Theses from 2013
THE CRYOSPHERE AND NORTH ATLANTIC TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY: STATISTICAL FORECASTING AND PHYSICAL MECHANISMS, Johannes Mack
Ontogenetic diet shifts and prey selection among age-0 and age-1 paddlefish, Nicolle MacVey
VALIDATION OF THE TOUCHING CORN SEPARATION USING IMPROVED CONVEX SEGMENTATION, Ali Majeed Mahdi
STUDY OF ANTIBACTERIAL PROPERTY OF PLANT BASED PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS AND FOOD CONTACT MATERIALS COATED WITH FUNCTIONALIZED NANOPARTICLES, Sanjaysinh M. Makwana
BENTHIC FORAMINIFERAL ANALYSIS FROM BARILARI BAY, WESTERN ANTARCTIC PENINSULA MARGIN, ILONA ILMARA L. MATULAITIS
Wuthering Heights, Plato's Symposium, and the Unity of Being, Faith Lynn Matzker
REDUCING THE PEAK TO AVERAGE POWER RATIO OF MIMO-OFDM USING Particle SWARM OPTIMIZATION BASED PTS., Asim Mohamed Mazin
Perfection: United Goal or Divisive Myth? A look into the concept of posthumanism and its theoretical outcomes in science fiction, Rebecca Leah McCarthy
OXYGEN ISOTOPE ANALYSIS IN TREE-RINGS OF PTEROCAROUS ANGOLENSIS GROWING IN ZIMBABWE, Kerry McLeran
Deer Hunting in Baghdad, Andrew McSorley
The Effects of Auditory Tact Instructions and Auditory Imagining on the Emergence of Novel Intraverbals, James R. Mellor
Regional-climate and Local-microbial Controls on Ecosystem Processes During Grassland Restoration, Meredith Lynne Mendola
To Fling a Light into the Future: The Scholar as Hero in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, Anthony James Miller
Mechanical Properties of PLGA Polymer Composites Using Nonfunctionalized Carbon Nanotubes as Reinforcement, Matthew Ryan Miller
IGNEOUS INTRUSIONS AT HICKS DOME, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO FLUORINE-BASE METAL-RARE EARTH ELEMENT MINERALIZATION, Anthony J. Moorehead
The Influence of Culture and Cultural Background Knowledge on Saudi Students' English Language Learning, Abdullah Moraya
Habitat factors affecting occupancy and detection of mammals in the Paraguayan Chaco, Maria Nathalia Mujica Cameroni
Implementation of Standard and Modified Soy Oils as Substitutes for Fish Oil in Feeds for Nile Tilapia, Bonnie Lynn Mulligan
Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Cumulative Disturbance Impacts due to Military Training on Land Condition, Dana Murphy
Soil Stabilization with Fly Ash and Fibers, Tianhong Mu
Life Around the Event Horizon, Jeremy Nagamatsu
EFFECT OF ANCILLA LOSSES ON FAULT-TOLERANT QUANTUM ERROR CORRECTION IN THE [[7,1,3]] STEANE CODE, Sameer Obaid Nawaf
Analysis of Factors That Affect the Meat Quality of Invasive Asian Carps Harvested From the Illinois River For Export to China, Lucas Ray Nelson
EFFECT OF BEAM-COLUMN INTERACTION ON AXIAL COMPRESSIVE FORCE IN POST-TENSIONED CONTINUOUS CONCRETE BEAM, Kojo Amponsah Nkuako
IDENTIFYING ENVIRONMENT OF ORIGIN OF ILLINOIS RIVER ASIAN CARP VIA OTOLITH MICROCHEMISTRY AND STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSES, Jacob Dylan Norman
CONTROLS ON ORGANIC CARBON ACCUMULATION IN THE LATE DEVONIAN NEW ALBANY SHALE, WEST-CENTRAL KENTUCKY, ILLINOIS BASIN, Seare G. Ocubalidet
Contriving Establishing Operations to Train Mands among Older Adults with Dementia, Chelsey Rita Oleson
THE DEBATE OVER U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTION IN SYRIA: A POLICY ANALYSIS, Salah Razzaq Oudah
Fertility management For Tomato Production on an Extensive Green Roof, Nickolis Allen Ouellette
STUDYING THE FISCHER TROPSCH SYNTHESIS ON ALUMINA SUPPORT COBALT BASE CATALYST IN FIXED BED REACTOR, Adnan Khalil Oues
SHEAR FORCE DISTRIBUTION IN STEEL BRIDGE GIRDERS, Josiah Sam Owusu-Danquah
