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Green Cars: Do Open Innovation and Partnerships Help Tesla Motors to Improve Battery Performance and Cost Reducation, M. Tejohanish and Zuhair Alheayk
Tweakable Ciphers: Constructions and Applications, Robert Seth Terashima
Antimalarial Drug Discovery using Triazoles to Overcome Chloroquine Resistance, Elias Sibhatu Tesfaselassie
Discursive Security: F.B.I. Stings and the Nature of Peace, Adam Testerman
Optimal Maintenance Plan Within NCC (National Cement Company), Sallam Thabet, Pengsee Her, Anjan Bharthepudi, and Pratheek Chintala
A Study of Microwave curing of Underfill using Open and Closed microwave ovens, Aditya Thakare
Marketing Plan: REMzen, Jerrod Thomas, Kranthi Kumary Reddy Rapolu, Liyan Xiao, Purva Chhatre, Shiva Ram Reddy Singireddy, and Wendy Lally
A Minority Within a Minority: A Kurdish Refugee in Portland, Oregon, Seth Thomas
Bicyclist Compliance at Signalized Intersections, Samson Ray Riley Thompson
The Influence of Surface Chemistry on the Photoelectrochemical Properties of FeS(2) Photoanodes, Qi Tong
Specializing in Normal: An Overview of Midwifery in the US, Lucille Tower
Reversible Circuits Synthesis Based on EXOR-sum of Products of EXOR-sums, Linh Hoang Tran
Jews, Sports, Gender, and the Rose City : An Analysis of Jewish Involvement with Athletics in Portland, Oregon, 1900-1940, Kelli Ann Tusow
Forecasting the availability of bioprinted livers for human liver transplant, Bhaskar Uthanumalliah
Impacts of Replacing a Tight Diamond Interchange with a SPUI – A Wilsonville Interchange Study, Sina Vadaei
The Role of Healing Gardens, Kalina K. Vander Poel
Planning for a Semiconductor Ramp: Capacity and Staffing, Sumir Varma
Pseudocapacitors for Energy Storage, Anuradha Venkataraman
Apollo Hospital Patient Database Upgrade, Komal Vinchhi, Sivagamasundari Sathappan, and Mike Smith
Check-In Frequency with Friends on Location-Based Social Networks: A Look at Homophily and Relational Closeness, Jacqueline H. Vo
Developmental Mechanisms that Support Genome Stability and Embryonic Survival in Stress-tolerant Embryos of the Annual Killifish Austrofundulus limnaeus, Josiah Tad Wagner
Investigating the Impact of Sibling Foster Care on Placement Stability, Jeffrey David Waid
A Publisher’s Look at eBooks and Their Affect on Young Readers, Caitlin Waite
Not That Kind of Publisher: How NovelRank and BookScan Can Benefit Small Publishers' Marketing and Promotions, Geoff Wallace
Therapy and the Nontraditional Transgender Narrative, Dylan Ellingson Waller