Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Characterizing Immune Response to HIV-1 Infection in BICD2-Knockout Cells, Omar Abdel-Rahim
Leisure in the “Land of the Walking Dead”: Western Mortuary Tourism, the Internet, and Zombie Pop Culture in Toraja, Indonesia, Kathleen M. Adams
Estimating the Prevalence of Hepatitis C in Sub-Saharan Africa, William Howard Adams
Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Generational Status and the Successful Implementation of the Common Core State Standards, Michael Allen
Tejidos Urbanos: Representaciones Literarias y Visuales De la Memoria en la Ciudad Imaginada, Marina Marisela Alvarez
Mechanisms and Consequences of Epigenetic Inheritance Following Parental Preconception Alcohol Exposure, Annadorothea Asimes
Exploring the Phenotypic Consequences of Tissue Specific Gene Expression Variation Inferred from GWAS Summary Statistics, Alvaro N. Barbeira, Scott P. Dickinson, Rodrigo Bonazzola, Jiamao Zheng, Heather E. Wheeler, Jason M. Torres, Eric S. Torstenson, Kaanan P. Shah, Tzintzuni Garcia, Todd L. Edwards, Eli A. Stahl, Laura M. Huckins, GTEx Consortium, Dan L. Nicolae, Nancy J. Cox, and Hae Kyung Im
"We Were Framed to Fail and Die": The Ethics and Poetics of Mortality in the Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Brett C. Beasley
Former CiSE EICs Reflect on the Magazine's 20th Anniversary, Isabel Beichl, Norman Chonacky, Francis Sullivan, and George K. Thiruvathukal
Leading Schools Under Pressure: Considerations of Systems Theory and Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support Efforts During School Actions, Hank Bohanon, Ashley Wahnschaff, Paul Flaherty, and Kelly Ferguson
An Analysis of the Implementation and Effectiveness of Successmaker Reading on Closing the Achievement Gap Through a Separate Class Middle School Reading Intervention, Tanya Branch Housing
Mentoring the Millennials: Induction of the Millennial Generation in Education, Christopher M. Brown
Microplastic Ingestion by Daphnia Magna and its Enhancement on Algal Growth, Patrick M. Canniff and Tham C. Hoang
Divergent Pro-Leukemic Effects of MYD88 and TICAM-1/TRIF Mediated Toll-Like Receptor Signaling, Joseph Michael Cannova
Analysis of a University-Informal Partnership for Teacher Education, Jenna Carlson
Home/school Collaboration and the Development of a Growth Mindset Within Gifted Students, Lauren A. Carlson
Harvesting Invasive Plants to Reduce Nutrient Loads and Produce Bioenergy: An Assessment of Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands, Brendan D. Carson, Shane C. Lishawa, Nancy C. Tuchman, Andrew M. Monks, Beth A. Lawrence, and Dennis A. Albert
International Mindedness: Phenomenological Inquiry Into Teacher Candidate Experiences, Kathleen Patricia Castillo-Clark
The Mckinney-Vento Act: Moving Beyond Aspirations to More Effective Implementation, Michael Cermak
Examining the Experiences of Latinx Stem Baccalaureates, Marlene Chavez
An Uber Ethical Dilemma: Examining the Social Issues at Stake, Florence Chee
The Experiential Effects and Relationships between Student Anxiety in Music Performance and Classroom Assessment, Jordan Diego Chua
A Case Study of Literature Discussions with Spanish-Engligh Emergent Bilingual Children, Amy G. Clark
New Day Films: Collective Aesthetics and the Collection, Elizabeth Coffman and Erica Stein
