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1996

Arson: the ecology of urban unrest in an American city--Newark, New Jersey, a case study in collective violence, Daniel Earl Georges

Relationship between college lifestyles and later life course: A comparison of three cohorts, Jonathan Charles Gibralter

Race and welfare: Racial disparities in treatments and outcomes among VIEW participants, Susan Tinsley Gooden

Alcohol's influence on requisites for HIV-risk reduction, Christopher Michael Gordon

A qualitative study of the meaning of work and workplace experiences among Native Americans in upstate New York, Gary L. Gordon

The European Union and integration theories: The case of Europe's defense industry, Terrence Robert Guay

Fuel, fodder, and forests: Politics of forest use and abuse in Uttarakhand Himalaya, India, Shubhra Gururani

Constructing a holistic voice for teaching: A classroom teacher's journey, Sharon Hafermalz-Morrison

Intention, interpretation, and truth, Raja Fouad Halwani

Fish mongers, markets, and mechanization: Gender and the economic transformation of an Indian fishery, Holly Malissa Hapke

The influence of therapist attractiveness, presenting problem, and client gender on client comfort with disclosing in couple therapy, Steven Michael Harris

Nonparents' and parents' beliefs regarding socioemotional and cognitive development in children, Laurel Claudine Hayden

A content analysis of The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing from 1984 to 1994, Marie Ann Hess

Test mass suspension Q measurement and excess loss diagnosis for gravitational wave interferometers, Yinglei Huang

"Perhaps it is the person first and subject matter second": Social relationships and the construction of cultural and civic curricula in a women's study club, 1885-1985, Jane Mary Hugo

Noncontrollable factors in the performance evaluation of profit center managers under divisionalized organization environment (research on the determinants of interorganizational differences in controllability principle implementation), Kookjae Hwang

Doping of boron carbon alloys and their applications in semiconductor devices, Seong-Don Hwang

Managers' experiences in the technology transfer process: Interpersonal/group behavior and organizational design, Avan Rusi Jassawalla

Data-parallel programming on adaptive and nonuniform computational environments, Maher Kaddoura

"ALWAYS A BETTER WAY": MAKING SENSE OF TEACHER CHANGE (CLASSROOM PRACTICE), Stephanie KADEL-TARAS

Performance analysis using formal methods, Christopher Jon Kappler

The impact of cultural and market distance on international advertising: A content analysis of magazine advertising from United States, Japan and Korea, Yoo-Kyung Kim

Aging gracefully in the eighteenth century: A study of elderly women in Old Regime Toulouse, Sherri L. Klassen

Traffic shaping and bandwidth allocation algorithms for VBR traffic, Taccettin Koprulu

Generalized quantifiers and measure theory, Charles William Kurtz

Dynamically reconfigurable FPGA-based multiprocessing and fault tolerance, Kevin A. Kwiat

Regionalization in Northeast Asia: Conceptions of economic cooperation and the Tumen River Area Development Programme (TRADP), Jongchul Lee

Human resource management and high-performance management: A case study, comparing the internal "reinvention" efforts of the United States Office of Personnel Management and the Korean Ministry of Government Administration, Sun-Woo Lee

An analysis of the role of moral orientation in the resolution of dilemmas of public school principals, Mark Steven Lewis

Image/video compression based on bracket classified coding and optimal joint coordinate motion estimation, Chih-Feng Lin

Toward a theory of discourse based on the socio-discursive nature of knowledge: a synthesis of sophistic Nomos and Gricean cooperation (Paul Grice), Kenneth John Lindblom

Feed-forward neural networks: Learning algorithms, statistical properties, and applications, Yachen Lin

University system and campus life: Prerequisites for student movements in contemporary China, Xinyong Liu

Ethnic market operations and organizational changes: An open-system model analysis of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York approaching Asian-Americans, Fu Long

Workplace violence in human services agencies: A comparative study of local county government departments of social services in New York State, Dorothy K. Marge

Analyzing Regge calculus as a tool in numerical relativity, Mark Allen Miller

A uniform property for finite sets of points in projective space, Lakshmi Modalli

Demand management: A demonstration of the comparison of price and due date negotiation strategies using simulation, Douglas Rome Moodie

Self-perceived deterrents to participation in continuing nursing education among practicing registered nurses, Joan Carol Murphy

The perceived impacts of information technologies on budget tasks in county governments: Focusing on budget managers' perception and budget tasks' environments, Seung-Hwan Myeong

Effectiveness of pattern noting on college students' written responses to essay examinations in introductory philosophy, Diana Buttolph Norcross

Resistance and memory - rupture and mending: The vision and challenge of Jewish feminist theology, Susan Elizabeth Nowak

Predicting men's perceptions of date rape using the heuristic-systematic model, Suzanne Lynn Osman

Instruction in self-directed learning: Its impact on corporate MBA students' attitudes toward learning and development, Thomas Douglas Wyatt Phelan

The effects of writing to learn mathematics on conceptual understanding and procedural ability in introductory college calculus, Mary Kathleen Porter

Sexual satisfaction and the coorientation of preferred sexual practices in couples, Daniel M. Purnine

Beliefs, grounds, and the basing relation, Dana Montford Radcliffe

"A little inconvenience": Perspectives of Bengali families of children with disabilities on inclusion and disability, Shridevi Subba Rao

Numerical and multivariate statistical analysis of hydrogeology and geochemistry in large peatlands, Andrew Stephen Reeve

