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2005

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

Wetland geochemical and thermal processes at the watershed scale, Jeffrey M. McKenzie

The problem of phantasia in the history and study of religion, Geoffrey McVey

The impact of infidelity on the offended spouse: A study of gender differences and coping strategies in a religious population, Harmon Lester Meldrim

Adding the modal mu-calculus to the instruction-set process calculus, Byoung Woo Min

Essays in trade, development and political economy, Kontee Nuchsuwan

The reinvention of meaning: Cultural imaginaries and the life of the sign, Maik Nwosu

Advances in the design of heavy alkaline earth metal complexes as precursors for chemical vapor deposition, Anna Yosick O'Brien

Intertextuality and the rhetorical construction of Hawai'i: Examining text and context relationships through 'The Journals of M. Leopoldina Burns', Tennyson Lawrence O'Donnell

Perspectives of school counselors compared with the comprehensive school counseling-guidance model of Gysbers and Henderson: A qualitative study of a school counseling-guidance program, Peter B. D. Oscsodal

Using spectro-fluorometry and fluorescent dye-tracing to investigate hydrologic processes in organic-rich environments, Martin H. Otz

A spatial correlation analysis and adaptive estimation techniques for MIMO-OFDM systems, Mehmet Kemal Ozdemir

The relationship of novice Turkish early childhood education teachers' professional needs, experiences, efficacy beliefs, school climate for promoting early childhood learning, and job satisfaction, Ozkan Ozgun

The Compassionate Listening Project: A case study in citizen diplomacy and peacemaking, Marie Pace

Effects of noncontingent reinforcement on academic performance: An investigation of the roles of extinction and satiation, Carlos J. Panahon

Propagation and radiation of electromagnetic waves in the presence of a gyromagnetic medium, Eunseok Park

Analysis of FRP strengthened deep RC members using the STM and the FEM approaches, SangDon Park

Circular loop antennas radiating in the presence of symmetrically placed scatterers, Hakan Pasa Partal

Overcoming ineffective institutions: Alternative approaches to international fisheries conservation, Dexter C. Payne

Three essays on the mobility and determinants of trade patterns, Cong S. Pham

Comparative public management reform: Cases of policy transfer in Thailand and Malaysia, Ora-orn Poocharoen

Personal taxes, default, liquidity and risky bond yield spread, Hao Howard Qi

Message-based MVC architecture for distributed and desktop applications, Xiaohong Qiu

Technologies of representation: Fields of rhetorical action in transnational feminist encounters, Mary Teresa Queen

Marriage and other important social relationships as predictors of accessing mental health services and on mental health outcomes among older adults with depression, Louise M. Quijano

Where the water ebbs and flows: Place and self among the Rappahannock people, from the emergence of their community to its seclusion in 1706, Edward DuBois Ragan

Absolute branching fraction measurements and electron spectrum of inclusive charged and neutral D meson semileptonic decays, Radia Redjimi

A homological approach to differentiation algorithms and dimensions of finite type for representations of partially ordered sets, Markus Reitenbach

Internet information literacy: A study of older adults, Pamela Lipe Revercomb

The image factory: MTV, geography, and the industrial production of culture, Clayton F. Rosati

Caffeine, expectancy and attention, Sonia Sharma

Transforming national identity in the diaspora: An identity formation approach to biographies of activists affiliated with the Taiwan Independence Movement in the United States, Wei-Der Shu

Timing and extent of glaciation in the tropical Andes, Jacqueline Ann Smith

Earning predictability and heterogeneity in analyst forecasts, Minsup Song

A case study of academics and athletics: Players on a two-year college ice hockey team, David Sorbello

Studies toward the total synthesis of epothilone A, Francine Joy St. Denis

Stuff, process, and object: An examination of substance and its alternatives, Mark Edward Steen

Attrition in distance education: A meta-analysis, Deborah A. Storrings

Native American images as sports team mascots: From Chief Wahoo to Chief Illiniwek, Michael Taylor

Low-dimensional techniques for sound source identification in high speed jets, Charles E. Tinney

Critical relational model: A normative and meta-theoretical analysis of family therapy theories, Anibal Torres Bernal

Reliability-centric system design for embedded systems, Suleyman Tosun

Computation of the resonant frequency of a dielectrometer by the method of moments, Alper Ugur

Teaching for understanding: Exploring preservice science teachers' beliefs and practices, Nazan Uludag

Scalable service oriented architecture for audio/video conferencing, Ahmet Uyar

Explaining media policy: American political broadcasting policy in comparative context, Timothy P. Vos

Utilizing development research to guide People Capability Maturity Model adoption considerations, Mark R. Wademan

Two essays on government bond markets, Junbo Wang

Classification of remote sensing images using support vector machines, Pakorn Watanachaturaporn

Durability of wearing surface for FRP bridge decks, Prapun Wattanadechachan

Design, synthesis and characterization of rhenium complexes for the development of diagnostic and therapeutic agents in nuclear medicine, Lihui Wei

The importance of becoming a something-ist: Exploring how pre-service teachers fashion theory, Daniel L. White

Ruthenium incorporation into molecules and materials: New catalysts and strategies to prepare stable ruthenium-capped olefins, Joseph Ephraim Williams

User, text, system: A phenomenology of publicness in the digital age, Joseph John Williams

Migrants in Nanjing: Personal experiences and social process, Kai Wu

Back to the heartland? Transformation of Chinese geopolitics and the "renewed" importance of Central Asia, Wu Xiaodi

Interface problems in micromechanics and effective composite property analysis, Mayue Xie

Software exclusivity decision in the presence of indirect network externality, Jun Yang

A survey of the attitudes and behaviors of medical family therapists regarding complementary and alternative medicine: An exploration of collaboration, Miyoung Christine Yoon Hammer

A theory of purity from the perspective of comparative religion, Yohan Yoo

Molecular toughening of epoxy resins through siloxane modification, Man Zhang