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2008

Modifying gravity: Cosmic acceleration and the large scale structure of the universe, Alessandra Silvestri

Archaeological survey of settlement patterns in the Banda region, west-central Ghana: Exploring external influences and internal responses in the West African frontier, John Nicholas Leith Smith

All the pieces matter: A critical analysis of HBO's "The Wire", Todd Michael Sodano

Considering the worlds of male elementary teachers: Stories from the road less traveled, Joseph Bailey Soule

Instruments and methods for high speed ciliary imaging, Ganesh Srinivasan

Walking against the wind: Negotiating television and modernity in rural Rajasthan, Sally Anne Steindorf

Family of origin functioning and the likelihood of seeking romantic partners over the Internet, Michael Evan Sude

Understanding prokaryotic diversity in the post-genomics era, Garret Suen

Search for light Higgs in radiative decays of Upsilon(1 S), Nasra Sultana

Organizational cooperation in crises: A conceptual framework, Lina Maria Lovisa Svedin

Exploring transcriptional regulators that control emergent behaviors in Myxococcus xanthus, Rion G. Taylor

Does approach-related anger attenuate eyeblink startle? An examination of the motivational properties of anger, Ryan Thibodeau

Sensitive information: An inquiry into the interpretation of information in the workplace from an individual's perspective using qualitative methods, Dale Thompson

Seeing the swarming dead: Of mushrooms, trees, and bees, Eglute Trinkauske

No need to argue: Why does concurrence continue within foreign policy groups despite receiving negative feedback?, Tobias Van Assche

Development of a three-dimensional multistage inverse design method for aerodynamic matching of axial compressor blading, Michael P. C. Van Rooij

Electronic transport in polyaniline films and polyaniline/silicon heterostructure solar cells, Weining Wang

Winning American hearts and minds: Country characteristics, public relations and mass media, Xiuli Wang

Micron-scale wear mechanisms in ultra high molecular weight polyethylene, James David Wernle

Impoverished democracy: Economic inequality, residential segregation, and the decline of political participation, Amy Melissa Widestrom

Figuring others: Toward a transnational feminist rhetorical analytic, Jennifer Leanne Wingard

Exploring the relationship between self-regulating Intentional Internet search (IIS) and critical thinking skills, Chun-Ping Wu

NMR analysis of structural features of the HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein in response to mutation and interaction with RNA and drug candidates, Lingchun Yang

Development and implementation of fully three-dimensional iterative reconstruction approaches in spect with parallel, fan- and cone-beam collimators, Hongwei Ye

A retrospective exploration of overweight adolescent girls' relationships with self, others, and cultural context, Amy Zavada

Two essays: On the common information in the return volatilities and volumes; on the informational efficiency of municipal bond market, Lei Zhang

Dynamic model of quality improvement using quantity incentive contract, Sidong Zhang

2007

Rhetorical performance: Inscription, embodiment, and resistance in the work of nineteenth-century actress/writers, Susan M. Adams

Queering the discussion: A Delphi study of the effects of GLBT identity and queer theory on marriage and family therapy, Sheila Marie Addison

Essays on unemployment, marginal attachment and married women in the labor market, Luzeta C. Adorna

The role of political environment and the adoption of new information technology for citizen participation and communication by United States municipal government, Michael Ji-Sung Ahn

Security through diversity for wireless sensor networks, Abdulrahman S. N. Alarifi

Electromagnetic scattering from chiral objects using double-grid finite-difference frequency-domain (DG-FDFD) method, Erdogan Alkan

A model of contractual project-based work: Personal social network connectivity, ICT use, and self-monitoring, Marcel Allbritton

Racial/ethnic and rural/urban disparity in prenatal and obstetrical care in New York State, Nailya Almagambetova

Exchange rate policy and international trade linkages and impacts, Nayef N. Al-Shammari

Transmission through an arbitrary aperture in an arbitrary three-dimensional conducting surface enclosing chiral material, Fikret Altunkilic

Application of low-dimensional techniques for closed-loop control of turbulent flows, Julie Ausseur

Welfare populism and the rural poor: Comparing microcredit provision in India, Srikrishna Ayyangar

Short-term training effects on myocardial and arterial function in obese individuals, with and without the metabolic syndrome, Tracy Baynard

Parity-violating electron scattering on hydrogen and helium and strangeness in the nucleon, Hachemi Benaoum

Conceptions of continuity: An investigation of high school calculus teachers and their students, Leah Christy Bridgers

Dyspareunia due to endometriosis: A qualitative study of its effect on the couple relationship, Kristina Schelbert Brown

Spectral weighting strategies for sentences measured by a correlational method, Lauren Calandruccio

An analysis of ice storm impacts, warnings, and emergency management response, David A. Call

The voltage dependent anion channel affects mitochondrial cholesterol distribution and function, Andrew M. Campbell

The intersection of feminism and the narrative metaphor in the practice and profession of family therapy: A Delphi study, Nina Maria Castronova

The design and evaluation of contention-based geographic forwarding for wireless multi-hop networks, Dazhi Chen

Noise enhanced signal detection and estimation, Hao Chen

Experimental evaluation of indoor air cleaning technologies and modeling of UV-PCO (photocatalytic oxidation) air cleaners under multiple VOCs conditions, Wenhao Chen

