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1997

Application of the variability index (VI) statistic to radar CFAR processing, Michael Ernest Smith

Mapping sites of deposition-related acetylation in newly synthesized H3 and H4 during chromatin assembly and maturation in vitro and in vivo, Richard E. Sobel

Income tax incentives to investment for economic development: The Korean experience, Keakook Song

Conditions that facilitate the implementation of innovative freshman experience courses: A comparative analysis of three courses, Deborah Ruth Friedeman Federman Stein

Three new test methods for the determination of fracture toughnesses of bimaterial interfaces, Viswanathan Sundararaman

An analysis of the theta sectors of quantum gravity, Sumati, Surya,

"The charming sideshow": Cheerleading, girls' culture and schooling, Rajeswari Swaminathan

The oral proficiency interview in the workplace: The testing and training of heritage advanced speakers of Spanish, Elvira Boxhill Boxhill Swender

The Jane Rand story: A case study of an elementary vocal music teacher, Barbara Marble Tagg

Reliability of self-reported alcohol use in psychiatric settings, Lesley M. Teitelbaum

The creation of the Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications and Software Engineering (the CASE Center) at Syracuse University: An examination of founding premises and expected outcomes, Susan Thomas

Implications of reorganization incentive aid in New York State, Richard G. Timbs

Virtual reality as a mass or massive medium, Dan Eric Tinianow

Building China's civil service: Incorporating a Western model and Chinese characteristics, Caroline Hai-Yan Tong

Sense of coherence in mothers of children with developmental delay, Susan Peirce Ursprung

Decentralized detection and estimation with fuzzy and asynchronous data, Vajira N. S. Vajira

Instrumentation advances and new applications in Raman optical activity, , Maria Vargek

The initiation of information systems innovation by users: A learning perspective, Satish Vasudevan

A computer-aided ceramics curriculum: Case studies toward a developing model, Robert John vonHunke

The role of nitrogen and leaf development in plant-insect interactions, D. Alexander Wait

Landscapes of fun: Rewriting downtown Syracuse, Judith Roanne Walton

Post-colonial African theory and practice: Wole Soyinka's anarchism, Joseph Walunywa

The precision measurement of the neutron spin structure function using polarized helium-3 target, Xuejun Wang

State policy impacts on firm-level simultaneous environmental-economic efficiency, Eric Wayne Welch

Documenting the experiences of academically successful college-aged African-American females, Dina Marlene, Wilderson

Learning limits: College women constructing meaning about drugs in their relationships, Kimberly Margaret Williams

Three essays on public policy simulations, David Charles Wittenburg

Search for electroweak penguin decay bottom quark to s quark lepton+ lepton-, Xing Xia

Graphical simulation and automatic verification of NC milling programs, Yaoxian Xu

The effect of mandatory, secondary-municipal-bond-market disclosure requirements on the United States municipal bond market: The amended Securities Exchange Act, Rule 15C2-12 of 1994, Taihwan Yin

Application of multi-dimensional NMR in the study of DNA structure and dynamics, Jiqun, Yu

Characterization of lead zirconate titanate thin films by atomic force microscopy, Genaro, Ph Zavala-Enriquez

Unified implementation of fuzzy rule based control using self-organizing map neural network, Farrukh Zia

Analysis of differences between creators of literary and artistic works and their commissioning parties in the interpretation of the work made for hire provisions of the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, 94-553); the implications for education and business, Paul, Zuckerman

1996

A study on how nontraditional HIV-positive students make meaning of the college experience in central New York colleges and universities, Joseph F. Adamo

Elimination of the effects of mutual coupling in adaptive thin wire antennas, Raviraj Sadanand Adve

Application-oriented communication protocols for high-speed networks, Eyas Sameer Al-hajery

Budget, performance evaluation, and cost allocation as resource allocation mechanisms in colleges and universities: A descriptive and positive research study, Osama F. Al-Heizan

The effect of price on a product's perceived quality: The case of shopping goods, Abdul-Razzak Bader Alsamdan

Savings mobilization and financial market development in Ghana, Charles Awasu (Editor)

