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Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The Moderating Effect of Role Quality on the Relationship between Work-Family Conflict and Well-Being: A Longitudinal Study, Jenna Risa LeComte-Hinely
A Wind River Romance, Megan Breen Leigh
Optimizing the Number of WiMAX Antennas, Matthew Letts, Mark Krampits, Rabah Khamis, and Fahad Aldhaban
An Automata-Theoretic Approach to Hardware/Software Co-verification, Juncao Li
Enhancing the Power of Battery, Donggyu Lim and Ibrahim Iskin
Vizio Inc. Product Development Process, Donggyu Lim, Mark Krampits, Matthew Letts, Nitin Katarya, and Tom Shott
Practical Type Inference for the GADT Type System, Chuan-kai Lin
Forecasting U.S. Automobile Sales, Tung-Lung Li and Ying Liu
Team Process Report: Team #2, Ke Liu, Claudiu Rusnac, Andy Vosper, and Russell Watt
Theodore Roosevelt on Labor Unions: A New Perspective, Louis B. Livingston
Vertical Noise Structure and Target Detection Performance in Deep Ocean Environments, Zizheng Li
Between Non-intervention and Protection: A study on the case of Darfur and the Responsibility to Protect, David Ryan Lucas
Sour Grapes While You're Down and Out: Self-Serving Bias and Applicant Attributions for Test Performance, Kyle Garret Mack
Guild's Lake Courts : an impermanent housing project, Tanya Lyn March
PSU Options: Private, Public or Semi-Public?, Jesus Martinez and Parisa Ghafoori
The Effects of Animals on Children's Development of Perspective-Taking Abilities, Mika Maruyama
A Rabbi in the Progressive Era: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Ph.D. and the Rise of Social Jewish Progressivism in Portland, Or, 1900-1906, Mordechai Ben Massart
Team Project -- BlackBerry and iPhone: Corporate Strategies, Jon McAnnis, Shahin Alijany, Mouhamad Zaher, Yonghee Cho, and Philip Kuglin
"Heaven's Last, Worst Gift to White Men": The Quadroons of Antebellum New Orleans, Erin Elizabeth McCullugh
Who Am I? Well, It Depends: How Frame-of-Reference Imposes Context In Non-Contextualized Personality Inventories, Elizabeth Anne McCune
Nano Adhesion Technology, Dan Meador, Pranabesh Dash, Rahulkumar Sadanand Koche, Yonghee Cho, and Nuttavut Intarode
Decision Model to Select the Best House, Dan Meador, Marwan Mossa Lingga, Ding Sihua, Shawn Jiang, and Ryan Fedie
Molecular Changes Associated with Anoxia Tolerance in Austrofundulus limnaeus embryos, Camie Lynn Meller
Personality Types and Cultural Background: How They Affect the Team Dynamics, Jason Meng, Thomas Lin, Philip Kuglin, Scott Ferre, Mukundan Thirumalai, and Mouhamad Zaher
Spatial Segregation of the Sexes in a Salt Marsh Grass Distichlis spicata (Poaceae), Charlene Ashley Mercer