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Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Hearing aid satisfaction and rate of return for repairs : a comparison of two Kaiser dispensing programs, Lynn Behrendsen
The Electrokaryotype and Molecular Characterization of Trypanosoma cervi Isolates Using Recombinant DNA Techniques, J. Lindsley Bennett
Freightliner Corporation Service Manual Development, Sheila Bennett, Stephen McHenry, and Carlo Nardini
Biogeography and Species Density Distributions of Tasmanian Mammals, Jerry E. Bevers
Importance of Technological Forecasting in New Product Decisions, Rohit Bhatia and Bimal Pathak
DNA Fingerprinting Analysis of Captive Asian Elephants, Elephas maximas, Laura Louise Bischof
A Comparison of Circadian Rhythms in Day and Night Shift Workers, Mary Lee Blood
Written narratives of language disordered and normal adolescents on two tasks, Antigone Howick Brown
On a women's language, Tamara Brown
Developmental Sentence Scoring Sample Size Comparison, Peggy Ann Callan
Engineering Management Roles and Functions For The Implementation of a PC Based Costing System, Tolga Candir, Grant Causton, Iffet Iyigun, and Richard Pasaribu
An Exploratory Study of Female Networking in a Mormon Fundamentalist Polygynous Society, Janet Bennion Cannon
Threaded octree structures for fast neighbor voxel processing in a parallel ray tracer, B.R. Naveen Chandra
The Effect of Plant Growth Regulators on the Growth of Closterium moniliferum, Cynthia Lehua Warnock Christensen
The Effect of Two Viologens on the Solution Speciation of Tetrakis([rho]-carboxyphenyl)porphine, Suzanne Elizabeth Clarke
Linear Programming Model Forklift Driving Schedule Optimization, Mike Coleman, Fred Foster, Kun Hsu, Edmundus Pancoko, and Dharwin Yuwono
A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Two Competing Social Power Measurement Systems, Joseph E. Criqui
Walter Kempowski's Familienchronik : history and the role of Erziehung, Carla Ann Damiano
Exurban Commuting Patterns: A Case Study of the Portland Oregon Region, Judy Seppanen Davis
The use of phonological process assessment for differentiating developmental apraxia of speech from functional articulation disorders, Kathryn DeArmond
Rewarding Systems For Creativity And Innovation, Niso Defcioglu, Emre Dorduncu, Dwaine Franzke, Francois Gallant, Thomas Knappich, and Carole Shlaes
Trade Between An Agricultural and An Industrial Region in Textile Industry, Niso Defcioglu, Francois Gallant, and Lei Wei
Oregon's Cuban-American community : from revolution to assimilation, Richard Dellenback
Goal-directed imagining : the effect of suggestions of warmth and coolness on blood flow to the hand, John Mark Dilworth
Translation as interpretation : Siegfried Lenz' "Motivsuche", John F. Disterheft