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Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Effects of Adapted Storybooks on Vocabulary Acquisition of Children Who Have a Severe Speech Impairment (SSI), Wendy Ann Peterson
The Maximization of Organizational Resource Utilization, Erich Pfeifer
P131 Function Tester, Sean Potter
Untitled Drawing Series: Influenced by a Mother and Child Relationship, Elaine A. Powell-Ascroft
Integrated Floorplanning and Buffer Insertion for Bus-Based Microprocessor Designs, Faran Rafiq
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle: An Adaptation of the Young Adult Novel by Avi, Adriane Rainer
Every Good Tree, Laurel Danielle Smith Rogers
The American of Japanese Heritage: Nisei (Second-Generation Japanese Americans) and Their School Education in the Pacific Northwest Before World War II, Misako Sadahiro
Establishing the Inundation Distance and Overtopping Height of Paleotsunami from the Late-Holocene Geologic Record at Open-Coastal Wetland Sites, Central Cascadia Margin, Robert B. Schlichting
A Longitudinal Assessment of Temperament in Octopus bimaculoides, David Loyd Sinn
The English Exile Congregation in Emden: The Marian Exile Presses and English Protestant Culture, Michael Stephen Springer
An Evaluation of Recidivism Rates for Resolutions Northwest's Victim-Offender Mediation Program, Karin Jewel Stone
The Long Road Home, Chuck Sullivan
Alcoholic Knowledge: An Interpretive Study, Daniel (Dance) Grant Taylor
Way Points, Edward McLean Test
Tribal constructs and kinship realities : individual and family organization on the Grand Ronde Reservation from 1856, Aeron Teverbaugh
TCO Evaluation for Home Computer, Manivannan Thavasi, Sundar Valluri, Joanna Lin, Fu-jung Hsieh, and Seong Roh
Factors Influencing Middle School Teachers to Change Classroom Practice in Response to Standards-Based Reform, Gayle Yvonne Thieman
Frontiers, Naomi Kristine Ulsted
TEAM Self-Diagnosis, Juan Valdes, Elif Baktir, Michael Codington, Zareer Cursetjee, Steven Nahas, Sevket Numanoglu, and Gloria Trujillo
Strategy & Policy Issues: Amazon.com Course, Sundar Valluri, Avnish Chauhan, Joanna Lin, Valentine Havugi, and Rizwan Kumte
Conflict in the Project Life Cycle in High Tech And Dot-Com Companies, Sundar Valluri, Rajesh Gopalakrishnan, Hsieh-Cheng Lai, Hung-Hui Lin, and Fu-Jung Hsieh
Lesbian Gender Identities: An Expansion of Bern's Sex-Role Inventory, Sheilagh Van Belthowing
Just for Money? : An Exploratory Study Into the Motivations of Nude Dancers, Elaine Vance
DaimlerChrysler Synergies, James Vanhuis, Jarrath Presse, Kiatiporn Lertsathitphong, Max Neunzert, Pimala Bhiromkaew, Ryan Jefferis, and Sukunya Saelow