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Dissertations from 1999
Diagnostic Issues with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Conditional Probabilities and a Measure of Symptom Ratings, Margo Adams Larsen
A Comparison of the Effects of Temporal Requirement and Response Form on Retention, Equivalence, and Endurance, Amy Lorraine McCarty
The Validity of the ADHD Section of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children, Ann M. McGrath
Cognitive Components of Social Anxiety: A Comparison of Elderly and Young Adults, Jeffery Alan McNeil
An Analysis of Grade-Level Expenditures of At-Risk Funding Among Districts of Different Economic Status in the State of Michigan, Benard A. Meyer
Japanese Students' Perceived Need for Communicative English and Their Perceived Proficiency Levels, Takanori Mita
Foundations of Board Development: Theory and Practice in Community Service Organizations, David P. Moxley
“All Things Considered”: A Comparative Case Study Examining the Commercial Presence within Public Radio, Peter P. Nieckarz III
A Comparison of International and U.S. Students in APA-Accredited Programs: Acculturation, Counseling Self-Efficacy and Role Difficulties in Supervision, Johanna E. Nilsson
The Effects of a Combination of Feedback, Goals, and Consequences on the Performance of Four Small Businesses, Timothy V. Nolan
A Study of the Relationship between Transformational Leadership and Teacher Attitudes, Scott Palczewski
An Analysis of Nine K-12 School Districts that have Established Membership with the Coalition of Essential Schools, Shari A. Peters Kitchen
Evaluation of Raman Spectroscopy and Ruby Piezospectroscopy as Tools for Investigating the Corrosion of Metallic Alloys, Daniel P. Renusch
The Role of Access in Evaluating Distance Learning Program Effectiveness, Carole A. Richardson
The Relationship Between Multicultural Counseling Competencies and Attitudes Toward African Americans Among White Female Graduate Students, Dianne T. Robinson
Devolution of Power Through Shared Decision Making, Jean DeBoer Schmeichel
The Relationship Between Principals' Leadership Characteristics and Characteristics of Public Middle Schools, Linda S. Schneider-Rediske
Evaluating the Effects of Postive Peer Reporting on Social Acceptance, Mary Short
Periodicity and Disorder, Simeon D. Simeonov
The Effects of Sibling-Implemented Training on Social Behaviors of Autistic Children, Cristin L. Sullivan
Perceptions of the Division of Labor Roles in Dual-Career Households of Married African American Couples, Karolyn H. Thompson
Students’ Conceptions of Mathematics and the Transition from a Standards-Based Reform Curriculum to College Mathematics, Rebecca K. Walker
Skin: A Work of Fiction, Kellie Wells
Evaluating the Social Acceptability of Persons with Habit Disorders: The Effects of Topography, Frequency, and Gender Manipulation, Douglas W. Woods
The Relationship Between Selected Environmental Variables and Attrition, Persistence, and Academic Success of Majority and Minority College Students, Carole J. Woolford-Hunt
Active Local Volume Displacement Cancellation of a Vibrating Baffled Beam, Marcellin Zahui
Dissertations from 1998
The Relationship of Saudi Managers’ Characteristics and their Support of the Transfer of Training to the Workplace, Khalid M. Alhazmi
Temporary Employment: The Spanish Experience, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Perturbed Hamiltonian System of Two Parameters with Several Turning Points, Myeong Joon Ann
The Effects of Social Skills Training and Reciprocal Social Skills Training with Parent/Guardian(s) on Behavior and Recidivism of First Time Adjuncted Youth, Kathleen A. Bailey
Sexual Politics and Subversion: Feminist Utopia as Praxis, Jennifer Sue Boyers
The Role of the Parish Pastor as Mental Health Provider: Counseling Competency and Personality Characteristics, John Phillip Burgess
The Impact of Selected Barriers on Students Completing Community College in Michigan, Terri Lynn Burt
