Theses from 2020
PERFORMANCE STUDY OF SOW-AND-GROW: A NEW CLUSTERING ALGORITHM FOR BIG DATA, Joshua Maier
ANALYZING EFL TEACHERS’ TECHNOLOGY PREPAREDNESS TO PROMOTE CALL IN INDONESIA, Eugenie Mainake
IMPROVING SPECTRAL ANALYSIS WITH THE APPLICATION OF MACHINE LEARNING: STUDY OF LASER-INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY (LIBS) AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY WITH CLASSIFICATION AND CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES., Christopher Mandrell
The Effectiveness of Brief ACT Exercises on Practice Performance for Basketball Players, Kezia Faye Martin
Analysis of radiation induced errors in transistors in memory elements, Deekshitha Masani
Gray and Slightly Dirty White Laundry Housewives, Rationing and the Black Market During and After the Second World War in Britain, Deanna Lee McGuckin
ON SCALING OF BRAKE TEST SAE J2522, David Sean McKavanagh
DysFunktional? Breakin' the Bricks and Shattering the Myths of African American Women, Teresa M. McKinley
Evaluating the Utility of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Student Veterans, Jesse Tyler McMullan
AN EXAMINATION OF ACT BASED INTERVENTION AND ITS EFFECTS ON PROBLEM BEHAVIOR AND IMPULSIVITY RATES AMONG INDIVIDUALS DIAGNOSED WITH MILD INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES, Hannah Lorraine Merklen
DO EXPORTS AND GMO REGULATIONS DETERMINE ADOPTION RATE OF GM CROPS BY EXPORTING COUNTRIES, Louria SUNTA ANAK Meyu
EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF CONTEXTUAL STIMULI ON RESPONSE ALLOCATION IN SLOT MACHINE GAMBLING, Dejan Milic
The Buffering Effect of Chosen Family Networks in LGBT Adults, David Cole Milton
Under Procedure, Ian Moeckel
THE USE OF NUTRITIONAL PROGRAMMING AND DIPEPTIDE SUPPLEMENTATION AS A MEANS OF MITIGATING THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF PLANT PROTEIN AND IMPROVING THE GROWTH OF FISH FED WITH PLANT-BASED DIETS, Giovanni Settle Molinari
TIME SERIES FORECASTING USING DUAL-STAGE ATTENTION-BASED RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK, Mahdi Moradi
COACHING YOURSELF THROUGH: EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POSITIVE SELF-TALK AND RESILIENCE, Ian T. Mosier
Phylogenomic Analysis Of Evolutionary Relationships In Ranitomeya Poison Frogs (Amphibia: Dendrobatidae) Using Ultraconserved Elements, Morgan Renee Muell
HABITAT PREFERENCES OF GULF COAST FIDDLER CRABS AND RESPONSES OF PLANT AND SOIL CHARACTERISTICS TO THEIR BURROWING, Gwendolyn Ann Murphy
COVID-19 CONTACT TRACING TOOL FOCUSED ON PRIVACY PROTECTION, Sai Shanmukha Narumanchi
THE CURSE OF NATURAL RESOURCES, QUALITY OF INSTITUTIONS, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: THE CASE OF MENA COUNTRIES, Ahmed Hussein Naser
Effects of Child Age on Sentence Severity for Mothers and Fathers, Miranda Nelson
College Classroom Policies: Effects of "Technology Breaks" on Student Cell Phone Usage and Grades, Rebecca Diane Nelson
Visual Saliency Analysis on Fashion Images Using Image Processing and Deep Learning Approaches, Aashish Neupane
BEHAVIOR AND DESIGN OF THE CRITICAL MEMBER IN STRUCTURES WITH IN-PLANE DISCONTINUOUS BRACED FRAMES, Manjil Niraula
Presence of Late 8 Phonemes among Adolescents and Young Adults with Down syndrome, Aidan Lee Osborne
Parenting as a Moderator in the Relationship between Reactive Temperament and Internalizing Problems, Emily Pali
Play-based Physical Activity for Motor Skill Improvement in Young Children with Autism, Stephanie Anne Palmer
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF CORROSION OF COATED CAST IRON ROTORS IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY, Prabin Parajuli
AN EXAMINATION OF MEAT CONSUMPTION AS A PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR AND ITS WEAK CORRELATION TO DELAY DISCOUNTING, Sarah Parkinson
