Theses from 2024
Investigating Adaptors of the Chlamydial Clp Unfoldase ClpX and Initial Characterization of the Chlamydial Single-Stranded DNA Binding Protein, Andrea Maria Rieser
The Wallflower Prototype, Dajonea Anna Robinson
EFFECTS OF PHYSICAL EXERCISE ON THE ACCURACY OF PERFORMANCE DURING ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER, Marleina Lee Robson
STROMAL FACTORS IMPLICATED IN FIBROSIS SEEN IN OVARIAN CANCER, Titas Roy
INDUCTION OF PROTECTIVE IMMUNITY AGAINST THE RESPIRATORY CHLAMYDIA MURIDARUM CHALLENGE BY PER-ORAL IMMUNIZATION, Aurore Rysha
Integration of Blockchain technology in industrial applications, Sanjana Sakinala
SELENATE-MEDIATED IMPACTS ON MERCURY METHYLATION BY PSEUDODESULFOVIBRIO MERCURII WITH DISSOLVED AND NANOPARTICULATE MERCURIC NITRATE, Md Sayeduzzaman Sarker
DEVELOPING A FILTER-BASED SERS SUBSTRATE FOR GLUCOCORTICOID MEASUREMENT, Praveena Satkunam
THE MOST CHARMING MUSICAL EVER WRITTEN!: COSTUME DESIGNING SHE LOVES ME, Haley Marie Saylor
POST-TORNADO SALVAGE HARVEST INCREASES BIODIVERSITY AND SUPPORTS KEY WETLAND SPECIES IN A SOUTHERN ILLINOIS BOTTOMLAND HARDWOOD FOREST, Laura Schammel
THE ROLE OF METHYL JASMONATE IN MODULATING TRICHOME DENSITY, GROWTH, YIELD, AND CANNABINOID ACCUMULATION IN CANNABIS SATIVA L., Spencer Wayne Schuchman
Understanding Teacher Responses to School Bullying Incidents: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior, Maxwell Robert Seigel
The Role of Grammatical Gender and Religiosity in Shaping Implicit Gender Attitudes: An Investigation Into Dari and Pashto Languages, Muhammad Ali Shahidy
A LIGHTWEIGHT END-TO-END ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM FOR IOT DATA INTEGRATION: BLOCKCHAIN FRAMEWORK, Manikumar Siddireddy
TRAINEES’ CHARACTERISTICS AND THEIR IMPACT ON PERCEPTIONS OF MULTICULTURAL TRAINING EXPERIENCES, Frederick McCullough Siglar
Thermal Response of a Solar Photovoltaic Energy Storage System for Application in Buildings, Aayushma Singh
IN-SILICO ENGINEERING OF MHETASE-LIKE ENZYME, MLE046, Manuka Malshan Silva Sinharage
SECOND- AND THIRD-PARTY PUNISHMENT IN COMMON-POOL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, Jacquelyn Spence
IMPACTS OF INTENSIFYING A CORN-SOYBEAN ROTATION WITH WINTER WHEAT (TRITICUM AESTIVUM) ON NUTRIENT LEACHING, PLANT AVAILABLE NUTRIENTS, CROP YIELDS, AND NITROGEN DYNAMICS IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, Abigail Leigh Spiers
COVID-19 AND UNEMPLOYMENT DYNAMICS: A REGIONAL ANALYSIS IN THE UNITED STATES, Keesha Queenie St. John
Using Stimulus Equivalence Procedures to Increase Police Officers' Identification of Behavioral Functions, Caitlin Sturges
ANALYZING THE DIRECTIONAL ASYMMETRIC IMPACT OF NET MIGRATION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH: A STUDY OF 72 INCOME CLASSIFIED COUNTRIES, Tanzila Sultana
Of Light and Shadow, Leah M. Sutton
ANALYZING THE VARIABILITY OF CANNABINOID AND TERPENE CONTENT IN CHERRY WINE HEMP CULTIVARS, Aliza Tandukar
ASSESSING VULNERABILITY IN VARIATIONAL AUTOENCODER GANS: INSIGHTS FROM WHITE BOX AND BLACK BOX ATTACK SCENARIOS, Srivatsa Tangirala
Happiness and Marital Status: Do Happier Individuals Have a Higher Likelihood of Marriage?, Samiha Binte Tariq
Skin, Lyra Thomas
ON THE COMPUTABLE LIST CHROMATIC NUMBER AND COMPUTABLE COLORING NUMBER, Seth Campbell Thomason
