Theses from 2015
RECOVERY OF WHOLE SOIL CONDITIONS THROUGH RESTORATION FROM AGRICULTURE AND ITS ROLE IN MEDIATING PLANT-PLANT COMPETITION, Drew Austin Scott
Effects of Material Degradation on the Thermal Stability of Non-sway Columns, Myles Andrew Scott-Stirn
The Technical Direction of Clybourne Park, Jonathon Semanski
Understanding How And Why We Are Affected By The Visual Language On An Individualized Level, Jonathan Andrew Seyer
Studies of Follicular and Endocrine Dynamics of Luteinized Unruptured Follicle (LUF) Syndrome in Women and Mares, Tauseef Bashir Shah
Uniform Flow Development Length in a Rough Laboratory Flume, Sanjib Sharma
Promoting Maintenance of Staff Training: A Comparison Between Video Modeling and a Flashcard Procedure, Robyn Shimmin
Evaluation of Composite Adhesive Bonds Using Digital Image Correlation, Shashi Shekhar Shrestha
POST BUCKLING RESPONSE OF SWAY COLUMNS UNDER MECHANICAL AND THERMAL (FIRE) LOADS, Sujan Shrestha
An analysis for the determination of the best measure of precipitation for the estimation of bankfull width, SURAJ SHRESTHA
RESILIENT MODULUS OF RECYCLED AGGREGATES AS ROAD PAVEMENT MATERIALS, Pralendra Singh
A TWIN PRIME SIEVE AND A COMBINATORIAL APPROACH TO PROVING THE TWIN PRIMES CONJECTURE, ALAN T. SMITH
ANALYSIS OF THICKNESS VARIATIONS OF THE AUX VASES FORMATION IN WHITE COUNTY, ILLINOIS THROUGH APPLICATION OF GEOPHYSICAL WELL LOGS AND 3-D SEISMIC REFLECTION ATTRIBUTES, Richard Lee Smith Jr
The Influence of Coal Lithotype and Macearl Composition on the Oxidative Hydrothermal Dissolution of Coal, Vishnu Srinivasaraghavan
FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT: THUMOS IN THE REPUBLIC, Asterios Stamatikos
An Economic Study of the Influencial Factors Impacting the College Readiness of Secondary Students, Morgan Stewart
EVALUATION OF A BEHAVIORAL SKILLS TRAINING PACKAGE TO TEACH ADULTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES PEDESTRIAN CROSSING SKILLS, Tanya LaBelle Stoeklen
DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF INTERMEDIATE TEMPERATURE SOLD OXIDE FUEL CELLS WITH A HONEYCOMB STRUCTURE; OPERATION, RESEARCH, AND OPPORTUNITIES, Sean Dakota Stout
AN ASSESSMENT OF ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION IN SOUTH AFRICA USING A SURVEY OF ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERTS, Andisiwe Stuurman
REMOTE SENSING BASED DETECTION OF FORESTED WETLANDS: AN EVALUATION OF LIDAR, AERIAL IMAGERY, AND THEIR DATA FUSION, Ashley E. Suiter
Comparison and Staff Preference on Teletherapy Versus in Person Therapy, Allyce Sulkowski
Contingencies vs. Choice: An Examination of the Controlling Variables on Slot Machine Play, Ashley Kay Swanson
BUFFERS AND BIOCHAR: INFLUENCES ON SURFACE WATER QUALITY IN AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS, Audrey Sweet
Evaluating the Generalization Assessment of PEAK System: Comparisons with IQ and the Direct Training Assessment, Jaclene Annaliese Sweetman
Exploring Factors Affecting Crime Rates in Japan (1955-2012), Dai Tanaka
Encourage, Engage, and Educate: A Thesis Portfolio on Teaching First-Year Composition, Kylee Mae Thacker
Fate, transport, and relative risk of atrazine and sulfentrazone to non-target species at an agricultural site, Jordan L. Thorngren
THE SOCIAL LIFE OF DUMPSTERS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE TRANSFORMATIVE AND COMMUNITIVE PROPERTIES OF DUMPSTER DIVING, Rachel Tidwell
ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR OF WHITE-TAILED DEER IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS: SURVIVAL, CONTACT RATES, AND IMPACT OF LOCALIZED REMOVAL, Marie Irene Tosa
