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2011

The Role of Board/Audit Committee Interlocks in Diffusion of Earnings Equality, Linna Shi

Essays on the Impact of Trade on Labor Markets and Productivity in Korea, Jeong Eun Shin

Microwave Properties of Vortices in Superconducting Resonators, Chunhua Song

Heroine Abuse: Feminism, Femininity and the Female Action Hero, Cristina Lucia Stasia

Teaching the Voices of History Through Primary Sources and Historical Fiction: A Case Study of Teacher and Librarian Roles, Barbara K. Stripling

'Friction in Our Machinery:' Rhetorical Education at the New York State Asylum at Syracuse, 1854-1884, Zosha S.E. Stuckey

From Donorship to Ownership? Evolving Donor-Government Relationships in Rwanda, Haley Swedlund

Citrate Binding to the Membrane Protein Proteorhodopsin, Farhana F. Syed

Intimate Allies: Identity, Community, and Everyday Activism Among Cisgender People with Trans-Identified Partners, Avery Brooks Tompkins

Co-Creating Collaborative Health Care in a Federally Qualified Health Center: Exploring Clients' Experiences of Behavioral Health Services, Ginny-Lea Tonore

Modeling Elementary Aged Students' Fluency Growth in Written Expression: Predicting Fluency Growth for Girls and Boys in General Education, Adrea J. Truckenmiller

Africentrism and Gender Role Identification: Exploring the Relationship between Appearance Commentary and Body Image, Tikana Truitt

Experiences with Childcare Choices Reported by Mothers in Single- and Multiple-Income Households, Lois M. Truman

Fibromyalgia Syndrome: The Relationship between Alexithymia and Attachment Style on Couple Relationship, Ileana Ungureanu

The Effect of Phoneme Awareness Instruction on Students in Small Group and Whole Class Settings, Angelique Fleurette Van Boden

Mixed Problems and Layer Potentials for Harmonic and Biharmonic Functions, Moises Venouziou

Control of Turbulent Flow Over an Articulating Turret for Reduction of Adverse Aero-Optic Effects, Ryan Wallace

Dynamic Botanical Filtration System for Indoor Air Purification, Zhiqiang Wang

Three essays on the disposition effect in dynamic settings, Zhongkui Wang

Topics in Cosmic Acceleration and Braneworlds, Eric J. West

Buy the Book: Social Reproduction and the Middle-Class Family Outing to the Big-Box Bookstore, Benette Whitmore

The Transition to Kindergarten: Impact of Transition Preparation on Socio-Behavioral Outcomes for Children with and without Disabilities, Leah K. Wildenger

The Consequence of Anthropogenic Disturbance on Communication and the Operation of Sexual Selection in the Eastern Bluebird (Sialia Sialis), Ellen Michale Wisner

Interacting Stochastic Processes: from Viciousness to Caging to Force Chains, Shiliyang Xu

Performance and Memory Space Optimizations for Embedded Systems, Taylan Yemliha

Fool for Love, Judy Zanin

Mode I Delamination Fracture Characterization of Polymeric Composites under Elevated Temperature, Wenming Zhao

Conditional Posterior Cramer-Rao Lower Bound and Distributed Target Tracking in Sensor Networks, Long Zuo

2010

Left behind: The effects of NCLB on urban educators of students with disabilities, Diana D. Abbott

Enterprise, relationship, and home: Voices of ecological farmers in a time of change, Susan Adair

Essays on trade policy, institutions, and firm behavior, Reshad Nazir Ahsan

Quantum field theory in a noncommutative geometry: The Moyal spacetime, Earnest Akofor

Boon or Boondoggle? Business Incubation as Entrepreneurship Policy, Alejandro S. Amezcua

On the convergence and superconvergence of the Generalized Finite Element Methods, Cosmin Anitescu

Alternative Institutional Arrangements and Government Performance: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of Autonomy and Accountability in Public Education, Naomi Aoki

Affinity of the HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein for SL3 RNA: Effects due to salt and variation due to measurement technique, Shreyas S. Athavale

Face selectivity in the dihydropyrone Diels-Alder reaction and studies toward the total synthesis of phomactin A, Alex J. Augatis

Reducing environmental risks by information disclosure, Hyunhoe Bae

Development and characterization of multi-solution bone cements containing cross-linked PMMA nanospheres and nanospherical polymer brushes, Danieli Balbueno Contreira Rodrigues

Webs of connectivity: Foundations of the Neopagan Internet community, Alyssa J. Beall

Test-taking behavior of students with learning disabilities: An investigation of secondary students' performance on timed reading tests, Cassie Liza Berger

Marking life and death on St. John, Virgin Islands, 1718-1950: An historical archaeology of commemoration through objects, space, and transformation, Helen Blouet

Speaker's meaning: An essay in the philosophy of language, Steffen Borge

Surfing for problems: Agenda setting strategy in environmental advocacy, Jessica E. Boscarino

Efficacy of a computerized stress management training program for HIV+ women, Jennifer L. Brown

Psychiatric history and cognition trajectories in later life: Variation by sex, race and ethnicity, and childhood disadvantage, Maria Teresa Brown

The nature of gentrification: Urban environments and redevelopment in the Inland Northwest, Jeremy Glen Bryson

The synthesis and Characterization of Novel s-block and Lanthanide Fluoroalkoxides, William D. Buchanan

You Didn't Mean That, Did You? Exploring the Roles of Conventionality and Context in Interpreting Ironic Remarks, Debra Burnett

Geographies of knowledge production in a neoliberal setting: The case of Los Lagos region, Chile, Beatriz Bustos G.

