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Theses/Dissertations from 2010
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
Group Project -- OIA: “Employee Utilization Model”, Stephen Noble, Nadja Wolfangel, Justus Arne Schwarz, Tung-Lung Li, and Jiting Yang
Meditation in an Emergency, Wendy Lynn Noonan
The Design of a Novel Tip Enhanced Near-field Scanning Probe Microscope for Ultra-High Resolution Optical Imaging, Derek Brant Nowak
Globalization of Human Resource Management in a Medical Device Manufacturing Company, Sevket Can Nuhisi, Faisal Al Fayez, Maher Almasri, Badr Alyamani, and Casey Zielsdorff
Personal Photography Experience, Neil O'Connell, Chih-Hsun Lin, N. Boemo-Mokhawa, and Maria Schenk
Extraction of Small Boat Harmonic Signatures From Passive Sonar, George Lloyd Ogden
Investigation of Speech Samples from Typically Developing Preschool Age Children: A Comparison of Single Words and Imitated Sentences Elicited with the PABA-E, Matthew William Olsen
A Logic Formulation for the QCA Cell Arrangement Problem, Marc Stewart Orr
Design Space Analysis and a Novel Routing Agorithm for Unstructured Networks-on-Chip, Neha Parashar
Reversible Logic Synthesis Using a Non-blocking Order Search, Alberto Patino
Family relationship quality and acculturation: Examination of their relationship among Latino adolescent sexual offenders, Lindsey B. Patterson
Ideologies of Kingship in Thirteenth Century Scandinavia: Heimskringla and the Gesta Danorum, Ryder Patzuk-Russell
Teacher Evaluation of Item Formats for an English Language Proficiency Assessment, Jose Luis Perea-Hernandez
The Boeing Company: Strategic Management, Kenny Phan