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Literature Review: Strategic Planning, And Ozbay
Application of Mass Customization and IPIX Technology in Real Estate Sector, And Ozbay and Seong M. Roh
The Effects of Mentoring on Work-parenting Gains and Strains in a Sample of Employed Predominately Female AFDC Recipients, Charlene Rhyne
Counter Culture: The Social Construction of Beauty in a Cosmetic Department, Jodie Kollanda Ruggiero
Enhancements to the Scalable Coherent Interface Cache Protocol, Robert J. Safranek
Japan's War Memories: A Political Approach, Miyuki Sakuta
Virginia Woolf's Use of Microcosms in Her Novel To the Lighthouse and Her Essay "The Sun and the Fish", Linda C. Scheele
The Sculpture of Presence, Michael William Schmunk
Reproductive Biology of Melilotus Officinalis (L.) Lam (Fabaceae: Papilionoideae): Morphology, Seed/Ovule Ratios and Ovule Abortion Patterns, Susan Lee Schouten
Continuation-Passing Style Versus Direct Style: Choosing an Intermediate Representation For Higher-Order Applicative Languages, Paul Andrew Seale
The Effectiveness of an Accent Reduction Program on Foreign Speaker’s Oral English Proficiency and Understandability, Kara Elizabeth Sewell
Law and Order, Abuse of Power: A Study in Light and Shadow, Daniel J. Shea
This Cat's Meow: Individual Variation Among Domestic Cats in Maternal Response to an Unrelated Kitten, Theressa Joanne Silver
Chemical Communication of Estrous Cycle Status and Change in Social Behaviors With Reproductive State in Captive Female Asian Elephants, Elephas Maximus, Barbara Elaine Slade
Moorings, Nancy Jeanne Slavin
A Sociological Exploration of Schisms in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: 1830-1985, Krista Lynn Smith
Implementation and Performance of Error Correction Codes for High-Speed Computer Networks, Jochen Spengler
Rebuilding with Habitat: a Feasibility Study for a Portland Re-Store, Eli Spevak, Rebecca Newman, Barbara Linssen, and Clint Wertz
Harrowing Heroines and Communist Plots: Krest'ianka and Rural Policy, 1946-1949, Rachael Preiss Susman
Entrepreneurship, Pornthep Suteerachai
How Did College of the Siskiyous Develop in a Politically Contested Climate in Siskiyou County?, Christopher Michael Tincher
An Ethnographic Study: Building an Identity Through the Stories of an Italian-American Family, Gloria Marie Tottten
“Wars of the Three Margarets”: Women in the Wars of the Roses, Barbara Jean Traver
Space Shuttle Challenger Accident: Case Study of High Tech Project Failure, Elizabeth Turgeon
Nativism in American Political Culture, Julie M. Wacker