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  • Canal Housing Works 
    Power, Clayton (2015-01-22)
    The investigation of the this thesis study is to take a critical look into the issues of density and the phenomenological qualities such as light and place and to weave them into a medium density housing development. The ...
  • A Catalyst for Gradual Change 
    Buxser, Nathan (2012-05-17)
    A Catalyst for Gradual Change This thesis seeks to explore the way in which an area, or neighborhood, which suffered from a loss of its inhabitants can again become a viable and vital area within a city. Lack of density, ...
  • A CATALYST FOR TRANSFORMATION 
    Tavernier, Neteya (2022-05-16)
    This thesis explores how underprivileged communities can be supported and transformed to overtime become self-sustaining. A self-sustaining community is one that is planned, built, or modified to promote sustainable living ...
  • Cata vento eco-resort development 
    Jess, Robert J. (2012-04-27)
    Eco travel and eco lodging are growing in popularity among travelers today, with this comes an opportunity for architects to design and build sustainable projects for the people that visit these often times fragile ...
  • Chagas Disease Vectors Identification using Data Mining and Deep Learning Techniques 
    Ghasemi, Zeinab (2021-04-23)
    Chagas Disease (CD) is a vector–borne infectious disease transmitted from animals to humans and reversely. It is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi (abbv. as T. cruzi). It is forcing an enormous social burden on ...
  • Changing a Staffing Model for Low and Moderate Risk Patients in an Emergency Department: A Quality Improvement Project 
    McIntosh, Amy (2022-11-22)
    The goal of this quality improvement project was to change the staffing model for low and moderate risk suicidal patients in an emergency department, from one- on -one observation to camera observation, RN and Mental Health ...
  • Characteristics Associated with Heart Failure Patients and Their Caregivers 
    Butler, Jessica (2021-08-10)
    Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a common disease of older adults with a survival rate that rivals many forms of cancer (Mamas et al., 2017). This disease affects 1 in 100 individuals over the age of 65, or approximately ...
  • Characteristics of the Modern Metropolis: Sustainable Configurations of the Suburban Residential Environment 
    McPhillips, Matthew S. (2012-05-17)
    The following is neither a criticism of the city nor of the surrounding suburbs. It is simply a realization that the role of each has changed. Old generalizations no longer apply. For example, given the question "do you ...
  • Childhood Trauma and the Emergence of Disordered Eating Symptoms: An Investigation of Contributing Variables 
    Pettway, Anna Charis (2017-06-14)
    This dissertation aimed to elucidate the complex relationship between childhood trauma and disordered eating. An extensive literature review demonstrated that the previous research in this area was contradictory and chaotic ...
  • Children’s Personalities and Responsibilities: Do Sex and Birth Order Matter? Maria Romo 
    Romo, Maria (2017-05-03)
    The order in which children are born into a family often results in their having different responsibilities and being treated differently by their parents. This project sought to explore whether children’s personalities ...
  • Choreographic Experience 
    Wilkins, Ashley (2012-05-22)
    The relationship between human beings and the built environment is a complex web of personal perceptions and interpretations resulting in ones unique experiences of space. Ones individual chemical makeup offers a unique ...
  • Cicatriz - A Spatial Analysis Into MEX-US Border 
    Arias-Hernandez, Juan (2019-06-05)
    The United States – Mexico Border is an (in)visible line of disruption and control. A scar of a past that has yet been able to heal. These (in)visible lines also create regions within the border communities that make up a ...
  • Cinemarchitecture 
    Perpetuini, Cesare (2018-05-10)
    Cinema and Architecture. Two art forms that can, and should, benefit from one another.
  • A Clockwork Architecture: Digital Minds in Analog Spaces 
    Godzina, Marc (2012-05-17)
    This thesis is an investigation of the way in which architecture can respond to and acknowledge the progression of time over long and short term periods. Much like the hands of a traditional analog clock, we use our bodies ...
  • Cloud Atlas 
    Wah, Jason (2012-05-17)
    Through the design of a multiple public scenarios such as a washroom, car wash, bus stop, and park, this thesis seeks to engage citizens in the experience of contradiction of being in public but yet being in private; of ...
  • Cognitive Reserve as Neuroprotection for Cognitive Functions in Individuals With Clinical Hypertension 
    Ikanga, Jean (2015-08-05)
    Clinical hypertension is associated with impaired neuropsychological functioning. While cognitive reserve (CR) delays neurocognitive decline, CR’s neuroprotective effects on the association between clinical hypertension ...
  • Collective Resiliency 
    Schimpf, Madison (2019-06-05)
    This thesis explores community resiliency surrounding natural disasters in public spaces. Both landscape and built typologies play an important role in building resiliency however, shifting community mentalities are vital ...
  • Color, Light, Perception 
    Sovran, Drew (2021-04-26)
    Color goes beyond our understanding of color theory (blue + red = purple, yellow + red = orange, etc.). When we begin to focus more in depth on how we visually perceive colors, as well as begin to isolate characteristics ...
  • Comic Communities: Interstitial Interventions into Fringe Conditions 
    Kaminski, Bradley (2015-04-28)
    The aim of this architectural thesis is to identify characteristics found on the fringe of cities and how a designed intervention can challenge the disparity found on the margin. This study was conducted at the edge of ...
  • Commerce of the Pedestrian 
    Burgos, Robyn (2012-05-17)
    What has caused the gap between the automobile and the pedestrian? Is it the visibility of the automobile? Freeways, highways, and other streets are constantly congested with motor vehicles. Also, parking allotment and ...

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