Dissertations from 2015
Capturing Critical Whiteness: Portraits of White Antiracist Professors, Melanie Jane Stivers
INSTRUCTORS' PERCEPTIONS OF ONLINE INSTRUCTION WITHIN REGISTERED APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS, Gayla M. Stoner
Nuestro Mundo A Martiano Exploration of the Existential Impact of Climate Change, Alejandro Chester Strong
DIET, EXERCISE, AND SMARTPHONES - A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF MOBILE HEALTH APPLICATIONS FOR WEIGHT LOSS, Rajvee Subramanian
ALL-OPTICAL DELTA-SIGMA MODULATOR DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION, MOHAMAD TAFAZOLI MEHRJERDI
HEMODYNAMICS STUDIES OF THE PREOVULATORY FOLLICLE AND CORPUS LUTEUM IN CATTLE, Saulo De Tarso Gusmão da Silva
What's My Motivation: The Effect of Motivated Reasoning and Accountability on the Determination of Internal Control Effectiveness, Chanta Thomas
BECOMING A STUDENT AFFAIRS ADMINISTRATOR: A STUDY OF ANTICIPATORY SOCIALIZATION AND THE DECISION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS TO ENTER THE STUDENT AFFAIRS PROFESSION, Romeshia C. Thomas
FRAMING RIGHTS-CLAIMS: COLLECTIVE IDENTITY GROUPS IN THE TURKISH PUBLIC SPHERE, Bihter Tomen
Towards Combined Computational and Experimental Studies on Toxicity of Silver Nanoparticles, Pamela Cabalu Ubaldo
Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms of Ribosomal Protein Genes, Bhawana Uprety
Uncertainty and Threat Perception: Nationalism as an Informational Index of International Behavior, Tatiana Vargas Maia
REGULATION OF Fas-MEDIATED APOPTOSIS BY THE Fas ANTI-SENSE NON-CODING RNA "Saf", Olga Villamizar
A Novel Image Retrieval Strategy Based on VPD and Depth with Pre-Processing, Tianyang Wang
Causes of the decline in the loss of vegetated palustrine wetlands in the U.S. 1955 - 2009, Roger Kent Wiebusch
The Relationship Of Romantic Attachment To Intimate Partner Violence Victimization And Perpetration: An Examination Of Individual Mediation And Moderation Variables, Chauntel Marie Wiggins
EFFECTS OF TIME, SEED SOURCE, AND PLANT COMPOSITION ON MACROINVERTEBRATES IN RESTORED PRAIRIE, Ben Wodika
Conducting Experiments: On the Connections Between Experimental Art Praxes and Performance Studies, Nicole E. Wood
Identity, Agency, and Emotion: Political Activism Among Anti-War Military Veterans, Maja Virginia Wright-Phillips
MOLECULAR DEFECTS OF MEF2 FAMILY PROTEINS AND NAC PROTEINS THAT BLOCK MYOGENESIS AND PROMOTE TUMORIGENESIS IN RHABDOMYOSARCOMA, Meiling Zhang
CULTURAL VALIDITY AND SPECIFICITY OF WORK VALUES AMONG ASIAN AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS, Qianhui Zhang
TBX2 IS INVOLVED IN MYOGENESIS AND ITS DEREGULATION PROMOTES TUMORIGENESIS IN RHABDOMYOSARCOMA, BO ZHU
Synthesis of Highly Ordered Polymer Nanostructures Based on Polyphenylene Vinylenes (PPVs), Xinju Zhu
Efficient Bandwidth Reservation Strategies for Data Movements on High Performance Networks, Liudong Zuo
Dissertations from 2014
An Empirical Analysis of Foreign Aid Heterogeneity According to Donors for Pakistan, Suleman Abdiah
Mechanisms Underlying Chronic Pain, Mruvil Vikas Abooj
On the Computation of LFSR Characteristic Polynomials for One-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional Test Pattern Generation, Oscar Acevedo
H - Removable Sequences of Graphs, Dayana Adatorwovor
UNDERSTADING THE ROLE OF PSEUDOKINASE TRB3 IN CANCER PROGRESSION AND CHEMORESISTANCE DURING METABOLIC STRESS, Djamilatou Adom
ETHNIC IDENTITY AND FUNDS OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE SCHOLARSHIP OF LATINA FACULTY, Mariela Agrawal
A Cross-Cultural Study of Socioeconomic Status, Parental involvement, and Students' Mathematics Achievement, Yazan Alghazo
Dynamic Neural Network-based Adaptive Inverse Optimal Control Design, Ayman Khalid Alhejji
