Theses from 2011
INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION AND MICROHABITAT SELECTION IN THE GOLDEN MOUSE (OCHROTOMYS NUTTALLI), Jay Bradley Hubert
Optimum® GAT® Concepts: Herbicide Combinations for Foliar and Residual Weed Control in Soybean and Corn, Nicholas Victor Hustedde
ROADSIDES AS CORRIDORS OF EXOTIC PLANT SPECIES INVASION IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, USA, Jason Ross Inczauskis
AN ASSESSMENT OF CWA SECTION 303(d) PRIORITIZATION OF IMPAIRED WATER BODIES IN ILLINOIS, Daniel Jablonski
Atomistic Modeling of AlN/GaN HEMTs for Applications in Harsh Environments, Dylan Boone John
DETERMINING THE FEASIBILITY OF USING TELEMETRY TO EVALUATE HABITAT USE OF AGE-0 SCAPHIRHYNCHUS STURGEONS IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, Jennifer Leigh Johnson
The Importance of Being Useless: Revolution and Judgment in 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', Marshall Lewis Johnson
FACIES ANALYSIS DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS AND SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY OF THE STE. GENEVIEVE LIMESTONEIN JOHNSON UNION AND WILLIAMSON COUNTIES SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, Dion Kenwyn Joseph
TESTING THE MATRIX LANGUAGE FRAME MODEL WITH EVIDENCE FROM FRENCH-LINGALA CODE-SWITCHING, Philothe Mwamba Kabasele
The role of coastal plant community response to climate change: implications for restoring ecosystem resiliency, Hannah June Kalk
AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRECIPITATION AND BANKFULL CHANNEL WIDTH, Dinesh Raj Kandel
MONITORING AND QUANTIFYING THE ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE DETECTION OF LAKE KOLLERU AND THE SURROUNDING MANDALS USING REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES, Sharon Kareddula
Dead Wolf City, Lane Talbot Kareska
Public Space Must be Defended: Hannah Arendt's Conception of Politics and The Public Space: Its Promises and Limits, Umit Kartal
Psychological Distress and Service Utilization Among Military Veteran College Students, Heather C. Kay
Lesbian Women's Perceptions about Counselors Portraying Various Heterosexual Identity Statuses, Kari Keller
Language Contact and Noun Borrowing in Algerian Arabic and Maltese: A comparative study, Souad Kheder
Effectiveness of the iPad in Enhancing the Mand Repertoire for Children with Autism, Melissa Lynne King
Anatonical Correlates of Executive Functioning in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Developmental Dyslexia, Jacqueline Marie Klaver
Medtner's Acht Stimmungsbilder, Op. 1: A Pedagogical Guide with Analysis, Min Yu Koh
A Preliminary Descriptive Assessment on Problem Behavior and Appropriate Behavior in a Preschool Classroom, Elizabeth Kooistra
Development of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Markers for Rapid, Inexpensive, and Standardized Identification of Pallid (Scaphirhynchus albus) and Shovelnose (S. platorynchus) Sturgeon Larvae, Matthew Stephen Krampe
A Study of the Herald-Phillipstown Fault in the Wabash Valley using Drillhole and 3-D Seismic Reflection Data, Samantha E. Kroenke
MODIFICATION IN PMMA BONE CEMENT BY ADDITION OF TiO2 NANOPARTICLES, Swanand Kulkarni
Maximizing the System Lifetime in Wireless Sensor Networks using Improved Routing Algorithm, Karthik Kuppaswamy
An Investigation of the Hippocampus as a Possible Neural Substrate of Short-term and Working Memory in ADHD and Dyslexia, Sylvia Elaine Lee
Arbor Dementia, Brenna Working Lemieux
Distance Estimation to a Transmitter with Stateful Preprocessing, Joseph Daniel Lenox
The effects of guided imagery on mood and anxiety: An examination of individual difference, Clare Marie Lewandowski
