Dissertations from 2023
Organic Petrography and Geochemistry of the Bakken Formation, Williston Basin, ND USA, Zain Abdi
ESSAYS ON FOREIGN DEVELOPMENT AIDS AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS IN EMERGING ECONOMIES, Adebukola Adeleke
AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF ASYLUM-SEEKING, MIGRATION AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE, Olawale David Adisa
CONSTRAINED INFERENCE IN A SCALED LINEAR MIXED MODEL FOR MULTIPLE OUTCOMES., Md Mostak Ahammed
ON THE RICCATI-TYPE DIAGONAL STABILITY, Ali Abdullah Algefary
Investigating Adult ESL Students' Experiences with Learning English Online During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Jinan Al-Hunayan
CARBON NANOTUBES IN ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES , Rana Hussan Alkhaldi
Effect of Misspecified Covariance Matrix on Constrained Hypotheses Test For Two- Stage Samples, Afnan Almazmomi
THE ROLE OF PLATOONING IN FREIGHT TRANSIT EFFICIENCY, Reem Alshiddi
CNN MODEL FOR RECOGNITION OF TEXT-BASED CAPTCHAS AND ANALYSIS OF LEARNING BASED ALGORITHMS’ VULNERABILITIES TO VISUAL DISTORTION, Noorbakhsh Amiri Golilarz
UBIQUITIN-PROTEASOME SYSTEM REGULATION OF THE CHROMATIN REMODELING AND MODIFICATION FACTORS IN ORCHESTRATING GENE EXPRESSION, Priyanka Barman
COGNITIVE CONTROL AND REPETITIVE NEGATIVE THINKING HAVE AN INDIRECT EFFECT ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SLEEP AND AFFECT, Emily Marie Bartholomay
AN INVESTIGATION INTO INTRAINDIVIDUAL VARIATION IN HUMAN SKELETAL SEXUAL TRAIT MORPHOLOGY, Kaleigh Christine Best
THE ROLES OF INTENSIVE AND EXTENSIVE EXPORT DIVERSIFICATION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH AND FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION, Wafa Naif S Binmahfuth
EXPLORING EXPERIENCES WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT, STIGMA, AND ACCESS TO SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WHO INJECT DRUGS IN THE RURAL ILLINOIS DELTA REGION, Rebecca Sue Bolinski
SHORT AND LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF TOBACCO ABSTINENCE, BUPROPION AND NICOTINE ON BRAIN ACTIVITY DURING A VISUOSPATIAL TASK, Ugo Bruzadin Nunes
An Examination of a Brief Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Intervention Targeting Perfectionism, Amanda Chamberlain
Surviving and Thriving in the Face of Adversity: Sialic Acid Catabolism and VISA Development in Staphylococcus aureus, Jenelle Chapman
IMBALANCED TIME SERIES FORECASTING AND NEURAL TIME SERIES CLASSIFICATION, Xiaoqian Chen
Towards Narrowing Learning Gaps for Zimbabwean Students Transitioning into American Writing Classes: A Case Study, Eunice Chilimanzi
PHYSIOLOGICAL, ECOLOGICAL, AND MICROBIAL FACTORS SHAPING THERMAL TOLERANCE AND PERFORMANCE IN ECTOTHERMIC VERTEBRATES, Jason Warren Dallas
Threading Memory: Performing Animacy in Text, Memorial, and Travel, Alex Keith Davenport
A Research on Automatic Hyperparameter Recommendation via Meta-Learning, Liping Deng
Decoding the Public Service Announcements (PSAs) of HIV/AIDS: Evaluating Botswana's AIDS Messages and Their Impact on 15 - 24 Ages, Enole Ditsheko
UNDERSTANDING THE ISSUE OF THE LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION TO SCHOOL LITERACY LEARNING IN RURAL HAITI, Jean-Ronel Elveus
GLUTAMATERGIC AND METABOLIC DYSREGULATION IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE MOUSE MODELS: THE IMPACT OF PRODROMAL RILUZOLE TREATMENT, Caleigh Findley
Essays on Free Senior High School Policy, Household Behavior, and Environmental Tax Revenues, Prince Fosu
SYNTHESIS, SINTERING, AND ELECTRONIC CONDUCTIVITY STUDIES OF MEDIUM- AND HIGH-ENTROPY PEROVSKITE OXIDES, Sai Ram Gajjala
WHERE URBAN TRAUMA ENDS AND URBAN PSYCHOSIS BEGINS: ESTABLISHING SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CONCEPT OF URBAN PSYCHOSIS, Myah L. Gary
