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2010

Information theoretic measure applied on learning classifier systems for speaker identification problems, WonKyung Wok

Examining the role of performance uncertainty on consumers' valuations of product attributes, Omar P. Woodham

Alcohol, Gender, Power, and Condom Use Among African American Adults, Sarah E. Woolf-King

An Information Theoretic Approach to Provably Secure Communications, Jin Xu

Perceptions of paternal involvement with preschoolers in Korean families: Relationships to teachers' assessments of children's social skills, Huyn Jung Yang

The Educational Needs of Newly Diagnosed Stroke Patients, Sari-Ann Yonaty

Vortex dynamics in nanostructured superconducting weak-pinning channels, Kang Yu

Why U.S.-based nonprofit organizations have a stake in the U.S. standing: A case study in public diplomacy, Olga Zatepilina

The stress process and the growth trajectories of depressive symptoms: Is there a racial difference?, Na Zhao

Image Segmentation: Structural Similarity, Belief Propagation and Radial Basis Functions for Level Set Based Methods, Yingxuan Zhu

A Generic Privacy Quantification Framework for Privacy-Preserving Data Publishing, Zutao Zhu

2009

South Korean transnational mothers: Familism, cultural criticism and education project, Kyung Ju Ahn

Dislocations in a vortex lattice and complexity of chlamydomonas ciliary beating, Sitichoke Amnuanpol

Intelligent modeling of individual thermal comfort and energy optimization, Seckin Ari

Molybdophosphonate clusters as building blocks in the oxomolybdate-organodiphosphonate/M(II)-organoamine system: Structural influences of secondary metal, organoamine, and diphosphonate tether length (M=copper, nickel, cobalt), Nathan Gabriel Armatas

Breaking the silence: The impact of political violence in Sikh diaspora, Kiran Shahreen Kaur Arora

A method of moments analysis of microstructured optical fibers, Serhend Arvas

Ecology of the Trans-Himalayan grazing ecosystem, Sumanta Bagchi

Parenting economically disadvantaged adolescent children through pervasive loss in the inner city, Timothy Ronald Baima

Indian IT workers in the U.S.: Race, gender, and state in the making of immigrant labor, Payal Banerjee

The foundations of linguistics: Two theses, Edison Barrios

Generative grandfathering, commitment, and contact: How grandfathers nurture relationships with grandchildren and the relational and mental health benefits for aging men, James Smith Bates

Writing holiness, writing violence suffering and the construction of female sanctity, John Marcus Beard

Guru love: On the tropes of eroticism in the spiritual relationship between master and disciple, Gerard Frederick Beritela

Knocking down barriers: Changing the conversation between health providers and patients, Heather L. Black

Adjustment and persistence of students from an urban environment to a rural community college, Paula Brown-Weinstock

Methods for direction of arrival estimation using a single snapshot of the data, Santana Burintramart

Chemical gradients and bioactive hydrogels for mechanistic studies of protein binding and cell adhesion, Erik Alvan Burton

Interference networks with cognition and cooperation, Yi Cao

Synthetic studies on maoecrystal V and studies on the rhodium catalyzed 1,2-addition of alkynes to activated ketones and aldehydes, Patrick Carberry

Civilian protection and humanitarian organisations: Rationality or culture?, Sreeram Chaulia

Issue obtrusiveness in the agenda-setting process of national network television news, Xueyi Chen

Modeling and analysis of timing behavior for CMOS circuits, Ting-Wei Chiang

Forests of power and memory: An archaeology of sacred groves in the Eguafo polity, Southern Ghana (c. 500-1900 A.D.), Gerard Chouin

The experiences of marriage and family therapists of Asian descent and their perception of the practice and profession, Liang-Ying Chou

"In some places a few drops and other places a plentiful shower": The religious impact of revivalism on early nineteenth-century New York women, Rachel Cope

The relationship among elementary teachers' knowledge of nature of science, content background, and attitudes toward science, Dana Allard Corcoran

Borders and bodies: Rhetoric(s) on the threshold of transnational (re)production, Gale P. Coskan-Johnson

Institutional practices, natural resource management and livelihood strategies in Muhur, southwest Ethiopia, Mengistu Dessalegn Debela

Structural direction of hybrid organic-inorganic materials: Synthesis of vanadium oxyfluoride, copper vanadate, and copper molybdate solid state materials through solvuthermal and solution methods, Paul DeBurgomaster

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