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Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Community Development for a White City: Race Making, Improvementism, and the Cincinnati Race Riots and Anti-Abolition Riots of 1829, 1836, and 1841, Silas Niobeh Crowfoot
Designing Exhibits For Gender Equity, Toni Nicole Dancu
Spousal Crossover Effects of Job Demands on Health, Rachel Jane Daniels
Energy Wiz Spray-on PV for Solar Windows: The Marketing Plan, Karen Dasmarinas
A Library and its Community: Exploring Perceptions of Collaboration, Phoebe Vincenza Daurio
Current Assessment and Treatment Practices for Children with Autism and Suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech: A Survey of Speech-Language Pathologists, Elsa Jayne Dawson
The Creative Use of Dance/Movement Therapy Processes to Transform Intrapersonal Conflicts Associated with Sexual Trauma in Women, Emily Fern Dayton
Hydrologic Data Assimilation: State Estimation and Model Calibration, Caleb Matthew DeChant
Activism and Identity: How Korea's Independence Movement Shaped the Korean Immigrant Experience in America, 1905-1945, Sara Elizabeth Deede
Decision Model for Selection of Technologies to Reduce IT Operations Energy Cost in a Mid Size Firm, Robert DeLay, Lokesh Honnappa, Vorakarn Chiamsiri, Dinesh Soysa, and Yonghee Cho
Securing SaaS, Robert DeLay, Chih-Hsun Lin, Fei Huang, and Sashvat Sai
General Purpose GPUs in High Performance Computing, Brian Delgado and Nelson Ijih
Evolutionary Dynamics in Molecular Populations of Ligase Ribozymes, Carolina Diaz Arenas
Thermodynamic Effects of 5' and 3' Single Strand Dangling Ends on Short Duplex DNA, Rebekah Dickman
Puppet Theater in the German-Speaking World, Connor Bartlett Doe
Assessing Portland's Smart Growth: A Comprehensive Housing Supply and Location Choice Modeling Approach, Hongwei Dong
Symmetric Near-Field Probe Design and Comparison to Asymmetric Probes, Jeffrey Jon Doughty
Hierarchical Image Analysis and Characterization of Scaling Effects in Remote Sensing, Craig David Ducey
Technology Roadmap for Electric Vehicle Charging Network in Oregon, Akhilesh Dwivedi, Chintan Jain, and Fredy Gomez
Project Management of Global Project Teams, Aaron Edelman, John Elliot, Majed Alahmadi, R. D. Mosier, Rubyna K. Brenden, and Yulianto Suharto
An Economic Evaluation of Asphalt Pavement Rehabilitation Alternatives, Aaron Edelman, Chih-Hsun Lin, Ho-Min Lai, and Yulianto Suharto
A Risk Management System for Think Bot, Incorporated, Aaron Edelman, Jamshid Nafisi, Majed Alahmadi, Saranya Sethu Pragasam, and Sihua Ding
Down the Drain: A Story of Sewage, Lisa Ekman
Exploring Prehistoric Salmon Subsistence in the Willamette Valley using Zooarchaeological Records and Optimal Foraging Theory, J. Tait Elder
HP Slate Marketing Plan, John Elliot, Claudiu Rusnac, Yasser Alizadeh, and Gaurav Sonny Katoch