Vision, voice, and rhetorics of healing: Towards a Black feminist rhetorical analysis, Tamika L. Carey

The meaning of Ataxia: How do families experience it?, Maria del Pilar Castaneda

Gender, justice and geopolitics of undocumented North Korean migration, Eunyoung Choi

The responses of soil, soil solution, and stream water of a northern hardwood forest to experimental addition of wollastonite, Youngil Cho

Evolutionary, developmental, and functional continuities between basic and higher-cognitive emotions: Implications for philosophical theories of emotion, Jason A. Clark

Toward a literary geography: Space and social consequence in U.S. fiction, 1900--1920, Rachel Ann Collins

Exploring the relationship between inclusive education and achievement: New perspectives, Meghan Cosier

Rhetorical Thinking as Dispositional: An Analytical Framework for Teachers, Robert Danberg

Geochemistry and geochronology of Alleghanian and 'atypical' Alleghanian granites from south-central Appalachians: Implications for magma evolution and Late Paleozoic terrane accretionary history in the southern Appalachians, Tathagata Dasgupta

Mercury dynamics in streams, lakes, and fish in the northeastern United States, Jason A. Dittman

Synthesis and Characterization of Aminotroponiminate-Zinc Functionalized Mesoporous Silica and Exfoliated Fluorosilica Nanomaterials as Efficient Catalysts, Cole Tyler Duncan

Back to the fifties: Pop nostalgia in the Reagan Era, Michael D. Dwyer

Mitigation of cross-contamination in an aircraft cabin through the use of localized exhaust, Ryan K. Dygert

Fire and the reasons for its influence on mammalian herbivore distributions in an African savanna ecosystem, Stephanie L. Eby

Leadership behaviors and perception in self-managing virtual teams, Ugur Yeliz Eseryel

Family functioning and treatment adherence in children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis, Robin Smith Everhart

Implications of in-person versus online exclusion: Do method and gender influence individuals' response to exclusion?, Kelly Filipkowski

Factors that Influence Users to Keep and Leave Information Items: A Case Study of College Students' Personal Information Management Behavior, Christina M. Finneran

Exercise effects on intramyocellular lipid content in younger and older obese subjects and in older non-obese subjects, Ruth Marie Franklin

Designing a visual programming environment: A practical approach, Xun Gao

Study of particle and ozone penetration through the building envelope, Zhi Gao

Change and the Era of the Atlantic Trade: Commerce and Interaction in the Niumi Commercial Center (The Gambia), Liza A. Gijanto

Fichte's theory of practical agency, Kien-How Goh

Auguring life: Interpretation and guidance in Lukumi cowry shell consultation, Alexander (Alejandro) Valentin Gonzalez

Personal identity, reductionism and eliminativism, Kora Gould

The effects of exercise training on venous function in humans with hypertension, Styliani Goulopoulou

Still life with rhetoric: Toward a consequentialist methodology of material rhetorics, Laurie Ellen Gries

Innovation, trade and access: Three essays on medicines in developing countries, Tamara G. S. Hafner

When routines are not so routine: Exploring coordination work in hospitals, Saira Naim Haque

Investigations of illicit drugs and precursors via terahertz spectroscopy and solid-state molecular modeling, Patrick M. Harkey

Cultures of security: Military tactics and city planning in Lower Manhattan since 11 September 2001, Matthew Alexander Hidek

Understanding and controlling microbial biofilm formation by surface engineering and novel biofilm inhibitors, Shuyu Hou

Alone together: A socio-technical theory of motivation, coordination and collaboration technologies in organizing for free and open source software development, James Howison

Investigation of hydrogen bonded molecular solids by diffraction, spectroscopy, and computational chemistry, Matthew R. Hudson

Something of our own: "Muhammad Speaks" in the cause of Black agency in school reform, 1961--1975, Khuram Hussain

Contesting state identity and foreign policy: German anti-militarism in shades of red and green, Asli Ilgit

Exploration of in-vivo phase-contrast micro-computed tomography with a laser plasma-based x-ray source, Russell Edward Kincaid Jr.

Legal invisibility: Statelessness and issue (non) emergence, Lindsey Nicole Kingston

Endorsement of growth factors and its relation to stage of group development in experiential groups, John M. Kiweewa

Religious orientation and naturally occurring stress: Ecological momentary assessment of cardiovascular function, Andrea Knestel

A Modal Logic for Role-Based Access Control within the Hol Theorem Prover, Thumrongsak Kosiyatrakul

Workaholism and expansion and contraction oriented job crafting: The moderating effects of individual and contextual factors, Gregory A. Laurence

Three Essays on Nonprofit Competition in Grant Markets, Jesse Lecy

Concept mapping strategy to facilitate foreign language writing: A Korean application, Yongjin Lee

Frontier Landscapes, Missions, and Power: A French Jesuit Plantation and Church at Grand Bay, Dominica (1747--1763), Stephan Timothy Lenik

Metal-Citrate Complex Transport in Streptomyces coelicolor, Joshua J. Lensbouer

Constructing migrant care labor: A study of institutional process and the discourse of migration and work, Li-Fang Liang

Beauty and/as theology: The theological aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar, David S. Liptay

Studies toward the total synthesis of herbimycin A, B, C, and geldanamycin, Yue Li

Against educational reproduction---the experiment of a volunteer-managed school in rural China, Kun Lu