Dissertations from 2014
TOWARDS A UNIVERSAL DEFINITION AND MEASURE OF SPIRITUALITY IN THE WORKPLACE, Uday Shinde
The Effects of Foreign Aid on Government Policies: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses, Hyeon Joon Shin
AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT EXCHANGE TRADED NOTES, Sara Shirley
LEARNING STYLES, DEMOGRAPHICS, AND ACHIEVEMENT OF NURSING ASSISTANT STUDENTS IN ILLINOIS: IS THERE A RELATIONSHIP?, Nishala Iroshini Silva
STOCHASTIC MODELS IN POPULATION DYNAMICS., Pathiranage Lochana Pabakara Siriwardena
Conditional Reinforcement: A Comprehensive Review and Investigation of Terminal Link Stimulus Functions, Travis Ray Smith
THE INFLUENCE OF RACE, CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION, & IN-GROUP FAVORITISM ON RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REHABILITATION SERVICES, Matthew Evan Sprong
A Look at the Decision Making of Mutual Fund Families, Jeffrey R. Stark
GEOGRAPHIC EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON MAJOR RURAL LAND COVERS OF THE CENTRAL UNITED STATES, Timothy J. Stoebner
Ars rhetorica et sacrae litterae: St. Patrick and the Art of Rhetoric in Early Medieval Briton and Ireland, Brian James Stone
PHYSICAL THERAPISTS' CLINICAL PRACTICES REGARDING INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC FALL RISK FACTORS AND THEIR ATTITUDES TOWARD THE USE OF EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE, Michael Alan Stroud
ATOMISTIC MODELING OF PHONON BANDSTRUCTURE AND TRANSPORT FOR OPTIMAL THERMAL MANAGEMENT IN NANOSCALE DEVICES, Sasi Sekaran Sundaresan
Modified Stochastic Sine-Gordon Equation, Abdallah M. Talafha
Host-Pathogen Ecology: Effects of Species Ecology and Environmental Factors on the Intensity and Distribution of Disease Among Illinois Amphibians, Brooke Lee Talley
THE CHALLENGES OF EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION, Yonmon Tchinsala
Composition, Pedagogy, and the Development of Effective Student-Teachers: A Comparative Analysis of Training Programs for Teaching Assistants in English Departments, Ryan James Thornsberry
Ecology of the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) in southern Illinois: wetland dynamics, metapopulations, and trophic position, Jorista van der Merwe
THE ROLE OF ADAPTATION AND INFORMATION IN AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE, Sarah Varble
Ghost, Animal, Android: Trauma, Posthuman Ethics, and Radical Vulnerability in American Literature, 1940-2010, Tony M. Vinci
Living The Crisis: Identities And Materialities In A Transnational Greek Setting, Leonidas Vournelis
Cinematic Accounts of a Neoliberal Hong Kong: Post-1997 Urban Cinema and the Human Cost of Neoliberalization, Mark Walters
Chronic Impact Of Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles On Solanum Lycopersicum L. And Brassica Rapa L., Qiang Wang
Parameter Estimation in the Advection Diffusion Reaction Model With Mean Occupancy Time and Boundary Flux Approaches, Xiuquan Wang
CUSTOMERS' EMOTIONAL AND COPING RESPONSES TO SERVICE FAILURES: THE ROLE OF SELF-CONGRUENCE, Shuqin Wei
The Dark Cloud of Jeffersonian Philanthropy: Native American Assimilation and the Critique of the Frontier Romance, Stanley (Buck) Weiss
Web Walkers, A Phenomenological Study of Adult Native American Distance Learning Experiences: Toward a Standard Model of Indigenous Learning, Sandra D. Weiterman Barton
Choice Overload and Maximization: Implications for Disordered Gambling, Seth William Whiting
UTILIZING VROOM'S EXPECTANCY THEORY AS A PREDICTOR OF STUDENT ACADEMIC SUCCESS ON THE ILLINOIS NURSE ASSISTANT COMPETENCY EXAMINATION, Kelli D. Whittington
An Adornoesque Ethics: The Problem of Damaged Life, Heather Wilburn
A STUDY OF SAFETY IMPACTS OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF DRIVEWAYS AND THEIR PROXIMITY, Michael R. Williamson
