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Theses/Dissertations from 1991
A Comparative Analysis of U.S. Foreign Policy in Iran and the Philippines, Christina M. Blumel
English Housewives in Theory and Practice, 1500-1640, Lynn Ann Botelho
Indirect Intervention for Preschool Stutterers, Prudence Ann Bowers
The Function of Phrasal Verbs and Their Lexical Counterparts in Technical Manuals, Brock Brady
Establishing Practical Limits to Crime Control Through Environmental Design, Gerald Dennis Brock
Innovation and Integration of New Transmission and Substation Technologies In the American Utility Industry, John H. Brunke
Reciprocating transformations, Joyce A. Bryerton
The Burnett Site: a Cascade Phase Camp on the Lower Willamette River, Robert M. Burnett
Psychology, Culture and Female Texts: Brigitte Schwaiger's Wie kommt das Salz ins Meer, Julienne Eden Busic
Development of an Advisory System for Indoor Radon Mitigation, Patricia Hiromi Byrne
A retrospective study of the Clinical evaluation of language functions elementary screening test (CELF-S), Tamara Lynn Caldwell
The spatial patterning of residential differentiation in metropolitan community : the case of Kaohsiung City in Taiwan, 1982, Chih-Jen Chen
Strides Toward TQM, Selahattin Cimen, John Dorrance, Tim Dugan, Douglas Lee, Vincent Scalesse, and Kostaman Thayyib
The Comparison of R&D Management Characteristics in the High Tech Industries of U.S. and Japan, Tugrul Daim, Spyros Lazaris, Bob McClement, Leon Poh, and Craig Winton
Late Holocene Paleoseismicity along the Northern Oregon Coast, Mark Edward Darienzo
A Study of Qualitative Miscue Analysis Scoring Systems for Identification of Instructional Reading Levels, Sylvia Estelle Dean
Engineers: Formal Management Training Requirements?, Hoat Dinh, Niko Hendarsin, Mic McConnell, Carrie Park, C.P. Saravanabhava, and Jonathan Yap
The Importance of Phonological Practice and Other Strategies for Vocabulary Recall and Comprehension, Kristi Allyn DuBois
Neural network character recognition with a 2-D Fourier transform preprocessor, Daqiao Du
An Analysis of the pH Tolerance and Substrate Preference of Isolated Skeletal Muscle Mitochondria from Bufo marinus and Rana catesbeiana, Jeffrey Mark Duerr
IINT: A Telephone Noise Troubleshooting Expert System (with Emphasis on Integrating the CONTEL Method Info System), Dale R. Ekmark
Low to medium level image processing for a mobile robot, Cecilia H. Espinosa
A Structural Model and Test of the Antecedents and Outcomes of Organizational and Professional Commitment, Mary Ann Evans
Spectral Methods for Boolean and Multiple-Valued Input Logic Functions, Bogdan Jaroslaw Falkowski
Public restoration of the fallen religious leader : a rhetorical perspective, David Fleer