PREDICTION OF 28-DAY COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF CONCRETE USING RELEVANCE VECTOR MACHINES (RVM), Jones Owusu Twumasi
The Oaxaca Barrio in Teotihuacan: Mortuary Customs and Ethnicity in Mesoamerica's Greatest Metropolis, Maria Teresa Palomares Rodriguez
The sound of music: The influence of evoked emotion on recognition memory for musical excerpts across the lifespan, Sherrie L. Parks
Transforming Quotidian Landscapes: The Ecological and Vertical Dimensions of Daily Experience in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot, Peter Riley and Andrew Crozier, Jonathan Thomas Patterson
We Take Laughter Seriously, Daniel Paul
Innovative Approaches for Addressing Concentrated Flow in Agricultural Fields, Jessica Erin Pease
Shape and Surface Property Dependent Phytotoxicity of Silver and Gold Nanoparticles to Lactuca sativa (Lettuce), Haochun Pei
Teaching Appropriate Social Skills to Adults with Developmental Disabilities using Video Modeling, Stephanie Perkins
Lighting The Three Musketeers, Guy M. Perticone
HERMIT CRAB POPULATION STRUCTURE AND ASSOCIATION WITH GASTROPOD SHELLS IN THE NORTHERN BERING SEA, Jennifer Frances Peura
Vibrations in a Uniform Beam: A Physical Application of Differential Equations, Jamie Nicole Pfister
Evaluating the effects of essential oils and condensed tannin on fermentation and methane production under in vitro conditions, Brittany Pinski
Bounding the Worst-Case Response Times of Hard-Real-Time Tasks under the Priority Ceiling Protocol in Cache-Based Architectures, Kaushik Poluri
An Examination of Delay Discounting in Sex Offenders with Dual Diagnoses, Chad A. Poncinie
An assessment of officer safety: Does departmental authorization of tasers reduce officer assault rates?, Daniel Carson Presley
EFFECT OF SUBSTRATE COMPOSITION ON MICROBIAL DIVERSITY AND EFFICIENCY OF in situ PILOT-SCALE PASSIVE SULFATE-REDUCING BIOREACTORS TREATING ACID MINE DRAINAGE, Charles Wayne Pugh
RESTORATION OF RIPARIAN BUFFER FUNCTION IN RECLAIMED SURFACE MINE SOILS IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, Nathan Rahe
Numerical Solution of the coupled algebraic Riccati equations, Prasanthan Rajasingam
FAST ESTIMATION OF DENSE DISPARITY MAP USING PIVOT POINTS, JAYANTHAN RAVEENDIRAN
BINARY HYSTERETIC/PROTERETIC DELTA SIGMA MODULATOR, Vasudha Ravichandran
The Process of Creating a Collaborative, Reactionary, and Instinctual Lighting Design for RENT, Anthony Lawrence Reed
Specifying a Contingent Relationship Between Tip Size and Service Quality, Nicholas Reetz
ANALYSIS OF ANNUAL GROWTH PATTERNS OF MILLETTIA STUHLMANNII, IN MOZAMBIQUE, Ivan Abdul Dula Remane
NITROGEN FERTILITY MANAGEMENT IN NO-TILLAGE CUCUMBERS AND SQUASH, Heather Rich
A TAPHONOMIC STUDY EXPLORING THE DIFFERENCES IN DECOMPOSITION RATE AND MANNER BETWEEN FROZEN AND NEVER FROZEN DOMESTIC PIGS (Sus scrofa), Lindsey G. Roberts
Metapopulation viability of swamp rabbits (Sylvilagus aquaticus) in southern Illinois, Christopher Robinson
A Comparison of Preference Assessments and Rank Order, Elizabeth Marie Rossiaky
Preference of Reinforcement Rate and Sub-Optimal Decision Making, Kyle Evan Rowsey
Binary Gaseous Mixture and Single Component Adsorption of Methane and Argon on Exfoliated Graphite, Brice Adam Russell
Probabilistic Inference as a Mechanism for Action-Video-Game Induced Visuospatial Skill Improvement, Robert Bruce Russell
Evaluating the Impact of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Children with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Keely Deanna Sabaini
A SIMPLE FPGA - BASED ARCHITECTURE DESIGN OF RECONFIGURABLE NEURAL NETWORK, Jaber Salem
