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2013

(re)Constructing a Landmark: A Rhetorical Analysis of Brown v Board of Education at Fifty, Christine A. Geyet

The Impact of Schadenfreude as an Emotional Frame in Crisis Communications on Perception of Corporate Reputation, Kristi Gilmore

Applying Curricular Filters: A Qualitative Study of High School Visual Art Teacher Perspectives and Practice of Visual Culture Art Education in the Art Classroom, Kristin A. Goble

Argon and Neon Diffusion in Lunar Impact Glass & The Development of the Electron Microprobe Zircon Fission-Track Dating Technique, David Gombosi

Quantifying groundwater-surface water interactions to improve the outcomes of human activities, Ryan Parish Gordon

Essays on New Venture Diversification, David Michael Gras

"My pedagogy is where so much of my feminism happens": The Social Organization of Feminist Educators' Work in the Corporatizing Academy, Glenda Gross

Characterization of Genetic Elements of Arabidopsis Thaliana Involved In Defense Responses against Bacterial Pathogen Pseudomonas Syringae, Pallavi Gupta

Coming Home: Mobile Women, Non-Linear Temporalities, South Asian Diasporic Texts, Soumitree Gupta

Timing Nutrient Intake With Traditional High-load Or Low-load Blood Flow Restricted Exercise During Unloading, Kyle Johnson-Vincent Hackney

In Search of a Single Voice: The Politics of Form, Use and Belief in the Kernewek Language, Jesse Owen Harasta

Education on the Underground Railroad: A Case Study of Three Communities in New York State (1820-1870), Lenora April Harris

Strengths and Risk Factors for Romantic Relationships: Perspectives of African American Women, Chandice M. Haste-Jackson

Reading and Test Taking in College English as a Second Language Students, Kaitlin Mei Hendricks

Structure and Accretion at Mid-Ocean Ridges With High Magma Supply: Perspectives From Seafloor Escarpments and Iceland, Andrew Jay Horst

Rank Based Anomaly Detection Algorithms, Huaming Huang

An Investigation of Digital Reference Interviews: A Dialogue Act Approach, Keisuke Inoue

A Subcontinent's Sunni Schism: The Deobandi-Barelvi Rivalry and the Creation of Modern South Asia, William Kesler Jackson

The Development of Introductory Statistics Students' Informal Inferential Reasoning and Its Relationship to Formal Inferential Reasoning, Bridgette Lynn Jacob

Improving Bioactivity and the Anti-Bacterial Properties of Two-Solution Bone Cement Containing Cross-Linked Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) Nanospheres (η-TSBC), Shailly Jariwala

First Leptonic Probe of Neutron Radii in Lead at Low-Q2, Chun-Min Jen

Optimized Integration of Electric Vehicles into Smart Grid, Chenrui Jin

Desegregation In A "color-blind" Era: Parents Navigating School Assignment And Choice In Louisville, Ky, Rebecca Page Johnson

Collaborative Estimation in Distributed Sensor Networks, Swarnendu Kar

Entrepreneurship as a Process of Self-Fulfillment: Well-Being, Affect, and Behavioral Strategies, Shoko Kato

Influences of Product Concept Demonstrations in Trade Shows: Two Essays, Taewan Kim

Institutional and Individual Influences on Scientists' Data Sharing Behaviors, Youngseek Kim

Predictors of Postsecondary Education Attendance for Youth with Learning Disabilities, Jennifer Lorene Koehler

Closing The Feedback-standard Gap With The Use Of A Performance Feedback And Goal Setting Intervention To Improve Elementary Students' Writing Fluency, Elizabeth Ann Koenig

Crossing from Hearing to Deaf Worlds: Hearing Border Crossers as Participatory Designers in Healthcare Instruction, Yin Wah Brenda Kreher

Adolescent Risk, Parent-child Relations, And Emerging Adult Adjustment: A Longitudinal Investigation Of Resiliency, Megan E. Lape

The Struggle for Power and Pay: Implications of Board of Directors' Power on Monitoring Effectiveness and Pay for Performance Sensitivity, Mariana Judith Lebron

A Relationship between Course-level Implementation of First Principles of Instruction and Cognitive Engagement: A Multilevel Analysis, Sunghye Lee

