Dissertations from 2016
Using a Two-Factor Framework to Optimize Online Students’ Satisfaction While Minimizing Their Dissatisfaction, Firm Faith Saint Annie Watson
DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY STUDIES OF PHOTOINDUCED ELECTRON EXCITATION AND TRANSFER OF ORGANIC DYES FOR PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY, SOLAR CELLS, AND FLUORESCENCE SENSOR APPLICATIONS, Krishanthi Chandima Weerasinghe
Kant and the Nonspatiality of Things in Themselves, John Matthew Weyls
The Effects of Biopsychosocial Explanations of Social Anxiety Disorder on Stigma, Prognostic Pessimism, and Perceptions of Mental Health Treatments, Randy L. Whittles
Attentional Bias Modification: An Examination of Novel Training Contingencies and Stimulus Pairs, Kristin Alyse Wiggs
Women's Textile Graffiti: An Aesthetic Staging of Public/Private Dichotomies, Diana Christine Woodhouse
Acenaphthylene Based CP-PAH Materials for Organic Semiconductors, Bingxin Yuan
NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF CABLE GALLOPING VIA A TWO-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM NONLINEAR OSCILLATOR, BO YU
Doing Spontaneity, Nicolas J. Zaunbrecher
Dissertations from 2015
THE EFFECT OF THE ANCILLA VERIFICATION ON THE QUANTUM ERROR CORRECTION, Ali Abu-Nada
PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING IN A HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM, Anthony Agbeh
AN EVALUATION OF INDIVIDUAL AND SMALL GROUP EQUIVALENCE-BASED INSTRUCTION IN A GENERAL EDUCATION CLASSROOM, Angelica A. Aguirre
PERFORMANCE OF COUNTING RULES FOR PRIMARY USER DETECTION, Babak Ahsant
INEQUALITY, GROWTH AND CONGESTED EXTERNALITIES: A THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS, BABATUNDE AIYEMO
FROM "INDEXING" OFFICIALS TO "INDEXING" THE PUBLIC: KUWAITI NEWSPAPERS AGENDA BUILDING, NEWS INDEXING AND TWITTER USE IN KARAMAT WATAN PROTESTS, 2012, Fawaz M. Alajmi
THE USE OF FACEBOOK IN THE EGYPTIAN JANUARY 25TH REVOLUTION: THE SPIRAL OF VOICE PROCESS, Mohammed Abdulrahman Al-Emad
Social Media Use and Acceptance Among Health Educators in Saudi Arabia, Anwar M. Alhashem
SAUDI FACULTY MEMBERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF CAEP STANDARDS, Riyadh Tuwayrish Almatrafi
ENHANCEMENT AND RESTORATION OF DUST IMAGES, Madallah Mukammi Alruwaili
THE ROLE OF THE PARTNER SWITCHING MECHANISM IN REGULATION OF THE CHLAMYDIAL DEVELOPMENTAL CYCLE, Aamal Ghazi Al-Saadi
MODELING QUANTUM AND COULOMB EFFECTS IN NANOSCALE ENHANCEMENT-MODE TRI-GATE III-V MOSFETs, Sameer Ali Alsibiani
REDUCIBILITY OF PARABOLICALLY INDUCED REPRESENTATIONS, Wahidah Ali G Alsibiani
The Impact of Role Identity Transitions and Coping Functions on Customer Citizenship Behavior, Tyson Ang
HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING FOR ADVANCED DETECTION OF EARLY BLIGHT (ALTERNARIA SOLANI) DISEASE IN POTATO (SOLANUM TUBEROSUM) PLANTS, Daniel Lee Atherton
Evaluating the Impacts of Connected Vehicle Technology on Evacuation Efficiency, Karzan Bahaaldin
Archiving and Advocating for Performance Festivals as Sites of Disciplinary Action, Andrea Michea Baldwin
Do parents talk to their children about race? An exploration of Black parents and White parents, Rashida Shani Barner
Examining Alcohol Use, Perceptions and Attitudes Among African American College Students, Alicia Lynette Battle
CARE COORDINATION PRACTICES AMONG ILLINOIS PEDIATRICIANS AND EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICE COORDINATORS, Marissa Elizabeth Baxter
THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG CLIENT-COUNSELOR ETHNIC MATCH, CLIENT CHARACTERISTICS, COUNSELOR CHARACTERISTICS, AND COUNSELING OUTCOMES FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN UNIVERSITY COUNSELING CENTER CLIENTS, Brittany Nicole Beasley
