Dissertations from 2023
A Research on Automatic Hyperparameter Recommendation via Meta-Learning, Liping Deng
Experimental and Sustainability Assessment of Geopolymer-Stabilized Highway Subgrades Using Industrial By-Products, Adedeji Adekunle Disu
Decoding the Public Service Announcements (PSAs) of HIV/AIDS: Evaluating Botswana's AIDS Messages and Their Impact on 15 - 24 Ages, Enole Ditsheko
UNDERSTANDING THE ISSUE OF THE LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION TO SCHOOL LITERACY LEARNING IN RURAL HAITI, Jean-Ronel Elveus
PEOPLE’S SUSCEPTIBILITY TO HEALTH MISINFORMATION ON WECHAT IN CHINA, Lu Fan
GLUTAMATERGIC AND METABOLIC DYSREGULATION IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE MOUSE MODELS: THE IMPACT OF PRODROMAL RILUZOLE TREATMENT, Caleigh Findley
Essays on Free Senior High School Policy, Household Behavior, and Environmental Tax Revenues, Prince Fosu
SYNTHESIS, SINTERING, AND ELECTRONIC CONDUCTIVITY STUDIES OF MEDIUM- AND HIGH-ENTROPY PEROVSKITE OXIDES, Sai Ram Gajjala
WHERE URBAN TRAUMA ENDS AND URBAN PSYCHOSIS BEGINS: ESTABLISHING SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CONCEPT OF URBAN PSYCHOSIS, Myah L. Gary
STRIP AND CONDUCTIVE PAINT-BASED 3D PRINTED SPIRAL ANTENNAS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, Purno Mohon Ghosh
AN EXPLORATION OF THE EXPERIENCES OF TRANSGENDER AND NONBINARY PEOPLE WHO USE NONTRADITIONAL OR NON-STANDARDIZED GENDER-AFFIRMING HORMONE THERAPY, Chloe Michelle Goldbach
THE SCIENCE IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT OF FEMALE STEM STUDENTS: EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF INTERSECTING IDENTITIES, Tarnisha S. Green
UNDERSTANDING DNA MISMATCH REPAIR FACTORS IN MAINTENANCE OF GENOME STABILITY, Vaibhavi Vijay Gujar
EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF NOVEL 2D MAGNET HETEROSTRUCTURES AND MAGNETIC THIN FILMS, Stephen Hofer
Density functional theory and kinetic study of catalytic methane conversion and ammonia decomposition, Domoina Holiharimanana
EXPERIENCES WITH WRITING AND READING NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REPORTS: NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST AND PARENT PERSPECTIVES, Zsofia Imre
FROM REAL TO REEL: WHITE SUPREMACY AND ITS EVERYDAY HAUNTING OF BLACK LIVES, Abimbola Iyun
SOME TOPICS RELEVANT TO ACTUARIAL MATHEMATICS, Yu Jin
MICROBIAL PRODUCTION OF INDIRUBIN DERIVATIVES USING A CYTOCHROME P450 ENZYME FROM ISATIS TINCTORIA L., Sandipty Kayastha
“‘STATE OF WAR’: BRITISH RACIAL CONSTRUCTION, NEW WORLD SLAVERY & THE IMPACT OF SOMERSET’S CASE IN THE ANGLO-AMERICAN DIASPORA", John David Kemp
The Politics of Mourning: Memory, Disobedience, and the Sewol Ferry Disaster, HyoJeong Lee
Factors Influencing Parent Acceptability of Integrated Behavioral Health Models: Comparison Between Rural and Urban Parents, Bethany C. Leraas
New Renewal theory results on the maintenance of systems with coupled components, Guanchen Li
A Methodological Comparison of Cognitive, Affective, and Play Type Processes on the APS and APS-P in a School-Age Sample, Meghan Littles
Cultivating Community: Investigating Performances of Community in Ecovillage Settlements, Alex Lockwood
GENDERED BURNOUT: HOW EMOTIONAL LABOR, WORK-FAMILY CONFLICT, AND SOCIAL SUPPORT CONTRIBUTE TO OCCUPATIONAL BURNOUT IN MEN AND WOMEN, Kortney Maedge
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MOTIVATION LEVEL AND PERFORMANCE ON ILLINOIS NURSE AIDE CERTIFICATION EXAMINATION OF NURSE AIDE STUDENTS, José Douglas Martinez Herrera
Bored and Loving It: Passive Consumption and Macro Geographies in Film and Literature from the Long 1950s, Stephen Brian McCarty
A New Approach to Synthetic Image Evaluation, Majid Memari
