Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Affect and Cognitive Control: The Influence of Naturalistic Mood on Interference Processing, Lorri A. Kais
S-plot2: Rapid Visual and Statistical Analysis of Genomic Sequences, Laurynas Kalensinskas, Evan Cudone, Yuriy Fofanov, and Catherine Putonti
S-plot2: Rapid Visual and Statistical Analysis of Genomic Sequences, Laurynas Kalesinskas, Evan Cudone, Yuriy Fofanov, and Catherine Putonti
A Mixed Methods Evaluation of the Social Emotional Needs of Middle School Students, Vicky Karahalios
A Midwesterner's Reflections on Teaching Public History in China, Theodore J. Karamanski
The Beginning of Public History Ethics in the USA, Theodore J. Karamanski
What Price History: Politics, Commercialism, and Urban Preservation, Theodore J. Karamanski
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
Re: DHS Docket No. ICEB-2018-0002; RIN 1653-AA75, 0970-AC42; Comments in Response to Proposed Rulemaking: Apprehension, Processing, Care, and Custody of Alien Minors and Unaccompanied Alien Children, Katherine Kaufka Walts JD and Diane Geraghty
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
A High-Fat Diet Alters Genome-Wide DNA Methylation and Gene Expression in SM/J Mice, Madeline R. Keleher, Rabab Zaidi, Lauren Hicks, Shyam Shah, Xiaoyun Xing, Daofeng Li, Ting Wang, and James M. Cheverud
The Effect of Dietary Fat on Behavior in Mice, Madeline R. Keleher, Rabab Zaidi, Kayna Patel, Amer Ahmed, Carlee Bettler, Cassondra Pavlatos, Shyam Shah, and James M. Cheverud
Cell Intrinsic Characteristics of Cord Blood Naive CD4 T Cells, Taylor Keller
Relationships of Native and Exotic Strains of Phragmites Australis to Wetland Ecosystem Properties, John Kelly, L. A. Volesky, S. Iqbal, and P. Geddes
Teachers' Perceptions of and Collaboration Practices with Non-Traditional Families, Bonnie Kilfoyle
Beyond Body Mixing: Race, Space, and the Meaning of School Integration in a Chicago Suburb, Megan Rigsby Klein
Characterization of a Protozoan Phosducin-like Protein-3 (PhLP-3) Reveals Conserved Redox Activity, Rachel L. Kooistra, Robin David, Ana C. Ruiz, Kyle J. Haselton, Kaitlyn Kiernan, Andrew M. Blagborough, Ligin Solamen, Kenneth W. Olsen, Catherine Putonti, and Stefan M. Kanzok
Characterization of a protozoan Phosducin-like protein-3 (PhLP-3) reveals conserved redox activity, Rachel L. Kooistra, Robin David, Ana C. Ruiz, Sean W. Powers, Kyle J. Haselton, Kaitlyn Kiernan, Andrew M. Blagborough, Ken W. Olsen, Catherine Putonti, and Stefan M. Kanzok
Characterization of a Protozoan Phosducin-like Protein-3 (PhLP-3) Reveals Conserved Redox Activity, Rachel L. Kooistra; Robin David; Ana C. Ruiz; Sean W. Powers; Kyle J. Haselton; Kaitlyn Kiernan; Andrew M. Blagborough; Ligin Solamen; Kenneth W, Olsen; Catherine Putonti; and Stefan M. Kanzok
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
Exploring the Legacy of Imogene King in the Making of a Nurse Educator, Leader, and Nurse Theorist, Margaret Mary Kotowski
Organizing Under Austerity: How Residents’ Concerns Became the Flint Water Crisis, Amy Krings, Dana Kornberg, and Erin Lane
Integrating Green Social Work and the U.S. Environmental Justice Movement: An Introduction to Community Benefits Agreements, Amy Krings and Hillary Thomas
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
Of Neere Neighbors: Sacrament and Sociality in the Drama of Islamic Conversion, C.1600-1640, Stephanie Kucsera
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 Evolution of Molecular Compatibility between Bacteriophage ΦX174 and its Host, Alexander Kula, Joseph Saelens, Alyxandria M. Schubert, Michael Travisano, and Catherine Putonti
Stages of Corporate Sustainability: Integrating the Strong Sustainability Worldview, Nancy E. Landrum
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
Queer People Navigating Experiences with Health Care Providers and Contraception, Dana Lavergne
Socioeconomic Status and Parental Perceived Social Support in Relation to Health-Related Quality of Life in Youth with Spina Bifida, Natalie Lawson, Jaclyn Lennon Papadakis, and Grayson N. Holmbeck
Hannah Arendt's Political Action: A Dialectic of Expression and Deliberation, Paul Richard Leisen
Iron(II) Complexes of Dimethyltriazacyclophane, Wei-Tsung Less, Matthias Zeller, David Upp, Yuliya Politanska, Doug Steinman, Talal Al-Assil, and Daniel P. Becker Ph.D.
