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Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Tapered radio frequency transmission lines, Vincent D. Matarrese
Correction of Chromatic Aberration with an Electron Mirror, Michael Stewart Mauck
An intelligent database for PSUBOT, an autonomous wheelchair, Dieudonne Mayi
Moving pictures, Melissa Ann McClure
Aspiring to JIT Assembly with an Emphasis on Quality Assurance, Mic McConnell
A study of the narrative skills in kindergarten children with normal, impaired, and late developing language development, Lisa L. McFarland
The Metropolitan-Nonmetropolitan Turnaround in the Pacific States (California, Oregon, and Washington): Labor Migration Flows and Economic Deconcentration, Beverly Marie McLean
"Staying" and "straying" : social reproduction and resistance to secularization, Lisa Graham McMinn
Techniques to Facilitate JIT Implementation, Eric L. Mische
Effects of Participant Roles on Input Interactions and Comprehensible Output, Larry Douglas Morgan
Regional tectonic deformation of the northern Oregon coast as recorded by Pleistocene marine terraces, Richard Alan Mulder
Characterization of quantization noise in oversampled analog to digital converters, Eric W. Multanen
A Study on Total Quality Assessment Using Hunt Methodology, Nguyet Nguyen, Saideh Sharif, Gary Tracy, and Sridhar Vadyar
A Comparison of Capital Evaluation Methods as Applied to an Existing Product Introduction Project, Henry Oberhelman
Improved Methodology for Limit States Finite Element Analysis of Lattice Type Structures using Nonlinear Post-Buckling Member Performance, Markus Ostendorp
Effectiveness of Additive Correction Multigrid in Numerical Heat Transfer Analysis when Implemented on an Intel IPSC2, James D. Padgett
Multiplexed pipelining : a cost effective loop transformation technique, Satish Pai
Theoretical Studies of Atmospheric Water Complexes, Xiong Pan
Shared Tenant Services at PDX Towers, Portland, Saravanabhava Paramashivan
A Diagnostic Analysis of Elementary Principal' Practices Which Serve Youth At-Risk of School Failure, Rikki Kenneth Patrick
Ignoring Interprocessor Communication During Scheduling, Chintamani M. Patwardhan
Painter's Wilderness, Eddie Peters
Evaluation of Decommissioning Costs for a Nuclear Power Pl, Allen T. Pierce
Parameter uncertainty and modeling of sludge dewatering in one dimension, Joseph H. Plaskett
Perceiving and Coping with Exclusion: The Socialization Experiences of Ethnic Minority Nursing Students, Sarah Porter-Tibbetts