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Open Access Dissertations

The University of Rhode Island archives and provides access to doctoral dissertations through DigitalCommons@URI. Dissertations prior to 2013 may or may not be available here. Please consult the URI library catalog to see all titles. For those dissertations available only in print, the library can usually scan a copy upon request.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003

Badger, James Mark. Nurses' experiences of moving from cure-oriented to comfort-oriented care in the medical intensive care unit setting

Baird, Janette. Longitudinal Study of the Acquisition of Locomotion, Motor Activity, and Infant Development

Basu, Chhandak. Optimizing parameters for efficient introduction of transgenes into turfgrass

Borgos, Marlana Joyce. Validity of the Boston Qualitative Scoring System as a measure of executive functioning in pediatric Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure performance

Bushoven, John T.. The role of nitrate and carbohydrates in modulating the partitioning of nitrate assimilation between leaves and roots in perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.)

Cadrin, Steven Xavier. Stock structure of yellowtail flounder off the northeastern United States

Castro, Kathleen Monan. Assessing the impact of habitat and stock enhancement for the American lobster (Homarus americanus), in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island

Caswell, Caroline Johnson. Personalizing the school environment: Teacher-based advisory programs that support student adjustment and academic outcomes

Chalivendra, Vijaya Bhaskar. Static and dynamic constitutive behavior and fracture of particulate composites

Coleman, Dwight F.. ARCHAEOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY OF INUNDATED COASTAL PREHISTORIC SITES

Conca, Karen Rose. Ferulic acid and peroxidase infusion into disparate vegetables and its effect on texture

Costa, Stephanie Anne. Specializations of whist tournament designs

Davis, Braxton. Area-based management frameworks in the United States coastal zone

Denkin, Steven Michael. Regulation of empA metalloproteinase expression in Vibrio anguillarum

Fausett, Yvonne M.. Elementary school children's stigmatization of children with mental illness

Felice, Brian Roland. Type II collagen differentially degraded epitopes can be used to monitor in vitro and in vivo cartilage degradation

Findeisen, Mary. Client perceptions to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Symptoms and responses over time

Fisher, Kelly Lynn. The effects of distress and depression on exercise behaviors of type 2 diabetics: Applying the transtheoretical model

Ford, Kathryn Hale. Assessment of the Rhode Island Coastal Lagoon Ecosystem

Fox, Christine M.. Writing across cultures: Contrastive rhetoric and a writing center study of one student's journey

Gazabon, Shirley Amanda. Development of culturally tailored measures for Hispanics at-risk for HIV

Gibbons, Carol Herchen. Periodicity, convergence, and boundedness of some difference equations

Gilder, Kye M.. Extensions and application of the modified large-sample approach for constructing confidence intervals on functions of variance components

Gold, Marion Secrest. Biological control of the lily leaf beetle, Lilioceris lilii in North America

Gomaa, Sally. From free/slave binaries to Black/White dialectics: The problem of race in antebellum discourse (1831-1861)

Guo, Yu-Yau. Behavioral modeling and simulations of mixed-signal integrated circuits with process variations and physical defects

Hall, Paul S.. Free and forced convection in Earth's upper mantle

Hurley, Kevin Michael. Creativity in the time of accountability: Lessons from three middle schools

Jones, Julie M.. EXAMPLES OF POPULATION PHARMACOKINETIC MODELING IN DRUG DEVELOPMENT USING NONMEM

Kenna, George Anthony. Prevalence and risk factors associated with substance use and abuse by Rhode Island health care professionals

Kern, Diane Elliott. The relationships between metacomprehension strategy awareness, student reading performance and comprehension strategy instruction

Khan, Fyzodeen. Detection of masses in X-ray mammograms

Kshetri, Nir B.. Globalization of innovations: A multilevel-multimethod framework to explain diffusion and adoption of the Internet

Legendre, Susan Anne. The influence of cognitive reserve on neuropsychological functioning after coronary artery bypass grafting

Lisi, Arthur William Jr.. The personalization of the school environment: The relationship of students' access to support from an adult with student adjustment outcomes and experiences of school climate

Li, Yuxin. THE DEC1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR: ONCOGENIC INVOLVEMENT AND MOLECULAR MECHANISMS ON TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION

Lyon, Alicia B.. The Offering: Writing a historical screenplay

Martin, Rosemarie A.. Latent Transition Ananlysis as a Sensitive Outcome: Analysis for Longitudinal Data

Martin, Rosemarie Ann. Latent transition analysis as a sensitive outcome analysis for longitudinal data

Mauriello, Leanne Marie. Stress management during pregnancy: An investigation of the psychosocial, behavioral, and cognitive correlates

McCarthy, Elena Marie. International regulation of underwater sound: Establishing rules and standards to address ocean noise pollution

McCool, Jane A.. Life experiences of Cambodian-American refugee women: Segmented life stories

Mitchell, Douglas A.. Upper Current Structure and Variability in the Southwestern Japan/East Sea

Moodley, Mervlyn. Hierarchy of N-body correlations in different dimensions

Moores, Donald J.. Mystical discourse as ideological resistance in Wordsworth and Whitman: A transatlantic bridge

Mott, Sandra Ruth. Parenting the child with hypoplastic left heart syndrome

Nakao, Megumi. Dynamic games and competition for water resources

Newell, Laurienne Whinstanley. Analyzing public preferences and valuations for forested wetlands in Rhode Island: Comparisons of real-money and hypothetical survey presentations

Norberg, Patricia A.. Managed profiles: The value of personal information in commercial exchange

