Doctoral Dissertations and Masters' Theses published by Northern Illinois University through The Graduate School.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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We Made It. Now What? A Qualitative Case Study Exploring how the Transition of Black Men to a Historically Black Community College is influenced By Orientation 101, Eric R. Agee Jr.

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Impact of Public and Private investments on Economic Growth of Developing Countries, Faruque Ahamed

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Effect of Cash Transfer on Household Fertility Choice and Children's Human Capital Accumulation in Uganda, Shaila Ahmed

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Early Life Stress inoculation Effects on Adult Behaviors, Oreoluwa Ibukunolupo Akinbo

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Secondary School Gifted Students’ attitude toward the Classera Learning Management System in Saudi Arabia, Mansour Alamri

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Babel Fish: Court interpreters in America (1790-1921), John Alcalde

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Understanding the Impact of Collective Efficacy and Race/ethnicity on Child internalizing and Externalizing Symptomatology, Demy Alfonso

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The Gulf Cooperation Council's Policies towards Iran, Mohammed Ahmed Al Sayed

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A Case Study of Using Social Media For ESL Learning: Experiences of Saudi international Students on the Use of Blogs as a Collaborative Learning Platform to Support English Writing, Hana Ali M. Alturki

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Teachers’ Perspectives on the inclusion of Global Citizenship Concepts in Arabic-Language Secondary Curricula in Saudi Arabia, Ebtesam Altwejery

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Representations and Perceptions of Sexual Pleasure in Undergraduate Anatomy and Physiology (A&P) Courses, Brenda Kucha Anak Ganeng

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Perhabs I Will: A Content Analysis and Media Production Focusing on Contemporary Comedy and Comedians, Abs Anderson

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Analyzing Multistationarity in a Model of a Dual Phosphorylation Network, Killian Kearney Anderson

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Medical Cannabis and Counselor Education: Examining the Relationship Between Counselor Education Curriculum and the incorporation of Medical Cannabis, Anne Catherine Adrian

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Frequentist Methods in Handling Misrepresentation Risk, Rexford Mawunyegah Akakpo

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Factors influencing Faculty Members’ Behavioral intentions to Use Flipped Classrooms in Saudi Arabia at Taif University, Abier Jaber Akiry

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Electrochemical Study of the Performance of Manganese Vanadium Oxide Cathodes in Zinc Batteries, Sarat Alabidun

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Essays on U.S. Narrative Tax Changes and Volatility in Housing Market, Masud Alam

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Imu-Based Estimation of Body Posture in Commercial Fishing, Umme Kawsar Alam

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Relationship Between Student Personality Traits and Continuance intention to Use Massive Open online Courses (MOOCs), Rakez Mahmoud Al-Ararah

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Comparing Students’ Academic Achievement and attitudes in Undergraduate Flipped and Non-Flipped Classrooms: A Mixed-Methods Study, Rabab Alareifi

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An Exploration of the Technological, Technological-Pedagogical, and Technological and instructional Challenges that Saudi Faculty Face in their Transition to online Education, Mshael Aldakheel

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Examining Teachers' Use of Adaptive Diagnostic Assessment to Improve Mathematics Teaching and Learning, Dalal H. Alfageh

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Collisional Methods with Applications to Charged Particle Beams, Afnan Al Marzouk

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Collisional methods with applications to charged particle beams, Afnan Al Marzouk

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Using Community of inquiry to Examine the Effect of Station Rotation Strategy in Elementary Mathematics, Ahmad Alshahrani

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Investigating the Determinants of Mobile Computer Acceptance by Special Education Teachers, Rashed Alsulami

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Remote Sensing Applications in Population Estimation, Regression Analysis, and Urban Growth Simulation Modeling for a Middle Eastern City, Elaf Amer Alyasiri

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International Graduate Students’ interactions with their Writing Tutors and the Role of Writing Center in their Academic Experiences, Chynar Amanova

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Collective Teacher Efficacy and its Enabling Conditions: Measurement and Associations, Christine Marie Anderson

