Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Frobenius groups, Faizah Ali Alshehri
Resource allocation and persistence : the role of state orientation and goal attainability, Joe Ammar
Three essays in health economics, Abraham Abebe Asfaw
Panel regression with nonstationary variables, Seyedsoroosh Azizi
Analyzing, simulating, and visualizing complex social systems, M. Baniukiewicz
Cultural model(s) of society in Western Ukraine, Nadiia Biletska
The effect of reading to find a solution on learning from multiple documents in science, Dylan Blaum
A reconsideration of Montesquieu's liberal pacifism, James Boesen
An adaptive approach to optimizing QoS throughputs in software-defined networks, J. M. Boley
Human hepatocellular carcinoma cells adapt to ASCT2 and LAT1 amino acid transporter knockdown mediated by shRNA and CRISPR-Cas9, Paige Jay Bothwell
The influence of scenario-based assessment on reading comprehension, David James Boveri
Enhancing college students' job search skills and motivation : a test of a technology-mediated job search intervention, Christopher Joseph Budnick
High let radiation modulates autophagic flux in glioblastoma cells, Van Ai Bui
Testing the equality of mean functional kinetic energy profiles of males and females using the bootstrap, Todd Buretz
Gay men's literature in the United States (1903 - 1968) : uncovering the buried roots of a queer tradition, Adam Wayne Burgess
True crime does pay : narratives of wrongdoing in film and literature, Andrew T. Burt
Direct and interactive effects of infant frustration and parenting on toddler compliance : a test of differential susceptibility, Nicole Marie Burt
Assessing the effectiveness of a training program designed to increase participants' self-efficacy for promoting positive youth development through sports in a developing nation, Lucia Cabrera Gadea
Comparing the paleohydrologic structure on either side of Witchelina Diapir, South Australia, David Paul Canova
Teaching a transformative story : crafting critical feminist narrative pedagogies through women's and queer life writing, Rhiannon Catherwood
Validating the outcome of an action : the impacts of goal and semantic information, Greta Ching Chan
Taiwanese identity and transnational families in the cinema of Ang Lee, Ting-Ting Chan
Microbial community dynamics in tallgrass prairie soil affected by native grazer feces (Bison bison), Karley Chantos
A retrospective study on rampage school shootings : considerations for school-based threat assessment teams, Seth H. Chapman
The swords of Damocles : explaining unconventional weapon non-use in modern war, Martin Claar
Faculty and student out-of-class communication : the role of academic entitlement on relational frame activation, Jimmy L. Clark
Investigating a novel measure of academic grit, Kelly Clark
Constraints of human nature in the political philosophy of Rousseau, Timothy Joseph Clishem
Emotional self-regulation over time : are affective fade and growth mindset associated with the development of task interest?, Sarah Louise Coley
Evaluation of the green microalga Monoraphidium sp. Dek19 growth utilizing ethanol plant side streams and potential for biofuel production, David Michael Colson
Language development at 24 months : contributions from the growth of infant positive affect and maternal quality of speech during a wordless book task, Lauren Laake DeVlieger
Lyapunov-type inequalities and applications to boundary value problems, Sougata Dhar
Geophysical characterization of the big marsh slag site in Chicago, Illinois, Sonny Divita
Immigration, organization-based resources, and urban violence : an analysis of Latino neighborhoods in Chicago, Rodrigo Dominguez-Martinez
Do rumination and social support mediate the association of victimization and depression symptoms?, Nicole Dorio
Gang neighborhood and youth criminal behavior, Uche Eseosa Ekhator
Stereotype threat : a qualitative study of the challenges facing female undergraduate engineering students, J. R. Entsminger II
A dedicated quality control test stand for the g-2 tracker system, Aaron Epps
A study of particle beam spin dynamics for high precision experiments, Andrew J. Fiedler
Karen refugees resettled in Aurora, IL : their identity, their resettlement, their oral histories, Karla Findley
Coparenting among intact families with young adolescents : associations with internalizing and externalizing symptoms, Andrew Joseph Flannery
On morality in minority fiction : subtexts of closeting, communication, and community in "Babel-17" and "Fledgling", Andrea Fryling
Superacid catalyzed reactions : generation of reactive intermediates and their chemistry, Makafui Gasonoo
Investigating the associations among perceived social support, neuroticism, extraversion, and depressive symptoms in early adolescence, Raymond L. Geosling
Evaluation process of paraeducators : perspectives from paraeducators and principals, Lynn Glickman
The states, the Supreme Court, and social change : an analysis of Roe v. Wade and Obergefell v. Hodges, Kaitlyn Gradecki
Engineering and characterization of rhizavidin and Fab affinity reagents that possess unique function, Dionne Hope Griffin