Applications and Advancements of Dynamic Isoelectric Focusing, Shannon Courtney Wilson
Inflammatory and Conciliatory Rhetoric in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Content Analysis of How Three Newspapers Covered Two Provocative Events, Oliver R. Witte
Blood, Mud, and Money: Place and Public Land Conflicts in the Shawnee Hills, Karen Wolf
A CHARACTERIZATION OF SELECTION FOR EVOLVED RESISTANCE TO PROTOPORPHYRINOGEN OXIDASE (PPO)-INHIBITING HERBICIDES IN AMARANTHUS TUBERCULATUS, Raymond Joseph Wuerffel
REGULATION OF CIRCADIAN CLOCKS AND METABOLISM BY ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR, CANXIN XU
ESSAYS ON MIGRATION AND HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION, Xu Xu
UNDERSTANDING REHABILITATION COUNSELORS CULTURAL COMPETENCE THROUGH CLIENT PERCEPTIONS, Priyanka Yalamanchili
(RE)CLAIMING THE INTELLIGENT HEART: A CRITICAL PEDAGOGUE'S JOURNEY TOWARD CONNECTED SCHOOLING, Melinda L. Yeomans
CONSTRAINED STATISTICAL INFERENCE WHEN TARGET AND SAMPLE POPULATIONS DIFFER, Huijun Yi
Malaysian Counselor Supervisor Development: The Effect of Counselor Supervisor Training, Self-Efficacy, and Role Conflict and Role Ambiguity, Hapsah Md Yusof
The role of hCLCA2 and hCLCA4 in suppression of breast cancer progression, Yang Yu
Hearing Existenzspeak: An Existential Response to Millennial Angst, Brian Zager
ARAB STUDENTS' DIFFICULTIES WITH ENGLISH WRITING DURING THEIR TRANSITION TO THE UNITED STATES: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY, Rima Nassar Zghyer
LOW-POWER LOW-VOLTAGE ANALOG CIRCUIT TECHNIQUES FOR WIRELESS SENSORS, Chenglong Zhang
CONSUMER INVOLVEMENT IN REVIEWING PRODUCTS ONLINE: A SELF-DETERMINATION THEORY PERSPECTIVE, Nan Zhang
MECHANISMS OF RAPID RESOLUTION OF DIABETES FOLLOWING ILEAL INTERPOSITION SURGERY IN THE RAT, Ping Zhao
A Unified Robust Minimax Framework for Regularized Learning Problems, Hongbo Zhou
Open quantum system dynamics for describing state transfer, Nayeli Zuniga-Hansen
Dissertations from 2013
A Qualitative Exploration of the Experiences of Adult Thermal Burn Survivors: The Navigation Toward Recovery and Health, Thereasa Eilene Abrams
GEOGRAPHIC DATA MINING AND GEOVISUALIZATION FOR UNDERSTANDING ENVIRONMENTAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH DATA, Samuel Adu-Prah
INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF ORIENTATION AND DETECTED CHARACTERISTICS OF FIRST-TIME ONLINE STUDENTS ON THEIR SUCCESS RATE IN A COMMUNITY COLLEGE SETTING, Reginald C. Akpom
Investigation of Proteretic Hopfield Networks, Aysar Al-khalidi
The Social Construction of Deviance, Activism, and Identity in Women's Accounts of Abortion, Mallary Allen
In Our Own Backyard: A Qualitative Investigation of Marginalized and Dominant Perspectives on White Privilege in Counseling Psychology Training Programs, Steven Matthew Andrews
ATTITUDES OF COLLEGE STUDENTS TOWARD PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN VARIOUS SOCIAL CONTEXTS, Azzahrah Anuar
RELIGION AND WOMEN'S STATUS ATTAINMENT: A COMPARATIVE AND HIERARCHICAL ANALYSIS, LUBNA AYUB ASIF
THE IMPACT OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPACITIES AND POSITIVE EMOTIONS OF FRONTLINE EMPLOYEES ON CUSTOMER PERCEPTIONS OF SERVICE RECOVERY, Carolin Edward Gergis Azab
Factors Affecting Adoption and Diffusion of Distance Education Among Health Education Faculty, James W. Ball
THE EFFECTS OF CONDITIONAL DISCRIMINATION INSTRUCTION AND VERBAL BEHAVIOR ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF HIERARCHICAL RESPONDING, Clarissa Sue Barnes
KEY DEVELOPMENTAL EVENTS IN THE ORIBATID MITE, ARCHEGOZETES LONGISETOSUS, AND THE EVOLUTION OF CHELICERATE BODY PLANS., Austen Alan Barnett
INCOME SHIFTING AMONG OPTION INTENSIVE FIRMS IN THE 1990'S, Christopher Becker
The changing face of Andean peatlands: the effects of climate and human disturbance on ecosystem structure and function, Juan C. Benavides
