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1999

The integration of science process skills in elementary science, math, and language arts: A case study of the effect upon student science achievement, Craig John Tice

Preparing the professoriate of the future: An assessment case study, Stacey Lane Tice

Generalization programming and school-based consultation: The effects of a generalization training program on teachers' consultation-related skills, Timothy Christopher Tillman

Scheduling task graphs in heterogeneous computing environments, Haluk Rahmi Topcuoglu

Finite element spectral approximations, Max Minh Tran

An investigation of changes in college students' conceptions of mathematics and mathematics learning during participation in a reform-based developmental mathematics course, Joseph S. Tripp

Mothers' and fathers' interaction with preschoolers in the home in Northern Thailand: Relationships to teachers' assessments of children social skills, Oracha Tulananda

Back pain: The effect of physiological and educational treatment modalities on various outcome measures, Brian Earl Udermann

Towards a theology of language: A philosophical analysis of the theological desire to give expression in the secular world, Noelle Dominique Isabelle Vahanian

The primary event of visual opsins, Bryan William Vought

Search for cellular retinol and retinal binding proteins in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Kaixuan Wang

Design and development of FMS software control systems, Luming Wang

Deciding to leave: The politics of departure in the United States Supreme Court from John Rutledge to Harry Blackman, Artemus Ward

Essays in applied microeconometrics, Robert Ray Weathers II

The relation of alcohol use to sexual HIV-risk behavior in adults with severe and persistent mental illness, Lance Stuart Weinhardt

Race and mixture models of individual differences in memory-based learning in older and younger adults: Effects of number of facts to learn and inter-item interference, Andrea Susan White

The relationship between patterns of marital conflict and child behavior: Linking parental interaction and child responses to conflict, John A. Wilder

All according to God's plan: Racism and Southern Baptist missions, 1945--1970, Alan Scot Willis

The ceiling's made of structural steel, not glass: Barriers to advancement of women in public relations and communications management, Brenda Jean Wrigley

Tellurium-triggered reactions of 5-hydroxymethyl-2-oxazolidinone tosylates, aziridinemethanol tosylates, and oxiranemethanol tosylates: Synthesis of allylic amines and no-solvent synthesis of allylic alcohols via ultrasound and microwave irradiations, Qinyu Xu

Bank manager's discretion over loan loss provision and determinants of signaling, Dong-Hoon Yang

Layered hypervideo document database system: Design and modeling of hypervideo document database, Kyoungro Yoon

Methodologies for designing video servers, Fang-Kuo Yu

Understanding complex demonstratives: The ground of reference in sensory signals, Frederick P. Zammiello

Analysis and design of an FEC-based scalable reliable multicast protocol, Zhongquan Oliver Zeng

Integrating spatial statistical analysis and GIS: Strategies, implementations and applications, Zhiqiang Zhang

High-confidence development of secure e-mail systems, Dan Zhou

1998

Deciding not to decide: Antecedents of consumer decision delegation, Praveen Aggarwai

The need for meaningful health communications: Female audience interpretation analysis of mass media health messages, Linda Aldoory

Techniques to improve algorithm efficiency, from the perspective of memory hierarchies, Ibraheem Al-Furaih

A study of degenerate elliptic partial differential equations, Abdulsalam Ahmeo Almannaei

Efficient algorithms for data mining, Khaled Abduallah Alsabti

An empirical examination of the Heath, Jarrow and Morton term structure model using treasury bond futures options data, Greg Antony Anderson

Children's perceptions of stressful events and how they cope with them: An Indian experience, Aparna Bagdi

A discrepancy analysis approach for determining undergraduate student satisfaction with their life on campus, Peter Michael Baigent

Childhood sexual abuse: The relationship between patterns of appraisal and long-term effects, Diane Elizabeth Baker

Cointegration in panel data, Chen Bangtian

Toward a better understanding of the dynamics in buyer-supplier partnerships: An exploratory study of partnering dyads from multi-functional perspectives, John Howard Bantham

The role of social capital and structural arrangements in explaining intercompetitor behavior, Anat Barnir

"Let your minds be remade": Protestants and politics in Mexico, Lynda Kristen Barrow

Intention, teleology, and God, Bradley Gordon Beach

Marginally accepted: Policies and practices influencing the enrollment of Black students at Syracuse University from 1942 to 1969, Marla Anne Bennett

Schooling and the production of popular culture: Negotiating subjectivities at the high school prom, Amy Louise Best

The role of product specifications in integrated product and process design, Balaji Bharadwaj

A study of caregiving and persons with developmental disabilities, Kathleen Marie Bishop

The work of Paul Emile Bergevin: Adult education pioneer, Paul Eugene Blair

On the spectral radius of a positive operator, Matthew Richard Boelkins

The synthesis and structural study of oxovanadium phosphites, phosphates, and phosphonates, Grant Howard Bonavia

The appearance of shame in Holocaust witness, Susan Livingston Boone

School responses to the New York State report cards, Robert Lynn Bradley

Mock jurors' perceptions of "typical" and "learning disabled" victims of child sexual abuse, Daniel S. Bromberg

