Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Investigating Putative Toxin-Immunity Pairs from a New Class of RHS Proteins in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Syed Faieq Imam
Investigating Putative Toxin-Immunity Pairs from a New Class of Rhs Proteins in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Syed Faieq Imam
Critical Theory and Poverty, David Ingram
Poverty and Critical Theory, David Ingram
The Unintended Influence and Impact: Funder-Mandated Performance Metrics, Service Delivery, and Social Justice, Melissa Iverson; Michael P. Dentato PhD, MSW; Nathan H. Perkins; and Maria Wathen
The Teacher, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz and Jack Hutchens
Exploring the genomic diversity of Staphylococcus epidermidis from different isolation sources, Sandra M. Jablonska
Peer Culture of Block Play in an Early Childhood Classroom, Missi Jacobson
Exploring the Effect of Artificial Sweeteners on Streptococcus mutans Growth and pH level, Hannah Jaghab and Thomas Osika
Exploring Naming Conventions (and Defects) of Pre-trained Deep Learning Models in Hugging Face and Other Model Hubs, Wenxin Jiang, Chingwo Cheung, George K. Thiruvathukal, and James C. Davis
PeaTMOSS: Mining Pre-Trained Models in Open-Source Software, Wenxin Jiang, Jason Jones, Jerin Yasmin, Nicholas Synovic, Rajiv Sashti, Sophie Chen, George K. Thiruvathukal, Yuan Tian, and James C. Davis
An Empirical Study of Pre-Trained Model Reuse in the Hugging Face Deep Learning Model Registry, Wenxin Jiang, Nicholas Synovic, Matt Hyattt, Taylor R. Schorlemmer, Rohan Sethi, Yung-Hisang Lu, George K. Thiruvathukal, and James C. Davis
PTMTorrent: A Dataset for Mining Open-source Pre-trained Model Packages, Wenxin Jiang, Nicholas Synovic, Purvish Jajal, Taylor R. Schorlemmer, Arav Tewari, Bhavesh Pareek, George K. Thiruvathukal, and James C. Davis
Using Natural Language Processing to Evaluate Electronic Health Records of Patients with Ovarian Cancer for Documentation of Goals of Care, Hillarie Elizabeth Joehl
Cancer Survivor Empowerment Through Patient-Reported Outcomes, Mary Patricia Johnston
Building Strength Versus Getting Lean: An Analysis of the Gendered Nature of Fitness in Crossfit, Barre, and Personal Training, Margaret M. Jones
Role of Ripk3 in the Pathogenesis of TET2 Mutant Hematopoietic Malignancies, Kanak Joshi
When females compete and males care: Phenotypic differences in the spotted sandpiper, Alexandra Juarez, Tessa Patton, Quinn Thomas, Jessica Schaefer, and Sara E. Lipshutz
Dating During the Time of COVID-19: Risk Perceptions and Political Ideology, Danielle L. Kellogg, Tracy DeHart, Julie Longua Peterson, and Hannah R. Hamilton
Molecular Components of a Putative Membrane Androgen Receptor: Implications for Treating Glioma, Saira Khurana
Quality Fintech in the Context of the Japanese Main Bank System, Kanji Kitamura
Does the peer-led Honest, Open, Proud program reduce stigma’s impact for everyone? An individual participant data meta-regression analysis, Thomas Klein, Markus Kösters, Patrick W. Corrigan, Winnie W.S. Mak, Lindsay Sheehan, Colleen Conley, Nathalie Oexle, and Nicolas Rüsch
The Ephrin-B2 Signal Regulates Auditory Nerve Fiber Responses and Auditory Functions During Tonotopy Development, Jakub Krasewicz, Shayma Smaoui, and Julia K. Mansour
Building or Burning: Critical Reflections on Social and Political Change, Amy Krings, Karen D'Angelo, Jan Ivery, and Amy B. Murphy-Nguyen
How COVID-19 and Racial Justice Protests Influenced Social Workers’ Perceptions of Policy and Political Participation, Amy Krings, Maria V. Wathen, and Teresa Kilbane
A global overview of missed nursing care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review of quantitative studies, Leodoro Labrague
Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Patients With Cardiac Amyloidosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Spencer C. Lacy, Menhel Kinno, Cara Joyce, and Mingxi D. Yu
Lactobacillus Metabolite NC as an Inflammation Inhibitor, Drew Hahnnah Landrowski
Mapping the Indigenous Postcolonial Possibilities of Teacher Preparation, Anna Lees, Ann Marie Ryan, Marissa Muñoz, and Charles Tocci
Suite en Re Menor, Gustavo Leone
Determining the enzymatic efficiency and thermodynamic stability of BgIB-H223A, Thy Anh Le and Nicole Dowd
Past and Progress: Producing History at Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair, Cate Liabraaten
Synthesis and Characterization of the N-succinyl-l,l-diaminopimelic Acid Desuccinylase (DapE) Alternate Substrate Analog N,N-dimethyl-l,l-SDAP, Zachary J. Liveris, Emma H. Kelley, Emma Simmons, Katherine Konczak, Marlon Lutz Jr., Miguel Ballicora, Ken W. Olsen, and Daniel P. Becker Ph.D.
