Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Virtual Faces in Virtual Spaces: Generating Social Capital in an online World, Raymond James Miran
On Systematics and their Mitigation in MAGIS-100 atomic interferometer Experiment to Explore the Dark Sector and Early Universe, Jeremiah Thomas Mitchell
“i Never Shared My Opinion Again”: Political Communication Apprehension and Conservative College Students, Megan Elise Montgomery
Single-Domain Vhh Antibodies as Protein Stabilization Modules, Nourhan Mohamed Disouky Mostafa
Dispelling The Mirage of C4-Driven Drought tolerance in Poaceae: A Phylogenomic Study, Matthew P. Nissenbaum
Investigating the behavioral effects of juvenile stress in the prairie vole model, Marigny C. Normann
Bioinformatic Anlayses of Identified But Uncultivated Microbial Dark Matter Organisms Using Archival Single Amplified Genomes (sags), Daniel Adam Nuccio
Rational Design of Memory-Based Sensors: The Case of Molecular Calorimeters, Obianuju Augusta Nwokolo
Why Some Authoritarian Regimes Do Not Just Win Elections But Win Big: Lessons from Cambodia and Malaysia, Limeng Ong
A bioinformatic approach to exploring land plant evolution, Lauren Margaret Orton
The Role of Medial Septum Cholinergic Function in Processing Self-Movement Cues to Maintain Spatial Orientation, Jenna Rae Osterlund
Body Wave Analysis For Low-Angle Thrust Quakes on Titan: Implications For Dragonfly, John William Owens
Links Between Parenting Behaviors and Anxiety Among Early Adolescents, Jacqueline Marie Pabis
An online Randomized Controlled Trial of Mindful Parenting Among Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Emily Elizabeth Padgett
Speculative Satire in Twentieth-Century Utopia and Dystopia, Benjamin Craig Parker
Often overlooked, but not forgotten: The influence of demographic measure constraints on participant affect, attitudes, behavior, and response codability, Joy S. Pawirosetiko
Categorization of Orthologous Gene Clusters in 92 ascomycota Genomes Reveals Functions Important For Fungal Phytopathogenicity, Daniel Curtis Peterson
The Second Prong of The Tinker Test: A Constitutional Right to Not Be offended?, Jonathan Pilkington
Principals’ Legal Literacy About Tenured-Teacher Evaluation in Illinois, Elizabeth Pohlmann
Apanola atolan Pah Mollo at the Margin: Power, Development, and NGO-state Relationship in West Timor, indonesia, Yuda Rasyadian
Southern Electoral Strategy: The Strategic integration of Religious Values into The Republican Party Platform, Levi Walker Rattliff
Sleep, Experiential Avoidance, and Mental Health Symptoms, Anthony Reffi
Construction of Confidence intervals for Parameter Estimates of t-Distribution, Margaret Remus
Bully Participant Role Behavior and Social Support From Teachers and Classmates: A Longitudinal Conditional Process Analysis, Logan Riffle
“The Cause, It Just Comes First”: tori Amos and Third-Wave Feminism, Amanda S. Roberts
The Relationship Between Emotional Symptoms and Bully Role Behavior Engagement Among Boys with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Their Typically Developing Peers, Dashae Rodriguez-Harris
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
Maternal Parenting Behavior, Socioeconomic Risk, and toddler Effortful Control: The Mediating Role of infant attention, Leanna D. Rosinski
Effectiveness of online Credit Recovery Programs, Diana Barbara Schill
CNN-Based Speed Detection Algorithm For Walking and Running Using Wrist-Worn Wearable Sensors, Venkata Devesh Reddy Seethi
Elite Polarization and Gender Effects on Ideology: How This Shapes The Supreme Court on Women’s Rights Cases, Reggie Lynn Semanko
Polarization in Social Networks Under a Proposed Model, Ashley L. Seyfried
The Effect of Self-Reflection on Relative Student Success in Undergraduate Calculus 1, Kevin Shryock
Get Out (2017), Us (2019), and Jordan Peele's New Black Body Horror, Brady Simenson
A Phenomenological Study of First-Generation Latin@ Community College Students as They Successfully Persist in College, Michelé Elaine Smith
A Spider's Web of Doughnuts, Daniel Stoertz
A Rasch Analysis of the Mindful attention Awareness Scale Adapted for Children, Daniel Strissel
Development of Machine Learning Models to Predict The online Impact of Research, Mohammed Murtuza Shahzad Syed
Nonlinear integrable Optics Beam Dynamics Experimentand Diagnostics, Sebastian Szustkowski
Diet of Spalangia Cameroni (hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), A Parasitoid of Filth Flies, Elizabeth Taylor
Canine and Criminal Bias: The Relationship Between Stereotypes and Perceptions of Punishment, Jamie I. Thomas
Learners’ Perceptions of Wiillingness to Communicate in Myanmar, Maw Maw Tun
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation in a Suburban Preserve Matrix: Applications of Long-term Monitoring Data, John Peter Vanek
Model-Based Estimates of The Timing of Brine Flux into The Victoria Land Basin From The Mcmurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, Valerie Nicole Voisin
Telling Stories, Healing Cultures: Feminist Healing Narratives By Contemporary American Women of Color, Lindsay Marie Vreeland
Discourses Surrounding Multi-Role Relationships Among Graduate Teaching assistants, Elizabeth Megan Weaver
Shyness Mindset and Sexual Harassment Responses Among Female College Students, Jessica Rose Winder
Effects of Differential instructional Time in Algebra on Standardized assessment and Semester Grade Outcomes, Michael S. Wojtowicz