Identification of a target using its natural poles using both frequency and time domain response, Woojin Lee

The Piratical Ethos: Textual Activity and Intellectual Property in Digital Environments, Justin A. Lewis

Essays on Agglomeration, Access To Medical Services, And the Real Estate Market, Jing Li

Whose Streets? Our Streets!: Identity, Institutions, and Privilege in Student Activism, Christina Limpert

Achieving Justice Through Public Participation: Measuring the Effectiveness of New York's Enhanced Public Participation Plan for Environmental Justice Communities, Alma L. Lowry

The British Occupation of Southern New York during the American Revolution and the Failure to Restore Civilian Government, Frank Paul Mann

Thermal and photochemical reactions of large metallaborane clusters and functionalizations of boron nitride nanosheets, Pei Ma

Faith, Religious Rationality And Resistance: The Charitable Practices Of Shi`i Movements In Lebanon, Sarah Ann Marusek

Towards a Revisionist Account of Moral Responsibility, Kelly Anne McCormick

Social Technologies and Informal Knowledge Sharing within and across Organizations, Jarrahi Mohammad Hosein

Feeling in Character: Towards an Ethics of Emotion, John Monteleone

Essays on Academic Achievement and Student Behavior in Public Schools, Wael Soheil Moussa

Analysis of Waveguides Filled with Uniaxial Media and Metamaterials for Filter Applications using the Mode Matching Method, Luke Murphy

Molecular Sensing with Protein and Solid-State Nanopores, David John Niedzwiecki

Estate by Estate: The Landscape of the 1733 St. Jan Slave Rebellion, Holly Kathryn Norton

Exploring the Use of Electronic Mobile Technologies among Distance Learners in Rural Communities for Safe and Disruptive Learning, Gomang Seratwa Ntloedibe-Kuswani

Centralizing Ambiguity: Simone de Beauvoir and a Twenty-First Century Ethics, Kristen Oganowski

A Blueprint for Kindergarteners' Educational Trajectories: The Power of Discursive Practices in Constructing Students' Stories Based on Behaviors, Fernanda Tebexreni Orsati

Feminisms at the Door: Gender and Sex at a Women's College, Susan Chappell Overton

Extension Properties of Pluricomplex Green Functions, Sidika Zeynep Ozal

Precision measurement of the Lambda_b baryon lifetime, Bilas Kanti Pal

Controlling Bacterial Persister Cells and Biofilms by Synthetic Brominated Furanones, Jiachuan Pan

The Solid State Simulation of the Structure and Vibrational Modes of Organic, Hybrid Organometallic and Inorganic Species Using the CRYSTAL09 Code., Steven Pellizzeri

Biogeochemical Modeling of the Response of Forest Watersheds in the Northeastern U.S. to Future Climate Change, Afshin Pourmokhtarian

Carrots, Sticks And Stones: The Politics Of Naming In Counter-terrorism, Deepa Prakash

Design Science in Human-Computer Interaction: A Model and Three Examples, Nathan Prestopnik

Associative Processes in Statistical Learning: Paradoxical Predictions of the Past, Jennifer Patricia Provyn

Local adaptation to climate change in a calcareous grassland system, Catherine Ravenscroft

Does Regulatory Scrutiny Change Investment Behavior? Evidence of Suboptimal Portfolio Rebalancing After the Financial Crisis, Willie Dion Reddic

Technological Adaptation on the Frontier: An Examination of Blacksmithing at Fort Michilimackinac, 1715-1781, Amy S. Roache-Fedchenko

A Study of Differential Effects of Two Brief Counseling Interventions Used in a Hospital Trauma Center with Persons Exhibiting High-Risk Drinking Patterns, Jennifer Lindsey Rogers

The Conceptions and Practices of Motherhood among Indo-Caribbean immigrant mothers in the United States: A Qualitative Study, Darshini T. Roopnarine

Development of Pd Catalyzed Amidations & Applications to the Synthesis of Heterocycles, Adam Jason Rosenberg

Sr-Nd-Hf Isotope Geochemistry of 3.5 Ga Gneisses of the Minnesota River Valley and U-Pb Geochronology of Detrital Zircon from Cambrian Sedimentary Rocks of the Laurentian Rifted Margin, Aaron Mathew Satkoski

