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.Theses from 2008
Imagining Anti-Semitism : artistic representations of the Dreyfus Affair, Alexa Stemmler
Implicit theories of relationships : prediction of dating strategies and relationship initiation, Heather Stone
Constructing [0,1]k in the inverse limit on [0,1], Desmond Torkornoo
Maternal experience and Alzheimer's disease : degenerative differences in the female rat, Lindsay W. Victoria
Democracy in the workplace : leadership in cooperative business, Jordan Wade
The exploration of novel symbiotic bacteria that may have influential roles in sponge life history, Brittany E. West
Securing distributed volunteer computations : investigating techniques for effective and efficient task assignment, Andrew M. White
An analysis of tuition and enrollment in higher education : measuring price elasticity, Adam C. Wright
Theses from 2007
Word Oper Findan : Seamus Heaney and the translation of Beowulf, Jack Harding Bell
Refiguring history : the works of Faith Ringgold and Kara Walker, Amy Bradshaw
Exploring the sponge-symbiont relationship through stability and localization, Nicole Buell
Synthesis of 9-Deaza-2'-deoxyguanosine, an analogue of 8-Oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine, Jennifer Carman
The opium war in contemporary Chinese historiography, Robert William Cole
The expression of the maternal brain : a qRT-PCR neurogenic analysis, Robert W. Contino
Proteomics and molecular chaperones : modeling spinocerebellar ataxia type III in a Drosophila model system, John M. Daniel
The effect of RNAi on Hsp-27 and MMP-2 secretion in U87glioma cells, Ryan Gabriel
Figuring the refugee, Genevieve Goulding
Scientific advice to the House : who has the Congressional ear?, Kristen Greenholt
A critical comparison of the church-state jurisprudence of Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Christy Harrison
She what?! : the legitimacy of the female in the public sphere, Lauren M. Henry
Constructing Muammar Al-Gaddafi, Kristin Kushlan
The rise and fall of America's education president : George W. Bush's political leadership and the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, Ethan L. McWilliams
Modulation of CREB binding protein in a Drosophila model of Machado-Joseph-Disease, Joe Nagraj
Crossover property of the nonperiodic autocorrelation of quaternary sequences, Michael Pohl
A conformational analysis of trimeric cross-linking reagents for HIV-1 gp4 1 inhibitors, Sarah Marie Remmert
Deficit reduction in the U.S. Senate : the search for moral leadership in the budget process, David Kendall Roberts
A combination strategy for the preparation of pyrrolomycin type alkaloids, Morgan Ruszczyk
The effects of stereotype activation on women's reactions to leadership situations, or, How reading Cosmo might prevent you from becoming CEO, Stefanie L. Simon
The war on inequality : subtleties in the perceptions of women leaders, Adrienne Supino
The dwarfing of men in Victorian fairy-tale literature, Heather Victoria Vermeulen
Eye genes before the eye? : Characterization of the ancestral Six1/2 animal eye development gene, Lisa R. Warner
The art of war : deconstructing the monolith of the World War II poster, Sean Williams
Theses from 2006
Phylogeny of Breviceps based on the Rhodopsin 1 gene, Paige Barlow
Floristic treatment of acalypha found in the Yucatan Peninsula /, Nina Bhattacharyya
The effects of epidermal growth factor and the green tea flavanoid, epigallocatechin-3-gallate, on MMP-2 activation in human glioma cell lines U87 and T98, Catherine Boucher
Co-rumination and depression in college students, Maurita M. Burns
The cinematic effect of love addiction on metaphorical preferences, Taylor Ann Daniel
Predictors of sexual attitudes in college students, Andrew Davisson
Stress and health behavior among college students, Lindsey Dorflinger
Interface mutants of glyoxysomal malate dehydrogenase, Elizabeth Dunham
Boundary behavior of Laplace transforms, Timothy Ferguson
Development of proliferation assays to explore the role of calcium activated potassium channels in cell proliferation, Sean Foster
On Conway's generalization of the 3x + 1 problem, Robin M. Givens
How should physicians be motivated to fulfill social obligations?, Jackie Knupp
The effect of TGF-B and EGF on MMP-2 activation and MT1-MMP phosphorylation in U87MG and T98G human glioma cells, Jacquelyn B. Knupp
The effects of p53 status and EGF on TIMP-2 and other proteins related to migration in human glioblastoma cell cultures, Lisa M. Lint
Courting disaster : women, romance, and novels in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain, Beth J. Massie
