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Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Impact of Educator Preparation Routes and Teacher Characteristics on Student Academic Achievement, Robert Hagerman
The Curriculum of Cultural Reconciliation at West Virginia State University and the General Education Curriculum, Michael Carpenter Harris II
Student attributes related to dual enrollment baccalaureate degree outcomes in a rural state, Charles Scott Inghram
The effect of athlete celebrity endorsement on attitude toward brand and purchase intention, Yunheui Jeon
Awareness of Clery Act Reporting Requirements Across Institutional Strata in West Virginia Community and Technical Colleges, Christina C. Johnson
The Alt-right's use of President Donald Trump's Twitter account as a propaganda device, Erin Nicole Jorden
Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus) telemetry techniques and translocation, Michael Thomas Jungen
Freshwater Mussels of the Greenup Navigational Pool, Ohio River, with a Comparison to Fish Host Communities, Mitchell David Kriege
Principal Perceptions of the Effectiveness of WVBE Policy 5800: Standards of Professional Practice for West Virginia Superintendents, Principals and Teacher Leaders, Allen Ray Laugh Jr.
The Anatomy of the Carpal Tunnel and Hand Function of Musicians, Emily Ann Lorenzen
"This Isn't for You, This Is for Me": Women in Cosplay and Their Experiences Combatting Harassment and Stigma, Christopher M. Lucas
Role of N-acetyl-seryl-aspartyl-lysyl-proline (Ac-SDKP) and renal hemodynamics on obesity related renal damage, Mani Maheshwari
A Poetic Exploration of Landscape and Negation in Larry Levis's The Dollmaker’s Ghost, Cynthia McComas
The Life History of Faxonius rusticus (Girard, 1852) in Sunfish Creek, Monroe County, Ohio, Kyle McGill
An Extension of the Jeu de Taquin, Joanna McKinney
"Impracticable, inhospitable, and dismal country": An examination of the environmental impact on Civil War military operations in West Virginia, John Martin McMillan
Are Higher Education Institutions Addressing the Employment Needs of Clinical Laboratories in Rural Areas?, Pamela Dawn Meadows
Weathered Mountains: A Qualitative Study of West Virginia Women and their Perceptions of Strength, Land, and Womanhood, Danielle Renee Mullins
The Progressive Distribution of Sentences Containing Relative Clauses in Japanese Textbooks of English, Risa Nakagawa
A systemic functional analysis of TOEFL sample writings, Yuki Nakamura
Thumb Sticks and Hand Grenades : An Analysis of War and Perspectives in Video Games, Jonathan Ked Nance
Relationship between the WJ-IV ACH reading tests and the GORT-5, Emily D. Nestor
Effect of Empagliflozin on insulin sensitivity in the lean and obese Zucker rat: a model of metabolic syndrome, Veda Gayatri Sushma Penta
Effective iPad Instruction: A Qualitative Study Comparing Classroom Practices to the Technology Integration Matrix, Bridget Phillips
Exploring the Regulatory Mechanism of the Notch Ligand Receptor Jagged1 Via the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor in Breast Cancer, Sean Alan Piwarski
Targeted Limb Heating Augments the Actions of IGF1 in the Growth Plate and Increases Bone Elongation in Growing Mice, Holly Lyn Racine
A Characterization of West Virginia Coyotes (Canis Latrans) Utilizing Skull Morphology, Katharina E. Scholer
Using TPACK to explore the integration of virtual microscopes into an introductory biology course, Bobbie Seyedmonir
The Truth About Literature: An Examination of Emotion and Ethics Across Genre, Christian Alexander Simms
Amphibians Among Road-Rut Pools in West Virginia, Abby L. Sinclair
Modeling Chlorophyll Concentrations on the Ohio River using Remotely Sensed Data, Thaddaeus Stephen Tuggle
The Floating Head of Feminism: The Domesticated Domain and Erasure of the Female (No)body in Contemporary Television and Cinema, Alicia Brooke Turner
Effectiveness of Tranexamic Acid Administration on Intraoperative Blood Loss in Elective Craniofacial Surgery, Kimberly Marie Vance
Exploring the Perspectives and Experiences of Physicians in WV who Prescribe Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) to Patients with Opioid use Disorder (OUD), Kimberly Ann White
An investigation of the relationship between selected superintendent attributes and instructional leadership practices, Leatha G. Williams
Using Environmental DNA and Occupancy Modeling to Examine Drivers of Eastern Hellbender Extirpation and Sampling Method Efficiency in West Virginia, Sean Michael Wineland
Teachers' practices and perceptions concerning the implementation of inquiry-based instruction in middle school science, Jill E. Wood
Design and simulation of a pneumatic actuator bending soft robotics based on 3D printing, Chenyu Zheng
Smartphone-Based Self Rescue System for Disaster Rescue, Xitong Zhou
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Thematic patterning in English and Arabic and its implications on translation, Saud Abdulrahman Alshehri
Perceptions of the athletic training profession by a collegiate athlete patient population, Bethany Estelle Beuhring
Music of the “Cult of Whitman”: Charles Villiers Stanford's Elegiac Ode, Jacob Bird
A learning model of community collaboration in West Virginia, Tracy L. Bradley
Bad things to good people: Stories, Christopher Ryne Brewer
Smoke and Silver: Money, Credit, and the Failure of Economic Diversification in the Seventeenth Century Virgina, Christopher Calton
