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Author:

Smith, Carissa Dawn Turner

Title:

Placing Religion: The Spiritual Geography of Twentieth-Century American Women Writers

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

religion
feminism
spiritual geography
literature
place

File:

Download diss_complete.pdf

Committee Members:

Deborah L Clarke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine Lee Gorby, Committee Member
Iyunolu Folayan Osagie, Committee Member
Robin G Schulze, Committee Member

Author:

Ciocirlan, Cristina Elena

Title:

Developing and testing a positive theory of instrument choice: Renewable Energy Policy in the fifty American states

Graduate Program:

Public Administration

Keywords:

instrument choice
innovation and diffusion
renewable energy policy
legislative professionalism
comparative state
policy formulation

File:

Download CIOCIRLAN.pdf

Committee Members:

Beverly Ann Cigler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeremy Plant, Committee Member
Nihal Bayraktar, Committee Member
Steven Ames Peterson, Committee Member

Author:

Yanez Prieto, Carolina Elvira Maria

Title:

DISTRIBUTION AND DIVERSITY OF SULFUR-REDUCING PROKARYOTES IN SULFUR-RICH PEAT SOILS

Graduate Program:

Soil Science

Keywords:

Peat soils
sulfur cycle
sulfate-reducing bacteria
heavy metals

File:

Download Carolina_Yanez_Prieto_PhDdissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Carmen Enid Martínez, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maryann Victoria Bruns, Committee Member
Peter Landschoot, Committee Member
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Member
John Michael Regan, Committee Member

Author:

Taylor, Catherine Freiday

Title:

Conceptions of Time and Competing Priorities in the Principalship: The Challenge of Staying Focused on Learning

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

Pennsylvania
No Child Left Behind legislation
New principals
Leadership in education
Instructional leadership
Instruction
Expectations
Email
Elementary schools
Elementary principal
Education
Decision making
Curriculum and instruction
Conceptions of time
Best interests
Availability or absence of time
Assessment results
Administration of schools
Achievement
Accountability in education
Pennsylvania System of School Assessment
Principal
Priorities
Qualitative research
Rural schools
Students
Student learning
Suburban schools
Technology
Time
Time management
Teachers
Theories and principles
Urban schools

File:

Download CFTaylor-Dissertation-ThesisOffice.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul T Begley, Professor Of Education, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan C Faircloth, Committee Member
James F Nolan Jr., Committee Member
Jacqueline A Stefkovich, Committee Member

Author:

Turich, Courtney Hanna

Title:

MOLECULAR AND ISOTOPIC INVESTIGATIONS OF THE BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF ARCHAEAL ETHER LIPIDS

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Archaea
Lipids
TEX86
isotopes

File:

Download TurichFinalThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maryann Victoria Bruns, Committee Member
Michael Allan Arthur, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member
Daniel Jones, Committee Member

Author:

Stringer, Craig Joseph

Title:

Structure-Property-Performance Relationships of New High Temperature Relaxors for Capacitor Applications

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Relaxor ferroelectrics
High temperature capacitors
Vogel-Fulcher
Perovskite

File:

Download Stringer2006.pdf

Committee Members:

Clive A Randall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Leslie Eric Cross, Committee Member

Author:

Anderson, Christian K

Title:

The Creation of Faculty Senates in American Research Universities

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

faculty senates
shared governance
university administration

File:

Download ChristianAndersonDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Lewis Geiger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dorothy H Evensen, Committee Member
Michael John Dooris, Committee Member
Marie Hojnacki, Committee Member

Author:

Hord, Carey LeeAnna Hendrix

Title:

ROLES OF THE CLAVAT1 AND ERECTA CLADES IN ARABIDOPSIS ANTHER DEVELOPMENT

Graduate Program:

Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

CLAVATA1
anther
Arabidopsis
Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinases
ERECTA

File:

Download CareyHord-PhDThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Hong Ma, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Teh Hui Kao, Committee Member
Timothy W Mcnellis, Committee Member
Paula Mc Steen, Committee Member

Author:

Lopano, Christina Lynn

Title:

Time-Resolved Structural Analyses of Cation Exchange Reactions in Synthetic Birnessite

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

birnessite
cation exchange
X-ray diffraction
synchrotron
manganese oxides

File:

Download CLopano_Dissertation_Full_REVISED_.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter J Heaney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sridhar Komarneni, Committee Member
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member
James David Kubicki, Committee Member
C Enid Martinez, Committee Member

Author:

Shearer, Cindy Lou

Title:

Gender socialization in the family

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

gender
parenting
bias
adolescence
emerging adulthood
socialization

File:

Download shearer_diss_complete_8-3.pdf

Committee Members:

Ann Caverly Crouter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Marie Mc Hale, Committee Member
Eva Sharon Lefkowitz, Committee Member
Michael Paul Johnson, Committee Member
Michael J Rovine, Committee Member