Renormalization and ∗-product of the Horseshoe maps, Barakah Jaber Almarri
STATISTICAL MODELS UTILIZING DEPENDENCE BETWEEN VARIABLES, Mohammad M. Al-Talib
UTILIZING THE THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR TO UNDERSTAND CONSUMERISM: THE USE OF TWITTER FOR CONSUMERISM BETWEEN SAUDI AND AMERICAN CONSUMERS, Othman M. Althawadi
THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION AND PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF REVERSED HYSTERESIS DELTA SIGMA MODULATOR DESIGN, Raed Althomali
ISLAMIC TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS OF IMPROVING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS IN SAUDI ARABIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, Mesfer Ahmad Alwadai
QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE PROCEDURE FOR UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS IN LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF WASTEWATER SOLIDS TREATMENT PROCESSES, Isam Alyaseri
ZAMBIAN PRE-SERVICE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHERS' CHEMICAL REASONING AND ABILITY, Asiana Banda
MITOCHONDRIAL DNA COPY NUMBER AND AUTOPHAGY IN THE AGING BRAIN AND IN AN ALZHEIMER MOUSE MODEL, Aaron Barnett
ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF NONTRADITIONAL STUDENTS: THE ROLE OF ACTIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES AND SENSE OF BELONGING IN INTEGRATION AND PERSISTENCE, Deborah R. Barnett
Reading The Self: Print Technologies, Authorship, and Identity Formation in the Eighteenth Century, Roy Bearden-White
FORAGING BEHAVIOR OF DUCKS DURING SPRING MIGRATION IN THE WABASH RIVER REGION, ILLINOIS, Adam Christopher Behney
FEMINIST ORIENTATION AND RIGHT WING AUTHORITARIANISM IN THE PERCEPTION OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT ACCUSATIONS, Gargi Bhattacharya
EDUCATING HUMANIZATION: AN EXAMINATION INTO THE HUMANIZING PEDAGOGIES OF PAULO FREIRE, Jared M. Bishop
Thermal transport in low dimensional semiconductor nanostructures, Jaime Bohorquez Ballen
The Role of SOX2 in Colon Cancer Progression, Debasish Boral
Impacts of climate and land use change on fish species distributions in the central United States, Kristen Leah Bouska
FISH MEAL AS A POTENTIAL END USE OF INVASIVE ASIAN CARP FROM THE ILLINOIS RIVER, John Cory Bowzer
The Aesthetic Experience of Video Games: A Pluralistic Approach, Tad Bratkowski
MISSISSIPPIAN COMMUNITY-MAKING THROUGH EVERYDAY ITEMS AT KINCAID MOUNDS, Tamira Kathleen Brennan
ON WOMEN AND RUNNING: A FEMINIST RHETORICAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE POLITICAL AND ONTOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING VIA THE SHARING OF WOMEN'S RUNNING STORIES, Janelle Leann Briggs
A Phenomenology of Incarnate Experience, John Thomas Brittingham
Addicted to the Addict: Hollywood's Sinuous Relationship With the Drug-Addict in the 1970s, Bryan Brown
Characterizing the role of dietary fat in the development and progression of liver dysfunction, James Cain
Employment Credit Checks: Through the Lens of Organizational Justice and Workplace Discrimination, Sean Michael Cameron
Predictors of Sexual Orientation Counselor Competency Among Counselors-in-Training in CACREP Accredited Master's-Level Training Programs, Joseph Campbell
Efficient Scientific Workflow Scheduling in Cloud Environment, Fei Cao
EFFECTS OF SPEAKER'S ACCENT IN A MULTIMEDIA TUTORIAL ON NON-NATIVE STUDENTS' LEARNING AND ATTITUDES, Lam Vien Cao Ngoc
PRIVATE ACTS, PUBLIC PROBLEMS: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AS A POLICY CASE STUDY, Emily S. Carroll
RISKY BUSINESS: HOW REVENUE MEASUREMENT AND RISK DISCLOSURE IMPACT EQUITY INVESTORS' VALUE JUDGMENT OF PRIVATE COMPANIES, Bryan Daniel Cataldi
