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Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Using Turbidity Monitoring and LiDAR-Derived Imagery to Investigate Sources of Suspended Sediment in the Little North Santiam River Basin, Oregon, Winter 2009-2010, Steven Sobieszczyk
Growing Zenger Farm, Turhan Sonmez, Elizabeth Milner, Stacey Glenewinkel, and Kate Carone
Transformative Teacher Evaluation: Self Evaluation for High Performing Teachers, Carla Ann Sosanya-Tellez
An Exploratory Research Model for Managing the Front End of Innovation Under Uncertainty Using Ordinal Regression, Richard C. Sperry
Assessing Strategic Intent in the Context of Competition and Absorptive Capacity, Richard Chad Sperry
Leo Strauss and the Problem of Sein: The Search for a "Universal Structure Common to All Historical Worlds", Jennifer Renee Stanford
Current Situations and Roles of the Portland hoshuukoo: From the Perspective of Heritage Japanese Education, Keiko Sugiue
What's Next for Dirgantara Indonesia (Indonesian Aerospace)?, Yulianto Suharto
Storage Technology Portfolio Assessment for Integrating Wind Power Generation in the BPA Power Plan, Yulianto Suharto, Yonghee Cho, and Greg Bourque
Employee Empowerment: Can it be Used to Increase Company Performance?, Yulianto Suharto, Yi-Lung Hsieh, Maribel Villanueva, Ho-Min Lai, and Yu-Hsiang Lin
Expressive Motion Synthesis for Robot Actors in Robot Theatre, Mathias I. Sunardi
Numerical Modeling of Electromagnetic Scattering in Explosive Granular Media, Garth Sundberg
The Development of Embedded DRAM Statistical Quality Models at Test and Use Conditions, Satoshi Suzuki
Terahertz Technology, Wahaj Tahir
Effectiveness Analysis and Techniques for Improving Cross-Functional Engineering Design Teams, Napong Tanatammatorn, Larry Ball, Oko Davaasuren, and Thomas Torres
Team Process Report, Napong Tanatammatorn, Larry Ball, Oko Davaasuren, and Thomas Torres
Broadcast Mechanism for improving Conditional Branch Prediction in Speculative Multithreaded Processors, Renjith Thankappan Achary Retnamma
Project Management Tools Employed in Various Industries, Mukundan Thirumalai, Nitin Katarya, and Neelu Singh
Rashomon Comes to the Courtroom: the Adoption of the Lay Judge System in Japan, Its Impact on Jurisprudence, and the Implications for Civic Engagement, Bryan Matthew Thompson
Limitation Riders in the Postreform House: A Test of Procedural Cartel and Conditional Party Government Theories, Jessica Scott Tollestrup
Policy Responses to the Closure of Manufactured Home Parks in Oregon, Andrée Tremoulet
Comparison of Microshear Bond Strength and Morphological Changes Between Active and Passive Application of 4th Generation Etch-and-Rinse Etchant on Enamel, Sophia Tuyet-Nhi Trieu
Light Trapping Photovoltaics, Matthew Trippel
The Marijuana Proscription: The State of Cannabis Knowledge in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century U.S., Dylan Thomas Trosper
François Jacob (1920-2013). Statue intérieure. English -- Criticism and interpretation, Lindsay Tucker