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Dissertations from 2011
The Relationship between Spirituality and Personality, Kimberly C. Koessel
Preparation of 1,10-Phenanthroline Derivatives with B-Ring Functionalization and Their Application, Lars Kohler
Inositol and Rhizopine Metabolism - Key Pathways for Competitive Host Nodulation in Sinorhizobium Meliloti, Petra R. A. Kohler
Hamiltonicity and Connectivity in Distance-Colored Graphs, Kyle C. Kolasinski
Implementation of the 2009 CACREP Standards Addiction Competencies, Tiffany K. Lee
Commissioning of the Helical Orbit Spectrometer: A New Device for Measuring Nuclear Reactions in Inverse Kinematics, Jonathan C. Lighthall
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca y sus narrativas sobre la exploracion del Rio de la Plata (1540-1545), Maria del Pilar Lopez-Castilla
Psychometric Properties of Diagnostic Assessment Instrumentsfor Autism Spectrum Disorders in a Community Sample Aged 2 Through 17 Years, Sheryl Lozowski-Sullivan
The Effects of Yellow Rectangular Rapid-Flashing Beacons (RRFBs) onMotorists' Yielding, Exit Lane Encroachment and Conflicts at Fire Station Exits, Erick K. Marmolejo
Mysteries in a World That Thinks There Are None, Gary L. McDowell
Understanding the Dimensions of Spirituality in Caucasian Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual College Students, Michele L. McGrady
Reluctant to Report: The Mandated Reporting Practices of Child Care Providers, Aileen McKenna
Spiritual Independence in Finley's Elsie Dinsmore Series, Alcott's Little Women Seriesand Wilder's Little House Series, Rebekka Anna Mehl
Comparisons of Three Analytical Techniques for Measuring Absolute and Relative Temperature Changes During Ultrasound Treatment, Michael G. Miller
A Case Study of How Students Enrolled in CTE Programs and Faculty Understand and Assess the Implications of Globalization on Career Preparation, Mohammad A. Moradi
Three Essays on Financial Markets and Monetary Policy, Abeba Siraj Mussa
Virtual Design Verification and Process Improvement of Composite Sheet Material Products Using Intelligent Finite Element Analysis (iFEA), Sathyanarayanan Narasimhan
The Bandi of Northwestern Liberia: A Study of Change and Continuityin Bandi Society to 1964, Samuel Benedict Ngovo
Teaching Reading in the Secondary Content Area Classroom:Teacher Attitudes and Predictors, Sara L. Norton-Ejnik
Robust Adaptive Scheme for Linear Mixed Models, Gabriel Asare Okyere
African American Male Teachers in K-12 Education: A Limited Quantity, Kelley A. Peatross
A Qualitative Study of Instructional Strategies Used by Elementary General Education Teachers in Inclusive Classrooms, Kristen Peterson
Citizen-Informed Performance Measurement and Reporting in Local Government: Key Factors for Effective Democratic Governance, Eileen L. Pierce
Voices of Parolees Who Have Chosen a Community College Element within a Reentry Program, Kristi S. Potts
African American Experiences of Race Relations in the Supervision Dyad, Brandi L. Pritchett-Johnson
Preference Assessments for Older Adults with Dementia: Utility of the MSWO Procedure and Assessment of the Stability of Preference, Paige B. Raetz
Becoming Formal or Informal Entrepreneurs: How Institutions Matter, Joël Luc Raveloharimisy
Ductile Mode Material Removal of Ceramics and Semiconductors, Deepak Ravindra
Evaluation of the Impact of a Large Corporate Leadership Development Course, Anna A. Rice
Learning Organization Principles: The Impact on a Midwest State Government as Perceived by Its Employees, Rosalee Billingslea Rush
Stability of Popular R-CBM Progress Monitoring Tools: Dibels® Next and Aimsweb®, Christine Russell
Evaluating the Use of a Self-Advocacy Strategy as a Means of Improving Progress in the General Curriculum for Individuals with Cognitive Disabilities, Amy L. Schelling
