Theses from 2014
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
IMPACT OF GOLD NANOPARTICLES WITH DIFFERENT COATINGS ON LETTUCE, YAHUI ZHENG
Distribution and genetic structure of Deladenus proximus, a nematode parasite of the woodwasp Sirex nigricornis in the eastern United States, Elliott Andrew Zieman
Theses from 2013
A Resolver-to-Digital Converter Design & Implementation Using A DSP, Nezar Yehya Abou Qamar
Comparative study of complete- mix and plug flow first-order kinetic models of constructed wetlands., Louis Akainya Ackah
TEACHING PERSPECTIVE TAKING USING IMAGINATIVE PLAY IN TYPICALLY DEVELOPING CHILDREN, Jenn Aguero
CHARACTERIZATION OF RECYCLED CONCRETE AGGREGATES (RCA) FROM AN OLD FOUNDATION STRUCTURE FOR ROAD PAVEMENT WORKS, Moses Akentuna
EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF A PCM SOLAR ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM, Oluwaseun Sunday Alajo
DIFFICULTIES IN PRONOUNCING AND PERCEIVING ENGLISH WORD-FINAL CONSONANT CLUSTERS AMONG SAUDI ESL LEARNERS, Obied Al-Aqlobi
TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS OF YOUTUBE AS A POTENTIAL LEARNING RESOURCE FOR ENGLISH EDUCATION IN LIBYA, Muhamed Ahmed Albaddi
ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH FLAP AMONG SAUDI SPEAKERS, SARAH ABDULLAH ALDOSSARI
The Acquisition of the Nongeneric Uses of the English Definite Article the by Arabic Speakers of English, Aied M. Alenizi
Financing Identity: The Ramapough's Ethnogenesis, Indian Gaming, and the Federal Acknowledgment Process, Paul Craig Alexander
CODE SWITCHING AMONG BILINGUAL SAUDIS ON FACEBOOK, SAEEDA HASSAN ALFAIFI
SAUDI ESL LEARNERS' AWARENESS OF VOICING EFFECT ON THE PRECEDING VOWEL DURATION IN CVC WORDS, Nief Aied Al-Gamdi
WORD-INITIAL CONSONANT CLUSTER PATTERNS IN THE ARABIC NAJDI DIALECT, BANDAR ABDULAZIZ ALGHMAIZ
SAUDI LEARNERS’ PRONUNCIATION DIFFICULTIES WITH THE ENGLISH VOICELESS BILABIAL STOP /p/, Khalaf Naif Alharbi
SYLLABIFICATION OF SINGLE INTERVOCALIC CONSONANTS IN THE ARABIC DIALECT OF SAKAKA CITY: EVIDENCE FROM A NONWORD GAME, Mamdouh Zaal M Alhuwaykim
HIGH LEVEL SYNTHSIS FOR A NETWORK ON CHIP TOPOLOGY, Baraa Saeed Ali
Experimental Verification and Comparison of Different Stabilizing Controllers for a Rotary Inverted Pendulum, Ammar Abdulhussein AL-Jodah
A Tale of Two Generations: Re-Establishing Young Adult Literature in the Contemporary Classroom, Erin Michelle Allen
John Dewey's Instrumentalism: A Cultural and Humanist View of Knowledge, Philip R. Allman
A DEEP LOOK INTO A ROMANTIC-ERA BURLESQUE: JOHN POOLE`S HAMLET TRAVESTIE (1810); A DISTORTING MIRROR REFLECTS A DEFORMED IMAGE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE`S HAMLET., AHMED AL-MUDHAFFER
TOWARD ENERGY-EFFICIENT SCHEDULING USING WEIGHTED ROUND-ROBIN AND VM REUSE, Abdulaziz Mohammed Alnowiser
PRONUNCIATION PROBLEMS IN THE PRODUCTION OF THE VOICED LABIODENTAL FRICATIVE /v/ BY SAUDI SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH, Abdullah Nijr Alotaibi
THE REALIZATION FOR THE ENGLISH VOICELESS POSTALVEOLAR AFFRICATE /tʃ/ IN NAJDI SAUDI ESL LEARNERS PRODUCTION, Abdullah Ahmed Alqarni
Object Detection and Tracking, Moatasem Yaseen Al-Ridha
A PRAGMATIC STUDY OF THE COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE AND GRICE'S MAXIMS IN LOIS LOWRY'S THE GIVER, Hayder Tuama Jasim Al-Saedi
Effect of Time Constraint on Second Language Reading Comprehension, Hammad Alshammari
Brief Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Are the Metaphors Necessary?, Kayla M. Alvis