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Theses/Dissertations from 1991
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
Resolving the Evaluator/Nurturer Role Conflict of the Elementary School Principal, Judith Elizabeth Drummond Taccogna
The influence of the transition plan in developing communication programs, Yuki Tanaka
Stochastic Hydrologic Modeling in Real Time Using a Deterministic Model (Streamflow Synthesis and Reservoir Regulation Model), Time Series Model, and Kalman Filter, Philip Kwok Fan Tang
A new design approach for numeric-to-symbolic conversion using neural networks, Zibin Tang
Portfolios as developmentally appropriate assessment in early childhood education, Deborah Thompson
Development and Analysis of a Model for Change in the Workplace, Using Quasi-Experimentation with Computer Professionals in Northwestern Investor Owned Utilities, John Ronald Thompson
Assessing the Intercultural Sensitivity of American Expatriates in Kuwait, Deborah Ann Turner
Evaluating the Role of Geogrids in the Rehabilitation of Cracked Dams via Numerical Techniques, Kelly Dean Uhacz
The Physiology and Molecular Biology of Iron Nutrition for Cyanobacteria, Nancy Walters Unsworth
A Multiple Coupled Microstrip Transmission Line Model for High-Speed VLSI Interconnect Simulation, Lawrence Stevan Uzelac
The collapse of the German army in the East in the summer of 1944 (Volume 1), Stephen Ariel Veal