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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Why Terrorism Varies in Indonesia, Titik Firawati

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Groundwater Flow and Water Clarity at Cenotes In The Yucatan Peninsula, Laura Rossana Fracica Gonzalez

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Evaluation of Conservation Strategies for Blanding’s Turtles (Emydoidea blandingii), Callie Klatt Golba

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Longevity,Feeding Behavior, and Egg Production of Adult House Flies (Musca domestica) Provided with Potential Farm Foods, Anna Elise Grimenstein

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Feeling at Home in the Basic Communication Course: A Qualitative Case Study of Faculty and Student Perceptions of a Connected Classroom Climate at One Midwestern University, Cynthia A. Grobmeier

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NAVIGATING ACADEMIC ADVISING IN HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTIONS: CULTURAL COMPETENCIES, RESPONSIVENESS, AND STUDENT-CENTERED PRACTICES, Alicia Guzman-Riley

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Exploring How Out-of-Class Student Engagement Shapes Undocumented Students' Sense of Belonging, Taylor D. Hartman

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Implementing the Least Restrictive Environment Through Co-Teaching: The Role of Administrative Support, Maureen Hatfield

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A Comparison of Academic Achievement and Psychological Symptoms in Homeschooled and Traditionally Schooled Children: Accounting for Demographic and Family Characteristics, Lauren Elizabeth Hauck

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Implementing the Self-Assessment Melanoma Risk Scoring in Primary Care, Amanda D. Hays

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IN ORDER FOR MY VOICE TO BE HEARD, I HAD TO CREATE MY OWN SPACE: A CRITICAL NARRATIVE ANALYSIS OF BLACK COLLEGE STUDENT SUCCESS IN CREATIVE MAJORS, Rachel Horton

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Evaluating Computational Reproducibility of Jupyter Notebooks Using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, A S M Shahadat Hossain

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Enhancing Usability In Aviation: Insights From User Experience Studies, Jennifer Ann Howard

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Studies Towards Mechanistic Understanding of the Suzuki-Miyaura Catalyst-Transfer Polymerization, Mitchell Tyler Howell

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Assessing Fixed-Node Diffusion Monte Carlo for Radical Polymerization Reaction Energetics, Timothy Brian Huber

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LEAN ON ME: THE IMPORTANCE OF AN INFORMAL SOCIAL SUPPORT GROUP FROM THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE WORKPLACE FOR BLACK WOMEN DOCTORAL STUDENTS (BWDS) TO FOSTER DEGREE COMPLETION, Terrica J. Huntley

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Assessing the Relationship Between Neighborhood Inequality and Stem Employment for Underrepresented Minorities with Stem Degrees, Brian P. Hurley

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A Wasteside Story: Establishment and Evolution of a Wastewater Surveillance Lab, through the Pandemic and Beyond, Syed Shahrukh Hyder

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Measuring Interprofessional Practice Skills in Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Students, Kelly Free Jackson

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An Exploration of the Sense of Belonging for African American Women Licensed Clinicians in a Voluntary Professional Counseling Organization, Raushanah Jackson

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Explore the Relationship Between Birth Order and Level of Differentiation of Self, Ruchika Jain

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Defending Behavior in Bullying: Moral Disengagement, Defender Self-Efficacy, Student-Student Relationship Quality and Student-Teacher Closeness, Ruth Jeong

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Tax Policy and Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries, Lulu Kafunda

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Improving Utilization of Nonpharmacological Interventions in Adult Oncology Patients, Alison Keck

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Does Path Matter?: A Quantitative Study Examining Mathematics Course-Taking Patterns and Degree or Transfer Attainment, Jacqueline Kraus

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Online Education and Lessons Learned In K-12 Urban Schools During The Pandemic Era: A Three-Article Study on Students’ Views, Principals’ Views, and Factors Impacting Student Achievement, Michael Kuran

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Pathology and Diagnosis in Inflammatory-Related Diseases: COVID-19 and Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Zane Russell Lacasse

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AI-Based Defect Detection in Aerospace Ultrasonic Signals, Rami Issac Lake

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"IT’S HARD TO BE AN ENEMY OF STUDENT SUCCESS”: A QUALITATIVE CASE STUDY OF A CULTURAL SHIFT TOWARDS STUDENT SUCCESS, Lisa R. Lawless

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Helicopter Teaching from the Student Perspective: An Application of Rhetorical and Relational Goals Theory, Denise Victoria Lee

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Self-Compassion Intervention for Shame in Trauma-Exposed Gender and Sexual Minorities, Kyla A. Leonard

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Digital Art in a High School Art Classroom: Entanglements and Becomings, Nicholas Garrison Leonard

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Magnetometer-Less State-Estimation of a Mobile Robot Using Cascaded Kalman Filters, Tommy Le

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GMM and Asset Pricing Model, Yuzhou Liu

