Dissertations from 2022
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
The Perception and Use of Narrative Writing in the First-Year Composition Course, Aubrey Larimore
Making the Ancestors: Materials, Manufacturing, and Modern Replicas of Recuay Monumental Stoneworks, Ancash Highlands, Peru, Melissa A. Litschi
Tensorial Data Low-Rank Decomposition on Multi-dimensional Image Data Processing, Qilun Luo
“FROM THE ‘COAL WARS’ TO THE ‘WAR ON COAL’: A MOVEMENT TO PRESERVE THE ILLINOIS COAL INDUSTRY, 1892–2014”, Geoff Lybeck
Advances on Dimension Reduction for Univariate and Multivariate Time Series, Tharindu Priyan De Alwis Mahappu Kankanamge
An evaluation of the need and technological solutions for implementing derived stimulus relations instruction, Albert Malkin
UNDERSTANDING ELECTROCATALYTIC CO2 REDUCTION AND H2O OXIDATION ON TRANSITION METAL CATALYSTS FROM DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY STUDY, Zaheer Masood
EFFICACY OF THE BASIC RIDERCOURSE UPDATED TO PREVENT CRASHES, INJURIES, AND DEATHS ON PUBLIC ROADWAYS: A KIRKPATRICK EVALUATION, Levi William Mayer
ASSESSMENTS FOR LEARNING IN THE SOCIAL STUDIES CLASSROOM: EXPLORING EDUCATOR'S INSTRUCTIONAL DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES IN AN ERA OF HIGH-STAKES ASSESSMENTS, Salvador Orozco Gonzalez
C9ORF72 ALS/FTD MOLECULAR DISEASE MECHANISM AND NUCLEIC ACID THERAPEUTICS, Katy Ovington
CAREER DECISION-MAKING IN INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: THE ROLE OF AMBIGUITY TOLERANCE AND CULTURAL ORIENTATION, Urvi Pradeep Paralkar
Role of Trap States on Electronic and Optoelectronic Properties of Two-Dimensional (2D) Selenide-Based Materials, Prasanna Dnyaneshwar Patil
Entrepreneurial Intention: Role of personal values and materialism, Prerana Rai
Essays on Child Diarrheal Incidence, Mother’s Autonomy, and Timely Access to Emergency Treatment, Harika Devi Rapolu
Inferring mechanisms of community assembly from phylogenetic and functional diversity, Zhe Ren
Narratives of Agency: LGBTQ+ African American Students Thriving at a Predominantly White Institution, Simone Roby
THE PROCESS OF CREATING THE DIVERSITY PROFESSIONAL SKILLS ASSESSMENT (DPSA), Heather Rosenthal
DESIGN OF COMMUNICATION ARCHITECTURE, AND PROTOCOLS FOR MOBILE, STATIC AND OVERLAY NETWORKS, Indranil Roy
Foucault's Rhetorical Standpoint: Discourse, History and Truth-telling, Ebraheem Safabakhsh
PREVALENCE OF DISABILITY AMONG VETERANS AND NONVETERANS AGED 65 YEARS AND OLDER IN THE UNITED STATES: DIFFERENCES BY AREA-LEVEL RURALITY AND POVERTY, Fatoumata Saidou Hangadoumbo
Probation Supervision: Does Social Support Matter?, Lauretta Sam
DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL ELECTRONIC AND MAGNETIC THIN FILMS FOR NEXT GENERATION SPINTRONICS APPLICATIONS, Yub Raj Sapkota
Techniques to Address Manufacturing Defects in Deep Sub-micron, Puneet Savanur
Narrative Conversational Storytelling and its Effect on Affective Empathy and Relational Bonding: A Correlational-Comparative Quantitative Study, Kalie Breanne Scanlan
EFFECTIVE CONCEPT CLASSES OF PAC AND PACi INCOMPARABLE DEGREES, JOINS AND EMBEDDING OF DEGREES, Dodamgodage Gihanee Madumalika Senadheera
DEVELOPMENT OF NEW FRICTION MATERIAL FOR VEHICLES WITH REGENERATIVE BRAKING SYSTEMS, Vishal Reddy Singireddy
CREATING, DESTROYING AND PRESERVING COHERENCE WITH QUANTUM CHANNELS, Masaya Takahashi
GENERATIVE MODELS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND COMPUTER VISION, Sameerah M. Talafha
MINIMIZING PHOSPHORUS AND NITROGEN LOSS FROM AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS WITH COVER CROPS AND TILLAGE IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, Denamulle Gedara Ashani Madushika Thilakarathne
Developing Novel Ion Exchange Membranes for Renewable Energy Devices, Matthew Adam Thompson
Outrageous orchid organellar genomes: Structural evolution and composition, Janice E. Valencia Duarte
INFORMATION ACCESS AND MARKET PARTICIPANTS, Guitao Wen
African American Single Mothers' Religiosity and Faith, Suicidal Ideation, and Communication with Their Children, Arika Yvette Wiggins
On supersingular representations of GL(2, D) with a division algebra D over a p-adic field, Wijerathne Mudiyanselage Menake Wijerathne
PER- AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES (PFAS) DEGRADATION BY NANOSCALE ZERO-VALENT IRON UNDER LIGHT FOR WATER REUSE, Chunjie Xia
THE DYNAMICS OF CROSS-BORDER RELATIONS AND CONFLICTS AMONG COMMUNITIES ALONG THE ETHIO-KENYA BORDER: THE CASE OF GABRA AND BORANA, 1905-2015, Isacko DIba Yattani
SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND ACCESS TO PUBLIC SERVICES FOR PERSONS WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE, Eunice Agyeiwah Yeboah
Determinants of Happiness in the U.S.A: an empirical study with longitudinal data, Ling Zhang
DATA SPLITTING INFERENCE, lingling zhang
Dynamic Structural Equation Modeling with Gaussian Processes, Reginald Ziedzor
Dissertations from 2021
ESSAYS ON EFFICIENCY AND TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, Omotara Oluwatosin Adeeko
STUDIES OF FUSARIUM VIRGULIFORME CAUSING SUDDEN DEATH SYNDROME OF SOYBEAN, Ramiz Mahdi Alabdalsaid
A ZERO-TRUST-BASED IDENTITY MANAGEMENT MODEL FOR VOLUNTEER CLOUD COMPUTING, abdullah albuali
STATE FAILURE, POWER EXPANSION, AND BALANCING BEHAVIOR IN THE MIDDLE EAST, Aso Ali
THE EXISTENCE OF SOLUTIONS FOR FRACTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS OF ORDER q ∈ (n − 1, n], n ∈ N, WITH ANTIPERIODIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS, Saleh Aljurbua
Beyond Feminism: The Discourse of Positionality and Transnationalism in Alice Munro's Short Fiction, Hela Saleh Alkhider
SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE HELIGMOSOMIDAE (NEMATODA: TRICHOSTRONGYLINA) IN NORTH AMERICA, Haitham Alnaqeb
THE CHOICE OF FAITH HEALING OVER MODERN MEDICINE AS A TREATMENT FOR BREAST CANCER IN WOMEN FROM ALJOUF CITY IN SAUDI ARABIA, Maali Alruwaili
TRUST AND RELIABILITY-BASED FRAMEWORKS FOR SECURE VOLUNTEER CLOUD COMPUTING, yousef alsenani
Exploring Elementary Science Teachers’ Perceptions for Incorporating Students’ Critical Thinking Skills in Lesson Plans, Dalal Alasmar Alshammari
THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL SUPPORT ON THE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND EATING HABITS OF INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE STUDENTS, Mohammed Alshehri
REAL-TIME CONGESTION MANAGEMENT IN MODERN DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS, Meisam Ansari
DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF BOILING AT SUPERHEAT LIMIT, Arash Asadollahi
DNA INTERFACES FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL DETECTION OF NEURODEGENERATIVE REPEAT SEQUENCES, Narges Asefifeyzabadi
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS – THE ROLE OF PROPERTY RIGHTS TO ENSURE CIVILIAN SUPREMACY OVER THE MILITARY, KEDAR P. BADU
HOMES AS ZONES OF PROXIMAL INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDING AND DEVELOPMENT, Mahsa Bashang
Safe and Brave Spaces: What Comprises a Fruitful Multicultural Supervision Learning Environment?, Monica Becerra
GAME (OVER) LIFE: AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC PERFORMANCE OF VIDEO GAMES AND PLAY, Michael Jacob Beck
Teaching Stress, Sex, Drugs, and Drinking: A Qualitative Study Among Undergraduates Regarding Introductory Personal Health Course Topics, Kristen Lee Brewer
AN EVALUATION OF ACOUSTIC FEEDBACK AND HUMAN PERFORMANCE, Kwadwo O. Britwum
CHRONIC CIRCADIAN DISRUPTION IN AN AβPP/PS1 and APPNL-F/NL-F MODEL OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, Jesse Britz
Lessons from a Pandemic: Comparing the Competence and Confidence of Pre-Service Teachers between Blended Learning and Blended Online Learning of an Educational Technology Course, Wilber Alexander Bruno
Exploring the Role of Organizational Context in Interprofessional Collaboration: A Mixed Methods Study, Jessica Cataldo
BRIEF INTERVENTION TO ADDRESS BEHAVIORAL DISORDERED SLEEP: EXAMINING FACTORS RELATED TO INTERVENTION EFFICACY, Danielle Elizabeth Chambers
THE EFFECT OF IMMIGRATION STATUS ON EARNINGS OF SKILLED IMMIGRANTS IN STEM OCCUPATIONS, Aynur Charkasova
EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF POLICE ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS ON SATISFACTION WITH THE POLICE: DO SATISFIED POLICE SATISFY THE PUBLIC?, Myunghyun Choi
EXAMINING THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN RACIAL IDENTITY AND RACIAL ATTITUDES FOR WHITE AMERICANS USING CLUSTER ANALYSIS, Morgan B. Christie
A GROUNDED THEORY ANALYSIS OF BLACK AFRICAN INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ RACIAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT, Maame Coleman
Identity Integration Among Transgender Christians, Chelsey Couch
Magma-Sediment Interaction on Mars: Detectability and Habitability as Constrained by Terrestrial Analogs, Jake Rauch Crandall
ALWAYS BECOMING: HOW MODERN NEUROSCIENCE INFORMS A PLASTIC APPROACH TO DIFFRACTIVE COMPOSITION SCHOLARSHIP, PEDAGOGY, AND PRACTICE, Ryan D. Crawford
ACOUSTIC TEMPORAL VARIATION, CALL ORDER, AND TRAVEL IN RESPONSE TO ANTHROPOGENIC NOISE IN WILD SIAMANG (SYMPHALANGUS SYNDACTYLUS), Justin D'Agostino