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Theses/Dissertations from 1995
People on the Edges of Dreams, Francesca B. French
Institutionalized Discrimination: Three Cases in the United States Military, Sarah H. Frost
The Watchers Team Self Diagnosis, Chris Funke, Greg Nelson, and Hieu-Tony D. Ngo
Increasing Semiconductor Manufacturing's Strategic Value to a Firm, Rob Gagnier
Selling the Body: Representing the Prostitute in Maggie and Sister Carrie, Debra Zoe Gahlhoff
Sustainable Development in the Third World: A New Paradigm?, Terry A. Gentry
Dream Team: Team Project, Peter Ghavami, Beth Gibson, Toryos Pandejpong, and Nattanon Pronanun
Effects of Concurrent Engineering on Make-To Order Products, Peter K. Ghavami and Robert Handfield
Effects of Receptive Language Deficits on Persisting Expressive Language Delays, Traci Lee Giacherro
Limiting Noise Exposure Associated with Hearing Aid Use, Alison Mary Gilbert
Communicative Action as Feminist Epistemology, Todd Nathaniel Gilman
Comparison of Prescribed Versus Actual Gain for Children with Profound Hearing Impairments, Kristin Rashelle Gilmer
The Effect of Psychological Gender and Self-monitoring on Leader Emergence and Leader Behavior, Janet Day Goldsmith
English-Speaking Three-Year-Olds in a Spanish Language Immersion Program, Alice Golstein
OCATE Marauders Team Self Assessment, Tim Gooding, Vidya Kale, Andy Narkiewicz, Jim Teeter, and Lee Urban
U.S. Military Intelligence in Mexico, 1917-1927: An Analysis, Corbett S. Gottfried
A study of two attempts by President Plutarco Elías Calles to establish a national church in Mexico, Roger David Gouran
Entrepreneurs' Experience, Expertise, and the Performance of Technology-Based Firms, Ted Gribble
The Love Poems of John Clare and John Keats: A Comparative Study, Elizabeth Stafford Grodd
A Case Study of the Development of Oregon's 1985 Public Policy in Youth Substance Abuse, Sonja Carol Grove
Treatment Approaches for Pathological Gambling: Review of Literature and Development of New Program, Karen Lee Hafner
TBD Team Report, Jay Hah, Ziad Keirouz, Indra Surataruna, Raid Obeidi, and Hun Kye
Hardware for Fast Global Operations on Distributed Memory Multicomputers and Multiprocessors, Douglas V. Hall
Monomeric and Polymeric Fluoroalkyl Sulfonyl Fluorides, Sulfonate Salts and Sulfonic Acids for Use as Electrolytes and Coatings, Nicolas Noel Hamel