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Vancouver Climate Adaptation Strategy, Jodi Mescher, Jenna Cangialosi, Jai Daniels, Trevor Luu, Ellen Mickle, and Jamie Shalvey
Interwar Weimar Film and Masculinity: Challenging the Presumed Crisis of Interwar German Gender Discourse from Selected Films from 1925-1931, Brandon Metcalf
Working Paper No. 63, On Karl Polanyi and His Conception of Fascism, Serene Mistkawi
The Jane Stories, Katherine Elizabeth Mitchell
Assessing the Efficacy of Physical Prehabilitation on a Total Knee Arthroplasty, Zen S. Miyashiro
Effect of Eosinophils in Purinergic Receptor P2X3 Expression in Mouse Sensory Neurons, Emily J. Mize
Silos in Higher Education Institutions: Shifting from Organizational Phenomena to a Practical Framework for Equitable Decision-making, Mandi Sue Mizuta
The Rise of XR Storytelling and the Contribution of Consumer Accessibility, Cost Efficiency, & Intrinsic Value to Feasibility, Sarah Moffatt
Provider Perspectives on Benefits and Challenges of mHealth Autism Screeners in Underserved Families, Yesenia Morales
Scientology's FAQ: Sciencing, Tech-romancing, Simulacra, & Simulation an Estranged Content Analysis, David Scott Morrill
Science Education Research on Student to Student Discourse: A Literature Review with an Applied Linguistics Lens, Abbee A. Mortensen
Quantification of Reynolds Shear Stress Wave-Phase Dependence in Fixed-Bottom Offshore Wind Turbine via Quadrant Analysis, Cerrina Mouchref, Bianca Viggiano, Raúl Bayoán Cal, and Ondrej Ferčák
Higher Education Futures: The Transformative Potential of Using Critical Foresights Practices & Arts Based Research in Our Brittle, Anxious, Non-Linear, and Incomprehensible (BANI) World, Sheila Christine Mullooly
Seismic Performance Design Criteria of Existing Bridge Bent Plastic Hinge Region and Rapid Repair Measures of Earthquake Damaged Bridges Considering Future Resilience, A K M Golam Murtuz
Investigating Active Learning through the Lens of Student Engagement, Nicole Naibert
Technology Roadmap for Standards of Healthcare Data Cyber Security: Influence of Public Policy on Consumer Healthcare Cyber Security Protections, Alison Nalven, Courtney Wright, Jennifer Lynn Zeitouni, Nolan Thompson, Sara Ferdousi, and Saumya Saxena
Working Paper No. 55, An Inquiry into the Assumptions and Tenets of Neoclassical Economics That Lead Towards Income Inequality, Katharine Nester
2030 Roadmap: Cybersecurity in Food E-Commerce, Cuong Nguyen, Pavithra Prasad, Jordan Wearing, Kawther Elolaimi, Prajakta Thorat, and Joseph (Tony) Califano
Ours Lived Lived: Faculty Responses to STEM Students' Lived Experiences, Stan Nguyen
A Comparative Economic Analysis for Cloud Computing, Colleen Nhim, Duane Murray, Nisha Hemantha Raju, Marwah Al-Zabidi, and Cuong Nguyen
Investigation of the Externship Selection Process Across ASHA-Accredited Speech Language Pathology Programs, Teale Niles, Lindsey Schwab, and Brandon Eddy
Angels, Snakes, and Everything In Between: The Fall of the Byzantine Eunuch, Tess E. Nye
Dustoff, Ryan D. O'Connell
Masculinity Instability and Ideologies as Predictors of IPV Perpetration: The Mediating Role of Relationship Power, Emma Christine Marioles O'Connor
A Day Late and a Dollar Short: Examining Perceptions of Which Exonerees Deserve Compensation, Alexandra Pauline Olson