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2008

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

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