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Theses/Dissertations from 2013
An Analysis of Targeted Tier II Cognitive Interventions on Reading Achievement, Shannon K. Kovack
Antecedents to Mobbing, Anita Lois Lane
Impossible Storyworlds and The (Unnatural) Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Mitchell C. Lilly
Effects on Student Achievement of Changing Cognitive Strategies During Targeted Tier II Interventions, Angela M. Mellace
Energy balance and its relationship to disordered eating, injury, and menstrual dysfunction in soccer athletes, Emily Lynn Miller
Humor and Social Support: An Investigation of the Influence of Humor on Evaluations of Supportive Messages, Miranda Rachel Morgan
Gene transfer in a newly established spontaneous feline fibrosarcoma cell line, Rounak Nande
The Interplay of Authorial Control and Readerly Judgments in Ian McEwan's Atonement, Marissa Danaé Nelson
Text Complexity in Graded Readers: A Systemic Functional Look, Sally-Ann Newnham
Solutions of Dynamic Equations on Time Scales with Jumps, Kayode Daniel Olumoyin
Predicting anthropogenic streambed shifts in Beckley, West Virginia, modeled over 15 years using Landsat TM and DEMs, Andrew D. Reinhardt
West Virginia School Psychologists' Role in Providing Mental Health Services in Schools, Cassandra K. Richardson
A Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures: A Systemic Functional and Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Intersemiotic Evaluation in University Science Textbooks, Leo William Roehrich
Toxicological Effects of Cerium Oxide Nanoparticle Aggregates on Caenorhabditis elegans, Steven N. Rogers
Imagery Rehearsal Therapy for Posttraumatic Nightmares: Symptom Severity and Control Appraisal Outcomes, Ashley Kay Rose
Size and age variation of larval gyrinophilus porphyriticus porphyriticus in sympatry with salvelinus fontinalis, Aaron Jacob Semasko
West Virginia School Psychologists' Roles in Contrast to the NASP Practice Model, Kimberly S. Sheltraw
A contrastive systemic functional analysis of causality in Japanese and English academic articles, Masaki Shibata
A Remote Sensing and GIS-based Wetland Analysis In Canaan Valley, West Virginia, Yisha Shi
Effects of Partner Attachment Quality on PTSD Severity with Combat-Exposed Veterans, Robert Desmond Shura
Traumatic Brain Injury: The Relationship of Psychosocial Variables and Location of Injury to Post-Injury Depression, Alicia L. Smith
Examining the Influence of Mating Systems on Testes Size in Salamanders, Howard James Stanton II
Role of iron in ethanol derived hepatic stress, Jesse A. Thornton
Concurrent and Predictive Validity of the Behavior and Emotional Screening System, Amber Rae Wallbrown
Examining Habitat Selection and Home Range Behavior at Multiple Scales in a Population of Eastern Box Turtles, (Terrapene c. carolina), With Notes on Demographic Changes After 17 Years, Brian Anthony Williamson
The Politicization of Popular Culture: A Case Study in Reagan and Star Wars, Nathan A. Wingert
Genetic Regulation of Mucoidy in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, T. Ryan Withers
Assessing Stages of Team Development in a Summer Enrichment Program, Marcella Charlotte Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Storm Chaser, Samir Ali Abdel-Aziz
Methodological Orientations of Articles Appearing in Allied Health's Top Journals: Who Publishes What and Where, Pamela Lea McCloud Alderman
A Case Study of Athletic Training Educators' Sports-Care Responsibilities, Service, and Professional Advancement in Athletic Training Education Programs, Rachael C. Alley
Principals and Technology: A Case Study of the Use and Perceived Effectiveness of Technology to Communicate with Constituents, Bonnie Ann Allman
Diversity of the Ohio River Bacterial Communities Using Next-generation Sequencing Techniques, Emily Michele Anneken
Emotional Intelligence and Team Cohesiveness, Myra M. Beam
Climate influence on the health of an Appalachian City, Ryan Wade Becka
Chronic Toxicity Testing In Mining Influenced Streams of West Virginia, Leah J. Bitzer
The Effect of Auditory Call Playback on Anuran Detection and Capture Rates, Derek Adam Bozzell
Evaluating the Current Status of Chestnut-Present Forest Systems: Integrating GigaPan as a Tool for Site Assessment, Charles Taylor Brewer
Attendance Rates of Special Populations in One Rural County, Julie Bright
American Well: A Viral Solution, Rebecca Browning, Rodrigo Camargo, Thaisa Camargo, Basma Memon, Gary Salyers, and Brent Spencer
A Mechanistic Study of S-Adenosyl-L-methionine Protection Against Acetaminophen Hepatotoxicity, James Michael Brown
Current Practices of Speech-Language Pathologists in Treating Presbyphonia, Erin Taylor Carey
Risk Factors for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in the Adult Trauma Patient: A Retrospective Case-Control Study From a Level I Trauma Center, Summer L. Chapman
A Study of Prior Learning Assessment in Degree Completion, Jean Marie Chappell
A Local Radial Basis Function Method for the Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations, Maggie Elizabeth Chenoweth
King's Daughters Medical Center: Taking Medicine Further: How a Local Health System Strives to Bring World Class Care to a Rural Community, Nga Thi Chu, Anthony Dotson, and Xiaofei Wang
West Virginia Therapists' Knowledge of Tarasoff-related Court Cases, Bruce E. Clay
It is Time to Talk About it: Designing a Health Communication Program for Eating Disorder Recovery in an Appalachian University, Erica Lynn Clites
Visualization of the Passive Sink Phenomenon in Nonexercising Lower Extremity Muscle Using Two Sampling Sites: Consequences for Assessment and Training, Michelle Elyse Copolo
Legislative Mandates Concerning Truancy Effects on Attendance Rates, Felicia Corley
Female Workplace Self-Help Books: Guiding Women to Become Leaders, Cassandra Lee Craft
Parental Involvement and Level of Parent Satisfaction in a Summer Enrichment Program, Leslie Rae Danner
Silence and Self-Making: Black Lung Rhetoric and the Ken Hechler Letters, Jennifer De Pompei
Nuclear Receptor Expression and Characterization of the Major Retinoic Acid Target Gene in Melanoma, Linda L. Eastham
P-T Conditions of Selected Samples Across the Blue Ridge Province, Breana A. Felix
Assessing the Presence and Use of Nonverbal Communication in Primary Reading Instruction, Amelia C. Ferrell
Factors that Motivate Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists to Practice Independently in the Appalachian Region, Michael Lee Frame Jr.
