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Building Resistance and Sustainability to Improve Population Health in Tokyo, Japan., Ma'Adjoa N. Manu
How are Changes in Temperature and Salinity Impacting Intertidal Mussels?, Casey A. Martin
Farmworker Voices: Contesting & Renegotiating Essential Status During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Jennifer Martinez
How African Immigrants Perceive Blackness Within the American Ideality: The Sensory Woman Art Installation, Nya K. Mbock
The Meaning and Measure of Deliberative Systems, Darren Michael McCormick
The Passive Approach: How Academically Motivated Students Approach their Mental Health., Megan E. McCoy
Measuring Success in First Episode Psychosis, Eric M. McKinley
Passing Down: Nella Larsen's Questioning of Eugenic Ideology, Sky R. McLeod
Multimodal Imaging of Structural Concrete Using Image Fusion and Deep Learning, Sina Mehdinia
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
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