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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 1995 1995

Bontatibus, Donna R.. The seduction novel of the early nation: A call for sociopolitical reform

Braga, Mary C.. More about Jane Austen

Bullock, Heather Ellen. Attributions for poverty: A comparison of middle class and welfare recipient attitudes

Castillo, Marina Rafaela. Calcium ion-dependent mechanisms of cell injury: The role of calcium ion-dependent proteases, phospholipases, and microtubule depolymerization in neurotoxicity

Chen, Chi-Shi. Applications of multicomponent analysis and fiber optic in un-visible, near and mid infrared spectroscopy

Clancy, Michael. Recruitment of the rock crab, Cancer irroratus: The influence of larval supply, settlement and post-settlement processes to benthic distribution patterns

Cottrill, Sara D.. The Psychological Modulation of the Immune System: A Meta-Analysis

Craghead, S. Elaine. Of subversion and sexuality: A discursive analysis of late twentieth-century American popular culture

Cromarty, Stuart Ian. Neuroethology of the escape response of the juvenile and adult American lobster, Homarus americanus, over the molt cycle

Dalton, Joanne Marie. Client-caregiver-nurse interaction in a home care setting

De Antonis, Kathryn Marie. The analysis of amino acids and peptides by high performance liquid chromatography and capillary electrophoresis using the novel derivatizing agent, 6-aminoquinolyl-N-hydroxysuccinimidyl carbamate

Dipippo, Lisa Beth. Object-based semantic real-time concurrency control

Donohue, Kathleen Ann. Wave propagation in the central equatorial Pacific Ocean

Donohue, Rebecca Koeniger. An exploratory study of a women's health nurse practitioner-client interaction as resource exchange in a clinic environment

Dua, Ramneik. The influence of formulation and device variables on the intranasal absorption of salmon calcitonin

Dua, Ramneik. The Influence of Formulation and Device Variables on the Intransasal Absorption of Salmon Calcitonin

Fagermoen, May Solveig. The meaning of nurses' work: A descriptive study of values fundamental to professional identity in nursing

Felix, Christina Hunter. Domesticity, home and the culture of the everyday in four American twentieth-century novels

Gleason, Timothy Ross. The relationship between size and survival for the early life history stages of Menidia beryllina (Cope) in a Rhode Island estuary

Gordon, Susan Holly. Cold hardiness and growth in azalea buds

Huang, Shih-I. Inhibitory effects of cellulose and nonprovitamin A carotenoids on beta-carotene utilization in rats

Huber, Marina. Environmental control of reproduction in an estuarine fish, Menidia beryllina (Cope), in Rhode Island

Hummon, Julia Margaret. A Gulf Stream-warm core ring interaction case study using statistical optimal interpolation

Iyengar, Lakshmi R.. Neutron optical study of ferromagnetic multilayers

Jeon, Heeseon. Effects of ultraviolet-B radiation on marine zooplankton communities in a shallow estuarine system

Ji, Hong. The role of pyruvate carboxylase and carnitine in intermediary metabolism of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

Keating, Moira Eileen. Monkey in the middle

Kleinman, Craig Ira. Jews in space: On an American road to know where

Kostka, Edith Agnes. To make a better self: A spiritual reading of Jane Austen's "Emma"

Kumaresan, Vidhyadevi. Normal development of lumbar dorsal root ganglia in Rana pipiens: An autobiographic study of neuronal birthdates

Lee, Elaine C.. An Alternative School: An Alternative Solution

Lee, Meehye. Hydrogen peroxide, methyl hydroperoxide, and formaldehyde in air impacted by biomass burning

Leonard, Nancy Hasenyager. Group cognitive style and its impact on strategic decision-making and organizational direction

Levin, Susan Alison. Multicultural family functioning and attitudes toward family counseling

Lin, Hsing-Juh. Responses of epiphytes on eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) to nutrient enrichment

Li, Qi. Classification using principal features with application to speaker verification

Li, Syou-Jyan. Pathophysiological mechanism of ibuprofen-incurred renal failure and enzymology and metabolic stereoisomeric inversion of ibuprofen

Macinnes, Craig Scott. Analysis of small and large perturbations of matrix subspaces

Maharaj, Vishwanie. Valuation of Atlantic salmon sport fishing in New England and an economic analysis of farming adult Atlantic salmon for a sport fishery

Mandeville, Charles William. Submarine pyroclastic deposits: Implications for pyroclastic flow/seawater interactions and volatile discharge during explosive volcanic eruptions

Marteinsdottir, Gudrun. An investigation of the relationship of self-determination to exercise behavior in Icelandic women

Migneault, Jeffrey Peter. A Transtheoretical Investigation of Immoderate Drinking in College

Muksian, Robin A.. Changing representations of the horse: A study in discursive practices

Mushinski, Andrei M.. Wave-functions of small quantum clusters

Nester, Nancy L.. Signs of family: Images of family life in contemporary American literature

Papandreou-Suppappola, Antonia. New classes of quadratic time-frequency representations with scale covariance and generalized time-shift covariance: Analysis, detection, and estimation

Peck, John A.. An environmental magnetic study of the sediments of Lake Baikal, Russia

Petricig, Richard Oliver. BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS (TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS) IN BULL CREEK, SOUTH CAROLINA

Phillips, Michele F.. Loneliness in mothers of boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: Case study methodology

Pino, Raquel D.. The Exercise and Self-Esteem Model: Inclusion of Physical Acceptance in Tests of Model Constructs

Premasiri, Ajith H.. Syntheses and characterization of poly(aminophenazines) and poly(fluoroanilines)