Short-Term Nicotine Abstinence and Decision Making, Gabriel D. Searcy
Dosed Versus Prolonged Exposures: A Direct Comparison of One-Session Treatments for Animal Phobias, Richard William Seim
Soviet Holocaust Survivors: An Ethnographic Study, Marina Shafran
Contemporary Arab-American and Middle Eastern Women's Voices: New Visions of "Home", Abdullah Kheiro A. Shehabat
Examination of Anxiety and Substance Use Symptoms in Trauma Exposed Versus Environmentally Stressed College Students, Theresa M. Souza
Social Justice Advocacy and Counselor Education: A Study of Counselor Educators' and Counseling Interns' Perceptions of Social Justice Advocacy Training, Darryl C. Steele
Highly Qualified Public School Teacher: Its Status, Distribution, Determinants, and Relationship with Job Commitment and Job Satisfaction, Samuel Striker
AFTER: A POEM, John Chad Sweeney
Understanding the Career Paths and Experiences of Division I-A Athletic Directors: A Phenomenological Study, Harold Thomas Swift
Reading, Writing, and Repetition: Performance on Nonword Measures byStudents With and Without Language-Learning Disabilities, Patricia J. Tattersall
Generalization or Specialization in High School Based Health Careers Transition Programs: What Is the Impact on the Health Care Work Force Shortage?, James Wm. Taylor
Characterizing Potential Sustainable Energy Feedstocks, Jesse George Thompson
All I Am: Defining Music as an Emotional Catalyst through a Sociological Study of Emotions, Gender and Culture, Adrienne M. Trier-Bieniek
Counselor Trainees' Experience of Analyzing Their Counseling Sessions During a Master's-Level Practicum, Abbie VanDerWege
Latina Women’s Reasons for and Experience of Sexual Assault Disclosure: A Qualitative Investigation, Melissa Villarreal
Assessing the Effects of a Rectangular Rapid-Flashing Beacon on Vehicle Speeds along a Four-Lane Divided Highway, Michelle Van Wagner
A National Study of Parental Involvement: Its Trends, Status and Effects on School Success, Alandra Washington
The Role of Evaluations in Community Foundations, Brad R. Watts
Spectroscopic Study of New Sensors for Organophosphates, Metals, and Cyanide Based on Rhodamine and Cholic Acid Derivatives, Arambe Gedara Aruna Weerasinghe
Professional Development Experiences of Indiana K-12 Public School Teachers: Evidence from the SASS 2007-2008, Patrick David Weil
Exploring the Experiences of Living with a Controversial Illness in Patients with Fibromyalgia, Samantha L. Wheeler
Study Abroad Program Design, Personal Development and Intercultural Effectiveness, Margaret Davis Wiedenhoeft
Effectiveness of a Motivational Enhancement Group Treatment in a Community Treatment Program with a Substance Abusing Population, Matthew S. Willerick
Robust Nonparametric Methods for Regression to the Mean Model, Therawat Wisadrattanapong
Administrator Perspectives of Post-Secondary Educational Opportunities for Michigan High School Students, Carl Wozniak
The Experiences of Married International Graduate Students and Their Accompanying Non-Student Spouses in the US Culture: A Qualitative Study, Adriana Yellig
An Analog Experiment Comparing Goal-Free Evaluation and Goal Achievement Evaluation Utility, Brandon W. Youker
Molecular, Cellular and Systemic Effects of Atrazine on the Xenopus Laevis Tadpole, Renee Maryanne Zaya
Advanced Placement Courses and College Student Success: Evidence from BPS: 96/01, Jinhai Zhang
Dissertations from 2010
Dielectronic Recombination for Aluminum-Like Ions and Photoabsorption Cross Sections for Magnesium Ions at the K-Edge, Shahin Ahmed Abdel-Azim Abdel Naby
An Automated Framework for Defect Detection in Concrete Bridge Decks Using Fractals and Independent Component Analysis, Fadi Abu-Amara