Biophysical Studies of Guanine Nucleotide-Binding Alpha Subunits, Brian Leverson
Comparison of Inter and Intra-Operator Differences for Cephalometric Landmark Identification on Three-Dimensional CBCT Images using Pro Plan CMF, Timothy P. Levine, Gregory J. Matthews, Hugo F. Calero, and Victor M. Badner
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
How Often Does the Best Team Win? A Unified Approach to Understanding Randomness in North American Sport, Michael J. Lopez, Gregory J. Matthews, and Benjamin S. Baumer
How Often Does the Best Team Win? A Unified Approach to Understanding Randomness in North American Sport, Michael J. Lopez, Gregory J. Matthews, and Benjamin S. Baumer
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
Fake News and News Anxiety in Early Modern England, Richard David Macey
The Evolving Nature of Asset Price Bubbles, Financial Instability and Monetary Policy, A. (Tassos) G. Malliaris
Deep Dive: High School PBIS Implementation at All 3 Tiers, JoAnne Malloy, Kathryn Francoeur, and Hank Bohanon
The Art of Morals: A Study of the Influence of Musicopoetic Arts on Moral Development in Plato's Laws, Daniele Manni
Teaching and Telling Difficult Stories: An Analysis of Colombian Narratives of Violence, Paula Liliana Mantilla Blanco
Activism and Identity: How Asian American College Students Define Contemporary Activism for Social Justice, Lester Manzano
Heteroleptic Nickel Complexes of a Bulky Bis(carbene)borate Ligand, Jorge L. Martinez, Wei-Tsung Less, Maren Pink, Chun-Hsing Chen, and Jeremy M. Smith
A comparison of machine learning techniques for taxonomic classification of teeth from the Family Bovidae, Gregory Matthews, Juliet Brophy, Maxwell Luetkemeier, Hongie Gu, George Thiruvathukal, and George Thiruvathukal
A Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques for Taxonomic Classification of Teeth from the Family Bovidae, Gregory J. Matthews, Juliet K. Brophy, Maxwell Luetkemeier, Hongie Gu, and George K. Thiruvathukal
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
CAFECS: Supporting Quality CS Access 4 All Chicago Students, Steven McGee, Lucia Dettori, Ronald Greenberg, Andrew Rasmussen, Dale Reed, and Don Yanek
An Examination of Factors Correlating with Course Failure in a High School Computer Science Course, Steven McGee, Ronald I. Greenberg, Lucia Dettori, Andrew M. Rasmussen, Randi McGee-Tekula, Jennifer Duck, and Erica Wheeler
Does Exploring Computer Science Increase Computer Science Enrollment?, Steven McGee, Randi McGee-Tekula, Jennifer Duck, Lucia Dettori, Don Yanek, Andrew Rasmussen, Ronald I. Greenberg, and Dale F. Reed
Equal Outcomes 4 All: A Study of Student Learning in ECS, Steven McGee, Randi McGee-Tekula, Jennifer Duck, Catherine McGee, Lucia Dettori, Ronald I. Greenberg, Eric Snow, Daisy Rutstein, Dale Reed, Brenda Wilkerson, Don Yanek, Andrew M. Rasmussen, and Dennis Brylow
Microplastic in Riverine Fish is Connected to Species Traits, R. E. McNeish, L. H. Kim, H. A. Barrett, S. A. Mason, J. J. Kelly, and T. J. Hoellein
An Examination of School Psychologists’ Exposure To and Preparedness To Support Transgender Students in Schools, Natalie Meier Meier
Resiliency, Bajo Que Costó? How Young Undocumented Mexicans Navigate Trauma and Survival, Julia Mendes
Anthony Bukoski - An Outpost of Polishness, John A. Merchant
Antecedents and Consequences of Burnout Among Professional Psychologists, Alisha Miller
Bacteriophages of the Urinary Microbiome, Taylor Miller-Ensminger, Andrea Garretto, Jonathon Brenner, Krystal Thomas-White, Adriano Zambom, Alan J. Wolfe, and Catherine Putonti
A Sociofunctional Approach To Understanding Transphobia, Linas Mitchell
