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2005

Throne and altar: Halle Pietism and the Hohenzollerns. A contribution to the history of church state relations in eighteenth-century Brandenburg-Prussia, Thomas Parnell Bach

The impact of a dedicated Science-Technology-Society (STS) course on student knowledge of STS content, Paul E. Barron

An examination of the integration of differing traditions in counseling practice and a dialogue on ego maturation, Adele Baruch-Runyon

Capacity limits of the focus of attention and dynamics of the focus switch cost in the working memory, Chandramallika Basak

Assisting low-performing readers with a flexible grouping intervention aimed to increase students' oral reading fluency, John Charles Begeny

Rebuilding the longhouse: Obstacles to and opportunities for settling the Cayuga Indian Nation land claim through negotiation, Brian Booth Blancke

In confidence: Information technology, secrecy and the state, R. Christopher Bronk

Representations of semisimple Hopf algebras, Sebastian Burciu

Supertubes, black strings and D-brane systems, Belkis Cabrera Palmer

Analytical and statistical modeling to evaluate effectiveness of stream restoration in reducing stream bank erosion, Yanwei Chen

Three essays on tax policy, wealth, and entrepreneurship, Sengeun Choi

Three essays on agent behavior in United States housing market, Seok Joon Choi

Phase-only and amplitude-only adaptive algorithms based on a D(3)LS method for smart antenna systems and airborne radar applications, Won-Suk Choi

Understanding the relationship between new networked information technology and governance in China and South Korea, Jongpil Chung

Identity, support and disclosure: Issues facing university students with invisible disabilities, Rebecca Claire Cory

Uncertainty, zoning and land development, Christopher Robert Cunningham

Defending a way of life: Civil defense in the United States, 1940--1963, Lisa Jean Daly

The accelerating universe and other cosmological aspects of modified gravity models, Antonio De Felice

Helping new neighbors: Resettlement workers' construction of refugee identity, Loretta Kuliawat Denhart

A study of the influence of a researched-based rationale on science teachers' beliefs and practices across key stages of teacher development, Thomas Joseph Diana Jr.

Enzyme responses of Serengeti grasses to defoliation: Coupling plant cellular processes and Serengeti ecosystem processes, Yan Dong

Perspectives of Kindergarten and First-Grade Teachers on Mandated Literacy Reform, Mary J. Drucker

Cultural armors and buffers: African American families' perspectives of the special education process and community experiences, Sharon Huitt Vins Dunmore

European Union defense integration and the effects on militarily non-allied member states: The cases of Finland and Sweden, Johan Leif Eliasson

The state as site and strategy: Neoliberalization, internationalization, and the Foreign Agricultural Service, Jamey Stuart Essex

Links between personality traits and school aggression and internalizing behaviors in African American early adolescents, Melanie A. Evans

Living arrangements and care provision among the oldest old people in China, 1998--2002, Ying Fang

Identifying the zone performance phenomenon throughfMRI analysis and personal interview, Michael D. Ferrell

We are family: Trans-racial adoption and the work of assembling and practicing family, Katherin M. Flower Kim

Organizational crisis public relations management in Canada and the United States: Constructing a predictive model of crisis preparedness, Terence Timothy Flynn

Thinking and feeling in the minimal group paradigm: Cognitive and affective components of ingroup bias, Rob Foels

Children's construction of emotion inferences during discourse: The role of language ability, Janet Ford

"I'm just thinking out loud here": Making United States homeland security at the local level, Kerry Fosher

Perspectives and practices of expert teachers in technology-based distance and distributed learning environments, Radha Ganesan

Learning to teach with information technology: Preservice teachers' perspectives and experiences across their three-semester preparation, Ping Gao

Structural damage detection and identification using system dynamic parameters, Ma Ge

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