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Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Student Perceptions of Racial-Ethnic Socialization and Outcomes across Race and Gender, Megan Gilbertson

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Through The Labyrinth: Lived Experiences of Women and The Superintendency, Michelle Christine Graham

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Transport of Polyethylene Microplastic Spheres in a Sandy Aquifer, Alyssa Marie Graveline

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Factors Contributing to College Counselors’ Probability to Take A Client’s Sexual History, Adam Gregory

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Understanding the invasion history and dispersal patterns of the faucet snail, Bithynia tentaculata, Emma B. Grindle

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Methods for Computing the Global Optimum of Non-Convex Objectives, Isaac Michael Hawn

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Perceived Social and Environmental Impacts of the Maya Train Project on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico: A Case Study of Puerto Morelos, Emely Hernandez Yac

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investigating Implicit Cognitive Bias toward Guilt and Shame Among individuals with Histories of Childhood Emotional Abuse, Sarah B. Hill

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An Exploratory Case Study on the Perspectives of African American Men Pursuing a Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pathway at an Urban Community College in Illinois, Kimberly Kay Hollingsworth

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Perceptions of Family-of-Origin Belief Systems Among Cisgender Men in Outpatient Treatment for Sexual offending: A Phenomenological investigation, Jessie K. Huebner

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Three Essays Examining The Impact of Paid Maternity Leave offers on Women’s Labor Market Outcomes, Murshed Jahan

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Forecasting Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin Prices Using Machine Learning, Sai Prabhu Jaligama

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Medical Laboratory Professional Faculty Perspectives on Academic integrity: A Narrative inquiry, Andrea L. Jensen

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Development of The Moral Disengagement and Bullying Scale, Shengse Ruth Jeong

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Three Essays Examining The Effects of Labor Market Conditions on College Enrollment and Completion, Dezhi Jiang

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Optimize The NIU Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar Apparatus For Conducting High Strain Rate Tensile Test on S304 Foils, Jiale Ji

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investigating Boredom within The Context of Sixth-Grade Mathematics Classes, Tammy S. Judkins

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Preservice Teacher Socialization For Social Justice: Exploring Stances and Enactments of Social Justice Pedagogies, Eric R. Junco

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Midrash Therapy: A Hermeneutical inquiry, Robert T. Jury

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A New Boundary interlock Geometry Design Method For Fdm Multi-Material Part Strengthening, Shivaram Sree Venkata Shanmukha Kakaraparthi

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'Black Knight' Effect: The Role of Russia in Countering Democratization in Montenegro and Serbia, Danilo Kalezic

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Social Support Networks as Buffers against The association Between Covid-19 Related Stress and Depression: a Latent Profile, Three-Way Interaction approach, Kathleen Kelly

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The Role of Childhood Abuse in Subsequent Event-Level Risky Sexual Behavior and Substance Use, Megan C. Kennedy

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Microbial Community and Soil Responses to Land Management Practices in Remnant and Restored Tallgrass Prairies, Desirae Marie Klimek

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Longitudinal associations Between Parenting Stress, Adolescent Temperament, and Externalizing Behaviors, Kristina Kochanova

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Impact of Prairie Restoration on Geochemistry and Microbial Communities in Groundwater, Kayla Koenig

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Temperature analysis of a square lid-driven cavity with particle suspensions, Justin Kortge

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Promoting Personal and Social Responsibility in Higher Education, Karisa L. Kuipers

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Coming off Mute: A Case Study of Elementary Students' Perceptions of Remote Learning During the Height of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Karen L. Ladendorf

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Parental Smartphone Use and Parent-Child interactions During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Giana G. Lagioia

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Value and Impact of Nurse innovators Working in Academic, industry, and Government Settings: A Qualitative Study, Olivia A. Lemberger

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Sexual Satisfaction and Dysfunction in Female Survivors of Sexual Violence: The Moderating Effect of Sexual Motivations, Kyla A. Leonard

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Heathen Husband: The Corrupting Patriarchal Hierarchy in Shakespeare’s Othello and Its Absence in Cinthio’s Gli Hecatommithi, Heavyn Renee Lester

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The Effect of Fatigue on Lower Extremity Electromyography During Clean Performance in Elite Female Weightlifters, John A. Littner

