Dissertations from 2013
DESIGN OF AN EFFICIENT AND RAPID CHEMICAL VAPOR INFILTRATION (CVI) RE-CIRCULATION SYSTEM, Tod Policandriotes
CONSTITUTING THE POLITICAL: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON POLITICAL LIBERALISM, Fabricio Pontin
SECURITY VULNERABILITIES: DISCOVERY, PREDICTION, EFFECT, AND MITIGATION, Sanaz Rahimi
APPLICATION OF TRACK ETCHED GLASS MEMBRANES FOR SUBMICRON FABRICATION, LITHOGRAPHY AND ERROR RECTIFICATION, Pradeep Ramiah Rajasekaran
Epistolary Pedagogy: Communicating Care in the University Classroom, Lisa Jayne Raser
The Effect of the Missouri Safe School Act of 1997 on Alternative Education Students: A Qualitative Analysis, Randall Gene Rhodes
Racial Microaggressions, Stress, and Depression in African Americans: Test of a Model, Jessica Ra'chel Roberts
FARMING OUT THE NEWS: AN ANALYSIS OF AGRICULTURE COVERAGE IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS NEWSPAPERS USING THE CENTER - PERIPHERY MODEL, Sandra D. Robinson
The Performance of Gender Archetypes in Political Campaigns, Lia N. Rohr
INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE EFFECTS OF ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF THE VAGUS NERVE ON NOREPINEPHRINE IN THE CORTEX AND HIPPOCAMPUS OF EXPERIMENTALLY BRAIN INJURED AND UNINJURED RATS, Rodney W. Roosevelt
Personal Protective Equipment and Laboratory Safety Training: The Roles of Attitude, Subjective Norm, and Perceived Control, Ami A. Ruffing
INFLUENCES OF DISEASE-DRIVEN AMPHIBIAN DECLINES ON ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION IN PANAMANIAN HEADWATER STREAMS, Amanda T. Rugenski
The role of the periaqueductal gray in modulation of acute and chronic pain: Actions of drugs with analgesic properties on periaqueductal gray neuronal network, Vijaya K. Samineni
RESTORING CONNECTIVITY IN PARTITIONED WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS, Izzet Fatih Senturk
SHIFTING LEGITIMATING ACCOUNTS IN A CHANGING INSTITUTIONAL FIELD: AN ANALYSIS OF THE ORGANIC FOOD INDUSTRY, 1990-2011, Michael J. Sheridan
RESVERATROL INHIBITS PROSTATE CANCER GROWTH AND METASTASIS BY TARGETING AKT/MICRORNA-21 PATHWAY, Sandeep Sheth
CALCIUM SENSING RECEPTOR FUNCTION IN COLON: A ROBUST PROMOTER OF DIFFERENTIATION AND TUMOR SUPPRESSOR, Navneet Kumar Singh
Cultivating Sagehood in the Zhuangzi: Hanshan Deqing's Unified Reading of the Inner Chapters, Travis William Smith
The Transformation of Self: A Study of Classic American Pragmatism, Ning Sun
PROTOTYPES OF STUDENT VETERANS WITH POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AND TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY AMONG FACULTY IN ILLINOIS PUBLIC FOUR-YEAR UNIVERSITIES, Kathy J. Taylor
Exploring The Influence of Burkean Aesthetics on Late Eighteenth-Century British Representations of India and North America, Iva Marie Thompson
CONGRESS Y: How Party Leaders Manage The House Of Representatives, Brendan Toner
Explicit Factorization of Generalized Cyclotomic Polynomials of Order $2^m 3$ Over a Finite Field $F_q$, Cemile Tosun
QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF STOCHASTIC MODELS IN MATHEMATICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY, Kursad Tosun
An Evaluation of Resistance to Change with Unconditioned and Conditioned Reinforcers, Kristina K. Vargo
Understanding the Use of Graphic Novels to Support the Writing Skills of a Struggling Writer, Christina Linda Voss
An Inquiry into How iPads are Used in Classrooms, Phu Hoang Vu
On the Analysis of Firm Value and Idiosyncratic Volatility, Yuqin Wang
Watching the Watchdogs: Defining Journalists in the United States, Wendy Marie Weinhold
Prioritizing Preparedness: Extreme Heat and Climate Change Preparation of Midwestern Health Departments, Alicia B. Wodika
Interplay of Electrical, Mechanical and Thermal Fields in III-N Nanostructures for LED Applications, Krishna Kumari Yalavarthi
