College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

 
Electronic versions of recent theses and dissertations by College of Science & Health (CSH) students at DePaul University are archived here. Please visit the CSH Graduation Requirements web page or contact the graduate student services administrator in the Office of Advising and Student Services Office via CSHGraduation@depaul.edu for more information on the CSH submission processes and procedures.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Invisible Disability: A Review of Hearing and Vision Impairment Challenges in the Workplace, Melissa Ann Aguinaldo

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Mitigating Sunk Cost Bias for Consumers: Considering Alternatives Within High and Low Construal Levels When Costs are Sunk, Jasmine N. Ahmad

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The Positive Impact of Exposure to Nature versus Urban-Environment Images on Cognitive Processing: Working Memory and Problem Solving, Caitlin Julia Ailsworth

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Social Zapping: Examining Predictors of Last-Minute Cancelations Among Community Members, Alyssa T. Altieri

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Campus Racial Climate and Mentoring: Impact on Academic and School Experience Outcomes, Safa Asad

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The Moderating Effects of Acculturative Stress and Ethnic Identity on the Relation between Peer Victimization and Depressive Symptoms among Latinx Youth, Mariana J. Bednarek

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Nourishing Family Connections: Exploring the Impact of Mealtime Dynamics on Child Depressive Symptoms, Kyra (Dee) Bekelja

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Residential Vacancy and Crime in the Wake of Housing Crisis in Chicago, Shaun Bhatia

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Impact of Retinoic Acid Receptor Alpha Conditional Knockout on Ovarian Follicle Development in the Mouse, Zlata Bogin

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Physical Activity and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence: Direction of Effects and Mechanisms of Influence, Bridget Brush

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Navigating Sense of Home: Migration experiences of Home and Community, Andrew Peter Camilleri

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Conceptualizing Positive versus Negative Awe: Do Connection and Self-Significance Interact to Determine Awe’s Valence?, Christopher Evan Cole

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Trainee Perceptions of Structured On-the-Job Training (OJT): The Impact of Trainer Experience and Use of Structured OJT Guides, Jessica Nicole Cooperstein

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Critical Civic Engagement of Immigrant-Origin Latinx Youth, Wendy de Los Reyes Moore

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Youth Relational History Affecting Mentoring Relationship Quality, Brittanie Nicole Gage

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Balanced Negotiations: An Online Negotiation Training for Women, Kaitlyn Rose Gallagher

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Retail Workers’ Job Preferences: Uncovering the Drivers of Attraction, Retention, and Attrition, Alyssa Green

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Relationship Between Objective Measures of Stress and Child Health Behaviors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Margaret Harrigan Clark

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Peer Victimization and Post-Traumatic Stress Problems among Latinx Youth: The Role of Emotional Reactivity and Gender, Ashley N. Harris

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The Dangerous Effect of Entitlement on White Nationalist Ideology, Kara Elizabeth Harris

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Latinas in Leadership Positions in the United States: Theories, Characteristics, and Recommendations, Fernanda Ibanez

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Quiet Quitting: Navigating an Old Phenomenon in the New Normal, Eilish Keane

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Thinking Style as Input: Information Seeking and Processing, Youlim Kim

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The Cellie Coping Kit for Kids with Craniofacial Conditions: Developing a Culturally Sensitive Psychosocial Support Tool and Coping Resource for Families with School Age Children with Craniofacial Conditions from Diverse Backgrounds, Marissa Lee Koven

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INVESTIGATING THE SALINITY TOLERANCE OF THE SWORDTAIL (Xiphophorus hellerii), Alexandra Megan Krak

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Exclusion, Extroversion, and Relationship-Related Thought Accessibility, Stacey L. Kruse

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Characterization of the Immune Deficiency Pathway during female meiosis in Drosophila melanogaster, Sarah Mashburn

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Do Moral Foundations Predict Views on Morally Contested Issues?, Mackenzie Maria Moreno

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Cultural Values and Internalizing Symptoms among Latinx Youth: The Role of Gender, Paulina Paredes Cienega

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How We Feel About Numbers: The Impact of Framing and Number Format on Emotion and Decision Making, Kwame Poku-Acheampong

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Implementation and Assessment of a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) in General Chemistry, Alissa Potts

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An Exploration of Affective, Physiological, and Environmental Stress Among Adolescents with Chronic Medical Conditions, Brittany Lynn Ricart

