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1995

The psychological effects of exercise on dieting obese women, Susan Joan Bartlett

The use of computer networks in aerospace engineering, Ann Peterson Bishop

Compiling Fortran 90D/HPF for distributed memory MIMD computers, Zeki Bozkus

Adaptive polarimetric processors for multiband and multiscan radar, Russell DeAtley Brown

Identifying letters, Catherine Watt Burns

The President of the United States as public educator: A new historical perspective, Ronald G. Cantor

Perspectives of women educational professionals on their part-time doctoral studies, Joanna Blandyna Chrzanowski

Reshaping Change: The Implementation of the Senior Project in One English Class, Barbara Elizabeth Combs

The creation of a reality: The portrayal of mental illness and violent crime on television, Donald L. Diefenbach

Cooperative learning: A study of nursing students' achievement and perceptions, Irene Ann Solazzo DiFlorio

The United States Army's long march from Saigon to Baghdad: The development of war-fighting doctrine in the post-Vietnam era, Dennis Stewart Driggers

Information encountering: An exploration beyond information seeking, Sanda Erdelez

Learning assessment and program evaluation: Examining the efficacy of Informal Reading Inventory practices using Running Reading Records and retellings, Naomi Bennett Erdmann

A Spatial Statistical Analysis of Socioeconomic Fertility Determinants: The Case of Contemporary China, Hui Michael Feng

Attempts to create friendship in the lives of students with disabilities: The case of "circles of friends", Deborah Gold

The development, characterization and applications of polymeric films containing bacteriorhodopsin, Richard Brian Gross

Planning for a K-12 distance learning system: A case study, Lynda Ann Hanrahan

Seneca Ray Stoddard and the Adirondacks: Changing perceptions of wilderness, Jeffrey Lanier Horrell

Analytical determination of energy release rate and mode mix for interfacial cracks in layered elastic structures, Hurang Hu

A conceptual model for computer animation, William Joseph Joel

Image attributes: An investigation, Corinne Jorgensen

Woman, community and conflict: Rethinking the metaphor of female adultery in Hosea 1-2, Alice Ann Keefe

Automatic identification of causal relations in text and their use for improving precision in information retrieval, Christopher Soo-Guan Khoo

Reshaping government bureaucracy: The politics of public personnel reduction in Britain, the United States, and Japan, Keunsei Kim

The social representation of children with Down syndrome: An interpretivist analysis, Christopher Lee Kliewer

Parallel block-diagonal-bordered sparse linear solvers for power systems applications, David P. Koester

Dynamics of functional status and nursing home use, Sarah Beth Laditka

Teacher leadership: Bridging two worlds, Cathy Jo Caccavaio Leogrande

Immanence and otherness as perceived by Plotinus, Marsilio Ficino, John Cage, and Victor Zuckerkandl, Joyce J. Mauler

Combining machine-readable lexical resources with a principle-based parser, Michael Lawrence McHale

Facilitators' perspectives of a planned change process, Kathleen Ann McSorley

The impact of organizational culture on federal laboratory aggressiveness towards technology transfer, John Charles Mortensen

Community in Emma Willard's educational thought, 1787--1870, Thalia M. Mulvihill

Recovery from prior stimulation of the human compound action potential, Owen Donald Murnane Jr.

Financing research and development projects: Real options, spillover, and SWORD securities, Kevin Thomas Murphy

How family physicians learn a new medical procedure: Case investigations using the Personal Responsibility Orientation model, Linda Newell

Seven Principles Student Inventory: An indicator of success?, Jerome Edward Oberst

A controlled evaluation of facilitated communication: Time and task sampling approach to validation, Marjorie Faith Olney

Information retrieval by plausible inferences: An application of the theory of plausible reasoning of Collins and Michalski, Farhad Oroumchian

The community at work: The promise of Icaria, Janet Fischer Palmer

Managerial perceptions of red tape, Sanjay Kumar Pandey

Motivational dynamics of student movement participation in contemporary South Korea, Byeong-chul Park

On the margin between "high" culture and "ordinary" everyday life: Social organization of the amateur orchestra and its musicians, Jeong Hwa Park

Run-time support and compilation methods for irregular computations on distributed memory parallel machines, Ravi Ponnusamy

Cognitive, metacognitive, and social aspects of mathematical proof with respect to calculus, Ewa Anna Prus-Wisniowska

General properties of functions of bounded lambda-variation, Franciszek Prus-Wisniowski

Vibrational circular dichroism spectroscopy and its applications to conformational study of bifunctional chiral molecules, Xinhua Qu

Sources of visual noise, Manoj Raghavan

The political economy of canal irrigation in south India, Priti Ramamurthy

Conditions that facilitate implementation of a career development program to promote gender equity in middle and junior high schools, Mary Elizabeth Riley

Essays on the measurement and causes of inefficiency in the public sector with application to education, John Gordon Ruggiero

Struggling for knowledge: Students, coordinated studies, and collaborative learning, Patricia Ellen Russo

Mi shiknar: I will learn. Literacy and empowerment among Bombay's slum women, Ujwala Samant