Constructing Accurate Synopses for Database Query Optimization and Re-optimization, Feng Yu
THE EFFECTS OF RELIGIOUS RESOURCES ON MUSLIM-AMERICANS' POLITICAL IDEOLOGY AND VOTING BEHAVIOR, Mohammad A. Zannoun
MAKING MYTH MATTER: INTERROGATING NARRATIVE AND RECONSTRUCTING METANARRATIVE IN CLASSICAL MYTH ADAPTATION, Erin Zimmerman
Dissertations from 2012
INVESTMENTS IN PRODUCT QUALITY WITH HETEROGENEOUS FIRMS: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM BANGLADESH, Kazi Sabbir Ahmed
TEMPERATURE AND LEAKAGE AWARE TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE CACHE RELIABILITY, Adil Akaaboune
KNOWLEDGE, PERCEPTIONS, AND BEHAVIORS OF RUSSIAN COLLEGE STUDENTS REGARDING HPV, HPV-RELATED DISEASES, AND HPV VACCINATION, Maria Vladimirovna Alexandrova
SPECIATION STUDIES FOR BIOGENIC VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS AND SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL GENERATED BY OZONOLYSIS OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND MIXTURES, Hardik Surendra Amin
Religious Factors and Status Attainment among US Immigrants, Nadia Amin
Computer-based decision-support methods for hydrological ecosystem services management, Kimberly Artita
The Military, Economy and the State: A New International System Analysis, Muhammed A. Asadi
ENHANCEMENT OF CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER IN INTERNAL FLOWS USING AN ELECTRICALLY-INDUCED CORONA JET, Reza Baghaei Lakeh
PEDAGOGICAL AND CULTURAL PHENOMENA OF ON-DEMAND WRITING INSTRUCTION, Deborah L. Bell
Landscape genetics of northern bobwhite and swamp rabbits in Illinois, Leah Berkman
AVERSIVE RACISM AND POLITICAL IDEOLOGY: CONTEXT-DEPENDENT DECISIONS AND PERSONALITY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CONSERVATIVES AND LIBERALS, Seth Allen Berry
RESISTANCE TO CULTURAL SEXUAL OBJECTIFICATION: MEASUREMENT DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOMETRIC EVALUATION., Sonya Kyrsten Bettendorf
The Role of Competitive Capabilities and Stakeholder Pressure in the Adoption of Environmental Practices and Business Performance, Teresa K. Betts
SAVE `US' AND LET `THEM' DIE: CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF HOW NEW YORK TIMES SOLD U.S. POLICIES TOWARD RWANDAN GENOCIDE AND KOSOVO CRISIS, Kiran K. Bharthapudi
UNIVERSAL CONTROL OF NOISELESS SUBSYSTEMS FROM SYSTEMS WITH ARBITRARY DIMENSION, Clifford Allen Bishop
Health Educators as a Think Tank: Recommendations to Improve Health Care Reform Proposals and Potential Roles for the Profession, Kadi R. Bliss
EVIDENCE OF ANXIETY: WOMEN'S AGENCY AND ENGAGEMENT LAW IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND FILM, 1880-1935, Carl Nicholas Bloom
ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND RELATIONAL FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE HEALTH AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PARTICIPATION OF CHRISTIAN AFRICAN AMERICAN MOTHER-DAUGHTER DYADS: A SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY ANALYSIS., Jevonne Delores Bradley
Identification and characterization of novel small RNAs in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough, Andrew Burns
EFFECTS OF CHARACTER VOICE-OVER ON PLAYERS' ENGAGEMENT IN A DIGITAL ROLE-PLAYING GAME ENVIRONMENT, JaeHwan Byun
Fly Ash Zeolite Catalyst Support for Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis, Adam Campen
Testing inattention as a predictor of graphomotor and cognitive processing speed in unmedicated, young adults, when depression and working memory are controlled, Prama Chakravarti
PREDICTORS OF MULTITASKING BEHAVIOR AND THE IMPACT OF MULTITASKING ON LEARNING, Tree Chang
Strengths in Intersecting Identities: The Experience of Being Black and a Sexual and Gender Minority, Ryan Anne Cheperka