Reliability and Validity of the Japanese Version of the Ways of Savoring Checklist (WOSCJ), Erika Miyakawa, Paul E. Jose, Fred B. Bryant, Atsushi Kawakubo, and Takashi Oguchi
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. C. Johnson, Hae Kyung Im, Yongmei Liu, and Heather E. Wheeler
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
Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta! Three Conceptions of the Modern Inequality Paradox, Nicoletta Christina Montaner
Seodang: A Pilgrimage Toward Knowledge/Action and "Us-ness" in the Community, Seungho Moon
Seodang: A Pilgrimage Toward Knowledge/Action and "Us-Ness" in the Community, Seungho Moon
The Paradox of Post-Postmodernism, Seungho Moon
Complicated narratives of “Korean-ness”: Towards strategic provisionality in parental involvement, Seungho Moon and Jeesun Jung
Role of Micrornas in Impaired Gut Permeability Following Ethanol and Burn Injury, Niya Latrice Morris
Union Busted: Understanding the Relationship Between Democrats, Republicans, and Teachers’ Unions, Roman Motley
Intercultural Proficiency of Principals Leading Ib Schools in Urban America, Ahlam Bazzi Moughania
Folding of Gα Subunits: Implications for Disease States, Matthew Najor, Brian D. Leverson, Jesse L. Goossens, Saad Kothawala, Kenneth W. Olsen, and Duarte Mota de Freitas
Quiver Varieties and Crystals in Symmetrizable Type via Modulated Graphs, Vinoth Nandakumar and Peter Tingley
Recapturing the Power of Ritual to Enhance Community in Aging, Holly Nelson-Becker and Kimberly Sangster
Undoing Giftedness: Considering Adolescent Latina Identity Performativity in United States Public Schools, Jenna Nelson
Consistency of Health Behaviors and Relations to BMI in First Year College Students, Laura Nicholson
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
Crystal Structure of (2-{[(8-aminonaphthalen-1-yl)imino]methyl}-4,6-di-tert-butylphenolato-κ3N,N′,O)bromidonickel(II), Patrick O’Brien, Matthias Zeller, and Wei-Tsung Less
Pain and Academic Performance in Youth with Spina Bifida: The Mediating Role of Neuropsychological Functioning, Diana Margaret Ohanian
Benefaction in Galatians: An Analysis of Paul's Language of God's Favor in Its Greco-Roman Context, Ferdinand Okorie
Inhibition of Mutant EGFR in NSCLC Promotes Endothelin-1-Mediated NSCLC Disease Progression, Stephen Ollosi
Police Beats and City Streets: An Examination of Black American and Latinx Youth Interactions with and Perceptions of Police, Ogechi Onyeka
Immunobiology of Adenovirus-Vector Vaccines for MRSA, Emily Orvis
Reflections on Life: Replication and Extension, Karen Osowski
The Roles of Extraordinary Beliefs in Consumption Rituals, Cele C. Otnes, Linda Tuncay Zayer, Robert Alfonso Arias, and Arun Sreekumar
It's About Time: Length of Incarceration, Gang Membership, and Recidivism among Illinois Prison Releasees, Henry Douglas Otto
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, Chung-Lan Kao, Mei-Wun Tsai, Shun-Hwa Wei, Felipe Fregni, Vincent Chiun-Fan Chen, and Li-Wei Chou
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
The Impact of Sociodemographic Factors on Health-Related, Neuropsychological, and Psychosocial Functioning in Youth with Spina Bifida, Jaclyn Lennon Papadakis
Multidimensional Ethno-racial Status in Contexts of Mestizaje: Ethno-racial Stratification in Contemporary Peru, Cristian L. Paredes
The Concept of Matter in Kant's Transcendental Idealism, Kyoungnam Park
Regulation of Bacterial Glycogen Synthesis: Structure-Function Relationship of Adp-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase, Hiral Priyank Patel
