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Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Children's Conception of the Social and Moral Dilemmas Associated with Drug Use, Nancy Lynn Thayer
A Comparison of the Effects of Different Video Imagery Upon Adult ESL Students' Comprehension of a Video Narrative, Scott Alan Thompson
The Family and Women in the Fifteenth Century: A Case Study of the Pastons, Diana Thurman
Women who Select Naturopathic Health Care During the Menopausal Transition: A Study in Grounded Theory, Dorothy S. Tibbetts
Theory and Poetry: John Ashbery's "Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror", Jeffrey Wayne Timmons
Existencialismo en La Lucha por La Vida, Juan Andres Amigo Torrubia
Statistical Analysis of a Software Department's Project Planning Process, Gary Tracy
The Schooling of Vietnamese-American High School Students in Oregon: Their Perspectives, Minh Van Tran
The Determinants of Women's Work: A Case Study from Three Urban Low-income Communities in Amman, Jordan, Taghrid Khuri Tubbeh
Synthesis and Characterization of some Flourine-containing Lithium Alkyl Sulfonates: Flourinated Sulfonates and SF5-containing Sulfonates, Steven A. Ullrich
Laser Resonators Using Tiered Fresnel Mirrors, Bruce Dale Ulrich
Familiality of Early Expressive Language Delay: A Sibling Study, Carol Lynn Unkefer
A Study of Quality Implementation Differentiation in a Small Business Due to its Size, Akin Uslu
The Impact of Enterprise Zones on Employment, Terry William Van Allen
Illness and the Treatment Response: The Patient's View, Nina Patricia Van Es
Interactions of Ruthenium Red with Phospholipid Vesicles, Dirk Voelker
Changing Values: A Study of the Shift in Cultural Values and Perceptions of U.S. High School Students Following Orientation and Exposure to Russian Culture, Linda Sue Warnock
Nonlinguistic Cognitive Performance and Expressive and Receptive Language Scores in Children with Expressive Language Delay, Deborah Kay Warren
Motivation for Total Quality Improvement, Ela Whelan
Soviet Evangelical Students in Adult ESL Classes: A Case Study, Patricia Ann Wiggins
The Spatial Distribution of Ground Stone Tools as a Marker of Status Differentials in a Chinookan Plank House on the Lower Columbia River, John William Wolf
On Modeling of a Mobile Multipath Fading Channel, Heng Xiao
High-frequency Analog Voltage Converter Design, Ping Xu
China's policies toward the Soviet Union and the United States before and in the Korean War, Ji Bao Yan
Temporal Characteristics of Words Surrounding a Moment of Stuttering, Janice Kaye Young