Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Alkyne Combustion: Experimental and Computational Studies of Formyl Radical Production, Matthew Charles Drummer
Exploring the Terminal Investment Hypothesis in a Nuptial Gift -giving Cricket Species, Gryllodes Sigillatus, Kristin Rae Duffield
The Look of Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Middle School Statistics, Dhimitraq Duni
You Have Seventy-Two Hours: How the City Complaint System Enables Criminalization of the Unsheltered Population, Lindsey Grace Earl
Learning To See the Forest for the Corn: Establishing Sense of Place and Community in a Field-Based Ecology Course for Pre-service Educators, Michelle Edgcomb Friday
Communication between Home and School for Parents of Children with Chronic Illness, Keri Edwards
A Critical Interpretation of Study Abroad, Participant Identity, and Second Language Learning, Laura Edwards
From Ideology to Ideologue: How the Mormon Church Utilizes the Ideograph to Interpellate Identity, Alexander Ewers
Framing Faith: a Media Analysis of the Ordain Women Movement within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Jasmin Falk
Women of the Future: the Performative Personhood of Elizabeth Robins, Djuna Barnes, and the Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven, Michelle Feda
Seeing Reading in First-Year Composition, Matthew Felumlee
Does a Positive Illusory Bias Mediate the Moderating Effect of Achievement Orientation on Response to Exclusion in Boys with Adhd?, Alexandria G. Fladhammer
The Plight of Wage-Earning Women in Peoria, 1905-1915, Cheryl Kay Fogler
Is the Montessori Method a Solution To Improve Public Education? Comparing Two Pedagogical Models in Urban Schools, Iwona Beata Franczak
Teaching To Assess: an Evaluation of Assessment Education for Secondary Teacher Candidates, Daniel M. Frederking
Emotional Overtones of Terms That Parents Encounter in Individualized Education Program ( Iep ) Meetings, Kristin Gallaway
A Combinatorial Premotor Neural Code: Transformation of Sensory Information into Meaningful Rhythmic Motor Output by a Network of Heterogeneous Modulatory Neurons, Christopher John Goldsmith
Clustering Biological Data with Self-Adjusting High-Dimensional Sieve, Josselyn Gonzalez
From Borderlands to Border Islands: Intersections between Anzaldúa's Chicana Feminist Theory and U.s. Latina Literature from the Hispanic Caribbean, Cristina Gonzalez Martin
Creating Sustainable Workplace Environments: an Exploratory Study of Social Energy Expenditure in Cross-Sex, Heterosexual Organizational Friendships, Kathryn Cordelia Green
Gender-Exclusive Language: Women’s Perception of Linguistic Ostracism, Voice, and Power in Politics, Michelle Roxanne Grzybowski
Diversity in Parenting: a Qualitative Study on the Socialization Goals of Palestinian Mothers from Different Socio-Economic Backgrounds, Layali BA Hamayel
Assessing the Experiences of Women Who Have Suffered Intimate Partner Violence Living in Shelters, Queencilla N. Hammond
Factors Affecting Illinois Legislators' Perceptions of School-Based Agricultural Education, Perry William Harlow
Understanding 1-D Vertical Flux Dynamics in a Low-Gradient Stream: an Assessment of Stage as a Control of Vertical Hyporheic Exchange, Frances Claire Harris
Realizing the Ideal School District Size: How District Size Affects Achievement and Expenditure, James L. Hayes III
Bladelet Polish: a Lithic Analysis of Spracklen ( 33 Gr 1585 ), an Upland Hopewell Campsite, Tyler R. E. Heneghan
Deaf / Hard of Hearing Preschool Students’ Acquisition of Language through Dyadic and Triadic Communication Contexts, Molly S. Herman
Testing the Effects of Message Framing on Physical Activity Motivation in Active and Non-active Adults, Derek James Hevel