Prichard, Janet Jamie. RTSQL: Extending the SQL standard to support real-time databases

Rafanelli, Anthony Joseph. A mechanical reliability approach for the optimization of alternatives to tin-lead solder interconnection systems for electronic packaging

Ramalingam, C. S.. Analysis of non-stationary, multi-component signals with applications to speech

Reed, Gabrielle Richards. Measuring Stage of Change for Exercise

Rheault, Robert B. Jr.. Studies on food-limited growth in juvenile shellfish using novel aquaculture approaches

Rocchio, Lisa Marie. The Pursuit of Beauty Through Thinness and the Impact of Advertising on College Women's Attitudes

Roy, Matthew H.. The important of cognitive adaptability for communicative performance across cooperative interactions

Saltzman, Jennifer. Zooplankton ecology in relation to a prominent oxygen minimum zone and a seamount in the eastern tropical Pacific

Schmitt, Ronald Emil. The reclamation of the future dream: Dreams in British science fiction

Scorpio, Angelo. Stress response proteins in Borrelia burgdorferi: Subcellular localization and physiological function of the chaperone proteins Hsp60 and Hsp70; regulation of stress protein synthesis by exposure to Ixodes scapularis saliva (Acari: Ixodidae)

Shaw, Beth Joann. Protective and Risk Factors for Adolescents in a Residential School Setting

Sienkiewicz, George. An Investigation of the Material and Process Variables in Pharmaceutical Wet Granulation

Singh, Raman Pal. Catastrophic failure of bimaterial interfaces

Sobrinho, Jose Antonio Honorio. Investion of a jet flocculation/adsorption system

Sonti, Srinivas V.. Surface functionalized magnetic nanoclusters for bioseparations

Sridhar, Balakrishnan. Rare-earth doped fiber amplifiers for the first telecommunication window

Stepaniants, Sergey Boris. Ballistic and transverse transport in classical and quantum systems

Sullivan, Megan Mary. Gendered states: Literature, film, and theatre in Northern Ireland

Swartz, Michael Edward. Separation and detection of enantiomeric compounds by liquid chromatography and chiral micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography

Sweeney, Neal Joseph. The role offim-linked genes and the eda gene in the ability of Escherichia coli to colonize the streptomycin-treated mouse intestine

Tsoh, Janice Yusze. Stages of Change, Dropouts, and Outcome in Substance Abuse Treatment

Vaillancourt, Robert David. Photosynthesis and light absorption in the large marine dinoflagellate, Pyrocystis noctiluca Murray ex Haeckel (1890) grown in laboratory culture

Vallee, Glenn E.. A study of the dynamic mechanical behavior of elastomers under impact loading

Vessella, Joseph Anthony. Characterization of the stress response of Clostridium difficile and its effects on virulence

Wang, Hong. Resource allocation for high performance computer systems

Wang, Jian. Characterization and purification of a regulatory protein of sodium,potassium-ATPase and molecular basis of the effects of chronic ethanol consumption on sodium,potassium-ATPase

Wei, Lu. Electrochemical polymerization of ethylene for coating of metals

Weiner, Jennifer K.. Subclinical eating difficulties, family functioning and psychological distress

Wen, Yin. Thermal stress effects in composite materials and engineering components

Williams, Jane. Transcendence as a Human Response to Life Threatening Illness: Description and Understanding Through Narratives

Yang, Renyi. Design and modeling of single-axis, flexure-hinge type, micro-positioning stages

Zervas, Harry. Study of stress wave propagation in damaged particulate media

Zhang, Qian. The oceanic response to atmospheric forcing in the western equatorial Pacific

Zhou, Xin. Isolation and characterization of attenuated strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa AC869 and PAO1

Theses/Dissertations from 1994 1994

Alias, Mohd Norazmi. Localized Electrochemical Study on Corrosion Behavior of Nitride Thin Films

Almagno, Stephanie A.. An NEH Fellowship Examined: Social Networks and Composition History

Anupindi, Nagesh. Data Partition and Migration for High Performance Computation in Distributed Memory Multiprocessors

Apple, Martha E.. Histochemistry of Spore Mucilage and Inhibition of Spore Adhesion in Champia parvula, A Marine Alga

Apple, Martha Elizabeth. Histochemistry of spore mucilage and inhibition of spore adhesion in Champia parvula, a marine red alga

Arruda, James E.. Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Quantified Electroencephalogram Measured During a Continuous Performance Test: A Confirmation of Neurocognitive Systems

Arruda, James Edward. Confirmatory factor analyses of quantified electroencephalogram measured during a continuous performance test: A confirmation of neurocognitive systems

Aspel, Andrew D.. Individual Versus Multidisciplinary Team Decision Making

Austin, Michele Morse. Balancing work and family: Impact of child care responsibilities on employee attitudes and perceptions

Bao, Jun. Gain flattened, wideband erbium doped fiber amplifiers

Bartczak, Andrew Janusz. Hardware implementation of adaptive self-organizing concurrent systems

Bayers, Peter Lawrence. Mountaineering and heroic masculinity: Nationalist topographies in modernist mountaineering narratives

Bird, Robert Thomas. Studies of the origin and tectonic development of the Easter and Juan Fernandez microplates, and seafloor and oceanic basement roughness

Celebucki, Carolyn Cobb. A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Education on Decision-Making and Satisfaction in Re-Entry Women’s Intimate Relationships

Chang, Kaisyang. Multicomponent analysis of biologically important compounds by laser-induced molecular fluorescence spectroscopy