All master’s theses completed and available to us at Western Michigan University since 1941 have been entered into ScholarWorks. Some may be embargoed or restricted by the authors and may be only available from on-campus computers. Print copies from earlier years are available through interlibrary loan. If you have any questions, please contact wmu-scholarworks@wmich.edu.
Theses from 2009
"Switching Gears" to Higher Education: New Student Social and Academic Assimilation in a First Year Experience Seminar, Catherine M. VanDerMaas
Environmental Influences on the Activity Patterns of a Captive Group of Spider Monkeys (Ateles Fusciceps Rufiventris), Erin Michelle Van Regenmorter
Geology and Biostratigraphy of the Freighter Gap Region, Great Divide Basin, Southwestern Wyoming, John Mark Van Regenmorter
The Impact of Acceptance and Commitment Training on Safe Posture During an Assembly Task, Sarah E. VanStelle
Increasing Learner Participation Rates for a Blended Learning Curriculum Using a Combination of Goal-Setting, Feedback, and Praise, Michelle VanWagner
Investigation on Capacitive and Acoustic Wave Transducers for Bio/Chemical Sensing, Vidhyavathi Venkataraman
Luminous Accretion Disks of Quasars, Anjali Vyas
Simulation of Fabric Dynamics In a Spinning Horizontal Drum, Peter Wagoner
Riccoldo da Monte Croce's Ad Nationes Orientales: A Study of a Fourteenth-Century Dominican Missionary Manual, Lydia Marie Walker
Salvinorin A Establishes Conditioned Place Aversion in Male Sprague-Dawley Rats, Sheryl L. Walker
Experimental Investigation of Interference Effects in Electron Emission from O2 by Impact with MeV/u H+ and O5,8+ Ions, Melike Winkworth
The Political Participation of Racial Groups in the United States Political System, Rachelle B. Yecke
Theses from 2008
A Closed Cycle 3He/4He Dilution Refrigerator for Use In Cryogenic Studies, Daniel Roy Adams
A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Interval and Full-Session Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates Procedures with Preschool Children, Season M. Almason
Effect of High Temperature Drying of Paper on Heat Transfer Rates and Sheet Properties, Dania Awni Al-Said
The Impact of the European Economy on an Indigenous Productive Regime: Coca Production in the Yungas of La Paz, 1548-1570, Krista Anderson
Religion, Politics, and Terror: Determinants of Tolerance for Radical Islamist Ideology in America, Jacob A. Armstrong
An Investigation of Kavilorai: A Hero Stone Site in the Nilgiri Mountains of South India, Jacob Landon Bach
Mobile Phone Communication Competence (MPCC): Development and Validation of a New Measure, Emil Bakke
The Effect of Acute Resistance Training on Resting Metabolic Rate in Men, Steven William Ball
An Arab American, Ali Y. Bazzi
Mining for Public and State Approval: Corporate Strategies for Metallic Sulfide Mining on Michigan’s Yellow Dog Plains, Teresa A. Bertossi
Where Was the Government? In Inquiry into the Events of September 11, 2001, Elizabeth A. Bradshaw
Relative Timing of Speech Motor Events at Utterance Invitation in Persons Who Do and Do Not Stutter, Bryan Thomas Brown
Coatings for Printing of Conductive Traces, Omkar Chandorkar
Analysis of Spatial Distribution of Hazardous Wastes in Semcog Region, Michigan, Junfang Chen
Incorporation of Space Syntax Theory in Determining Safe and Efficient Construction Site Layout, Minsuck Cho
Effectiveness of Improving Performance with the Bigger Faster Stronger In-Season Training Program, Alicia D. Crelinsten
Investigating the Effectiveness of a Raised Hand and Extended Arm to Increase Motorist Yielding Near Uncontrolled Crosswalks, Brian J. Crowley-Koch
Taiwanese Buddhist Nuns, Amy DeBoer
