Theses from 2014
THE EMOTIONAL WEIGHT OF POETIC SOUND: AN EXPLORATION OF PHONEMIC ICONICITY IN THE HAIKU OF BASHŌ, Rachel Marie Miller
COMPARISON OF STRENGTH, DUCTILITY AND STIFFNES OF REDUCED BEAM SECTION AND WELDED FLANGE PLATE CONNECTION, Muhammad Bilal Mirza
Comparison Of Promoters Controlling A Rewritable Digital Data Storage System in Live Cells, Lukman Momoh
NITROGEN CYCLING IN HEADWATER WATERSHEDS AND IN MANAGED STANDS OF AUTUMN-OLIVE (ELAEAGNUS UMBELLATA THUNB.) IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, Natalia Margoth Montano
The Presence of High, Marginal, Low and Very Low Food Security among Illinois University Students, Loran Mary Morris
DOES RACE MATTER?: EXAMINING DIFFERENCES IN INTRACULTURAL AND INTERCULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS, Megan Marie Morrison
Archiving Loss: The Man Who Burned Paper, Jaime Moss
Constructed Boundaries: Reading Architecture in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides, Sarah Munchow
NFκB REGULATION OF PLACENTA GROWTH FACTOR AND ITS PRIMARY TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR, GLIAL CELL MISSING 1, Timothy Murphy
WEAR MECHANISM OF INTERMETALLIC BONDED DIAMOND COMPOSITE FOR GRINDING WHEELS, Anuroop Naarumanchi
COMPARISON OF NICKEL AND IRON-BASED OXYGEN CARRIERS SUPPORTED ON ALUMINA IN SYNGAS-FUELED CHEMICAL LOOPING COMBUSTION, Farzin Najjarpour Jabbary
Relationship Between Cultural Values and the Perceived Effectiveness of Authentic Leadership, Joseph David Narusis
Ambulance Optimization Allocation, Faranak Nasiri
TEACHING WH-QUESTIONS TO CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER USING DERIVED RELATIONAL RESPONDING, Stephanie Negrelli
Second language reading strategies: Evidence from Vietnamese learners of English, Hanh Thi Bich Nguyen
The Urban Messenger: The Growth of the St. Louis Public Library, 1870-1930, Matthew Alexander Nichols
Evaluating the success of oak afforestation on former agricultural lands in southern Illinois, Joshua Bradley Nickelson
(Dis)connections, Alexa Nutile
Factors Determining Sugarcane Price at the Farm Level in Kenya, David Ochieng Nyaoke
The Oxide Incident, Nick Nylen
EFFECT OF OPTOGENETIC STIMULATION ON NEUROPLASTICITY OF THE EMBRYONIC CHICK MOTOR SYSTEM, Ernest Kwesi Ofori
THE REALIZATION OF FINAL STOPS IN INTERLANGUAGE: MORE EVIDENCE FOR UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR, Michael Lee Olsen
EVALUATING INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION PERFORMANCE BASED ON FOUR FACTORS: CULTURE, LANGUAGE, PEDAGOGY AND UNIVERSITY SUPPORT, Monawar Mohammad Omar
FALSE BELIEF REASONING AND THE ACQUISITION OF RELATIVIZATION AND SCRAMBLING IN RUSSIAN CHILDREN, Mari Ovsepyan
Life Cycle: A Musical Composition in Four Movements, Trefan Owen
Mujer, sexualidad, identidad y muerte en la poesía de Amanda Castro, Diana P. Pacheco Montoya
TEACHERS' ATTITUDE TOWARD BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT IN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS FOR STUDENTS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENT IN THAILAND, Manisara Palawat
JUDAS KISS: HOW NEVER RATTING ON YOUR FRIENDS & ALWAYS KEEPING YOUR MOUTH SHUT DOES NOT APPLY TO STREET SNITCHES, Joseph John Pashea, Jr.