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THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL: SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS’ MOTIVATION FOR SCHOOL GOVERNANCE, Andrew Lobdell

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Understanding the Effects of Organizational and Individual Level Motivations on Impression Formation for Persons with Disabilities in the Workplace, Lauren Francesca Luchetti

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Essays on Computational and Financial Economics, Mohammadreza Mahmoudi

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Faculty Perceptions and Integration of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Programs Designed for Adult Learners, Jennifer Mattingly

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The Choice is Hers: Floral Preference and Habitat Use of Early Season Queen Bumble Bees In Restored Ecosystems, Kathryn E. Mccabe

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Adult Attachment as Moderating Variable for Parental Burnout, Janell McCann

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An Exploration of Factors Influencing Emerging Adults’ Decision-Making Regarding Family Intentionality, Samantha Mckee

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Building from the Family Stress Model: Examining the Role of Maternal Impulsivity and Neighborhood Collective Efficacy On Adolescent Psychological Symptoms, Lauren Therese Mcneela

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EXAMINING ONBOARDING PRACTICES IN SCHOOL SETTINGS: A SELF-DETERMINATION THEORY PERSPECTIVE, Gabriel Medina

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Examining Relations Among Educator Demands, Burnout, and Engagement: Work Recovery as a Moderator During Covid-19, Kellie Menter

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DNA i-Motifs: Biophysical Characterization and Structure-Property Correlation as Foundation for Functional Material Design, Alexander Minasyan

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Implementation of the Stop the Bleed Program at a Local Park District, Emily J. Minerva

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Minor Parties in America: National Failure, Some Localized Success, Eman J. Mohammad

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Explicit Proximal Gradient Methods: Bridging Theory and Practice in Optimization, Cassandra Mohr

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The Damaging Dichotomy of Acculturation in Short Stories By U.S. Immigrant and Minority Authors, Max Molchan

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A Mindfulness Approach to Regulate Depressive-Associated Emotional Eating, Jillian G. Montefusco

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Community College Library Technical Assistant Students’ Experiences with Student-to-Student Engagement in Asynchronous Online Courses: A Qualitative Case Study, Amanda Musacchio

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Genomic Clustering and Comparative Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Subvariants in Year 2022, Fatemeh Nazaritiji

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Forecasting The One Month Ahead Joint Distribution of The Carhart Four Factor Model Using a Copula Method, Michael Nebor

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The Impact of Political Content Consumption From Tiktok on Civic Engagement and online Political Participation Among Gen Zs - A Case Study In Cambodia, Menghieng Ngov

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Journalists’ Perception of Artificial Intelligence: the Case of Nigerian Newsrooms, Amaka Peace Onebunne

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Clinical Reasoning Development: Exploring The Role of Instructor Feedback During Health Professions Clinical Education Experiences, Ryan T. Orrison

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Netflix as A Transverse Transnational Media In Southeast Asia: Exploring the Philippine Context, Lady Aileen Ambion Orsal

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A Qualitative Study Investigating Instructors’ Post Pandemic Teaching Using Synchronous Online Learning and their Intention to Use Emotion Artificial Intelligence, Adeolu Tolu Ebenezer Oyebode

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Beyond Combat: Moral Injury Exposure In officer and Enlisted Marine Veterans With Diverse Deployment Histories and The Relationship With Posttraumatic Growth, Hira Jean Byrne Paulin

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Teachers' Perceptions Regarding Legal Literacy Surrounding Student Discipline in Illinois, Ayla Peczkowski

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Latine Caregiver Perspectives of Their Child’s Speech and Language Services, Marisol Perez

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TEACHER PERCEPTION ON ROLE STRAIN, SELF-EFFICACY, AND CLASS COMPOSITION: A CLOSER LOOK AT THE IMPACT ON K-5 TEACHERS’ REMOTE TEACHING EXPERIENCES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, Suzana TS Thomas Peterson

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The DNA Double Stranded Break Damage Response of U87 GBM Cells Following Irradiation Treatment, Emma Louisa Planck

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SEL WALKTHROUGHS: PROMOTING PRACTICES THAT FOSTER SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING, Garrett Podgorski

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The Impact of Rater Training and MFRM on Rater Effects for Direct Behavior Ratings Over Time, Abigail Pruitt

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Amazing Or Awful? The Role of Message Frames In Expectancy-Value Based Weight Management Intentions, Xuan Qian

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Bayesian Analyses for Time-Varying Data and Opinion Dynamics, Torin Quinlivan

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Reinterpreting Fort Ancient Plant Relationships Through Native Science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Bailey Rae Raab

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“WE ARE ALL SORT OF FIGURING IT OUT TOGETHER”: A CASE STUDY ON HOW AN EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING COURSE SHAPES CAREER READINESS FOR PHOTOGRAPHY STUDENTS, Rebecca Reuland

