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Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Spiritual Care in Advanced Practice Nursing, Barbara Baele Vincensi

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Religion, Science, and the Conscious Self: Bio-Psychological Explanation and the Debate Between Dualism and Naturalism, Paul J. Voelker

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Pax Ecclesia: Globalization and Catholic Literary Modernism, Christopher Wachal

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Trilectic of Testimony: A Phenomenological Construal of the Eucharist as Manifestation-Proclamation-Attestation, Donald Lee Wallenfang

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Negotiating the Boundaries of Mental Health and Illness: A Study of Recovery in Permanent Supportive Housing, Dennis P. Watson

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Bystander Behavior: Understanding Undergraduate Male Involvement in Dangerous Drinking Situations, Christopher Allen Waugh

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Post-Correctional Education Interventions: A Phenomenological Case Study of Empowerment Education Curriculum for Formerly Incarcerated African American Males, Rolanda Jean West

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Characteristics of Advocates: An Exploration of Skills and Skill Development Used in the Performance of Advocacy Work in the Mental Health Profession, Lydia R. Wiede

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The Role of SDF1/CXCR4 Signaling in Opioid-Induced Hypernociception, Natalie Wilson

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On the Needs of Human Persons, Gregory Wolcott

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Repression of Protein Kinase C Delta in Human Squamous Cell Carcinomas by Ras, Fyn and NF-Kappa B Signaling, Vipin Yadav

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Autonomy Through Social Skill Development: A Camp Intervention for Young People with Spina Bifida, Lauren Nicole Zurenda

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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Perceptions of Care: Self Reflections of Women Teachers of African Descent Who Teach in Urban Settings, Elizabeth A. Abioro

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Using Matching Methods From Both Fisher's Experimental Design and Rubin's Causal Model to Compare Between Two Medical Facilities with Extremely Skewed Number of Subjects, Gideon D. Bahn

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Agape and Personal Knowledge, Peter Eric Bergeron

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Digging Below the Demographic Level: Examining the Effects of Internalized Racial and Social Attitudes on White Physicians-In-Training Self-Reported Cross Cultural Competency, Sha'kema Maigre't Blackmon

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Radicis: Ideology, Argument, and Composition Courses in American Colleges, Donovan Sean Braud

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From Trial to Triumph: Representations of African Americans in Museum Exhibits, Derrick Brooms

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Uncommon Sense in Renaissance English Literature, Eric Byville

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An Historical Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools Policy on the Requirements for the Selection of Principals, 1983-2008, Siobhan Marie Cafferty

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Phospholipase D Signaling in T Cells, Uma Chandrasekaran

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Developmental Characterization of Cara Mitad: A Drosophila Nuclear Receptor Co-Regulator, Chhavi Chauhan

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Transcultural Psychotherapy: Clinical Issues in Working with Korean Immigrant Women, Kyung-Mee Choi

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The Impact of Social Stigma on the Therapeutic Relationship for Latino Clinicians: The Elephant in the Room?, Mauricio Jose Cifuentes

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Polyomavirus Enhancer Activator 3 (PEA3), a Member of the Ets Family of Transcription Factors, Is a Transcriptional Activator of Notch-1 and Notch-4 in Breast Cancer: An Opportunity for Novel Combinational Therapy, Anthony George Clementz

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Coronavirus Replicase Proteins: Multifunctional Mediators of Replication and Innate Immunity Evasion, Mark Anthony Clementz

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Sea-Cards for the Impetuous Muse: A Reading of Shaftesbury's Characteristicks, Travis Sean Cook

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Towards a New Measure of Playfulness: The Capacity to Fully and Freely Engage in Play, Rebecca Cornelli Sanderson

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The Effects of Uncontrollable Stress on Subjective Well-Being and Coping Behavior in Urban Adolescents, Laura Darr Coyle

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How Counseling Helps: An In-Depth Look at Domestic Violence Counseling, Sonya V. Crabtree-Nelson

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Internet Advocacy Support for Families of Children with Emotional Difficulties, Maureen Elizabeth Curtin

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Lysine Specific Demethylase-1 and the Brahma Chromatin Remodeling Complex Regulate Conserved Signaling Pathways During Drosophila Wing Development, Brenda Jean Curtis

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The Caller and the Called: How Young Adults Understand Vocation in Their Lives, John A. Dahlstrand

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Moral Distress and Avoidance Behavior in Nurses Working in Critical Care and Non-Critical Care Units, Mary Jo De Villers