Kukai in The Making: Premodern and Modern Buddhist Redaction in the Modern Construction of Kukai, Nathan F. DeBoer
Optical and Electrochemical Molecular and Nanoscale Sensors for the Selective Detection of Organophosphorus Based Pesticides, Chandrima De
The Effects of Sodium Citrate Ingestion Upon Performance and Metabolic Factors Related to Cycling, Jonathan Decker
Laboratory Tests of Schumasoil® Well Screens for Free Product Recovery, Tamara M. DeFrain
A Comparative Analysis of Pixel-Based and Object-Oriented Image Analysis Methods Using Landsat Imagery, Jason Joseph Delisio
Breaking Protocol: The Failure of the Bush Administration to Ratify the Kyoto Protocol as A State Crime, Jacquelynn A. Doyon
Lack of Professional Identity Leads to Increased Levels of Burnout in Occupational Therapy, Heather Edwards
The Hope of a New College Town at Western Michigan Through Mixed-Use Development and Creation of a Student Consumer District, James Paul Eichstaedt
A New Hierarchical and Adaptive Protocol for Minimum-Delay V2v Communication, Mohammed Elbes
Distribution of Fluoride in Groundwater in Selected Villages in Northern Red Sea and Anseba Regions of Eritrea, Filmon Tsegay Fisseha
A Comparative Study of Physician Knowledge, Attitudes, Referral Practices, and Barriers to Use of Music Therapy and Related Allied Health Professions, Rebecca Elayn Frohardt
Effects of Different Intensity Bouts of Resistance Exercise but Equal Work on Excess Post-Exercise Oxygen Consumption, Milos Galecic
The Physics of Electron Degenerate Matter in White Dwarf Stars, Subramanian Vilayur Ganapathy
An Evaluation of Preference for Modeling Interventions, Kaneen B. Geiger
Living and Dying on the Margins: A Journey into the Culture of Pink and Black Women’s Narrative Accounts of Breast Cancer, Cleothia Gill
Investigative Study on an Energy Theorem for Developing Testing Functions for Numerical Simulations of Multibody Dynamic Systems, Kulasegaram Gugaratshan
A Comparative Analysis of the 1876 and 2000 U.S. Presidential Elections, Michael Scott Gutowsky
The Punishment Fits the Crime: Ownership, Gift-Giving, and Theft in Anglo-Saxon England, Jill Diane Hamilton
Backstripping the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure: Differentiating Regional Tectonics from Impact Effects, Travis Gary Hayden
An Evaluation of the Challenge Day Program, Deborah S. Higgins
Cathodic Protection of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Decks, Joshua Thomas Host
Improving Query Efficiency of Multiresolution Data Aggregation for Analytical Exploration of Large Relational Dataset, Yu-Ting Huang
The Women of the Pere de Folgueres Register: A Study of Women in Barcelona, 1338, Amy Hudson
Identifying the Most Effective Stimulus to Promote Wayfinding in Elders with Dementia, Allison A. Jay
Single Mothers in Higher Education: The Impact and Emotional Management of Memorable Messages, Marne J. Johnson
Testing the Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavior and Medication Therapy in the Acute Treatment on Unipolar Mood Disorders: Processes and Case Histories, Alyssa H. Kalata
A Survey of Elementary School Technology Needs: A Needs Assessment, Shaun Kellogg
Prospects and Limitations for Ecocultural Tourism in the City: Developing an Urban Heritage Water Trail on the Portage Creek, Eric Mark Kerney
Supporting Divorcing Parents in Japan, Akemi Kishimoto
N-(Deoxyadenosine-8-YL)-4-Aminobiphenyl Adduct Formation in Vitro on TP53 EXON7 Genome: Quantitation by LC-ESI-MS/MS, Paul René Knoll
Origin of Size-Dependent Energy Transfer from Photoexcited CdSe Quantum Dots and Fluorescent Dyes to Gold Nanoparticles, Mariana Kondon
National Park Service Interpretive Programs: Making Your Park Visit More Meaningful, Raymond J. Koole
