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

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Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Transitional Math in Illinois: A Quantitative Study on Eligible and Enrolled Students, Whitney Lynn Martino

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Estimating Paleotemperatures in the Amundsen Sea for the Last 620,000 Years Through Diatom Morphometrics (IODP Expedition 379), Joseph Robert Mastro

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Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia, Behavioral inhibition/Activation, and Behavioral Response to a Distressed infant Simulator in Emerging Adults, Erin R. Mckay

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Association of Various Physiological and Fitness Markers to Body Fat Percentage in Physically inactive Adults, Anthony Mckee

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The Impact of attributional Style on Adolescent Stress and Mental Health: Exploring Domain-Specific Stressors, Lauren Therese Mcneela

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Women Obtaining the Superintendency: An Examination of internal and External Barriers That influence a Woman's Career Trajectory, Jodi J. Megerle

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Examination of Practices Used By AP Computer Science Teachers with Higher Than Average Female Enrollment, Derek J. Miller

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Virtual Faces in Virtual Spaces: Generating Social Capital in an online World, Raymond James Miran

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On Systematics and their Mitigation in MAGIS-100 atomic interferometer Experiment to Explore the Dark Sector and Early Universe, Jeremiah Thomas Mitchell

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Partial Shading in Photovoltaic Cells Using Fuzzy Logic Tuned Particle Swarm Optimization Method of Maximum Power Point Tracking Control, Nauman Moiz Mohammed Abdul

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“i Never Shared My Opinion Again”: Political Communication Apprehension and Conservative College Students, Megan Elise Montgomery

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Radiation Actions and Dimensions of Radiation Safety Among U.s. Radiologic Technologists, Quentin T. Moore

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Single-Domain Vhh Antibodies as Protein Stabilization Modules, Nourhan Mohamed Disouky Mostafa

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Characterization of The Putative Polysaccharide Synthase cpsA and Its Effects on The Virulence of The Human Pathogen aspergillus Fumigatus, Binita Nepal

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Phenomenological Exploration of School Social Workers' Perceptions of Grade Retention, Veda Newman

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Dispelling The Mirage of C4-Driven Drought tolerance in Poaceae: A Phylogenomic Study, Matthew P. Nissenbaum

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Investigating the behavioral effects of juvenile stress in the prairie vole model, Marigny C. Normann

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Bioinformatic Anlayses of Identified But Uncultivated Microbial Dark Matter Organisms Using Archival Single Amplified Genomes (sags), Daniel Adam Nuccio

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Rational Design of Memory-Based Sensors: The Case of Molecular Calorimeters, Obianuju Augusta Nwokolo

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Why Some Authoritarian Regimes Do Not Just Win Elections But Win Big: Lessons from Cambodia and Malaysia, Limeng Ong

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A bioinformatic approach to exploring land plant evolution, Lauren Margaret Orton

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The Role of Medial Septum Cholinergic Function in Processing Self-Movement Cues to Maintain Spatial Orientation, Jenna Rae Osterlund

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Body Wave Analysis For Low-Angle Thrust Quakes on Titan: Implications For Dragonfly, John William Owens

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Links Between Parenting Behaviors and Anxiety Among Early Adolescents, Jacqueline Marie Pabis

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An online Randomized Controlled Trial of Mindful Parenting Among Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Emily Elizabeth Padgett

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Faculty Supporting Community College Students' Academic Success, Personal Development and Social Adjustment: Perspectives of First-Generation African American Men Students, Natalie Renee Page

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Assessing The Impact of Mother’s Perception of Support on Breastfeeding intensity Through Six Months, Kathryn Doyle Palomares

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Speculative Satire in Twentieth-Century Utopia and Dystopia, Benjamin Craig Parker

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A Multi-Constraint Predictive Control System with Auxiliary Emergency Controllerfor Autonomous Vehicles, Farhad Partovi Ebrahimpour

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Molecular Dynamic Simulations of Mechanical Properties in Nb-Nbc Core-Shell Nanowires and Nodes, Austin Pauga

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Often overlooked, but not forgotten: The influence of demographic measure constraints on participant affect, attitudes, behavior, and response codability, Joy S. Pawirosetiko

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Categorization of Orthologous Gene Clusters in 92 ascomycota Genomes Reveals Functions Important For Fungal Phytopathogenicity, Daniel Curtis Peterson

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Exploring The Cultural and Structural Barriers Justice-involved individuals of Color Encounter in Urban Community Colleges, Eddie J. Phillips, Jr.

