Dissertations submitted in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Loyola University Chicago.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2010
From Trial to Triumph: Representations of African Americans in Museum Exhibits, Derrick Brooms
Uncommon Sense in Renaissance English Literature, Eric Byville
An Historical Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools Policy on the Requirements for the Selection of Principals, 1983-2008, Siobhan Marie Cafferty
Phospholipase D Signaling in T Cells, Uma Chandrasekaran
Developmental Characterization of Cara Mitad: A Drosophila Nuclear Receptor Co-Regulator, Chhavi Chauhan
Transcultural Psychotherapy: Clinical Issues in Working with Korean Immigrant Women, Kyung-Mee Choi
The Impact of Social Stigma on the Therapeutic Relationship for Latino Clinicians: The Elephant in the Room?, Mauricio Jose Cifuentes
Polyomavirus Enhancer Activator 3 (PEA3), a Member of the Ets Family of Transcription Factors, Is a Transcriptional Activator of Notch-1 and Notch-4 in Breast Cancer: An Opportunity for Novel Combinational Therapy, Anthony George Clementz
Coronavirus Replicase Proteins: Multifunctional Mediators of Replication and Innate Immunity Evasion, Mark Anthony Clementz
Sea-Cards for the Impetuous Muse: A Reading of Shaftesbury's Characteristicks, Travis Sean Cook
Towards a New Measure of Playfulness: The Capacity to Fully and Freely Engage in Play, Rebecca Cornelli Sanderson
The Effects of Uncontrollable Stress on Subjective Well-Being and Coping Behavior in Urban Adolescents, Laura Darr Coyle
How Counseling Helps: An In-Depth Look at Domestic Violence Counseling, Sonya V. Crabtree-Nelson
Internet Advocacy Support for Families of Children with Emotional Difficulties, Maureen Elizabeth Curtin
Lysine Specific Demethylase-1 and the Brahma Chromatin Remodeling Complex Regulate Conserved Signaling Pathways During Drosophila Wing Development, Brenda Jean Curtis
The Caller and the Called: How Young Adults Understand Vocation in Their Lives, John A. Dahlstrand
Moral Distress and Avoidance Behavior in Nurses Working in Critical Care and Non-Critical Care Units, Mary Jo De Villers
Uncovering Medical and Mental Health Professionals' Decision-Making in the Treatment of Trans-Variant Patients, Jodie M. Dewey
The Effect of Plea Bargaining Vs. Trial Conviction on the Sentencing of Offenders Charged with a Drug Offense in Cook County, Illinois, Joseph George Dusek
Psychosocial Development, Well-Being, and Internalizing Symptoms During Emerging Adulthood: An Examination of Mediating and Moderating Factors, Jennifer Paley Edidin
The Role of IGF-1 and Notch Signaling in Thoracic Malignancies., Sandra Eliasz
In the Margins: Thresholds of Text and Identity in U.S.-Mexico Border Literature, Allison E. Fagan
School Factors That Promote Academic Resilience in Urban Latino High School Students, Christine Michelle Fallon
Components of Religious Beliefs, Religious Maturity, and Religious History as Predictors of Proscribed and Non-Proscribed Explicit and Implicit Prejudices, Luke Fiedorowicz
Visitors Pass: The Story of a Group of Pakistani Immigrant Students at Sawyer High School, Melissa Gersh Fischer
Storied Memories: Memory as Resistance in Contemporary Women's Literature, Sarah Katherine Foust Vinson
Elementary School Counselors' Perception of Their Role and Function as Case Managers in Chicago Public Schools, Debra J. Franklin
Ten Cents a Dance: Taxi Dancers, a Living Wage, and the Sexual Politics of Women's Work, 1912-1952, Angela I. Fritz
Humanity in the Balance: The Relationship Between the Moral Law and the Promotion of the Moral World in Kant's Ethics, John J. Garcia
The Role of Institutional Relations with Alumni Major Donors in Evangelical Higher Education, Brian Gardner
Proactive Disciplinary Consequences in Three Illinois High Schools, Sara Golomb
