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"L'Affaire des Princes": Baroque Architecture and Factional Politics in Regency Paris, 1715-1723, Jordan Hallmark
Anisotropy of the Reynolds Stress Tensor in the Wakes of Counter-Rotating Wind Turbine Arrays, Nicholas Michael Hamilton
Implementation of a Sediment Transport Model for CE-QUAL-W2, Rachel Hanna
Traversing the United States-Mexico Border: Gender and Kinship in Migrant Families, Patrick S. Harhai
Stories of Success: Understanding Academic Achievement of Hispanic Students in Science, Amanda Harris
Assessing Generic and Program-Specific Dose-Response Relations Between Engagement in Contemplative Practices and Reductions in Teachers' Occupational Stress and Burnout, Jessica Leigh Harrison
Alexander's Empire, Sema Hasan
Training Set Design for Test Removal Classication in IC Test, Nagarjun Hassan Ranganath
Language as a Tool: The Use of Arabic in Spain Under Islamic Rule, Madeline B. Hauenstein
Gender Complex Curriculum for the Portland Public School District: Proposal, Kathryn Hayes
Benchtop Minimal-Intervention Anaerobic Digestion of Vegetarian Food Waste for pH and Methane Production: Conceivability and Control Study, Emily J. Heleva-Ponaski
"Vitalité": Race Science and Jews in France 1850-1914, Kendra Beth Hendrickson
Rebirth and the Body: CA Conrad and The Book of Frank, Sean Hennessey
Stream Temperature Management in the Tualatin Watershed: Is it Improving Salmonid Habitat?, Raymond Banks Hennings
Occurrence of Synthetic Amino-Polycarboxylate Chelating Compounds in Oregon Surface Waters, Nathan A. Hersey
Strontium, Lead, and Oxygen Isotopic Signatures of Mid-Miocene Silicic Volcanism in Eastern Oregon, Emily Nancy Hess
Spindle Shaped Virus (SSV) : Mutants and Their Infectivity, Thien Hoang
Fig : A List Of Eight Unclean Animals, Heather Napualani Hodges
The Antimalarial Activity of PL74: A Pyridine-Based Drug Candidate, Cheryl Anne Hodson Shirley
"Russia is a European State" : Gender and Publicity in Early Imperial Russia, William Forrest Holden
Seasonal and Sex Differences in the Effects of Melatonin on Brain Arginine Vasotocin in Green Treefrogs (Hyla cinerea): Relationship to Melatonin Receptor 1a, Christina Marie Howard
Electrohydrodynamic Thrusters: An Examination of the Biefeld-Brown Effect and its Influence on its Surroundings, Cameron Howell
Selected Critiques of the Philosophical Underpinnings of the Neoclassical School, Thomas Howell
Scheduling Supervisors for Camp Yakety Yak Using a Binary Program, Michelle Hribar