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Theses/Dissertations from 2015
The Portrait Potential Gender, Identity, and Devotion in Manuscript Owner Portraits, 1230–1320
Maeve Doyle
History of Art
Growth in Math Skills and Response to Math Intervention in Kindergarten
Hannah R. Ebin
Psychology
Egon Schiele’s Double Self Portraiture
Lori Anne Felton
History of Art
Nonexistence of Solutions to Certain Families of Diophantine Equations
Eva G. Goedhart
Mathematics
The Santo Sepulcro in Torres del Río (Navarra): Historiography, National Identity and a Reconsideration of “Mozárabic” and “Mudéjar” Architecture
Robin Haedong Kim
History of Art
Copper Metallurgy in Cilicia and the Amuq in the Second Millennium BC: Insights into Aspects of Bronze Age Technology and Trade
Emre Kuruçayırlı
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Cangianti and Shot Silk: Material Influence on Artistic Practice in Central Italian Painting from 1300 to 1550
Melissa Jane Meier
History of Art
The Influence of Comorbid Trauma Symptomatology on the Treatment of Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder with Exposure and Response Prevention
Beth L. Mugno
Psychology
Culture-in-Action: A Membership Categorization Analysis of Doctor-Patient Interactions in New Zealand General Practice
Justine Polster
Social Work and Social Research
Culture-in-Action: A Membership Categorization Analysis of Doctor-Patient Interactions in New Zealand General Practice.
Justine Polster
Social Work and Social Research
Exploring Pteridine Chemistry in Two Bioinorganic Systems
Benjamin R. Williams
Chemistry
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Theory of Mind and Metamemory in Old Age
Alyssa Caroline Bressler
Psychology
Mindfulness and Cognition in Older Adults
Rebecca Bubb
Psychology
Enantioselective Conjugate Additions to a Hindered Cyclohexenone System
Sarah Burke
Chemistry
Resonant Dipole-Dipole Energy Transfer Dynamics in a Frozen Rydberg Gas
Donald P. Fahey
Physics
An investigation of the redox properties and application of Ru (II) and Ir (III) complexes containing multiple metal c enters
Ryan J. Fealy
Chemistry
Cinema at the Crossroads: Bruce Conner’s Atomic Sublime, 1958 - 2008
Johanna Gosse
History of Art
The Archaeology of Hittite Imperialism and Ceramic Production in Late Bronze Age IIA Tarsus-Gözlükule, Turkey
Steven Karacic
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Individual differences in frequency and type of gesture production: Relationship to personal characteristics
Kristin Kopple
Psychology
Reading Achievement in High - Stak es Testing: Patterns and Predictability Across Time
Karen E. Landman
Psychology
Predicting and Tracking Mathematics Growth Using High - Stakes Test Scores: An Examination of Latent Growth and Latent Class Models
Thomas C. Mack
Psychology
Evidence-based Practice: An Exploration of Meaning Making Among Leaders of Community Coalitions
Gail Manza
Social Work and Social Research
Roman Nostalgia Exemplarity and Romanitas in Late Republican and Imperial Literature
Eleanor V. Mulhern
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies
Intention Discrimination and Attribution
Suzanne Mischell Nangle
Psychology
Work experience, coherence, and well - being: an examination of coherence and later work measures
Amy M. Paris
Psychology
Analyzing Well-being in Late Life: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
Sarah E. Scheckter
Psychology
Kaluza-Klein Reduction of Pure Gravity and its Implications for K3 Surface Compactifications
Elliott Tammaro
Physics
"Prospering in the Trees": The Meaning of Privacy for Incarcerated Women
Barb Toews
Social Work and Social Research
Mapping the Internalization of Parts of Speech in the Spoken Interlanguage of Adult American Learners of Russian from Level 1 to Level 3
Irina K. Walsh
Russian
A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis of Psychosocial Interventions for Adults who were Sexually Abused as Children
Jessica Schaffner Wilen
Social Work and Social Research
Valued Copies: Devotional Practice and Painting Workshop Production in the Burgundian Netherlands
Angélique R. Wille
History of Art
Design and Synthesis of Hydroxylamine Derivatives as Indoleamine - 2,3 - Dioxygenase Inhibitors
Maria Winters
Chemistry
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Synthesis of a Family of Polyether-Substituted Phenacenes
