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Submissions from 2017
Demand Forcasting: Efficacy of Support Vector Machines, Tylor Slay
Home Energy Storage Options and Economic Values, Mike J. Smith, Nicole Wehner, Timothy Valentine, Horatiu Corban, Amit Pingle, and Sivagamasundari Sathappan
Conditional Averaging and Classification in the Near Wake of a Wind Turbine Array Boundary Layer, Sarah E. Smith
Contexts of Reception and Constructions of Islam: Second Generation Muslim Immigrants in Post-9/11 America, Shahriyar Smith
Loanwords in Context: Lexical Borrowing from English to Japanese and its Effects on Second-Language Vocabulary Acquisition, Andrew Michael Sowers
Mechanistic Elements of BAFF-BCR Crosstalk in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, Bhargava Sreekantham
Autonomous Cars: An Incremental Innovation, Arjun Sridhar
BMW 7 Series Marketing Plan, Arjun Sridhar, Ali Elijayar, Deepali Sharma, Jim Sims, Konstantin Tuv, and Vidhi Chokshi
Volunteering to Colonize: a Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Impacts of Voluntourism, Yetta Rose Stein
DevOps Transformation, Jake Stevens, Marthed Mohammed, and Rassaniya Lerdphayakkarat
Investigating Cable: the Potential and Actual Value of PEG & Franchise Fees, Duncan Chaz Stewart
Investigating the Relationship Between Supervisor Status and the Modus Operandi of Juvenile Sexual Offenders: a Routine Activity Theory Perspective, Kelly E. Stewart
Rural Interprofessional Health Care Education: a Study of Student Perspectives, Curt Carlton Stilp
The Discovery and Development of Metal-Free Arylation Reactions with Unsymmetrical Diaryliodonium Salts, Sunil Kumar Sundalam
Foundational Knowledge and Other Predictors of Commitment to Trauma-Informed Care, Stephanie Anne Sundborg
Designing a Better Debit Card Experience for Teenagers, Juliana Suzuki, Maria Pat Chavarria, and Rami Aldawoodi
An AFM-SIMS Nano Tomography Acquisition System, Richard William Swinford
Sampling Fish: a Case Study from the Čḯxwicən Site, Northwest Washington, Laura Maye Syvertson
Developing Requirements for all the Oregon All-Payerall-Claims (APAC) Database, Marek Szumowski, Lei Wei, Qing Lai, and Devdeep Aikath
The Aerodynamic Effects on Flight Patterns and the Evolutionary Changes in Pterosaurs, Johnathan D. Talik
Contextualization: an Experimental Model for EFL Writing Instruction in China, Guimin Tang
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Additive Manufacturing Titanium Alloys After Thermal Processing, Ahmet Alptug Tanrikulu
Advancing Rationality with Sustainability: An Analysis of Agent-Based Simulation, Osman Goktug Tanrikulu
The Influence of Sense of Community on the Relationship Between Community Participation and Recovery for Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses, Rachel Elizabeth Terry
Mo'Ikeha's Voyage from Tahiti to Hawaii: A Look into Polynesian Culture, Kalea Tetsuka