Theses from 2009
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.
Behavioral Religiosity Inventory: Measure Construction and Validation, Nicholas G. Hoffman
ATTITUDINAL DIFFERENCES ABOUT DISABILITIES AMONG REHABILITATION PROFESSIONALS, Heaven L. Hollender
The Effect of Supplementing Grazing Dairy Cattle Diets with Fish Oil and Linseed Oil on Milk CLA and Omega-3 Fatty Acid Content, Leah Holmes-Miller
Behavior at the Corners of Skewed, Single-Span, Cast-in-place, Post-tensioned Box Girder Bridges, Phillip Mathew Holthaus
FACTORS AFFECTING EROSION ON A NATURAL GAS PIPELINE IN THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS, Dan Holz
Evaluating Residential Burglaries in a Small Midwestern City using Social Disorganization and Routine Activity Frameworks, Stanley James Howard
DEVELOPMENT OF CHEMICALLY MUTAGENIZED SOYBEAN POPULATIONS FOR FORWARD AND REVERSE GENETICS ANALYSES, EN HUANG
Solving Conflict in Academic Contexts: a Comparison of U.S. and Taiwanese College Students, Li-Jung Huang
Laughing Outside My Box: A Risky and Contextual Love Story in Three Lady Parts, Heather Hull
Exploring Factors Affecting the Aging Prison Population in Japan, Junichi Ishihara
Using Podcasts to Teach the Difference Between 'Ser' and 'Estar' in a First Semester Spanish Course, Brianna Rae Janssen
Measuring Comfort Level of Counselors-in-Training with Integrating Religion/Spirituality in Counseling, Cherisse Arianne Jenkins
An Evaluation of Land Change Modeler for ArcGIS for the Ecological Analysis of Landscape Composition, Sara Jane Johnson
Geographic Analysis of Wireless Broadband Internet Access in Rural Communities: A GIS Case Study of Southern Illinois, Adam David Jones
ATTITUDES OF DIVISION I ATHLETES CONCERNING THEIR COLLEGIATE ENVIRONMENT, Jeffrey Lamond Jones
"MEDIATION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE" AN INSIGHT INTO ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL MEDIATION PROGRAM FROM 1997 - 2007, Kishore Joseph
Crowd Evacuation for Indoor Public Spaces, Pejman Kamkarian
Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling Of Airflow patterns around a Room-and-pillar mining face area, Rohini Kantipudi
An Analysis Of Victim Lifestyle In Assessment Of Victimization Of Native-American Women, Joe P. Keene
Looking to the Past to Plan a Future, Ryan Elizabeth Keutzer
A Simplified Routing Algorithm for Energy Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks, Ali Dheyaa Khudhair
Defining a Southern Illinois Eco-Regionalist Approach to Architecture, Alan Lee Knepp
Recognition through Misrecognition: Kant, Hegel and the Problem of United Life in Modernity, Kenneth Knight
A Novel Low-Overhead Recovery Approach For Distributed Systems, Sundeepthi Kosaraju
The Geography of Ecosystem Service Value: The Case of the Des Plaines and Cache River Wetlands, Illinois, Justin Peter Kozak
Reifying Rustification: Understanding Post High School Choice of Rural Students, Holly Mae Krake
Regulation of hCLCA2 by PI3K-Akt signaling and its role in anoikis, Sumit Kumar
THE EFFECT OF AMERICAN CULTURE ON COMPLIMENT RESPONSES OF CHINESE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH, Yu-Ning Lai
Agricultural Trade:Prospects for Liberalization After Uruguay and Doha Rounds, Tsenolo Leche
Geographical Assessment of Farmers Market Consumers in Southern Illinois, Aimee Louise Lemrise
Support Defined Novel Catalyst for Enhanced Fischer-Tropsch Activity, Ashley Ann Lievers