An Intersectional Analysis of the Female Postsecondary Advantage: Gender, race, and College Selectivity, Gokhan Savas

I Ain't Do Nothing: The Social and Academic Experiences of Black Males in a Dismantled School, Don Sawyer

The Relationship Among Self-reported Visual Complaints, Performance On Visual And Phonological Measures, And Reading Fluency In College Adults With And Without Learning Disabilities, Mindy Schreiner Scirri

Option Market Activity around Corporate Events, Michael Shafer

Character Education In and Out of the Classroom: Black Women Middle School Educators Share their Views on Media Images of Black, Linita Shannon

UTILIZATION AND VALUE OF PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION FOR KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF SOUTH AFRICA, Raed M. Sharif

Parent Aggression and Youth Externalizing and Internalizing Behaviors: Stability and Mutual Influence, Ann L. Sheedy

The Role of Ethical Evaluation of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Perception of Corporate Hypocrisy, the Intention of Opinioned Communication and Behavior toward a Firm, KyuJin Shim

Nursing The Nation: Globalization, Gender, Race, State And African Immigrant Women In Health Care Work In The United States Of America, Fumilayo Showers

Déjà Viewed: Nation, Gender, and Genre in Bollywood Remakes of Hollywood Cinema, Gohar Siddiqui

Coping with College Stress: Does Sense of Coherence Influence the Use of Alcohol and OTC Medication?, Rebecca Silver

Damage Characterization and Analytical Modeling of Quasi-statically Indented Graphite/Epoxy-Honeycomb Core Composite Sandwich Stru, Abhendra K. Singh

Putting the Ghost Back in the Machine: A Defense of Common Sense Dualism, Matthew Andrew Skene

Design and Synthesis of Solid State Materials Constructed from Transition Metals and Diphosphonate or Organoarsonate Ligands, Tiffany Marie Smith

Applications of Search Theory in Finance, Hongyu Song

Towards a Service-Oriented Enterprise: The Design of a Cloud Business Integration Platform in a Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprise, Paul John Stamas

Jailbreakers, Villains, and Vampires: Representations of Criminality in Early-Victorian Popular Texts, Elizabeth Fay Stearns

Weighing In on Heavy Issues: Exploring Race, Nativity, and Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index in Relationship to Preterm Birth and Low Birth Weight, Karyn Alayna Stewart

The design, enactment, and impact of an inquiry-based undergraduate astronomy laboratory learning environment, Steven A. Stewart

Factors Affecting Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Learning Teams (VLTs) in Distance Education, Ruzanna Topchyan

Three Essays on Law Enforcement and Emergency Response Information Sharing and Collaboration: An Insider Perspective, Joseph Treglia

The Territorialization of the 'Republican Law': Judicial Presence in Seine-Saint-Denis, France, Joaquin Villanueva

Experimental Investigation of the Active Flow Control on a Two-Dimensional Wind Turbine Airfoil, Guannan Wang

Socio-Cultural Influences on Adolescent Smoking in Mainland China: The Mediating Role of Smoking-Related Cognitions, Yan Wang

Faux Bro: Gay Hookup Websites and Modern Gay America's Masculinity Crisis, Cory John Weaver

A Decent Place to Stay: Housing Crises, Failed Laws, and Property Conflicts in Washington, D.C, Katie Jeanne Wells

The Deconstruction of Hell: A History of the Resignatio ad Infernum Tradition, Clark R. West

Experiencing Citizenship in a Globalizing World: The Impact of Off-Campus Programs, Ryan Owen Williams

Making a Living at Making a Difference: A Study of Employees in Nonprofit Social Service Organizations in Memphis, Tennessee, Rachel Wright

Synthesis and Processing of Core/Alloy Nanoparticles: Optical Properties and Morphological Evolutions, Wenjie Wu

Measurement of the semileptonic CP violating asymmetry a sl s in B s decays and the D s + -- D s - production asymmetry in 7 TeV pp collisions, Zhou Xing

Common Information and Decentralized Inference with Dependent Observations, Ge Xu

Fair value measurements and earnings management: evidence from the banking industry, Xiaolu Xu