Dissertations from 2025
SOME SIMPLE HIGH DIMENSIONAL ONE AND TWO SAMPLE TESTS, Ahlam Mustafa Abid
EXISTENCE, DIFFERENCE, AND THE NIGERIAN WOMAN: A FEMINIST PRAXIS BEYOND PATRIARCHY, Hannah Yemisi Ajewole
Electrochemical Charge Storage of Biochar-Based Electrode Materials for Electrochemical Double-Layer Capacitors (EDLCs), Aliaa Alrashidi
REALIZATION OF SIMPLE SMALE FLOWS IN S^3 USING 3-BAND TEMPLATES, Mohammed Alshamrani
Some explicit descriptions of characters stabilizing smooth complex representations of GL(r, D) with a p-adic division algebra D, Maryam Saeed Alzahrani
Communicating Ourselves: Erasure and Counter Discourse of Queer Christians of Color, Janine Armstrong
Tell It Slant: Leaning Into the Aesthetic Possibilities of Performative Writing, A.B. Art
FISCAL DOMINANCE AND BANK FRAGILITY IN FRONTIER ECONOMIES: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, Kofi Ampoma Asuako
EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING TECHNIQUES TO ANALYZE STUDENT BEHAVIOR IN A LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, Mohamad Ali bin Baba
The Surge of the Populist Radical Right: How Transnationalism and Party Systems Influence Populist Radical Right Success and Decline, Liucija Balciunaite
Trainee Experiences in Multicultural Neuropsychology Supervision: A Qualitative Study, Lauren Bandel
ON A STUDY OF THE MODULAR REPRESENTATIONS OF SLn(Fq) IN DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC p, Devjani Basu
REDUCING TRANSISTOR COUNT IN CMOS LOGIC DESIGN THROUGH CLUSTERING, SUPERCLUSTERING, AND SOP SPLITTING, Anup Kumar Biswas
ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN BANGLADESH, Gautam Kumar Biswas
ILLINOIS ABANDONED MINE LANDS: POSSIBILITIES FOR SOURCING CRITICAL MINERALS IN COAL MINING WASTE, Ryan Bowman
The Role of Sex and Genetic Background in Early Life Stress Effects on Locus Coeruleus Physiology and Related Cognitive and Affective Behaviors, Savannah Grace Brannan
Come As You Are, Hoods Not Required: The 1942 Lynching of James Edward Person in Vigo County, Indiana, and Edgar County, Illinois, Renatto Vontez Carr
EXAMINING ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN INTERNALIZED RACISM, PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY, AND WELL-BEING AMONG BIPOC, Cerella Chandra
THE INFLUENCE OF INDIVIDUAL NEEDS ON DISTINCT ENTREPRENEURIAL MOTIVES, Megan B. Cook
Mapping Cardiac Adipose Tissue Using Spectral Analysis of Ultrasound Radiofrequency Data and Machine Learning, Julian Rene Cuellar Buritica
ADSORPTION-BASED ELECTROCHEMICAL ASSAY FOR NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION ON 2D NANOMATERIALS, Prabhangshu Kumer Das
EXPLORING MORAL INJURY AND EMPOWERMENT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN VETERANS AT A PREDOMINANTLY WHITE INSTITUTION AND HISTORICAL BLACK COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY, Eddie J. Davenport
TOWARDS AUTOMATED QUALITY ASSURANCE IN INDUSTRIAL RADIOGRAPHY: INSTANCE SEGMENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF IMAGE QUALITY INDICATORS AND POROSITY, Merrill Edward August Dennison
A Blockchain Integrated Enterprise Resource Planning Framework for Improving Supply Chain Management Operations, Patrick Dudczyk
THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN RADAR DATA PROCESSING, Daniel Durbin
FROM INTRODUCTION TO SPREAD: UNDERSTANDING THE SPATIAL AND RESOURCE ECOLOGY OF SILVER CARP, Tanya Elizabeth Fendler
Population Dynamics of Feral Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) Across Illinois, Bryan Scott Foster
Accelerating Spatial Query Operations, Roger Frye
DOMENICO LOSURDO AND THE MARXIST-LENINIST CRITIQUE OF WESTERN MARXISM, Carlos L. L. Garrido
PREDICTORS OF CYBERBULLYING AND HELP-SEEKING BEHAVIORS IN RURAL MIDWESTERN SCHOOLS: A MULTILEVEL MODELING ANALYSIS, Ashley M. Harrison-Pavlik
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A NOVEL MALDI MATRIX, DTB CHCA, AND AN AUTOMATED QUANTITATIVE DATA COLLECTION PROCESS FOR MALDI-MS, Jared Michael Harzan