The Effects of Rape Myth Acceptance, Benevolent Sexism, Characterological Self-Blame, and Behavioral Self-blame on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Severity, Jacob Whitaker Camp
A Study of the Influence of Branded Messages on Non-branded Food Items When Presented to 10 to 14-year-old Children, Cassandra J. Chinn
Familial Attitudes and Behaviors as Predictors of Transgenderism, Angela Dawn Cockrell
A Study of the WV Judges' Truancy Program Used in Eight WV Counties from 2012-2015, Lori Gibson Comer
Planet Superman: An ecocritical analysis of the Man of Steel from 1938-2017, Justin Hart Crary
The Assessment of Medial Stability of the Elbow Using Sonography and Three Clinical Tests, Andrew Michael DeMoss
A comparative analysis of stress responses in diverse Acanthamoeba isolates, Mallory Jean Douthitt
Sensitivity Analysis of Wolf Restoration in Yellowstone Nation Park Using Omnivory Models, Derek Fields
Employing the enzyme cofactor function of ascorbic acid to affect oncogenic pathways in human melanoma: modulating Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1α and DNA demethylation to reduce malignant potential, Adam Patrick Fischer
The Power to Overcome: The Resistance and Resiliency of Black Motherhood, Nathan Full
Doxorubicin Cytotoxicity in a Human Proximal Tubular Epithelial Cell Line was Attenuated by the Natural Product Resveratrol, Morghan Schuyler Getty
Career Paths, Barriers, and Professional Experiences: A Comparison Study of Physical Therapy Program Directors in the United States, Tamara Nancy Gravano
Intraoperative Administration of Intravenous Acetaminophen at Induction or End of Surgery and its Relationship with Opioid Consumption and Pain Scores, Spencer Davis Greenwood
Principal and Faculty Senate Chair Perceptions of Faculty Senate Participation in Teacher Hiring in West Virginia Schools, Sarah Elizabeth Grose
Creating a Female Athlete: The Power of Societal Reimaging and Advertising in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League, Kaitlyn M. Haines
"United We'll Win our Stand": The Role of Focalization in Representing Solidarity in the Anthems of Three Holocaust Concentration Camps, Hillary Louise Herold
The Role of Evidence-Based Research in the Decision-Making Process as Perceived by Local Board of Education Policymakers in West Virginia, Elizabeth Anne Hoylman
"The Whole Building Is A Classroom": An Oral History of a School's Role in the Culture of the Community, Valerie Free Jones
The Influence on Morbidity and Mortality when Blood Products are Transfused using Conventional Coagulation Tests Versus TEG or ROTEM in Trauma Patients Perioperatively, Teresa Diana Kelley
A comparison of self-perceived test-taking motivation on large scale high- and low-stakes tests, Randall Joseph King
Desperate and Determined Men: West Virginia's Lincoln County Feud, Brandon Ray Kirk
Forging a Bluegrass Commonwealth: The Kentucky Statehood Movement and the Politics of the Trans-Appalachian West, 1783–1792, Christopher L. Leadingham
Examining Risk Perceptions and Efficacy for Healthy Weight Management among Appalachian College-Aged Students: A Test and Extension of the Risk-Perception-Attitude Framework, Victoria Ann Ledford
Formal and Functional Linguistic Properties of ESL Textbooks, Jessica Shea Lewis
Local Sensitivity Analysis of Acute Inflammation, James Martin
The effects of flexor pronator mass fatigue on medial elbow stability, Nathaniel Harvey Millard
The effects of community type and sexual orientation on adolescent alcohol abuse: A retrospective exploration, Karla Beth Moore
Tenofovir Induced Nephrotoxicity: A Mechanistic Study, Rachel A. Murphy
Professional development for the West Virginia School Psychologists Association, Andrea Nunn
“Fence-line” contrast soundscape study of forested lands in Allegany State Park and Allegheny National Forest: Is there an impact of oil and gas development on an eastern forest soundscape?, Kasey Lynne Osborne
The Pareto-g Extended Weibull Distribution, Oluwaseun Elizabeth Otunuga
Establishing environmental variability in the toxins produced by a single strain of prymnesium parvum, Amy Parsons-White
Balance score card in health care organization, Vani Pathuri and Huanyu Wang
Is interoperability a hindrance to the nationwide health information exchange (NHIE)?, Nitesh Patil and Sruthi Katamneni
The Perceptions of College Foreign Language Students Concerning their High School Foreign Language Preparation, Bryan M. Pickens
Douglass High School: Students' Perspectives on Attending a Segregated School, Lee Ann Hvizdak Porter
Effectiveness of Essentials for College Math as a High School Transitional Course, Jennifer S. Riggleman
School-based evaluations for students with intellectual disabilities: is "sufficiently comprehensive" good enough?, Elizabeth E. Robinson
The combinatorics of modified Macdonald polynomials, Jacob Rodeheffer
In the Company of Angels: Expressions of Personal Autonomy, Authority, and Agency in Early Anglo-Saxon Monasticism, William Tanner Smoot
The "Noble Savage" in American Music and Literature, 1790-1855, Jacob Mathew Somers
Telemedicine and its Utilization in the Management of Chronic Heart Failure Patients, Adejoke Sotome and Chirra Pooja
Weihrauch Reducibility and Finite-Dimensional Subspaces, Sean Sovine
"We're Human": An Analysis of Formal and Informal Training Methods for Direct Care Staff Working with Dual-Diagnosis Populations, Adam Clay Stephenson
Terror and territory: A spatio-temporal analysis of ISIL, Robert Riley Strider
Analysis of Bioaccumulation of Selenium Diets in Brook Trout (Salvelnius Fontinalis), Kyle Aaron Tasker