ARCHITECTURE AND MAPPING CO-EXPLORATION AND OPTIMIZATION FOR DNN ACCELERATORS, Benjamin Nicholas Trewin
A NOVEL RECTIFIER DESIGN FOR PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTING USING CROSS-COUPLED TOPOLOGY, Md Azim Uddin
TOWARD IMPROVED BIOCOMPATIBILTY: SLIPS INTEGRATION IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF IMPLANTS, Zeba Urooj
PROCESS DEVELOPMENT, CHARACTERIZATION AND STORAGE STUDY OF MUNG PROTEIN BASED NON-DAIRY YOGURT, Digvijay Verma
Examining Nonattachment to Self, Self-as-Context, and Depression, Vanessa Wang
PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTIONS AND SPACE USE STRATEGIES FOR TWO MESOCARNIVORES, Abigail Weber
Half Past Primrose, Laura E. Wilson
Towards Communication-Efficient Federated Learning Through Particle Swarm Optimization and Knowledge Distillation, Saika Zaman
MAGICAL AND ORDINARY CHARACTERS IN SHURALE AND FIREBIRD, Aliya Zaripova
BLACK SWAN EFFECT AND MATTHEW EFFECTS: TURNING RANDOM FORTUNE INTO PERPETUAL ADVANTAGE THROUGH THE HOMOPHILY NETWORK, Weikang Zhang
Theses from 2023
STEEL ROOM THERAPY LTD., Ismail Abushamma
Drone Swarms in Adversarial Environment, Bhavana Sai Yadav Akula
APPEARANCES ARE DECEIVING: LONG-DISTANCE SUBJECT ANAPHORS AND PHASAL BINDING DOMAINS, Fahad A. Almalki
DEEP LEARNING FOR DETECTING AND CLASSIFYING THE GROWTH STAGES OF WEEDS ON FIELDS, Abeer Matar Almalky
An Investigation into the Breadth of Intrusive and Obsessive Thought, Myles Arendtson
Impacts of Cover Crops on Nutrient Loading in Headwater Streams Draining Southern Illinois Row Crop Fields: A Paired Watershed Approach, Steven Micheal Bachleda
A CURRENT TO DIGITAL CONVERTER FOR POWER SIGNATURE GENERATION APPLICATIONS, ARUNIMA AINDRILA BADHON
TTRPG Portfolio, David Ballard
Metal Halide Perovskite: X-ray Applications, Dalton James Banach
A CAPACITIVE-SENSING-BASED METHOD FOR MEASURING FLUID VELOCITY IN MICROCHANNELS, Mehrdad Bandegi
Cortical Thickness in Children with Reading Disorder and/or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Lauren Bandel
DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, AND FEEDBACK STABILIZATION OF A PERMANENT MAGNET LEVITATION SYSTEM, Dhiraj Basnet
PRECISION PLANTING OF COVER CROP MIXTURES INFLUENCE ON SOIL AND CORN PRODUCTION, Justin Michael Berberich
Inside the Exine and Perine: Understanding the Production and Evolution of Sporopollenin in Seed-Free Land Plants, William Barkley Browning
ASSESSING THE EFFICACY OF LEPIDOPTERANS AS POLLINATORS IN A MIDWESTERN POLLINATION NETWORK, Carmen Burkett
Deletion of Core Septin Gene aspB in Aspergillus fumigatus Results in Fungicidal Activity of Caspofungin, Rebecca Jean Busch
STARS BURNING NIGHT’S QUIET RHAPSODY, Jacob Randall Butlett
A NOT SO LITTLE THESIS: THE LIGHTING DESIGN PROCESS OF LITTLE WOMEN: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL, Jorrey Logan Calvo
SIMULATED DICAMBA DRIFT EFFECT ON PUMPKINS, Lindsey Cartwright
Early American Republicanism as Demonstrated by Early American Theater, Jennifer Eileen Caudell
VALIDATING INDUSTRIAL BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTIONS, Nishanth Reddy Chilumula
Synergies Between Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence, SaiNishanth Chittaluri
Self Portrait as a House Foreclosed: Poems, Jo Christian
AFRICAN CHILDREN’S AGENCY IN THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, H'Aeneise Coopwood
