Dissertations
Dissertations from 2006
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
Lying Happily Ever After: Altruistic White Lies, Positive Illusions, and Relationship Satisfaction, Mary Kaplar
The TonB and TolA Transmembrane Domains: Contributions of Non-Essential Side-Chains to Energy Transfer Specificity, Kimberly Keller
The Symbolic Rape of Representation: A Rhetorical Analysis of Black Musical Expression on Billboard's Hot 100 Charts, Richard S. Koonce
Service-Learning: Motivations for K-12 Teachers, Marjori Krebs
Development of Photocleavable Linker Groups for Application to Photocleavage of Liposomes and of Caging Alcohols and Carboxylic Acids, Anton Kulikov
Individual and Organizational Characteristics That Facilitate and Restrict Boundary Spanning of Team Leaders, Frank Latendresse
Something Beautiful: Craft and Survival in North American Alternative Theatre Companies, Carrie Lee
The Function of Free Riders: Toward a Solution to the Problem of Collective Action, J. Scott Lewis
Crafting Utopia and Dystopia: Film Musicals 1970-2002, Travis Malone
Living History as Peformance: An Analysis of the Manner in which Historical Narrative is Developed through Performance, Shelley Mateer
Wearing the Mantle: Spirited Black Male Servant Leaders Reflect on Their Leadership Journey, Patrice McClellan
Neurophysiology of Auditory Inhibitory Gating in Rat Medial Prefrontal Cortex, Ryan Mears
I Knit Therefore I Am: An Ethnomethodological Study of Knitting as Constitutive of Gendered Identity, Kristina M. Medford
Synthesis and photochemistry 3,5-dialkyl-3,5-dihydro-3,5-dimethyl-3,5-diphenyl-4H-pyrazol-4-ones, Andrey Moiseev
Developing Tools for RNA Structural Alignment, Ali Mokdad
The Effects of Diversity Initiatives on the Distortion of Applicant Qualifications and Decision Standards, Jason Moore
Likelihood-Based Confidence Bands for a ROC Curve, Reuben Muchemedzi
Tempered Radicals and Servant Leaders: Portraits of Spirited Leadership Amongst African Women Leaders, Faith Ngunjiri
Student Perceptions of Teacher Support: Effect on Student Achievement, Michael O'Shea
The Sociological Hitch, Jeanine Pfahlert
The Face Consistency and Embeddability of Fullerenes, Douglas Puharic
Genetic Analysis of NifM Interaction with the Fe Protein of Nitrogenase, Kumaraguru Raja
The Construction of Self in the Contemporary Creative Writing Workshop: A Personal Journey, Brent Jason Royster
Why Physicians Do Or Do not Use Computerized Physician Order Entry Systems: Applying the Technology Acceptance Model, Sivanarulselvan Sachidanandam
The Occurrence and Impact of Parent Involvement on Child Outcomes for Children Participating in an After-School Program, Jennifer Schroeder
Inference of Attributable Risk for Multiple ExposureLevels Under Cross-sectional Sampling Design, Tanweer Shapla
Resistance as Negotiation: Strategies and Tactics for Redefining Power Relationships in the Composition Classroom, Rebekah Shultz Colby
In Defense of an Animal’s Right to Life, Aaron Simmons
Children's Social Goals and Retaliation Beliefs: A Comparison of Multiple Relationship Contexts, Nicole Sirrine
Lasting Legacies: The Effects of Natural Mentors in the Lives of At-Risk African-American Male Adolescents, Carnel Smith
Photophysical Properties of Metallonaphthalocyanines: Experimental and Theoretical Investigations, Alexandra Soldatova
Early Third Instar Crayfish Orconectes Rusticus Response to Movement, Odor, and Tactile Cues in the Environment, H. Evan Spencer
Madwoman, Queen, and Alien-Being: The Experiences of First-Time Women Presidents at Small Private Colleges, Korine Steinke
The Business and Pleasure of Filmic Lesbians Performing Onstage, Jamie Stuart
Student Wellness: Tracking Demographic Characteristics, Health Risk Traits, and Health Information of Students Over a 16 Year Period, Catherine Swick
Design and Implementation of Nursing Student Clinical Experiences and Program Effectiveness as Measured by NCLEX-RN Pass Rates, Martha Tanicala
Composition Studies and Teaching Anxiety: A Pilot Study of Teaching Groups and Discipline- and Program-Specific Triggers, Brennan M. Thomas
Determinants of Symbolic Inferences About Organizations Among Job Market Entrants, Erin Thornbury
Bayesian Model Checking Strategies for Dichotomous Item Response Theory Models, Sherwin G. Toribio
