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2001

Volatility, volume and trade size, Jinliang Li

Geographies of social activism: Women, democracy, and change in an urban community garden, Huei-Hsuan Lin

An ivory tower of fear: Academics of the racist right, David Charles Lobb

Gift and commodity: Sociocultural economies, indigenous religions, and academic exchange practices, Kenneth Hayes Lokensgard

The determination of ultra trace levels of mercury in environmental samples in the northeastern United States: Inferring the past, present, and future of atmospheric mercury deposition, Peter Michael Lorey Jr.

The alpha3T gene of Drosophila melanogaster encodes a spermatogenesis-specific proteasome subunit, Jing Ma

Treatment acceptability of teachers across different school levels, Michelle Stephanie Marcoe

Deglaciation in the Central Andes of Peru, Bryan Greenwood Mark

Three essays on the estate tax, Donald James Marples

Organizing across the divide: Everyday life, feminist activism, and the election of women to public office, Ann Marie Marshall

Kant and virtue ethics, John Sheridan McAleer

Rinsing off the soap: Cultural hierarchy and the search for legitimacy in daytime drama production, Kristina Ingrid McGowan

Critical behavior of spin models on fluctuating bounded geometries, Scott V. McGuire

Aminoglycoside binding to the packaging region of HIV-1 RNA, Mark Patrick McPike

Behind bars, behind labels: Experiences of offenders labeled mentally retarded in a prison's special treatment program, Sandra Ann Mlinarcik

The economic effects of enterprise zone programs on local labor markets: Two essays, William Stuart Moore

The photocoloration of transition metal oxides, Fazio Demeatre' Nash

Minimum variability of the vibratory patterns of the vocal folds during vowel production in adults with healthy vocal folds: An exploratory study, Karen L. Nezelek

Graph based evolutionary algorithms for transportation problems, Hasan T. Ozdemir

A grid event service, Shrideep Pallickara

Multiple Literacies on Main Street and In the Academy: A Longitudinal Study of Two Working-Class, Rural Adolescents, Laura L. Payne-Bourcy

Grade retention and school completion: A qualitative study of students' perspectives, Albert Adrian Penna

Jaime Ferran, poeta sin fronteras: Miembro de los poetas catalanes de la generacion de los 50, Theresa Lee Pettit

Characterizing change in the public sector labor-management relationship: A comparative study, Gary W. Porcelli

The relationship between family resilience and the successful management of fibromyalgia, John Cameron Preece

Limit laws of modulus trimmed sums, Fozia Sanober Qazi

Adaptive communication system (ACS): Design and evaluation, Il Kyeun Ra

Methodology for full-custom datapath layout synthesis, Shyam Ramji

Students' perceptions of and experiences in a community standards residential environment, Julie Lynn Rawls

Career continuity patterns among nurse's aides and nurses: Vocational factors associated with the cumulative effects of person-environment interactions, Thomas Gerard Reap Jr.

The Tour de France: A cultural and commercial history, Eric Steven Reed

Dynamics of causal sets, David Porter Rideout

The problem of philosophical theology, Jeffrey Walter Robbins

Middle-income African American parents' involvement with their first-grade children's education: A qualitative collective case study, Ethel Swindell Robinson

Community integration: Definition, experience, and process from the perspective of six individuals with significant psychiatric disabilities, Joanna Christine Royce-Davis

Our children's voice: The evolution of parent advocates in New York state, Rebecca S. Salon

Disturbance, diversity and community dynamics in a southern Indian savanna-grassland ecosystem, Mahesh Sankaran

Shared knowledge, body language, and time: A collaborative model of communication, Annegret Schubert

Who(se) rules (for) the Internet? Regime formation and global public policy for the information age, Jeffrey William Seifert

Three essays on the economics of agglomeration, Shalini Sharma

Beyond independent children and authoritative parenting: Korean mothers' perspective, Meera Shin

Computational studies of wavelength selection in cone pigments and cation binding in bacteriorhodopsin, Deepak Singh

Behind the headlines: Making news in Campaign 2000, Elizabeth Ann Skewes

Understanding intermediation in a digital environment: An exploratory case study, Silvia Barcellos Southwick

What price Hollywood? Producing and consuming cultural myth and cinematic landscape in Los Angeles, Josh Alan Stenger

A software synthesis methodology for developing component-based applications, Cheng-Jen Tang

Mountaintop: Middle-class African American families' successes and barriers in American public schools, Nira Cinea Taru

The synthesis and characterization of new metallaborane and carborane derivatives on the way to novel nonlinear optical materials and molecular nanosystems, Jesse W. Taylor

Teacher selection and interview portfolios: Principals' perspectives, Ronald K. Theel

Reliability and validity of the Greek Rituals Questionnaire: Exploratory and confirmatory factor analytic studies, and the GRQ's relationship to group identification, Thomas Joseph Tomcho

Essays on population aging, fiscal policy, and international tax exporting, Mehmet Serkan Tosun

Does what we know affect how we learn? Adult age differences in the effects of item knowledge and rule knowledge on skill development, Dayna Renee Touron