RELATIONSHIP OF CHILDHOOD ACTIVITY TO LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES AND RECREATION SPECIALIZATION AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS, Alexandra Sandoval
Explaining the rising female incarceration trends in Japan (1970-2011), Ayako Sasaki
The Modern Moral Individual In Hegel's Phenomenology Of Spirit, Rory Sazama
THE SYSTEMATICS OF MARSUPIAL PARASITES IN VIANNAIIDAE (NEMATODA): A NEW SPECIES AND A RECONSTRUCTION OF CHARACTERS USEFUL IN THEIR CLASSIFICATION, Raymond Philip Scheibel
Daddy's on Tour with Guns N' Roses, Max Schleicher
Facebook as Social Support for a One-Time Weight Loss Intervention Among College Students, Erica Seely
MULTI-SCALE MAPPING AND ACCURACY ASSESSMENT OF LEAF AREA INDEX FOR VEGETATION STUDY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, Kushendra Narayan Shah
EMBEDDED COOLING OF HIGH PERFORMANCE ICS USING NOVEL NANOSTRUCTURED THERMOELECTRICS, Afsana Sharmin
CHARACTERIZING THE ROLE OF THE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, αNAC, BTF3 AND SKNAC, IN MYOGENESIS, Jarod Ross Shelton
THE EFFECT OF CONDTIONAL DISCRIMINATION TRAINING ON CHOICE MAKING IN CHILDREN DURING `PRE-GAMBLING' ACTIVITIES, Leigha S. Shoup
An Investigation of the Beam-Column and the Finite-Element Formulations for Analyzing Geometrically Nonlinear Thermal Response of Plane Frames, Baikuntha Silwal
IN VIVO CHARACTERIZATION OF SYNGENEIC, ORTHOTOPIC MOUSE MODEL OF COX-2 POSITIVE RENAL CELL CANCER, Purba Singh
Classification of Teacher Questions in a General Music Classroom, Elizabeth Amy Sisler
108 Kōans, Derek Wesley Smith
Recolonization of the Midwestern United States by Large Carnivores: Habitat Suitability and Human Dimensions, Julia Blanche Smith
Invasion and Management of Achyranthes japonica in a southern Illinois Wetland, Katie Mae Smith
Investigation of a Theoretical Magnetic Refrigeration Cycle, Joshua D. Snead
Derangements, Elizabeth Anne Spector
RULE GOVERNED, CONTEXTUALLY CUED AND CONTINGENCY BASED ROULETTE PLAY, Ryan Speelman
Building Community Through Performance, Ritual and Play at the Texas Renaissance Festival, Cynthia Danielle Speer
Discourse of Defection: Political Representation of North Koreans, Bethany Ann Stallings
The Effect of Status Framing on Student Interest and Recall, Crystal Nicole Steltenpohl
DEFORMATION OF BEARING PADS WHILE UNDER SERVICE LOADS, Chris Allen Suits
HABITAT AND COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS OF WILDLIFE RESCUED DURING THE EXPANSION OF THE PANAMA CANAL, Jennifer Swan
An examination of Asian carp spawning in pool 26 of the Mississippi River, Brittany Christine Szynkowski
Inclusive Practices for the General Music Classroom, Megan Thompson
How We Bury Our Dead, Jonathan Travelstead
Shape-preferred orientation (SPO) of oceanic gabbros at ODP Hole 1256D: implications for magmatic processes, Jarek Trela
ANALYZING CHANGES IN THE BEEF CATTLE RANCHING COMMUNITIES OF ACATIC AND TEPATITLÁN DE MORELOS, JALISCO, MEXICO RELATED TO LAND COVER AND CLIMATE VARIABILITY, Melva B. Trevino-Pena
Scope Licensing in English Sentences Containing Universal Quantifiers and Negation by L1-Mandarin Chinese L2-English Adult Learners, Daniel Tucker
Exploring Identity: Rural to Urban Migration in Modernist American Fiction, Megan Vallowe
RESPONSE TO FLOOD HAZARDS: ASSESSING COMMUNITY FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE DECISION TO RELOCATE, Alex Jacob VanPelt
ENABLING END-TO-END SECURITY USING IPSEC IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS, Prabhakar Varadarajan
EFFECTIVENESS OF TEXT-MESSAGING IN SPANISH VOCABULARY TEACHING / LEARNING, Flavia Melisa Velasquez