STRIP AND CONDUCTIVE PAINT-BASED 3D PRINTED SPIRAL ANTENNAS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, Purno Mohon Ghosh
AN EXPLORATION OF THE EXPERIENCES OF TRANSGENDER AND NONBINARY PEOPLE WHO USE NONTRADITIONAL OR NON-STANDARDIZED GENDER-AFFIRMING HORMONE THERAPY, Chloe Michelle Goldbach
THE SCIENCE IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT OF FEMALE STEM STUDENTS: EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF INTERSECTING IDENTITIES, Tarnisha S. Green
UNDERSTANDING DNA MISMATCH REPAIR FACTORS IN MAINTENANCE OF GENOME STABILITY, Vaibhavi Vijay Gujar
EXPERIENCES WITH WRITING AND READING NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REPORTS: NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST AND PARENT PERSPECTIVES, Zsofia Imre
FROM REAL TO REEL: WHITE SUPREMACY AND ITS EVERYDAY HAUNTING OF BLACK LIVES, Abimbola Iyun
SOME TOPICS RELEVANT TO ACTUARIAL MATHEMATICS, Yu Jin
MICROBIAL PRODUCTION OF INDIRUBIN DERIVATIVES USING A CYTOCHROME P450 ENZYME FROM ISATIS TINCTORIA L., Sandipty Kayastha
“‘STATE OF WAR’: BRITISH RACIAL CONSTRUCTION, NEW WORLD SLAVERY & THE IMPACT OF SOMERSET’S CASE IN THE ANGLO-AMERICAN DIASPORA", John David Kemp
The Politics of Mourning: Memory, Disobedience, and the Sewol Ferry Disaster, HyoJeong Lee
Factors Influencing Parent Acceptability of Integrated Behavioral Health Models: Comparison Between Rural and Urban Parents, Bethany C. Leraas
New Renewal theory results on the maintenance of systems with coupled components, Guanchen Li
A Methodological Comparison of Cognitive, Affective, and Play Type Processes on the APS and APS-P in a School-Age Sample, Meghan Littles
Cultivating Community: Investigating Performances of Community in Ecovillage Settlements, Alex Lockwood
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MOTIVATION LEVEL AND PERFORMANCE ON ILLINOIS NURSE AIDE CERTIFICATION EXAMINATION OF NURSE AIDE STUDENTS, José Douglas Martinez Herrera
Bored and Loving It: Passive Consumption and Macro Geographies in Film and Literature from the Long 1950s, Stephen Brian McCarty
“TOWARD ADIPOSITIVITY”: THE DEVELOPMENT OF FAT ACTIVISM IN INDIAN MASS COMMUNICATION FROM FILM TO PODCASTING, DIKSHA MITTAL
Haircut, Overborrowing, and Growth, A. M. Muhib Morshed Ami
EXPLORING MOBILE CRISIS TEAM TRAINING: A DELPHI STUDY, Ian Tiler Mosier
INVESTIGATING THE HIGHER COGNITIVE COMPONENTS OF MEMORY IN HYLOBATIDS, Gina Munir
THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF ATTITUDES, BELIEFS, AND BEHAVIOR, Hope Lotsha Muronga
REMEDIAL ACTIONS AGAINST CYBERATTACKS TARGETING SMART POWER SYSTEMS, Ehsan Naderi
The Aesthetics of News: Narrative Construction and Media Illiteracy in Contemporary India, Shashidhar Nanjundaiah
Assessing Relationships Between Autonomous Causality Orientations, Needs Supplies Fit, and Job Attraction in Varying Workplaces, Joseph David Narusis
EXPLORING INTERSECTIONS IN BLACK FUTURES: TOWARDS A RE-EXAMINATION OF AFROFUTURISM AND AFRICANFUTURISM, Omotoyosi Esther Odukomaiya
THE GAMES WE PLAY: IMPROVISATIONAL NEGOTIATION STRATEGIES FOR THE COLLEGE CLASSROOM, Brooke L. Oehme
Formative Pottery Production in Mesoamerica: Tayata and the Mixteca in Macroregional Perspective, Maria Teresa Palomares Rodriguez
Accuracy Considerations in Deep Learning Using Memristive Crossbar Arrays, Bijay Raj Paudel
Social Attachment and House Prices as Determinants of Mobility Among the Elderly in the US: An Empirical Study Using Longitudinal Data, Wilder R. Pimentel
THE PRICE TAG OF STIGMA: THE EMOTIONAL AND AESTHETIC LABOR OF BODY-POSITIVE BRANDING IN PLUS-SIZE RETAIL, Kendra Pospisil
DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS OF LIQUID DROPS AND SUPERIMPOSED FLUIDS, Alireza Razeghi
