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Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Written narrative texts of language impaired and normal adolescents, Kevin Jon Penner
Solvent and Substituent Effects on the Redox Potentials of Several Substituted Tetraphenylporphyrins, Robert Arthur Ransdell
Patterns of rhetoric/patterns of culture : a look at the English writing of Japanese students, Suzanne Raschke
The Relocation of North Bonneville, Washington, by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: A Policy Implementation Study, Cecil Eugene Reinke
Optimization of The Two Stage Alum Phosphorus Removal Process Using Linear Programming Techniques, Reynold D. Richwine
A Descriptive Study of Sexual Health Attitudes and Practices Among Adolescent and Young Adult Male County Health Department Clients, Russel Douglas Robbins
Internal-external locus of control and the life experiences of Soviet Pentecostal refugees in Portland, Oregon, Amy Roberts
The Angler as Environmentalist: Oregon Trout and the Fight to Save the Wild Salmon of the Columbia River, John P. Rosenberg
The Oregon Volunteers in the Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection : the annotated and edited diary of Chriss A. Bell, May 2, 1898 to June 24, 1899, James Stanley Rost
Transient heat transfer, Eric Roth
Analysis of a coordination framework for mapping coarse-grain applications to distributed systems, Linda Ruth Schaefer
An Experimental Investigation of the Finite Time Efficiency of a Peltier Refrigeration Device, Thomas Schneider
Knowledge Sharing System for PC Compatibility - Solution Mechanism Model, Cathryn Scott
Exploiting and/or Parallelism in Prolog, Bankim Shah
Therapeutic group approaches for issues related to suicide, Ardis Sherwood
One woman, one child : the implications of the one-child-family policy for Chinese women, Tao Shi
The Time-Constrained Traveling Salesman Problem: A Tour of Existing Solution Techniques, Carole Shlaes
Story retelling skills in 4-year-olds with histories of normal and delayed language development, Rita Louise Smith
Limits of limit equilibrium and finite element techniques applied to cracked debris dams on collapsing foundations, Stanley Soliday Jr.
A Human Computer Cooperative System for Decision Support, Ning Song
The value of the SPI in forecasting chronic stuttering, Dena Diane Stork
The Concept of Self-disclosure in Initial Interaction Between Strangers in Japan, Hizuru Sugita
Telling Stories (Out of School) of Mother Tongue, God's Tongue, and the Queen's Tongue: An Ethnography in Canada, Joan Ratzlaff Swinney
Spectral and Spatial Quantum Efficiency of AlGaAs/GaAs and InGaAs/InP PIN Photodiodes, Steven Alan Tabor