EFFECT OF BUILDING ORIENTATION ON STRUCTURAL RESPONSE OF REINFORCED CONCRETE MOMENT RESISTING FRAME STRUCTURES, Amanullah Parsa
THE EFFECT OF NUTRITIONAL PROGRAMMING ON GUT MICROBIOTA IN BROODSTOCK AND PROGENY FISH, Samuel Patula
Network Properties of Optically Linked Planetary Satellite Systems, Nicholas Pennington
EFFECTS OF ALUM SLUDGE ON ACTIVATED SLUDGE TREATMENT AND PERFORMANCE AT THE CARBONDALE, IL SOUTHEAST WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT: A CASE STUDY, Melissa Peterein
Tick species and tick-borne disease surveillance in southern Illinois, Victoria Phillips
Community-Scale Understanding of Biological Invasion Risks and Management Options in the Tucson, Arizona Wildland-Urban Interface, Abigail Plecki
ANALYZING THE STREAMFLOW FOR FUTURE FLOODING AND RISK ASSESSMENT UNDER CMIP6 CLIMATE PROJECTION, Indira Pokhrel
Impact of stiffness and damping capacity using two different rubbers on friction coefficient and noise levels of brake materials, Harshitha Punna
In Search of a Lost Profession: A Study of Journalistic Practices in Iran, Tahereh Rahimi
Aces Crazy!, Reginald Rand
Predicting feed efficiency in beef cattle; a comparison of direct measures, expected progeny differences, and single nucleotide polymorphism methodologies, Samantha Rasmussen
STATE OF ART TECHNIQUES FOR CONTROL AND PROTECTION OF DER INVERTERS UNDER ISLANDED AND GRID CONNECTED CONDITIONS, Dev Raj Regmi
BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER, BUT BOTH NEED TO HIT THE AUDIENCE: A TECHNICAL DIRECTOR’S EXPERIENCE WITH EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL, Jeffrey Allan Richardson
Complex and p-adic Hecke Algebra with Applications to SL(2), Jeremiah Roberts
LGBTQ+ AND HETEROSEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS: COMPARING DIFFERENT TYPES OF STRESS AND RELATIONSHIP SATISFACTION, Jaidelynn Rogers
THE ROLE OF RHOX5 AND RHOX8 IN MALE FERTILITY, Arpan Roy
DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN INVASIVE AND NATIVE POPULATIONS OF BIGHEAD AND SILVER CARP USING MS-AFLP, Erika Renee Sarvela
A SUITABILITY ANALYSIS OF THE WETLANDS ALONG THE MIDDLE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FLOODPLAIN FOR RIVERINE NITRATE ATTENUATION, Noah R. Scalero
THE EFFECT OF DEER BROWSE ON ACHYRANTHES JAPONICA, Nicholas R. Seaton
The relationship between discounting immediate and former life statuses related to quality of life, Rebecca Seward
Evaluating the Effects of a Brief Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Intervention on Environmentally Sustainable Behavior, Anne Sheerin
PER-ORAL INOCULATION WITH LIVE OR KILLED CHLAMYDIA MURIDARUM PROTECTS AGAINST A CHLAMYDIA MURIDARUM PER-VAGINAL CHALLENGE, Nita Shillova
ANALYZING THE PAST AND FUTURE DROUGHT SITUATIONS USING HIGH RESOLUTION DROUGHT INDEX, Alen Shrestha
Defect Detection on Rail Base Area Using Infrared Thermography, Survesh Bahadur Shrestha
Hardware Efficient Deep Neural Network Implementation on FPGA, Md Kamruzzaman Shuvo
CHEMICAL LOOPING MATERIALS FOR CO2 DRIVEN OXIDATION OF METHANE, Michelle Marie Smithenry
Gene Expression Profiling in Heat Stressed Scaphirhynchus Sturgeon, Nolan R. Smith
REVIEW OF DENTAL CROWNS AND THEIR WEAR TESTING., Prakruthi Soonangi Ganesh
EPICS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER: NARRATIVES OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN FRENCH LOUISIANA, Kat Spears
SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS’ PERSPECTIVE ON LANGUAGE DISORDER IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM, Sydney Spiller
Elucidating the anti-inflammatory actions of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in preventing ovarian cancer, Kara Nicole Starkweather
Effects of a Gratitude Intervention and Attention Bias Modification on Emotion Regulation, Bryant M. Stone
SYSTEMATICS OF NORTH AMERICAN ASTEREAE, Marisa Szubryt