Transition Fault-Driven Delay Defect Diagnosis in the Presence of Process Variations, Theodoros Toulas
INTERNET NEOLOGISMS IN THE GLOBAL WEB-BASED ENGLISH CORPUS, . Tugiyanto
HOME RULE, GENERATIONAL RIGHTS, AND THE AMERICAN AND IRISH CONNECTION, 1858-1893., JEREMIAH UNKEFER
Processing Speed in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and the Predictors of Processing Speed in a Sample of ADHD and Controls, Sarah Vadnais
THE EFFECTS OF INPUT MODALITY ON L2 WORD RECALL BY BLIND AND SIGHTED INDIVIDUALS, Laura Paola Valderrama Sepulveda
EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STIGMA AND HELP-SEEKING ATTITUDES AMONG STUDENT-ATHLETES, Lauren Vanhusen
Honeybee Collectives, Honna M. Veerkamp
CULTURE’S EFFECT ON FEMALE FERTILITY AND LABOR CHOICES IN THE UNITED STATES, Jeanette Fe Weber
Magnetic investigations in the J-M reef section of the Stillwater Complex, Montana, Joseph Daniel Wnukowski
Translating gender: Exploring the effect of communicative barriers on trans identity, Caitlin Wood
PROCESSING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NANO-SIZE TiC-Cu-Ni COMPOSITES, Ryan C. Wood
Investigating Entanglement Transformations in Three-qubit States, Jiayang Xiao
SUITABILITY EVALUATION OF EMERGING DRYING TECHNOLOGIES FOR FINE CLEAN COAL DRYING, Xinbo Yang
UNCOVERING POTENTIAL CAUSES OF RESISTANCE OF SOYBEAN TO SCN, Oleksandra Zatserklyana
The molecular mechanisms underlying ketamine's rapid antidepressant responses, Ke Zhang
Teaching Money Skills Using the PEAK Equivalence Module, Jennifer Zosel
Development of the Attitudes Toward Integrated Health Care Scale, Jessica Zvonkovic
Theses from 2014
In Memory of Grandmother, Tetsuya Aboshi
ANALYSIS AND MODELING OF NON-DARCIAN FLOW IN GROUNDWATER WITH MODFLOW CFP, Roshan Adhikari
Evaluation Of Water Treatment Residuals and Vetiver Grass for Treating Acid Mine Drainage, Matthew Adler
THE UTILITY OF SECOND LANGUAGE BLOGGING: STUDENT PERCEPTIONS FROM ENGLISH WRITING COURSES IN SAUDI ARABIA, Rashed Saad Alaboudi
ENHANCED FIRST-FIT DECREASING ALGORITHM FOR ENERGY-AWARE TASK SCHEDULING IN CLOUD, ABDULRAHMAN M. ALAHMADI
SAUDI ESL LEARNERS' USE OF VOWEL DURATION AS A CUE FOR THE VOICING OF THE FOLLOWING STOP, Ahmed Abdullah Alahmadi
THE ACQUISITION OF THE ENGLISH VELAR NASAL /ŋ/ BY SAUDI SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH: ARE THERE DEVELOPMENTAL TRENDS?, Saleha Hussain Al Ahmari
DEVELOPMENT OF CHEMICALLY MUTAGENIZED SOYBEAN POPULATIONS FOR IMPROVING SOYBEAN SEED OIL CONTENT AND FORWARD AND REVERSE GENETICS SCREENING, Alaa A. Alaswad
SAUDI L2 LEARNERS' KNOWLEDGE AND PERCEPTIONS OF ACADEMIC ENGLISH SLANG, Anood Sarai Albalawi
IMPROVING ONLINE COURSE SATISFACTION AND DELIVERY THROUGH QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT, JALAL G. ALBALAWI
EFFICIENT CAMERA SELECTION FOR MAXIMIZED TARGET COVERAGE IN UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC SENSOR NETWORKS, Abdullah Abdulrahman Albuali
Six Operatic Scenes from Bram Stoker's Dracula, Danielle Elyse Aldach
Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling Enhanced Task Scheduling Technologies Toward Greener Cloud Computing, Eiman Ali Aldhahri
THE STUDY OF FAIFI SPEAKERS' LINGUISTIC ACCOMMODATION, Mohammed Alfaifi
THE USAGE OF NEWLY BORROWED COLOR TERMS IN ARABIC; GENDER AND REGIONAL VARIATIONS, Fahad Alghamdi
THE PERCEPTION OF ENGLISH SYLLABLE-FINAL NASALS BY SAUDI ESL LEARNERS, Turki Nafea Alharbi
CODA CONSONANT CLUSTER PATTERNS IN THE ARABIC NAJDI DIALECT, Omar Ahmed Alkhonini
TRANSLATIONAL STUDIES OF TARGETING THE THROMBOXANE A2 RECEPTOR IN CANCER., Viola Allaj
