A collection of theses submitted and approved for a Master's degree at Loyola University Chicago.
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Metrics Dashboard Services: A Framework for Analyzing Free/Open Source Team Repositories, Fnu Shilpika
Waiting on You: A Study of Tipped Minimum Wages' Effects on Job Tenure Among White Restaurant Servers, John Henry Sienkiewicz
The Influence of International Education Travel on African American High School Students’ Intent to Study Abroad in College, Vankeila Simmons
Prevalence and Diversity of the Haemosporidian Blood Parasite Leucocytozoon in Sub-Saharan African Birds, Heather Skeen
Activity Recognition for Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury Subjects Using Hidden Markov Models, Pichleap Sok
Interfering in a Non-Interference Policy: Defining Star Trek's Prime Directive, Andrew Steele
Predicting Suitable Habitat Decline of Midwestern United States Amphibians and Quantifying the Consequence of Declines Using Pond-Breeding Salamanders, Brock Struecker
Global Human Trafficking: New Insights on an Old Crime, Joanna Surma
An Qualitative Study of the Meaning High School Students Ascribe to Occult Media Consumption, Jalisha Tolbert
Risk and Resilience Factors Among Low-Income Latino Adolescents: The Impact on Daily Ratings of Mood, Stephanie Andrea Torres
Music and Aggression: Effects of Lyrics and Background Music on Aggressive Behavior, Andrew Triplett
Grit in the Classroom, David Anthony Vaughn
Defining the Role of a Putative Peptidase in Staphylococcus Aureus Quorum Sensing and Pathogenesis, Chelsea Rose White
A Bioluminescence Sensor of NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation, Michael Alexander Winek
Group-Level Differences of Moral Foundations, Jeremy Winget
The Moderating Role of Emotion Regulation on Longitudinal Associations between Stress and Mental Health in College Students, Evan Zahniser
Lipoate Metabolism in Staphylococcus Aureus Pathogenesis, Maria Azul Zorzoli
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Characterization of Exopolysaccharide (EPS) Produced by Bacillus subtilis Mutants, Alexander Argianas
The Protective Effect of Kinship Support on the Adjustment of Youth in Foster Care, Grace Jhe Bai
The Effects of Acculturative Stress on Mental Health Outcomes of African Immigrant and Refugee Youth: Coping as a Moderator, Emma-Lorraine Baaba Bart-Plange
Teacher Retention and Student Achievement: Environmental Factors, Social Capital and Interventions in Urban, Pre-Dominantly Latino Schools, Luis Xavier Benavides
Bystander Confronting of Anti-Black Racism: Effects of Belonging Affirmation and Confrontation Training, Rayne Bozeman
The Impacts of Family Environment and Stress Reactivity on Daily Mood for Low-Income Latino Adolescents, Stephanie K. Brewer