Theses from 2010
The New Madrid Sequence: Earthquake Poems, Aaron Wheetley
Characterization of Fluidized Bed Reactor, Eric White
The Problem of Naming, Amie Whittemore
Child Abuse, Substance Use and Dating Victimization in a Sample of Female Juvenile Delinquents, Chauntel Marie Wiggins
The Influence of Geography and Physical Ecology on Economic Development, Eric Wilke
A radical embodied model of language and mind in a swarm-based system: Coaxing deep structure out of shallow architecture, Lonnie Otto Wilkerson
Examining the Underutilization of Mental Health Services by Measuring Help-Seeking Attitudes Among University Students: Implications of Ethnicity, Gender, and Counseling Exposure, KELLY ALISHA WILLIAMS
DEFUSING CONSEQUENCES OF SIMULATED SLOT MACHINE PLAY, Alyssa N. Wilson
HOLDEN: REFLECTIONS ON CHILDHOOD AND CHILDREN’S MEDIA, Benjamin Wilson
A Metaphysical Exploration, Matthew L. Wolever
Peatland Communities and Environmental Parameters in an Undisturbed Boreal Poor Fen and a Comparison with Haul Road Disturbances, James Lindley Wood
From Seed to Fruit: A Posthuman Journey From Stage to Page, Nicole E. Wood
Mass Media and Political Participation: Does News Source Matter?, Maja Virginia Wright-Phillips
THE P-DELTA AND SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION EFFECT ON BRIDGE PIERS, Toun Loin Wu
ALLEVIATING GROUND RUNWAY INCURSIONS BY REDUCING CONGESTION AT AIRPORTS SERVED BY SCHEDULED AIRLINES, Ragini Reddy Yampalli
High Grade Magnetic Material Extraction from Coal Fly Ash, Fan Yang
UTILITY OF OTOLITH MICROCHEMISTRY AND STABLE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION FOR DETERMINING FISH ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY IN THE MISSISSIPPI AND ILLINOIS RIVERS, John Matthew Zeigler
Tandem Affinity Purification of Myogenin and Characterization of the Tcap Promoter, Shuang Zhang
Theses from 2009
Acculturation and Racial Identity Attitudes: An Investigation of First and Second Generation Ibos, Chinaka Agwu
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF HEAT EXCHANGER TEST STAND WITH INITIAL TEST RESULTS, Daniel David Albrecht
THE DIGITAL DIVIDE BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE FRESHMEN STUDENTS IN THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES IN KUWAIT, Mariam E. Alqattan
Is Mindfulness a Luxury? Examining the Role of Socioeconomic Status in the Relationship between Dispositional Mindfulness and Psychological Distress, Steven Matthew Andrews
An Exploratory Study of the Variation in Japan's Embezzlement Rates via Institutional Anomie Theory, Maira Fabio Aranha
Using Camera-Traps to Evaluate the Relative Abundance of Predators and Prey on the Western Slope of the Panama Canal, Jordan Rivers Ashmore
Estimating Relative Abundance of White-tailed and Red Brocket Deer on the Western Slope of the Panama Canal Based on Photo Analysis, Joshua Ross Ashmore
Set Screw Break-Off Study In Spinal Neurosurgery, Ganesh Gautham Aswapathi Ramesh
The Roles of Personality and Attachment in Relation to Academic Motivation, Alen Avdic
Regional Comparative Analysis of Per Capita Residential Water Use in Northeastern and East-Central Illinois, Kristen Ayala
Biotic and Abiotic Drivers of Soil Microbial Community Recovery and Ecosystem Change during Grassland Restoration, Elizabeth Marie Bach
TRACING THE "ENIGMATIC" LATE POSTCLASSIC NAHUA-PIPIL (A.D. 1200-1500): ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY OF GUATEMALAN SOUTH PACIFIC COAST, Carlos A. Batres
Hanging out with the cool frogs: Do operative and body temperatures explain population response to disease?, Sarah Nthabiseng Becker
Deaf Bilingual Education: A Return to Our ASL Roots, Kimberly E. Berger
AMELIORATING AERIAL NEAR MISSES WITH PCA DEVICES AND MOTL, Naren Bhosle
