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Events from 2015
Freedom from Equality: Democratic Education and the Failure of the NCLB, Andrew X. Fleming
On the Role of Probability in Hume's Imagination and Associationism: a Bayesian Response to Fodor's Hume Variations, Jason Krivo Flores
Unfolding Trees & Symmetrically-Associated Graphs, Kaelyn Flowerday
Impact of a State Evidence-Based Practice Legislative Mandate on County Practice Implementation Patterns and Inpatient Behavioral Health Discharge, Carl William Foreman
Applying Scientific Discoveries to Consumable Products, Mark Kent Freeman
The Role of Environmental Dynamics in the Emergence of Autocatalytic Networks, Joe Fusion
A Critical Race Analysis of Travel for Transformation: Pedagogy for the Privileged or Vehicle for Socio-Cultural Transformation?, James Arthur Gambrell
Engineering a Healthier Watershed: Middle School Students Use Engineering Design to Lessen the Impact of Their Campus' Impervious Surfaces on Their Local Watershed, Elizabeth Claire Gardner
MOSCAP Oxide Charges, August George
The Majorization Minimization Principle and Some Applications in Convex Optimization, Daniel Giles
The Smallest Intersecting Ball Problem, Daniel J. Giles and Mau Nam Nguyen
Revealing Structural Organization with Liquid Crystal-based Spectral Imaging Polarimetry, James Campbell Gladish
The Wild Side : Get Fierce, Get Fit, Get Fun, Mason Goché
Fourth Plain Forward: Action Plan for Vancouver's Multicultural Business District, Mandia Gonzales, Jamin Kimmell, Eddie Montejo, Lauren Patton, Kate Rogers, and Anthony Thompson
“Between that earth and that sky”: The Idealized Horizon of Willa Cather’s My Ántonia, Miriam A. Gonzales
Conversion and Conversation : Speech and Social Change in Jean Toomer's Cane, Travis Grail-Bingham
The Development of Personal Resources in the Academic Domain: Age Differences in the Evolution of Coping and Perceived Control and the Process Structures that Facilitate Academic Engagement, Teresa Marie Greene
A Paradigm Shift: From a Categorical to Dimensional Diagnostic Model of Personality Disorder, Jessica Green
Does Gender Matter? Human Elephant Conflict in Sri Lanka: A Gendered Analysis of Human Elephant Conflict and Natural Resource Management in a Rural Sri Lankan Village, Katherine Eileen Griffin
A Spline Framework for Optimal Representation of Semiperiodic Signals, Farzin G. Guilak
Go2Go Expansion in Hillsboro, OR, Apeksha Gupta, Devender Kaur, Pengsee Her, and Pratheek Chintala
Osmosis Alive – Algae Water Filtration System, Adrik Gurganus, Htet Htet Soe, Jonathan Baird, Liam Beckett, Nick Vautravers, Parker Swensen, and Tucker Johnson
Thinking About Work at Home: Implications for Safety at Work, Frankie Guros
Exploring Relationships Between Entrepreneurship Education and Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions: A Mixed Method Study of Entrepreneurial Pedagogies at Chilean Universities, Paulina Andrea Gutierrez Zepeda
Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Fluorescent Chemosensor Data, Kimberly Guttinger