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Theses/Dissertations from 1989
Energy Cost of Resistive Exercise, Jan A. Polychronis
Southeast Portland Comprehensive Housing Plan: Background Report, Portland State University. College of Urban and Public Affairs
Enhanced Realism in the Development of My Painting, Zifen Qian
Types of phonological processes occurring in normal Black English speakers, Eileen Rella
U.S.-Soviet interchange : an examination of the underlying assumptions of U.S. peace organizations sponsoring contact with Soviet citizens, Hyla Rosenberg
Endless State-of-Polarization Control for Coherent Optical Communication Systems Using Nematic Liquid Crystal, Scott H. Rumbaugh
The Longterm Psychosocial Impacts of Caregiving on the Caregivers of Persons with Stroke, Alice Updike Scannell
Fluorinated Esters: Synthesis and Identification, Jilla Schaff
The Congress of Berlin of 1878: Its Origins and Consequences, Kenneth Allen Shafer
Persistence of New Full-Time Students: A Study in a Community College, Janet Stephine Stennick
Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA Restriction Fragment Patterns in Killer Whales, Orcinus Orca, Tracy Alison Stevens
The Effect of a Video Presentation and Reference Guide Manual of Helicopter Safety Instruction on the Knowledge Base of Medical Transport Nurses, K. Linda Stickney
Chemical Modification of Skeletal Muscle Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Vesicles: A Study of Calcium Permeability, Janice F. Stuart
An Analysis of the Effect of State Regulation of Commercial Income Tax Preparers on the Quality of Income Tax Returns, Jeanie Grace Sumner
The Characteristics of the Teacher Evaluation Process as Perceived by Elementary Teachers and Principals, Peter H. Taylor
The Chemistry of Sulfonyl Fluorides: SF5 and/or SO2F Containing Compounds as Precursors to Sulfonic Acids, Robin Joyce Terjeson
Seasonal trailing behavior and corticosterone levels in male red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis), Pamela Kay Thinesen
Development of Morphological Forms in Four-Year-Old Children, Catherine Anderson Thompson
Cultural relativism in intercultural communication theory : a descriptive and heuristic study, Ellen Linnea Trygstad
The Effect of Media on the Listening Comprehension Scores of Intermediate ESL Students, Marian Tyson
The Application of the Ordered List Method and the Dynamic Programming to the Unit Commitment, Hoang Uong
Estimation Issues in Software Project Management, Murali Veeramoney, Bryce Schroeder, and Jerry Johnson
Awareness of Biculturalism in Families of Intercultural Marriage, Eleesabeth Carol-Therese Vieira
The physiology and biochemistry of isolated skeletal muscle mitochondria : a comparative study, Mark Lowell Wagner
Application of Hough Transformation to Detect Ovulatory Patterns in Cervical Mucus Images, Shiliang Wang