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Theses/Dissertations from 1997
The Adjunct Model of Content-based Instruction: A Comparative Study in Higher Education in Oregon, Georgann Sue Percival
Ethnic and Language Identity Among a Select Group of Vietnamese-Americans in Portland Oregon, Jay Owen Peterson
A Multi-Method Inquiry Into Managerial Coaching, Deborah J. Petricek
The Female Identity in Rosario Ferré's Papeles de Pandora, Marcie Lynn Pratt
Project Management Standardization, Nattanon Pronanun
The Controversy Over the Portland Public Schools' African-American Baseline Essays, 1983-1992, Thomas Damian Rand-Luby
Promotion of Verbal Interaction through Structured Pair Activities, Vidya Rangachari
The Persistence of Elites and the Legacy of I.G. Farben, A.G., Robert Arthur Reinert
"Qui Vauroit Bon Vers Oïr": Voice, Text, and Social Insight in Aucassin et Nicolette, Lonnie Tristan Renteria
Real Ear to Coupler Differences in Children and The Effects of Hearing and Microphone Location, Cindy Richardson
A Comparison of Speech Onset Latencies Between Persons Who Stutter and Persons Who Do Not Stutter Across Varied Phonological Priming Conditions, Brian Joseff Riffel
Orwellian Socialism and the Myth of the Working Class, Malcolm P. Ringo IV
Voice Measures and Listener Acceptance of Tracheoesophageal Speech, Heidii Ilona Roberts
The Impact of Theories of Dialogic Epistemology on Composition Theory and Pedagogy, Kandy Sue Robertson
"Sin decidirlo me volví distinta": Gender, Deception and Development in Angeles Mastretta's Arráncame la vida, Luisa Samaniego
Telecommuting and National Cultures: U.S., France, and Germany, Anatole Schaff
A Comparison of Listener and Speaker Perception of Stuttering Events, Anne Jocelyn Schagen
The First Publicly Funded, Government Sponsored Natural Medicine Clinic : A Descriptive Case Study, Jennifer Lynne Schneider
Law Enforcement Attitudes toward the 1989 Oregon Firearms Law and Gun Control, Andrew Schneiderman
Critical Success Factors and Strategies for New ProductDevelopment Analysis, Rodolphe Sepz
A Signal Interconnection Case, Randall C. Shannon, Khalid Alkahtani, and Saleh Al-Alyan
Evaluating Modernization and Dependency Explanations of the Unequal Distribution of Income in Developing Countries, Paul Timothy Shattuck
Combining the Historical and the Personal in Painting, Christopher A. Shotola-Hardt
The Role of the Hepatic Vagus in the Pathogenesis of Fever, Christopher Todd Simons