Alteration, Mineralization, and Stable Isotope Geochemistry of the Wind Mountain and Willard-Colado Epithermal Deposits, Nevada: Implications for Amagmatic Hydrothermal Activity, Caldwell Robert Payne
The Impact of Language and Disability Type on Attitudes Toward Persons with Disabilities, Courtney Payne
Plant Responses to Increased Experimental Nitrogen Deposition in a Boreal Peatland, Meaghan Petix
CYCLIC LOAD RESISTANCE AND DYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF SELECTED SOIL FROM SOUTHERN ILLINOIS USING UNDISTURBED AND REMOLDED SAMPLES, Janak Pokharel
FISCHER- TROPSCH SYNTHESIS ON FUNCTIONALIZED CARBON NANOTUBES, Sewa Pokhrel
Design of a database to compare genomes, Naresh Pola
A SELF-ORGANIZING MAP APPROACH FOR HOSPITAL DATA ANALYSIS, Javid Pourkia
Effects of Good Food: Local Project on Acceptance and Consumption of USDA Specialty Crops in Pre-School through High School Children in Southern Illinois, Chelsea Marie Price
CONTEMPORARY QUAKER USE OF METAPHOR, Maurine Hebert Pyle
PHASE TRANSITIONS AND MAGNETOCALORIC EFFECT IN MnNiGe1−xAlx, Ni50Mn35(In1−xCrx)15 AND (Mn1−xCrx)NiGe1.05, Abdiel Quetz
Assessing the Validity of Engagement-Based and Selection-Based Preference Assessments in Elderly Individuals with Dementia, Amanda Jean Quick
EFFECTS OF ADDITION OF LARGE PERCENTAGES OF FLY ASH ON LIQUEFACTION BEHAVIOR OF SAND., Gaurav Regmi
EQUITABLE SHORTEST JOB FIRST: A PREEMPTIVE SCHEDULING ALGORITHM FOR SOFT REAL-TIME SYSTEMS, Mario Jean Rene
SOLVING LINEAR, NONHOMOGENEOUS DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS: A LOOK AT THE METHOD OF VARIATION OF PARAMETERS, David Jordan Rhoads
An Evaluation of Preference Assessment Outcomes on Employee Performance, Tiffany Ritz
THE IMPACT OF TASTE TEST INTERVENTIONS ON THE REDUCTION OF VEGETABLE PLATE WASTE IN A RURAL MIDDLE SCHOOL SETTING, Emily Romanowski
GEOMETRY OF LEGENDRE TRANSFORM AND APPLICATIONS, RUPASSARAGE UPUL HEMAKUMARA RUPASSARA
English Loanword phonology in Arabic, Mohammed Qasem Ruthan
Automated Ultrasonic Signal Classification of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic Laminates, Sameeuddin Sameeuddin
EFFECTS OF CHOICE AND NO CHOICE OF PREFERRED ENGAGMENT STIMULI TASKS ON THE OFF-TASK BEHAVIOR OF, Rebecca Gail Schlenker-Korb
The Blue Notebook, Staci Renee Schoenfeld
ON PERFORMANCE OF DYNAMIC NETWORK ORGANIZATIONS, Farhan Shahnewaz
DEVELOPMENT OF NEW HYPERVALENT IODINE MEDIATED REACTION METHODOLOGIES FOR CLEAVAGE OF ALKENES AND SYNTHESIS OF 1,2,4-OXADIAZOLES., Jhanvi Sharma
Evaluating the Efficacy of ACT-Based Exercises and Realistic Training to Improving Staff Performance During Crisis Intervention Encounters, Ashley Shayter
Home Video and Nostalgia in Transitional China, Jiaxi Shen
NATIVE SPEAKERS' REALIZATIONS OF WORD-INITIAL FRICATIVE + CONSONANT CLUSTERS IN ENGLISH NON-WORDS, Samantha Sheppard
Sensitivity of Hazus-MH Flood Loss Estimates to Selection of Building Parameters: Two Illinois Case Studies, Samir Shrestha
WAKE CHARACTERISTICS DOWNSTREAM OF A RIGID UNSUBMERGED CYLINDER IN A RECTANGULAR CHANNEL, Sanjeet -. Shrestha
Assessment of sudden permeability uptick with depletion in coalbed reservoir, Vivek Kumar Singh
Electronic Band Engineering in Epitaxial Graphene: First Principles Calculations, Henaka Rallage Hansika Iroshini Sirikumara
Evaluation of the Maintenance of Dense and Lean Schedules of Reinforcement on a Behavioral Skills Training Package to Teach Social Skills to Adults with Developmental Disabilities, Anna Rose Sjostrom
THE EFFECTS OF AUDITORY STIMULI ON THE RATING OF OUTCOMES OF A SLOT MACHINE, Jamie Melissa Smith
Impacts of Cover Crops on Carbon Dioxide and Nitrous Oxide Flux from a Row Crop Agricultural Field in Central Illinois, Joshua Dwayne Smith
Fischer - Tropsch Synthesis in Supercritical phase Carbon Dioxide: Recycle Rates, Madhav Soti
The Philosophical Significance of Slave Narratives, Darian Spearman
Wideband and Narrowband Spectrum Sensing Methods Using Software Defined Radios, Jason Karl Stegman
