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Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Comparison of Cardiovascular Disease Risk In Japanese Natives and Japanese Americans, Mayumi Takeda
Reading Neighborhood Character : A Semiotic Analysis of Three Portland, Oregon Neighborhoods, Jodi Hanson Tanner
The Emergence of an Icon: The Frida Kahlo Cult, Teresa Neva Tate
The Emergence of an Icon: The Frida Kahlo Cult, Teresa Neva Tate
The Reemergence of Kantian Ethics: Have We Adequately Responded to Hegel's Objections?, Gwen C. Thompson
Age Related Changes in the Activity and the Responsiveness of the Renin-angiotensin System in the 15 Month Old Rat, MIchele McKee Thompson
Habitats, Sydney Jean Thompson
Ethnography of Communication as on Organizational Communication Assessment Tool: A Test of the Method, Francisca Inez Trujillo-Dalbey
Teaching Phonetic-ideograph Rules to English Speaking Students of Chinese, Jillian Ji-fen Tsai
The Role of Communication in Concurrent Engineering, Yasemin Turktekin
Ornamental Nationalism: Indigenous Images in Porfirian Mexico, 1876-1911, Seonaid Valiant
Multiproject Strategy, Design Transfer, and Project Performance, Kittipong Vivitvorakit
Achieving Cochannel Interference Objectives Over Selected Topologies in the Portland Oregon Cellular Network, David A. Wand
Gangstas, Niggas, Bitches and Hos : A Narrative Analysis of Gangsta’ Rap Lyrics, Darnell A. Watson
The Importance of Time for Processing in Second Language Comprehension and Acquisition, Jennifer Lee Watson
Post-middle Miocene Geologic History of the Tualatin Basin, Oregon with Hydrogeologic Implications, Doyle Coley Wilson
Unwilling Accents : Reading Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Julian and Maddalo, Melody Ann Wilson
Numerical Simulation of Contaminated Sediment Transport in the Upper Columbia Slough System, Binghong Wu
Urban Traffic Arterials and the Sale Price of Single Family Houses in Portland: A Hedonic Analysis of Impacts, Philip Wuest
The Relationship Between Self-Monitoring and Organizational Training Effectiveness and Satisfaction, Joanna Wulbert
Investigation of Transactivation of the Human C-Myc Gene by Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1, Xian Wu
The Interaction of Naphthoquinones With the Calcium Release Channel of Skeletal Muscle Sarcoplasmic Reticulum, Ruohong Xia
Cascade Bicycle Company, Charles Yahja, Cristian Andrade, and Keith Morrison