EFFECTS OF FLOW REGIME ON FISHES AND FISHERIES: FROM LIFE HISTORIES TO ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, Micah Bennett
The impact of centrality on well-being: Development and examination of a modified centrality measure, Jared Bernard
Making Muslim Identities: Contested Meaning, Identities, and Racialization of Islam in Saint Louis, Missouri, Bethany Beyyette
THE MECHANISMS OF ISW1A, ISW1B AND ISW2 CHROMATIN REMODELERS, Saurabh Kant Bhardwaj
The balancing act: Negotiating home and school for the father doctoral student, Tyler Don Billman
Synthesis and Characterization of Siloles, Silole-Containing Polymers and Photoswitchable Polymer Brush, Milind Dhaniram Bisen
VENI, VIDI, VIDS: TRANSFORMING CULTURAL NARRATIVES THROUGH THE ART OF AUDIOVISUAL STORYTELLING, Kristi Brownfield
Counseling Supervisors’ Experiences in Working with Counselors Who Are Seeing Transgender Clients, Dennis A. Bunton
Demonstrating the Validity of the Video Game Functional Assessment-Revised (VGFA-R), Frank Daniel Buono
PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR PRODUCT INNOVATING R&D IN A GAME-THEORETIC SETTING, Pavlo Buryi
ENHANCING PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS' KNOWLEDGE OF FRACTIONS THROUGH THE MODEL METHOD, Miran Byun
PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTAL AND MODELING STUDY OF PRESSURE DEPENDENT PERMEABILITY FOR INDONESIAN COALBED METHANE RESERVOIRS, Sudipta Chanda
Adaptive Scheduling in a Distributed Cyber-Physical System: A case study on Future Power Grids, Ashish Choudhari
THE HUMAN SERVICE PROVIDER COMPETENCE ABOUT REPORTING VIOLENCE ON WOMEN WITH DISABILITY SCALE: DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION, Dalia Chowdhury
Predicting Multi-trophic Consequences of an Emerging Disease, Adam D. Chupp
IMAGINING SPACE: DEVELOPING A CRITICAL GEO-LITERACY WITH MAPS AS PRIMARY SOURCES IN HISTORY EDUCATION, Serina A. Cinnamon
"Establishing Online and Mobile Based Agriculture and Natural Resource Education Modules: A New Model for Design and Delivery to Impact Student and Faculty Success", Christopher Alan Clemons
USING AUDIO SCREENCAST FOR FEEDBACK ON SHORT WRITTEN ESSAYS, Marcelene Allecia Cunningham
IMAGE-BASED MODELING AND PREDICTION OF NON-STATIONARY GROUND MOTIONS, YILDIZ DAK HAZIRBABA
Design of High Performance Threshold Logic Gates, Chandra Babu Dara
USING MINDFULNESS TO INCREASE DIRECTED ATTENTION, SELF-CONTROL, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY IN CHILDREN, Mary Rachel Enoch
Response to Intervention (RtI) Stakeholder Perceptions in the Schools of Southern Illinois, Sarah Ruth Epplin
OUR FATHERS, OUR BROTHERS, OURSELVES: ILLUSORY PATTERN PERCEPTION AND THE PROGRESSION OF TRAUMA THEORY, Christopher Field
HISTORICAL INTIMACY: CONTEMPORARY RECLAMATIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE DRAMA, POETRY, AND FICTION OF SUZAN-LORI PARKS, NATASHA TRETHEWAY, AND COLSON WHITEHEAD, Benjamin Thomas Foster
D-METHIONINE (D-MET) MECHANISMS UNDERLYING OTOPROTECTION FROM NOISE- AND AMINOGLYCOSIDE-INDUCED HEARING LOSS, Daniel Fox
Investigation of the upper mantle as a source for contribution to magnetic anomalies, Sarah Alyson Friedman
"Strands of Student Talk": Exploring Reflection in Writing-Intensive Courses Across the Curriculum, Anthony Tate Fulton
Nonlinear Analysis of Plane Frames Subjected to Temperature Changes, Juan Jose Garcilazo
ANALYSIS OF HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS ICP0 FUNCTION AND THE ANTIBODY RESPONSE TO A LIVE HSV-2 ICP0- MUTANT VACCINE, Joshua Joseph Geltz
Efficiencies of Mass Encapsulation in Alginate of Vegetative Explants, Laurie J. George
Defining Fatherhood for Non-Residential African American Men: A Phenomenological Approach, Jessica Denise Goodman
THE PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE PERSEVERATIVE THINKING QUESTIONNAIRE, Laura M. Graves O'Haver
