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2003

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

First observation of the parity violating asymmetry in Moller scattering, Imran Younus

Numerical methods for smooth, detectable image perturbations, Roxana Ioana Zangor

Design and implementation of a low-power SOI CMOS receiver, Ertan Zencir

Reorganizing China: A study of China's restructurings of government since 1978, Yandong Zhang

Interface modulation spectroscopy and doping physics in amorphous silicon, Kai Zhu

Democratic ideas, understandings, practices and attitudes among students in post-communist Hungary, 1989--2001, Frank Thomas Zsigo

2002

Through-flow model for fan/flow-resistance configurations, Ahmed Farouk Abdelwahab

Congregational education, collective ministry and the people of God: Toward a social philosophy of responsible membership, Louis F. Aiello

Integrated three-tiered architecture for high-performance commodity metacomputing, Erol Akarsu

Multiphase particle swarm optimization, Buthainah Sabeeh No'man Al-kazemi

Stopping but never letting go: A qualitative study of African American adult students pursuing high school completion, Yvonne Allen Goodwin

Legislation, administrative change and service provision in South African municipalities, 1995--2000: A study of institutional reform, Matthew Ronald Andrews

Large herbivores and process dynamics in a managed savanna ecosystem, David J. Augustine

Development and initial validation of a measure of counselor supervisor self-efficacy, Kristin Lee Barnes

A methodology and platform for building collaborative environments on the Web, Lukasz Michal Beca

The art of change: Experimental writing, cultural activism, and feminist social transformation, Elizabeth (Beth) S. Berila

Methodologies for designing synchronous CSCW environments, Ivan Marcelo Bernal Carrillo

Linking the practicing and represented family: The transmission of relationship representations via family stories, Nicole L. Bickham

Robust method for the transmission of DCT coded images and image quality evaluation of the received images, Mohamed Gabr Bingabr

Feed Your Mind: A qualitative study of youth, power and privilege, Lesley M. Bogad