Dissertations from 2025
Electrochemical Charge Storage of Biochar-Based Electrode Materials for Electrochemical Double-Layer Capacitors (EDLCs), Aliaa Alrashidi
REALIZATION OF SIMPLE SMALE FLOWS IN S^3 USING 3-BAND TEMPLATES, Mohammed Alshamrani
Communicating Ourselves: Erasure and Counter Discourse of Queer Christians of Color, Janine Armstrong
Tell It Slant: Leaning Into the Aesthetic Possibilities of Performative Writing, A.B. Art
FISCAL DOMINANCE AND BANK FRAGILITY IN FRONTIER ECONOMIES: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, Kofi Ampoma Asuako
The Surge of the Populist Radical Right: How Transnationalism and Party Systems Influence Populist Radical Right Success and Decline, Liucija Balciunaite
ON A STUDY OF THE MODULAR REPRESENTATIONS OF SLn(Fq) IN DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC p, Devjani Basu
REDUCING TRANSISTOR COUNT IN CMOS LOGIC DESIGN THROUGH CLUSTERING, SUPERCLUSTERING, AND SOP SPLITTING, Anup Kumar Biswas
ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN BANGLADESH, Gautam Kumar Biswas
ILLINOIS ABANDONED MINE LANDS: POSSIBILITIES FOR SOURCING CRITICAL MINERALS IN COAL MINING WASTE, Ryan Bowman
EXAMINING ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN INTERNALIZED RACISM, PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY, AND WELL-BEING AMONG BIPOC, Cerella Chandra
THE INFLUENCE OF INDIVIDUAL NEEDS ON DISTINCT ENTREPRENEURIAL MOTIVES, Megan B. Cook
A Blockchain Integrated Enterprise Resource Planning Framework for Improving Supply Chain Management Operations, Patrick Dudczyk
THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN RADAR DATA PROCESSING, Daniel Durbin
Population Dynamics of Feral Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) Across Illinois, Bryan Scott Foster
Accelerating Spatial Query Operations, Roger Frye
PREDICTORS OF CYBERBULLYING AND HELP-SEEKING BEHAVIORS IN RURAL MIDWESTERN SCHOOLS: A MULTILEVEL MODELING ANALYSIS, Ashley M. Harrison-Pavlik
THE EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ON THE POPULATION DYNAMICS OF A REMNANT BOTTOMLAND CYPRESS-TUPELO WETLAND AMPHIBIAN COMMUNITY, Jacob M. Hutton
UNDERSTANDING THE EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF FACULTY SUPPORTING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS WITH MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES, Jenna Ranee Parbati Jamieson
OLS TESTING WITH PREDICTORS SCALED TO HAVE UNIT SAMPLE VARIANCE, Sanjuka Madhura Kumara Johana Lemonge
Exploring the Spatial-Reasoning Skills of Middle School Students in Design-Based Integrated-STEM Activities, Sandra Richy John
ORCHESTRATING MULTI-OBJECTIVE NEURAL NETWORK DEPLOYMENT IN HETEROGENEOUS EDGE SYSTEMS, Andreas Karatzas
ASPECTS OF APPROXIMATE INDUCTIVE INFERENCE FOR BC LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION, Sunil Kumar Lal Karn
PATHOLOGIZING BLACK MOTHERHOOD: WELFARE POLICY AS A VESTIGE OF SLAVERY, JIM CROW AND JANE CROW, Lakendria M. Kenner
THE ROLE OF SHANK3 IN CEREBELLAR GLUTAMATERGIC SIGNALING: IMPLICATIONS FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER, Rajaram Kshetri
SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS AND OCCUPANCY DYNAMICS OF CARNIVORES IN A CENTRAL HARDWOOD FOREST, Maximillian Larreur
A MIXED METHODS STUDY: PROCEDURAL AND CONCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE IN BASIC STATISTICS FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, Jie Shi Liew
BEYOND SLAVESHIPS AND THE MOTHERSHIP: BLACK PERFORMANCE AESTHETICS THAT HAVE LED TO AFROFUTURISM AND BEYOND., Caleb Royal McKinley-Portee
E-LEARNING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: UNVEILING FACULTY DIGITAL REALITIES, Dauran McNeil
DEEP LEARNING POWERED IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF EARLY DIFFERENTIATED GERM LAYERS FROM PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS, Sakib Mohammad
