Theses from 2011
Statistical Critical Path Identification and Classification, Georgios Panagiotakopoulos
IMPROVING BEHAVIOR OF COMPUTER GAME BOTS USING FICITITOUS PLAY, Ushma Kesha Patel
VEGETATION STRUCTURE, LIGHT AVAILABILITY, AND SEDIMENT DEPOSITION WITHIN SINKHOLE BUFFERS ASSOCIATED WITH TRACKED AND WHEELED VEHICLE TRAINING AT FORT KNOX, KENTUCKY, Klairoong Pattumma
PERCEPTIONS OF RISK BEHAVIORS FOR MIGRANT LATINO YOUTH WHO ATTEND THE ILLINOIS COUNCIL MIGRANT TECHNOLOGY LEARNING CENTER AFTER SCHOOL, Margalyn Payne
Spine of a Dog and Other Stories, Richard Pechous
EFFECTS OF NICOTINE ON IMPULSIVITY IN ADHD: VARIABILITY OF REACTION TIME AND ELETROCORTICAL BRAIN POTENTIALS, Matthew A. Picchietti
NANOPIPELINED THRESHOLD SYNTHESIS USING GATE REPLICATION, Luke Pierce
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STAGES OF CHANGE AND SNACKING HABITS OF MIDDLE INCOME CAUCASIAN ADOLESCENTS AT-RISK FOR TYPE 2 DIABETES, Sarah Pierce
The Role of the Forkhead Transcription Factor FOXM1 in Pituitary Gland Development, Adam Ploegman
AN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR DETECTING DEFECTS IN AIRCRAFT COMPOSITES BY USING AIR-COUPLED ULTRASONIC TESTING, Anish Poudel
Interaction of Postemergence Herbicides with Glyphosate in Soybeans, David Keith Powell
A PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATION OF GIBBS SAMPLING ALGORITHM FOR 2PNO IRT MODELS, Mona Rahimi
Theoretical and Experimental Studies on the Formation of Metal Borides, Lisa Rajan
Computation of the Rigidities of Shear Walls with Openings, Anila Rajbhandari
Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) Computational Analysis With Parallel Imaging Configurations To Improve Breast Cancer Detection, Cleveland Eugene Rayford II
AMELIORATING THE EFFECTS OF FESCUE TOXICOSIS IN HEIFERS WITH BLESSED THISTLE, Abby Razer
STUDIES OF THE POTENTIAL ROLES FOR CYCLOOXYGENASE-2 IN RENAL CELL CARCINOMA, Donald Reed
Lesbian academics: Negotiating career and family, Leah Reinert
The Interaction of Active or Passive Roof Bolts, Stress Conditions, and the Immediate Roof Strata in a Longwall Mine in the United States, Jonathan Richard Reisterer
The Shore of Erie: A Collection of Short Stories, Brooks Patrick Rexroat
Dolo: Journey of the Lost Tapes, Willie K. Roberts
A NEW IMAGE CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM BASED ON ADDITIVE GROVES, Pablo Dario Robles Granda
An Evaluation of NAPL Wettability in 2-D Visualization Experiments, Ricot SAINT AIME
Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Colorectal Cancer, Manjeera Saripalli
Quantifying and manipulating spatiotemporal trends in rodent space use and consumption rates on incidentally encountered prey, Tyler Evan Schartel
The Relation Between Parental Social Support, Career Exploration, and College Students' Major Satisfaction, Madalyn R. Schneider
In Service of the Body, Melissa Scholes Young
The competitive response of Panicum virgatum cultivars to non-native invasive species in southern Illinois, Lauren Michele Schwartz
A SOCIOPHONETIC ANALYSIS OF L2 SUBSTITUTION SOUNDS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH INTERDENTAL FRICATIVES, Andrew Douglas Seibert
The Effect of Thought Acceptance and Mindfulness on Enhancing Self-Control Behavior of Children with ADHD, Ashley Seibert
Re-Envisioning A Genre: Creating New Musical Theatre Methodologies With Crazy For You, Courtney Laine Self
Characterization of two distinct hfq genes in Burkholderia cenocepacia HI2424, Samantha Sue Sellers
P-DELTA EFFECTS ON STEEL MOMENT FRAMES WITH REDUCED BEAM SECTION CONNECTION, Anuj Man Shakya
