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2011

Network-aware Active Wardens in IPv6, Grzegorz Lewandowski

Extending the Passive House Approach with Geoslar Exergy Storage Technology: A Vision for Reducing Purchased Energy Use in Existing and New Construction, Lowell Edwin Lingo

Issues on Clean Diesel Combustion Technology Using Supercritical Fluids: Thermophysical Properties and Thermal Stability of Diesel Fuel, Ronghong Lin

Correlated Sources In Distributed Networks - Data Transmission, Common Information Characterization and Inferencing, Wei Liu

Meanings of Ebony: Politics and Black self-identification Among college women on predominately White campuses, Tehmekah Ann MacPherson

Behind every man: Media construction of wives at the center of political sex scandals, Hinda Mandell

Lesson Study: Developing a Knowledge Base for Elementary Writing Instruction, Vicki McQuitty

Transnational NGOs: A US Perspective, George E. Mitchell

Development of a Daily Diary Method for the Assessment of Everyday Cognitive Failures, Jacqueline Mogle

An Examination of the Relationship between Large Shareholders and Commitment Human Resource Systems, Frank Mullins

Cognitive Security Framework For Heterogeneous Sensor Network Using Swarm Intelligence, Rajani Muraleedharan

A More Global Court? Judicial Transnationalism and the U.S. Supreme Court, Angela G. Narasimhan

Essays on Testing Hypotheses When Non-stationarity Exists in Panel Data Models, Sang Gon Na

Applying the Golden Rule towards Recruitment Effectiveness, Amanda Grant Nicholson

A Dis-Ability Perspective on the Stigmatization of Dissent: Critical Pedagogy, Critical Criminology, and Critical Animal Studies, Anthony John Nocella

Audience Engagement with Mother-Daughter Relationships in Prime-Time Television of the 21st Century: A Qualitative Analysis of Interpretation, Sensemaking, and Perceived Effects, Meghan L. O'Briend

Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching Teachers: The Case of Multiplication and Division of Fractions, Dana E. Olanoff

Mutational Analysis of HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein and Methods Development for Aptamer Discovery, Wei Ouyang

Characterization of Enhanced Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors and Studies of Numeric Simulations for Compact-Binary Coalescences, Larne Pekowsky

Noise-Enhanced and Human Visual System-Driven Image Processing: Algorithms and Performance Limits, Renbin Peng

Potential Theory on Compact Sets, Tony Perkins

Physical adsorption, chemisorption and catalytic oxidization for indoor VOCs removal, Jingjing Peu

A Realist Metaphysics of Race: A Context-Sensitive,Short-Term Retentionist, Long-Term Revisionist Approach, Jeremy Pierce

Artifacts of Exchange: A Multiscalar Approach to Maritime Archaeology at Elmina, Ghana, Andrew T. Pietruszka

Does Deliberation Make Better Citizens? Examining the Case of Community Conflict Mediation, Heather Pincock

Synthesis and Biosynthesis of Polyketide Natural Products, Atahualpa Pinto

Complexity over Finite-Dimensional Algebras, Marju Purin

Morphology and Mechanics of the Actin Cytoskeleton, David Aaron Quint

The Design and Construction of a Green Laser and Fabry-Perot Cavity System for Jefferson Lab's Hall A Compton Polarimeter, Abdurahim Rakhman

The Implementation of Life Space Crisis Intervention as a School-Wide Strategy for Reducing Violence and Supporting Students' Continuation in Public Schools, John E. Ramin

Landscape, Labor, and Practice: Slavery and Freedom at Green Castle Estate, Antigua, Samantha Anne Rebovich

A Conceptual Framework and Simulation Modeling Of Engineering Change Management in a Collaborative Environment, Krishna Rao Reddi

Comparing Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change During Election Campaigns in the United States, Canada and Australia, Dan Rowe

School-Home Performance Feedback with Home-Based Writing Activities: the Effects on Elementary Students’ Writing Fluency, Jennifer Lynn Rymanowski

Presidential Leadership Styles and Forms of Authoritarianism in Post-Soviet Central Asia, Azamat Sakiev

Archaeology of Isolation: The 19th Century Lazareto de Isla de Cabras, Puerto Rico, Paola A. Schiappacasse

Language familiarity and the influence of reading on visual search strategies, Kelly A. Schwartz

Transforming the City. An Ethnography of Contested Public Space in Venezuela, Ana Servigna

Aghoreshwar Bhagawan Ram and the Aghor Tradition, Jishnu Shankar

Computational Identification of cis-Regulatory Elements and Prediction of Gene Expression Level, Huitao Sheng

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