Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Characterization of Quorum-Quenching Lactonases and Plp-Dependent Aminotransferases: Structure, Mechanism and Alternative Turnover, Romila Nina Mascarenhas
An Examination of Statistical Disclosure Issues Related to Publication of Aggregate Statistics in the Presence of a Known Subset of the Dataset Using Baseball Hall of Fame Ballots, Gregory J. Matthews, Pétala Gardênia da Silva Estrela Tuy, and Robert K. Arthur
Ecological Restoration, Elizabeth P. McCann and Tania Schusler
Does a Taste of Computing Increase Computer Science Enrollment?, Steven McGee, Randi McGee-Tekula, Jennifer Duck, Ronald I. Greenberg, Lucia Dettori, Dale F. Reed, Brenda Wilkerson, Don Yanek, Andrew Rasmussen, and Gail Chapman
Children’s Exposure to Environmental Toxins: Socioeconomic Factors and Subsequent Effects on Mental Health and Function, Dorothy L. McLeod
Research Practices of Music Educators: A Review of the Journal of Research in Music Education, Clifton Brent Mcreynolds
REVIEW: Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded by John Z. Guzlowski, John A. Merchant
Thermal Environment and Microhabitat of Ornate Box Turtle Hibernacula, Joseph Milanovich, Brock Struecker, Stanislaw A. Warcholek, and Leigh Anne Harden
Dexamethasone Treatment Effects on H3k27me3 Chromatin Organization Is Related to NK Cell Immune Dysregulation, Michael Sarafeno Misale
Heart Is Active Citizenship: Reimagining Civic Education, Seungho Moon, Jenna Mortensen Nelson, Yeorim Hwang, and Mary Danley
Strength in the Face of Adversity: Resilience Among Mexican Nationals and Mexican Immigrants to the United States, Melissa L. Morgan and Rufus R. Gonzales
Ignatian Pedagogy Certificate Final Project, Pamela K. Morris
Looking through Outdoor Advertising Images for Beauty in Argentina, Chile, Hungary, and Romania, Pamela K. Morris
Contemporary Jesuit Epistemological Interests, James G. Murphy
Just War Thought and the Notion of Peace, James G. Murphy
A Spirituality of Citizenship: Cultivating the Ignatian Charism for Dialog, Michael Murphy
Shame and the Signs of Hope: Encyclical as Examen, Michael Murphy
The Prince of This World, Michael Murphy
Sleep-Wake Disturbances in Adolescents with Spina Bifida: Prevalence and Associations with Bio-Neuropsychosocial Functioning, Caitlin Beth Murray
Developing Integral Ecologists: Description and Analysis of the State of Environmental Education at Jesuit High Schools in Light of Religious Ecological Commitments and Science Education Research, Philip Nahlik Nahlik
Behavioral Symptoms, Functional and Cognitive Recovery Post-Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Seema Nasser
Filling Pews, Speaking Truth: Pro-Life Ministry in a Liberal Catholic Parish, Jonathan Neidorf
Multifunctional Regulatory T Cells from Human Umbilical Cord Blood and the Role of Tumor Necrosis Factor in Immune Homeostasis, Alexander Nelson
Developmental Assets and Outcomes: An Analysis of Male Serious Juvenile Offenders to Promote Evidence Based Approaches for Rehabilitation, Danielle Jordan Nesi
Ignatian Pedagogy Certificate Final Project, Catherine Nichols
Women's Work: Sumbanese Textiles from the May Weber Collection, Catherine Nichols, Grace Iverson, and Jill Forshee
Structural Evidence of a Major Conformational Change Triggered by Substrate Binding in DapE Enzymes: Impact on the Catalytic Mechanism, Boguslaw Nocek, Cory Reid, Anna Starus, Tahirah Heath, David Bienvenues, Jerzy Osipiuk, Robert Jedrzeczak, Andrzej Joachimiak, Daniel P. Becker Ph.D., and Richard C. Holz
Human Rights and Global Justice: A Normative Critique of Some Rawlsian Approaches., Ndidi Victoria Nwaneri
Love and Loyal Actions': Ritual Affect and Royal Authority, 1688-1760, Amy Oberlin
Domestic Violence Among Asian Indian Immigrant Women in the United States, Teuta Peja
Chronic Toxicity of Binary‐Metal Mixtures of Cadmium and Zinc to Daphnia magna, Edgar Pérez and Tham C. Hoang
Husserl and Community, Sean Stephen Petranovich
Transport for Early Modern London: London's Transportation Environment and the Experience of Movement, 1500-1800, Noah Paul Phelps
A Content Analysis of Catholic School Written Discipline Policies, Daniel L. Philippe, Claudia M. Hernandez, Pamela Fenning, Katie Nicole Bradshaw Sears, Emily M. McDonough, Elizabeth Lawrence, and Michael Boyle
Implementing Social Emotional Learning (SEL): An Evaluation of Illinois Teachers' Capacity to Provide Sel Instruction and Use the Illinois SEL Standards, Daniel Louis Philippe
A Systematic Reveiw of Student Self-Report Instruments That Assess Student-Teacher Relationships, Kate L. Phillippo, Jerusha Conner, Shannon Davidson, and Denise Pope
The Role of Theory in Quantitative Data Analysis, Terri D. Pigott
Characterization of Inhibitory Molecules Produced by Lactobacillus Crispatus, Giuseppe Anthony Pistone
Forgotten Soldiers from a Forgotten War: Oral History Testimonies of African American Korean War Veterans, O. Eliot Pope, Jr.
