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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 1999 1999

Vazquez, Maria. PUERTO RICAN FAMILY FUNCTIONING, ACCULTURATION AND ATTITUDES TOWARD FAMILY COUNSELING

Ward, Alexandra Jane. PRESCRIBING PATTERNS AND CLINICAL OUTCOMES IN ASTHMATIC CHILDREN: A HISTORICAL COHORT STUDY

Washkwich, Jacque Lynne. How diverse is ethnic diversity in books for young children

Westrick, Edward Roy. Antihypertensive Pharmacotherapy: Does Prescribing Follow National Guideline Recommendations?

Willis, Christopher Scott. The Learning Network Model of School Psychological Services: A heuristic framework for a formative program evaluation and organizational development plan

Wu, Qiang. Applications of resonance Raman spectroscopy to algae and bacteria

Ye, Jianming. Rapid detection of Staphylococcus aureus using a membrane fiber-optic biosensor

Yu, Genqiang. Computer simulation of fluid flow and particle diffusion within human upper airways system

Zeng, Peiyu. Developmental regulation of gene expression during senescence in soybean (Glycine max L.)

Zheng, Naiyu. Studies on the production of bioactive metabolites by marine microalgae

Zucker, Donna Moser. Two contrasting cases of men's experiences with chronic coronary heart disease post 1985

Theses/Dissertations from 1998 1998

Al-Amleh, Amal M.. Boundedness, Periodicity and Stability of Some Difference Equations

Al-Weqaiyan, Adel A.. Examining the Association Between Personal and Cultural Values and Cross-National Customer Satisfaction

Andrade, Glenna M.. (Re)Envisioned (Pre)History: Feminism, Goddess Politics, and Readership Analysis of The Clan of the Cave Bear and The Valley of the Horses

Aylward, Susan L.. "Accidents of terrain": The native and foreign worlds of David Plante

Bosco, Susan Blanchard. The Effect of Developmental Process on the Cognitive Complexity of Stereotypes

Bruno, Linda N.. Predicting Mathematics Performance: A Structural Equation Model

Charette, Matthew Adam. Thorium-234 as a tracer of the oceanic export of particulate organic carbon

Culver-Rymsza, Karen E.. The effect of nitrogen source on photoinhibition in marine phytoplankton

Cunningham, David Philip. EDS: The Experimental Design Simulator

Dick, Karen L.. Acute confusion in the elderly hospitalized patient: An exploration of experienced nursing care

Dineen, Anne C.. The Relationship of Physical Activity to Self-Concept and Perceived Stress in Adolescent Females

Dryfoos, Janet Marie. The relationship of glucose testing attitudes and behavior to the stages of change: Application of the transtheoretical model to diabetes

England, Raymond Oliver. Unified high-temperature behavior of thin-gauge superalloys

Esibov, Levon A.. Dynamics of pseudo-partial wetting studied by neutron reflectometry

Esposito, Mary Beth. An exploration of the nature of nursing practice in patient-focused care

Evers, Kerry E.. Quantitative Methods for Assessing Change: Application to Condom Use

Evers, Kerry Elizabeth. Quantitive methods for assessing change: Application to condom use

Faulkner, Carol Jeanne. Borderline personality disorder subtypes among hospitalized female adolescents

Feuer, Jeffrey Jacob. Invariants and invariant regions of Lyness-type difference equations

Flint, Thomas W.. Performance analysis of subspace methods in state-space system identification

Friedman-Lombardo, Jaclyn. An empirical analysis of personality disorders in female adolescents

Geldart, Susan Elizabeth. The analysis of nucleotides by capillary electrophoresis with sodium carbonate buffers

Gonzalez, Jose Beselin. Fiction in the Latino autobiography

Gregory, Colleen Jeanette. Resiliency among lesbian and bisexual women during the process of self-acceptance and disclosure of their sexual orientation

Holland, Daniel Saffa. The use of year-round closed areas for the management of New England trawl fisheries

Hu, Yiming. Design and performance evaluation of new input/output architectures

Iem, Byeong-Gwan. Generalization of the Weyl symbol and the spreading function via time-frequency warpings: Theory and application

Jain, Rajeev. CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY FROM A NOVEL INJECTABLE IN SITU FORMED BIODEGRADABLE PLGA MICROSPHERE SYSTEM

Jiang, Zhongchun. Utilization of nitrate-nitrogen by Kentucky bluegrass

Jones, Gregory Bennett. Scheduling with temporal and logical constraints

Kamel, Amin M.. Effects of experimental parameters on electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectra of tetracyclines and nucleoside antiviral agents

Kavaturu, Mahesh. Dynamic interfacial fracture: Experimental observations and criteria

Keith, Michael Curtis. Commercial underground radio and the sixties: An oral history and narrative

Kent, Candace Marie. Stability and periodicity of some difference equations and applications

Koza, Darrell J.. Polyaromatic heterocycles and azine oxidation chemistry

Lee, Patricia Ann. Factors related to HIV risk: Predictors of risky sexual behavior and attitudes toward microbicide use

Levesque, Deborah A.. Violence Desistance Among Battering Men: Existing Interventions and the Application of the Transtheoretical Model of Change

Liburd, Oscar Emanuel. Behavioural management techniques for broccoli and blueberry pests

Liu, Yongsheng. Purification and characterization of inositolphosphoryl ceramide synthase from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

MacLeod, Robert Bruce. Subspace processing of weak signals masked by underwater reverberation due to active sonar

Markowski, Daniel Mark. Genetic analysis of northeastern populations of Ixodes scapularis using RAPD and FRLP-PCR techniques

