Theses from 2023
Characterization of a thermostable sorbitol dehydrogenase from a novel subsurface bacterium, Caldiatribacterium inferamans SIUC1: Insights into structure and function, Sandhya Kumudumali Jayasekara
AN ASSESSMENT OF SURFACE MINE RECLAMATION AND THE MARKET POTENTIAL FOR FUTURE COAL MINING AND AGRICULTURE: A CASE STUDY IN ILLINOIS, USA, Kemar Shaquille Jones
Understanding the interactions of MHETase and its variants on MHET and BHET substrates by Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Hriday Dhar Joni
The Sanctities of Light, Mandi Jourdan
USING MULTISPECTRAL DRONE IMAGING AND MACHINE LEARNING TO MONITOR SOYBEAN CYST NEMATODES, Joseph Moses Kalinzi
STABILIZATION OF BENTONITE CLAY USING RECYCLED GLASS POWDER AND POLYPROPYLENE FIBER, Bibek Karki
Comparative Analysis of Mouse-clicking and Eye-tracking Dataset using Saliency Modeling on Fashion Advertisement Images, Gokarna Karki
A SOCIO-HYDROLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF ILLINOIS LEVEE SYSTEMS, Nicholas Keller
MANAGING WINTER RYE FOR IMPROVING CORN PRODUCTION, NITROGEN USE, AND FARM PROFIT, Christian Kessler
FALSE DATA INJECTION ATTACK DETECTION AND EARLY INTERVENTION IN A POWER SYSTEM USING KULLBACK-LEIBLER DIVERGENCE AND MAXIMUM DIFFERENCE, Prayush Khadka
COMPARING STAND COMPOSITION AND FLORISTIC QUALITY OF TWO ADJACENT UPLAND OAK-HICKORY WOODLANDS IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS: OLD-GROWTH AND SECOND-GROWTH DYNAMICS, Leah Rose Kleiman
MULTI-SPECIES TROPHIC RESPONSE IN TRIBUTARIES OF THE OHIO RIVER ALONG A GRADIENT OF AN INVASIVE PLANKTIVORE, Justin Kowalski
Impacts of Water and Sediment Control Basins (WASCoBs) on Water Quality Near Atterberry, Illinois, Sara Lambert
UNDERSTANDING SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS OF HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS: A CITIZEN SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE, Ryan Lefaivre
Evaluating the Impact of Registry Status on Employment and Housing Outcomes, Lauryn T. Lockett
some boys name themselves, Elijah Conlin Lockhart
The Forest at Evening, Jackson Love
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND AGE DEMOGRAPHICS IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, Birgir Bjorn Magnusson
A Comparison of Prompting Strategies to Facilitate Receptive Identification in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Ashley Mandel
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENTAL NEGATIVE TALK, CHILD AGGRESSION, AND CHILD ASSERTIVENESS, Tori McNary
Differential Movement Response of Silver Carp to Individual and Environmental Conditions in the Illinois and Wabash Rivers, Taylor Mogavero
A LOVE LETTER TO PAST, PRESENT, & FUTURE FRIENDS: THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS OF MURPHY’S LAW OF PRETENDERS, Rosemary Pearl Moore
THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC FREEDOM, POLITICAL FREEDOM, AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN LOW-INCOME AND UPPER-INCOME AFRICAN COUNTRIES, Nafissatou Moussa Adamou
AN AIR TRAVEL JOURNEY, Halimah Muhammad
A Qualitative Examination of Rural Residents’ Perception Formation Regarding Gun Control and Persons with a Mental Illness and Gun Violence, Ryan Cummings Nation
LEVERAGING SDN AND NFV FOR DNS AMPLIFICATION OR REFLECTION ATTACK DETECTION AND MITIGATION, Mohammad Mashud Nesary
STUDY OF PHASE TRANSITION AND MAGNNETOCALORIC EFFECT FOR THE SYSTEM Ni-Mn-In-Bi, Abhiyan Oli
INVESTIGATION OF Ir(100) STRUCTURAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES TOWARDS C-H BOND ACTIVATION IN STEAM ETHANE REFORMING, Rotimi Mark Ore
EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT RATES OF REINFORCEMENT OF MATCHING-TO-SAMPLE RESPONSES ON IMPULSIVE CHOICE: A SYSTEMATIC REPLICATION OF HURTADO-PARRADO ET AL. (2023), Laurent Giovanna Orozco-Barrios
BONES, BUGS, & BIOEROSION: DERMESTID BEETLE SUBSTRATE PREFERENCE AND THEIR TAPHONOMIC EFFECT ON BONE, Abraham Bootes Packard
Determining Upstream Movement and Dam Passage of Black Carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus) Within the Mississippi River Basin Using Otolith Microchemistry, Patrick William Padilla
Data-driven-modeling-based sensor placement for the detection and identification of failures in cyber physical water distribution networks., Utsav Parajuli
Bleed American, Bryce Patterson
Agency and Matrilineal Ties; Queen Victoria and Her Daughters, Lydia Catherine Pensel
The LEED Platinum urban mixed-use special needs housing community, Michael James Piskule
FINE-SCALE MOVEMENT AND SPACE USE OF BEAVERS IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, John Brooks Pitman III
ASSESSING PROCEDURAL FIDELITY ERRORS ON CAREGIVERS’ IMPLEMENTATION OF A SYNTHESIZED FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS, Yeni Ramos
ARE REMITTANCES INFLATIONARY? EVIDENCE FROM EMERGING NATIONS IN SOUTH ASIA, Sunder Regmi
Edge Preserving Transformations of Graceful Labelings, Nathan Risher
POTENTIAL FOR BIOACCUMULATION AND BIOTRANSFORMATION OF BIFENTHRIN AND 4, 4’-DDT THROUGH SEDIMENT EXPOSURE TO CHIRONOMUS DILUTUS, Eleni K. Robinson
The Evaluation of Mand Preferences in Young Learners with Autism, Cassandra R. Rojas
Generation: Poems, Annalee Roustio
ECOLOGICAL BOUNDING OF WETLAND DENITRIFICATION IN A MISSISSIPPI RIVER FLOODPLAIN, Stony Scott Samberg
Investigating β-Ga2O3 Based MOSFETs and Their Electrical Breakdown, Maziar Sayeh
TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CHANGES IN HABITAT QUALITY FOR SILVER CARP (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) AND NATIVE PLANKTIVOROUS FISHES, George Quinten Schaffer
Fielding the Rite: The Use of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in Drum Corps from 2000-2022, Brandon Schultz
I Am Not Frightened - Work for Wind Ensemble, Brandon Schultz
The comparative 24 hour, behavioral time budgets of domestic horses managed under different levels of confinement, Mark Wilson Schwarm
The Connection between the Gut Microbiome and Diet in Wood Frog Development & Growth, Ayana Scott-Elliston
MERCURY ADSORPTION ON BIOSORBENTS AND AN ANALYTICAL METHOD TO DETERMINE IONIC MERCURY USING SP-ICPMS, Nur Shadia
Little Women...Have Big Feelings, Danielle Nicole Silfies
THE DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT ON THE PARASITES OF LARGEMOUTH BASS, Adrienne Stanley
Comparing Various Staff Training Modalities Within Applied Behavior Analysis, Jason Joseph Starr
Magneto-optical Kerr effect in the Heusler-like compound Fe2MnSn, Kenneth Christopher Stiwinter
An Intensive Survey of the Pollinators of the Genus Triodanis and the Efficacy of Pollination Biology for Citizen Scientists, Kate Tillotson
IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY AND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (R&D) ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES, Agossou Justin TOVILODE
EFFECTS OF WHITE-TAILED DEER DENSITY ON PHYSICAL CONDITION AND FOREST VEGETATION IN CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Jacob Trowbridge
Eigenvector Expansion Using Kriging Interpolation: An Application To A Plane Truss, Kevin Ratna Tuladhar
STUDY OF ADVANCED FRICTION MATERIAL FOR THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY, Manisha Upreti