Locus of Control as a Moderator Variable between Childhood Sexual Abuse and Anxiety, Tatyana Shchupak
EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT PRETREATMENT APPROACHES FOR DISRUPTING LIGNOCELLULOSIC STRUCTURES, Thara Gejjalagere Siddaramu
AN EVALUATION OF THE SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING SULFUR FRACTIONS IN COALS FROM THE ILLINOIS BASIN, Rajesh Singh
Synthesis and Characterization of ZnO and Bi2O3 Nanowires Grown by Magnetron Sputtering, Ben Sirota
It's the Economy Governor!: The Relationship between Economic Downturn and Gubernatorial Approval Ratings., Paul Skonberg
Optimized feature selection using NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT), Soroosh Sohangir
PERFORMANCE OF LINEAR DECISION COMBINER FOR PRIMARY USER DETECTION IN COGNITIVE RADIO, Munawwar Mahmud Sohul
Serious Play: Evaluating the Comedic, Political and Religious Relationships Between The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and South Park, Noah Jerome Springer
Effect of the Vertical Component of Acceleration on Base - Isolated Structures, Grzegorz Stelmaszek
Tribological investigation of nanocomposite thin films of transitional metal nitrides with silver inclusions, D'Arcy S. Stone
Intercellular lipids measurement and production with yeast Cryptococcus Curvatus from sweet sorghum bagasse, Tianyu Tang
COMPOSITION, STRUCTURE, AND DYNAMICS OF SIX FOREST COMMUNITY TYPES IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN, Keri J. Teal
Experimental validation for computationally predicted small RNAs of Streptococcus pyogenes, Rafael Angel Tesorero Melendez
IN VITRO STUDIES TO ELUCIDATE THE BIOCHEMICAL FUNCTIONS OF EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS TEGUMENT PROTEIN BKRF4, PRIYA PADMANABHAN THAIVALAPPIL
THE USE OF TAILINGS IN UNDERGROUND COAL MINES IN THE USA AS A SAFE, COST EFFECTIVE, AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND PRACTICE, Mark S. Theisinger
The Use of Plastic Media in a Movable Bed Model to Study Sedimentary Processes in Rivers, Jean-Rene Thelusmond
Secured Reverse Path Forwarding Based Multicasting in Wide Area Networks, Arun Nagaraj Thiyagarajan
Some Truth: A Collection of Short Fiction, Erin K. Thompson
BEARING CAPACITY OF SHALLOW FOUNDATION USING GEOGRID REINFORCED DOUBLE LAYERED SOIL, Dipak Tiwari
Virtual Civics - Digital Media in the Classroom, Shane Alexander Turnage
PSEUDO-DIAMETER BASED PRUNING - A QOS BASED BROADCASTING FOR WIDE AREA NETWORKS, Divyasree Videm
Cela y Pascual: vidas con puntos de encuentro, Irma Ines Villadiego
Efficacy of tembotrione on grass species as influenced by herbicides and adjuvants, Mark A. Waddington
Effects of repetitive, small magnitude earthquakes on groundwater chemistry in Faulkner County, Arkansas, Sarah Elizabeth Waggoner
INVESTIGATING CLIMATIC DRIVERS OF THE WARMING HOLE THROUGH EMPIRICAL DOWNSCALING OF EASTERN U.S. SUMMERTIME MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES, Audrey Wagner
PHYTOTOXICITY OF SILVER NANOPARTICLES TO ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA IN HYDROPONIC AND SOIL SYSTEMS, Qiang Wang
Central Illinois Powwow Community: A Unique Path of Creation, Cultivation, and Connection to American Indian Culture, Identities, and Community, Laura Michelle Warren
POLICE PROGRAMS, CANINES, AND CONTINGENCY THEORY: AN EXPLANATION OF CANINE NUMBERS AMONG LARGE POLICE DEPARTMENTS, David Wayne Welker
Effects of Mental Imagery on Gambling Behavior, Seth William Whiting
Enclosed Elk and Bison in Land Between The Lakes, Kentucky: Dietary Overlap, Clare C. Weickert Whittaker
Illinois School Foodservice Employees' and Purchasers' Perceived Benefits, Obstacles, and Attitudes to Purchasing Local Foods, Danielle Marie Wleklinski
