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Theses/Dissertations from 2010
"Heaven's Last, Worst Gift to White Men": The Quadroons of Antebellum New Orleans, Erin Elizabeth McCullugh
Who Am I? Well, It Depends: How Frame-of-Reference Imposes Context In Non-Contextualized Personality Inventories, Elizabeth Anne McCune
Nano Adhesion Technology, Dan Meador, Pranabesh Dash, Rahulkumar Sadanand Koche, Yonghee Cho, and Nuttavut Intarode
Decision Model to Select the Best House, Dan Meador, Marwan Mossa Lingga, Ding Sihua, Shawn Jiang, and Ryan Fedie
Molecular Changes Associated with Anoxia Tolerance in Austrofundulus limnaeus embryos, Camie Lynn Meller
Personality Types and Cultural Background: How They Affect the Team Dynamics, Jason Meng, Thomas Lin, Philip Kuglin, Scott Ferre, Mukundan Thirumalai, and Mouhamad Zaher
Spatial Segregation of the Sexes in a Salt Marsh Grass Distichlis spicata (Poaceae), Charlene Ashley Mercer
Library Characterization and Static Timing Analysis of Single-Track Circuits in GasP, Swetha Mettala Gilla
The Function of an Alternate TFB from Pyrococus furiosus and the Orientation of the TFB B-reader within Archaeal Transcription Initiation Complexes, Michael Micorescu
Fundamental Studies in Selective Wet Etching and Corrosion Processes for High-Performance Semiconductor Devices, Nabil George Mistkawi
Scalable event tracking on high-end parallel systems, Kathryn Marie Mohror
S-Nitrosothiols: Formation, Decomposition, Reactivity and Possible Physiological Effects, Moshood Kayode Morakinyo
The Multicultural Family Learning Gardens at the Learning Gardens Laboratory: An Investigation of Community Collaboration, Madelyn Mickelberry Morris
Public opinion and public engagement with genetically modified foods : a qualitative study, Celeste Laurana Moser
Participatory Action Research with Dignity Village: an Action Tool for Empowerment within a Homeless Community, Heather Irene Mosher
Booster Shaker Elixir Dispensing Machine, Richard Mosier, Ibrahim Iskin, Nuancharas Phopoonsak, and Yu-Hsiang Lin
Google's Technology Strategy, Mamatha Murthy, Priti Maheshwari, Aarthi Neethirajan, Jubin Upadhyay, Dinesh Soysa, and Neb Tadesse
Why Teams Fail? And How to Prevent It, Jamshid Nafisi, Shahrokh Eshghi, Nick Wallace, Shahin Alijany, and Ori Wolman
Modeling Terahertz Diffuse Scattering from Granular Media Using Radiative Transfer Theory, Kyung Moon Nam
Coal to Oil in China: Scientific Development or Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones?, Joseph John Narus
The MicroPIVOT : an Integrated Particle Image Velocimeter and Optical Tweezers Instrument for Microscale Investigations, Nathalie Neve de Mevergnies
The Imprint of Foucault’s The Order of Things on the Works of François Jacob, Harry Newcomb
Mobile 3D- “3D Development Growth & Integration”, Stephen Noble and Akhilesh Dwivedi
3D Technology Roadmap, Stephen Noble, Mark Krampits, Matthew Letts, and Angie Baltz
Understanding & Managing Project Group Dynamics, Stephen Noble, Nadja Wolfangel, Justus Arne Schwarz, Trevor Combs, James Eastham, and Joe Smith