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Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Long Form Improvisation - Creating Spontaneous Communities Through Collaborative Comedic Performance, Brad Fortier
The Imago mundi of Honorius Augustodunensis, Nicholas Ryan Foster
The Effects of Climate Change and Urbanization on the Runoff of the Rock Creek Basin, Jon J. Franczyk
Hardware Architectures and Implementations for Associative Memories : the Building Blocks of Hierarchically Distributed Memories, Changjian Gao
Statistical Analysis for Groundwater / Surface Water Interaction at a Drinking Water Well, John Garlitz
Western Juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) Ecology with an Exercise in Remote Sensing Techniques, Elizabeth A. Goralski
Parkido: Parking, Whenever You Want, Stuart Graham, Willi Schweinfort, Nathaniel Jarpa, and Timothy Dykstra
Bin Half Full: Construction Waste Recycling Solutions, Mary L. Grothaus, Melissa Johnston, Shaun Roland, Christina Skellenger, and Amy Twilegar
Development of Clinical Judgment in Nursing Students: A Learning Framework to use in Designing and Implementing Simulated Learning Experiences, Paula Marie Gubrud-Howe
Multi-Level Environmental Governance : a Comparative Case Study of Five Large Scale Natural Resource Management Programs, Shpresa Halimi
DTNA CCI Project Selection Analyzer, Wajeeh Hallaj, Meghana Rao, Tiffani Torgeson, and Jim Brossard
Sustainability From the Perspectives of Indigenous Leaders in the Bioregion Defined by the Pacific Salmon Runs of North America, David Edward Hall
The Original Build Up of Genetic Information by RNA Recombination, Eric John Hayden
At Home in the World : the American Middle-Class House as a Twenty-First Century Public Square, Kathleen Holt
Theoretical Investigations and Microarray Applications of DNA multiplex hybridization reactions, Michael Todd Horne
OSAA : Reclassify the football leagues, Chiao Yu Huang and Ho-Min Lai
Beaverton School District Parent Teacher Conferences (Interpretation Request Optimization), Wally Huang, LiFeng Liu, Srilatha Kothapally, and Fei Huang
From Individual to Team: A Personality Perception, Noda Huynh, Songphon Munkongsujarit, Marius Brand, and John Easton
Group Faultline Theory - A Study with Respect to Five Cultural Dimensions, Noda Huynh, Songphon Munkongsujarit, Marius Brand, and John Easton
Knowledge Management Practices In Banking Industry, Agu Ibe and Daniel Ikechi
International Meeting Conflicts, Fahad Jan, Hai Huynh, and JingYang Zhang
Police Organizations : an Empricial Examination of American Sheriff's Offices and Municipal Police Agencies, Matthew Adam Jones
Food Cartology: Rethinking Urban Spaces as People Places, Hannah Kapell, Peter Katon, Amy Koski, Jingping Li, Colin Price, and Karen Thalhammer