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2008

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

Spectral weighting strategies for sentences measured by a correlational method, Lauren Calandruccio

An analysis of ice storm impacts, warnings, and emergency management response, David A. Call

The voltage dependent anion channel affects mitochondrial cholesterol distribution and function, Andrew M. Campbell

The intersection of feminism and the narrative metaphor in the practice and profession of family therapy: A Delphi study, Nina Maria Castronova

The design and evaluation of contention-based geographic forwarding for wireless multi-hop networks, Dazhi Chen

Noise enhanced signal detection and estimation, Hao Chen

Experimental evaluation of indoor air cleaning technologies and modeling of UV-PCO (photocatalytic oxidation) air cleaners under multiple VOCs conditions, Wenhao Chen

Crafts producers and intermediation by government, NGOs and private businesses in rural Rajasthan, India, Vikas Choudhary

Patent or publish? - University researcher's choice between traditional and commercial research outcomes, Yixin Dai

Globalization and the theater of work: Exploring identity dynamics in Indian international call centers, Diya Das

Detection of tones in reproducible noise: Psychophysical and computational studies of stimulus features and processing mechanisms, Sean Adam Davidson

"Shut it down": The May 1970 national student strike at the University of California at Berkeley, Syracuse University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, James Eric Eichsteadt

Governance of transboundary environmental crisis in the Aral Sea Basin: The role of Uzbek environmental NGOs, Cagri Erdem

Experiences of oppression among Middle-Eastern couples living in Denmark: Implications for marriage and family therapy, Birgitte Bonning Espitia

Community development and capacity building: A case study of Monte Verde, Costa Rica, Toby Ewing

Diaspora and transitional administration: Shiite Iraqi diaspora and the administration of post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, George Farag

Terahertz spectroscopy of the intermolecular and intramolecular vibrations of molecules in solution, Anna M. Fedor

The impact of audit quality on cash incentive compensation and cost of capital, Guy D. Fernando

Straight women and gay men friends: A qualitative study, Francesca Gaiba

Temporal properties of masked and unmasked tone responses in the anteroventral cochlear nucleus and the influence of blocking inhibition, Yan Gai

Specifying and testing a model of collaborative capacity: Identifying complementary competencies, incentive structures, and leadership lessons for the United States Department of Homeland Security, Heather Getha-Taylor

Protein adsorption onto medical alloys: Voltage effects, Robert T. T. Gettens

Daily practice and domestic economies in Guadeloupe: An archaeological and historical study, Heather Renee Gibson

New frequency domain electromagnetic solvers based on multiresolution analysis, Mesut Gokten

On both sides of the deal: How does overlapping institutional ownership affect mergers and acquisitions, Maria Goranova

Placing heavy alkaline earth metals on the map: Synthetic access, structure evaluation and reactivity studies of heavy alkaline earth organometallics, Marites A. Guino-o

The applications of the matrix pencil to speech processing, Darren M. Haddad

Zoning out dance clubs in Manhattan: Gentrification and the changing landscapes of alternative cultures, Laam Hae

Mainland China frames Taiwan: Online news, event perception and issue attitudes, Gang Han

The experience of disclosure of queer identity within sibling dyads, Rebecca Grace Harvey

Transnational political activism in American Cuban, Jewish, and Irish communities, Brett Sheridan Heindl

The trust experience from the truster's perspective: A theoretical discussion and experiment, Lynne Celeste Hinnant

Two essays on credit risk, Hueng-Ming Huang

Essays on education policies and discrimination in credit markets, Yue Hu

Transmission through an arbitrarily shaped aperture in a conducting plane separating air and a chiral medium, Sehabeddin Taha Imeci

Correlates of internal reactions: Counseling students' personality, ethnic identity, and multicultural contact in an immersion intervention context, Harue Ishii

The meaningfulness of life, Laurence A. James

Rhenium and technetium radiopharmaceuticals: Design and development for applicatons in nuclear medicine, Shelly James

