Dissertations from 2018
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
SOCIAL INFORMATION PROCESSING IN ADOLESCENTS WITH NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, Jordan Marie Constance
ApoE4 Genotype as a Moderator of Brain Responses to Target Stimuli Prior and Subsequent to Smoking Abstinence, Ryan Patrick Coppens
A Critical Disability Pedagogy: Legitimizing Dyslexia, Julie Susan Cosenza
A Community of the Lonely: Using Paul Ricoeur's Theory of Narrative to Cultivate Community in America, Benjamin Taylor Craig
THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG ACADEMIC ADVISEMENT, SATISFACTION AND PRODUCTIVITY OF INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL STUDENTS IN REHABILITATION COUNSELING EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES, Yancy Luz Cruz-Virella
THE DEVELOPMENT AND CONTENT VALIDATION OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT FOR CRITICAL THINKING INVENTORY (OSCTI), Jason Mark Curry
Education from the "Bottom" Up: Black Women Navigating the Community College Transfer Experience, Kristin Dade
Energy metabolism and aging, Justin Darcy
INVESTIGATING PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION MAKING PROCESS: A CASE STUDY OF NORTHEAST CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS, Deidra Denice Davis
HISTORY FROM THE MIDDLE: THE STUDENT INTERPRETERS CORPS AND IMAGINED AMERICAN ECONOMIC IMPERIALISM IN CHINA, 1902-1941, Nathaniel Alexander Davis
RESEARCH STUDY MEASURING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT, JOB SATISFACTION, AND INTENTION TO TURNOVER IN UNIVERSITIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES, Aspen D'Costa
CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ON URBAN STORMWATER SYSTEM AND USE OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ADAPTATION: AN INVESTIGATION ON TECHNOLOGY, POLICY, AND GOVERNANCE, Krishna Prasad Dhakal
AN ASSESSMENT OF CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN DECENTRALIZED SERVICE DELIVERY: THE CASE OF VIETNAM, Diep Thi Ngoc Duong
PERFORMANCE ESTIMATION AND SCHEDULING FOR PARALLEL PROGRAMS WITH CRITICAL SECTIONS, Sourav Dutta
INHIBITORY CONTROL AND ITS RELATION TO PERSONALITY/TEMPERAMENT, EXECUTIVE FUNCTION, AND THE BRAIN, Sarah Mailander Dyer
INTERAREA OSCILLATION DAMPING BY USING A PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS GENERATOR WIND TURBINE, Emad Mohamed Elhaji
TRANSITION METAL COATINGS FOR ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGE; ELECTROCHEMICAL AND HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS, Bamidele Daniel Falola
COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF AGRICULTURAL LITERACY IN SELECTED K-5 CLASSROOMS EMPLOYING AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM METHODOLOGIES: A SOLOMON FOUR-GROUP ANALYSIS, Mary Margaret Fischer
WOMEN’S AWARENESS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN EMERGING ADULTHOOD: A QUALITATIVE INQUIRY, Katherine Fishman
The Pernicious Prophecy of Diminished Academic Expectations, Stephen C. Foggatt
RESOURCE SUBSIDIES ACROSS THE AQUATIC-TERRESTRIAL BOUNDARIES OF TEMPORARY PONDS, Kelley Ann Fritz
Double-Change Covering Designs with Block Size k = 4, Nirosh Tharaka Sandakelum Gangoda Gamachchige
CANNABINOID RECEPTORS (CB) IN COCHLEA: CHARACTERIZATION AND OTOPROTECTIVE FUNCTIONS, Sumana Ghosh
Examining the Effects of Mindfulness on the Relationships between Citizenship Pressure, Job Stress, and Turnover Intentions within Healthcare: A Moderated Mediation Model, Nicole Louise Gilson
Understanding the Adjustment Needs of International Graduate Students at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Mehrete Girmay
"My Journey Out Of...": How Women Narrate Their Religious Departures, Angela Louise Glunz
MUSIC TO OUR EYES: ASSESSING THE ROLE OF EXPERIENCE FOR MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION IN MUSIC PERCEPTION, Robert Edward Graham
HEALTH EXPERIENCES OF TRANSGENDER AND GENDER NONCONFORMING COLLEGE STUDENTS AND THEIR PERCEPTION OF THE EFFECTS OF GROWING MEDIA COVERAGE, Kimberly A. Gray
TO CURL UP OR RELAX? THAT IS THE QUESTION: TENURED BLACK FEMALE FACULTY NAVIGATION OF BLACK HAIR EXPRESSION IN ACADEMIA, Sylvia Monique Gray
Summoning the Spirit of Obsolescence in Media and Performance: A Posthuman Sèance, Lindsay Patrice Greer
Priming the Pump: Reflection as a Catalyst for Transfer, Tiffany Erin Griffith
CONTRACT V. TRUST: AN EXAMINATION OF TRUST FORMATION IN CONTRACTING DYADS., Dexter Rowe Gruber