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2001

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

"Conversions" of conviction: A study on the process of becoming a Reform Jew, Jessica B. Greenebaum

The oviposition response of the imported willow leaf beetle (Plagiodera versicolora): Does mother really know best?, Sherri Lynn Gross

The synthesis and structural study of organically templated copper molybdenum oxides, Douglas Earl Hagrman

Influences of organonitrogen components or organonitrogen-heterometal complexes on molybdenum- and vanadium-oxide composite materials: Hydrothermal syntheses and structural characterization, Pamela Jayne Hagrman

School voucher policy and parents: Education as a private good?, Lois Elaine Halchin

Organizational theory from the bottom up: Gender and horizontal coordination in the workplace, Judy L. Hamilton

Seeking higher ground: Housing replacement strategies of families displaced by the Yacyreta project in Posadas, Argentina, Susan Irene Hamilton

Living with the messiness: Experiences of ordained women in the Episcopal priesthood, Amy Alina Holzgang

Adequacy and advantage: The moral and legal duties of public schools, Charles Lawrence Howell

Understanding the Advanced Calculus Workshops through the voices of students of African descent, Lori Hunter-Union

"La Serenissima Domina Ducissa": The dogaresse of Venice, 1250--1500, Holly Siobhan Hurlburt

Psycho-social criteria in student evaluation of college teachers, Soojung Jang

More than a laughing matter: Perspectives on humor in families having children with disabilities, Alicja Jarzab

Guests at an ivory tower: The challenges Black students experience while attending a predominantly White university, Cherlyn A. Johnson

A measurement of the strange quark content of the proton, William Edward Kahl

Incentive mechanism design for alliances, Kiridaran Kanagaretnam

Confronting Japanese selves: A case study of Japanese expatriate wives in Fort Lee, New Jersey, Miho Kawai

Islamic "fundamentalism" and the West: Issues in change, peace and conflict resolution, Mahboob Alam Khawaja

An adaptive distributed virtual computing environment (ADViCE): Design and evaluation, Dongmin Kim

Adaptive multi-module approximation networks, Wonil Kim

Design and evaluation of a framework for proactive application and network management, Yoonhee Kim

A school district's search for a new superintendent, Mary Patricia Kinsella

Putting out fires in local government: Modeling and measuring the influence of managers on public production with an application to fire protection, Amy E. Kneedler Donahue

Object-based message passing in high performance computing using Java, Sung-Hoon Ko

Elite and mass perceptions of legitimacy in China: An empirical exploration of the Pudong New Area (1995), An-min Kuo

Income, spatial competition and welfare, Youngsun Kwon

Saraswati and Seacrest: Schools and language medium politics in north India, Paul Chaise LaDousa

Advertising power: Hegemonic masculinity in fraternity rush advertisements, Ian Lapp

Raman optical activity: Theory, instrumentation and measurements. Electron transition current density: Ab initio calculation of vibrational transition current density in selected molecules, Eunah Lee

Parental efficacy and practices among Korean immigrant families in the United States: Relations with family functioning, familism, and acculturation, Hae-Seung Lee

Information architecture of interactive and customizable learning environments, Myeongjin Lee

A defense of the theory of appearing, Pierre Georges Le Morvan

Setting limits on offensive movie content: A variation of the third-person effect, Ron Leone

A study of teacher evaluation policy and procedures and teachers' perceptions of their supervisor's behavior, Gary Carl Levandowski

Fixturing analysis and re-design in a co-operative fixture design system, Jianmin Liao

Parallelizing legacy applications using message passing programming model and the example of MOPAC, Tseng-Hui Lin

Simulation analysis on distributional effects of reforming Medicare financing system with fundamental tax reform, Chunling Lu

Effects of inservice training on length of teacher-child turn-taking conversations and types of questions with low-income preschoolers, Patricia M. Martin

Acculturation among Indian immigrants: A study of ethnic identification and mate-selection, Smita Mathur

Lumbar musculature and exercise, John Michael Mayer

Match between learning styles and teaching methods: An exploratory study of the effects on nursing student's academic performance, perceived learning, and course evaluations, Cathleen C. McColgin

Jobs and politics: Politicizing United States employment experience under conditions of growing inequality, Mary Patricia McGuire

Seismic analysis and evaluation of skew highway bridges, Junyi Meng