Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Evading Innate and Adaptive Immunity During Adenovirus Cell Entry, Shauna Marvin
Analysis of the Minimal Promoter from the Hatching Enzyme a Gene, Anna Matejczyk
Cuotas en Materia Electoral: Frecuencia y Eficacia, Richard E. Matland
Open Enrollment in Advanced Placement Courses: Experiences of Traditional and Non-Traditional Students, Scott Errol Mcalister
Empowering Counseling Program Description, Katherine Tyson McCrea
“Where’s beebee?”: The orphan crisis in global child welfare from an autoethnographic perspective, Katherine Tyson McCrea
Evaluation of the IMPACTS Computer Science Presentations, Steven McGee, Ronald I. Greenberg, Dale F. Reed, and Jennifer Duck
Identification of a Histidine Metal Ligand in the argE-Encoded N-Acetyl-L-Ornithine Deacetylase from Escherichia coli, Wade C. McGregor, Danuta M. Gillner, Sabina I. Swierczek, Dali Liu, and Richard C. Holz
An Event History Analysis on the Effects of Academic Integration Factors on Degree Completion of Low-Income Underrepresented Minority Students, Lisa Marie Metzger-Mugg
The Independent Influences of Relational and Physical Victimization on Subsequent Physical Aggression in Middle School Children, Michelle D. Mioduszewski
Identifying Student Perspectives: Addressing the Financial Barriers Facing Low-Income Students in Study Abroad, Lauren Miranda
A Meta-Analysis of School Belonging and Academic Success and Persistence, Isabel Moallem
Age-Dependent Regional Changes in the Rostral Migratory Stream, Arie S. Mobley, Alex K. Bryant, Marion B. Richard, and Jessica H. Brann
Effects of Electrical Stimulation and Testosterone in Translational Models of Peripheral Nerve Injury, Gina Monaco
The Effects of an Experiential Learning and Mentorship Program Pairing Medical Students and Persons with Cognitive Impairment: A Qualitative Content Analysis, Darby J. Morhardt
Characterization of the Novel Response Regulator Sype: A Dual Regulator of Biofilm Formation and Colonization in Vibrio Fischeri, Andrew Robert Morris
High School Curriculum Tracks as Determinants of Post-Secondary Outcomes: A Study of Track Mobility and Its Effects, William Morrison
Conceptualizing Beauty: A Content Analysis of U.S. and French Women's Magazine Advertisements, Pamela Morris and Katharine Nichols
Defining a Role for Inducible Heat Shock Protein 70 (HSP70i) In Mediating Autoimmune Vitiligo, Jeffrey Alan Mosenson
Activity Patterns and Spatial Resource Selection of the Eastern Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis), Matthew Gregory Most
Preserving the Bond: Child Welfare Professionals' Perspectives on the Opportunities and Challenges of Parent-Child Visitation, Lina M. Munoz
The Principle of Double Effect: Act-Types and Intentions, James G. Murphy
Social-Environmental Predictors of Health-Related Quality of Life in Youth with Spina Bifida, Caitlin Beth Murray
Biophysical Characterization of Tryptophan Locales, Mg²+ Binding and Protein Folding in Gα Subunits, Matthew Najor
Identifying and Characterizing the Degradative Pathway of the Retroviral Restriction Factor RhTRIM5α, Rachel Nelson
Sustainable Diverse Communities: A Comparison of Hammond, Indiana and Chicago's Uptown Neighborhood, Teresa Neumann
Economic and Environmental Impacts of Harmful Non-Indigenous Species in Southeast Asia, Le Nghiem, Tarek Soliman, Darren Yeo, Hugh Tan, Theodore A. Evans, John D. Mumford, and Reuben P. Keller
Review of Piety and Responsibility: Patterns of Unity in Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Decika, Hugh Nicholson
The Hook Up Hangover: The Decline in Traditional Dating Beyond the College Campus - Before Formal Commitment, Reginald Nievera
James Baldwin's Challenge to Catholic Theologians and the Church, Jon Nilson
