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2003

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

Lepton energy moments, operator product expansion and the CKM parameter matrix element, V(cb), Chaouki Boulahouache

Bilinski diagrams and geodesics in 1-ended planar maps, Jennifer Antoinette Bruce

Statistical mechanics of self-avoiding crystalline membranes and topological defect formation, Angelo Cacciuto

Factors related to the retention of biology knowledge in non-science college students, William Thomas Carroll

Mutual information-based image registration with applications, Hua-Mei Chen

RBF: An object and constraint oriented reasoning blackboard framework for knowledge based applications, Jagannadha Chidella

Attention mechanisms and inhibition of return in the somatosensory system, Jason C. Cohen

Discovering the magic: Readings, interpretations and analyses of the wonderful worlds of Disney, Carrie Lynn Cokely

Essays in international trade, human capital and income distribution, Mohua Das

Experimental and theoretical measurements of vibrational circular dichroism and instrumental development of Raman optical activity, David Allen Dunmire

Negotiating cultural identities: Conflict transformation in Labrador, Lawrence Albert Dunn

The social organization of policy: An institutional ethnography of the United Nations Intergovernmental Forum on Forests, Lauren Elaine Eastwood

Lotions and potions: The meanings college women make of everyday practices of femininities, Jennifer Rose Esposito

Looking beyond the questions: An exploration of the questioning process among first- and second-grade students using computerized instruction in the classroom, Linda Rougeau Euto

Sources of Canadian political values: A comparison of teacher and student cohorts, socialization agents and province differences, Krisan L. Evenson

Noninvasive in vivo tissue modulated quantitative Raman spectroscopy of human blood, William Francis Finney

Cultural capital and the making of "blue blazer kids": An ethnography of a youth exchange program, Traci Ann Fordham

Comparing models of voter turnout using American National Election Studies data, Manuel Matthew Frank

Eluding exclusion: Making room for the special sciences, Eric Matthew Funkhouser

Algorithms for large-scale problems in computational biology, Natsuhiko Futamura

Narrative means to research ends: Learning about therapy from clients' descriptions, Stephen R. Gaddis

Modeling of cadmium adsorption on organo-ceramic adsorbents containing the thiol group, Sergio Gomez-Salazar

A case study of African American students' engagement responses to oral-based literacy instruction: The Oral Narrative Engagement (ONE) approach, Columbus Michael Grace

Thermal noise in low loss flexures, Andri Marcus Gretarsson

Nature's "cunning alphabet": Pastoral landscape and politics in nineteenth-century American literature, Roger William Hecht

Welfare king or drug lord: Are these the viable choices for unemployed young men?, Theresa Cecilia Heintze

Crediting care, citizenship or marriage? Gender, race, class, and Social Security reform, Pamela Herd

Women martyrs in a female church: Gender in John Foxe's "Acts and Monuments", Megan Lora Hickerson-Carey

Doctoral student persistence in counselor education programs: Student-program match and the decision making process, Christine M. Hoskins

Trace cache in simultaneous multithreading, Mohammad Afzal Hossain

The economics, law and politics of subnational counter-cyclical fiscal policies: Testing the effects of budget stabilization funds and general fund surpluses on state expenditures in downturn years. Evidence from American states, 1979--1999, Yilin Hou

The design and evaluation of efficient routing and quality of service support for wireless ad-hoc networks, Youngki Hwang

Teacher pedagogical content knowledge as a predictor of student learning gains in direct current circuits, Michael Edward Jabot

Job-related diversity and service team outcomes: New insights into the roles of task structure and process conflict, Kimberly A. Jarrell

Effectiveness of early childhood teachers in the Indian context, Arti Joshi

The role of pricing in supply chain profits, Hyungsik Kahn

Grassroots democracy in process: Ethnographic writing as democratic action, Seth Louis Kahn

Identification of neural network input types and input ranking via sensitivity analysis, Sanggil Kang

Participation in the inclusive classroom: Creating success for non-verbal students with autism, Christi Kasa-Hendrickson

Image analysis methods based on Markov random field models, Teerasit Kasetkasem