Dissertations
Dissertations from 2013
Statistical Analysis of Skew Normal Distribution and its Applications, Grace Ngunkeng
Luggage to America: Vietnamese Intellectual and Entrepreneurial Immigrants in the New Millennium, An Tuan Nguyen
Comparison of Organizational Cultures among Arts and Sciences Faculty at Ohio Public Universities, Christine Onasch
Applications of Empirical Likelihood to Zero-Inflated Data and Epidemic Change Point, Junvie Montealto Pailden
Regression Analysis for Zero Inflated Population Under Complex Sampling Designs, Khyam Narayan Paneru
A Comparison of Teacher-Guided Instruction and Self-Guided Student Practice Strategies, Spencer Prewitt
Vodou and the U.S. Counterculture, Christian Remse
Measurement and Features of Persuasive Writing in Undergraduate Students with and without Written Language Disorders, Stephanie Richards
A Qualitative Study of the Life Satisfaction of Single Divorced Women in Leadership, Pamela Rogers
An Uncertain Poetics of the Intoxicated Narrative: Drugs, Detection, Denouement, Sudipto Sanyal
Single-Molecule Interfacial Electron Transfer in Solar Energy Conversion and Bioremediation, Papatya Sevinç
Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Service Quality as a Predictor of Student Retention in the First Two Years, Stephanie Sickler
The Character of Character: New Directions for a Dispositional Theory, Nicole Smith
Multivariate Population Attributable Hazard Function For Right-Censored Data, Vladimir Son
Farming and Work-Family Facilitation: An Examination of Positive Spillover and Crossover Effects among a Sample of Farm Couples, Justin Sprung
An Examination of Relationships Between Exposure to Sexually Explicit Media Content and Risk Behaviors: A Case Study of College Students, Alexandru Stana
Association of Maternal Employment with Attitudes, Subjective Norms, and Perceived Behavioral Control Regarding Meal Preparation Among Mothers of 4-5 Year Old Children, Amy Storfer-Isser
Stage Hypnosis in the Shadow of Svengali: Historical Influences, Public Perceptions, and Contemporary Practices, Cynthia Stroud
Hypercyclic Extensions Of Bounded Linear Operators, George R. Turcu
Implicit Religion and the Highly-Identified Sports Fan: An Ethnography of Cleveland Sports Fandom, Edward Uszynski
Women's Participation in Endurance Motorcycle Challenges, Abagail Van Vlerah
Pollination Ecology and Demography of a Deceptive Orchid, Ryan Walsh
Against Natural Teleology and its Application in Ethical Theory, Arthur Ward
Torture Survivor Advocacy Nonprofits and Representation on the Internet: The Case of Freedom From Torture, Sean Watkins
Reward Comparison in the Striatum, Emily Webber
Preaching and Technology: A Study of Attitudes and Practices, Alison C. Witte
The Excited State Behavior of Iminium Derivatives and Their Reduced Forms, Dapeng Zhou
Dissertations from 2012
Portraits of Successful African Immigrant Faculty on U.S Campuses, Zipporah Abla
Cellular Architecture and Cytoskeletal Structures Involved in Cell Haptotaxis, Surya Amarachintha
Institutional Practices that Support Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders in a Postsecondary Educational Setting, Kirsten Brown
The Nature of Spiritual Questioning Among Select Undergraduates at a Midwestern University: Constructions, Conditions, and Consequences, Michael Brown
Linked Leadership: The Role of Technology in Gifted Education Coordinators' Approaches to Informed Decision Making, Eric Calvert
Collaborative Leadership Practices Among Ohio's Early College High School Prinicpals and Their Post-Secondary Partners, Allia Carter
Private Higher Education in Jamaica: Expanding Access in Pursuit of Vision 2030, Chad Coates
Patient-Centered Care and Mindfulness in Hospice Volunteer Communication Experiences, Laura Cooley
Spiritual Identity Formation: Testing a Model of Religious Conversion Processes, Jeremy Cummings
Ingressive Phonation in Contemporary Vocal Music, Amanda DeBoer
Becoming Critical Thinkers: The Impact of Treatments on Student Reflective Practice in the College Classroom, Andrea Depinet
Psychrophilic diatoms in ice-covered Lake Erie, Nigel D'souza
"Several Unhandsome Words": The Politics of Gossip in Early Virginia, Christine Eisel
How to Be (and How Not to Be) a Normative Realist, David Faraci
When Fear is Substituted for Reason: European and Western Government Policies Regarding National Security 1789-1919, Norma Flores
