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Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Certain Metrics in Measuring the Quality of End User Documentation, Ronald Morrison
Computer Job Scheduling: A Simulation Project, Jim Munz
Continuous Process Improvement Versus Reengineering, Jim Munz
The Feminine Poetic Voice in the Rymes of Pernette du Guillet, Darcy Renee Murphey
Lola G. Baldwin and the Professionalization of Women's Police Work, 1905-1922, Gloria Elizabeth Myers
Performance Analysis of a Hierarchical, Cache-Coherent, Shared Memory Based, Multi-processor System, Raman Nayyar
Modeling and Simulation of Bipolar Transistor at Low Temperature, Swarupa Madhav Nerurkar
Data Dependence in Programs Involving Indexed Variables, Borislav Nikolik
Exact Modeling of Time-Interval-Modulated Switched Networks, Weihe Niu
Thermoregulation in Mice under the Influence of Ethanol, Candace Sharon O'Connor
A Comparison of Ambient and Hearing Aid Output Noise Levels in Industrial and Non-industrial Settings, Jody Lynn O'Connor
Space, Consciousness, and Gender in Colette, William A. Parnell
The Assimilation and Integration Processes: A Study of the Commitment Patterns During Students' Entry into College, Suzanne M. Pastori
Evaluation of Information Resource Management: Measuring Change in a Federal Bureaucracy, Randolph D. Perrin
Distributed Economic Systems with Agents that Learn, Stanley Foster Perry
An Intercultural Analysis of Differences in Appropriateness Ratings of Facial Expressions Between Japanese and American Subjects, Patricia Jean Peschka-Daskalos
Lents: a Neighborhood Issues Analysis, Portland State University
Pattern Recognition and ERP Waveform Analysis Using Wavelet Transform, Hong Qi
Attitudes, Motivations and Expectations of Students and Instructors in an Intensive University ESL Summer Session, Ronald Andrew Ragsdale
Balancing Safety vs. Costs to Efficiently Produce Nuclear, Nicolas Renaud
Object Parallel Spatio-Temporal Analysis and Modeling System, David Bruce Rex
The Natural Approach and the Audiolingual Method: A Question of Student Gains and Retention, Jeffrey Robert Richards
An Implementation Analysis of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986, James Joseph Rich
Cost and Benefit Elements of a Tailored Application versus an off-the-Shelf Package and the Manager's Role., Fernando E. Rivera