College of Arts and Sciences Theses
This collection includes Cleveland State University College of Arts and Sciences theses dating from December 2007 to the present which are also included in the OhioLINK Electronic Theses & Dissertation Center.
Theses published before 2014 can be found in the Cleveland State University Archives or the Northeast Regional Library Depository through OhioLINK.
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
The Effects of Cognitive Load on the Perception of Foreign-Accented Words, Leah M. Bonath
Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia (RSA) in Adults with Possible Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Symptoms, Arielle Bowers
Overloaded? Examining Predictors of Work-Family Conflict Through Role Overload, Lisa J. Brasdovich
The Effect of Mixed Font Items on Lexical Decision Performance, Arielle B. Cenin
The Discourse of Female Mental Illness in Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Elise M. Collman
Variability and Location of Movement Endpoint Distributions: The Influence of Instructions for Movement Speed and Accuracy, Abhishek Dey
Cultural Criticisms Within Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Holly Rose Litwin
Borderline Personality Disorder: How Various Stressors Impact Rumination Tendencies, Corey J. Maddox
An Exploration of Parenting Styles, Emotion Regulation, Depression, and Culture's Role, Krysten L. Monzon
Investigating the Role of Open Bigrams in Visual Word Perception, Amy M. Palinski
Secret History in Contemporary America: Re-Reading All the King's Men and Primary Colors, Megan Nicole Petraska
An Interpersonal Model of Depression: A Psychophysiological Perspective, Kelsey J. Pritchard
The Black Death and Giovanni Bocaccio's The Decameron's Portrayal of Merchant Mentality, Rachel D. Rickel
Modified Electrodes with Grafted DNA and Oligonucleotides for Detection and Quantification of Peroxynitrate, Heba Azmy Salim
The Interactive Effects of Biofeedback-Assisted Stress Management and Training Acquisition in Predicting Health Outcomes, Cary M. Sears
Aging and Emotion Recognition: An Examination of Stimulus and Attentional Mechanisms, Stephanie Nicole Sedall
Six Stories, James Silver
Fe/male Mother of Two: Gender and Motherhood in Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin, Amy B. Smialek
The Mediating Effects of Self-handicapping on Eating Disorder Symptomatology, Brooke Kelly Strumbel
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Assessment of the Freshwater Mussel Community of the Upper Mahoning River Watershed and Factors Influencing Diversity and Abundance in Small Streams, Matthew T. Begley
Contextualizing Chester Himes's Trajectory of Violence Within the Harlem Detective Cycle, Bailey A. Capelle
Effects of Information Processing Strategies on Rater Motivation in Job Analysis, Corey Alexander Cecil
Basement, Robert Mclane Daniels
Gerontological Intelligence Test, Erika Beatriz Gobbi
Legacy of Shame: A Psychoanalytic History of Trauma in The Bluest Eye, Martina Louise Hayes
Recognition and Use of Empirically-Supported Treatments Among Clinicians Treating Clients with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Christopher Heckman
Sexualizing the Body Politic: Narrative the Female Body and the Gender Divide in Secret History, Eileen A. Horansky
The Liquid Nature of Self in Maxine Kingston's Autobiographical Story the Woman Warrior, Evelyn Jablonski
Dance with Me Tonight, Yae Ram Jeong
Ring Rust, Suzanne D. Mcwhorter
Characterization of Cold Drawn Poly L Lactic Acid by Raman Spectroscopy and Raman Hyperspectral Imaging, Ramya Sudha Muttavarapu
Ya Gotta Shoot 'Em in the Head: the Zombie Plague as the New Apocryphal Myth in Post 9/11 America, Ryan F. Neff
Making Waves: Bacon, Manley, and the Shifting Rhetorics of Opulent At(A)Lantis, Alex Cahill Nielsen
The Hill Fire and Other Stories, Michael Ervin Putnam
19th Century Sea Shanties: from the Capstan to the Classroom, Sharon Marie Risko
Anthropogenic Impacts as Revealed from Sediment Cores from Punderson Lake Ohio, Ronald A. Van blarcum
James and Shakespeare: Unification Through Mapping, Christina Wagner
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Time Course of a Bilingual Stroop Task, Sara Incera Burkert
Women's Control of Passion: Louisa May Alcott's Revision of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Societal Restrictions of Passion in the Ninteenth-Century, Erica Eileen Cicero-erkkila
Conformational Regulation of Membrane Localization and Activation of Talin, Pallavi Dwivedi
Effects of Orientation Change on Spatial Learning of Novel Environments on Younger and Older Adults, Michael J. Fox
How Coping, PTSD and Treatment Preferences Interact?, Martha Mae Golubski
The Effects of Control and Work / Family Centrality on the Personal Use of Work Computers, Jenna L. Gorsuch
Gender Differences in Treatment Outcomes Among Fibromyalgia Patients, Ashley Anne Haas
Don't Believe Everything You Read: Hoaxes and Satire in the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Erik E. Harder
The Effect of the Muscular Ideal Prime in a Lexical Decision Task, Stephanie A. Henley
The Black Blood of the Tennysons: Rhetoric of Melancholy and the Imagination in Tennyson's Poetry, Vanessa Jakse
Effects of Shear Stress on the Distribution of Kindlins in Endothelial Cells, Sidney V. Jones
Cultural Collision and Consequence: Redefining the Invisible in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Nina Shari Kidd
