To submit a dissertation or thesis, select your academic department or program from the Collections: Browse by Research Unit, Center, or Department page. Next, select the 'Submit an Item' link from the menu on the left. If your department is not represented, please contact surface@syr.edu.

1999

Practitioners' Understanding of Teaching College Composition, Amanda Wiles Brown

Essays on taxation, self-employment, and housing, Donald J. Bruce

Information technology adoption in United States county governments: The interaction of environmental changes and managerial strategies on technology adoption, Daniel Thomas Bugler

On to work: Work-bound rural high school seniors' aspirations and perspectives of the transition from high school, Beverly Ann Burnell

In the child's best interest? Meaning and practices for parents and legal professionals in child custody conflicts, Elizabeth A. Callaghan

Administering the Dixon Decree from 1975 to 1997, Sara Fitzgerald Carroll

Student teachers' experiences of inquiry, Stuart Zane Carroll

The heuristic-systematic model and HIV/AIDS information: Developing persuasive communications, Alberto Ramon Cebollero

Applications of tellurium in synthesis of alkenes, allylic alcohols, allylic amines and heterocyclic compounds, Bin Chao

Organizational relations and managerial behaviors of cultural nonprofit organizations in Korea: Autonomy, creativity, legitimacy and managerial orientations, Byung Goo Choi

The relationship between marital attachment and caregiver depression in older couples facing major medical illness, Clark David Christensen

Contact sports exposure and viewer aggression, Steven Jeffery Collins

Perspectives of professionals, parents, and young adults with severe disabilities on the transition from school to adult life, Bernard F. Cooney Jr.

Parallelism and metaphor in Jose Maria Arguedas' "Los Rios Profundos", Otilia Luz Cortez

The Penn School of St. Helena: Breaking the shackles of illiteracy on the Sea Islands of South Carolina, 1862 to 1922, Marc Charlton David

In between science and decision: A study of policy frames and the global climate discourse, Bruce Winfield Dayton

Extending the Beltrami equation into higher dimensions, Raymond Kenneth DeCampo

Hume's account of causation, Sun Demirli

The effective transverse response of fiber reinforced composites with nonlinear interfaces, Zhifa Dong

Secondary mathematics teachers' understanding of mathematical functions, James Kenneth Duah-Agyeman

Marital similarity, marital interaction, and couples' shared view of their marriage, Douglas Scott Dufore

The structure of social science revolutions: The unrealized potential of feminist scholarship in the field of mass communications, Barbara Carol Eaton

The leadership of principals and collaboration in the schools, Kathleen Tosi Esposito

Public nuisances: Women's groups and the significance of their activities in post-communist Hungary, Katalin Fabian

Urban regeneration in Eastern Europe: Waterfront revitalization and local governance in Tallinn, Estonia, Merje Feldman

On the RO(G)-graded equivariant ordinary cohomology of generalized G-cell complexes for G = Z/p, Kevin Keith Ferland

Between chaos and control: Reflections on teaching, learning, power and schools, Anne Lorraine Foley

The relationship of self-efficacy beliefs to condom use: A meta-analysis of HIV prevention research, Andrew D. Forsyth

The practice of genre: Composing in an expert community, David Theodore Franke

Student perceptions of learning and their relationship to student ratings of college teaching effectiveness, Noreen Bridget Gaubatz

Fictions of domesticity: Literatures of self, home and nation in the post-Civil War United States, 1860-1885, Diaz Lisette Nadine Gibson

Using GIS in assessing nuclear risk communication: A case study from Oswego County, New York, Alberto Giordano

Estimating parameters in unstructured models of biological systems, Orfil Gonzalez-Reynoso

Monte Carlo studies of field theory and quantum gravity, Eric B. Gregory

Preparation, characterization and exploitation of novel self-assembled nanostructured thin films, Frederic Guerin

The perpetual millennium: Narrative closure and the end of days, Cathy Nora Gutierrez

Na stress and grazing: Molecular, physiological and growth responses on four Serengeti C4 grasses, Eugene William Hamilton III

Spatial ordering and political control in the Caribbean lowlands and central Andes of eighteenth-century New Granada, Marta C. Herrera Angel

Justification for bid-ask spread disparity between NASDAQ and the NYSE before and after market reform, Yan He

Between substance and mode: The ontology of ideas among the Early Moderns, Marc A. Hight

Value asymmetry and small groups: An investigation of administrative decision-making, Charles Christopher Hinnant

The arbiters of appropriateness: Case study of a domestic violence coalition, William Orrin Housel

Pricing the default and prepayment risks of mortgages: An option pricing theoretic approach and an empirical hazard rate analysis, Wenyi Vivien Huang

Class, mobility, and democratic political culture in Taiwan: An empirical exploration of 1984, 1990, and 1996, Chin Hu

An equitable revenue sharing formula for Korean city governments, Myung-Hwan Huh

Compiler techniques for enhancing data locality, Mahmut Kandemir

Teachers on a journey: Examining the changes K--12 educators report as they use the Internet to support teaching and literacy learning, Rachel A. Karchmer

An experimental investigation of flow-induced cavity oscillations, Michael Aaron Kegerise

