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Independent Publishers and Transition to Nonprofit: Distress Call or Mission-Based Evolution?, Meagan Lobnitz
Activist Doctors: Explaining Physician Activism in the Oregon Movement for Single-Payer Healthcare, Jennifer Cullen Loomis
Neurobiology of Seasonal Life-history Transitions, Ashley Rae Lucas
Phenotypic and Mutational Consequences of Mitochondrial ETC Genetic Damage, Michael James Lue
3D Printing in Healthcare: An Engineering and Technology Management Perspective, Minh Lu, Sowmini Sengupta, Yen Tran, and David Wigen
Bicrystallography in two dimensions: A graphical procedure and comparison of its results to experiments, Andrew M. Maas and Peter Moeck
CreoPop Marketing Plan, Abdullah Al Madan, Lakshmi Ashary, Alexander Blank, Joao Ricardo Lavoie, Felix Maier, and Furkan Yildirim
Technological Innovation and Strategic Analysis on the Smart Grids of Cisco, Abdullah Al Madan and Pei Zhang
F.I.S.H. (Finding Information about Safety and Health), Ben Makuch, Edward Szczepansk, Sasha Leamy, Connor Walker, Himanshu Nagpal, Harriet Adkins, and Elle Sandifer
Working Paper No. 06, Towards a Veblenian Theory of Economic Development: Drawing from Imperial Germany, Cesar Maldonado
Working Paper No. 07, Evsey Domar and the Keynesian Tradition, Cesar Maldonado
Geotechnical Statistical Evaluation of Lahore Site Data and Deep Excavation Design, Aiza Malik
Poor Dead Jar, Alexa Rae Mallernee
Mechanisms of Adaptation in the Newly Invasive Species Brachypodium sylvaticum (Hudson) Beauv., Gina Lola Marchini
Steps Towards Deciphering the Post-Polyketide Synthase Tailoring Steps in the Phoslactomycin Biosynthesis Pathway, Patience Marimo
Motivations of Yoga Teachers and the Impact of Training and Teaching, Casadi "Khaki" Marino
Updating a PMO: Analysis and recommendations for upgrade of an IT PMO, Leopoldo Marino, Daniel Lee, and Justin Krueger
Biomimetic Model Membranes to Study Protein-membrane Interactions and their Role in Alzheimer’s Disease, Grant W. Marquart
The Considerations of Editing Previously Published Works, Ariana Marquis
Regulations, Policies and Innovation in Photovoltaic Industry, Anna Mary Mathew, Dmitriy Moskovkin, Qin Guo, and Roli Eyetsemitan
tacHOMEa: Infill Tools for a Happy City, Anaïs Mathez, Michael Cynkar, Hannah Silver, and Nicholas Kobel
Analyzing Sustainable Product Development processes in Fuzzy Front End Stage, Anna Mary Matthew, Prajakta Patil, Chinu Joy, and Oyin Owojori
A.C.M.E Association to Conservatively Manage the Environment, Anna Matthew, Sowmini Sengupta, Michael Smith, and Charles Asafo-Adjei
The Impeccable Timing of the Apple Maggot Fly, Rhagoletis pomonella (Dipetera: Tephritidae), and its Implications for Ecological Speciation, Monte Arthur Mattsson
Network Structure, Network Flows and the Phenomenon of Influence in Online Social Networks: An Exploratory Empirical Study of Twitter Conversations about YouTube Product Categories, Nitin Venkat Mayande