Dissertations
Dissertations from 2007
Student Experiences of Participation in Tracked Classes Throughout High School: The Ethic of Justice, School Leadership, and Curriculum Design, Robert Falkenstein
Dating and Adolescents' Psychological Well-being, Abbey Fruth
Learning Styles, Self-Efficacy, and Satisfaction With Online Learning: Is Online Learning for Everyone?, Debra Gallagher
The Relationship of Work Experience to Clinical Performance in a Master of Physical Therapy Program, Deborah George
Immigrant Anxieties: 1990s Immigration Reform and The Neoliberal Consensus, Christina Gerken
Reasoning and Recall in Scientific and Religious Contexts, Lauren Gonce
Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger: A Case Study, Jeffrey Grilliot
One-to-one Laptop Initiatives: Powerful Hubs of a Distributed Student Learning Network?, James Gunner
Experience and the World of the Living: A Critique of John McDowell's Conception of Experience and Nature, Gregory Hakos
Creation and Adaptation of Norms in a Tire-Mold Manufacturing Organization, Cheri Hampton-Farmer
Identities in Motion: An Autoethnography of an African American Woman's Journey to Burkina Faso, Benin, and Ghana, Renata Harden
Synthesis and Photophysics of Platinum (II) Diimine Acetylide Complexes, Fei Hua
Bayesian Principles and Causal Judgment, Amanda Kelley
Platinum(II) Charge Transfer Chromophores: Electrochemistry, Photophysics, and Vapochromic Sensing Applications, Solen Kinayyigit
Performed Identities: Heavy Metal Musicians Between 1984 and 1991, Bradley Klypchak
Metabolic and Psychological Predictors of Weight Regain Among Behavioral Weight Loss Participants, Krista Konrad
Beyond Celebration: A Call for Rethinking Cultural Studies, Carolyn Lea
Revisiting the Relationship Between Conscientiousness and Job Performance: Linearity or Non-Linearity?, Ian Little
An Analysis of Leadership Styles and Practices of University Women in Administrative Vice Presidencies, Aparajita Maitra
Individual Sovereignty and Political Legitimacy, Nicolas Maloberti
Building African College Student Leaders: The Role of Campus Community Service, Benard Manyibe
The Classification of l1-embeddable Fullerenes, Mihaela C. Marcusanu
“I’ll be There for You” if You are Just Like Me: An Analysis of Hegemonic Social Structures in “Friends”, Lisa Marie Marshall
Underlying Mechanisms That Affect Crayfish Agonistic Interactions and Resource Acquisition, Arthur Martin
Mystical Experiences, Neuroscience, and the Nature of Reality, Jonathan Miller
The Authority of Morality, John Milliken
Synthesis and Study of Higher Poly(Acene)s: Hexacene, Heptacene, and Derivatives, Rajib Mondal
Synthesis and Electro-optical Properties of Novel Materials for Application in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, Victor Montes
Effect of a Computer-based Multimedia Educational Module on Knowledge of the Menstrual Cycle, Joan Moon
John Dewey and Documentary Narrative, Denis Mueller
Post-9/11 Rhetorical Theory and Composition Pedagogy: Fostering Trauma Rhetorics as Civic Space, Robin M. Murphy
Partners, Parents, and Peers' Effects on African American Youths' School Achievement, Kenyatta Phelps
Adolescents’ Anticipated Emotional and Behavioral Responses to Alcohol and Drug Offers, Erica Pristas
Binge Eating Antecedents Among Female College Students: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study, Sofia Rydin-Gray
Beyond the First “Click:” Women Graduate Students in Computer Science, Jennifer Sader
Educational Experiences of Children in the Migrant Stream: Ecological Factors Necessary for Academic Success, Jose Salinas
Balancing Faculty Careers and Family Work: Tenure-Track Women’s Perceptions of and Experiences with Work/Family Issues and Their Relationships to Job Satisfaction, Nicole J. Schultz
Arab Americans Unveil the Building Blocks in the Construction of Our Cultural Identity, Gaby Semaan
Confronting Aging and Serious Illness through Journaling: A Study of Writing as Therapy, Lucie Shetzer
“Something Wicked This Way Comes”: Constructing the Witch in Contemporary American Popular Culture, Catherine Shufelt
Spinning Straw into Gold: Dynamics of a Rumpelstiltskin Style of Leadership, Karen Smith
The Relationship Between Student Bullying Behaviors and Self-Esteem, Julie Spade
Dynamic Criteria Mapping: A Study of the Rhetorical Values of Placement Evaluators, Eric Wesley Stalions
The Skill of Virtue, Matthew Stichter
The Stranger in the Dark: The Ethics of Levinasian-Derridean Hospitality in Noir, Stephen Swanson
Representations of Redface: Decolonizing the American Situation Comedy’s “Indian”, Dustin Tahmahkera
Indirectness in Vietnamese Newspaper Commentaries: A Pilot Study, Thai T. Tran
