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Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Designing New Drugs to Treat Cardiac Arrhythmia, Yanping Ye
Technology Roadmap for Automotive Flexible Display, Byung Sung Yoon, Corey White, Greg Wease, Lokesh Honnappa, Sheng-Te Tsai, and Xiaowen Wang
First-Generation Student Success After Academic Warning: An Exploratory Analysis of Academic Integration, Personal Adjustment, Family and Social Adjustment and Psychological Factors, Gabrielle Shoshana Zeisman
Mao's Rise to Power: To what extent did Mao Zedong utilize Edgar Snow’s Red Star Over China to consolidate power?, Dorothy Zhang
Submissions from 2011
Boeing 787-Challenges in Managing Innovation, Kon Abdulai, Jeff Bergquist, Alex Julien, Nan Hu, Selen Yilmaz, and Byung Sung Yoon
Team Process Report, Kon Abdulai, Saranya Durairajan, Nan Hu, Alex Julien, and Selen Yilmaz
Bio-fuel Adoption: Can Best Practices from Brazil be Applied in the United States?, Abrahim Abdulsater, Asem Alluhibi, Bahareh Saatchi, and Judith Estep
Clinton Street MAX Urban Vision, Darryl Abe, Allison Duncan, Sheri Fisher, Jay Higgins, Shawn Petch, Susan Rosenthal, Joel Stein, and Huifu Xu
Open Innovation at P&G, Baraa Abudawod
Is Decoding Sufficient to Predict Reading Ability in Kindergarten Through 2nd Grade Students?, Deborah Adkins
A Computational Model of Adaptive Sensory Processing in the Electroreception of Mormyrid Electric Fish, Eran Agmon
Call Tracking - Technology Selection Model, Abdussalam Alawini, Mohamed Borgan, Mousa Alharbi, and Wilson Zehr
Warehouse Storage Optimization, Abdussalam Alawini, Abrahim Sater, Ashok Bhatla, Mohamed Borgan, and Mohammad Mansour
Microsoft TV - Marketing Plan, Abdussalam Alawini, Dinesh Soysa, Yin Liu, and Wilson Zehr
Green BIM Adoption,an Agile Approach, Abdussalam Alawini, Napong Tanatammatorn, and David Tucker
Development of an Objective Motor Score for Monitoring the Progression and Severity of Parkinson's Disease, Timothy W. Albers
Perceptions and Voices of South Sudanese About the North-South Sudan Conflict, Machar Wek Aleu-Baak
Feasibility of Using Liquid Chemicals vs. Solid Chemicals in the Drilling Fluids, Mousa Alharbi, Aparna Balasubramanian, Mohamed Burgan, Zakariya Khalifa, Emad Razzaghi, Rajasree Talla, and Rajesh Talla
Diamond Nanoprobe Tips Demonstrate Succcess in Nanomanufacturing, Mousa R. Alharbi
Marketing Plan: Garmin HUD Accessory, Shahin Alijany, Chris Imondi, Matt Trippel, and Mouhamad Zaher
Trigo, Shahin Alijany, Jon Mcannis, and Mouhamad Zaher
How Workspace Design Affects Communication Rate: A Case Study, Yasser Alizadeh, Mouhamad Zaher, Shahin Alijany, and Valesca Walesko
High Mobility Group Protein 1 (HMGB1) And Its Role As A Global Transcription Regulator In Response To Temperature Fluctuations In The Annual Killifish Austrofundulus limnaeus, Victoria Martin Alla
Leveraging Weigh-In-Motion (WIM) Data to Estimate Link-Based Heavy-Duty Vehicle Emissions, Heba Naguib Alwakiel