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2009

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

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