Alyssa Bohen
Chemistry
Lapithos: the Upper Geometric Cemetery
Stella Diakou
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Resonant Space, Sonorous Time: The Varieties of Acoustic Phenomena in the Art of Christian Marclay
Matthew C. Féliz
History of Art
Dark Matter Detection with the Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber Collaboration
Vincent C. Gregoric
Physics
A Colony Within: Art and Identity in London’s East End since World War II
Amy E. Haavik-MacKinnon
History of Art
Credulous Spectatorship from Zeuxis to Barthes
Carrie Robbins
History of Art
Why Be Mindful?: A Profile Approach to Understanding the Role of Motivation in Emotion Regulation
Joanna Scott
Psychology
Female Friendship in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Jessica M. Sisk
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies
Young Children’s Perceptions of Morally Relevant Behavior in Adults and Children
Sarah Ashley Teague Duda
Psychology
Temperament in Infants at Heightened Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder
Breanna M. Winder
Psychology
To Educate a Nation: A Case Study on Adult Literacy & Women in Ghana
Kyra Turner Zogbekor
Social Work and Social Research
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
World Image after World Empire: The Ptolemaic Cosmos in the Early Middle Ages, ca. 700-900
Benjamin W. Anderson
History of Art
Explicit Grammar Instruction and the Acquisition of Second Language Verbal Morphology: A Framework for Generalized Learning in Second Language Acquisition
Mark W. Baugher
Russian
Staging the Post-conflict City: Tourism, Urban Change, and Symbolic Contestation in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Emily Bereskin
History of Art
Investigating Syntactic and Lexical Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in the Writing of Heritage Speakers of Russian
Evgeny Dengub
Russian
How to Ask for a Favor: An Exploration of Speech Act Pragmatics in Heritage Russian
Irina Yevgenievna Dubinina
Russian
The Development of Pragmatic Competence and Perception of Requests by American Learners of the Russian Language
Valentina N. Amelkina Dunn
Russian
Malevich’s Post-Suprematist Paintings and the Construction of History
Marie E. Gasper-Hulvat
History of Art
Futurist Aeropainting: Extended Women and the Kingdom of the Machine
Jennifer Griffiths
History of Art
A Walk through the Past: Toward the Study of Archaeological Museums in Italy, Greece, and Israel
Andrea Guzzetti
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
The Mechanics of Regaining Balance in Pirouettes
Melanie B. Lott
Physics
The Effect of Mindfulness on Racial Stereotype Activation and Application
Carmelinda Mann
Psychology
Circle-Valued Generating Family Invariants
Christopher Micklewright
Mathematics
Notions of Universality and Difference: Nineteenth-Century Mexican Costumbrismo
Mey-Yen Moriuchi
History of Art
The Speech Act of Complaint in English and in Russian and its Emergence in the Pragmatic Competence of Adult American Learners of Russian
Beata Moskala-Gallaher
Russian
Household Shrines and Cults in Roman Achaia: A New Approach to Examining Cultural Change under the Roman Empire
Catherine W. Person
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Paul Gauguin’s Self-Portraiture and the Concept of Androgyny
Irina Stotland
History of Art
On the Surface of a Thessalian City: The Urban Survey of Kastro Kallithea, Greece
Laura E. Surtees
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Middle and Late Bronze Age Metal Tools from the Aegean, Eastern Mediterranean, and Anatolia: Implications for Cultural/Regional Interaction and Craftmanship
Nicholas G. Blackwell
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Frank Stella, Anne Truitt, Robert Ryman, and Abstraction in the Sixties
Rebecca L. Dubay
History of Art
The DSM and Social Work: Twenty Years after Kutchins and Kirk
Kristine Hitchens
Social Work and Social Research
The Relationships Among Styles of Mindfulness Engagement, Components of Emotion Regulation, and Heart Rate Variability
Heejin Kim
Psychology
Dyadic Emotion Processes in the Prediction of Intimate Partner Violence
Sarah E. Marvin
Psychology
Specific Objects: Lee Bontecou’s Steel and Canvas Reliefs, 1959-1964
Lesley E. Shipley
History of Art
Acculturation and Relational Family Values in Korean Immigrants
