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2011

Towards an Information Theoretic Framework for Evolutionary Learning, Stuart William Card

Movement of the Organized Blind in India: From Passive Recipients of Services to Active Advocates of Their Rights, Jagdish Chander

Application of high throughput sequencing in selection of RNA aptamers, Lei Chen

Sizing for Deep Submicron VLSI Circuits, Wei-Yu Chen

Characteristics of closest friends: A comparison among U.S., international and Third Culture college students, Kyoung Mi Choi

Growing Up Gay in Black America: An Exploration of the Coming Out Process of Queer African American Youth, DeMarquis Clarke

Essays on Product Acquisition for Value Recovery, Dwayne D. Cole

Thomas Hobbes' Response to the Fool: Justice and Magnanimity, Andrew James Corsa

Skeletal Muscle Function, Morphology, and Biochemistry in Ts65Dn Mice: A Model of Down Syndrome, Patrick Michael Cowley

"It's the Resources": Work, Governance, and the Institutionalization of an Emergency Food Network, Stephanie Crist

Characteristics of the Fields in the Near and Far Zone Of Antennas and Its Significance in Wireless Communication, Arijit De

Two Essays on Governance in IPO Firms, Palash Deb

Information Behaviors in Higher Education Research Administration: Support for Collaborative Proposal Development Activities, Christina Leigh Deitz

Optimizing the use of the audit in alcohol screening for college students, Kelly Smith DeMartini

Age-Related Changes in Listening Effort for Various Types of Masker Noises, Jamie L. Desjardins

Specters of truth: Exercising philosophy and theology, T. Wilson Dickinson

Investigation of Coenzyme Q10 Production in Sporidiobolus johnsonii, David Dukane Dixson

Class and Gender in the Phillippines: Ethnographic Interviews with Female Employer-Female Domestic Dyads, Emelda Tabao Driscoll

Molecular Characterization of Genetic Components of Pathogen Defense in Arabidopsis, Aditya Dutta

Victory's Foundation: US Logistical Support of the Allied Mediterranean Campaign, 1942-1945, David D. Dworak

Whom Would You Choose? The Role of Trust in New Venture Partner Choice, Verona Patrice Edmond

The Good, the Bad, and the Persuasive: Enhancing Retention of Future Information Professionals through Attitude Inoculation, Isabelle J. Fagnot

Higher Derivative Gravitational Systems and Ghost Fields, Michele Fontanini

Teaching Science to English Language Learners: Instructional Approaches of High School Teachers, Betty-Vinca N. Frank

Intelligent Processing in Wireless Communications Using Particle Swarm Based Methods, Weihua Gao

The Effects of Two Interventions on the Generalization of Oral Reading Fluency: Training to Generalize versus Repeated Readings, Lynne E. Gertz

Guilty Looks: The Pains and Pleasures of Liberal Reform in Late-Victorian Britain, Tanushree Ghosh

Analyticity, Platonism, and A Priori Knowledge, Deke Cainas Gould

Taxes, Welfare and Democratic Discourse: Mainstream Media Coverage and the Rise of the American New Right, Matt Guardino

Development of a Novel Methodology for the Identification of VOC Emission Sources in Indoor Environments based on the Material Emission Signatures and Air Samples measured by PTR-MS, Kwanghoon Han

Performing the Self: Character Agency and Impression Management within the Narrative of Survivor: Samoa, Carolyn Davis Hedges

Ecological Momentary Intervention [EMI]: Incorporating Mobile Technology into a Disordered Eating Treatment Program for College Women, Kristin E. Heron

The View From Ecuador: Security, Insecurity, and Chaotic Geographies of U.S. Migrant Detention and Deportation, Nancy Ann Hiemstra

Evolution of Complex Sperm Morphology, Dawn M. Higginson

The Effect of Physical Activity on the Insulin Response to Frequent Meals, Michael E. Holmstrup

Of His Bones are Coral Made: Submerged Cultural Resources, Site Formation Processes, and Multiple Scales of Interpretation in Coastal Ghana, Rachel Lynelle Horlings

Ethnography of the City: Creativity, Sustainability, and Social Justice in Seattle, Washington, Serin Day Houston

Toward a Theory of Serial Entrepreneurship: Decomposing Entrepreneurial Experience, Dan Kai Hsu

Internet Adoption and Integration by Network Television News (1997 to 2004), Katherine A. Hughes

The Maintenance of Male Color Polymorphism in Poecilia parae, Jorge L. Hurtado-Gonzales

The Differential Scheme and Quantum Computation, Robert J. Irwin

In the name of the father Lacanian reading of four white South African writers, Obiwu Iwuanyanwu

Decision-Making with Heterogeneous Sensors - A Copula Based Approach, Satish Giridhar Iyengar

Christian Identity in Response to Moral Choices in Gaming: A Textual Analysis of Popular Video Games, Jeffrey Lance Jackson

Protection Models for Web Applications, Karthick Jayaraman

Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories on the lattice, Anosh Joseph

A Distributed Approach for Fault Mitigation in Large Scale Distributed Systems, Mina Jung

Essays on Foreign Direct Investment, Agglomeration and Productivity, Fariha Kamal

Leadership Style And Diversionary Theory Of Foreign Policy: The Use Of Diversionary Strategies By Middle Eastern Leaders During And In The Immediate Aftermath Of The Gulf War, Kilic Bugra Kanat

Essays on the Inter-Governmental Interdependence of Tax Policy, Atsushi Kawamoto

Methods for improving finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations of electromagnetic problems, Gyusub Kim

