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Theses/Dissertations from 1993
The Relationship Between Cognitive Skills Measured by Piagetian Tasks at Age 2 and Linguistic Skills Measured by an Expressive Language Test at Age 4 in Normal and Late Talkers, Rebecca Jayne LaPlante
Determining the Lowest Cost Choice Between FJ Tested and Supplied Components or Locally Purchased and Tested, Michael Lazur
Implementing TQM in a Small Business, Michael Lazur
TQM: Project: Statistical Process Control for Incoming Inspection Through-Put-Time, Michael Lazur
Smart Memory: An Inexact Content-Addressable Memory, Jack Lee
Automatic Tuning of Integrated Filters Using Neural Networks, Lutz Henning Lenz
The Study of Malaysian Learners' Strategies while Studying a Second Language, Phoebe Christina Leong
A Linear Program for Human Resource Allocation in a Design/construction Firm, David C. Liesch
Women's Interracial Friendships: Nonlocal Determinants of Everyday Experiences, Stephanie A. Limoncelli
New Dynamic Investment Criteria, Longjun Liu
Employee Scheduling Using Linear Programming Methods: A Case Study for Ground Services Personnel, Longjun Liu, Poul Murtha, and Levent Neymen
Ethnic Identity Changes Among Hong Kong Chinese Americans, Pui-Lam Lo
An analysis of movable Barrier Systems for Temporary Traffic Control in Highway Construction, Art Louie
The Identity in Crisis: A New Approach to the Culture Shock Experience of University Exchange Students, Christina Maria Luther
Unified Bias Analysis of Subspace-Based DOA Estimation Algorithms, Yang Lu
OPT, Activity Based Costing, and the New Theory of Manufacturing, Sean T. MacDermant
Difficulties Experienced Procedural Programmers Encounter When Transferring to an Object-oriented Programming Paradigm, Scott Andrew MacHaffie
The Soldiers of Spain's California Army, 1769-1821, Barrie Earl Malcolm
Police Stress: A Literature Study on Police Occupational Stressors and the Responses in Police Officers to Stressful Job Events, Katarina Ahlstrom Mannheimer
A Cognitively Motivated System for Software Component Reuse, Michael Joseph Mateas
Comparative Scores of Hearing-Impaired and Normally Hearing Children Given the Carolina Picture Vocabulary Test, Barbara Ann McComb
Benchmarking in Industry, Mic McConnell
Improper Application of Statistical Analysis Tools to QualityImprovement Activities, Lawrence R. McCoy
The Public Persona of Nelson R. Mandela: A Study of U.S. Print Media Narratives, Molly Jeane McVey
Comparison of Ion Adsorption to Phophatidylcholine/Phosphatidylserine and Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Membranes, Martin Mense