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Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Childhood Sexual Abuse and Identity Development: the Role of Attachment and Self-Esteeem, Joel David Dukett
Exploring the Dark Side: Investigating the Relationship between Creativity and Perceptions of Dishonesty, Kiera Michelle Dymit
Longitudinal Effects of School Climate on Middle-School Students' Academic, Social-Emotional and Behavioral Outcomes, Jennifer Lynn Engelland-Schultz
Sexual Minority Educators and Public Disclosure: How Identity and Culture Influence the Decisions To Be Out in School Settings, BreAnna Evans-Santiago
When Lovers Become Friends: Rules of Post-dissolutional Friendships, Annelise Nicole Ewing
You're like Me and I Like You: Variables Mediating the Similarity-Attraction Link in a Social Interaction Study, Amanda N. Fisher
Ideographs and American Mass Media: Understanding the Narrative on the Israel-Palestine Conflict and Its Influence on Publics, Savanna Lynn Fowler
Cherokee Community Coalescence in East Tennessee, Melissa Frederick
Live like You Were Dying: How Transitions Affect Decisions of Undergraduate University Students, Danielle N. Freund
Raising the Standard: an Assessment of Peer Collaboration as an Enhancer of Speech Evaluation Fidelity, Terrell Kody Frey
Exploring Sibling Bereavement, Amy Marie Funk
Workplace Stressors and Employee Well-Being: the Roles of Affect, Boredom Proneness, and Counterproductive Work Behaviors, Kamila Gabka
Examining Possible Perceptual Proxies of Flow State, Devin Michael Gill
Cognitive Flexibility as a Moderator of the Relation between Reading Strategy Use and Reading Comprehension, Emily K. Gnaedinger
Caution, Traffick Ahead: Determining Message Design Features from Anti-human Trafficking Non-profit Organizations, Elayne Goldman
Ways in which Participation in Intercollegiate Athletics Contributes to the Learning and Development of Student-Athletes, R. Chad Good
A Democracy, if We Can Keep It: Democratic Engagement Policy in Higher Education, Maegan Gorham
Synthesis and Characterization of Naphthocarbaporphyrins and Related Systems, Eric Grabowski
Signature Pedagogies In Undergraduate Theatre As Revealed Through Assessment: An Exploratory Study, Chris Gray
Stoichiometric Controls on Denitrification in High Nitrate Watersheds, Brian Grebliunas
The Effect of Muscle Energy Technique on Forward Shoulder Posture, Pectoralis Minor Length, and Upper Extremity Blood Flow in Collegiate Female Swimmers, Elizabeth Gross
We've Been Here: Possibilities for Prolonging Experiential Intimacy in Art, Christopher Kevin Hagen
A Case Study of University Archives: Illinois State University Archives as a Model Archive, Tammy M. Hansen
Hatching Asynchrony in European Starlings ( Sturnus Vulgaris ), Jason Hanser
Integrating Experiential Learning into Animal Science Curriculum through a Hands-on Beef Cattle Management and Marketing Contest, Corinne J. Harrison
The Ordinary and the Sublime, Mary Jo Hart
Formative Assessment Strategies: Levels of Use by High School English and Mathematics Teachers, Danielle Love Hauser
Fragile United: a Grand Tour, Brian Walter Hedgepeth
Chamber Symphony, William Heinze
Factors Constraining the Reproductive Output of Baptisia Alba Macrophylla, Ashley Morgan Hembrough
Can We Do Better When Students Are a Threat to Self? a Review of Legal and Policy Implications for Current Practices on College Campuses, Jennifer Ann Hemingway
Playing at Crusoe: Gender, Place, and Identity in Girls' Robinsonades, Amy Hicks
Resistance, the Church, and a Comparison of Ceramics from Sixteenth-Century Caluco, El Salvador, Alison Denise Hodges
"Sing Me a Sad Song and Make Me Feel Better": Exploring Rewards Related to Liking Familiar Sad Music, John D. Hogue
Genomic Deoxyuracil: Targeting, Regulation and Repair, Nate Warren Holton