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Fundamental Study of Dopant Effect and toxicity in Perovskite Materials, Xun Li

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Changing The Narrative of Disengagement: Exploring Academic Identity Formation For Non-Ethno-European Students, Luis E. Lopez

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An Examination of Observed Maternal Social Coaching Strategies and Early Adolescents' Social Adjustment, Natalie Low

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Counterexample to Eremenko's Conjecture, Paradise Low

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Building an Imperial World: Ideologies of Imperialism and the Tariff Reform Movement in Britain, 1900-1914, Kevin Jennings Luginbill

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Bowling online: introduction to Social Worlds in Second Life, Hope Mac Donald

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The Moderating Effects of Disability on The Relationship Between Job Embeddedness and Turnover intention Among Veterans, Beverly Maier

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Touchpoints: How Faculty and Advising Understand and Colloborate on Guided Pathways Reforms to influence and Support Major Choice in a Community College, Bryant Bates Manning

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Administrator Impact: A Survey of The Relationship Between Self-Efficacy, Mckinney-Vento Legal Literacy, and Program Effectiveness in Ensuring The Educational Stability of Homeless Youth., Anthony J. Marinello

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Not A Good Fit For The Job: An intersectional Study of Occupational Stereotypes in The Field of Technology, Jesus Jose Martinez

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Assessment of Adolescent Anxiety, Anna E. Martinez-Snyder

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A Quantitative Analysis of Factors Contributing to Adult Education Students’ Transition to Credit Courses, Heather Martin

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Comparison of topsoil Moisture in E3SM Model Simulations and in-situ Observations Over Illinois, Jacinda Lee Mayer

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Integrating Experimental Parameter Space for Granular Flow within Polygon Tumblers, Michaela Mcmahon

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“it Takes A Village”: Student Mothers’ Experiences with Barriers and Support While Navigating Community College, Jeanine Mcmillen

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Writing in Film Studies: Poetics and Pedagogy, Bryan Mead

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Locus of Control, Burnout, and Work Engagement among K-12 Teachers During COVID-19 Remote Learning, Kellie Menter

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Teaching and Learning Numeracy in Health Sciences: A High School Health Classroom Case Study, Jasmina Mesic

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An Observational Study of Maternal Parenting Behavior and Adolescent Social Anxiety, Cassandra R. Mick

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Merely Mortal: A Quantitative Examination of the Dehumanization of First Responders, Kari M. Mika-Lude

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Cadet Perceptions of Learning Using Police Video Simulators, Stephen Francis Miko

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Mu2e Pion Degrader For Detector Calibration, Jessie Bouche Miles

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Stories of Teaching on a Conceal and Carry Stage: A Dramaturgical Narrative inquiry, Christopher J. Miller

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Development of pH-Sensitive and Amine-Reactive Lifters for the Detection of Latent Fingermarks, Andrei Gregory Mlakar

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Adverse Childhood Experiences and Ecological Systems: An Examination of Child Perception on School Climate and Connectedness, Siddhant Modi

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Fluorescent Cellular assays For Kinase inhibitors, Myar Mohamed

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A Parametric Study of Thermochemical Energy Storage Using Chemical Looping For Concentrated Solar Power (csp) Plants, Imran Anees Mohammed

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Facilitating Equal Access for Disabled Students Who Are incarcerated: An Exploratory Mixed Methods Study of Community Colleges' Disability Services in For-Credit Correctional Education Programs, Jenifer K. Montag

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Evidence-Based Decision Making in Elementary Schools: A Case Study of How Districts Make Decisions When Implementing Foreign Language Programs, Danielle Elizabeth Moran

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“if I Had Felt Comfortable Or Accepted, I Would Have Made More Progress”: A Phenomenological investigation into The Experiences of Lgbtq+ Persons in Clinical Professional Counseling, Valerie Moreno-Tucker

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Controlling Women’s Appetites: Food and Femininity in Victorian Literature, Elizabeth Murray

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Impact of Budget information Framing on Citizens' Budgetary Choices: An Experiment, Frankline K. Muthomi

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Third-integer Resonant Extraction Regulation System for Mu2e, Aakaash Narayanan

