’s (1987) Model of Group Effectiveness, Jesse Erdheim