Royal Blood, John-Michael Roderick Veach
EXPLAINING YOUTH GUN VIOLENCE WITH THEORY INTERGRATION, Kamryn Kamryn Wade
AN INTEGRATIVE INVESTIGATION OF NORTH AMERICAN GYRINICOLA (NEMATODA: OXYUROIDEA), Matthew Walker
COMPARING COGNITIVE COPING COMPONENTS: AN INVESTIGATION OF TREATMENT OUTCOMES AND PROCESSES, Andy Wall
TRANSDUCING MURINE EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS TO MESODERM LINEAGE, Alexis Ronna West
NON-NUTRITIVE SERIAL VARNISH, Thomas O'Brien Willhoit
NOVEL COVER CROP MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FOR IMPROVING FARM PROFIT AND SUSTAINABILITY IN AGROECOSYSTEMS, Garrett W. Williams
A MICROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS TO ASSESS CONTRIBUTIONS OF STOCKED AND WILD CHANNEL CATFISH (ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS) TO STATE-OWNED LAKES IN ARKANSAS, Morgan Reeves Winstead
Modeling of Temperature and Wear for Scaled-Down Friction Testing of Automotive Brake Materials, Vinaya babu Yerneni
The School String Program in the United States: Inception and Current Status, Myoung Ah You
A DAUGHTER’S TESTIMONY, Michaela Lynn Zelie
Theses from 2022
EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF A TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE SYSTEM WITH BEHAVIOR ANALYSTS, Carlotta Gabrielle Abogado
Multi-dimensional resilience of water distribution system for water quality sensor placement, Albira Acharya
ANALYSIS OF ARIAS INTENSITY OF EARTHQUAKE DATA USING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE, Nation Adhikari
EFFECTS OF FIRE ON VEGETATION OF THE BLACK OAK SAND SAVANNAS OF KANKAKEE SANDS FROM 2002-2020, Megan Alkazoff
I HAVE A FEVER FOR MORE PEACOCKS: TECHNICAL DIRECTION FOR HAY FEVER, Zachary Robert Alley
CO-TRANSPORT AND INTERACTION OF MICROPLASTICS AND HEAVY METAL IN AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT, ANIKA AZME
AN INVESTIGATION OF FORCE POTENTIAL AGAINST THE CANINE NECK ASSOCIATED WITH COLLAR USE, Joshua Bailey
DIAGENETIC FLUIDS AND CONCRETION MINERALOGY IN JURASSIC NAVAJO SANDSTONE, Desiree Nakia Baker
Test Set Compaction Considering Test Application Time in Full Scan Circuits, Sapan Basaula
BLOCK CHAIN IN SMART GRID, vivek bellamkonda
The Magnetic Conductions, Andrew Kenneth Xavier Beyke
GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION AND MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS OF SEXUAL AND PARTHENOGENETIC POPULATIONS OF CAMPELOMA DECISUM (GASTROPODA, VIVIPARIDAE), A NORTH AMERICAN FRESHWATER SNAIL, Aaron Mikkael Bower
Radicals Online: Ted Kaczynski and the Anti-Tech Collective, Mitchell J. Brown
PROXY 6, Patience Aubrianna Burton
AUTONOMOUS UAV HEALTH MONITORING AND FAILURE DETECTION BASED ON VIBRATION SIGNALS, James Cabahug
The Relationship Between Cerebellar Vermal Volume, Phonological Processing, and Working Memory, Emily Caminiti
Three Walled World, Ellery Capshaw
Finite Element Analysis of Rail Base Defect Detection by Line Scan Thermography, Guilherme Caselato Gandia
INTERSECTIONALITY AND PRIVILEGE IN RELATION TO CLINICALLY RELEVANT OUTCOMES, Cerella Chandra
Analyzing the Digital Distress in Illinois Region, Saiprasanna Cheedepudi
THE MAIN FACTORS OF EMPLOYMENT IN DIFFERENCE INDUSTRIES IN CHINA., Lange Chen
Using email reminders to increase virtual attendance for middle school students, Lauren Cline
A Comparison of Feedback Sequencing for Increasing Skills with Implementing Behavior Intervention Plans, Danielle Nicole Crespo
'Even' in Comparative Structures, Melissa Cronin
COLLABORATIVE EXECUTION OF NEURAL NETWORKS ON MODERN EMBEDDED SYSTEMS, Shraddha Dahal