THE IMPACT OF ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES (ACEs) AND BENEVOLENT CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES (BCEs) ON THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF AFRICAN AMERICAN VETERANS, Lenorris Edward Hughes
THE EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ON THE POPULATION DYNAMICS OF A REMNANT BOTTOMLAND CYPRESS-TUPELO WETLAND AMPHIBIAN COMMUNITY, Jacob M. Hutton
UNDERSTANDING THE EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF FACULTY SUPPORTING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS WITH MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES, Jenna Ranee Parbati Jamieson
OLS TESTING WITH PREDICTORS SCALED TO HAVE UNIT SAMPLE VARIANCE, Sanjuka Madhura Kumara Johana Lemonge
Exploring the Spatial-Reasoning Skills of Middle School Students in Design-Based Integrated-STEM Activities, Sandra Richy John
Characterization of Novel Site 3 Modulators to Explore Inactivation of the VGSC Isoform Nav1.7, John William Johnson
MACHINE LEARNING-AIDED DESIGN OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE ALUMINUM ROTORS FOR ENHANCED REGENERATIVE BRAKING EFFICIENCY IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES, Sai Krishna Kancharla
ORCHESTRATING MULTI-OBJECTIVE NEURAL NETWORK DEPLOYMENT IN HETEROGENEOUS EDGE SYSTEMS, Andreas Karatzas
ASPECTS OF APPROXIMATE INDUCTIVE INFERENCE FOR BC LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION, Sunil Kumar Lal Karn
PATHOLOGIZING BLACK MOTHERHOOD: WELFARE POLICY AS A VESTIGE OF SLAVERY, JIM CROW AND JANE CROW, Lakendria M. Kenner
THE ROLE OF SHANK3 IN CEREBELLAR GLUTAMATERGIC SIGNALING: IMPLICATIONS FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER, Rajaram Kshetri
SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS AND OCCUPANCY DYNAMICS OF CARNIVORES IN A CENTRAL HARDWOOD FOREST, Maximillian Larreur
A MIXED METHODS STUDY: PROCEDURAL AND CONCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE IN BASIC STATISTICS FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, Jie Shi Liew
COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR MARTIAN LASER INDUCED SPECTROSCOPY AND SOLAR ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY, Christopher Mandrell
The Impact of Treatment Modality, Security, and Risk Level Matching on Socioecological Treatment Change among Youth Adjudicated for a Sexual Offense, Jessica Mattera
BEYOND SLAVESHIPS AND THE MOTHERSHIP: BLACK PERFORMANCE AESTHETICS THAT HAVE LED TO AFROFUTURISM AND BEYOND., Caleb Royal McKinley-Portee
E-LEARNING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: UNVEILING FACULTY DIGITAL REALITIES, Dauran McNeil
DEEP LEARNING POWERED IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF EARLY DIFFERENTIATED GERM LAYERS FROM PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS, Sakib Mohammad
Current gender-affirming neuropsychological assessment practices of pediatric neuropsychologists, Genni Newsham
UKRAINIAN WOMEN IN THE RUSSO-UKRAINIAN WAR: BETWEEN SURVIVAL AND RESISTANCE, Jelena Nikolic Khatatbeh
ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR (AHR) BEYOND ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING: ITS ROLE AS AN INFLAMMATORY REGULATOR IN ASTROCYTE CELLS, Emmanuel Ojo
TIME-SERIES NETWORK ANALYSIS OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY MODEL USING WEEKLY PROGRESS MONITORING IN A CLINICAL SAMPLE, Steven Forrest Parker
ENHANCED DEEP LEARNING NEURAL NETWORKS FOR CLASSIFICATION AND FORECASTING PROBLEMS IN EMBEDDED SYSTEMS, Vasileios Pentsos
TESTING POISSON REGRESSION AND RELATED MODELS WITH THE ONE COMPONENT PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES ESTIMATOR, Paul Amarh Quaye
Public Perceptions of Sexual and Dating Violence: How Attitudes on Sexual Education, Pornography, and Masculinity Relate to Rape Myth Acceptance, Bailey Lane Saldana
Disability and Personhood on Screen: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Million Dollar Baby, Gattaca, and Sound of Metal, Patrick Seick
