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Theses/Dissertations from 1997
First Language and Gesture Acquisition in Children with Cerebral Palsy, Ann Christine Friel
The Language of Transformation in a "Conversation for Possibility": A Metaphor Analysis, Deborah Jean Gabbert
Lewis and Clark at Fort Clatsop: A winter of Environmental Discomfort and Cultural Misunderstandings, Kirk Alan Garrison
The Effect of Lymph Sac Pressure on Lymph Heart Pressure Development in the Toad Bufo marinus, Michael Georgitsis
A Critical Review of " The R&D Cycle: The influence of product and process R&D on Short-Term ROI"-2, Nathasit Gerdsri
The Second Stage Expressway Sector B Part 1 in Bangkok, Nathasit Gerdsri
A Critical Review of " Suppliers' Contributions to Product Development: An Exploratory Study" -1, Blake Gibbons
Conflict Is Optional, Difference Is Not : Toward a Difference-Based Approach to Interpersonal Communication, James Arthur Gieseking Jr
Product Development CycleTime and Commercial Success, Alberto Gonzalez
How to Reduce Height Variation of the Manufactured Ink Stixto Gain Cost Competitive Advantage, Alberto Gonzalez, Dawn Greenwell, Khaled Haris, Elgay Kalay, and Shawn Oveson
Integrating Engineering Management Best Practices into the Undergraduate Engineering Design Curriculum: A Business Plan, John R. Goulding
Are the Walls Coming Down: A Look at SimultaneousEngineering, Dawn M. Greenwell
Human Trampling in the Upper Rocky Intertidal: Trampling and Recovery in Barnacle Mediated Succession, Timothy Lawrence Grubba
A Critical Review of " Make-or-Buy Decisions in R&D: Small Technology-Based Firms in the United States and Japan", Ayse Hacihabiboglu
Increase Customer Satisfaction when Grocery Shopping, Jay Hah, Jeff O'Bryan, Dave O'Neill, Wade Powell, and Anatole Schaff
Whole Body In Vitro Hydraulic Conductivity and Transcapillary Filtration in Two Amphibians, Bufo marinus and Rana catesbeiana, Thomas Vincent Hancock
Automatic Synthesis of VLSI Layout for CMOS Continuous-Time Filters, Wei Han
Concurrent Software Development-A Survey ofthe State of Concurrent Engineering in SoftwareDevelopment, Muir Lee Harding
Pregnancy Outcomes: A Study Testing a Model for Predicting Health Outcomes in Pregnancy, Tamera Ann Hart-Johnson
Wealth for Everybody - Semantics and Structure of the Capitalist Metanarrative, Sylvia Hendel
Vormärz of Germany and The Critique of Heinrich Heine, Andrew Dean Henley
Impedance Spectroscopy of Bilayer Lipid Membranes and TiO₂ Based Solar Cells, Uwe Hermes
El Español en el Condado de Multnomah, la Interpretación Médica Contextual, y las Funciones del Intérprete Médico Profesional (The Spanish Language in Multnomah County, Contextual Medical Interpreting, and the Role of the Professional Interpreter), Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas
El Impacto Social del Alcoholismo en Chin Chin el Teporocho (The Social Impact of Alcoholism in Chin Chin el Teporocho), Juan Carlos Hernández
A Critical Review of " The R&D Cycle: The influence of product and process R&D on Short-Term ROI"-4, Freddie Hidajat