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Theses/Dissertations from 1996
The Leadership of African American Women Constructing Realities, Shifting Paradigms, Gloria Murphy Gostnell
Adaptive Color Correlation of Knots in Wood Images and Weighted-value Product Selection Methods in a Machine Vision System, John Robert Goulding
An Examination of Factors Influencing Self Versus Supervisory Referrals to an Employee Assistance Program, Jeffrey M. Gray
Profit/Production Efficiency Study for Agpro, Inc., Ted Gribble, Curt Mayer, Scott Samuels, and John Thornton
A Study of a Paced Sequential Transfer Line Process and the Effects of Introducing Buffers, Dana Grindle, Elizabeth Turgeon, and Bud Stratton
Distribution of R-Banded Chromosome Variants in a Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops Truncatus) Population, Kristine Anne Gunter
Songs and Stories that Only You Know: Multiplicity, Meaning, & the Metaphorical Bridge, Matthew Haggett
Usage of Linear Programming and Lingo to Calibrate an Integrated Measurement Systems ATS-FT Fast Clock: A Feasibility Study, Paul Hamilton, Lane Inman, and Susan Goodwin
Student Paper for ETM 520, Raik Hammer
Student Paper for ETM 520, Raik Hammer
Impact of Computer-aided Design (CAD) Tools on Product Development Productivity, Raik Hammer, Tom Hoang, Long Nguyen, Edouard Oyer, Suphakit Saengsin, and Scott Runner
Impact of Computer-aided Design (CAD) Tools on Product Development Productivity, R. Hammer, T. Hoang, L. Nguyen, E. Oyer, S. Saengsin, and S. Runner
Speech Understanding in Noise as a Function of Microphone Placement in Hearing Aids, Erin Marlene Flowers Hand
An Exploratory Evaluation of Language and Culture Contact by Japanese Sojourners in a Short-term US Academic Program, Elizabeth Anna Hartley
A Semiquantitative Analysis of PCB and P,P-DDE Residues in Stranded Marine Mammals Using High Performance Liquid Chromatography, David Lawrence Hayteas
Value Measurement for New Product Category: a Conjoint Approach to Eliciting Value Structure, Roland Helmut Heger
A Study of the Narrative Skills of 7-Year Olds with Normal, Impaired, and Late Developing Language, Rita F. Hernandez
Effects of the Cardioprotective Drugs Dexrazoxane and ADR-925 on Doxorubicin Induced Ca2+-Release from the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum, Thomas Andreas Herzinger
The Japanese Approach to the End of the Pacific War, Atsuo Hirano
A PROLOG Lexical Phrase Computer Assisted Language Learning Module, Yuji Gene Hirayama
ETM 520 Student Project - Hoang, Tom D. Hoang
The Industrial Workers of the World and the Oregon Packing Company Strike of July 1913, Adam J. Hodges
An Organizational Profile: Members' Understanding of Discrimination, Debra Cay Hornibrook
ETM 520 Student Project - Hu, Fangqi Hu