Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Associations between eating behaviors and body image of women during the postpartum period, Erika Oltmanns
A multiple case study : gauging the effects of poverty on school readiness amongst preschoolers, Melissa J. Onesto
Old English elegies : language and genre, Stephanie Opfer
Sequential Monte Carlo macroeconometrics, Shawn Osell
Severity of illness, parenting, and child psychological adjustment : exploring the associations among mothers with multiple sclerosis, Emily Elizabeth Padgett
Core leadership practices or prior classroom teaching experience and their value when hiring building principals, Patti Palagi
Does evaluation affect teacher self-efficacy? : a qualitative investigation into the effects of evaluation on teachers' sense of efficacy, Anthony J. Palmisano
Role of urdA in regulation of development and secondary metabolism in Aspergillus nidulans, Sandesh S. Pandit
The foundations of modern democracy : Machiavelli and the pursuit of greatness, Katherine Paton
Approximate Bayesian computation in nonparametric Bayesian models, Erina Paul
A comparison of variance and Renyi's entropy with application to machine learning, Adric M. Peccarelli
The art of transformational leadership : a study of Sun Tzu's strategic philosophy applied to managing civil service employees, Jesus N. Perez
Helping users learn about social processes while learning from users : developing a positive feedback in social computing, Venkata Sai Sriram Pillutla
Theories impacting art foundations course descriptions in the United States, Alyson Pouls
"Invisible knapsacks" in education : an autoethnography of privilege and power dynamics in higher education, Elyzia Powers
Beyond feeding the multitude : international nongovernmental organizations and local food systems in Southwestern Haiti, Heather M. Prentice-Walz
Grit, goal importance, and construals, Robert Pulvermacher
Teachers' strategies for involving parents in the development of their children's literacy skills, Sadia Qamar
Synthetic methods involving cationic electrophiles and intermediates, Ahmad Fawzi Qarah
Atomic simulation of scratch behavior of ceramic-metal nanolaminates, Adnan Rasheed
Thermal analysis of selective laser melting (SLM) process for metallic additive manufacturing, Shiva Ratakonda
Rapport-development practices of outstanding college faculty, Robert A. Remedi
Creative convergence in practice and its effects on higher education : a mixed-methods, neopragmatist study examining media arts, Terre Layng Rosner
Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign narrative and the perceptions of the American people, Paige Russell
Survival analysis with Bayesian additive regression trees and its application, Satabdi Saha
Hydraulic bulge testing to determine the formability of 38-micron commercially pure grade 2 titanium foil, Greg Sassi
The American Adam in New Hollywood : Warren Beatty in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), Maggie Scanlan
Synthetic methods development with electrophiles, Mark N. Schaeff
Principals' perceptions of working with suburban elementary students from poverty, Kathryn M. Schafermeyer
A study of first-grade teachers using instructional technology for literacy instruction : the contributing factors, Teresa C. Schneider
An investigation of elementary school principals' self-efficacy beliefs, their goal expectations of student achievement, and their impact on student achievement, Paul D. Schrik Sr.
Pre-eruptive constraints for two neighboring volcanic systems in Southwestern Guatemala, Andrew Schwoerer
Using GRASP to minimize the number of tardy jobs in a two-stage flowshop with batch processing machines, Joshua Screnock
Student engagement : an application of the theory of planned behavior, Max A. Seisser V
The impact of mindfulness meditation on fear load and fear inhibition : examining parasympathetic activation as an underlying mechanism, Antonia Victoria Seligowski
Design and analysis of CRV components in the Fermilab Mu2e experiment, Jaime M. Serrano Zaldo
Analysis of audio fingerprinting techniques, Satish Kumar Siva Sankaran
Nanoscale deformation mechanisms in bulk hexagonal hydroxyapatite and effect of defects on mechanical properties, Alexander D. Snyder
The Epic of 1804 : based upon and incorporating an English translation of Maurice A. Sixto's J'ai venge la race, Myriam Souffrant
Memes and 4chan and haters, oh my! : rhetoric, identity, and online aggression, Erika M. Sparby
Optimization of process parameters for commercially pure titanium in the laser engineered net shaping process, Adam N. Springer
Feline and canine figures in the art of Teotihuacan, Mexico : a review and reassessment of major interpretations of predatory animal imagery in the city of the gods, Charles R. Stapleton
