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Understory Species Increase Project, Erin M. McElroy
Outcomes of Telepractice Speech Therapy for an Adult who Covertly Stutters: A Case Study, Megann McGill and Patrizha A. Schroth
Identifying Typologies of Failure to Appear, Ciara McGlynn
Inhibition of Cancer Causing Genes Through the Delivery of OmoMyc in Anti-Myc Therapy: a Systematic Review, Angie McGraw
Addressing Structural Inequalities in Planning Processes: a Case Study of an Equity Lens, Marta Conklé McGuire
Working Paper No. 52, Some of the Profound Effects of World War I on France, Zachary McKinster
Nurse Can't Even: the Immediate Impact of Incivility on Affect, Well-being, and Behavior, Katharine Lucille McMahon
Transitioning into Conventional Housing: Narratives of Houseless Individuals, Joyce La Belle McNair
Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program Profiles and Abstracts 2020, McNair Scholars Program
Comparing the Promise and Reality of E-Scooters: a Critical Assessment of Equity Improvements and Mode-Shift, Michael Glenn McQueen
21st Century Supply Chain Innovations in the Fast Food Industry, Saitoti Meekisho
White ‘Alliahs:’ The Creation & Perpetuation of the ‘Wise Indian’ Trope, Jessica Mehta
Empirical Analysis of CBOW and Skip Gram NLP Models, Tejas Menon
Co-Predatory Rule: International Cooperation with Respect to Cryptocurrency Taxation in Russia and Belarus, Jim Mignano
Follow the (Electronic) Money: How Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology Are "Shaking the System", Jim Robert Mignano
Christine de Pizan's Passive Heroines: Recoding Feminine Identities in Le Livre de la cité des dames and Le Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc, Evelyn Ives Mills
Differential Effects of Buprenorphine/Naloxone Vs. Methadone on Quality of Life Over Time: A Subset of The BRAVO Study (Buprenorphine to Improve HIV Care Engagement and Outcomes: A Randomized Trial), Ali Mirzazadeh Javaheri
Working Paper No. 49, On Joseph Schumpeter and Economic Development, Serene Mistkawi
Trail Impact Monitoring in Forest Park, James Mitchell
Trail Impact Monitoring in Forest Park, James Mitchell
Cairo Under Isma'il Pasha: A Divided City, Chloe N. Moehling
Before and After the Storm: Interactions between Tree-Fall Canopy Gaps, Plant Phenology, and Frugivorous Lemurs in Masoala National Park, Madagascar, Monica Sue Mogilewsky
Dynamic Through-Silicon Via Clustering in 3D IC Floorplanning for Early Performance Optimization, Sucheta Mohapatra
Animal Magic, Secret Spells, and Green Power: More-Than-Human Assemblages of Children's Storytelling, Angela Molloy Murphy