Obara, Michael J.. Development of an acoustic data storage tag for long range fish tracking in the ocean

Paesano, Beverly A.. The Embedded Writing Institute: A study of professional development

Paldy, Matthew G.. Self-organization, hierarchy, and task structure in workgroups: An empirical study of complexity theory

Pan, Xia. SPC for quality and risk: Monitoring processes with cross-sectional and serial interdependence, and higher moments

Pierce, Barbara Jean. The nutritional ecology of songbirds: How food quality, diet preferences, and food limitation influence nutrient storage and use during migration

Pinnock, Nina June. Factors influencing transition from early intervention

Polwitoon, Sirapat. Essays on United States-based global government bond funds

Qu, Xiuzhi. An integrated approach to finish machining of RP-produced parts

Reimer, Bryan L.. Automated methods of detecting driver distractions

Rodriguez, Wilfrid. Remote sensing and landscape analysis of indicators of estuarine condition in the northeastern United States

Ruffolo, Louis Francis Jr.. Assessing the relationship between neuropsychological constructs and alcohol use among college students

Scappaticci, A. A. Jr.. Neuronal control of nematocyst discharge in hydra

Schwager, Jeanne Marie. Home care nurses' decisions about pain management with older clients

Scott, Nicholas Vicente. Observations of the wind-wave spectrum and steep wave statistics in open ocean waters

Sicotte, Charles. Computerized Behavioral Observation: Implications for Improving Accuracy and Reducing Bias

Soffientino, Bruno. Thyroidal regulation of stomach development and toxicity of PCB 126 in metamorphosing summer flounder

Somers, Renee Dara. Gilded Age spaces, actual and imagined: Edith Wharton as a spatial activist and analyst

Sousa, Kenneth J.. Factors influencing the adoption of electronic business in the purchasing activities within a business organization using an extended technology acceptance model

Staroscik, Andrew M.. Bacterioplankton seasonal dynamics in Narragansett Bay

Tamse, Catherine T.. Intracellular dynamics of lead and calcium in lead-exposed cultured neurons of Aplysia californica (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia)

Taylor, David Lenox. Predation on the early life history stages of winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) by the sand shrimp (Crangon septemspinosa)

Turner, Stephen Edward. GAS FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER IN MICROCHANNELS: AN EXPERIMENT AL INVESTIGATION OF COMPRESSIBILITY, RAREFACTION, AND SURF ACE ROUGHNESS

Uhnak, Kenneth Stephen. Micropropagation of Carnivorous Plants

Wang, Yadong. Representing signals using only timing information and feature extraction for automatic speech recognition

Ward, John A.. Development and Validation of Transtheorectical Measure for College Student Spiritual Expression

Ward, John A.. Development and validation of transtheoretical measures for college student spiritual expression

Webb, Howarlene Sabrina. Testing of an intervention to decrease certified nursing assistant (CNA) turnover in a nursing home

Weinstein, Sarah Elizabeth. Sources, transport, and fates of particulate trace metals in the Gulf of Maine-Scotian Shelf and Labrador Sea

White, Steven Lee. Predictors for readiness to engage in low-risk HIV behaviors in men who have sex with men

Xia, Tian. On-chip timing measurement

Yang, Feng. Global terrain methods for process simulation

Yang, Jiansheng. Remote sensing modeling of land surface temperature

Yang, Shaohua. Improving the aluminum-air battery system for use in electrical vehicles

Zhang, Xinfeng. Nonenzymatic formation of advanced glycation endproducts by glucosamine autocondensation and glucosamine with proteins

Zhao, Miao. Attribute-level interactivity, satisfaction, and loyalty in the online environment

Theses/Dissertations from 2002 2002

Achanta, Anand S.. Rational Approaches to the Regulation of Nonprescription Medicines

Adamowicz, Susan C.. New England Salt Marsh Pools: Analysis of Geomorphic and Geographic Parameters, Macrophyte Distribution and Nekton Use

Alves, Steve Louis. An Examination of Collaborative Practice in Anesthesia Care Team Settings and Occupational Sress in Nurse Anesthetists

Alves, Steve Louis. An examination of collaborative practice in anesthesia care team settings and occupational stress in nurse anesthetists

Barton-Burke, Margaret. Breast cancer experiences: Women's reflections years after diagnosis

Benz, Marcel. The fundamental study of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and its application in a pyroelectric IR sensor device

Bintz, Joanne C.. The ecology and morphology of eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) and its associated macrophyte community in relation to environmental variables

Borkman, David Gerald. Analysis and simulation of Skeletonema costatum (Grev.) Cleve annual abundance patterns in lower Narragansett Bay 1959 to 1996

Browdy, Angeleah Arlene. The regulation and function of inositol phosphorylceramide synthase in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Brush, Mark James. Development of a numerical model for shallow marine ecosystems with application to Greenwich Bay, Rhode Island

Cannon, Gerardine. A study of the relation between reading achievement and less-than-proficient urban adolescent readers' world view of reading

Capalbo, Linda Greene. Peer group instructional conversation: Collaboration in context

Chang, Wonil. Influence of turbulent transport and chemistry on the distributions of hydrogen peroxide, methyl peroxide and formaldehyde in the remote marine boundary layer

Cheng, Meng. New one-dimensional ruthenium polymers

Chiang, Kuan-Pin. Why all clicks are not created equal: Consumer information search in the Web-based marketspace

Collis, Leon Paul. Regulation and mechanisms of excitation-contraction coupling in the ventricular myocardium of the surf clam, Spisula solidissima