Conflict of Interest and Corruption in the States, Brian Curtis Chapman
A TALE OF TWO METHYLATION MODIFICATIONS IN ARCHAEAL RNAs, Kunal Chatterjee
Mothering and Anxiety: An Evaluation of the Anxiety Levels of First-time Mothers in Rural Kentucky and Rural Michigan, Llena H. Chavis
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE ENGINEERING FOR IMPROVED PERFORMANCE OF EMERGING NANOSCALE DEVICES, Vinay Uday Chimalgi
Assessing policy and institutional change's influence on alternative agriculture in Zimbabwe since 1980, Plaxedes Chitiyo
SEED DISPERSAL ROLE AND NUTRITIONAL STUDIES OF TWO SERRASALMID FRUGIVORE AMAZON FISH, BLACK PACU AND RED PACU, Fred William Chu Koo
ECOLOGY OF THE SWAMP RABBIT AND EASTERN COTTONTAIL IN BOTTOMLAND HARDWOOD FORESTS IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, Joanne Crawford
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN UNIVERSITY STUDENT FACEBOOK USAGE AND ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION., Brent Michael Crow
COMMUNICATING CARE: A CRITICAL COMMUNICATION PEDAGOGY OF CARE IN THE UNIVERSITY CLASSROOM, Molly Cummins
optical engineer, Nima davoudzadeh mahboub sedigh
"I AM THE CAPTAIN OF THE SHIP": MOTHER'S EXPERIENCES BALANCING GRADUATE EDUCATION AND FAMILY RESPONSIBILITIES, Denise Marie Demers
Factors Affecting Recogntion of Expriential Learning in Nepal, Dhruba Prasad Dhungel
EFFECTS OF ACUTE THC ADMINISTRATION ON EXTINCTION OF CONDITIONED FEAR RESPONSES IN HUMANS: A FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF HIGH DENSITY EEG, Herman Augustus Diggs
Holistic Boolean Twig Pattern Matching for Efficient XML Query Processing, Dabin Ding
Growth, Poverty, and Capital Structure Effects of Financial Development, Ficawoyi Donou-Adonsou
THE INFLUENCE OF ANGEL INVESTOR CHARACTERISTICS ON VENTURE CAPITALIST DECISION MAKING, Andrew William Drover
Development of Amine Containing Polymer Modified MALDI Targets for Complex Peptide and Protein Mixture Fractionation Prior to MALDI Mass Spectrometry Analysis, Stephanie Eastwood
PROSTAGLANDIN E2 PATHWAY AS A TARGET TO PREVENT AND TREAT OVARIAN CANCER IN LAYING HENS, Erfan Eilati
An Empirical Analysis Of The Relationship Between Corruption And Inflation, Hussein Elkamel
CONSUMERS AND THEIR CELEBRITY BRANDS: HOW NARRATIVES IMPACT ATTACHMENT THROUGH COMMUNAL RELATIONSHIP NORMS, Bennie Eng
FORMULATION OF DETECTION STRATEGIES IN IMAGES, Ahmed Freidoon Fadhil
The Aesthetic Agency of Popular Culture in the Writings of Pierre Bourdieu and Arthur C. Danto, Rebecca Lee Farinas
MODULATION OF SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION AT THE NUCLEUS TRACTUS SOLITARIUS, LIN FENG
PAPER PEOPLE AND DIGITAL MEMORY: RECREATING THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IN JAPAN, Meghan Sarah Fidler
Exploring the Relationships Between Neuroticism, Experiential Avoidance, and Worry: A Test of a Mediational Model, Elliott J. Fitzpatrick
EFFECTS OF STRUCTURAL MODIFICATION ON RELIABILITY OF NANOSCALE NITRIDE HEMTs, Vamsi Mohan Gaddipati
States on the Federal Stage: The Amicus Curiae Role of State Attorneys General, Shane A. Gleason
Relationship of Teacher Epistemic Beliefs, Perceived Barriers to Technology Use, and Integration of Educational Technology, Rodney J. Greer
Transcendentalist Aesthetics in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting, Nicholas Guardiano
Evaluation of Non-functionalized Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes Composites for Bone Tissue Engineering, Ashim Gupta
Diversity Goals, Stereotypical Career Orientation, and Facial Attractiveness: Perceptions of Female Leader Competence, Rachel Hamel
I am a Merry Midwest Mestizo: Race, Space, and the Landscaping of Identity, David Alva Hanley-Tejeda