Fundamental Study of Supported Metal Catalysts Prepared By Metal in Lithium Solution For Energy Science, Haiping Xu
Qualitative Perspectives on the Strange Trails of Persistence in STEM, Erika Johanna Zocher
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The Role of Administrative Observation, Evaluative Evidence and Procedural Due Process in Illinois, Before and After the Passage of the Performance Evaluation Reform Act (pera) and Senate Bill 7 (sb7)., Christopher J. Adkins
Using Machine Learning Models to Discover Promising Research, Akhil Pandey Akella
Solving the Semidefinite Programming Relaxation of Max-Cut Using an Augmented Lagrangian Method, Ahmed Sabah Al-Jilawi
Impact of Social Support During a Social interaction on Post-Trauma Cognitions and Outcomes During a Trauma Analogue Design, Christy Elizabeth Allen
The Link Between Antibiotic Resistance Used for Recombinant DNA Selection and Cellular Phenotype in Rat Liver Epithelial Cells, Doaa Alshammari
Morphometric Analysis of Subfossil Macronycteris Spp. (chiroptera: Hipposideridae) from Madagascar, Jamie Lynn Alumbaugh
Improved Momentum Spread for Precision Physics Experiments Using Wedges, Nick Amato
Farmers, Workers, and State Responses to the Food Crises: State-Society Conflicts and the Politics of Agricultural Development in indonesia and Nigeria, Sirojuddin Arif
Migration and Remittances, Seyedsoroosh Azizi
Controlling Lonicera maackii (amur honeysuckle) : basal bark and prescribed fire efficacy and impacts, Kaleb Baker
Controlling Lonicera Maackii (amur Honeysuckle): Basal Bark and Prescribed Fire Efficacy and Impacts, Kaleb Baker
Possible hydroseismic triggering for small earthquakes occurring within the Fox River Valley, Northeastern Illinois, James Benco
Possible Hydroseismic Triggering for Small Earthquakes Occurring within the Fox River Valley, Northeastern Illinois, James Benco
Exploring a Bayesian Analysis of Opinion Dynamics Using the Approximate Bayesian Computation Method, Jessica L. Bishop
From Tony Soprano to Donald Trump : situating the rhetoric of the 2016 Trump presidential campaign in the antihero genre, Harry Bodell
From Tony Soprano to Donald Trump: Situating the Rhetoric of the 2016 Trump Presidential Campaign in the Antihero Genre, Harry Bodell
Study of the Systematic Uncertainties associated with the Tracking Detectors, Daniel William Boyden
Psychological Reactance Applied to Instruction to Disregard, Jessica Louise Bozeman
Mapping the Effects of 5’ Untranslated Region Deletions on Translation of 3a in BMV RNA3, Courtney Marie Bozman
Youtube’s Terms of Service: Posthumanism, Algorithms, and Professional Writing, Sarah Bresnahan
Impact of Agreeableness on Virtual Team Performance Through Team Identification and Shared Mental Models, Alexandria Brown
Utilizing Radiolarian Assemblages to Track Changes in the Agulhas Current Through the Mid-Pleistocene Transition: IODP Site U1479, William Alberto Bugbee
Visual Rhetoric in Comics: The Rhetoric of Sexual Assault in the Wake of Mattress Girl, Brianna Marie Burke
Development of chromatography and mass spectrometry methods for enzyme kinetics and inhibition in glycolysis and the methylerythritol phosphate (MEP) pathways, Allison Fabino Carr
Understanding Collaborative Performance: The Case of Illinois 9-1-1 Emergency Call Service, Erica Ceka
Discovery and study of single-phase and single-ion manganese perovskite multiferroics, Kamal Chapagain
Bayesian Functional Data Analysis over Dependent Regions and its Application for Identification of Differentially Methylated Regions, Suvo Chatterjee
The Discourses of the internet in China: Beyond Politicization, Jin Chen
Educational Experiences of 1.5 Generation Cambodian Americans, Kassandra A. Chhay
Educational Experiences of 1.5 Generation Cambodian Americans, Kassandra A. Chhay
Resonant Extraction for Mu2e, Prudhvi Raj Varma Chintalapati
The search for 'home' : Anglo-Burman identity at the end of empire, Katrina Chludzinski
The Search for 'Home': Anglo-Burman Identity at the End of Empire, Katrina Chludzinski
"Bachelor Buttons": Feminist and Womanist Essays and Poems, Billy E. Clem Jr.
Conservation Agriculture in the Heartland: Farmer Perceptions of Soil Health and the Adoption of Cover Crops, Lillian Clarissa Cobo
An assessment of the Effectiveness of Positive Self-Talk on Engagement with Feared Stimuli and Control Related Beliefs, Sara Louise Conley
How Fitting in to The Social Context influences Work-Life Balance Effectiveness and Work Performance, Amanda Lynn Conlin
Still a Hollow Hope: Significant Social Change, the Second Amendment, and State Political Culture, Anthony David Cooling
Comparative Tumorigenic Amino Acid Starvation and integrated Stress Responses in Epithelial vs. Mesenchymal HCC Cells with ASCT2 Or LAT1 Transporter Knockouts, Stephanie Lois Cooper Woodin
The Role of rmtA in the Opportunistic Pathaogen Aspergillus fumigatus, Roshan Dahal
Behavioral interference of Memory Reconsolidation as a Treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms, Benjamin Darnell
Reactions to Daily Abusive Supervision: Exploring Day-to-Day Fluctuations with a Justice Perspective, Rushika Nadia De Bruin
Assessment of “meaning Made”: An Empirical Examination of Factorial Structure and Measure Validity, Andrea M. Despotes
History in American New Wave and Hard Renaissance Science Fiction, Joseph Donaldson
Maximum Likelihood Estimation for a Heavy-Tailed Mixture Distribution, Philippe Kponbogan Dovoedo