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Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Fire Ants, Joyce Marie Riha
The Reception Theory of Hans Robert Jauss: Theory and Application, Paul Hunter Rockhill
An Evaluation of English Spoken Fluency of Thai Graduate Students in the United States, Sugunya Ruangjaroon
Spanish for Health Care Professionals: Language and Culture, Mytzi Maryanne Rudolph
ETM 520 Student Project - Runner, Scott Runner
ETM 520 Student Project - Runner, Scott Runner
Strategic and Policy Initiative - Microsoft, Scott Runner, Raik Hammer, Long Nguyen, Tom Hoang, Suphakit Saengsin, and Edouard Oyer
Strategic and Policy Initiative - Microsoft, Scott Runner, Raik Hammer, Long Nguyen, Tom Hoang, Suphakit Saengsin, and Edouard Oyer
Gender Differences in Adaptive Behavior between Two-year-old Boys and Girls with Slow Expressive Language Development, Christine Lee Rusnak
La Protagonista en Dos Novelas Latinoamericanas Escritas por Mujeres, Khatereh K. Sabahi
ETM 520 Student Project - Saengsin, Suphakit Saengsin
ETM 520 Student Project - Saengsin, Suphakit Saengsin
Validity, Reliability, and Utility of the Oregon Assessment for 3-5 Year Olds in Developmentally Appropriate Classrooms, Steffen Saifer
ETM 520 Student Project - Sammartino, Rob Sammartino
Thermal Preference of Spring and Fall Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) during Smoltification, Sally T. Sauter
Design of a Two-Chamber-NO₂-Fluorescence-Cell, Volker Schmid
Fluorinated Polymer Films: Synthesis and Characterization, Anja Ulrike Schnurer
Willa Cather's Spirituality, Mary Ellen Scofield
Unrelated Business Enterprise and Unfair Business Competition Issues Facing Nonprofit Organizations, Larry Glen Scruggs
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Fairy Tales and Children, Cornelia Marianne Seigneur
Circuit Implementation of a High-speed Continuous-time Current-mode Field Programmable Analog Array (FPAA), Osama K. Shana'a
Compiling Evaluable Functions in the Gödel Programming Language, David Shapiro
Oregon's Oil: A Geographic View of Petroleum Distribution and Associated Risks, Paul M. Slyman
Social Stratification within a Protohistoric Plankhouse of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Use-wear and Spatial Distribution Analysis of Chipped Lithic Artifacts, Cameron McPherson Smith