Design and Development of Metal-Peptide Nanoscaled Materials, Mikhail Tsurkan
Passing Masculinities at Boy Scout Camp, Patrick Vrooman
Analogy Between Two Approaches to Separately Identify Specific Factors in Factor Analysis, Jing Wang
Retention of Faculty of Color as it Relates to Their Perceptions of the Academic Climate at Four-Year Predominantly White Public Universities in Ohio, Paula Whetsel-Ribeau
Surveillance of Influenza A Virus in Environmental Ice and Water Samples, Gang Zhang
Changes in Marital Dissolution Patterns Among Chinese and Chinese Immigrants: An Origin-Destination Analysis, Yuanting Zhang
Turning the Noose that Binds into a Rope to Climb: A Textual Search for Rhetorical and Linguistic Gender-markings in Speech Samples of Three Contemporary Female Orators, Angela Wallington Zimmann
Accounting for Student Voice Within Critical Communication Pedagogy: An Ethnomethodological Exploration of Student Perceptions and Expectations, Nicholas Alexis Zoffel
Dissertations from 2006
American Feminist Manifestos and the Rhetoric of Whiteness, Elliot Adams
Face on First, Class on Second, Gender on Third, and Sexuality Up to Bat: Intersectionality and Power in Major League Baseball, 1995 - 2005, Lisa Alexander
Iron physiological autecology of the vertically migrating diatoms Ethmodiscus spp. and Rhizosolenia spp. in the Central North Pacific (CNP) gyre, Mamoon Al-Rshaidat
“A Me Dis”: Jamaican Adolescent Identity Construction and its Relations with Academic, Psychological, and Behavioral Functioning, Gail Anderson
The Policies and Politics of Massification of University Education in Nigeria, 1952-2000, Ogechi Anyanwu
Using Deleuze: The Cinema Books, Film Studies and Effect, Dyrk Ashton
Amnesty International, Human Rights & U.S. Policy, Maria Baldwin
Welfare and the Children of Immigrants: Transmission of Dependence or Investment in the Future?, Kelly Balistreri
Partners in Crime: Federal Crime Control Policy and the States, 1894 – 1938, Guy Benge
Motivated Reasoning: A Framework for Understanding Hiring Managers' Intentions to Use Personnel Selection Instruments, Jessica Blackburn
Function Algebras on Riemann Surfaces and Banach Spaces, Lynette J. Boos
Construction and Characterization of Cyanobacterial Bioreporters to Assess Nutrient (P, Fe) Availability in Marine Environments, Ramakrishna Boyanapalli
Taken to the Extreme: Heavy Metal Cover Songs – The Impact of Genre, Isaac Brunner
Marriage in Later Life: The Relationship Between Marital Quality, Health, and Divorce, Jennifer Bulanda
A Stepped-care Approach to Smoking Cessation and Harm Reduction, Holly Cacciapaglia
“Old Wine” and “New Wineskins”: (De)Colonizing Literacy in Kenya’s Higher Education, Mwangi Chege
Culturing on the Borderlands—A Critical Ethnography on Taiwanese and Chinese Transnational Practices, Hsin-I Cheng
Computers, Composition and Context: Narratives of Pedagogy and Technology Outside the Computers and Writing Community, Richard Colby
Attachment to Parent and Peers as a Moderator of the Relation Between Parent/peer Religious Coping and Adolescent Religious Coping, Ellen Cullman
Searching for Wonder Women: Examining Women's Non-violent Power in Feminist Science Fiction, Maria DeRose
Capacities and Moral Status, Russell DiSilvestro
Brain-Behavior Adaptations to Sleep Loss in the Nocturnally Migrating Swainson’s Thrush (Catharus ustulatus), Thomas Fuchs
Terrorism and Just War Tradition: Issues of Compatibility, Jason Gatliff
Earning a Living as an Author in Early Modern England: The Case of Anthony Munday, Gerald George
Factors Predicting Preservice Teacher Technology Competency, Allison Goedde
Latino and Latina First Year College Students: Factors Important to Their Persistence, Laura Gonzales
Applying Neural Networking Techniques to Improve Performance and Turnover Prediction, Eyal Grauer
Biology, Policy, and the Racial Contract, Jason Grinnell
First-year Composition Handbooks: Buffering the Winds of Change, Christopher Sean Harris
A Content Analysis of Editorial Regionalism in the 1960s: Midsize Newspaper Coverage of New York Times v. Sullivan (1960-1964), Jeffrey B. Hedrick
Design, Characterization, and Electron Transfer Properties of Synthetic Metalloproteins, Jing Hong
Transformed Tests for Homogeneity of Variances and Means, Md. Khairul Islam
Low Power Photoluminescence and Photochemical Upconversion, Radiy Islangulov
Lake Superior Phototrophic Picoplankton: Nitrate Assimilation Measured with a Cyanobacterial Nitrate-responsive Bioreporter and Genetic Diversity of the Natural Community, Natalia Ivanikova
Design, Synthesis, and Properties of New Derivatives of Pentacene and New Blue Emitters, Jinyue Jiang
A Rhetorical Examination and Critique of Hezbollah, the Party of God, Souhad Kahil