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A CASE STUDY OF INSTRUCTOR EXPERIENCES TEACHING IN THE HYFLEX MODALITY AT A MIDWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN A POST-PANDEMIC CONTEXT, Jaime Riewerts Budziak

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(Agri)cultural Activism: The Role of Pgaz K’nyau Karen Youth in Sustaining Rotational Farming in Thailand, Mitchell Rigert

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Exploration of Associations Between Asthma and Depression in Older American Adults: A Pooled Cross-Sectional Analysis of Medicare Recipients, Brian Ring

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Expressive Writing Rooted in Self-Determination Theory: an Intervention for Racial Trauma, Diana A. Robinson

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On the Ground and from Above: A Multi-Factor Analysis of the Direct and Indirect Drivers of Tallgrass Prairie Small Mammal Communities, Erin Rowland-Schaefer

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COLLEGE FRESHMAN OR COLLEGE JUNIOR? A PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE EXPERIENCES OF DUAL-ENROLLED STUDENTS WHO COMPLETE AN ASSOCIATE’S DEGREE WHILE IN HIGH SCHOOL AND ATTEND A PUBLIC 4-YEAR UNIVERSITY, Shari K. Ruehling

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Three Essays on the Impact of Debt on Young American Adults’ Lives after Graduation, Sylvie Sanou

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Perceptions of Lightboard Videos on Engineering Students' Engagement for Learning: A Mixed-Methods Case Study, Rana Sanyal

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A One-Wheeled Robot for Exploring Rolling Disk Locomotion, David H. J. Schmidt

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Examining the Rockford Public Schools' Master Scheduling Process as an Open System to Achieve Sustainability, Renee E K Schott

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The Influence of Media Usage on the Outcome of Social Movement Campaigns in Southeast Asia, Rothsethamony Seng

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Ascertaining a Biochemical Approach to Chlorophyll d Biosynthesis in Acaryochloris spp., Rashmi Shivni

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Service Employees' Occupation-Based Metaperceptions and Coworker Support: A Self-Verification Perspective, Nicholas A. Smith

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After the Collapse: Herman Melville’s and Friedrich Nietzsche's Existentialism, Ryan L. Smith

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The Human Faces of Dissident Socialism: the Fight for Human Rights in Soviet Ukraine, Alexander Nicholas Sosenko

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Low Back Pain and the Lumbar Multifidus Muscle, Richard E. Sroka

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Will the Real J.G. Ballard Please Stand Up?, Scott Richard Stalcup

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RESEARCH-BASED ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS (ELA) INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES: CHARACTERISTICS OF EFFECTIVE ELA INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES THAT DRIVE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IN TITLE I SCHOOL DISTRICTS, TeQuila Stamps

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Julia Limiting Directions of Quasiregular Maps, Julie Marie Steranka

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Chamber Tone Poems at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: How the Harp Contributed to their Development, Abigail Hughes Stoner

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IODP U1537: Scotia Sea Climatic and Frontal Variation Reflected in Diatom Productivity and Assemblages Since the LGM, Garrett Lewis Strittmatter

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The Expansion of Social Assistance Programs: the Politics of Development in Bangladesh, Sumaya Tamanna

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THE COMPLEXITIES OF DISPROPORTIONALITY IN A LARGE URBAN SCHOOL DISTRICT: A LOOK INTO DISTRICT INTERVENTIONS AND IDENTIFICATION PROCESSES, Linnie Tennile Tarrant

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AN ANALYSIS OF K-8 SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION: UNDERSTANDING THE NEED, GAUGING THE EFFECTIVENESS, AND DEFINING BEST PRACTICE, LeeAnn D. Taylor

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The Surge of College-Credit Accumulation in Early College Programs: Understanding Early College Program Advising, Alexandria Terrazas

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The Gentle Powers: the Importance of Unmarried Women in the Middlebrow Novels of Interwar Britain, Caitriona Terry

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Re-Feminizing the Divine: Understanding the Cultural Constructs of Gender and Sexuality in a Church-Based Christian Community, Cameron K. Thomas

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There is No Substitute for a Lifetime: A Study of Metaphor and Linguistic Autonomy in the Lives and Works of Selected American Poets, Richard Tony Thompson

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Bidirectional In-Situ Analysis and Visualization of Fluid Structure Interactions with Applications in Blood Flow, Nazariy Tishchenko

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SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGETING: HOW SCHOOL PRINCIPALS’ LACK OF BUDGET KNOWLEDGE CAN LEAD TO NEGATIVE IMPACT ON FUNDING, Maria Treto-French

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INVESTIGATING THE PERCEPTIONS OF THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE OF SHELTERED INSTRUCTION OBSERVATION PROTOCOL (SIOP) IN A PK-8TH GRADE DISTRICT, Joseph Trsar