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Work Design Characteristics as Moderators of the Relationship between Proactive Personality and Engagement, Damon Thomas Drown
Facilitating Master's Student Success: A Quantitative Examination of Student Perspectives on Advising, Sarah Brooks Drummond Hays
Trust-but-Verify: Guaranteeing the Integrity of User-generated Content in Online Applications, Akshay Dua
The Representation of Women in Comic Books, Post WWII Through the Radical 60’s, Maryjane Dunne
Best Practices to Overcome Communication Challenges in Virtual Teams: A Qualitative Meta-analysis of the Past ETM Research Projects, Saranya Durairajan
How Does Student Understanding of a Concept Change Throughout a Unit of Instruction? Support Toward the Theory of Learning Progressions, Brian Jay Dyer
Heritage and Health: A Political-Economic Analysis of the Foodways of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah and the Bishop Paiute Tribe, April Hurst Eagan
Technology Roadmap for Consumer 3D Printing, James Eastham, Elizabeth Gibson, David Tucker, Katherine Tucker, and Sumir Varma
Carbon Audio: A Case Study in Strategy, James Eastham and David Tucker
Designing Innovative Alternatives to Traditional High Schools: What Leaders Need to Know, Chester Roy Edwards
The Lents International Farmer’s Market: A Case and Comparative Study, Sarah Egan
Between Two Worlds: Identity and Community in Oaxaca, Amanda Elder
Joint Angle Tracking with Inertial Sensors, Mahmoud Ahmed El-Gohary
An Alternative Ribozyme for the RNA Hypercycle, Ishak Elkhal
The Historical, Political, Social, and Individual Factors That Have Influenced the Development of Aging and Disability Resource Centers and Options Counseling, Sheryl DeJoy Elliott
Alley Allies, Scotty Ellis, Katie Hughes, Derek Dauphin, Sarah Isbitz, Shavon Caldwell, and Liz Paterson
Impact of Teachers' Planned Questions on Opportunities for Students to Reason Mathematically in Whole-class Discussions Around Mathematical Problem-solving Tasks, Sarah Elizabeth Enoch
Self-Disclosure and Self-Efficacy in Online Dating, Andrew Christopher España
The Significance of a Distinction Between a Sexual Act and a Sexual Identity, Nirvana Fairbanks
Microbial Biomineralization of Iron, Wen Fang
Towards a Tool for Measuring Student Role Mastery, Collin Fellows
I'm Not Gonna Be Like That Guy: Exploring the Montana Meth Project Through the Eyes of That Guy, Jaysen Nicole Ferestad
Elementary Teacher Candidates' Images of Mathematics, Diverse Students, and Teaching: An Exploratory Study With Implications for Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education, Bernd Richard Ferner
A New Low in Getting High: Illegal Drug Use and Crime, Erica Jean Ferrelli
Why Occupy?: Principal Reasons for Participant Involvement in Occupy Portland, Danielle Filecia