Generalization of Mands for Information across Establishing Operations, Sarah A. Lechago
Morphological Analysis of the Charlevoix-Antrim and Northport Drumlin Fields, Michigan Using Digital Elevation Models, Alan M. LeFever
A Geophysical Survey of Fort St. Joseph (20BE23), Niles, Michigan, Daniel P. Lynch
The Impact of Humidity and Temperature on the Performance of Printed Conductive Inks, Abhinay Mahajan
The Debate Between Creation Science and Evolutionary Theory as Evidence for the Inadequacy of the Secularization Paradigm, Randi J. McLeod
Making Marginal Progress: Medieval Christendom's First Attempt to Study Islam, Anthony Minnema
Single Muslim Young Adults: Negotiating Identities, Religion And Desire, Zarinah El-Amin Naeem
Blocked Localized Wavefunction Analysis of π and σ Bonds in the Metal Carbonyl, Kazuhito Nakashima
Fostering Democracy in Iraq, Tristam E. Niederer
Analysis of Pore Architecture and Correlation to Sonic Velocity Values in Silurian (Niagaran) Reefs of the Michigan Basin, Amy Kathryn Noack
Characterization of p62, HAH1 and their Interaction with the Wilson Disease Protein, Paul Sifuna Oshule
Music and Literacy: Current Trends and Common Approaches of Music Therapists in Early Childhood and School Settings, Julie A. Palmieri
Effect of Calendering of Flexographically Printed Silver Flake Ink, Sujay Pandkar
The Possibility of Producing Biodiesel Fuel from Wood Pulping by Products, Yan Pu
Ductile-Regime Machining of Silicon Carbide and Quartz, Deepak Ravindra
Generation and Analysis of FCG Data using a Single Specimen and Kmax - ∆K Testing Matrix, Sree Phani Chandar Reddy
Using Composite Sampling Techniques to Monitor Bathing Beach Water Quality in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Jeffrey David Reicherts
Military Voting From a Combat Zone, Robert E. Reichner
Three Sunsets for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra, Adam Matthew Reifsteck
Evaluating The Controls on Reservoir Heterogeneity of Silurian Pinnacle Reefs, Michigan Basin, Audrey L. Ritter
Watch out for the Freshman 15: An Investigation and Interpretation of Memorable Health Messages Received by College Students, Lindsey Marie Rose
Rural Tourism as an Alternative to Rural Development in the State of Para, Brazil, Ana Christina Sawada Cutrim
Iterative Design of the Aeroship through Flight Testing, Michael R. Schulte
Three Moments and Change, Adam Schumaker
Too Little, Too Late: The Current Generation of College Women and Sexual Health Education, Nicole C. Schumaker
Schedule Thinning Following Mand Training: Attempts to Enhance Signaled Delay to Reinforcement, Jamie M. Severtson
Influence of Bioirrigation on Metal Distribution within Burrows, Terri Shattuck
Watching Satan’s Daughters: A Visual Analysis of Lesbian Pulp Fiction Cover Art, 1950-1969, Carrie Shaver
Black Women, Beauty, and Labor: Towards an Archaeology of African-American Women in Indianapolis, Indiana, Genesis M. Snyder
Perils on the High Seas: The Effects of Submersion and Containment on Human Decomposition in Saltwater, Celene Aundrea Sotkowy
Prediction of Fatigue Crack Growth Retardation due to a Tensile Overload Using Two-Parameter (∆K, Kmax) Approach, Wataru Tsutsui
Deference of Defiance? Principal-Agent Theory and the US Courts of Appeals during the Rehnquist and Burger Courts, Nathaniel R. Vanden Brook
Documenting Aguaje Palm Swamp Area and Conditions in the Peruvian Amazon, Malinda Van Sledright
Evaluation of the Discriminative Stimulus Effects of 1,4-Butanediol, a Metabolic Precursor of Gammahydroxybutyrate, Timothy J. Van Tilburg
Ferro Ingenio: An Archaeological and Ethnohistorical View of Labor and Empire in Colonial Porco and Potosi, Brendan J. M. Weaver