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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K-6 Saudi Arabian Teachers' Implementation of Electronic Textbooks: Factors Associated with Behavioral intention, Hamed Alghamdi

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Ethnic-racial identity and psychological adjustment: An examination of identity coherence and identity confusion as mediators, Cara Allen

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Perceptions of Collaboration with a Doctor of Clinical Laboratory Science, Leah Jane Ames

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Growth Optimization of Zinc-Oxide Nanowires/Nanorods Using Hydrothermal Synthesis on Silicon Wafers, Mythili Ananthula

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Assessment of Faculty Acceptance of, Behavioral intention to Use, and Actual Usage Behavior of Technology in inquiry-Based Learning in Medical Education: Using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology, Max Carl Anderson

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An Analysis of online Faculty Training Practices in the Illinois Community College System, Melissa Andrews

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On the self-force problem of point-like charged particles in classical electrodynamics, Kevin J. Hamilton

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Saudi Students’ attitude toward Using Mobile Applications in Learning English Vocabulary, Talal Ali Abozandah

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The Treatment of Contaminated Water Using Electrocoagulation, Adebayo Edward Adejinle

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The Role of Administrative Observation, Evaluative Evidence and Procedural Due Process in Illinois, Before and After the Passage of the Performance Evaluation Reform Act (pera) and Senate Bill 7 (sb7)., Christopher J. Adkins

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Using Machine Learning Models to Discover Promising Research, Akhil Pandey Akella

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Sky Surveys Scheduling Using Reinforcement Learning, Andres Felipe Alba Hernandez

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Factors predicting faculty members' intention to teach online in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Fahad Obaid T. Alenezi

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Factors Predicting Faculty Members’ intention to Teach online in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Fahad Obaid T. Alenezi

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Solving the Semidefinite Programming Relaxation of Max-Cut Using an Augmented Lagrangian Method, Ahmed Sabah Al-Jilawi

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Impact of Social Support During a Social interaction on Post-Trauma Cognitions and Outcomes During a Trauma Analogue Design, Christy Elizabeth Allen

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The Link Between Antibiotic Resistance Used for Recombinant DNA Selection and Cellular Phenotype in Rat Liver Epithelial Cells, Doaa Alshammari

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Morphometric Analysis of Subfossil Macronycteris Spp. (chiroptera: Hipposideridae) from Madagascar, Jamie Lynn Alumbaugh

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Improved Momentum Spread for Precision Physics Experiments Using Wedges, Nick Amato

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A Secondary Analysis of insurance Claims Data to Determine the Association Between Provider Type and Treatment Escalation in Musculoskeletal Disorders, Brian Anderson

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Controlling Lonicera maackii (amur honeysuckle) : basal bark and prescribed fire efficacy and impacts, Kaleb Baker

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Possible hydroseismic triggering for small earthquakes occurring within the Fox River Valley, Northeastern Illinois, James Benco

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From Tony Soprano to Donald Trump : situating the rhetoric of the 2016 Trump presidential campaign in the antihero genre, Harry Bodell

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Development of chromatography and mass spectrometry methods for enzyme kinetics and inhibition in glycolysis and the methylerythritol phosphate (MEP) pathways, Allison Fabino Carr

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Providing counseling in a rural setting : a new multicultural perspective, Danessa Carter

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Validation of a low-cost sensor for development of wearable and handheld spectrometers, Justin Leslie Cathey

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Discovery and study of single-phase and single-ion manganese perovskite multiferroics, Kamal Chapagain

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Educational Experiences of 1.5 Generation Cambodian Americans, Kassandra A. Chhay

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The search for 'home' : Anglo-Burman identity at the end of empire, Katrina Chludzinski

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Exploring the relationship among students' preconceptions, attitudes, and major, Matthew Dwyer

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The effects of pre-existing beliefs about alcohol consumption on predicting victim blame in incapacitated and drug-facilitated rape, Robyn Ellis

