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Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Reexamining the Global Cold War in South Africa: Port Usage, Space Tracking and Weapons Sales, Rebecca Nicole Eisenberg
The role of psychological resources in the relationship between work stressors and proactive behavior, Allison Marie Ellis
Application of a Cross-Disciplinary Taxonomy: Technology Transfer of Energy Innovations from Government Labs, Judith Estep
Long-term Responses of Phalaris arundinacea and Columbia River Bottomland Vegetation to Managed Flooding, Tina Schantz Farrelly
Sustainable Activism: the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Laura Feldman
A Data-Descriptive Feedback Framework for Data Stream Management Systems, Rafael J. Fernández Moctezuma
Development and Implementation of Acoustic Feedback Control for Scanning Probe Microscopy, Rodolfo Fernandez Rodriguez
At the End of the Peninsula, Jonathan David Fine
Painting the Enemy in Motion: Film from both sides of the Pacific War, Avery Fischer
Implementer Perspectives: The Implementation of a School-Based Mentoring Program, Amanda Angela Fixsen
Assessing Environmental Inequality in Portland, Oregon: An Exploration of Local Environmental Justice Struggles, Jordan Douglas Folks
Intimate Partner Violence During the Transition from Prison to the Community: An Ecological Analysis, Margaret Joy Freeland Braun
Atheist Scripts in a Nation of Religiosity: Identity Politics within the Atheist Movement, Jacqueline Frost
Connect Cascade Locks: A Trails Plan for Economic Development, Danielle Fuchs, Michael Ahillen, Sarah Bronstein, Ellen Dorsey, Sara Morrissey, and Chloe Ritter
The Italian Reconstruction and Post-War Fashions, Emily Garrison
Barriers to Healthcare Innovation, Parisa Ghafoori, Michael Link, Kruti Narvekar, and Selen Yilmaz
Project Management Office at MTI, Parisa Ghafoori, Priti Maheshwari, and Xiaowen Wang
Digital Fabric, Sudheer Goshi
On the Effect of Heterogeneity on the Dynamics and Performance of Dynamical Networks, Alireza Goudarzi
Open Source Software – Implications on Technology Management, Shreya Goyal, Renu Biradar, Puniti Singla, and Phaneendra Rampalli
"Man Up": A Longitudinal Evaluation of Adherence to Traditional Masculinity Among Racially/Ethnically Diverse Adolescent Inmates, Mary Elisabeth Gray
Selecting a Gaming Console using Hierarchical Decision Modeling, Desirability and Utility analysis, Tim Griffin, Tin Nguyen, Garrett Gilliland, and Michael Uffelman
Business Plan for Bolt and Brush Print and Paint House, Sarah Griffis and Sarah Miller