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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Capillary Migration of Large Confined Drops in Non-wetting Wedges, Logan John Torres
Beyond Housing, Karen Torres-Olguin
Travel Behaviors of Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Joseph C. Totten
Memcapacitive Reservoir Computing Architectures, Dat Tien Tran
Context-Aware Wi-Fi Infrastructure-based Indoor Positioning Systems, Huy Phuong Tran
Modeling the Defects That Exists in Crystalline Structures, Kiet A. Tran
SuperSelfie Marketing Plan, Bryan Trotter, Buck Smith, Elia Rawar, Nasim Karami, and Tina Matthews
Arctic Security: the Race for the Arctic through the Prism of International Relations Theory, Michael Gregory Morgan Trujillo
Cathedral Mobility: A Mobility Strategy for Cathedral Park Neighborhood 2019, Chad Vinson Tucker, Ian Clancy, and Erik Memmott
Closing the Loop: the Capacities and Constraints of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D), Phillip Nicholas Turman-Bryant
Cortical Thickness Comparison of ASD and TD Subjects, Jonathan Rigoberto Uriarte-Lopez
Nile Red Microplastic Validation: Enhancing the Study of Microplastics in Oregon’s River Water, Amy Valine
Interactions of Phosphatidylcholine Vesicles and Citrate-stabilized Gold Nanoparticles, Marie Vallens
The Conservation and Commodification of American Ginseng, Mikaela VanEaton
Can We Bring Notions of Groups Back into Research on Children’s Peer Groups? Differentiating Peer Groups at School According to their Functions for Academic Development, Anamika J. Vaughan
Use of Connectotyping on Task fMRI Data Reveals Dynamic Network Level Cross Talking During Task Performance, Valeria Vazquez-Trejo; Binyam Nardos PhD; Bradley Schlaggar MD, PhD; Damien Fair PA-C, PhD; and Oscar Miranda-Dominguez PhD
Working Paper No. 25, On the Importance of Contributions by Robert Torrens, Mitchell Veele
Systems Isomorphisms in Stochastic Dynamic Systems, Rajesh Venkatachalapathy
CatsVision: Smart Lens Marketing Plan, Neeti Verma, Mert Cihan Tonkal, Chaitali Sunil Sawant, Poonam Ganoskar, and John Tacco-Melendez
Providing for birds in our neighborhoods: Relationships between bird communities, front yard habitat, and neighborhood-scale landcover, Michael Vermeulen
The Influence of Neighborhood Landscape Characteristics on Native Bird Communities: Implications for Increasing Biodiversity in Our Yards, Michael E. Vermeulen
Working Paper No. 34, Rosa Luxemburg and Joan Robinson on the Accumulation of Capital, Brian Vistica
"To Call or Not to Call?" The Impact of Supervisor Training on Call Center Employee Attitudes and Well-Being, Whitney Elan Schneider Vogel
Modeling and Control of Magnetic Gear Dynamics in a Wind Turbine Drivetrain, Danielle Vournas
Investigating the Origins of Toxins Present in Electronic Cigarette Aerosols, Shawna Vreeke