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2002

The political means and social service ends of decentralization in Poland: The story of Poland's mid-level public administration reform and its effect on social service delivery, Janelle Arlene Kerlin

An instruction-set process calculus for synchronous hardware composition, Jang Dae Kim

The measurements of transmission spectrum and net gain for semiconductor cylinder fiber, Jin-Sung Kim

Local government debt policies: Do they make a difference?, William Patrick Kittredge

Health outcome disparities associated with access to primary care for vulnerable groups: Hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions, James N. Laditka

Banaras, Urdu, Poetry, Poets, Christopher R. Lee

Efficient techniques for multimedia transmission over packet-switched cellular networks, Hyungkeun Lee

Filipino village in Korea, Minwon Lee

Genetic and molecular characterization of nutritional signaling pathways regulating meiosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Rita H. Lee

Preventing sexually transmitted HIV infection in adolescents: Predicting condom use behaviors and reducing risk, Kenneth David Levin

Learning effectiveness: Efficacy of quizzes vs. discussions in on-line learning, Barbara Ann Lewis

Rethinking sovereignty: The domestic politics of Europeanization in Europe's southeastern periphery, Nicole Renee Lindstrom

Database and algorithmic applications in nucleic acid sequence, structure and NMR frequencies, and an efficient chemical depiction, Yong Lin

Default premium and maturity choice of risky debt, Xin (Sheen) Liu

Social dynamics of orphan care in the era of the HIV/AIDS pandemic: An insight of grandmothers' experiences in Zimbabwe, Neddy Rita Matshalaga

An American avant-garde: Grove Press, 1951--1986, Brian James McCord

Enhanced inverse design code and development of design strategies for transonic compressor blading, Adam Jon Medd

Dissonant subjects: Women in the Hindu nationalist movement in India, Kalyani Devaki Menon

The effect of crossed categorization on the relative heterogeneity effect, Michael James Migdal

A comprehensive study of self-induced torque amplification in rotary viscous couplings, Sankar Krishnan Mohan

Pursuing rationality in public management: Managing for results in United States state governments, Donald Patrick Moynihan

The optical deposition system for fabricating semiconductor cylinder fibers, Nitipun Nivartvong

Speech act theories of meaning, Patricia Noga Psomas

Bull, cock, and colony in the Anglo-Irish novels of Maria Edgeworth and Laurence Sterne, Elaine Alison Norris

Optical switching and memory using tungsten oxide, Joseph Michael Osman

Risky women: The everyday life of an allergic woman, Sarah Marie Pitcher

Questions of judgment in the newsroom: A journalistic instrumental-value theory for media ethics, Patrick Lee Plaisance

Reconsidering the Nazi data debate: The moral aspects of deciding whether the data should be used, Carol Viola Anne Quinn

Molecular genetics and evolution of red-green vision in vertebrates, Friedrich Bernhard Radlwimmer

Ligand influences on the structures of organically-templated mixed-metal molybdenum and vanadium oxides prepared via hydrothermal synthesis, Randy S. Rarig Jr.

Ecological and social correlates of foraging decisions in a social forager, the bonnet macaque, Macaca radiata diluta, Jayashree Ratnam

A "textbook" case of professional prerogative: Authority, disability and policy in introductory special education textbooks, Nancy E. Rice

Impact of the Internet on consumer human capital, Joseph B. Richards

The impact of financial strain on adolescents' psychological functioning in Romania: The role of family processes, Mihaela Robila

Independent component analysis based feature extraction for hyperspectral images, Stefan Alexandru Robila

Selection and testing designs for selecting one among k normal populations, provided it is better than a standard, Linda M. Rollin

Teaching in inclusive classrooms: General elementary educators' learning experiences, Kimberly Ann Rombach

In sickness and in health: Elderly men who care for wives with dementia, Richard Lloyd Russell

The impact of patient education on physiological and quality of life outcomes in cardiac rehabilitation, Carol Ann Sames

Performing American culture: Notions of emotion and self in two American theatres, Sonali Sathaye

A study on the effects of sociotropic cognition and dysphoric mood on cardiovascular, hormonal, affect, and memory response in young women, Marie Donabella Sauro

Molecular genetics and evolution of UV vision in vertebrates, Yongsheng Shi

Assessing organizational learning style using The Organizational Character Index and Myers-Briggs Type Theory, Dan Lamar Sirmans

Contesting competitiveness: The impact of globalization and competitiveness in the post-Fordist era, Michael Scott Solomon

Raise their voices: Maine legislative women making meaning of feminism, RuthAnne Spence

The impact of learning communities on intellectual outcomes of first-year students, Stephen Robert St. Onge

Production of human serum albumin by immobilized yeast, Aluck Thipayarat

Parent perceptions and the assessment of developmental vulnerability, Carol Louise Thomas Reinson

Measuring informatization: A longitudinal cross-national exploration, Anthony Elias Tsougranis

(+)-Admissible sequences and the preprojective component, Helene Renee Tyler

Impact of English on modern Russian TV advertising, Irina P. Ustinova

Property rights and market institutions: The case of Russian property reform, Ivan Mitev Velev