Investigating Autophagy, Extracellular Vesicles, and Glycobiology, Benjamin Cook
Making America Inclusive Again, Miguel H. Diaz
The Real Deal: A Program Evaluation of a Teen Pregnancy Program, Sejla Dizdarevic
Individual Differences in Relational Learning and Analogical Reasoning: A Computational Model of Longitudinal Change, Leonidas A. A. Doumas, Robert G. Morrison, and Lindsey E. Richland
Stratification of Ovarian Tumor Pathology by Expression of Programmed Cell Death-1 (PD-1) and PD-ligand- 1 (PD-L1) in Ovarian Cancer, Maureen L. Drakes, Swati Mehrotra, Monica Aldulescu, Ronald K. Potkul, Yueying Liu, Anne Grisoli, Cara Joyce, Timothy O'Brien, M. Sharon Stack, and Patrick J. Stiff
Rethinking Ionesco’s Absurd: The Bald Soprano in the Interlingual Context of Vichy and Postwar France, Julia Elsky
Structural and Chemical Consequences of High Oxygen Coverages on Rh(111), Rachael Gabrielle Farber
Leading Effective Change in Schools of the 21st Century: The Attributes, Behaviors, and Practices of Effective School Principals, Jennifer Lynne Ferrari
Understanding the Dynamics of Protein Lipoylation in Staphylococcus Aureus, Sarah C. Flury
Wellness Interventions for Social Justice Fatigue Among Student Affairs Professionals, Sara Furr
Induction of Zika Virus-Specific Cd8+ T Cells by Means of DNA Vaccine, Frank Gambino Jr.
Perceptions of Pediatric Hospital Safety Culture in the U.S.: A Secondary Data Analysis of the 2016 Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, Pamela J. Gampetro
Politics, James Garbarino
Innovation and Change in Jesuit Education: Horizon 2020, a Case Study in the Jesuit School Network in Catalonia, Spain, Hugo Nelson Gomez-Sevilla
A Framework for Supporting All Students: One-Size-Fits-All No Longer Works in Schools, Steve Goodman and Hank Bohanon
Vin Scully: The Voice of Los Angeles, Elliot Gorn and Allison Lauterbach Dale
Assessing English Language Learners' Motivation to Participate in Classroom Discussion, Holly Griskell
Not All Fun and Games: Sexism and College Women's Alcohol Consumption, Hannah R. Hamilton
Characterizing the Roles of Staphylococcus Aureus Secreted Factors in Virulence and Modulation of Innate Immune Cell Activity, Cameron Harvey
Psychological and Economic Self-Sufficiency Among Low-Income Citizens Receiving Governmental Assistance, Vorricia Fechon Harvey
The Enzymatic Activity and Inhibition of DapE Encoded N-Succinyl-L,l-Diaminopimelic Acid Dessucinylase, Tahirah Heath
Practical Spectrophotometric Assay for the dapE-Encoded N-Succinyl-L,L-Diaminopimelic Acid Desuccinylase, a Potential Antibiotic Target, Tahira K. Heath, Marlon R. Lutz Jr., Cory T. Reidl, Estefany R. Guzman, Claire A. Herbert, Boguslaw P. Nocek, Richard C. Hotz, Kenneth W. Olsen, Miguel A. Ballicora, and Daniel P. Becker
Cannonical Error Analysis In Introductory Programming - Call for Participation, William L. Honig
Programmer Thinking, William L. Honig
Molecular Determinants of Trim5α Restriction and Recruitment of Autophagic Effectors, Sabrina Imam
Student, Caregiver, and Educator Perspective of School Discipline Policy and Practice, Tawann J. Jackson
Analyzing Real-Time Multimedia Content From Network Cameras Using CPUs and GPUs in the Cloud, Ahmed S. Kaseb, Bo Fu, Anup Mohan, Yung-Hsiang Lu, Amy Reibman, and George K. Thiruvathukal
