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Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Die unbewältigte Vergangenheit: the Third Generation and the Holocaust in Recent Literature and Film, Dana Lynne Capage
Deepwater, Katrina Marie Carrasco
Dynamic Job Satisfaction Shifts: Implications for Manager Behavior and Crossover to Employees, David Ellis Caughlin
Productivity Measurement for Electric Utilities, Nina Chaichi
The Role of Mitochondrial Superoxide Dismutase (SOD2) During a Coxiella Burnetii Infection, Rachel Diantha Champaigne
Global Time-Independent Agent-Based Simulation for Transactive Energy System Dispatch and Schedule Forecasting, Shawn Aaron Chandler
Characterization, DNA Binding and Cleavage Activities of New Prodigiosin and Tambjamine Analogues and Their Cu²⁺ and Zn²⁺ Complexes, Karen Chichetu
A Few More Words to Part, Tony Chiotti
Photoluminescent Silicon Nanoparticles: Fluorescent Cellular Imaging Applications and Photoluminescence (PL) Behavior Study, Sheng-Kuei Chiu
Custom Fluorophores for Investigating the Cellular Uptake Mechanisms and Side-Effects of Pharmaceuticals, Yu-Hsuan Chu
Continuity vs. Discontinuity: The Issue of Race and Forced Labor After Emancipation in the American South, Alexander Elliott Clarke-Ritter
Competitive Resource-based View Strategy -Portland State University Library, Michael Clark
Lonely Color, Ross William Clifford
Training and Application of Correct Information Unit Analysis to Structured and Unstructured Discourse, Audrey Bretthauer Cohen
The British-American Imperial Agenda in Iraq: the Oil and Railway line from Kirkuk to Haifa, 1920-1932, Melinda Cohoon
Post-Revolutionary Mexican Education in Durango and Jalisco: Regional Differences, Cultures of Violence, Teaching, and Folk Catholicism, Lindsey Ellison Collins
Post-silicon Functional Validation with Virtual Prototypes, Kai Cong
Culture is a Language, Can't You Read?: Reading Gay Rights as Human Rights, Jen Corbridge
A Bird Flies Into a Pane of Glass Again and Again and Again, Zachary Cosby
Predicting U.S. Onshore Wind Generation, Joshua Couch
U.S. Supported Corporations and Modern Imperialism: America's Takeover of Hawaii, Lance D. Crafton
Investigating Relationships among Work, Family, and Sleep: Cross-Sectional, Daily, and Intervention Effects, Tori Laurelle Crain
Come Out Come Out Wherever You Are: A Content Analysis of Homeless Transgender Youth in Social Service Literature, Shannon Crossley