From Subject to Citizen: Tarleton Bates and Evolution of Republican Man on the Pennsylvania Frontier, Leo Jon Grogan
Notch Signaling Is Important in the Survival, Proliferation, and Self-Renewal of the Putative Breast Cancer Stem Cell Population, Peter Grudzien
Exploring the Relationship Between Teacher Personality Traits and Teachers' Attitudes and Practices Towards Family-School Partnerships, Anna Rawlings Hamilton
Immigrant Stories: Generation 1.5 Mexican American Students and English Language Learning in an Illinois Community College, Thomas Lloyd Hansen
Joy as Attunement and End in the Philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Henri Bergson, Justin Albert Harrison
The Practice and Meaning of Communitarian Spirituality in the Focolare Movement, Nori Henk
Turmoil, Tirades and Transformation: The Wars for the National History Standards 1991-2004, Phyllis Margaret Henry
Understanding the Relationship Between Social Resources and Levels of Parent Involvement in Illinois Early Childhood Programs: A Program-Level Perspective, Aimee Victoria Hilado
Exploring the Use of Suspension in High School Codes of Conduct for Mild, Moderate, and Severe Behaviors, Amy Beth Horwitz
Exploring the Relationship Between Work, Family and Religion Among Clergy Families, Lenore Johnson
Neuropsychological Assessment of Executive Functioning and Its Association with Depressive Symptomology, Erica Jean Kalkut
Ethanol Impairs Mechanisms of Macrophage Phagocytosis and Cytokine Production, John Karavitis
Factors of Body Image Dissatisfaction Among High School Female Athletes, Trisha Margaret Karr
A Meta-Analysis of Interventions to Improve Social Competence in Early Childhood, Adam Steven Kennedy
Corporations as Group Agents / Responsible Collectives in Theory and in Practice, Kathryn Real King
Development and Validation of the Workplace Intergenerational Atmosphere Scale, Scott P. King
Trauma, Dissociation, and Traumatic Stress at a Trauma Center Serving Low-Income Children and Adolescents, Krista Kohl
First-Year College Students and Faculty: A Comparison of Expectations for Success, Jodi Ellen Koslow Martin
The Tumor Suppressor PKCδ Is Critical for UV-Induced G2/M Checkpoint Activation and Apoptosis, Edward Lewis Lagory
Altgeld Gardens: Evolution of Culture and Educatiion in an Isolated African American Community, Beverly Anne Lesueur
Mid-Childhood Immigrant Perspectives on Achieving College Success, Mark John Litwicki
In the Driver's Seat: Living and Working as a Trucker, Cassandra Lively
The Impact of Tracking on Student Achievement: A Multilevel Growth Model, Carrie Christine Livingston
I Love You (But I Can't Look You in the Eyes): Explicit and Implicit Self-Esteem Predict Verbal and Nonverbal Response to Relationship Threat, Julie Longua Peterson
Towards Evidence-Based Practices in Mathematics Instruction: Investigating the Impact of Writing on Student Ability to Solve Mathematics Problems, Shaalein Carroll Lopez
Unto Perfect Manhood: An Instrumental Case Study of Leadership Formation in an African American Boys High School, Daniel Ivan MacKinney
The Poet's Place: Individuality and Collectivity in Modern American Poetry, 1910-1940, William Q. Malcuit
Morphogenesis of the Bacillus Anthracis Spore, Michael Mallozzi
Quality of Life and Health Outcomes in Overweight and Non-Overweight Children with Asthma., Amy Becker Manion
Camkii-Mediated Phosphorylation of the Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptor at Serine-150 Results in Decreased Channel Activity, Joshua Thomas Maxwell
The Absence of Presence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Indicated Interventions to Increase Student Attendance, Brandy R. Maynard
