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Theses/Dissertations from 2000

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Roethlein, Christopher John. Quality and strategy within United States based manufacturing supply chains

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Sarkisov, Dmitry. Study of the magnetic structure of multilayers and of an ultracold neutron storage anomaly

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Silverman, Amy Beth. Evaluating the efficacy of the Rhode Island Teen Dating Violence Prevention Program (TDVPP): A process and outcome approach to determining the success of both primary and secondary prevention projects

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Sindelar, Holly Anne. Elimination of the Hindsight Bias in Individual Versus Group Decision Making

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Stoler, Linda Ribble. RECOVERED AND CONTINUOUS MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE: A QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS

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Sullivan, James Michael. The effects of small-scale turbulence on the physiology of marine dinoflagellates

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Tang, Weifeng. Mechanisms of cadmium nephrotoxicity

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Thomas, Kimberly A.. Sensors: An optical waveguide strain sensor and an electrochemical oxygen sensor

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Tsou, Tien-Shui. Multispecies modeling of the Georges Bank fish community

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Wagner, Julie Ann. Blood glucose estimation accuracy in children with diabetes: An investigation of repeated practice with latent growth curve modeling

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Wagner, Melissa M.. Nucleic acids as indicators of growth rates and nutritional condition of Calanus finmarchicus (Copepoda: Calanoida)

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Wang, Zhongwei. Early estimates of the economic impacts during microelectronics product design

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Williams, Jason D.. Systematics, ecology, feeding biology, and reproduction of polydorids (Polychaeta: Spionidae) associated with hermit crabs from the Indo-West Pacific

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Zhang, Jun. A kinetics and mechanism study of the thermal decomposition of energetic materials

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Zheng, Mei. The sources and characteristics of atmospheric particulates during the wet and dry seasons in Hong Kong

Theses/Dissertations from 1999

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Abdullatif, Hanan. Toni Morrison: Rethinking the Past in a Postcolonial Context

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Andreozzi, Lynne M.. Attatchment Classification Among 18 Month Old Children of Adolescent Mothers

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Andreozzi, Lynne Meredith. Attachment classifications among eighteen-month-old children of adolescent mothers

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Armitage, William D.. On the Use of Undefined Logic Values in Digital VLSI

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Asselin, Marilyn Eliza. A descriptive, exploratory study of knowledge utilization among experienced staff nurses in an acute care setting

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Barboza, Helen Christina. Comparing the achievement of eighth-grade boys and girls on norm referenced and performance tests in language arts, reading and mathematics

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Beliveau, John J.. The influence of individual differences in preferences for sources of motivation in the resolution of intrapersonal conflict

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Bergen, Barbara Jane. The relationship between lipid class composition and the bioaccumulation of polychlorinated biphenyls in marine mussels

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Boisvert, Charles Miga. Practitioners' familiarity with psychotherapy research and their relative weighting of research and experience in formulating beliefs

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Case, Mark Benton. A multivariate analysis of the contrarian investment strategy in the Japanese stock market

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Chan, Christine. Spatial Patterns in Ocean Color and Temperature Maps: Fronts, Fractals, and Ecological Considerations

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Chang, Hui-Fang. Mechanisms of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons carcinogenesis: Synthesis and DNA binding studies of anti-and syn-3,4-dihydrodiol-5,5a-epoxide benzo(ghi);fluoranthene

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Chan, Soon Huat. Essay on financial "circuit breaker" mechanism

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Cremesti, Aida Elias. Ceramides: Quantification, and regulation in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae in response to hypoxia

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Curran, James M.. The determinants of consumer attitudes and intentions toward technology-based customer interfaces used in service delivery: An empirical investigation

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Dabaghian, Yuri Alexander. Nonperturbative aspects of the quantum chaos theory

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de Groot, Mary K.. The relationship of ethnicity to diabetes self-care and medical outcomes in African-Americans with type 2 diabetes mellitus

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Devine, Barry Edward. The golf course as a nature reserve: An evaluation of land use and diversity applied to ecosystem design

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Dietrich, Jean A.. Phonological representations of adult poor readers: An investigation of specificity and stability

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Doshi, Kaushik. Bench-scale study of a liquid phase oxidation reaction

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Duffy, Kathleen Ann. Feeding, growth and bioenergetics of the chain dogfish, Scyliorhinus retifer

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Epstein, Bonnie Loren. Constraining the alkenone unsaturation index

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Fong, Quentin Sai Wing. Assessment of Hong Kong shark fin market: Implication for fishery management

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Garcia, Todd E.. Characterization of the effects of the mugA and ACCD genes on the growth and virulence of Vibrio anguillarum

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Geldart, Roderick William. Applications of image analysis in the development of recombinant protein processes

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Giannopoulos, Evangelos H.. Optimum techniques in multisensor multitarget tracking and track association

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Hamlett, Anthony Cleophas. Dose selection study designs in early phase II clinical trials

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Harrison, Stanley D.. Foundations for the study of American rhapsody

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Hein, Richard Gust. Age, growth, and factors controlling post-settlement habitat use of juvenile French grunts (Haemulon flavolineatum) near Tobacco Caye, Belize, Central America

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Hikmet, Neset. Factors affecting the intent to use information technology in health care organizations: A comparative study

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Hird, Anne. Middle school students' classroom Internet use: An ethnographic study of technology use and constructivist learning

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Hoogeveen, Jeffrey Laurence. Student desire and the history of composition

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Hope, Penelope. Blood on the tracks: Biblical law and sacrifice in the eighteenth-century English novel

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Huang, Suilou. Trace elements over the North Atlantic Ocean: Sources and transport pathways

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Hu, Bi-Huang. Synthesis and bioactivity of thiazole and oxazole-containing peptidomimetics

