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Theses/Dissertations from 1998
What a saint am I! : The self-canonization of Madame Jeanne-Marie Guyon in the Quietist controversy of seventeenth-century France, Jennifer Marie Lior Blacke
Training for Volunteer Teachers in Church-Affiliated English Language Mission Programs, Janet Noreen Blackwood
Opus Caementicium: My Work in Concrete, Thomas J. Botkin
Parking in Northwest: Finding a Spot in a Mix-Use Community, Scott Bricker, Colin Cooper, Jason Gately, and Tim Swope
Putting the Region to Work: an Analysis of Workforce Development Services in Multnomah and Washington Counties, Kim Burnett, Ray Jackson, Britt Parrott, Matt Ransom, and Claire Smith
Workforce Development Network Project Final Contract: Planning Workshop Fall/Winter 1997-1998, Kim Burnett, Ray Jackson, Britt Parrott, Matt Ransom, and Claire Smith
Workforce Development Network Resource Directory: a Directory of Workforce Development Service Providers in Multnomah and Washington Counties, Kim Burnett, Ray Jackson, Britt Parrott, Matt Ransom, and Claire Smith
An Analysis of the Principal Arguments in Support of a Congressional Term Limit, Paul William Cadero-Smith
A Land Use Network for the Johnson Creek Watershed, Jessica Caldwell, Joyce Felton, Elisa Redden, and Gerhard Pagenstecher
Patient-Guided Investigation of the Restoration of Health Following Traumatic Brain Injury, Nancy Ann Carney
A Feasibility Study For a New Adventure of ApparelManufacturing, D. Cavaro, Uthai Chulapongwanich, Song Ji, Sarunya Premjai, and Homero Najera
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), D. Cavaro, Nathasit Gerdsri, Blake Gibbons, Boonkiart Iewwongcharoen, and Peerasit Patanakul
A Comprehensive Analysis of Teachers' Attributional Tendencies and Gender Bias Towards Failing Students with Learning Disabilities, Polly Chalette
The Design of Cube Calculus Machine Using Sram-Based Fpga Reconfigurable Hardware Dec’s Perle-1 Board, Qihong Chen
Speech Production Patterns Following Management of Velopharyngeal Inadequacy, Debra Lynn Childs
Portland’s Prostitution-Free Zone Ordinance : The Social Construction of Prostitution as a Social Problem, Kristin Aman Christophersen
Comparison of Manufacturing Performance ofThree Team Structures in Semiconductor Plants, Uthai Chulapongwanich
A Multi-Objective Economic Model to Assess and EvaluateCapital Expenditures Associated with a Foreign Utility, Uthai Chulapongwanich, D. Jones, G. Jones, F. Hidajat, and Andreas Sunardi
The Stigma of Obesity : Beliefs About and Attitudes Toward Fat/Obese Persons, Sally Jean Clute
The Impact of Relative Gains on Interstate Cooperation in the Areas of Security and International Economy, Renato Corbetta
Enculturing Nature, William Lloyd Cornett
Critical Review of "Comparison of ManufacturingPerformance of Three Team Structures in Semiconductor Plants" - Coskun, Beril Seniz Coskun
A Critical Review of "Information Exchange and GovernanceStructures in U.S. and Japanese R&D Consortia: Institutional andOrganizational Influences" - Cursetjee, Zareer Cursetjee