All dissertations completed at Western Michigan University are entered into ScholarWorks. Some may be embargoed or restricted by the authors and may be only available from on-campus computers. Print copies are available through interlibrary loan for dissertations before 2013. If you have any questions, please contact wmu-scholarworks@wmich.edu.
Dissertations from 2012
Experiences of Suburban and Rural High School Principals Who Have Attained Longevity in the Position: A Qualitative Study, Peggy A. Mathis
The Perception of Adult Learners Concerning their Satisfaction of Their Educational Experiences in a Midwestern Community College, Constance L. McCallum
First-Generation, African American Students' Experiences of Persisting at a Predominantly White Liberal Arts College, Candy S. McCorkle
Identification, Development, and Screening of Compounds Against Bacterial Glutamate Racemase, James McGee
HIV/AIDS Coverage in the Daily Nation Newspaper: A Mixed Methods Content Analysis to Inform Health Promotion and HIV Prevention in Kenya, Shannon Locke McMorrow
Traveling with a Purpose: Stories of Contradiction and Transformation in International Service-Learning, Rebecca A. McNamara
Predictors of Counselor Self-Efficacy among Master's Level Counselor Trainees: Impact of Cohort versus Non-Cohort Educational Programs, Regina Lynn Meyer
Influences in the Platonic Same-Sex Friendships of Heterosexual Black Males, Darian Mitchell
Child Parent Relationship Therapy for Parents of Children with Disruptive Behavior, Alison Moses
A New Non-Parametric Test for Umbrella Alternatives, Gilbert Ngwa Muma
Personality and Religiosity: The Influence of Normative Personality on Black Sunni Muslims' Religious Attitudes and Practices, Halim Khidher Naeem
Essays on Spatial Analysis of Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth Determinants in Developing Countries, Uwaoma George Nwaogu
Tea with Edie and Fitz, Adam Pasen
Does Understanding the Kalamazoo Promise Impact African American Participation?, J. Douglas Penn
Boolean and Profinite Loops, Benjamin Andrew Phillips
Variations on a Graph Coloring Theme, Bryan Phinezy
Modeling Transmission of Photonic Crystal Waveguide Modes Enhanced by Kerr Nonlinearity, Buddhi M. Rai
The Effects of Repeated Resurgence Conditions on the Magnitude of Resurgence, Ryan Nathaniel Redner
Identification and Characterization of Suppressors of HoPM1; A Plant Pathogen Effector of Pseudomonas syringae pv. Tomato DC3000, Vanessa Revindran
Identifying Mechanisms of Change: Utilizing Single-Participant Methodology to Better Understand Behavior Therapy for Youth Depression, Andrew R. Riley
Teachers' Sense of Professional Practices as a Result of Mentoring, Leadriane L. Roby
Trace Driven Approach for Testing and Debugging Concurrent Programs, Mahmoud Said
Adaptive Security-Aware Scheduling for Packet Switched Networks Using Real-Time Multi-Agent Systems, Ma'en Saleh Saleh
Strategies for Studying the Interaction of Nanoscale Materials with Chemical and Biological Contaminants, Tova Ann Samuels
Behavior Based Sales: A Study of Behavioral Techniques for Sales Performance Improvement, Peder Henrik Seglund
The Relationship Among Training Policy, Knowledge Transfer, and Performance Improvement: A Study of Private Sector Organizations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Fayez M. Shafloot
FDI Transmission to a Third Developing Country Through the Remittances Channel, Ibrahim Hamdy Sheta
Clinically Meaningful Change in Heart Failure: The Six-Minute Walk Test and Daily Activity, Michael J. Shoemaker
Describing the Apprenticeship of Chemists through the Language of Faculty Scientists, Brandy Ann Skjold
Overcoming Non-Academic Issues to Gain Admission into Competitive Entry College Majors: The Power of Positive Psychological Development, Stephen J. Snyder
The Social and Political Philosophy of Bertolt Brecht, Anthony Squiers
The Effects of Rule Specificity and Contingency Delivery Follow-Through on the Performance of an Analog Office Task, James Squires
Interpreting and Implementing English Language Arts State Standards/Expectations in Secondary Classrooms, Amanda Stearns-Pfeiffer
Creatures after Their Kind, Emily J. Stinson
Social Justice, White Racial Identity, and Multicultural Competency Among White Master Level Trainees in Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology, Sara Rebecca Streufert
Food Selectivity in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Associated Factors and Impact on the Family Mealtime Experience, Michelle A. Suarez
From Building Evaluation Capacity to Supporting Evaluation Capacity Development: The Cases of Democratic Republic of Congo, Niger, and South Africa, Michele Tarsilla
An Inquiry Approach to Reading Instruction: A Case Study of the Relationship Between Instruction and Motivation, Tammy Turri-Scodeller
Value of U.S. Higher Education for International Students in the Context of Higher Education Internationalization, Ewa L. Urban
Performance on a Data Entry Task When Participants Receive Three Different Types of Graphic Feedback, Sarah E. VanStelle
The Religious Aspects of the 1893 Columbian Exposition: A Case Study of Interreligious Interaction and Religious Pluralism in the Public Square, Cynthia Visscher
Social Separation in the Rat: The Investigation of a Proposed Model of Depression, Lori A. Watson
Efficient Reinforcement Learning in Multiple-Agent Systems and its Application in Cognitive Radio Networks, Jing Zhang
The Motives of Trade Credit Usage and the Importance of Risk Perception for Decision-Making Behavior, Kun Zhao
Social Networks, L2 Pragmatics, and Spanish Hasta as an Aspectual Marker with and without Negation: Student Understandings, Judgments, and Uses, Mikela Zhezha-Thaumanavar