ORGANIZATIONS, RELIGION, AND LEGAL MOBILIZATION: THE CASE OF CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVE LEGAL ADVOCACY, Daniel Bennett
XANTHENE AND SILICON ANALOGS OF XANTHENE FLUOROPHORES AS CHEMICAL SENSORS FOR pH AND HYPOCHLOROUS ACID, Quinn Adams Best
WHO SUPPORTS TERRORISM? A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TERRORIST RESOURCE NETWORKS, Srobana Bhattacharya
RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF C.A.T.C.H. IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS SCHOOLS, Matthew Ryan Bice
Negotiating Work-Family Conflict, Job Satisfaction, and Burnout in A Sample of Rural Home Healthcare Providers, Abigail Ryan Bilderback
Assessing the Leadership Potential of Applicants to CACREP Accredited Doctoral Programs, Peter Joseph Boccone
ADVANCED PHOSPHORUS BASED MIGRATION RESISTANT ANTI-OXIDANTS FOR CARBON-CARBON COMPOSITE AIRCRAFT BRAKES WITH INCREASED CATALYTIC OXIDATION RESISTANCE, Matthew Levi Bolin
Higher-Order Lucas Sequences and Dickson Polynomials, Joshua Daniel Boone
EVOLUTION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY, Michael E. Brady
A Survey of Professional Development for Co-teaching, Phillip Brown
A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY ANALYSIS OF CAMPUS VIOLENCE PREVENTION PLANS AT THREE ILLINOIS HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS, Wade Robert Brown
Examining the Relationship between Career Interests, Styles, and Subjective Well-Being with the Strong Interest Inventory, Kristine Buelow
Callous Unemotional Traits and Patterns of Antisocial Behavior Among Female Juvenile Offenders, Allison Leigh Burke
Alcoholism on the American Stage: De-Stigmatizing Socially Constructed Depictions of the Alcoholic through Performance, Thomas Michael Campbell
Effect of the affordances of a virtual environment on second language oral proficiency, Heidy Patricia Carruthers
Extensions of the Tripartite Integration Model of Social Influence (TIMSI): Using Explicit and Implicit Measures to Examine Ethnic Minority and Majority Student Academic Achievement, Randie Christine Chance
AN EXPLORATORY STUDY INTO THE ADOPTON OF INTERNET BANKING IN MAINLAND CHINA, Lisa Chen
An Analysis of School Superintendents' Responses to Ethical Dilemmas, Daniel Curtis Cross
BIODIESEL PRODUCTION THROUGH MICROWAVE ASSISTED TRANSESTERIFICATION OF MICROBIAL CELLS, Yi Cui
ROLES OF HAND2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IN UTERINE RECEPTIVITY AND DECIDUALIZATION, Huyen Van Doan
DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A HEALTHY BODIES CURRICULUM MODULE FOR COLLEGE PERSONAL HEALTH, Teresa Drake
Golden Handshakes at Commercial Banks, Jessica Dunn
ELUCIDATION OF REGULATORY MECHANISMS OF TRANSCRIPTION AND COUPLED mRNA EXPORT, Geetha Durairaj
From Star Trek to Siri: (Dis)Embodied Gender and the Acousmatic Computer in Science Fiction Film and Television, Liz W. Faber
PERFORMATIVE CORPORATE TRAINING IN TAIWAN, Sheng-Tao Fan
CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE PHILOSOPHIES OF ARISTOTLE AND PEIRCE WITH REGARD TO NON-DEDUCTIVE INFERENCES AND TO THEORY OF COGNITION, Jorge Alejandro Florez Restrepo
Performative Riffing: Theory, Praxis, and Politics in Movie Riffing and Embodied Audiencing Rituals, Matthew M. Foy
EXPOSURE TO DOWNSIZING: A LONGITUDINAL EXAMINATION OF CHANGE IN COLLECTIVE TRUST, Jennifer Lynn Franczak
The Politics of Interventionist Performance at the Intersection of Gender, Sexuality, and Trauma, Jennifer L. Freitag
Writing the Apocalypse: Literary Representations of Eschatology at the End of the Middle Ages, Joshua Fullman
TARGETING REDOX IN AGING AND ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE, Debolina Ghosh
Down to the Roots: A Qualitative Analysis of the Psychological Impacts of Messages Black Women Receive Regarding their Hair, Christian Hope Gillespie