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Cross Cultural Teams and Projects: Issues and Trends from 1990 to Now, Deana Dow, Michelle Tangen-Simpson, Bjoern Bierl, and Dan Mak
Women in Technology Management: A Look at Glass Ceiling Barriers and Applications for Diversity Management, Barbara Dusicka, Marie Ottum, Kayoko Mito, Chen (Cedar) Wang, and Wen-Hsuan (Lynn) Jen
Female Inmates Perspectives on Incarceration and Correctional Education at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, Clara Guadalupe Ellis
Envision Park Place Neighborhood: Public Involvement for the Concept Plan, Sonoko Endo, Masud Hasan, Lake McTighe, Ryan Marquardt, Tom Moes, and Linda Murphy
E-CON: Video Conferencing Application, Guvenc Eren, Wutisak Pinpakdee, and Papoj Pharsukdee
Video Conferencing, Guvenc Eren, Wutisak Pinpakdee, and Papoj Pharsukdee
Strategic Plan for Rfid, Inc, Daniel Everding, Chad Moore, and Jin Su Lee
Competence Enhancement, Bianca Fazekas
Simulations Can Shape Strategies, Bianca Fazekas
Fuel Cells: Development and Management Issues Within the Automotive Industry, Diane Ferington, Daniel Hannemann, Stephen Knewitz, Swapna Mathivanan, and Sharanya Reddy
The Urban Grind: Skateparks - Neighborhood Perceptions and Planning Realities, Ellie Fiore, Sarah Heinicke, Beth Ragel, and Laura Weigel
Revisiting Invasion-Succession: Social Relations in a Gentrifying Neighborhood, Lynda Franks
Forest Resource Use, Land-Use, and Ecotourism in the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras, Christina Marie Friedle
The Friendship Group Motivational System: Naturally-Occurring Resources and Liabilities During the Transition to High School, Carrie Jeanne Furrer
Reorganizing the Oregon Department of Human Services : an Exploratory Case Study of Organizational Change, Charles Anthony Gallia
The Value of Project Management, Joseph F. Genduso
Digital Divide between Developed & Developing Economies, Karteek Gopisetty and Karthik Yalamanchili
Innovations in the Field of Cell Phones, Satish Kumar Gottimukkala
An Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change on the Upper Clackamas River Basin with a Distributed Hydrologic Model, David Graves
Communication related risk management in diverse and distributed project teams, Dave Gray, Irfan Khawaja, Papoj Pharsukdee, Gagandeep Singh, and Sarabjeet Waraich
Open Source Software for Commercial Off-The-Shelf GPS Receivers, Andrew Greenberg
Development and Validation of the Sustainability Climate Survey, David Edward Hall
Power2GO SolarSheet, Don Hallum, Goutham Ketineni, Khalfan AlMuhairi, and Mathias Sunardi
Power2GO SolarSheet, Don Hallum, Goutham Ketineni, Khalfan AlMuhairi, and Mathias Sunardi
Highway Interchanges, Transportation and Land Use: An Exploration of Changes in Transportation Volumes and Land Use Factors within Interchange Catchments, Matthew Hampton