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2006

Liquid crystalline holography: The effect of various additives on photopolymerization, Lucas J. Tucker

Iterative deformable finite element model for nonrigid 3D PET/MRI breast image registration, Mehmet Zubeyir Unlu

Confidentiality expectations and willingness to disclose personal information to a health-care provider, Stacy B. Veeder

Automatic synthesis of CMOS ring oscillators, Lu Wang

Grid-based collaboration, Minjun Wang

Two essays: School district responses to state building aid and determinants of pay-as-you-go financing of state capital projects, Wen Wang

Silenced in the court: Facilitated communication and the meanings of disability and disability research in the legal setting, Mary Winston Morton

Basic and applied studies of blue & green proteorhodopsin, Bangwei Xi

Surviving malicious code attacks, Haizhi Xu

Electromagnetic scattering from three dimensional gyrotropic objects using the Transmission Line Modeling (TLM) method, Ahmet Fazil Yagli

Empirical selection of NLP-driven document representations for text categorization, Ozgur Yilmazel

Efficient direction of arrival estimation and the three-dimensional matrix pencil method to find DOA of the signals along with their wavelengths, Nuri Yilmazer

Influence of organic building blocks on the structures of bimetallic organic/inorganic hybrid frameworks, Gundog Yucesan

"To tell or not to tell?": Social dynamics in disclosure communities, Nasriah Zakaria

First measurements of the exclusive decays of the upsilon(5S) to B* meson B* bar meson pion pion final states and improved B*(s) meson mass measurements, Hongshan (Kevin) Zhang

A screened window on the world? News framing in United States international coverage, Maggie Ting Zhang

Direct and indirect ecological effects of Dreissenid mussels (the zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha and the quagga mussel D. bugensis) on submerged macrophytes in North American lakes, Bin Zhu

2005

The effects of matching and mismatching learning style and instructional strategies on online students' perception of learning outcomes, Omur Akdemir

An investigation of the adsorption properties of Saudi bentonite clay for dyes in wastewater, Saad Al-Jlil

The smart-seller challenge: The determinants and the outcomes of privatizing public nursing homes, Anna A. Amirkhanyan

Moving from individual contribution to group learning: The early years of the Apache Web server, Hala Annabi

Time-frequency gain manipulation for noise-reduction in hearing aids: Ideal and phase-opponent detectors, Michael C. Anzalone

Simulated social spaces: Exploring interactions in a Web chat room, Janet J. Armentor

"They should know they have Usher syndrome around here": College students who are deafblind, Katrina Lauren Arndt

Throne and altar: Halle Pietism and the Hohenzollerns. A contribution to the history of church state relations in eighteenth-century Brandenburg-Prussia, Thomas Parnell Bach

The impact of a dedicated Science-Technology-Society (STS) course on student knowledge of STS content, Paul E. Barron

An examination of the integration of differing traditions in counseling practice and a dialogue on ego maturation, Adele Baruch-Runyon

Capacity limits of the focus of attention and dynamics of the focus switch cost in the working memory, Chandramallika Basak

Assisting low-performing readers with a flexible grouping intervention aimed to increase students' oral reading fluency, John Charles Begeny

Rebuilding the longhouse: Obstacles to and opportunities for settling the Cayuga Indian Nation land claim through negotiation, Brian Booth Blancke

In confidence: Information technology, secrecy and the state, R. Christopher Bronk

Representations of semisimple Hopf algebras, Sebastian Burciu

Supertubes, black strings and D-brane systems, Belkis Cabrera Palmer

Analytical and statistical modeling to evaluate effectiveness of stream restoration in reducing stream bank erosion, Yanwei Chen

Three essays on tax policy, wealth, and entrepreneurship, Sengeun Choi

Three essays on agent behavior in United States housing market, Seok Joon Choi

Phase-only and amplitude-only adaptive algorithms based on a D(3)LS method for smart antenna systems and airborne radar applications, Won-Suk Choi

Understanding the relationship between new networked information technology and governance in China and South Korea, Jongpil Chung

Identity, support and disclosure: Issues facing university students with invisible disabilities, Rebecca Claire Cory

Uncertainty, zoning and land development, Christopher Robert Cunningham

Defending a way of life: Civil defense in the United States, 1940--1963, Lisa Jean Daly

The accelerating universe and other cosmological aspects of modified gravity models, Antonio De Felice

Helping new neighbors: Resettlement workers' construction of refugee identity, Loretta Kuliawat Denhart

A study of the influence of a researched-based rationale on science teachers' beliefs and practices across key stages of teacher development, Thomas Joseph Diana Jr.

