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Submissions from 2017
Assessment of Minimum Viable Product Techniques: A Literature Review, Mohammadsaleh Saadatmand
Dynamics of Competition and Strategy, Mohammadsaleh Saadatmand
What is known about High-frequency trading, Mohammadsaleh Saadatmand
Intimate Partner Violence Impact Panels for Batterer Intervention: a Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Restorative Justice Process, Kate Louise Sackett
Stream Sedimentation Patterns in an Urban Beaver System: Fanno Creek, Oregon, Alexandra Joan Santora
Strategic Management Analysis – Apple Watch, Sivagamasundari Sathappan
Vagrant of the El Camino: a Memoir, Jacob Kevin Sauvageau
"Neither of the Boxes": Accounting for Non-Binary Gender Identities, Erin Patricia Savoia
Synthesis of Linear Reversible Circuits and EXOR-AND-based Circuits for Incompletely Specified Multi-Output Functions, Ben Schaeffer
A Probe for Characterization of Natural Phenomena Using the Modulated Scattering Technique, Daniel D. Schaeffer
An IR and RF Based System for Functional Gait Analysis in a Multi-Resident Smart-Home, Erich Reinhardt Schafermeyer
Quadded GasP: a Fault Tolerant Asynchronous Design, Kristopher S. Scheiblauer
Music and Race in the American West, William Steven Schneider
Ethanol-Nicotine Combinations Induces C-Fos Expression within Stress and Reward-Related Circuitry, Jacob J. Schoen
Wearable Inertial Sensors Allow for Quantitative Assessment of Arthroscopic Skill in a Cadaveric Shoulder Model, Bryan C. Schreiner
Adolescents in the Emergency Room: Assessing and Addressing Suicide Risk, Kahae C. Sellars
Wearable Healthcare Technology: Fibit® Inc’s Smartwatch Strategy, Sowmini Sengupta
Mineral Evidence for Generating Compositionally Zoned Rhyolites of the Devine Canyon Tuff, High Lava Plains, Oregon, Erik Paul Shafer
Low Cost Air Quality Monitoring: Exploration and Development of Prototype, Mimi Shang
Analysis for Selecting High Risk Service Replacement Parts for Process Improvement, Deepali Sharma, Jesse Bernardo, Papit Meteekotchadet, and Wendy Lally
Does Size Matter?, Deepali Sharma, Vidhi Chokshi, Hakan Kutgun, and Chaitra Muralidhara
Scheduling Technicians for System Monitoring, Deepali Sharma, Vidhi Chokshi, and Amit Pingle
Assessing a Fluorescence Spectroscopy Method for In-Situ Microbial Drinking Water Quality, Taylor Jeffery Sharpe
Computational Algorithms for Improved Representation of the Model Error Covariance in Weak-Constraint 4D-Var, Jeremy A. Shaw
Impact of Genomics on Biopharmaceutical Industry: Rare Diseases as Disruptive Innovation, Amir Shaygan