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

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Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Study of Genetic Regulators that Control Development and Secondary Metabolism in the Genus aspergillus, Timothy Satterlee

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An Exploration of Parental Alcohol Abuse: The Effect on Emerging Adult Romantic Relationships, Hillary Nicole Schraufnagel

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Implementation and Evaluation of Gated Recurrent Unit For Speech Separation and Speech Enhancement, Sagar V. Shah

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Applications of Bayesian Functional Data Analysis, Hao Shen

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Application of Geodetector Method and Other Statistical Methods to Study Groundwater Vulnerability to Nitrate Contamination in The Central Valley Aquifer, California, Anil Shrestha

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Hearing The Unheard: Perspectives of indian and Pakistani Immigrant Parents on Their involvement in Their Children’s Schools, Ghazala Siddiqui

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Librarians in Community Colleges: Strategies For Promoting information Literacy, Sharon Telise Silverman

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In and Out of School Literacies: Adolescents Negotiating and Navigating Identities Through Social Media, Brooke Elizabeth Simon

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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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Rate My Professors: Electronic Word of Mouth and Expectancy Violations Theory in the Classroom, Dathan Nathaniel Simpson II

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The DNA Dependent Protein Kinase Catalytic Subunit Maintains Genomic Stability, Brandon Lee Sklavanitis

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Further Exploration of the Relationship Between Worry and Contrast Avoidance, Anna E. Snyder

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Factors Affecting Superfund Hazardous Waste Site Cleanups, Leili Solatyavari

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Leaves of the Bodhi Tree from East to West: The Symbol of the Sacred Fig Tree in Ancient india, Southeast asia and Contemporary Contexts, Amanda J. Spradling

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Necessary Resilience: Experiences of African American Men athletes in Community Colleges, Julian Springer

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Functions of DFRP and Other DRG Pathway Genes in The Moss Physcomitrella Patens, Robert James Srygler

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A Lingua Franca Afloat and ashore: Contact English in American Sea Fiction, 1824 to 1914, Fredrik Reidar Stark

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Development of Synthetic Methodologies of Nucleophile-Electrophile Chemistry, Michael R. Stentzel

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Outpatients' and Treatment Providers’ Cultural Model(s) of Mental Illness in Northern Illinois, Emily Jean Stephen

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The Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of inhibitors of The ISPF Enzyme in The MEP Pathway, Christopher G. Stewart

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

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ITA Language Proficiency Testing: Recommended Replacement For The Speak® Test, Anne Marie Stoughton

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Association Among Dispositional Mindfulness, attention Control, and Academic Achievement in Children, Dan V. Strissel

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Why Do Symbiodinium Migrate? Evolutionary Conflict in A Host-Symbiont Community, Jacey Lynn Strohecker

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

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A Climatology of Quasi-Linear Convective Systems in The U.S., Jacob Adam Strohm

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Magnetotransport in ZrTe5 Crystals, Maksim Andreevich Sultanov

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Exploring the Effectiveness of a Computer-Delivered Alcohol intervention in First-Generation College Students, Pamela Helen Taylor

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Are they activated? The study of age metastereotype activation in a workplace context, Courtney L. Thomas

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Prevalence of Condensed Tannins in The Diet and Its Impact on Protein intake of Diademed Sifakas (propithecus Diadema) at Tsinjoarivo, Madagascar, Emma Grace Thurau

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Investigation of An inquiry-Based Learning intervention on Undergraduate Saudi Women’s Critical Thinking Skills in An English as A Foreign Language Reading and Writing Class During The Preparatory Year, Rehabe Tikruni

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

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Funding and High School Student Achievement in the State of Illinois, Michael Edwin Tresnak

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Beyond a Language Boundary: Encounters with Silence and L1 Spanish-Speakers' Willingness to Communicate in English, John Turnbull

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Visualization of Large Time-Dependent Multidimensional Datasets Using information Dashboards, Ankita Upadhyay

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Fabrication of Ultra-Fine Cathodes For Cold-Field Emission, Srujana Valluri

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Biochemical and Biophysical Studies of Vision Loss: Cataract and Macular Degeneration, Michael C. Vega

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The Development of Scientific Reasoning: Children’s Evaluation of Experiments and Evidence, Taneisha Vilma

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The Petrogenesis of the No Agua High-Silica Rhyolite in the Taos Plateau Volcanic Field, Northern New Mexico, Kevin M. Voelz

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Iron Deficiency Anemia and Difficulty Concentrating in a Nationally Representative Sample of School-Aged Children in the United States., Elizabeth Jennifer Voyles