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College Student Confidence in Career Readiness Competencies, April Pickett

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College Leadership Opportunities' Impact on Life During and After College, Mark Anthony Pietrowski Jr.

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The Second Prong of The Tinker Test: A Constitutional Right to Not Be offended?, Jonathan Pilkington

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Wellness and Self-Care of Counselor Education and Supervision Doctoral Students, Andrew Michael Plath

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Principals’ Legal Literacy About Tenured-Teacher Evaluation in Illinois, Elizabeth Pohlmann

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Improving The Efficiency of Planar Goubau Line and Goubau-Line-Based Endfire Antenna, Sreelakshmi Radhakrishnan

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Apanola atolan Pah Mollo at the Margin: Power, Development, and NGO-state Relationship in West Timor, indonesia, Yuda Rasyadian

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Southern Electoral Strategy: The Strategic integration of Religious Values into The Republican Party Platform, Levi Walker Rattliff

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I Belong at Harper College: A Qualitative Case Study on Fostering Community College Students’ Sense of Belonging Through A First-Year Seminar Course, Emily Reabe

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Professional Development of in-Service Teachers Utilizing Mobile Technology in Classrooms: A Qualitative Case Study, Ryan Christopher Read

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Sleep, Experiential Avoidance, and Mental Health Symptoms, Anthony Reffi

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Construction of Confidence intervals for Parameter Estimates of t-Distribution, Margaret Remus

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Bully Participant Role Behavior and Social Support From Teachers and Classmates: A Longitudinal Conditional Process Analysis, Logan Riffle

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Excess Credit Accumulation Impact on Degree attainment for Community College Students, Stacy Riley

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“The Cause, It Just Comes First”: tori Amos and Third-Wave Feminism, Amanda S. Roberts

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The Relationship Between Emotional Symptoms and Bully Role Behavior Engagement Among Boys with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Their Typically Developing Peers, Dashae Rodriguez-Harris

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The Golden Gates of Childhood: Romantic influences on Childhood Perspective in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss and Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, Tara Rosenzweig

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Maternal Parenting Behavior, Socioeconomic Risk, and toddler Effortful Control: The Mediating Role of infant attention, Leanna D. Rosinski

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The Relationship of the First-year Seminar Course and Degree Completion at Kishwaukee College, Michelle Rothmeyer

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Influence of Maternal Eating attitudes, Behaviors, and Fat Talk on Adolescent, Non-Elite, Competitive-Level Gymnasts, Madisyn Rozner

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Search For Higgs Pair Production in The Bbτ Τ Final State with The atlas Detector at The Large Hadron Collider, Puja Saha

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A National Study of Patient Safety Culture and Event Reporting – An individual-Level Analysis Stratified By Staff Group and Work Area and A Hospital-Level Trend Analysis, Sara R. Samuel

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Shape Tuning of Silicon Nano-Tip Arrays Through Reactive Ion Etching For Cold Field Emission, Giridhar Tulasi Ram Sankabathula

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Understanding the Effects of Food Security and SNAP Participation on the Fruit and Vegetable intake of Older Adults, Alexandra Sarkisian

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Becoming internationalized: Faculty Directors of international Programs at Universities in Japan, Robert Joseph Schalkoff Ii

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Effectiveness of online Credit Recovery Programs, Diana Barbara Schill

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Becoming Gatekeepers: A Constructivist Model of Gatekeeper Development in Counselor Education, Natasha Joy Salier Schnell

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Workplace Learning: An Exploration of The Relationship Among Organizational Culture, Leader-Member Exchange, and individual Development Plans, Stacy M. Seaworth

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CNN-Based Speed Detection Algorithm For Walking and Running Using Wrist-Worn Wearable Sensors, Venkata Devesh Reddy Seethi

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Elite Polarization and Gender Effects on Ideology: How This Shapes The Supreme Court on Women’s Rights Cases, Reggie Lynn Semanko

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Polarization in Social Networks Under a Proposed Model, Ashley L. Seyfried

