Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Fashioning the Self: Performance, Identity and Difference, Jessica L. Neumann
Is Religion "Just" Supernatural Agency, Social Support, or Meaning?, A. Taylor Newton
Development and Validation of the Children's Social Competence Scale, Annette Irene Nuñez
Workplace Pressures of PK-8 Teachers in a Midwestern Archdiocese, Carrie O'Donnell Brink
First-Generation College Students' Experiences with Social Class Identity Dissonance, Amber Nicole Olson
Taking a Deep Breadth: The Rhetorical Construction of Solidarity in the American Labor Movement, William O'Shannon Murphy
Palestinian Women: Mothers, Martyrs and Agents of Political Change, Rebecca Ann Otis
The Limitations of Governance Indicators in Relation to Post-Disaster Recovery, Susan C. Paganelli
The Development of a P-20 Educational Campus: A Case Study on Innovation, Richard R. Patterson
Instability in the South: The Implications of Mexican State Failure on U.S. National Security, Shadd Allen Pease
Distribution Shifts and Declines in Autonomous Consumption: A Great Recipe for a Great Recession, David Michael Peterson
Who's Doing the Dirty Work? Development and Preliminary Validation of a Measure of Housework, Jocelyn Nicole Petrella
Distinguishing Effects of Domain Knowledge and General Knowledge on Passage Fluency, Oral Reading Errors, and Comprehension, Sarah Jane Priebe
Global Human Rights in an Age of Consumerism, Joel Richard Pruce
Approximate Transversals of Latin Squares, Jon Kyle Pula
Serial Fictions: A Collection, Danielle Rado
High Frequency Thermally Actuated Single Crystalline Silicon Micromechanical Resonators with Piezoresistive Readout, Amir Rahafrooz
Functional Activation of Cartilaginous Fish Melanocortin Receptors, Christina Lee Reinick
Survivor Song: The Voice of Trauma and Its Echoes, Jennifer Rinaldi
The Effects of Commercialization on the Perception of Hip Hop Culture and Black Culture in Mainstream Culture in the United States, Chris A. Robinson
Margaret Cavendish's Exploration of Consciousness in Her Writings, Cynthia Lynne Rogan de Ramirez
Molecular Genetic Basis of Opposite Gene by Environment Interactions in Reading Disability and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Jennifer Rosenberg
MicroRNAs 9a, 9b, 9c and 315 Regulate Expression of a Reporter for the Neuronal Microtubule-Associated Protein Futsch/MAP1B, Leslie M. Rozeboom
Specialty Service Lines in the United States Hospital System: Old Wine, New Bottles, Michael Sajovetz
Contemplative Education CenterStage: Training the Mindful Performer, Linda Anne Sanders
Acute Synaptic Activity Causes Differential miRNA Expression in the Drosophila melanogaster Larval Central Nervous System, Robert Ian Sand
The LGBT Community and Public Space: A Mixed Methods Approach, Emily L. Sanschagrin
Re-Examining the Stop-Signal Task to Test Competing Theories of AD/HD, Laura E. Santerre-Lemmon
Community College Student Motivation and Persistence to Goals, Kai Alina Savi
Trends in Heavy-Duty Diesel Emissions and Analyses of Colorado's Light-Duty Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance Program, Brent G. Schuchmann
The Affective Dimensions of Social Controversy, Susan Ann Sci
U.S. Foreign Policy in Lebanon: Adapting to Regional Threats Today and Promoting Stability for the Future, Robert Michael Shelala II
The Social Determinants of HIV/AIDS in Cambodia: Is It Too Early to Call Micro Medical Efforts a Success?, Matthew Aaron Sherwood
The Intricacies of M.F.K. Fisher: Discovering a Kaleidoscopic Hybridity, Elizabeth Lee Sleeper
Family Involvement Within Assisted Living: Care-Receivers' and Caregivers' Roles and Relationships, Rachel Vineet Solomon
Persisting to Graduation: A Grounded Theory Exploration of Nontraditional Undergraduate Women's Enrollment, Danielle Ferioli Sulick
Realizing Sustained School Improvement, Jeanice Kerr Swift
Altered Calcium Handling in Cerebellar Purkinje Neurons with the Malignant Hyperthermia Mutation, RyR1-Y522S/+, George C. Talbott
A Study of Transient Variations in Cosmic Ray Proton Intensities Using BESS-Polar I Data, Neeharika Thakur
"Pieces in a Pattern": Virginia Woolf and Family Memory, Kirsten Marie Thoming
Ambivalent Sovereignty: Inquiries into the Dual Foundation of Political Realism's Subject, Paul Timmermans
Divergent Responses to the Human Predicament: A Case Study in New Comparativism, Mark Toole
Label-Free Biochemical Recognition Using MEMS Resonators for Microarray Technology, Babak Tousifar
Jesus, Socrates, and the State: Political Mythology and Power, Christopher James Tranchetti
Trick Rider, Jen Tynes
Museveni's Centralization of Power: The Political Economy of Development in Uganda, Nathan Vasher
Parented Emotion: A Study of Adult-Children's Emotion Socialization and Family Communication Patterns, Joseph Grant Velasco
Video Stabilization Using SIFT Features, Fuzzy Clustering, and Kalman Filtering, Kevin Veon
The Impact of Shyness on Loneliness, Social Anxiety, and School Liking in Late Childhood, Charity M. Walker
Do Methods Matter in Global Leadership Development? A Mixed-Methods Study of a U.S.-Based International MBA Program, Jennie L. Walker
