Dissertations from 2011
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
PERCEPTIONS OF ILLINOIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE ADMINISTRATORS ON THE IMPACT OF THE U.S. ECONOMIC RECESSION AND STATE FINANCIAL PRESSURES ON PROGRAMS FOR ADULTS, Barry Ray Hancock
PERSONALITY AND ETHICAL DECISION: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF PERSONALITY TRAITS AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY, Michael Hartmann
VILE HUMOR: GIVING VOICE TO THE VOICELESS THROUGH DARK COMEDY IN SOUTHERN GOTHIC LITERATURE, Rachel S. Hawley
Enabling Curricula: The Development of a Teaching Observation Protocol to Address Students' Diverse Learning Needs, Sharon Angella Hayden
AN EXPLORATION OF THE EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE MISFIT ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PROBLEM-SOLVING ABILITY AND ACCOUNTING TASK PERFORMANCE, Darla Dawn Honn
STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE ISW2 CHROMATIN REMODELING COMPLEX, Swetansu Kumar Hota
CONSTRUCTING THE WEST IN CHINESE MAGAZINE ADVERTISING: A CONTENT AND SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS, Ying Huang
UNEQUAL RIGHTS AND CONSTRAINED CHOICE: NARRATING WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES WITH IDENTITY, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES, AND ABORTION, Jamie Lee Huber
Factors Affecting Sexting Behaviors Among Selected Undergraduate Students, Heather Kristine Hudson
IMPACT OF HEAT TREATMENT AND OXIDATION OF C/C COMPOSITES ON MICROSTRUCTURE AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES, Sardar S. Iqbal
Capturing the Significance of African American English (AAE): An Insider Perspective, Lilly Johnson
An Examination of Educators' Perceptions of the School's Role in the Prevention of Childhood Obesity, Sharon Harris Johnson
Investigating nitrate-dependent humic substance oxidation and in-service K-12 teachers' understanding of microbiology, Nastassia N. Jones
Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: The Everyday Southern Epic, Julie Lorraine Kares
ON GENERALIZED FRACTIONAL INTEGRALS AND DERIVATIVES, Don Udita Nalin Katugampola
Towards an Understanding of an Institution: The Perceived Legitimacy of Online Business Degree Programs, Roy Heath Keller
THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF TECHNIQUES FOR USE IN MAMMOGRAPHIC SCREENING COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION SYSTEMS, Matthew Douglas Kelsey
SOME MULTIBAND COMPACT AND COST EFFECTIVE ANTENNAS FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS, Muhammad Raashid Khan
THREE ESSAYS ON MEASURING PRODUCT PLACEMENT EFFECTIVENESS IN MOVIES: ECONOMIC WORTH, FORGETTING AND ATTITUDE TOWARD NEGATIVE PLACEMENTS, Raghu Kurthakoti
AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF A COGNITIVE MODEL OF PTSD USING PATH ANALYSIS AND STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING, Steven L. Lancaster
A SOM+ Diagnostic System for Network Intrusion Detection, Chester Louis Langin
Analysis of the relationship between pre-kindergarten children's drawing and language, Hwakyoung Joanna Lee
The General Will and the Problem of Self-Love: An Analysis of Rousseau's Theory of Citizenship, Jeffrey David Linz
Functional Analysis of the Tumor Metastasis Suppressor, NDRG1, Wen Liu
TIME-PREDICTABLE FAST MEMORIES: CACHES VS. SCRATCHPAD MEMORIES, Yu Liu
USING CONJUGATED POLYMERS AS BIOLOGICAL SENSOR BASED ON FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER, Xuelian Li
LATE MIOCENE AND PLIOCENE PALEOCEANOGRAPHY OF THE LOW LATITUDE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE, Brendan P. Lutz
Viscera(l) Views: Performing on the Brink of the Human, Shauna M. MacDonald
SOCIAL SUPPORT IN RELATION TO PARTNER CONFLICT AND PARTNER VIOLENCE: VIEWPOINTS OF SUPPORT RECIPIENTS AND SUPPORT PROVIDERS, Kristen Marie Marin
WOMEN AND WORK: A FOCUSED EXAMINATION OF FEMALE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ARMY NURSE CORPS WITHIN THE AMERICAN MILITARY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, Tracy M. Matthews
ORANGEWOMEN SHOW THEIR COLORS: GENDER, FAMILY, AND ORANGEISM IN ULSTER, 1795-PRESENT, Christi Michelle McCallum
Ground Layer Response to Disturbance in the Pine-Dominated Eastern Foothill Region of West-Central Alberta, Canada, Rebecca Elizabeth Mooneyhan McClelland
Bank CEO Compensation, Bank Risks and the Financial Crisis Effect, Damion McIntosh
Identifying Competencies of AODA Clinical Supervisors for Integration into Rehabilitation Counselor Training Curriculum: A Delphi Study, Marissa McKee
A Framework for Influencing Massive Virtual Organizations, Brian Paul McLaughlan
Hearing Miles Davis: A Pedagogy of Autobiographical Performance and Jazz, Chris McRae
MAC AND APPLICATION LAYER PROTOCOLS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE NETWORKING, Anil Mehta
