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Theses/Dissertations from 2020
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
Perceptions of Police Use of Force at the Intersection of Race and Pregnancy, Emma Elizabeth Lee Money
The Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Debate: Do Savings Provisions Influence Arbitration Outcomes?, Ryan Manning Moore
Identifying and Connecting with Diverse SFF Readers, Denise Morales Soto
Design of a 7-MHz Portable Direct Conversion Transceiver with Digitally Controlled Keying, Abram Morphew
The Role of the Psychologist in Supporting Fat Patients in the Medical System, Tessalyn Morrison, Esther Freeman, Jaimie Oller, and Carrie Fuentes
Faculty Use of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) for Internationalization at Home, Sally Strand Mudiamu
Optimized Xanthene-based Probes for Pancreatic Cancer Imaging, Ian Ruramai Munhenzva
Experimenting with a Biologically Plausible Neural Network, Dmitri Murphy
Social Saints in the City: Race, Space, and Religion in Chicago Women's Settlement Work, 1890-1935, Johanna Katherine Murphy
Working Paper No. 43, Towards a Veblenian Theory of Instincts, Duane Murray
Initial Decision Framework for the Implementation of Virtual Teams, Duane Murray, Jeffrey Pinkerton, Yaya Sirimongkarakorn, Mohammed Thawab, and Mohammed Zaid
The Campaigns of Alexander: How Arrian’s Character of Alexander Influences How He is Portrayed in Writing, Peyton M. Myers
Meta-Analysis of Tobacco Control Policies for Reducing Tobacco Consumption, Arya Kevin Naghdi
The Epidemiology of Firearm-Related Injuries Presenting at the Two Level-1 Trauma Centers in Oregon from 2009-2019, Kamil Narayan, Kathleen F. Carlson, and Susan DeFrancesco
Minimum Complexity Echo State Networks for Genome and Sequence Analysis, Christopher John Neighbor
A Public Health Recommendation Countering the Online Anti-Vaccination Movement, Grace M. Neumann