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2007

Ethnic identity and transnational media: The relationship between second-generation Korean American adolescent ethnic identity and transnational Korean film, David C. Oh

Dual-process signal detection theory in item recognition: Evidence for some-or-none recollection, Serge V. Onyper

On the Palestinian question: A critique of international law, Reecia Orzeck

Structural diversity of the oxovanadium organodiphosphonate and the M(I,II)/1,2,4-triazolate systems: A platform for the design of multifunctional hybrid organic-inorganic materials, Wayne Ouellette

Cluster based classification for semantic role labeling, Necati Ercan Ozgencil

Emotion and family therapy: Male clinician's attitudes and use of emotion as a main component in therapeutic intervention and theory, Matthew M. Suarez Pace

Two essays on the exchange rate disconnect puzzle, Chul Ho Park

Factors influencing the adoption of open access publishing, Ji-Hong Park

Essays on teacher labor markets and educational disparities, Emily L. Pas

Partnerships for empowerment in a post-Soviet society: Patients rights and responsibilities in Uzbekistan, Melinda Pavin

Development of experimental methods for characterizing water vapor transmission in building materials, Marcin Pazera

Representations of a valued quiver, the lattice of admissible sequences, and the Weyl group of a Kac-Moody algebra, Allen Neil Pelley

Low-dimensional techniques for active control of high-speed jet aeroacoustics, Jeremy Pinier

Effects of light, nutrients and Dreissena (Dreissena polymorpha and Dreissena bugensis) on benthic ecosystems in lakes, Peibing Qin

Symmetries in noncommutative physics, Babar Ahmed Qureshi

From cosaan to colony: Exploring archaeological landscape formations and socio-political complexity in the Siin (Senegal), AD 500--1900, Francois Gilles Richard

Relation of campus involvement to self-reported capacities for socially responsible leadership, David Rosch

Learning to connect: Developmental disability and friendship in high school, Zachary Stephen Rossetti

"We are the people!": Geographies of the industrial production of culture and the rise and fall of the 1890 Players' National League of Professional Base-Ball Clubs, Robert B. Ross

Development of an analytical model for pitch link loads of bearingless main rotors, Gregory T. Russell

Background experiences, time allocation, time on teaching and perceived support of early-career college science faculty, Kenneth S. Sagendorf

Three-dimensionalism, Mark Scala

The impact of exposure to violence on internalizing symptomatology and adolescent suicidal ideation, Andrew R. Scherff

A people of consequence: The Shawnee, 1662--1789, Gregory K. Scott

Are eating and exercise behaviors at school contributing to adolescent obesity in the United States?, Cynthia S. Searcy

Multicultural citizens, monocultural men: Indigineity, masculinity, and conscription in Ecuador, Brian R. Selmeski

Complexity in non-isothermal polymerization of PMMA based bone cement: Thermal, chemical, and mechanical effects on polymerization fronts, Jae-Bum Shim

Establishment of Bs meson production at the psi(5S) energy using beauty and charm decays, Radia Sia

The use of rolled erosion control products (RECPs) for minimizing soil erosion, Jennifer Lynn Smith

Unclear path: Explosive remnants of war in Vietnam, Sara Elizabeth Smits

Family routines and children's representations: Relations with physical and psychological health in Head Start preschoolers with asthma, Mary Spagnola

The Eguafo Kingdom: Investigating complexity in southern Ghana, Sam Spiers

The state of housing, the business of the state: The spatial consequences of housing and urban development policies developed by the entrepreneurial state in Chile (1973--1989), Jill Stackhouse

Wavelets on manifolds and multiscale reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, Dale William Struble

The relationship between risk, hardiness and social support on perceived quality of life among individuals diagnosed with fibromyalgia, Colleen Marie Sunderlin

Towards a better understanding of dynamics of IT use: A new concept of adaptive IT use, Heshan Sun

Crossing the line: Democracy, spirituality and politics in the United States anti-nuclear social movements, Diane R. Swords

Websites through genre lenses: Recognizing emergent regularities in websites content structure, Svetlana Symonenko

Effects of a multifaceted staff management program on the engagement of adults with developmental disabilities in community-based settings, Frances Marie Szczech

Analysis of cytotoxicity of anticancer drugs, Zhimin Tao

Strength evaluation of deteriorated reinforced concrete bridge columns, Mucip Tapan

Description and evaluation of current fire service training materials development, Sara E. Tarr

Being in first grade: Consequential social interaction, Sally Claycomb Townsend

Essays in international trade, Natalia Trofimenko

Prolonged response: The Kyoto School and the new Confucian movement as products of the Western impact, Xiaofei Tu

Essays in international trade and development, Beyza P. Ural

Nitro- and oxazoline-derivatized antennas: Structural and photophysical characterization of their lanthanide complexes, Subha Viswanathan

Theorizing strategic IT compensation decisions: Coping with certainty in organizations through IT compensation, Chingning Wang

Essays on option-implied volatility, Guan Jun Wang

Secure and efficient use of public key cryptography in sensor networks, Ronghua Wang