Teaching across cultures: Identity, race, and culture in the teaching of English as a second language, Satoshi Tsukamoto

Service and performance: 'Leitourgia' and the study of early Christian ritual, Sibel Ayse Tuzlak

Arriving at a systems paradigm: Measuring and managing the complexity of organizations and consumers online, Vandana Vijayasri

Experimental and computational investigations of fan/high-resistance medium flow interactions, Yu Wang

Lives on the threshold in the place of rocks and hunger: The impact of displacement and encampment on Q'eqchi' women in Maya Tecun, Mexico, Faith R. Warner

Women in the sports pages, 1968--1997: A study of ideological influences on media content, Lisa Marie Weidman

Implementing an innovation strategy: The effects of strategic leadership compensation, governance, and composition, Kathleen Kier Wheatley

An examination of the effect of alcohol on self-discrepancy and self-awareness in young women, Wendy Lynn Wolfe

Functional study of RTS1 and CDC55, two genes encoding regulatory subunits of protein phosphatase 2A in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Haifeng Yang

Network denial-of-service: Classification, detection, protection, Baoqing Ye

A neurogenetic agent system for text categorization and feature selection, Edmund Szu-li Yu

The effects of providing consultation training on preservice teachers' knowledge, skill, and acceptance of school-based consultation as a service delivery model, Kerri Erin Zappala

Pro-choice work under siege: Politicization, mobilization and commitment in three urban communities, Janet Helene Zinn

2000

Concurrent algorithms and performance modeling for multi-spectral image fusion applications, Tiranee Achalakul

Blue-collar women at work with men: A feminist qualitative social policy analysis of equal employment opportunity, Jeanie Ahearn Greene

Student and instructor perceptions of teaching and the impact of learning styles on these perceptions, George Walter Allen

Conceptual frameworks: Their uses and potential abuses, Bernard Jerold Angelo

Labeling the disabled: Finding meaning as a participant of a district-level committee on special education, Carol Aquilino Ilacqua

Portfolio performance measures: Some extensions, John Richard Aulerich

Unsteady wake structure behind a solid disk, Helene Balligand

Becoming notorious: Case study of a magazine launch, Timothy Knox Barger

What are the virtues of virtue epistemology?, Heather Dawn Battaly

Topics on vortex matter in type-II superconductors, Panayotis Benetatos

People as a competitive edge: Examining the empirical relationship between human resource flexibility and firm performance, Mousumi Bhattacharya

Domestic violence in relation to family of origin and adult characteristics, Kathleen Elizabeth Bigsby

Ancient Greek drama, postmodern psychoanalysis and fundamental ambiguity: Euripides and Lacan, Eleni Boliaki

A survey of business press journalists in the United States: Characteristics, professional roles and working conditions, Ian R. Bruce

Ethnoterritorial justice: A pragmatic analysis of arguments linking social identities to constitutional reform in Belgium and Canada, Neal Alan Carter

"Set free" without stereotypes and prejudices: Multiple perspectives on facilitating elementary inclusion for graduates of an inclusive preschool, Willajoya Anastasia Carter

Counteracting the base-rate fallacy: Effects of causal information and vivid presentation on news readers' issue perception, Hao-Chieh Chang

Architecture of fine-grained data flow network programming environments, Yuh-Jye Chang

Exploring Web users' on-line optimal flow experiences, Hsiang Chen

Modification of the extended solid structure of cuprous cyanide using polyimines, Douglas James Chesnut

Measuring behavioral allocation in the natural environment: Understanding substance use in context, Christopher John Correia

College student perceptions of science teachers and the effect on science teaching as a career path, Michael George Cost

Playing beneath the rim: A case study of an NCAA Division I women's basketball team, Valerie Jean Cushman

Learning mathematics in English: ESL and non-ESL students' perspectives, Susana Davidenko

School counseling outside of the box: An investigation of truncated counseling intervention in secondary schools, Barbara-Jo Deep

A commercial war: Britain against Germany in South America, 1900--1925, Phillip Andrew Dehne

Indentured labor and the integration of Trinidad into the world economy, Karen S. Dhanda

The Skeptic way as a religious way: A meditation on religion and Pyrrhonian spirituality, Sabatino DiBernardo

The potential to privately pay for long-term care services, Deborah D. Dougherty

Algorithms and heuristics for combinatorial optimization problems: Case study of academic course scheduling, M. A. Saleh Elmohammed

Comparing the perceived problems of distributed and centralized World Wide Web system managers: A modified goal theory approach, Kristin R. Eschenfelder

The assessment of differing presentation stimuli on professional ethics judgments of counselors-in-training, Michael Wayne Firmin

Canopy tree-soil-microbial interactions in a northern hardwood ecosystem: Effects of soil freezing disturbance on soil solution chemistry and nutrient loss, Ross DeHart Fitzhugh

To tell or not to tell: Social factors that shape the telling experiences of survivors of child sexual abuse, Karen Virginia Fox

Modeling the response of forest and aquatic ecosystems to changes in atmospheric deposition, Solomon Sahr Gbondo-Tugbawa