ENHANCED DEEP LEARNING NEURAL NETWORKS FOR CLASSIFICATION AND FORECASTING PROBLEMS IN EMBEDDED SYSTEMS, Vasileios Pentsos
TESTING POISSON REGRESSION AND RELATED MODELS WITH THE ONE COMPONENT PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES ESTIMATOR, Paul Amarh Quaye
Disability and Personhood on Screen: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Million Dollar Baby, Gattaca, and Sound of Metal, Patrick Seick
TRUSTWORTHY EMBEDDED SYSTEMS BASED ON DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS, Danushka Senarathna
EVOLUTION AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE GENUS TRIODANIS, Taylor Simmonds
EVOLUTION AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE GENUS TRIODANIS, Taylor Simmonds
The Problem of the Whiteness of Wealth, Elizabeth Tharakan
INTEGRATED APPROACH TO EXPLAINING DIGITAL VIOLENCE VICTIMIZATION EXPERIENCES IN SCHOOL MILIEUS, Marlon Mike Toro-Alvarez
DIFFICULTY IN AMERICAN DRAMATIC LITERATURE, David Turkel
Dimension Reduction for High-Dimensional Multivariate Heteroskedastic Time Series via Envelope Methods, Toktam Valizadeh kozalabad
A Low-Complexity Edge-based Object Detection Algorithm, Rujie Zhao
Dissertations from 2024
NEW ELECTROCHEMICAL PLATFORMS FOR THE DETECTION OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE BIOMARKERS, Omair Adil
NOVEL MATERIALS AND APPROACHES TO ENHANCE NMR/MRI SENSITIVITY BY SABRE (SIGNAL AMPLIFICATION BY REVERSIBLE EXCHANGE) HYPERPOLARIZATION, Md Shahabuddin Alam
ANALYZING THE DETERMINANTS OF INWARD, OUTWARD, AND BILATERAL FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS IN MENA COUNTRIES: THE ROLE OF TRADE OPENNESS, Hailah Alfadhel
Infinitely many solutions of a critical nonlinear Choquard equation on R^n., Mona M. Almutairi
TESTING WITH THE ONE COMPONENT PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES AND THE MARGINAL MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATORS, Abdulaziz Alshammari
INSTRUCTORS’ PERCEPTION OF INQUIRY-BASED SCIENCE TEACHING IN SAUDI ARABIA, Suleman Basheer Alshammari
DETERMINANTS OF EXTENSIVE AND INTENSIVE MARGINS IN FEMALE OWNERSHIP OF BUSINESSES: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY, Arwa Althobaiti
Essays on Economic Effects of the Monetary Union of the West African Monetary Zone, Collins Kelechukwu Anosike
THE EFFECT OF ALTITUDE ON DECOMPOSITION: TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE POSTMORTEM INTERVAL IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION OF COLORADO., Christiane Irene Baigent
Republican Klansmen: The Ku Klux Klan and the Grand Old Party in Prohibition Era Indiana, Andrew Scott Barbero
REMITTANCES IN NEPAL; LANDLOCKEDNESS AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE, Thaman Prasad Bastola
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, MACHINES, DEVICES, AND ROBOTS: MOBILIZING HUMANNESS AND INTELLIGENCE IN THE AMERICAN TECHNO-LANDSCAPE, Carlos A. Batres
A Preliminary Investigation of Defusion and Self As Context ACT Processes in Persons with Traumatic Experience, Morgan Battle
THE IMPACT OF COMMUNITY FORESTRY ON THE GENERAL AND SPECIFIED RESILIENCE OF COMMUNITIES AND HOUSEHOLDS IN NEPAL, Mukesh Bhattarai
USING THE TRANSTHEORETICAL MODEL TO UNDERSTAND MOUD PARTICIPANTS GOALS IN RURAL ILLINOIS., John Bresett
Stochastic SEIR(S) Model with Nonrandom Total Population, Shanika Dilani Chandrasena
Stochastic SEIR(S) Model with Random Total Population, Taniya Dilini Chandrasena
INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS OF ABUSIVE SUPERVISION ON EMPLOYEES’ INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOR: THE ROLE OF LMX QUALITY AND CLIMATE FOR INNOVATION., Lorraine Kudakwashe Chihora
CHARACTERIZATION OF DIVERSE NONCODING RNAS IN THERAPEUTICS, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND CHROMATIN BIOLOGY, Ramadevi Chilamkurthy
