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2004

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

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