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Gender, ethnicity, and narrative : a linguistic and rhetorical analysis of adolescents' personal experience stories
(1991)
The purpose of this study is to determine how a select group of adolescents constructs written stories about personal experience, how they make use of the syntactic resources of English to encode information in narrative, ...
A decision support methodology for the rehabilitation and replacement of highway bridges
(1991)
The current rate of deterioration of highway bridges in the United States has created the need for a comprehensive bridge management system (BMS). This need has also been recognized in Texas, necessitating the development ...
Seasonal variations of tropical oceanic rainfall characteristics
(1991)
Using infrared cloud top temperatures observed by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) - West, an attempt is made to quantify the area-averaged rainfall by using the GOES precipitation index (GPI). ...
Linear vibrations of porous media
(1991)
In this research, the equations of motion of an isotropic fluid-saturated sedimentary medium are developed from first principles. The equations are limited to the case where linear stress/strain relations are adequate for ...
The use of symbolic manipulation to enable the practical use of power series integrators
(1991)
A prototype scientific programming environment for solving initial and boundary value problems in ordinary differential and integro-differential equations is presented. This environment is designed to assist scientific ...
Inspection allocation models for flexible inspection systems
(1991)
Recent technological developments require new models for inspection allocation. The tightening of product tolerances and the application of computer technology to almost every aspect of manufacturing are some of the changes ...
Physical and geotechnical properties of seafloor sediments from the Vanuatu Collision Zone in the Central New Hebrides Island Arc, South Pacific Ocean
(1991)
Physical properties measurements and geotechnical testing of Ocean Drilling Program Leg 134 cores from the d'Entrecasteaux Zone (DEZ) and the intra-arc North Aoba Basin (NAB) in the southwest Pacific Ocean provide a ...
The neurological effects of Solanum dimidiatum in mice
(1991)
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the toxic properties of Solarium dimidiatum and to establish how the toxicant acts upon the nervous system, causing the "Crazy Cow Syndrome." To obtain this information, ...
Synthesis and structural characterization of mono- and dinuclear transition metal complexes containing the tetraaza-[14] annulene ligand
(1991)
Synthetic entries into the area of new mono- and dinuclear transition metal complexes containg the tmtaa macrocyclic ligand (where tmtaa = dianion of 5,7,12,14-tetramethyldibenzo[b,i][1,4,8,11] tetraazacyclotetradecine) ...
Land economic impact of fixed guideway rapid transit systems on urban development in selected metropolitan areas : the issue of the price-distance gradients
(1991)
This research investigates and evaluates the impact of rapid-transit systems on land values in the vicinity of transit stations in large metropolitan areas. The data is based on ad valorem tax assessment before and after ...