The chemical response of surface waters and organic soils across the northeastern United States, following reduced inputs of acidic deposition: 1984-2001, Richard Ashley Frank Warby

Individual differences in task switching, executive functioning, and cognition, Christina V. Wasylyshyn

Using a summative assessment alignment model and the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy to improve curriculum development, instruction, and evaluation, Donald Wheeler

Slovakia's litmus test: Policy, prejudice, and resistance in the schooling of Romani children, Julia M. White

Grandparent-grandchild relationships and perceptions of grandparent goal influence in emerging adulthood, Ryan Macey Wise

Reading beliefs and strategies of Taiwanese mothers with preschoolers in relation to the children's emergent literacy, Chu-Chu Wu

Doppler and acceleration invariant pulse compression, Jie Yang

Expressional, functional and genomic studies of proteasome subunits during spermatogenesis of Drosophila melanogaster, Lei Zhong

Progress in molecular heterobimetallic alkaline earth metal chemistry: New synthetic strategies, structural features and properties, Maria Felisa A. Zuniga

2006

Al-Huda: The story of "Islamic" revivalism amongst urban Pakistani women, Sadaf Ahmad

First indications of causal set cosmology, Maqbool Ahmed

Parenting an autistic child in Kuwait: Kuwaiti mothers' voice and experiences with children labeled autistic, Mohammad Taleb M. Al Khandari

In-service training on child abuse for classroom teachers: What is the effectiveness of mandated training?, Lauren Allyn Arbolino

The effect of child support on family behavior, Elizabeth Ashby

Surface integral solution of chiral loaded waveguides of arbitrary cross section, Kasim Ayyildiz

Experimental investigations towards production of hyperpolarized xenon-129 through the condensed state, Durdana Nazim Balakishiyeva

This is how we do it! Black women undergraduates, cultural capital and college success-reworking discourse, Cerri Annette Banks

Postcopulatory sexual selection in Drosophila, Adam Clarence Bjork

Changing landscapes of social reproduction in South Dakota: Restructuring the cattle beef industry, Carrie Breitbach

Secret religion: Surrealism in the new era of religion, Timothy A. Brown

First Observation of psi(3770) decays to photon chi(cJ), Jamila Bashir Butt

Community and social justice in New Deal-era urban literature, Jonathan J. Butts

Selection procedures for binomial populations, Elena Mihaela Buzaianu

Parental assistance and first-year college student independence and adjustment, Elizabeth Carter

Recollected changes in mathematics teachers' beliefs and practices: Perceptions and psychological type preferences, Bulent Cetinkaya

Distributed fault detection for dynamic systems, Qi Cheng

Between negotiation and confrontation: Understanding China's Taiwan policy redirections in the 1990s, Shang-chih Chen

Home equity, migration and retirement, Yong Chen

Effects of order and proportion of positive scenes in broadcast news on memory, candidate evaluation, and voting intention, Yun Jung Choi

Learning to be good: Moral saints or virtuous persons?, Jin Cho

Adaptations in human neuromuscular function following prolonged unweighting: Neurological and skeletal muscle properties and countermeasure efficacy, Brian C. Clark

A Deleuzian feminism: Philosophy, theology and ethics, Judith F. Clark

The relationship between counseling supervisor focus of supervision and personality characteristics matching between supervisor and supervisee, Tamara L. Clingerman

Intuitive eating non-dieting approach to weight management: Pilot program for Fort Drum DOD beneficiaries, Renee Elizabeth Cole

Arterial remodeling and hemodynamic alterations following exercise training in individuals with pre- to stage-1 essential hypertension, Scott R. Collier

Theatron and theoria: Vision, visuality, and religious spectatorship, Melissa S. Conroy

Sexual minority women: Exploring familial relationship development after coming out at home, Deborah Anne Coolhart

"Where ornament and function are so agreeably combined": Consumer choice studies of English ceramic wares at Hudson's Bay Company, Fort Vancouver, Robert John Cromwell

Power Islands: A high-level synthesis methodology for reducing spurious switching activity and leakage, Deniz Dal

Three essays in development economics, Ana C. Dammert

Examining the relationship between treatment integrity and student outcomes: A comparison of performance feedback, goal setting and negative reinforcement procedures with teachers, Florence Donna DiGennaro

Sparta in Babylon: Case studies in the public philosophy of soldiers and civilians, Darrell W. Driver

Evidence on the role of accounting conservatism in corporate governance, Scott Duellman

Signal transduction by short-wavelength opsins, Abhiram Dukkipati

Expert conceptualizations of the domain of instructional design: An investigative study on the deep assessment methodology for complex problem-solving outcomes, Deniz Eseryel

Three essays in programme evaluation, Jose C. Galdo

Multi-category support vector machines, Yunchuan Gao

Exact supersymmetry on the lattice, Sofiane Ghadab

Unlettered culture: The idea of illiteracy in early modern writing, Katheryn M. Giglio

Individual and situational factors that influence teachers' perspectives and perceptions about the usefulness of graphing calculator for student success, Aytac Gogus