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1994

Conditions that facilitate the use of shared decision-making in schools, Charles Edward Read

Education vouchers: The experience in Chile, Taryn Andrea Rounds

Videoasis: The character of viewing in a video community, Michael S. Schoonmaker

Projection method minimization techniques for smooth multistage QMF filter decompositions, Stuart Alan Schweid

The effects of accountability, responsiveness, and professionalism on bureaucratic discretion: An experiment in street-level decision-making, Patrick Glenn Scott

The environment of small scale business and the informal sector in Botswana: Constraints, problems and prospects, Gloria Somolekae

Environmental quality, international trade, and economic development: Theory and evidence, Daqing Song

Relationships between assessments of intrapersonal and interpersonal functioning and maternal teaching strategies in employed mothers, Maureen Anne Sullivan

Two methods for near field to near/far field transformation with arbitrary near field geometry, Ardalan Taaghol

From dynastic geography to historical geography, Xiaofeng Tang

A model of developmental change in freshman students: Confirming Chickering's theory of student development, William Scott Thieke

Joan of Arc as a revelatory symbol in eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth century literature, music, art and sculpture, William Davenport West

The appropriation of the medieval motif by nineteenth-century British women writers, Natalie Joy Woodall

The politics and theology of prophetic pragmatism: A contribution to the critique of radical political philosophy, Mark David Wood

Measurement of the neutron spin structure function and its implications for QCD sum rules, Jianguo Xu

Stuttering and phonological disorders in children: Examination of the covert repair hypothesis, J. Scott Yaruss

Analysis of diffusional limitations on the cure of epoxy and cyanate ester resins, Deng Yong

Development and application of Raman optical activity, Gu-Sheng Yu

1993

Evaluation of factors promoting successful microcomputing implementation in the Nigerian workplace, Adeyemi Abiodun Adekoya

Faust's Weg zu sich selbst: A Jungian interpretation of Goethe's "Faust" with special emphasis on the individuation process, Irmin Allner

A connectionist expert system for learning process drift control in offset lithographic printing, Souhaila, Al-Mutawa

The identification of user criteria of relevance and document characteristics: Beyond the topical approach to information retrieval, Carol Lee Barry

The sociology of Auguste Rodin, Anne Norinne Bates

Computer integration in K-12 schools: Conditions related to adoption and implementation, Deborah Young Bauder

The effect of case-mix reimbursement on nursing home spenddown in New York, Peter George Beatty

Quantization of Chern-Simons theories on manifolds with boundaries, Giuseppe Roberto Bimonte

Computer simulation for adsorption and desorption of molecules on solid surfaces, Ai Chen

Determinants of the supply of informal care to the frail elderly, Patricia Diane Ryan Coleman

The recovery of locality for causal sets and related topics, Alan Ronald Daughton

Determinants of parental involvement in a support program: A study of communication behavior and information sources, Stella Oluwarotimi Dorgu

The test expectancy effect: Is it a question of format or the level of questions?, Beverly Ruth Edmondson

Less Hell and more corn: Agriculture in Jefferson County, New York, 1850-1910, Suzanne Sophia Etherington,

Correlates of vocational outcome of adult women cancer survivors, Roseann Segretto Falise

How nurse educators in associate degree programs learn to teach, Carol Ann Fanutti

Radical theology in preparation: From Altizer to Edwards, Richard Lee Feero

Reasoning in evaluation: A distinction between general and working logic, Deborah Marie Fournier

The possible selves of people with Parkinson's disease, Leslie Donin Frazier

Multiconductor transmission lines in multilayered dielectric media over a gridded ground plane, James A. Gerald

Theoretical and materials chemistry of some group III and V elements, John Arthur Glass Jr.

Freshman interest groups: Linking social and academic experiences of first-year students, Anne S. Goodsell

Distributed programming paradigms with cryptography applications, Jonathan Scott Greenfield,

The politics of heterodoxy and the Kina Rami ascetics of Banaras, Roxanne Poormon Gupta

Administrative delay in government: Can information technology help? With a focus on the United States local government, Choi Heungsuk

The Korean War and messianic groups: Two cases in contrast, Joong-Hyun hoe

Horizons lost and found: Travel, writing, and Tibet in the age of imperialism, Laurie L. Hovell

Conditions in schools that facilitate implementation of peer coaching, Jean Amy Jeffery

A new method for circuit simulation suitable for parallel computing, Ping Chen Koo

United States and British news coverage of oil spills, 1966--1990, Jinling Lee

Correlation of electronic structure and ferromagnetism at rare earth metal surfaces, Dongqi Li

Neuropsychology in the schools: A comparison of neuropsychological and psychoeducational approaches to the assessment of learning disabilities, Karen Sussman Mackler

The proliferation of chemical weapons and the military utility of chemical warfare: A case study of the Iran-Iraq War, Michael Thomas May

Partner-seeking through newspaper personal advertisements: A study of media dependency and adoption of innovation, Debra Lynn Merskin

