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2005

Racial and ethnic discrimination in urban housing markets: Evidence from audit studies, Bo Zhao

2004

How faculty make sense of administrative methods and motives for change: A study of an assessment initiative at a private university, Bronwyn E. Adam

Academic authors' perception on copyright protection, Shahren Ahmad Zaidi Adruce

Computational quantum chemistry in initial designs and final analyses, Damian Gregory Allis

Determinants of plant species diversity across spatial scales in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, T. Michael Anderson

Subversive planning: Critical administration of technology in and out of writing programs, Paul E. Bender

Molecular evolution of visual pigments of the Tokay gecko and bluefin killifish, Nathan S. Blow

"Recovery," "science," and the politics of hope: A critical discourse analysis of applied behavior analysis for young children labeled with autism, Alicia A. Broderick

Reaffirming motherhood: Mothers, substance use, and recovery, Carol Brownstein-Evans

Racial and ethnic socialization in African-American families: Scale development and validation, Tiffany Brown

Solid state chemistry: Structural influences of the binucleating transition metal/tetra-2-pyridylpyrazine complex on the molybdophosphonate and molybdoarsonate class of materials, Eric M. Burkholder

Out of style: A retrospective and prospective look at style in composition theory and practice, Paul Gregory Butler

Tourism and transformations in the Alaska frontier: A study of tourism growth and its effects on three southeast Alaska communities, Lee K. Cerveny

College admissions: The effect of application factors and the quality of applicants, Gabrielle Hamil Chapman

Modeling the response of forest and aquatic ecosystems of northeastern United States to changes in atmospheric deposition, Limin Chen

Organic charge transfer complexes and an open-shell organic radical studied by inelastic neutron scattering spectroscopy and DFT methods, Jennifer A. Ciezak

Sentencing the cure: Treatment facilitation and crime control management in a drug court workgroup, Corey Joseph Colyer

Evaluating track-two diplomacy in pre-negotiation: A comparative assessment of track-two initiatives on water and Jerusalem in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Cerag Esra Cuhadar

Literacy at Quincy High: A case study of one high school's focus on literacy, Carol DeLaney

Self matters: Representations and displays of emotional suffering in public culture, Aimee Delman

Simplified analyses of electromagnetic interference in weakly nonlinear systems and direct-sequence spread spectrum systems, Ilteris Demirkiran

Electromagnetic scattering from three-dimensional chiral objects using the FDTD method, Veysel Demir

Creating borders, maintaining boundaries: Traditional work and global markets in Bagru's handblock textile industry, Alicia Ory DeNicola

Does prekindergarten experience influence children's subsequent educational development? A study of kindergarten teachers' perceptions and students' performance, Donna J. Gilberti DeSiato

Biogeography of island flora in the Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, Ontario, Kimberly Christine Diver

Essays in international trade theory and political economy, Daron O. Djeredjian

Upper limit for electron-positron decaying to neutral Lambda(baryon)-antineutral Lamba(baryon) cross section and R in the center-of-mass energy range from 11.230 to 11.382 GeV, Orlokh Dorjkhaidav

The moderating effect of family rituals on asthma symptom severity in the context of high and low expressed emotion, Michael A. Douglas

Caring for others: A theory of moral reasons, John David Draeger

Grain contract farming in the United States: Two case studies, Paul Richard Edleman

A search for new physics at the TeV scale via a precise measurement of the weak mixing angle in Moller scattering, Waled S. Emam

Evaluation of New York State property tax policy: Administration and behavioral impacts of School Property Tax Relief (STAR) program, Tae Ho Eom

Electromagnetic wave propagation and radiation in gyrotropic medium, Abdullah Eroglu

Presidential position: Press coverage and portrayals of William J. Clinton and George W. Bush, Bradley Carl Freeman

Aromatic thiol based redox buffers: Increasing the folding rates of disulfide containing proteins, Jonathan David Gough

The encounter with self through the process of cross-cultural transition: The perspective of Japanese women who study in higher education institutions in the United States, Tomoko Kudo Grabosky

"Tumultuous meetings" and the fury of freedom: Rethinking African American religion, William H. Green

Three essays on the theory and econometrics of social interactions in the labor market, Andrzej Grodner

Enantiomeric excess determination and reaction monitoring of chiral molecules using near-infrared and mid-infrared vibrational circular dichroism, Changning Guo

'Experience must be our guide': John Dickinson and the origins of American federalism, 1754--1808, Matthew L. Harris

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