Courting disaster : women, romance, and novels in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain, Beth J. Massie
The presence, prevalence and antibiotic resistance of microbes in the Pamunkey River Basin, Christina McDowell
Articulating silence in the postcolonial Indian novel, Kaelin O'Connell
Political differentiation in consumer preferences for underdog businesses : does everybody love a winner?, Kelly O'Connor
The Mrs. Browns of Modernism, Kathleen O'Donnell
Pilgrimage of dignity : Pope John Paul II's June 1979 visit to Poland, Przemyslaw P. Polaski
The impact of gender-linked tasks on female and male leaders, Ashley Pyle
The role of heat shock protein 27 phosphorylation in matrix metalloproteinase 2 secretion and activation in response to heat stress in U87 gliomas, David M. Raiser
Complicating "female suicide bombers" : violence, agency and gender in the rhetoric of shahida, Chelsea Rock
American travelers in Palestine : origins of Holy Land discourse in nineteeth-century America, Matthew R. Scutari
Glutamate dehydrogenase : an investigation of conformational stability, enzyme flexibility, and allosteric regulation, Sarah A. Wacker
Social hierarchy in leaderless groups, Angie B. White
Theses from 2005
The effect of norepinephrine on the production of interleukin-6 (IL-6) in the raw 264.7 macrophage cell line, Andrew R. Callison
The effect of norepinephrine on macrophage cytolytic activity, Lindsey Drake
American prisoners of war in Vietnam tell their stories, Ryan Frost
Morphological variation of the South American toad genus Melanophryniscus, Kristen Virginia Gandee
Allomorphic flowers in Acalypha Deamii, Lauren Kelley
Kieft's War and tributary politics in eastern woodland colonial society, Nicholas Klaiber
The rhetoric of pedagogy and the pedagogy of rhetoric, Jennifer G. Moore
From opposing sides : the duality of citizens' and their government's views on town squares, Zachary Powell
Postcolonial melodrama : The satanic verses, The mimic men, The namesake, Jason Przybylski
The effects of Instant Messenger on the undergraduate experience, Kimberly Schaefer
Modulation of hHsp70 and dCBP in a full-length Drosophila model of MJD, Jason Sebesto
"I respectfully dissent" : intellectual leadership in the nation's highest court, Alison M. Smith
The effect of heat shock upon p53, Hsp27 and MMP2 synthesis and activation in the U87 and T98 human glioma cell lines, Cristina Stingo
The politics of judicial restraint : the Rehnquist court and the new federalism, Sarah J. Vinson
Ecological niching in an interactive simulation, Ryan T. Webb
Treasuring identity : subject-object relations in Beowulf, Becky Workman
Relative difference sets in 2-groups : a group cohomological viewpoint, Brian Wyman
Theses from 2004
From being to doing : the impact of modernization on cultural values, cultural conceptions of time, and effective leadership, Ryan S. Babiuch
Whipping up a region : how the North taught the South to cook "Southern", Erin D. Bartels
Investigation of the role played by the regulatory function of the Pst phosphate transport system in Shigella flexneri plaque formation ability, Adriane M. Boyle
Discovering the potential for advancements in intrusion detection systems, Kenneth J. Buonforte
Regulation of membrane type-l matrix metalloproteinases by Tyrosine phosphorylation in human glioma cells, Emily Clark
The social and legal aspects of colonial witchcraft : a comparison of Virginia and Bermuda, Leigh Anne Collier
Out of sight, out of mind? : American citizens and the genocide in Rwanda, Colette T. Connor
Valuing servants ends : a new theory of ethical service, Patricia Grace Devlin
Synthesis of β-chloroenal derivatives on the path to biologically active multi-substituted pyrroles, David Driscoll
"Their shoes yet new" : the immigrant image in the Baltimore riots of 1812 and the disagreement over nationality, John K. Dunn Jr
Illuminating a space for women and rhetoric, Lindsey M. Fox
Development of lymphatic hearts in Ambystoma mexicanum, Tanya Giannantonio
The effect of epidermal growth factor on MMP-production and activation in human glioblastoma multiforme cell lines U87 and LNZ, John Goreczny
Antibiotic resistance in aquatic bacteria, Lily Hayes
Michel Foucault : power/knowledge and epistemological prescriptions, Martin A. Hewett
Creative redemption and complete affirmation in Nietzche's Thus spoke Zarathustra, Matthew Homan
Development of lymphatic hearts in Ambystoma mexicanum and a comparison with that found in Xenopus, Stefany Honigbaum
The Robert W. Ryerss Museum and Library : a case study in upper class philanthropy in late Victorian Philadelphia, Laura L. Keefe