INVESTIGATION OF FLAVOR AND AROMA PREFERENCES OF COMMON PALATANTS IN MARES AND FOALS, Cierra Nicole Crowell
The Impact of Additive Manufacturing Constraints and Design Objectives on Structural Topology Optimization, Babin Dangal
AN ANALYSIS OF THE MOMENTS AND APPROXIMATION OF A STOCHASTIC HODGKIN-HUXLEY MODEL OF NEURON POTENTIAL, Daniel Davidson
The Effects of Video Modeling on Developing Oral Hygiene Skills in Children with a Genetic or Developmental Disorder, Olivia Grace Davis
Dynamic Classification Using the Adaptive Competitive Algorithm, maryam Deldadehasl
SOCIAL ISOLATION IN FISH: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT AND NUTRITION, Aubrey Dissinger
ALTERATION OF CYTOCHROME P450 GENE EXPRESSION AND MICROBIAL PROFILES IN PATIENTS WITH ENDOMETRIOSIS, Han Do
General Amplitude Modulation for Robust Trapped-Ion Entangling Gates, Luke A. Ellert-Beck
DOES PERFORMANCE DURING AN ACADEMIC DISCOUNTING TASK PREDICT BEHAVIORAL MEASURES OF PROCRASTINATION? A SYSTEMATIC REPLICATION OF OLSEN ET AL. (2018), Connor David Eyre
EFFECTS OF MATCHING IMAGES OF NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENTS ON DELAY DISCOUNTING: A SYSTEMATIC REPLICATION OF BERRY ET AL. (2014), Elizabeth Fillmore
Combination of calorie restriction mimetics improves health span in short-lived PEPCK bGH transgenic mice, Anil Gautam
HYDROLOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL ASSESSMENT OF DENITRIFICATION POTENTIAL IN THE MIDDLE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FLOODPLAIN WETLANDS, Ty Henry Alan Genz
QUANTIFYING THE GEOMORPHIC CHANGE AFTER LEN SMALL LEVEE BREACHES, DOGTOOTH BEND OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, Tara Lal Giri
Beyond The Page: Multimodal Lab-Based Research and Development in Creative Writing, Matthew Jacob Gordon
Evaluating and Classifying the Damage of Soybean Leaf using Deep Learning Technique, Sandeep Goshika
ADHD RELATED HYPERACTIVITY AND IMPULSIVITY: DISTINCT OR OVERLAPPING DIMENSIONS?, Nicole Greenwood
Journey of the Heart, Cameron James Gremillion
MULTI-COMPONENT DECONVOLUTION INTERFEROMETRY FOR DETECTING AND LOCALIZING DAMAGE: A NUMERICAL STUDY, Sujeet Gurung
Building a Tragedy: Technical Direction for Romeo and Juliet, Daniel Lee Hall
Palatability and Efficacy of Electrolyte Chews in Horses, Grace Handlos
An Analysis of Nonlocal Pottery from the East St. Louis Precinct Using Portable X-Ray Fluorescence, Sarah Harken
“Transgress[ing] society’s rules”: Identity coding within LGBTQ+ communities, Julie A. Hartung
An Intra-Textual Approach to Story and Discourse: Sisyphean Permutation in Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy, Caleb Hays
ROMEO AND JULIET: THE SUMMER OF TRAGEDY, Molly Christina Heal
ASSESSING INDICATORS OF FOREST RESTORATION SUCCESS ACROSS A CHRONOSEQUENCE OF AFFORESTED CROPLAND IN CYPRESS CREEK NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Maggie C. Herrmann
Spherical Shell for Low Altitude UAV Operations: an Impact Analysis, Eric Hettel
Species Level Diversity of the Freshwater Clitellate Stylaria, Austin Horenkamp
ACCELERATED CELLULAR TRACTION CALCULATION BY PREDICTIONS USING DEEP LEARNING, Md. Kamal Ibn Shafi
Role of Institutional Quality on Bilateral Exports, Sumaiya Binta Islam
BETWEEN CHALK AND GAVELS: GENERAL EDUCATORS’ KNOWLEDGE OF SPECIAL EDUCATION LAW, Eric Nicholas Jackson