Theses/Dissertations from 2002
How new business owners learn about employment law(s), Leigh M. Jones
Asymmetric information, migration, and self-employment, Saibal Kar
Damage assessment at crack tips in graphite/epoxy composites using ANSYS, Sudhakar Katukam
Gaining insight and exploring the experiences, perceptions, and contextual aspects that influence students with behavior disorders in the general physical education setting, Kara Anne Knickerbocker
Community empowerment and social action : an afrocentric perspective of adult learning in community settings, Joy L. Knight
Diagnosis and treatment of hearing loss in children : as experienced by parents, Jessica A. Knudtson
Social development at home and school, Donald E. Koelpin
National Initiatives in alternative teacher certification : advantages and disadvantages of alternative instructional licensure, Julie M. Koller-Morris
Route optimization for mobile internet protocol, Vijay Kolli
The association between cigarette smoking and body image satisfaction in high school females, Adrienne N. Kraemer
Multicultural education as a tool for problematizing racism : theorizing an effective framework, Mary Landeros
Constructing teaching consciousness : the perceptions of student teachers and their school-based supervisors, John D. Lange
Students' achievement gap in Illinois : socioeconomic status or school district, Larry J. Lindenmier
Impact of a brief curriculum on interpreter use for young deaf adults, Lauren B. Litowsky
Development of a model of applicant reactions to cognitive ability tests : shedding light on racial subgroup test score differences, Jennifer M. Lonergan
The examination of human performance technology efforts within antagonistic environments, Marnell W. Love
The rhetoric of evasion in Illinois's underground railroad, James W. Macon
Exploring the fringes of the world system : ceramics from the cathedral of Comayagua, Honduras, Eva L. Martinez
A policy analysis of selected public virtual universities in the United States, Douglas Royce McCoy
Regulated potassium and calcium transport in pancreatic zymogen granules : a potential role in granule osmotic swelling and membrane fusion, Heath Allen McDonald
Kendang penca : the instruments, music, and recent evolution of a traditional Sudanese musical ensemble, Christopher Allen Miller
Acousto-optic background correction for inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry, Heather M. Miller
Adult education and community building in Africa : a critical study of popular theater for development, Samuel Kirk Mills
Eduard C. Lindeman : beyond The meaning of adult education, toward a view of professionalization in adult education and social work, Sandra Janine Mills
The ecology of a reptile assemblage in a semiarid community in north-central Chile, Alexandra Minn
The influence of educational administrators' leadership behaviors on student achievement in reading, Robert C. Mocek
Tests for misspecification in binary regression using the generalized estimating equations approach, Ayrin Calachan Molefe
Critical issues impeding criminal justice continuing professional education, Terry M. Mors
Education's role in statewide telecommunications network policy development : three models, Sandra Lynn Murphy
The association of proactive parenting strategies with compliance, impulsivity, and social competence in three-year-olds, Susan B. Myket
AC-DC boost converter stability analysis based on open loop measurement, Raghuram Narasimhan
The social value of the GED : how students and teachers make meaning, Adell V. Newman
Got wasps? : a natural survey of parasitoid wasps on a northern Illinois dairy farm, Debra L. Olbrich
Contrada pitrazzi : cultural continuity in burial practices in interior western Sicily, Rebecca A. Osborn
A description of vocabulary learning in at-risk college freshmen cooperatively involved in generative study of self-selected words, Janet L. Pariza
Resilient African-American high school graduates : individual, familial, and community factors that have contributed to their academic success, Pamela J. Parker
Sense and sensibility of nineteenth-century Irish women poets : rescuing our poetic grandmothers, Katherine A. Parr
Functional anatomy of the callitrichine tarsus, Michael S. Pasin
Intimacy, differentiation, and marital satisfaction, Shawn J. Patrick
Ray Hicks and the Jack Tales of Appalachia : their origins and significance, Christine L. Pavesic
Measuring and relating selected variables in DLA simulated watershed networks, Craig T. Perciante
Status and health at the Dallas site (7, 8HA1) : a biocultural study of a late Mississippian population, Amanda L. Pippitt
The pedagogical desires of an all-girl math class, Jody S. Piro
Toward group problem-solving guidelines for 21st-century teams : a case study at a global consulting corporation, Kathryn L. Ranieri
Consequences of the Riemann Hypothesis, Matthew Read
Manual digits III and IV in thirteen anthropoid genera and implications for the development of hominid bipedalism, Kimberly S. Reed-Deemer
