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2005

Where the water ebbs and flows: Place and self among the Rappahannock people, from the emergence of their community to its seclusion in 1706, Edward DuBois Ragan

Absolute branching fraction measurements and electron spectrum of inclusive charged and neutral D meson semileptonic decays, Radia Redjimi

A homological approach to differentiation algorithms and dimensions of finite type for representations of partially ordered sets, Markus Reitenbach

Internet information literacy: A study of older adults, Pamela Lipe Revercomb

The image factory: MTV, geography, and the industrial production of culture, Clayton F. Rosati

Caffeine, expectancy and attention, Sonia Sharma

Transforming national identity in the diaspora: An identity formation approach to biographies of activists affiliated with the Taiwan Independence Movement in the United States, Wei-Der Shu

Timing and extent of glaciation in the tropical Andes, Jacqueline Ann Smith

Earning predictability and heterogeneity in analyst forecasts, Minsup Song

A case study of academics and athletics: Players on a two-year college ice hockey team, David Sorbello

Studies toward the total synthesis of epothilone A, Francine Joy St. Denis

Stuff, process, and object: An examination of substance and its alternatives, Mark Edward Steen

Attrition in distance education: A meta-analysis, Deborah A. Storrings

Native American images as sports team mascots: From Chief Wahoo to Chief Illiniwek, Michael Taylor

Low-dimensional techniques for sound source identification in high speed jets, Charles E. Tinney

Critical relational model: A normative and meta-theoretical analysis of family therapy theories, Anibal Torres Bernal

Reliability-centric system design for embedded systems, Suleyman Tosun

Computation of the resonant frequency of a dielectrometer by the method of moments, Alper Ugur

Teaching for understanding: Exploring preservice science teachers' beliefs and practices, Nazan Uludag

Scalable service oriented architecture for audio/video conferencing, Ahmet Uyar

Explaining media policy: American political broadcasting policy in comparative context, Timothy P. Vos

Utilizing development research to guide People Capability Maturity Model adoption considerations, Mark R. Wademan

Two essays on government bond markets, Junbo Wang

Classification of remote sensing images using support vector machines, Pakorn Watanachaturaporn

Durability of wearing surface for FRP bridge decks, Prapun Wattanadechachan

Design, synthesis and characterization of rhenium complexes for the development of diagnostic and therapeutic agents in nuclear medicine, Lihui Wei

The importance of becoming a something-ist: Exploring how pre-service teachers fashion theory, Daniel L. White

Ruthenium incorporation into molecules and materials: New catalysts and strategies to prepare stable ruthenium-capped olefins, Joseph Ephraim Williams

User, text, system: A phenomenology of publicness in the digital age, Joseph John Williams

Migrants in Nanjing: Personal experiences and social process, Kai Wu

Back to the heartland? Transformation of Chinese geopolitics and the "renewed" importance of Central Asia, Wu Xiaodi

Interface problems in micromechanics and effective composite property analysis, Mayue Xie

Software exclusivity decision in the presence of indirect network externality, Jun Yang

A survey of the attitudes and behaviors of medical family therapists regarding complementary and alternative medicine: An exploration of collaboration, Miyoung Christine Yoon Hammer

A theory of purity from the perspective of comparative religion, Yohan Yoo

Molecular toughening of epoxy resins through siloxane modification, Man Zhang

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