Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Examining the Interplay of Mental Health, Family Conflict, and Body Mass Index among Mexican Origin Families: A Cross-Lagged Model, Laura Margaret Lehman Distel
IMPROVING EXTRACELLULAR RECORDING TECHNOLOGY WITH SUCTION ELECTRODES, Justin F. Domacena
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion within Loyola University’s School of Environmental Sustainability: Pilot Climate Survey, Annaa Donaldson, Isabel Hoyos, and Jonathan Molina
Impact of Violence Exposure on Children's Mental Health and Family Functioning: An Ecological-Transactional Approach, Rice Mary Dusing
Reading Ethics: Modernism, Narrative, Violence, Katie Dyson
Richmond Agitation-Sedation Score (RASS) in intubated Neuro Critical care patients on Propofol and Dexmedetomidine, Nithin Edara, Brenda Swartz PsyD, Rachel Churchill PhD, Murali Rao MD, and Edwin Meresh MD
Bang the Can Slowly: An Investigation into the 2017 Houston Astros, Ryan Elmore and Gregory J. Matthews
Amy Lowell Letters Project, Orion Elrod
The Identification of LXR-Dependent Pathways in the Dorsal Root Ganglia in Models of Obesity, Nadia Elshareif
Ecology and Open-Minded Cognition: Does Exposure to Pathogens Influence Open-Minded Cognition?, Gabriel Escudero
Depression screening for patients aged 12 -17 receiving oral isotretinoin for acne vulgaris, Blanca Estupinan M.D., Alexandra Kieffer, Wendy Kim M.D., and Theodote Pontikes M.D.
Emotions, Interactions, and Institutions in Preschool Teaching, Judson G. Everitt
Exploring Differences in Observed versus Produced Gesture in Vocal Pedagogy, Erin Foy, Gregory Wakefield, and Elizabeth Wakefield
"Stop Giving Up on Us": The Experiences of First-Generation Latinx Students in their College Choice Process, Lillianna Shantey Franco Carrera
Input to SR on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Including its Causes and Consequences Regarding the Role of Organized Criminal Groups, Peggy Frazier and Katherine Kaufka Walts JD
Does Manipulating Source Gender Predict a Person's Open-Mindedness as a Function of Sexism?, Tanyelle Annette Galman
Implications of Eating Styles: Investigating the Associations between Depression, BMI, and Eating for Physical Reasons, Benito Garcia, Hannah Hagy, Amy Bohnert, and Amy Egbert
Population-Matched Transcriptome Prediction Increases Discovery and Replication Rate in TWAS, Elyse Geoffroy
Evaluation and Management of Tonsillar Necrotizing Granulomatous Inflammation: Systematic Review and Case Report, Steven Goicoechea, Brian T. Yuhan MD, and Paul Jones MD
Biomarker Profile Of Endothelial Function In Patients With End Stage Renal Disease, Jake Goldstein, Jawed Fareed, Robert Dieter, and Emily Bontekoe
TRANSIENT INCREASES IN INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE AFTER SOCCER HEADING, Evan Grace MS; Justin Lee MS; Jeremy Sieker MS; Johan CG Petersen MD, MS; and Lonnie G. Petersen MD, PhD
Proteome Association Studies in Populations of Diverse Ancestries, Isabelle Gregga, Elyse Geoffroy, Ryan Schubert, and Heather Wheeler
Promoting Early-Adolescent Dual Language Learners' Language Use & Reading Skills, Holly Griskell
Evaluation of Reduced Reaction Volumes for Quantifiler® Duo and Quantifiler® Trio, Wendy Gruhl, Gabriela Estrada, Sally Keller, Dayanna Carreno, Natasha Beyer, and Emma McSpadden
Emerging Forensic DNA Technologies & Ethical Concerns, Wendy Gruhl, Nina Saviozzi, Lydia Stemmler, and Riley McCaffrey
Bisindolylmaleimide IX: a Novel Anti-SARS-CoV2 Agent Targeting Viral Main Protease 3CLpro Demonstrated by Virtual Screening Pipeline and In-Vitro Validation Assays, Yash Gupta, Dawid Maciorowski, Samantha E. Zak, Krysten A. Jones, Rahul S. Kathayat, Saara-Anne Azizi, Raman Mathur, Catherine M. Pearce, David J. Ilc, Hamza Husein, Andrew S. Herbert, Ajay Bharti, Brijesh Rathi, Ravi Durvasula, Daniel P. Becker, Bryan C. Dickinson, John M. Dye, and Prakasha Kempaiah