INVESTIGATIONS OF HYPERVALENT IODINE COMPOUNDS IN ORGANIC TRANSFORMATIONS, Ras Kumari Gurung
COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL POLICIES AND NOMADIC PASTORALISM: A CASE STUDY OF THE BORANA OF NORTHERN KENYA, 1890-1990, Fatuma Boru Guyo
RESISTANCE TO MANDATED HEALTHCARE CHANGE: USING PSYCHOLOGICAL REACTANCE TO PREDICT RESPONSES TO THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT INSURANCE COVERAGE REQUIREMENT, Michael Graham Hamel
AN AUTOMATIC BIO-INSPIRED KEY POINT DETECTION AND EXTRACTION STRATEGY FOR CLASSIFICATION OF 2-D AND 3-D IMAGES, Neda Hantehzadeh
MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS' EARTHQUAKE CONTENT AND PREPAREDNESS KNOWLEDGE - A MIXED METHOD STUDY, Harvey Henson
Neuropsychological Sequelae of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Later Adulthood, EiEi Hlaing
Multi Scale Contact Mechanics of Bio-Mechanical Systems with inclusion of roughness effect- Fractal Analysis, Mohammad Hodaei
STABLE ISOTOPE RATIOS AS A PROXY FOR HUMAN GEOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE: BIOGEOGRAPHICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE 2H, 18O, AND 13C SIGNATURES IN MODERN HUMAN TEETH, Anastasia Holobinko
AKR1B10 PROMOTES BREAST CANCER METASTASIS THROUGH INTEGRIN α5/δ-CATENIN-RAC1 SIGNALING PATHWAY, Chenfei Huang
IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATIONS OF PATHOGENICITY GENES IN FUSARIUM VIRGULIFORME, THE CAUSAL AGENT OF SOYBEAN SUDDEN DEATH SYNDROME (SDS), Kazi Tariqul Islam
Chronic Circadian Misalignment Disrupts the Circadian Clock and Promotes Metabolic Syndrome, Cassie Danielle Jaeger
ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF HEAVILY LOADED MAT FOUNDATION ON ADJACENT DRILLED SHAFT FOUNDATION, Pravin Jha
Jane Addams and Hans-Georg Gadamer: Learning to Listen with the Other, Mike Patrick Jostedt
Robotic Offline Path Planning, Pejman Kamkarian
LEISURE, STRESS COPING, AND HEALTH IN UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEES, Jong-Ho Kim
CONVERGENCE IN SECTORAL LABOR PRODUCTIVITY AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE, Bisrat Temesgen Kinfemichael
Investigation of Primary Ion Formation Mechanisms in UV-MALDI-MS Using Excited State Dynamics of Common MALDI Matrices, Kristopher Michael Kirmess
Restoration and Water Management in the Atchafalaya River Basin, Louisiana, Justin Peter Kozak
Bayesian Estimation of Multi-unidimensional Graded Response IRT Models, Tzu Chun Kuo
Improving Health Care by Listening to the Voices of Women who Partner with Women, Donna C. LaBarge
COMPARING THREE ESTIMATION METHODS FOR THE THREE-PARAMETER LOGISTIC IRT MODEL, Sunil Lamsal
Psychosocial Predictors of High School Adolescents' Sun-tanning and Sun-protective Behaviors, Diane M. Land
HARLEM IN SHAKESPEARE AND SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM: THE SONNETS OF CLAUDE MCKAY, COUNTEE CULLEN, LANGSTON HUGHES, AND GWENDOLYN BROOKS, David J. Leitner
MACROECONOMIC ASPECTS OF CONFLICT, Eric Daniel Lenz
A Brief Mindfulness Intervention on Acute Pain Experience: An Examination of Individual Difference, Clare Marie Lewandowski
NEW COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR OPTIMAL CONTROL OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS, Jun Liu
EXPLORING UNIVERSITY PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRESENCE AS RELATED TO ORGANIZATIONAL MODELS, Arden Lockwood
The Strains of Conscience: Justifying Civil Disobedience and Conscientious Objection, Dennis Lunt
REAL-TIME CLASSIFICATION OF CONTINUOUS GESTURES, Rapeepan Maitree
A WOMAN'S VOICE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON HOW FIRST-YEAR COLLEGE WOMEN UNDERSTAND THEIR SEXUAL EXPERIENCES, Amber Lynn Manning-Ouellette
A Modernist Among the Victorians: The Case of Emily Brontë, Sohana Manzoor