Review of "Christology and Whiteness: What Would Jesus Do?", Jon Nilson
Complexity, Conflict, and Cooperation: The Micropolitics of American Civil-Military Relations in Small Wars, 1945-Present, Michael P. Noonan
Exosomes: Antiviral Agents in the Human Lung, Jennifer Alexandra Novak
Enabling Greater Access to Home Meal Delivery, Maciek Nowak, Leo Gala, and Mike Hewitt
Comparative phyloclimatic analysis and evolution of ecological niches in the scimitar babblers (Aves: Timaliidae: Pomatorhinus), Arpad S. Nyari and Sushma Reddy
Selective Expansion of B Cells by Intestinal Microbiota, Karina Ochoa
Not Peace But the Sword: Violence in Contemporary American Catholic Literature, Michael O'Connell
The Role of at Epistemic Community in Haitian Education Reform Post Earthquake 2010, Joy Okeefe
Drivers of the Sentenced Population: Probation Analysis, David E. Olson, Donald Stemen, Sema Taheri, and Michelle D. Mioduszewski
The Safer Foundation: An in-Depth Program Evaluation and Recidivism Study, Richard Allen Olson
Naturalism, Murder, and Identity in Three Short Stories of Ramon Ferreira, Haley Lee Osborn
National Catholic School Standards: Focus on Governance and Leadership, Lorraine Ozar and Patricia Weitzel-O'Neill
Antibodies to Inhibit Clostridium Difficile Adhesion to Human Gut Epithelial Cell Line, Wonbeom Paik
Genomic Correlates of Relationship QTL Involved in Fore- Versus Hind Limb Divergence in Mice, Mihaela Palicev, Gunter P. Wagner, James P. Noonan, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, and James M. Cheverud
Novel Role of ErbB-2 in Inhibition of Jagged-1-Mediated Trans-Activation of Notch in Breast Cancer, Kinnari Pandya
Guest Editors Introduction: Cloud Computing, Manish Parashar and George K. Thiruvathukal
Login to Learn: A Content Analysis of Southeast Asian Policies on Technology and Education, Laura D. Pasley
Distinctiveness of the Loyola Educational Goals, John P. Pelissero
Secure and Insecure High Self-Esteem and Social Identity Affirmation in Response to Belongingness Threats, Reyna Jacqueline Pena
Teacher Role Breadth and its Relationship to Student-Reported Teacher Support, Kate L. Phillippo and Susan Stone
Outcome-Reporting Bias in Education Research, Terri D. Pigott, Joshua R. Polanin, Jeffery C. Valentine, Ryan T. Williams, and Dericka D. Canada
Exploring Predicted Vs. Actual First to-Second Year Retention Rates: A Study of Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Colleges, Brenda Porter Poggendorf
Addressing the Issue of Meta-Analysis Multiplicity in Education and Psychology, Joshua R. Polanin
Beyond Tiger Mom Anxiety: Ethnic, Gender and Generational Differences in Asian American College Access and Choices, OiYan Poon and Ajani Byrd
The Religion of Consumption and Christian Neighbor Love, Christopher Porter
Development of Cell Based Reporter Assay to Measure PKC-Delta Promoter Activity, Kushal Prajapati
Early Padroni, Work, and the Church in Chicago: 1880-1910, Kirby Pringle
From Where Does Neisseria Acquire Foreign DNA: An Examination of the Source of Genomic and Pathogenic Islands and the Evolution of the Neisseria Genus, Catherine Putonti, Bogdan Nowicki, Michael Shaffer, Yuriy Fofanov, and Stella Nowicki
Where does Neisseria acquire foreign DNA from: an examination of the source of genomic and pathogenic islands and the evolution of the Neisseria genus, Catherine Putonti, Bogdan Nowicki, Michael Shaffer, Yuriy Fofanov, and Stella Nowicki
Functionalization of Organic Semiconductor Crystals via the Diels-Alder Reaction, Brittni A. Qualizza, Srividya Prasad, M. Paul Chiarelli, and Jacob W. Ciszek
Functionalization of Organic Semiconductor Crystals via the Diels–Alder Reaction, Brittni A. Qualizza, Srividya Prasad, M. Paul Chiarelli, and Jacob W. Ciszek
Molecular Functions of MLL PHD3 Binding to Its Ligands Cyp33 and H3K4Me3, Gayathree Raman