TRUSTWORTHY EMBEDDED SYSTEMS BASED ON DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS, Danushka Senarathna
SUSTAINABLE COVER CROP MANAGEMENT IN SWEET CORN PRODUCTION SYSTEMS, Gulcin Sener Guzel
EVOLUTION AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE GENUS TRIODANIS, Taylor Simmonds
EVOLUTION AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE GENUS TRIODANIS, Taylor Simmonds
The Problem of the Whiteness of Wealth, Elizabeth Tharakan
ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL NETWORK ON CYBER-ARGUMENTATION, Bhargav Krishna Thota
INTEGRATED APPROACH TO EXPLAINING DIGITAL VIOLENCE VICTIMIZATION EXPERIENCES IN SCHOOL MILIEUS, Marlon Mike Toro-Alvarez
DIFFICULTY IN AMERICAN DRAMATIC LITERATURE, David Turkel
A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF MILITARY LEADERS TRANSITIONING TO CIVILIAN LEADERSHIP ROLES, Carlos Alberto Uresti
Dimension Reduction for High-Dimensional Multivariate Heteroskedastic Time Series via Envelope Methods, Toktam Valizadeh kozalabad
A Low-Complexity Edge-based Object Detection Algorithm, Rujie Zhao
Dissertations from 2024
NEW ELECTROCHEMICAL PLATFORMS FOR THE DETECTION OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE BIOMARKERS, Omair Adil
NOVEL MATERIALS AND APPROACHES TO ENHANCE NMR/MRI SENSITIVITY BY SABRE (SIGNAL AMPLIFICATION BY REVERSIBLE EXCHANGE) HYPERPOLARIZATION, Md Shahabuddin Alam
ANALYZING THE DETERMINANTS OF INWARD, OUTWARD, AND BILATERAL FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS IN MENA COUNTRIES: THE ROLE OF TRADE OPENNESS, Hailah Alfadhel
Infinitely many solutions of a critical nonlinear Choquard equation on R^n., Mona M. Almutairi
TESTING WITH THE ONE COMPONENT PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES AND THE MARGINAL MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATORS, Abdulaziz Alshammari
INSTRUCTORS’ PERCEPTION OF INQUIRY-BASED SCIENCE TEACHING IN SAUDI ARABIA, Suleman Basheer Alshammari
DETERMINANTS OF EXTENSIVE AND INTENSIVE MARGINS IN FEMALE OWNERSHIP OF BUSINESSES: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY, Arwa Althobaiti
Essays on Economic Effects of the Monetary Union of the West African Monetary Zone, Collins Kelechukwu Anosike
THE EFFECT OF ALTITUDE ON DECOMPOSITION: TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE POSTMORTEM INTERVAL IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION OF COLORADO., Christiane Irene Baigent
Republican Klansmen: The Ku Klux Klan and the Grand Old Party in Prohibition Era Indiana, Andrew Scott Barbero
REMITTANCES IN NEPAL; LANDLOCKEDNESS AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE, Thaman Prasad Bastola
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, MACHINES, DEVICES, AND ROBOTS: MOBILIZING HUMANNESS AND INTELLIGENCE IN THE AMERICAN TECHNO-LANDSCAPE, Carlos A. Batres
A Preliminary Investigation of Defusion and Self As Context ACT Processes in Persons with Traumatic Experience, Morgan Battle
THE IMPACT OF COMMUNITY FORESTRY ON THE GENERAL AND SPECIFIED RESILIENCE OF COMMUNITIES AND HOUSEHOLDS IN NEPAL, Mukesh Bhattarai
USING THE TRANSTHEORETICAL MODEL TO UNDERSTAND MOUD PARTICIPANTS GOALS IN RURAL ILLINOIS., John Bresett
Stochastic SEIR(S) Model with Nonrandom Total Population, Shanika Dilani Chandrasena
Stochastic SEIR(S) Model with Random Total Population, Taniya Dilini Chandrasena
INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS OF ABUSIVE SUPERVISION ON EMPLOYEES’ INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOR: THE ROLE OF LMX QUALITY AND CLIMATE FOR INNOVATION., Lorraine Kudakwashe Chihora
CHARACTERIZATION OF DIVERSE NONCODING RNAS IN THERAPEUTICS, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND CHROMATIN BIOLOGY, Ramadevi Chilamkurthy
Mutual Enjoyment: A Levinasian Conception of Freedom, Aaron Darrisaw
Interplay of NR3C1 and FOXO1 in somatotrope differentiation, Pratyusa Das
DERMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF WORKING ANIMALS DURING VARIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS, Dakota Rose Discepolo