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Submissions from 2007
Examining the Project Life Cycle for the New Portland State Recreation Center, Bertha Jimenez, Kednapa Malidang, Maryam Norouzi, Min-Jeong Cho, Ramkumar Ashokkumar, and Robin Dorociak
Earned Value Management and its Complementary Counterpart: Earned Schedule, Bulent Kamali and Felix Nkansah
Family Participation : Exploring the Role it Plays in Outcomes for Youth with Serious Emotional Disorders, Jodi Lee Kerbs
Cultural Impact on Project Management, Rabah Khamis, Osman Osman, Dan Itkis, Haitham Al-Turkestani, and Abdullah Binsaeed
Building Construction Project Management, Stephen Knewitz, Songwut Jindrapacha, Clarence Forrest, Lewis Hong, Mahad Barkhadle, and Napabhaj Cheeparranai
Beyond the Classroom Walls: a Study of Out-Of-Class English Use by Adult Community College ESL Students, Tracey Louise Knight
ReVisioning : a Theoretical Model of Teachers' Career Choices, Wendi Bain Laurence
Ultra Reliable Computing Systems, Chong Ho Lee
Riparian Shade Assessment and Restoration Priorities Analysis in the Damascus Urban Growth Boundary Expansion Area, Robin K. Leferink
Innovation of International Engineering Team, Ming Li
Global Civil Society Finding Collective Voice in Diversity, Kristen Marie Magis
A Study of the iPod as a Killer Application for the Music Industry, Tariq Majid
An Examination of Faculty Experiences with Hybrid Formats, Jo Elsa Meyertons
Prediction of Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis from Psychosocial Questionnaires, Scott David Mist
"Creative Interpretation and Fluidity in a Rights Framework": the Intersection of Domestic Violence and Human Rights in the United States, Karen Lynn Morgaine
Thailand - Technology Strategy for 2020, Songphon Munkongsujarit
Graduate Teaching Assistants' Statistical Knowledge for Teaching, Jennifer Ann Noll
Imperium Superesse: Aristocratic Survival in Late-Antique Gaul, Noah D. Olson
Westside Trail Feasibility Study: An Analysis of Opportunities and Constraints, Amanda Owings, Kate Lyman, Kim Voros, Paul Herman Wachana, Ted Reid, and Tomoko Kanai
Microbial Biosignatures in High-Iron Thermal Springs, Mary Nichole Parenteau
Up from Under the Kyffhäuser: Reassessing Frederick Barbarossa's Motivations and Death on the Third Crusade, Martin Patail
Seasonal Changes in Allocation, Growth, and Photosynthetic Responses of the Submersed Macrophyte Egeria densa Planch. (Hydrocharitaceae) from Oregon and California, Toni Garrett Pennington
Pathos, Fall 2007, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
Pathos, Spring 2007, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
Arbella Stuart: Royal Birth, Noble Exile, and Her Claim to the English Succession, Nick Walden Poublon