Shared Stem Cells in the Zebrafish Caudal Body and Fin, Andrew Locke, Allison Watts, and Esam Shah
Investigating the Viral Nature of Neuronal Capsid Genes, Michael Manuel Long
The Importance of Caregivers, Family, and Context for Child Welfare Involved Youth and a National Child Sample: A Structural Equation Modeling Perspective, Nathan Michael Lutz
Key Stakeholders' Perceptions of Stem Education in Zambia: A Mixed Methods Inquiry, Choobe M. Maambo
Environments of War: The Pacific Northwest and the Waging of World War Ii, Katherine L. Macica
Marissa Mahrenholz's Engaged Learning Poster, Marissa K. Mahrenholz
Analysis of the Effects of H328N Mutation on Beta-Glucosidase B Catalytic Efficiency and Thermostability, Camryn Martin and Hamza Husein
There is no present without the past, Victoria Martinez-Mercado
What’s Medical School Got to Do with It?: Health Professionals and Medical Education in Maternal Health Disparities, Skky Martin
Which Environmental Social Work? Environmentalisms, Social Justice, and the Dilemmas Ahead, John Mathias, Amy Krings, and Samantha Teixeira
Creative Disobedience: Dorothee Sölle's Political Theology and Ethics for U.S. Christian Contexts, Dannis Matteson
Women on their Way (WOW) Community Health Clinical, Leah Mc Clellan, Octavio Campos, and Mary McNamara
Finite Charges from the Bulk Action, Robert McNees and Céline Zwikel
Ethnic-Racial Socialization Practices of Dominican Mothers with Their Young Children: Understanding Practices with a Sociohistorical Context Framework, Sabrina Altagracia Mendez-Escobar
None of Us Are Safe: How Leaders Sustain Culturally Responsive Elementary and Middle School Improvement Planning, Jerry B. Michel
When Plaquing Is Not Possible: Computational Methods for Detecting Induced Phages, Taylor Miller-Ensminger, Genevieve Johnson, Swarnali Banerjee, and Catherine Putonti
Urinary Plasmids Reduce Permissivity to Coliphage Infection, Cesar Montelongo Hernandez, Catherine Putonti, and Alan J. Wolfe
An Emerging University-School-Community Partnership: A Story in Two Acts, Seungho Moon, Jon Schmidt, Anna Press, David Ensminger, and Mitchell A. Hendrickson
Physical Activity, Self-Determination, and Self-Conscious Emotions in Adolescents and Young Adults with and Without Autism Symptomatology, Dakota Morales
Applying Customer Discovery Method to a Chronic Disease Self-Management Mobile App: Qualitative Study, Nallely Mora, Zoe Arvanitakis, Merly Thomas, Holly Kramer, Elaine H. Morrato, and Talar W. Markossian
2023 Chairs’ Welcome, Daniel Moreira, Aparna Bharati, Cecilia Pasquini, and Yassine Yousfi
God as Über-King of Moral Leading: Veiled and Unveiled, Paul K. Moser
Camouflaging and Adjusting to College in Females with and without Autism Symptomatology, Aisha Mounir, Emily Cauley, Ellie Forster, and Elizabeth Stotz
American, Mary Clare Muehlemann
Degendering Parents on Birth Certificates, Timothy E. Murphy and Jennifer Parks
Strengthening Student Success: A Knowledge Connecting Corner for Schools and Families, Mashwa Nadeem
Genetic Variation in Fat Depot Weights in Mice, Nafia Naila
Migration Integration Policies as Social Determinants of Health for Highly Educated Immigrants in the United States, Mitra Naseh, Yingying Zeng, Abha Rai, Ian Sutherland, and Hyunwoo Yoon
Lung Resident Memory B Cells Maintain Allergic IgE Responses in the Respiratory Tract, Alexander James Nelson
Adventure and Spiritual Restoration: Older Adult Motivations for Undertaking a Pilgrimage on El Camino de Santiago, Holly Nelson-Becker, Joseph G. Pickard, and Florian Sichling
Engagement with Ethnic Practices: How Ethnic Communities Contribute to Second-Generation Asian American Assimilation, Bảo-Trân T. Nguyễn
A Woman, Cynthia Nguyen
Filling in the Gaps: A Multiple Imputation Approach to Estimating Aging Curves in Baseball, Quang Nguyen and Gregory J. Matthews
