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

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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Behavioral Responses to Chronic and Acute Stressors in Prairie Voles, Yessenia Chavez

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Parental Psychological Control and Adolescents' Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety: Investigating the Mediating Role of Emotional Regulation and the Moderating Role of Peer Social Support, Shiyuan Chen

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Classic Taíno Foodways and Ritual Practices: a Comparative Paleoethnobotanical Analysis from Cinnamon Bay, St. John, Anna N. Chitwood

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Diatom Productivity and Nutrient Dynamics in the Ross Sea, Antarctica During Warm Events in the Neogene, Marialena Christopoulou

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Effect of Relationship Motivation on CNM Relationship Satisfaction, Keigan Clark

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How Students on a Healthcare Track Value Learning Communication Skills, Christina M. Cline

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Promoting Cultural Competence through Clinical Education, Katie Coakley

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Inhaling the Unseen: Exploring the Presence of Microplastics in the Human Respiratory Tract, Kara Coffman-Rea

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Integrating Higher Order Fear-Based Psychopathology and RDoC’s Acute Threat Subconstruct, Travis Cole

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POINT BREAK: EXPLORING ASSOCIATIONS OF BURNOUT, LOCUS OF CONTROL, AND ENGAGEMENT IN THE PRINCIPALSHIP, Matt Condon

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DRIVING ON EMPTY: EXPLORING PRINCIPAL BURNOUT AND INTENT TO TURNOVER, Colleen Cook

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The Future of Convective Mode in the United States, Jeremy Malcolm Corner

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Queering The Future through Speculative Drag: Posthumanism, Critique, and Queer Worldbuilding in the Art of Devan Shimoyama, Maximiliano Mamani, and Sin Wai Kin, Finley Hayes Cowlishaw

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Academic Grouping and School Sense of Belonging: an Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of Middle School Student Voices, Kevin Cox

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How Middle-Grade Students Navigate the School Library and Grade-Level Reading Classroom to Support Their Independent Reading and Literate Selves, Laura Crisp

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Microwave Simulations of a Beam Position Monitor and Circuit Designs assisting its Beam Testing, Marc Jacob Crowell

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The Role of osaA Gene in Aspergillus fumigatus Development, Secondary Metabolism and Virulence., Apoorva Dabholkar

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Mixed Mechanisms of Multi-Site Phosphorylation, Suha Jayyousi Dajani

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Full Plate Living-Teaching Kitchen: A Sustainable Approach to Employee Health, Amy M. Daniel

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MENTORSHIP MATTERS: SHAPING TOMORROW'S LEADERS TODAY, Thomas Davidson

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Explicit and Implicit: Traumatized Cognitions and Identities, Brandon Michael Davis

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LEARNING TO LEAD WITH AN EQUITY LENS: A CASE STUDY OF A PRINCIPAL RESIDENCY PROGRAM, Maurice L. Davis

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Design and Analysis of Coupler Installation Tooling with Computer Vision for Fermilab’s Single Spoke Resonator 2 SRF Cavity, Caleb T. Denton

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Lived Experiences of Latino/a/x Students at Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions in the Midwestern United States, Elizabeth Depew

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A Braven New World: A Qualitative Case Study of Career Readiness Efforts on Career Identity and Career Self-Efficacy for Students at a 4-Year Public University, Catherine W. Doederlein

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Standardizing the Discharge Process to Reduce COPD Readmission Rates, Kristine Doligosa

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Investigating Teacher and Student Perceptions of the Impact of Chatgpt in the Classroom, Esther Abla Dorgbefu

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Design and Performance of Superconducting Switches for Nanowire Detectors in Magnetic Fields, Timothy James Draher

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Maternal Cumulative Trauma and Child Externalizing Behavior: Indirect Pathways Through Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Parenting Behaviors, Chynna Michelle Dubuclet

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Civic Engagement & Health Outcomes: Poor and Black America, Robert Louis Durbin

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Through the Lens of TikTok: A New Perspective to Improving Food and Nutrition Literacy in Adolescents, Devin Kathleen Ebeling-Hammond

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Tracing Past Climate Signals Through Multi-Proxy Analysis: Insights from Sedimentary Plant Wax Hydrogen Isotope Data and Long-Term Hydroclimate Records in Estonia, Mariliis Eensalu

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You Belong Here: How The African American Success Unit Supports A Sense Of Belonging For Black Men At An Urban Institution In Chicago, Joyce Elam

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Bilingual Students' Language Use, Identity, and Investment in Dual Language Classrooms, Stephanie Eller

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Warm Unit Stand assembly and Testing For Proton Improvement Project Ii, Christopher Allen English

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GUERRERAS (WOMEN WARRIORS): LATINA FACULTY UTILIZING THEIR CULTURAL CAPITAL TO ADVANCE TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE, Dora E. Escobar

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Essays on Institutions and Business Performance in a Less-Developed Economy, Obinna Franklin Ezeibekwe

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The Effects of Bureaucratic Corruption on the Financial Constraints of Nigerian Small Businesses, Obinna Franklin Ezeibekwe

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Producing Biocomposites from Hemp Residues, Mohammad Faghani

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Applying Synchrotron SAXS and XAS To Study The Microstructure of Energy Conversion and Storage Materials, Lingzhe Fang

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Gas-Phase Mass Spectrometry Studies of Ternary Metal Carboxylate Complexes, Anthony James Fanizza

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The Energetics of Seasonality in Wild Diademed Sifaka (Propithecus diadema): A Technical and Biological Validation of Fecal Triiodothyronine Radioimmunassay, Casey Farmer

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Superelectrophile Promoted Syntheses of Aromatic Spirocycles, Jeffrey Caz Ferreira

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Providing Medication Reconciliation through a Post-discharge Follow-up Phone Call to Prevent 30-day Readmissions for Heart Failure, Karolee Fill

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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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Medium Range Prediction of U.S. Severe Convective Storms, Robert Fritzen

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Leveraging Bioinformatics to Understand Chlorophyll D Biosynthesis in Acaryochloris Spp., Dikshyant Gautam

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Witnessing Bullying and Internalizing Symptoms: The Influence of Peer Relationships, Matthew Geisler

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Addition Reactions of Olefinic Heterocycles and 4-Hydroxycoumarins, Benjamin Goka

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

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Modifying A Health Education Program By Utilizing Methods From Community-Based Participatory Research Framework, Tashara Grandys

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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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Factors Associated With Human Trafficking: A Quantitative Analysis, Thomas Mejdrech

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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