Theses from 2024
TRANSFORMING WASTES AND INDUSTRIAL BYPRODUCTS INTO SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS FOR PAVEMENT SUBGRADE LAYERS, Joshua Ayobami Fayemi
PREDICTING YOLO MISDETECTION USING FEATURE MAP ACTIVATIONS, Md. Rezoan Ferdous
REGULATION OF SLO-2 BY THOC-7 THROUGH AN RNA EDITING PATHWAY, Sakia Ferdousy
Unveiling the "Teacher Look": An Analysis of White Spatiality and Disciplinary Exile in the American Classroom, Caroline G. Folds
CYBERBULLYING PERPETRATION IN A BLACK METROPOLITAN SAMPLE OF ADOLESCENTS: THE ROLE OF RISK AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS, Catherine Sofia Forster
Left on Read: Staging the Private Performance of Online Dating to Investigate CMC's Impact on Face-to-Face Communication, Zoë Delia Freedkin
NOVEL SYNTHETIC AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES FOR CREATING 13C- AND 15N- HYPERPOLARIZED MOLECULES VIA SABRE-SHEATH, Thomas Robert Gebhardt
IMPACT OF DATA RELIABILITY ON RESILIENCE-BASED DECISION MAKING IN A WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, Amrit Babu Ghimire
AI-AIDED JOINT VISIBILITY REGION DETECTION AND CHANNEL ESTIMATION FOR EXTREMELY LARGE APERTURE ARRAYS, Muhammad Zia Hameed
Assessing Changes in Permethrin Toxicity to Juvenile Inland Silversides (Menidia beryllina) Under Different Temperature Scenarios, McKenna Haney
SEEING WITH NEW EYES: A COSTUME DESIGN THESIS ON WEDDING BAND: A LOVE/HATE STORY IN BLACK AND WHITE, Jennifer Nielson Helms
Assessing streambank and in-stream erosion as a source of sediment and phosphorus in two Illinois agricultural watersheds, Justin Kazuki Higa
ECOLOGICAL DRIVERS OF SIZE AND PREDICTORS OF POTENTIAL COMPETITION IN SORICIDAE, Wesley B. Holland
COMPARISON OF PARENT CONDUCTED TRIAL-BASED FUNCTIONAL ANALYSES IN NATURAL AND CONTRIVED SETTINGS, Michael Edward Horton
Fabrication and Performance Evaluation of Additively Manufactured TPMS Sandwich Structures, Md Mosharrof Hossain
Oxidative Stress Studies of Methanosarcina acetivorans, Muhammad Iftikhar
DC AND AC CONDUCTIVITIES OF BIOCHAR-POLYMER COMPOSITES, Muhammad Abdullah Iqbal
Does Ageism Exist in the Western World of Employment? Does our Growing and Aging Populations Impact the Future of the Job Market?, Erron Quian Jessup-Johnson
Iot Reliance on cloud computing and fog computing, Venkata Sai Swaroop Kakuru
ENHANCING DELIVERY LOGISTICS USING BLOCKCHAIN AND MACHINE LEARNING / SMART DELIVERY QUEST, LaxmaReddy Kandula
Thesis Film, Nick Karpinski
UNDERSTANDING THE P53-MDM2 BINDING/UNBINDING MECHANISM AND POTENTIAL MUTATION HOTSPOTS IDENTIFICATION THROUGH IN-SILICO STUDIES, Dhulakshi Dhammika Kumari Karuna Hewage
EFFICACY OF SPARSE REGRESSION FOR LINEAR STRUCTURAL SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION, Sadiksha Katwal
FORMULATION OF ADVANCED FRICTION MATERIALS FOR THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY, Bipin K C
Oh, But If I Had the Stars from the Darkest Night…, Kendra Jean Keefer
THE EFFECT OF CONFLICT ON INCOME, Abdul M. Khan
FROM PROPOSAL TO PRODUCTION: The Development Process for the Play, "Philoten; and Her Pattern of Painful Adventures", Emily Klingensmith
DEVELOPMENT OF A RESPONSE SPECTRUM MODEL FOR BIFENTHRIN USING JUVENILE CHINOOK SALMON (ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA), Katie Jo Knaub
IMPACT OF HEAT TREATMENT ON MICROSTRUCTURE & FRICTION PERFORMANCE OF NASA AL 398 ALLOY ROTORS, Manjith Srinivas Koganti
Evolution of iron silicate minerals over geologic time utilizing mineral databases, Jessica Kruzan
EVALUATING FAMILIARITY AND EMOTIONS IN SHAPING RURAL RESIDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARD CRIMINAL JUSTICE INVOLVED PERSONS WITH A MENTAL ILLNESS, Dowla Kuzmickus