The Relationship between Neighborhood Characteristics and College Academic Outcomes Among an NCAA Division I Student-Athlete Population: A Multilevel Approach, Ann Kearns Davoren
Maternal High-Fat Diet Associated with Altered Gene Expression, DNA Methylation, and Obesity Risk in Mouse Offspring, Madeline Rose Keleher, Rabab Zaidi, Shyam Shah, M. Elsa Oakley, Cassondra Pavlatos, Samir El Idrissi, Xiaoyun Xing, Daofeng Li, Ting Wang, and James M. Cheverud
Cell Intrinsic Characteristics of Cord Blood Naive CD4 T Cells, Taylor Keller
Beyond Body Mixing: Race, Space, and the Meaning of School Integration in a Chicago Suburb, Megan Rigsby Klein
The Critically Endangered Forest Owlet Heteroglaux Blewitti is Nested Within the Currently Recognized Athene Clade: A Century-Old Debate Addressed, Pankaj Koparde, Prachi Mehta, Sushma Reddy, Uma Ramakrishnan, Shomita Mukherjee, and V. V. Robin
Organizing Under Austerity: How Residents’ Concerns Became the Flint Water Crisis, Amy Krings, Dana Kornberg, and Erin Lane
Mothers' Perceptions of Educational Access and Engagement in a Context of Urban Austerity, Amy Krings, Hillary Thomas, Shawna J. Lee, Aayat Ali, and LaDonna Miller
The Evolution of Molecular Compatibility between Bacteriophage ΦX174 and its Host, Alexander Kula, Joseph Saelens, Jennifer Cox, Alyxandria M. Schubert, Michael Travisano, and Catherine Putonti
The Relationship between Secondary Students' Mathematics Identities, Problem Solving, and Self-Regulation, Katie Laskasky
Auto-generated Spies Increase Test Maintainability, Konstantin Läufer, John O'Sullivan, and George K. Thiruvathukal
Wilms Tumor 1b Defines a Wound-Specific Sheath Cell Subpopulation Associated with Notochord Repair, Juan Carlos Lopez-Baez, Daniel J. Simpson, Laura LLeras Forero, Zhiqiang Zeng, Hannah Brunsdon, Angela Salzano, Alessandro Brombin, Cameron Wyatt, Witold Rybski, Leonie F A Huitema, Rodney M. Dale, Koichi Kawakami, Christoph Englert, Tamir Chandra, Stefan Schulte-Merker, Nicholas D. Hastie, and E Elizabeth Patton
Identification of Raw as a Regulator of Glial Development, Diana Luong, Luselena Perez, and Jennifer Mierisch
Attempted Resolution and Racemization of Beckmann‐Derived CTV‐Lactam and the Use of Chirabite‐AR® to Determine the Optical Purity of the Supramolecular Scaffold, Marlon R. Lutz Jr., Elizabeth Ernst, Matthias Zeller, Jacob Dudzinski, Peter Thoresen, and Daniel P. Becker
The Art of Morals: A Study of the Influence of Musicopoetic Arts on Moral Development in Plato's Laws, Daniele Manni
A Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques for Taxonomic Classification of Teeth from the Family Bovidae, Gregory J. Matthews, Juliet K. Brophy, Maxwell P. Luetkemeier, Hongie Gu, and George K. Thiruvathukal
Does Exploring Computer Science Increase Computer Science Enrollment?, Steven McGee, Randi McGee-Tekula, Jennifer Duck, Lucia Dettori, Don Yanek, Ronald I. Greenberg, and Dale F. Reed
Bacteriophages of the Urinary Microbiome, Taylor Miller-Ensminger, Andrea Garretto, Jonathon Brenner, Krystal Thomas-White, Adriano Zambom, Alan J. Wolfe, and Catherine Putonti
Genetic Architecture of Gene Expression Traits Across Diverse Populations, Lauren S. Mogil, Angela Andaleon, Alexa Badalamenti, Scott P. Dickinson, Xiuqing Guo, Jerome I. Rotter, W. Craig Johnson, Hae Kyung Im, Yongmei Liu, and Heather E. Wheeler
