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The New Economy: High-Tech Global Marketing and theEngineering Manager (Virtual Reality Exemplified), Shawn Oveson, Razif Abdullah Razak, Fuad Al-Ansari, Brian Breiling, Graydon Hanson, Roger Jones, Raid Obeidi, Anatole Schaff, and Hongbin Zhu
Entrepreneurial Success: How It Relates to the Management of Innovation, Shawn Oveson, Razif Abdullah Razak, Fuad Al-Ansari, Hongbin Zhu, Raid Obeidi, Anatole Schaff, Brian Breiling, Graydon Hansen, and Roger Jones
High Level Preprocessor of a VHDL-based Design System, Karthikeyan Palanisamy
A Simultaneous Route-level Transit Patronage Model: Demand, Supply, and Inter-route Relationship, Zhongren Peng
RSEP Manufactured Home Study, Allen T. Pierce
A Study of Understory Plant Recovery After a Forest Fire in the Columbia River Gorge, Mark Alan Pittsenbarger
The Origins and Development of the Defense Forces of Northern and Southern Rhodesia from 1890 to 1945, Eugene Peter Jarrett Pomeroy
Evolving Economic Analysis Techniques, Michael S. Posovich
A Comparison of Neutrophil Migration in the Mouse in Response to Infection with Three Species of Trichinella, Jon Darin Prulhiere
Involving Your Company in a Quality Program through Quality Circles and Quality Teams, Nicolas Renaud
Strategies in Theodore Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire to Resolve the Division Between the Material and the Spiritual, Claas Riese
Software Engineering and TQM, Fernando E. Rivera
The Mediation of U.S. American Culture in the ESL Classroom, Steven Fredolph Roberts
A Cluster Analysis Broadly Characterizing Engineering/Technology Management Programs, Alfredo P. Sandoval Jr.
An Analysis of the Changes Required in Organizational Behavior in Order to Develop a Quality Culture within an Organization, Alfredo P. Sandoval Jr.
Risk Analysis, Alfredo P. Sandoval Jr.
Logic Synthesis with High Testability for Cellular Arrays, Andisheh Sarabi
Electrophoretic Studies of Ion Adsorption to Sarcoplasmic Reticulum and Phosphatidylcholine Membranes, Andreas Schilling
The Tumult of Amboise and the Importance of Historical Memory in Sixteenth-Century France, Trevor Charles Schmitz-Thursam
Women Who Worship Alone: The Relationship Between Marital Status and Loneliness in the Church, Judith Ann Schwanz
Causal Attributions for Teen Problem Drinking, Barbara J. Seatter
The Decision and Rationale Which Led to Construction on High-risk Land After the 1964 Alaska Earthquake: Analysis of Risk-based Cultural Dissociation, Sheila Ann Selkregg
The Effects of Phonological Processes on the Speech Intelligibility of Young Children, Susanne Shotola-Hardt
A Comparison of the Cohesion in the Expository Discourse of the Optimally-Healthy Young-Old and the Optimally-Healthy Oldest-Old, Penni Gay Siemens