Faithful Remembering: Constructing Dutch America in the Twentieth Century, David E. Zwart
Dissertations from 2011
Glucosamine-Induced Insulin Resistance in Primary Rat Hepatocytes and the Role of Selenium as an Insulin Mimetic, Sandhya N. Adiyodi Veetil
Students of Indian Heritage and United States Citizen Students' Adaptation of College, Opinions About Mental Illness and Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Counseling Help, Margaret Omotola Ajayi-Nabors
Using Formative Assessment Despite the Constraints of High Stakes Testing and Limited Resources: A Case Study of Chemistry Teachers in Anglophone Cameroon, George Viche Akom
Modifying Copper Phthalocyanine to Improve The Performance of Organic Solar Cells, Mohammad AL-Amar
Dielectric Properties of Nitrogen Incorporated Ultrananocrystalline Diamond Films , Salem AlFaify
Collaborative Classification of Multiple Ground Vehicles in Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Acoustic Signals, Ahmad Falah Aljaafreh
Negotiating Generational Conflict and Identity Formation as a Way to Self Actualization in Contemporary Arab American Women's Literature, Hassan Ali Abdullah Al-Momani
Beading and Dimpling Techniques to Improve the Vibration and Acoustic Characteristics of Plate Structures, Nabeel Taiseer Alshabtat
Multi-Scale Optimization Using a Genetic Algorithm, Jumana Ali Alshawawreh
Cross-Layer Design For Mobile Ad-Hoc Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communication Networks, Abdel Ilah Nour Alshbatat
A Study to Determine the Influence of Workload on Nursing Personnel, Supreeta G. Amin
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Instructional Practices of Michigan Community College Math Instructors: The Search for a KAP Gap in Collegiate Math, Maria Haverhals Andersen
Memory and Language: Evidence of Relationships from Three Studies of School-Age Children, Michele A. Anderson
Undoing Plessy: Charles Hamilton Houston, Race, Labor, and the Law, Gordon Andrews
New Media ICC Profiles Construction and Concerns, Reem El Asaleh
The Impact of the Head Start Parent Teacher Partnership on Home Based Mathematical Interventions Provided by Single Rural Head Start Mothers, Curtiss J. Babcock
LEACH-SM: A Protocol for Extending Wireless Sensor Network Lifetime by Management of Spare Nodes, Bilal Abu Bakr
Direct Forcing and Heating Immersed Boundary- Lattice Boltzmann Method for Arterial Wall Thermography, Oluyinka Olugbenga Bamiro
Investigating the Influence of Organic Acids on Uraninite Solubility and Uranyl Sorption onto Kaolinite, Michelle L. Barger
Local Public Health System Partnerships: A Mixed Methods Multi-State Study, Priscilla A. Barnes
Women of Foreign Superstition: Christianity and Gender in Imperial Roman Policy, 57-235., Karl E. Baughman
Contemporary Clothing Issues of Women Who Are Post-Mastectomy, Carol Beard
Professional Learning Communities and First-Year Composition Instructors., Erinn Bentley
The Impact of Leadership Training on Collegiate Student Athletes, Jerry Bergsma
Bayesian Item Response Theory: Statistical Inference and Power Analysis, Jason W. Bodnar
A Qualitative Study of the Lived Experiences of Adults with African American and Korean Heritages, Elizabeth Sue Bradshaw
Systematic Sexual Violence by U.S. State Agencies: A Victimology Approach, Sarah Brightman
Comparing First Generation and Non-First Generation African-American Students at Predominately White Institutions, Leatrice Renee Brooks
The Effects of Implementing Restorative Justice in an In-School Suspension Program, Nikki Brown-Kersey
"Don't Let the Job Change You; You Change the Job": The Lived Experiences of Women in Policing, Carrie Buist
Jamaican American Child Disciplinary Practices, Stephaney Carter
Children‘s Protagonism at the Centro Cultural Da Criança: A Case Study, Claudia Protasio Ceccon
Using Environmental Sounds to Initiate Receptive Language Training for Children with Autism, Woan Tian Chow
El género detectivesco y su representación en la novela mexicana del sigloXXI, Maribel Colorado-García
Evaluating the Effects of Camera Perspective in Video Modelingfor Children with Autism: Point of View Versus Scene Modeling, Courtney Cotter
Psychometric Evaluation of the Valued Living Questionnaire: Comparing Distressed and Normative Samples, David D. Cotter
A Study on Becoming an Alternatively Certified Career and Technical Educator, Kymberli Cotton-Flanagan
Electron Transmission Characteristics and the Production of Narrow Beams Using Glass Optics, Buddhika Senarath Dassanayake
Gravity: Stories, Michael J. Davis
An Examination of Post-Secondary Education Access, Retentionand Success of Foster Care Youth, Angelique Day
Testing the Effectiveness of an Interactive Multimedia System to Train Clinicians in Behavioral Activation, Suzanne E. Decker
La mujer española escritora de su propia experiencia carcelaria, Berta Carrasco de Miguel
Transgender People on University Campuses: A Policy Discourse Analysis, Doris Andrea Dirks
Experiences That Influence a Student's Choice on Majoring in Physics, Donya Rae Dobbin
The Principle of Flickering, Laura K. Donnelly
Debugging Support for Message-Passing Based Concurrent Software, Mohamed Medhat Elwakil
Death by Boredom: The Role of Visual Processing Theory in Written Evaluation Communication, Stephanie D. H. Evergreen
How Politics, Economics, and Technology Influence Evaluation Requirements for Federally Funded Projects: A Historical Study of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act from 1965 to 2005, Maxine R. Eversley-Gilling
What About Me: Using Grounded Theory to Understand How African-American Counseling Professionals Become Multiculturally Competent, Bianca T. L. Fetherson