“TOWARD ADIPOSITIVITY”: THE DEVELOPMENT OF FAT ACTIVISM IN INDIAN MASS COMMUNICATION FROM FILM TO PODCASTING, DIKSHA MITTAL
Haircut, Overborrowing, and Growth, A. M. Muhib Morshed Ami
EXPLORING MOBILE CRISIS TEAM TRAINING: A DELPHI STUDY, Ian Tiler Mosier
A QUALITATIVE EXAMINATION OF FAMILY AND CAREGIVER EXPERIENCES WITH MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT IN ILLINOIS, Nicholas Mui
INVESTIGATING THE HIGHER COGNITIVE COMPONENTS OF MEMORY IN HYLOBATIDS, Gina Munir
THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF ATTITUDES, BELIEFS, AND BEHAVIOR, Hope Lotsha Muronga
REMEDIAL ACTIONS AGAINST CYBERATTACKS TARGETING SMART POWER SYSTEMS, Ehsan Naderi
The Aesthetics of News: Narrative Construction and Media Illiteracy in Contemporary India, Shashidhar Nanjundaiah
Assessing Relationships Between Autonomous Causality Orientations, Needs Supplies Fit, and Job Attraction in Varying Workplaces, Joseph David Narusis
EXPLORING INTERSECTIONS IN BLACK FUTURES: TOWARDS A RE-EXAMINATION OF AFROFUTURISM AND AFRICANFUTURISM, Omotoyosi Esther Odukomaiya
THE GAMES WE PLAY: IMPROVISATIONAL NEGOTIATION STRATEGIES FOR THE COLLEGE CLASSROOM, Brooke L. Oehme
Formative Pottery Production in Mesoamerica: Tayata and the Mixteca in Macroregional Perspective, Maria Teresa Palomares Rodriguez
Accuracy Considerations in Deep Learning Using Memristive Crossbar Arrays, Bijay Raj Paudel
Cybersecurity of Energy Hubs in Smart Grids, Samaneh Pazouki
Social Attachment and House Prices as Determinants of Mobility Among the Elderly in the US: An Empirical Study Using Longitudinal Data, Wilder R. Pimentel
THE PRICE TAG OF STIGMA: THE EMOTIONAL AND AESTHETIC LABOR OF BODY-POSITIVE BRANDING IN PLUS-SIZE RETAIL, Kendra Pospisil
A FRAMEWORK FOR CRYPTO-BASED MONETIZATION OF DRIVER BEHAVIOR WITH BLOCKCHAIN, Sruthi Rachamalla
DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS OF LIQUID DROPS AND SUPERIMPOSED FLUIDS, Alireza Razeghi
OCCUPANCY AND CO-OCCURRENCE OF FOREST WILDLIFE IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, Justin John Remmers
FAT AND QUEER: A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF WOMENS' EXPERIENCES OF FATPHOBIA, Jaidelynn Keeley Rogers
ESSAYS ON RISK PREFERENCES, ALTRUISM, AND LIFE EVENTS, Fitri Safira
SECURITY RESEARCH FOR BLOCKCHAIN IN SMART GRID, Lanqin Sang
COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN CHILDREN WITH PSYCHOTIC-LIKE EXPERIENCES AND/OR DEPRESSION, Jennifer E. Schlak
ANDEAN URBAN PROCESSES AND THE EXPERIENCE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL-SOCIAL INTERPLAY: THE CASE OF CAJAMARQUILLA, PERUVIAN CENTRAL COAST (ca. AD 650-1400), Rafael Antonio Segura
CLASSIFYING KNOTS AND LINKS IN L(1, -1) TEMPLATE, H B M K HIROSHANI SENARATHNA
ASIAN AMERICAN IDENTITY IN DRAMA AND THEIR FOUR WAVES: BEYOND IDENTITY CRISIS TOWARD FLUID IDENTITY, Yoon Mi Sohn
RESOURCE-AWARE OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR MACHINE LEARNING INFERENCE ON HETEROGENEOUS EMBEDDED SYSTEMS, Ourania Spantidi
Life and Health on the Desert Frontier: A Bioarchaeological Investigation of the Transition Between the Roman and Byzantine Empires at Umm el-Jimal, Jordan, Jessica Rose Spencer
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REHABILITATION COUNSELORS’ EXPERIENCES, BURNOUT, AND PROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, Sharika Lawanda Sproling
Validation of Best-Self PPI: A New Positive Psychological Intervention Targeting Self-Referential Processing, Bryant M. Stone
Through Irish and Ulster-Scots Texts and "Troubles": Languages, Land and Linguistic Identities, Kamden S. Summers
Reproductions: Archiving the Reproductive Politics in/of Performance, Shelby Swafford
COMPONENT DURABILITY STUDIES OF LED DRIVERS SUBJECTED TO POWER DISTURBANCES, Farhan Y. Tabash
