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Theses/Dissertations from 2016
"Like Drinking Water Out of a Fire Hydrant" Medical Education as Transformation: A Naturalistic Inquiry Into the Physician Assistant Student Experience, Patricia Kenney-Moore
Biofouling Management in the Pacific Northwest and Predation on Native versus Non-native Ascidians, Erin Suzanne Kincaid
Music in the Hapsburg Empire 1750-1850, Alexander S. Klas
Star Academics: Do They Garner Increasing Returns?, James Jeffrey Kline
Mills and Veblen: An Institutional Analysis, Matthew Klosterman
Systems Thinking in the Forest Service: a Framework to Guide Practical Application for Social-Ecological Management in the Enterprise Program, Megan Kathleen Kmon
Physics-Based Imaging Methods for Terahertz Nondestructive Evaluation Applications, Gabriel Paul Kniffin
Empress Matilda: Always the Consort, Never the Queen, Sadie M. Kok-Carlson
The Link Between Artemisia Gentileschi’s Biography and Her Artistic Oeuvre, Emma Komers
Charles University: A History of Revolution, Matous Komers
Event Detection Using Correlation within Arrays of Streaming PMU Data, Jordan Landford
The Influence of Hydrogen-Argon Mixed Gases on Electro-spark Deposition, Thomas Langston
Assessing Government’s Solutions for Urban Growth within a Sustainable Development Approach: The case of Portland, Oregon, Oussama Laraichi
Convex and Nonconvex Optimization Techniques for the Constrained Fermat-Torricelli Problem, Nathan Lawrence
The DC Algorithm & The Constrained Fermat-Torricelli Problem, Nathan Peron Lawrence and George Blikas
Determining the Relationship between White Matter Volume and Processing Speed in Adolescence, Julius Laxamana
Killers: Fiction Pieces, John Hudson Leavitt
To What Extent Did Blood Transfusion Systems and Technologies Modernize During World War II?, Hannah J. LeBlanc
To What Extent Did British Advancements in Cryptanalysis During World War II Influence the Development of Computer Technology?, Hayley A. LeBlanc
Configuring the Urban Smart Grid: Transitions, Experimentation, and Governance, Anthony Michael Levenda
Cities in Dust, Nicole Levine