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Submissions from 2015
The Media’s Presentation of The Second Chance Act: Funding for Reentry Following Prison, Ailene Joyce Farkac
NWA 8614: The Least Heated Winonaite, Karla Farley, Alexander M. Ruzicka, and Katherine Armstrong
An Investigation of the Role of Alternate Numeration Systems in Preservice Teacher Mathematics Content Courses, Jodi I. Fasteen
Revenant Joe Pilot Script, Will Ferguson
An Examination of Factors that Catalyze LGBTQ Movements in Middle Eastern and North African Authoritarian Regimes, Michael Anthony Figueredo
Blogs and Book Promotion: Measuring Success, Melanie Figueroa
Production Scheduling and Inventory Optimization: For a High-Tech Company to Manufacture Products Efficiently, Daragh Finn, Alex Blank, Felix Maier, and Justin Krueger
Scenario Analysis Using Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping in Adaptive Learning forStudents with Disabilities and Special Needs – A Consultative Perspective onPursuing Adaptive Learning for Special Needs Students, Daragh Finn, Katie Tucker, Justin Krueger, David Wigen, Andrew Thorsvik, and Charles Asafo-Adjei
Aberration Corrected Photoemission Electron Microscopy with Photonics Applications, Joseph P. S. Fitzgerald
Knowledge is Power: The Political Influence of the Chanter Social Circle at the University of Paris (1200-1215), Andrew X. Fleming
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