Theses from 2019
OBSERVING EXOPLANET TRANSITS WITH THE CITIZEN CONTINENTAL-AMERICA TELESCOPIC ECLIPSE (CATE) EXPERIMENT TELESCOPE NETWORK, Robert A. Baer
CREATING HYPERPOLARIZED AGENTS VIA PHIP AND SEOP FOR BIOMEDICAL AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS APPLICATIONS, Liana Bales
Magic To Do: Technical Direction for Pippin, Micah Daniel Bennett
CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT: GENERAL STRAIN AND PROSOCIAL COPING THROUGH EMPLOYMENT, Rachel S. Berner
Assessing the Impacts of Anthropogenic Drainage Structures on Hydrologic Connectivity Using High-Resolution Digital Elevation Models, Sourav Bhadra
SHEAR WALL VERTICAL DISCONTINUITY EFFECT ON THE FLOOR DIAPHRAGM, Nisha Bhatta
Post-Reinforcement Pause in Gamblers at Multi-Line Slot Machines, Erin Bily-Luton
ASSESSMENT OF SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIATIONS OF GROUNDWATER LEVELS IN THE PLATTE RIVER BASIN USING DATA MINING, Astha Bista
USE OF ADULT ANURAN COMMUNITIES AND DIETS TO ASSESS THE EFFECTS OF STREAM RESTORATION ON AQUATIC TO TERRESTRIAL FOOD WEB SUBSIDIES, Kelsey Lyn Bowe
CLAY MINERAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN ACIDIC ENVIRONMENTS: FINDING AN EARTHEN ANALOGUE TO THE SURFACE OF MARS, Ryan Lee Bowman
THE EFFICACY OF COVER CROPS FOR POLLINATOR HABITAT PROVISION AND WEED SUPPRESSION IN A SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AGROECOSYSTEM, Casey J. Bryan
Mobius Transformations and Inversions, Shanika Dilani Chandrasena
Configuration Space of Points on a Circle, Taniya Dilini Chandrasena
ASSESS MATERIAL PROPERTIES OF CONCRETE USING COMBINED NDT METHODS, Abhishek Chitti
The Fugitive, Austin Church
A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF A VALUES INTERVENTION AND A VALUES REMINDER ON CLINICALLY RELEVANT OUTCOMES, Bruce Clark
THE EFFECTS OF TRAINING AND FEEDBACK ON SALES PRACTICES BY AUTOMOTIVE DEALERSHIP EMPLOYEES, Jenelle Clason
Human Activity Recognition and Prediction using RGBD Data, Paul Dixon Coen
EVALUATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELATIONAL FRAMING COMPLEXITY, EMPATHY AND PERSPECTIVE TAKING, Sarah A. Cohen
A QUALITATIVE EXAMINATION OF EXPERIENCES OF ACCULTURATION, ACCULTURATIVE STRESS, AND COPING AMONG BLACK INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS, Maame Esi Arkofoa Coleman
DELAY DISCOUNTING AND TREATMENT OUTCOME PROBABILITY, Carissa M. Collado
USING ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS TO PREDICT RECIDIVISM FOLLOWING A LIFESTYLE CHANGE PROGRAM, Emily Jane Cripps
USING ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS TO PREDICT RECIDIVISM FOLLOWING A LIFESTYLE CHANGE PROGRAM, Emily Jane Cripps
PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND SENSORY CHARACTERISTICS OF MADE-IN-TRANSIT, Kunal Das
Movin' on Up: Mycorrhizal Mutualisms and Assisted Migration of Coastal Plant Species, Bradley Delfeld
PETROPHYSICAL ANALYSIS OF WELLS IN THE ARIKAREE CREEK FIELD, COLORADO TO DEVELOP A PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR HIGH PRODUCTION, Keegan DePriest
ALL SOLID-STATE FLEXIBLE SUPERCAPACITORS WITH VERTICALLY ALIGNED MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCNT) SYNTHESIZED DIRECTLY ON METAL FOIL, Gardiyawasam L Thushani Thilanjani De Silva
P-DELTA EFFECT ON PRETENSIONED CONCRETE GIRDERS DUE TO PRESTRESSING FORCE, Shiva Reddy Devulapally
SUPPORTING APPROXIMATE COMPUTING ON COARSE GRAINED RE-CONFIGURABLE ARRAY ACCELERATORS, Jonathan Dickerson
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design and Burglary Prevention: A Systematic Social Observation Approach, Kevin James Dobbins
BODY AVERSION AND ITS IMPACT ON PUNISHMENT & BONDAGE, Lois Renee Eldridge
