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Theses/Dissertations from 2014
THE EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS OF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, OPERATORS, AND THEIR TARGET GENES ACROSS PROKARYOTES, Marc del Grande
Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension Intervention: A Focus on Students in the Late Elementary Grades, Melissa L. Dol
Response to mental health calls: The frontline perspectives of police officers, communicators and administrators, Sarah C. Dougall
INTERDEPENDENCE AND INTERPERSONAL INFLUENCE AMONG INDIVIDUAL SPORT TEAMMATES, Blair Evans
Musical chairs in a boreal peatland: how permafrost thaw reverses successional processes, Mélissa M. Fafard
Gait Initiation Mechanics in Concussed Varsity Athletes, Adam Harper
Emerging From The Wreckage: The Exploration of Mental Health, Stigma, and My Experiences of Living With Obsessive-Compulsive "Disorder", Katelyn P. Harrington
Time, Perspectives, Verbs, and Imagining Events, Jeffrey P. Hong
An Exploratory Examination of Families Engaged in an Adventure Running Kids Program, Heather Isnor
Fight the Dead, Fear the Living: Post-Apocalyptic Narratives of Fear, Governance and Social Control, Samantha Lynn Kolpin
Microbial community characterization and pathogen profiling of land-based aquaculture systems using culture-based and molecular-based fingerprinting techniques, Nicole S. Kteily
Integrated spatial analysis of volunteered geographic information, Haydn Lawrence
A Side of Justice Rarely Seen: Professional Perspectives Toward Youth Justice and Sentencing Procedures in the Exploratory Context of Canada and Russia, Serge Lokshin M.A.
The role of body size on the outcome of mating interactions in Drosophila melanogaster, Adam C. Lounsbury
Quantifying Rooftop Solar Power for the City of Waterloo, Ontario, Shawn W. MacDonald
Modeling and Analysis of Value-Based Healthcare Delivery, Tannaz Mahootchi
Relative Equilibria of Isosceles Triatomic Molecules in Classical Approximation, Damaris Miriam McKinley
Urdu as a First Language: The Impact of Script on Reading in the L1 and English as a Second Language, Amna Mirza
Genome Jigsaw: Implications of 16S Ribosomal RNA Gene Fragment Position for Bacterial Species Identification, Jennifer Mitchell
ZOMBIES IN BACTERIAL GENOMES: IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF PREVIOUSLY VIRULENT PHAGE, Scott Mitchell
Comparative Analysis of Selected Model Species used in Intervertebral Disc Research, Lauren A. Monaco
Investigating the Persistence and "Naturalization" Potential of Salmonella in Non-host Environments using Culture-based and Molecular-Based Fingerprinting Techniques, Robyn L. Morrison
The Structures and Practices of Collaboration among Environmental Organizations in Waterloo Region, Felix P. Munger
Effects of Salinity and Dissolved Organic Matter on Cu Toxicity to Americamysis bahia in Estuarine Environments, Rabia Nasir