Mutual Enjoyment: A Levinasian Conception of Freedom, Aaron Darrisaw
Interplay of NR3C1 and FOXO1 in somatotrope differentiation, Pratyusa Das
DERMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF WORKING ANIMALS DURING VARIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS, Dakota Rose Discepolo
THE PERFORMANCE OF PSEUDOARCHAITY AT THE HOOTIN AN HOLLERIN FESTIVAL OF OZARK COUNTY 2019, Angela Duggins
SPATIAL AND BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY OF WHITE-TAILED DEER: IMPLICATIONS FOR WILDLIFE DISEASE TRANSMISSION, Michael Egan
'Crowned with the Wreath of Immortality': Martyrdom, Death, and the Afterlife in North African Religious Discourse, Matthew William Egbert
EFFECT OF BROMOFORM ON ENTERIC METHANE, AND RUMEN FERMENTATION CHARACTERISTICS, Mohamed G. Embaby
VICTIM’S EMOTIONS IN CONTEXT: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE EMOTIONAL VICTIM EFFECT IN DIFFERENT SEXUAL ASSAULT SCENARIOS, Christina Marie Engelken
ROLE OF TMEM97/∑2 RECEPTOR IN REGULATING ANDROGEN RECEPTOR ACTIVITIES IN PROSTATE CANCER, Xiangwei Fang
Smoke and Mirrors: Exploring Stigma in the Cannabis Industry, Robert G. Fiedler
EXPLORING SUBCLINICAL DELUSIONAL IDEATION WITHIN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY MODEL, Caleb Spencer Fogle
DEVELOPING LOW-COST, HIGH-PERFORMANCE METHODS AND INSTRUMENTATION FOR HYPERPOLARIZATION OF 129XE AND 131XE FOR NEXT-GENERATION BIOMEDICAL AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS APPLICATIONS, Abdulbasit Tobi Gafar
TELEHEALTH ACCESSIBILITY FOR REHABILITATION SERVICES IN OLDER ADULTS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, Steven Gear
IDENTITY MANIFESTATIONS IN FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION: A CONTENT ANALYSIS STUDY, Andrew Goforth
THE IMPACT OF SERVANT LEADERSHIP ON SOCIAL LOAFING IN THE WORKPLACE: EXAMINING MECHANISMS AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS., Brandon Antoine Griffin
SKELETAL MUSCLE ATROPHY ASSOCIATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG1A AFFECTS GLOBAL CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS IN C2C12 MYOTUBES, Shalini Guha
DESIGN, ANALYSIS, AND OPTIMIZATION OF RECONFIGURABLE INTELLIGENT SURFACES FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, Dulaj Heshan Gunasinghe
Brain Resting-State Salience and Executive Network Connectivity Predictors of Smoking Progression, Nicotine-Enhanced Reward Sensitivity, and Depression,, Matthew Phillip Gunn
Convective Fluid Flow Dynamics and Chaos, Siyu Guo
A Joint Reading of the Second Amendment and Militia Clause for an Analytical Framework of Firearms Laws, Nathan L. Holm
Rural Elementary Teachers’ Perceptions of STEM Education Following STEM Kits Intervention, Marcy Hood
ESSAYS IN MACROECONOMICS, Olaniyi Stephen Ige
An Attentionless Account of the Attentional Blink, Matthew Stephen Junker
EVOLUTION OF AN RSB PARTNER SWITCHING MECHANISM INVOLVED IN REGULATION OF CELL DIFFERENTIATION IN PATHOGENIC CHLAMYDIA, Shiomi Junker
MICRO/NANO PARTICLE LABELED ANTIBODY/APTAMER BASED IMMUNOASSAYS FOR THE DETECTION OF OVARIAN CANCER USING LASER BASED SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES, Robinson Karunanithy
Role of Social Support in the Adjustment of International Student during the Process of Acculturation, Aimee Kathleen
GROWTH AND VOLATILITY RELATIONSHIPS REEXAMINED: THE ROLE OF AGGREGATION, Haya Khan
A CONSTRUCTIVIST GROUNDED THEORY EXPLORATION OF INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA AMONG LGBTQ+ BIPOC INDIVIDUALS, Satveer Kler
IMPROVING SOYBEAN SEED SUGAR CONTENT AND DECIPHERING THE SUGAR BIOSYNTHESIS PATHWAY, Dounya Knizia
Occupational Stressors and Their Moderators in the Academic Research Workforce, Sarah Wilson Kroenlein