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Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Coppa, Denise Ann
. The internal process of therapeutic touch as nursing actionCornelius, Michael Gary
. A friend of Edward's: Identity, homosexuality, and the literature of Edward II, 1300-1630Curtin, Alicia J.
. An exploratory study of the effects of a training program on the ability to prepare a breakfast meal by clients with mild Alzheimer's diseaseDiehl, Steven Kenneth
. Adult Attachment Patterns: The Relationship Between Security of Attachment and Adjustment to Prison and Separation From Loved OnesDuarte, Cecilia Maria
. Help-seeking behaviors among Latino and Latina college studentsDumanli, Inayet
. MECHANISTIC STUDIES TO ELUCIDATE THE ROLE OF LIPID VEHICLES ON SOLUBILITY, FORMULATION AND BIOA VAILABILITY OF POORLY SOLUBLE COMPOUNDSFarrell, Mary E. McGinn
. An exploration of the nature of nursing practice related to the presence of visitors in the critical care settingFrolov, Sergey Alexander
. A numerical study of Gulf Stream meandering and associated physical processesGable, Frank Joseph
. THE SCIENCE/POLICY OF THE CONTEMPORARY COASTAL CHALLENGE OF VULNERABILITY FROM CLIMATE CHANGE ON SUSTAINABLE TOURISM: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE WIDER CARIBBEANGauthier, Benoit George Jr.
. Demand-based configuration of modular product architectureGionta, Dana Anne
. A proposed model of medical staff-family communication in the context of cancer: Psychometric, model and mediational testingGudmundsson, Eyjolfur
. Market information and fisheries management: Improving efficiency in private property right management systemsGuo, Ruiguang
. An alternate to chromate conversion coatings for the corrosion protection of aluminum 2024-T3Hermsen, Jerome Michael Jr.
. Effects of mobile fishing gear on the benthic megafauna and production of Georges BankHe, Xubin
. Design and performance evaluation of networked storage architecturesHolmes, Sarah Catherine
. Leftist literature and the ideology of eugenics during the American DepressionHsieh, Chih-Jou
. The short-run and long-run performance of Singapore initial public offeringsKenyon, Lisa Renee
. Digging up roots in "Gardens of Eden": Michelene Wandor's feminist midrashKingsley, Richard Hale
. The geochemistry of basalts from the Easter microplate boundaries and the western Easter-Salas y Gomez seamount chain: A comprehensive study of mantle plume-spreading center interactionKobokovich, Linda Jean
. The nature of infant relinquishment as described by two voices: The relinquishing mother and the obstetrical nurseKochurov, Alexander Gennadievich
. The ocean response to atmospheric intraseasonal variability in the tropical Pacific OceanKo, Seok-Bum
. Efficient FPGA realizations based on AND/XOR expressionsLacroix, Shirley E.
. The effect of an integrated curriculum on fourth graders' achievement in and attitude toward music instructionLazarevich, Peter
. Lagrangian studies of oxygen variability in the North Atlantic OceanLeite-Morris, Kimberly Anne
. GABA B receptors in the ventral tegmental area regulate morphine-induced motor sensitization and accumbal fos expression in C57BL/6 miceLi, Wenguang
. Studies of inter-polymer complexes of conducting polymersLuo, Meifeng
. Container transportation service demand simulation model for United States coastal container portsManagi, Shunsuke
. Technological change, depletion and environmental policy in the offshore oil and gas industryMashikian, Sonia C.
. Quality of discourse organization on a story-reconstruction task in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and normally developing peersMcGovern, Charles Eugene
. Fish landmarks for chromosome 11 of Bombyx mori: An in situ analysisMirsky, Elena
. INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN TODDLER EMOTION COPING: THE IMPACT OF TEMPERAMENT AND SOCIALIZATION EXPERIENCES ON REGULATION DEVELOPMENTMogawer, Hanan S.
. Corrosion protection of aluminum alloys using a chromate conversion coatingMurray, Lynne Dawn
. MMPI-2 Scores as a Predictor of Outcomes on the Phase II Profile Integrity InventoryOsterman, Paulette Anne
. A participant observation study of experienced nurses' presence in daily carePacheco, Andrada Ioana
. Papers in spatial analysis of regional economic growthPerez Brunius, Paula
. The North Atlantic current-subpolar front system: A study combining float data and historical hydrographyQuigley, M. Patricia Burnside
. Female coping with cardiac rehabilitation after a cardiac event: A qualitative studyReid, Sean Frederick
. Non-normality of asset returns in the assessment of risk-adjusted performance: Three empirical tests of the Leland alternative asset pricing modelRobb, Christina Susan
. Conductive polymer coatings for CERussell, Emily D.
. An Examination of the Nature of Reading FluencySetlik, Brian Joseph
. Electromigration characterization of aluminum-copper alloy interconnectsShaw, Sylvia Montgomery
. Ghosts at the table: Historiography and nonfiction narrative as rhetorical constructs of the Mexican Counter-Revolution of 1913Sheehan, Margaret Mary
. Holistic grading of essays written by native and non-native writers by instructors and independent raters: A comparative studySila, Ismail
. An empirical investigation of the critical linkages among best practice factors and their impact on business resultsSmith, Douglas Eliot
. Geomagnetic sensitivity and orientation in eastern garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis)Snow, Julie Amy
. Convective transport of hydroxyl and hydroperoxyl precursors to the upper troposphereSong, Zhiyi
. Information content of open-market stock repurchase and dividend policySpencer, Michael Andrew
. Three experiments on providing and valuing threshold public goods with alternative rebate rulesVemavarapu, Chandra S.