E Effects of Internet Use on Academic Achievement and Behavioral Adjustment among South Korean Adolescents: Mediating and Moderating Roles of Parental Factors, Soohyun Kim

The Flower of Human Perfection: Moses Mendelssohn's Defense of Rationalist Aesthetics, Aaron M. Koller

Treatment as a Common Good: Adopting HIV/AIDS Policy in Russia and South Africa, 1999-2008, Vladislav Kravtsov

Debates on Gender and Technology: Cesarean Births in Taiwan, Chen-I Kuan

Securing Critical Internet Resources: Influencing Internet Governance through Social Networks and Delegation, Brenden Kuerbis

High Throughput Screening of Aptamers, Gillian Vimbai Kupakuwana

The Extended Preferred Ordering Theorem for Radar Tracking Using the Extended Kalman Filter, Donald Leskiw

Network-aware Active Wardens in IPv6, Grzegorz Lewandowski

Extending the Passive House Approach with Geoslar Exergy Storage Technology: A Vision for Reducing Purchased Energy Use in Existing and New Construction, Lowell Edwin Lingo

Issues on Clean Diesel Combustion Technology Using Supercritical Fluids: Thermophysical Properties and Thermal Stability of Diesel Fuel, Ronghong Lin

Correlated Sources In Distributed Networks - Data Transmission, Common Information Characterization and Inferencing, Wei Liu

Meanings of Ebony: Politics and Black self-identification Among college women on predominately White campuses, Tehmekah Ann MacPherson

Behind every man: Media construction of wives at the center of political sex scandals, Hinda Mandell

Lesson Study: Developing a Knowledge Base for Elementary Writing Instruction, Vicki McQuitty

Transnational NGOs: A US Perspective, George E. Mitchell

Development of a Daily Diary Method for the Assessment of Everyday Cognitive Failures, Jacqueline Mogle

An Examination of the Relationship between Large Shareholders and Commitment Human Resource Systems, Frank Mullins

Cognitive Security Framework For Heterogeneous Sensor Network Using Swarm Intelligence, Rajani Muraleedharan

A More Global Court? Judicial Transnationalism and the U.S. Supreme Court, Angela G. Narasimhan

Essays on Testing Hypotheses When Non-stationarity Exists in Panel Data Models, Sang Gon Na

Applying the Golden Rule towards Recruitment Effectiveness, Amanda Grant Nicholson

A Dis-Ability Perspective on the Stigmatization of Dissent: Critical Pedagogy, Critical Criminology, and Critical Animal Studies, Anthony John Nocella

Audience Engagement with Mother-Daughter Relationships in Prime-Time Television of the 21st Century: A Qualitative Analysis of Interpretation, Sensemaking, and Perceived Effects, Meghan L. O'Briend

Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching Teachers: The Case of Multiplication and Division of Fractions, Dana E. Olanoff

Mutational Analysis of HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein and Methods Development for Aptamer Discovery, Wei Ouyang

Characterization of Enhanced Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors and Studies of Numeric Simulations for Compact-Binary Coalescences, Larne Pekowsky

Noise-Enhanced and Human Visual System-Driven Image Processing: Algorithms and Performance Limits, Renbin Peng

Potential Theory on Compact Sets, Tony Perkins

Physical adsorption, chemisorption and catalytic oxidization for indoor VOCs removal, Jingjing Peu

A Realist Metaphysics of Race: A Context-Sensitive,Short-Term Retentionist, Long-Term Revisionist Approach, Jeremy Pierce

Artifacts of Exchange: A Multiscalar Approach to Maritime Archaeology at Elmina, Ghana, Andrew T. Pietruszka

Does Deliberation Make Better Citizens? Examining the Case of Community Conflict Mediation, Heather Pincock

Synthesis and Biosynthesis of Polyketide Natural Products, Atahualpa Pinto

Complexity over Finite-Dimensional Algebras, Marju Purin

Morphology and Mechanics of the Actin Cytoskeleton, David Aaron Quint

The Design and Construction of a Green Laser and Fabry-Perot Cavity System for Jefferson Lab's Hall A Compton Polarimeter, Abdurahim Rakhman

The Implementation of Life Space Crisis Intervention as a School-Wide Strategy for Reducing Violence and Supporting Students' Continuation in Public Schools, John E. Ramin

Landscape, Labor, and Practice: Slavery and Freedom at Green Castle Estate, Antigua, Samantha Anne Rebovich

A Conceptual Framework and Simulation Modeling Of Engineering Change Management in a Collaborative Environment, Krishna Rao Reddi

Comparing Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change During Election Campaigns in the United States, Canada and Australia, Dan Rowe

School-Home Performance Feedback with Home-Based Writing Activities: the Effects on Elementary Students’ Writing Fluency, Jennifer Lynn Rymanowski

Presidential Leadership Styles and Forms of Authoritarianism in Post-Soviet Central Asia, Azamat Sakiev

Archaeology of Isolation: The 19th Century Lazareto de Isla de Cabras, Puerto Rico, Paola A. Schiappacasse

Language familiarity and the influence of reading on visual search strategies, Kelly A. Schwartz

Transforming the City. An Ethnography of Contested Public Space in Venezuela, Ana Servigna

Aghoreshwar Bhagawan Ram and the Aghor Tradition, Jishnu Shankar

Computational Identification of cis-Regulatory Elements and Prediction of Gene Expression Level, Huitao Sheng

The Role of Board/Audit Committee Interlocks in Diffusion of Earnings Equality, Linna Shi

Essays on the Impact of Trade on Labor Markets and Productivity in Korea, Jeong Eun Shin