IMPLEMENTATION OF SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP AS AN EFFECTIVE CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT MODEL IN THE TRADITIONAL MIDDLE GRADE LEVEL CLASSROOM, Kimberly Jo Lillig
The Effect of Urbanization on Flight Initiation Distance and Alert Behaviors in Woodchucks, Kiersten Elizabeth Lippmann
Dismantling religious stereotypes: Effects of conditional discrimination training and media on the merger of Islamic and Christian stimulus equivalence classes, Sadie Laree Lovett
Office Design: Designing for Productivity in the Workplace, Garret Lee Lukens
The Voices of Animals and Men, Alexander Hutchins Lumans
Environmental Effects on Student Performance, Garrett Paul Lunsford
Automotive Brake Wear Debris Analysis, Donald Cody MacCrimmon
Is Organic Tissue Culture of Petunia Possible?, Denise Marie Massa
Novel State Coding For Scalable Pattern Matching, Mini Mathew
Conceptus Effects on Endometrial Gene Expression during Implantation in Mice, Melinda McConaha
Ghost Gear, Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum
DEPARTMENTAL POLICY EFFECT ON THE POLICE-MEDIA RELATIONSHIP, Lindsey McKinney
EVALUATING EXOTIC SPECIES ASSEMBLAGES ACROSS A CHRONOSEQUENCE OF RESTORED FLOODPLAIN FORESTS, Craig Russell McLane
IN VITRO ANTIMICROBIAL SUSCEPTIBILITY OF S. AUREUS IN SUSPENSIONS, BIOFILMS, AND RESUSPENDED BIOFILMS, Leon Albert McWilliams
Identification of the sediment-associated contaminants in the Illinois River Complex using a toxicity identifcation evaluation (TIE), Wesley Tyler Mehler
Control of spring weed vegetation with saflufenacil, Tracy Mellendorf
Budget Flight: The Costume Design for The Fastest Woman Alive, Rebel Mickelson
Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Understand Seniors' Fruit and Vegetable Purchasing Intentions at Farmers' Markets, Crystal Middleton
Neoclassicism in Edvard Grieg's Six Songs, Opus 48, Jamie Marie Mills
Survey of Neuropathology in Obese and Diabetic ZDSD Rat Brain, Rumi Mochida
Modeling Nitride based Quantum Dots: Multimillion Atom Tight-Binding Simulations, shareef uddin Mohammed
UNDERSTANDING THE LINK BETWEEN ETHANOL PRODUCTION AND FOOD PRICES, Nathalia Ferreira Monteiro
Outcomes of a Therapeutic Recreation Program on the Life-Effectiveness of Adolescents, David William Mosse
COMPARING THE USE OF COMPUTER GENERATED AND HAND-DRAWN DESIGNS AMONGST LANDSCAPE DESIGNERS AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS, George Joseph Murphy
THE EFFECT OF NUMBER OF OPTIONS ON CHOICES INVOLVING DELAYED CAUSATION, Nam Dai Nguyen
A New QoS Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad-hoc Network, Ruslan Nikolaev
A STUDY OF CUSTOMER SATISFACTION FACTORS AND EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY, Ksenia Novikova
A GENERIC MOBILE AGENT FRAMEWORK FOR AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE, Sujatha Nulu
Photocatalytic Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol, Emmanuel Okpo
SHAKESPEARE'S HERMIONE: REVIVED RECUANT OR THE PORTRAYAL OF THE MOTHER IN THE WINTER'S TALE AS REACTION TO MEDIEVAL CATHOLIC MARIOLATRY, Kylie Elizabeth Douglas Olean
WRITING CENTER LOCATION AND PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT: THE RELEVANCE OF TUTOR AND TUTEE PERCEPTIONS, Veronica Jean Oliver
SCALABLE FAULT TOLERANT DESIGN METHODOLOGY FOR THRESHOLD LOGIC GATES, ASHOK KUMAR PALANISWAMY
