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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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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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Oral Cancer Inequalities: Unmasking Health Disparities of Vulnerable Populations in the U.S., Harold Nii-Aponsah

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Field-Programmable Gate Array System-On-Chip Based Smart Home System, Jacques H. Ntahoturi

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The Glutamine-Asparagine Interplay: Exploring the Role of Asparagine Synthetase in Hepatocellular Cancer Cells, Babatunde George Olawuni

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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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Magnetotransport Properties of Dirac Semimetal Taco2Te2 and Ferromagnetic Weyl Semimetal Co3Sn2S2, Samuel Pate

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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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Race-Based Stressors and Racial Trauma: the Moderating Role of Parental Racial Socialization, Jessica S. Philip

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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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Student Attitudes Towards Their Program Area of Study in a College of Health and Human Services, Melanie Regan

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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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Investigating Native and Nonnative English-Speaking Teachers’ Identities in Saudi Arabia, Stephanie 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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Does Gossip Predict Desire for Apologies?, Teddy Schupack

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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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Exploring the Connection: Field Ecology Research and Student Wellbeing, Elizabeth Small

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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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Attitudes, Perceptions, and Quality of Learning Experience Design in Head-Mounted Virtual Reality for Preservice Educators, Jonathan Steven Spike

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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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Stand-Up Leaders: Creation of a Perceived Intentions-Based Taxonomy of Humor, Morgan Gabrielle Tillery

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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

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Modern-Day Storyliving in Immersive Learning Environments: the Impact of Cinematic Virtual Reality on Adolescents’ Empathy and Sympathy, Andrea Armour Trudeau

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Evaluating the Performance of Egemaps Features in Depression Detection Using E-Daic Subsets, Joshua Turnipseed

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Harmony and Turmoil: Comparative Study of Political Stability in Cambodia and Uganda, Pheanusa Satra Ty

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Trajectory of Infant Emotion Regulation Strategies and Negative Affect and Associations with Toddler Externalizing Problems, Sabrina D. Ung

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THE INTERSECTIONALITY OF LANGUAGE AND SPECIAL EDUCATION: AN EXPLORATION OF HOW SYSTEMS SHAPE TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS AND HOW PERCEPTIONS SHAPE EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE, Leticia Valadez

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Housing Markets, Residential Preferences and Segregation: Unraveling Spatial Dynamics in Quito, Ecuador, Felipe Miguel Valdez Gomez De La Torre

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Experiences of Discrimination, Covid-19 Stress, and Racial Trauma in College Students, Jennifer Valentine

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Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and the Components of Metabolic Syndrome By Race/ethnicity: Spotlight on Mexican Americans, Roy Valenzuela

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Three Papers On the Investigation of Epistemic Legitimacy Among Colombian Regulators, Carolina Velandia Hernández

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Cold Testing of a Prototype Superconducting Radiofrequency Electron Gun and Ancillary Systems for the LCLS-II-HE Project, Kaela Michele Villafania

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Modulating CO2 Electrocatalytic Conversion to Organics Pathway by Nanoconfinement Effects and the Catalytic Site Dimension, Jianxin Wang

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A Climatology and Characteristics of Midwest Heavy Snowfall, Benjamin William Warren

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Motivation, Engagement, and the Student-Teacher Relationship as Predictors of Academic Outcomes, Courtney Weaver

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Nuestras Voces: Representation and Visibility of Latinx Women Archaeologists in the U.S., Milsy Westendorff

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The Effect of Inverse Reasoning on Scrupulosity Symptoms, Anna M. White

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Latino Students' Perceptions of Belonging and Inclusion of the Recruitment Strategies and Marketing Materials at an Emerging Hispanic Serving Institution, Julie Wiejak

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Development of a Novel Prosocial Teasing Measure for Adolescents, Kristina Wiemer

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An Investigation of the Impact of Esser Relief Funds on Illinois High Schools, Douglas J. Wildes

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Short, Full, Best: Analysis of Different Conference Papers, Miguel Williams

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Cues and Clues: How Humor Targets Classify Joker Intent, Jared Elijah Patrick Wilson

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An Environmental Isolate of Pseudomonas, 20EI1, Reduces Aspergillus Flavus Growth in an Iron-Dependent Manner Affecting the Expression of Numerous Genes, Elizabeth Marion Wyman

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Green Spaces and Socioeconomic Disparities in São Paulo City, Brazil: A Spatial Analysis Approach, Flavia Vieira Xavier

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Associations Amongst Basic Psychological Needs and Burnout Amongst Illinois Principals, Matthew Zediker

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Applications of Shape Analysis, Yang Zhang

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Univariate Extreme Value Analysis of Quantitative Investment Management, George Agbenyega Zumanu

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Nigerian Media: A Comparative Media Analysis, Temilade Inumidun Adeeko

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Thermal Analysis of Thermal Shield for PIP-II SSR1 Cryomodule, Victor Aguado Rodriguez

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The Standard Model Precision Parameters at 200 GeV, Zamiul Alam

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Using UTUAT to Investigate Corporate Acceptance of Optional Online Training Programs in Saudi Arabia, Asma Albahli

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investigating Determinants of Faculty Members’ intentions to Use Mobile Learning for Educational Purposes, Ibrahim Abdullah Albahli

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Blended Learning Motivation Support at The Saudi Electronic University: Utilizing Self-Determination Theory, Mona Alenezi

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K-12 Teachers’ Perceptions and Experiences in their Teaching Practices of Utilizing Multimedia integrating with online Classroom Technology, Rateeba Turki Algoufi

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"Leaving My Mark In White Spaces": A Critical Qualitative Case Study Exploring Black/African-American Undergraduate Women's Perceptions of the Campus Environment's Influence on Persistence at a Hispanic-Serving Women's Institution, Keri Anne Alioto

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Improving The adelic Version of The Minkowski-Hlawka Theorem, Fatmah Alnaser

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Kenyan Healthcare Professionals’ Perceptions of Global Health Engagements in Relation to The Covid-19 Pandemic, Erick Amick

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Climatology of the Elevated Mixed Layer Over the Contiguous United States and Northern Mexico: 1979–2021, Margo Siciliano Andrews

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Evaluating The Contribution of adjacent Charges on The Observed pH-Dependent Binding Profile for a VHH/antigen Interaction with a Linked Histidine Protonation Equilibria, Kiruthika Arulmoly

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Forest County’s Historically Underrepresented Rural Students and Barriers to College, Tracy Ash

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University Faculty Perceptions of Mandatory online Training as Related to Training Self-Efficacy, Motivation, and Utility, Tori Austin