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Spatiotemporal dynamics of ticks and tick-borne disease at NEON sites across a sub-continental scale, Ana Sofia Rivera

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The Prairie State: Using Ecological Niche Modeling to Predict Distributions of Early Land Plants, Zoe Ryan

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OPTICAL VARIABILITY OF GREEN PEA GALAXIES, Julissa Marie Sarmiento

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All Bi Myself: The Relationship Between Bisexuality and Self-Essentialism, Madeline Lucille Sharmat

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The Age of Connection: Interdependent Self-Construal Links Age and Prosociality, Jason Snyder

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Ageism by a Community Sample of Young Adults: Expanding the Contact Hypothesis to Explore Ageism, Helena Lucia Swanson

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The Protective Effects of Physical Activity Coping and Environmental Supports on Academic Stress among Adolescents, Taylor Swenski

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The role of anhedonia in the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and alcohol use and food addiction in a sample of emerging adults, Mary Takgbajouah

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The Influence of Metaphorical and Literal Language on Conspiracy Theory Belief: The Role of Language and Individual Differences, Gabrielle Toups

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Profiles of Violence Victimization and Mental Health Outcomes among LGBTQ Survivors in Illinois: A Cluster Analysis, Mary Margaret Tull

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The Interplay between Parental Psychological Control and Parental Emotional Overinvolvement on Depressive Symptoms among Early Adolescents, Taylor Breanna Ullrich

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OBSERVATIONS OF 25 GHz METHANOL MASERS IN W51A, Peter Wagstaff

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Examining Predictors of Vicarious Posttraumatic Growth among Sexual Assault Service Providers in Rape Crisis Centers, Anna Wegrzyn

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Accessibility of Civil Legal Service Provision for Survivors of Sexual Assault in Illinois, Kayleigh Zinter

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Black Adolescent Self-Perceptions: The Roles of Ethnic Identity and Stress Exposure, Kailyn Bare

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Cultural Change and Threat Perception: Casual Implications on White Nationalist Beliefs and Outgroup Restricting Policies, Andrea Bellovary

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Cultural Change and Threat Perception: Causal Implications on White Nationalist Beliefs and Outgroup Restricting Policies, Andrea Bellovary

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Complex Contexts within Oxford, Ted J. Bobak

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Analyzing Domain of Convergence for Broyden’s Method, Michael Bonthron

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Adjustment to Remote Work During COVID-19, Nicholas Carruth

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An Evaluation of Reciprocal Associations Across the Mentoring Relationship for Mentors and Mentees with Attachment Needs, Molly Cory

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Engaging n Service Learning: Using Mixed Methods to Examine Community Partner Perceptions, Kendall P. Crum

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An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of Displacement from Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Housing, Camilla Cummings

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Exploring the Dimensional Structure of a Measure of Supervision Competence and its Prediction of Trainee Development, Jacqueline Davis

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How the Readability Level of Prior Text Impacts Comprehension of Subsequent Text, Benjamin Jerry Dumont

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The Influence of Sleep Quantity on Externalizing Behaviors in Adolescents: The Mediating Effect of Inhibition, Emily Feldman

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The Relationship Between Youth Adult Sexual Communication and Risky Sexual Behavior in Adolescence, Erin Geary

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The Relationship Between Youth Adult Sexual Communication and Risky Sexual Behaviors in Adolescence, Erin Geary

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"Examining Continent-scale Variation in Aerial Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Communities Using eDNA, Raechel Hearth

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A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Daily Hassles, Life Stressors, and Chronic Medical Conditions on Salivary Alpha Amylase in Young Adults, Anjana Jagpal

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Understanding Teamwork Using Dynamic Network Models, Ashlyn Paige Lowe

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Examining COVID-19 Long-Haulers Along Gender, Race Stress and Social Support Variables, Brianna Mabie

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Under the Skin Social Stress: Physiological Effects of Racial Discrimination and Family Communication During Adolescence, Dana Mansfield

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Perspective Taking: A Tool for Improving Team Member Relationships and Performance, Mikayla Ann Marcinkowski

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A Syndemic Perspective on Anti-Asian Racism and Asian American Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Rebecca McGarity-Palmer

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Too Much for a Heart to Bear: A Systematic Review and Mini Meta-Analysis on The Role of Skin-Deep Resilience in the Weathering of Black People in America, Chantelle Miller

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Why People Share When They Shouldn't: Antecedents and Consequences of Impulsive Secret-Sharing, Natalie Ann Mordini

