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2004

Post-degree perceived proficiency, professional development and supervision activities of practicing school counselors, Nancy Jonnell Henry

Distributed deployment algorithms for mobile wireless sensor networks, Nojeong Heo

The power of sacrifice: Roman and Christian discourses in conflict, George P. Heyman

Paleoproterozoic of central Colorado: Island arcs or rifted older crust?, Barbara M. Hill

An ecological view of the risk discourse in African-American adolescent identity development, Roxanne L. Hill

An approach to assessment in the classroom: A concurrent-operants functional analysis, Alexandra M. Hilt

Syntheses and structural survey of novel alkaline earth and rare earth metal complexes, Julia Hitzbleck

Numerical studies of electron transport in disordered quantum dot arrays, Shantenu Jha

Selection procedures for lognormal populations, Thomas T. John

Distinguishing Arabesques: The politics and pleasures of being Arab in neoliberal Brazil, John Tofik Karam

Non-Gaussian clutter simulation and distribution approximation using spherically invariant random vectors, Andrew D. Keckler

Factors associated with teacher intervention in relational aggression, Irene Kehres

The construction and expression of identity: An archaeological investigation of the laborer villages at Adrian Estate, St. John, USVI, Elizabeth Joan Kellar

The role of television news leads in learning from television news: The effect of anxiety-inducing leads and the lead as advance organizer on attention and memory for the news, Mark Alan Kelley

The effects of heterogeneous and discontinuous ownership and options compensation on managerial behavior: An extension of agency theory, Raihan Hameed Khan

An investigation of the role of mentoring as a professional development strategy to enhance technology integration, Tanna Marie Kincaid

Optimization of recombinant ligninolytic enzyme production in Pichia pastoris, Puapong Kongsaeree

Three essays on the effect of taxes on economic behavior, Anil Kumar

Explorations in fuzzy physics and non-commutative geometry, Seckin Kurkcuoglu

An extension of the Thom-Porteous formula to a certain class of coherent sheaves, J. Travis Lee

A theoretical model of national image processing and international public relations, Suman Lee

Support vector parameter selection using experimental design based generating set search (SVEG) with application to predictive software data modeling, Hojung Lim

Remembering to forget: Theological tropologies of confession and disavowal, Neal E. Magee

Keeping school: One-room schoolhouse preservation projects in the greater Finger Lakes region of New York State, Christopher B. Manaseri

Theories at work: Functional characteristics of theories that facilitate their diffusion over time, Betsy Van der Veer Martens

Molecular genetic analysis of TART (telomere-associated retrotransposon) in Drosophila melanogaster, Patrick Maxwell

Applicability of diffusion of innovations framework to best practice applications of human performance technology, Sharon Marie May

Social security, living arrangements, health, and the economics of the family, Cristian Meghea

Conceptions and consequences of semantic underdetermination, Kari Anne Middleton

Making foreign policy: Presidential management, advisors and the foreign policy decision-making process, David Mitchell

Modeling neural networks via linguistically interpretable fuzzy inference systems, Steven Brian Morphet

Explicating culture and its influence on magazine advertisements, Pamela Kay Morris

Social learning theory and intimate partner violence: Time series analysis of the effects of the O. J. Simpson case, Paige Andrea Muellerleile

Photon spectroscopy of heavy quarkonia, Hajime Muramatsu

"Between worlds": How college educated deaf women negotiate education, mothering, and work, Cheryl G. Najarian

Sol-gel synthesized adsorbents for mercury(II), chromium(III) and cobalt(II) separations, Kwan-Hyun Nam

The relationship between alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems: An event-level analysis, Dan J. Neal

Winning global policies: The network-based operation of microfinance NGOs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1996--2002, Anna Ohanyan

The role of ideas in coalition government foreign policymaking: Turkey as an example, 1991--2002, Binnur Ozkececi-Taner

Technology, values, and genre change: The case of small literary magazines, Stephen Paling

Affinity of the HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein for structural motifs in the genomic RNA packaging domain, Andrew Paoletti

Randomized controlled trial of a brief information, motivation, and behavioral skills intervention to reduce HIV/STD risk in young women, Carolyn Teal Pedlow

Synthesis of highly functionalized natural products from carbohydrates: Application of the [2,3] Wittig rearrangement and advancement toward nonlinear optical materials, Melissa Perreira

Supervision and clinical competency evaluations: The influence of the supervisor's gender, Jason James Platt

Translators and converts: Religion, exchange, and orientation in colonial New France, 1608--1680, Lisa J. M. Poirier

Instructional computer use in NYS public high schools: A comparison of content areas, Steven Meador Pratt

Structure and excitation energy in retinals and retinal proteins, Lei Ren

Changing through the century: Life at the Lott family farm in the nineteenth-century town of Flatlands, Kings County, New York, Christopher Gerard Ricciardi

The social cognition of ingroup and outgroup faces: The paradox of categorization and recognition, Diana R. Rice

Reimagining students' writerly authority: Co-investigation and representations of student writers in composition studies, Amy Elizabeth Robillard

