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Dissertations from 2023

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MICROBIAL PRODUCTION OF INDIRUBIN DERIVATIVES USING A CYTOCHROME P450 ENZYME FROM ISATIS TINCTORIA L., Sandipty Kayastha

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“‘STATE OF WAR’: BRITISH RACIAL CONSTRUCTION, NEW WORLD SLAVERY & THE IMPACT OF SOMERSET’S CASE IN THE ANGLO-AMERICAN DIASPORA", John David Kemp

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The Politics of Mourning: Memory, Disobedience, and the Sewol Ferry Disaster, HyoJeong Lee

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Factors Influencing Parent Acceptability of Integrated Behavioral Health Models: Comparison Between Rural and Urban Parents, Bethany C. Leraas

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THE EFFECT OF ACADEMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT AND DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS ON ONLINE FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS’ INTENT TO RETURN, Danna Lewis

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New Renewal theory results on the maintenance of systems with coupled components, Guanchen Li

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A Methodological Comparison of Cognitive, Affective, and Play Type Processes on the APS and APS-P in a School-Age Sample, Meghan Littles

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Cultivating Community: Investigating Performances of Community in Ecovillage Settlements, Alex Lockwood

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GENDERED BURNOUT: HOW EMOTIONAL LABOR, WORK-FAMILY CONFLICT, AND SOCIAL SUPPORT CONTRIBUTE TO OCCUPATIONAL BURNOUT IN MEN AND WOMEN, Kortney Maedge

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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MOTIVATION LEVEL AND PERFORMANCE ON ILLINOIS NURSE AIDE CERTIFICATION EXAMINATION OF NURSE AIDE STUDENTS, José Douglas Martinez Herrera

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Bored and Loving It: Passive Consumption and Macro Geographies in Film and Literature from the Long 1950s, Stephen Brian McCarty

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A New Approach to Synthetic Image Evaluation, Majid Memari

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Wetland habitat use, protein sources for reproduction, and nest habitat selection by sea ducks facing rapid change in the Alaskan Arctic, Micah Miller

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“TOWARD ADIPOSITIVITY”: THE DEVELOPMENT OF FAT ACTIVISM IN INDIAN MASS COMMUNICATION FROM FILM TO PODCASTING, DIKSHA MITTAL

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Haircut, Overborrowing, and Growth, A. M. Muhib Morshed Ami

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EXPLORING MOBILE CRISIS TEAM TRAINING: A DELPHI STUDY, Ian Tiler Mosier

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A QUALITATIVE EXAMINATION OF FAMILY AND CAREGIVER EXPERIENCES WITH MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT IN ILLINOIS, Nicholas Mui

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INVESTIGATING THE HIGHER COGNITIVE COMPONENTS OF MEMORY IN HYLOBATIDS, Gina Munir

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THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF ATTITUDES, BELIEFS, AND BEHAVIOR, Hope Lotsha Muronga

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REMEDIAL ACTIONS AGAINST CYBERATTACKS TARGETING SMART POWER SYSTEMS, Ehsan Naderi

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The Aesthetics of News: Narrative Construction and Media Illiteracy in Contemporary India, Shashidhar Nanjundaiah

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Assessing Relationships Between Autonomous Causality Orientations, Needs Supplies Fit, and Job Attraction in Varying Workplaces, Joseph David Narusis

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EXPLORING INTERSECTIONS IN BLACK FUTURES: TOWARDS A RE-EXAMINATION OF AFROFUTURISM AND AFRICANFUTURISM, Omotoyosi Esther Odukomaiya

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THE GAMES WE PLAY: IMPROVISATIONAL NEGOTIATION STRATEGIES FOR THE COLLEGE CLASSROOM, Brooke L. Oehme

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Formative Pottery Production in Mesoamerica: Tayata and the Mixteca in Macroregional Perspective, Maria Teresa Palomares Rodriguez

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Accuracy Considerations in Deep Learning Using Memristive Crossbar Arrays, Bijay Raj Paudel

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Cybersecurity of Energy Hubs in Smart Grids, Samaneh Pazouki

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Social Attachment and House Prices as Determinants of Mobility Among the Elderly in the US: An Empirical Study Using Longitudinal Data, Wilder R. Pimentel

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THE PRICE TAG OF STIGMA: THE EMOTIONAL AND AESTHETIC LABOR OF BODY-POSITIVE BRANDING IN PLUS-SIZE RETAIL, Kendra Pospisil

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A FRAMEWORK FOR CRYPTO-BASED MONETIZATION OF DRIVER BEHAVIOR WITH BLOCKCHAIN, Sruthi Rachamalla

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DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS OF LIQUID DROPS AND SUPERIMPOSED FLUIDS, Alireza Razeghi

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OCCUPANCY AND CO-OCCURRENCE OF FOREST WILDLIFE IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, Justin John Remmers

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FAT AND QUEER: A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF WOMENS' EXPERIENCES OF FATPHOBIA, Jaidelynn Keeley Rogers

