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Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Motivational processes involved in academic help seeking and help avoidance, Gwen Catherine Marchand
Project Management Support Office in Washington County, Carrie Martin
Comparing Twenty-Four Years of Forest Change in Two Communities of Mexico's Meseta Purépecha Using Multi-Spectral Satellite Imagery, Kevin Scott Martin
Win2K Migration Project at OHSU, Kuli Mavuwa, Daniel Everding, Jisun Kim, Liju Oommen, and Surachet Panomtham
Mirchi Data Management, Liju Oommen, Michael Wright, Samarjit Singh, and Sivakumar Thuraiyur
Capabilities Collaboration Platform: An Alternative Model for Small Business Development, Juan Carlos Ospina
Team Report 1: The Influence of Individual and Group Dynamics on Performance Expectations in Cross-Cultural Teams, Kevin Oursler, Mathias I. Sunardi, Jin Su Lee, and Don Hallum
Inkjet Printer Evaluation: Data Envelopment Analysis, Kritchai Paungchomphu and Adisorn Tuntikul
Risk Factors for Pre-Post Monsoon Cholera Epidemics in Bangladesh from 1992-1994, Rhonda Rae Robb
Nurturing the Development of Teacher Change Agents Within a Teacher Education Program, Barbara Ruben
The Use of Work Breakdown Structure in Project Management, Halime Sarihan and Gorken Mimioglu
Successful Online Course Retention at Marylhurst University Constructing a Model for Online Course Retention Using Grounded Theory, Vincent Schreck
Contested Visions of Place: People, Power, and Perception on the Columbia's North Shore, 1805-1913, Donna Lynn Sinclair
The Holocene History of Bison in the Intermountain West: A Synthesis of Archaeological and Paleontological Records from Eastern Oregon, Nicole Anne Stutte
Third Extrusion Project: Project Analysis, Ingrid Suarez
Applying the Transtheoretical Model to Cigarette Smoking by Pregnant and Parenting Adolescent Females, Barbara Mary Sussex
Environmental Gradients, Community Boundaries, and Disturbance the Darlingtonia Fens of Southwestern Oregon, Deborah A. Tolman
Mobile Commerce, Pei Wang
Optimization of Navy Recruiting District Portland, Joel Wilson, Gabriella Nolivos, and Vinh Tran
Management Implications of Outsourcing Technical Jobs, Elmer Wong, Jason Brigham, Neil Brown, and Sung Han
Oracle: Strategic Policy and Issue Report, Elmer Wong, Jason Brigham, Neil Brown, and Sung Han
Compositional and mineralogical relationships between mafic inclusions and host lavas as key to andesite petrogenesis at Mount Hood Volcano, Oregon, Melinda Michelle Woods
An Inventory Management Model and Inventory Optimization, Tolga Yakar
Submissions from 2003
Kodak – Cooperate Strategy & Policy issues: PowerPoint Presentation, Bassam Abu-Khater, Turki Alsudiri, Farooq Chandiwalla, Dave Fenwick, and Alexei Ivanov
The Effects of Chinese Business Culture on Production Quality, Bassam Abu-Khater, Turki Alsudiri, Farooq Chandiwalla, Dave Fenwick, Alexei Ivanov, and Samir Said