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1998

Lessons from exemplary teachers: A study of the lives of teachers who are making a difference in diverse classrooms, Denise Eva Johnson

Searching for purpose: Teachers finding personal meaning for computer usage in elementary classrooms, Corliss Carroll Kaiser

Design and evaluation of optimizations in I/O-intensive applications, Arunachalam Arunachalam Kandaswamy

The counting process and category theory: The psychogenesis of the natural numbers, Ali B. Karatay

Middle school students' perceptions of cooperative learning, Mary Anne Metot Kayler

Interpreting the agency of possessed women in a postcolonial comparative study: Toward a concept of instrumental agency, Mary Louise Keller

Parental warmth, control, and involvement in schooling in relation to Korean American adolescents' academic achievement, Kyoungho Kim

Globalization, urban changes and Seoul's dreams: A global perspective on contemporary Seoul, Yeong-Hyun Kim

I. Kinetic analysis of anticancer drug cleavage of closed-circular and intracellular DNA. II. Binding studies of the HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein to the SL3 stem-loop of the HIV-1 packaging signal, Chris Allen Kirk

...And citizens under every tree: Case studies in service-learning and civic education, Christopher John Koliba

Explaining federal government performance information utilization, Strom Zhiqiang Kong

Efficient collective data transfer mechanisms for high-performance parallel and distributed computing environments, Rakesh Krishnaiyer

Self-efficacy and coping responses in lower socioeconomic status African-American women involved in abusive relationships, Jonathan Huen Tet Lam

Representation and interpretation of geometric tolerances in a CAD system, Bing Li

Market trading volume and price reaction to public information, Yuah-chiao George Lin

Identity development: The links between coping style, sibling relationships, and parenting style, Marie Carmelita Lomeo

Fourier transform vibrational circular dichroism: Step-scan instrumentation and biological applications, Fujin Long

Conflict resolution education in classrooms: The intersection of educators, an inservice training program, and a curriculum, Stevens Rebecca Louise

Acoustic and perceptual analysis of word-initial consonant clusters in children with normal and disordered phonology, Linda J. Louko

Jammer pre-suppression in cascade with sum and difference channel space-time adaptive processing, John Edward Maher

Sparks and embers: The HIV/AIDS pandemic, public administration and international relations in the twenty-first century, Peter Angelo Mameli

Why cosmic fine-tuning needs to be explained, Neil Alan Manson

The chemistry of rhenium with hydrazines and thiols, Kevin P. Maresca

Family rituals as a protective factor for children with asthma, Samia Markson

Development change in college students: A study based on Chickering's model of student development, Linda Messer Martin

The influence of parental attachment and coping style on the adjustment to college, Thomas Brander Matthews

Social habituation and dishabituation in CD-1 mice treated with the norepinephrine neurotoxin N-(2-chloroethyl)-N-ethyl-2-bromobenzylamine (DSP-4), Hewlet Gregory McFarlane

Meaningful work: A study of women faculty members at a community college, Mary Elizabeth McMann

Insulin-like growth factor stimulation of myoblast proliferation is specified by a serum activity, mitogenic competence factor, Francis Joseph McWade

Political institutionalization of party systems in transitional countries: A comparative analysis of the Baltic states, Russia, and Ukraine, Andrey Anatoliy Meleshevich

Replicators, majorization and probabilistic databases: New approaches for the analysis of evolutionary algorithms, Anil Ravindran Menon

Difficult choices: Providing legal services to the poor, Kenneth WIliam Mentor

Predicting freshmen persistence and voluntary withdrawal from Heath's model of maturing, George Daniel Miller III

The effect of institutional financial aid and other factors on freshman matriculation decisions, James Glenn Miller

The development ofANSI/NISO Z39.50: A case study in standards evolution, William Eugene Moen

Depending on others: A qualitative study of collaborative teaching teams in inclusive classrooms, Ann Patrice Monroe-Baillargeon

Integrated cell formation and layout planning for manufacturing cells design, Joen-Il Moon

The pursuit of managerial entrepreneurship in the public, private, and nonprofit sector: Does organization matter?, Myung Jae Moon

Practical delegation for secure distributed object environments, Nataraj Nagaratnam

Saving the phainomena: Religion and the Aristotelian moral philosophy of Martha Nussbaum and Alasdair MacIntyre, Janet R. Nelson

The role of visualization in teaching undergraduate mathematics: A multicase study of teachers' perceptions and practices, Preety Nigam

Lead/lag effects in stock and option markets: A vector error correction model approach, Matthew L. O'Connor

HPHFS: A file system prototype for a cluster-based server environment using network-attached storage devices, Sang-Gue Oh

Shape matching using genetic algorithms, Ender Ozcan

Numerical analysis of torque augmentation in viscous couplings, Chen Pan

Three-dimensional structure determination of a subunit of the HIV-1 packaging signal, Lucia Pappalardo

NYNET communication system (NCS): A multithreaded message-passing system for ATM-based high-performance distributed computing environments, Sung-Yong Park

Constructive principles of textual productivity in the narrative of Ruben Dario, Jorge Alberto Perez

Coming up for air: Supervisory perspectives and desires of a group of elementary school counselors, Emily Phillips