Expression of mRNA of the col2a1b gene during zebrafish embryogenesis, Arturo G. Gutiu, Timoteea A. Saitis, Vanessa L. Pahlow, and Austin P. Runde
Development of Small Molecule Inhibitors of Therapeutic Target Enzymes: Paths to Discover Novel Antimicrobials, Thahani Shifna Habeeb Mohammad
Menstrual Pain Trajectories and Their Psychological and Behavioral Predictors, Hannah Marie Alves Hagy
Function of Mllt3 in Liver Metabolism, Grace Ann Hammack
Alternative trap technologies to reduce the population of the invasive red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) in the Chicago Region, Lauren Hammett
CFMC Digital Education Research, Beck Hansman, Bryn Reimer, William Ridzon, Lilly Condon, Madison Von Der Linden, and Inez Castro
Compulsive Exercise in College Students, Kaela Harber, Elizabeth Rea, Laura Nicholson, Amy Heard, and Amy M. Bohnert
The Longitudinal Effects of Maternal Mental Health on Child Coping, Farah Harb, Yvita Bustos, and Catherine DeCarlo Santiago
Understanding the Role of Lipids Derived from the Gut Microbes in a Mouse Model of Obesity-Induced Peripheral Pain, Raiza Rafael-Bonomo Hardy
Evaluating Rape Myth Acceptance on Loyola University Chicago Campus, Audrey FuQi Harris
Slavery, the Enslaved, and the Gospel of Matthew: A Narrative, Social-Scientific Study, Jonathan Hatter
The Politics of HumanAnimal Relationships in Summer 2020: Notes from a Virtual Research Mentorship, John Hawkins and Megan Walsh
Plastic-Mediated Photolysis of Flame Retardants, Kate Hebert, Xiolmara Martinez, Hannah Olson, Claire Calhoun, and Paul Chiarelli
Research-Practice Partnership Strategies to Conduct and Use Research to Inform Practice, Erin Henrick, Steven McGee, Lucia Dettori, Troy Williams, Andrew M. Rasmussen, Don Yanek, Ronald I. Greenberg, and Dale Reed
Elementary Principals' and Teachers' Educational Beliefs and Practices in Inclusive Schools, Dawn Hill
Ecological Systems in the Contexts of Foster Care and Parental Incarceration, Lauren A. Hindt
Kinship Involvement and Strength Development in the Child Welfare System, Nicole Amper Hodgkinson
Establishing Suitable Metrics to Encourage Broader Use of Atomic Requirements, William L. Honig
Requirements Metrics - A Working List, William L. Honig
Contrasting Approaches to Implementing Agroecological Cattle Ranching in Colombia, Isabel Hoyos Arango and Mariana Valencia Mestre
Adherence to a Mindfulness App for College Students with Depression: Patterns, Predictors, and Outcomes, Brynn Marie Huguenel
Characterizing a Novel Cocksackievirus B3 Protease Mutant and Its Response to Polyamine Depletion, Bridget Hulsebosch
From the Outside Looking in: Black Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Men Experiences in Men of Color and Black Male Initiative Mentorship Programs in Higher Education, Quortne Reginald Hutchings
SSL Metrics Datasets, Matt Hyatt, Amy Kuhl, Jake Palmer, Rohan Sethi, Nicholas Synovic, George K. Thiruvathukal, and Sohini Thota
Chicago Farmer's Market Collective, Bettina Iglesias, Ramat Mohammed, Margie Sando, Tarynn Cullings, Elena Grigoryan, Nancy Orellana, and Lily Roth
A Fair Share: How Awareness of Inequality, Allocation Method, and System Justification Affect Perceptions of Distributive Fairness, David Thomas Igliozzi
Looping Pendulum: Theory, Simulation, and Experiment, Luke Ignell, Brendan O'Donnell, and Collin Dannheim
Recognition and Positive Freedom, David Ingram
What an Ethics of Discourse and Recognition Can Contribute to a Critical Theory of Refugee Claim Adjudication, David Ingram
Perceptions of Funder-Mandated Performance Metrics on Nonprofit Service Provision, Melissa Iverson
A Diagnostic Conundrum: Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy Variant v. Dry Beri-Beri. A 37-year-old female presents with multiple vitaminopathies and peripheral neuropathy found to have autoantibodies against tubulin and FGFR-3., Vikrum Jain, Rogger Andrade, Diana Andino, and Lawrence Zeidman