"Strangers on their native soil?": Opposition to United States territorial government in Orleans, 1803--1809, Julien Paul Vernet

Predictions and quantitative tests of optimal time and temperature allocation during intermittent incubation, Margaret A. Voss

In the wake of Columbine: How youth make meaning of violence, schooling and the media, Linda M. Waldron

Studies towards the total synthesis of rapamycin, Tong Wang

Dirtbag cars: Proactive policing, minorities, and the poor, Lori Beth Way

Controls on dissolved organic carbon at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest and its effects on stream acid-base chemistry, Brian Ishmael Wellington

Effect of attachment and threat of abandonment on intimacy anger, aggressive behavior, and attributional style, Marlene L. Wheeler

Images of Black Power, 1965--1975: A visual commentary on revolution, Kheli Robin Willetts

Design, synthesis, and characterization of photochromic organic compounds: Advances toward optical memory, Mason Atom Wolak

"Totally focused on God": How undergraduate student members of Christian parachurch groups construct what it means to be a person of faith, Thomas Van Dyke Wolfe

"Fighting for our homes": An archaeology of women's domestic labor and social change in a working-class, coal mining community, 1900--1930, Margaret C. Wood

Electromagnetic scattering from an arbitrarily shaped three-dimensional chiral body, Denchai Worasawate

Data fusion with multiple queries in single information retrieval scheme, Yunjie Xu

Media, culture, and the transformation of the protracted inter-Korean conflict, Donghee Yoo

Certainty, uncertainty and the role of topic and comment in interpersonal information seeking interactions, Kyunghye Yoon

A three-dimensional crack tip element for energy release rate determination and delamination growth prediction, LiJie Yu

2001

Discretionary behaviors of information and communication technology (ICT) supported ad hoc task groups, Nor Shahriza Abdul Karim

Elementary teachers and multicultural education: Teachers of color and white teachers' attitudes toward multicultural education, Joan Marie Achen-Brown

Welfare implications of a pan-Arab FTA, Khaled Saleh AlBulaihed

Using self-evaluation to assess the effects of school-based interventions, Scott Patrick Ardoin

Fuzzy physics, Ydri Ben Saad Badis

'Home-work': Difference and (em)power(ment) in parent involvement discourse, Jennifer Leigh Banister

Three essays on the behavioral impacts of public policy on health, Reagan Anne Baughman

Do whole-school reform models boost student performance: Evidence from New York City, Robert Bifulco

Exploration of the existence and implications of a light scalar meson nonet using effective chiral Lagrangian models, Deirdre Margaret Black

Solution conformations of tripeptides and cyclosporins using vibrational circular dichroism and computational methods, Louise Ann Bodack

Christian anarchism and the Catholic Worker movement: Roman Catholic authority and identity in the United States, Frederick George Boehrer III

The electoral behavior of American Catholics: An examination and explanation, Mark D. Brewer

Solo vs. group performance as a function of cultural orientation: A meta-analysis, Birgit Andrea Bryant

Syntheses, thermal stereomutations, and (1,3)-sigmatropic isomerizations of cis-(1S,2R)- and trans-(1S,2S)-1-(E)-propenyl-2-methylcyclobutanes, Richard Charles Burrell

"They were looking for white jobs": The archaeology of postcolonial capitalist expansion in coastal Ghana, Edward Richard Carr

Women's response to the threat of rape, Janine Marie Castle

Small traders and increased price volatility after stock splits, Chun-nan Chen

Industry specialization and audit fees: The effect of industry type and market definition, Yao-Tsung Chen

Workplace narratives: Enacting the value for diversity, Renee Jill Chin

Cartographies of identity in relationship: Multicultural client perspectives of counseling, Devika Dibya Choudhuri

Control of plastic mechanism in corner reinforced concrete beam-column joints using headed reinforcement bars, Nuttawat Chutarat

Inter-trade duration and the dynamics of the stock and option trade processes, Charles Douglas Collver Jr.

Effectiveness of service delivery models in inclusive early childhood programs, Leslie Jane Couse

Organizational learning and new product development success, Ian David Heggie Cuthill

The Wounded Knee occupation and the politics of scale: Marginal protest and central authority in a media age, Bruce D'Arcus

Consumed with modernity and 'tradition': Food, women, and ethnicity in changing urban Malaysia, Theresa W. Devasahayam

Sources of sport enjoyment for African-American college students attending an historically Black college, Anna Elizabeth DeVito

College algebra students' understanding of the concept of variable, Angeles Dominguez

Examining the accuracy of curriculum-based measurement progress monitoring in reading: Alternative methods for evaluating technical adequacy, Erin Kelsey Dunn

The effects of anonymity and respondent characteristics on self-reports of socially sensitive behaviors, Lauren Elizabeth Durant

A re-reading of Supreme Court zoning cases regulating pornography, Lynn M. Eckert

Integrating WWW technology into classroom teaching: College students' perceptions of course Web sites as an instructional resource, Manal Aziz-El-Din El-Tigi