Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Cataloging and Engineering Temperate Coliphages of the Human Urinary Microbiome, Elias Crum
International Student Mobility and Migration: Policy Pervasion and the Student Experience, Max Crumley-Effinger
Cross-sectional examination of sluggish cognitive tempo, ADHD-inattentive symptoms, and mental health diagnoses in college students, Eva Darow, Mattison Jentz, Blair Martin, Adrian Melendez, Genevieve Roth, and Zoe Smith
The Role of Trc in Glial Development, Lucy Eleanor Deane
Safe from “harm”: The Governance of Violence by Platforms, Julia R. DeCook, Kelley Cotter, Shaheen Kanthawala, and Kali Foyle
Cannabis Analysis I: What’s in a Cannabis Gummy Bear?, James V. DeFrancesco, Camryn Delacruz, Samantha Seidenfuss, and Danielle Coco
Cannabis Analysis III: Improved Separation of Terpenes and Terpenoids, James V. DeFrancesco and Emma M. Humphreys
Cannabis Analysis II: Detection of Cannabinoid Acids that Inhibit COVID-19 Infection in Consumer Products, James V. DeFrancesco and Demetra Spores
DriveAware: Generating Actionable Data through Vehicle-Based Citizen Science, Alvaro de Landaluce, Federico Sinche Chele, Loretta Stalans, George Thiruvathukal, and Konstantin Läufer
Towards an Active Foveated Approach to Computer Vision, Dario Dematties, Silvio Rizzi, George K. Thiruvathukal, and Alejandro Javier Wainselboim
A Comparative Study of the Impact of Regimes in Latin America’s Education Systems: The Cases of Mercosur, Alba-Tcp, and Pa, Victoria Desimoni
The Inappropriate Use of Juvenile Records in Immigration Discretion, Sarah Diaz and Lisa Jacobs
The Role of Lived Experiences in Culturally Responsive School Leaders’ Administrations: A Phenomenological Case Study, Angela Dolezal
Power and Voice: Student Participation in Education Decision-Making, Caitlin Donnelley Power
“An umbrella for all things”: Black Daughter's Sexual Decisions and Paternal Engagement, Marquitta S. Dorsey
Velocity Map Images of Desorbing Oxygen from Sub-Surface States of Rh(111), Arved C. Dorst, Friedrich Güthoff, Daniel Schauermann, Alec M. Wodtke, Daniel Killelea, and Tim Schäfer
A Study in the Effectivenss of Factual Versus Emotional Interventions in Reducing Ambivalent Sexism in Hiring Decisions, Molly Jane Driscoll
Microplastic accumulation in riverbed sediment via hyporheic exchange from headwaters to mainstems, Jennifer D. Drummond, Uwe Schneidewind, Angang Li, Timothy J. Hoellein, Stefan Krause, and Aaron I. Packman
Target Stock Pitch, Lukasz Duda
Instantiated Recoupling in Principals' Enactment of Teacher Evaluations: Emotion Work and New Forms of Ceremonial Conformity in Educational Institutions, Christopher P. Duncan and Judson G. Everitt
An Interpretive Phenomenological Study of Women’s Struggles, Hopes and Reasons for Participation in Professional Power-Based Community Organizing in Chicago, Mary Dungy-Akenji
Investigating Microtubules in the Human U2-OS Cell Line, Saavaiz Durrani, Manny Widuch, Stefan M. Kanzok, and Grifin Berge
Exploring the Relationship Between Medical Research Literacy and Respondents’ Expressed Likelihood to Participate in a Clinical Trial, Jennifer Dykema, Cameron Jones, Dana Garbarski, Mia Farias, and Dorothy Farrar Edwards
Towards a Reconsideration of the Use of Agree-Disagree Questions in Measuring Subjective Evaluations, Jennifer Dykema, Nora Cate Schaeffer, Dana Garbarski, Nadia Assad, and Bank of America Corp.
