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Submissions from 1992
Shared Tenant Services at PDX Towers, Portland, Saravanabhava Paramashivan
A Diagnostic Analysis of Elementary Principal' Practices Which Serve Youth At-Risk of School Failure, Rikki Kenneth Patrick
Painter's Wilderness, Eddie Peters
Evaluation of Decommissioning Costs for a Nuclear Power Pl, Allen T. Pierce
Parameter uncertainty and modeling of sludge dewatering in one dimension, Joseph H. Plaskett
Perceiving and Coping with Exclusion: The Socialization Experiences of Ethnic Minority Nursing Students, Sarah Porter-Tibbetts
Hypoid Gear Optimization, Selvaraj Ramachandran
Mineralogy, geochemistry, and dispersal of opaque oxides on the continental shelf of the Cascadia margin, Kommajosyula Subramanya Ravi
Early-Return-to-Work Programs: An Exploratory Study of the Effects of Program Policies and Practices on Organizational Outcomes, Lorrie L. Riat
A Comparison of Developmental Sentence Score Patterns in Three Groups of Preschool Children, Michelle Lynn Riback
An Implementation Analysis of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986, James Joseph Rich
Development of a Semi-synthetic Medium Supporting Adherent Growth in Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci, Abbas Sadeghi
A Heuristic Approach for Profit Optimization in Shared Tenant Services (STS), C.P. Saravanabhava, Dan Nguyen, Alper Acar, and Vu Han
Within and beyond boundaries in Henri Bosco's Le mas Théotime, Barbara Marguerite Schaff
Intergenerational Programming: A Confluence of Interests Between the Frail Elderly and Urban Youth, Doris Schindler
A Comparative Media Study of How AIDS-Related News is Reported in Mainstream and Alternative Presses, Robert Eugene Schlick
Simulation Design, Role Identification and Attitude Change in a High Technology Culture, Terry Robert Schumacher
Nonlinear dynamics in oscillating waterfalls, Michael Schumann
Why MRP II Implementation Isn't Always Successful, Cathryn Scott
A Descriptive Study of the Implementation of an Integrated Whole Language Approach at the Fifth Grade Level, Ardyth Shapiro
Connected Painted Rectangles Experiments in Quantitative Shape and Contrasting Elements, Ann Shiogi
Estimation of Warranty Reserves: Methods and Models, Carole Shlaes
Sources or Risk in Capital Budgeting, Carole Shlaes