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Uncovering Medical and Mental Health Professionals' Decision-Making in the Treatment of Trans-Variant Patients, Jodie M. Dewey

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The Effect of Plea Bargaining Vs. Trial Conviction on the Sentencing of Offenders Charged with a Drug Offense in Cook County, Illinois, Joseph George Dusek

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Psychosocial Development, Well-Being, and Internalizing Symptoms During Emerging Adulthood: An Examination of Mediating and Moderating Factors, Jennifer Paley Edidin

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The Role of IGF-1 and Notch Signaling in Thoracic Malignancies., Sandra Eliasz

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In the Margins: Thresholds of Text and Identity in U.S.-Mexico Border Literature, Allison E. Fagan

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School Factors That Promote Academic Resilience in Urban Latino High School Students, Christine Michelle Fallon

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Components of Religious Beliefs, Religious Maturity, and Religious History as Predictors of Proscribed and Non-Proscribed Explicit and Implicit Prejudices, Luke Fiedorowicz

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Visitors Pass: The Story of a Group of Pakistani Immigrant Students at Sawyer High School, Melissa Gersh Fischer

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Storied Memories: Memory as Resistance in Contemporary Women's Literature, Sarah Katherine Foust Vinson

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Elementary School Counselors' Perception of Their Role and Function as Case Managers in Chicago Public Schools, Debra J. Franklin

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Ten Cents a Dance: Taxi Dancers, a Living Wage, and the Sexual Politics of Women's Work, 1912-1952, Angela I. Fritz

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Pedagogy and Primary Sources: Outcomes of the Library of Congress' Professional Development Program, Teaching with Primary Sources at Loyola, Michelle Fry

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Humanity in the Balance: The Relationship Between the Moral Law and the Promotion of the Moral World in Kant's Ethics, John J. Garcia

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The Role of Institutional Relations with Alumni Major Donors in Evangelical Higher Education, Brian Gardner

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The Use of Behavioral Agreements by Senior Student Affairs Officers and Counseling Center Directors to Manage Student Mental Health Concerns and Minimize Threatening Behavior, Douglas A. Geiger

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Proactive Disciplinary Consequences in Three Illinois High Schools, Sara Golomb

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From Subject to Citizen: Tarleton Bates and Evolution of Republican Man on the Pennsylvania Frontier, Leo Jon Grogan

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Notch Signaling Is Important in the Survival, Proliferation, and Self-Renewal of the Putative Breast Cancer Stem Cell Population, Peter Grudzien

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Exploring the Relationship Between Teacher Personality Traits and Teachers' Attitudes and Practices Towards Family-School Partnerships, Anna Rawlings Hamilton

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Immigrant Stories: Generation 1.5 Mexican American Students and English Language Learning in an Illinois Community College, Thomas Lloyd Hansen

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Joy as Attunement and End in the Philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Henri Bergson, Justin Albert Harrison

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The Practice and Meaning of Communitarian Spirituality in the Focolare Movement, Nori Henk

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Turmoil, Tirades and Transformation: The Wars for the National History Standards 1991-2004, Phyllis Margaret Henry

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Understanding the Relationship Between Social Resources and Levels of Parent Involvement in Illinois Early Childhood Programs: A Program-Level Perspective, Aimee Victoria Hilado

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Exploring the Use of Suspension in High School Codes of Conduct for Mild, Moderate, and Severe Behaviors, Amy Beth Horwitz

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Examining Racial Ethnic Socialization, Ethnic Identity Development, and Their Psychological Correlates in a Sample of Ethnically Diverse Youth, Denada Hoxha

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An Historical Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools Desegregation Consent Decree (1980 - 2006): Establishing Its Relationship with the Brown v. Board Case of 1954 and the Implications of Its Implementation on Educational Leadership, Shawn L. Jackson

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Exploring the Relationship Between Work, Family and Religion Among Clergy Families, Lenore Johnson

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Neuropsychological Assessment of Executive Functioning and Its Association with Depressive Symptomology, Erica Jean Kalkut

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Ethanol Impairs Mechanisms of Macrophage Phagocytosis and Cytokine Production, John Karavitis

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Factors of Body Image Dissatisfaction Among High School Female Athletes, Trisha Margaret Karr

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A Meta-Analysis of Interventions to Improve Social Competence in Early Childhood, Adam Steven Kennedy

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Corporations as Group Agents / Responsible Collectives in Theory and in Practice, Kathryn Real King

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Development and Validation of the Workplace Intergenerational Atmosphere Scale, Scott P. King

