Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The Effect of Atmospheric Aging on a Hybrid Polymer Matrix Composites' Material Properties, Brian Michael Burks
Ice Age Child, Logan Burns
Teaching Facial Emotion Recognition to Low-Functioning 4-7 Year Old Students with Autism, Gary A. Butcher
Bottom-up Methodologies in Emerging Models, Thomas S. Cahoon
Abbot Suger's Silent Soliloquy of Public Aesthetics in the Medieval Saint Denis Abbey, Sandra Jean Ceas
"A Shade Too Unreserved": Destabilizing Sexuality and Gender Constructs of the New Negro Identity in Harlem Renaissance Literature, Renee E. Chase
Digital Media's Transformative Role in Education: Beyond Potential to Essential, Ming-tso Chien
It's About Access: How the Curricular System and Unequal Learning Opportunities Predict the Racial Test Score Gap in Mathematics, Floyd Cobb II
The R Factor: Centering Race in the Mentoring of African American College Students, Bridgette Coble
Development of a Measure of Corporate Safety Culture for the Transportation Industry, David V. Colarossi
Star Lake, Arda Collins
Income Inequality in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Which Areas Have the Greatest Inequality and Why?, C. Peterson Compton
Nonprofit Marketing Education in the United States: An Examination and Interpretation of the Prevalance and Nature of Curriculum, Theresa Meier Conley
Reconciling Eros and Agape: The English Catholic Artistic Response to Reforms, Nicole M. Coonradt
Disrupting the Deficit Discourse on Historically Black Colleges and Universities: An Organizational Identity Case Study of Philander Smith College, Shametrice Ledora Davis
From California, On, Jennifer Denrow
P. Sphinx Teen, Joan Dickinson
Searching for Truth(iness): Mapping the Religio-Political Landscape and Identity of Christian Emerging Adults Through a Reception Study of the Colbert Report, Jill Elizabeth Dierberg
Establishing a Normative Profile on the MMPI-2 for Missionary Candidates, Jonathan Dimos
Posthumanist Rhetorical Agency, Matt Dunn
Withholding Political Authority: Civil Society and People's Power in Zimbabwe, A. Scott DuPree
Kicking the Can, Peter Ellis
Design and Synthesis of Novel Fluorescent Nucleoside Analogues, Nada Abdulnasir Elsharif
POMC Is Expressed in Pancreatic Alpha Cells, Samia M.M Farrara
Mixed-Methods Exploration of Teacher Perceptions: Background, Practices, and Attitudes Related to Student Achievement, Deborah Isabell Faust
Relationship Between Employee Involvement Management Practices and Burnout Among Military Mental Health Providers, Raymond-Steven Almora Fernandez
Gender Depiction in Preschool Books: A Comparison Between Early Care and Education Classrooms in the United States and Norway, Cathrine Aasen Floyd
The Relationship Between Risk and Resilience, Racial Microaggression, Ethnic Identity, and Well-Being in Young Adulthood, Shandra S. Forrest-Bank
Foreign Savings, Financialization and Minsky: How External Capital Flows Pave the Way for Financial Instability in the Face of Increasing Risk, Marcus C. Fresques
Redefining, Crafting, and Re/Presenting Contemporary Ethnicities: Honduran National Identity, 1994–2006, Cordelia A. Frewen
Attending High School Algebra I: In Search of Well-Managed, Engaging, Culturally Relevant, and Caring Classrooms, Cassandra Dunn Gannett
My Education, Christine Gardiner
The Financial Crisis Documentary, William L. Gardner
Ibn Khaldun and the Modern Social Sciences: A Comparative Theoretical Inquiry into Society, the State, and Revolution, Douglas H. Garrison
Protein Aggregation Through Acoustic Cavitation, John A. Giarratano
Matching Educational Interventions to Behavioral Phenotypes: Spatial Temporal Math as a Mathematics Achievement Intervention for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Erin Slason Grell
Just a Mutt: A Narrative Ethnography of the Denver Dog Park Master Plan Process, Stephen M. Griffin
Invisible Ink: An Analysis of Meaning Contained in Gender, Race, Performance, and Power Discourses, Susan A. Griggs
Thermally Actuated Resonant Silicon Crystal Nanobalances, Arash Hajjam
The Impact of Shared Musical Identity, Shared Family Identity, and Accommodation on Satisfaction in Parent/Young Adult Relationships, Ryan C. Hancock
The Theoretical Symbolism of Eruvin: A Model of Dual-Identity and Sacred Space, Liza Stoltz Hanson
El Gran Manipulador: Political Survival, Dual Power, and the Emergence and Maintenance of Social Movements in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela, Kelly C. Hart
"That's What Families Do": Rewards and Challenges of Informal Kinship Care, Betsy Hay
Micro Channel Cooler Performance Improvement by Insonation, Peter Webb Higgins
Analyzing the Interaction Between Melanocortin 5 Receptor, Melanocortin Receptor Accessory Protein 1, and Melanocortin 2 Receptor in Rainbow Trout, Domicinda M. Hill
Development of a Measure Assessing Knowledge and Use of Internal Punctuation to Signal Syntactic Relationships, Pamela S. Van Horn Howard
Harmonious Intervention: Pragmatism and Political Culture of China's East Asian Order, Chiung-Chiu Huang
A Meta-Analytic Review of Cooperative Learning Practices in Higher Education: A Human Communication Perspective, William Patrick Huddy
