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Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Community Benchmarks: An Analysis of Performance Measurements in Urban Planning Management, Susan Joan Daluddung
Technology Push Innovations and the so-called “Market Need”, Maria del Rocio and Nava Rodriguez
Wavelet Based Feature Extraction and Dimension Reduction for the Classification of Human Cardiac Electrogram Depolarization Waveforms, Christopher S. De Voir
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
Public Opinion, the Media, and Environmental Policy: Agenda-Setting, Framing, and Maintaining the Status Quo, Jonela Rae Estes
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
Opal Creek : The Framing of a Policy Controversy, James Floyd
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