A Decision Model for Nurse-to-Patient Assignment, Ilgin Acar
Composing Ourselves: Utilizing Literacy Narratives to Promote Knowledge and Reflection in Preservice Secondary English Teachers, Cheryl Henderson Almeda
Pattern Recognition for Fault Detection, Classification, and Localization in Electrical Power Systems, Qais Hashim Alsafasfeh
Synthesis and Characterization of Monolayer Protected Gold Nanoparticles and a Gold-Titanium Dioxide Nanocomposite intended for Photocatalytic Degradation of Environmental Pollutants, Piyadarsha Amaratunga
Orientation and Mobility, Reading, and Math: Analysis of Data for Children with Visual Impairments from the Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study, Dawn L. Anderson
The Predictive Power of Therapeutic Alliance on Treatment Retention, James B. Anderson
The Impact of Mentoring Pre-Service Teachers on the Mentor Teacher, Patti Andrea
The Abortion Attitudes of Counselor, Social Worker, and Nursing Trainees, Mary J. Ball
High-Throughput Screening Studies of Inhibition of Human Carbonic Anhydrase II and Bacterial Flagella Antimicrobial Activity, Albert A. Barrese III
What Role for Ethnicity? Political Behavior and Mobilization in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone and Liberia, Fodei Joseph Batty
Applying Case Characteristics to Expand Outcome Measures and Strengthen Effectiveness in a State Family Preservation Services Program, Randy Jay Baxter
Life and Local Administration on Fifteenth Century Genoese Chios, Brian Nathaniel Becker
The k-Cores of a Graph, Allan Bickle
Glaciotectonic Deformation along the Valparaiso Upland in Southwest Michigan, USA, Brian C. Bird
Paths to Upper Level Positions in Public Relations, Patrick J. Bishop
Assessing Michigan School Counselors' Preparedness to Meet the Needs of Attractional/Sexual Minority Students, J. Frederick Bland
Where I Turn Bad, Michelle Ann Bonczek
Development of a Task Assignment Tool to Customize Job Descriptions and Close Person-Job Fit Gaps, Bryan W. Booker
Experimental Analysis of Gambling Using a Concurrent-Schedules Procedure, Andrew Ellis Brandt
The Influence of Conflict Resolution Programs on Student Conduct Violations in Middle Schools with a School Uniform Policy, Edward C. Breitenbach
The Taifa of Denia and the Medieval Mediterranean, Travis Bruce
The Allocation of Time and Goods: Three Essays on American Household Shopping Behavior, Jing Cai
LGB-Affirmative Therapists' Use of Developmental Models of LGB-Identity in Therapy. A Phenomenological Investigation, Victoria E. Cane
Ability of Clinicians-In-Training to Recognize Vicarious Traumatization: A Multiple Case Study, Amy Cavanaugh
Tongueless: Representation of the Mentally Disabled and the Novel, Brent Walter Cline
Design of Adaptive Collective Foraging in Swarm Robotic Systems, Hanyi Dai
A Study of the Impact of a K-12 School District–University Doctoral Cohort on District Leadership Capacity, Sharon Davis
Inner-Shell Photodetachment of Transition Metal Negative Ions, Ileana Dumitriu
Essays on Export Destination Decisions and Spillovers from Inward FDI: Evidence from Chilean Manufacturing Plants, Ivan A. Duran Diaz
Option Pricing and Stable Trading Strategies in the Presence of Information Asymmetry, Anirban Dutta
The Phenomenology of the Bachelor of Science in HVAC Engineering Technology from Ferris State University, Michael Feutz
An Examination of the Leadership Practices of Effective Rural Superintendents: A Multiple Case Study, Mark Forner
Trial and Error, Delayed Prompting, and Reinforcement of Prompted Responses in Teaching Receptive Identification of Pictures, Kristen Lynn Gaisford
A Study on the Productivity and Efficiency Effects of Enterprise Reforms in China, Song Gao