Dissertations
Dissertations from 2016
An analysis of outcomes in maltreated youth: The transmission of neighborhood risk through caregiver aggression and depression, Kelly E. Amrhein
Tools of Play: Developing a Pedagogical Framework for Gaming Literacy in the Multimodal Composition Classroom, Tina Arduini
Holding on to the basics: using the 3-D performance pyramid to improve skill retention in the introduction to acting classroom, Barrett Slade Billew
A Computational Study of Diiodomethane Photoisomerization, Veniamin Aleksandrovich Borin
Right-Libertarianism and the Destitution Objection, Peter Bornschein
The Role of Coping Socialization by Peers and Parents in Adolescents' Coping with Cyber-victimization, Stacey Lynn Bradbury
Demographic Predictors of Accrued Undergraduate Federal Student Loan Debt, Theresa Popp Braun
Natural Rights and Convention, Benjamin Bryan
The Semiotics of Celebrity at the Intersection of Hollywood and Broadway, Kevin Calcamp
Practitioners of Earth: The Literacy Practices and Civic Rhetorics of Grassroots Cartographers and Writing Instructors, April Rayana Conway
The Demographics and Utilization of Transformational Leadership Practices by Potential Community College Presidents, Matthew A. Cooney
Spatial ecology of Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene c. carolina) in the Oak Openings Region of Northwestern Ohio, Matthew David Cross
The Relationship of Online Gaming Addiction with Motivations to Play and Craving, Nicole Alexandra Cross
Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Predict Employing Harm Reduction Strategies Among Ecstasy Users, Alan Kooi Davis
Invasion, Surveillance, Biopolitics, and Governmentality: Representations from Tactical Media to Screen, Michael V. DelNero
Pragmatism, Growth, and Democratic Citizenship, Wesley Dempster
Single-molecule interfacial electron transfer dynamics in solar energy conversion, Bharat Dhital
"The other side": A narrative study of south African community members' experiences with an international service-learning program, Jeremy R. Doughty
A National Study of Child and Family Therapists: The Relationships between Parent Engagement, Supervision and Training, and Burnout, Morgan E. Dynes
A Party in Peril: Franklin Roosevelt, the Democratic Party, and the Circular Letter of 1924, Joseph D. Faykosh
The Experiences of Refugee Students in United States Postsecondary Education, Vivienne R. Felix
Literacies in Context: Working-Class Deaf Adults, Christine Marie Garbett
Photochemistry of Fe(III)-carboxylates in polysaccharide-based materials with tunable mechanical properties, Giuseppe E. Giammanco
School Achievement Through Social Programming: The Effects of a School-Based Mentoring Program, Andrea Deneen Guice
Opposites or Perfect Partners: Student Affairs and Libraries in Collaboration to Advance Student Learning, Beth A. Hoag
Media, Globalization and Nationalism: The Case of Separate Telangana, Sumanth Inukonda
Dose-Response Analysis for Time-Dependent Efficacy, Mohammad Mafijul Islam
Owners Versus Renters: Comparative Homing Behaviors in Primary and Tertiary Burrowing Crayfish, Maryam Kamran
Leading in the Middle: Conversations and Dialogic Leadership in Higher Education, Janine R. Kauffman
Properties of groups acting on Twin-Trees and Chabauty space, Robert J. Kelvey
Examining the relationship between organizational constraints and individual deficits in executive functioning on employees' extra-role work behaviors., Jasmine Yasi Khosravi
Pedagogical Approaches to Conducting Gesture in Contemporary Music, Katherine Margaret Kilburn
Managing Student Death at Small College Campuses: Experiences of Senior Student Affairs Administrators, Lisa Maureen Kirchner
First Supramolecular Fluorescence-Based Assay for Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors, Petr Koutnik
A Model of Rural Delinquency: Collective Efficacy in Rural Schools, Jennifer Hayman Lackey
Rethinking Poverty in Nigeria: The Demographics and Health of Households with Threatened Livelihoods, Esther O. Lamidi
A supramolecular approach for engineering functional solid-state chromophore arrays within metal-organic materials, Liubov Mikhaylovna Lifshits
Fearless Programming: Invigorating the American Orchestral Tradition through New Music, Octavio Más-Arocas
The Relationship Between Experiences with Microaggression and the Leadership Practices of Mid-Level Student Affairs Professionals, LaDonna R. Moore
Understanding the College Choice Process of Students Enrolled in an Early College High School, Rebecca J. Mosely
Young adult mothers and intimate partner violence, Sue Petrina Nash
Do Female Thriftiness and Bragging about Thriftiness Peak Near Ovulation?, Patrick J. Nebl
Performing the Female Superhero: An Analysis of Identity Acquisition, Violence, and Hypersexuality in DC Comics, Matthew Nicosia
Estimating the Proportion of True Null Hypotheses in Multiple Testing Problems, Oluyemi Oyeniran
