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Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Self-Efficacy in Low-Level English Language Learners, Laura F. Blumenthal
The Fevered Road, Cooper Lee Bombardier
Multi-Perspective Analysis of Cyberbullying due to Social Networking Technology, Avinash Reddy Bommineni, Ahlam Alsuwaida, Jonathan Lui, Pengsee Her, and Slavik Moskalets
Drainage Reversals Due to Tectonic Uplift: an Investigation through Modeling, Max Gregory Bordal
Smart Wallet New Product Development Log, Viktoria Boss, Lukas Kessler, Paweena Kongsansatean, Sean McGraw, and Alaa Nour
Review of Graduate Certificate Programs in Project Management, Philip Bottjen, Rodney Danskin, Larry Pham, and Harry Pham
Being Human: How Four Animals Forever Changed the Way We Live, What We Believe, and Who We Think We Are, Jocelyn Mary Brady
Veblen on National Economic Development, Rebekkah Brainerd
Technological Innovation: Comparison of Two U.S. Companies Apple Inc. and Google, Nertila Bregaj, Elizabeth Carole Gibson, and Julien Pessey
Household Water Demand and Land Use Context: A Multilevel Approach, Elizabeth Yancey Breyer
Girl Power: The Episcopate and Female Agency in the Central Middle Ages, Jackie Brooks
Assessment of Similarity in Chemically Complex Samples, Jessica Elise Brown
Peer Conversations about Inter-racial and Inter-ethnic Friendships, Lana Lee Buckholz
Using Spammers' Computing Resources for Volunteer Computing, Thai Le Quy Bui
Sister Golden Calf: Stories, Dissections, & A Novella, Colleen Burner
Fragments of Struggle : Five Short Stories by Kobayashi Takiji, Benjamin Robert Burton
Conflict and Tourism in Uganda, Brie Busey
First Generation Minority Students: Understanding the Influential Factors that Contributed to their Preparation and Decision to Pursue Higher Education, Alexis Shawnee Palacios Cabrera
The Occurrences, References and Projected Attitudes About LGBT Lifestyles in Children's Media: A Content Analysis of Animated Films, Michael Caldwell
Teachers Teaching Teachers: A Sustainable and Inexpensive Professional Development Program to Improve Instruction, Carol L. Campbell
Fair Trial in a Sensationalist Society: Charles Manson and the Tate-LaBianca Trial, Jamie L. Cannady
The Power of the People in Influencing the British Government: The Kindertransport, Sophia Cantwell
Lion in Summer & Other Beasts, Jamie Alexandra Carr
The Impact of Wiki-based Collaborative Writing on English L2 Learners' Individual Writing Development, Gina Christina Caruso