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Open Access Dissertations

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Theses/Dissertations from 1990 1990

Chaloner-Gill, Benjamin M.. (Un)substituted polyazine: Synthesis and characterization

Cheng, Chi-Yang. An analytical and experimental study of pressure drop and flow characteristics of a heavy-duty air filter

Chen, Huo-Wang. Acoustic harmonic and transient response of fluid-loaded shells of revolution

Chu, Bih-Jou. Characterization and evaluation of resource recovery residue in landfill

Costa, Armenio Santos. Selected parameters of psychotherapy: A transtheoretical investigation

De Meneses, Jose Gabriel Alamo. Modeling the freshwater inflow into the Pettaquamscutt River

Djuric, Petar M.. Selection of signal and system models by Bayesian predictive densities

Dufresne, Robert Louis. Dimensions of schizophrenic symptomatology and their use in defining schizophrenic subtypes

Ebenezer, Duraisingh Diamond. The transient response of heavily fluid-loaded elastic plates and cylindrical shells

Edwards, Gwenyth Hughes. Multidimensionality of the male sex role stereotype: An exploration of subtypes

Erzini, Karim. Variability in length-at-age in marine fishes

Fava, Joseph L.. The Misspecification of Components and Factors

Fitzgerald, Terence Edward. Health risk reduction and psychosocial adaptation in coronary artery bypass graft surgery patients

Gangopadhyay, Avijit. Wind forcing of the Gulf Stream: A space-time analysis

Garfield, Newell III. The Brazil Current at subtropical latitudes

George, Valerie Susan. A consideration of the role of physical factors in the annual succession of copepods in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island

Ghiamati, Ebrahim. Ultraviolet resonance Raman spectroscopic studies of bacteria and bacterial spores

Hall, Frank Reginald. The rock-magnetic signature of high-latitude northern hemispheric deep-sea sediments and their relationships to Quaternary glacial cycling

Hansen, Michael. Paternal Acceptance and Nurturance Received and Parents’ Acceptance and Nurturance of Their Children

Huang, Kelan. Optical responses of linear and nonlinear superlattices

Isley, Ann Elaine. Geochemical and physical processes influencing the composition of particles in diverse environments, eastern North Atlantic Ocean

Jang, Nan-In. Optimization strategies for reverse-phase liquid chromatographic separations of deoxyribonucleotides, deoxyribonucleosides, and dideoxyribonucleosides

Jennings, Karen Elaine. The effect of therapeutic education and class size on college students' belief systems and stage of change

Kaczmarczyk, Donald. The effect of light regime on the photosynthetic apparatus of Batrachospermum boryanum (Rhodophyta)

Kaikhah, Khosrow. Natural language processing for intelligent systems

Keefe, MaryLouise. Chemosensory behavior in wild brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis

Khan, Arif Mujib. Offset screen and pseudodiffusion models for prediction of filtration phenomena in real fibrous filter media

Kilduff, Raymond A.. INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND THE PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF SELF-REPORT MEASURES OF PERSONALITY TRAITS AND ATTITUDES

Koerting-Walker, Claudia Patricia. Toxigenicity of Aphanizomenon flos-aquae, Alexandrium tamarense and associated organisms

Kouadio, Issifou. A kinetic and mechanistic investigation of tetrahydroxosilver (III) redox reactions with sulfite, iodide, and dl-mandelate ions

Kuruklis, Spiridon Angelos. Oscillatory and asymptotic behavior of difference equations

Lee, Sang-Baek. Response of unsaturated polyester, vinyl ester, and acrylic resins to water exposure

Leibovitz, Henry Elliot. Microencapsulated diets for larvae of the inland silversides, Menidia beryllina

Lerner, Christine Fiore. The transtheoretical model of change: Self-change in adolescent delinquent behaviors

Li, Fu. A Unified Performance Analysis of Subspace-Based DOA Estimation Algorithms in Array Signal Processing

Loprete, Darlene Margaret. Determination of the conditions for the structure and alternative forms of DNA by infrared spectroscopy

Ludecke, Friedrich George. Calculation of the cross-section for the elastic scattering of photons from calcium 40 nuclei

Margolis, Eliezer Tzvi. Assessing Beliefs About Depression and Its Treatment

May, Jeffrey D.. The relationship of nutrient resorption to the evolutionary fitness and ecological dynamics of a deciduous forest shrub (Quercus ilicifolia)

McCormick, Beth Ann. Role of type 1 fimbriae, motility, and chemotaxis in the colonization of the mouse large intestine by a human fecal Escherichia coli strain and an avirulent Salmonella typhimurium strain

McKenna, James Edward Jr.. Ecology of an exploited Antarctic fish community

Medina, Daniel Joseph. Epizootic epitheliotropic disease of lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush): Etiology and pathogenesis

Meyer, Elaine C.. Preventive psychosocial intervention with parents of very low birthweight infants

Miller, William L.. AN INVESTIGATION OF PEROXIDE, IRON AND IRON BIOAVAILABILITY IN IRRADIATED MARINE WATERS

Murillo, Louis Manuel. Modelling the shoaling of channels due to the combined action of waves and currents

Muzzio, Miguel. Sensitivity studies in NMR spectroscopy

Natanson, Lisa J.. Relationship of vertebral band deposition to age and growth in the dusky shark, Carcharhinus obscurus, and the little skate, Raja erinacea

Pivarnik, Lori Felice. Characterization of hydrolase and transgalactosidase activities of commercial, food-grade yeast lactases

Pivarnik, Philip Edward. The conversion of beta-carotene to retinal with carotene dioxygenase

Queiroz de Campos, Luisa Maria Lucas. "The Dunciad" and "Don Juan" as epic metamorphoses: A study in narrative organization