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Utilization of Superelectrophiles in Organic Synthesis, Hien Quoc Vuong

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Counselor Self-Efficacy Re-Examined: Components of Racial Identity Development and Impostor Phenomenon Among Counseling Graduate Students of Color, Erica Denise Wade

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Studies on Semiconductor Gas Sensors Using Nanostructure Growth Employing Ortho-Glancing Angle Deposition, Dean R. Walters

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

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Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Potential Burkholderia Pseudomallei ISPF inhibitors, Sydney Marie Watkins

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The Relationship of Transformative Learning Experiences on Multicultural Competency and Multicultural Self-Efficacy in Counselors in Training, Kristina Leigh Wilkerson

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Wellness in asexual-Identified individuals: The Impact of Social Support and Microaggressions, Elisa Marie Woodruff

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Nanomaterials of Iron Oxide, Boron, and Boron Nitride: on the Path to Magnetic Guided Bioconjugates for Medical Applications, John Ryan Wozny

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Knot Optimization For Univariate Cubic L^1 Spline Fits with Application in Change Point Detection, Manfei Xie

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Coupling Reactions of Triaryl Carbocations Via Cationic Charge Delocalization, Hongfang Xue

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Magnetoresistance in Non-Magnetic Semimetals and Quantum Wells, Jing Xu

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An Experimental Examination of Religious Teaching and Thought-Action Fusion, Johanna Anita Younce

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Implementation of The Shpb System For Material Property Test Under High Strain Rate Deformation, Jiaqi Zhu

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 Asiala

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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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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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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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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

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The effects of acute caffeine ingestion on repeated-sprint performance in college-aged non-athletes, Michael D. Belbis

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Anatomy of a precision grip in human and non-human primates, Caitlin Marie Bemis

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Capturing Burma : reactivating colonial photographic images through the British raj's gaze, Carmin Berchiolly

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Examining the influence of perceived school climate, anxiety, victimization experience, and observed defending on bystander behaviors during bullying, Trevor Bixler

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Diet and vegetation impacts of a reintroduced bison herd, Ryan Christopher Blackburn

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Tugging at time : the role of temporal processing in the organization of string-pulling, Ashley Blackwell

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The space-time continuum : examining the cortical contributions to spatial and temporal processing, Philip A. Blankenship

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Reconstructing Insect Pursuit Flight Kinematics in the Wild, Haribabu Boddeeti

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Study of the thermal conductivity in metal-coated carbon nanotubes using molecular dynamics atomistic simulations, Dinesh Kumar Bommidi

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"Paleobotic" Smilodon, Bernard Boston

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Testing the effects of expressive writing on PTSD symptom reduction : examining the role of event centrality, Derrecka Myschele Boykin

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From Chadha to Clinton : the Supreme Court in legislative process separation of powers cases, Christopher B. Brough

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Heteronormative consumptive patterns in American wedding media, Claire M. Buchanan

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Search for charged Higgs Bosons in the [tau]+lepton final state with 36.1 fb⁻¹ of pp collision data recorded at [square root]s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment, Blake Burghgrave

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Evolution of panic grasses (Panicoideae; Poaceae) : a plastome phylogenomic study, Sean Vincent Burke

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Oprah Winfrey and Shonda Rhimes : changing the faces and stories on contemporary American television, Caprice Butts

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“I’m Not a Traditional Teacher Anymore”: Ecuadoran Teacher Perspectives Regarding a US Professional Development Program, Gail Cappaert

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"I'm not a traditional teacher anymore" : Ecuadoran teacher perspectives regarding a US professional development program, Gail Boone Cappaert

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Gender differences in perceived barriers of aspiring superintendents, Maureen Cassidy

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Multifunctional nanocomposites in coating technology : synthesis, characterization, formulation, evaluation and application, Sudeshna Chakraborty

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Multifunctional Nanocomposites in Coating Technology: Synthesis, Characterization, Formulation, Evaluation and Application, Sudeshna Chakraborty

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Discovery and Study of Single-Phase and Single-Ion Manganese Perovskite Multiferroics, Kamal Chapagain

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Bayesian methods for optimal treatment allocation, Saptarshi Chatterjee

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Sentiments and asset markets, Haritima Chauhan

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Voluntary engagement and college retention : does the type of engagement predict retention for different types of students?, Sarah Louise Coley

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Voluntary Engagement and College Retention: Does the Type of Engagement Predict Retention for Different Types of Students?, Sarah Louise Coley