Implementation of Constraint Propagation Tree for Question Answering Systems, Swetha Rao Palavalasa
REGULATION OF EMT6 CELL GROWTH BY MELATONIN, Kanchan Suhaschandra Paradkar
Improving Computer Game Bots' behavior using Q-Learning, Purvag Patel
A HIGH PERFORMANCE GIBBS-SAMPLING ALGORITHM FOR ITEM RESPONSE THEORY MODELS, Kyriakos Patsias
THE FABRICATION OF HEUSLER ALLOY THIN FILMS FROM MULTIPHASE TARGETS USING PULSED LASER DEPOSITION, Heather M. A. Patton
DESIGN AND CASE STUDY OF AN ALZHEIMER'S GARDEN AT THE ILLINOIS VETERANS HOME AT ANNA, Theresa L. Pense
Parental Influence on the Sport and Physical Activity Participation of African American High School Females: Percpetions of Culturally Appropriate Activities, Amanda M. Perkins
FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS IN SUPERCRITICAL PHASE CARBON DIOXIDE, Derek Michael Perry
IMPROVED MOBILE IP BASED FOREIGN AGENT SELECTION METHOD, Theodore T. Phillips
ASSEMBLY & JOINTURE: A Tectonics of Place & Structure in the Mississippi Heartland Delta, Matthew J. Pica
Structural Response Including Vertical Component of Ground Motion, Alex Joseph Piolatto
The Voluntary Lead Shot Ingestion Rate of Mourning Doves (Zenaida Macroura) on a Disked Field, Stephanie Plautz
THE EFFECT OF LIPID SUPPLEMENTS ON THE POPULATION OF SELECTED RUMINAL BACTERIA VARIES WITH THE FATTY ACID COMPOSITION, Ramesh Babu Potu
Murine Aldo-Keto Reductases: Identification of AKR1B8 as an ortholog of human AKR1B10, Sandeep Rajput
LOW-POWER ADDRESS POINTER DESIGN FOR FIFO MEMORY CIRCUITS, Saravanan Ramamoorthy
Understanding Differences in Male and Female Participation in Post-Secondary Correctional Education, Kristin Reschenberg
FACTORS RELATED TO THE OCCURRENCE OF CLIMBING ACCIDENTS IN COLORADO, Emily Ressler
"My Friends' Effect on Me:" The Role of Social Support, Friendship Quality and Personality in the Depression of Adolescents and Young Adults, Jessica R. Roberts
Exploring the Effects of Latino Subgroup Diversity On Panethnic Group Consciousness, Antonio Rodriguez
ORIGIN OF THE AURIFEROUS BARITE-BASE METAL AND GOETHITE STAGES OF THE SUMMITVILLE HIGH SULFIDATION GOLD DEPOSIT, COLORADO, USA, Teresa Z. Russin
MICRO RNA-145 IS A PUTATIVE TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE, MOHIT SACHDEVA
Epitope Stability in a Single Chain Trimers of a Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Molecule., Djamilatou Saidou Hangadoumbo
Genetic Management Plan for the Endangered Pallid Sturgeon (Scaphirynchus albus) Captive Broodstock Maintained at Gavin's Point National Fish Hatchery, Melody Saltzgiver
WEAPONS AND STRATEGIES OF WARFARE IN LATE POSTCLASSIC PETÉN, GUATEMALA: THE USE OF THE BOW AND ARROW, Jose Romulo Sanchez Polo
The Worlds Behind the Worlds: Directing Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", David S. Schneider
Using The GPU To Speedup The Creation Of Dotplots, Filip W. Schroeder
REORGANIZATION OF MASSIVE MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS: MOTL/O, Aruntej Seelam
Effect of sonication on thermal, mechanical, and thermomechanical properties of epoxy resin, Bed Prasad Sharma
GPS L2C ACQUISITION AND TRACKING, Arjun Shekar Sadahalli
Development and Performance Evaluation of a Mono-Valve Engine, Amit Shrestha
DEVELOPMENT OF BAMBOO DERIVED SORBENTS FOR GAS PHASE ADSORPTION OF ELEMENTAL MERCURY, Naved Ahmed Siddiqui
Assessment of Parapet Loads Distributed to Prestressed Concrete I-Beams in Simple Span Bridges, Amelia Leigh Siegert