Processes Underlying Syntactic Control: Evaluating Linguistically Diverse Children, Vanessa R. Raschke
A Polyglot Approach to Bioinformatics Data Integration: Phylogenetic Analysis of HIV-1, Steven Reisman, Catherine Putonti, George K. Thiruvathukal, and Konstantin Läufer
Effects of Acute Alcohol Exposure on Post Burn Intestinal Immunity: Role of IL-23, Juan L. Rendon
The Civilian and the War on Terror: Do Norms Shape Strategy?, Sherri Replogle
Women's Access to Secondary Education in Colonial and Postcolonial Tanzania and Rwanda, Emlyn Ashley Ricketts
Who's Attending the Party? Elections, Parties, and Democratization in Postcommunist States, Jonathan Windle Riggs
Opening the Black Box: Understanding Adult Inpatient Falls, Laura M. Rogers
Influence of Pramipexole on Probability Discounting and Ventral Pallidal Function: Assessments in Parkinsonian-Like Rats, Sandra Lynn Rokosik-Kletzel
Rearrangement of Cyclotriveratrylene (CTV) Diketone: 9,10-Diarylanthracenes with OLED Applications, Samuel R. Sarsah, Marlon R. Lutz Jr., Matthias Zeller, David S. Crumrine, and Daniel Becker
The Role of Linker 2 (L2) Region in RhTRIM5α Assembly and HIV-1 Restriction, Jayalaxmi Sastri
Effectiveness of Graduate Training in School Psychology: Perspectives of Graduate Practitioners, Mary S. Satchwell
A Case Study of a Mixed Methods Study Engaged in Integrated Data Analysis, Daniela Marie Schiazza
Differentiation of Surface Contaminants and Implanted Material on Genesis Solar Wind Samples Using Total Reflection X-Ray Fluorescence Spectometry and Grazing Incidence X-Ray Fluorescence, Martina Schmeling, Peter J. Eng, J.E. Stubbs, Y. Choi, and Igor V. Veryovkin
Twelfth Century Literal Bible Commentaries: Comparing Jewish and Christian, Devorah Schoenfeld
A Qualitative Study of Stakeholder Perceptions in Early Childhood Intervention Partnership, Ruth Schumacher
Six Steps to Implement a Mentor Program, Dow Scott, Sanjay Patel, Dwight Klein, and Dale Moyer
Rewards Next Practices: 2013 and Beyond, K. Dow Scott and Thomas McMullen
Giving and Taking Orders: Race, Rank, and the United States Military, Natalie Levy Seefeldt
The Right Side of the Sixties: Reexamining Conservatism’s Decade of Transformation, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Examination of Presenter Characteristics on Satisfaction and Learning in a Treatment Readiness Program, Haley M. Siler
The Politics and Practicalities of Reentry: A Case Study of the Reentry Environment in a Suburban Community, Carlene Sipma-Dysico
Italian-American Religious Orders in the Development of Chicago Catholicism in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Ellen Skerrett, Conrad Borntrager OSM, and Dominic Candeloro
Looked After Or Left Behind: The Effectiveness of Principal Preparation Programs as Perceived by Generation Y Principals, Chandra D. Sledge
Teaching, Learning and Leading with Schools and Communities: Preparing Sophisticated, Reflective, and Resilient Elementary STEM Educators, Lara K. Smetana, Elizabeth R. Coleman, Ann Marie Ryan, and Charles Tocci
Reducing Narcissistic Defensiveness Through the Activation of Belonging, Jennifer Lee Smith
Hidden Treasure: The Epistemology of Love According to Hans Urs on Balthasar, Timothy John Squier
Religious Pluralism and the Catholic Church: Lonergan's Method and the Jacques Dupuis Controversy, Andrea J. Stapleton Berger
Network Technologies Used to Aggregate Environmental Data, Paul Stasiuk, Konstantin Läufer, and George K. Thiruvathukal
Cheerleaders and Performers: Mental Health Courts in a Midwestern State, Monte Staton
An Examination of Felony Case Processing in the Circuit Court of Cook County, 2000-2012, Don Stemen
Supporting Minority Students Through Mentoring: Best Practices for Formal Mentoring Programs, Elizabeth Stockslager