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Theses/Dissertations from 2008
The Reproductive and Conservation Biology of the spotted towhee in Urban Forest Fragments, Sarah Bartos Smith
The MPEG-4 Push: A Replacement Analysis for Content Distributors, Ganesh Subramanian, Haitham Al-Turkestani, Jay Justice, Khalid Marghalani, Marwan Lingga, and Mukundan Thirumalai
Representation without Taxation : China's Rural Development Initiatives For a New Millenium, Minzi Su
How Organizational Arrangements Affect High Reliability in Public Research Universities: Perceptions of environmental Health and Safety Directors, Rita Finn Sumner
Final Report: Hybrid Car Selection, Ahmed Ba Surrah, Byung Chul Choi, Kenny Phan, Phakphoom Chuengparsitporn, Qian Gu, Sarah Griffis, and Songphon Munkongsujarit
Challenging the New Penology: A Case-Study Analysis of Correctional Management, Interstate Inmate Transfers, and Administrative Intent, Robert Thomas Swan
Students' Reasoning about the Concept of Limit in the Context of reinventing the Formal Definition, Craig Alan Swinyard
Global Virtual Teams, Rajesh Talla, Rajasree Rammamurthy, Yu-Hsiang Lin, Lifeng Liu, and Srilatha Kothapally
Financial Engineering for Energy System Capital Budgeting, Chin-Chuen Teoh
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): How IT Tools are Impacting Communication in Virtual Teams, Tiffani Torgeson, Michael Getman, and Jeff Belding
The PMI Pandemonium: A Critical Review of the PMI Phenomenon, Venice Tunnitisupawong, John Easton, Meghana Rao, Pattravadee Ploykitikoon, Ferra Wahyuni, and Bruce Irby
The Child Care Self-Sufficiency Scale: Measuring Child Care Funding and Policy Generosity across States, Karen Tvedt
"Sustainable Development": Critical Concepts in Geography, Tyler Vick
A Study of Some of the Greatest Challenges Currently Facing Today's Corporations: Team 10 Final Project Report, Erin Wakefield, Ibrahim Iskin, Lone Seboni, Moath Alghamdi, and Nuttavut Intarode
Nanostructered Aminophenylporphyrin Films for Use in Bulk Heterojunction and Inverse Dye-Sensitized TiO₂ Solar Cells, Michael George Walter
Enhancing Dynamic Capabilities with Complexity Leadership, Kelly Waugh
The Washington State Patrol, Accountability-Driven Leadership, and the Organizational Factors that Propelled their Success: An Organizational Analysis, Timothy Carl Winchell
Coming to Know (In) This Place Called Home: Teaching and Learning Sustainability at Portland Community College, Karen Elizabeth Wolfgang
Design of Radio-Frequency Filters and Oscillators in Deep-Submicron CMOS Technology, Haiqiao Xiao
Methodology for Developing a Functional Multiscale Architecture Model System Towards Future Integrated Circuits, Yamini Yadov
Scheduling in Small Construction Companies, Youngkoo Yoan, Wajdi Ismail, Wajeeh Hallaj, Daniel Campean, and Ganesh Subramanian
Team Project Report "Virtual Multicultural Teams", Youngkoo Yoon, Roberto Artiga, Helen Kim, Karen B. Pamintuan, and David Sibanda
Intimate Partner Violence, Supervisor Support and Work Outcomes for Low-Wage Workers, Nanette Lucia Yragui
CMOL/CMOS Hardware Architectures and Performance/price for Bayesian Memory - The Building Block of Intelligent Systems, Mazad Shaheriar Zaveri