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Theses/Dissertations from 1989
John Humphrey Noyes, 1811-1840 : a social biography, Susan Adams DuBay
Predictors of depression in American Indian adolescents, Quang Duong-Tran
Making sense of America : a phenomenological analysis of Chinese nationals' interactions in the U.S., Donna Marie EcElroy
Maternal linguistic input to normal and expressive language delayed toddlers, Terril Joy Elwood
Strategic Implications of R&D Investment on Dynamic Business Systems, George F. Farrimond Jr.
Stratigraphy, diagenesis, and depositional environment of the Cowlitz Formation (Eocene), northwest Oregon, Leonard Carl Farr Jr.
Bone Tool Assemblages as an Aid to Shell Mound Site Typologies on the Northwest Coast, Doria Lee Fingerhut Raetz
Goals Of International Exchange: An Exploratory Study of Why American Host Families Participate in International Exchange Programs, Deborah L. Fisher-Moore
Things seen and remembered, Charlien Dee Fitzpatrick
Relationships Between Teacher Perceptions of Principal Support and Teacher Allocation of Time, Betty Hutchinson Flad
Cultural Value Differences in Arguments Between Presidents Ronald Reagan and Oscar Arias, Juan Carlos Flores
Measuring Productivity of the Creative Process, Fred Forstner, Kun Hsu, Edmundus Pancoko, and Dharwin Yuwono
Chinese Voices: Towards an Ethnography of English as a Second Language, Diane Niblack Fox
The preparation and involvement of Oregon speech-language pathologists in dysphagia, Christine Marie Gaynor
Slope stability as related to geology at Rainier, Columbia County, Oregon, James Douglas Gless
Intercultural Adjustment Problems of Costa Rican Students in the United States, Patricia Gonzalez
A Study of Oxygen Precipitation in Heavily Doped Silicon, Robert Kurt Graupner
Reading comprehension in dementia of the Alzheimer's type : factual versus inferential, Donna Jensen Graville
An Approach to Pattern Recognition of Multifont Printed Alphabet Using Conceptual Graph Theory and Neural Networks, Ihab A. Harb
Hourly Fluctuation of Middle Ear Pressure as a Function of Age in School-Age Children, Susan Hogue Henry
A Study of the Identification and Referral Components of Substance Abuse Intervention Programs in Washington State's Public High Schools, Todd C. Herberg
Revisiting the Rediviva : first mate Robert Haswell's account of the Columbia Rediviva's activities in China and on the return journey during the second voyage, Lucinda Joy Herrick
Teacher Perceptions of Evaluation as an Agent for Teacher Growth and Improvement of Instruction, Beverly Ann Hobson
Literaturproduktion in der DDR : "Vom Entstehen und Sterben" Erich Loests Es geht seinen Gang und vom Entstehen und Gedeihen Christa Wolfs Nachdenken über Christa T., Gudrun Hommel-Ingram