Dissertations from 2018
EVALUATION OF DI-NITROGEN FIXATION IN EARLY AND LATE DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES OF SOYBEAN (Glycine max [L.] Merr.), Raphael Lemes Hamawaki
AGE-STRUCTURED PREDATOR-PREY MODELS, Shouzong Liu
THE PROLOGUE TO MANAGEMENT: THE EFFECTS OF HISTORICAL ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITIES ON FOREST ECOSYSTEMS AND CURRENT MANAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS, John Timothy Lovseth
ENHANCEMENT OF PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL (PCM) THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE IN TRIPLEX-TUBE SYSTEMS, Jasim M. Mahdi
Environmental and Biotic Processes Influencing Floristic Composition, Quality, Integrity, and Function in Tallgrass Paririe Assemblages, George Manning
Improving the Analysis of Complex Networks Using Node-Based Resilience Measures, John Matta
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK FOR VOLUNTEER CLOUD COMPUTING, Tessema Mindaye Mengistu
The Many Functions of Commercial Banking: Liquidity Management, Mergers, and Retail Lending, Todd Gregory Moe
KNOWLEDGE, INTENTIONS, AND BELIEFS ABOUT FERTILITY AND ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY AMONG ILLINOIS COLLEGE STUDENTS, Akilah Morris
Art and Social Life in Dewey and Hegel, Jeffrey James Morrisey
ESTABLISHING THE PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE PREJUDICE TOWARDS INTERRACIAL/INTERETHNIC COUPLES SCALE (PTICS), Megan Marie Morrison
DESIGN AND TEST OF DIGITAL CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS USING CMOS AND EMERGING RESISTIVE DEVICES, Seyed Nima Mozaffari Mojaveri
Labor and Social Identity in Ancient Peru: A Bioarchaeological Perspective, Sarah Katherine Muno
NANOSCALE EFFECTS IN JUNCTIONLESS FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS, Abdussamad Muntahi
Classification of Dense Masses in Mammograms, Hari Prasad Naram
EMBODIED DATA AND VIRTUAL BODIES: NEW MEDIA, PERFORMANCE AND AESTHETICS, Nicholson Nichole
VIBRATION INSTABILITY IN FRICTIONALLY DRIVEN ELASTIC MECHANICAL SYSTEM, Alborz Niknam
DESIGN OF NANOSTRUCTURED ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIR GENERATOR FOR QKD APPLICATIONS, Md Rezaul Karim Nishat
DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH-SEEKING BEHAVIOR IN GHANA, Kaamel M. Nuhu
There Is No Place For African Women: Gender Politics in the Writings of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Joan Linda Palapala
AN INVESTIGATION OF VALUES AS HIERARCHICAL RELATIONAL NETWORKS: TRANSFORMATION OF CONSEQUENTIAL STIMULUS FUNCTIONS AND MOTIVATIVE AUGMENTALS, Dana C. Paliliunas
HEALTH WITHIN THE NORTHEAST (ISAN) REGION OF THAILAND: AN ANALYSIS OF STRESS INDICATORS IN A MODERN SAMPLE OF SKELETAL REMAINS, Maria Panakhyo
THE APPS OF MONTAGE: THE MOBILE SCREEN AND THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SELF IN SOUTH KOREA, Mi Young Park
THE EFFECT OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ON MENTAL HEALTH OF AFRICAN AMERICAN AND HISPANIC AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS, Amanda A. Patrick
CONTAMINANTS REMOVAL AND RARE EARTH ELEMENTS RECOVERY FROM COAL MINE DRAINAGE BY USING (BIO)(ELECTRO) CHEMICAL METHODS, Meisam Peiravi
Resilient Resistors: Women Trauma Survivors Narrate Resistance and Resilience Following Traumatic Life Experiences, Marcie J. Phillis
Allocation Mechanisms in Partially Linked Secondary Spectrum Markets: A Theory And Experiment, Dmitrii Pianov
Exporting America: The U.S. Information Centers and German Reconstruction, James Podesva
A DERIVATION OF THE PERCENTILE BASED TUKEY DISTRIBUTIONS AND A COMPARISON OF MONOTONIC VERSUS NONMONOTONIC AND RANK TRANSFORMATIONS, Yevgeniy Ptukhin
Essays on Taxation and Fiscal Policy, Nana Quaicoe
A COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF DEVOLATILIZATION AND KINETICS IN ENTRAINED FLOW COAL GASIFICATION, AALIA RAKHSHI
EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF MULTIMODAL AUGMENTED FEEDBACK ON MOTOR LEARNING, Robert Russell
EFFICIENT LEARNING-BASED RECOMMENDATION ALGORITHMS FOR TOP-N TASKS AND TOP-N WORKERS IN LARGE-SCALE CROWDSOURCING SYSTEMS, Mejdl Sultan Safran
Catalytic promiscuity of two plant P450 enzymes: CYP725A4 from Taxus cuspidata and CYP71B102 from Isatis Tinctoria, Laxmi Sagwan-Barkdoll
MULTIDIMENSIONAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS DISABILITY AMONG INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AT A MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY IN THE UNITED STATES, Nahal Salimi
NOVEL APPROACHES FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF LARGE-AREA 2D THIN FILMS BY MAGNETRON SPUTTERING, Hassana Samassekou
THE ROLE OF SUPPLY SHOCKS AND INFORMATION DISSEMINATION ON PRICE DISPERSION IN NIGERIA, Olajide Idris Sanusi
CONGRUENCY OF LEARNING STYLES AND TEACHING STYLES ON PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES OF CERTIFIED NURSE AIDE STUDENTS, Jodi Lynn Schoen
INVESTIGATING THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF DEPOPULATION IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS, A.D. 1500-1700, Robert Scott
EXPERIENCES OF GAY AND LESBIAN STUDENTS AT A RURAL MIDWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Kristin N. Shelby
APPLICATION OF THE TENAX TECHNIQUE TO ASSESS BIOACCESSIBILITY OF SEDIMENT-ASSOCIATED POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS, Federico Leonardo Sinche Chele
EFFECT OF COVER CROPS ON NUTRIENT DYNAMICS AND SOIL PROPERTIES IN CORN-SOYBEAN ROTATION IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, Gurbir Singh
Hegelian Recognition and Absolute Dependence: How the Self Achieves Moral Status, Scott Sparrow
DISTRESS INTOLERANCE AND OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER TREATMENT OUTCOME, Kimberly Toby Stevens
Documenting Belizean Mopan: An Exploration on the Role of Language Documentation And Renewal from Language Ideological, Affective, Ethnographic, and Discourse Perspectives, Yuki Tanaka-McFarlane
DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY STUDIES ON THE STRUCTURE AND CATALYTIC ACTIVITY OF METAL OXIDES, Miru Tang
A MIXED METHODS STUDY EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLINICAL EVALUATIONS AND edTPA, April Teske
EFFECTS OF INVASIVE SPECIES INTRODUCTIONS ON NUTRIENT PATHWAYS IN AQUATIC FOOD WEBS, Elizabeth Tristano
Executive Functioning as a Predictor of College Student Writing Ability, Sarah A. Vadnais
HEALTH CARE STEREOTYPE THREAT AMONG PATIENTS WITH MULTIPLE MARGINALIZED IDENTITIES: A QUALITATIVE STUDY, Lauren Vanhusen
ARCHITECTURE-AWARE MAPPING AND SCHEDULING OF MIXED-CRITICALITY APPLICATIONS ON MULTI-CORE PLATFORMS, Aishwarya Vasu
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE VALIDITY OF PEAK-T: AN ASSESSMENT OF RELATIONAL RESPONDING, NORMATIVE SAMPLING, AND IQ, Brooke Walker
Monitoring and Prediction of Wetland Dynamics in Dongting Lake area, China, Minzi Wang
Development, improvement and assessment of image classification and probability mapping algorithms, Qing Wang
Image Compression and Channel Error Correction using Neurally-Inspired Network Models, Yijing Zhang Watkins
CONDITIONS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: THEORIZING CRITICAL COMMUNICATION PEDAGOGY WITH/IN THE CLASSROOM USING A LENS OF RELATIONAL SAFETY, David Whitfield
BANK GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSIFICATION, BANK COMPETITION, AND THEIR EFFECTS ON BORROWING FIRMS, Cong Xia
A FAMILY OF HIERARCHICAL CONCURRENCY CONTROL PROTOCOLS, Weidong Xiong
THE EFFECTS OF CAUSE-RELATED MARKETING FOR CORPORATE TRANSGRESSIONS ON CONSUMER RESPONSES, Taeho Yoh
THE USE OF GASEOUS METAL OXIDE AS AN OXYGEN CARRIER IN COAL CHEMICAL LOOPING COMBUSTION, Quan Zhang
EPIZOOTIOLOGY AND GENETIC DIVERSITY OF CYTAUXZOON FELIS, AN APICOMPLEXAN PARASITE OF FELIDS, Elliott Andrew Zieman