A Dendrochronological Assessment of Overcup Oak (Quercus lyrata) and Oak Response to Flooding in a Bottomland Hardwood Forest, Margaret B. Bialecki
A Multi-Agent Architecture for Information Leakage Detection in Distributed Systems, Stephen Bishop
TOXICITY OF SEDIMENTS CONTAINING COAL-TAR PAVEMENT SEALANTS TO NOTOPHTHALMUS VIRIDESCENS AND AMBYSTOMA MACULATUM, SURROGATE SPECIES FOR EURYCEA SOSORUM, Thomas Bommarito
Unmasking the Intersection of Sacred and Self: The Scenic Design for Death and the King's Horseman, Bobbie Jo Bonebrake
Perceptions of Writing Process: A Study of First-Year Composition Students, Karen Bernice Bontrager
AUSTRAL AUTUMN AND WINTER SEASONAL AFFECTS ON BENTHIC FORAMINIFERAL COMMUNITIES: BRANSFIELD AND NORTHERN GERLACHE STRAITS, Laura Anne Bordelon
Generating Sustainable Weight Loss: Investigating the Efficacy of a Behavioral Based Weight Loss Intervention, Michael James Bordieri
Reconfigurable Cache Memory, Jeffery Ramon Brewer
PREEMERGENCE AND POSTEMERGENCE HERBICIDE COMBINATIONS FOR WEED CONTROL IN NO-TILLAGE PUMPKIN PRODUCTION, Robert John Britenstine
AN EXAMINATION OF THE PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE ATTITUDES TOWARD BLACK MALES SCALE, Christian Hope Bryant
Associations of Tree Species and Environment along Hiking Trails within the Hemlock-Silverbell Forest Type in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Erin Kathleen Bugle
Comparison of Next Generation Attenuation (NGA) Models with Recorded Ground Motions, Zachary Thomas Bulva
EFFECTS OF FIBERGLASS ON RESIDUAL STRENGTH AND DAMAGE MITIGATION IN UNIDIRECTIONAL CARBON FIBER LAMINATE COMPOSITES, John Patrick Burgelin
A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF GIS ENTERPRISE MODEL FOR A MEDIUM-SIZED CITY; A CASE OF LIOUSVILLE, KENTUCKY, Tawane D. Burks
VOT OF EJECTIVES, IMPLOSIVES, AND PLAIN STOPS IN YUKATEKO, MOPAN, AND ITZAJ MAYA, Andrea Burnett-Deas
Variation in Benefit from Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Colonization within Cultivars and Non-cultivars of Andropogon gerardii and Sorgastrum nutans, Ryan E. Campbell
A PARALLEL APPROACH TOWARDS CORRELATION MEASUREMENT GENE PAIRS WITH TIME-LAGGING EXPRESSION BEHAVIORS, Xiaopeng Cao
THE EFFECT OF A COMMUNITY-BASED LIFESTYLE INTERVENTION ON THE CHANGES IN SNACKING HABITS FROM BASELINE TO THREE MONTHS AMONG ADOLESCENTS AT-RISK FOR TYPE 2 DIABETES, Kristin Michelle Caravelli
IMPACT OF ULTRAVIOLET ENERGY ON STRAWBERRY SHELF LIFE, Christopher E. Carpenter
Effects of Repeated Prescribed Fire and Thinning From Below on Understory Components of Southern Illinois Oak-Hickory Forests, Dennis Frank Carril
Prepared for School Violence: School Counselors' Preparedness for Responding to Acts of School Violence, Rebecca Anne Chambers
Assessing Lesbians' Beliefs About and Attitudes Toward Bisexual Women: Does Valuing Monogamy Relate?, Ryan Anne Cheperka
Differing Perceptions and Functioning Following Discharge from Post-Acute Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Nicholas Joseph Cioe
Measuring Trends In Riverbed Gradation: A Lower Mississippi River Case Study, Karen D. Clauson
Fire History and Current Stand Structure Analysis of a Midwestern Black Oak Sand Savanna, Cody Douglas Considine
Linguistic human rights and the education of language minority children: The case of the Japanese Brazilian returnees, Tamara M. Constant
Past, Present and Future Communication Technology and Its Effect on the Linguistic Minority Deaf People, Sheri Sophie Cook
Developmental Surveillance and Screening Practices of Pediatrician/Family Physicians in the nine southern counties of Illinois, Marissa Elizabeth Cooley
Consequences of Premature and Persistent Luteinizing Hormone Receptor Activation on Leydig Cell Development, Mary M. Coonce