PROVIDING MULTI-PERSPECTIVE COVERAGE IN WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA SENSOR NETWORKS, Enes Yildiz
Love and Failure in the Flyover States, Katie Zapoluch
INVESTIGATIONS OF BINDING TARGETS OF THE PRO-MUTAGEN 2-AMINOANTHRACENE IN FISCHER-344 RATS, Emilia Ohsone Zargham
Applications of a Robust Dispersion Estimator, Jianfeng Zhang
THE ROLE OF DISPOSITIONAL MINDFULNESS ON OCCUPATIONAL ENGAGEMENT AND EMOTIONAL CAREER INDECISION AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS, Qianhui Zhang
Theses from 2010
A Numerical Analysis of Mine Intersections and Support Systems for Stability, Behrooz Abbasi
PRICE LINKAGES BETWEEN UNITED STATES AND INDIA SOYBEAN MARKETS, Venkata Lakshmi Abburi
Analysis of an Existing Coal Fired Power Generation Facility with Recommendations for Efficiency and Production Improvement, Scott Alan Achelpohl
Working Week, Steven Everett Ackerman
DOES HUMAN CAPITAL MATTER FOR FDI'S EFFECT ON POVERTY IN LDCs?, Ahmad Walid Afzali
PORTABLE MEDICAL INSTRUMENT FOR OBJECTIVELY DIAGNOSING HUMAN TINNITUS, Mohamed E. Ahmed
Validated Monte Carlo Based Analysis on Circuit Netlist and Zero Suppressed Binary Decision Diagrams, Phaninder Alladi
Managing the Magic: Technical Direction of The Secret Garden, Bryce Dale Allen
Ritual Use of Animals at Formative Period Tayata: A Comparative Perspective, Ayla Martine Amadio
SORPTION OF CHLORINATED COMPOUNDS ON CARBON NANO TUBES AND NANO TEXTURED SAND, Deepti Anand
A New Mobile Network Simulation And Analysis System And The Use Of Network Visualizations Through An End-User Graphics Package, Arnond Anantachai
`PASS ROUND THE CONSOLATION. ELIXER OF LIFE': READING TRAUMA IN JOYCE THROUGH THE AMELIORATIVE BINARY OF ALCOHOL AND THE CHURCH, Brian Baillie
OPTIMIZATION OF TRANSIENT THERMOGRAPHY INSPECTION OF CARBON FIBER REINFORED PLASTICS, Bradley Glenn Bainbridge
IMPULSE RESPONSE CHARACTERIZATION OF BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS RECONSTRUCTION WITH PARALLEL IMAGING CONFIGURATIONS, Apuroop Balla
Design of Dean flow Ultraviolet (UV) reactors and testing their efficacy for inactivation of Escherichia coli W 1485 and Bacillus cereus spores in milk, Srinivasarao Bandla
An Evaluation of Behavioral Skills Training on the Implementation and Use of The Picture Exchange Communication System, Clarissa Sue Barnes
Adult Education: Motivation and Recruitment of Working Adults in the Pursuit of Higher Education, Deborah R. Barnett
CABERGOLINE EFFECTS ON MARE ESTROUS BEHAVIOR, CYCLICITY, AND ENDOCRINE PROFILES, Casie Shantel Bass
The correlation between thermal conductivity and wear rate of composite friction materials, Leonardo Batista Ito
A multi-scale assessment of the impacts of vegetated buffer strips on surface water quality in southern Illinois, William Joseph Beck
A Womb of Their Own: Reflections of Chance and Contraception in McTeague and Sister Carrie, Constance Suzanne Beitzel
Suburban Heights, Justin Richard Benton
FORAMINIFERA AND ASSOCIATED ENVIRONMENTS OF BAHÍA INGLESA, NORTH-CENTRAL CHILE (27°S), Rachel Lynn Berger
Continuity in Technological Change: A Political Economic Analysis of Digital Film Exhibition, Benjamin J. Birkinbine
CLICKS IN XHOSA AND NAMA: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS, Susanne Bohm
Relative species abundance and microhabitat preferences of larval Scaphirhynchus sturgeon in the middle Mississippi River, Ryan Michael Boley
Design, Construction and Evaluation of Universal Friction Tester, Jacob Dee Boone
Measuring Community Capacity Across Urban and Rural Landscapes in Southwestern Illinois, Elliot Easton Brinkman