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The Effect of Self-Reflection on Relative Student Success in Undergraduate Calculus 1, Kevin Shryock

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Optimizing Cluster Sets For The Scan Statistic Using Local Search, James Shulgan

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Get Out (2017), Us (2019), and Jordan Peele's New Black Body Horror, Brady Simenson

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Family interaction Patterns and A Successful College Transition, Megan Elizabeth Six

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In-Situ Optoelectronic Powder Flow Measurement Analysis For Directed Energy Deposition Applications, Mark Sliwka

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Thermal / Structural Analysis of the HB 650 Thermal Shield, Gerald J. Smith

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A Phenomenological Study of First-Generation Latin@ Community College Students as They Successfully Persist in College, Michelé Elaine Smith

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to Be (a Doctor) Or Not to Be – An Exploration of The Abd Experience of Female Minority Doctoral Students in Cacrep-Accredited Counselor Education Programs, Tracey Kim Snow

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El Espacio Como instrumento De Poder En Las Obras El Apando Y Los Días Y Los Años, Maria Griselda Stapleton

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Exploring Hip Hop Pedagogy in the Lives of Four African American Adolescents, Roland Steele

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A Spider's Web of Doughnuts, Daniel Stoertz

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A Rasch Analysis of the Mindful attention Awareness Scale Adapted for Children, Daniel Strissel

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Development of Machine Learning Models to Predict The online Impact of Research, Mohammed Murtuza Shahzad Syed

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Nonlinear integrable Optics Beam Dynamics Experimentand Diagnostics, Sebastian Szustkowski

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Diet of Spalangia Cameroni (hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), A Parasitoid of Filth Flies, Elizabeth Taylor

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An Exploration of First-Year University Students’ Conceptualizations of Academic Reading: A Multicase Study, Jennifer C. Theriault

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Canine and Criminal Bias: The Relationship Between Stereotypes and Perceptions of Punishment, Jamie I. Thomas

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Learners’ Perceptions of Wiillingness to Communicate in Myanmar, Maw Maw Tun

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Studying The Scratching Behavior of Nb/nbc Nanolaminate Using Molecular Dynamics atomistic Simulations, Md Mesbah Uddin

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Wildlife Ecology and Conservation in a Suburban Preserve Matrix: Applications of Long-term Monitoring Data, John Peter Vanek

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Model-Based Estimates of The Timing of Brine Flux into The Victoria Land Basin From The Mcmurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, Valerie Nicole Voisin

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Telling Stories, Healing Cultures: Feminist Healing Narratives By Contemporary American Women of Color, Lindsay Marie Vreeland

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Implementation and Improvement of Common Text-independent Speaker Identification, Yunlong Wang

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Discourses Surrounding Multi-Role Relationships Among Graduate Teaching assistants, Elizabeth Megan Weaver

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Micro-macro Mathematical Modeling Analysis of an Al-Air Battery, Christopher Charles Welch

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Mid-Career Elementary Teachers' Perceptions of Elements that Contribute to Job Satisfaction and intent to Remain in the Field, Sarah Elizabeth Westberg

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Shyness Mindset and Sexual Harassment Responses Among Female College Students, Jessica Rose Winder

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Men's Lived Experiences in a Counselor Training Program: A Phenomenological investigation, Suzanna Marie Wise

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Mobile Apps For Type 2 Diabetes in A Low Socioeconomic Status Population, Kaitland Rae Woelky

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Examining Reflective Practice Through Lesson Study, Amanda L. Wojcik

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Effects of Differential instructional Time in Algebra on Standardized assessment and Semester Grade Outcomes, Michael S. Wojtowicz

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Adaptive Object Detection for Autonomous Vehicles, Christopher Wolfe

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Fundamental Study of Supported Metal Catalysts Prepared By Metal in Lithium Solution For Energy Science, Haiping Xu

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Pursuing Procedural Justice in Sustainability Policy: assessing The Linkage Between Political Culture and Municipal Efforts, Meng Yuan

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Qualitative Perspectives on the Strange Trails of Persistence in STEM, Erika Johanna Zocher

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Saudi Students’ attitude toward Using Mobile Applications in Learning English Vocabulary, Talal Ali Abozandah