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Theses from 2015
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
Critical Editions and the Promise of the Digital: The Development and Limitations of Markup, Alexandra Haehnert
Sale Forecasting Techniques for the Fuzzy Front End of New Product Development, Meles Hagos, Ross Turner, Anurak Sitthiwong, and Sudarat Poocharat
Investigation in to the Effect of Spin Locking on Contrast Agent Relaxivity, Julian Saunders Haigh
Evaluating Global Sensitivity Analysis Methods for Hydrologic Modeling over the Columbia River Basin, Maysoun Ayad Hameed
Early-Stage Transition to Predictive Maintenance : Using CMMS, IR Scans, and Vibration Analysis to Improve Uptime and Lower Maintenance Costs, Jason Hamilton
Rationalism and the Understanding of Irrationality, Sophie Hamilton
Dispersion Modeling of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) and Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) from Backup Generators at Data Centers in Prineville, Oregon, Brooke E. Harmon
Tehran Park Project, Scott Hartley and Erfan Pakdamanian
The Dichotomy of Pudicitia, Amber L. Harvey
The Scholarship of Student Affairs Professionals: Effective Writing Strategies and Scholarly Identity Formation Explored through a Coaching Model, Lisa Janie Hatfield
Staying on Script: Sexual Scripts and Sex Education, Elizabeth Carol Hauck
The Erosion of Coastal Sediment and Regeneration of Rhizophora mangle Following Anthropogenic Disturbance on Turneffe Atoll, Belize, Heather Lyn Hayden