Draft Genome Sequence of Micrococcus luteus (Schroeter) Cohn (ATCC 12698), Catherine Putonti, Evan Cudone, Laurynas Kalesinskas, Kathleen C. Engelbrecht, David W. Koenig, and Alan J. Wolfe
Draft Genome Sequence of Escherichia coli K-12 (ATCC 10798), Catherine Putonti, Daniela Dimitrova, Kathleen C. Engelbrecht, David W. Koenig, and Alan J. Wolfe
Draft Genome Sequence of Escherichia coli K-12 (ATCC 29425), Catherine Putonti, Kathleen C. Engelbrecht, David W. Koenig, and Alan J. Wolfe
Draft Genome Sequence of Enterococcus faecalis ATCC BAA-2128, Catherine Putonti, Laurynas Kalesinskas, Evan Cudone, Kathleen C. Engelbrecht, David W. Koenig, and Alan J. Wolfe
Draft Genome Sequences of Two ATCC Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus Strains, Catherine Putonti, Laurynas Kalesinskas, Evan Cudone, Kathleen C. Engelbrecht, David W. Koenig, and Alan J. Wolfe
Draft Genome Sequence of Staphylococcus epidermidis (Winslow and Winslow) Evans (ATCC 14990), Catherine Putonti, Laurynas Kalesinskas, Evan Cudone, Alan J. Wolfe, Kathleen C. Engelbrecht, and David W. Koenig
Cruzando Fronteras: The Immigration Experiences of Central American Women, Cecelia Quinn
Maintaining and Improving Academic Achievement in the Midst of Significant Demographic Change: A Case Study Analysis, Aaron Raatjes
Forgetting How to Hate: The Evolution of White Responses to Integration in Chicago, 1946-1987, Chris Ramsey
Two New Genera of Songbirds Represent Endemic Radiations from the Shola Sky Islands of the Western Ghats, India, Sushma Reddy, V. V. Robin, C. K. Vishnudas, Pooja Gupta, Frank E. Rheindt, Daniel M. Hooper, and Uma Ramakrishnan
Non-sister Sri Lankan White-eyes (genus Zosterops) are a Result of Independent Colonizations, Sushma Reddy, Nelum Wickramasinghe, V. V. Robin, Uma Ramakrishnan, and Sampath S. Seneviratne
Investigating Novel Methods of Interaction with Pharmaceutically Relevant Enzymes, Cory T. Reidl
Generating Enzyme and Radical‐Mediated Bisubstrates as Tools for Investigating Gcn5‐Related N‐Acetyltransferases, Cory T. Reidl, Karolina A. Majorek, Joseph Dang, David Tran, Kristen Jew, Melissa Law, Yasmine Payne, Wladek Minor, Daniel P. Becker, and Misty L. Kuhn
Using Ignatian Pedagogy to Support Faculty-Student Mentoring, Anne H. Reilly
Chronic Effects of Lead Exposure on Atherinops Affinis (topsmelt): Influence of Salinity and Organism Age, Erik Joseph Reynolds
Children's Exposure to Violence Across Contexts: Profiles of Family, School, and Community Witnessing and Victimization, Catherine Mary Rice
Survival Under Oppression: The Puerto Rican and Allied Struggle for Representation in Chicago, 1950-1983, Marisol Violanda Rivera
Words as Weapons: Gossip in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Ana Rodríguez Navas
Privatizing Laws: Examining the Relationship between Privatization Elements in State Education Laws and Fourth Grade Academic Performance, Stephanie Romeo
Friendship Selection Patterns Among Low Income Minority Girls/Adolescents: Links to Obesity Risk, Kimberly Anne Rosania
White Supremacy, the Election of Donald Trump and the Challenge to Theology, Susan Ross
Pancho's Racket and the Long Road to Professional Tennis, Gregory I. Ruth
Investigating the Effects of Student Engagement on Latina/o Community College Students, Manuel Salgado
Analysis of Beverages by Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence, Martina Schmeling
Uptown as Pilgrimage Destination, Jon Schmidt