The big picture : the perception of teachers, counselors, and administrators on interdisciplinary instruction, Panagiota Merris Grow
Water quality and physical hydrogeology of the Amarapura township, Mandalay, Myanmar, Michael Grzybowski
The relationships among collective efficacy factors and achievement in Illinois high schools, Matthew E. Haug
"Strong, and I adapt myself" : Saudi women and English language learning, Ashley Steele Heiberger
Physical processes at polar and temperate grounding zones, Timothy O. Hodson
(Re)Inventing mathematical logic : a case study of set-based meanings for conditional truth, Alec William Hub
Illinois's performance evaluation reform act (PERA) and its effect on the dismissal of teachers for unsatisfactory teaching performance : a review of related litigation, Kristin M. Humphries
Examining the association of hypermasculinity and bullying : what is the role of homophobia?, Caicina Jones
Radiation damage in Hamamatsu multi-pixel photon counters, Jacob R. Kalnins
Contextual stress and infant emotion regulation : the buffering effect of positive parenting, Meghan Justina Kanya
Interparental conflict and adolescence : the cognitive-contextual framework, Christine Rachelle Keeports
News media coverage and source selection in U.S. foreign policy debates : the case of Iran deal, Mehrnaz Khanjani
Women lie and other myths : how rape myths impact attributions of blame in a rape case, Kathryn R. Klement
When they say, "Where is your God?", Carmen Klopfenstein
The association between body esteem and school engagement : the role of victimization as a mediator, Jacqueline Klossing
The relationship between teacher induction and teacher satisfaction, Charles A. Kyle
Matching effects of personality traits in individual assessment : an investigation of the similar-to-me hypothesis, Camille Heneghan Lee
The effects of Mg, Al, and Fe on diagenetically induced phase changes in biogenic opal-A : implications for diatom silica [delta]¹⁸O values as a paleoenvironmental proxy, Audrina D. Lehman
Investigations of biologically relevant free radicals utilizing novel gas-phase analytical techniques, Michael Lesslie
Gender queer representation in The box spring, Kim Likier
The effects of utility value interventions on self-discrepancy accessibility, objective self-awareness, and interest, Meghan I.H. Lindeman
Relationships among principal leadership behaviors, teachers' motivation, and teacher job satisfaction, Thomas C. Lind
Bayesian semiparametric accelerated hazards model for arbitrarily censored spatial survival data, Yanjun Liu
Piercy, pop music, and the patriarchy : feminist activism in the sung and written word, Andrea Lohf
A trauma analogue study investigating the role of attentional shifting in emotion regulation, Melissa J. London
Spatial-temporal change point detection problem for dependent data, Khulan Luvsandash
The development of a new comprehensive measure of school climate and associations with school leadership, Christopher J. Maier
Isolation and characterization of SLF genes from a BAC library representing the s-locus of Petunia axillaris, Allison T. Makulec
Violence and heteronormativity in gay-themed films, Anna-Marie Malley
Klynac : compact linear accelerator with integrated power supply, A. V. Malyzhenkov
An examination of the pyrite-gold and arsenopyrite-gold systems : implications for hydrothermal gold deposits, Matthew Francis Mann
Race, ethnicity, economics, and federalism : state sentiment regarding noncitizens from 2009 to 2014, Timothy Marquez
Gender differences in verbal and non-verbal communication in mixed-gender groups, Jasmin Martinez
Essays in bank competition and lending behavior, Genuine Martin
The effect of disgust exposure on specific phobia symptoms, Kathleen S. McCraw
Teaching multiplication facts during physical education : the effects on third-grade student academic development and on teacher perception, William Dale McGuire
Communicating church branding through anniversary services, Kate E. Mead
Form and function : settler women as cultural conveyors in narratives of the early frontier, Rowenna Miller
The impact of commitment on risk recognition in sexually violent dating relationships, Jennifer Milliken
Essays in labor economics, Sepehr Moghareh Abed
A utility-value intervention : will it help Hispanic parents to motivate their adolescents in mathematics?, Margaret Molenda-Lesniak
Economic base changes in counties impacted by military base closures, Andrea D. Moore
Development, control, and application of the o-Hydroxychalcone/flavanone molecular switch scaffold, Brian Matthew Muller
L-Tryptophan hydroxamic acid derivatives as Burkholderia pseudomallei IspF inhibitors, Chante Ashley Muller
More than we imagined : toward a map of beliefs and attitudes about creative writing, Kelle Sills Mullineaux
rtfA controls development, secondary metabolism, and virulence In Aspergillus fumigatus, Ryan Myers
Decentralization and public service provision in Indonesia : influence of the middle class, Ronnie Rahman Nataatmadja
"The second barrel is nearly always fatal" : rhetoric in the three trials of Oscar Wilde, Kurt Neumann
DBHGT : the fungal horizontal gene transfer database, Marcus Nguyen