Two essays on multi-tasking, efforts interaction and compensation, Deepika Jha

Influences on risk coverage: A case study of the Walkerton, Ontario Escherichia coli contamination, Patricia M. Kennedy

Formal verification of high-level synthesis with global code motions, Youngsik Kim

Struggling with moral authority: Religion, reform, and everyday life in nineteenth-century Smithfield, New York, Hadley Kruczek-Aaron

Composition, vagueness, and persistence, Irem Kurtsal Steen

Gendering of health communication campaigns in Ghana: Cultural relevancy and social identity, Doreen Vivian Kutufam

Novel energy-efficient leakage current minimization techniques for CMOS VLSI circuits, Preetham Lakshmikanthan

Study of hydrogen bonding properties with ab initio calculations, neutron scattering spectroscopy and 1H NMR, Yanmei Lan

Exploring knowledge networks for e-government services: A comparative case study of two local governments in Korea, Jooho Lee

Rhodium-catalyzed addition of terminal alkynes to vinyl ketones and studies toward the synthesis of peyssonenynes A and B, Ronald Vivas Lerum

Application of the [2,3] Wittig rearrangement to synthetic studies toward the total synthesis of (+)-discodermolide, Guohua Liang

Pop tarts and body parts: An exploration of the imaging and brand management of female popular music stars, Kristin J. Lieb

A modeling and experimental investigation of coupled heat, air, moisture and pollutants transport in building envelope systems, Hui Li

"An element of blank": Reading silences in post-World War II American narratives of pain, Cindy L. Linden

Optimal decision rules for decentralized detection in resource-constrained wireless sensor networks, Ying Lin

Genetic and molecular analysis of ego-2, a positive regulator of Notch-type signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans, Ying Liu

Determinants of postsecondary students' performance on timed examinations: Implications for extended time testing accommodations, Benjamin Joshua Lovett

Religion and the invention(s) of John Cage, Sor Ching Low

The dimensionality of the Discrimination Model within a school counseling supervisory context: Supervisors' perceptions of supervision, Melissa Luke

Special education instruction for secondary students with learning disabilities: Current instructional practice and teacher preparation, Teresa M. MacDonald

"A Life within a Life": Adolescents' Perspectives on Friendship and Literacy, Jolene Therese Malavasic

Aging and assets: Three essays, Joseph T. Marchand

The conceptual development of a predictive model system to test pediatric musculo-skeletal sarcoma therapies in growing bone, Bryan Samuel Margulies

Velocity measurements in the breathing zone of a moving thermal manikin within the indoor environment, David Marr

Policing public/private borders: Religion, liberalism, and the 'private judgment of the magistrate', Craig Edward Martin

Self-respect and family egalitarianism, Michael Thomas McFall

Taxing issues of federal child care subsidies in postwar America, 1946--2006, Christine Ann McKenna

The value of religious commitments in a pluralistic society, Michael McKeon

Electromagnetic scattering from an arbitrarily shaped three dimensional inhomogeneous bianisotropic body, Chong Mei

Leptonic decays of charged D and Ds mesons, Nabil Menaa

Parenting, child mastery motivation, and children's school readiness to learn in Turkey: A structural equation analysis, Aysegul Metindogan Wise

Effects of interspersal, momentum and tangible reinforcement on the mathematics problem completion rate and on-task behavior of students with emotional disturbance, Staci A. Montarello

Timing and conditions of formation of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, southeastern Papua New Guinea, Brian D. Monteleone

Let's fix the plumbing. Information technology and bureaucratic reform: A case from India, Anuradha Mundkur

Toward an "accented" critique of culture: Theorizing postcolonial East Asia, Hyon Joo Yoo Murphree

"Our health is in our hands": Women making decisions about health care in Tamilnadu, South India, Haripriya Narasimhan

Managing information systems in state and local governments: Essays on e-government service adoption and outsourcing, Anna Ya Ni

Branching fraction measurements and SU(3) diagrammatic analysis of Cabibbo-suppressed D meson decays, Shabana Nisar

Organizational influence on recorded music: A look at the independents, Ulf Oesterle

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