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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 1992 1992

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

Picariello, Carla M.. PERCEIVED EMOTIONAL MALTREATMENT AND SELF-ESTEEM: POTENTIAL MEDIATING ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS

Porter, Robert Joseph. Retrospective study of environmental, intrapersonal, and behavioral predictors of alcohol-associated problems in college and middle adulthood

Powell, Katherine Elaine. Disruption is the word: Transgressive poetics of spirituality in the poetry of G. M. Hopkins, Dylan Thomas, and Stevie Smith

Raine, Terryli McMillan. The Bronte Sisters' Quarrel: A Social Discourse Within the Bronte Novels

Rearick, Anderson Malvin III. Loss and reclamation in "David Copperfield"

Robinson, Deborah Ann Brown. Woman across time: A literary history

Rockhill, Virginia Ann. Family background and personality factors influencing health-related attitudes and behaviors toward medical treatment

Saad, Dale Laura. Seasonal disinfection with respect to marine waters

Sears, Donald Francis Jr.. An investigation of the photochemistry of 6-phenanthridinecarbonitrile

Seibert, Abigail A.. Family functioning and learning disorders

Sethi, Pardeep Kumar. Mechanistic approaches in understanding factors involved in iontophoretic skin retention and transport of drugs

Singh, Anjali. The effects of neutron irradiation and temperature on optical fibers and materials

Stone, Brenda H.. VERBAL WORKING MEMORY AND SPEECH PRODUCTION ABILITIES IN CHILDREN WITH DIFFERENTIAL READING SKILL: A CHRONOLOGICAL- AND READING-AGE COMPARISON

Subramani, Anantha K.. Development of a design for service methodology

Tarasevich, Christine Duerr. Seafood consumption patterns and attitudes towards squid and mackerel by Chinese and Koreans

Tian, Wen-Miin. Long-term creep behavior of cohesive marine sediments under drained conditions

Ty, Nida R.. A hedonic price model of the Portland fish auction market

Viswanathan, K. Kuperan. Deterrence and voluntary compliance with the zoning regulation in the Malaysian fishery

Wahal, Sanjay. Electric field effects on wetting of solids by ionic surfactant and electrolyte solutions

Wang, Juei Shen. Bioaccumulation of PCB and the effects of supplemented diets in striped bass (Morone saxatilis)

Wang, Ronghua. The investigation of biologically active secondary metabolites produced by diatoms

Weiler, Michael David. A Measurement Model for Spectral Analyzed EEG

Weston, Andrea. The analysis of inorganic metal cations by capillary electrophoresis

Wilson, Thomas Armand. The influence of body composition, gonadal steroid status and gender on serum carotenoids and retinol

Yi, Zhen. Development of chromatographic methods and analysis of metal ions in environmental and biological system

Yoo, Byoungseung. Rheological properties of surimi sol and gel in the composite system

Yoo, Whachun. Mechanism of antibacterial action of glucose oxidase/catalase system

Young, Kurt Alan. Bioactive peptides from toxic and non-toxic strains of the freshwater cyanobacteria, Microcystis spp

Young, Robert Franklin. Habitat utilization, diet, and foraging behavior of two species of Caribbean moray eels, Gymnothorax moringa and Gymnothorax vicinus

Zeng, Jiyue. Mechanisms of brittle material erosion associated with high-pressure abrasive waterjet processing: A modeling and application study

Zhao, Dongsheng. Nonlinear random wave theory and non-Gaussian structural response

Zheng, Dian. Environment-dependent fatigue crack growth in alloy 718

Theses/Dissertations from 1991 1991

Adley, Mark David. Computation of the Effective Properties of Materials with Microstructure

Amari, John V.. Development of High Performance Liquid Chromatographic Separations for the Purification and Analysis of Phospholipids and Related Liponucleotides - A New Class of Anti-AIDS Drugs

Ashjian, Carin Jessica. The influence of the Gulf Stream on the regional biogeography of zooplankton (Copepods)

Beatty, Lynn Laffin. The response of benthic suspension feeders and their grazing impact on phytoplankton in eutrophied coastal ecosystems

Bisagni, James John. The relationship of mid-ocean eddy fields to sea surface temperature fronts during the Frontal Air-Sea Interaction Experiment

Blazka, Mark Eric. Factors controlling cadmium and mercury accumulations in hepatocytes

Boucher, Joceline M.. Nutrient and Phosphorus Geochemistry in the Taunton River Estuary, Massachusetts

Bray, James L.. Transformational and Transactional Church Leadership Perspectives of Pastors and Parishioners – An Extension

Burghoff, Robert Leslie. The isolation and preliminary characterization of a human fecal Escherichia coli colonization enhancement sequence using a novel in vivo shot-gun cloning assay

Burkhardt, William III. Accumulation, Persistence, and Elimination of Microbial Indicators by Molluscan Shellfish

Bussolari, Jacqueline Cirillo. Synthesis of imidazo-and v-triazolo(4,5-d)pyridazine nucleosides

Chase, Steven Bradley. The integration of hydrologic simulation models and geographic information systems