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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 1993 1993

Pothier, Neil J.. Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy at a silver electrode as a detection system in flowing streams

Pothier, Robyn Charlene. Resolution of overlapped FT-NMR components

Potter, Karen Lee. Optical allusions: Technologies of the body visible

Qian, Chuanxi. Oscillation and global attractivity of differential and difference equations

Redding, Colleen A.. The Transtheoretical Model Applied to Safer Sex Behavior Among University Students: A Cross-Sectional Investigation

Richardson, Edward James. American lobster (Homarus americanus) market study with analysis for management

Roman, Mark Christopher. A new method of scaling up free flow electrophoresis

Rosenberger, Andrew Henry. An experimental investigation of transient fatigue crack growth phenomena under elevated temperature conditions in superalloy 718 and titanium titanium-1100

Rossi, Susan Rose. Application of the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change to dietary fat reduction in a naturalistic environment

Schmitz, Brian Keith. An experimental and computational study of nitrogen-containing molecules in the poly(oligoazine) and the poly(oligonaphthylamine) systems

Sergi, Jennifer Leigh. Narrativity and representation in Louise Erdrich's fiction

Shah, Chirag B.. Interfacial interactions in layered polyesters

Shaunesey, Kimberly. The Relationship Between Prior Abuse and Personality Functioning in Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients

Shi, Xiaorong. Core level photoemission investigations of alkali atoms on metal surfaces

Squillante, Emilio. Physicochemical properties affecting the percutaneous absorption of nifedipine

Squillante, Emilio. PHYSTCOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES AFFECTING THE PERCUTANEOUS ABSORPTION OF NIFEDIPINE

Tai, Qiming. Computer simulation of dynamic load transfer and wave propagation in particulate media

Tang, Daixing. The properties of alkali metal and alkali-coadsorbate overlayers on metal surfaces

Teixeira, Luz C. H.. Comparison of EEG of depressed and non-depressed college students during an attention task

Tian, Huawei. Development of an interactive, object-oriented sketching system for mechanism design

Trevino, Belzahet. Diffusion dialysis of sulfuric and nitric acids

Trottier, C. Michael. High-temperature dielectrics for thin film sensors

Uchmanowicz, Pauline. Movements and moments: Violence as rhetoric and transgression in American popular culture, 1962-1992

Umesh, S.. Fast maximum likelihood estimation of parameters in crowded signal environments

Von Mettenheim, Barbara Gall. Marie de France and Layamon: Cultural subversives

Voos, Gerard. Dissipation of herbicides within a heterogeneous landscape

Wang, Juming. Nucleation behavior of saccharides in aqueous solutions

Whitworth, Donald R.. A Structural Equation Model of a Set of Operationalized Cognitive Social Learning Variables and Citizen Participation in Neighborhood Organizations

Whitworth, Donald Ray. A structural equation model of a set of operationalized cognitive social earning variables and citizen participation in neighborhood organizations

Wilson, Elizabeth J.. Transient detection and feature extraction using neural networks

Wisehart, Marilyn Perkins. Housework redone: The representation of domestic work and homemakers in depictions of the middle class in American literature and film

Wojcik, Marek K.. Morphological and physiological features influencing drought tolerance of turfgrasses

Youssef, Mohamed Mohamed. The behavior of the near ocean surface under the combined action of waves and currents in shallow water

Zhang, Hanzhong. Study of a numerical turbulence model for flow pass smooth and rough surfaces

Zia, Majid. A statistical model for prediction of pressure drop and collection efficiency of poly-disperse non-woven fibrous filters

Zlotnick, Caron Lyn. The incidence of university sexual harassment complaints related to institutional factors

Theses/Dissertations from 1992 1992

Abdelkader, Hatem. Electroabsorbtion in Multiple Quantum Well Structures

Abdelkader, Hatem Helmy. Electroabsorption in multiple quantum well structures

Abrams, Lewis Julius. The Seismic Stratigraphy, Crustal Structure, Volcanic and Sedimentary History of the East Mariana and Pigafetta Basins of the Western Pacific

Ahmadjian, Mark. Infared Spectral Measurement of Space Shuttle Glow

Ahmadjian, Mark. Infrared spectral measurement of space shuttle glow

Amato-Vealey, Elaine. Determinants of Exercise Behavior After a Myocardial Infraction: Beliefs, Intention, Behavior

Amato-Vealey, Elaine J.. Determinants of exercise behavior after a myocardial infarction: Beliefs, intention, behavior

Anderson, James A.. Out of the Shadows: A Structuralist Approach to Understanding the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft

Ashraf, Muhammad. Formulation of functional diet for larval fish

Awal, Haris Mohammed Roufun. Reliability of hysteretic structures under seismic excitation

Brandes, Horst G.. Finite element modeling of time-dependent deformations in marine clays

Brooks, Priscilla Murray. The northeastern United States market for blue mussels: Consumer perceptions of seafood safety and the demand for mussels

Caldwell, Donna. The impact of a treatment program for male batterers on their sex role attitudes and abusive behaviors

Chang, Un-Jae. Dietary fat and low-intensity exercise in treatment of obesity in women

