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2003

A study of the role of polyhedral borane compounds in solid state materials, nanotechnology and main group cluster substitution chemistry, John David Caruso III

Two essays on fixed income derivatives, Huaiyu Chen

The construction, use, and evaluation of a lexical knowledge base for English-Chinese cross-language information retrieval, Jiangping Chen

On the existence and character of Gortler vortices in compressible flow, Laurie Dawn Ciolkosz

Examining the efficacy of performance feedback and goal-setting interventions in children with AD/HD: A comparison of two methods of goal setting, Robin Susan Codding

Weighing the pros and cons: Evaluating decisional balance as a brief motivational intervention for at-risk college drinkers, Susan Elizabeth Collins

Missionary ministry satisfaction predictors: How spiritual attribution influences the effects of stress on family communication and satisfaction, Joy E. Corby

Civil society and development in Nigeria: An exploratory study of student attitudes and perceptions in 1992, Rodney Devi Cunningham

An exploration of how new registered nurses construct their professional identity in hospital settings, Denise Irene Deppoliti

Translation events in cross-language information retrieval: Lexical ambiguity, lexical holes, vocabulary mismatch, and correct translations, Anne Roel Diekema

Postsecondary inclusion through academic accommodations: Attitudes, experiences, and perceptions of college students with learning disabilities and faculty, Kathryn I. Dziekan

What's news? News definitions across cultures, Martin Eichholz

The portrayals of male parents in Caldecott Award-winning American picture books (1938--2002): Examining the culture of fatherhood presented to young people, Suzanne Marie Flannery-Quinn

The avoidance of help-seeking: A study of the experiences of persons with severe visual impairment with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accommodation request process for print access, John Jay Frank

Neither judge nor jury: Norms and the role of mediators in court-referred mediations, Amy Rebecca Gay

The role of aluminum in regulating the retention of cations and dissolved organic carbon in organic forest soil horizons, Robert Joseph Geary

The community dynamics of protein phosphatase 2A subunits in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Matthew Shawn Gentry

The Z-selective [2,3] Wittig rearrangement of secondary allylic alpha-stannyl ethers, chiral alpha-alkoxy stannanes, and progress toward the enantiospecific total synthesis of (+)-mycotrieninol I, Anthony Martin Giamis

The effects of diet and/or exercise on the abdominal fat distribution, chronic low-grade inflammation, and metabolic status of postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes, Ifigenia Giannopoulou

The characterization of two materials for permanent optical memories: Bacteriorhodopsin with its 9-cis retinal containing photoproducts, and fluorinated indolylfulgides with their derivatives, Nathan Bryce Gillespie

Development, gold and mining in the Brazilian Amazon: Women's labor in Garimpagem, Jeannette Graulau

Computational studies on rapidly-adapting mechanoreceptive fibers, Burak Guclu

Heterologous expression of manganese peroxidase from Phanerochaete chrysosporium in Pichia pastoris, Lina Gu

Moral magnetism: A study in relations of emotion, value and world, Daniel Patrick Haggerty

Teachers' models of student responses to middle school algebraic tasks, Jean Elizabeth Hallagan

War games and imperial postures: Spectacles of combat in United States popular culture, 1942--2001, Karen J. Hall

Perceptions of the professoriate: Anticipatory socialization of undergraduate students from underrepresented groups, Virginia Hilton Hallock

"Every emcee's a fan, every fan's an emcee": Authenticity, identity, and power within Bay area underground hip-hop, Anthony Kwame Harrison

"Mom will do it." The organization and implementation of friendship work for children with disabilities, Perri Jacqueline Harris

Two essays on applications of mixture models in finance, Xiaojun He

An initial investigation into the possibility of advanced empathy, W. David Hoisington

A low-power UHF subsampling receiver front-end in 0.35mum SOI CMOS, Te-Hsin Huang

Consequences of long-range temporal dependence in neural spiking activity for theories of processing and coding, Brian Scott Jackson

Contraband literacies: Incarcerated women and writing-as-activism, Tobi L. Jacobi

Receptivity to change in the public sector: Two federal case studies, Willow Serene Jacobson

Exploiting early time scattering response using fractional Fourier transform, Seongman Jang

Teachers' Perspectives on Laptop Technology in the English Language Arts Classroom: A Case Study of High School English Teachers, Ewa Jarzab

Short strong hydrogen bonds studied by inelastic neutron scattering and computational methods, Timothy Andrew Jenkins

The economic trend in immigration policy: A comparative analysis of the entrepreneur/investor program in Canada, United States and Australia, Sharon L. Jones

Structure, ideology, institution, and social movement vitality: A comparative study of evangelical Christian political activities in South Korea and the United States, Won-Geun Kang

The archaeology of Kpaliworgu: A case study of culture continuity and change in northern Ghana before 1900, Benjamin Warinsie Kankpeyeng

Supersymmetric theories on the lattice, Sergey Alexandrovich Karamov

Sermons of Pope Innocent III: The moral theology of a pastor and pope, Keith Harold Kendall

Studies directed towards syntheses of multivalent carbohydrates suitable for binding to E. coli Shiga-like toxin, Jennifer Ji Young Kim-Beca

Parallel hierarchical adaptive genetic algorithm for genome sequencing, Kieun Kim

DOA estimation exploiting cyclostationarity based on direct data domain approach in a real environment, Kyungjung Kim

