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1999

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

The integration of science process skills in elementary science, math, and language arts: A case study of the effect upon student science achievement, Craig John Tice

Preparing the professoriate of the future: An assessment case study, Stacey Lane Tice

Generalization programming and school-based consultation: The effects of a generalization training program on teachers' consultation-related skills, Timothy Christopher Tillman

Scheduling task graphs in heterogeneous computing environments, Haluk Rahmi Topcuoglu

Finite element spectral approximations, Max Minh Tran

An investigation of changes in college students' conceptions of mathematics and mathematics learning during participation in a reform-based developmental mathematics course, Joseph S. Tripp

Mothers' and fathers' interaction with preschoolers in the home in Northern Thailand: Relationships to teachers' assessments of children social skills, Oracha Tulananda

Back pain: The effect of physiological and educational treatment modalities on various outcome measures, Brian Earl Udermann

Towards a theology of language: A philosophical analysis of the theological desire to give expression in the secular world, Noelle Dominique Isabelle Vahanian

The primary event of visual opsins, Bryan William Vought

Search for cellular retinol and retinal binding proteins in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Kaixuan Wang

Design and development of FMS software control systems, Luming Wang

Deciding to leave: The politics of departure in the United States Supreme Court from John Rutledge to Harry Blackman, Artemus Ward

Essays in applied microeconometrics, Robert Ray Weathers II

The relation of alcohol use to sexual HIV-risk behavior in adults with severe and persistent mental illness, Lance Stuart Weinhardt

Race and mixture models of individual differences in memory-based learning in older and younger adults: Effects of number of facts to learn and inter-item interference, Andrea Susan White

The relationship between patterns of marital conflict and child behavior: Linking parental interaction and child responses to conflict, John A. Wilder

All according to God's plan: Racism and Southern Baptist missions, 1945--1970, Alan Scot Willis

The ceiling's made of structural steel, not glass: Barriers to advancement of women in public relations and communications management, Brenda Jean Wrigley

Tellurium-triggered reactions of 5-hydroxymethyl-2-oxazolidinone tosylates, aziridinemethanol tosylates, and oxiranemethanol tosylates: Synthesis of allylic amines and no-solvent synthesis of allylic alcohols via ultrasound and microwave irradiations, Qinyu Xu

Bank manager's discretion over loan loss provision and determinants of signaling, Dong-Hoon Yang

Layered hypervideo document database system: Design and modeling of hypervideo document database, Kyoungro Yoon

Methodologies for designing video servers, Fang-Kuo Yu

Understanding complex demonstratives: The ground of reference in sensory signals, Frederick P. Zammiello

Analysis and design of an FEC-based scalable reliable multicast protocol, Zhongquan Oliver Zeng

Integrating spatial statistical analysis and GIS: Strategies, implementations and applications, Zhiqiang Zhang

High-confidence development of secure e-mail systems, Dan Zhou

1998

Deciding not to decide: Antecedents of consumer decision delegation, Praveen Aggarwai

The need for meaningful health communications: Female audience interpretation analysis of mass media health messages, Linda Aldoory

Techniques to improve algorithm efficiency, from the perspective of memory hierarchies, Ibraheem Al-Furaih

A study of degenerate elliptic partial differential equations, Abdulsalam Ahmeo Almannaei

Efficient algorithms for data mining, Khaled Abduallah Alsabti

An empirical examination of the Heath, Jarrow and Morton term structure model using treasury bond futures options data, Greg Antony Anderson

Children's perceptions of stressful events and how they cope with them: An Indian experience, Aparna Bagdi

A discrepancy analysis approach for determining undergraduate student satisfaction with their life on campus, Peter Michael Baigent

Childhood sexual abuse: The relationship between patterns of appraisal and long-term effects, Diane Elizabeth Baker

Cointegration in panel data, Chen Bangtian

Toward a better understanding of the dynamics in buyer-supplier partnerships: An exploratory study of partnering dyads from multi-functional perspectives, John Howard Bantham

The role of social capital and structural arrangements in explaining intercompetitor behavior, Anat Barnir

"Let your minds be remade": Protestants and politics in Mexico, Lynda Kristen Barrow

Intention, teleology, and God, Bradley Gordon Beach

Marginally accepted: Policies and practices influencing the enrollment of Black students at Syracuse University from 1942 to 1969, Marla Anne Bennett

Schooling and the production of popular culture: Negotiating subjectivities at the high school prom, Amy Louise Best