Solubility and diffusion of organic vapors in silicone polymers, Jindarat Pimsamarn

Family perspectives on out-of-home placement for their adult-aged family members with a disability: A preliminary study, Jean M. Pugliese

Hedonic value, Stuart Craig Rachels

Banking crisis in a liberalizing developing economy, Singh Dipinder Ranhawa

Working memory and reading disabilities: The use of the Syracuse Order Tasks to predict academic achievement, Elizabeth Ann Rathbone

Reconstructing identities: The utility of adolescent pregnancy. The stories of poor African-American adolescent pregnant women in western city, Martha Morse Rawlings

Space, body and power: Strategies of colonial discourse in some texts of New Spain, Sergio Rivera-Ayala

The influence of state and local governments on elderly migration, Mark David Robbins

A case study of TQM program training decisions in higher education, Paul Roehrig

The number, width, and labels for racial categories, Andrew David Rozell

Saving children in the 1990s: Social workers' constructions of child maltreatment, Julia Searl Rusert

Structures of constraint: Engendering the household, state, and economy in Jharkand, India, Aarti Saihjee

In A Zone Of Shadows: The Experience Of Writing Outside The Teacher's Presence, Mary Margaret Salibrici

Men, muscles, and machismo: The relationship between exposure to television violence and antisocial outcomes in the presence of hypermasculinity, Erica Lee Scharrer

Background characteristics and educational aspirations of rural eighth graders, Karen Margaret Schuhle-Williams

Jewish identity, family cohesion, and child well-being, Maureen Patricia Semans

Studies toward the total synthesis of octalactin A and B, Brian A. Sherer

Design and evaluation of radial basis function model for function approximation, Mi-Young Shin

Information technology and electronic commerce: Attributes of emerging online business, Joanne Lavine Silverstein

A path model of couple intimacy: Examining the residuals of parenting style on young adult children's heterosexual couple relationships, Lisa Loree Gold Sine

Trash to treasures: A qualitative study of the relationship between collectors and collectible brands, Janet S. Slater

Learners' perspectives of the train-the-trainer program in creating the role of classroom trainer, Susan B. Slusarski

Conflict and consensus-building at the fourth UN World Conference on Women: A study of international nongovernmental cooperation, Anna Christine Snyder

The study of the effects of electronic storage of government information on the Freedom of Information Act, Herbert Ward Snyder

The changing role of the bishop in society: Episcopal translation in the Middle Ages, Mary Ellen Sommar

Fly girl in the buttermilk: The graduate experiences at a predominantly White institution of Black women who attended various undergraduate environments, Renee Ericka Spraggins

Techniques for improving performance in continuous media servers, Chutimet Srinilta

Part I. Bacteriorhodopsin-related materials work for molecular electronics. Part II. Volumetric optical memory based on the branched photocycle of bacteriorhodopsin. Part III. The role of calcium in the bacteriorhodopsin binding site, Jeffrey Alan Stuart

Essays on vertically integrated multinational enterprises: Theory and evidence, Linghui Tang

Student perspectives on secondary inclusion art classes: Aesthetics, production, and community, Dennis L. Taylor

High capacity free space switching fabric with dynamic holograms, Serey Thai

Automatic data partitioning for a parallel language, Elaine Wenderholm

African-centered education: Reflections and perspectives from one institution, Nicole West-Burns

Escape to the mountains: A case study of the Church Universal and Triumphant, Bradley Christian Whitsel

The meaning of success: Perspectives of single African American mothers who are former welfare recipients and heads of household, Shelly Ruth Hentz Williams

Mate choice in the presence of sperm parasites, Timothy James Wisniewski

Taxes and state and local economics development: The homestead tax option in New York, Wai-Ho Wilson Wong

Neodymium isotopic and uranium-lead geochronologic studies of southern Appalachian terranes, Gregory L. Wortman

Unmuffled voices: The therapeutic experiences of white women living in economic poverty, Carolyn Irene Wright

Volatility, spread revision, volume, and the nature of information, Xiaoqing Eleanor Xu

Henri Francois Pittier: Geographer, natural scientist and the development of geography in Costa Rica, Leon I. Yacher

Women's labor supply reactions to divorce and childbirth in Germany, Qing Yang

Toward a philosophy of interpersonal self and self-esteem, Zeus John Yiamouyiannis

Multi-layer adaptive digital particle image velocimetry and its application, Jinzhong Zhang

Supercritical water oxidation of 4-monochlorobiphenyl (4MCB): Reaction kinetics, destruction efficiency, and by-products, Zhuohong Zhang

1997

The Cypriot 'ethnic' conflict in the production of global power, Anna M. Agathangelou

Rights and respect: A study of the competing concerns of Alliance Quebec and the Societe Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montreal, Marie Catherine Agen

Dynamical breaking of string model in 1 + 1 dimension, Thamer Abdulmohsen Al-Aithan

The academic and nonacademic characteristics of science and nonscience majors in Yemeni high schools, Mahyoub Ali Anaam

Making a movement: The meaning of community in the Congress of Racial Equality, 1958-1968, Kristin Marie Anderson-Bricker

Entrepreneurs and place in early America: Auburn, New York, 1783-1880, Scott William Anderson