Using Behavioral Skills Training to Train Clinicians to Conduct an AAC Modality Assessment, Grace Lafo
MULTI-AREA CONTINUOUS-TIME OPTIMAL POWER FLOW AND GENERATION SCHEDULING USING DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM, Bishal Lamichhane
UNDERSTANDING GEOGRAPHIC PROFILING: A SCOPING REVIEW, Danielle LaPradd
Directing a Technical Cyclone, Leonard A. Lively
THE ECONOMY AND ALT-RIGHT CONTENT: EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE RISE OF DANGEROUS RHETORIC AND INCOME INEQUALITY, Thabang Makau
MEET ME AT THE LOST CROSS: AN AUTO-ETHNOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF THE LIFE- LONG IMPACT OF SCENE PARTICIPATION FOR PUNKS IN CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS, Ryan John Martini
AN EXPLORATION OF FACTORS DRIVING PATTERNS OF HYBRIDIZATION IN TRIODANIS, Keegan Sean McConnell
ASSESSING WATER AND SEDIMENT CONTROL BASINS (WASCoBs) IN SOUTHEN ILLINOIS: INFLUENCE ON WATER QUAILITY, LEGACY PHOSPHORUS, AND SEDIMENT TRAPPING, Sierra Victoria Mertz
EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTERNALIZING, EXTERNALIZING, AND PSYCHOTIC PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AT FIVE LEVELS OF CRIMINAL RISK, Cooper Mitchell Sparks
Investigating the effect of Metal Site of the Leaf and Branch Compost Cutinase Through Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Ryan James Molitor
Through the Lens, Dwayne Moore Jr
IDENTIFICATION OF CRITICAL GENES THROUGH STATISTICAL METHODS FOR CLASSIFYING CANCER CASES, Philip Nelson
THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SELF-PREDICTION, PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, TREATMENT HOURS, AND TREATMENT NEEDS AMONG INCARCERATED OFFENDERS, Yasmin Nielsen
DIRECTING CHARLES DICKENS’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL, AS DRAMATIZED BY DARWIN PAYNE, Kesiena Cindy Obue
How Troubled Were the Gardens, Salaam Amin Odeh
CONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGS AROUND SUSTAINABILITY AND LOW CARBON LIFESTYLES AMONG SIU STUDENTS, Theresa Ornyeaga Ogbeche
Ambiguous Morality, Nathaniel Ogden
SIMULATION OF AUTONOMOUS MOBILE VEHICLES USING FEDERATED LEARNING, Satish Kumar Chary Paloju
Harnessing Federated Learning for Stock Analysis and Portfolio Optimisation, Nishanth Sagar Panthangi
EVALUATING DROUGHT USING MACHINE LEARNING AND HYDROLOGICAL MODEL BY INCORPORATING SATELLITE-BASED PRECIPITATION DATA IN THE UNGAUGED BASIN, Anjan Parajuli
EXPERIMENTAL TESTING AND ANALYSIS OF MOVING INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY FOR RAIL BASE INSPECTION, Asmi Rana
A Focus on the Social Validity of Treating Stereotypy Using Response Interruption and Redirection, Maggie Grace Ratcliff
EXCHANGING THE RESOURCES WITHIN THE INTERNET OF THINGS USING BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY, Shiva Teja Ravula
Investigating Adaptors of the Chlamydial Clp Unfoldase ClpX and Initial Characterization of the Chlamydial Single-Stranded DNA Binding Protein, Andrea Maria Rieser
The Wallflower Prototype, Dajonea Anna Robinson
EFFECTS OF PHYSICAL EXERCISE ON THE ACCURACY OF PERFORMANCE DURING ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER, Marleina Lee Robson
STROMAL FACTORS IMPLICATED IN FIBROSIS SEEN IN OVARIAN CANCER, Titas Roy
INDUCTION OF PROTECTIVE IMMUNITY AGAINST THE RESPIRATORY CHLAMYDIA MURIDARUM CHALLENGE BY PER-ORAL IMMUNIZATION, Aurore Rysha
Integration of Blockchain technology in industrial applications, Sanjana Sakinala
SELENATE-MEDIATED IMPACTS ON MERCURY METHYLATION BY PSEUDODESULFOVIBRIO MERCURII WITH DISSOLVED AND NANOPARTICULATE MERCURIC NITRATE, Md Sayeduzzaman Sarker
