Oral Defense Announcements Spring and Summer 2008

November 26	Daniel Isom II Effects of Constituent influence on Pursuit Policy Decisions: A Case Study on the St. Louis Police Department Policy Patrick W. Sweeney Systematics and Floral Evolution in the Plant Genus Garcinia (Clusiaceae)
November 30	Shawn O'Connor Differentiating Psychosis and Faith: The Role of Social Norms
December 14	Rachael E. Springman The Detection of Malingering on Measures of Competency to Stand Trial: A Study of Coached and Uncoached Simulators
February 4	Barbara C. Zigrang A case study describing what teachers do in a standards-based classroom
February 27	Michelle Burkemper The Attitudes and Perceptions of Students and Staff Toward the Wearing of Uniforms in Public High Schools
March 13	Clifford J. Carver The Impact of Systematic Professional Development on Selected Areas of Student Performance in Selected Missouri School Buildings
April 2	Lieschen Fink Teaching and Assessing using Multiple Intelligences Theory: A Classroom-based Action Research Study
April 3	Bridget Craig Attitudes Of High School Seniors Toward Inclusion
April 8	Bambi Bethel The 2002 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), The Amended 2004 Individuals With Disabilities Educational Act (IDEA) and Promoting The American Democratic Ideals of Equity and Access A Critical Enquiry Based on the Work of Michael Foucault and Jean-François Lyotard Megan Franke The Relationship Between the Cerebellar Mediated Functions of Motor Activity and Phonological Processing in Reading
April 9	Amy S. Narishkin A Formative Evaluation of the Beginning Teacher Assistance Program: An Andragogical Approach
April 10	Saibal Bandyopadhyay Approaches to the Synthesis of Cyclophostin and an Endophosphonate Analog
April 14	David Kenfack Systematics and evolution of Carapa (Meliaceae-Swietenioideae) Thomas B. Ryder Social and Reproductive Dynamics of a Lek Breeding Bird James T. Smoot Development of the Inverse Armed-Disarmed Strategy for Oligosaccharide Synthesis
April 15	Michael Kenneth Klebert Stop-It: An Intervention for Chronic Diarrhea in People with HIV
April 16	Niang-Huei Peng An Exploration of the Relationship of Stress Physiological Signals and Stress Behaviors in Preterm Infants During Periods of Environmental Stress in the Intensive Care Unit
April 18	Janice R. Hill Prosecuting Child Sexual Abuse Offenders: A Case Study of Victim, Family, Offender, Evidentiary, and Incident Characteristics Frederick W. Scherrer, Jr. An Analysis of MER1 Function During Meiotic Splicing Regulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Randi Ulbricht Puf1p-Mediated mRNA Decay and Combinatorial control of mRNA Stability by the Yeast Puf Proteins Jeanne Elizabeth Zack Occupational Exposures to Bloodborne Pathogens among Saint Louis Metropolitan Police Officers
May 5	Adrián B. Azpiroz Grassland birds in natural and cultivated grasslands in the Northern Campos of Uruguay: diversity patterns, responses to vegetation structure and nest survival Lauren C. Mensie The Stress Process Model and In-home Respite for Caregivers of Cognitively and Physically Impaired Older Adults
May 7	Maksat Kobonbaev Why is Corruption Less Pervasive in the Baltic States than in Central Asia?: Institutional Explanation with Particular Focus on Estonia and Kyrgyzstan Robin Jeane Schaum The Marriage Certificate as a Shield? The Role of Marital Status on Violent Victimization
May 8	Fuqian Xie Mechanistic Studies of Specific DNA Cleavage by PvuII Restriction Endonuclease
May 9	Jinfeng Wang Characterization and Synthesis of Nanoscale Materials
May 12	Jennifer Bollmer MHC variation in island endemics: the effect of genetic drift
May 23	Ngamjit Praingam The effect of the phosphine on SiH bond activation reactions with platinum phosphine complexes
May 29	Renata Durães Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Lekking Behavior and Female Mate Choice in the Blue-crowned Manakin (Lepidothrix coronata, AVES: Pipridae) Sarah Hanly Exploring the Cognitive Underpinnings of Word Retrieval Deficits in Dyslexia Using the Tip-of-the-Tongue Paradigm Adriana Rodríguez-Ferraro Community ecology and phylogeography of bird assemblages in arid zones of northern Venezuela: Implications for the conservation of restricted-range birds