Soo Hyun Sung
Psychology
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Understanding the Factors That Have Contributed to the Maintenance of a Jamaican Identity despite Assimilation Pressures Faced by Jamaican Immigrants Living in the United States of America
Juliet Campbell-Farrell
Social Work and Social Research
The Low Down on the Down Low: An Investigation into the Discordance between Sexual Identity and Sexual Behavior
Thomas P. Duffin
Social Work and Social Research
Baby Boom Women: Seeking Meaning, Satisfaction in Retirement
Fontaine H. Fulghum
Social Work and Social Research
Continuous Dependence on Modeling for Ill-posed Evolution Problems
Matthew Fury
Mathematics
The Relationship between Relational Family Values and Identity Status of First-Generation and Non-First-Generation College Students
Alisa J. Horwitz
Psychology
Situating Child Care Concerns: Child Care Instability in Neighborhood and Policy Contexts
Linda Houser
Social Work and Social Research
Extent to Which Social Workers Use NASW Ethical Standards
Jacqueline Marie Lynch
Social Work and Social Research
Early Greek and Homeric Conceptions of Domestic Space
Lisa Mallen
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Building a Better Model for the Molybdenum Cofactor: A New Class of Molybdenum Dithiolene Complexes
Kelly Ginion Matz
Chemistry
The Intelligibility and Comprehensibility of Learner Speech in Russian: A Study in the Salience of Pronunciation, Lexicon, Grammar and Syntax
Jill A. Neuendorf
Russian
An Ecological Perspective on Theory of Mind: The Development of Understanding Other Minds within the Context of Adverse Childhood Experiences
Megan Austin Pashley
Psychology
"Ceausescu's Orphans": Narrating the Crisis of Romanian International Child Adoption
Melania C. Popa-Mabe
Social Work and Social Research
Care Is Not a Family Value: Gender Frames and the Discourse of "Baby UI"
Jennifer Stotter
Social Work and Social Research
Relative Khovanov-Jacobsson Classes for Spanning Surfaces
Jonah Swann
Mathematics
Potential Energy Surfaces for Intermolecular Proton Transfers in Crystalline Aspirin: A Computational Study
Matthew E. Wampole
Chemistry
Bounding the Number of Solutions to Tetranomial Thue Equations
Daniel P. Wisniewski
Mathematics
The Construction of Corinthian Identity in the Early Iron Age and Archaic Period
Angela Ziskowski
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Cross-Informant Agreement between Parents and Adolescents in 20 Cultures
Sofia Giuliana Artom-Ginzburg
Psychology
Volunteer Firefighting
Jeannette Boland Wyatt
Social Work and Social Research
An Investigation of the Interactions between DNA and a Family of Ruthenium(II) Pteridinyl Complexes
Shannon R. Dalton
Chemistry
A Regional Ceramic Analysis of Iron Age II Southeastern Arabia
Crystal D. Fritz
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
L(p) Estimates for Oscillatory Singular Integral Operators and Marcinkiewicz Integral Operators
Ayako Fukui
Mathematics
Quid facit cum evangeliis Maro? The Cultural Background of Sedulius' Intertextual Argument with Vergil in the Paschale carmen
Eric J. Hutchinson
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies
"What Do Lots of Kids Like?" How the Understanding of Normative Preferences Affects Desire-based Reasoning in Preschool Children
Julie E. James
Psychology
Nuvuk, Point Barrow, Alaska: The Thule Cemetery and Ipiutak Occupation
Anne M. Jensen
Anthropology
Art, Trade, and Patronage in Seventeenth-Century Lima: Francisco de Zurbarán's Commission for the Convent of La Encarnación
Lori Kata
History of Art
Blue Riders of the Apocalypse: Kandinsky and Marc in the German Apocalyptic Tradition
Linda Leeuwrik
History of Art
Pre-Exposure and Recovery in Activity-Based Anorexia
Yevgeniya Ratnovsky
Psychology
Preschoolers' Use of Personality Traits to Predict and Explain Behavior
Mary Mabel Riggio
Psychology
Velázquez: The Spanish Style and the Art of Devotion
Lawrence L. Saporta
History of Art
Hoi perì tò hierón: A Study of Sacerdotal Housing at Ancient Greek Sanctuaries
Deborah Elizabeth Stewart
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
An Investigation of the Predictive Validity of Kindergarten Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) to the Third Grade Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA)
Danielle D. Trucksess
Psychology