DEVELOPING A FILTER-BASED SERS SUBSTRATE FOR GLUCOCORTICOID MEASUREMENT, Praveena Satkunam
THE MOST CHARMING MUSICAL EVER WRITTEN!: COSTUME DESIGNING SHE LOVES ME, Haley Marie Saylor
POST-TORNADO SALVAGE HARVEST INCREASES BIODIVERSITY AND SUPPORTS KEY WETLAND SPECIES IN A SOUTHERN ILLINOIS BOTTOMLAND HARDWOOD FOREST, Laura Schammel
THE ROLE OF METHYL JASMONATE IN MODULATING TRICHOME DENSITY, GROWTH, YIELD, AND CANNABINOID ACCUMULATION IN CANNABIS SATIVA L., Spencer Wayne Schuchman
Understanding Teacher Responses to School Bullying Incidents: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior, Maxwell Robert Seigel
The Role of Grammatical Gender and Religiosity in Shaping Implicit Gender Attitudes: An Investigation Into Dari and Pashto Languages, Muhammad Ali Shahidy
A LIGHTWEIGHT END-TO-END ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM FOR IOT DATA INTEGRATION: BLOCKCHAIN FRAMEWORK, Manikumar Siddireddy
TRAINEES’ CHARACTERISTICS AND THEIR IMPACT ON PERCEPTIONS OF MULTICULTURAL TRAINING EXPERIENCES, Frederick McCullough Siglar
Thermal Response of a Solar Photovoltaic Energy Storage System for Application in Buildings, Aayushma Singh
IN-SILICO ENGINEERING OF MHETASE-LIKE ENZYME, MLE046, Manuka Malshan Silva Sinharage
SECOND- AND THIRD-PARTY PUNISHMENT IN COMMON-POOL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, Jacquelyn Spence
IMPACTS OF INTENSIFYING A CORN-SOYBEAN ROTATION WITH WINTER WHEAT (TRITICUM AESTIVUM) ON NUTRIENT LEACHING, PLANT AVAILABLE NUTRIENTS, CROP YIELDS, AND NITROGEN DYNAMICS IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, Abigail Leigh Spiers
COVID-19 AND UNEMPLOYMENT DYNAMICS: A REGIONAL ANALYSIS IN THE UNITED STATES, Keesha Queenie St. John
Using Stimulus Equivalence Procedures to Increase Police Officers' Identification of Behavioral Functions, Caitlin Sturges
ANALYZING THE DIRECTIONAL ASYMMETRIC IMPACT OF NET MIGRATION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH: A STUDY OF 72 INCOME CLASSIFIED COUNTRIES, Tanzila Sultana
Of Light and Shadow, Leah M. Sutton
ANALYZING THE VARIABILITY OF CANNABINOID AND TERPENE CONTENT IN CHERRY WINE HEMP CULTIVARS, Aliza Tandukar
ASSESSING VULNERABILITY IN VARIATIONAL AUTOENCODER GANS: INSIGHTS FROM WHITE BOX AND BLACK BOX ATTACK SCENARIOS, Srivatsa Tangirala
Happiness and Marital Status: Do Happier Individuals Have a Higher Likelihood of Marriage?, Samiha Binte Tariq
Skin, Lyra Thomas
ON THE COMPUTABLE LIST CHROMATIC NUMBER AND COMPUTABLE COLORING NUMBER, Seth Campbell Thomason
ARCHITECTURE AND MAPPING CO-EXPLORATION AND OPTIMIZATION FOR DNN ACCELERATORS, Benjamin Nicholas Trewin
A NOVEL RECTIFIER DESIGN FOR PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTING USING CROSS-COUPLED TOPOLOGY, Md Azim Uddin
TOWARD IMPROVED BIOCOMPATIBILTY: SLIPS INTEGRATION IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF IMPLANTS, Zeba Urooj
PROCESS DEVELOPMENT, CHARACTERIZATION AND STORAGE STUDY OF MUNG PROTEIN BASED NON-DAIRY YOGURT, Digvijay Verma
Examining Nonattachment to Self, Self-as-Context, and Depression, Vanessa Wang
PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTIONS AND SPACE USE STRATEGIES FOR TWO MESOCARNIVORES, Abigail Weber
Half Past Primrose, Laura E. Wilson
Towards Communication-Efficient Federated Learning Through Particle Swarm Optimization and Knowledge Distillation, Saika Zaman
MAGICAL AND ORDINARY CHARACTERS IN SHURALE AND FIREBIRD, Aliya Zaripova
BLACK SWAN EFFECT AND MATTHEW EFFECTS: TURNING RANDOM FORTUNE INTO PERPETUAL ADVANTAGE THROUGH THE HOMOPHILY NETWORK, Weikang Zhang
Theses from 2023
Drone Swarms in Adversarial Environment, Bhavana Sai Yadav Akula
APPEARANCES ARE DECEIVING: LONG-DISTANCE SUBJECT ANAPHORS AND PHASAL BINDING DOMAINS, Fahad A. Almalki