Dissertations from 2012
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
CHARACTERIZATION OF TWO METAL TRANSPORTERS HMA3 AND NRAMP1 IN TWO ECOTYPES OF THE ZN/CD HYPERACCUMULATOR THLASPI CAERULESCENS COMPARED WITH ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA, Maria Clemencia Zambrano Mendoza
U.S. Housing Market Volatility, Xibin Zhang
Targeting Thromboxane A2 Receptor Signaling in Breast Cancer Metastasis, Xuejing Zhang
YOU CAN BREASTFEED BUT . . . : A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF IMAGES AND COMMENTARY ON BREASTFEEDING, Jonna Ziniel
Women Trafficking Women and Children: An Exploratory Study of Women Sex Traffickers, Dawn Marie Zywiec
Dissertations from 2011
Cross-National Fear of Crime Among Women: An Examination of Structural and Individual-Level Causes, Jessica Abbott
Damnation or Illumination: Harold Frederic's Social Drama and the Crisis of 1890s Evangelical Protestant Culture, Richmond Brookshire Adams
A Centralized Wide Area Control of FACTS for Damping Power System Inter-Area Oscillations, Hany Ahmed Abdelsalam Ahmed
Conceptualizations of Sexual Health from the Perspectives of Asian Indian American Women, Anjuli Ramesh Amin
Contesting the State in Ghana's Cocoa Trade: The Case of the Kuapa Kokoo Farmers' Union, 1957-2004, Cyrelene Merrrilyne Amoah-Boampong
Essays on Product Placement: An Analysis of Key Executional and Individual Level Factors that Influence the Effectiveness of Product Placements., Deepa Anil Pillai
Ethnic Identity and Coping as Factors in Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in a Sample of White, African American, and Latino Men, Jason Matthew Arnold
DOES DEMOCRATIZATION AFFECT GROWTH ACROSS TIME OR SPACE?, Andreas Andonis Assiotis
STUDY OF MULTI- AND BROAD-BAND INTERNAL ANTENNAS FOR MOBILE APPLICATIONS, Seung Hoon Baek
ON GLOBAL LINKAGES OF ECONOMIES AND ECONOMIC INTEGRATION IN LATIN AMERICA, Hem Chandra Basnet
Women, Fertility and Labor Market, Ghazal Bayanpourtehrani
MORAL IMAGINATION, FREEDOM, AND CONSTRAINT: THE GENESIS OF VALUE IN A DEWEYAN VEIN, Justin Bell
A DIATHESIS-STRESS MODEL OF VICTIMIZATION: RELATIONS AMONG TEMPERAMENT, PEER VICTIMIZATION, PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, AND HEALTH PROBLEMS, Sara Jane Wonderlich Biebl
PUBLIC VERSUS PRIVATE: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF WORK SATISFACTION AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT, Renata Borges
Religion and Political Behavior: Studies of Political Tolerance, Voting, and Public Opinion, Ryan Burge
STRESS RESPONSE OF STATIC PARTICULATE MEDIA, Abdullah Cakir
History, Nonviolence, and the Experience of Values, Anthony Lanier Cashio
Identification and Characterization of the Hfq protein and small RNAs in Francisella novicida, Jacob Richard Chambers
Whose Voices? Perceptions Concerning Native English Speaking and Non-Native English Speaking Tutors in the Writing Center, Tzu-Shan Chang
SWI/SNF COMPLEXES COORDINATE WITH HISTONE MODIFICATIONS TO REGULATE CHROMATIN REMODELING, Nilanjana Chatterjee
From At-Risk Literacy Labels to Resilient Identity Portrayals: Adolescents Fostering Hope Within Their Dreams, Fights, and Adaptations, Shannon Marie Clapsaddle
COMPROMISING EFFECTS OF INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE ON COLLEGE WOMEN'S HEALTH PROMOTING BEHAVIORS, Julia Annika Conrath
THE INTEGRAL ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND THEIR IMPACT ON LEAN IMPLEMENTATION SUCCESS, John J. Cooper
Optimization of a Single Reactor Process for the Selective Conversion of Coal to Liquid Fuels, Agnieszka Corsaro
EX-GAY MOVEMENT NARRATIVES AND THE IDENTITY WORK OF ACTIVE, FORMER AND MARGINALIZED PARTICIPANTS, SJ Creek
Evolution of Male Gametes in Liverworts, Tamrya Dawn D'Artenay