Trait and Situational Variables Affecting Communication Channel Preferences in College Students, Britt Alan Frye
Bank of America: Is Bigger Always Better?, Marty Gillenwater
The Economics of Perception: Potential Effect Regarding Institutional Uses of Recovered Facilities and Administrative Costs Upon a Faculty Member's Decision to Engage in Sponsored Research Activity, Anne Elizabeth Hatfield
Containing the Beat: An Analysis of the Press Coverage of the Beat Generation During the 1950s, Anna Lou Jessmer
The Innovative Success that is Apple, Inc., Katherine Johnson, Yang Li, Hang Phan, Jason Singer, and Hoang Trinh
Logogenesis and Appraisal: A Systemic Functional Analysis of English and Japanese Language Arts Textbooks, Shinji Kawamitsu
The Use of Cerium Oxide and Curcumin Nanoparticles as Therapeutic Agents for the Treatment of Ventricular Hypertrophy Following Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, Madhukar Babu Kolli
Dynamicity of Motivational Change in Learning Japanese as a Foreign Language, Ayaka Komori
Revisiting the Ecological Status of the Cheat Mountain Salamander (Plethodon nettingi) After 32 Years, Whitney A. Kroschel
A Descriptive Study of Response to Intervention (RTI) Implementation at the Elementary Level in West Virginia, Sarah L. Lee
The Role of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor at the Blood-Brain Barrier in Diabetes, Aileen J. Marcelo
Literacy, Discourse, and Identity: The Working-Class Appalachian Woman Academic, Sarah Marie McConnell
The Quotient of the beta-Weibull Distribution, Nonhle Channon Mdziniso
Intensive Mental Health Intervention and Incidence of Discipline, Andrea Mulcay
Toxicological Assessment of Intra‐tracheal Instilled Nanoceria on Kidneys of Sprague‐Dawley Rats, Geeta Nandyala
Bursicon, Metamorphosis and Development of Resilin in the Fruit Fly, David Paul Anthony Neff
The Role of PTIP in Breast Cancer, Lina Niu
The Detection of Forest Structures in the Monongahela National Forest Using LiDAR, Dominique Norman
A Descriptive Study of Multicultural Sensitivity at Two Rural Higher Education Institution Settings through a Survey of those Institutions' Faculty, Sumeeta Patnaik
Rights, Principles, and Data Use: An Investigation of User Knowledge and Opinion of Facebook's Legal Contract, Nikolas D. Payne
Creating Pathways for Low-Skill Adults: Lessons for Community and Technical Colleges from a Statewide Longitudinal Study, Carol A. Perry
A Feminist Critique of Beowulf: Women as Peace-Weavers and Goaders in Beowulf's Courts, Charles Phipps
Best Instructional Practices in Developmental Education: Faculty Perspectives, Calisa A. Pierce
An Examination of Star Players' Effects on the Branding Process of Professional Sports Teams, Nathan David Pifer
Measuring Team Collaboration in the Marshall University Summer Enrichment Program, Marian Pyles
Incorporation of the Actin-Myosin Biomolecular Motor System into a Microfluidic Device, Rebecca Marie Ragland
Methodological Orientation of Research Articles Appearing in Higher Education Journals, Sherri E. Ritter
Covert Behaviors Occurring in Childhood and Adolescence: Predictors of Adult Sexual Orientation and Sexual Identity, Shelia Ramona Robinett
After a Funeral, Before a Test; and Other Stories, David Stewart Robinson
Systemic Functional Linguistic Discourse Features in the Personal Essay, Anna Jones Rollins
On the Logic of Reverse Mathematics, Alaeddine Saadaoui
Parent Expectations Linked to Parent Satisfaction in a Summer Enrichment Program Evaluation, Laura E. Saltsman
Lessons from Libya: A Situational Approach to the Generic Criticism of President Obama's March 28, 2011 Address to the Nation on Libya, Amy L. Schumacher
Examining Social Anxiety and Depression Among Excessive Online Gamers, Nathan Sharer
Redox Regulation of Differentiation in Neuroblastoma, Anne Marie Silvis
An Analysis of Institutional Policies and Practices Critical for Effective Leadership in Developmental Education Programs, Carolyn Gaughan Sizemore
Fueling Sport Performance: Increasing Awareness in Female Collegiate Vegetarian Athletes, Rachael Irene Marie Sofie
