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Theses/Dissertations from 1998
High Desert Homesteader: Alice Day Pratt, A Single Woman in Post, Oregon, Cathleen Croghan Alzner
A Longitudinal Study of the Career Maturity Patterns of Individuals with Clefts, Joyce Johnson Anderson
Community Solutions: Moving Toward Brownfield Redevelopment, Matt Anderson, Scott Chapman, Martin Custred, Kirsten Krane, and Camron Parker
A Critical Review of "From Theory to Practice: Toward aTypology of Project-management Styles" - Andino, Carlos Andino
God, Union and Liberty : The Military as the Key Player in Costa Rica, 1820-1824, Aaron Arguedas
A Critical Review of "Comparison of ManufacturingPerformance of Three Team Structures in Semiconductor Plants" - Artmann, Christian Artmann
Understanding Mergers, Christian Artmann, Audrey Alvear, Chiung-hui Huang, Janice Forrester, Duncan Mottershead, Peerasit Patanakul, Pornthep Suteerachai, and Dolores Thompson
Leaders Can Enable Innovative Behavior, Gina Austin
The Effectiveness of Hypermedia Training vs. Traditional Classroom Instruction in Stuttering, Micheal Dean Baran
The Bolinger Principle and Teaching the Gerunds and Infinitives, Anna Maria Baratta-Zborowski
Usability of Visual Basic for Parallel Programming on Windows NT, James Scott Barker
Ecology, Wilderness Selection, and the Salmonhuckleberry Roadless Area, Jason Scot Barker
A Critical Review of "The Failure of SDT Diffusion: A Casefor Mass Customization" - Barnum, Sean Barnum
Reusability as a StrategicManagement Practice in theComputer Industry, Sean Barnum, Gina Austin, Yonca Daim, Zareer Cursetjee, Sarunya Premjai, Anil Khanna, Manivannan Thavasi, and Gerard Rousseau
Reusability as a Strategic Management Practice in the Computer Industry - Presentation Slides, Sean Barnum, Gina Austin, Yonca Daim, Zareer Cursetjee, Sarunya Premjai, Anil Khanna, Manivannan Thavasi, and Gerard Rousseau
The Effects of School-Mandated Community Service on Subsequent Intrinsic Motivation to Volunteer, Carol Berubee
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