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Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Wandering Man, Sean R. Cowne
Les passions d'Annie Ernaux : de la biographie a l'âecriture, Nathalie Cox
No Boat, No Bridge, Gregory K. Coyle
Wapato for the People : An Ecological Approach to Understanding the Native American Use of Sagittaria Latifolia on the Lower Columbia River, Melissa Cole Darby
An Analysis of the Literary Manifestations of the Cult of the Virgin Mary in Gonzalo de Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Senora, Elizabeth M. Deeter
The Flor Metaphor of Pre-Conquest Nahuatl Literature, Victoria Louise Defferding
Determinants and Impacts of Demand-side Management Program Investment of Electric Utilities, Philipp Degens
Efficient Buffer Allocation Scheme for Bursty Traffic in ATM Networks using Fast Reservation Protocol, Nikhil Mukund Deshpande
ETM 520 Student Project - Desmond, Bert Desmond
Beach Response to Subsidence Following a Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake Along the Washington-Oregon Coast, Debra Lee Doyle
A Comparison of Speech Intelligibility Measures Between Unsophisticated Listener Judgements and Orthographic Transcription, Carla J. Dukart
Creating Knowledge about the Literacy Needs of Juvenile Offenders: Reflections on a Qualitative Research Project, Regina Nadia Eastman
Contention-free Scheduling of Communication Induced by Array Operations on 2D Meshes, Andreas Bernhard Georg Eberhart
An Application of Operations Research in the Health Care Industry, Karen Eden and Raid Obeidi
An Assessment of the Needs of International Students for Student Services at Southern Oregon State College, Molly K. Emmons
A Preliminary Comparison of Two ESL School Models for Newcomer Students, Elizabeth Carol Essex
Scenery as Policy: Public Involvement in Developing a Management Plan for the Scenic Resources of the Columbia River Gorge, Gordon Mathews Euler
Productivity, O. Faruqi, P. Kluvers, S. Mistouflet, P. Rigert, and Y. Turketkin
Critique of "The Effect of Acceleration Techniques on Product Development Time", Ozair Ahmed Faruqi
ETM 520 Student Project - Faruqi, Ozair Ahmed Faruqi
Productivity, Ozair Faruqi, Paul Kluvers, Sebastien Mistouflet, Pat Rigert, and Yasemin Turktekin
James Baldwin's Search for a Homosexual Identity in his Novels, Nadia Abdel Fattah
The Genetic Algorithm and Maximum Entropy Dice, Laura Suzanne Fellman
The relationship between a pre-departure training program and its participants' intercultural communication competence, Daniel Timothy Ferguson