Theses from 2010
THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CYCLING: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC DETAIL OF CYCLING'S EXPERIENCE, Adrian Heston Roop
Bioavailability of slower desorbing fractions of sediment-associated permethrin, Amanda Kay Rothert
Home-range fidelity and the effect of supplemental feeding on contact rates between white-tailed deer in southern Illinois, Matthew Clifton Rustand
Fermentation of Various Industrial or Agricultural By-Products by Schizochytrium limacinum SR21 for the Production of Lipids, Nicolas Endre Sarkany
Generation and studies of BKRF4- deficient mutants of Epstein-Barr virus, Ashley E. Satorius
NON-DESTRUCTIVE TEST FOR WIRE ROPE BY USE OF VIBRATIONS, Calvin T. Schmid
THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN OF YOUTH AT A YMCA YOUTH ADVENTURE CAMP, Sarah A. Schneider
THE EFFECTS OF A COMMUNITY-BASED LIFESTYLE, Cassidy Maria Scoggins
Time and the Inclination, James Scoles
EFFECTS OF ABIOTIC AND BIOTIC FACTORS ON DIET COMPOSITION OF AGE-0 STURGEON (
EVALUATION OF THE TAB-SIMCO ACID MINE DRAINAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM: WATER CHEMISTRY, PERFORMANCE AND TREATMENT PROCESSES, Yosief Teklehaimanot Segid
LOW-POWER TECHNIQUES FOR SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION REGISTER (SAR) ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTERS, Ramgopal Sekar
A Fresh Perception of the World: A USA-Based Aid Worker and Media-Maker's Six-Year Journey Making a Documentary in West Africa, Lauren Selmon
"R. U. A. HEALTHY KID?"- NON-INVASIVE SCREENING FOR RISK FACTORS FOR TYPE 2 DIABETES AT VIENNA GRADE SCHOOL, Sarah Sheffer
A Computational Task Allocation Model for Disaster Response, Deepti Shetty
TOWARDS NET CENTRIC ORGANIZATIONS, Shyam Sunder Shivaram
ASSESSMENT OF CUMULATIVE TRAINING IMPACTS FOR SUSTAINABLE MILITARY LAND CARRYING CAPACITY AND ENVIRONMENT: QUANTIFYING QUALITY OF ENVIRONMENT AND LANDSCAPE, Steven William Singer
ONE CONSORTIUM, TWO POPULATIONS: WHAT IT TAKES TO SUCCEED, Susan Diane Sipes
Studies of certain tRNA Ψ55 Pseudouridine synthases, Geena Skariah
Enlightenment and Cynicism, Nicholas Smaligo
Evaluation of fin ray and fin spine chemistry as indicators of environmental history for five fish species, Kurt Thomas Smith
NEOGENE PALEO-ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS OF QUEBRADA LA HIGUERA SECTION, BAHIA INLGESA, NORTHERN CHILE, Anthony Stevens
Finite Element analysis of the effects of frame deformation on welded gusset plates, Daniel Paul Strauss
EFFECTS OF INTERNAL FIELDS IN QUANTUM DOTS, Sasi Sekaran Sundaresan
PREDICTIVE VALIDITY OF THE YOUTH LEVEL OF SERVICE/CASE MANAGEMENT INVENTORY AMONG JAPANESE JUVENILE OFFENDERS, Masaru Takahashi
Short-term response of coastal vegetation in northwestern Florida to experimental storm surge and wrack application, Anthony Scott Tate
Isolation and Characterization of Halophilic Heterotrophic Bacteria from Lake Vanda, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, George Seibert Tregoning
Kinetic Selectivity Effects of Binary Mixtures on Nanotube Bundles: Internal and External Adsorption, Seyoum Tsige
The White Kid with the Puerto Rican Name, Reynaldo Vargas
The Effects of a Multiple Schedule on Hand Raising during Circle Time in Preschool Classrooms, Kristina K. Vargo
MODEL-BASED CONTROL OF DIFFERENTIALLY DRIVEN TWO-WHEELED MOBILE ROBOT, Aishwarya Vasu
The Effects of Continuous Nicotinamide Administration on Behavioral Recovery and Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) Expression after Traumatic Brain Injury, Cole M. VonderHaar
HISTORICAL AND CURRENT PERSPECTIVES ON SPECIALIZED ENGLISH MAJOR PROGRAM IN VIETNAM: A CASE STUDY, Phu Hoang Vu
EXPLORING REDUCED TRAFFIC SIGNALS USING AGENT BASED MODELING, Rasagnya Waghray
The Misdirection of Self-Love in St. Augustine's City of God, Ryan Walsh
Competitive Sorption and Uptake of Chlorinated Contaminant Mixtures by Plants, Chen Wang
A PARALLEL APPROACH TO MULTIPLE SEQUENCES ALIGNMENT AND PHYLOGENETIC TREE LABELING, Jingjing Wang
Dynamics of Mechanical System Involving Conformal and Non-conformal Contact, Zhaoxin Wang
The Historical Figures of the Birthday Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach, Marva J. Watson
Immunohistochemical Identification of Dopaminergic and Adrenergic Nerves in the Equine Ovary, Crystal Marie Welsh
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