Effects of supplemental, small-group instruction on at-risk kindergartners' metalinguistic awareness, Teresa L. Reed-Schuster
Survivor as independent observer : attributions of responsibility for a sexual assault, Laura A. Rhoton
Cultural identity work among non-traditional Pennsylvania Germans, J. Marc Rittle
Functional approach and job attitudes : a moderator of job satisfaction relationships, Joanne E. Roberts
Self-injury in adolescents : an investigation of a non-clinical high school population, Paul J. Rodriguez
Factors that make outstanding professors successful : a connection to inspiration, Jeanette Rossetti
A GIS analysis of the paleoclimate of the upper Midwest, Karen Lee Russ
An adult education comparative study of two experiential education fields : adventure education and popular education, Richard C. Rutschman
Teaching ethics in business in the community college : a comparative study, Jarvis T. Sanford
Late Cretaceous theropod teeth from Utah, Christopher Schierup
El pensamiento anarquista de PiÌo Baroja : los personajes de Aurora Roja, Marcela Hernández Schmidt
Pioneer girls : a history of the first thirty years, 1939-1969, Marilyn Justus Schneider
A new George Eliot notebook : an edition with an introduction and notes, Joann Lea Scholtes
Quality indicators of optimal inclusive service delivery for students with learning disabilities : attitudes and barriers identified by secondary educators, Kristen Kay School
Public self-consciousness, impression motivation, and social physique anxiety : a comparison of correlations, Lisa A. Schuler
A critical case study of police training : implications for professionalism and continuing professional education in law enforcement, Edward W. Shannon
Selection of optimal batch size to reduce cycle time by setup reduction, Kwangjin Shin
Relations between parental management of peers and adolescent friendship quality and loneliness, Shelley A. Silvers
Reconceptualizing the development and maintenance of support services for college students who are deaf or hard of hearing, Steven R. Sligar
Development of an enthalpy-based finite element model for laser-irradiated metal heating and melting process, Dharani Sowdari
The industrialization of swine production and local knowledge of the environment : comparison of two Illinois communities, Chaya Rhiannon Spears
Demography and life history of an urban population of plains garter snakes, Thamnophis Radix, Kristin M. Stanford
Expanding the small space : Rastafarians as knowledge producers, Cathy S. Stanley
Attitudes of nurse oncologists toward the usefulness of nutritional supplements for their patients, Darlene Stanton
The effect of speaking rate on vocal fatigue, Julie A. Staudenmaier
Community organization in interior western Sicily : defining community through surface survey collections, Leah Stevens-Block
Principals' perceptions of competence needed for administration of special education : implications for principal preparation programs, Rita A. Stevenson
The academic success of unmarried African-American female high school students who are parenting, Tracey A. Stuckey
The influence of psychosocial factors on adolescents' attitudes toward eating, Julie M. Stumpf
How sexist advertisements hurt victims of rape : information search strategies, attributions, and victim responsibility in an acquaintance rape trial, Donna L. Sweeney
Comparison of organic carbon measurement methods on cultivated and never cultivated soils of northern Illinois, Brandi Jo Talaga
From wife to woman : a Lithuanian journey, Caryn E. Talty
An analysis of distance education at the University of Botswana from a systems perspective, Ontiretse Seboneng Tau
Aesthetics of transformation : the African-American experience of the Chicago community mural movement, 1967-1970, John Edmond Towns
A study of the connection between Illinois's undergraduate physical education teacher programs and the Illinois learning standards for physical development and health, Paul Frederick Trilling
The effects of dorsal versus ventral lesions of the hippocampus on cued and contextual fear, Mehul A. Trivedi
Defining the geographic realities of land use change due to population growth, Raymond G. Ulreich
Characterization of ZnSe grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition over p-Ge, Ramanujam Vaitheeswaran
Relationship between level of anger, gender, and visual emotion recognition, Angelina L. Valente
Level 1 trigger requirement for search of Higgs in ZH [arrow] bb̄ + vv̄ channel in run II at dØ, Vandana Verma
Finite element-based inverse heat conduction model for the estimation of absorbed surface heat flux, Huiyan Wang
Relativity and quantum paradigms in the poetry of William Carlos and Robert Frost, Mark V. Waters
Womanhouse and The Farm : a comparative analysis of two mainstreams of thought within the feminist art movement of the 1970s, Heather J. Weber
The relationship between self-esteem and male condom use in the sexual relationships of college-age women, Regina M. Whitmore