Dissertations from 2016
TURKISH FANTASY FICTION FILMS THEN AND NOW: AN ANALYSIS OF FANTASY FILMS PRODUCED IN EARLY 1970s TURKEY, Iclal Alev Degim
ADOLESCENT PERCEPTIONS OF BARRIERS TO RECEIVING SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, Kelsie Deppen
THE EFFECT OF FLAXSEED AND ITS LIGNAN COMPONENT ON ESTROGEN SIGNALING AND METABOLISM IN NORMAL AND CANCEROUS HEN OVARIES, Anushka Dikshit
MANAGING PUBLIC SECTOR JOB SATISFACTION: THE INFLUENCE OF TEAM BOUNDARY SPANNING, DOWNWARD COMMUNICATION AND DEMOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES, Charles Ian DiStefano
The formation and impact of formal and informal mentoring upon undergraduate academic performance and attitudes, Kent Dolezal
READY, SET, GO: A NARRATIVE STUDY ON JAMAICAN FEMALE TRACK AND FIELD ATHLETES WHO ATTENDED COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY IN THE U.S., Khalilah Toyina Doss
The It-Narrator as Moral Agent: Social Guardians in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Literature, Christopher Charles Douglas
The Perpetual Finishing of Nature and reason Kant on Work, creativity, and individual fulfillment, Matthew James Dowd
PEAK FOR IBI: EXAMINATION OF THE UTILITY OF THE PEAK RELATIONAL TRAINING SYSTEM FOR INTENSIVE BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTION, Sarah Marie Dunkel-Jackson
THE INVISIBLE FRAUD: THE IMPACT OF INATTENTIONAL BLINDNESS ON AUDITOR FRAUD DETECTION, Mark Allen Edmonds
Initial Validation of the Work and Human Needs Inventory, Alec J. Eshelman
IS THERE JUSTICE FOR SEXUAL TRAUMA? A STRUCTURAL MODEL TO EXAMINE FACTORS INFLUENCING POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH AND DISTRESS, Danielle Grace Fetty
EXPLORING THE CAPACITY AND STUDENT NEEDS OF WELLNESS PROGRAMS AND SERVICES OFFERED AT A HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY (HBCU): A CASE STUDY APPROACH, Martinique C. Free
The Effect of Delayed Feedback on Long-Term Retention and Application for RN Student Nurses, Leanne Marie Furby
Techniques for Reliable and Efficient Analog to Digital Conversion, Yueran Gao
LEADER-MEMBER EXCHANGE, DYADIC DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS AND SUBORDINATES’ TURNOVER INTENT IN REHABILITATION AGENCIES, Bryan Oweilayefa Gere
ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF HIPPOCAMPAL SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY IN DEAF-1 KNOCK-OUT MICE, Aniruddha Ghosh
A Critical Reflection: Foster Care Youth Experiences at a Four Year Postsecondary Institution, Renada D. Greer
The Organizational Effects of Software as a Service: The Nerds Rise to Power, David R. Guggenheim
EFFECT OF CONSTITUTIVELY ACTIVATED LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR ON THE MOUSE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM, Lan Hai
Natural Resources, Conflicts, and Conflict Management, Md. Didarul Hasan
BRIDGING AQUATIC AND TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS: ECOLOGY OF SEMI-AQUATIC MAMMALS IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, Angela Holland
To Have or to Hold: The Role of Psychological Ownership in the Perceived Value of Owned and Accessed Goods, David Michael Houghton
The 'Uncreated' Voice of a Nation: James Joyce and the Twentieth Century Irish Bildungsroman, Marshall Lewis Johnson
MEDICAL SCHOOL ADMISSION POLICY ANALYSIS: SUCCESS IN INCREASING AFRICAN AMERICANS IN MATRICULANT CLASSES, Kathleen Ann Jones
The Effect of Stereoscopic Three-Dimensional Images on Recall of Second Language Vocabulary, Regina Kaplan-Rakowski
Interactionist Labeling: A Structural Equation Model of Formal Labeling, Juvenile Delinquency, and Adult Criminality, Daniel Ryan Kavish
ENERGY-AWARE JOB SCHEDULING AND CONSOLIDATION APPROACHES FOR WORKFLOWS IN CLOUD, Mustafa Ibrahim Khaleel
