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Theses/Dissertations from 1992
How Gothic Influences and Eidetic Imagery in Eight Color Plates and Key Poems by William Blake Figuratively Unite Body and Soul by Dramatizing the Visionary Imagination, Honor Penelope Vallor
Soviet Pentecostal Refugees' Health and Their Religious Beliefs: An Exploratory Study, Dianne Fae Venable
A Comparison of Two Kindergarten Screening Instruments in One Population, Therese Marie Westrup
Narrative Painting, Gina Strecker Wilson
Urban Native American Educational Attitudes: Impact of Educational Background and Childhood Residency, Paul Adair Wood
Attitude Functions and Political Behavior: the Issue of Gay Civil Rights, Josephine Young
Developing Image Processing Tools in X Window System, Xin Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
The relationship of patients' perceptions of physicians' communication style to patient satisfaction, Lisa Diane Abramson
The Effect of Road Investment on Economic Development: A Case Study of the Oregon Counties, Ameer Mohammed Al-Alwan
The Effect of Urbanization and Modernization on Family Structure in Oman, Sultan M. Al-Hashmi
The Role of Tourism in Development: A Case Study of Turkey, Habib Alipouraghtapeh
Freeway Control Via Ramp Metering: Development of a Basic Building Block for an On-Ramp, Discrete, Stochastic, Mesoscopic, Simulation Model within a Contextual Systems Approach, Mohamed Yaser Alkadri
The Foundation for Revolution: Educational Reforms in Late Ch'ing China, Andrea Asbell
Who's in Jail?: An Examination of Irwin's Rabble Hypothesis, John Allen Backstrand
A Software Product for the Pairwise Comparison Method of Judgment Quantification, User Manual, Bruce J. Bailey
The Effect of Visual Memory Training on Spelling Achievement in the Classroom, Linda M. Baker
The Relationship Between Internal Organizational Conflict, Authority Structure, and the Social Environment, Mary Ann Barham
The Orenco Community Plan, Chuck Beasley, Mark Becktel, Vince Chiotti, Ruth Curtis, Hong Gao, Francie Royce, Ron Skidmore, and Lynne Storz
Barriers to Excellence In A Highly Competitive Marketplace - An Exploration Of Proactive Engineering Management Method, Tim Bennington-Davis, Tim Golik, Ramazan Guven, Anthony Piwinski, and Donna Street
Identity Formation: A Comparison of Adolescents Adopted Through Agency Versus Private Placements, Judith Kay Bentley
Metaphoric extension as a basis for vocabulary teaching in English as a second language, Dennis L. Bergmann
Computer-Based Parameter Visualization and Decision Making for the Detection and Prediction of Ovulation: the Ovulo-Computer, Omar Rodolfo Bermudez
Uncertainty analysis of runoff estimates from runoff-depth contour maps produced by five automated procedures for the northeastern United States, Gary D. Bishop
The Effects of Negligence and Causation Information on Jurors' Determination of Liability, David K. Blanchard