First world problems : neocolonial discourse in contemporary american literature, Tracy Stephens
Conscripting Billy Yank and Johnny Reb : the plight and consequence of conscription dodgers, disruptors, and resisters, Victoria Bryant Stewart
Education impacts of zero-tolerance expulsions on now-incarcerated individuals, John D. Suarez
Flow characterization and stability analysis in rectangular lid-driven cavities with particle suspensions, Abhishek Sunkavalli
Getting out the vote : studying the influence of social pressure on registered non-voters, Michael Sweeney
Race, gender, and the stigma of homelessness, Jeff Syverson
Documenting indigenous Tagbanua practices that support environmental conservation in Palawan, Philippines, Shannon E. Thomas
Development of boron-arsenide-based composites as thermal interface materials for high power generating electronics modules, Vignesh Varadaraju
Effect of nutrition and growth conditions on d-cycloserine sensitivity of Escherichia coli, Poornima Vasireddy
The effect of titanium dioxide nanoparticles on the phase diagrams and thermophysical properties of nitrate molten salts, Vamshidhar Reddy Vedire
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow : a study of Aurelio Tolentino's articulation of nationalism and identity through theatre in the Philippines during the American colonial period, Lily Ann Bolo Villaraza
Interplay of structure and dynamics in biomaterials, Preeti Vodnala
The use of choice to reduce negative reactions to online interstitial advertising, Paul Vogt
Principal motivation in the era of accountability, Matthew Vosberg
Reactions to age metastereotypes in the workplace : challenge, threat, and boost, Elora C. Voyles
The effect of whole-language ICALL programs on student achievement scores, Jeffrey Ware
Exploring the transition experiences of first generation adult learners to undergraduate education : a qualitative case study, Russell D. Wartalski
School librarians' self-efficacy in the multiple literacies : a mixed-methods study, Kristina J. Weber
Structural evolution and paleohydrology of a tertiary salt weld, Willouran Ranges, South Australia, Nicholas James Williams
Individual differences in the relevancy effect, James Woehrle
Natural language processing and syntactic differentiation : a corpus case study, Melissa Wright
The effects of postactivation potentiation on subsequent 40-yard sprint performance in 16- to 23-year-old male athletes, Cody James Yates
Battery storage performance analysis using multiphysics simulation through application builder and data analytics, Tejasree Yenigalla
Shared enthusiasm : social cohesion within anime fandom, Michael A. Yergin
An examination of parental perceptions of standards-based report cards, Erik Christian Youngman
Study of wear on square-shaped die during deep drawing of an anisotropic sheet, Syed Zakrea
Octopus moms : the lived experiences of college students who are mothers, Jill Zambito
Perpetrators, rescuers, scapegoats, and secondary witnesses : representations of the Nanjing massacre in Chinese American literature, Xiaoling Zhang
Ability group configuration for the high school physics classroom, Scott Zitnik
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Silicon and oxygen isotopes in diatom silica as a paleoenvironmental proxy from a pliocene Antarctic marine sediment core, Tirzah M. Abbott
A covert war at sea : piracy and political economy in Malaya, 1824-1874, Scott C. Abel
The stability of symmetrical flows in lid-driven cavities with particle suspensions, Morakinyo Adesemowo
The politics of natural resource use : a comparative study of forest exploitation in Indonesia and Cambodia, Azriansyah Achdiat Agoes
Value-at-risk (VaR) estimation with extreme mixture model and backtesting diagnostics, Rexford M. Akakpo
Minimizing total number of tardy jobs on a single batch processing machine by greedy randomized adaptive search procedure with path relinking, Panteha Alipour
Solar Photovoltaic (PV) array under partial shading conditions, Belqasem Aljafari
Gender differences in attitudes toward online training in Qatar private institutions, Manal Ibrahim Alkarzon
Coarse grained modeling of directed assembly to form functional nanoporous films, Amir Al Khatib
The indirect effect of social support on PTSD through self-blame in sexual assault survivors and the moderating role of gender, Christy E. Allen
Investigating the determinants of mobile learning acceptance in higher education in Saudi Arabia, Hamed Al-Shahrani
The outermost court : gentiles in Mormon Zion, 1831-1869, Christopher W. Anderson
The lived experiences of Bulgarian immigrants in the Chicagoland area : their perceptions of work, Iva Ventzislavova Angelova
Adding mental health to the treatment of mental illness : a qualitative content analysis of the construction of recovery in psychiatric journals, 1990-2016, Amy Ann Armstrong