#Socialsupport for Diet and Physical Activity via Web 2.0: A Qualitative Study of College Women, Bethany Kies Kies
ESSAYS ON REAL EXCHANGE RATE DYNAMICS AND PRICE CONVERGENCE, Erick M. Kitenge
Making Art Work: A Pragmaticistic Interpretation of Art, Charles P. Klayman
The effect of psychiatric service dogs for PTSD symptom amelioration in military veterans, Megan L. Kloep
OPTIMAL GROUP SIZE IN HUMANS: AN EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF THE SIMPLE PER CAPITA MAXIMIZATION MODEL, Jared Lee Klotz
THE “PERPETUAL PRESENT” OF POLITICAL MODERNITY: ADORNO, ARENDT AND THE POSSIBILITY OF THE NEW, Kenneth Knight
ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MIRABILIS EXPANSA (RUIZ AND PAV.) STANDL.; FOR POTENTIAL AS A NEW ROOT CROP OUTSIDE THE ANDES, Miriam Kritzer Van Zant
AN INSIGHT INTO DIFFERENT MODES OF REMODELER REGULATION: FOCUS ON SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE SWI/SNF, Soumyadipta Kundu
The Revolutionary Breath, Susannah Bunny LeBaron
Queer Intersectionality: Queering the Limits of Identity Studies in Critical Intercultural Communication Research, Benjamin LeMaster
PARALLEL DELAY FAULT GRADING HEURISTIC AND TESTING APPROACHES TO TROJAN IC DETECTION, Joseph Daniel Lenox
MODIFICATION OF XANTHENE AND SILICON ANALOGUES OF XANTHENE FLUOROPHORES FOR CHEMICAL PROBES DEVELOPMENT, Chuangjun Liu
ESSAYS ON DIGITAL CURRENCY, Hio Loi
THE SPECIAL WALLS AROUND GAMETES IN CERATOPTERIS RICHARDII AND AULACOMNIUM PALUSTRE: USING IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY TO EXPOSE STRUCTURE, FUNCTION, AND DEVELOPMENT, Renee Anita Lopez Swalls
Unbiasing Information Search and Processing through Personal and Social Identity Mechanisms, Benjamin A. Lyons
C-ARM TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING TECHNIQUE FOR DETECTION OF KIDNEY STONES, NUHAD ABDULWAHED YOUNIS MALALLA
GLOBALIZED BACKLASH: WOMEN AGAINST FEMINISM’S NEW MEDIA MATRIX OF (ANTI) FEMINIST TESTIMONY, Margarethe Mapes
Integration of Bayesian Decision Theory and Computing with Words: A Novel Approach to Decision Support Using Z-numbers, Nina Marhamati
Actively Managed Mutual Fund Holdings and Fund Performance, Timothy M. Marlo
MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE IN EUROPEAN RIVER BASINS: CHALLENGES IN THE INTEGRATION OF ADAPTATION, DISASTER RESPONSE, AND RESILIENCE, Shanna N. McClain
Observer Retaliation: How Apology Components Affect Observing Customers' Negative Word-of-Mouth and Patronage Intentions, Todd McClure
Examining the psychometric characteristics of an instrument to measure the impact of the climate on health behavior: A pilot study based on the Behavioral Ecological Model, Justin Tyler McDaniel
THE TIES THAT BIND: SOCIAL COMPARISON’S INFLUENCE ON CONSUMER ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORAL INTENTIONS, Bryan Timothy McLeod
Retention of Faculty of Color in Rehabilitation Counselor Education as it Relates to Their Perception of the Academic Climate, Tameika Minor
THE ELEMENTS OF THE CLINICAL SUPERVISION: EXPORTING CONCEPTS TO JAPAN, Makoto Miyoshi
“NO COSBY SHOW”: SINGLE BLACK MOTHER HOMES AND HOW BLACK MEN BUILD ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS, Maia Niguel Moore
"To claim voice": The Discourses of Impoverished Children in the Great Depression, Maggie Elizabeth Morris Davis
MATHEMATICS TEACHERS’ READINESS AND ATTITUDES TOWARD IMPLEMENTING INTEGRATED STEM EDUCATION IN SAUDI ARABIA: A MIXED METHODS STUDY, Rabab Mohammed Mousa
STUDY OF ADAPTIVE COMPRESSIVE SENSING FOR LOW POWER APPLICATIONS, Venkata Naresh Mudhireddy
THE HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTOME AND REGULATORY NETWORKS OF ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS PATHOGENESSIS OF ZEA MAYS: RESISTANCE IN MAIZE TO ASPERGILLUS EAR ROT AND TO AFLATOXIN ACCUMULATION, Bryan Manyasi Musungu