The User, the Reader, and the Pocket Cathedral: William Morris's Arts and Crafts Aesthetic and the Decorated Book, Brandiann Molby
Role of Micrornas in Impaired Gut Permeability Following Ethanol and Burn Injury, Niya Latrice Morris
Quiver Varieties and Crystals in Symmetrizable Type via Modulated Graphs, Vinoth Nandakumar and Peter Tingley
Characterizing the Requirement of the Cmi/Trr COMPASS-Like Complex During Drosophila Development, Timothy Nickels
Uncovering the Mechanisms Underlying the Immunogenicity of Adenovirus Vaccine Vectors, Natalie Nidetz
Inhibition of Mutant EGFR in NSCLC Promotes Endothelin-1-Mediated NSCLC Disease Progression, Stephen Ollosi
Effects of 8-Week Sensory Electrical Stimulation Combined with Motor Training on EEG-EMG Coherence and Motor Function in Individuals with Stroke, Li-Ling Hope Pan, Wen-Wen Yang, Mei-Wun Tsai, Shun-Hwa Wei, Felipe Fregni, Vincent Chiun-Fan Chen, and Li-Wei Chou
Multidimensional Ethno-racial Status in Contexts of Mestizaje: Ethno-racial Stratification in Contemporary Peru, Cristian L. Paredes
Social Scientists' Conceptualization and Implementation of Research Ethics and Integrity, Heather A. Pease
Responses of Daphnia Magna to Chronic Exposure of Cadmium and Nickel Mixtures, Edgar Pérez and Tham C. Hoang
Mechanistic Investigations of the Iron(iii)-Catalyzed Carbonyl-Olefin Metathesis Reaction, Susan Phan
Time Course of Brain Network Reconfiguration Supporting Inhibitory Control, Tzvetan Popov, Britta U. Westner, Rebecca L. Silton, Sarah M. Sass, Jeffrey M. Speilberg, Brigitte Rockstroh, Wendy Heller, and Gregory A. Miller
Draft Genome Sequence of an Active Heterotrophic Nitrifier-Denitrifier, Cupriavidus pauculus UM1, Catherine Putonti, Nathaniel Polley, and Domenic Castignetti
A Discrete Loop in SERCA N-Domain Plays a Role in SERCA Headpiece Dynamics and Function, Olga N. Raguimova
Counter-Narratives of Latino Men and Machismo in Higher Education, Hiram Ramirez
Chronic Effects of Lead Exposure on Topsmelt Fish (Atherinops Affinis): Influence of Salinity, Organism Age, and Relative Sensitivity to Other Marine Fish, Erik J. Reynolds, Tham C. Hoang, D. Scott Smith, and Jasim M. Chowdhury
Culturally Relevant Choral Music Pedagogy and Student Feedback, Theoni Richardson
Are You a H.e.r.o.?: A Mixed Methods Study of the Relationship between Illinois Principals' Psychological Capital and School Culture, Karen Marie Ritter
Universal Design for Learning: An Examination of Leadership Promoting Student Learning for All, Martha Ryan-Toye
PBW Bases and Marginally Large Tableaux in Type D, Ben Salisbury, Adam Schultze, and Peter Tingley
Gene Co-occurrence Networks Reflect Bacteriophage Ecology and Evolution, Jason W. Shapiro and Catherine Putonti
Exploring Community College Practitioners' Cultivation and Praxis of Antiracist and Asset-Based Approaches to Education: A Phenomenological Study, Ester Ulibasa Sihite
'The Good Shepherd Lays Down His Life for the Sheep' (John 10:11, 15, 17): Questioning the Limits of a Johannine Metaphor, Christopher H. Skinner
Critical Conversations with Suburban Administrative Leaders on Special Education Disproportionality: Case Studies of Suburban School Districts, Jennifer Colleen Sterpin
Cryptic Diversification of Two Widespread Species in Madagascar, Lynika Sharlice Strozier