Attentional Bias to Food Words in Restrained Eaters, Brandon James Hodge
Using Context Specific Measures of Maximizing Tendency To Reduce Inconsistency in Findings, Thomas Holzhauer
Modeling Climate Change Impacts on Water Balance Components of the Mackinaw River Watershed, Central Illinois, Joseph Honings
The Role of Dogs in Prehistoric Illinois: a Study of Dog Paleopathology at the Range Site in the American Bottom, Allison L. Huber
Generating a High Erucic Acid Seed Oil Variety of Pennycress ( Thlaspi Arvense ), Brice Jarvis
Applying Conditional Distributions to Individuals: Using Latent Variable Models, Feng Ji
Athletic Identity, Institutional Support Services, and Transition Factors: an Analysis of Student-Athlete Perceptions and Implications, John Nowak Kaczorowski
Identification and Analysis of Jak-Stat Pathway Genes in Drosophila Melanogaster Immunity, Pooja Kadaba Ranganath
The Impact of Informal Social Networks on Employee Productivity in Kenyan Organizations, Mary Kiura
A Place To Stand: Community Media Centers, James Joseph Knightwright
Construction of Reality: Symbolic and Social Practice of Michael Kurzwelly’s Słubfurt and Nowa Amerika, Olga Kostyrko
Teaching Students with Developmental Disabilities To Sequence Academic Content Using Video Modeling and Constant Time Delay via an Ipad Application, Allison Marie Kroesch
Adults with Cystic Fibrosis: Self-Management and Health Outcomes, Amanda Rose Lambie
Conscious Light, Jeremy Y. Langston
The Effect of Concept Mapping on Baccalaureate Nursing Students' Knowledge Acquisition, Pamela S. Laskowski
Walk like a Man: Connecting Masculine Ideologies and Imagery to Young Men’s Sense of Entitlement to Women, Ashley C. Lee
Achieving Development in Destinations: Effects of Tourism on Poverty, Inequality, and Quality of Life, Jessica R. Linder
Translating Le Fresne: Modeling Digital Scholarly Editions, Gabrielle Litwiller
Getting in each Other’s Way: Enlarging the Possibilities of Sustainable Community Development through Communication, Cecelia M. Long
“the Testing Served Its Purpose ”: High-Stakes Testing as a Method of Categorization and Control in Young Adult Dystopian Novels, Rebecca Lorenzo
Communication in Live Sports Broadcasts: Attributions of Task Performance Errors, Benjamin J. Lynn
Determining the Relationship between Aging and Oxidative Stress in a Drosophila Melanogaster P38 kb Framework, Aleksandra J. Majewski
Graston Technique Pressure Changes on Hamstring Range of Motion, Emily Martz
Developing Pennycress ( Thlaspi Arvense ) as a Biodiesel Feedstock Crop and Plant Model System, Michaela McGinn
Student Preparedness upon Entering the College Communication Classroom, Tina Marie McGuire
Illinois Residents' Perception of the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act an Analysis of Letters to Editors, Catharyn Ellen Meins
The Association between Parental Beliefs about Sport Specialization and Athlete Sport Specialization Classification, Henry Mercier
Optimization of Ambient Ionization Methodologies for Field Investigations Utilizing Portable Mass Spectrometric Instrumentation, Shahnaz Mukta
Co-Creating Our Lives, Performing Our Multi-cultural Worlds, Aidah Nalubowa
When Does Less Equal More? Assessing the Mechanisms Driving Compensatory Mortality and the Hydra Effect, Joseph T. Neale
Framed Text Messages as a Nutrition Education Intervention, Michael James O'Halloran
The Old versus the New Equestrian Circus: Demonstrating and Promoting Equine Welfare, Veronica Painter
Sound Vessels from Matriarchal Light, Ryan Paluczak
Young Adults with Visual Impairments and Driver's Education: Journeys of Self-Efficacy, Identity, and Transition to Adulthood, Molly Pasley
Time Does Not Heal all Wounds: Temporal Differences in Spinal Pathology among Pre-columbian Sites in West-Central Illinois, Abigail Peeples
