Dissertations from 2012
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
IDENTIFICATIN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PATHOGENICITY GENES IN FUSARIUM VIRGULIFORME, THE CAUSAL AGENET OF SUDDEN DEATH SYNDROME (SDS) IN SOYBEAN, Saara Mansouri
Perceptions of Persistence: Why Community College Students are not Persisting, Lea Maue
Middle School Teachers' Familiarity with, Interest in, Performance on, and Conceptual and Pedagogical Knowledge of Light, Simeon Mbewe
QUANTITY IN LIGHT OF QUALITY: RETHINKING THE "POPULATION PROBLEM", Timothy J. McCune
EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUPERVISORY STYLES AND COUNSELOR SKILL AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PERCEIVED BY THE SUPERVISEE, Bruce Michael Meissner
Foundations for Policy Innovations: Exploring Local Policy Diffusion, Joshua L. Mitchell
Relations Between Factors of Intelligence and Multiple Components of Executive Functioning in an Undergraduate Sample, Andrew Elmer Molnar
Understanding How Novice Teachers Utilize Online Collaboration, Morgan Elizabeth Moser
PRIVATIZING AGRICULTURAL GENETICS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE PROCESS AND IMPLICATIONS OF CREATING PROPERTY FROM A ONCE RES NULLIUS PUBLIC GOOD, Michael Thomas Most
THE EFFECTS OF CONTRASTS IN ACCOUNT-LEVEL FRAUD RISK ASSESSMENTS ON AUDITORS' EVIDENCE EVALUATION, Grace Ngonidzashe Mubako
EXAMINING THE ROLE OF JOB FAMILIARITY, COGNITIVE ABILITY, AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN FAKING SUCCESS FOR PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT, Daniel Nguyen
Self-Efficacy, Outcome Expectancy, and Fear of Failure as Predictors of Physical Activity, Melanie Nichols
A STUDY OF LIVING AND WORKING ON THE TOWBOAT: WHAT ARE THE HEALTH & NUTRITION IMPLICATIONS?, Dawn Christina Null
Popular Media, Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Ghana, Joseph Oduro-Frimpong
Monster Mothers and the Confucian Ideal: Korean Horror Cinema in the Park Chung Hee Era, Eunha Oh
AN EXAMINATION OF THE DOMAIN ARCHITECTURE OF THE IOC2 AND IOC3 SUBUNITS OF THE ISW1 COMPLEXES IN SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE, Lola Olufemi
INTEGRATING AFRICAN-CENTERED WORLDVIEW AND ACCULTURATION AS PREDICTORS OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL OUTCOMES IN AFRICAN AMERICANS, Bedford Eugene Frank Palmer II
ROLES OF LIPOGENESIS IN BREAST CANCER PROGRESSION, Puspa Raj Pandey
Microcredit and Savings, Shaila Parveen
Iconic Images, Visual Appropriations, and Public Culture: Negotiating the Rhetorical Challenges of the USDA Food Pyramids, Elizabeth Ann Petre
Realignments of Doxa in U.S. American Politics: Tracing the Rhetorical Histories of Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama, James Taft Petre
UNDERSTANDING STATE SAVINGS: THREE ESSAYS ON STATE RAINY DAY FUNDS, Jeremy Phillips
Exploring Self-Efficacy and Locus of Control as Risk Factors for Sexual Decision-Making for African American Women, Asher Monique Pimpleton
MARKETING, MARKET OPPORTUNITY AND EPHEMERAL MARKET KNOWLEDGE (EMK): TOWARD A THEORY OF EMK'S ROLE IN THE CREATION OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE, Teresa Preston
APPLICATIONS OF DYNAMIC ISOELECTRIC/ANISOTROPY BINDING LIGAND ASSAY FOR PROTEOMIC RESEARCH, Hanna Elizabeth Pueblo
Minding the Interpersonal Gap at Work: Role of Mindfulness on Workplace Ostracism in Employees, Alex Taylor Ramsey
Student Retention: Finding the Missing Perspective, Carrie A. Rice
Unique Response Properties and GABAA Receptor Function in Medial Geniculate Body Neurons of Young and Aged Fischer Brown Norway Rats, Ben David Richardson
Gender Differences in the Vocational Interests of Youth Considering High Job Growth and Green Energy Occupations, Becky S. Robinson
No School Left Behind: A Multiple Case Study of High-Performing Third-Grade Reading Programs in Low-Income Rural Schools in Southern Illinois, Patricia Jo Rosenberger
Case Study and Evaluation of a Pre-Diabetes Self-Management Education Program, Stacey L. Ruholl
FORMALIZATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF GENERALIZED CONSTRAINT LANGUAGE FOR REALIZATION OF COMPUTING WITH WORDS, Elham Sahebkar Sahebkar Khorasani
DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE PRACTICE IN EARLY ELEMENTARY GRADE SCHOOLS IN BANGKOK, THAILAND, Yotsawee Saifah
ARISTOTELIAN-INSPIRED MODEL FOR CURTAILING ACADEMIC DISHONESTY IN THE UNITED STATES, Maria Ann Sanders
SYNTHESIS AND DEVELOPMENT OF SILICON ANALOG OF FLUORESCEIN FLUOROPHORES AND ESTERIFICATION CATALYSTS, Narsimha Sattenapally
ULTRASTRUCTURE, IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY, AND BIOINFORMATICS OF SPORE DEVELOPMENT IN THE MOSS PHYSCOMITRELLA AND THE HORNWORT DENDROCEROS, Scott Schuette
ELASTIC SCATTERING AT RELATIVISTIC ENERGIES OF ALPHA PARTICLES AND PIONS BY NUCLEI USING AN OPTICAL POTENTIAL, Jeremy Stephen Scott
FRANTIC VOTERS:HOW CONTEXT AFFECTS VOTER INFORMATION SEARCHES, Jerod Drew Seib
A STUDY OF THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE TRANSCRIPTION AND DNA REPAIR., Priyasri Shotton
TAXATION OF UNITED STATES GENERAL AVIATION, Joseph Bernard Sobieralski
The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Escalation of Commitment Decisions: An Empirical Investigation, Brandon William Soltwisch
Reconstructing Science and Re-Imagining Our Conscious Mind: Putting Neuropragmatism to Work, Tibor Solymosi
An Investigation of Electrostatic Interactions Between Organically Functionalized Silica Particles, Surfaces, and Metal Ions, Sarah M. Stahl
The Moderating Effects of the "Big Five" Personality Traits on the Relationship Between Budgetary Participation and Motivation, Justin Paul Stearns
THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG OVEREXCITABILITY, SOCIAL COPING, AND BODY IMAGE DISSATISFACTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR GIFTED ADOLESCENTS, Heath Reed Stevens
Shopping for Substance: Style and the Material Rhetoric of Conscious Consumerism, Jessie Ann Stewart
Destabilization as Foreign Policy: The USA in Latin America, 1947-1989, William Peter Stodden
TWIN TALK, Jennifer J. Summary
GLOBALIZATION AND "HAIER": AN ORGANIZATIONAL DISCOURSE STUDY OF A LEADING CHINA-BASED TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATION, Chengxiu Suo
INTEGRATING A FREELY AVAILABLE ENVIRONMENTAL CUE AND COSTLY EXPERT ADVICE TO MAKE MORE NORMATIVE DECISIONS, Steven Cecil Sutherland
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE IN LABOR SEARCH MODEL AND MONEY DEMAND, Gerard Ghislain Tano
IDEOLOGICAL RESOURCE SHARING ON THE INTERNET AND THE PATTERNING OF NETWORKS IN THE WHITE SUPREMACIST/SEPARATIST MOVEMENT, Aleta Top Gustavson
ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIETAL IMPACTS OF SUBURBAN WHITE-TAILED DEER: A CASE STUDY IN THE CHICAGO METROPOLITAN AREA, Rachael Elizabeth Urbanek
The Nonconscious Antecedents of Group Processes: An Experimental Analysis of the Priming of Group Beliefs, Sean Christopher Walker
The Effects of Altered Growth Hormone Signaling on Murine Metabolism, Reyhan Marcus Westbrook
NEW APPROACHES FOR MITIGATING ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS ASSOCIATED WITH COAL AND COAL COMBUSTION PRODUCTS, Richard D. West
The Impact of Environment on Building IT Technical Competency, Benjamin Joseph Wierwille
Understanding Reading Through the Eyes of Third-Grade Struggling Readers, Christine Elizabeth Wiggs
STOCHASTIC FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS DRIVEN BY FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION AND THEIR GENERALIZATIONS, Don Gayan Wilathgamuwa
Behavioral and neurological investigations into pathological gambling as a behavioral addiction, Alyssa N. Wilson
ROLE OF NOTCH SIGNALING IN BREAST CANCER METASTASIS, Fei Xing
Trade Networks under Asymmetric Information, Sabri Yilmaz
CREATING DIGITAL GAMES AS INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: FACTORS THAT AFFECT PALESTINIAN TEACHERS' SUCCESS IN MODIFYING VIDEO GAMES FOR INSTRUCTION, Bilal Khaleel Younis
Drivers of Supply Chain Integration and the Role of Organizational Culture: Empirical Evidence from Indonesia, Erlinda Nusron Yunus