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Dissertations from 2010
Understanding Revictimization: The Impact of Emotion Suppression, Acceptance, and PTSD Symptomatology on Risk Detection Abilities in Sexual Assault Survivors, Heidi M. Barrett-Model
Space and Power in the Ivory Tower: Decision Making in Public Higher Education, Sandra McCoskrie Blanchette
The Effects of Childbearing Patterns on the Timing of Retirement, Hsiao-Yin Chung
Adopted Korean Women: Influences of Becoming a Biological Mother on Racial & Ethnic Identities and Cultural Orientations, Stephanie Carole Day
Psychosis-Proneness, Mindfulness, and Positive Emotional Experience: Examining Correlational and Causal Relationships, Shannon Marie Erisman
Unattainable Beauty: An Analysis of the Role of Body Shame and Self-Objectification in Hopelessness Depression among College-Age Women, Meredith A. Evans
Transport and Transformation of Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) From Land to Ocean, Wei Huang
Physical and Electrochemical Investigation of Hydrogen Storage in Aluminum Hydride Nanofibers and High Surface Area Carbon Materials, Janak P. Kafle
Neuropsychological and Personality Predictors of Competence to Stand Trial: A Social Cognitive Perspective, Kristy L. Klein
The Distribution and Comparative Biogeochemistry of Silver with Other Selected Trace Metals in Coastal Waters near Massachusetts, USA, Christian F. Krahforst
Coping with Acquired Brain Injury through an Asian American Lens: Interrelationships between Collectivistic Coping and Psychosocial Outcomes, Patricia Happy Lee
A Critical Consideration of Co-Teachers' Interpretation of 21st Century Skills/Global Education, Maura Marlaine Morse
Couples' Joint Activity and Perceived Relationship Quality: Exploring the Comparative Effects of Joint Community Service vs. Play, Michael J. D. Rollock
Impact of Social Environmental Factors on Re-Hospitalization of Home Healthcare Elderly Patients, Hong Tao
Dissertations from 2009
Bridging worlds: Advocacy stigma and the challenge of teaching writing to secondary ELL students, Laurie Zucker-Conde
Dissertations from 2008
Collaboration to Institutionalize Service-Learning in Higher Education Organizations: The Relationship Between the Structures of Academic and Student Affairs, Joanne A. Dreher
Dissertations from 2004
Institutionalization of Women's Studies Programs: The Relationship of Program Structure to Long-Term Viability, Ann Froines
Dissertations from 2000
Alternative Medicine and Mental Health: A Clinical Trial of Homeopathic Treatment for Depression, Fabiana G. Wallis
Dissertations from 1999
Shame, Anger, and Perpetration Outcomes in Male Survivors of Childhood Abuse, Adam C. Conklin
Dissertations from 1998
Nursing Home Ownership and Public Policy: An Historical Analysis, K. R. Kaffenberger
Dissertations from 1995
Perceptions of Emotional Autonomy, Teenage Pregnancy, and Mother-Daughter Relationships among African American Mothers and Daughters, Michelle Deaneen Owens
Dissertations from 1988
Isolation, Purification, and Characterization of Microbodies from Hydrocarbon-Grown Cells of Cladosporium resinae, David B. Carson