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Theses/Dissertations from 1987
The role of iron nutrition in regulating patterns of photosynthesis and nitrogen metabolism in the green alga Scenedesmus quadricauda, Dennis Raymond Ades
German-Czech conflict in Cisleithania : the question of the ethnographic partition of Bohemia, 1848-1919, Nicholas Aldorde
Discontinuities in Normal 30 to 36 Month Old and 54 to 60 Month Old Female Children, Shelley Louise Arnold-Cockburn
Management of Engineering Projects in Remote Sites, Phil Bobzien, Joseph Howe, Kofi Oduro, and Brian Powers
A Comparison of Principal and Teacher Perceptions of Principal Leadership Skills, Alan Mark Carlton
A Case Study of a Nationally Recognized Middle School's Decentralized Participatory Governance Structure, Donna Lynn Carman
The Effects of a Course in American Jokes on a Class of Intermediate Level ESL Students, John Randolph Carruthers
Disfluencies in Normal Three-Year-Old and Five-Year-Old Male Children, Pamela Paguia Christianson
Optimizing the Utilization of Personal Computers, Darrell K. Cross, Richard L. Perlas, Brian L. Ray, and Teri Lee
Hugo Grotius and the liberal tradition, Karen Diane Csajko
An analysis of the eastern margin of the Portland basin using gravity surveys, Steven Allen Davis
The Effects of a Thank-You Letter and/or Phone Call to First-Time Volunteer Blood Donors, Larkey Sheldon De Neffe
Molecular cloning of spinach chloroplast DNA isolated by alkaline lysis, Robert Gray Drager
Gun Running in Arabia: The Introduction of Modern Arms to the Peninsula, 1880-1914, James W. Fiscus
Normative study of phonological process patterns of preschool children as measured by the Assessment of phonological processes, revised, Lori Jean Griffith
Interregional Competition in the Wood Products Industry: An Econometric Spatial Equilibrium Approach, M. Hossein Haeri
A Comparison of the Expressive Speech of Profoundly Hearing-Impaired Children : "Hearing Aids On" Versus "Hearing Aids Off", James Allen Henry
Repetitions in the speech of normal two year old males, Stephanie Herrick
Segment Congruence Analysis: An Information Theoretic Approach, Jamshid Hosseini-Chaleshtari
The Impact of Physical Environment on the Social Climate of Two Jails, James G. Houston
Numerical solutions of continuous wave beam in nonlinear media, Jeffrey Huang
The philosophy of William James as related to Charles Renouvier, Henri Bergson, Maurice Blondel and Emile Boutroux, Peggy Lyne Hurtado
Classifying Oregon Lake-Watershed Ecosystems for Regional Water Resources Assessment, Randall Alan Jones
Threshold characteristics of multimode laser oscillators, Mehdi Khoshnevissan
Modeling cadastral spatial relationships using an object-oriented information structure, Daniel Kjerne