Dissertations from 2017
MULTISCALE MODELING OF III-NITRIDE CORE-SHELL SOLAR CELLS, Abdulmuin Mostafa Abdullah
SERVICE RECOVERY IN E-SERVICES: SERVICE RECOVERY PROCESS, PERCEIVED JUSTICE AND SATISFACTION, Siti Zakiah Abu Bakar
THE USE OF CONDUCTIVE INK IN ANTENNA EDUCATION AND DESIGN, David William Addison
AN EXPLORATION OF SKIN TONE RELATED BELIEFS AND ATTITUDES AMONG ASIAN INDIAN WOMEN IN URBAN INDIA, Aditi Ahlawat
Regional Welfare and Female Schooling: Do Microfinance and Female Stipends Matter in Bangladesh?, Ishraq Ahmed
DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF AN OPTICAL PROTERETIC DELTA-SIGMA MODULATOR, ALI SAAD ALGHAMDI
URINARY INCONTINENCE AND WOMEN’S QUALITY OF LIFE IN OMAN, Alya Ali Abdullah AL Hasni
DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF COGNITIVE MASSIVE MIMO NETWORKS WITH UNDERLAY SPECTRUM SHARING, Hayder Abed Hussein Al-Hraishawi
COUPLING OF QUADRATIC LATTICES, Abdulkarem Alhuraiji
ESL TEACHER, STUDENT, AND PARENT PERCEPTIONS OF USING EDUCATIONAL MOBILE APPLICATIONS TO DEVELOP THE LANGUAGE SKILLS OF ESL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS, Jarrah Mohammad AL-Jarrah
TRIB3 as an integrator of metabolic stresses: Role in lung cancer progression, Abeer Almiman
ESSAYS ON HOSPITAL REIMBURSEMENT AND QUALITY OF HEALTHCARE PROVISION, GENEVIEVE AKU ALORBI
ANALYZING THE UNITED STATES IMPORTS OF ORGANIC AND NON-ORGANIC COFFEE AND TEA, Awf Alsaad
SAUDI MATHEMATICS TEACHERS’ UNDERSTANDING AND PRACTICES OF FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, Saber Alzahrani
SOCIAL SUPPORT AND HIV/AIDS IN RURAL AMERICA: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL RELATIONS IN OPTIMIZING CARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS., Angela Anima-Korang
DUAL CREDIT AND DUAL ENROLLMENT: AN ANALYSIS OF THE EXPERIENCES OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS THAT COMPLETED HIGH SCHOOL WITH A DUAL DEGREE, Vickie Artman
Factors Associated with Initiation of Cardiac Rehabilitation in Rural Heart Failure Patients, Alan M. Beck
SYNTHESIS OF CONJUGATED SMALL MOLECULES AND POLYMERS BY A PALLADIUM CATALYZED CYCLOPENTANNULATION STRATEGY – TOWARDS NEW ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS, Sambasiva Reddy Bheemireddy
TEACHERS’ KNOWLEDGE, PERCEPTIONS, AND PRACTICE OF INQUIRY WITHIN AN INCLUSIVE CLASSROOM, Maitha Abdullah Binjaweer
THE USE OF HEALTH SERVICES IN GHANA: EXPERIENCES AND PERSPECTIVES OF GHANAIAN WOMEN, Faustina Hayford Blankson
Self Esteem: Its Overall Effect on Professional Skepticism, Leslie Helen Blix
ORAL ADMINISTRATION OF EPIGALLOCATECHIN-3-GALLATE (EGCG) IS A POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC FOR CISPLATIN-INDUCED HEARING LOSS, Vikrant Borse
IMPLEMENTATION OF A NOVEL INTEGRATED DISTRIBUTED ARITHMETIC AND COMPLEX BINARY NUMBER SYSTEM IN FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM ALGORITHM, Kevin Nathaniel Bowlyn
Mammalian carnivores as bioindicators to evaluate the exposure and bioaccumulation of organic contaminants in terrestrial ecosystems, Esmarie Boyles
The Prevalence of Religious Service Attendance in America: A Review and Meta-Analysis, Chad S. Briggs
Teachers' Perceived Understanding of Formative Assessment And How This Understanding Impacts Their Own Classroom Instruction, Melanie K. Brink
Role of lncRNA in cancer development and progression, YU CAO
To Produce and Persist: A Dialectical Investigation of Purpose in Commercial Stereophony, Kelly Heath Caringer
G-CONSISTENT SUBSETS AND REDUCED DYNAMICAL QUANTUM MAPS, Russell R. Ceballos
A Comparison of Two MCMC Algorithms for Estimating the 2PL IRT Models, Meng-I Chang
A Naturalistic Ontology of Generic Traits and Emergent Phenomena: Reinterpreting the Metaphysics of John Dewey, Paul Benjamin Cherlin
THE TRANSFERABILITY OF SOFT SKILLS OF WOMEN VETERANS TO CORPORATE AMERICA, Chanty Bradley Clay