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Analysis of Persistent Firefighting, Mayur Jagtap
First Season Effects of Managed Flooding on the Invasive Species Phalaris arundinacea L. And Shoreline Vegetation Communities in an Urban Wetland, Noah John Jenkins
An Innovation which Provides Better Place to Work: Telework, Rupali Kadgi
Predicting Passenger Aircraft Introductions, 1950s-2005 Technique: Technology Forecasting Using Data Envelopment Analysis, Bulent Kamali, Cesar Castilla, Suzanne Ward, and Wen-Hsuan Jen
Offshore Sourcing of Information Technology (IT) – Firms Decision Making Process, Susmita Kar
The New Economy: Opportunities and Challenges, Susmita Kar
The Clerical Wife: Medieval Perceptions of Women During the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Church Reforms, Cara Lynn Kaser
Managing Strategic Outsourcing in the Healthcare Filed, Ali Katkhada
Diversity of Methanogens and other Archaea in Permanently Cold, Anoxic Marine Sediments, Melissa Mary Kendell
Product Innovation Through the Lead-User: Cascade Microtech’s Introduction of a Novel Product, Elizabeth Kennedy
Influence of Software in Diffusion and Organizational Learning, Goutham Ketineni
CNG as Alternative Fuel, Irfan Khawaja
Relocating a Dot-Com Business: Choosing a City, Changyup Kim, John Williams, Liju P. Oommen, Gagandeep Singh, and Guvenc Eren
Interrelationships of Workplace Relocations, Residential Relocations and Commuting Patterns, Chansung Kim
Fuel Model Development and Fire Simulation Analysis in the Wildland-Urban Interface: The Case of Forest Park, Portland, Oregon, David Malcolm Kuhn
IC Design house’s Management on Foundry, Ajey B. Kulkarni, Ali Katkhada, Adisorn Tuntikul, Daniel Ho, and Vinodhini Doraisamy
Outsourcing and Quality – What is in the Literature?, Ann-Marie Lamb, Karl Lander, and Richard Sperry
Roseway-Sandy Streetscape Concept Plan, Matt Lasky, Mike Tresidder, Jay Renkens, and Morgan Shook
Grocery Shopn, Tuyet Le, Eric Lin, Suwat Hattagarun, and Isil Cebeli
Grocery Shopn: Marketing Proposal, Tuyet Le, Eric Lin, Suwat Hattagarun, and Isil Cebeli
Innovation Disrupted as Employees Cope With Organizational Changes – Observations from Conexant’s Cupertino Hardware Team, Linda H. Lin
Sustaining Global Competitiveness in Software Market by Effective Strategies, Vikram Madhusudan
A Tale of Three Sisters: Reconstructing the Holocene glacial history and paleoclimate record at Three Sisters Volcanoes, Oregon, United States, Shaun Andrew Marcott
Religious Conversion in the Greco-Roman Period: A Comparison of Jewish, Pagan and Christian Narratives, Jessica A. Marsden
Humane Education: the Effects of Animals in the Classroom on Children's Empathy in Japanese Elementary Schools, Mika Maruyama