THE ROLE OF R&D SHAPING AGRICULTURAL LABOR AND LAND PRODUCTIVITY IN COLOMBIA 1981-2016, Juan Pablo Taramuel Taramuel
Advancements of Gas Turbine Engines and Materials, Benjamin John Temple
Hybrid Renewable Energy Analysis via Homer Pro and ETAP: A case study in Venezuela, Carlos Eduardo Teran Rivero
CONTRIBUTIONS OF OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING TO PERMAFROST MAPPING IN DONNELLY TRAINING AREA, ALASKA, Kiran Thapa
THE EMERGENT PROSODIC SYSTEM(S) OF BILBAO-AREA STANDARD BASQUE, Airica C.R. Thomas
DESIGN OF EMBEDDED POWER SIGNATURE GENERATION CIRCUITS FOR INTERNET OF THINGS SECURITY, David Thompson
IMPLEMENTATION OF A PLANAR MAGNETIC MANIPULATOR WITH ROTATABLE PERMANENT MAGNETS, Luis Rodrigo Tituana
BEHAVIOUR AT THE MID-SPAN OF POST TENSIONED, SIMPLE SPAN, SKEWED BOX GIRDER BRIDGES, Shree Krishna Tripathi
Your Voice is a Door, Troy Varvel
CORRELATING DIRECT AND INDIRECT EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING MEASURES AND LANGUAGE SKILLS OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISM, Emily Claire Wagner
Gas Adsorption Studies on MoS2: Machine Learning Aided Multiscale Modeling Approach, Aaron Walber
An Experimental Evaluation of Two Varying Yield Cigarettes on Nicotine Dependence, Lauren Nicole Weiss
Utilizing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Improve Rock Climbing Performance with Recreational Climbers, Alexa Wesselhoff
TELEHEALTH PARENT TRAINING FOR EQUIVALENCE BASED INSTRUCTION, Jennifer L. West
AN EXAMINATION OF THE EFFECTS OF ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY ON DELAY DISCOUNTING OF FOOD AND DISEASES, Amy M. Whitman
AN EXAMINTATION OF THE EFFECT OF TEACHING DEICTIC FRAMES ON THE SKILL OF PERSPECTIVE TAKING IN INDIVIDUALS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES., Thomas Graham Williams
Equivalence-Based Instruction and Errorless Learning: A Brief Intervention to Teach Deictic Framing, Mary Rose Christina Winters
GENETIC AND MOLECULAR STUDY OF SOYBEAN LINES FOR RESISTANCE TO FROGEYE LEAF SPOT, Curtis Joseph Wolf
SUPPORT SERVICES WITH COMMUNITY MEMBER FOR CRIME REHABILITATION AND PREVENTION BY JAPANESE CLASSIFIATION HOMES, Ayuchi Yamaoka
Pile foundation design for shear wall with coupling beams, Haoran Yang
INSTITUTIONS AS THE MAIN DETERMINANT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: WITH A FOCUS ON ECONOMIC FREEDOM INDEX AS PROXIES, Aizat Yasmin
The Impacts of Internet Finance on the Profitability of China's Banking Industry, Hongnai Zhang
EXAMINING FEMALE LEADERSHIP FROM A DAOIST PERSPECTIVE, Wen-Qian Zhou
Theses from 2019
Sonication to Improve Date Palm Seed Degradability in The Rumen, Ahmad A. Aboragah
EFFECTS OF ROTATIONAL RESTRAINT ON THE POST BUCKLING RESPONSE OF THE AXIALLY RESTRAINT NON-SWAY STEEL COLUMN UNDER THERMAL LOADS., Ganesh Acharya
OIL DEPENDENCY AND NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY: A CASE FOR NIGERIA, Alexandra A. Akaakar
SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY OF LOWER CRETACEOUS CARBONATES IN UMM GUDAIR OIL FIELD, WEST KUWAIT, Asmaa Albuloushi
ANALYSIS OF THE OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS CONTENT IN COMMERCIAL OMEGA-3 SUPPLEMENTS IN ARAB GULF COUNTRIES, Fatmah Alghamdi
Functional and Optimality-Theoretic Analyses of English-Arabic Code-switching in Religious Settings in the US, Mutleb Yossef Alnafisah
Hierarchical Alignment of Tuples in Databases for Fast Join Processing, Zakyah Alqahatni
Sunday in the Shop with Rob, Robert J. Anderson
MACHINE LEARNING METHODS TO IMPROVE NETWORK INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEMS, NAZLI ANSARI
Long-Term Durability of Ordinary Portland Cement and Polypropylene Fiber Stabilized Soil, SUMAN ARYAL
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL PREPAREDNESS IN POLICING, Olasubomi David Ayeni