An Emotional Spark: Exploring the Role of Emotions in Organizational Training Programs and Beyond, Olivia Loren Hook
An Approach to an Agave Problem: the Bioremediation of Agricultural Waste by Yeast Fermentations, Joshua Michael Jarodsky
Influence of Psychiatric Medications on Blood Pressure and Body Mass Index in Adolescents, Anna Jones
Effects of Explicit Reading Comprehension Strategy Instruction for English Learners with Specific Learning Disabilities, Sara Lynn Jozwik
Revisiting Gender Equality in Millennium Development Goal 3: Establishing Education for Women as a Human Right, Colleen Renee Kahl
Alive and Human: Situating Wallace, Lethem, and Russell in Contemporary Fiction, Carissa Kampmeier
Examining Social Desirability Bias in Measures of Financial Behavior, Nicole L. Kelly
Does Simulation Improve Nursing Student Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes in Identifying Delirium Superimposed on Dementia?, Sheryl A. Kelly
Preservice Secondary Mathematics Teachers' Knowledge of Generalization and Justification on Geometric-Numerical Patterning Tasks, James Vincent Kirwan
Utilization of Antibody-Conjugated Gold Nanoparticles, Dynamic Light Scattering and Sers in Influenza Virus Detection, Yen Hoang Lai
Shift Happens: Enactment of Third-Shift Work and Gendered Identity Negotiation of Working Mothers, Caitlin Brooke Landsman
Expression, Localization, and Kinetic Characterization of the Phospholipid Biosynthesis Enzyme Ctp: Phosphocholine Cytidylyltransferase from the Protozoan Parasite Leishmania Major, Justin Daniel Theodore Lange
Investigation of Oxidopyrylium-Alkene [ 5 +2 ] Cycloaddition Conjugate Addition Cascades and Extension to Chiral Auxiliary-Based Variants, Chunyin Marshall Law
The Relationship of Magical Thinking to Stigmatizing Reactions in Children and Adults, Christine LeFever
Middle-School Girls' Behavioral Responses to Ostracism: How Much Does Inclusion Cost?, Ashley Leja
Stigma-By-association: the Effect of Parent Disengagement on Head Start Teacher Attitudes toward Their Students, Rachael Antonette Levine
Rural High School Special Education Teachers' Perceptions Related to Structured Work Experiences, Abigail Meghan Christina Lies
Investigating Seed Dispersal Distances and Long Distance Dispersal Mechanisms of the Invasive Plant, Alliaria Petiolata, Christopher Loebach
Merchant Guilds, Local Autonomy, and Municipal Governance in a South China Treaty Port: Shantou, 1858- 1939, Fusheng Luo
Rhetorics of Engagement across and about Faith and Worldview Difference, John MacLean
A Prescription for Better Health: the Role of on-Line Research in Doctor-Nurse-Patient Communication, Julie Anne Maio
Interpersonal Leadership: the Role of Perceived Motivation for Self-Disclosure and Self-Disclosure Appropriateness in Employee Affect for Supervisor, Caleb Barrett Malik
Feasibility Study of an Alternative Approach To Recycle Shipping Containers, Tofig Mammadov
Revisiting Tired Old Fields with New Technologies: Three Dimensional Modeling and Structural Analysis of the Dudley Pool Oil Reservoir, Edgar County, Il, Jordan M. Martin
Perceived and Actual Similarity as Predictors of Self-Disclosure and Perceived Understanding at Zero Acquaintance, Rebecca A. Martin
Addressing Disability in the Art Classroom: Pre-service Teachers and Programs, Stephanie Karlene Mays
"It's Tribal, Not Racist": Exposing Hegemonic and Subaltern Ideologies in' Orange Is the New Black', Taylor Warren McDonald
"What Happened to Americans First ???": Rhetorics of Whiteness in Online Reader Comments, Kristi McDuffie
Mexican / Mexican American Foodways as Communication of Cultural Identity, Charity Jo Mendoza
High School Principals and Self-Efficacy: a Phenomenological Examination into the Belief in Ability To Perform the Principalship, Michael S. Miller