Enzyme responses of Serengeti grasses to defoliation: Coupling plant cellular processes and Serengeti ecosystem processes, Yan Dong

Perspectives of Kindergarten and First-Grade Teachers on Mandated Literacy Reform, Mary J. Drucker

Cultural armors and buffers: African American families' perspectives of the special education process and community experiences, Sharon Huitt Vins Dunmore

European Union defense integration and the effects on militarily non-allied member states: The cases of Finland and Sweden, Johan Leif Eliasson

The state as site and strategy: Neoliberalization, internationalization, and the Foreign Agricultural Service, Jamey Stuart Essex

Links between personality traits and school aggression and internalizing behaviors in African American early adolescents, Melanie A. Evans

Living arrangements and care provision among the oldest old people in China, 1998--2002, Ying Fang

Identifying the zone performance phenomenon throughfMRI analysis and personal interview, Michael D. Ferrell

We are family: Trans-racial adoption and the work of assembling and practicing family, Katherin M. Flower Kim

Organizational crisis public relations management in Canada and the United States: Constructing a predictive model of crisis preparedness, Terence Timothy Flynn

Thinking and feeling in the minimal group paradigm: Cognitive and affective components of ingroup bias, Rob Foels

Children's construction of emotion inferences during discourse: The role of language ability, Janet Ford

"I'm just thinking out loud here": Making United States homeland security at the local level, Kerry Fosher

Perspectives and practices of expert teachers in technology-based distance and distributed learning environments, Radha Ganesan

Learning to teach with information technology: Preservice teachers' perspectives and experiences across their three-semester preparation, Ping Gao

Structural damage detection and identification using system dynamic parameters, Ma Ge

An assessment of Tech Prep: Students' educational and psychosocial outcomes in a case study model, Janet Jamison Glocker

How our values shape our practices: Exploding the myth of neutrality, Rachel Miriam Goldberg

Curriculum and the status of physical education in homeschooling, Elaine Ruth Gregory

The effects of mineral nitrogen on embryonic and larval amphibians, Kerry L. Griffis-Kyle

Diversity matters: An analysis of the many meanings of multiculturalism, Nisha Gupta

War of the shadow world: Angry ghosts and their victims in Vietnam, Mai Lan Gustafsson

Timing driven placement through net length constraints, William Martin Halpin Jr.

Race-related stress, racial socialization, and African American adolescent adjustment: Examining the mediating role of racial identity, Shauna Nicole Harps

Bridging the bureaucratic divide: Using GPRA and the PMA to enhance the career manager and political appointee relationship, Dana Michael Harsell

Enhanced VCD in transition metal complexes and metalloproteins, Yanan He

Conditions facilitating utilization of instructional technology in higher education: A study of Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia, Mokhtar B. Dato' Hj Nawawi

Rationalizing public participation goals: How contextual and organizational factors shape public managers' decision-making process, Maja Husar Holmes

Heal this: Healthcare experiences of gay men, Susan Wilt Holsapple

"Quest for the Code": A study of a computer based education program for children with asthma, Kimberly J. Howell

Adaptive antenna techniques for smart antennas and radar systems, Seung-Hyeon Hwang

The effect of concept mapping on preservice elementary teachers' knowledge of science inquiry teaching, Diann Carol Jackson

Hobbes vs. Bramhall: An uncivil war, 1645--1668, Nicholas D. Jackson

Development of a comprehensive sexually transmitted disease knowledge questionnaire, Beth Caroline Jaworski

Channel aware decision fusion for decentralized detection in sensor networks, Ruixiang Jiang

The nonlinear phototaxis signaling network of Chlamydomonas investigated by observing ciliary responses of individual cells to green and red light, Keith Josef

The impact of family stressors, interparental conflict, and parenting behaviors on children's overt and relational aggression: A focus on Korean families, Kwanghee Jung

Relationship between religion and identity development: A study of second generation American Muslim adolescents, Hasan Kaplan

Cylindrical high index contrast thin film dielectric optical waveguide, Erol Karadeniz

Factors influencing pre-service teachers' levels of reflective thinking, Mary Duffy Keogh

Journey to the surface of the earth: The geoaesthetic trace and the production of alternative geographical knowledge, James Alan Ketchum

The impact of leverage implicit in derivative financial instruments on banks' default risk premium, Emre Kilic

IT outsourcing in public organizations: How does the quality of outsourcing relationship affect the IT outsourcing effectiveness?, Hyun Joon Kim

TV viewing patterns, differential gain model, and social capital activities: Cross-sectional and cohort time use data, Soohong Kim

Paraprofessional-to-teacher programs: Experiences of the participants, Kim Alaine Kirsch

A method for the study of anelasticity in fused silica, Scott Erich Kittelberger

Not so fast: Using speed to differentiate high and average readers, Ava E. Kleinmann

Negotiated identities, engendered lives: Baul women in West Bengal and Bangladesh, Lisa Irene Knight

Why older Americans stop driving: Effects of state licensing policies on reduction and cessation of driving, Elena Koulikov

Congestion driven global routing and cross point assignment, Bharat Krishna

Hyporheic interaction and nitrate uptake in a semi-arid stream, Laura K. Lautz

Technetium and rhenium radiopharmaceutical agents in nuclear medicine: Design and synthesis, Neva Lazarova

Integrity checking for process hardening, Kyung-suk Lhee

Three essays on Social Security and retirement, Xiaoli Liang

Empowering prevention? Adolescent female sexuality, advocacy and schooling, Kristen V. Luschen

"I Am Not a Number, I'm A Free Man": Suburban Adolescents, Multiliteracies, and And Tactics of Resistance, Donna Mahar