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Hu, Chih-Ching. Photodetachment of metastable helium molecules from helium clusters

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Iakoubovski, Mikhail Alexander. Constrained optimization and analytic spectral factorization

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Jackson, Kimberley Anne. THE APPLICATION OF THE POPULATION APPROACH TO PHARMACOKINETICS IN DRUG DEVELOPMENT

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Javorsky, Debbie Jo. A validation study of the Boston Qualitative Scoring System (BQSS) for the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test

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Johnston, Robert Kenneth. Assessing the ecological risk of toxic chemicals on coastal and estuarine ecosystems

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Jones, Lisa M.. Maltreating Caregivers: An Application of the Transtheoretical Model of Change

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Jones, William Hollis. Test-based decoding for digital communication systems

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Kennedy, Holly Powell. Linking midwifery practice to outcomes

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Kopp, Blaine S.. Effects of nitrate fertilization and shading on physiological and biomechanical properties of eelgrass (Zostera marina L.)

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Lau, Kam Fui. Quantifying temporal and logical consistencies for index arbitrage transaction scheduling

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Lee, Samuel Sangwon. A modeling study on vadose zone leaching, saturated zone mixing, and groundwater flow in heterogeneous aquifer

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Lee, Sangkug. An investigation of factors that regulate the size of tracheary elements in plants

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Levine, Peter Jonathan. Monte Carlo simulation of block-coded data

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Lewis, Scott J.. Pitch tournaments: A new class of combinatorial designs

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Maddock, Jason Edward. Statistical power and effect size in the field of health psychology

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Ma, Jun. Systematic type synthesis of variable-constraint mechanisms

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Martin-Webb, Elena Berneita. The effect of solar ultraviolet radiation on marine planktonic ciliate survival and the penetration of ultraviolet irradiance on Georges Bank

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McGurl, Katherine A.. Representations of violence in Gothic literature: Consumer practices and cultural identity

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McKiernan, Kristen A.. How Subject Characteristics Influence Attention Task Performance: A Structural Modeling Approach

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McMillan, Bradley Farrell. A Structural Equation Modeling Approach to Understanding Psychological Empowerment in Community Prevention Coalitions

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Merritt, Adele Johanna Josiger. Advances in Z-cyclic whist and triplewhist tournaments

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Miller, James Allen. Observed Conflict, Sexual Experience, Pornography, and Coercive Behavior as Predictors of Men’s Sexual Arousal to Sexual and Violent Images

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Nadeau, Jean-Paul. Webbed text: A new tool for teachers of rhetoric and composition

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Nigg, Claudio Renato. Predicting, explaining and understanding adolescent exercise behavior using longitudinal and cross-sectional approaches

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O'Connell, John Thomas. The employer/employee relationship: Identifying type and level of employee involvement and the relationship to extra-role behavior and intent to remain

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O'Grady, Helen M.. Part-time practitioners: Deliberating the contradictions

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Olinsky, Alan David. The comparative efficacy of imputation methods for missing data in structural equation modeling

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O'Neill, John William. Determinant factors and strategic consequences of an interorganizational microculture: An analysis of the lodging industry

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Parameswaran, Venkitanarayanan. Dynamic crack propagation and damage evolution in functionally gradient materials

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Perry, Evelyn Mooar. Maid in voyage: Maid Marian and female heroism in twentieth century retellings of the legend of Robin Hood

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Prentice, Jennifer Eileen. Solar ultraviolet radiation in the sea and photoinhibitory effects on natural phytoplankton populations

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Quadir, Muhammad Anisul. Development and optimization of nasal delivery of ketorolac

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Quan, Liang. Contact melting of phase-change material with effect of vibration

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Rajabzadeh, Masoumeh. Optimum window function for sensitivity enhancement in NMR and fluorine-19 NMR of arylamine-DNA adducts

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Rajamony, Jayendran. Meander-induced exchange across the Gulf Stream

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Rashed, Suzette F.. PHARMACODYNAMIC PARAMETERS: INFLUENCE ON DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP AND ESTIMATION

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Regan, John J.. Runaway nuns, runaway bestsellers: Representations of gender and *class in antebellum convent captivity narratives and fictions

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Roy, Joanne F.. Self-efficacy in women following myocardial infarction: An investigation into the effects of a cognitive-interactive nursing intervention on efficacy enhancement

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Rutherford, Scott David. Milankovitch and sub-Milankovitch periodicity in deep sea sediments during the Plio-Pleistocene

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Savin, Mary Cathleen. Interactions among pore size distribution, nematodes and carbon and nitrogen mineralization in soil

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Seelenbinder, John Arthur. Enhanced infrared spectroscopy for the detection of chemical and biological analytes

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Seitsinger, Anne M.. By whom and how is service-learning implemented in middle-level schools involved in documenting school improvement: A quantitative study of opportunity-to-learn conditions and practices

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Silver, Barbara E.. A Media Skills Intervention for Adolescents on Gender Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors

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Stepaniants, Armen Boris. Transport phenomena in nanoscale systems

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Stepanov, Vyacheslav V.. Quantum integrability and nonintegrability of Hamiltonian systems with two degrees of freedom

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Swanson, Jennifer Ann. Sports participation: An organizational perspective

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Teegarden, Gregory Joseph. Mechanisms, ecology, and toxicology of zooplankton feeding processes in the presence of harmful algae (Alexandrium spp.)

Uz, Baris Mete. Gravity-capillary waves and their influence on air-sea interaction under non-stationary conditions

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Uz, B. Mete. GRAVITY-CAPILLARY WAVES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON AIR-SEA INTERACTION UNDER NON-STATIONARY CONDITIONS

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Valicenti, Soudabeh. Periodicity and global attractivity of some difference equations