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2009

It's in the stories: The power of "narrative knowing" in the evaluation of a student's internship experience, Debra Dana Eischen

Strain and weight change, Val Episcopo

Essays on testing for cross-sectional dependence and estimation of change points in panel data models, Qu Feng

Preservice elementary teachers learning of astronomy, Chuck Gary Fidler

When "bodhisattvas of the earth" become global citizens: Soka Gakkai in comparative perspective, Juliana Kiyo Finucane

Advocating work: An institutional ethnography of patients' and their families' experiences within a managed care health system, Jennifer Flad

Test-taking behavior in college students with and without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Rebecca A. Gathje

Unordinary order: A theoretical, computational and experimental investigation of crystalline order in curved space, Luca Giomi

Three essays on education finance and policy, Julie Anna M. Golebiewski

The refinement and validation of a model of family functioning after child's disclosure as lesbian, gay or bisexual, Kristopher M. Goodrich

On the structure of reliability polynomials, Christina Marie Graves

Growth of tessellations, Stephen James Graves

Biophysical applications of parallel cascade identification, Taviare L. Hawkins

Development of time-gated protein detection assays with luminescent nucleotide sensors, Michelle F. Homsher

Three essays on agglomeration economies in the Korean manufacturing sector, Sung Hyo Hong

Behavioral anomaly detection: A socio-technical study of trustworthiness in virtual organizations, Shuyuan Mary Ho

Investigating the pharmacodynamic and magnetic properties of pyrophosphate-bridged coordination complexes, Oluwatayo (Tayo) F. Ikotun

Urbanization in developing countries, Jerry Kalarickal

Empirical evidence on the impact of a material weakness, Matthew J. Keane

Measurement of the branching fraction of D+ meson going to muon+ neutrino and the pseudoscalar decay constant fD+ using the full psi'' sample and search for neutral D meson going to proton-electron and neutral D meson going to antiproton-positron, Sadia Khalil

Path enumeration & redundancy removal for timing optimization, Nancy Khoury

Family role stressors, psychological distress, and marital adjustment in South Korean families: Mediating role of collectivist coping strategies, Yun Hee Kim

2-methylenetetrahydropyrans in the carbonyl-ene reaction: Studies toward the synthesis of spirastrellolide A, Troy Lam

Descartes' daughters: Thinking-machines and the emergence of posthuman complexity, Dawn E. Lausa

Process dynamics of gender policymaking: Acts of violence against women in South Korea, Jeong-Shim Lee

Design considerations and techniques for the conversion between Visual Basic .NET and C#, Bin Li

Using 'common-sense' to understand complementary and alternative medicine use and HAART adherence in HIV+ people, Rae Ann Littlewood

Application-level protocol steganography, Norka Beatriz Lucene

Evaluation and selection of supply chain initiatives: A model including customer utilities and competitive reaction, Heather Scholz Lutz

Fast multiscale integral equation methods for image restoration, Yao Lu

Complex care: Perspectives from mothers of children with medical needs, Holly M. Manaseri

Having a child with cancer: The impact on couple relationships, belief systems and values, Todd H. Marshall

Public sector management reforms in Africa: Analysis of anticorruption strategies in Kenya, Tilla Sewe McAntony

Structure of infinitely-ended, edge-transitive planar maps and their petrie walks, Adam James McCaffery

Under the influence: Has MADD's policy agenda limited the Elks' capability to create social capital?, John C. Mero

Three essays examining the relationship between public budgeting policies, resource equity and student outcomes, Lawrence Miller

The literary public sphere in Bengal: Aesthetics, culture and politics, 1905-1939, Samarpita Mitra

A vignette-based study of ADHD, race, and insurance status in primary care, Christopher P. Morley

Terahertz spectroscopy and molecular modeling of molecules connected by a network of non-covalent interactions, Tanieka L. Motley

Clouds, graphs, and maps: Distant reading and disciplinary imagination, Derek Norton Mueller

Identifying Predictors of End-of-Year Kindergarten Invented Spelling, Maria S. Murray

Instructional manipulations in writtten emotional disclosure interventions: An experimental test of content effects on cortisol, mood, and linguistic dimensions, Deborah Nazarian

Disruption and stability: A study of the effects of inter-community mobility on political participation, Hector L. Ortiz

Slave castles, African American activism and Ghana's memorial entrepreneurism, Brempong Osei-Tufu

Three essays on corporate control transactions, Jeffrey Oxman

Distributed estimation in wireless sensor networks: Physical layer considerations, Onur Ozdemir

Confronting the Turkish state: Women's agency, identity, and the prospects for democracy, Umut Ozkaleli

Two essays on dividend policy, managerial compensation, and corporate governance, Lee-Hsien Pan

The iconic book: The image of the Christian Bible in myth and ritual, Dorina Miller Parmenter