Illinois Secondary Principals' Perceptions and Expectations Concerning Students Who Use African American Vernacular English in an Academic Setting, Garrard Overton McClendon
Interpretive Teleology Without Eschatology: A Study of the Hermeneutic Strategies of Nietzsche's Genealogical Project, Darin Sean McGinnis
I Am Black and Beautiful: An Examiniaton of the Black Coptic Church as the Manifestation of Liberation Theology, Leonard McKinnis
The Contours of Secularism in South Asian Minority Writing, Roger McNamara
An Experiential Approach to Kant's Moral Philosophy: A Reply to Dogmatism, Formalism and Rigorism, Chris McTavish
Hypervirulent Clostridium Difficile Strains: Adherence, Toxin Production and Sporulation, Michelle Marie Merrigan
The Complexities of Attachment, Peer Rejection and Gender Within a Middle School Dynamic - a Glimpse at Early Adolescents and Their Significant Relationships, Barbara Ann Mestling
The Impact of Intrusive Advising on Academic Self Efficacy Beliefs in First-Year Students in Higher Education, Lauren Kemner Miller
Involvement of the NMDA Receptor in Moderate Ethanol Preconditioning-Dependent Neuroprotection From Amyloid-Beta in Vitro, Robert Matthew Mitchell
Resilience and African American Early Adolescents: The Protective Function of Religion and Structured After-School Activities, Gloria Patricia Montgomery-Walters
The Soul and the Body in Hegel's Anthropology, Nicholas Mowad
A Land Fit for Heroes?: The Great War, Memory, Popular Culture, and Politics in Ireland Since 1914, Jason Robert Myers
Characterization of TraM, a Required Bacteroides Fragilis Conjugal Apparatus Protein That Interacts with the B. Fragilis Putative Coupling Protein Bcta and the B. Fragilis Relaxase Protein BmpH, Mai Thi Thanh Nguyen
Building Level Principals as Change Agents in a Response to Intervention Reform Initiative, Kristen Elizabeth Ninni
Aging Effects on Acute Lung Inflammation After Burn Injury, Vanessa Nomellini
New Cyclophanes as Supramolecular Scaffolds: The Synthesis of Tribenzo-1,4,7-Triazacyclononatriene., Andria M. Panagopoulos
Notch-1 Activates Nf-Кb Activity in Cervical Cancer and Estrogen Receptor Negative Breast Cancer, Yin Peng
Your Change Is Still Behind: Futurity in Early Modern Literature, Tripthi Pillai
Dialectical Metafiction and the Self-Conscious Subject of American Modernism, Timothy Michael Randell
Sacred Spaces, Public Places: The Intersection of Religion and Space in Three Chicago Communities, 1869-1932, Elizabeth Hoffman Ransford
The Impact of Person-Centered Communications on Political Candidate Evaluation: An Experimental Investigation, Randall A. Renstrom
The Role of the Principal in the Professional Life of Male Elementary Classroom Teachers, Brian Gendron Ricca
Business Ethics and Global Age Cosmopolitanism, Isaias Ramon Rivera
Depressive Symptoms in Women Being Screened for Cardiovascular Disease Risk, Suzanne Marie Savoy
The Development of and Relationship Between Elgin U-46's Teacher Appraisal System and Mentor Program: 1998-2010, Joseph William Schumacher
Forced-Exercise Alleviates Neuropathic Pain in Experimental Diabetes: Effects on Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels, Sahadev A. Shankarappa
Immigration as a "Theologizing Experience": Spiritual Well-Being as a Moderating Factor in Migratory Grief and Acculturation, Irma A. Sharp
In Whose Best Interest? Using an Experimental Vignette to Assess Factors Influencing Placement Decisions in Child Welfare, Jeff Sieracki
The Intersection of Positive Psychology and Teachers' Dispositional Fitness: A Delphi Study, Maria Elizabeth Stimpson
Examining the Relationship Among Reading Curriculum-Based Measures, Level of Language Proficiency, and State Accountability Test Scores with Middle School Spanish-Speaking English Language Learners, Nicole Osterman Stokes
Religious Influences in Thai Female Education (1889-1931), Pam Suksod-Barger
