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Theses/Dissertations from 1996
The Role and Perception of Risk in High-risk Sports Participants: A Grounded Theory Study of Rock Climbers, Ronald E. Baglien
Work Force Diversity: A Survey, Andy Baker, Susan Goodwin, and Al Pierce
Needed Narrowing as the Computational Strategy of Evaluable Functions in an Extension of Goedel, Bobbi J. Barry
The Application of Cellular Technology in the Doorway Panel Assembly Shop, Jim Barton and Gary Rubino
Oregon's Carry Concealed Weapon Laws: A Historical Review of the Right to Personal Protection, Richard Meek Bash
A Critical Evaluation Of: "The Effect of Acceleration Techniques on Product Development Time", Scott Beers
A Critical Evaluation Of: "The Effect of Acceleration Techniques on Product Development Time", Scott Beers
The Software Revolution, Scott Beers, Amy Cordle, Aysun Coskun, Lane Inman, Hafiz Kassim, and Dogus Kuran
Atlas Team Self-Diagnosis Report #2, Scott Beers, John A. Dorrance, Greg Jones, and Anatole Schaff
Intervention History of Children with Slow Expressive Language Development, Kathleen Belfiore
La Perspectiva Indigenista y Neoindifenista de Huasipungo y Porque se Fueron las Garzas, Laura Bergman
The Constraints of a Typological Implicational Universal for Interrogatives on Second Language Acquisition, Dee Anne Bess
A Policy-Independent Secure X Server, Kirk Joseph Bittler
Characteristics of Administrators' Leadership Style in Quality Child Care Centers, Katherine Ann Bobula
Research Paper Critical Review: The Impact of Technological Change in a Service Organization, Juli Bonini
Research Paper Critical Review: The Impact of Technological Change in a Service Organization, Juli Bonini
Why Corporations Train, How Programs are Implemented, and is the Training Effective?, Juli Bonini, Hyuncher Chong, Rick Eram, and Rob Sammartino
Why Corporations Train, How Programs are Implemented, and is the Training Effective?, Juli Bonini, Hyuncher Chong, Rick Eram, and Rob Sammartino
Groundwater Recharge of the Middle Deschutes Basin, Oregon, Thomas Gene Boyd
An Analysis of Spondee Recognition Thresholds in Auditory-only and Audio-visual Conditions, Brenene Marie Brady-Herbst
Prism Team Report Two: Self-Evaluation, Kathleen Brindley, Carol Millar, Sreekanth Nagarajan, Martina Testa, and Carl Wu
The Importance of Cultural Values, Communication, and Training in Multicultural Engineering Teams, Kathleen Brindley, Carol Millar, Sreekanth Nagarajan, Martina Testa, and Carl Wu
Anticlerical Sentiment in Castilian and Galician-Portuguese Medieval Literature, Kathryn L. Brooks
Mechanisms of pentachlorophenol induced charge transport in lipid membranes, William Charles Brown
Layout Synthesis for Datapath Designs, Naveen Buddi