Theses/Dissertations from 2009

Acculturation and Racial Identity Attitudes: An Investigation of First and Second Generation Ibos, Chinaka Agwu

Is Mindfulness a Luxury? Examining the Role of Socioeconomic Status in the Relationship between Dispositional Mindfulness and Psychological Distress, Steven Matthew Andrews

Set Screw Break-Off Study In Spinal Neurosurgery, Ganesh Gautham Aswapathi Ramesh

Hanging out with the cool frogs: Do operative and body temperatures explain population response to disease?, Sarah Nthabiseng Becker

AMELIORATING AERIAL NEAR MISSES WITH PCA DEVICES AND MOTL, Naren Bhosle

Perceptions of Writing Process: A Study of First-Year Composition Students, Karen Bernice Bontrager

Generating Sustainable Weight Loss: Investigating the Efficacy of a Behavioral Based Weight Loss Intervention, Michael James Bordieri

Reconfigurable Cache Memory, Jeffery Ramon Brewer

Associations of Tree Species and Environment along Hiking Trails within the Hemlock-Silverbell Forest Type in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Erin Kathleen Bugle

Comparison of Next Generation Attenuation (NGA) Models with Recorded Ground Motions, Zachary Thomas Bulva

A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF GIS ENTERPRISE MODEL FOR A MEDIUM-SIZED CITY; A CASE OF LIOUSVILLE, KENTUCKY, Tawane D. Burks

TEACHING EFFICACY OF NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE TEACHERS OF ENGLISH IN VIETNAM: A TRIANGULATION OF STUDENT AND TEACHER PERCEPTIONS, Vien Cao

THE EFFECT OF A COMMUNITY-BASED LIFESTYLE INTERVENTION ON THE CHANGES IN SNACKING HABITS FROM BASELINE TO THREE MONTHS AMONG ADOLESCENTS AT-RISK FOR TYPE 2 DIABETES, Kristin Michelle Caravelli

IMPACT OF ULTRAVIOLET ENERGY ON STRAWBERRY SHELF LIFE, Christopher E. Carpenter

Effects of Repeated Prescribed Fire and Thinning From Below on Understory Components of Southern Illinois Oak-Hickory Forests, Dennis Frank Carril

Differing Perceptions and Functioning Following Discharge from Post-Acute Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Nicholas Joseph Cioe

Linguistic human rights and the education of language minority children: The case of the Japanese Brazilian returnees, Tamara M. Constant

Consequences of Premature and Persistent Luteinizing Hormone Receptor Activation on Leydig Cell Development, Mary M. Coonce

LAND SNAIL ABUNDANCE AND DIVERSITY WITH ASSOCIATED ECOLOGICAL VARIABLES IN SIX SOUTHERN ILLINOIS COUNTIES, Marla Lee Coppolino

In search of the Triassic-Jurassic boundary: Palynostratigraphy and carbon-isotope stratigraphy of the lower Dinosaur Canyon Member on the Colorado Plateau (Kanab, Utah), Drew Tyler Downs

The Role of Previous Experience with Piscovory and Exposure to Fish Predators on Survival of Walleye (Sander vitreus) fingerlings, Richard Franklin Echols

Analysis of Myogenin Function in Rhabdomyosarcoma Cells, Jamie Marie Feldmann

A Component Analysis of Interteaching in an Undergraduate Rehabilitation Course, Stephen Filipiak

ENZOOTIC PATTERNS OF INFECTION BY BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS IN POND BREEDING ANURANS IN CENTRAL AMERICA, Sandra Patricia Galeano

HORSE RACE OVER POLICIES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE 2008 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN SOUTH KOREAN AND AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS, Jaesik Ha

3-D Face Recognition using the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), Neda Hantehzadeh

THE RURAL TOWN SQUARE AND ITS NEW IDENTITY, Matthew Jacob Highlander

ATTITUDINAL DIFFERENCES ABOUT DISABILITIES AMONG REHABILITATION PROFESSIONALS, Heaven L. Hollender

The Effect of Supplementing Grazing Dairy Cattle Diets with Fish Oil and Linseed Oil on Milk CLA and Omega-3 Fatty Acid Content, Leah Holmes-Miller

FACTORS AFFECTING EROSION ON A NATURAL GAS PIPELINE IN THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS, Dan Holz

DEVELOPMENT OF CHEMICALLY MUTAGENIZED SOYBEAN POPULATIONS FOR FORWARD AND REVERSE GENETICS ANALYSES, EN HUANG

Solving Conflict in Academic Contexts: a Comparison of U.S. and Taiwanese College Students, Li-Jung Huang

Crowd Evacuation for Indoor Public Spaces, Pejman Kamkarian

Looking to the Past to Plan a Future, Ryan Elizabeth Keutzer

A Simplified Routing Algorithm for Energy Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks, Ali Dheyaa Khudhair

Defining a Southern Illinois Eco-Regionalist Approach to Architecture, Alan Lee Knepp

Recognition through Misrecognition: Kant, Hegel and the Problem of United Life in Modernity, Kenneth Knight

