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Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Ice and Other Stories, Constance D. Levesque
Gendering the Body: Exploring the Construction of the Sexually Dimorphic Body, Sarah Kaye Lewis
Assessment of an Optimal Bus Stop Spacing Model Using High Resolution Archived Stop-Level Data, Huan Li
Technology Forecasting of Google Data Centers, Chih-Hsun Lin, Tin Nguyen, and Gaurav Sonny Katoch
Prediction of Soil Layer R-Value Dependence on Moisture Content, Ziyang Liu
Student Approaches to Combinatorial Enumeration: The Role of Set-Oriented Thinking, Elise Nicole Lockwood
Roman (Un)Exceptionalism: Dispelling Popular Notions of Roman Belligerence, Jordan Long
The Responsibilities and Limitations of Holocaust Storytelling: Understanding the Structure and Usage of the Master Narrative in Holocaust Film, Fianna Raven MacGregor
Proposal and Analysis of Demagnetization Methods of High Voltage Power System Transformers and Design of an Instrument to Automate the Demagnetization Process, Nathanael Jared Makowski
Do "Clickers" Improve Student Engagement and Learning in Secondary Schools?, Andrew James Mankowski
The Role of Salmon in Middle Snake River Human Economy: The Hetrick Site in Regional Contexts, Cassandra R. Manning
Impacts of Rhizosphere CO₂ on Root Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase Activity, Root Respiration Rate and Rhizodeposition in Populus spp., Dawn Marie Matarese
Model-Based Information Extraction From Synthetic Aperture Radar Signals, Shari Matzner
Identifying Modifiable Factors associated with Depression across the Lifespan in Stroke Survivor-Spouse Dyads, Michael Joseph McCarthy
Developing and Calibrating the Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model CE-QUAL-W2 for Banks Lake Washington, Andrew John McCulloch
Tree Growth and Spatial Pattern in Two Forest Park Permanent Plots: A Look at Stand Composition and Condition, Hannah Beth McDonald
If You Look Into The Cloud, Sometimes You Can Hear The Silence There, Shaun Krause McGillis
Conflict-Conditioned Communication: A Case Study of Communicative Relations between the United States and Iran from 2005-2008, Erin Leigh McKee
Potential for Speciation in Mammals Following Vast, Late Miocene Volcanic Interruptions in the Pacific Northwest, Ryan Thomas McKenna
From Blooming Judicial Philosophies to Castrated Legislation: Sexuality, Desire, and Nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States, Adam Michael McMahon
Aberdeen and the Reformation: Implementation and Interpretation of Reform, Catherine Elizabeth McMillan
LiDAR-Based Landslide Inventory and Susceptibility Mapping, and Differential LiDAR Analysis for the Panther Creek Watershed, Coast Range, Oregon, Katherine A. Mickelson