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Submissions from 2022
Making Use of Prosodic Resources in a New Language: Self-Repetition in Wh-Questions in Talk-in-Interaction, Phoebe Cordova
Research Proposal for An Assessment of the Potential for the Arbuscular Fungi “Rhizophagus irregularis” to Aid in Corn Uptake and Availability of Iron, Caitlin Costello
Legislative Procedures and Perceptions of Legitimacy, Megan Elizabeth Cox
The Renaissance Art Market: Economic Relationships between Italian Sculptors and Wealthy Patrons for Marketability, Sophia Crawford
The Iroquois Indians in Ohio, 1600–1763, Woody Crow
Schism and Suppression: Early Threats to the Esperanto Language, and Resulting Impacts on International Acceptance, Anabel E. Cull
Poetry to Prose: The Influence of Herodotus on Written History, Frances B. Currie
The Process of Publishing a Crow Book, Claire L. Curry
The Failure of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Münster, Sonja Cutts
Transforming Learning Communities, Transforming Ourselves: A Qualitative Investigation of Identity Processes in a Participatory Action Research-themed Undergraduate Course, Julia Sara Dancis
Operation Mincemeat: The Impact and Influence of WWII’s Most Daring Intelligence Operation, Maya N. DaSilva
Winter Tale: a Novel, Kari Davidson
Culture of Care and Prosocial Leadership: Autoethnography of an Elementary School Principal Navigating Covid-19, Ashley Marie Davis
Scenario Acceleration Through Automated Modelling: A Method and System for Creating Traceable Quantitative Future Scenarios Based on FCM System Modeling and Natural Language Processing, Christopher W.H. Davis
Examining Probation Lengths in Philadelphia, PA, Madeline Grace Davis
Minimality of Integer Bar Visibility Graphs, Emily DeHoff
Together or Apart? The Effects a Parent's Relationship Dynamic has on their Child(ren)'s Romantic Relationship, Kailee Delos Santos
Working Paper No. 64, Ecological Economics versus Environmental Economics, Audrey Demeaux
Developing Therapeutic Alliance Through Improvisation: A State-of-the-Art Review for the Speech-Language Pathologist, Ryan DePauw
The Default Mode Network, Christian Desbiens
Carli Creek Regional Water Quality Project: Assessing Water Quality Improvement at an Urban Stormwater Constructed Wetland, Christopher L. Desiderati
The Haunted Refuge Trilogy, Mark Devendorf
Reproductive Autonomy and Acculturation Among Latinas: Preliminary results, Sara M. Diaz-Anaya
Promoting Family Satisfaction & Engagement: Implementing Interventions in the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit, Liliana Diaz
Carbon Sequestration Potential After Riparian Restoration—A Baseline Study of Carbon Stocks and Mycorrhizal Communities, Guen DiGioia