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Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Critical period conditioning by orgasm during heterosexual oral sex, Kristy N. Woods
A Regional Comparison of Intellectual Disability Rates in Appalachia, Tiffany D. Yancey
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Skin Condition Secondary to Elbow Dislocation in a Collegiate Diver, Brandi Leigh Anders
West Virginia's Low Percentage of Population With At Least A Four-Year College Education, Britt Arcadipane
Examining the Theoretical Consequences of a Post-feminist Media Culture, Jedidiah N. Bailey
Measuring the success of Kentucky's community and technical college system in educational attainment and advancing workforce development, William Daniel Bissett
Shape evolution and sexual dimorphism in the mandible of the dire wolf, Canis Dirus, at Rancho la Brea, Alexandria L. Brannick
Teachers Attitudes and Confidence in Technology Integration, Heather Brown
SUPERINTENDENT AND BOARD OF EDUCATION MEMBER PERCEPTIONS REGARDING PREFERRED LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS FOR SUPERINTENDENTS IN WEST VIRGINIA, Keith A. Butcher
Making it Work: Factors that Influence the Success of Programs at Rural Community Colleges, Rebecca Calwell
Identification and characterization of downstream effector protein(s) regulated by p53 and pRb, Miranda B. Carper
The pH Dependence of Photosystem II Oxygen-Evolving Complex Assembly, Emilee Hope Cook
Examination of two hydration protocols during simulated forced marching under acute heat stress, David Alan Cottrill
Tutoring ESL Students for Improvements in Language Skills, Hollie R. Craddock
NATURAL HISTORY OF A POPULATION OF WOOD TURTLES (GLYPTEMYS INSCULPTA) IN WEST VIRGINIA, Jessica Curtis
Scandalous deception in the castle: an examination of the gender performance through the bedtrick trope in Arthurian literature, Abby Louise Daniel
Multicopter-Based Small Format Aerial Photography using Free and Open Source Photogrammetry, Robert Matthew Davis
EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF LIMING ON GYRINOPHILUS PORPHYRITICUS WITH A COMPARISON OF MULTIPLE SAMPLING METHODS, Elise Marie Edwards
An "Alien Foundation": The Eclectism of Antonin Dvorak's American Period, Kelly Marie Fallon
Cardiovascular Aging in the Female F344xBN Rat Model, Jacqueline C. Fannin
A Home Literacy Intervention To Improve Student Reading and Parental Self-Efficacy, Holly Bond Farrell
Effectiveness of the Language! Comprehensive Literacy Curriculum for 6th Graders, Laura N. Fields
EXAMINATION OF CONSISTENCY ON THE OHIO ACHIEVEMENT ASSESSMENTS AND OHIO GRADUATION TEST, Adam R. Fox
Teacher Efficacy Beliefs: How General Teachers feel towards English Language Learners, Lauren Elizabeth Fraser
INVESTIGATION INTO THE CELLULAR ACTIONS OF CARNOSINE AND C-PEPTIDE, Emma H. Gardner
A comprarison of scores on the RIAS and WISC-IV in a referred sample, Racheal R. Gliniak
VOICE IN ESL ACADEMIC WRITING: AN INTERPERSONAL ANALYSIS, Audrey Hamoy
Training Law Enforcement in Mental Health: A Broad-Based Model, Rachael Elaine Hatfield
Communication About HIV In The Black Gay Community: Factors That Influence Willingness To Ask a Partner To Wear a Condom, Ask a Partner's HIV Status, and Disclose One's HIV own Status, Deion Scott Hawkins
The Geography of Stuck: Exceptions to Brain Drain in West Virginia, Lindsay Heinemann
The Natural Life History of Cambarus (Puncticambarus) smilax, The Greenbrier Crayfish, Paul William Hughes
Development of Moral Didacticism in Children: A Cross-Cultural Study, Sixtus Obinna Iwuji
IQ and targeted based cognitive tier II interventions, James B. Justice
