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Theses from 2016
Photo Quality Assessment: Predicting Crowd Opinions, Uyen T. Mai
Collecting Image Cropping Dataset: A Hybrid System of Machine and Human Intelligence, Uyen T. Mai and Feng Liu
Culturally Specific Bilingual Arts Integration, Danielle L. Malan
Desirable Conversations: Sexuality and Women with Intellectual Disabilities, Neera Malhotra
Geothermometry of Two Cascade Geothermal Systems, Donnel Alexander Malkemus
Apples and Knives (A Novel), Suman Mallick
Determining the Power and Energy Capacity of a Battery Energy Storage System Utilizing a Smoothing Feeder Profile to Accommodate High Photovoltaic Penetration on a Distribution Feeder, Osama Mohammed Abbas Aly Mansour
The Effects of Imperialism on the US: 1899-1902, Logan Marek
The Development and Validation of the Social Recovery Measure, Casadi "Khaki" Marino
Slope Failure Detection through Multi-temporal Lidar Data and Geotechnical Soils Analysis of the Deep-Seated Madrone Landslide, Coast Range, Oregon, Michael Scott Marshall
Self-Infantilizing Women: Paternalism in Abortion Lawmaking and Legislator Gender, Cherie H. Martin
Hydrogeochemical Evaluation of the Uinta Formation and Green River Formation, Piceance Creek Basin, Northwestern Colorado, USA, Megan E. Masterson
"So Far from Home ..." : a Translation of Jacques Sternberg's "Si loin du monde ...", Brian Scott Mather
The Impact of Drought on the Sierra Nevada Range: Using Remote Sensing Data to Estimate Large-Scale Carbon Dioxide Flux, Jessica Mazzi
Marketing Plan: Philips Mimo Baby Monitor, Obinna Charles Mbagwu, Gordon Chen, Imran Mirza, Norah Alballa, Prajakta Patil, and Tauseef Hemayet
Vulnerability and Protective Factors of Stress-Related Drinking: an Exploration of Individual and Day-Level Predictors of Alcohol Involvement, Cameron Trim McCabe
Depression in Older Adults in Nursing Homes: A Review of the Literature, Isabella McCarthy-Zelaya
Language, Memory, and Exile in the Writing of Milan Kundera, Christopher Michael McCauley
An Examination of School Readiness: How Is the Construct Defined for Children Who Are Blind?, Lisa Joann McConachie
Aspirational Planning: A Statistical Model of Hawthorne Bridge and Tilikum Crossing Bicycle Ride Counts, Robert McCullough, Ramon Cabauatan, and Jacob Gellman
Plato's Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Emmanuelle M. McKinney
Breaking Boundaries: The Worth of Women in the Merovingian Period, Rachel R. McKinnon
Intercultural Interactions Among Burmese Refugees in Multicultural Middle School Classrooms, Matthew Carl McParker
Lobbying the European Parliament: Identifying Changing Trends Post-Treaty of Lisbon, Jason Means