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Theses/Dissertations from 2016
"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
Designing Black Watch: How Being a Military Spouse Shaped My Creation of the Set Design for a Play about War, Nichole Meehl
Finding the Missing Links: A Comparison of Social Network Analysis Methods, Shawn James Mehess
Assessment of a Mycorrhizal Fungi Application to Treat Stormwater in an Urban Bioswale, Alaina Diane Melville
Information Literacy in the First Year of Higher Education: Faculty Expectations and Student Practices, Meredith Esther Michaud
Time Spent Away, Andrew Mitin
Immediate and Short-Term Effects of Kinesio® Taping on Lower Trunk Range of Motion in Division I Athletes, Hoshito Mizutani
Animal Hoarding: An In Depth Look at the Issues and Interventions, Amanda Mooneyham
An Exquisite Loneliness: Ruin and Rebirth in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Mackenzie Rae Myers
The Other Lives of Ribosomal Proteins, Metrah M. Nader
Wax, Jac Jeanette Nelson
Ethiopian Land Politics: Imperial Land Traditions 1889-1974, Wonde Nevens
The Peer Network as a Context for the Socialization of Academic Engagement, Linda Mary Newton-Curtis