THE CHOICE OF WATER SUPPLY SOURCES FOR U.S. CITIES, Farhat Jahan Chowdhury
Factors influencing post-acute brain injury rehabilitation treatment outcome, Nicholas Joseph Cioe
The Social Construction of Rural Lesbian Identities, Margaret Cooper
YOU'RE THERE IN THE TIME SLIP: A HERMENEUTIC EXPLORATION OF AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE IN MUSICKING THROUGH THE LENS OF MIHALYI CSIKZENTMIHALYI'S FLOW STATE THEORY, Derrick Alan Crow
ATTITUDES OF TEACHING FACULTY TOWARD INCLUSIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES AT A MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY, Bryan Dallas
PREDICTORS OF SLEEP QUANTITY AND QUALITY IN COLLEGE STUDENTS, Eric Sean Davidson
Image Bodies, Avatar Ontologies: Rendering the Virtual in Digital Culture, Adam M. Davis
A study of corruption in transition countries, Aboubacar DIABY
Disaster's Culture of Utopia after 9/11 and Katrina: Fiction, Documentary, Memorial, Joseph Lloyd Donica
The Effects of an Educational Intervention on the Aging Knowlege of Graduate Counseling Students, Damien Gent Dotson
EMPIRICAL ESSAYS ON ECONOMIC POLICIES, Zheng Du
Study of Ochratoxin A biosynthesis by Aspergillus ochraceus and incidence of ochratoxigenic fungi on Wine Grapes from Southern Illinois, Kaoutar el mounadi
The Capacity of a Southern University to Promote and Support Health Literacy Among College Students: A Case Study Approach, Alison Burton EPPERSON
UNDERNEATH THE STREETS, THE BEACH: DRIFTING TOWARD/FROM A PROTO-POSTSTRUCTURALIST PERFORMANCE OF EVERYDAY SPATIAL SUBJECTIVITY, Hunter Hawkins Fine
RECONSTRUCTION OF MOLECULAR REGULATORY NETWORKS IN Arabidopsis thaliana, Elisabeth Fitzek
The Role of Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Organizational Justice on Intention to Cyberloaf through a General Deterrence Theory Lens, Michael Freimark
ANALYTICAL METHODS TO PROPAGATE AND DIAGNOSE SINGLE EVENT TRANSIENTS, Sreenivas Gangadhar
Family Attitudes, Beliefs, And Practices Facilitating A Sense Of Purpose In Black American Children And Youth: A Grounded Theory, Mallory Lynn Gary
DIRECT VIS-À-VIS INDIRECT MODE OF EXPORT IN SUB SAHARAN AFRICA: THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION, Seifu Gebrehanna
AUDITORY CUES AND RESPONSE MODES MEDIATE PERIPHERAL VISUAL MISLOCALIZATION, Joseph W. Geeseman
Eco-Theatre and New Media: Devising Toward Transnational Balance, Marnie Jane Glazier
Globalization, Critical Post-colonialism and Career and Technical Education in Africa: Challenges and Possibilities., Tairou Goura
Trauma Inscribed on the Body in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy, Ashley Green
The Speech of the World: Art and Normativity in Modernity, Daniel Guentchev
MAKING THE POLITICAL PERSONAL: INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FEMINIST BELIEFS AND SEXUAL ASSERTIVENESS, Kate Miller Hagadone
How Stereotypes influence the hiring of Muslim women in the United States, Karima Hana-Meksem
A Ritual in Perspective: An Ethnographic Analysis of a Lakota Sundance At Hoosier National Forest, Gabor Hardy
What is the best chemical approach to estimate the bioavailability of pyrethroid insecticides to benthic invertebrates?, Amanda D. Harwood
Smale Flows on Three Dimensional Manifolds, Elizabeth Lydia Haynes
Stochastic Wave Equations With Cubic Nonlinearities in Two Dimensions, Haziem Mohammad Hazaimeh
THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: ANTHROPOLOGY AND MUSEUM PRACTICES AT WORK, Michael David Hernandez
A Dynamic Programming Approach to Identifying Optimal Mining Sequences for Continuous Miner Coal Production Systems, Joseph Christian Hirschi
The Pathways to Inflated Responsibility Beliefs Scale: A Psychometric Analysis, Elizabeth Anne Howarth
INVESTIGATIVE STUDY OF CONTROL DESIGN FOR A CLASS OF NONLINEAR SYSTEMS USING MODIFIED STATE-DEPENDENT DIFFERENTIAL RICCATI EQUATION, Weifeng Huang