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Submissions from 1996
Project Management Techniques in the Job Search Process, Christian Willer
Adolescents and Sex on the Soaps: A Content Analysis, Jenelle Gay Winter
Distribution of Ionized and Neutral Halogenated Phenols in an Octanol-water Membrane Model System, Robert Word
Nonlinearities in the Base Emitter Junction of Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors, Oliver Woywode
Government Policy and Private Organizational Forms: Analysis of Refuse Collection and Disposal in Three Metropolitan Cities, Thomas Wright
NMR Study of Neurophysin Dimer Dissociation by Cosolvents, Jian Yao
Some Possible Sources of Oral Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) among Japanese Students in the United States, Sawako Yoshikawa
Computational Issues in LINGO, Janet Zhang and Shawn Oveson
The Development and Evaluation of Aggregation Methods for Group Pairwise Comparison Judgments, Sida Zhou
Alexander VI: Renaissance Pope, Jonathan P. Zorich
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
The Parser Converter Loader: An Implementation of the Computational Chemistry Output Language (CCOL), Donald Randall Abel
Analysis of Intermodulation Distortion for MESFET Small-signal Amplifiers, Imad Saleh Ahmad
Effects of Oral and Silent Reading on the Reading Comprehension Performance of Left Hemisphere-damaged Individuals, Paul K. Akers
Antecedents of Intergroup Conflicts in Multifunctional Product Development Teams: A Conceptual Model, Mohamed Al-Muhairi
gloBEes: A Case Study, Mohamed Al-Muhairi, Greg Caster, Katy Daily, Usanee Thiravaja, and Chanikarn Watanakithavonkul
Intercontinentals Team Final Report, Mubarak Al-Muhairi, Mete Bayyigit, Linus Lin, Johnson Ogoli, Shawn Oveson, and Kaiping Wang
Microsoft Corporation, Mubarak Al-Muhairi, Mike Coleman, Khaled Haris, Tahir Mir, Toryos Pandejpong, Nattanon Pronanun, and Janet Zhang
Strategic & Policy Issues Presentations: Information Technology, Mubarak Al-Muhairi, Patrick Hinds, Linus Lin, Ruth Moreland, Usanee Thiravaja, and Chanikarn Watanakithavonkul
Multisite Educational Technology Assessment, John Alvarez, Ed Buescher, John Dorrance, Cliff Jones, and Jerry Knoben
Causes of Project Failure, Monica Arora, Rob Gagnier, Peter Ghavami, Beth Gibson, and Bud Stratton
The Distribution of Naturally Occurring Soil Radionuclides and Radon Potential of Northwest Oregon, Stuart Graham Ashbaugh
Shoot Structure of Boschniakia hookeri Walpers (Orobanchaceae), John Leland Babur
Validity and Efficiency of the Check-Slash Transcription Method for Measuring Intelligibility, Vicky Jo Bacon
Phytoplankton in Mt. St. Helens Lakes, Washington, Cynthia Fay Baker