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ESSAYS ON RISK PREFERENCES, ALTRUISM, AND LIFE EVENTS, Fitri Safira

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SECURITY RESEARCH FOR BLOCKCHAIN IN SMART GRID, Lanqin Sang

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COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN CHILDREN WITH PSYCHOTIC-LIKE EXPERIENCES AND/OR DEPRESSION, Jennifer E. Schlak

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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

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CLASSIFYING KNOTS AND LINKS IN L(1, -1) TEMPLATE, H B M K HIROSHANI SENARATHNA

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ASIAN AMERICAN IDENTITY IN DRAMA AND THEIR FOUR WAVES: BEYOND IDENTITY CRISIS TOWARD FLUID IDENTITY, Yoon Mi Sohn

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RESOURCE-AWARE OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR MACHINE LEARNING INFERENCE ON HETEROGENEOUS EMBEDDED SYSTEMS, Ourania Spantidi

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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

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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REHABILITATION COUNSELORS’ EXPERIENCES, BURNOUT, AND PROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, Sharika Lawanda Sproling

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Validation of Best-Self PPI: A New Positive Psychological Intervention Targeting Self-Referential Processing, Bryant M. Stone

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Through Irish and Ulster-Scots Texts and "Troubles": Languages, Land and Linguistic Identities, Kamden S. Summers

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Reproductions: Archiving the Reproductive Politics in/of Performance, Shelby Swafford

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COMPONENT DURABILITY STUDIES OF LED DRIVERS SUBJECTED TO POWER DISTURBANCES, Farhan Y. Tabash

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OIKO-LOGIC IN LITERATURE, Elias Joshua Taylor

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COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES ON THE EXCITONIC ENERGY SPLITTING IN OLIGOACENE MOLECULAR SOLID, Thomas Testoff

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Kukama Radio: the Politics and Aesthetics of Indigenous Media in Peruvian Amazonia, Gabriel Torrealba Alfonzo

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Acting Locally: Vegetable Gardening in Southern Illinois, Aimee L. Trojnar

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Spatial patterns of resource use of a native fish assemblage in the Upper Mississippi River System, Shaley Ann Valentine

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DETERMINANTS OF FINANCIAL ANXIETY, COLLEGE ENROLLMENT AND POVERTY IN THE U.S.: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY WITH MICRO DATASETS, Daniel VanOverbeke

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On Continuous Principal Series Representations of reductive $p$-adic groups on $p$-adic Banach Spaces, Venkata Sai Manisha Varahagiri

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MODEL SELECTION, DATA SPLITTING FOR ARMA TIME SERIES AND VISUALIZING SOME BOOTSTRAP CONFIDENCE REGIONS, Welagedara Arachchilage Dhanushka Madumali Welagedara

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LOW-RANK MODELS FOR TENSORIAL DATA IN VISUAL ANALYSIS, Ming Yang

Dissertations from 2022

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Essays on Development in Nigeria, KOREDE ODUNAYO AJOGBEJE

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Investigating why and when COVID-19 triggered Psychological Distress relates to work behaviors: Conservation of Resource and Scarcity Theory Perspectives, Tahia Alam

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Exploring Early Childhood Teachers’ Perceptions and Practices Regarding Technology Integration in Literacy Instruction, Moneerah Al Jabr

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Persona Non Grata: Contested Spaces & the Built Environment at the World's Columbian Exposition 1893, Nichol Marie Allen

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STRIPED SKUNK ECOLOGY ACROSS AN URBAN-RURAL GRADIENT IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, Katelyn Amspacher

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NETWORKED ISSUE AGENDAS ON SOCIAL MEDIA: INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN POLARIZED CAMPAIGNS, NEWS MEDIA, AND PARTY SUPPORTERS, Zahedur Rahman Arman

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The Conservative Heart of the Nation: Political Conservatism in the Civil War Era West, Patrick Andrew Ayres

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DIVERSITY, COMMUNITY STRUCTURE SHIFTS, AND PATCH CHARACTERISTICS IN NATURAL XERIC FOREST OPENING COMMUNITIES., David Francis Barfknecht

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Development of Small Oligonculeotides to Control CRISPR-Cas9 Activity, Christopher Barkau

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DEVICE FABRICATION USING POLYMER LITHOGRAPHY EDITOR, NATHALIE BECERRA MORA

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STABLE PRICES IN B2B RELATIONSHIPS: HOW RESELLERS REACT TO LONGER-TERM PRICING POLICY FROM DISTRIBUTORS?, Ashok Bhattarai

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The Effect of a Brief Training Intervention on Teacher and Parent Referral Accuracy for Youth on the Autism Spectrum, Kristen Elizabeth Boog

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STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL STUDIES OF H. VOLCANII BOX C/D PROTEINS AND ROLES FOR HUMAN PUS10 BEYOND PSEUDORURIDINE SYNTHESIS, Michael Stephen Bosmeny