Design, validation, and testing of a hot-film anemometer for hypersonic flow, Mark Sheplak

Processing change in almost paradise: The political economy and discourse of healing in Samana, Dominican Republic, Kathleen Nora Skoczen

Synthesis and characterization of oxo vanadium phosphate and phosphonate materials, Victoria Garabed Soghomonian

Runtime Support for In-Core and Out-of-Core Data-Parallel Programs, Rajeev Thakur

Inside the Offsite: Creating organizational autonomy in the department of the Army, Clemson Garris Turregano

The joy of torture: Hellenistic and Indian philosophy on the doctrine that the sage is always happy even if tortured, Joseph Waligore

The structure of large business group networks in Japan and Taiwan, Huei-Huang Wang

A comparative study of space-time processing airborne radar, Michael Charles Wicks

Challenging the stage theory of grief: Women and men speak out ten to thirty years after the loss of a baby, Jane Louise William

Effects of elevated CO(2) on plant-grazer interactions, Brian John Wilsey

The staff of life: Women baking for social change. An ethnography of the Basic Kneads Wholegrain Bakery, Lynne Woehrle

Deep from within the well: African-American women living with AIDS, Ednita Marie Wright

Benjamin Franklin's legacy of virtue: The Franklin trusts of Boston and Philadelphia, Bruce Harley Yenawine

An integrated approach to some ranking and selection problems, Jun-Lue Zhang

1994

Electromagnetic scattering from chiral cylinders of arbitrary cross section, Majeed A. Alkanhal

Storage of energy gases on activated carbon on the basis of structural parameters and energetic heterogeneity as determined by high-pressure adsorption of methane and hydrogen, Kwabena Adu Gyamfi Amankwah

Petrology and geochemistry of the Ordovician Blountian and Taconic foreland basin sequences: Implications for terrane accretion history, Charles Brannon Andersen

Effects of violent, nonviolent-dehumanizing, and nonviolent-egalitarian sexual portrayals on sexual attitudes and beliefs, Robert L. Bauserman

Procedures for selecting the best experimental treatment with comparison to a control, Laura Trasher Bernhofen

Influences on student course progress in an independent study degree program: A student perspective, David E. Brigham

Insights and perspectives on relationships and friendships: Views from adults who are labeled as mentally retarded, Guy Anthony Caruso

Polynuclear complexes of vanadium and molybdenum with organoarsonato- and organophosphonato ligands: Their syntheses and characterizations, Yuan-Da Chang

Federal laboratories as industry partners, Karen K. Coker

Parents' perspectives on relationships with professionals in inclusive educational settings, Linda Davern

Triple-layer structure of vorticity amplification in the stagnation point flow and its effect on heat transfer, Xinyu Dou

Supporting college learners: Relations between metacognition, reading and writing proficiency, and locus of control, Amelia E. El-Hindi

Deterrents to participation in continuing education programs among university-based nurse faculty, Elizabeth Rossi Essman

Dayneford's library: American homosexual writing, 1900-1913, James Joseph Gifford

Ukrainian through Russian, Tatiana Hursky

Performance feedback and generalization programming in writing instruction, Helen I. Jackson

The definition of educational technology: An intellectual and historical account, Alan Januszewski

Climbing the mountain: A qualitative study of the intimate relationship as a vehicle for personal and spiritual growth, Pamela Kay June

Culture, empowerment, and low-income families of children with disabilities in India, Maya Kalyanpur

The effects of family history of alcoholism on the pattern of motivation for drinking and the level of consumption in young adult offspring, Farzaneh S.A. Khazrai

The effects of a planning outline on the written compositions of students with and without learning disabilities, Susan E. Lane

Getting ready for work: Working-class women's rituals, behaviors and attitudes toward their appearance and work, Carla Vaccaro Lloyd

Analysis and measurements of arbitrarily shaped open microstrip structures, Zoran A. Maricevic

The diffusion of educational television at the United States Military Academy, Mitchell E. Marovitz

The ecostratigraphic transition and selective extinction of bivalves across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in the Lombardian Alps, Italy, Christopher A. McRoberts

Dobles y frailes, seres imaginarios en la narrativa de Rosario Ferre: Una aproximacion semiotica, Rosario Mendez-Panedas

Inside social studies at Castleton High: Young citizens discuss their citizenship education, Otherine Johnson Neisler

Dominion and civility: Indians, Englishmen and the challenge of the first American frontiers, 1585-1685, Michael Leroy Oberg

Racial identity attitudes of African American students and student developmental tasks: An exploratory investigation, Richard Charles Peagler

Raising our voice: The essay and architecture/the essay as architext, Diana M. Penrod

On the preservation of certain properties of functions under composition, Pamela Bitler Pierce

Rural school consolidation in New York State, 1795-1993: A struggle for control, Thomas J. Pugh

Quasi-static analysis of multiconductor transmission lines in multilayered dielectric media above a ground plane perforated with holes of arbitrary shape, Ahmad Rahhal-Arabi