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2000

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

Use of human intermediation in information problem-solving: A users' perspective, Makiko Miwa

Understanding the mathematics perceptions of postsecondary mathematics instructors and students with learning disabilities, Andra Jill Myers

System model and taxonomy for host-network interfaces, Bokyun Na

CHronological information Extraction SyStem (CHESS), Woojin Paik

Estimation of space-time parameters in non-homogeneous environments, Sheeyun Park

Common ground: Understanding Congress, the executive and control of the administrative state through statutes, R. Eric Petersen

Contemplating readiness to change: Relationship to underreporting and defensiveness, David Thomas Pilkey

The effect of parent or other adult involvement in mathematics homework on student achievement and attitude, Betty Louise Powers

Perceptions and practices of collaborative teaming: A qualitative study of three preschools, Presanna J. Rajkumar

Wavelet domain image fusion algorithms with applications, Liane Carmela Ramac

Assarigoa's line: Anglo-Iroquois origins of the Virginia frontier, 1675--1774, Matthew Lawson Rhoades

Hidden soldiers: Gender, militarism, and the discourse of defense, Robin L. Riley

Women and representational practice, 1642--1660, Katherine Margaret Romack

United Nations partnerships with business: A quest for a renewed legitimacy in the age of global governance. The case of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Berangere Nicole Ruchat

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the cultural production of nationalism and violence: Representing the integrity of nation and the choice for armed struggle, Yamuna Sangarasivam

Measurement of the production ratio of charged and neutral B mesons at the upsilon(4S) resonance, Silvia M. Schuh

The impact of gender on police officer attitudes and behaviors, Richard Michael Seklecki

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