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2002

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

Essays on estimation and testing in nonstationary panel data, Jamie Donald Emerson

Numerical studies of vortex dynamics in type-II superconductors, Michael Chance Faleski

Constructing the 'non-Estonian': The politics and policies of ethnic and European integration in Estonia, Gregory Mark Feldman

Coordination chemistry of rhenium: Design of radiopharmaceuticals for diagnostics and therapeutics in nuclear medicine, Frank Joseph Femia

How spirituality affects the lives of public school superintendents, Paul Vincent Fiacco

Organic structural influences on metal oxide systems: Vanadium phosphates, vanadium phosphonates, and molybdenum phosphonates, Robert Clyde Finn

An investigation into the school counselor's role with students with learning disabilities, Jody Joanne Fiorini

Examination of the 2f2-f1 distortion-product otoacoustic emission in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired ears and its potential for use in the detection of hearing loss, Tracy S. Fitzgerald

Refugees in flux: Bosnian refugees in Austria and the United States, 1992--2000, Barbara Franz

An anti-realist account of aesthetic appreciation, Robert Stephen Fudge

If the Lubicon lose we all lose: A case study of interchurch advocacy and intervention in an Aboriginal land rights conflict, Cornelius Funk-Unrau

An examination of the impact of federal disability programs on family labor supply: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study, Seth Hyland Giertz

Influence of trophic factors on the intra-plant distribution of aphids, Georgianna Grimshaw Gould

For the sake of sorrow: Christian Holocaust theology and the interpretation of the Resurrection, David Patrick Greene

Effects of talking storybooks on word recognition skills and control beliefs of young students with learning disabilities: An exploratory study, Earlyne Hastings

Isotopomers of 2-deoxy-D-ribose: Syntheses and applications in magnetic resonance, Paul Joseph Hatala

Peddling pots: Determining the extent of market exchange in eighteenth-century Jamaica through the analysis of local coarse earthenware, Mark William Hauser

The influence of referral source coerciveness on mediation participation and outcomes, Timothy Karl Hedeen

Innovative practices and organizational context: A qualitative study of development disability service agencies, Kathleen Maria Hulgin

Identification, characterization and functional study of par1 and par2, two genes encoding B' subunits of protein phosphatase 2A in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Wei Jiang

Evie Evans's life history: Her sociological sojourn from a lifetime of crime to a life of dignity, Henia D. Johnson

The effects of schooling on literacy skills: A cross-national study from the International Adult Literacy Survey, Kwangho Jung

Understanding intergenerational dyslexia of a father and his daughter: A secondary conditions perspective, Jennifer E. Kagan

Synthesis and thermal automerizations of 4- and 6-exo-deuteriobicyclo[3.1.0]hex-2-enes, Edmund John Keliher

Mortal feelings: A theory of revulsion and the intimacy of agency, David Haekwon Kim

Dissecting the puzzle of knowledge gap: Media and the Internet in the political knowledge gap in the 2000 presidential election campaign, Eunyi Kim

Using modern oxygen and carbon isotopic calibrations to characterize 14,600 calendar years of atmospheric circulation and precipitation in the NE United States of America, Matthew E. Kirby

Toward multicultural counseling: The inclusion of American Muslims, Ahmed Nezar Mohammed Kobeisy

Numerical simulation of transport processes in multiphase systems, Sangkyun Koo

Medical ethics decision-making in three hospitals: A look at dilemmas, decision-makers, and the practice of clinical ethics, Kathleen Susan Kurtz

Structure and function in bacteriorhodopsin and the short-wavelength cone opsins, Anakarin Kusnetzow

Quaternary geology and paleoclimate of Costa Rica: Evidence from glaciation, stable isotopes of surface waters, and a speleothem, Matthew Scott Lachniet

Perspectives on including students with disabilities in regular schools in India, Srimathi Lakshminarayanan

An investigation of modes of access for the retrieval of emotional content of pictures, Jee Yeon Lee

Computational resiliency, Joohan Lee

Sol-gel synthesis of organo-ceramic hybrids and characterization for metal ion separations from aqueous streams, Jun-Sig Lee

Transient scattering from arbitrarily shaped composite conducting and dielectric structures, Wonwoo Lee

Power and destiny: The International Space Station and United States foreign policy: Bridging two policy worlds, Karl Andrew Leib

Ecological context of African American teens' sexuality: Exploring risk and protective factors, Tracey Yvette Lewis

Type-2 complexity theory, Chung-Chih Li

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