Mayers, Timothy Robert. Craft criticism, composition theory, and the future(s) of English studies

Mehta, Ketan Arvind. THE DEVELOPMENT, CHARACTERIZATION AND EVALUATION OF A NOVEL MULTI-UNIT ERODING MATRIX SYSTEM FOR POORLY SOLUBLE DRUGS

Meinen, Christopher Stuart. TRANSPORT OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENT

Merson, Rebeka Rand. Nursery grounds and maturation of the sandbar shark in the western North Atlantic

Miller, Christopher Jansen. Cooperative behavior and the feasibility of cost sharing in nonpoint source pollution control

Mitchell, Kimberly Jeanne. Childhood sexual abuse and family functioning linked with eating and substance misuse: Mediated structural models

Moul, Diane Wellins. "A certain something": Reclaiming Grace Sartwell Mason

Muller, Kurt Johann. Correlates of early reading performance in a transparent orthography

Norman, Gregory J.. A Cluster Analytic Test of the Transtheoretical Model Applied to Exercise Behavior

Okafor, Ekwutosi Anastasia. Optical sensors: Development and applications in the UV-visible, near and mid infrared spectroscopy

Qu, Xinhua. Free radicals, hair melanin, and human hair. Terephthalate anion: A probe for hydroxyl radicals

Reed, Robyn Lynn. Image and attitude: The impact of media images on the self-esteem, body image and sexual attitudes of college students

Ryan, John Phillip. Enhanced chlorophyll along the continental shelfbreak and shelf-slope front of the Mid-Atlantic Bight and Georges Bank during the spring transition

Schaeffer, Ira. Rites of passage in the plays of David Mamet

Schnoll, Robert Adam. Psychosocial adaptation to cancer: A structural model and classification scheme

Schreiber, Alexander M.. Metamorphosis in the summer flounder, Paralichthys dentatus: Developmental and osmoregulatory responses to altered thyroid status

Smith, Nancy Ruth. Adolescent Students with Behavior Disorders: Teacher's Current Referral Practices

Suchman, Cynthia Lee. Factors affecting the vulnerability of Acartia spp. copepods to predation by scyphomedusae

Sun, Fang-Ming. Bioconversion of cis-, trans-cinnamic acids and chlorinated cinnamic acids by resting cell culture of Rhodotorula rubra Y-1529

Sun, Feng. Optimizing machining operations using tool wear information

Sun, Jingxian. Kinetics of the aggregation of poly(N-phenylisocyanide), optical detection of strain using polymer sensors, and photochemistry of azobenzene analogues

Tillotson, Mary Ellen K.. Analogue Versus Authentic Data: Prereferral Intervention Strategy Utilization, Effectiveness and Self-Efficacy Beliefs

Twardowski, Michael Stewart. THE FINESCALE DISTRIBUTION, ORIGIN, AND PHOTOBLEACHING OF THE SPECTRAL ABSORPTION OF DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER IN COASTAL WATERS

Zucker, David Andrew. Economic analysis of flounder aquaculture

Theses/Dissertations from 1997 1997

Adamowicz, Catherine. Indicated Silences in American Novels

Adeyemi, Olufemi A.. Multifractal Analysis of Unvoiced Speech Signals

Albelaikhi, Abdulaziz Abdurrahman. Development of a Muslim Religiosity Scale

Alfultis, Michael Aaron. Statistical Characterizations of North Atlantic Subtropical Mode Water

Barber, Elaine Doris. Integrating patient teaching into bedside patient care: A participant-observation study

Barbuto, John E. Jr.. Motivation and leadership: Towards a predictive model of leader influence behaviors

Carboni, Judith Treschuk. Coming home: An investigation of the enfolding-unfolding movement of human environmental energy field patterns within the nursing home setting and the enfoldment of health-as-wholeness-and-harmony by the nurse and client

Casey, Kenneth Scott. Sea surface temperature trends from satellite and in situ data

Cassidy, Linda C.. The Stability of WISC-III Scores: For Whom are Triennial Re-Evaluations Necessary?

Curley, Susan L.. Training Caregivers to Intervene in the Exploratory Play of Young Children with Developmental Delays

Dutkiewicz, Stephanie. Inter-gyre exchange: A process study

Feng, Li. Nonenzymatic glycation of human fibrinogen and myelin basic protein

Fortin, David R.. The impact of interactivity on advertising effectiveness in the New Media

Friday, Nancy Ann. Evaluating photographic capture-recapture estimates of abundance of North Atlantic humpback whales

Fuller, Kelly Molkenthin. Characterization of blow-up solutions to certain nonlinear Volterra integral equations

Grall-Johnson, Helene Marie. The geochemical evolution of Tambora volcano, Indonesia

Greenlee, Timothy Blair. Alternative communication strategies to influence risky behavior: Addressing the AIDS pandemic

Hassan, Scott Edwin. Acoustic wave propagation in fluid-loaded elastic ducts

Hull, Thomas Clinton. Some problems in list coloring bipartite graphs

Johnson, Sara Suzanne. Oral contraceptive use: The application of the transtheoretical model

Johnston-Robledo, Ingrid. The impact of childbirth preparation and support on labor and birth outcomes

Kennedy, Kristen Francis. Cynics, Spaces, and Subjects: Toward a Tactical Ethics of Rhetoric

Khatun, Saiyeda. The representation of women in contemporary Bangladeshi literature: A new challenge in the postcolonial field

Kim, Cheolkyu. Photodetachment studies of negatively charged and metastably excited helium nanodroplets