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2001

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

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