"Among Ourselves:" The Collaborative Rhetorics of Nineteenth Century Ladies' Literary Societies, Katherine Helene Fredlund
Exploring the Perceptions of Study Abroad Among Black Undergraduates at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Nykia Gaines
Does Trauma Lead to Religiousness? A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Traumatic Events on Religiousness and Spirituality During the First Three Years at University, Maria Gear Haugen
Image Theory: An Experimental Study of the Effect of Feedback on Decision Making, Erin Gerbec
Exacerbation and Attenuation of Ego-Depletion, Justin Gilkey
Reimagining the Story of Lu You and Tang Wan: Ge Gan-ru's Wrong, Wrong, Wrong! and Hard, Hard, Hard!, Yen-Lin Goh
The Roles of Group Identity and Ideology in Examining the Effects of Social Consensus on Weight Bias, Amanda Gumble
From Discrimination to Action: Understanding Empowerment in the Deaf Community, Alexis Hamill
Why the Law matters to you: Citizenship, Agency, and Public Identity, Christoph Hanisch
Decoy Effects in a Consumer Search Task, Beth Hartzler
The Sports Mall of America: Sports and the Rhetorical Construction of the Citizen-Consumer, Cory Hillman
Predicting Use of Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategies by College Student Drinkers, Erica Hoffmann
An Analysis of Artificial Rhodopsin Mimics Using Multiconfigurational Ab Initio Computations, Mark Huntress
Evolutionary Ecology of Arabidopsis thaliana: Interactions with Biotic and Abiotic Environmental Factors, Adebobola Imeh-Nathaniel
Revelations of a Genealogy: Biblical Women in Performance during Twentieth-Century American Feminisms, Kari Innes
The Roles of Moron Genes in the Escherichia Coli Enterobacteria Phage Phi-80, Yury Ivanov
Me, Myself & Mine: The Scope of Ownership, Peter Jaworski
Do Cognitive Resources Play a Role in Object Functionality and Affordance Effects when Computing Spatial Relations?, Brandi Klein
Whisper and Phonation: Aerodynamic Comparisons across Adduction and Loudness Levels, Ramya Konnai
Turning on Fluorescence in Silico: From Radical Cations to 11-cis Locked Rhodopsin Analogues, Elena Laricheva
The Solo Piano Music of David Lang, Karl Larson
Biological Functionalism and Mental Disorder, Hong Lee
Process and PostProcess in China's Educational Context, Jie Li
Development of Cross-reactive Sensors Array: Practical Approach for Ion Detection in Aqueous Media, Yuanli Liu
HIV Testing Behaviors of At-Risk Populations in Kenya, Daphne Lofquist
"A Land without a People for a People without a Land": Civilizing Mission and American Support for Zionism, 1880s-1929, Robert MacDonald
Parrotheads, Cheeseburgers, and Paradise: Adult Music Fandom and Fan Practices, Kelly MacDonald Weeks
Houses, Hot Dogs, and 'Hoods: Place Branding and the Reconstruction of Identity in Rick Sebak's Pittsburgh Documentaries, Bryan McGeary
The Logic of Ironic Appropriation: Constitutive Rhetoric in the Stewart/Colbert Universe, Christopher Medjesky
Only God Knows the Opposition We Face: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth Century Free Methodist Women’s Quest for Ordination, Christy Ellen Mesaros-Winckles
Embryonic Policies: Reproductive Technology and Federal Regulation, Erin Mignin
"Indian" Summers: Querying Representations of Native American Cultures in Outdoor Historical Drama, Heidi Nees
Processes of Strain Crossover between Dual-Earner Couples, YoungAh Park
Marital Timing and Earnings over the Life Course, Krista K. Payne
Decision-Making Competence, Life Regrets, and Subjective Well-Being in Mature Adults, Olivia Pethtel
Some (Still) Like it Hot: Re-envisioning Transdisciplinarity and Collaboration in First Year Composition and Jazz, Krista L. Petrosino
RNA 3D Motifs: Identification, Clustering, and Analysis, Anton Petrov
Terrestrial Influences on the Macroinvertebrate Biodiversity of Temporary Wetlands, Michael Plenzler
The Design, Syntheses, and Photophysics of Novel Pt(II) Polypyridyl Arylacetylides and Arylthiolates, Valentina Prusakova
Single Molecule Spectroscopy Studies of Membrane Protein Dynamics and Energetics by Combined Experimental and Computational Analyses, Suneth Rajapaksha
Deliberative Rhetoric in the Twelfth Century: The Case for Eleanor of Aquitaine, Noblewomen, and the Ars Dictaminis, Shawn D. Ramsey
A Profile of Early 21ST Century Teachers of Northwest Ohio: The Relationship Between Teachers' Technology Integration and Leadership Practices, Carrie Rathsack
The Ecology of Aerial Algae, Jennifer Ress