• Exploring faculty beliefs regarding teaching African American freshmen to interpret social cues at a minority-serving institution 

  Williams, Concetta A. (Northern Illinois University, 2014)

  Through the use of critical qualitative methodology, this dissertation explored faculty beliefs at an urban, minority-serving institution regarding the ability of African American first-time, full-time freshmen to interpret ...
• Destructive leader behavior : assessing public school leader behaviors and workplace attitudes 

  Woestman, Daniel Scott (Northern Illinois University, 2014)

  The primary purpose of the planned study was to investigate professional educators in Northern Illinois to determine the relationship between manifestations of destructive leader behaviors (DLB) and K-12 workplace attitudes: ...
• Inhibition of the MEP pathway : design, synthesis and evaluation of IspF enzyme inhibitors; Synthesis of PDE4D partial inhibitors and exploration of atropisomeric analogs 

  Zhang, Zheng (Graduate student of chemistry) (Northern Illinois University, 2014)

  This dissertation contains two major projects. The first project focused on the design and synthesis of small molecule inhibitors of the methyl erythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway. Known as a non-mevalonate isoprenoid ...
• Investigation of silicon Lewis acidity and design of a novel silicon Lewis acid catalyst scaffold 

  Zielinski, Matthew Edward (Northern Illinois University, 2014)

  Lewis acids have been a cornerstone in modern organic synthesis, but the use of silicon Lewis acids has not received as much attention. Silicon Lewis acids have unique features that differ from some typical metal catalysts. ...
• Helping users learn about social processes while learning from users : developing a positive feedback in social computing 

  Pillutla, Venkata Sai Sriram (Northern Illinois University, 2017)

  Social computing is concerned with the interaction of social behavior and computational systems. From its early days, social computing has had two foci. One was the development of technology and interfaces to support online ...

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