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This Looks Like an Old Point: Time and Projectile Points in the Tualatin Valley, Oregon, Linda Lani Freidenburg
Cross-Cultural Comparison of Upward Compliance-Gaining Strategies: U.S.A. and Japan, Miyoko Fuse
Vertex Ordering for a Partitioning-based Fitting Algorithm for an EPLD Device, Tongjun Gao
"Mit Lachen die Wahrheit zu sagen" Entwicklungsgeschichte und Autorintention des Barockromans Simplicissimus, Ralf Genske
Quality Management: Guidelines, Methods, Impacts, Susan Goodwin, Eckhard Heinold, Poul Murtha, Jim Sauble, and Dave Wert
SEC-Manufacturing optimization, John Goulding, Vidya Kale, Gordon Miller, Nguyet Angie Nguyen, and David O'Ferrell
The Effects of Perceived Work Schedule Flexibility, Number of Hours Worked, and Type of Work Schedule on Work-Family Conflict, Tenora Dianne Grigsby
Designing and Simulating a Multistage Sampling Rate Conversion System Using a Set of PC Programs, David Joesph Hagerty
Designing and Simulating a Multistage Sampling Rate Conversion System Using a Set of PC Programs, David Joseph Hagerty
Determinants of Elite Athletes' Commitment to Sport: Examination of the Sport Commitment Model in the Professional Sport Domain, Tammy Kay Hall
Atmospheric Hydrocarbon Analysis, Dawei Han
Partnering in Public Construction Projects, Vu Han and Mark Snyder
Waveform Estimation with Jitter Noise by Pseudo Symmetrical Probability Density Function, Wei-Da Hao
Lents: Alternatives for the Future, Kent Healy, Shea Gumusoglu, Mark Dane, Steve Kelley, Jim Holycross, Ning-Sheng Zhou, Michael Ray, Sean Loughran, Kyle Bairnsfather, Peggy Scolnick, and Matt Zybas
The Discount Rate in the Public and in the Private Sector, Eckhard Heinold
Common Security: a Conceptual Blueprint for an Israeli-Palestinian Political Settlement, Robert Arthur Horenstein
Urbanization in a Peripheral Capitalist State: A Guyana Case Study, Wazir Ahmad Ishmael
Walt Whitman's Poetics of Labor, David Janssen
Dynamics of Ultrashort Pulse Generation and Amplification in Dye Lasers, Shuanghua Jiang
The United States-Japan Security Treaty of 1951: An Essay on the Origins of Postwar Japanese-American Relation, Christopher S. Johnson
A Study of the Narrative Skills in 6-year-olds with Normal, Impaired, and Late Developing Language, Karen Elaine Johnson
Cost Estimate: What's the Price, Clifford Jones
Linear Programming Model to Assist in Planning Project Execution, Greg Jones, Cliff Jones, and Mark Snyder