Dissertations
Dissertations from 2014
Playing Hippies and Indians: Acts of Cultural Colonization in the Theatre of the American Counterculture, Miriam Hahn
Sumptuous Soul: The Music of Donny Hathaway Everything is Everything Donny Hathaway, 1970, Keisha Hicks
Engaging Differences of Religious Belief: Student Experiences with an Intergroup Dialogue Course, Sara Hoefle
Familial Background and Relationship-Specific Correlates of Intimate Partner Violence Across the Lifecourse, Angela Kaufman
The Benefits and Trajectory of Airbrushing-Based Media Literacy Among Girls, Allison Kiefner-Burmeister
Seduction, Coercion, and an Exploration of Embodied Freedom, Jeanne Kusina
Simulating Response Latitude Effects in Attitude Surveys using IRT, Christopher Lake
The Application of Social Geometry Concerning the Administration of Justice in Cases of Assault, William Lally
The Relationship of Sophomore Student Debt on Retention in a Private University, Matthew W. Lambdin
Recovery and Transformations from Loss in Adults with Serious Mental Illness, Jaclyn Leith
Stakeholder or Gatekeeper: The Role of the Principal in Gifted Education, Julie Lenner McDonald
The Semiotics, Practical Application, and Assessment of the Modalities, Kent Alan Lenz
"That's What She Said": Politics, Transgression, and Women's Humor in Contemporary American Television", Melinda Lewis
Senior Student Affairs Officers' Perceptions Of Critical Professional Competencies, Kristen Lindsay
Single-Molecule Spectroscopy Studies of the Conformational Dynamics of Enzymes, Maolin Lu
Novel Step-Down Multiple Testing Procedures Under Dependence, Shihai Lu
Whom We Shall Welcome: Immigration Reform During the Great Society, Dustin McLochlin
Laughing at American Democracy: Citizenship and the Rhetoric of Stand-Up Satire, Matthew Meier
Reconsidering Teacher Commentary As Interactive And Collaborative Dialogue: Implications For Student Writing And Revising, Deborah Eileen Morris
Changing Places: Narratives of Spiritual Conversion during the First College Year, Keith O'Neill
Creative Musical Improvisation in the Development and Formation of NEXUS Percussion Ensemble, Olman Piedra
Chaotic Extensions for General Operators on a Hilbert Subspace, Leonardo V. Pinheiro
A Sharper Point: A Feminist, Multimodal Heuristic for Analyzing Knitted Rhetoric, Heather Elizabeth Pristash
Life of Purpose: Exploring the Role an Athletic Code of Conduct Plays in Shaping the Moral Courage of Student Athletes, Reetha Raveendran
The Diffusion of Smartphones and Tablets in Higher Education: A Comparison of Faculty and Student Perceptions and Uses., Brian Rellinger
Spatio-Temporal Distribution Of Microbial Communities In The Laurentian Great Lakes, Mark Jeremy Rozmarynowycz
Teaching People, Not Writing: Civic Education & Critical Pedagogies in the Multimodal Writing Classroom, Michael David Salitrynski
Child-Related Factors That Influence Responsiveness In Mothers Of Preschool-Age Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Mixed-Methods Study, Siva Santhanam
Affective Possibilities for Rhetoric and Writing: How We Might Self-Assess Potentiality in Composition, Martha Wilson Schaffer
Detection and Characterization of a Unique Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea; Cultured from Lake Superior, Michael J. Schlais
Analysis of Circadian Properties and Clock Regulation of Glioma and Breast Cancer Stem Cells, Vishal Premdev Sharma
Confining Mastery: Understanding the Influence of Parental Incarceration on Mastery in Young Adulthood, Unique Shaw-Smith
Identification of culture-negative fungi in blood and respiratory samples, Farida Sidiq
Choreographing Dirt: Performances of/against the Nature/Culture Divide, Angenette Spalink
Caribbean Blacks And Acculturative Stress: The Moderating Role of Religious Coping, Devon Superville
The Impact of Race on Perceptions of Authenticity in the Delivery and Reception of African American Gospel Music, Adriane Thompson-Bradshaw
Relationship Literacy and Polyamory: A Queer Approach, Heather Anne Trahan
Predicting Student Athletes' Motivation Towards Academics and Athletics, Margaret Tudor
Value, Well-Being, and the Meaning of Life, Mark Wells
Mixed Model Selection Based on the Conceptual Predictive Statistic, Cheng Wenren
Speech Motor Sequence Learning in Parkinson Disease and Normal Aging: Acquisition, Consolidation, and Automatization, Jason A. Whitfield
African American Leadership Experiences in Education Organizing For School Reform, Tiffany Whitman
Incidence and Attributions of Uncivil Events: Should they be Studied Separately?, Scott Withrow
Playing for Their Share: A History of Creative Tradeswomen in Eighteenth Century Virginia, Elisabeth Woronzoff-Dashkoff
Measurements of Media Reputation of Firms, Xiaoqun Zhang
Dissertations from 2013