Student-teacher relationships: The impact of students' relationships with teachers on student school engagement, academic competence, and behavior, Lorraine J. Perry

Promoting research ethics training: Understandings of community, partnership, virtue and diversity, Dianne Quigley

The transition to kindergarten: Family and teacher practices for children with autism and other developmental disabilities, Nicole Ella Quintero

More than truth: Democracy and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Emily Brooke Rodio

The impact of government policies on the location decisions of new business, Shawn M. Rohlin

Beyond Standard Model physics on the lattice, Joseph Schneible

Olefin metathesis for metal incorporation and ligand exchange reactions for the preparation of new ruthenium compounds and materials, Danielle E. Schuehler Sherwood

The role of small wetlands and lakes in transformation and transport of total and methyl mercury in the Adirondacks, Pranesh Selvendiran

Representations of colonial intimacy in Anglo-Indian narratives, Nandini Sengupta

Paths reconsidered: Designing for use by designing for activity, Heather M. Shearer

Detailed examinations of the human micro-environment by CFD, Christopher N. Sideroff

Agency within contraints: how the agency of people labeled with developmental disabilities is constructed in supported living schemes., Jitka Sinecka

The development and testing of a social cognitive model of commitment: A structural equation analysis, Kahsi Ann Smith

Public policy & maternal mortality in India, Stephanie Lynette Smith

Listening to places: A comparative study of Zen, Sufism, & cosmology, Joseph A. Snow

Approximation of kernel matrices in machine learning, Guohui Song

Enterprise thinking role transitions in enterprise system process improvement teams, Richard Southwick

Spinoza's philosophy of divine order, Benjamin B. Stahlberg

“Consolidating the New Position (1938-1940)”: A Study of the Tenure of Robert H. Jackson: March 5, 1938 to January 18, 1940, Nicholas John Stamato

Plumage evolution in bearded manakins (Manacus spps.), Adam Carsten Stein

Situating relation in photographic exposure: Education, ethics, and the framing of violence, Mark Stern

Web-based alcohol feedback intervention for heavy drinking college students: Does drinking control strategy use mediate intervention effects?, Dawn Elisabeth Sugarman

The characteristics of a classified board and the effects of the board on earnings quality, accounting conservatism, and credit risk, SangHyun Suh

An empirical study of impulse radiating antenna application to target identification, Mary Cannella Taylor

Identification and characterization of proteins involved in Myxococcus xanthus sporulation, Farah Khurshed Tengra

Strategic task switching: Searching for evidence of extrinsic adaptivity in a time-critical task switching environment, Christopher Paul Terry

Optimization and exact sampling algorithms for simulations of glassy materials, Creighton Kays Thomas

Differential effects of economic policy across local labor markets, Jeffrey P. Thompson

Conditions that support the implementation of e-goverment through the Digital Towpath Project: An exploratory study, Deborah J. Tyksinski

Swarm intelligence based methods for decentralized sensor networks, Kalyan Veeramachaneni

From small molecules to large proteins: Delivery through B family vitamin uptake pathways, Anthony R. Vortherms

Incorporating spatial datasets into paleontology: Effects on estimates of diversity, origination, & extinction, Patrick Daniel Wall

Studies toward the synthesis of forskolin and phomactin A using the dihydropyrone Diels-Alder reaction, Bo Wang

An ethnography of teachers in a rural school in China, Dan Wang

National culture in practice: Its impact on knowledge sharing in global virtual collaboration, Kangning Wei

Visualizing the transportation effects of urban mercantilism: Eastern New York, 1822--1860, Michael Terence Wheeler

Image registration and image fusion: Algorithms and performance bounds, Min Xu

Homomorphic approach for through-wall sensing, Hany Yacoub

Appearance based face recognition system with mobility, Yanjun Yan

Sampling with reproducing kernels, Haizhang Zhang

Making online HIV/AIDS PSAs more effective, Jueman (Mandy) Zhang

Self-organizing adaptive radar space-time adaptive processing, Shengchun Zhao

2008

On the geometry of p-harmonic mappings, Tomasz Adamowicz

Hydrodynamics and rheology of mixtures of biopolymers and molecular motors, Aphrodite Ahmadi

Supercritical fluid technology applied to the production and combustion of diesel and biodiesel fuels, Gheorghe Anitescu

Measurement of information technology investment risks: A multifactor model and its operationalization, Ajit Appari

Analysis methods for machining fixtures with multiple point contacts, James Nathaniel Asante

"Cast into a cold pool": Inclusion and access in middle school for students with labels of mental retardation and autism, Christine E. Ashby

Three essays on children's well-being in developing countries, Javier Eduardo Baez

Lacking legitimacy: Race, gender and the social construction of African American women in welfare policy 1935--2006, Dionne Bensonsmith

Recognition accuracy and response bias for emotional words and pictures, Brandy Bessette-Symons