The World Cathedral: Lessons from Standing Rock, Michael Schuck
Postitive Youth Development, Tania Schusler, Jacqueline Davis-Manigaulte, and Amy Cutter-Mackenzie
Current Thinking on Counteroffers: A Survey of Rewards and HR Professionals, Dow Scott and Thomas D. McMullen
The Future of Work and Rewards: Forward Thinking From the C-Suite and Total Rewards Leaders, Dow Scott, Tom McMullen, and Erik Larson
The Master and the Midwife: Levinas and Plato on Teaching, Rebecca Glenn Scott
"Let's Get Together and Chew the FAT": Women, Size and Community in Modern America, Amelia Earhart Serafine
Role of Jagged1 in the Enrichment of Cancer Stem Cells in HER2+ Breast Cancer, Deep Shah
Connections Between the Academy and the Profession, Ann M. Shanahan
Editorial Thank you and Welcome, Ann M. Shanahan
Introduction to "What's Your Status: Exploring Brecht's Idea of HALTUNG though Keith Johnstone's Status Exercises, Ann M. Shanahan
Efficacy of a Weight Loss Intervention for African American Breast Cancer Survivors, Patricia M. Sheean, Melinda Stolley, Ben Garber, Claudia Arroyo, Linda Schiffer, Anjishnu Banerjee, Alexis Visotcky, Giamila Fantuzzi, Desmona Strahan, Lauren Matthews, Roxanne Dakers, Cynthia Carridine-Andrews, Katya Seligman, Sparkle Springfield, Angela Odoms-Young, Susan Hong, Kent Hoskins, Virginia Kaklamani, and Lisa Sharp
Real-Time Fall Detection and Response on Mobile Phones Using Machine Learning, Ilona Shparii
Using Student Voice to Respond to Middle School Bullying: A Student Leadership Approach, David L. Shriberg, Keeshawna Brooks, Kisha Jenkins, Jennifer Immen, Caroline Sutter, and Karen Cronin
Why Post-Humanism Now?, Amy B. Shuffelton
Correlation of the Boost Risk Stratification Tool as a Predictor of Unplanned 30-Day Readmission in Elderly Patients, Carol K. Sieck
Differential Functional Connectivity of Rostral Anterior Cingulate Cortex During Emotional Interference, Rebecca L. Silton, Akos Szekely, Wendy Heller, and Gregory A. Miller
Linking Students and Professional Associations: A Curricular Strategy, Shirley Simon and Susan F. Grossman
Cultural Institutions as Partners in Initial Elementary Science Teacher Preparation, Lara Smetana, Daniel Birmingham, Heidi Rouleau, Jenna Carlson, and Shannon Phillips
A Comparative Analysis of Access to Reproductive Health Care in Laos and Southeast Asia, Malakhone Sonethavong
The Arizona Market: a Marketing Systems Perspective on Pre- and Post-War Developments in Bosnia, with Implications for Sustainable Peace and Prosperity, Katherine Sredl
Ignatian Pedagogy Certificate Final Project Assisnment, Loretta Stalans
The Role of Phage tRNAs in the Evolution of Codon Usage Biases in Giant Pseudomonas Phage phiKZ and EL, Stephanie Steidel
Beyond the War: The Evolving Nature of the U.S. Approach to Drugs, Don Stemen
The Prison Paradox: More Incarceration Will Not Make Us Safer, Don Stemen
Predicted Suitable Habitat Declines for Midwestern United States Amphibians Under Future Climate and Land-Use Change Scenarios, Brock Struecker and Joseph Milanovich
Getting Students Employed: 21st Century Learning Competences and Career Competences, Kelly Cebold Sundberg
Being Wise Before Wisdom: The Historical Development of Phronēsis from Homer to Aristotle, and Its Consequences for Hans-Georg Gadamer's Hermeneutic Ethics, Giancarlo Tarantino
Ignatian Pedagogy Certificate Final Project, Natasha M. Teetsov
Wilson Fundations Program Evaluation for an Urban Kindergarten Setting, Tonika Rene' Terrell