EMPIRE IN THE AMERICAN WEST: A NEW HISTORICIST INTERROGATION OF NARRATIVE IN OWEN WISTER'S THE VIRGINIAN, WILLA CATHER'S DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP, AND CORMAC MCCARTHY'S ALL THE PRETTY HORSES, Brian Patrick Steinbach
Repetitive Negative Thinking: An Examination of Worry, Rumination, and Attentional Bias, Kimberly Toby Stevens
Fate and transport of Cry1Ab from transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis corn in an agricultural field and aquatic microcosms, Katherine E. Strain
NORMALIZING ASSESSMENT TO FACILITATE PEAK - A VERBAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY, Judy L. Strong
Effect of Multi-support Excitation on the Seismic Behavior of Single-pylon Cable-stayed Bridges, Arjun Subedi
A Comparison of the Dr. Robert Zingg Archaeological Collection to Early 20th Century Tarahumara Material Culture, Kayla Sutherland
THE ROLE OF RNases AND TEMPERATURE IN CAPSULE PRODUCTION AND REGULATION IN Streptococcus pyogenes, Juan Pablo Svencionis
CONTINUOUS LOCATION FINDING AND COLLISION AVOIDANCE WITH OBJECT DETECTION USING IMAGE PROCESSING AN ASPECT OF ROBOTIC VISION, Md Shapon Shapon Talukder
Analytical Model Study of Flow Through Trapezoidal, Half-Trapezoidal and Rectangular Channels with Submerged and Un-submerged Rigid Cylinders, Swaraj Tamrakar
Implementation of a Task Analysis to Increase Reliability of the Visual Inspection of Functional Analysis Results, Ashley E. Tanner
Three Dimensional Modeling of mantle melt underneath Lau's Back-Arc spreading center and Tofua Volcanic Arc, Scott Tarlow
Response of Wild Turkeys to Grassland Fire Management in an Agricultural Landscape, Ryan G. Tebo
TELICITY AND THE DEVELOPMENTAL ACQUISITION OF THE ENGLISH PRESENT PERFECT BY L1 SPANISH SPEAKERS, VIRGINIA TERAN
Changes in and factors influencing experience use history over the past twenty-four years at the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Missouri, Erin M. Thomas
The Personification and Masculation of Samuel Henry Dalton, Michael Tow
Analytic Approach to J.S. Bach's Eighteen Little Preludes, Yi-Chuan Tsai
SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND FIELD EMISSION PROPERTIES OF ULTRA LONG ALIGNED MULTIWALL CARBON NANOTUBES GROWN USING CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION, Herbert Vinson
Theta Methods For Nonlinear Ordinary Differential Equations and Error Analysis, Matthew Thomas Walker
Sulfate Reducing Bioreactor Dependence on Organic Substrates for Long-Term Remediation of Acid Mine Drainage, Evan Robert Walters
Decomposing the Growth of US Wine Exports to China into Scale, Competitive, and Second-order Effects, Xiaorui Wang
ELECTROCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF EXFOLIATED GRAPHENE, KWM Milinda Prabath Wasala
Die Fledermaus: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Trim, Lillian Casey Watkins
An Ecient and Secure Transmission Method Using Data Partitioning for AMI in Smart Grids, Yijing Zhang Watkins
A NETWORK THEORY OF REVOLUTION AND INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT, Ari Benjamin Weiss
Rhox Mediated Actions in the Murine Testis, Joshua Paul Welborn
Felicity: Commentary and Expectations of Professors' Gender, Elizabeth Jane Whited
Testing the Validity of the PEAK Relational Training System in Assessing Language & Cognition After Brain Injury, Kristen Maryann Whiteford
African American Identity Construction on Facebook, Tommie Lee Williams
PLANT COMMUNITY RESPONSE TO REGIONAL SOURCES OF DOMINANT GRASSES IN GRASSLANDS RESTORED ACROSS A LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT, Laurel Wilson
LIQUID PHASE EXFOLIATION OF 2D LAYERED MATERIALS AND THEIR APPLICATION, Andrew Winchester
EVALUATING NORMALIZED SAMPLES OF PEAK TRAINING, Aleta Marcel Woods
Capsule Thermoregulation and Non-Coding RNA in Streptococcus pyogenes, Jordan Wright
NOVEL SILICA-POLYMER COMPOSITES AS POROUS SCAFFOLDS IN TISSUE ENGINEERING, Yawei Yuan