Resource management schemes for multiprocessors based on multistage interconnection networks, Muhammad Naeem Ayyaz

Experimental and theoretical characterization of ferroelectric bismuth titanate, Bi(4)Ti(3)O(12), thin films, Masud Eypakchi Azimi

Radiation characteristics of cavity-backed aperture antennas, Carole Michel Azur

Sovereignty evolved: An analysis of the evolution of international relations from "territorial concerns" to "economic interests" in the twentieth century United States-Canada trade relationship, Nancy Elizabeth Bell

Teaching phonological awareness to children with language impairments, Julie Beth Blumsack

External integration of information in the development of selected core high technologies: A comparison in the United States and Japan, Paula Elaine Bobrowski

"STILL DREAMING OF PARADISE": RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN ' S OKLAHOMA!, SOUTH PACIFIC , AND POSTWAR AMERICA, Randall Bond

Los intertextos en el "Dialogo intitulado el Capon" y el discurso del engano, Maria Gloria Boulin-Tenaglia

Participation and dynamics in the programs of a nongovernmental organization in a Bangladesh village, Michael Barry Bowler

The effects of hypermedia on the comprehension of science text among sixth-grade students, Geraldine A. Brophy

Adolescent mothers and their infants: A home-based crisis prevention effort, Holly Elisabeth Brophy

Identification and molecular characterization of a type-A histone acetyltransferase from Tetrahymena thermophila, James Edward Brownell

Regularity of A-harmonic forms, Leonard Robert Budney

Extra-textual, intra-textual, and neo-baroque constructions of violent space in three women writers from the southern cone, Gail A. Bulman

Message reduction rules (MR(2)): A reduction methodology for message-based multimedia systems, Seyit H. Kubilay Cardakli

Sculpted tombs of the professors of the University of Padua, c. 1358-c. 1557, Jill Emilee Carrington

Distributed flow control protocols for ATM networks, Pei-Liang Chang

A dataflow-based software integration model in parallel and distributed computing and applications, Gang Cheng

Nonequilibrium dynamics of driven elastic manifolds in random media, Lee-Wen Chen

Hydrologic regionalization for the estimation of streamflows at ungaged sites based on time series analysis and multivariate statistical analysis, Shih-Min Chiang

Partnering government laboratories with industry: A comparison of the United States and Japan from a government laboratory view, Young-Hoon Choi

An empirical study of college students' grief responses: Death vs. non-death losses, Debra Anne Cohen

Changing women: Stories and journeys of menopause, Francesca Mary Colletti

Locke on essence and identity, Christopher Hughes Conn

A study of possible connections between teachers' professional development and the performance evaluation process, George Luis Hext Contreras

Appraising certain linguistic structures in the receptive sign language competence of deaf children, Elaine Ruth Costello

The dimensions of peer talk among nontraditional preservice education students, Kathleen Marion Daboll-Lavoie

Sex differences in personal space: A meta-analytic review of the sex effect literature, Viviane Louise Daigle

Politics of language revival: National identity and state building in Kazakhstan, Bhavna Dave

African-American student's perceptions of their experiences on a predominantly White campus: A qualitative piece of the persistence puzzle, R Deborah Davis

Voices from the margins: The construction of racial and ethnic identity for Cape Verdean-Americans, Lelia Lomba De Andrade

A study in stand up: Roles and behaviors of excellent trainers, Renee V. Downey

Random interactions with disk galaxies, David J. Edelsohn

A typology of states as defined by problems and solutions related to adult undereducation, Michael Erskine Ehringhaus

Intrajurisdictional property tax capitalization rates, Elliot F. Eisenberg

Identification of nonlinear dynamic systems using the Volterra network, Mohammad Farrokhi

Geopolitics in an age of confusion, Anthony Favro

Comparison of complete-case, pairwise available-case, and maximum likelihood missing data methods, Christine Anne Fraser

Evading the Salic law of wit: The female satirist and sentimental community in Sarah Fielding, Sara F. Gadeken

An analysis of linear and non-linear coherent detection in atmospheric noise at very low frequency, John Thomas Gamble

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