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1998

'An ordered anarchy': Mobilization for civil disobedience in Bengal and Bombay, 1929-1934, John T. Crist

The theological sublime: Subjectivity, temporality and imagination in the Kantian critique, Clayton Scott Crockett

The day you were born: Maternal birth narratives over time, Ellen Elizabeth Curry-Bleggi

Fully three-dimensional and viscous inverse method for turbomachine blade design, Sachin Vinayak Damle

Dynamic pointer swizzling to support adaptable persistent programming, Jose Antonio de Cano Fernandez

"The bench": An investigation of sport team sub-culture in women's collegiate volleyball, Margaret L. De Furia

Predicting academic achievement in African-American middle school students using perceived competence and motivational orientation, Donald DeJohn Jr.

The analogy between QED(2) and QCD(4), David Henry Delphenich

Good, by God, we're going to Bodie! Landscape and social memory in a California ghost town, Dydia DeLyser

Learning complex instances: Adult age differences, Michael Anthony D'Eredita

Teacher assessment of students' writing skills, Ioannis C. Dimakos

An enantiospecific synthetic approach to the ansatrienin family of ansamycin antibiotics, Matthew Richard Dintzner

Experiences of secondary school students, teachers, and administrators in a distance education course, Margaret Elizabeth Downs

Understanding the impacts of demand shocks on the price of owner-occupied housing: A study of the supply elasticity of housing, Michelle Harter Dreiman

English Romanticism in United States literary studies: Literary-historical ideology and the institution, Aaron Timothy Dunckel

Factors affecting participant reactions to new training devices, James Byron Ellsworth IV

Bodies that do not matter: Social policy, education, and the politics of difference, Nirmala Erevelles

Racial socialization perceptions, practices, and experiences of Black American parents and adolescents: The echoes' of a parent's heart in the voice of a child, Tracy Y. Willis Espy

The information use environment: A descriptive study of a sub-set of agriculturists in the developing country of Trinidad and Tobago, Hannah Francis

The logic of security dilemmas: A speech act analysis of the INF treaty negotiations, Brian Keith Frederking

Cultural imperialism and the development of the Panama Canal Zone, 1912-1960, Stephen Wolff Frenkel

Industrious households: Wealth management and 'Handwerker' strategies in Goeppingen, 1735--1865, Dennis Anthony Frey Jr.

Interactive civic education: Effective political learning for citizenship in democratic Russia, Sheri Lynn Frost

Evolutionary algorithms for the design of stack filters, Beatriz Garmendia-Doval

Ignorance and inequality: Youth sexuality in India and its implications to HIV spread, Lakshmi Goparaju

Places of memories and memories of place: Scotlands and Scottishnesses in the 1990s, Euan Hague

Capitalization of local public services into house values, Mohamed Hussein Hamadeh

The price parents paid: A qualitative study of parents who challenged the special education system, Mary F. Handley

Membrane processes for gas separations: Part I. Removal of carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide from low-quality natural gas. Part II. Enrichment of krypton in air, Jibin Hao

Becoming a student-centered research university: A case study of organizational change, Donald Joseph Haviland

Critical reflection as a professional development outcome of asynchronous computer-mediated communication, Mark Hawkes

Pillars of belief: The social construction of morality in two congregations, Trace Haythorn

Seeking community: Brethren in Christ nonresistance and American society, 1914-1958, Mary Jane Heisey

Engendering national identity: Best sellers and their film adaptations in postwar America, Jane Elizabeth Hendler

Measurement of Tau(D('s)/(,+) to muon('+)neutrino)/Tau(D('s)/(,+) to phi pion('+)) and the pseudoscalar decay constant fD(,s), Weipin He

Identifying essential mentor traits and functions within academic, business and military contexts, Jerusalem Tadashi Howard

Dynamic agent collaboration for open systems using concurrent intepretation of role-based coordination protocols(1), Wilfred C. Jamison

The organizational politics of Leninism: A study of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), Liberation, Shishir Kumar Jha

Three-dimensional inverse method for turbomachine blades by the circulation method: The thickness problem, Jun Jiang

Electroabsorption studies on amorphous and microcrystalline silicon, Lin Jiang

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