Extreme precipitation in Illinois contributes to impacts across diverse landscapes, posing threats to agriculture in rural areas and infrastructure in urban centers. Previous studies have reported an increase in the frequency of heavy precipitation in the region and projected it…
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School principals in Illinois face an ethical dilemma when evaluating tenured teachers. Giving an unsatisfactory rating and placing a tenured teacher under a remediation plan opens the door to a time-consuming process filled with legal and financial issues that will strain relat…
Pumpkins (Cucurbitae spp.) are grown throughout the world for human food, animal feed, and decoration. Approximately 680 million kg of pumpkins are produced in the United State everyyear. Illinois is the leading state in pumpkin production. Bacterial spot, caused by Xanthomonasc…
While scholarship on the modern Civil Rights Movement has emphasized the centrality of the Black church, popular and scholarly accounts of Black Power portray a movement marked by a profound de-Christianization. Soul Power upends this prevailing narrative, arguing that the Black…
Muslim immigration to the West has been an important historical phenomenon and has occurred as a result of the political, economic, and social turmoil in the Muslim world, particularly in the Middle East. Many Arab Muslims have immigrated to the West, especially to the United St…
Jazz Mecca is an auto-ethnographic study of the evolution of Chicago's South Side Jazz community with particular attention paid to the founding and development of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Through interviews with Milt Hinton, Von Freeman, …
This study examined the effectiveness of small business and microenterprise development programs in assisting participants to start or expand a business, and/or transfer the skills gained from the programs to wage employment. Further analysis specifically concentrated on finding…
This Ministry Focus Paper presents a theoretical foundation and a practical strategy for linking a major urban evangelistic crusade with a strategic church planting effort. The strategy will take the form of a comprehensive set of recommendations to the Luis Palau Evangelistic A…
Cultural features of HIV risk among men of Pakistani and Indian heritage were examined through semi-structured face-to-face interviews using features of ethnography and grounded theory. Respondents were well educated and of Christian, Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh religions. They were…
We investigated the relationship between river hydrology and least tern (Sterna antillarum athalassos) reproductive success on the Lower Mississippi River between Cairo, Illinois and Caruthersville, Missouri from 1986 through 1992. We also investigated least tern foraging behavi…
This dissertation compares anti-vice organizations that fought forced prostitution, or “white slavery,” during the early twentieth-century in the United States. This research uses archival methods and materials to make comparisons among anti-vice crusades in three cities: New Yo…
The present study constitutes a biography of John P. Paynter (1928–1996). Paynter served his entire professional career as the second director of bands at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, succeeding Glenn Cliffe Bainum. He attended Northwestern as a theory and comp…
Essay 1. This essay examines the determinants of the demand for public job training programs in Illinois. My first objective is to determine which personal characteristics influence support for an increase in spending on publicly provided job training programs for the unemployed…
Before 1870, the Protestant church determined the moral vision of the United States, viewing its values as essential to the success of American democracy at home and its expansion abroad. But after the 1870s domestic labor unrest forced Protestant leaders to launch a crusade to …
Although the Lower Mississippi River has been intensively studied, few studies have investigated meandering processes in the river when the channel was considered to be relatively free of major human disturbance. This research is significant in that it provides a detailed examin…
The related literature affirms that conducting teacher evaluations is an important responsibility of school principals because assessments provide both data regarding the proficiency of teachers to be used for tenure purposes (summative), and feedback so that teachers can improv…
Midwestern states have little public land available for white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus ) and wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo ) hunting and access to private land is critical for maintaining healthy wildlife populations through recreational hunting. Between 1980 and 2…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the topic of the evaluation of school principals and the role it plays in fostering student achievement. The overarching research question for this study was the following: "Is there a relationship between the type and intensity of pr…
Bosnian women war refugees are not only trauma survivors, but are actively engaged in economic and social practices that shape their American sites of relocation. These economic activities---wage labor, and unremunerated volunteer and kin labor---are embedded in a moral framewor…