. PARTICLE FORMATION BY RAPID EXPANSION OF SUPERCRITICAL SOLUTIONSViator, Oran Joseph Jr.
. A comprehensive mass balance of a watershed under steady state conditionsWang, Yuexia
. Genetic transformation of bentgrasses for fungal disease resistanceWard, Rose Marie
. Highly significant findings in psychology: A power and effect size surveyWright, Julie A.
. An analysis of the predictive power of the transtheoretical model of behavior change applied to dietary fat intakeZhang, He
. Functional characterization of the pregnane X receptorTheses/Dissertations from 2001
Allard, Gregory Andrew
. Assessing depression treatment and outcomes using insurance claims dataArciero, Michael Joseph
. Some Limit Theorems for Szego PolynomialsBabacan, Sibel
. Honey amylase and the effect in starch-containing foodsBeauregard, Jennifer Livesley
. Explosive rhyodacitic volcanism: The evolution and frequency of pre-1883 eruptions at Krakatau volcano, IndonesiaBittner, Nancy Phoenix
. An exploration of critical thinking and processing in cardiac nurses' practiceBonsu, Samuel Kwaku
. Death and identity: Consumer behavior in Asante death ritualsBontempi, Paula Susan
. Remote sensing of bio-optical water types, phytoplankton seasonality, and algal pigments in ocean margin watersBowler, Celeste Minor
. The influence of teacher response on African American students' codeswitchingBrodjonegoro, Irsan Soemantri
. Acoustic imaging of sources located either external, internal or on the surface of an arbitrary bodyCady-Webster, Kathleen S.
. Dialogue in the development of a consilience index: A quantum approach to integrating qualitative and quantitative practices in the social sciencesCao, He
. Theoretical and experimental study of fiber-optic fluorescence immunosensorsCardinale, Mary K.
. Piety and intolerance: A rhetorical inquiry into the constituting of Christian fundamentalist identityCasey Torrey, Susan Patricia
. An analysis of Rhode Island child opportunity zones through the lens of whole-school changeCho, Jung-Hee
. Optimal exploitation of Atlantic herring stocks in United States of America: Bioeconomic model for Atlantic herringCleary, Thomas Terrence
. Providing phonemic awareness instruction to pre-first graders: An extended-year kindergarten programCorreia, Stephen
. The Potential Clinical Utility of Methods for Estimating Prior Standing in Specific Cognitive Domains: A Feasibility and Illustration StudyDesai, Yogita
. A MECHANISTIC STUDY OF FLOW AND COMPRESSION BEHAVIOR OF PHARMACEUTICAL POWDERSEriksen, Matthew
. The electronic fishbowl as a community of inquiry: Management passion in the XXIst centuryGreen, Angel Yvonne
. Street TheaterHallak, Maram
. Nonviolence training program evaluationHanafi, Mamduh M.
. Essay on foreign and domestic investorsHardro, Peter Jason
. Development of materials for the rapid manufacture of die cast toolingHartmann, Paul Christian
. Contaminants in Narragansett Bay sedimentsHenry, Timothy Michael
. Using JPEG2000 compressed images for foveated texture mapping in limited memory environmentsHuffman, Scott Wade
. Biological vibrational spectroscopy: From a cellular to a sub-cellular levelJeng, Shih-Ching
. Efficiency Issues in the Financial Services Industry WorldwideJohnson, Janet L.
. Integrating the Transtheoretical Model: A Quantitative Analysis in the Area of Sun ExposureJones-Hudson, Vonda Dionne
. Movin' on up to the 21st century: Multiculturalism… making the abstract appliedJordan, Patricia Janet
. Development, validation and factorial invariance of transtheoretical model measures for recovery from anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosaKajiji, Nina
. Adaptation of closed form regularization parameters with prior information to the radial basis function neural network for high frequency financial time seriesKim, Gi-Ho
. Impedance analysis of an enhanced piezoelectric biosensorKingston, Sharon
. The relationship between a sense of community and social disorganization and neighborhood deprivationKlein, Ilene
. The relationship of community and prevention coalition characteristics to rates of adolescent substance abuseKogut, Stephen Jon
. HYPOGLYCEMIC DRUG UTILIZATION AND ADHERENCE TO PRESCRIBED REGIMENS: A PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDY USING RETAIL PHARMACY DATALallemand, Philippe D.
. A synthetic approach to forecasting fleet costs and earnings in the northeast regions of the United StatesLamoureux, Anne Maile
. School psychologists' knowledge of family violence and their identification of children from violent homesLian, Peizhi
. Physicochemical and microstructural changes in minced fish muscles as affected by cryoprotectantsLi, Edwin
. Cadmium toxicity and random motility studies using marine dinoflagellatesLiu, Delong
. Enhancing micro-organism images by estimating image backgroundLuo, Qing
. Indium tin oxide thin film strain gages for use at elevated temperaturesMaria, Anton Hanna
. Characterization and fractal analysis of volcanic particles: A multidimensional approach to interpretation of volcaniclastic depositsMcCarthy, Patrick Allen
. Synthesis of conducting polymer complexesMele, Kate
. Legal subjects: The tropological construction of "woman" in legal narrativesMeyer, Miriam I.
. Effects of Reading Disability in Adolescents on Self-Concept and Future ExpectationsMills, Dana Scott
. Examining the structural and philosophical positions of community-based organization practitionersMorrow, Jennifer Ann
. CHILDHOOD TRAUMA, FAMILY FUNCTIONING AND ADULT HEALTH: PROTECTIVE FACTORS AS MEDIATING VARIABLES