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Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Occurrence and Concentrations of Caffeine in Seawater from the Oregon Coast and Potential Effects on the Dominant Mussel, Mytilus californianus, Zoe Rodriguez del Rey
Room for Me, Crystal Lynn Root
Knowledge Management and Cryptography from a Historical Perspective, Claudiu Rusnac
Production, Characterization and Possible Applications of Monoclonal Antibodies Generated against Toluene Diisocyanate-conjugated Proteins, Tinashe Blessing Ruwona
Investigating Freeway Speed-Flow Relationships for Traffic Assignment Applications, Meead Saberi Kalaee
Child Welfare Workforce Turnover: Frontline Workers' Experiences with Organizational Culture and Climate, and Implications for Organizational Practice, Melanie Dawn Sage
"Real Americanism" : resistance to the Oregon Compulsory School Bill, 1920-1925, Catherine Marie Saks
Predictors of Family-Supportive Supervisor Behaviors: Supervisor Job Stress and Work-Family Climate, Brittany E. Sale
Preserving Individual Privacy While Implementing Data Mining Techniques, Maria Schenk
Group Project -- Sony 3DHD TV: "Living the Experience", Justus Arne Schwarz, Stephen Noble, Jesus Martinez, and Shahrokh Eshghi
Design of Regular Reversible Quantum Circuits, Dipal Shah
Jadidism's Imperial Context: the Russian Empire and Muslim Reformers, 1837-1907, Joshua Shannon-Chastain
Use of Hierarchical Decision Model to Select Target Markets for New Personal Health Care Device, Nasir Sheikh
New Product Development: Amorphous Silicon Thin Film PV, Nasir Jamil Sheikh, Naresh Bokka, Rekha Rasiah, Greg Bourque, Rocco Natale, and Rabah Khamis
British Telecom: An EFQM Case Study, Nasir Sheikh and Rupha Natarajan
Barriers in Knowledge Transfer with Virtual Teams, Jayanth Siddappa
Supplemental Power from Solar Panels, Jayanth Siddappa, Rafael Colon, Chenxi Yan, and Philip Kuglin
Less is More in Microblogging, Alisa Sirisakulong
Economic Evaluation of Power Transmission System Project Alternatives, Alisa Sirisakulong, Bailey Nguyen, Peter Jones, Sutheera Hengcharoen, and Xiaoping Hopkins
Beyul Khumbu: Sherpa Constructions of a Sacred Landscape, Lindsay Ann Skog
Performance Analysis of Hybrid CPU/GPU Environments, Michael Shawn Smith
Beyond the "Stalled Revolution": Stay-at-Home Fathers, Gender Identity and the Division of Household Labor, Aundrea Janae Snitker
A Comparison of Single Word Identification, Connected Speech Samples, and Imitated Sentence Tasks for Assessment of Children with a SSD, Emily Katherine Snyder