Targeting Cancer Stem-LIike Cells in Human Esophageal Squamous Carcinoma Cell Lines by Curcumin, Taghreed Almanaa
Nomadic Subjectivity and Muslim Women: A Critical Ethnography of Identities, Cultures, and Discourses, Marne Leigh Austin
Sanctification of Work: A Potential Moderator of the Relationship between Work Stress and Health, Lisa Backus
Evaluating Anuran Relative Abundance and Assessing Salamander Movements in Protected Areas, Kathleen Baczynski
Vatos Sagrados: Exploring Northern Ohio's Religious Borderlands, Adrian Bautista
Knowledge, Cultural Production, and Construction of the Law: An Ideographic Rhetorical Criticism of Copyright, Suzanne Berg
Negotiating Roma Identity in Contemporary Urban Romania: an Ethnographic Study, Anca Birzescu
Post-Literacy: Designing Writing Curricula around Emerging Literate Activities, George Bret Bowers
Using Student Risk Factors to Predict Student-School Connectivity, Mark Burke
Influence of Correlation and Missing Data on Sample Size Determination in Mixed Models, Yanran Chen
Impact of the Student Support Services/TRIO Programming on Persistence and Academic Achievement, Sidney Childs
The Short-Term Effects of Viewing Sexually Objectifying Media: A Test of Objectification Theory, Sarah Domoff
Conscription Policy, Citizenship and Religious Conscientous Objectors in the United States and Canada During World War One, Donald Eberle
A Case Study Exploring Urban African-Centered Charter School Personnel's Development and Support of a College-Going Ethos, Christina Fields
Women of Ill Fame: Discourses of Prostitution and the American Dream in California, 1850 - 1890, Angela Fitzpatrick
Mindful Movement as a Cure for Colonialism, Kristy Ganoe
From Holmes to Sherlock: Confession, Surveillance, and the Detective, Arundhati Ghosh
School Leadership and Strategic Planning: The Impact on Local Report Card Ratings, Sandra Goodsite
Abusive Supervision and Group-Level Perceptions: Looking at the Social Context of Abuse in the Workplace, Purnima Gopalkrishnan
Molecular Size and Charge Effects on Nucleocytoplasmic Transport Studied By Single-Molecule Microscopy, Alexander Goryaynov
Understanding the Relationship Between Thermal and Photochemical Isomerization in Visual Receptors, Samer Gozem
Keeping All the Balls in the Air: Social Class and Stress, Relationship Commitment, and Marital Expectations among Cohabiting Young Adults, Angelika Gulbis
Academic and Campus Experiences of African American Males: Implications for Collegiate Satisfaction and Student Engagement, Toycee Hague-Palmer
Development of Genetic Tools for Thermotoga SPP., Dongmei Han
A Study of non-central Skew t Distributions and their Applications in Data Analysis and Change Point Detection, Abeer Hasan
Community-Sponsored Literate Activity and Technofeminism: Ethnographic Inquiry of Feministing, Kerri Elise Hauman
Breast Cancer in the Media: Agenda-Setting and Framing Effects of Prevalent Messages on College-Aged Women, Sarah Henize
Local Adaptation of Microbial Communities along Geochemical Spatial Gradients in Sediments of the Lake Erie Region, Matthew Hoostal
Clean Rings & Clean Group Rings, Nicholas Immormino
The Relationship Between Perceptions of Fit and Job Satisfaction among Administrative Staff in a Midwestern University, Mohammed Issah
FutureBodies: Octavia Butler as a Post-Colonial Cyborg Theorist, Cassandra Jones
Hypercyclic Extensions of an Operator on a Hilbert Subspace with Prescribed Behaviors, Gokul Kadel
Identity Chats: Co-Authorized Narratives and the Performance of Writerly Selves in Mass-Multiliterate Times, Stacy Kastner
Iminium Salts and Their Derivatives as Models for Catalytic Water Oxidation, Renat Khatmullin
Photocatalytic Water Splitting: Materials Design and High-Throughput Screening of Molecular Compositions, Rony Khnayzer
Synthesis and Applications of Heterostructured Semiconductor Nanocrystals., Elena Khon
Writing Centers as Literacy Sponsors in the 21st Century: Investigating Multiliteracy Center Theory and Practice, Jeffrey S. J. Kirchoff
The Relationship between Direct and Indirect Contact and Weight Bias, Afton Koball
Representing Childhood: The Social, Historical, and Theatrical Significance of the Child on Stage, Patrick Konesko
Protein Recognition by Self-organizing Sensors, Maria Kozelkova
Excessive Appetite for Pornography: Development and Evaluation of the Pornography Craving Questionnaire (PCQ-12), Shane Kraus
Assessing the Effects of Observing Non-Performance-Based Aggression during Online Violent Video Game Play on Aggressive Behavior, Elizabeth Kryszak
Longitudinal Effects of Self-reported Marital Strengths on Couples' Observed Conflictual Interactions Across the Transition to Parenthood, Katherine Kusner
Predictors of Coparenting: Infant Temperament, Infant Gender, and Hostile-Reactive Parenting, Michelle LeRoy
A Partitioning Approach for the Selection of the Best Treatment, Yong Lin