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Trauma, Dissociation, and Traumatic Stress at a Trauma Center Serving Low-Income Children and Adolescents, Krista Kohl

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First-Year College Students and Faculty: A Comparison of Expectations for Success, Jodi Ellen Koslow Martin

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Hindbrain Serotonin Neurons Activate 5-HT1A Receptors in the Nucleus Tractus Solitarius (NTS) to Modulate Sympathetic and Ventilatory Recovery Following Hypotensive Hemorrhage, Ling-Hsuan Kung

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The Tumor Suppressor PKCδ Is Critical for UV-Induced G2/M Checkpoint Activation and Apoptosis, Edward Lewis Lagory

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Mechanisms of Ipsapirone-Mediated Neuroprotection of Ethanol-Treated Fetal Rhombencephalic Neurons: Role of Endogenous Antioxidants, Jongho Lee

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Altgeld Gardens: Evolution of Culture and Educatiion in an Isolated African American Community, Beverly Anne Lesueur

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Mid-Childhood Immigrant Perspectives on Achieving College Success, Mark John Litwicki

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In the Driver's Seat: Living and Working as a Trucker, Cassandra Lively

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The Impact of Tracking on Student Achievement: A Multilevel Growth Model, Carrie Christine Livingston

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I Love You (But I Can't Look You in the Eyes): Explicit and Implicit Self-Esteem Predict Verbal and Nonverbal Response to Relationship Threat, Julie Longua Peterson

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Towards Evidence-Based Practices in Mathematics Instruction: Investigating the Impact of Writing on Student Ability to Solve Mathematics Problems, Shaalein Carroll Lopez

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Unto Perfect Manhood: An Instrumental Case Study of Leadership Formation in an African American Boys High School, Daniel Ivan MacKinney

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The Poet's Place: Individuality and Collectivity in Modern American Poetry, 1910-1940, William Q. Malcuit

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Morphogenesis of the Bacillus Anthracis Spore, Michael Mallozzi

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Quality of Life and Health Outcomes in Overweight and Non-Overweight Children with Asthma., Amy Becker Manion

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Camkii-Mediated Phosphorylation of the Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptor at Serine-150 Results in Decreased Channel Activity, Joshua Thomas Maxwell

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The Absence of Presence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Indicated Interventions to Increase Student Attendance, Brandy R. Maynard

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Illinois Secondary Principals' Perceptions and Expectations Concerning Students Who Use African American Vernacular English in an Academic Setting, Garrard Overton McClendon

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Interpretive Teleology Without Eschatology: A Study of the Hermeneutic Strategies of Nietzsche's Genealogical Project, Darin Sean McGinnis

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I Am Black and Beautiful: An Examiniaton of the Black Coptic Church as the Manifestation of Liberation Theology, Leonard McKinnis

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The Contours of Secularism in South Asian Minority Writing, Roger McNamara

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An Experiential Approach to Kant's Moral Philosophy: A Reply to Dogmatism, Formalism and Rigorism, Chris McTavish

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Hypervirulent Clostridium Difficile Strains: Adherence, Toxin Production and Sporulation, Michelle Marie Merrigan

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The Complexities of Attachment, Peer Rejection and Gender Within a Middle School Dynamic - a Glimpse at Early Adolescents and Their Significant Relationships, Barbara Ann Mestling

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The Impact of Intrusive Advising on Academic Self Efficacy Beliefs in First-Year Students in Higher Education, Lauren Kemner Miller

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Involvement of the NMDA Receptor in Moderate Ethanol Preconditioning-Dependent Neuroprotection From Amyloid-Beta in Vitro, Robert Matthew Mitchell

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Resilience and African American Early Adolescents: The Protective Function of Religion and Structured After-School Activities, Gloria Patricia Montgomery-Walters

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The Soul and the Body in Hegel's Anthropology, Nicholas Mowad

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A Land Fit for Heroes?: The Great War, Memory, Popular Culture, and Politics in Ireland Since 1914, Jason Robert Myers

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Characterization of TraM, a Required Bacteroides Fragilis Conjugal Apparatus Protein That Interacts with the B. Fragilis Putative Coupling Protein Bcta and the B. Fragilis Relaxase Protein BmpH, Mai Thi Thanh Nguyen

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Building Level Principals as Change Agents in a Response to Intervention Reform Initiative, Kristen Elizabeth Ninni

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Aging Effects on Acute Lung Inflammation After Burn Injury, Vanessa Nomellini