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Knowledge Management Practices In Banking Industry, Agu Ibe and Daniel Ikechi
International Meeting Conflicts, Fahad Jan, Hai Huynh, and JingYang Zhang
Police Organizations : an Empricial Examination of American Sheriff's Offices and Municipal Police Agencies, Matthew Adam Jones
Food Cartology: Rethinking Urban Spaces as People Places, Hannah Kapell, Peter Katon, Amy Koski, Jingping Li, Colin Price, and Karen Thalhammer
Imagine 82nd, Jamison Kelleher, Sue Lewis, Daniel Pauly, Steven L. Szigethy, and Kenya D. Williams
Focus on the Present, Scarify the Future and Its Consequences, Avishai Kepten
Creating a Theoretical Framework for Understanding Homeland security using Multiple Frame Analysis, Linda Ann Kiltz
Scheduling of Coast Guard Command Center Watchstanders, Helen Kim, Karen Pamintuan, Wan-Hsiu Cheng, and Yu-Hsiang Lin
Children with Incarcerated Parents : a Longitudinal Study of the Effect of Parental Incarceration on Adolescent Externalizing Behaviors, Jean Mollenkamp Kjellstrand
Software Command Center, Jyoti Kolhe, Chris McGinnis, and Michael Ross
Traumatic Experience Scale for Jurors (TESJ), Michael James Krummel
Emerging Governance at the Edge of Constrained Federalism : Public Administrators at the Frontier of Democracy, Gary Lloyd Larsen
George Lakoff"s Theory of Worldview : a Case Study of the Oregon Legislature, Catherine Law
Columbia River Crossing Can We Afford It? Effects of Current Economic Realities on CRC Tolling, Matthew Letts, Chang Lung Lin, Nathaniel Jarpa, Dhanabal Krishnaswamy, and Thomas Torres
Window Queries Over Data Streams, Jin Li
Team 7: Self Diagnosis, Paul Liner, Eyad Bakhsh, Wajdi Ismail, and Rahul Valsan
Physicians Providing Alternative Medicine: Boundary Crossing and the Emergence of Integrative Medicine, Richard Scott Lockwood
Who Benefits? : a Multilevel Analysis of the Impact of Oregon's Volunteer Mentor Program for Postsecondary Access on Scholarship Applicants, Alisha Ann Lund-Chaix
Retention of Special Education Professionals : Perceptions of Principal Support, Laurreta Janette Manning
Developing a Sense of Academic Ownership : a Longitudinal Analysis, Gwen Catherine Marchand
Organizational Change in Corrections Organizations : the Effect of Probation and Parole Officer Culture on Change in Community Corrections, Shea Brackin Marshman
Coupling the Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model CE-QUAL-W2 With a Multi-Trophic Fish Bio-Energetics Model for Lake Roosevelt, Washington, Michael Lee McKillip