dS2 as excitation of AdS2, Florian Ecker, Daniel Grumiller, and Robert McNees
The Platformed Money Ecosystem: Digital Financial Platforms, Datafication, and Reimagining Financial Well-being, Akon E. Ekpo, Jenna M. Drenten, Pia A. Albinsson, Sophia Anong, Samuelson Appau, Lagnajita Chatterjee, Charlene A. Dadzie, Margaret Echelbarger, Adriene Muldrow, Spencer M. Ross, Shelle Santana, and Michelle F. Weinberger
Reclaiming the Patria: Sinarquismo in the United States, 1936-1966, Nathan Ellstrand
Exploring the Role of Lactobacillus Jensenii and Lactobacillus Mulieris in the Urogenital Tract, Adriana Daniela Ene
Draft Genome Assemblies of 4 Lactobacillus jensenii and 3 Lactobacillus mulieris Strains from the Urinary Tract, Adriana Ene and Catherine Putonti
Genomic insights into Lactobacillus gasseri and Lactobacillus paragasseri, Adriana Ene, Natalie Stegman, Alan Wolfe, and Catherine Putonti
Three-Dimensional Staging Series of Anolis Sagrei, Lilian Epperlein
Combining GWAS and Population Genomic Analyses to Characterize Coevolution in a Legume-rhizobia Symbiosis, Brendan Epstein, Liana T. Burghardt, Katy D. Heath, Michael A. Grillo, Adam Kostanecki, Toumas Hämälä, Nevin D. Young, and Peter Tiffin
How the Past of Outsourcing and Offshoring is the Future of Post-Pandemic Remote Work: A Typology, a Model, and a Review, Chris Erickson and Peter Norlander
COVID-19 Strikes Again: Mental Health of Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities in Rural Communities, Elizabeth M. Ernhart
Behavioral Strategies of Prehistoric and Historic Children from Dental Microwear Texture Analysis, Almudena Estalrrich and Kristin L. Krueger
CURL’s Research Findings on Englewood Women’s Initiative (EWI), Andy Estrada and Meredith Farrar
Monetary Policy, Financial Shocks and Economic Activity, Anastasios Evgenidis and A. (Tassos) G. Malliaris
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Diet Quality in young African American women: A descriptive analysis of a community-based survey, Thilini Fernando and Sparkle Springfield PhD
Phenotypic Analysis of Murine Gut Associated Lymphocytes, Madison Flood
How Self Relevance and Disclaimers Against Blame Affect Victim Blaming of Sexual Assault Survivors, Lina Maria Flores Wolf
CTA Red Line Ridership, Megan Fowler, Tate Maurer, and Nathan Geisier
Influences of Child and Caregiver-Directed Home Visitor Behaviors on Caregiver Engagement and Caregiver-Child Interactions, Mary Kienstra Frese
Knowledge and Political Interest: Politico-Epistemic Injustice in the United States Under Capitalist Democracy, Philipa Friedman
Thinking, Meaning, and Truth: Arendt on Heidegger and the Possibility of Critique, Jennifer Gaffney
We Need New Heroes: Tracing Heroic Masculinities from Homeric Epic to Contemporary Comic Cinema, Matthew Gallagher
Therapist Broaching Behavior in Cross-Racial Therapy: Exploring Affective Responses to Racism and Cultural Humility as Predictors, Sarah C. Galvin
Spanish-English Bilingual Toddlers’ Vocabulary Skills: The role of Caregiver Language Input and Warmth, Perla B. Gámez, Francisco Palermo, Jordan S. Perry, and Maily Galindo
Understanding Teacher Reported Experiences of Trauma Professional Development/Training, Mayra Alejandra Gaona
The War-Zone Mentality — Mental Health Effects of Gun Violence in U.S. Children and Adolescents, James Garbarino
Development of an Analytical Method for Determination of Lead and Cadmium in Biological Materials by GFAAS using Escherichia coli as Model Substance, Michelle Catherine Gende and Martina Schmeling
Gerber/Hart Library and Archives Internship, Sarah E. Gerards
