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Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Resistance to DNA Interstrand Crosslinks in Escherichia coli Arises through Prevention Rather than Repair, Travis Kim Worley
Leading for Success: Leader-Member Exchange Relationships and Employee Creative Self-Efficacy, Mary Joy Wytsma
Modeling of Signals and Spectra: 5G and Beyond, Xianzhen Yang
Does SPH Curricula Promote ‘Health Equity’, Reproduce Injustice, or both?, Jesse Yarnold
Paid Sick Leave, Chronic Disease, and Systemic Racism: A Systematic Review, Lauren Yee
Machiavelli's The Prince: Utopia and Dystopia, Lea Yonago
EPL Card Reader Capstone: The Strengths of Partner Programming from a Team Leader's Perspective, Zach Yost
Policy Monitoring and Governance: The Cost-Effectiveness of Community-Based Sanitation Programs in Indonesia, Devi Yulianti and Intan Fitri Meutia
Working Paper No. 83, The New Focus on Mexico, Maria Zavala
A Double Edged Blade: Contrasting Theories of Dissection within 16th Century Italy, Sarah Zdebski
The Prevalence of Osteoporosis and Low Femoral Neck Bone Density Among Never-smoking U.S. Adults with Exposure to Secondhand Smoke: A Cross-sectional Study using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), Felicia Zhou and Mikaela Haglund
Comparing True Maternal and Paternal Care in Pair-Living, Ex-Situ Varecia rubra (Red Variegated Lemurs) Contextualized Among Other Primate Cooperative Breeders, Payton Elizabeth Zuver
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Efficient Capture of CO2 and Its Selective Reduction to Formic Acid Using Tin-Based Nanomaterials, Emmanuel Oluwaseun Abdul
Dignity, Respect, and Freedom, Lindsey Abercrombie
Site-Specific Site Response Analysis and Cascadia Subduction Zone Ground Motions Evaluation for a Site Near Portland, Brian Ackerman
Using Digital Holographic Microscopy to Characterize Vibrio's Chemotaxis, Jacqueline Acres and Eric Valentino
Modeling and Analysing the Impact of Heat Pump Water Heaters on Distribution Systems Using GridLAB-D, Midrar Adham
Everything She Left Behind, Karina LaChelle Agbisit
Gender Equity and State-Mosque Relations in Middle East North Africa: A Case Study of Tunisia, Joy Amarachi Agbugba
Healthcare Information Security Maturity Model Grande Ronde Hospital, Pallavi Agrawal, Riad Alharithi, Karthik Manjunath, Kamal Thapa, Eric Ingersoll, and Sujitha Rajagopal
A New Approach to Machine Learning Hardware Classifier Design Based on Functional Decomposition of Multi-Valued Functions, Saad Mohammad Al-Askaar
Classifying Dead Code in Software Development, Arman Alavizadeh
Prevalence of perceived weight stigma and its psychological impact on obese people in Saudi Arabia, Wafi Albalawi
Effects of Pore-Forming Peptides (Melittin and Magainin 2) on the Phospholipid Bilayer Interior, Elmukhtar Ehmed Alhatmi