Coordination of Continuous and Discrete Components of Action, Stephanie L. Kilian
Taming the Perfect Beast: the Monster as Romantic Hero in Contemporary Fiction, Lara Klaber
Predicting Use of Evidence-Based Treatments by Helping Professionals for the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Sean A. Lafleur
Attitudes Toward the Cervical Cancer Screening Procedure Across Trauma Types, Emma Melaragno
Law School Personal Statements: an Analysis of Race and Gender Variations in "Impression Management" Among Law School Applicants, Amy L. Miller
Structural and Symbolic Parallels Within the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Catcher in the Rye, David G. Polster
The Influence of Schizotypal Traits on Active Display Recognition, Lucinda V. Rohde
Stage of Change Discrepancies Among Individuals with Dementia and Caregivers, Evan G. Shelton
The Relationship Between Childhood Attachment Style and Adult Dissociation, Laura Michelle Swiney
The Rise and Fall of the Black King: Girardian Thought in the Tragedy of Macbeth, Matthew Tarnovecky
American Hamlet: Shakespearean Epistemology in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, James Jason Walsh
Undermining Heteronormativity in Kate Chopin's the Awakening, Susan G. Weber
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Induction of Liver abcg5/abcg8 Expression Is an Important Determinant of the Macrophage-To-Feces Reverse Cholesterol Transport Response to Treatment with Ezetimibe, Jessica B. Altemus
Alcoholics in Recovery: Factors Informing the Decision to Self-Disclose Alcoholism in the Workplace, Teresa Coyne Andreani
Identification of New Genes Involved in Meiosis by a Genetic Screen, Sneharthi Banerjee
No Ordinary Pilgrim: Margery Kempe and Her Quest for Validation, Authority, and Unique Identity, Alice A. Barfoot
Cognitive Dissonance, Crime and Commitment to Urban Life: Why Individuals with Means Choose to Live and Remain in Largely Low Income Neighborhoods, Nelson S. Beckford
Key Predictors of Well-Being for Individuals with Dementia, Lindsey M. Bisgrove
Fighting the Germans. Fighting the Germs: Cleveland's Response to the 1918-1919 Spanish Flu Epidemic, Haakon Bjoershol
Biofeedback Assisted Stress Management Training in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease, Gregory James Bolwell
The Relationship Between Innovativeness and Shopping Website Feature Preferences Across Product Classes, Eric Brandt
Singing Behavior and Geographic Variation in the Songs of the Veery (Catharus Fuscescens) Across the Appalachian Mountains, Courtney L. Brennan
Automated Spectral Identification of Materials Using Spectral Identity Mapping, Robert William Cannon
The Trope of Domesticity: Neo-Slave Narrative Satire on Patriarchy and Black Masculinity, Darrell E. Coleman
The Objectification of Women in Cane, Claudia M. Davis
Liminal Identity in Willa Cather's "The Professor's House", Alexandra D. Debiase
Passive and Active Masculinities in Disney's Fairy Tale Films, Grace Dugar
The Synthesis of Anglo-Saxon and Christian Traditions in the Old English Judith, Sarah E. Eakin
NOS Oxygenase-Mediated Nitroalkane Catalytic Reduction: Impact on NOS Reaction, Praneeth Ivan joel Fnu
The Effects of Urban Land Use on Wasps: (Hymenoptera: Apocrita), Klaire Elise Freeman
Responses to Low Double-Strand Break Levels in Budding Yeast Meiosis, Scott A. Gaskell
Saline Adaptation of the Microalga Scenedesmus Dimorphus: from Fresh Water to Brackish Water, Bethany Marie Gigante
The Role of Learning Modality upon Long-Term Spatial Memory, Dale A. Hirsch
Understanding the Relationship Between Sexual Trauma and Screenings, Emily N. Karakis
Invoking the Incubus: Mary Shelly's Use of the Demon-Lover Tradition in Frankenstein, Christopher M. Lamphear
Activated Neutrophils Mediate KIM-1 Shedding and Renal Remodelling, Shreyas Lingadahalli
Interpretations of Fear and Anxiety in Gothic-Postmodern Fiction: an Analysis of the Secret History by Donna Tartt, Stacey A. Litzler
Civilization Is Going to Pieces: Crime, Morality, and Their Role in the Great Gatsby, Kathryn F. Machcinski
Barriers to Seeking Campus Therapeutic Services for Sexual Assault, Caitlin A. Martin
Art Spiegelman's Maus as a Heteroglossic Text, Dane H. Minich
Examining the Tribal "Other" in American Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, Alicia M. Pavelecky alicia m.
Assessment of Verbal and Nonverbal Memory and Learning in Abstinent Alcoholics, Alyson L. Phelan
Comparing Self-Efficacy, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Coping in Women with and Without a Sexual Assault History Enrolled in Self-Defense Classes, Caitlin M. Pinciotti
Emerging Imagery: the Great Famine in Nineteenth Century Irish Lit, Barbara A. Pitrone
Assessment of Freshwater Mussel Communities of Small Stream Mouths Along Lake Erie, Trevor J. Prescott
Chimeric Glutathione S-Transferases: Properties and Thermodynamic Stability, Rita M. Rozmarynowycz
Treatment Outcomes of an Interdisciplinary Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Program in Smokes and Nonsmokers, Leighann E. Scheidler
Influence of Earthworms on Plant and Soil Invertebrate Communities of the Cleveland Metroparks, Anton F. Schermaier
Online Exploration: Browsing Behavior and Website Feature Preferences, Mackenzie Siren
The Effects Upward and Downward Comparison on a Subsequent Emotion Recognition Task, Kim D. Thomas
Bioinformatic Analysis and in Vitro Expression of Malaria Parasite Translocon and Ribonuclease Binding-Like Rhoptry Genes, Moses Z. Timta