ELECTRODEPOSITION OF SULFIDE-CONTAINING THIN FILMS, AND THEIR APPLICATION TO ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS, Li Fan
Development of a procedure for the certification of canopies for underground mining equipment using finite element analysis software., James Fietsam
The Lavender Shotgun, Isiah Fish
BASAL RESOURCE COMPOSITION AND MACROINVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IN TALLGRASS, MIXED-GRASS, AND SHORTGRASS PRAIRIE HEADWATER STREAMS, Kasey Elizabeth Fralick
ACHIEVABLE RATE ANALYSIS OF NOMA-AIDED MASSIVE MIMO SYSTEMS, Sharath Chandra Reddy Gaddam
Moral outrage is elicited by others’ beliefs just as much as their actions: Implications for workplace ideological discrimination, Emily Rose Galeza
Survey of Current Assessment Practices Utilized By Speech-Language Pathologists with Bilingual Children, Jessica J. Garcia
A comparison of error redirection versus trial-and-error prompting procedures in teaching categorical relations, Thomas Gasparo
ASSESSMENT OF AGRICULTURAL LITERACY IN HIGHER EDUCATION: SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AGRICULTURAL KNOWLEDGE AND PERCEPTIONS, Peyton Marie Gehrs
Examining Perceived Organizational Injustice as a Moderator in the Relationship of Dark Tetrad Personality Traits to Counterproductive Work Behavior, Sean Michael Geraghty
FOUR SIMULTANEOUSLY STEERABLE WHEEL ROBOT, Alireza Gharib
An Examination of Systematic Supervision and Its Effects on School Climate, Playground Safety, and Bullying Behaviors, Austin Gordon
Comparative Syntactic Analysis of Predicative Possession and Transitive 'Need', Selikem Gotah
Interventions Targeting an Increase in Client Exercise and Healthy Eating Habits: A Systematic Review, Daniel Grisham
FROM SIRE TO SIRRAH: THE DEVALUING OF KING LEAR, Nicholas J. Grossman
DESIGN OF A CACC ASSISTANT FOR DAILY DEFENSIVE DRIVING, Sriharsha Gurram
The Impacts of Cover Crops and Tillage on Nitrate-N Concentrations in Soil Water in Southern Illinois Row Crop Agriculture, Brooke Danielle Hagarty
The relationship between religion and diet-related disparities in African American men., Joel Hamilton
RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION OF THE KIZLER NORTH FIELD, LYON CO., KANSAS, USA, MD NAHIDUL HASAN
Economic Effects of Fracking on Wage and Employment: Story of Texas, Gage Hector
USE OF STABLE ISOTOPES, FATTY ACID ANALYSES, AND IMMUNE FUNCTION ASSAYS TO ASSESS STREAM AND RIPARIAN FOOD WEB CONNECTIVITY ALONG A HYDROLOGICALLY ALTERED LOW GRADIENT RIVER, Katie Diane Heiden
TENSOR REGRESSION AND TENSOR TIME SERIES ANALYSES FOR HIGH DIMENSIONAL DATA, Herath Mudiyanselage Wiranthe Bandara Herath
NEW MADRID SEISMICITY AND THE LITTLE RIVER DRAINAGE DISTRICT: MODELING POTENTIAL ANTHROPOGENIC INFLUENCE ON THE NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE, Eric Heuneman
Utilizing Online Learning of Acceptance and Commitment Training and Evaluating Corresponding Changes in Parent Stress, Danielle Hilkey
Reproducing Patriarchy: Dystopian (In)fertility Onscreen, Katherine Elizabeth Hinders
The roles of values in discounting the use of plastic bags and harming ocean animals, Megan Elizabeth Holecek
THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL VARIABLES ON THE PERCEPTION OF PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT RACES AND JOB TYPES, Joshua Raphael Hollie
Comparing the Accept Identify Move Curriculum to Typical Classroom Behavior Management Strategies, Larissa Ann Howard
EXAMINING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ACT-BASED EXERCISES ON POSITIVE INTERACTIONS AND REPSONSES TO CHALLENGING BEHAVIORS AMONG THERAPISTS SERVING CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER, Jasmine Nicole Howell
EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY AND MINDFULNESS ON CHILDREN’S ATTENTION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY, Quincy Evan Huff
Effects of guided mindfulness practice on job performance and burnout amongst classroom paraprofessionals., Theodore Issen
Tradition, affect, ethics: A view of Kosova’s movement of non-violent resistance in the 1990s, Arber Jashari
THE INTERACTION OF FLEXURE AND COMPRESSION IN REGULAR AND OFFSET EXTERIOR COLUMNS, Angela Joshi
SOCIAL DISCOUNTING OF CLEAN WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, Ashley Katz
APPLICATIONS OF NEURAL NETWORKS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, Mohammadamir Kavousi
Should I Trust my Car? A Safety Perspective on Human-machine Interactions for Semi-autonomous Vehicles using Virtual Reality, Kendra Ann Kennedy
Mark Twain's Use of Historical Narrative, Clayton Jackson Killion
CAN OCEANIC EFFECTS ON GROWTH AND TIME TO FLEDGING MEDIATE TERRESTRIAL PREDATOR LIMITATION OF AN AT-RISK SEABIRD?, Timothy Wade Knudson
Contention-Aware and Power-Constrained Scheduling for Chip Multicore Processors, Shivam Kundan
STATISTICAL ASSESSMENT OF PERFORMANCE OF INTEGRATED MULTI-SATELLITE RETRIEVALS FOR GPM (IMERG) TO ESTIMATE MONTHLY PRECIPITATION, Gaurav Raj Lamichhane
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEACHING BELIEFS AND PRACTICES AS PERCEIVED BY LANGUAGE GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANTS, Emily M. Lawson
SOCIAL MEDIA FOOTPRINTS OF PUBLIC PERCEPTION ON ENERGY ISSUES IN THE CONTERMINOUS UNITED STATES, David Leifer
TWO ‘MIND-BODY’ PROBLEMS IN DESCARTES AND HUSSERL, Andrii Leonov
Quality Inspection of Screw Heads Using Memristor Neural Networks, Xiaojie Liu
Identifying Recruitment Sources, Dispersal and Movement of Sauger in the Ohio River Using Otolith Microchemistry., Alexander Loubere
IMPACT OF STAFF PRECEPTION USING DISCOUNTING OF TREATMENT OPTIONS, PROBLEM BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT, AND RESTRAINT USAGE, Katrina Lynn Loudenback
SENTINEL-1A INSAR MONITORING OF SURFACE DEFORMATION IN DONNELLY TRAINING AREA, ALASKA (2015-2018), SHISHIR MANANDHAR
DEVELOPMENTS IN SIGNAL AMPLIFICATION BY REVERSIBLE EXCHANGE (SABRE) OF 15N AND 13C NUCLEI TOWARDS APPLICATIONS IN MRI, Jamil Assad Mashni
OFFICER DE-ESCALATION AND USE OF FORCE: HOW POLICE DE-ESCALATE AN OFFICER-CITZEN INTERACTION, Conrad McLaughlin
A NOVEL DYNAMIC SPECTRUM SENSING APPROACH USING CROWDSOURCING FOR MULTI-RAT COEXISTENCE IN 5G NETWORKS, Murali Mekala
Characterization of the Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough small RNA SIC2, Jeremiah Samuel Miller
Development of the Psychological Help Seeking Stereotypes for African Americans Scale, Chinyelu Muonagolu
Examining Factors of Prolonged Pretrial Detention in a Philippine Jail, Nicholas R. Murphy
Investigation of Coat Color on Thermal Status in Labrador Retrievers, Caitlin Neander
MARKERLESS TRACKING OF THE BIOMECHANICS OF A PITCHER’S ARM USING DEEP LEARNING, Ryan Netemeyer
INCREASED TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT: A PLACE-BASED PREVENTIVE APPROACH TO MOTOR VEHICLE RELATED HARMS, Bradley Joseph O'Guinn
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TOLERANCE OF AMBIGUITY, TOLERANCE OF UNCERTAINTY, AND COPING WITH ACADEMIC STRESS, Urvi Pradeep Paralkar
Act-Based Statements Effect on Bartending Tips, Mariah Patz
Synthesis of Fluorescent Promazines and Evaluation of Photophysical Properties, Jack James Pertile
Genetic and Morphometric Analysis of a Unique Population of Pondmussel (Ligumia) and its Implications for Other Species in Lampsilini (Family Unionidae), Joshua C. Peters