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2006

The impact of study abroad on college student intellectual development, Joshua S. McKeown

Mapping an identity: How women artists develop an artistic identity, Pamela Ann McLaughlin

Spatial variability of foliar nitrogen in the Adirondack Park, New York, Brenden E. McNeil

Patterns of emergent leadership in distributed teams, Nora Irene Misiolek

Essays on competitive strategy in remanufacturing, Supriya Ranjan Mitra

Life strategies: Motherhood, urban poverty, and the WIC program in Syracuse, New York, Suzanne Elizabeth Morrissey

Direct election of United States senators and the transformation of American politics, William B. Murphy

Physiological correlates of temporal envelope perception, Paul Christian Nelson

The influence of mentoring on beginning general education teachers providing instruction to students with disabilities, Thomas B. Neveldine

An investigtion of adults' interactions centered on children learning mathematics: A case of two elementary schools, Kanyuru Alfred Ng'ang'a

A new approach to test for interactions in two-way ANOVA models, Wei Ning

Displacement-based seismic design of structures using equivalent linear system parameters, Metin Oguzmert

Nla4 and Nla18, key regulatory proteins required for normal growth and development of Myxococcus xanthus, Faisury Ossa-Ramirez

Gender dissonance and the bourgeois woman in the Victorian novel, Christina M. Parish

The effects of extended time on the mathematics performance of students with and without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Rosanne Parolin

The nature of assertion, Philip R. Pegan

Otinchalar in the Ferghana Valley: Islam, gender and power, Svetlana Peshkova

Problems of beginning teachers at the secondary level, Christina Cara Pfister

Privacy-preserving collaborative filtering, Huseyin Polat

Parenting variables associated with childhood anxiety: Parental warmth as a moderator of overly controlling parenting, Scott Lee Poltrock

Thermal isomerizations through [1,5]-hydrogen shifts in mono-deuterium-labeled cis,cis-1,3-cyclononadienes, Anuradha S. Raghavan

"I just want a normal life!": A phenomenological inquiry into children's perspectives on parental addiction and the effects of the addiction in the parent-child relationship, Maria Andrea Reinking

The role of parent-adolescent attachment in the glycemic control of adolescents with type-1 diabetes, Tziporah Esther Rosenberg

Improving elementary-age children's writing fluency: A comparison of improvement based on performance feedback frequency, Blair Dana Rosenthal

Just speech: The grammar of an ethics beyond essence, Andrew R. Saldino

Poverty, institutions and child health in post-communist rural Romania: A view from below, Adriana Iuliana Sandu

Communication in the doctor's office: Deaf patients talk about their physicians, Michael Adam Schwartz

Theoretical and experimental studies on intermetal communication in dinuclear complexes of ruthenium with conjugated bridging ligands, Sripriya K. Seetharaman

Woven seasons of time and place: A curriculum framework for the Haudenosaunee way of life, Tonya Lynn Shenandoah

Effect of dynamic compression characteristics on aided perception of reverberant speech, Lu-Feng Shi

The project of political epistemology, politics and the criteria of truth, Alireza Shomali

Host art teachers and their feedback to student teachers during student teaching practicum, Tanya Silverstein

Destroying time: Topology and taxonomy in "The Alexandria Quartet", Beatrice Skordili

Three essays on immigration, Claudia A. Smith

Unanticipated speech and autism, David Smukler

Black Spots: Insecurity from beyond the horizon, Bartosz Hieronim Stanislawski

Examination of the effects of exposure to stress and stress-reactivity on selective attention performance, Robert Steven Stawski

On the edge: English language arts teachers revising a profession, 1966--2006, Karen E. Stearns

Young Taiwanese children's language performance and anxiety as a function of parental beliefs and practices, Li-Ching Sun

Galatea's uprising: Activism in the United States sex workers' rights movement, Charleen M. Tuchovsky

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