Here Comes the STRAIN: Analyzing Defensive Pass Rush in American Football with Player Tracking Data, Quang Nguyen, Ronald Yurko, and Gregory J. Matthews
Eliminating Exclusionary Discipline: A Plan to Design and Implement Restorative Practices in a Combined Middle/High School, Amanda Nieves
Making Lemonade Out of Lemons: How Millennial Black Women Teachers Navigate K-12 Educational Spaces, Janese L. Nolan
New Evidence on Employee Noncompete, No Poach, and No Hire Agreements in the Franchise Sector, Peter Norlander
Investigating the Role of the Metabolite Je as an Inflammatory Modulator, Rim Ahmed Noufal
Connectivity and Racial Equity in Responding to COVID-19 Impacts in the Chicago Regional Food System, Rowan Obach, Tania Schusler, Paulina Vaca, Sydney Durkin, and Ma'raj Sheikh
The Value of Engagement: Examining the Relationship between LGBTQ+ Student Involvement & Alumni Engagement, Jonathan J. Okstad
Rainbows & Resources, Alexandra Elizabeth Ortega
WOMEN IN ENTREPRENUERSHIP: A SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, Caitlin Asantewaa Osei
Barriers and Facilitators to Library Social Work Practice in the United States: A Mixed-Methods Study, Margaret Ann Paauw
How to Build a Cortex: Coordinated Assembly of Cortical Septins and Actomyosin in the Leader Bleb, Asia Marie Paguntalan
Feigning Goodness: Considering the Presence and Absence of Aristotelian Ideas in Character Education Through Thematic Analysis, Mylo Apollo Parker-Emerson
Supervaluation of pregnant women is reductive of women, Jennifer Parks and Timothy F. Murphy
A Critical Inter-Subunit Interaction for the Transmission of the Allosteric Signal in the Agrobacterium Tumefaciens ADP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase, Hiral Patel, Gabriela Martinez-Ramirez Ms., Emily Dobrzynski, Alberto A. Iglesias, Dali Liu, and Miguel Ballicora
Habits of Life, Tessa Patton
Using MPI For Distributed Hyper-Parameter Optimization andUncertainty Evaluation, Erik Pautsch, John Li, Silvio Rizzi, Maria Pantoja, and George K. Thiruvathukal
Evaluation of Novel AI Architectures for Uncertainty Estimation, Erik Pautsch, John Li, Silvio Rizzi, George K. Thiruvathukal, and Maria Pantoja
Optimized Uncertainty Estimation for Vision Transformers: Enhancing Adversarial Robustness and Performance Using Selective Classification, Erik Pautsch, John Li, Silvio Rizzi, George K. Thiruvathukal, and Maria Pantoja
Optimizing Uncertainty Quantification of Vision Transformers in Deep Learning on Novel AI Architectures, Erik Pautsch, John Li, Silvio Rizzi, George K. Thiruvathukal, and Maria Pantoja
Development of Inattention and Executive Dysfunction in Youth with Spina Bifida: Condition Severity Variables as Predictors, Allison D. Payne
Effect of Isolation Guidelines on Patient Care, Morgan Pifer, Sergio Garcia, Bre Maney, and Jane Kim
Comparative Genomic Study of Streptococcus anginosus Reveals Distinct Group of Urinary Strains, Ananya Prasad, Adriana Ene, Sandra Jablonska, Jingjie Du, Alan J. Wolfe, and Catherine Putonti
Migrant Flows: Humanitarian Operational Aspects of People in Transit, Sameer Prasad, Harish Borra, Jason Woldt, Nezih Altay, and Jasmine Tata
It’s Time to Look at Educator Time!, Anna Press and Hank Bohanon
Psychostimulant Misuse Among American Indian, Alaskan Native, or Native Hawaiian College Students in the U.S. From 2015 to 2019, Fares Qeadan, Sydney Ross, William A. Barbeau, Erin F. Madden, Kamilla L. Venner, and Kevin English
Quantifying Non-Muscle Myosin 2 Filament Dynamics, Melissa Ann Quintanilla
College Student Food Security during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Frances Rafferty, Tania Schusler, and Mariana Valencia Mestre
Establishing a Health-Based Social Hierarchy, Akila Salaam Raoul