USING AILUROPODA MELANOLEUCA AS A MODEL SPECIES FOR STUDYING THE ECOMORPHOLOGY OF PARANTHROPUS, Ryan Andrew King
Effective Treatment Options for Acid Mine Drainage in the Coal Region of West Virginia, Daniel Kirby
Travel Sized: A Collection of Essays, Wendi L. Kozma
Secondhand Smoke Exposure as a Risk Factor for Perioperative Airway Complications in Pediatric Outpatient Procedures, Ashlee Denise Loudin
Teaching High School Students Scientific Concepts Using Graphic Organizers, Kyle Lusk
THERAPEUTIC EFFICACY OF CERIUM OXIDE NANOPARTICLES AGAINST SEPSIS INDUCED MULTI-ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SYNDROME IN SPRAGUE DAWLEY RATS, Nandini Durga Prasanna Kumar Manne
The Effectiveness of Graphic Organizers on the Comprehension of Social Studies Content by Students with Disabilities, Martha Lynn Mann
Poland’s Place In The Soviet Bloc: Historical And Cultural Linkages, Political Transformation, And Everyday Economic Alternatives In Gdańsk and Wałbrzych, Stephen W. Mays
Why We Stay, Brittany Nicole McIntyre
The Relationship Between Teacher Planning Time and Eighth Grade Reading Achievement in West Virginia Schools, Anne Marie Monterosso
WV Writes and Westest 2 online writing: the impact of writing prompts on student writing proficiency, Stacey Murrell
Short-term Activity-dependent Changes in Schaffer Collateral Axon Function, Benjamin Michael Owen
Online Graduates in Clinical Laboratory Sciences: Are They Prepared for the Workplace?, Jennifer D. Perry
Mechanical Visualization of a Second Order Dynamic Equation on Varying Time Scales, Molly Kathryn Peterson
Assessing grazing impacts on a tropical dry forest system in Madagascar through vegetation, satellite image, lemur occupancy, and acoustic analysis, Lyndsay Lee Rankin
A Study of Kindergarten Teachers' Ability to Teach the Kindergarten Informational Text Common Core Standards in Fifteen West Virginia School Districts, Shelly Ann Ratliff
What's the New Deal with Marshall? Depression Relief and Higher Education, Hubert Wesley Rolling
Describing the Spoken Discourse Practices of Second and Third Grade Classroom Teachers in Appalachia, Natasha Janel Scott
The Effect of the PIES Mnemonic Strategy on the Word Problem Solving Skills of Middle School Students, Lisa A. Short
Systematic Condition in a NCAA-I Collegiate Soccer Player, Ashley D. Smith
WILLFUL DISOBEDIENCE: THE INTERSECTION OF SOCIAL DISSENT AND SPIRITUALITY IN THE AMERICAN NEO-PAGAN MOVEMENT, Heather Nicole Sprouse
Subthreshold Toxic Effects of Atrazine and Three Degradates on Behavior in Procambarus clarkii, Carol B. Starkey
Teaching See the Sound Visual Phonics to Deaf and Hard of Hearing Kindergarteners, Alison Stevenson
A Generalized Inflated Poisson Distribution, Patrick Stewart
Integration of Gamification into the Classroom and the Reception by Students, Zoe Stokes
Paraprofessional Perceptions of Training and Professional Development, Paige C. Stratton
Discourse Analysis of Interpersonal Features in ESL and JSL Textbooks, Yukina Takahira
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF THE 2003 AND 2011 ACGME WORK HOUR RULES ON MEDICAL RESIDENT SATISFACTION AT AN INDEPENDENT ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER, Rachael E. Trout
Chmp1 negatively regulates Epidermal Growth Factor signaling in the Drosophila wing, Meagan Elisabeth Valentine
Teacher Attitudes Toward Post-Secondary Transition Planning, Vicki Wallen
CULTURAL LANGUAGE VARIATIONS: AN EXAMINATION OF APPALACHIAN DISCOURSE, Katherine Ward
Benzyl Isothiocyanate as an Adjuvant Chemotherapy Option for Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Mary Allison Wolf