A Mixed-Methods Study of Resident Readiness, Engagement, and Relocation During Mixed-Income Redevelopment, Laurie A. Walker
Solar Power System Modeling and Performance Analysis, Jiaqi Wang
China and the United States' Recovery from the Global Financial Crisis, Yufei Wang
Pulmonary Particle Deposition in Relation to Age, Body Weight, and Species, Lisa M. Weber
Colorism in the Spanish Caribbean: Legacies of Race and Racism in Dominican and Puerto Rican Literature, Malinda Marie Williams
Eits: Combinatorics, Potential and Genre, David Wirthlin
Macroeconomics After the Great Recession: Consensus or Conflict?, Hailiang Xu
Interpersonal Trauma, Posttraumatic Stress and Depression, Brennan J. Young
Living Culture Embodied: Constructing Meaning in the Contra Dance Community, Kathryn E. Young
Redefining Classical Music Literacy: A Study of Classical Orchestras, Museum Anthropology, and Game Design Theory, Kimberly M. Zahler
Modeling Social Participation as Predictive of Life Satisfaction and Social Support: Scale or Index?, Anne T. Zelenka
The First Child in a Chinese Family Who Could Read Prior to Entry into Elementary School: A Qualitative Intrinsic Case Study, Shu Ping Zhang
Plasma Membrane Dynamics in the Drosophila Embryo, Amelia E. Zommer
Love Through a Wide-Angle Lens: A Mythic Narrative and Feminist Critique of the Reality Competition Dating Show More to Love, Amy LeAnn Zsohar
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Academic Achievement Among Ghanaian Youth, Ziblim Abukari
Teacher Perceptions of the Factors That Influence Support for an Adequacy Model of School Funding, Nancy L. Alex
Effects of Narrative Video Script Advance Organizer Strategies Used to Introduce Video in the Foreign Language Classroom, Philip D. Ambard
An Investigation into Associations with Attachment, Companion Pet Attachment, Empathy, and Prosocial Behaviors in 18–20 Year Old College Students, Christian Anderson
Gifted Voices: A Study of High School Students' Proficiency in Persuasive Writing and Their Perceptions of Personal Agency, Susan Carol Anderson
From Kabul to the Academy: Narratives of Afghan Women's Journeys to and Through U.S. Doctoral Programs, Bushra Aryan
Mercy Mercy Me (the Media Ecology): Technology, Agency, and "Cleavage" of the Musical Text, Arthur J. Bamford
Reading and Responsibility: The Grammar of the Inexpressible and the Poiesis of Religious Belief, Philip G. Banning
Overexpression of Amyloid Precursor Protein Induces Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress and Activates the Intrinsic Apoptosis Pathway, Matthew G. Bartley
Ruling with Rules: Electoral Institutions and Authoritarian Resilience in the Middle East, Andrew Barwig
Integrated Conflict Management Systems as Cure and Cause: How Leaders Address Cultural Change and Conflict in Their Organizations, Brian S. Beck
"Wanted: Dead or Alive": Masculinities and US Military Intervention in Afghanistan, Michelle E. Bellini
A Response to Aid Dependency: Service for Aid, Angela L. Bennett
The Impact of Self-Efficacy, Commitment, and Coping on Occupational Strain in Non-Managerial, Non-Professional Employees, Susan Leslie Bennett
Dogs and Technology: Our Most Beloved Companions in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century America, Claire V. Bow
Library Anxiety of Law Students: A Study Utilizing the Multidimensional Library Anxiety Scale, Stacey L. Bowers
Effects of Patient Trauma on Hospital Staff Functioning: An Exploratory Study of Psychological Distress Resulting from Trauma Exposure, Randy Allen Braley
Navigating the Paradox of Fear: Collaborative Research Exploring Resettlement and Vulnerability with Displaced Women in Colombia, Emily E. R. Braucher
Transforming Colombia's Conflict: A Case for Re-Prioritizing U.S.-Colombia's Militaristic Approach, N. Brooke Breazeale
From Frat to Fraternity: An Evolutionary Model for 21st Century Greek-Letter Organizations, Matthew Charles Brinton
Scripting the Docufiction: Combining the Narrative and Documentary Modes in a Social Issue Film, Joseph V. Brown
Refashioning Old Clothes: Secondhand Fashion, Meaning, and Liquid Modern Consumption, Keeley M. Buehler
Vignetwork: An Exquisite Corpse Network of Short Films, David Scott Calhoun
Item Order Effects on Attitude Measures, Pei-Hua Chen
Theorizing Ambivalence in Ang Lee's Transnational Cinema: The Discourse of Chinese Identity Between the Local and the Global, Chih-Yun Chiang
Seeing the Buddha in the Book of Job Through Maimonides's Theory of Providence and Eliade's Theory of Hierophany, Hoi Shan Chong
The Expressed Emotion of Mothers of Children with Fragile X Syndrome, Jeanine M. Coleman
The Resource Curse: The Cases of Botswana and Zambia, Audria Crain
Greening the Green Revolution: Moving Beyond Chemicals to Sustainable Agricultural Practices, Elizabeth G. Crawley
The Global Credit Crisis of 2007–2009: An Examination of Some of the Causes, Chronology, and Unconventional Monetary Tools Employed, Mark P. Culver
The Impact of a Mentorship Program on the Academic and Personal Development of College Athletes, Larry Curry