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2000

Constructive storytelling: Building community, building peace, Jessica Joy Senehi

Distributed open asynchronous information access environment, Mehmet Sen

Distribution independent spatial data structures and algorithms with applications, Fatih Erdogan Sevilgen

HIV-1 Psi RNA: Dimerization and nucleocapsid protein binding studies, Michael Frederick Shubsda

Design and analysis of supply chain networks using genetic algorithms and numerical clustering, Mukundan Srinivasan

Internal friction of fused silica and gravitational-wave detection, William James Startin

School and community perspective on the role of the rural school superintendent in negotiating change in school districts in financial crisis, Steven Richard Szatko

Design and synthesis of fluorinated derivatives of indolyl fulgides and fulgimides, Craig Joseph Thomas

The social construction of literacy in a high school biology class, Heather K. Thomas

Transformation in the writing classroom: The transition from computer as tool to communications medium, Nancy Tranter Wright

Information problem-solving in personal, high-stakes situations, Claire Urfels

Becoming a cooperative learner: Supplemental instruction experiences at a community college, Carol A. Van Der Karr

Use of the electroretinogram to study how changes in photoperiod affect visual sensitivity in the lateral eye of Limulus polyphemus, William Walter Weiner

Informed trading around information announcements, Dennis Joseph Whalen

A boundedly controlled finiteness obstruction, Jill Heather Wiesner

New approaches to multiuser detection in DS/CDMA systems, Weihua Ye

Invisible presence: Toward a theory of African-American subjectivity, Robert Milton Young

Efficient computational algorithms for the design of distributed detection networks, Qian Zhang

Dynamics and photoinduced anisotropic properties of bacteriorhodopsin and their applications, Yu-He Zhang

Competition level, product type and differential income smoothing among manufacturing firms, Jian Zhou

Supercritical fluid extraction of polychlorinated biphenyls from real world Saint Lawrence River sediments, Wu Zhou

Educational paradigms for meeting the needs of students considered at-risk: General education, pre-referral intervention and special education systems in an urban school district, Thomas Charles Zino II

1999

Behavioral markers of repressive coping and defensiveness: Patterns of communication and cardiovascular response to self-disclosure, Kenneth Wadi Abdul-Karim

Final portfolio evaluation in student teaching: A view from the inside, Paul John Alioto

View merging in data structures for efficient VLSI layout representation and modeling, Mishaal Abdullah Al-Kadhi

Arabic text recognition using genetic algorithm, Abdullah Mohamed, Al-Mutawa

Algorithms for multimedia object allocation onto heterogeneous storage systems, Abdulaziz Sultan Al-Sehibani

The relationship between patient preferences and health outcome in patients with heart failure, Cheryl A. Aquilino

Essays on long-term care of the elderly in the United States, Hakan Aykan

Cross purposes: The violent grammar of Christian atonement, Anthony William Bartlett

Assessing the consequences of federal information technology management policies on federal agency practice, John Clay Beachboard

Mentoring in medicine, architecture and teaching, Lorraine Anne Bedy

Brazilian families: Parental involvement with children and beliefs about family organization, Silvia Pereira Da Cruz Benetti

Student knowledge retention in college classrooms: Traditional versus interactive lectures, Bradley C. Beran

A century of war: Analysis of the President, the images, and public opinion from the Spanish American War to the Persian Gulf War, Kimberly L. Bissell

School segregation, social capital, and educational costs, Lloyd Blanchard

The role of grandmothers and stepgrandmothers in the social support systems of young adult grandchildren, Cindy Eileen Block

Increasing integrity of classroom interventions: A comparison of performance feedback and social support, Tracy Ann Bradley

From resistance to governance: South African women's transformation of parliament, Hannah Evelyn Britton

A case study of the use of commissions as instruments of public policy: The governor's Select Commission on the Future of the State-Local Mental Health System (New York State, 1983-1984), Leslie Anne Brower

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