FAT AND QUEER: A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF WOMENS' EXPERIENCES OF FATPHOBIA, Jaidelynn Keeley Rogers
ESSAYS ON RISK PREFERENCES, ALTRUISM, AND LIFE EVENTS, Fitri Safira
SECURITY RESEARCH FOR BLOCKCHAIN IN SMART GRID, Lanqin Sang
COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN CHILDREN WITH PSYCHOTIC-LIKE EXPERIENCES AND/OR DEPRESSION, Jennifer E. Schlak
CLASSIFYING KNOTS AND LINKS IN L(1, -1) TEMPLATE, H B M K HIROSHANI SENARATHNA
ASIAN AMERICAN IDENTITY IN DRAMA AND THEIR FOUR WAVES: BEYOND IDENTITY CRISIS TOWARD FLUID IDENTITY, Yoon Mi Sohn
RESOURCE-AWARE OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR MACHINE LEARNING INFERENCE ON HETEROGENEOUS EMBEDDED SYSTEMS, Ourania Spantidi
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REHABILITATION COUNSELORS’ EXPERIENCES, BURNOUT, AND PROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, Sharika Lawanda Sproling
Validation of Best-Self PPI: A New Positive Psychological Intervention Targeting Self-Referential Processing, Bryant M. Stone
OIKO-LOGIC IN LITERATURE, Elias Joshua Taylor
Kukama Radio: the Politics and Aesthetics of Indigenous Media in Peruvian Amazonia, Gabriel Torrealba Alfonzo
Acting Locally: Vegetable Gardening in Southern Illinois, Aimee L. Trojnar
DETERMINANTS OF FINANCIAL ANXIETY, COLLEGE ENROLLMENT AND POVERTY IN THE U.S.: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY WITH MICRO DATASETS, Daniel VanOverbeke
On Continuous Principal Series Representations of reductive $p$-adic groups on $p$-adic Banach Spaces, Venkata Sai Manisha Varahagiri
MODEL SELECTION, DATA SPLITTING FOR ARMA TIME SERIES AND VISUALIZING SOME BOOTSTRAP CONFIDENCE REGIONS, Welagedara Arachchilage Dhanushka Madumali Welagedara
LOW-RANK MODELS FOR TENSORIAL DATA IN VISUAL ANALYSIS, Ming Yang
Dissertations from 2022
Essays on Development in Nigeria, KOREDE ODUNAYO AJOGBEJE
Exploring Early Childhood Teachers’ Perceptions and Practices Regarding Technology Integration in Literacy Instruction, Moneerah Al Jabr
Persona Non Grata: Contested Spaces & the Built Environment at the World's Columbian Exposition 1893, Nichol Marie Allen
STRIPED SKUNK ECOLOGY ACROSS AN URBAN-RURAL GRADIENT IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, Katelyn Amspacher
NETWORKED ISSUE AGENDAS ON SOCIAL MEDIA: INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN POLARIZED CAMPAIGNS, NEWS MEDIA, AND PARTY SUPPORTERS, Zahedur Rahman Arman
The Conservative Heart of the Nation: Political Conservatism in the Civil War Era West, Patrick Andrew Ayres
DIVERSITY, COMMUNITY STRUCTURE SHIFTS, AND PATCH CHARACTERISTICS IN NATURAL XERIC FOREST OPENING COMMUNITIES., David Francis Barfknecht
Development of Small Oligonculeotides to Control CRISPR-Cas9 Activity, Christopher Barkau
DEVICE FABRICATION USING POLYMER LITHOGRAPHY EDITOR, NATHALIE BECERRA MORA
STABLE PRICES IN B2B RELATIONSHIPS: HOW RESELLERS REACT TO LONGER-TERM PRICING POLICY FROM DISTRIBUTORS?, Ashok Bhattarai
The Effect of a Brief Training Intervention on Teacher and Parent Referral Accuracy for Youth on the Autism Spectrum, Kristen Elizabeth Boog
STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL STUDIES OF H. VOLCANII BOX C/D PROTEINS AND ROLES FOR HUMAN PUS10 BEYOND PSEUDORURIDINE SYNTHESIS, Michael Stephen Bosmeny
COMPARATIVE APPROACHES TO DIAGNOSTIC MEDICAL SONOGRAPHY, Amy Bro
Resilient modulus of stabilized subgrade soil using commercial products and industrial by-products, Sandeep Goud Burra
Healing the Self: How the Medical Craft Generated the Vulnerable Soul, Kevin Ray Cales
"Do for Do Ain't No Obeah:" Backtime Religion in the Danish West Indies, 1700-1880, Gregory Matthew Carter
Exploring the Unique Experiences of Support Staff in a Posthospital Residential Rehabilitation Center for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injuries, Stephanie Marie Chambers-Baltz