Dissertations from 2018
Social Experiences of Young Adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder: Toward an Understanding of Communication, Allison D. Brenneise
Tinkering with Student Speech in the Age of Social Media, Lola A. Burnham
TRAUMATIZED WIVES AND THE TRANSATLANTIC NOVEL: UNVEILING THE CULTURAL NARRATIVE OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY MARITAL SUFFERING, Ellen Catherine Campbell
SHIFTING PATTERNS OF LIMB STRENGTH AMONG PLAINS VILLAGE HORTICULTURALISTS: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE USE OF CROSS-SECTIONAL GEOMETRY TO UNDERSTAND CULTURAL CHANGE, Ryan Michael Campbell
NO ONE IS ILLEGAL: DECOLONIAL COSMOPOLITANISM, MIGRANT SUBJECTIVITY, AND THE COMMUNICATION OF SOCIAL CHANGE, Robert Carlsen
CONSTITUTED AND CONSTITUING SYMBOLS OF THE KAMËNTŠÁ CULTURE: ESSAYS ON NATIVE PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE, Juan Alejandro Chindoy
Assessing Nonlinear Relationships through Rich Stimulus Sampling in Repeated-Measures Designs, James Jacob Cole
"I WANT TO TELL YOU MY STORY": THE POTENTIAL OF NARRATIVE TO BRIDGE CULTURAL DIVIDE, Elaine Conrad
CONSTRUCTION OF EFL TEACHER EDUCATORS’ KNOWLEDGE BASE IN A TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM IN NICARAGUA, Angel María Dávila
PSEUDOURIDINE MODIFICATIONS IN HUMAN tRNAs AND ARCHAEAL rRNAs, Manisha Deogharia
NURSING TURNOVER, IS IT ALL ABOUT PAY? A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF NURSING TURNOVER IN RURAL HEALTHCARE, Lynn Dettman
SEDIMENTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE PARADOX BASIN IN THE MIDDLE-LATE JURASSIC, WESTERN UNITED STATES, John Idoko Ejembi
Random Walk With Absorbing Barriers Modeled by Telegraph Equation With Absorbing Boundaries, Rong Fan
Mono no Aware as a Poetics of Gender, Johnathan Charles Flowers
Assessments of Midwestern Stream Restoration and Management Practices, Jessica Fulgoni
PROTERETIC OPTICAL BINARY DELTA-SIGMA MODULATOR USING RING LASER, Abdulrahman M. Ghandoura
REGIONAL WAGE DIFFERENTIALS, INTRA-NATIONAL TRADE, AND INDUSTRY-LEVEL INTERNATIONAL TRADE, IN INDIA, Jeeten Krishna Giri
Altered Expression of Metabolic Proteins Contributes to Neuropathological Disease, Chelsea M. Griffith
Transformative Justice in Josiah Royce: Rethinking Atonement for the 21st Century, Ryan Justin Grumberg
Answering Join Queries Instantly, Mohammed Hamdi
CULTURALLY SENSITIVE HEALTH CARE: AN EXPLORATION OF MEDICAL PROVIDERS IDENTIFIED AS LGBTQ-FRIENDLY AT MIDWESTERN, NON-URBAN UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTERS, Christy L. Hamilton
Corruption and Education in Iraqi Kurdistan, Jihan Sabah Hamzany
MAKE OR BUY DECISION AND TECHNOLOGY CHOICE, Junaidah Hasan
USING 1D2D MODELING TO INFORM RESTORATION EFFORTS IN THE ATCHAFALAYA RIVER BASIN, LOUISIANA, Anne Hayden-Lesmeister
THE SHORTAGE OF LICENSED SECONDARY AGRICULTURE INSTRUCTORS IN ILLINOIS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE IMPACT ON SECONDARY AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION PROGRAM QUALITY, HEAVNER, Howard Kent Heavner
Music and the Aesthetic Unconscious: Dewey's Redemption of the Noncognitive Dimensions of Experience, Bethany Henning
A RHETORICAL INVESTIGATON OF BLACK WOMEN COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS, Sarah E. Hollingsworth
DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION AS A SITE OF STRUGGLE: STATE, CAPITAL, AND PRECARITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY CHINESE DOCUMENTARY, Jiachun Hong
Mosaic Landscape Use by a Primate Community of Northeastern Peru, with Particular Focus on Red Uakaris (Cacajao calvus ucayalii), Rose M. Hores
Leading Digit Computation Circuits, Sena G. Hounsinou
A SEARCH FOR CRITICAL COSMOPOLITANISM: AN IDEOLOGICAL CRITICISM OF SEXUAL MINORITIES UGANDA’S WEBSITE, Gregory Sean Hummel
AUTOMATIC RECONFIGURATION OF RADIAL DISTRIBUTION NETWORK FOR RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT USING THE CIRCUIT GRAPH, Maziar Isapour Chehardeh
IN VIVO ANTRAL FOLLICLE WALL BIOPSY: A NEW RESEARCH TECHNIQUE TO STUDY OVARIAN FUNCTION USING THE HORSE AS A MODEL, Ghassan Ishak
Regulation of angiogenic and anti-angiogenic gene expression in human trophoblast, Haneen Moayad Ismaeel
GUIDE RNA MODIFICATION AND STRUCTURE-FUNCTION OF CRISPR-CAS9, ZACHARY KARTJE
MOLECULAR INSIGHTS INTO TCEA3 AND TCEAL7-MEDIATED DIFFERENTIATION AND APOPTOSIS IN RHABDOMYOSARCOMA, Noor Ali Kazim
Creative Fidelity as a Personalized Symbolic Form of Culture, Jared Kemling
ANALYSIS OF THE CIS-REGULATORY ELEMENT LEXICON IN UPSTREAM GENE PROMOTERS OF ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA AND ORYZA SATIVA, Belan Khalil
IMPROVED GENE PAIR BIOMARKERS FOR MICROARRAY DATA CLASSIFICATION, Alireza Khamesipour
Involvement of Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor in Adipocyte Differentiation and Circadian Clock Regulation, Ali Khazaal
The Principles of Philosophical Community, Eli Orner Kramer
USING FORAMINIFERAL ASSEMBLAGES TO RECONSTRUCT CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE NORTHWESTERN WEDDELL SEA, ANTARCTIC PENINSULA, Anastasia Kyrmanidou
CREATIVITY, POSSIBILITY AND INTERPRETATION: THEORY OF DETERMINATION OF PEIRCE AND NEVILLE, Cheongho Lee
A CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF GENDER IN RELIGION IN THE UNITED STATES, Derek R. Lehman
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