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Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Safety related model and studies of Trojan Nuclear Power Plant electrical distribution system, Hamidreza Sharifnia
A Comparison of Communication Intentions in Toddlers Between Sixteen and Thirty-Four Months of Age, Mary Elaine Shiffer
An Empirical Assessment of the Center-Periphery Hypothesis in International Economic Relations, Fazlollah Bonakdar Shirazi
From 'The Help of Grave and Modest Women' to 'The Care of Men of Sense': The Transition from Female Midwifery to Male Obstetrics in Early Modern England, Karen L. Smith Adams
Communication and Socialization Profiles in Toddlers with Expressive Language Delay, Shawn Spangle-Looney
Syntactic complexity, error and the holistic evaluation of ESL student essays, John S. Sparks
Landscape and change in three novels by Theodor Fontane, Jane Ellen Speerstra
The Development of a Social Network following Geographic Relocation, Joan E. Starker
An Analysis of Kindergarten Children's Use of a Word Processor in Their Print Literacy Development, Paul Steger
A Lagrangian for a system of two dyons, Rainer Georg Thierauf
Off-axis multimode light beam propagation in tapered lenslike media including those with spatial gain or loss variation, Anthony Alan Tovar
Modification of the Ca²⁺ Release System of Skeletal Muscle Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Vesicles via Sulfhydryl Oxidation and Tryptic Proteolysis, Jonathan Lee Trimm
The influence of work station architecture on work perceptions and work behavior, Connie L. True
Beyond Difference Scores: Testing Models of Speed of Information-Processing Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Gary A. Uhland
An Experiment Testing the Bolinger Principle to Teach Gerunds and Infinitives, Juliet Rosemarie Vawser
An investigation of the effect of using varying stimuli to assess normal children's comprehension of five locative prepositions, Kathleen Gray Versteeg
Rock slope stability studies in Siskiyou National Forest, Greg Visconty
A Comparative Study of Chinese EFL Reading Instruction and American ESL Reading Instruction, Changhua Wang
A Critical Study of Communications in Land Use Hearings, Douglas J. Warren
Effects of Flat Panel Display Parameters Across Three Application Areas Upon Similarity Judgments, Novia Weiman
Geochemical stratigraphy of the Dooley rhyolite breccia and Tertiary basalts in the Dooley Mountain quadrangle, Oregon, David Neale Whitson
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo: Self and Close-Other Selection of Personality Test Interpretations, Sheela Word
Script effects and reading strategies : ideographic language readers vs. alphabetic language readers in ESL, Minglang Zhou
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Determinants of the Spatial Distribution of Peri-Urban to Rural Agriculture in the United States, Ibrahim Amin Abdel-Karim
An Analysis of the Shift of Employment Toward Multi-Sectoral Services Industries in California, 1960-1980, Ayalew Adamu