Ductility of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) strengthened reinforced concrete beams, SangHun Kim

Art in schools: Considering the profession of teaching secondary art, Sunah Kim

Adaptive bandwidth management for QoS sensitive multimedia cellular/communication networks, Sungwook Kim

An investigation of the fluid-dynamics aspect of the fan and HRM (High Resistance Medium) interaction, Young Hoon Kim

Understanding attrition in New York State public education, Thabo Walter Mabogoane

Mormon meccas: The spiritual transformation of Mormon historical sites from points of interest to sacred space, Michael H. Madsen

Water over the dam: A qualitative social scientist looks at how biologists, ecologists and engineers negotiate the past, present and future of the St. Lawrence River, Jack P. Manno

A scalable resource management framework for QoS-enabled multidomain networks, Haci Ali Mantar

A molecular and genetic analysis of the SNR1 subunit of the Brahma chromatin remodeling complex, Daniel Raymond Marenda

The medicine way: Native American women's understanding and "doing" of medicine, Doreen Elizabeth Martinez

Perceived transaction satisfaction with electronic service encounters: A critical incident analysis of product-related services and pure services on the Web, Nelson Massad

From woman's club to NGO: The changing terrain of women's civic engagement in the mid-twentieth century United States, Anne Lanethea Mathews-Gardner

Engendering outrage: Women and men in campus anti-rape organizing, Michael Stephen Messina-Yauchzy

Speaking of children: A study of how play therapists make meaning of children, Jodi Ann Mullen

Imagining the non-discursive: Image and the affective in inventing and composing, Joddy R. Murray

Neutrinos in particle physics and cosmology, Salah Nasri

The synthesis and structure of novel carborane based and related nonlinear optical materials, Amy E. Newlon

Learning to teach the nature of science: A study of preservice teachers, Moses Keya Ochanji

Interdomain traffic engineering on a bandwidth broker-supported diffserv Internet, Ibrahim Taner Okumus

Spatial and temporal patterns in the biogeochemistry of aluminum at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire, Sheila Mary Palmer

The aesthetics of nostalgia: The return of the real in postmodern Christian discourse, Diana Walsh Pasulka

Question taxonomies for digital reference, Jeffrey Pomerantz

A generic framework for design evolution: From function-to-form mapping to synthesis of tolerances, Nilmani Pramanik

La chulla vida: Men, migration, and the remaking of families in the Ecuadorian Andes and New York City, Jason Christopher Pribilsky

The bathroom and beyond: Transgendered college students' perspectives of transition, Rob Seth Pusch

Processing private lives in public: An institutional ethnography of front-line welfare intake staff post welfare reform, Frank Michael Ridzi

Neural network applications to turbo decoding, Murat Husnu Sazli

The role of transnational non-governmental organizations in the disposition of chemical and nuclear weapons in the United States: A comparative analysis, Agnes Gereben Schaefer

Beyond comparison: Incomparability and the psychology of choice, Erik Wolfgang Schmidt

Effects of regulation Fair Disclosure on the precision of investors' information around earnings announcements, Richard Arthur Schneible Jr.

Three essays in inequality, Jonathan Alan Schwabish

Three essays on the empirical linkage between trade and income, Zhang Shuo

From the mouth of the hummingbird: Values of activism among popular environmentalists in Bahia, Brazil, Valerie LaVerne Singer

"You have to learn who comes with the disability": University students' reflections on service learning experiences with peers labeled with disabilities, Valerie Marie Smith

Use of model-based parameter estimation in electromagnetic scattering problems of a conducting body of revolution, Hyun-Wung Son

Changing a policy field? Policy design and collaboration in early care and education, Jessica Elizabeth Sowa

Biting convergence of null-Lagrangians, Uma Subramanian

The inner workings of foster families: Implications for family therapy, Kimberly L. Sumner-Mayer

Understanding teacher use of the Internet as a new learning and teaching tool, Ragen D. Tiliakos

The educational computing coordinator in New York State: Scope and functions, Bernard John Gerard Tomasso

A measurement of parity-violating asymmetry with polarized electrons scattered from protons and implications for strange form factors, Baris Tamer Tonguc

Organic matter chemistry and dynamics in a forest soil affected by clear-cutting disturbance, David A. N. Ussiri

Waiting for work: A study of temporary help workers, David G. Van Arsdale

Strange things: Hemingway, Woolf, and the fetish, Amy Margaret Vondrak

Distributed fault-tolerant classification using coding theory, Tsang-Yi Wang

Decision bias in the newsvendor problem and supply chains, Xiaoqiang Wang

Preservice teachers' beliefs and practices regarding constructivist literacy teaching in Huanuco, Peru, Diana Dahlin Weber

Race and racism in women-dominated progressive organizations, Margaret Mary Wehrer

Shifting pedagogies: Intersections of computer-supported technologies, education, and power, Dara H. Wexler

Cradle to grave: Three essays on the impact of tax and public policies in the United States, James M. Williamson

Cracks in the system: How discourse, dominance and whiteness shape maternal drug health policy, Kristina Beth Wolff

Immunization of interest rate risk and pricing of default risk of bond portfolios, Yan Alice Xie

The impact of the short-short rule repeal on timing ability and other characteristics of mutual funds, Junesuh Yi

Web services based architecture in computational Web portals, Choonhan Youn