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Submissions from 2015
Motion Cookies - Preliminary Marketing Plan, Pei Zhang, Swati Kar, Timothy Calderwood, Pratheek Chintala, and Sridharkumar Paneerselvam
The Roman Army: Strategy, Tactics, and Innovation, Weiyi Zhou
Nonlinear Analysis and Digital Pre-Distortion of the SC-FDMA Signals in LTE Uplink System, Changwen Zhu
Time-Variant Load Models of Electric Vehicle Chargers, Nicole P. Zimmerman
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Code Switching Between Tamazight and Arabic in the First Libyan Berber News Broadcast: An Application of Myers-Scotton's MLF and 4M Models, Ashour S. Abdulaziz
Wearable Activity Tracker Technology Incremental Innovations and Continuous Impacts Internally, Lakshmi Achary, Nithin Yadav Nimmala Ramesh, Mufeed Yacoub, and Furkan Yildirim
Determinants of Recent Mover Non-work Travel Mode Choice, Arlie Steven Adkins
Building Communities as a Necessary Tool for Sustainability, China G. Ageros
RotoStorage Shelf Storage System, Alden Akeman, Garrett Cheadle, Jared Chin, Louis Duvoisin, Flynn Hutchinson, Paige Hval, Louie Liu, and Yiling Liu
A Comparative Assessment of Crowded Source Travel Time Estimates: A Case Study of Bluetooth vs INRIX on a Suburban Arterial, Fahad Fasha Alhajri
Analysis of Risk, Fear, and Terrorism and its Effect on the Value of Statistical Life for Counterterrorism Expenditure Measures, Nameer Al-Mulla, Zeina Boulos, Srujana Penmetsa, Noppadon Vannaprapa, and Corey White
Application of CE-QUAL-W2 on Tigris River in Iraq, Muhanned Al-Murib
Geospatial Analysis of Rural Motor Vehicle Traffic Crashes in Oregon, Saad Nayef AlMutairi
Early Childhood Educators' Perception of Oregon's Professional Development System: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study, Ingrid Anderson
Understanding Male Nursing Student Perceptions of the Influence of Gender: A Qualitative Case Study Approach of Students, Faculty, and Administration in a Pacific Northwest Nursing Program, Jennifer Anne Anderson
Foucault Concept Communication: An Examination of Alcoholics Anonymous, Amanda Joy Arms
Chemical and Petrographic Survey of Large, Igneous-Textured Inclusions in Ordinary Chondrites, Katherine Armstrong
Music and Acculturation: Using Culture-focused Music Therapy to Address the Adverse Effects of Acculturative Stress, Christopher A. Arnold
The Cultural Trombone: a Contemporary View on National Performance Practices, Sam Arnold
Plant Response to 14 Engineered Log Jams on the North Fork Toutle River, WA Sediment Plain, Todd Ashley
Hiring Practices at Innovative Companies, Paul Atkinson, Pallavi Sandanshiv, Prajakta Patil, and Jon McAnnis
Building a Better Computer for the Aging Generation, Gretchen Baird, Boryeon Kwon, Dylan Lasner, Parker Swensen, Zane Ross, and Adrik Gurganus
A 3.6 GHz Doherty Power Amplifier with a 40 dBm Saturated Output Power using GaN on SiC HEMT Devices, Bryant Baker