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A Music Therapy Model for Counseling Corrections Clients, Karen Lee Kahle
Language Learning Strategies of Russian-Speaking Adult ESL Learners, Minerva E. Renee Kalenandi
Effective Goals, Measurements, and Motivation for Total Quality Management, Eric Kangas
Case Study: How an East European Student Learns to Compose in English, Ruth Steinfeld Katon
Magmatic Evolution and Eruptive History of the Granitic Bumping Lake Pluton, Washington: Source of the Bumping River and Cash Prairie Tuffs, John Frederick King
Performance Evaluation Tools for Interconnection Network Design, Anna Kolinska
Managing the Conversion to Concurrent Engineering, Ranjit Kurup, Sameeran Krishnatheeram, and Robert Wilson
Decentralization of Urban Service Activities: an Empirical Study, Wonseon Kyung
The R-Stick Appliance as a Device to Facilitate the Phoneme /r/, Rosemary LeBlanc
Lexico-Semantic Influence in Interlingual Transfer, Guy-Luc Levesque
The Role of the Chinese News Media in the 1989 Pro-democracy Movement, Mei Liao
An Analysis of the Linked-pulse in Steady-state Free Precession in MRI, Fang Li
ERP Analysis Using Matched Filtering and Wavelet Transform, Xueming Lin
Studies on the Role of Cellular Factor, YY1, in Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Late Gene Expression, Xuehui Liu
Source rock geochemistry of the southern Tyee Basin, southwest Oregon, David E. Long
"Self was Forgotten": Attention to Private Consciousness in the Diaries of Three Mormon Frontier Women, Genevieve Jane Long
Development of Self Directed Work Teams in Clackamas County Department of Utilities, Art Louie, Thomas A. Rak, Don Smith, Rini Tanoko, Ela Whelan, and Wira Yuwana
A Bootstrapped Regression Model of Psychological Predictors of Success in Naturopathic Medical School, Christa Claire Louise
Investigations of Factors Affecting the Transcriptional Regulation of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 βγ (Leaky-Late) Genes, Rosemary Ann Lown
Hermann Hesses Unterm Rad: Identitätssuche eines Jugendlichen, Martina Mangan
The Feminine as Salvific in Hildegard von Bingen's Letters, Marie Theresa Maurer
Project Control in Industry, Curt Mayer, Dan McDonald, Sam Moss, and Scott Samuels
Solubility Studies of Iron(III) Oxides and Hydroxides, Victor L. Menting