Music Therapy as Treatment for the Psychological Distress of Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: Comparing Expressive and Receptive Music Interventions, Kristiana Miner
The Storm Still Echoes: Suspense and Ambivalence as a Way of Life, Shailen Mishra
Cell Wall Mutants in Arabidopsis Thaliana, Christy Jane Moore
Using an Agent-Based Model To Study the Effect of Reproductive Skew on Mongoose Populations, Stacy Lee Mowry
Children's Responses to Cooperative and Competitive Games: a Person X Situation Analysis, Thomas David Mulderink
Clinical Interviews Shed Light on Relationships between Next Generation Science Standards Dimensions in Upper Elementary Students, Sean Thomas Mullins
Switching Tactics: Phenotypic Plasticity in the Alternative Mate-Finding Tactics of Burying Beetles, Theresa Mulrey
Teacher Evaluation: Teachers' Past Experiences and Their Responses to Impending Reform, Julie Hepton Nelson
Utilizing Illinois State University's Environmental Legacy and Historical Collections To Sustain a Global Future, Melissa Nergard
Rhetorics of Silence and Disarticulation in Transgenerational Spaces in World War I and World War Ii Literature, Irina Nersessova
Influence of Dietetic Internship Directors' Involvement with Research on the Research Curriculum in Dietetic Internship Programs, Amanda Margaret Bergschneider Newell
Mathematics in the Charmed World: Creating a Mathematical Environment through Robotics Play, Megan L. Nickels
Watch and Learn: a Documentary Exploring the Effects of Video-Based Pedagogy, Chris Matthew Noel
Dr. Frankenstein's Hideous Progeny: a Typology of the Mad Scientist in Contemporary Young Adult Novels and Computer Animated Film, Farran Leanne Norris Sands
Can Non-haptic Manipulation of Temperature Influence the Same Emotions as Ostracism?, Rebecca Ann Oglesby
Effects of Physical Characteristics of Urban Storm Sewersheds on Water Quality in Bloomington, Il, Alicia Terese O'Hare
Validation and Application of Ambient-Sampling, Portable Ms Systems for Forensic Analysis, Adam Edward O'Leary
Illinois Teacher Evaluation Student Growth Component: a Predecision-Making Policy Analysis, Joshua Robert Olsen
Associations between Physical Activity and Weight Status with Grade-School Performance, Taylor Panfil
Analysis of Plant Lignin Formation and Engineering for Biofuels Production, Deborah Lynn Petrik
Reconceptualizing Markets: Hip- Hop Artists, Marketing, Distribution, and Consumers, Ronald Pikes
Stacked Negotiations, Krista Gabrielle Profitt
Investigations into the Genomes of Two Ascomyetes, Jay Wilbur Pyle
Synthesis and Characterization of Rare-Earth Free Doped Sr3 Mo4 F ( m= Al, Ga ) Anti-perovskite Compounds with Application to Led Lighting, Calvin Dakota Quilty
Harry Potter and the Moral Spectrum of Care: Using Feminist Care Ethics To Analyze Morality, Shelby Ragan
From Footnotes to Focus: Reconceptualizing Modernist Culture through the Labor, Gendered Materialism, Economics, and Lesbian Discourse of Sylvia Beach, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein, Catherine A. Ratliff
Investigating Preschool Teachers' Implementation of Multicultural Curriculum through Teacher Evaluation Approaches, Anna Krummel Reinking
Functional Expression and Characterization of a Truncated Candida Antarctica Lipase B in Yeast, Samantha Robinson
Seta Structure in Members of the Coleochaetales ( Streptophyta ), Timothy Richard Rockwell
Technical Communication as Teaching: a Grounded Theory Study of Cognitive Empathy and Audience Engagement among Computer Science Majors in a Technical Communication Classroom, Robert Michael Rowan
Tenant Management Groups in Chicago Public Housing 1940-1990: 50 Years of Struggle and Progress, Megan Helene Rufin
Exterminating Their Futures: Case Studies in Post World War Ii Eugenics, Ashlee Diane Russeau-Pletcher