OIKO-LOGIC IN LITERATURE, Elias Joshua Taylor
COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES ON THE EXCITONIC ENERGY SPLITTING IN OLIGOACENE MOLECULAR SOLID, Thomas Testoff
Kukama Radio: the Politics and Aesthetics of Indigenous Media in Peruvian Amazonia, Gabriel Torrealba Alfonzo
Acting Locally: Vegetable Gardening in Southern Illinois, Aimee L. Trojnar
Spatial patterns of resource use of a native fish assemblage in the Upper Mississippi River System, Shaley Ann Valentine
DETERMINANTS OF FINANCIAL ANXIETY, COLLEGE ENROLLMENT AND POVERTY IN THE U.S.: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY WITH MICRO DATASETS, Daniel VanOverbeke
On Continuous Principal Series Representations of reductive $p$-adic groups on $p$-adic Banach Spaces, Venkata Sai Manisha Varahagiri
MODEL SELECTION, DATA SPLITTING FOR ARMA TIME SERIES AND VISUALIZING SOME BOOTSTRAP CONFIDENCE REGIONS, Welagedara Arachchilage Dhanushka Madumali Welagedara
LOW-RANK MODELS FOR TENSORIAL DATA IN VISUAL ANALYSIS, Ming Yang
Dissertations from 2022
Essays on Development in Nigeria, KOREDE ODUNAYO AJOGBEJE
Exploring Early Childhood Teachers’ Perceptions and Practices Regarding Technology Integration in Literacy Instruction, Moneerah Al Jabr
Persona Non Grata: Contested Spaces & the Built Environment at the World's Columbian Exposition 1893, Nichol Marie Allen
STRIPED SKUNK ECOLOGY ACROSS AN URBAN-RURAL GRADIENT IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, Katelyn Amspacher
NETWORKED ISSUE AGENDAS ON SOCIAL MEDIA: INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN POLARIZED CAMPAIGNS, NEWS MEDIA, AND PARTY SUPPORTERS, Zahedur Rahman Arman
The Conservative Heart of the Nation: Political Conservatism in the Civil War Era West, Patrick Andrew Ayres
DIVERSITY, COMMUNITY STRUCTURE SHIFTS, AND PATCH CHARACTERISTICS IN NATURAL XERIC FOREST OPENING COMMUNITIES., David Francis Barfknecht
Development of Small Oligonculeotides to Control CRISPR-Cas9 Activity, Christopher Barkau
DEVICE FABRICATION USING POLYMER LITHOGRAPHY EDITOR, NATHALIE BECERRA MORA
STABLE PRICES IN B2B RELATIONSHIPS: HOW RESELLERS REACT TO LONGER-TERM PRICING POLICY FROM DISTRIBUTORS?, Ashok Bhattarai
The Effect of a Brief Training Intervention on Teacher and Parent Referral Accuracy for Youth on the Autism Spectrum, Kristen Elizabeth Boog
STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL STUDIES OF H. VOLCANII BOX C/D PROTEINS AND ROLES FOR HUMAN PUS10 BEYOND PSEUDORURIDINE SYNTHESIS, Michael Stephen Bosmeny
COMPARATIVE APPROACHES TO DIAGNOSTIC MEDICAL SONOGRAPHY, Amy Bro
Resilient modulus of stabilized subgrade soil using commercial products and industrial by-products, Sandeep Goud Burra
Healing the Self: How the Medical Craft Generated the Vulnerable Soul, Kevin Ray Cales
"Do for Do Ain't No Obeah:" Backtime Religion in the Danish West Indies, 1700-1880, Gregory Matthew Carter
Exploring the Unique Experiences of Support Staff in a Posthospital Residential Rehabilitation Center for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injuries, Stephanie Marie Chambers-Baltz
Failing Forward: Superintendent Reflections on Emergency Remote Learning and How to Use Those Experiences Moving Forward., Earl Thomas Colboth
Insights of Andean high plains (Altiplano) tussock grasslands of Cummo Huacullani, Puno, Peru, Fiorella Paola Eduardo Palomino
THERMODYNAMIC STUDIES OF GAS PHASE EQUILIBRIA AND ANALYTE GAS-PHASE BASICITIES IN MALDI-MS, Lee Elliott
BRAND EQUITY AND STOCK PERFORMANCE IN TIME OF CRISIS: EVIDENCE FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, Maryam Farhang
RHETORIC AS A WAY OF BECOMING: PRAXIS-ORIENTED RHETORICAL CRITICISM AS METHOD OF RHEOTRICAL ANALYSIS, Steven Kalani Farias