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Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Alzheimer's Disease Caregivers: The Transition from Home Care to Formal Care, Marie Theresa Duncan
Binary Mixtures Near Surfaces, Patrick Dunn
Studies of ecological factors that affect the population and distribution of the western gray squirrel in northcentral Oregon, Susan Ann Foster
Modeling Techniques for Water Supply Forecasting in the Western United States, David Charles Garen
Identifying Quality Function Deployment's Variables, Outcomes, Their Relationships, and Guidelines for Practitioners in the American Automotive Industry, Geoffrey Paul Gilmore
Real Cost of Material Recovery at Transfer Stations, James Goddard
Proteolytic modification of the Ca²-release mechanism of sarcoplasmic reticulum in skeletal muscle, Ute Goerke
A partitioning-based approach to the fitting problem in special architecture EPLDs, Steffan Goller
Income Generation and Resource Allocation Methods: Turkish Electricity Company (TEC), Ramazan Guven
Management Techniques to Achieve Competitive Advantage in High Technology Companies, Ramazan Guven, Carrie Pak, and Athar Pasha
Semiconductor P-N Junction Space Charge Region Capacitance, Mohammad Humayun Habib
Theoretical and experimental evaluation of hysteresis in atmospheric chemistry, Theodore Alan Haigh
In-House Processing Versus Subcontracting in theSemiconductor Industry, Vu Han, V. Kale, B. Kramer, D. Maupin, and David O'Ferrell
Success Through People: The Key to Project Management, Vu Han, Carrie Pak, and Laura Sobole
Hawthorne Boulevard: Commercial Gentrification and the Creation of an Image, Rachel Ann Hardyman
The synthesis and chemistry of N-chlorosulfenylaziridines, Michael Claude Hare
Cascade Containers Company: Capital Budgeting Project, Samim Hatipoglu
Intercultural confrontation styles of culturally homophilous and culturally heterophilous Japanese and U.S. college students, Toyoko Hattori
Sojourner Adjustment : A Diary Study, Susan Elizabeth Hemstreet
Improved I/O Pad Positions Assignment Algorithm for Sea-of-Gates Placement, Shyang-Kuen Her
Preparation of electron donor and acceptor molecules for porphyrin derivatization, Christoph Hoefler
Hegemony in Two Mainstream Oregon Newspapers: The War on Poverty Era vs. the Post-Reagan Era, Marcia R. Hood-Brown
Rethinking Conventional Labor Hour Benchmarking, Alan Hoskins
The relationship between the use of graphophonic strategy and the success in English vocabulary learning for Chinese students, Ching-chih Christine Huang
The Tensile Strength of Liquid Nitrogen, Jian Huang