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Theses from 2018
Close: a Collection of Short Stories, Samantha Saxby
“The Criminal Class” -- Long Term Social Health Consequences of Mass Incarceration, Spencer D. Schaaf
"I didn't want to say it's a bad thing": Supporter Experiences with Autistic Patients in Healthcare, Mirah L. Scharer
Electro-Drop Bouncing in Low-Gravity, Erin Stivers Schmidt
Predicting ADHD Symptoms in Adolescents Using Error-Related Brain Potentials, Amber Schwartz, Jessica Tipsord, Brittany Alperin, and Sarah Karalunas
Masculinity, Mental Health, and Modern Psychotherapy: From the Practitioner’s Mind, Logan Schwartz
Working Paper No. 10, The Epic Rise and Subtle Fall of American Herbalism, Julia Schweid
Short-Term Tracking of Orientation with Inertial Sensors, Golriz Sedaghat
The Preparation of Diaryliodonium Salts for Application in Arylation Chemistry, Thomas Ludwig Seidl
Galen: The Philosophical Physician, Chloe Sellers
Spacetime Numerical Techniques for the Wave and Schrödinger Equations, Paulina Ester Sepùlveda Salas
Associative Learning in Biochemical Networks, Yasmin S. Sepulveda
Neighbor Perceptions of Psychiatric Supportive Housing : the Role of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors, Amy Leigh Shearer
Interplay of Transcription Factor E and Spt4/5 During Transcription Initiation in Pyrococcus furiosus, Kimberly Kay Sheffield
Soil Phosphorus Characterization and Vulnerability to Release in Urban Stormwater Bioretention Facilities, Benjamin James Shetterly
Characterization of Soil Phosphorus and its Potential for Mobilization in Stormwater Bioretention Facilities, Benjamin J. Shetterly and Jennifer L. Morse
A Queer and Trans-Inclusive Response to Intimate Partner Violence, Leighann Shields
Thiophene-Based Molecular Sensors towards the Selective Detection of Mercury(II) and Other Metals, Austin Kazuo Shigemoto
Anti-LGB Hate Crimes: Political Threat or Political Legitimization?, Johanna R. Shreve
The Skins We Have Shed and Where They Are Buried: a Collection, Molly Elizabeth Simas
The Role of Caregiver Disruption in the Development of Juvenile Sexual Offenders, Miranda Sitney
Adoption of an Internet of Things Framework for Distributed Energy Resource Coordination and Control, Tylor Slay
Assessment of Observational Uncertainty in Extreme Precipitation Over the Continental United States, Emily Anne Slinskey
Morphological Correlates and Behavioral Functions of Sound Production in Loricariid Catfish, with a Focus on Pterygoplichthys pardalis (Castelnau, 1855), Monique Renee Slusher
Selecting the Optimum Combination of Classes using a Hierarchical Decision Model (HDM), Buck Smith