An Evaluative Study of a Health Information Management Program Following a Significant Curricular Change, Jennifer Lynn Peterson
Chamaecrista Fasciculata in Tallgrass and Sand Prairies: the Potential for Differential Responses, Robert W. Philips
The Effects of Noncontingent Praise ( Ncp ) on Classroom Behavior, Kelly Poirot
Identifying Concussion in Adolescent Males Using Regions of Interest within Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Sophia Alvena Pollalis
( Re ) Making Insurrection: Genre, Historicity, and the Narrative Legacy of Nat Turner, Chamere Ranyail Poole
Inside the Flip: a Look at Teacher Motivations and Activities in Flipped Classrooms, Philip G. Pulley
A Pokébalancing Act: the Management of Japanese Cultural “Odor ” in Pokémon, Nicholas Raes
The Effects of Technical Language and Individual Differences on Evaluating Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorders, Jillian R. Reiher
Faith Too Big To Fail? the Struggles and Wishes of New Atheism, Joe Rice
Chatting with Middle Schoolers: an Investigation of Student Uptakes of a Pedagogical Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Curriculum in 8 Th-Grade English Language Arts Classes, Deborah Riggert-Kieffer
Using Caenorhabditis Elegans To Model the Muscular and Neurological Impairments of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Anjelica M. Rodriguez
Media Messages and Same-Sex Sexual Consent, Ryann Rooney
Analysis of Short-Term Erosion of the St. Peter Sandstone in Lasalle County, Illinois, Monique M. Rutte
Teaching Writing through Transformation: Linguistically Diverse Writing Teachers’ Enactments of Linguistic Diversity, Cristina Sanchez-Martin
The Tropes We Tutor by: Names and Labels as Tropes in Writing Center Work, Scott R. Sands
Examining the Specificity of Colonization of a Beneficial Bee Gut Community Member, Logan A. Sauers
Supporting the Medial Longitudinal Arch: a Comparison between Intrinsic and Extrinsic Musculature, James D. Schaefer
A Cross-cultural Comparison of Perceptions by Public Relations Practitioners in the United States and Germany, Leila Schmidt
Examining the Relationship between Basic Needs Theory and Mental Toughness Transfer in Mentally Tough Athletes, Chelsi Scott
Using School Leadership Teams as Professional Learning Communities To Improve Professional Capital and Leadership, Matthew R. Seaton
Diffusion of Innovations and Public Communication Campaigns: an Examination of the 4r Nutrient Stewardship Program, Henry Seeger
Analysis of Grade Variances in Multisection Calculus Classes, S. Paul Shaffer
Exercise Is Medicine on Campus Program Comparisons: a Descriptive Study, Jacquelyn Sherman
Big Data and Sensor Network for Construction Material Testing, Yao Shi
Negative Outcomes Associated with Childhood Sexual Abuse, Kristen N. Silbert
Examining the Learning of Students Participating in an Interactive Simulated Patient Experience, Mary Smyers
Here’s Looking at You, Kids: Dystopian Roadmaps to the Present in the Secondary Classroom, Michael Arthur Soares
What's So Bad about Hooking up? : Factors Predictive of More Positive Perceptions Following a Hookup, Jade A. M. Spaulding
Mathieu-Zhao Subspaces of Vertex Algebras, Matthew Speck
Investigating Pre-service Secondary Mathematics Teachers’ Reasoning When Learning Trigonometry Using the Line Segment Approach, Lawrence Ssebaggala
Trauma and the Credibility Economy: an Analysis of Epistemic Violence and Its Traumatic Functions, Gina Stinnett
Supporting Intermediate Teachers' Implementation of the Ngss through a Collaboration Based on Mutuality, Elisha Nichole Swanson
Old: a Personal Essayist’s Reflections of an Aging Adult, Marcia Irene Taylor
Phenotypic Effects of the Mis-expression of Pmt-like Genes in Brachypodium Distachyon, Tyler Telander