Dissertations submitted in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Loyola University Chicago.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2010
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
Home-School Collaboration and Children with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders: An Examination of School Services, Laura Jean Swanlund
Curriculum Reform in Post-Soviet Armenia: Balancing Local and Global Contexts in Armenian Secondary Schools, Shelley Marie Terzian
Deconstructing Ihf-Mediated Inhibition of the Complex acs Promoter, David S. Thach
The Relationship Among Adult Attachment Styles, Shame, Dissociation, and Abuse Characteristics in Women Survivors of Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse Perpetrated by a Parental-Figure, Grace H. Tomas-Tolentino
The Effect of Urban Hassles on the Subjective Well-Being of Low-Income Urban Adolescents, Kimberly Vacek
An Overarching Defense of Kant's Idea of the Highest Good, Alonso Villaran
Gabab Regulation of Methamphetamine-Induced Associative Learning, Robin Michelle Voigt
The Roles and Responsibilities of the Principal as Perceived by Illinois K-8 Principals Who Belong to Generation X, Keith Westman
A Comparative Study of Year-Round and Traditional Calendar Schools in Chicago, Andrea Therese Winkelmann
Student Access to Advanced Placement (AP) Coursework: Principals' Beliefs and Practices, Steve Wood
Pushing On: A Grounded Theory Study of Maternal Perinatal Bereavement., Patricia Wright
B Lymphocyte Development in Galt, Venkata Arunachalam Yeramilli
Doubting Thomas: A Study of Thomas Hobbes's Post-Restoration Dialogues, Adam George Yoksas
Resurrecting the Past, Constructing the Future: A Historical Investigation on the Formation of a Greek National Identity in Schools, 1834-1913, Theodore G. Zervas
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Colorblind, Deaf and Dumb: Examining Race in a Contemporary American High School, Brendan Bedell
You Are in the World: Catholic Campus Life at Loyola University Chicago, Mundelein College, and De Paul University, 1924-1950, Rae Bielakowski
Enzyme-Catalyzed Phosphoryl Transfer Reactions: Energetics of Transition States and Vanadate Analogues in Aqueous Solution, James Borden
The Role of Expectations as Determinants of Satisfaction in an Outpatient Care Setting, Jan Strohmeyer Brien
Principal Evaluation and Student Achievement: A Study of Public Elementary Schools in Dupage, Will, and Lake Counties, Illinois, Edward John Condon
Regulation of Transglutaminase by 5-HT2A Receptor Signaling and Calmodulin, Ying Dai
Transforming Images: Media, Sexuality and Everyday Life, Monica Leigh Edwards
Infectious Agents: Race and Environment in Nineteenth-Century America, Kristen Renee Egan
A Study of the Leadership of High-Poverty, High-Performing Schools Through the Lens of Moral Leadership, Scott David Fech
Finding Balance in a Family of One: Time Use in Single Person Households, Kimberly E. Fox
Information Content in Ribonuclease A: An Investigation of Protein Structure and Identification of New Qsars, Jessica L. Greminger
Safety Changes in Blue Ribbon Schools Since the Attack on Columbine High School, Joseph Gust
Therapeutic Mentoring: Outcomes for Youth in Foster Care, Sara B. Johnson
Rawls, Political Liberalism, and Moral Virtues, Joseph Alava Kabari
Impact of Interest Group Testimony on Lawmaking in Congress, Nina Therese Kasniunas
Relating Color Blind Racial Attitudes, Social Dominance Orientation and Just World Beliefs, Jennifer Marie Kestner
Functional Evolution and Origin of Enzymes of the Bacterial Glycogen/Starch Biosynthetic Pathway, Misty Lee Kuhn
Social Experiences of Adolescents with High Functioning Autism (HFA) and/or Asperger Syndrome (AS) - Their Perceptions and Their Views of Their Caregivers: An Exploratory Study, Patricia Anne Kunz
The Queer Work of Fantasy: The Romance in Antebellum America, Zachary Neil Lamm
Dirty Work: Domestic Service and the Making of the Middle Class in Modern Women's Fiction, Ann M. Mattis
Degree Attainment Among Adult Learners, Maureen O'Conor
Testing Models of Voter Choice: The Case of Polish Parliamentary Elections, 1997-2005, Piotr Paradowski
Identity, Oppression, and Group Rights, Andrew Jared Pierce
Connection, Caretaking, and Conflict: The Recalled, Lived Experience of Adultdaughters of Bipolar Mothers, Louise Ribeiro Presley
Effects of Misassignment on Bias in the Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity, Kelci M. Price
Moral Reasons Arbitrariness, Brad Seeman
A Rat Model Examining Behavioral and Neurochemical Effects of Passive Exposure to Aggression on Observers, Hideo Suzuki
Philo of Alexandria's Exposition of the Tenth Commandment, Hans Svebakken
Recognition of Emotions From Facial Expression and Situational Cues in Children with Autism, Dina Tell
Suffering and the Search for Wholeness: Beauty and the Cross in Hans Urs Von Balthasar and Contemporary Feminist Theologies, Elisabeth T. Vasko
The Art of Trinitarian Articulation: A Case Study on Richard of St. Victor's _de Trinitate_, Todd D. Vasquez
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
The Impact of Violence Exposure on Sexually Abusive Behavior in Types of Adolescent Sex Offenders, Emily Sarah Edlynn
The Social Construction of Linguistic Reality: A Case Study Exploring the Relationships among Poverty, Race, and Remediation in an Urban Community College, Rosemary Robinson Jackson
