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Velayudhan, Nirmalkumar. "Analysis of Thermally Diffused Single Mode Optical Fiber Couplers." Master's thesis, Virginia Tech, 1997. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/materials/public/etd-51697-144745/etd-title.html

Sampan, Samkiat. "Neural Fuzzy Techniques In Vehicle Acoustic Signal Classification." Ph.D. diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1997. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/materials/public/etd-5733142539751141/etd-title.html