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COMPARATIVE APPROACHES TO DIAGNOSTIC MEDICAL SONOGRAPHY, Amy Bro

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Resilient modulus of stabilized subgrade soil using commercial products and industrial by-products, Sandeep Goud Burra

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Healing the Self: How the Medical Craft Generated the Vulnerable Soul, Kevin Ray Cales

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"Do for Do Ain't No Obeah:" Backtime Religion in the Danish West Indies, 1700-1880, Gregory Matthew Carter

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Exploring the Unique Experiences of Support Staff in a Posthospital Residential Rehabilitation Center for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injuries, Stephanie Marie Chambers-Baltz

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LIFE SKILLS MODULES: THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A MODULAR ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY PROTOCOL WITH A TRANSDIAGNOSTIC COMMUNITY CLINICAL SAMPLE, Bruce Clark

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Failing Forward: Superintendent Reflections on Emergency Remote Learning and How to Use Those Experiences Moving Forward., Earl Thomas Colboth

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Insights of Andean high plains (Altiplano) tussock grasslands of Cummo Huacullani, Puno, Peru, Fiorella Paola Eduardo Palomino

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THERMODYNAMIC STUDIES OF GAS PHASE EQUILIBRIA AND ANALYTE GAS-PHASE BASICITIES IN MALDI-MS, Lee Elliott

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BRAND EQUITY AND STOCK PERFORMANCE IN TIME OF CRISIS: EVIDENCE FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, Maryam Farhang

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RHETORIC AS A WAY OF BECOMING: PRAXIS-ORIENTED RHETORICAL CRITICISM AS METHOD OF RHEOTRICAL ANALYSIS, Steven Kalani Farias

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Development of Genomic Resources for the Conservation of the Endangered Pallid Sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus), Richard, Jr. Flamio

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THE IMPACT OF OUTCOMES FOR OTHERS ON INDIVIDUAL CHOICE: COMBINED DELAY, PROBABILISTIC, AND SOCIAL DISCOUNTING, Alan Mark Franklin

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ANALYSIS AND NUMERICAL APPROXIMATION OF NONLINEAR STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH CONTINUOUSLY DISTRIBUTED DELAY, Roshini Samanthi Gallage

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Outside and in: Social support's relationship with support while incarcerated, Phillip Michael Galli

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MODULATION AND SECONDARY BOND ASSISTED FORMATION OF COVALENT ORGANIC FRAMEWORK, Lihong Gao

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DEVELOPMENT OF A BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT OF PERSPECTIVE TAKING IN ADULTS, SEBASTIAN GARCIA-ZAMBRANO

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IMPACT OF TINNITUS IN PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX IN A RAT MODEL OF TINNITUS: NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTORS AS POSSIBLE THERAPEUTIC TARGETS., Madan Ghimire

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The influence of habitat characteristics on grassland community composition and avian productivity in southern Illinois, Alex Glass

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IN A POSITION OF POWER: (RE)NAMING SOCIAL IDENTITIES IN THE NAEYC POSITION STATEMENTS (1991-2014), Shannon Green

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NONLINEAR PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTING INDUCED BY DUFFING OSCILLATOR, Chuan Guo

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Inference for Time Series after Variable Selection, Mulubrhan Haile

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MASCULINITY AND MARTIAL SPIRIT IN ANTEBELLUM FRONTIER NOVELS: WHITE MASCULINITY AND THE TRIALS OF AMERICA’S EXPANSION, Matthew Paul Harrington

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DIMENSION REDUCTION IN MULTIVARIATE TIME SERIES VIA ENVELOPE METHODS, Herath Mudiyanselage Wiranthe Bandara Herath

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THE ROLE OF GENE DUPLICATIONS IN THE INVASION OF FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENTS BY METAZOANS, Kevin Horn

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TENSOR DIMENSION REDUCTION METHODS FOR MODELING HIGH DIMENSIONAL SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA, Rukayya Ibrahim

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CARE FOR THE AGING: LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT PERSONS CONVICTED OF SEXUAL OFFENDING, Stephanie Jerstad

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TRADE, INDUSTRIAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES IN OLIGOPOLISTIC MODELS: PIECEMEAL POLICY REFORMS AND THE CHOICE OF INSTRUMENTS, Aroni Kabita Porna

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NOVEL GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS WITH IMPLICATIONS IN CANCER, Amala Kaja

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ATTITUDES, BELIEFS, AND STRATEGIES OF AFRICAN INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS TOWARDS MENTAL HEALTH: A NARRATIVE CASE STUDY, Kombe Mable Kateule Kapatamoyo

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Friendship Projects: Internationalization of the Student Construction Brigade Movement in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s, Liana Kirillova

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INVESTIGATING THE INSTITUTIONAL POSITIONS OF WRITING CENTERS: APPLYING A FRAMEWORK OF INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE, Nicholas Kirse