The factors that black college freshmen perceive as contributing to their social and academic integration within a predominantly white university, Howard Junior Miller

International protection of journalists: Practice and prospects, Amit Mukherjee

Towards navigation for information retrieval, Gregory Barton Newby

The influence of inservice education on young children's responses to music, Betsy Louise Nicholas

Cultural Studies, Queer Theory, Marxism, Robert Andrew Nowlan

Star-god: Enki/Ea and the biblical god as expressions of a common ancient Near Eastern astral-theological symbol system, Tony Ormond Nugent

Adaptive radar target detection algorithms in space-time and polarization domains, Hyung-Rae Park

Formal specification and verification of microprocessor interrupts, Donna Eileen Peterson

An empirical investigation of the marketing strategy implementation process, Hemant Chaitanya Sashittal

Constructs describing the expert teacher: How do elementary school principals, school board members, and university based educational researchers describe the expert teacher?, Fred Allan Schwartz

An Analysis of Municipal Government Expenditures in Japan, Akio Sone

Challenged to change: Perspectives of abusive men involved in wife abuse prevention programs, William Carlton Warters,

The effects of timing, social support, and the psychobiological influences of pregnancy on dyadic adjustment in Caucasian and African-American couples, Debra Bond Wollaber

Metallic and semiconductor nanoparticulate films generated under monolayers and between Langmuir-Blodgett films, Kyunghee Choi Yi

Holographic studies of liquid crystalline photopolymers, Jian Zhang

The boundary spanning role: Nature, influence, communication satisfaction and gender concerns, Lynn Marie Zoch

1992

Accessible passively stored highly spin-polarized deuterium in solid hydrogen deuterium, with application to inertially confined fusion, Neil Brooks Alexander

Curiosity as an influencing variable in achievement in an interactive learner control environment, Marilyn P. Arnone

High-achieving low-achieving low-income Black children: What makes the difference?, Josephine A. Bright

Development of new Raman optical activity techniques, Diping Che

Visual reconstruction using variable nonlinear resistive networks, Seokrim Choi

The experience of friendship among adolescents with Neurofibromatosis Type I, Catharine Critz Church

Pandaemonia: A study of Eusebius' recasting of Plutarch's story of the "Death of Great Pan", Sharon Lynn Coggan

The evolution of an emerging political party system: A study of party politics in the Dominican Republic, 1961-1990, Thomas Jay D'Agostino

Media portrayals of nursing versus the actual work of nurses, Patricia Anne Ashton Duncan

Theories and empirical research on foreign direct investment: Survey, critical review and new directions, Mazen Darwiche Elhassan

Visual rhetoric: Photographs of the feeble-minded during the eugenics era, 1900-1930, Martin Arthur Elks

Churches in cooperative transition: Integration of Southern Baptist Sunday Schools, Leroy Gainey

Locus-of-control and the five-factor model of personality, Sylvia Ines Garma

The politics of corruption in contemporary China: A structurationist analysis, Ting Gong

Chern-Simons term: Theory and applications, Kumar S. Gupta

Cross-cultural conflict resolution groups: American Palestinians and Jews in dialogue on the Middle East, Amy S. Hubbard

Violence as grace: A Theopoietic reading of mimetic violence in Rene Girard and Flannery O'Connor, William Lawrence Johnson

The implementation of technology in the calculus classroom: An examination of teacher beliefs, practice and curriculum change, Karen Lee Ercole Jost

A three-dimensional space domain approach for the analysis of printed circuit problems, Masoud Kahrizi

A study of the effectiveness of instructional organizers when used in computer-based interactive video instruction, Richard Frederick Kenny

Design of optical pattern matcher for very large full-text information retrieval system, Yangwoo Kim

Novel methods for fabricating magnetic thin films and heterostructures, Yoon-Gi Kim

An experimental assessment of varied fidelity in instructional simulation on the facilitation of immediate and delayed performance of intravenous calculation and regulation, Mary Eileen Hayes Lantier

Polarization cancelers and polarization discontinuity detector, Chul Jai (C.J.) Lee

Alternatives to the current structure of bank taxation in New Jersey: An analysis of the distribution of tax liabilities among bank groups, Ranjana Ghoshal Madhusudhan

The study of high school teachers' utilization of instructional media in Aceh Province, Indonesia, Rusly Mahady

Transition to parenthood: A comparison of previously infertile and fertile couples, Mary Katherine Maroney

Perceptions of learning environment and intrinsic motivation in physical education: Predictive relationships with achievement goals and perceived ability, Stephen Andrew Mitchell

Retirement: Prospective and retrospective perceptions of university professors and their spouses, Betty Jane Myers

Structural, thermal, and rheological characterization of bisphenol A-based cyanate ester resin systems, Akyempem Osei Owusu

Spherically invariant random processes for radar clutter modeling, simulation and distribution identification, Muralidhar Rangaswamy

Religious truth-claims and the diversity of religious traditions, Daniel Dale Rieger