Bayer & Company in the United States: German dyes, drugs, and cartels in the Progressive Era, Thomas Martin Reimer

Theology, reflexivity, and desire in Aristotle's "Metaphysics" and "Nichomachean Ethics", Alan Jay Richard

A hybrid method to terminate finite element meshes (frequency and time domain analysis), Tanmoy Roy

An analysis of adolescent male and female responses to Kohlberg's moral interview: Using two different editions of the Standard Issue Scoring Manual (1979 vs. 1987), Lynn Gableman Rupp

How educators and students understand inclusion, facilitated communication and other related topics: An observational study, Nina Shaswati Saha

Conventional and non-conventional synthesis of some oxovanadium phosphonate and phosphate clusters, Jose Ramos Salta III

A least squares approach for radar array adaptive nulling, Richard Arthur Schneible

Scalable parallel algorithms for random data accesses and shared-memory simulation, Ravi V. Shankar

Nonlinear model predictive control and modeling of liquid-liquid extraction processes, Wen-Ping Shen

Design of optimization techniques for soft-decision decoding of linear block codes, Ching-Cheng Shih

Study of the S. cerevisiae mitochondrial chaperonin, Hsp60, and the identification and characterization of SCS1/RTS1, a high-copy suppressor of Hsp60(ts), Youmin Shu

Synthesis of polyketide-derived natural products from carbohydrates: Application of the (2,3)-Wittig rearrangement of carbohydrate-derived alpha-alkoxy tertiary allylic ethers to the syntheses of Adda and rapamycin, Ny Sin

Toward optimal scheduling of jobs on parallel multiprocessor systems, Waleed W. Smari

Divine foreknowledge and necessity, In-Kyu Song

Effects of the issue and Receiver in evaluation of Public Service Advertisements (PSAS): Implications for Public Information Campaigns, Public Relations, and Social Marketing (Advertising), Soonho Song

Envelope cues and audibility: A systematic investigation of compression, Pamela Elizabeth Souza

Historical justification of sovereign right over territorial space of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands: Irredentism and Sino-Japanese relations, Unryu Suganuma

The effects of the manufacturers' suggested list price (MSLP) for a new product on consumers' internal reference and reservation prices, Chan Joo Suh

Correlation between surfactant/micelle structure and the stability of bacteriorhodopsin in solution. Manipulation of the photocycle of bacteriorhodopsin via systematic structural modification of site-specific protein-bound organic cations, Eric Hock Lye Tan

The convergence of antitrust law and First Amendment law in the communication and information industries: Application of "First Amendment geography" to the determination of relevant geographic market in antitrust law, Joel Thierstein

Organizational Politics and Innovation in the Federal Reinvention Laboratories, James Richard Thompson

The effect of presenting a common error with an explanation, Julia Ann Tinklepaugh Biegler

The association of space use and aggressive behavior in nesting male dwarf gourami (Colisa lalia Hamilton-Buchanan), Michael Urbancic Tlusty

Finite element analysis and option pricing, Michael John Tomas III

Fire effects in the grasslands of Yellowstone National Park, Benjamin Franklin Tracy

A journey through numeracy: Correlates of success in initial college mathematics, John Michael Trimboli

Methodologies for information presentation, Wei-Chih Tseng

Locality-conscious load balancing: Connectionist architectural support, Chaitanya Tumuluri

Entrepreneurship and small business: A strategic management front end analysis, Sydney Scott Tyler

The growth empirics of the scope of the production scale, time, and trade: Both cross-country and panel studies, Veysel Ulusoy

The culinary text as constructive strategy in the work of three contemporary writers: Severo Sarduy, Jose Lezama Lima and Alejo Carpentier, Alicia E. Vadillo

Performance assessment of space-range processing against hot clutter, Edward Martin Valovage

Mapping time: An analysis of the cartographic problem of representing spatiotemporal information, Irina Vasiliev

Political control of the bureaucracy in the cycle of shared power, James Edward Vike

A parallel data assimilation system and its implications on a metacomputing environment, Gregor von Laszewski

The social meaning of place and people with developmental disabilities, Pamela May Walker

Who fits in? An interactive investigation of preservice teachers' commitment to urban education, Marie Theresa Warchol

The education of Ruth Jenkins: A Canadian missionary in China, 1920-1927, Margaret E. Webb

Manly desire: Sexual economy in English narratives, 1748-1771, David Milo Weed

When therapy becomes theology: A critical view of empathy, Douglas Eames Whitcher

The role of unmitigated agency and unmitigated communion in physical and psychological health, Wanda Ann Willard

Creating a place to call home: Administrators' and women homeowners' perspectives on an urban home-ownership program, Bonnie M. Winfield

The impact of gender, gender attitudes, and communication on patient satisfaction during medical visits, Joan Angela Wolfensberger

An integrated model of mortgage termination, refinancing, and household mobility, Nelson Chi-Fai Wong

A non-physicalist ontology of art objects, David McMillan Woodruff

An infinite server queueing model for software readiness assessment and related performance measures, Kune-Zang Yang

Version management for multimedia document retrieval systems, Seong-Joon Yoo

Attenuation correction in SPECT using emission data, Thomas Michael Young

Computational analysis of real-time MPEG-2 video compression and its hardware implementation, Mansour A. Zuair

1995

Using a computer laboratory setting (CLS) to teach college calculus, Nkechi Madonna Adeleine Agwu

Formal specification and verification of the OSI session layer using the Calculus of Communicating Systems (CCS), Milica Barjaktarovic