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2009

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

Manipulation of the ligand sphere of ruthenium metathesis catalysts for the synthesis of organometallic molecular wires, Sarah L. Bolton

Elegies of darkness: Commemorations of the bombing of Pan Am 103, Daryl (Dee) Britton

The practice and organization of sign language interpreting in video relay service: An institutional ethnography of access, Jeremy Linn Brunson

Practicist epistemology and the social dimension, Christopher Lee Calvert-Minor

Exploration of the dimensions of emerging adults' perceptions of the transition to adulthood, Melissa Jennings Carman

Hydrogels for central nervous system regeneration: Surface modulus and microtopographical effects on neuronal cell behavior, Terrance W. Carone II

Learning our lesson: A study on the state of public participation in the New York City public schools system, Marco Antonio Castillo

Attachment, wellness, and disordered eating in college women, Kathryn S. Castle

The role of steroids in the regulation of oocyte cyst breakdown and primordial follicle assembly in the neonatal mouse ovary, Ying Chen

Essays on store brand management: The case of vertically differentiated product categories, Hwan Chung

Who cares? Rendering care readable in the 21st century feminist writing classroom, Kelly A. Concannon Mannise

Boards of directors and nonprofit entrepreneurial orientation: Catalyst, inhibitor, or inconsequential?, Susan M. T. Coombes

Cartographic constructions of the Middle East, Karen Culcasi

A FRET based bistable oligonucleotide switch, AlloSwitch, designed for specific recognition of HIV-1 NCp7 and use in High Throughput Screening, Christopher Loreto DeCiantis

Indian trails, military roads, and waterwheels: Cultural and ecological transformations at Glen Lake, New York, Paul Edward Derby

High school mathematics teachers' understandings of the purposes of mathematical proof, David S. Dickerson

The separation of powers: A framework for guiding judicial decision making when the executive limits individual liberties during armed hostilities, Amanda DiPaolo

Carboplatin: Exploring mechanism of action and improved drug delivery (1) Role of carbonate in the mechanism of action of carboplatin; (2) Cytotoxicity of mesoporous silica nanomaterials, Anthony J. Di Pasqua

"Little more than a winter home": An historical archaeology of Irish seasonal migration at Slievemore, Achill Island, Shannon Monique Dunn

Electromagnetic scattering from three-dimensional chiral objects using FEM-MOM (hybrid) technique, Tahsin Durak

The in-vitro biological and electrochemical interactions of electrically polarized commercially pure titanium used for orthopedic and dental applications, Mark T. Ehrensberger

Analysis of response properties of multiple neurons recorded at single sites in the cat striate cortex, Alfred A. Emondi Jr.

Supply-side housing subsidies and savings programs for the poor, Michael Donald Eriksen

Backstage politics: Social change and the "Gay TV" industry, Kathleen P. Farrell

Autonomy, father's role, and eating disorders: A daughter's perspective, Karen Fernandez-Cosgrove

"Thanks to Title IX": Female athletes' identifications and team sports in transition, Sarah M. Fischesser

The politics of the American dream: Locke and Puritan thought revisited in an era of open immigration and identity politics, Cyril Arijit Ghosh

UWB antenna design for signature extraction of buried targets, Debalina Ghosh

Heavy alkaline earth metal amides: Synthetic and structural investigations, Miriam M. Gillett-Kunnath

Writing in elementary school science: Factors that influence teacher beliefs and practices, Nicole J. Glen

Hollywood and the film development process: The influence of social networks and industry structure on content decisions, Bryan R. Greenberg

An experimental investigation of low-dimensional techniques for large scale noise source characterization in a heated jet, Andre M. Hall

The African American experience of overcoming barriers and participating in therapy, Cadmona Alexandra Hall

The justifiability of punishment, Nathan Tamer Hanna

Essays on federal tax policy for housing and urban redevelopment, Andrew R. Hanson

The role of social support in bereaved families with dependent children, Heather Lynn Hay

United States Army organizational transformation during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations and its impact on the Army Officer Corps, Timothy Robert Hentschel

A study of angular instability due to radiation pressure in LIGO gravitational wave detector, Eiichi Hirose

The effects of relational satisfaction, organizational reputation, and identification with company on customers' communication behaviors, Soo Yeon Hong

Three essays in international trade and development, Ratidanai Hoonsawat

Improving access to biologically and pharmaceutically relevant molecules by understanding mechanisms of biosynthesis and improving chemical synthesis, Stephen Richard Houghton

Privacy and utility analysis of the randomization approach in Privacy-Preserving Data Publishing, Zhengli Huang

The authorization calculus, Polar Humenn