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The Impact of Workplace Protections on Worker Wellbeing During the COVID Pandemic, Brooke Nyberg

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Relationship Building in E-negotiation: Dyadic Effects on Subjective Negotiation Outcomes, Mounica Reddy

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Organizational Involvement Type and First-Generation College Student Persistence: A Survival Analysis with Time-Varying Covariates, Jordan Reed

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Latinx Parent-Child Acculturative Stress Profiles and their Relation to Expressed Emotion and Academic Achievement, Laura Saldana

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EXAMINING THE ROLE OF MENTORSHIP ON YOUTH RESIDING IN URBAN POVERTY: THE EFFECT OF ATTITUDES TOWARD SCHOOL AND SENSE OF INADEQUACY ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, Stacy Stewart

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Examining Psychosocial Interventions for Refugees from Asia: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review on Efficacy, Effectiveness, and Cultural Tailoring, Mengxue (Fiona) Sun

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Apoyo Deseado: The Role of Parental Support for Latinx First-generation College Students, Grevelin Ulerio

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How Individual Differences and the Use of Humor Shape Relationships in Teams Over Time, Melissa Vazquez

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Social Identity Threat: Implications for Coachability, Lauren Zervos

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Fossil vertebrates from a unique marine bonebed of the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Chalk, western Kansas, U.S.A.: new insights into the Niobrara vertebrate paleoecology, Jonathan Allen

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A Life Course Person-Centered Approach to Adult Trauma Histories and Examination of Intergenerational Trauma in Preschoolers, Jessica Annabel Arizaga

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SPECKLE CORRELATION USING A DEEP LEARNING ALGORITHM ON NEWTONIAN FLUIDS, Sanskar Basnet

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Using Technology to Assess Bidirectionality Between Daily Pain and Physical Activity: The Role of Marginalization During Emerging Adulthood, Helen Bedree

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The Role of Functional Disability and Social Support in Psychological Outcomes for Individuals with Pediatric Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Keely Huntley Bieniak

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Role Shifting in Organizational Teams: Grounded Theory and Scale Development, Tatem H. Burns

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Multilevel Stakeholder Perspectives on the Implementation of Evidence-Based Interventions in a Large, Urban School District, Ashley Sahel Castro

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To Engage or Disengage: The Impact of Coping Strategies, Sex, and Stress History on Cortisol Reactivity Among Urban Adolescents, Madeline Curzon

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Enhancing the Braden Scale Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment in Long-Term Care Facilities: A Cohort Study, Rachel Deutsch

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Service utilization among Latina survivors of intimate partner violence, Alyssa Donovan

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Reciprocity: An Antecedent to Fraud Compliance and Unethical Behavior, Charles E. Drehmer

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True Self in Threat Resilience: Using Essentialist Self-Views to Neutralize Personal Morality Threats, Ellen S. Dulaney

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Influence of Ethnic-Racial Similarities and Ethnic-Racial Support on Student Well-being: The Role of Natural Mentors, Yesenia Garcia

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Prenatal Stress & Socioemotional Outcomes in School-Aged Children: A Meta-Analytic Review, Michelle Anne Gilchrist

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Identifying the Strategic Core of Interactive Teams, Morgan Elizabeth Gleason

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LGBTQIA+ Care Simulation: Examining Participating Students’ Attitude and Comfort, Grezelro Gonzalez

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ANALYZING NANOSCALE THERMAL TRANSPORT USING TIME-RESOLVED X-RAY DIFFRACTION, James Grammich

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INVESTIGATING THE CO-EVOLUTION OF INDIVIDUAL AND NETWORK-LEVEL RECOVERY CAPITAL: A DYNAMIC SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS TESTING NETWORK COHESION AND EXCHANGE THEORIES, Mayra Guerrero

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The Association Between Community-Level Factors and Police Decisions to Found Sexual Assault Cases, Erin Elizabeth Hoffman

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Stress and Coping in an Inner-City Environment: The Cities Mentor Project Coping Intervention with Youth Living in Urban Poverty, Jordan Horwath

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A Qualitative Study of Lifetime Residential Transitions and Housing Preferences among Individuals with Extensive Shelter Utilization Histories, Mackenzie Hudson

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Acute Asthma Exacerbation Treatment and Impact in a Pediatric Emergency Department, Sarah Jindoyan and Paige Barber