The Effect of a Medial Collar on the Initial Stability of a Cementless Primary Femoral Hip Prosthesis, Daniel N. Huff
Fostering and Foreclosing Student Learning Potential: Portraits of Performativity, Emotion, and Relationality in the Classroom, Jeanne Marie Jacobs
Towards a Fluid Solid Interaction Model of a Dynamic Lung, Justin C. Jacobs
Influence of Soil Microorganisms on Plant Growth and Fitness, Benjamin Jayne
Places of Purpose, Purposeful Places: An Exploration of the Physical Environment of Primary Level Classrooms, Shannon Britton Jones
Styles, Qualities, and Sexual Behavior in Young People's Romantic Relationships: A Longitudinal Examination of Within-Person and Between-Person Effects, Meredith Cerian Joppa
Reforming Kenya: Explaining the Influence of Internal and External Actors in the Process of Liberalization, Figaro Joseph
Homework Adherence in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adolescent Depression, Nathaniel John Jungbluth
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle? An Examination of Factors Influencing Environmental Behavior in Denver, Colorado, Dan J. Kasper
Democratic Transitions in Divided States: The Case of Iraq, Kara Leigh Kingma
Cayley-Dickson Loops, Jenya Kirshtein
Christian Progress and American Myth: A Deep Cultural Analysis of Spatiality and Exceptionalism in Struggles over American Indian Lands, Bradley J. Klein
Interferometric, Astrometric, and Photometric Studies of Epsilon Aurigae: Seeing the Disk Around a Distant Star, Brian Keith Kloppenborg
Leading Schools Through a Generational Lens: Perceptions of Principals' Change Leadership Disaggregated by Principal Generation, Matthew Scott Kuhn
Group Treatment for Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: The Relationship Between Social Bonds and Symptom Severity, Robin E. Lange
Korean American Adolescents' and Their Parents' Attitudes and Expectations Toward Group Counseling, Myoung Ah Lee
Local Food Actions and Motivations in the Highlands Neighborhood of Denver, CO, Samantha R. Lester
The Dragon Takes Flight: China's Journey Toward Building Its C-919 Large Passenger Aircraft and Its Impact on the US and Boeing, Derek Adam Levine
Fire-Derived Charcoal Along an Ecological Gradient in the Colorado Front Range, Christopher William Licata
A Critique of the Neoclassical and a Revision of the Keynesian Theories of Employment, Yang Liu
Preventing the Clash: Reexamining U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Middle East, Clifton Martin
The Strategic Feasibility of Global Zero: A Generational Approach, Balazs Martonffy
Exploring a Debriefing Intervention: A Mixed Methods Study of a Clinical Staff Intervention, Dawn R. Matera
Implicating Bitzer's Rhetorical Situation in Comparative and Non-Violent Rhetoric: A Rhetorical Analysis of Three Ecofeminist Movements from East to West, Shahreen Mat Nayan
Sub-Saharan Africa: Searching for a Social Contract, David D. Mayen
Tackling Tax Evasion: Transfer Price Manipulation, Extractive Natural Resources and a Strategy for the Southern African Customs Union, Patrick Grant McLennan
Maintaining or Disrupting Inequality: Diversity Statements in the University, Linda A. Merkl
Mapping the Conceptual Terrain of Work Calling, K. Arianna Molloy
The Relationship Between Middle School Students' Perceptions of Physical Activity, Student Engagement, and Academic Achievement, Jeremy D. Moretti
Quantifying and Forecasting Vulnerability to Dyadic Conflict in an Integrated Assessment Model: Modeling International Relations Theory, Jonathan David Moyer
Modeling of Growth Kinetics and Characterization of Membrane Mechanics, Antonio Nava
Cultural Diabetes, Keri E. Noll
Rewriting the Future: The Construction of Masculine Subjectivity Within Articulations of Russia's Post-Soviet National Idea, Arianna L. Nowakowski
The Arctic Game, Sarah E. Nuernberger
Leading in Times of Change: Principals' Perspectives of Their Role in a New Pay-for-Performance System, Amanda Lela Ortiz-Torres
The Hyperspatial Self: Henry James and Posthuman Modalities, Christina Patsiokas
Estradiol Modulation of Calcium Dynamics in Pituitary MMQ Lactotroph Cells, Monika Pauckova
In Search of a Contextual Pastoral Theology for Dalits in India, Johnson Petta
Cortisol in Middle Childhood: Associations with Genetic Polymorphisms and Early Environmental Risk, Irena Y. Pikovsky
Trauma in Transportation: Factors Contributing to Positive and Negative Outcomes of Involvement in Trauma for Railroad Workers, Jill Veronica Pinarowicz
Accurate Player Modeling and Cheat-Proof Gameplay in Peer-to-Peer Based Multiplayer Online Games, Daniel Everett Pittman Jr.
Bully/Victim Power Inventory: Measuring the Power Imbalance in the Bully/Victim Relationship, Marybeth Plonkey-Lehto
Thank You, Dear: Examining the Association Between Gratitude and Relationship Well-Being, Erica Pearse Ragan
Explicit Finite Element Modeling of the Human Lumbar Spine, Milind Rao
The Relationship Between Teacher Cultural Competency and Student Engagement, Erin Nicole Robinson
Latino Family Involvement: An Exploratory Study of Latina Mother-Daughter Relationships and Their Effects on Educational Attainment and Resiliency, Maria Ana Rodriguez
Feasting on Four Wheels, Mariel Patricia Rodriguez-McGill
Cark, Broc Norman Rossell