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Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Limiting Noise Exposure Associated with Hearing Aid Use, Alison Mary Gilbert
Communicative Action as Feminist Epistemology, Todd Nathaniel Gilman
Comparison of Prescribed Versus Actual Gain for Children with Profound Hearing Impairments, Kristin Rashelle Gilmer
The Effect of Psychological Gender and Self-monitoring on Leader Emergence and Leader Behavior, Janet Day Goldsmith
English-Speaking Three-Year-Olds in a Spanish Language Immersion Program, Alice Golstein
OCATE Marauders Team Self Assessment, Tim Gooding, Vidya Kale, Andy Narkiewicz, Jim Teeter, and Lee Urban
U.S. Military Intelligence in Mexico, 1917-1927: An Analysis, Corbett S. Gottfried
A study of two attempts by President Plutarco Elías Calles to establish a national church in Mexico, Roger David Gouran
Entrepreneurs' Experience, Expertise, and the Performance of Technology-Based Firms, Ted Gribble
The Love Poems of John Clare and John Keats: A Comparative Study, Elizabeth Stafford Grodd
A Case Study of the Development of Oregon's 1985 Public Policy in Youth Substance Abuse, Sonja Carol Grove
Treatment Approaches for Pathological Gambling: Review of Literature and Development of New Program, Karen Lee Hafner
TBD Team Report, Jay Hah, Ziad Keirouz, Indra Surataruna, Raid Obeidi, and Hun Kye
Hardware for Fast Global Operations on Distributed Memory Multicomputers and Multiprocessors, Douglas V. Hall
Monomeric and Polymeric Fluoroalkyl Sulfonyl Fluorides, Sulfonate Salts and Sulfonic Acids for Use as Electrolytes and Coatings, Nicolas Noel Hamel
Transportation Simulation using LINDO, Simon Hans
Innovation From Differentiation: Pollution Control Departments and Innovation in the Printed Circuit Industry, Khaled Haris
Functional Uses of Language in the Conversational Discourse of a Person with Alzheimer's Disease, Julie Anne Haun
The Effects of Positive Illusions on Perceived Racism, Miyako Jun-ko Hayashi
The Effects of Ear Canal Pressure Variation on Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions, Jodi L. Head
An Assessment of the Impact of Intimate Victim-Offender Relationship on Sentencing in Serious Assault Cases, Laura J. Hickman
Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Fluorine Containing Alkylsulfonyls and Sulfonates : Fluorinated Sulfonyl Methanes and Derivatives, Nelson R. Holcomb
The Leadership of John McLoughlin in Relation to the People and Events of Pacific Northwest History, 1824-1846, John David Holliday
The Effect of a Physician's Pronunciation on Nurses' Perceptions of the Physician's Medical Competency, Laura Anne Horani