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Theses/Dissertations from 1989
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
Traditional College-Age Students' Attitudes Toward Arnold's Seven Building Blocks Decision-Making Strategy, Mary Ellen Wernow
Every Man Crying Out: Elizabethan Anti-Catholic Pamphlets and the Birth of English Anti-Papism, Carol Ellen Wheeler
A Preliminary Analysis of Beneficiary Discharge Status and Post-Hospital Placement Before and After the Implementation of Medicare's Prospective Payment System, Anne Marguerite Wilkinson
Attitudes of Control and Weight Management, Carolyn Lee Edwards Wright
The Effects of Bandwidth Limiting Tuning Elements on a Synchronously Pumped Mode-Locked Dye Laser, Bahram Zandi
Dynamic Behavior of CO₂ Lasers, Li Zhang
A new approach to state minimization of finite state machines, William Yue Zhao
The interaction of stimulus rate and polarity effects on the auditory brainstem response, Michelle Ann Nielsen Ziegler
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Hedonic analysis of gasoline retailing, Soleman A. Al-Bassir
DC-excited cw CO₂ Metal Waveguide Laser, Fahad Saleh Al-Mashaabi
The Effectiveness of Fiction Versus Nonfiction in Teaching Reading to ESL Students, Becky Kay Appley
Boudica: an Illustrated Narrative, Robin A. Ator
Analysis of Error Type, Source, and Gravity in the Writing of Arabic ESL Students in U.S.A. Colleges, Fadel Mohammed Na'im Bader
Negative Feedback Communication in Product Development, Bruce J. Bailey, James Fenton, Lee Kelly, Robin Peterson, Thomas Rak, and Gordon Tracy
Grace Wick : portrait of a right-wing extremist, June Melby Benowitz