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Theses/Dissertations from 1994
The Impact of the Donation Land Law Upon the Development of Oregon, Elwin Edward Grout
Landslide Inventory and Susceptibility Mapping of the Upper Canyon Creek Basin, Cascade Range, Skamania County, Washington, Lawrence P. Growney
An Assessment of the Riparian-influenced Salmonid Habitat Features of Johnson Creek, Portland, Oregon, Andrew Greiff Gude
Sediment Yield Analysis of Reservoir #1, Bull Run Watershed, West Cascade Mountains, Oregon, Doann M. Hamilton
Strategic and Policy Issues Investigation "Leadership andTechnology Management", Paul Hamilton, Simon Hans, Sebastien Michelet, Pat VanHoomissen, and Oliver Woywode
Technological Organization and Sedentism: Expedient Core Reduction, Stockpiling, and Tool Curation at the Meier Site (35CO5), Stephen Coursault Hamilton
Justification for Total Quality Management, Graydon Hansen
Improving a Present Manufacturing Process by Implementing TQM and ISO 9001, Graydon Hansen, Razif Abdullah Razak, Ségolène Badelon, Nicolas Renaud, and Emad Armoush
Multiple Regression for Daily Chlorine Use, Vu Han
Gender Differences in Slow Expressive Language Development, Cynthia Lee Hare-Blye
The Development of Natural Law from Plato to the Renaissance, James M. Harrison
Questions-asking Strategies of Aphasic and Normal Subjects, Sharla Rae Harvey
An Annotated Bibliography of Books, Proceedings and Articles on Concurrent Engineering, Eckhard Heinold
Factors that Motivate Washington State Teachers to Participate in Professional Growth and Development, Dolores Adan Heisinger
British Aristocratic Women and Their Role in Politics, 1760-1860, Nancy Ann Henderson
Management of Software Development, Richard Hendra, Mongkol Marmool, Srinivas Patnaik, and Chi Shih Wu
A Linguistic Needs Assessment of a Latino Community, Cybele Marie Higgins
Impact of Goal-setting on Motivation as Affected by the Joint Influence of the Attributional Dimensions of Causality, Stability, and Control, Nancy Davis Hodges
Oregon's Marines: A Regional History of the United States Marine Corps, Michael Coleman Howard
Adaptive Notch Filter, Yuchen Huang
Tooling Project Schedule Optimization Using Linear Programming, Paul Huebschman and Eric Kangas
An Analysis of Approaches to Efficient Hardware Realization of Image Compression Algorithms, Kamran Iravani
Interfacing a Computer to a Scanning Tunneling Microscope, Markus Jarasch
Intertextualidad en la Novela Tinisima de Poniatowska, Maria Elena Jimenez
Re-Engineering: Service-Information Processes, Clifford Jones