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Caring high school teachers : promoting students' social and emotional development, Roberta Jean Geosling

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Examining university food systems : understanding student food insecurity levels and food waste at minority-serving institutions, Amy Gootee-Ash

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Effects of habitat disturbance on the teeth of Propithecus diadema in the forests of Tsinjoarivo, Madagascar : implications for species viability and conservation, Katie Susann Heffernan

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The good, the bad, and the uncivil : an anlaysis of uncivil members of Congress from the 45th to the 113th Congresses, Nathan L. Holm

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Cultural models of democracy among Burmese residents in Chicago, Illinois, and Fort Wayne, Indiana, John Hillory Hood

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Proper orthogonal decomposition analysis of lid-driven cavity flows containing particle suspensions, Nitin Katiki

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The roadmap to liberalization : Myanmar's transition from military to civilian rule, Nicole Loring

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Tools for understanding static structure factors and their application to simulations of liquids, Travis Mackoy

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How two high school teachers conceive of student voice, value it, and foster it, Katherine McCleary

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Students' perspectives regarding their emotional engagement in middle school learning environments, Brendan McCormick

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UNSC legitimacy as a tool for misdirection, Medha Monjaury

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Why we turn the page : a literary theory of dynamic structuralism, Justin J.J. Ness

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Evaluating spatial distributions of scent-marks in semi-free-ranging groups of Lemur catta at the Duke Lemur Center, Shallu Prasher

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Exceptionalism and transatlanticism in early American literature (1760-1860) and classic Hollywood cinema (1930-1960), John M. Price

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The role of spirituality in women's doctoral journeys : a portraiture study, Katherine M. Richards

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Student and teacher response to formative assessment feedback in eighth-grade mathematics : a design experiment, Desiree Dawn Rones

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African American Army women's journeys : a question of mentoring, Renee Rouse

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Rate my professors : electronic word of mouth and expectancy violations theory in the classroom, Dathan Nathaniel Simpson II

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ITA language proficiency testing : recommended replacement for the SPEAK test, Anne M. Stoughton

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A climatology of quasi-linear convective systems in the U.S., Jacob Strohm

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Funding and high school student achievement in the State of Illinois, Michael E. Tresnak

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Design, synthesis, and evaluation of potential Burkholderia pseudomallei IspF inhibitors, Sydney Watkins

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Three essays on congressional influence in American foreign policy, Afrimadona

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Factors supporting faculty's intention to use online video sharing platforms in the classroom environment, Abdullah Albalawi

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Factors Supporting Faculty’s intention to Use online Video Sharing Platforms in the Classroom Environment, Abdullah Eid Albalawi

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Control of ferroelectrcity in ATiO₃ (A= Ba₁ and Sr) by isoelectronic Ti-site substitutions, Saber Alfurhud

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Role of colony integration in metabolic scaling of colonial animals, Maram Almegbel

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The relationship between learners' motivation, gender, and completion of MOOCs in Saudi Arabia, Farraj Ali Alshehri

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Factors related to employees' behavioral intention to use online professional development, Yousef Alshrari

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Factors Related to Employees’ Behavioral intention to Use online Professional Development, Yousef Saud Alshrari

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Examining faculty barriers with simulation and successful student learning outcomes, Alissa Althoff

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Synthesis of N-heterocyclic-substituted indanones through the superelectrophilic Nazarov cyclization, Harouna Amadou

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Light transport and amplification for a proof-of-principle experiment of optical stochastic cooling, M. B. Andorf

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Elite-peasant relations in post-authoritarian Indonesia : decentralization, dispossession, and countermovement, Iqra Anugrah

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The role of "because" in mechanistic and teleological explanations in science, Lillian K.E. Asiala

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The impact of text messaging on students' academic achievement in an online computing course, Selom Assignon

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Testing the impact of state-society relations on human security, Ilhan Aydemir

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Static optimization of fuel cell plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, Sunday Julius Balogun

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Effective school leaders and student achievement : an examination of 265 schools in Northern Illinois, Jason Bednar