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Theses from 2012
A Proposal for a Track-II Coalition in the Middle East: Creating the Conditions for Regional Dialogue, Public Engagement, and Security Cooperation, Mart Stewart-Smith
Imagine Holgate: Transit-oriented Community Vision Plan, Tara Sulzen, Chad Armstrong, Joshua Shaklee, Alex Steinberger, and Michael Weidmann
The Sea Cow and The Siren, Sara Sutter
Passive Acoustic Vessel Localization, Pasang Sherpa Suwal
Understanding Sand Mining on the Maha Oya: The Conflict Between Economic and Environmental Survival, Meredith Corea Talbert
Models for Energy Portfolio of Sustainable Energy Sources in Oregon: Minority Report – Group 2, Rajasree Talla, Rajesh Talla, and Rupha Natarajan
Local Reception of Religious Change under Henry VIII and Edward VI: Evidence from Four Suffolk Parishes, William Keene Thompson
Assessing Battery Technologies for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs), Andrew Thorsvik, Kon Abdulai, nan Hu, and Sheng-Te Tsai
Preschool Teachers' Perspectives on Caring Relationships, Autonomy, and Intrinsic Motivation in Two Cultural Settings, Xiaoling Tian
Post-occupancy Evaluation at the Zoo: Behavioral and Hormonal Indicators of Welfare in Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus abelii), Leigha Tingey
Short-Term Plasticity at the Schaffer Collateral: A New Model with Implications for Hippocampal Processing, Andrew Hamilton Toland
Relativistic Causal Ordering A Memory Model for Scalable Concurrent Data Structures, Josh Triplett
A Systems Approach to Ecological Economic Models Developed Progressively in Three Interwoven Articles, Takuro Uehara
Data -mining In Case Management System: Wells Fargo Fraud Referral Unit, Michael Uffelman, Nandini Mahendran, and Niharika Jeena
Development Log: Cool People Inc., Jubin Upadhyay, Ziyad Alzamil, Apisit Charoensupyanan, Chakaphan Pornsatit, Dinesh Soysa, and Fredy Gomez
Project Report: iCam Marketing Plan, Jubin Upadhyay, Ziyad Alzamil, Dong-Joon Lim, Apisit Charoensupyanan, and Chakaphan Pornsatit
Spontaneous Cooperative Assembly of Replicative Catalytic RNA Systems, Nilesh Vaidya
Residential Energy Efficient Device Selection - South Africa, Kevin C. van Blommestein
Marketing Plan Samsung Galaxy Skin, Kevin C. van Blommestein, Aarthi Neethirajan, Mousa Alharbi, Rajasree Talla, Rajesh Talla, and Zack Khalifa
Apatite Crystal Populations of the 1991 Mount Pinatubo Eruption, Philippines: Implications for the Generation of High Sulfur Apatite in Silicic Melts, Ashley Elizabeth Van Hoose
Risk Factors for Homelessness Among Community Mental Health Patients with Severe Mental Illness, Rupert Talmage van Wormer
Adolescent Males' Similarity, Emotional Safety, and Change in Strengths-Based Programming, Wendy Elaine Viola
Understanding the Role of Social, Teaching and Cognitive Presence in Hybrid Courses: Student Perspectives on Learning and Pedagogical Implications, Janelle De Carrico Voegele
Scale Invariant Object Recognition Using Cortical Computational Models and a Robotic Platform, Danny Voils
Differential Susceptibility to Social Network Influences on School Motivation in a Cohort of Sixth Graders, Justin William Vollet