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2008

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

A phenomenological study of the use and experience of intuition in marriage and family therapy by those who claim it, Aaron Joseph Jeffrey

Childhood sexual abuse: Are marriage and family therapists less likely to hypothesize sexual abuse in men as compared to women?, Todd Christopher Workman Jesness

Fully three-dimensional and viscous semi-inverse method for axial/radial turbomachine blade design, Min Ji

Evaluating spatial and temporal variations of water chemistry and the impact of transient storage on solute transport in low-order mountain streams, Li Jin

Topics in QCD and electroweak theory, Catalina Renata Jora

Calculus students' understandings of the concepts of function transformation, function composition, function inverse and the relationships among the three concepts, Patrick M. Kimani

Constructions and reconstructions of autism: Teachers' perspectives at selected American and South Korean inclusive education sites, Keonhee Kim

Data recomputation based optimizations in embedded systems, Hakduran Koc

Resource allocation to growth and thermoregulation during early development in altricial nestlings, Jeffrey J. Kovatch

Examining the effects of Appreciative Inquiry on IEP meetings and transition planning, Peter L. Kozik

Application of frequency-domain-method to rotorcraft aerodynamics, Manish Kumar

Toward a Congress Raj: Indian nationalism and the pursuit of a potential nation-state, William F. Kuracina

Secondary English Teachers' Perspectives on the Incorporation of New Literacies in Their Pedagogy, Elizabeth Lewis

Dewatering of natural sediments using geotextile tubes, Kaixia Liao

Toward e-commerce website evaluation and use: A balanced view, Na Lina Li

Essays on measurement error, nonstationary panels and nonparametrics econometrics, Long Liu

Models for identifying lapsed buyers in a non-contractual setting, Enping (Shirley) Mai

Biological time series classification via reproducing kernels and sample entropy, Dong Mao

Mid-infrared and near-infrared vibrational circular dichroism: New methodologies for biological and pharmaceutical applications, Shengli Ma

Sensationalism, narrativity and objectivity---modeling ongoing news story practice, J. Patrick McGrail

User-based criteria for use and evaluation of alert services, Mary McKenna

The role of MS patient and partner reports of couple relationship quality and depression in the physical functioning of MS patients, Justin Kade McPheters

Testing the hardwired for news theory of media surveillance, James McQuivey

Assessing the professional development needs of principals and leaders in preK--12 educational settings, Stephen Moore

Producing the IT miracle: The neoliberalizing state and changing gender and class regimes in India, Sanjukta Mukherjee

Two-dimensionalism and semantic content, Brendan Murday

The male adolescent's perception of family dynamics and the impact on the development of sex offense behavior: A qualitative study, Michelle Kathleen Murray

Modeling and numerical simulation of salt transport and phase transitions in unsaturated porous building materials, Andreas Nicolai

"I don't care for mathematics...mathematics don't care for me...": Investigating African American students' identity and agency in a mathematics and graphing calculator environment at a low-SES school, Francis M. Nzuki

Social networks and social class: How Caucasian, working class parents of first-generation college students experience their child's first year of college, Christine Ann Ohl-Gigliotti

Numerical simulations and theories for wall-bounded flows of suspensions, Shailesh S. Ozarkar

The political economy of country code top level domains, Youn Jung Park

Hertzian dipoles and microstrip circuits on arbitrarily oriented biaxially anisotropic media, Gregory Francis Pettis

The application of a three tier model of intervention to parent training, Leah Kathryn Phaneuf

Phonological processing and speech production in preschoolers with speech sound disorders, Jonathan Preston

Challenges in source use for Chinese graduate students in the United States, Yu Qin

A multi-objective optimization approach for sensor network design, Ramesh Rajagopalan

Absolute branching fraction measurements for exclusives Ds semileptonic decays, Koloina A. Randrianarivony

Professional Doctor of Physical Therapy students' perspectives on the use of an Integrated Standardized Patient Examination, Carol Recker-Hughes

Children's responsiveness to immediate and delayed classroom contingencies: An application and extension of temporal discounting, Derek David Reed

Reconstructing "digital literacy" in a Constructionist computer club: The role of motivation, interest, and inquiry in children's purposive technology use, Rebecca Reynolds

How college students make sense of organizational structures and work in schools as participants in a paid service learning program, Stacey Riemer

Reasoning about co-evolving discrete, continuous and hybrid states, Angel J. Rivera G.

Inelastic neutron scattering and quantum mechanical calculations of polymorphic organic crystals, Sharon Rivera

Fourth- and fifth-grade classroom case study of response to multimodal representations in children's picture books, Joanna Marie Robertson

Numerical simulations for channel flow in disordered materials, Berta Elizabeth Rodriguez Milla

A study on the formation of solid state nanoscale materials using polyhedral borane compounds, Jennifer V. Romero

Women's self-writing and medical science: Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Bronte, Harriet Jacobs, and Elizabeth Stoddard, Sarah L. Russo

Toward a quantum dynamics for causal sets, Roberto B. Salgado

Analytical models for flow control in subsonic and supersonic diffusing flow paths using steady blowing and suction, Mehmet Nasir Sarimurat

Experimental investigations of geotextile tube dewatering, Ranjan Satyamurthy

Low-power CMOS receiver for medical implant communication services, Huseyin Serif Savci

I. Water-driven chemoselective reactions of squarate derivatives with amino acids and peptides: Mechanism and applications. II. Biocompatible hydrogels: Transferring bioinert chemistry from surfaces to 3-dimensional materials, Preeti Sejwal

The relationship of self and other-forgiveness to interpersonal stress reactivity and recovery, Silvie Cleo Semenec

On the capacity of Gaussian interference channels, Xiaohu Shang

Order, defects and dynamics on the sphere, Homin Shin

Programming for the generalization of oral reading fluency: A comparison of repeated readings versus repeated readings of multiple exemplars, Jennifer Michele Silber