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Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Elaborating Patient Agency in Breast-Cancer Care: A Grounded Theoretical Analysis of Patients Asserting Treatment Preferences, Rachel Sofia Erdman
Illuminating the Experiences of Single Fathers, Heidi Rosa Esbensen
Mediating Academic Success: Race, Class, Gender and Community College Persistence, Schaylee Marie Esparza
The Impact of Economic Integration within the European Union as a Factor in Conflict Transformation and Peace-Building, John Umo Ette
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Home, Timothy Dermot Faiella
2014 Innovation Challenge Event Program, Fariborz Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science
The Media’s Presentation of The Second Chance Act: Funding for Reentry Following Prison, a content analysis, Ailene Joyce Farkac
Classification of Four Meteorite Samples, Karla Farley
An Analysis of Bicycle-Vehicle Interactions at Signalized Intersections with Bicycle Boxes, William Robert Farley
Confined Mesoscopic Fluid-like Films Analyzed with Frequency Modulation and Acoustic Detection, Rodolfo Fernandez Rodriguez
LifeBrace: The Advanced Health Tracking Wristband, Jeremy Ferrando, Dylan O'Brien, Daniel Ortiz, and Jonah Paivarinta
The Design, Implementation, Assessment, and Evaluation of a Power Systems Protection Laboratory Curriculum, Jennifer Ferris
A Study of the Impacts of Corporate Culture Initiatives – MVV, Daragh Finn, Sara Bahrini, and Justin Krueger
Finex Marketing Plan, Daragh Finn, Viktoria Boss, Lukas Kessler, Justin Krueger, and Amitabha Worcester
Synthesis of Irreversible Incompletely Specified Multi-Output Functions to Reversible EOSOPS Circuits with PSE Gates, Robert Adrian Fiszer
The Small Volume Autonomous Water Sampler (SVAWS): An Innovative, Cost- Effective, Adaptable Protocol, Nicholas B. Fitzgerald
School District Bond Campaigns: Strategies That Ensure Successful Outcomes, Linda L. Florence
Learning to Read (Gender): Children’s Animation and the New Heterosexism, Kaelyn Flowerday
Aristotle's Rhetoric: The Power of Words and the Continued Relevance of Persuasion, Claire Floyd-Lapp
Exploring Communicative Aspects of Client Satisfaction, Loyalty, and Retention in a Private, Non-profit Organization: A Qualitative, Interview-Based Study of Catholic Charities, Amanda Michelle Fortin
Predicting Bicyclist Comfort in Protected Bike Lanes, Nicholas Mark-Andrew Foster
The Woman in White: Problems with Editorial History & Classification of Genre in Proposing a New Edition, Andréa Franke
An Assessment of Ho Chi Minh’s Strategies for Gaining Support in the Vietnamese Revolution, Madeline Fraser