Examining the efficacy of combined reading interventions: A group application of skill-based and performance-based interventions, Meliss Rosenblatt

Laboratory simulations of chemical reactions on dust grains in the interstellar medium, Joseph E. Roser

Becoming cosmopolitan: Constructing gender and power in post-liberalization Bombay, Susan Catherine Runkle

The tenuous self: Narratives of individuals who have experienced mild traumatic brain injuries, Joanne Scandale

A study investigating the effects of sociotropy on ambulatory blood pressure while encountering interpersonal stressors, Jennifer Schum

Holding responsible without ultimate responsibility: Towards a communitarian defense of compatibilism, Seth Shabo

Liquidity, taxes and credit risk of fixed income securities, Jian Shi

The development of broadband public networks: Two case studies, Dong Hee Shin

'Sacrificing at the altar of tenure': Untenured assistant professors' work/life management, Catherine Marie Richards Solomon

Coherent radar detection in non-Gaussian clutter, Dennis LeRoy Stadelman

Environmentalism and democracy in Hungary and Latvia, Tamara Shevaun Steger

Age differences in memory performance and strategy use for grocery items and imagery/familiarity-matched non-grocery words: A study in everyday memory, David W. Steitz

"Too much power is not good": War and trade in nineteenth-century Sisalaland, northern Ghana, Natalie Josephine Swanepoel

From polymerization initiators to precursors for solid-state materials: Syntheses and structures of a series of molecular alkali and alkaline earth metal derivatives, Weijie Teng

The broadband multifilar helical antenna, Samir Tozin

Optimizing transforms for Java and .NET closed systems, Paul Michael Tyma

Nitrogen-based alkaline earth metal compounds: Syntheses, structures and applications, Wilda Vargas Gregory

Tourist geographies: Spectatorship, space, and empire in England, 1830--1910, Shelly Vye

Transceiver design issues for wireless multicarrier communication systems, Hao Wang

Graph-based mechanical product family modeling and functional tolerancing for mass customization, Haoyu Wang

The Haudenosaunee college experience: A complex path to degree completion, Stephanie Waterman

Burnout among school counselors: An investigation of its correlates informed by stress-strain-coping theory, Kevin Wilkerson

Three essays on R&D investment and economic development, Yonghong Wu

Role of conserved arginine in solar energy conversion: Infrared spectroscopy of bacteriorhodopsin, proteorhodopsin, and model compounds, Yaowu Xiao

Public relations, legitimacy, and media access, Youngmin Yoon

Achieving access: Groups, processes, and American political development, McGee Wester Young

Electromagnetic scattering from an arbitrarily shaped chiral body of revolution, Mehmet Yuceer

The work of the mentor: A study of public and private school mentors of new teachers, Donna Marie Zeolla

Near-infrared vibrational circular dichroism of polypeptides and small pharmaceutical molecules, Taiping Zhao

The modern invention of 'culture': Empire, globalism, and the persistence of history, 1776--1876, Corrinne B. Zoli

2003

Role of light scalar resonances in strongly interacting chiral effective Lagrangians, Abdou M. Abdel-Rehim

Two essays on personnel mobility from public schools in New York State, Tariq H. Al-Alawi

Not just Grignards: New developments in the organometallic chemistry of the heavy alkali and alkaline earth metals, Jacob S. Alexander

The honorable burden of public office: The rise of English civic humanism in the sixteenth century, Jeffrey M. Anderson

Preservice and inservice teachers' attitudes toward English as a second language and limited English proficiency students, Juwan Bae

The motivators and effects of formalized knowledge-sharing between employees through knowledge management initiatives: A multi-case study approach, Charmaine Barreto

Ecological and evolutionary variation in heat-shock proteins, Deepak Barua

Ethics 2.0: Post-biological-posthuman subjectivity and the challenge to ethics, Steven A. Benko

Assessing students' preferences for positive and negative reinforcement contingent on academic work completion, Merrill Justin Berkowitz

The medium is the measure of itself: Using tracking data for deductive and inductive analysis of the users of an interactive experience and their behavior, Diego Bonilla

Exploration of age-related differences in executive control processes of verbal and visuo-spatial working memory: Evidence from the repetition detection paradigm, Kara L. Bopp

Two brief alcohol interventions for referred college students, Brian Ernest Borsari

Can public authorities "just get things done"? An analysis of politically buffered institutions in a contentious policy arena, Carolyn Jordan Bourdeaux

Rules and more rules: The accessibility of productions in highly trained younger and older adults, Norbou E. G. Buchler

Search for eta(b) in the CLEO-II Upsilon(3S) and Upsilon(2S) data, Konstantin Vladimirovich Bukin

A longitudinal study of health insurance coverage between the ages of 59 and 68, Christine Caffrey

Religion and sexual violence in late Greco-Roman antiquity, John Matthew Caldwell

Multiple constraint space-time direct data domain approach using nonlinear arrays, Jeffrey Thomas Carlo

Secondary teachers' understanding of probability and sampling in context, Lynn Francis Carlson

(A) Just literacy, Tracy Hamler Carrick