EFFECTS OF ABSTRACT VERSUS CONCRETE VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS IN AN INSTRUCTIONAL SIMULATION ON STUDENTS' DECLARATIVE KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING TRANSFER, AND PERCEPTIONS OF THE SIMULATION, William Ernesto Mejia
Emotion Dysregulation and Psychopathology: A Structural Exploration of Emotional Factors and Positive and Negative Affect., Stephen Edward Melka
Employment as a Predictor of Substance Abuse Treatment Completion, Ann Melvin
Frameworks for estimating virtual water flows among U.S. states, Stanley T. Mubako
FOREIGN AID FOR TRADE POLICY REFORMS, Malokele Nanivazo
Brian O'Nolan's Multiple Selves: Flann O'Brien and Myles na gCopaleen and Addressing the National Culture of Ireland, Amy D. Nejezchleb
THE ROLE OF ATP AND FK-506 BINDING PROTEIN IN THE COUPLED GATING OF SKELETAL RYANODINE RECEPTORS, Jacob Trevor Neumann
Exploring Basic Writers' Perceptions of Writing Center Use, Deanna Odney
MASS POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN DEVELOPING DEMOCRACIES: A STUDY OF POLITICAL CLIENTELISM IN THAI PROVINCES, David A. Owen
Simulating Univariate and Multivariate Burr Type III and Type XII Distributions Through the Method of L-Moments, Mohan Dev Pant
"DO WE NOT SING THESE TEXTS?": PRESENCE EFFECTS IN PERFORMANCE ART, Charles Timothy Parrott
EXPLORATION OF NEW MULTIFUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC MATERIALS BASED ON A VARIETY OF HEUSLER ALLOYS AND RARE-EARTH COMPOUNDS, Arjun Kumar Pathak
SCAPHIRHYNCHUS STURGEON EARLY-LIFE HISTORY, Quinton Edward Phelps
The Rise of For-Profit Education Alternatives in Central Texas: A Comparative Study of Satisfaction Between Competing Programs Using the Student Satisfaction InventoryTM, Jonathan P. Pluskota
Epistemological Connections to PreK-8 Teachers' Descriptions of Good Teaching, Good Student Behavior, and Teaching for Understanding: A Mixed Methods Study, Jennifer Jensen Prusaczyk
Adventures on Windswept Islands: Children's Literature, Adolescence, and the Possibilities of Irish Culture in the Work of Eilís Dillon., Jennifer Anne Rea
PERCEPTIONS OF FACULTY ASSOCIATION LEADERS: ROLES AND ESSENTIAL SKILLS, Keith Brian Reinhardt
Extinguishing or Fueling the Fire: Resilience in Clinical and Counseling Psychology Graduate Students, Hege Riise
Creativity in Fashion Design Students, Joyce Robin Robinson
RHETORICAL STRATEGIES AND POLITICAL GIFT GIVING IN THE ORINOCO DELTA, Juan Luis Rodriguez
Trace Forms Over Finite Fields of Characteristic Two, Sankhadip Roy
Closing the memory gap in stochastic functional differential equations, Flavia Cabral Sancier-Barbosa
EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG STUDENTS' LEARNING STYLES, TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE, AND STUDENTS' COMPLETION RATES IN E-LEARNING AND TRADITIONAL CLASS ENVIRONMENTS, Douglas Dean Schneiderheinze
Social Influence and Willingness to Pay for Online Video Games, Andrew John Setterstrom
FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES ON THE EFFECT OF ELECTRIC FIELD ON INTERFACE INSTABILITY, FILM BOILING, AND FILM CONDENSATION, Payam Sharifi
Collective Behavior and Campus Public Order Policing: A Qualitative Case Study of Mixed-Issue Campus Disturbances at Three Midwest Public Universities, Todd Dee Sigler
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARS: THE MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS AND COMPARATIVE PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF LIVING GARS (ACTINOPTERYGII: LEPISOSTEIDAE), Justin Todd Sipiorski
Multiply Voiced, Multiply Heard: Double-Voiced Discourse in Toni Morrison, Maryse Conde, and Nuruddin Farah, Misty Lynn Standage
IMPLEMENTATION OF NOVEL RECEPTOR-TRANSDUCTION CONCEPTS AND MATERIAL MORPHOLOGIES IN GAS SENSORICS, Evgheni Strelcov
COGNITIVE TRAINING AND FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY IN AN AGED MODEL OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY, Alicia Ann Swan
Systematic revision of the South American armored catfish genus Loricaria (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), Matthew Randall Thomas
Built-In Schemes for Test Pattern Generation and Fault Location, Snehal Udar
A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY: EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL STUDENTS OF EDUCATION AT A MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY, Panadda Unyapho
PATTERN ENCODING ALGORITHMS AND INFORMATION MODELING METRICS FOR NETWORK QUALITY OF SERVICE, Lucas John Vespa
Achieving an Anabaptist Vision: The Constitutive Rhetoric of Goshen Circle Mennonite Leaders, Zachary J. Walton
MODERATING EFFECT OF SUPPLY CHAIN OPERATIONS STRATEGIES: THE MISSING LINK BETWEEN SUPPLY CHAIN RELATIONSHIP AND PERFORMANCE, Daisy Chen-yu Wang