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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Towards a New Discourse on Success in Alternative Education, Samuel Thomas Settelmeyer
A Novel Caching Algorithm for Efficient Fine-Grained Access Control in Database Management Systems, Anadi Shakya
Assessing the Climate Resilience of Quercus garryana in the Portland Metro Region, Jess Rose Nettle Shamek
Once, I Was Very Very Scared and More: An Exploration into Depictions of Interpersonal Trauma in Children's Literature, Emma K. Siepmann
Assessing the Reliability of the Pairwise Variability Index for Differential Diagnosis of Apraxia of Speech, Celeste Sinko
Going Down an Incline with ChatGPT, Corey R. Sissons
How Reuse Rooms Can Reduce Waste On University and College Campuses, Zoe Slabodnik
Abusive Abbots and Malevolent Monks: Monasteries and Violence in the Early Anglo-Norman Period, Timothy B. Smart Jr.
Neuroscience Educational Interventions For Mental Health Management Within The Neurodiverse Population: A Working Model, Kadi Rae Smith, C.K. Miller, Bill Griesar, and Jeff Leake
Auditory Ace Mobile Application Capstone Review, Layla Smith
Lawfare as a Policy Tool in Sino-American Relations: The Case of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, Zachary S. Souders
The Mosaic Programs of the Basilica of San Vitale and the Great Palace of Constantinople: A Unique Reinvention of Roman Pasts, Justine Spencer
MmWave RAT Optimization: MAC Layer Initial Access Design and Transport Layer Integration, Suresh Srinivasan
DFT Based Modeling of the Heavy Atom Effect in Triplet Photosensitizers: From Fundamental Mechanics to Rational Design, Bret Andrew Steinkamp
The Influence of a Ubiquitous Filter Feeder on Coastal Microbial Communities, Melissa Steinman
The Influence of a Ubiquitous Filter Feeder on Coastal Microbial Communities., Melissa Steinman, Moritz S. Schmid, Robert K. Cowen, Su Sponaugle, Kelly R. Sutherland, and Anne W. Thompson
“The Tin Pan-tithesis of melody”: A Socio-Musical History of Eastern European Jews in New York 1880-1920, Jascha Stern
Expressive and Instrumental Social Capital Facilitates Network Connections for Community College Transfer Students in STEM, Makenna R. Stone
Authority with Procedural Justice: The Establishment and Enforcement of Expectations of Public Trust, Paris Desiree Eikanger Stoops
Impact of Intersecting Vulnerabilities on Functional Outcome and Health-Related Quality of Life after Traumatic Brain Injury: A Prospective Cohort Study, Rekesh Subedi, Tatiana Hoyos-Gomez, Luis Tinoco-Garcia, and John Cervantes Cervantes
Adaptive Sampling for Seabed Identification from Ambient Acoustic Noise, Matthew Sullivan
Removal as a Control Method for Trachemys scripta elegans and the Response of Chrysemys picta bellii, Jacob Swanson
Investigating Removal as a Control Method for Trachemys scripta elegans and the Response of Chrysemys picta bellii, Jacob Daniel Swanson
Variability of Grazing by Appendicularians on Prochlorococcus, Carey Sweeney
A Marxist Analysis of Women's Labor in the Soviet Union, Shania Sweet