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Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Music and Conflict Resolution: Can a Music and Story Centered Workshop Enhance Empathy?, Parfait Adegboyé Bassalé
The Story and Song Centered Pedagogy: Teaching Empathy in the classroom, Parfait Adegboyé Bassalé
Characterization of the Shallow Subsurface Geohydrology of the Ni-les'tun Unit on the Bandon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge, Christopher Madison Beard
Memory Through Dark Glasses, Madison Beaudet
Deoxyribonucleic Acid and Other Words Students Avoid Speaking Aloud: Evaluating the Role of Pronunciation on Participation in Secondary School Science Classroom Conversations, Stacie Elizabeth Beck
Improving Assessment Practice at the Course and Programmatic-Levels in Community Colleges: Developing The Guidebook For Student Learning Outcomes & The Assessment Loop, Steven George Beining
Shifting Identities in a Globalising Metro Manila, Patrick Belin
Evaluation of Smart Phone Weight-Mile Tax Truck Data for Supporting Freight Modeling, Performance Measures and Planning, Katherine E. Bell and Miguel Andres Figliozzi
Identification and Characterization of Fine Particulate Matter Hot Spots on an Urban Arterial Corridor Integrating Probe Vehicle, Traffic and Land Use Data, Katherine Eleanor Bell
Preserving Nature through Film: Wilderness Alps of Stehekin and the North Cascades, 1956-1968, Nicolas Timothy Bergmann
Automated Test Pattern Generation for Quantum Circuits, Jacob D. Biamonte
Marketing Plan: Microsoft Surface Pro, Ritu Bidasaria, Tila Bregaj, Garrett Gilliland, Mehdi Toobaei, and Namitha Shetty
Project Report: Microsoft Surface Pro - Market Research Log, Ritu Bidasaria, Tila Bregaj, Garrett Gilliland, Mehdi Toobaei, and Namitha Shetty
Surfboard Industry Forecast, Ritu Bidasaria, Garrett Gilliland, Wilson Zehr, and Bahareh Saatchi
TFDEA for 3D Printers, Ritu Bidasaria, Ignacio Lethlean, Joseph Lethlean, Kshiti Shah, and Sheng-Te Tsai
Crystallographic Image Processing with Unambiguous 2D Bravais Lattice Identification on the Basis of a Geometric Akaike Information Criterion, Taylor Thomas Bilyeu
Energy Efficient Outdoor Lighting: Case Study, Economic Analysis, Model Development, and Application, Mario Bitzer, Viktoria Boss, David Burchfield, Nina Chaichi, James Eastham, and Sumir Varma
Student Scheduling at a Charter School, Fannie Black, David Tucker, Chih-Jen Yu, and Tim Calderwood
A Quantitative Analysis of Memory Controller Page Policies, Matthew Blackmore
Capillary Phenomena: Investigations in Compressed Bubble Migration, Geometric Wetting, and Blade-Bound Droplet Stability, William Henry Blackmore
The Marxist Stream of Untouchable, Daniel Blanchard
Batterer Intervention Programs' Response to State Standards, Ashley Lynn Boal
Lessons in Immorality: Mishima's Masterpiece of Humor and Social Satire, Nathaniel Peter Bond
Product to Service Inflection Point, Chandana Bonthu, Greg Wease, Ashish Mishra, Monticha Khammuang, Nikesh Gajavelly, Anna-Lena Lentz, and Paul Atkinson
Non-Financial Methods for Individual and Team Motivation, Chandana Bonthu, Jiangbing Zhang, Larry Pham, and Anna-Lena Lentz