IRL (In Real Life): Breaking Down the Binary of Online Versus Offline Social Interaction, Stephanie Tuszynski
Studies of Microtubule Inhibitor Combinations on Cytoskeleton Architecture, Sonal Uppal
Development of Photoreactive Organic Compounds with Large Two-Photon Absorption Cross Sections, Nurtay Urdabayev
Narrow Cells and Lost Keys: The Impact of Jails and Prisons on Black Protest, 1940-1972, Seneca Vaught
Efficacy of Imagery and Cognitive Tasks Used to Reduce Craving and Implications for the Elaborated Intrusion Theory of Craving, Amelia Versland
Does Spirituality Matter? Effects of Meditative Content and Orientation on Migraineurs, Amy Wachholtz
Political Reelism: A Rhetorical Criticism of Reflection and Interpretation in Political Films, Jennifer Lee Walton
Employed Youth: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Job Quality and Counterproductivity, Linda Whinghter
Policing the World: American Mythologies and Hollywood's Rogue Cop Character, Marilyn Yaquinto
Corporate Leadership and the Perceptions of Chief Executive Officer Computer-Mediated Communication Effectiveness, Mark C. Zeller
Dissertations from 2005
Gender Relations in the Arab World: A Rhetorical Criticism of Naguib Mahrouz's Awlad Haratina, Hoda Al-Mutawah
The Transfer of Cultural Assumptions About American Higher Education in a Global Society: Perceptions of Visiting Russian Scholars, Gary Anderson
Exploring Helper and Consumer Partnerships That Facilitate Recovery From Severe Mental Illness, Kathleen Anthony
Visualizing Levinas: Existence and Existents Through Mulholland Drive, Memento, and Vanilla Sky, Holly Lynn Baumgartner
Policing the Borders of Identity at The Mormon Miracle Pageant, Kent Bean
The Neurobiology of 50-Khz Vocalizations in Rats, Jeffrey Burgdorf
Concurrent and Lagged Effects of Leadership Behavior on Subordinate Stress and Health, Jennifer Burnfield
A Public View of Private Writing: Personal Weblogs and Adolescent Girls, Lanette Cadle
The Relationship between Emotional-Social Intelligence and Leadership Practices among College Student Leaders, Bryan Cavins
Reaching Others: The Rhetoric of Proselytizing and Community of a Christian Campus Organization, Benjamin J. Cline
Perceived Similarity to Employees and Organizational Attraction: An Examination in the Retail Industry, Shelba Devendorf
Re-Vision: A Rhetorical Analysis of Change in the Holocaust Memorial Center, Ramona Lee Dunckel
Lexical Ambiguity Resolution in Children: Frequency and Context Effects, Christine Gooding
Somewhere In-between: Tween Queens and the Marketing Machine, Meredith Guthrie
Mid-Level Student Affairs Professionals’ Perceptions of Spirituality: A Phenomenological Study, Keith Hansen
Identifying the Traits That Differentiate Chief Executive Officer Performance Levels, Amanda Julian
Metal-binding Properties of Synthetic Metalloproteins, Olesya Kharenko
Effects of the NMDA Receptor Antagonist MK-801 on the Timing and Temporal Processing of Short-Intervals in Rats, Jonathan Miller
Ultrafast Excited State Relaxation Dynamics of Electron Deficient Porphyrins: Conformational and Electronic Factors, Albert Okhrimenko
Applying the Relapse Model to Harm Reduction: The Development and Evaluation of the Harm Reduction Self-Efficacy Questionnaire, Kristina Phillips
Beyond Subjective Well-Being, Pamela Phillips
Novel Radical Peroxyester Photoinitiators: Decomposition Mechanisms and Potential Applications, Dmitry Polyansky
A Phan-type Theorem for Orthogonal Groups, Adam E. Roberts
Painted Sermons: Explanatory Rhetoric and William Holman Hunt's Inscribed Frames, Karen D. Rowe
School Racial and Ethnic Composition Effect on Academic Achievement of Latino Adolescents, Igor Ryabov
Faculty Perceptions of Undergraduate Academic Dishonesty, Marie Saddlemire
Speaking of Sex: The Rhetorical Strategies of Frances Willard, Victoria Woodhull, and Ida Craddock, Inez Schaechterle
White Is and White Ain’t: Representations and Analyses of Whiteness in the Novels of Chester Himes, Scott Walter
Photochemical, Photophysical, and Electronic Properties of Fused Ring Systems with Alternating Benzene and Thiophene Units, Brigitte Wex
Neural and Behavioral Responses to Complex Odor Stimuli Using Crayfish as a Model System, Mary Wolf
Bridging the Gap: Drew Hayden Taylor, Native Canadian Playwright in His Times, Dale Young