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Student Characteristics and Targeted Based Cognitive Tier II Interventions, Patrick M. Billups
Adequate Ventilation: How is it defined and does it adequately warn consumers?, Christopher Blankenship
Toward a Comprehensive Model of Photosystem II Oxygen Evolving Complex Photoassembly, James Scott Board II
Evaluation of Alternate Mouthpiece Material Types to Minimize Vibrations and Heat Loss - The Research and Execution of Prototypes, Kristen Bobuk
Approaches to Life Narrative: A Scholarly and Creative Thesis, Tanya Bomsta
Filling in the Gaps in Phenology and Life History of the Cumberland Plateau Salamander (Plethodon kentucki), Robert C. Bowers
Implementation and Perceived Effectiveness of Professional Learning Communities in the Kanawha County School District in West Virginia, Elizabeth L. Brucker
Dietary Preference of the Queensnake (Regina septemvittata), Timothy J. Brust
Ontogenetic State of a Juvenile Polycotylid Plesiosaur (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria) and its Implications for Plesiosaur Growth, Christina Joanne Byrd
Understanding School Genres Using Systemic Functional Linguistics: A Study of Science and Narrative Texts, Allison D. Canfield
Presidential Succession Planning for Governing Boards in Higher Education, Timothy L. Channell
Perceptions of Nursing Education Administrators Regarding the Relationship of Admission Criteria to Student Graduation, Joy F. Cline
Interpretation of the WISC-IV Working Memory Index as a Measure of Attention, Talya J. Colliflower
Effectiveness of manual palpation in the Northern Water Snake, Nerodia sipedon sipedon, as a method to extract gut contents for dietary studies, Marcella Ann Cruz
Persistent Culinary Traditions in Rural Southern West Virginia, James Seth Davidson
Quantitative Reconstruction and Two-Dimensional, Steady Flow Hydrodynamics of the Plesiosaur Flipper, Mark Cruz DeBlois
Mental health treatment effects in an alternative middle schools, Beth DeVilla
Transmission Rate in Partial Differential Equation in Epidemic Models, Alaa Elkadry
Assessing the readiness of higher education to instruct and support students with Asperger's Disorder, L. Marc Ellison
Omega-3 Fatty Acids as Therapeutic Options for the Treatment of B-cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, Johannes Francois Fahrmann
Historical Butches: Lesbian Experience and Masculinity in Bryher's Historical Fiction, Haley M. Fedor
Political Party Affiliation, Regional Variation and the Demographic Correlates of Euroscepticism on the Isle of Great Britain, Jared Figgins
The Crayfishes of West Virginia’s Southwestern Coalfields Region with an Emphasis on the Life History of Cambarus theepiensis, David Allen Foltz II
Measuring Team Cohesiveness in the Marshall University Summer Enrichment Program, Sara Fragale
An Evaluation of a Middle School's Bully Prevention Program, Jennifer Lynn Frazier
Interaction of Pyrimoidiazolium Ions with Calf Thymus DNA, Stormy Rene Gibson
For $1,000 I'll love you too: an understanding of Japanese hosts and host clubs, Kristy D. Henson
Mike & Molly -- An Other World, Maureen Elizabeth Johnson
Predicting Proficiency on the Ohio Achievement Assessments Using I-Ready Diagnostic, Terra Ann Jones
The Theory of Planned Behavior and Financial Literacy: A Predictive Model for Credit Card Debt?, Brian P. Kennedy
Who is You? Identifying "You" in Second-Person Narratives: A Systemic Functional Linguistics Analysis, Davina Kittrell
A Study of Secondary Science Teacher Efficacy and Level of Constructivist Instructional Practice Implementation in West Virginia Science Classrooms, Amanda Kristen Knapp