Crafts producers and intermediation by government, NGOs and private businesses in rural Rajasthan, India, Vikas Choudhary

Patent or publish? - University researcher's choice between traditional and commercial research outcomes, Yixin Dai

Globalization and the theater of work: Exploring identity dynamics in Indian international call centers, Diya Das

Detection of tones in reproducible noise: Psychophysical and computational studies of stimulus features and processing mechanisms, Sean Adam Davidson

"Shut it down": The May 1970 national student strike at the University of California at Berkeley, Syracuse University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, James Eric Eichsteadt

Governance of transboundary environmental crisis in the Aral Sea Basin: The role of Uzbek environmental NGOs, Cagri Erdem

Experiences of oppression among Middle-Eastern couples living in Denmark: Implications for marriage and family therapy, Birgitte Bonning Espitia

Community development and capacity building: A case study of Monte Verde, Costa Rica, Toby Ewing

Diaspora and transitional administration: Shiite Iraqi diaspora and the administration of post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, George Farag

Terahertz spectroscopy of the intermolecular and intramolecular vibrations of molecules in solution, Anna M. Fedor

The impact of audit quality on cash incentive compensation and cost of capital, Guy D. Fernando

Straight women and gay men friends: A qualitative study, Francesca Gaiba

Temporal properties of masked and unmasked tone responses in the anteroventral cochlear nucleus and the influence of blocking inhibition, Yan Gai

Specifying and testing a model of collaborative capacity: Identifying complementary competencies, incentive structures, and leadership lessons for the United States Department of Homeland Security, Heather Getha-Taylor

Protein adsorption onto medical alloys: Voltage effects, Robert T. T. Gettens

Daily practice and domestic economies in Guadeloupe: An archaeological and historical study, Heather Renee Gibson

New frequency domain electromagnetic solvers based on multiresolution analysis, Mesut Gokten

On both sides of the deal: How does overlapping institutional ownership affect mergers and acquisitions, Maria Goranova

Placing heavy alkaline earth metals on the map: Synthetic access, structure evaluation and reactivity studies of heavy alkaline earth organometallics, Marites A. Guino-o

The applications of the matrix pencil to speech processing, Darren M. Haddad

Zoning out dance clubs in Manhattan: Gentrification and the changing landscapes of alternative cultures, Laam Hae

Mainland China frames Taiwan: Online news, event perception and issue attitudes, Gang Han

The experience of disclosure of queer identity within sibling dyads, Rebecca Grace Harvey

Transnational political activism in American Cuban, Jewish, and Irish communities, Brett Sheridan Heindl

The trust experience from the truster's perspective: A theoretical discussion and experiment, Lynne Celeste Hinnant

Two essays on credit risk, Hueng-Ming Huang

Essays on education policies and discrimination in credit markets, Yue Hu

Transmission through an arbitrarily shaped aperture in a conducting plane separating air and a chiral medium, Sehabeddin Taha Imeci

Correlates of internal reactions: Counseling students' personality, ethnic identity, and multicultural contact in an immersion intervention context, Harue Ishii

The meaningfulness of life, Laurence A. James

Rhenium and technetium radiopharmaceuticals: Design and development for applicatons in nuclear medicine, Shelly James

Two essays on multi-tasking, efforts interaction and compensation, Deepika Jha

Influences on risk coverage: A case study of the Walkerton, Ontario Escherichia coli contamination, Patricia M. Kennedy

Formal verification of high-level synthesis with global code motions, Youngsik Kim

Struggling with moral authority: Religion, reform, and everyday life in nineteenth-century Smithfield, New York, Hadley Kruczek-Aaron

Composition, vagueness, and persistence, Irem Kurtsal Steen

Gendering of health communication campaigns in Ghana: Cultural relevancy and social identity, Doreen Vivian Kutufam

Novel energy-efficient leakage current minimization techniques for CMOS VLSI circuits, Preetham Lakshmikanthan

Study of hydrogen bonding properties with ab initio calculations, neutron scattering spectroscopy and 1H NMR, Yanmei Lan

Exploring knowledge networks for e-government services: A comparative case study of two local governments in Korea, Jooho Lee

Rhodium-catalyzed addition of terminal alkynes to vinyl ketones and studies toward the synthesis of peyssonenynes A and B, Ronald Vivas Lerum

Application of the [2,3] Wittig rearrangement to synthetic studies toward the total synthesis of (+)-discodermolide, Guohua Liang

Pop tarts and body parts: An exploration of the imaging and brand management of female popular music stars, Kristin J. Lieb

A modeling and experimental investigation of coupled heat, air, moisture and pollutants transport in building envelope systems, Hui Li

"An element of blank": Reading silences in post-World War II American narratives of pain, Cindy L. Linden

Optimal decision rules for decentralized detection in resource-constrained wireless sensor networks, Ying Lin

Genetic and molecular analysis of ego-2, a positive regulator of Notch-type signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans, Ying Liu

Determinants of postsecondary students' performance on timed examinations: Implications for extended time testing accommodations, Benjamin Joshua Lovett

Religion and the invention(s) of John Cage, Sor Ching Low

The dimensionality of the Discrimination Model within a school counseling supervisory context: Supervisors' perceptions of supervision, Melissa Luke