Dissertations from 2012
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
A THEORETICAL MODEL OF LEARNING EMPLOYING CONSTRUCTIVISM, NEUROSCIENCE, AND PHENOMENOLOGY: CONSTRUCTIVIST NEUROPHENOMENOLOGY, Jon Daniel Davey
Bilateral Asymmetry in Incisors: Implications for Miocene Hominoid Species Diagnosis, Candace Ann Davis
DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS AND AN INSTRUMENT TO ASSESS PROBATION OFFICERS' KNOWLEDGE OF OFFENDERS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES, Valerie Elaine Dixon
The Zhuangzi and Nourishing Xin: Causes of Strife, Positive Ideals of Caring for Living, and Therapeutic Linguistic Practice, Carl Joseph Dull
Melancholy and Satire: Representation of Islam and Nationhood in the Works of Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk, Mustafa Onur Duman
TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING AND TEACHING: USING THE NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT`S TOOLS AND PRINCIPLES TO PREPARE GRADUATE STUDENT INSTRUCTORS TO FACILITATE FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION, Valerie Michelle Dunn
Performing Race, Performing History: Oral Histories of Sundown Towns in Southern Illinois, Elena Esquibel
Mergers and Acquisitions with a Flexible Policy Regime: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, Mahelet Getachew Fikru
The Self, the Church, and Medieval Identities: The Evolution of the Individual in Medieval Literature, Christopher Michael Flavin
Mourning, Melancholia, and Masculinity in Medieval Literature, Rebekah Mary Fowler
The Exploration of the Relationship Between Guessing and Latent Ability in IRT Models, Song Gao
ASSASSINATION AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE, Wei Gao
Effect of training structures on the establishment of equivalence classes in college students and individuals with intellectual disabilities, Yors Alexander Garcia
"The Most Previous Refuge of Hope": Herbert Marcuse, Alienation and the Space of Possibility in European and American Contexts, Anthony Frank Giambusso
White Americans' Affect Toward African Americans: Predictive Power on Political Behavior and Measurement Problems, Paul Gerard Gottemoller
On the Interpenetration of Nature and Spirit: A Loving Relationship with the Earth and Our Natural Environment, Christina Marie Gould
Perceptions of Supervisors Regarding Essential Knowledge Domains for Clinical Supervision in Rehabilitation, Keisha Grayson
MEASURING PUBLIC PREFERENCES FOR AND THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF THE MULTIFUNCTIONALITY OF AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES, Jacob Wayne Griffith
Temporal Context, Inequality and Democratic Survival, Selin Ece Guner
THE IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE ON COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE WITHIN A FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATION, Molly Elizabeth Hamilton