Evaluation of Oxidative stress, Thrombosis, and Inflammation in patients with end-stage osteoarthritis, Vikrum Jain, Emily Bontekoe, Fakiha Saddiqui PhD, Jeffrey Liles MD, Jawed Fareed PhD, and William Hopkinson MD
Utilizing Remote Sensing and Climate Predicted Precipitation Patterns to Drive Water Resource Infrastructure Investment Decisions: Marwa, Tanzania, Franklin Jakubow, Valentine Geze, and Hannah White
Elucidating the relationship between thrombo-inflammatory biomarkers and cellular indices of inflammation in lymphoma patients, Mark Jaradeh, Nausheen Baig, Emily Bontekoe, Mirjana Mitrovic, Darko Antic, and Jawed Fareed
Inflammatory cytokines are significantly reduced in patients undergoing robotic lung resection (RATS) compared to VATS resection, Mark Jaradeh, Brett Curran, Kostantinos Poulikidis, Adrian Rodrigues, Walter Jeske, Zaid M. Abdelsattar, James Lubawski, Jeanine Walenga, and Wickii T. Vigneswaran
Comparing Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy-alone versus Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation followed by Sleeve Lung Resection for Locally Advanced, Resectable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Mark Jaradeh, Wickii T. Vigneswaran, Wissam Raad, James Lubawski, Richard Freeman, and Zaid M. Abdelsattar
The Role of Neighborhood Factors in School Choice Decisions, Sarah Jefferson
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Prophages and Engineered Temperate Phages, Genevieve Johnson
Ethnic Racial Socialization, Ethnic Identity, and Internalizing Outcomes in the Context of Stress among Mexican Origin Families, Sarah Alicia Jolie
Creating a Unified Digital Communication Strategy with Chicago Farmers Market Collective, Ryan Joslyn, Gina Shanley, Gracie Brennan, Maggie Guidici, Zac Fox, Makenzie Cronin, and Vanessa Lunar
Information Validates the Prior: A Theorem on Bayesian Updating and Applications, Navin Kartik, Frances Xu Lee, and Wing Suen
RE: Center for the Human Rights of Children’s Input for the 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report, Katherine Kaufka Walts JD
(Re)imagining Community-Engaged Curriculum and Pedagogy: Shifting Subjectivities and Power/Knowledge among Faculty/Doctoral Students, Anne Catherine Kelly
Teaching Artists’ Adaptability in Group-Based Music Education Residencies, Brian L. Kelly and Jonathan Neidorf
Predicting the Adoption of Password Managers: A Tale of Two Samples, Shelia Kennison and D. Eric Chan-Tin
Nudging Students to Use Stronger Passwords: A Test of Big Five Personality-Based Messages, Shelia Kennison and Eric Chan-Tin
Who creates strong passwords when nudging fails, Shelia M. Kennison, Ian T. Jones, Victoria H. Spooner, and D. Eric Chan-Tin
The Impact of Discipline Fairness on School Connectedness: Exploring the Role of School Discipline Approaches, Jamie Kessler, Cynthia Onyeka M.A., Yael Granot Ph.D., and Maryse H. Richards
Be mindful and SMiLe: Changes in PA, NA, and depression after eight weeks of Headspace, Hassan Khan, Asnia Rafiq, Andrew Rauch, and Ian J. Kahrilas
The Development of the Country Satisfaction Scale, Daewon Kim
Skill, Practice, and Virtue: Some Questions and Objections for Stalnaker, Richard Kim
CFMC Consulting Design, Jonathon P. King, Victoria A. Pearson, Nicole J. Trzeciak, Claudia F. Alvarado, Kennedy E. Pruitt, Elsa A. Angulo, and Manal A. Haroon
The Role of trc in the Development of Glia in the Nervous System, Andrea M. Kirincic
Atomic-Resolution 1.3 Å Crystal Structure, Inhibition by Sulfate, and Molecular Dynamics of the Bacterial Enzyme DapE, Matthew Kochert, Boguslaw P. Nocek, Thahani S. Habeeb Mohammad, Elliot Gild, Kaitlyn Lovato, Tahirah K. Heath, Richard C. Holz, Kenneth W. Olsen, and Daniel P. Becker Ph.D.
