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

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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Study Protocol to Analyze the Effects of Occupational Exoskeleton Use on Balance Control, Vishnu Sai Prabhakarababu

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Late Holocene Terrestrial Hydroclimate Reconstructions from Central and South American Sites, Brittany N. Price

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Exploring Veteran Teachers’ Implementation of Social Emotional Learning Interventions, Timothy Pritchard

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Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for N-acetyl-glucosamine production, Anica Tasnim Protity

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A Survey Research Study of Conference attendance and Change: What Do Educators Gain From Anti-Bias/anti-Racist Professional Development?, Erin Rae

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A State Space Modeling Approach to EEG Artifact Removal, Patrick B. Rafael

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Shop Talk: Decreasing The School-to-Prison Pipeline for African American Male Students, Treveda Michelle Redmond

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Cybervictimization and Depression In adolescence: an analysis of anxiety, Social Media Rumination, and Gender, Logan Riffle

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Feedback in Context: A Case Study of Students’ Perceptions of The Role, Value, and Use of Instructor Feedback in A College Writing Course, Susan J. Roach

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The Quality of Centers of Teaching and Learning: What We See and What We Don’t, Darrell H. Robin

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The Relationship Between attributes of mHealth App Acceptability and The Likelihood of Mhealth App Adoption in The 18–19-Year-Old College Freshman, Celeste Rochelle

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Interactions of Sexuality Training, Sexual Awareness, and Comfort With Sexual Discourse in Counselors-in-Training, Katie Adeline Rodenkirch

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Assessing Engagement in Bully Participant Behaviors for Children and adolescents with autism Spectrum Disorder, Dashae Rodriguez-Harris

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"It solidified my position that I should be in science": a case study on how participating in a STEM Intervention Program influences the science identity development of low-income students in STEM at a community college., Manuel Rodriguez

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Sampling Methods and Transportation analysis of Shipping Containers, Omar Roman-Sanchez

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Global Perspective inventory Analysis on international Education Experience: Differences Between Colombian Mba Alumni Who Participated in A Dual Degree Program and Those Who Did Not, Luis N. Romero

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Who Helps The Helper? a Phenomenology of The Impact of Secondary Trauma During Covid-19 on Student affairs Professionals In Dean of Students offices, Case Management Roles, Residential Housing and Cultural Resource Centers, Jeffrey M. Salmon

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The Impact of Credit on Domestic investment: Case of West African Economic and Monetary Union Countries, Sylvie Sanou

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Investigating Changes in Permeability Caused By The Transport and Retention of Microplastics in Saturated Sand Columns, Iliansherry Santiago

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Enhanced Maximum Likelihood Models for Underreported Variables: Extending to Multiple Claims Dimension, Shalaka Sudhanshu Sarpotdar

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The Effects of Prenatal and Perinatal Alcohol Exposure on Adult Mouse Behavior, Ericka Ann Schaeffer

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An Experimental investigation of Gold incorporated into Bornite, intermediate Solid Solution (iss), and Pyrrhotite: Implications for Porphyry Ore Deposits, Carli Lynn Schmidt

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Well-Being in Graduate Health Professions Education: Exploration of Programmatic interventions, The Student Experience, and Students’ Support Preferences, Katherine Schultz

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Self-Reported Tea Consumption and Age-Related Macular Degeneration in U.S. Adults, Lindsey Halasz Shaffer

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Modeling Spatial Access to Healthcare, Yaxiong Shao

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Identification of Rickettsia Prowazekii Methionine aminopeptidase Inhibitors and Development of Thermal Shift assays for Burkholderia Pseudomallei Ispf and Sars-Cov-2 3CL Protease, Ishpriya Sharma

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Exploration of the Influence of Perceived Discrimination and Academic Stress on Dating Satisfaction For College Students of Color, Jahleel D. Shepherd

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Orphan Hermeneutics: Refashioning archetypes In 19th-Century Epic Prose Fiction, John David Sieker

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Exploring beaver-facilitated restoration in grassland channelized streams, Jessica L. Sikora

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The Impact of Faculty Composition on Cost Per Student: A Mixed Model Approach, Arun Sleeba

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Part Design Geometry-Driven toolpath Optimization for Additive Manufacturing Energy Sustainability Improvement, David Kolawole Somade

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Essays on Parental Migration in China and Performance of Two Asset Pricing Models, Yuqing Song

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Buddhism and its Role in Khmer Chicagoland: to be Khmer is to be Buddhist., Linna Sophea

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Marginalized Community College Students' Perspectives of their First Time in Honors and Experiences with Tracking, Trina Sotirakopulos

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Local Radio Journalists’ Usage and Perception of Artificial Intelligence in The Production of Local News, Imani Nia Springer-Norris

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Examination of Food Allergy Accommodations, Barriers, Improvements, and Food service on College Campus Dining Services, Krista Stawarz

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Immigrants or Prostitutes? "White Slavery" Panics and Reform in France, England, and the United States, 1885-1915, Journey Steward

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Historical and Potential Future Climate of Extreme Daily Precipitation over the Contiguous United States Using Convection-Permitting Simulations, Sylvia Stinnett

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Othello as a Political Commentary on "the Myth of Venice", Alejandro Tamayo

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A High-Precision Electron Emission Model: Computational Methods for Nanoscale Structures, Alister J. Tencate

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Effects of Weight Bias Internalization on Disordered Eating, Dieting, and Intuitive Eating in College Students, Stacia Tietje

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Mechanical Behavior of Metallic Core-Shell Nanoparticles Under Compressive Loading, Phillip Tomich

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No More Prolonging Students’ Sense of Belonging: A Content Analysis on the Issues and Resolutions Regarding Discriminatory School Discipline Outcomes for Students of Color, Taren Renee Turner