New Deal Art Now: Reframing the Artifacts of Diversity, Jessica Allee
THE USE OF READING STRATEGIES IN ARABIC BY NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS, Fahad Alolayan
THE EFFECT OF JATROPHA TORRIFIED BIOMASS AND COAL PREPARATION ON STEAM CO-GASIFICATION IN A FIXED BED REACTOR, Mashal Mohammed Aloqaili
The Use of Lexical Borrowings Among Saudis, Amal Alzahrani
THE ACQUISITION OF TENSE/LAX DISTINCTION BY ARABIC SPEAKERS LEARNING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, Dhayfullah Saeed Alzahrani
FIRE AND FERTILIZATION EFFECTS ON THE GROWTH AND EXPANSION OF EXISTING NATIVE CANEBRAKES [ARUNDINARIA GIGANTEA (WALT) MUHL] IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, Margaret Marziye Anderson
Parapet Load Distribution to the Bearing Pads of Prestressed Concrete Girders in a Simple Span Bridge, Calvin Austiff
STRESS, HEALTH, AND SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION: A MIDDLE SICÁN CASE STUDY, Alyssa Christine Bader
STUDYING THE MAGNETIC SEPARATION OF OXYGEN CARRIER IN COAL DIRECT CHEMICAL LOOPING, Amin Bagheri
Tools Tested for Outdoor Recreation, Environmental Education and Stewardship: Allowing Children to Make the Rules, Laura Eaton Baird
INTERLANGUAGE IDIOMATICS:THE ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH IDIOMS BY SAUDI LEARNERS, Halah Banjar
The Effects of KNDy Neuron Peptides on Prolactin and Luteinizing Hormone in Pup-Deprived Lactating Rats, Amanda Leann Barnard
Bilingualism, Executive Function, and Attention Deficit/hyperactivity Disorder, Carina Ann Beck
Preserving Consumer Privacy on IEEE 802.11s-Based Smart Grid AMI Networks, Andrew Beussink
Protective effect of capsaicin against cisplatin ototoxicity, Puspanjali Bhatta
APOLOGY STRATEGIES: A COMPARISON OF SAUDI ENGLISH LEARNERS AND NATIVE SPEAKERS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH, Hajar Salman Binasfour
Ceramic Technology and Cultural Identity in the Fox Lake Sanctuary, Brevard County, Florida, David Birnbaum
Stimulus Equivalence and the Emergence of Topography Based Driving Behaviors on a Vehicle Simulator Task, Andrew Pierce Blowers
An Empirical Analysis of the Role of Geography in Sustainability Education, Makayla Jane Bonney
Double Down at Last Call, Joshua Bontrager
HABITAT OVERLAP AMOUNG MESOCARNIVORES AND WILD TURKEYS IN AN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE, Christopher Bottom
Pollution, Purification, and the Scapegoat: Religion and Violence in the Trial of Socrates, Philip Brewer
BUILDING A "DRUM SET": DESIGNING THE SCENERY FOR SAM SHEPARD'S FOOL FOR LOVE, Kieran Pearse Brown
A COMPARISON OF STIMULUS PAIRING OBSERVATIONAL PROCEDURES AND MATCHING TO SAMPLE PROCEDURES WITH KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS, Sara Jan Buitrago
SENSING THE PAST: ETHNOAESTHETICS AND MEMORY WITHIN OKLAHOMA CHOCTAW CULTURAL REVITALIZATION PROJECTS, Jennifer Lynn Burns
STRESS CORROSION CRACKING OF REBAR ROOF BOLTS IN U.S. UNDERGROUND COAL MINES - A PRELIMINARY STUDY, Gopi Bylapudi
NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION AS IT APPLIES TO CURVEFITTING, Bryan Callen
IS DISRUPTION TO PASSIVE GAS-EXCHANGE A MECHANISM OF DEHYDRATION FOR WNS-INFECTED HIBERNATING BATS?, Charleve Carey
Teaching Multiple Response Alternatives to Mitigate Resurgence, Travis Carrasquillo
FACTORS INFLUENCING SITE OCCUPANCY OF BREEDING BIRDS, HERPTILES, MESOCARNIVORES, AND SMALL MAMMALS ON SUBURBAN FOREST PRESERVES IN THE CHICAGO METROPOLITAN AREA, Kevin William Cassel
LINEARITY VERSUS COMPLETE POSITIVITY OF THE EVOLUTION OF OPEN QUANTUM SYSTEMS, Russell R. Ceballos