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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

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

Chen, Haiguang. Two-dimensional autoregressive modeling by autocorrelation fitting and applications to signal processing

Chinman, Richard. Phosphorus Dynamics in the Parker River Estuary

Choi, Byeong-Jin. The effect of nitrogen nutrition on carbon and nitrogen metabolism in Rhododendron catawbiense x 'English Roseum'

Chrappa, Rita C.. Great Expectations: A Workshop on Responsible Dating

Chueh, Hann Rong. Optimization and Its Applications on Pharmaceutical Conventional and Extended Release Solid Dosage Forms

Clark, Robert Lee. Spectro-electrochemical study of ring-substituted polyaniline: Poly(2-methylaniline), poly(2-methoxyaniline), and poly(2,5-dimethoxyaniline)

Cooper, Michele F.. Chretien de Troyes' Perceval: Androgynous development of the hero

Corriveau, Pierre Joseph. Turbulent boundary layer driven acoustic radiation of a solid body of revolution

Cosby, Stanley Gene. FACTORS INFLUENCING SELF-DISCLOSURE PATTERNS OF BLACK COLLEGE STUDENTS

Crook, Joan Elizabeth. An exploratory investigation of stepfamily functioning

Crouse, Robert H.. Optimal linear estimators with empirical prior information

Dadey, Kathleen Ann. Hydrothermal activity in the Mariana Mounds area: Processes and products

Deering, Catherine Gray. Correlates of Sibling Jealousy and Parental Favoritism

Deschene, James Michael. Joy in a minor key: The mystery of gender and sex in the thought of C. S. Lewis

Devlin, Constance Leah. An analysis of serotonergic control of the ventricle of a mollusc

Dibiase, Mary Diana Giddins. Topical formulation of epidermal growth factor for wound healing

Di Leonardo, Concetta Mary. The effects of age and occupation on selective attention: American adaptation of the Bedini Test of Distributed Attention

Escobar, Jose M.. Extractive bioconversion for rennet synthesis

Evans, Bernadette F.. The Role of Working Memory in Phoneme Awareness

Foley, Timothy Daniel. A neurochemical basis for inhibition of neural activity by ethanol

Fortuna, Jose A.. Dynamic model for forced flow through sintered powdered metals

Garcia-Sais, Jorge R.. Plankton production dynamics in Laguna Joyuda

Gibson, Pamela Reed. An intervention designed to modify attitudes toward acquaintance rape in college students

Green, Laura Ann. Validity studies on the Family Functioning Scale: Family of Origin version

Grindlay, Nancy Ruth. Morphology and tectonics of the southern mid-Atlantic ridge: Implications for accretion of oceanic lithosphere

Harriman, Geraldine Cirillo Bussolari. Synthesis of and biological evaluation of C1' and C1' 3-deaza derivatives of (+)-erythro-9-(2S-hydroxy-3R-nonyl)adenine

Harvey, Kathy Laighton. The course of change in time-limited psychotherapy

He, Gang. A theoretical and experimental study of the fiber optic lever sensors

Hess, Jennifer. The Strontium Isotope Geochemistry of the Cenozoic Ocean

Ho, Kay Tze Yau. Sediment bioassays: Factors which influence their interpretation and their use in bioassay directed fractionation

Hughes, Stanley Leake. Levels of attribution and change in the transtheoretical model: Development, synthesis and application

Jin, Di. An investment-production-regulatory model for firms in the offshore oil and gas industry

Jin, Myung-Sub. Evaluation of seasonal variation on resilient modulus of subgrade granular soils

Juinio, Marie Antonette Revilla. Feeding ecology of the postlarval lobster Homarus americanus

Kadambe, Shubha L.. The application of time-frequency and time-scale representations in speech analysis

Killeen, Rea Cassidy. Meridel Le Sueur's vision of women: Begetters and birthers of change

King, Jay T.. Preconscious Factors in Romantic Attraction

Kirsteins, Ivars Peter. Analysis of reduced-rank interference cancellation

Lee, Pau-Ju. Seasonal dynamics of Gigaspora gigantea and associated microorganisms in a sand dune

Lee, Sang-go. Regulatory enforcement and compliance: Industrial wastewater pretreatment programs

Lemunyon, Jerrell Lynn. Grass species influence on the fate of nitrogen entrapped in vegetated filter strips

Letcher, Bettina Havens. In the belly of this story: The role of fantasy in four American women's novels of the 1980s

Lo, Su-Chin. Novel spectroscopic analyses of mixtures

Marks, Pamela Ann. A voice in Ramah: Rhetorical structure and cultural context in "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

Martino, Thomas John. A tandem joint inspection and queueing model employing posynomial geometric programming

McCabe, Victoria Margaret. Effects of various winemaking practices on the quality of wines produced from Rhode Island grown grapes

McCaughey-Silvia, Regina C.. Lectures and discussion questions of the Franklin Lyceum: A guide to attitudes and ideas in nineteenth century Providence

McGoldrick, James A.. Dunbar and Skelton: A comparative analysis of the satiric court poetry

Michael, Sharon Ann. Psychosocial factors related to the maintenance of weight loss in very low-calorie diets

Morris, Ellen. New geophysical constraints on the structure of oceanic crust

Narendran, Nadarajah. Fiber optic sensors for static fracture studies and dynamic wave propagation problems

Nowicki, Barbara Louise. The fate of nutrient inputs to estuaries: Evidence from estuarine mesocosms

Ong, Tun Liang. A pattern recognition approach to stock identification of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L., based on derived morphometric features of scales

Ozguc, Ismail Hakki. Advanced switched capacitor circuits

Pockalny, Robert Avery. Morphology of mid-ocean ridges and ridge flanks: Implications for processes operative at mid-ocean ridges

Robinson, Elmer Richard. Perturbation theory in depth and range-dependent environments