Synthesis of a Folate-Mediated Photodynamic Therapy Agent and Application in Zebrafish Embryos, Aishah Kothawala, Allison Monterastelli, and Phuong Pham
Black holes as Fast Scramblers, Arthur Kraus
Serum Neuro Biomarkers Associated with Pediatric Hepatic Encephalopathy; A Systematic Review, Kavita Krishnan, Lindsey Rasmussen, Mahil Rao, Nathan Chang, and May Casazza
It’s a Hard Knock Life: How Kids with Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries are Treated, Kavita Krishnan, Alice Su, and Christina Long
Initial Experience With a Bioresorbable Polymer Anchor, Jayanth Kumar, Robert R. Burnham MD, Kamran Hamid MD, Michael S. Pinzur MD, and Adam P. Schiff MD
The incidence of deltoid ligament interposition in bimalleolar equivalent ankle fractures, Jayanth Kumar MS3, Robert R. Burnham MD, Kamran Hamid MD, Michael S. Pinzur MD, and Adam P. Schiff MD
BaxHUD Pharmaceutical Workflow, Priyana Kumar, Sebastian Caceres, and Shalaka Kollerkandy
The Evolutionary and Morphological Diversification of the Subtribe Papionina, Sophie B. Labelle
Digitizing and Disclosing Personal Data: The Proliferation of State Criminal Records on the Internet, Sarah Lageson, Elizabeth H. Webster, and Juan Sandoval
Postoperative Dyspnea After Shoulder Surgery Associated with Prolonged Hospital Stay: What is the Role of the Interscalene Block?, Jason Lamano, Lisa Sun MD, Shruthi Basireddy, Emilie Cheung MD, Jan Boublik MD, Jean Louis Horn MD, and Ban C.H. Tsui MD
A Critical Discourse Analysis to Explain the Failure of BoP Strategies, Nancy E. Landrum
The Global Goals: Bringing Education for Sustainable Development into U.S. Business Schools, Nancy E. Landrum
COVID-19 related racial experiences among Asian Americans: Discrimination, color-blindness, model minority myth, and social connectedness, Han Na Lee, Jeanie Chang, and Eunju Yoon
Investigation and Characterization of a Series of Novel NNN-Pincer Ligand Complexes with Iron, Vanadium, and Gallium Metal Centers, Wei-Tsung Lee, Andrew Alcazar, Christian Andre, and Theodore Gerard
Colors of Life, Nicolle Leon-Araujo and Vanessa Aguirre
Links Between Storytelling and Engineering Talk during Home Tinkering Activities, Zach M. Levy, Riley E. George, Lauren Pagano, and Catherine A. Haden
Delivering Clinical Microbiology Education Online Via Pathelective.com, Cullen Lilley MS, MB(ASCP); Isabel Gómez MD; Constantine E. Kanakis MD, MSc, MLS(ASCP); Amanda Harrington PhD, D(ABMM); and Kamran M. Mirza MD, PhD, MLS(ASCP)