Reactivity and Fluorescence of NNN-Pincer Complexes of Transition and Main Group Metals (V, Ga), Teddy Gerard and Christian Andre
Bicycling to Level the Field: A Study of Divvy in Chicago, Bushra Ghaniwala
Molecular Mechanisms of Oxidative Stress-Induced Corneal Damage and the Use of Antioxidants and Therapeutics, Anita Kirti Ghosh
Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolated From Urine of Healthy Bovine Have Potential as Emerging Human and Bovine Pathogens, Silvia Giannattasio-Ferraz, Adriana Ene, Vitor Júnio Gomes, Cid Oliveira Queiroz, Laura Maskeri, André Penido Oliveira, Catherine Putonti, and Edel F. Barbosa-Stancioli
Directed Acyclic Graph-based Neural Networks for Tunable Low-Power Computer Vision, Abhinav Goel, Caleb Tung, Nick Eliopoulos, Xiao Hu, George K. Thiruvathukal, James C. Davis, and Yung-Hisang Lu
Efficient Computer Vision on Edge Devices with Pipeline-Parallel Hierarchical Neural Networks, Abhinav Goel, Caleb Tung, Xiao Hu, George K. Thiruvathukal, James C. Davis, and Yung-Hsiang Lu
The Impact of Peer Supportive Accountability on Use of a Mindfulness App in Depressed College Students: A Mixed Methods Study, Carol Hundert Gonzales
The Stories We Tell: Colorblind Racism, Classblindness, and Narrative Framing in the Rural Midwest, Teresa Irene Gonzales PhD, Elizabeth M. Thissell, and Soumitira Thorat
Water Conservation and Efficiency in Recreational Buildings at Loyola’s Lake Shore Campus, John Gorman, Elizabeth Hallissey, Kelly Tanquary, and Reanne Baniqued
Finding Approximate Pythagorean Triples (and Applications to LEGO Robot Building), Ronald I. Greenberg, Matthew Fahrenbacher, and George K. Thiruvathukal
Proteome Association Studies for Cancer, Isabelle Gregga and Heather Wheeler
Psalms and the City: John Halgrin of Abbeville and the Paris Context of a Scholastic Psalms Commentary, Theresa J. Gross-Diaz
Time Dependence of Cosmic Ray Anisotropy, Katherine Jo Gruchot
Quantifiler Trio Reduced Reaction Volume and Inhibited Samples, Wendy Gruhl, Lydia Stemmler, and Sydney Leffler
Does Co-Speech Gesture Support Children’s Analogical Reasoning? An Investigation Into the Differential Effects of Gesture on Learning, Katharine F. Guarino
Repurposing Lansoprazole and Posaconazole to treat Leishmaniasis: Integration of in vitro Testing, Pharmacological Corroboration, and Mechanisms of Action, Yash Gupta, Steven Goicoechea, Jesus G. Romero, Raman Mathur, Thomas R. Caulfield, Daniel P. Becker, Ravi Durvasula, and Prakasha Kempaiah
Iron Dysregulation in COVID-19 and Reciprocal Evolution of SARS-CoV-2: natura nihil frustra facit, Yash Gupta, Dawid Maciorowski, Brian Medernach, Daniel P. Becker Ph.D., Ravi Durvasula, Claudia R. Libertin, and Prakasha Kempaiah
Feminist academic organizations: Challenging sexism through collective mobilizing across research, support, and advocacy, Lauren Gurrieri, Andrea Prothero, Shona Bettany, Susan Dobscha, Jenna M. Drenten, Shelagh Ferguson, Stacey Finkelstein, Laura McVey, Nacima Ourahmoune, Laurel Steinfield, and Linda Tuncay Zayer
Expression of mRNA of the col2a1b gene during Zebrafish Embryogenesis, Arturo G. Gutiu, Mansi V. Patel, Rodney M. Dale, and Austin P. Runde
Why Composting Should Become Everyday Practice, Joaquin Guzman
Harnessing the Power of Interdisciplinary Research with Psychology-Informed Cyberbullying Detection Models, Deborah Hall, Yasin N. Silva, Brittany Wheeler, Lu Cheng, and Katie Baumel
A Labeled Dataset for Investigating Cyberbullying Content Patterns in Instagram, Mara Hamlett, Grace Powell, Yasin N. Silva, and Deborah Hall
White Constituents and Congressional Voting, Eric Hansen