Relational Spirituality and Trajectories of Observed Emotional Intimacy During the Transition to Parenthood, Emily A. Padgett
Adaptive LASSO For Mixed Model Selection via Profile Log-Likelihood, Juming Pan
On the popularity of emotional intelligence: An examination of contributing factors, Thaddeus B. Rada
Minority Stress and Substance Use in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, and Questioning Adults: An Exploration of Outness and Family Attachment, Justine Michelle Ray
Photochemical energy conversion in metal-semiconductor hybrid nanocrystals, Natalia Razgoniaeva
True Loves, Dark Nights: Queer Performativity and Grieving Through Music in the Work of Rufus Wainwright, Stephanie Salerno
Teen Pregnancy and Media Engagement: A Uses and Gratifications Study, David Michael Strukel
Queering Academia: Queer Faculty Mothers and Work-Family Enrichment, Katherine Newman Stygles
Building Representative Sets Of RNA 3D Structures and Selecting High Quality Loops, Blake Alexander Sweeney
Fat Cyborgs: Body Positive Activism, Shifting Rhetorics and Identity Politics in the Fatosphere, Aimee N. Taylor
Stories of Teal: Women's Experiences of Ovarian Cancer, Dinah A. Tetteh
Technology predictors of inquiry-based teaching: an examination of two k-12 1:1 pilots, Jennifer Lee Theis
Male Bodies On-Screen: Spectacle, Affect, and the Most Popular Action Adventure Films in the 1980s, Christopher Wagenheim
Developing a Health Numeracy Scale to Assess Medical Decision Making Among Older Adults, Jiaxi Wang
An Examination of Resident Educators and the Role of Self-Efficacy on Teaching in Collaborative Inclusive Settings, Kelly J. Wohlgamuth
The Cultural Rhetorics of After-Dinner Speaking, Courtney J. Wright
An Initial Evaluation of a School-Based Psychoeducational Program Teaching Adolescents to Cope with Traumatic Stressors, Samantha Lindsey Zbur
Using Icon Array as a Visual Aid for Communicating Validity Information, Don C. Zhang
Dissertations from 2015
Through Their Lenses: Examining Community-Sponsored Digital Literacy Practices in Appalachia, Megan Elizabeth Adams
Evaluating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Insomnia: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Kyoung deok Baik
An Autoethnographic Exploration Into Bipolar Depression and Social Support As A Factor Of Resilence, Wonda Baugh
Computer Algorithms as Persuasive Agents: The Rhetoricity of Algorithmic Surveillance within the Built Ecological Network, Estee Natee Beck
Cybervetting: A Common Antecedents Model, Julia Lizabeth Berger
Bridging the Last Mile: An Exploration of ICT Policy Through Bharatnet, Deepti Bharthur
Mindfulness meditation training for spiritual struggles: A randomized controlled trial, Margaret Feuille Bockrath
A Quantitative Study of Academic Library Administrators Using Bolman and Deal's Leadership Orientation Framework, Colleen T. Boff
Weight-Related Humor: Effects on Expression of Attitudes about Obesity, Jacob M. Burmeister
Ultrafast Photochemistry of Polyhalogenated Methanes and Non-Metals, Evgeniia Butaeva
Behaviors, Attitudes, Skills, and Knowledge for Senior Student Affairs Officers: Perceptions of Leadership Success, Jo Campbell
The Relationships between Acceptance, Avoidance, and Immunity in Medical Rehabilitation, Victoria L. Carhart
Relationships of Organizational Justice and Organizational Constraints With Performance: A Meta-Analysis, Christopher S. Chang
Jackknife Empirical Likelihood And Change Point Problems, Ying-Ju Chen
Cold Warriors, Good Neighbors, Smart Power: U.S. Army, Berlin, 1961-1994, Rex A. Childers
Shame as an Alternate Mechanism for the Abusive Supervision-Performance Relation and the Role of Power Distance Values, Michael A. Daniels
Characterization of Drug Reward in an Invertebrate Model System Using Operant Conditioning Paradigms, Udita Datta
Women's Advocates: Grassroots Organizing in St. Paul, Minnesota, Amanda Jo Dennison
Constructing Elysium and Playing Ugly: Methods of Intimacy in Fantasy Role-Playing Game Communities, Genesis Downey
Self-Actualization: Transcendentalist Discourse in the Work of Stuart Saunders Smith, Jose Augusto Duarte Lacerda
The Grotesque Cross: The Performative Grotesquerie of the Crucifixion of Jesus, Hephzibah D. Dutt
Effects of Mindfulness Training on Individuals Experiencing Post-Breakup Distress: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Melissa D. Falb
Claiming and Framing African American Male Ethos: Case Studies of the Literacy Practices of Two African American Male Writers, Shirley Elizabeth Faulkner-Springfield
Situational Leadership Awareness Development In Student Outdoor Leaders Through Training Versus Experience, Jerome Gabriel
Contested Titles: Gendered Violence Victim Advocacy and Negotiating Occupational Stigma in Social Interactions, Johnanna Ganz
The Export of Polyamines in Plants Is Mediated By a Novel Clade of Bidirectional Transporters, Lingxiao Ge