LAND SNAIL ABUNDANCE AND DIVERSITY WITH ASSOCIATED ECOLOGICAL VARIABLES IN SIX SOUTHERN ILLINOIS COUNTIES, Marla Lee Coppolino
ASSESSING THE STABILITY AND LONG-TERM VIABILITY OF ABANDONED MINES FOR USE BY BATS, Jeffrey C. Corcoran
Synthesis of 64 bit Energy Efficient and Reconfigurable Adder, chandra babu Dara
Current and Projected Nest Site Availability for Cavity-nesting Waterfowl in the Upper Mississippi River and Great Lakes Region, John Curtis Denton
Evaluating Cache Vulnerability to Transient Errors for The Uni-processor and Multi-processor Systems, Anil Kumar Reddy Devadi
A Discourse Analysis of "Laïcité" and its Effects on the Integration of Muslim and Arab Minorities in France., Mary Therese Doran
Perceptions and attitudes of college science students regarding carrers in clinical laobratory science, Maureen L. Doran
A Study of the Effectiveness of the Triple Play Program, Michael Patrick Dorsey
The Role of Previous Experience with Piscovory and Exposure to Fish Predators on Survival of Walleye (Sander vitreus) fingerlings, Richard Franklin Echols
Soldier's Apology, Kerry James Evans
Hopeful Monsters: A Collection, Renee Lyn Evans
Analysis of Myogenin Function in Rhabdomyosarcoma Cells, Jamie Marie Feldmann
Feeding the Family in Rural Armenia: A Re-Examination of Gender, Cooking, and the Domestic in a Post-Socialist Society, Kaitlin Fertaly
A Component Analysis of Interteaching in an Undergraduate Rehabilitation Course, Stephen Filipiak
Evaluating Levee Failure Susceptibility on the Mississippi River Using Logistic Regression Analysis and GPS Surveying, Andrew Douglas Flor
Dental Microwear Evidence for Variation in Dietary Texture Among Humans at the Carrier Mills Archaeological District, Saline County, Illinois, Lauren Ann Forsythe
Effect of Organic Amendments on Phosphorus Fractionation in a Lead-Contaminated Urban Soil, Anthony Michael Fulford
When Your Wetsuit Fails (and other stories), Rachel Furey
STUDY OF PROPANE ADSORPTION ISOTHERM ON PURIFIED HIPCO SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES, Toyohisa Furuhashi
ENZOOTIC PATTERNS OF INFECTION BY BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS IN POND BREEDING ANURANS IN CENTRAL AMERICA, Sandra Patricia Galeano
Thermoregulation of Capsule Production of Streptococcus pyogenes Strain HSC5, Trilce Michelle Galeas
Cornel West: Historically Conscious, Socially Engaged, Moral Inquirer, Andrew James Gillespie
AN EVALUATION OF A GRADUATE RECREATION CURRICULUM, Ryan Patrick Gory
A NEW FAIR QUEUEING ALGORITHM FOR ROUTING IN STATIC NETWORKS, Haritha Guthikonda
A HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND REFLECTIONS OF ANCIENT GREEK, BYZANTINE, AND CYPRIOT FOLK MUSIC AND IDIOMS IN THE OPERAS OF MICHAEL HADJILOIZOU, Photos Hadjiloizou
ANGIOPOIETIN-2 OVEREXPRESSION PROMOTES HEMATOGENOUS METASTASIS IN BREAST CANCER, Kelly Hall
Is Ecological Restoration Successful? An Assessment of a Prairie Restoration in Northern Illinois, USA, Michael Hansen
Ginsenosides enhance the cytotoxicity of tumor necrosis factor-α in human MDA-MB 231 and MCF-7 breast cancer cells in a caspase-dependent manner, Alison Marie Hantak
3-D Face Recognition using the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), Neda Hantehzadeh
THE TREATMENT OF THE TRUMPET IN SELECTED JAZZ-INFLUENCED CLASSICAL CHAMBER WORKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, Kathleen Elizabeth Harrison
Canola Production as Influenced by Previous Crop and Tillage System, Craig Herzog
Ecology and Conservation of Declining Forb Populations in Lower Michigan, Cyrus Matthew Hester
THE RURAL TOWN SQUARE AND ITS NEW IDENTITY, Matthew Jacob Highlander
A PILOT STUDY OF KEY COMPONENTS OF A COMMUNITY-BASED,, Olivia Suzanne Hilliard
Diets of Spring-Migrating Waterfowl in the Upper Mississippi River and Great Lakes Region, Arthur Neil Hitchcock, Jr.