Dissertations from 2023
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
Development of Genomic Resources for the Conservation of the Endangered Pallid Sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus), Richard, Jr. Flamio
THE IMPACT OF OUTCOMES FOR OTHERS ON INDIVIDUAL CHOICE: COMBINED DELAY, PROBABILISTIC, AND SOCIAL DISCOUNTING, Alan Mark Franklin
ANALYSIS AND NUMERICAL APPROXIMATION OF NONLINEAR STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH CONTINUOUSLY DISTRIBUTED DELAY, Roshini Samanthi Gallage
Outside and in: Social support's relationship with support while incarcerated, Phillip Michael Galli
MODULATION AND SECONDARY BOND ASSISTED FORMATION OF COVALENT ORGANIC FRAMEWORK, Lihong Gao
DEVELOPMENT OF A BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT OF PERSPECTIVE TAKING IN ADULTS, SEBASTIAN GARCIA-ZAMBRANO
IN A POSITION OF POWER: (RE)NAMING SOCIAL IDENTITIES IN THE NAEYC POSITION STATEMENTS (1991-2014), Shannon Green
NONLINEAR PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTING INDUCED BY DUFFING OSCILLATOR, Chuan Guo
Inference for Time Series after Variable Selection, Mulubrhan Haile
MASCULINITY AND MARTIAL SPIRIT IN ANTEBELLUM FRONTIER NOVELS: WHITE MASCULINITY AND THE TRIALS OF AMERICA’S EXPANSION, Matthew Paul Harrington
DIMENSION REDUCTION IN MULTIVARIATE TIME SERIES VIA ENVELOPE METHODS, Herath Mudiyanselage Wiranthe Bandara Herath
THE ROLE OF GENE DUPLICATIONS IN THE INVASION OF FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENTS BY METAZOANS, Kevin Horn
TENSOR DIMENSION REDUCTION METHODS FOR MODELING HIGH DIMENSIONAL SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA, Rukayya Ibrahim
CARE FOR THE AGING: LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT PERSONS CONVICTED OF SEXUAL OFFENDING, Stephanie Jerstad
TRADE, INDUSTRIAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES IN OLIGOPOLISTIC MODELS: PIECEMEAL POLICY REFORMS AND THE CHOICE OF INSTRUMENTS, Aroni Kabita Porna
NOVEL GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS WITH IMPLICATIONS IN CANCER, Amala Kaja
ATTITUDES, BELIEFS, AND STRATEGIES OF AFRICAN INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS TOWARDS MENTAL HEALTH: A NARRATIVE CASE STUDY, Kombe Mable Kateule Kapatamoyo
Friendship Projects: Internationalization of the Student Construction Brigade Movement in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s, Liana Kirillova
INVESTIGATING THE INSTITUTIONAL POSITIONS OF WRITING CENTERS: APPLYING A FRAMEWORK OF INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE, Nicholas Kirse