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How Principals influence, Facilitate, and Support instructional Coaching Programs, Nadine Y. Norris

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Characterization and Quantification of Far Red Oxygen Production Rates in Acaryochloris Spp., Jose Manuel Orench-Benvenutti

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Experimental Analysis of Flowing Layer Characteristics in Equilateral Triangular Tumblers For Quasi-2d Macro-Particle Flow, Jason Quinn Ostenburg

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Dissociating Sensorimotor and Posterior Parietal Contributions to Fine Motor Control in Female and Male Mice, Jenna Rae Osterlund Oltmanns

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Engagement Detection Using Prosodic Cues: An Approach For Measuring Child Emotional Engagement Level in Child-Robot interaction Scenario, Mustafa Oztoprak

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Parent Training Workshop for Children with Selective Mutism: a Randomized-Controlled Trial, Jacqueline M. Pabis

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A Narrative inquiry on The Leadership of Latina Women Practitioners in Community Colleges, Cynthia Padilla-Gaytan

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Gas Phase C-H and C-C Bond Activation by Ternary Metal Complexes, Kevin Parker

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Search for Charged Higgs Bosons in the tau+nu Final State with 139 inverse fb of pp Collision Data at sqrt(s)=13 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment, Elliot Wesley Parrish

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Design and Fabrication of a Small-Sized Omni-directional Spherical Robot, Aayush P. Patel

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Warm Unit Stand Analysis For Proton Improvement Project II, Michael William Pavlick

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Considering construct strength and personality differences on susceptibility to context effects, Joy Samini Pawirosetiko

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First-Generation College Students Experiences in Master's Counseling Programs Using Social Cognitive Career Theory Framework, Sandra Mary Bednarz Petersen

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Modeling of Sub-Terahertz Wakefield Structures For Electron-Bunch Acceleration, Cassandra Phillips

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Monitoring Plants Growth in indoor Vertical Farms Using Computer Vision and Ai Techniques, Bhama Krishna Pillutla

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Connecting School Finance Policy with Practice: A Site-Based Expenditure Report Study, Julia Chapdelaine Pontarelli

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A Measure of Psychological Needs For Higher Education Students: A Validation Study, Elyzia Edward Powers

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The Effects of Rater Training on Rater Effects and Validity of Direct Behavior Ratings, Abigail E. Pruitt

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The Role of Social Support in The association Between Socioeconomic Status and Academic Outcomes For Early Adolescents, Yoonsun Pyun

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Climate Change Impacts on Baseflow Contributions in a Semi-Arid, Snowmelt-Dominated Basin within the Upper Colorado River Basin, Kaelyn Quinlan

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Modeling and Visualization of Long-Term Public Opinion on COVID-19 Vaccine, Ashiqur Rahman

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Conductors for Maximal Orders of Group Rings over Local Fields, Brooke Randazzo

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Investigation of A Piezoelectric Pressure Sensing to Drive an IGBT Circuit, Sonali Rawat

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Exploratory Study of Practicum Counselor Strategies of Connection and Disconnection, Ashley S. Roberts

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Case Study of Elementary Teacher Perceptions Regarding Technology integration in The Writing Curriculum, Dana Marie Robinson

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Qommunities: A Characterization of Qanon Support in The US, Alexa Rogalla

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Cathode Electron Sources For Cold Field Emission: Fabrication Methodology For Discretely Patterned High aspect Ratio Silicon Nanotips, Austin Luke Rose

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Covidalert - A Wristwatch-Based System to Alert Users From Face touching, Mrinmoy Roy

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Exploring the morphometrics of the diatom Fragilariopsis kerguelensis as a proxy for paleo-sea surface temperature in the Late Pleistocene-Holocene Southern Ocean, Joseph Anthony Ruggiero

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The Effect of Drawing on The Memory and Comprehension of Scientific Explanations, Kathryn E. Rupp

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Reconstructing Queer Outsiders: intersecting Identities of Contemporary Gay Ethnic American Poets, Anthony Salazar

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Synthesis and Advanced Characterization of Energy Materials, Erik Sarnello

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Eat Glass and Walk on Fire, While Managing A Pandemic: A Narrative Study of African American Women Who Serve as Chief Housing officers, Valronica Marie Scales