The Geography of Ecosystem Service Value: The Case of the Des Plaines and Cache River Wetlands, Illinois, Justin Peter Kozak

IMPLEMENTATION OF SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP AS AN EFFECTIVE CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT MODEL IN THE TRADITIONAL MIDDLE GRADE LEVEL CLASSROOM, Kimberly Jo Lillig

The Effect of Urbanization on Flight Initiation Distance and Alert Behaviors in Woodchucks, Kiersten Elizabeth Lippmann

Dismantling religious stereotypes: Effects of conditional discrimination training and media on the merger of Islamic and Christian stimulus equivalence classes, Sadie Laree Lovett

Office Design: Designing for Productivity in the Workplace, Garret Lee Lukens

The Voices of Animals and Men, Alexander Hutchins Lumans

Environmental Effects on Student Performance, Garrett Paul Lunsford

Novel State Coding For Scalable Pattern Matching, Mini Mathew

Conceptus Effects on Endometrial Gene Expression during Implantation in Mice, Melinda McConaha

DEPARTMENTAL POLICY EFFECT ON THE POLICE-MEDIA RELATIONSHIP, Lindsey McKinney

Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Understand Seniors' Fruit and Vegetable Purchasing Intentions at Farmers' Markets, Crystal Middleton

Neoclassicism in Edvard Grieg's Six Songs, Opus 48, Jamie Marie Mills

UNDERSTANDING THE LINK BETWEEN ETHANOL PRODUCTION AND FOOD PRICES, Nathalia Ferreira Monteiro

PATHWAY ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VOTER TURNOUT AND HOURS WORKED USING VOTER TURNOUT AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COVERAGE AS INTERMEDIARIES, Andrew Notier

Photocatalytic Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol, Emmanuel Okpo

ASSEMBLY & JOINTURE: A Tectonics of Place & Structure in the Mississippi Heartland Delta, Matthew J. Pica

The Voluntary Lead Shot Ingestion Rate of Mourning Doves (Zenaida Macroura) on a Disked Field, Stephanie Plautz

THE EFFECT OF LIPID SUPPLEMENTS ON THE POPULATION OF SELECTED RUMINAL BACTERIA VARIES WITH THE FATTY ACID COMPOSITION, Ramesh Babu Potu

Understanding Differences in Male and Female Participation in Post-Secondary Correctional Education, Kristin Reschenberg

Exploring the Effects of Latino Subgroup Diversity On Panethnic Group Consciousness, Antonio Rodriguez

Genetic Management Plan for the Endangered Pallid Sturgeon (Scaphirynchus albus) Captive Broodstock Maintained at Gavin's Point National Fish Hatchery, Melody Saltzgiver

Development and Performance Evaluation of a Mono-Valve Engine, Amit Shrestha

DEVELOPMENT OF BAMBOO DERIVED SORBENTS FOR GAS PHASE ADSORPTION OF ELEMENTAL MERCURY, Naved Ahmed Siddiqui

Assessment of Parapet Loads Distributed to Prestressed Concrete I-Beams in Simple Span Bridges, Amelia Leigh Siegert

Tribological Properties of Mo2N-based Adaptive Coatings, William Jeffrey Simonson

Accumulator Based Test Set Embedding, Samara Simha Reddy Sudireddy

The Utilization of Expert Advice: Effects of Cost and Accuracy, Steven C. Sutherland

Assessment of Stresses in Steel Bridge Gusset Plate Connections using Finite Element Analysis, Donald William Tempinson

Classifying the Fire Regime Condition Class for Upland Oak-Hickory Forests, Paul David Tikusis

Left out when playing the recorder right: Effects of bimanual performance of melodic instruments in regards to hand asymmetry in musicians, Lee Fredric VanAlstine

Using the Stimulus Equivalence Paradigm to Teach Course Material in an Undergraduate Rehabilitation Course, Brooke Walker

DFT study of hydrogen storage in complex hydrides doped with transition metals, Jiamei Yu

Theses/Dissertations from 2008

SOLVING CONFLICT IN ACADEMIC CONTEXTS: A COMPARISON OF US AND TAIWANESE COLLEGE STUDENTS, Li-Jung Huang

A Pilot Study on the Effects of a Community-Based Lifestyle Intervention on Emotional Eating and Body Image Disparities Among Adolescents Who Are Overweight and "At-Risk" For Type 2 Diabetes, Colleen Marie Humann

THE USE OF INTESTINAL MICROFLORA MODIFICATION TO MAXIMIZE THE ANTI-OBESITY AND ANTI-DIABETIC EFFECTS OF SOY PROTEIN DIETS IN FEMALE ZUCKER DIABETIC FATTY RATS, Michele Marie Martin

Similarities and Differences in Females with Regards to Perfectionism in those with Anorexia Nervosa, High BMI (Binge Eaters vs. Non-Binge Eaters), and those Seeking a Healthier Lifestyle, Michelle Cristin Ostien

A PILOT STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF A COMMUNITY-BASED LIFESTYLE INTERVENTION FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO ARE "AT RISK" FOR TYPE 2 DIABETES, Rebecca Faith Startzer