Dissertations from 2013
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
Life After Prison: The Role of the Juvenile Prison Experience and the Impact on Reintegration for Black Males, Wanda Taree Hunter
A COMPARISON OF THE CULTURAL/ETHNIC PERCEPTIONS AND EDUCATIONAL BELIEFS OF KOREAN IMMIGRANT AND NON-IMMIGRANT FAMILIES, Eun Jin Hwang
Tax Revenue and Financial Development: Theory and Evidence, Bojan Ilievski
Optimization Techniques for Performance and Power Dissipation in Test and Validation, Dheepakkumaran Jayaraman
MEN'S MAGAZINES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MASCULINITY IN TAIWAN, CHINGSHAN JIANG
GUIDE RNA-DEPENDENT AND INDEPENDENT tRNA MODIFICATIONS IN ARCHAEA, Archi Joardar
THE MECHANISMS AND PHARMACOLOGY OF NEURONAL NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTORS IN THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM, Bopanna Iythichanda Kalappa
ENERGY EFFICIENT CIRCUIT TECHNIQUES FOR SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION REGISTER ADC, Veera Raghavendra Sai Mallik Kandala
A THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL STUDY OF PRODUCT QUALITY IN TURKEY: THE ROLES OF COMPETITION, CREDITS AND TRADE POLICIES, Fatma Nur Karaman
MECHANISMS OF NEUROPROTECTION IN SCN2.2 CELLS, Sumedha Karmarkar
TARGETING COCHLEAR INFLAMMATION FOR THE TREATMENT OF CISPLATIN OTOTOXICITY, Tejbeer Kaur
A Stochastic Delay Model for Pricing Corporate Liabilities, Elisabeth Kemajou
Narrative, Marketing, and Persuasion: How Storytelling Contributes to Marketing's Influence Within the Firm, Thomas Martin Key
VECTOR QUANTIZATION USING ODE BASED NEURAL NETWORK WITH VARYING VIGILANCE PARAMETER, Ali Dheyaa Khudhair
POSSIBLE LINKAGES BETWEEN TRADE RESTRICTIONS AND WORKPLACE SAFETY, Areerat Kichkha
GIVING STUDENTS THE REINS: TAKING ADVANTAGE OF SERVICE-LEARNING'S POTENTIAL AS A PEDAGOGY FOR TEACHING WRITING, Tereza Joy Kramer
A MULTI-METHOD STUDY FOR CONSTRUCT DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATED WITH ESSENTIAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FRAMED IN LAWS AND STANDARDS FOR DISABILITY PROGRAMS, Terri Ann Lewis
PRIVATIZATION POLICY UNDER FOREIGN COMPETITION AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN CHINA, Yi Liu
"Was Anyone Out There Watching Last Night?": The Creation and Early History of New England Sport Network, 1980-1989, Tanya Lee Lovejoy
Parents' Experiences with Sociocultural Messages: Qualitative Theory Informing Prevention of Childhood Weight-Related Problems, Jennifer Lynn Lovell
An Evaluation of Multiple Exemplar Instruction to Teach Perspective-Taking Skills to Young Adults with Autism: Deictic Framing and Cognitive Defusion, Sadie Laree Lovett
THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEX ESTIMATION METHODS IN FOUR PREHISTORIC NATIVE AMERICAN SKELETAL SAMPLES, Kyle Douglas Lubsen
Activity of the beta-cyanoalanine synthase pathway is associated with the response to abiotic stress by Arabidopsis thaliana., Marylou Machingura
"Blind to Certain Truths": Social Movement Narratives, The Supreme Court, and Cultural Change, Gregory Maddox
Prevailing Attitudes Toward Work and The Relationship Between Religious Orientation and Work Ethic Dimensions, Peter C. Makiriyado
REGULATORY MECHANISMS OF TRANSCRIPTION AND ASSOCIATED DNA REPAIR, Shivani Malik
COMPARATIVE ULTRASTRUCTURE OF APICAL CELLS AND DERIVATIVES IN BRYOPHYTES, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PLASMODESMATA, Katayoun Mansouri