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Diffuse Scattering and 3D-∆PDF Analyses: Order-Disorder Phase Transitions in (sr1−xcax)3rh4sn13 And Nano2, Puspa Upreti

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Effectiveness of the Catch (coordinated Approach to Child’s Health) Rainbow Program in Elementary Schools for Change in Fruit and Vegetable Intake, Ashley M. Valinskas

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Variation in Growth Over Time of Minority Religious Groups in the Philippines, Janet Vallejo

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Children's Evaluations of Observable vs. Unobservable Properties During Scientific Reasoning, Taneisha Vilma

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Physical Therapy and Caregiver Burden: A Mixed Methods Design, Jamie S. Way

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Covid-19 online Learning: Characteristics and Perceptions of Newly Struggling High School Students, Kristine Webster

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A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Factors Associated with Burnout Among Early Childhood Education and Care Providers, Lee Wells

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Is Special Education Effective? a Propensity Score Weighting analysis in Elementary School, Moira Wendel

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Faculty Engagement with Universal Design for Learning in the College Classroom, Erin Wilhelm

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Chevrel Phase Materials for Electrocatalytic Chemical Conversion, Fan Xia

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Verification of Proton Range Predictions in Proton Treatment Planning Using X-Ray CT or Proton CT Imaging, Nicholas S. Yee

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Impact of Text Complexity Effects across Student Reading Skills, Esther H. Yi

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Examining Measurement Invariance of The Pios and Pios-R across Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Groups, Johanna Anita Younce

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Historical and Future Projections of Supercell Precipitation Contributions to the Hydroclimate of the United States, Aaron Zeeb

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The Mediating Roles of Maternal Psychological Distress and Parenting on The association Between Intimate Partner Violence and Adolescent Delinquent Behavior, Sophie K. Zolinski

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

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Exploring The intersection of Nursing Home Culture, Improvement, and Documentation-Related attitudes, Hannah Joy Baker

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Validation of pRMR Equations in a Non-Caucasian Sample – Ethnicity as a Variable in Predicting Resting Metabolic Rate, Erin N. Bannister

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Creating a Sense of Belonging for Latinx Students in Community College: You Matter, You Fit in, and You Belong, Francisco Javier Bataz

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An investigation of the Sled-Push Exercise in Older Adults: Physiological Quantification, Perceived Enjoyment and Body Discomfort, Micheal A. Baumann

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A Machine Learning Approach to Intended Motion Prediction for Upper Extremity Exoskeletons, Justin Berdell

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A Semiotic Phenomenology of Consumptive Pedagogy By College instructors in a General Education Program, Giselle L. Betts

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African American Men in Higher Education: The intersection of Career Development and Educational Success, LaMar Black

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Mentoring Novice Special Education Teachers: A Case Study of Educative Mentors’ Perceptions, Sherry L. Bochenek

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Collaboration Literacy in Technical Communication: Using Workplace-Based Teamwork Practices and Technologies to Teach Distributed Knowledge Work, Marcy Bock Eastley

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Evaluating Holocene Precipitation Variability in the Baltic Region Using Oxygen Isotopes of Lacustrine Carbonate from Estonia, Maxwell Gordon Boes

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The Relationship Between the Diversity of Illinois Community College Staff and Graduates: An Exploratory Quantitative Study, Rachel Boldman

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Do People Want to be Designated as a High Potential? The Relationship Between Designation, Managerial Aspirations, Leader Development Efficacy, and Task Persistence., Alexandria Brown

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Leadership Styles of Doctor of Physical Therapy Program Directors, Dawn Sunshine Brown

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The Political Power of Religious Elites in Shaping Restrictive Reproductive Policies: A Comparative Analysis of Poland and Indonesia, Patricia Buczynski

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Public Health and Civic Engagement, Bryan M. Bulger

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In Search of a Homeland: Jewish-American Women Writers and their Struggle with Cultural Alienation, Alisa K. Burris

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Postsecondary Course-Taking and Academic Performance of Transitional Math Completers: A Quantitative Study of Students in Illinois, Gina Caronna

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Transportation: The Obstacle that Impacts Employment, Postsecondary Education, and independent Living for People with Disabilities, Danielle Carter

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Understanding the Lived Experiences of Counselors-in-Training in a Trauma Certificate Program, Mike Caverly

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Instructors’ and Students’ attitudes and Practices towards Using Critical Pedagogy in Taiwan, Chiaping Jennifer Chang

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informative G-Prior for Linear Models, Yu-Fang Chien

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Caregivers’ inclination to See Their Children as Psychological Agents and Its Antecedents: A Cross-Cultural Study of Parental Bonding, Reflective Functioning, and Maternal Mind-Mindedness, Chun-Hao Chiu

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Analysis of Sunscreens and Antibiotics in Groundwater During The Covid-19 Pandemic in The Riviera Maya, Mexico, Jackie Cooney

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State Divestment in Higher Education and Students of Color attending Four-Year Public institutions in Illinois, Sirena M. Covington

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Elementary School Staff Perceptions of ALICE Active Shooter Training, Jennifer Tavine Craig

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Underlying Factors of Laboratory Safety Behaviors in College Students Using The Theory of Planned Behavior and Risk Perceptions, Michele M. Crase

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The Ecology and Dispersal of The Avian Vampire Fly in Its Native and invasive Ranges, Carly M. Crow

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Examining Teaching Styles and Classroom Management Through The Lens of Self-Determination Theory: Implications For Race, Culture and Discipline, Peter J. Cunningham

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A Qualitative Case Study Examining Women of Color’s Experiences as They Pursue A Criminal Justice Degree, David John Dammon II