Examining the Bidirectional Relations between Psychological Functioning and Academic Outcomes Among College Students, Maya Hareli
Medical–surgical nurse leaders' experiences with safety culture: An inductive qualitative descriptive study, Lisa Harton and Lisa E. Skemp
The Role of Gut Microbiome and SCFA Butyrate in the Development of Obesity Associated Pre-HFpEF, Jomana Hatahet
Consumer Spending as a Predictor for COVID-19, Cooper L. Hawley, Isabel L. Miller, and Marshall D. Sommer
Using Texts as Mirrors: The Power of Readers Seeing Themselves, Amy J. Heineke, Aimee Papola-Ellis, and Joseph Elliott
Invasive rusty crayfish have displaced native crayfish in nearshore Lake Michigan habitats., Jonathan Herald and Reuben Keller
Profiling the plasmid conjugation potential of urinary Escherichia coli, Cesar Montelongo Hernandez, Catherine Putonti, and Alan J. Wolfe
Evolution of Life-History Characteristics in Gadoidei, Joshua Hittie
Psychological Self-Sufficiency and Financial Literacy Among Low-Income Participants: An Empowerment-Based Approach to Financial Capability, Philip Young P. Hong, Maria V. Wathen, Alanna Shin, Intae Yoon, and Jang Ho Park
Narrowband ultraviolet B response in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma is characterized by increased bacterial diversity and reduced Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus lugdunensis, Madeline J. Hooper, Gail L. Enriquez, Francesca L. Veon, Tessa M. LeWitt, Dagmar Sweeney, Stefan J. Green, Patrick C. Seed, Jaehyuk Choi, Joan Guitart, Michael B. Burns, and Xiaolong A. Zhou
Gut Dysbiosis in Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma Is Characterized by Shifts in Relative Abundances of Specific Bacterial Taxa and Decreased Diversity in More Advanced Disease, Madeline J. Hooper, T.M. LeWitt, Y. Pang, F.L. Veon, G.E Chlipala, L. Feferman, S.J. Green, D. Sweeney, K.T. Bagnowski, Michael B. Burns, P.C. Seed, J. Choi, J. Guitart, and X.A. Zhou
Impact of Parent Presence on Stress in Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Susan M. Horner
Egestion Rates of Microplastic Fibres in Fish Scaled to in Situ Concentration and Fish Density, Loren Hou, Rachel McNeish, and Timothy Hoellein
The Lived Experiences of Nursing Students in Nursing Education with Implicit Racial Bias, Seth Hawkins Huisenga
SoftwareSystemsLaboratory/ssl-metrics, Matt Hyatt, Amy Kuhl, Jake Palmer, Rohan Sethi, Ethan Stoneman, Nicholas Synovic, Sohini Thota, and George K. Thiruvathukal
SoftwareSystemsLaboratory/ssl-metrics-git-bus-factor, Matt Hyatt, Nicholas Synovic, and George K. Thiruvathukal
SoftwareSystemsLaboratory/ssl-metrics-git-productivity, Matt Hyatt, Nicholas Synovic, and George K. Thiruvathukal
Do water quality improvements in coastal communities affect geographic mobility? Evidence from the Great Lakes, Jillian R. Hyink
Elucidating the Function of an Evolutionarily Conserved COL2α1 Isoform During Vertebrate Development, Charles Lantz H. Ingersoll
The Role of Recognition in Kelsen's Account of Legal Obligation and Political Duty, David Ingram
Mental Health Popularization Over the Pandemic, Idiake I. Irumundomon
Draft Genome Sequence of Staphylococcus epidermidis UMB7543, Isolated from a Female Patient with Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections, Sandra Jablonska, Alan J. Wolfe, and Catherine Putonti
A Past Not Present: Memory, Christianity, and Indian Removal Mission Sites in the Great Lakes and the South, Sean Thomas Jacobson
Investigation of Carbon Dioxide Oxidation Reaction Pathways on Rh(111) Via Reflection Absorption Infrared Spectroscopy (rairs), Elizabeth A. Jamka
