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Exploring the Association Between Neoliberal Marketization and Employee Burnout in a Behavioral Health Nonprofit, Carl Lindley Christiansen
Growing Pains: The Loss of Plasticity to Extreme Anoxia in Developing Embryos of Austrofundulus limnaeus, Patrick Ryan Clouser
Improved Method of Evaluating Gas-Phase Air Cleaners Considering Adsorption and Desorption Mechanisms To and From Internal Test Chamber Surfaces, Casey Douglas Coffland
Viruses Causing Panleukopenia in Domestic Cats: A Review of Feline and Canine Parvoviruses, Simon Colby
Rhetoric, Shakespeare, and Tony Soprano: The Influence of Suetonius's The Life of Julius Caesar in Personalizing the Leader, Eben N. Cole
Gateway: Heat Resilience Focus Area Final Report, Jill Coleman, Sletsy Dlamini, Luke Gordon, Danny Harden-Ramella, Joe Kortenhof, and Devery Sheridan
Boundary Layers Over Elevated (E-Type) Roughness: Considering the Atmospheric Effects of Utility-Scale Solar PV Arrays, Emma Rocio Compton
BL(u)E CRAB: Bluetooth Low Energy Connection Risk Assessment Benchmarking, Dylan Christopher Conklin
Without a Map: A Lived Experience Study of the Paths People Create Through Homelessness, Kathleen P. Conte, Susan Avila, Desiree' J. DuBoise, Carlton Bone, Marisa A. Zapata, and Transformational Research for Equity and Experience in Shelter (TREES) Committee
Examining Data Access Gaps for Tribal Epidemiology Centers: Qualitative Interviews and a 50-State Syphilis Data Audit, Kathleen P. Conte, Ashley Hoover, Levi Mattoon, Brigg Reilley, and Jessica Leston
Developing a High-Resolution Off-Axis Common-Mode Digital Holographic Microscope, Lucy Cook
Group Operations for Concurrent Binary Search Trees, Theodora R. Cooper
The Kraken Wakes: Myth, Science, and the Rise of a Maritime Sensation, from 1750-1900, Leif G. Crockett
The Educational Gender Gap Explored Through the Lens of Hegemonic Masculinity, Marcell V. Csikos
Metal Substitution in LnDOTBA Complexes for Improved MRI Contrast Agents, Muna Daher
Flexible Load Communication Protocol Mapping Guide: IEEE 2030.5 to ANSI/CTA-2045, Joseph D'Ambrosia
Strategic Anti-Transgender Policy Diffusion: Interest Groups, Courts, and the Two-Track Politics of Gender Regulation, Henry Danford
Intersectionality and Insurgent Citizenship: Women of Color Feminism in 1970s New York City, Genevieve Bonner Davis
Custom SBC GPS Tracking and Geocaching Carputer Software Development and Implementation, Joshua A. Davis
Effects of Fine Sediment on the Productivity of Stream Ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest, Veena I. Davis
Carver, Kafka, and Woolf on Re-enchanting Modernity, Zachary Davis
Navigating Filipino-American Identity Through Philippine Foodways, Jenelle Kirsten De Leon
Functionality Risk Assessment and Risk-based Management for Critical Infrastructure Systems, Anteneh Zewdu Deriba
Relational Histories: Exploring the Transmission of Ceramic Technology in the Norton Sound Region Through Petrographic Analysis, Laurel Michelle Diciuccio