Young adult grandchildren's perceptions of relationships with grandparents and parents, Laura Hess Brown

The economics of the family from a dynamic perspective, Barbara A. Butrica

A fuzzy modular approach to system modeling based on incentive games, Ahmet Mete Cakmakci

The development of an instrument to assess the antecedents and consequences of binge eating and purging, Marta Lisa Carlson

Autobiographical narrative and the question of coherence: Implications for identity development, Chris Marshall Chance

When gains exceed losses: Beyond prospect theory, Taihoon Cha

Defining the role of citizen participation in administrative settings: An examination of New York State environmental management councils, Carole Jo Cimitile

Contextual therapy and relational ethics: A dynamic ethical perspective, Susan Victoria Compton

Structural and functional studies on the catalytic mechanism of glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase from Leuconostoc mesenteroides, Michael Scott Cosgrove

'An ordered anarchy': Mobilization for civil disobedience in Bengal and Bombay, 1929-1934, John T. Crist

The theological sublime: Subjectivity, temporality and imagination in the Kantian critique, Clayton Scott Crockett

The day you were born: Maternal birth narratives over time, Ellen Elizabeth Curry-Bleggi

Fully three-dimensional and viscous inverse method for turbomachine blade design, Sachin Vinayak Damle

Dynamic pointer swizzling to support adaptable persistent programming, Jose Antonio de Cano Fernandez

"The bench": An investigation of sport team sub-culture in women's collegiate volleyball, Margaret L. De Furia

Predicting academic achievement in African-American middle school students using perceived competence and motivational orientation, Donald DeJohn Jr.

The analogy between QED(2) and QCD(4), David Henry Delphenich

Good, by God, we're going to Bodie! Landscape and social memory in a California ghost town, Dydia DeLyser

Learning complex instances: Adult age differences, Michael Anthony D'Eredita

Teacher assessment of students' writing skills, Ioannis C. Dimakos

An enantiospecific synthetic approach to the ansatrienin family of ansamycin antibiotics, Matthew Richard Dintzner

Experiences of secondary school students, teachers, and administrators in a distance education course, Margaret Elizabeth Downs

Understanding the impacts of demand shocks on the price of owner-occupied housing: A study of the supply elasticity of housing, Michelle Harter Dreiman

English Romanticism in United States literary studies: Literary-historical ideology and the institution, Aaron Timothy Dunckel

Factors affecting participant reactions to new training devices, James Byron Ellsworth IV

Bodies that do not matter: Social policy, education, and the politics of difference, Nirmala Erevelles

Racial socialization perceptions, practices, and experiences of Black American parents and adolescents: The echoes' of a parent's heart in the voice of a child, Tracy Y. Willis Espy

The information use environment: A descriptive study of a sub-set of agriculturists in the developing country of Trinidad and Tobago, Hannah Francis

The logic of security dilemmas: A speech act analysis of the INF treaty negotiations, Brian Keith Frederking

Cultural imperialism and the development of the Panama Canal Zone, 1912-1960, Stephen Wolff Frenkel

Industrious households: Wealth management and 'Handwerker' strategies in Goeppingen, 1735--1865, Dennis Anthony Frey Jr.

Interactive civic education: Effective political learning for citizenship in democratic Russia, Sheri Lynn Frost

Evolutionary algorithms for the design of stack filters, Beatriz Garmendia-Doval

Ignorance and inequality: Youth sexuality in India and its implications to HIV spread, Lakshmi Goparaju

Places of memories and memories of place: Scotlands and Scottishnesses in the 1990s, Euan Hague

Capitalization of local public services into house values, Mohamed Hussein Hamadeh

The price parents paid: A qualitative study of parents who challenged the special education system, Mary F. Handley

Membrane processes for gas separations: Part I. Removal of carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide from low-quality natural gas. Part II. Enrichment of krypton in air, Jibin Hao

Becoming a student-centered research university: A case study of organizational change, Donald Joseph Haviland

Critical reflection as a professional development outcome of asynchronous computer-mediated communication, Mark Hawkes

Pillars of belief: The social construction of morality in two congregations, Trace Haythorn

Seeking community: Brethren in Christ nonresistance and American society, 1914-1958, Mary Jane Heisey

Engendering national identity: Best sellers and their film adaptations in postwar America, Jane Elizabeth Hendler

Measurement of Tau(D('s)/(,+) to muon('+)neutrino)/Tau(D('s)/(,+) to phi pion('+)) and the pseudoscalar decay constant fD(,s), Weipin He

Identifying essential mentor traits and functions within academic, business and military contexts, Jerusalem Tadashi Howard

Dynamic agent collaboration for open systems using concurrent intepretation of role-based coordination protocols(1), Wilfred C. Jamison

The organizational politics of Leninism: A study of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), Liberation, Shishir Kumar Jha

Three-dimensional inverse method for turbomachine blades by the circulation method: The thickness problem, Jun Jiang

Electroabsorption studies on amorphous and microcrystalline silicon, Lin Jiang