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Theses/Dissertations from 1988
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
The role of iron nutrition in regulating patterns of photosynthesis and nitrogen metabolism in the green alga Scenedesmus quadricauda, Dennis Raymond Ades
German-Czech Conflict in Cisleithania: The Question of the Ethnographic Partition of Bohemia, 1848-1919, Nicholas Aldorde
Discontinuities in Normal 30 to 36 Month Old and 54 to 60 Month Old Female Children, Shelley Louise Arnold-Cockburn
Management of Engineering Projects in Remote Sites, Phil Bobzien, Joseph Howe, Kofi Oduro, and Brian Powers
A Comparison of Principal and Teacher Perceptions of Principal Leadership Skills, Alan Mark Carlton
A Case Study of a Nationally Recognized Middle School's Decentralized Participatory Governance Structure, Donna Lynn Carman
The Effects of a Course in American Jokes on a Class of Intermediate Level ESL Students, John Randolph Carruthers