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Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Investigating Time During Residential Program Until Transition for Adjudicated Youth: a Mixed Methods Study Using Event History Analysis with Follow-Up Interviews, Emily Carol Lott
Attempts to Synthesize Fumarylacetoacetate Using the Filamentous Ascomycete, Aspergillus nidulans, Carolyn Loughran
Determinants of Food Insecurity within University Student Populations: Results of a College Food Pantry Survey, Hannah T. Low
Mechanisms Controlling Copper Transport in Natural Soils, Julie A. Luisi
Do Internal or External CSR Strategies Yield Higher Social and Financial Returns?, Emily Lundberg
Human Resource Analytics: Implications for Strategy Realization and Organizational Performance, Xylia Kathleen M. Lydgate
The “Necessary Evil”: State and Non-State Sector Interactions in Cuba and Effects on Public Services, Laura Lyons
What Demand Response Incentivize Mechanism Captures the Highest Customer Participation and Retention?, Stephen MacDonald
Opportunity Identification for New Product Planning: Ontological Semantic Patent Classification, Farshad Madani
An Environmental Justice Assessment of the Hanford Nuclear Waste Site Cleanup Project, Hannah Madden
Automating Variation and Repeater Analysis in Physical Design of Integrated Circuits, Subrat Mahalik
Hydro-Climatological Summer Trends in the Continental United States, Naya Mairena Flores
Utility of Spirometry as a Measurement Tool to Evaluate Breathing and Swallowing Coordination (BSC), Aamna Malik, Jessica Thurman, Deanna Britton, Andrew Demetrius Palmer, and Donna Jensen Graville
Organizational Calling and Safety: the Role of Workload and Supervisor Support, Layla Rhiannon Mansfield
Effect of Microbes on the Growth and Physiology of the Dioecious Moss, Ceratodon purpureus, Caitlin Ann Maraist
Women of the West: Prostitutes and Madams, Emma R. Marek
At the Trail's End, Naomi Marshall
The Incorporation of Fathering Interventions into Batterer Intervention Programs, Caitlyn Martin
Do Remittances Promote or Deter Sound Fiscal Management Among Municipalities in Mexico?, Jennifer Martinez and Kent Robinson
Co-Creating Spaces of Critical Hope through the Use of a Psychosocial Peace Building Education Course in Higher Education in Protracted Refugee Context: Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, Staci BokHee Martin
Clock Jitter in Communication Systems, Andrew Wayne Martwick
The Role of the Academic Analyst in Shared Governance, Rebecca Ann Mathern
Role of Spouse/Partner in Fertility Preservation Decision Making by Young Women with Cancer, Aakrati Mathur
Tesla Energy: Making Solar Power Affordable and Easily Available for Homes and Businesses, Tina Matthews, Murnal Hirve, Yuqian Pan, Dao Dang, and Elia Rawar
SocialSibs: Effects of Hybrid Sibling-Mediated Intervention on Joint Attention for Children with ASD and their Neurotypical Siblings, Kali E. McCafferty