Sisterly Sleuths: The Hidden Cultural Work of Serial Modernism, Stacy Olivia Nicklow
The science behind Tenax extractable concentrations and their use in evaluating environmental risk, Samuel Anthony Nutile
MUSCLE FATIGUE ANALYSIS IN MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY, Ali Panahi
The Influence of Stereotype Threat on Prospective Memory in Middle to Late Adulthood, Sherrie L. Parks
Lyapunov-type inequality and eigenvalue estimates for fractional problems, Nimishaben Shailesh Pathak
The impact of Job Stressors on Job Satisfaction as mediated by Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Matthew Randall Peters
HELPING OTHERS OR HELPING ONESELF? NGO COORDINATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES, Vladislava Andonova Petrova
Testing and Security Related Considerations in Embedded Software, Luke Pierce
The Relationship Between Multicultural Competency Training and Self-Efficacy in School Counselors-in-Training: Understanding of Social Class and Classism Competency Training, Zachary Pietrantoni
LOTS OF AWFUL THINGS: INTERSECTIONS OF QUEERNESS AND CANCER THROUGH AUTOETHNOGRAPHY, Joshua Loren Potter
Afterimages of Kincaid Mounds, Corin Clayton O'Brien Pursell
On the numerical solution of continuous coupled algebraic Riccati equations, Prasanthan Rajasingam
Clinical-Scale Hyperpolarization of 129Xe and 131Xe via Stopped-Flow Spin Exchange Optical Pumping, Kaili Ranta
ACCELERATING THE NOTICING SKILLS OF NURSING AND MEDICAL STUDENTS USING STAGED VIDEO SIMULATION, Abby Razer
ALTERNATIVE LIPIDS IN NUTRITION OF MARINE FINFISH, Artur Nishioka Rombenso
CHANGES IN HEALTH AND BEHAVIOR DURING THE BUSINESS CYCLE, Mohammad Sediq Sameem
A NOVEL DESIGN OF AN ALL-OPTICAL BISTABLE DEVICE USING A SINGLE ACTIVE ELEMENT, Hossein Sarafraz Yazdi
REAL-TIME CLASSIFIER BASED ON ADAPTIVE COMPETITIVE SELF-ORGANIZING ALGORITHM, Zahra Sarafraz Yazdi
Women's Work: Stitching New Identity Narratives in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings, Arielle Semmel
REGULATION OF EUKARYOTIC TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION AND ASSOCIATED DNA REPAIR, Rwik Sen
HUMAN CLCA2 MODULATES THE CONDUCTANCE OF CALCIUM-ACTIVATED CHLORIDE CHANNELS BY REGULATION OF INTRACELLULAR CALCIUM, Aarushi Sharma
EFFECTS OF SCALE AND HABITAT MANAGEMENT ON GRASSLAND BIRD RESPONSE IN CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM FIELDS IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS, Justin J. Shew
AN INVESTIGATION OF POTENTIAL MECHANISMS UNDERLYING CHEMOSUPPRESSIVE EFFECTS OF DIETARY FLAXSEED IN THE LAYING HEN MODEL OF OVARIAN CANCER, Sheree Collette Speckman
USING BEHAVIORAL SKILLS TRAINING TO PROMOTE OPTIMAL BLACKJACK STRATEGIES, Ryan Christopher Speelman
Karol Wojtyła’s Interpersonalist Ethics: A Critical Sartrean Appraisal and Confucian Adaptation, Steven Andrew Stegeman
African American Mortality: A Biocultural Study of Missouri Cemetery Records, Dawn Christine Stricklin
REGULATION OF CIRCADIAN CLOCKS AND METABOLISM BY SYNTHETIC AHR AGONIST BETA-NAPHTHOFLAVONE IN MICE, Mingwei Sun
MODELING IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT ON WATERSHED OUTPUTS IN MIDWESTERN USA, Awoke Dagnew Teshager
EFL PROFESSORS’ BELIEFS OF ASSESSMENT PRACTICES IN AN EFL PRE-SERVICE TEACHER TRAINING UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM IN COLOMBIA, Cristian Jesus Tovar Klinger
Skilled Migration and Remittances: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses, Dambar Uprety Uprety
AN EXPLORATORY EXAMINATION OF THE ETHICAL DECISION MAKING PROCESS OF ENTREPRENEURS THROUGH THE THEORY OF PLANNED BEAHAVIOR LENS: A POLICY-CAPTURING APPROACH, Jacob Andrew Voegel
Analysis and Mitigation of Multiple Radiation Induced Errors in Modern Circuits, Adam Watkins