Dimensions of parenting stress of mothers and fathers of a school-age child with a disability, Diane W. Keller

Essays on wage differentials, Elena Borisovna Khripounova

Impact of affective states and drinking motives on drinking behavior, Michelle Myonghwa Kim

Talking about the news: News discussion panels. An analysis of the form and evolution of a broadcast news genre, Clifford E. Kobland

Understanding differences in gainsharing performance: An interplant analysis, Elizabeth Ann Kofron

Spectrum analysis from nonuniformly sampled data for applications in multiple PRI radar system, Jinhwan Koh

Development of the Meaning of Menopause Scale, Monika Ewa Kolodziej

Bimodal presentation of text, passage previewing, and repeated readings: Effects on reading accuracy, fluency, and comprehension, Anna N. LaSalle

Parallel pipelined computational model for space-time adaptive processing, Wei-keng Liao

Entropy optimization for fuzzy modeling and adaptive learning control of nonlinear dynamics, Jiann-Horng Lin

The transformation of Hainan's historical geography: From 110 BCE to 1949, Wei-zen Li

Re-covering fideism: An a-modern model of language and thought, Osborne Lorentzen

Education finance equity: Judicial treatment of key issues and impact of that treatment on reform, Anna Lukemeyer

Analysis of Communication Competence of Russian Professionals in Organizational Interactions, Olga Ivanovna Matyash

A content analysis of the use of music on "Barney & Friends": Implications for music education practice and research, Kenneth Michael McGuire

Application of combinatorial optimization algorithms in the study of elastic interfaces, David McNamara

The effects of inservice training on paraprofessionals working with students with significant disabilities in inclusive classrooms, Stacey Claire Minondo

Facilitating memory in children with reading disabilities through computerized bimodal presentation, Julie Ann Montali

A study of faculty job satisfaction at Simon Rodriguez University in Venezuela, Jose de Jesus Montoya

Transport in disordered silicon materials, Rao Prasanna Nagaraj

Design and implementation of a parallel I/O runtime system for irregular applications, Jaechun No

Acoustic probe for the characterization of solid-gas-liquid slurries, Michael Anthony Norato

Adios Jim Crow: Afro-North American workers and the Guatemalan Railroad Workers' League, 1884--1921, Frederick Douglass Opie

Modeling multivariate time series with applications in financial data, Yeonsook Park

A mean field model for species abundance, Thomas John Pfaff

The role of the school principal in implementing a Pennsylvania state education policy designed to decrease school retention and special education placement for elementary students, Cynthia Ann Price-Moriarity

Improved algorithm for three-dimensional inverse method, Xuwen Qiu

Conditions that facilitate teacher Internet use in schools with high Internet connectivity: A national survey, Jason Louis Ravitz

Public journalism in the newsroom: Constraints on content and journalist role conceptions at five award-winning newspapers, Paul Riede

Father involvement with preschoolers in the home in families with children with disabilities, Mary Elizabeth Riposo

Carbon dynamics, nutrient cycling, and the material properties of peat in the Glacial Lake Agassiz Peatlands, Northern Minnesota, Jennifer Susan Rivers

Use of computer dictation by students with learning disabilities, Reginald J. Roberts

September 1939: The German army and the invasion of Poland, Alexander Brian Rossino

Labor pains: Maternity leave policy and the labor supply and economic vulnerability of recent mothers, Katherin E. Ross

Socioeconomic variables and the financing of community colleges in New York State, Bernadette Mendonez Russell

The mental illness-mental wellness struggle and the taking of responsibility: Observations in the Clubhouse setting, Linda L. Sallett

Linkage crossover operator for genetic algorithms, Ayed Atallah Salman

Socialization to civil society, Peter Robert Sawyer

The stepmother: In search of self, Sharon Forth Sevier

Understanding the evolution of teacher-generated projects in an advanced technology test-bed, Barbara Ann Shelly

Affect, personal strivings, and marijuana: Risk and protective factors within a self-regulation framework, Jeffrey Scott Simons

The impact of three dimensions of family life (home, work, and academic competence) on single-career and dual-career families: A case study in Java, Indonesia, Yasin Siswanto

Intergenerational conflict within the family context: A comparative analysis of collectivism and individualism within Vietnamese, Filipino, and Caucasian families, Gemma Dolorosa Skillman

Genetic and molecular characterization of genes that interact withglp-1 in Caenorhabditis elegans germline development, Anne Marie Smardon

Academic engagement of high school students with significant disabilities: A competence-oriented interpretation, Robin Merle Smith

An illusion of difference: Reconstituting women on welfare into the working poor, Brenda M. Solomon

Like dogs in December: Women's perspectives on HIV/AIDS prevention programs and married life in rural northeast Thailand, Kathryn Ruth Stam

Deciding not to treat handicapped infants: When is life not worth living?, Barbara Anne Stock

Theoretical and applied studies of rhodopsin and bacteriorhodopsin, Jack R. Tallent

The use of computer-mediated communication systems by programmers, Chatpong Tangmanee

Synchronization of noncooperative bistatic radar receivers, Daniel David Thomas

The use of popular media in multicultural education: Stressing implications for the Black/non-Black biracial North American student, Wendy Cecille Thompson