USING A GIS-BASED APPROACH AND WIND ROSE TO DETERMINE RUNWAY EFFECTIVENESS AND STUDY THE IMPACTS OF O'HARE CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Patrici A L Danyelle Lewis
Straight from the horse's mouth: Effects of video modeling and video feedback treatment packages in equine recreational activities, Katie Marie Licht
Is Motivation Necessary for Maintaining Dietary Health, Michael Burnett Lindbloom
Effect of Inorganic Carbon on the Microbial Community Structures of Nitrite-Oxidizing Bacteria, Yi Hsuan Lin
Gneiss dome development & transcurrent tectonics in the Archean: example of the Pukaskwa batholith and Hemlo shear zone, Superior Province, Canada, Nathaniel Thomas Liodas
EXAMINING PERIPHERAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE IN THE 3xTg MOUSE MODEL OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE, Lauren Nicole Macklin
MODELING AND SIMULATION OF THE MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF THE HUMAN RENAL SYSTEM, Haydar Mahmoud
G (alpha) 12 Is Required For Thromboxane A2 To Regulate Tumor Cell Motility, Babar Malik
Determining Optimal Locations for New Wind Energy Development in Iowa, David Mann
The Old, The New and The Animated Discourse, Estefania Martinez
Lie to Me: Malingered Depression on the MMPI-2, Daniel S. McBride
Assessing the Integration of Domestic Fair Trade into Consumer Food Cooperatives in the United States, Amber Mead
P-DELTA EFFECTS ON STEEL MOMENT FRAMES WITH WELDED FLANGE PLATE CONNECTIONS, David Meads
CORPORATE CONTROL: ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF CHANGING OWNERSHIP ON NEWSPAPER ENDORSEMENTS, Ruth Clarisse Moon
ASSESSING THE NECESSITY OF A WILDLIFE TOXICOLOGY CERTIFICATE: A SURVEY OF PROFESSIONAL PERCEPTIONS, Hailey Newman Moss
Energy Efficiency Improvements for a Large Tire Manufacturing Plant, Jeremy William Moyer
Perceptions and Attitude Toward the Potential use of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in Swaziland: A Case Study., Mandlakayise Patrick Mthethwa
Just Beyond Vision: Cameras, Systems, and Self, Patrick Mulcrone
Effects of Video Feedback on Prompting of Therapists in Home Based ABA programs, Katelyn Mullen
A PSEUDO DIAMETER BASED PRUNING APPROACH WITH A LIMITED AMOUNT OF PIGGYBACKED INFORMATION FOR BROADCASTING IN WIDE AREA NETWORKS, Naveen Chandra Myneni
AUTONOMY SUPPORT: MODERATING STEREOTYPE THREAT IN AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS, Dustin Ryan Nadler
What is the JET Program really doing?: A Classroom-based analysis of the roles of teachers in Hokkaido, Masanobu Nakatsugawa
THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT IN NANOFLUIDS -MATHEMATICAL MODEL, Anand Natchimuthu Chinnaraj
Everywhere You Look, Jeffrey Alan Nichols
Metadiscursive Construction of Japanese Women's Language: Images and Ideologies, Tomoe Nishio
An External Focus of Attention Enhances Isometric Wall Sit Endurance Time: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of the Attentional Focus Effect, Russell Patrick Nolan
Attitudes and Motivations Towards Learning Foreign Languages: A Survey of of U.S. University Students, Daniel J. Norris
Modeling Random Dopant Fluctuation Effects in Nanoscale Tri-gate FETs, Joshua Lee Ogden
The Origins of Parochial Informal Social Control: Examining the Different Effects Among Individual and Neighborhood Influences of Crime Control, Christina Marie Oldham
Gender, Identity and Tabletop Roleplay Games, Rhiannon Patricia ONeal
Evaluation of Blessed Thistle as an Ameliorator of Stress Response in Fescue-fed cows, Samuel Ryan Orrick
STUDY OF EXTENDED LIFE COOLANT WITH SUSPENDED CARBON NANOTUBES, Logan Matthew Overturf
Software Tools Design for Analysis of Kinematic and Force Measurements in Chick Embryo, Joanna Floria Pakiraih
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