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Theses/Dissertations from 1993
This Crying Enormity: Impressment as a Factor in Anglo-American Foreign Relations, David Scott Thompson
The Times, Trial, and Execution of David McLane: The Story of an American Spying in Canada for the French in 1796-1797, Mark Allen Thorburn
Economic Analysis of a Software Partner Relationship, Gary Tracy
Determining the Property Value Impact of Landfills, Okwuchukwu Gerald Uba
Machine Layout Analysis of Nal Plastic Co & Comparison to a Proposed Model, Akin Uslu
Flathead Indian Reservation Development of an Even-Aged Harvest Scheduler, Don Vandendriesche, Barb Jones, Akin Uslu, and Susan Goodwin
William Smith Clark: A Study in Education, Christianity, and American-Japanese Cooperation in the Nineteenth Century, Brett L. Walker
The Intellectual Grounding of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851, Jon Jeffrey Walker
Modeling an Integrated Circuit Wafer Fabrication Line: Investigation of the Relationship Between Batch Size and Overall Cycle Time, Karen Walker and Leonard Weitman
Anti-Bolshevism and the Advent of Mussolini and Hitler: Anglo-American Diplomatic Perceptions, 1922-1933, Lisa Kay Walker
Unadorned by Silence: Rereading Obedience in the Writing of Perpetua, Dhuoda, and Hildegard of Bingen, Rebecca Anne Walker
Towards Comprehensive Migration Modeling: A Meta-analytic Approach, Wamukota Francis Wambalaba
Friendship Patterns of Chinese Students and Their Adjustment in the United States, Changhua Wang
A New Approach to the Optimal Filtering of Differential Phase Measurements of GPS Signal in the Precision Survey, Shengan Wang
A Study of Gender and Personality Factors in Work-Family Conflict Models, Steven Donald Ward
Vision, Interpersonal Orientation and Personal Values in Elementary School Principals, Allan Leslie Weston
One-Dimensional Computer Modeling of Thermal and Water Quality Characteristics of Coldwater Lake, WA, David Kevin Whitaker
State Policy and Public Administration Impacts on an Emerging Industry: The Wine Industry in Oregon and Washington, Anthony Gene White
Adult ESL Students: Traits and Goals - A Case Study, David Miles Wilkinson
A Location Analysis of Vandalism to the Rock Art of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Julia J. Wilt
Process Safety Management, Craig S. Winton
The Design of High-Frequency Continuous-Time Integrated Analog Signal Processing Circuits, Pan Wu