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Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Beam Modes of Lasers with Misaligned Complex Optical Elements, Anthony A. Tovar
Prioritizing Telecommunications Technologies for Long-RangeR&D Planning to the Year 2006, Alex Tran
From Promised Lands to Promised Landfill: The Iconography of Oregon's Twentieth-Century Utopian Myth, Jeffry Lloyd Uecker
School Attendance and Achievement in a Population of Ecuadorian Underage Street Workers, Rossana Viteri
Some Relationships Between Sedimentary Trace Metal Concentrations and Freshwater Phytoplankton and Sedimentary Diatom Species Composition, Allan Hayes Vogel
Evaluable Functions in the Gödel Programming Language: Parsing and Representing Rewrite Rules, Janet Vorvick
Business Process Management: Survey and Methodology, Chanujarb Watanakithavonkul
Lettres d'une Peruvienne: An Enlightenment Utopian Novel, Susan Leigh Weir
The Portland Learning Community : a history, Martin White
Implementing Community Policing: A Documentation and Assessment of Organizational Change, EmmaJean Williams
The Portland Public School Police: Formative Years - 1937 to 1953, Natalie Anne Woods
Prioritizing Telecommunications Technologies for Long-RangeR&D Planning to the Year 2006, Robert Woolridge
Modeling of Decay Rate for Molecules at an Island Surface, Ting Xiong
Performance Analysis of A Banyan Based ATM Switching Fabric with Packet Priority, Zhaohui Yan
The Chemotactic Response of Neutrophils to Components of the Sera of Mice Infected with Trichinella spiralis, Sara Lynn Youngman
Electrolysis of Palladium in Heavy Water, Christoph Zaczek
Russian-speaking Pentecostal Refugees and Adult ESL Programs: Barriers to Participation, Elena Valerijevna Zaitseva
A Newtonian Metaphor for Organizational Change, Janet Zhang
Environmental Management System ISO 14000, Janet Zhang, Khaled Haris, Mike Coleman, Mohamed Al-Muhairi, Nattanon Pronanun, Tahir Mir, and Toryos Pandejpong
Testability Design and Testability Analysis of a Cube Calculus Machine, Lixin Zhou
Mobility Modeling and Simulation of SOI Si1-x Gex p-MOSFET, Sida Zhou
An Analysis of Socioeconomic Effects on Scrap Paper Recycling Participation, Sara Phyllis Zimmerman
Departure and Persistence: Exploring Student Experiences at the Master's Level, Jennifer Lee Zoltanski