Chaudhury, Rajat Roy. Stormwater modeling of a combined sewer system

Ciombor, Deborah McKeighan. Alterations in the biosynthesis of extracellular matrix molecules in connective tissues by electric and magnetic fields

Dibiasio, Paige A.. An Analysis of Altering the Value of a Classically Conditioned Predictive Cue

Ellis, William Grenville Jr.. The long-range transport of aerosol particles over the North Atlantic Ocean

Fitts, Sherri Nelson. Models of Shame, Family Functioning, and Psychosocial Outcomes in a College Population

Flynn, Mary. Cardiac patients' definition of the situation in the emergency room, coronary care unit, and progressive coronary care unit

Futransky, Joanna S.. Relations Among Verbal Working Memory, Listening Comprehension, and Reading Skills

Gallagher, Patricia Lillian. AIDS risk reduction training among college women

Gans, Kim Marie. Enhancing compliance to referral and lifestyle recommendations given at cholesterol screening programs

Ghosh, Debashis. Performance of delta networks using self-routing multiple channel crossbar switches implemented in VLSI

Gibbes, Bertram S.. The Cognitive Control of Leveling-Sharpening and Acceptance of Interpersonal Violence in Adults

Gilman, Craig. Gulf Stream warm surges: Thermal and potential vorticity anomalies in the Stream

Gipstein, Myra Green. Phonological awareness in four-and five-year-old children

Glancy, Thomas J. Jr.. Sensitivity of modeled Cretaceous climate to insolation forcing created by varying Earth-Sun orbital relationships

Gnys, Judith Alison. School psychologists' diagnosis of learning disabilities: A study of illusory correlations

Graham, Marcus L.. A hierarchical approach to estimation, with application to target motion analysis

Hansen, Catherine Elizabeth. Development of a measure for the assessment of dyadic power sources

Harewood, Patrick Munro. Technological assessment of irradiated eggs

Harrington, Frances Marie. The memo as genre: A paradigm of context and community

Hartnett, Richard James. Improved methods for efficient FIR and IIR digital filter design and implementation

Hennedy, Marie C.. Authorized Infidelity: A Confidant Rereading of Charlotte Bronte's Villette

Herchen, James Raymond Jr.. Investigation of a simplified adaptive IIR filter

Horleifsson, Einar. Abundance, condition, growth and mortality of winter flounder (Pleuronectes americanus, Walbaum) larvae in Narragansett Bay during spring of 1988

Hsieh, Feng-Yin. Structural equation modeling in chemistry

Jackson, Nancy Willard. Anne Anastasi and the heredity vs environment problem: A history in psychology

Jayarajah, Charles Niranjit. Evaluation of process parameters for UF/RO membrane concentration of lobster extract

Kenner, Ellen Lee. The Clinical Psychologist Practitioner: Job Autonomy and Burnout

Khanna, Sanjeev Kumar. Effect of reinforcement and fiber-matrix interface on dynamic fracture of fiber-reinforced composite materials

Kim, Jong Seong. Thin film wide bandgap semiconductors: Preparation, doping and characterization of structural and optoelectronic properties

Kontoyiannis, Harris. Variability of the Gulf Stream path between 74 degrees W and 70 degrees W: Observations and quasi-geostrophic modeling of mixed instabilities

Kusakabe, Yuko. A conjoint analysis of the Japanese salmon market

Larimer, Sharon Nicole. Aspects of the bioenergetics and ecology of sand lance on Georges Bank

Latimer, William Wilbur IV. Metacognitive training affects the application of learning strategies but not academic performance

Lee, Gangwoong. The variation of nitric acid vapor and nitrate aerosol concentrations near the island of Hawaii

Lee, Hagyoung. Mathematical model of a three-phase fluidized fermentor with cocurrent upward flow of gas and liquid

Liu, Haibo. Evaluating three turfgrasses for nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium nutrient uptake efficiency

Liu, Iching. Very limited-view reconstruction of three-dimensional tree-like structures

Liu, Jian-Min. High-temperature dynamics of classical spin systems

Liu, Yeuk-Chuen. Application of asymmetric biocatalysis to organic chemistry

Lo, Ying Har. The transduction mechanism of olfaction in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

Lu, Wenhua. Host-related variability in feeding and oviposition behaviors of Mexican Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

Maluso, Diane. Interventions to lessen racist prejudice and discrimination among college students

Minugh, Patricia Allison. Gender roles and drunken behavior: A cognitive analysis of normative and counternormative social expectations

Mora, Catherine A.. The relationship of PTSD in Vietnam veterans to family dysfunction as mediated by marital functioning: A structural model

Oleska, Carla Marie. This is my body which will not be given up for you: The postmodern feminist avant-garde and the female body

O'Neill, Eileen Sjoberg. Forms of knowledge and the use of the representativeness heuristic in clinical inferencing tasks of community health nurses

Panda, Satchidananda. Remote acoustic evaluation of seafloor sediment properties

Paquette, Gregory Ernest. Etiology, pathogenesis and epizootiology of hematopoietic neoplasia in the soft-shell clam, Mya arenaria

Patterson, Barbara J.. Social support: A fieldwork study of adjusting to life in a nursing home

Perrot-Maitre, Daniele. The use of indigenous knowledge in understanding resource allocation at the farm level: The case of lowland farms in Leyte Island, Philippines