Randall, Joan L.. Mina Loy: The feminine inscription of modernism

Rodriguez, Mildred. Studies on the development and regulation of the salmonid testis

Santawanpas, Smartachai. Metabolism of beta-carotene, echinenone, and lycopene in the rat

Scioli, Anthony. THE DEVELOPMENT OF HOPE AND HOPELESSNESS: STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS

Sichel, Susanna Eleonora. Petrology and geochemistry of South Atlantic Ridge basalts and geochemical variations along the Cameroon Line

Sun, Yunfu. Kinetics and mechanisms of silver(III) reactions

Valliath, George Thomas. Spectral dependence of the electro-optic coefficients and the quantum efficiency near the band edge in gallium arsenide/aluminum gallium arsenide multiple quantum well modulator structures

Vlahos, Panagiotis N.. Global attractivity in delay difference equations

Vorbach, James Vincent. A unifying logic-based formalism for semantic data models

Wey, Kwo-Dong. A Social Welfare Analysis of Congestion and Water Quality of Great Salt Pond, Black Island, Rhode Island

Wey, Kwo-Dong. A social welfare analysis of congestion and water quality of Great Salt Pond, Block Island, Rhode Island

Whitesel, Timothy Aaron. Performance of juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) introduced into a stream: Smolt development and thyroid hormones

Wilkes, David Michael. Dickens and the pastoral ethic

Williams-Quinlan, Susan. INTERGENERATIONAL ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS ABOUT SEXUAL ASSAULT AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT

Yoon, Ki Sun. Physical factors affecting textural hardening of frozen fish mince

Zapor, Michael Jay. Molecular analysis of the virulence regulon of a limited host range Agrobacterium tumefaciens tumor-inducing plasmid

Zeitouni, Naomi. Efficient management of groundwater quality: An evaluation of spatially differentiated policies

Zhu, Changyi. An experimental and numerical study of the effect of microstructure on wave propagation phenomena in granular media

Theses/Dissertations from 1989 1989

Agardy, M. Tundi. Population Dynamics in Two Nesting Groups of the Leatherback Turtle, Dermochelys Coriacea and Implications for Management

Asano, David Ken. Design considerations for automatic guided vehicles in structured environments

Ayvazian, Suzanne G.. Lateral plate heritability and asymmetric mating preference in Gasterosteus wheatlandi

Bark, Ki-Min. Mixture analysis and molecular fluorescence properties of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) by laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy

Begin, Ann Marie. Levels of attributions of male alcoholics, their significant others and their therapists during the course of inpatient alcohol rehabilitation

Berlinsky, David L.. Changes in steroid hormones during oocyte development in the striped bass, Morone saxatilis

Carreiro, Margaret Mary. Ecology and heat shock physiology of low-temperature fungi of temperate and alpine forest soils

Chung, Kang Hyun. The texture-modifying effect of nonfish protein in surimi gel

Cichy, Anne Frances. The synthesis of 4'-iso-1',2'-seco-nucleosides and nucleotides as potential enzyme inhibitors

Cyr, Douglas Martin. On the mechanism for inhibition of ureagenesis by sodium benzoate

David, Joan B.. Edwin Booth's production of "The Merchant of Venice": A promptbook study

Davidoff, Amy Jane. CHANGES IN CARDIAC FUNCTION DUE TO THE INTERACTIONS OF DIABETES AND HYPERTENSION IN THE RAT

Dawoodbhai, Shabbir S.. OPTIMIZATION AND USE OF TALC IN DIRECT COMPRESSION TABLET FORMULATIONS

Diaby, Souleymane. Economic impact analysis of the Ivorian Sardinella fishery

Dufresne, Robert Louis. THE EFFECTS OF ALBUTEROL AND CHRONIC ANTIDEPRESSANTS ON INTRACRANIAL SELF-STIMULATION REWARD THRESHOLDS

Durand, Dorothea Ann. Electrochemical studies of the reaction of carbon dioxide with transition metal complexes in nonaqueous electrolyte

Farahani, Majid Moztarebi. Invariant image recognition using projections

Florio, John Jr.. An analytical and experimental investigation of the decomposition of glass-filled polymer composites

Gibson, Paul Edward. A study of the intermittent nature of transitional boundary layer flows

Goldstein, Norma Walrath. Thomas Hardy's Victorian Gothic: Reassessing Hardy's fiction and his Gothic sensibility

Goodyear, Numi C.. Spatial overlap and dietary preference of the native silver rice rat (Oryzomys argentatus) and the exotic black rat (Rattus rattus) in the Florida Keys

Gupta, Prabhat Kumar. STOCHASTIC AND DETERMINISTIC COMPUTING USING PSEUDO-NOISE SEQUENCES APPLIED TO DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING

Hambrook, Julie Anne. Reproductive biology of the freshwater red alga Batrachospermum boryanum Sirodot

Hammen, Susan Chandler Lum. The impact of natural and induced stress on variation and adaptation within populations of Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) Moore

Hill, Darlene Reimers. From Aunt Mashula's coconut cake to Big Macs: References to food in recent Southern women's fiction

Hsu, Tien-Lai. The blood and hematopoietic cells in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and their relation to infectious hematopoietic necrosis disease

Hubbell, Richard Frederick. The near field flow and drag on cylindrical bodies moving concentrically inside very long tubes

Joyce, Paul Stephen. A comparison of methods of stock identification of the silver hake, Merluccius bilinearis

Kennedy, Kristin Tracy. Designing an expert system as a diagnostic tool for work order and purchase order procedures for a small manufacturing business

Kot, Alex Chichung. Perturbation analysis of SVD-based methods

Laboissonniere, Barbara Rose. A study of rock music videos as the poetry of secondary orality

Lai, Mei-Chin. The degenerative processes of Clostridium acetobutylicum