MDMA and Learning: Effects of Acute and Neurotoxic Exposure, Thomas P. Byrne
A Study of Local-Cosmopolitan Orientation with a University Support Staff, Sharon Carr
Direct Service Staff's Perceptions of Psychotropic Medication in Noninstitutional Settings for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities, LeeAnn Christian
African-American Females and the Glass Ceiling in the Defense Logistics Agency, Velma Lee Clay
Fostering Reflective Thinking in First-Semester Calculus Students, Pamela Crawford
Making an Early Medieval Ethnie: The Case of the Early Slavs (Sixth to Seventh Century A.D. ), Florin Curta
A Study of the Knowledge Structure of Expert, Intermediate, and Novice Subjects in the Domain of Physics, Jennifer L. Discenna
The Effects of Counselor Skills Training on Levels of Counselor Cognitive Complexity, David K. Duys
Health Care Beliefs of Nursing Students as Predictors of Intentions to Care for A.I.D.S. Patients, Catherine Ellen Earl
Angle-Resolved Studies of Inner Shell Excitations for Argon, Krypton and Xenon using Third Generation Synchrotron Sources, Ahmad H. Farhat
Surface Models of Finite Geometries, Ramon Manuel Figueroa-Centeno
Loss of the Lifelong Partner: Implications for Social Adaptation, Anora Ackerson Grinwis
Preparation for the GRE, Corina Groeger
The Relationship of Gender Role Conflict to Male College Students' Receipt and Use of Violence in Heterosexual Dating Relationships, Brady R. Harnishfeger
Black Women Build Community: An Examination of the Radcliffe Black Women Oral History Project, Dawn Michelle Hinton
A Computer/Tutorial System Compared With a Workbook/Tutorial Systeg for Presenting Instructional Material to At-Risk Elementary School Students, Vincent O. Hodge
Questions of Power: The Politics of Women's Madness Narratives, Susan Jane Hubert
A Kierkegaardian Understanding of Self and Society: An Existential Sociology, Chris L. Jakway
A Comparison of Reported Teacher Selection Practices of Elementary Principals in Michigan to Recommended Selection Methods, John E. Jarpe
Visitor in a Foreign Land: Reflections on Intercultural Adjustment in the Republic of Armenia, Jerry L. Johnson
A Generalization of Cayley Graphs for Finite Fields, Dawn M. Jones
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Doctoral Students Mentoring Relationships with Faculty in Counseling Psychology a Qualitative Study, Julianne S. Lark
A Paleoclimatic Study of the Midwestern United States from the Stahle Isotope Records in Lake Sediments, Norman Alan Lovan
Units in Integral Group Rings for Direct Products, Richard M. Low
For Shade and Comfort: Ornamental Plants in Nineteenth- Century Midwestern Domestic Landscapes, Cheryl Lyon-Jenness
The Effect of Rate vs. Number of Emissions of an Operant Behavior on Behavior Probability, Michael D. Makepeace
The Relationship between Organizational Culture and the Practice of Program Evaluation in Human Service Organizations, Lorraine Marais
Electron Emission Following the Interaction of Slow Highly Charged Ions with Solids, Joseph W. McDonald
Influence of Psychiatric Diagnostic Training on Counseling Students’ Development of a Model-for-Helping and Professional Identity, Jerry E. McLaughlin
Groundwater Hydraulics and Slope Stability Analysis: Elements for Prediction of Shoreline Recession, William W. Montgomery
The Relationship of Reading Recovery Teachers' Efficacy to Length of Service and School System Support, M. Louise Moon
Genuflect, Gentlemen and Other Stories, Matt B. Mullins
The Role of Ethnicity Among International Students in Adjustment to Acculturative Stress, Mohd Tajudin Hj Ninggal
Max Horkheimer’s Critical Theory of Religion:The Meaning of Religion in the Struggle for Human Emancipation, Michael R. Ott
The Impact of Social, Political, and Economic Forces on Enviromental Protection Efforts, Jung Sam Park
Resource Colonialism and Native Resistance: The Mining Wars in Wisconsin, Linda Marie Robyn
The Impact of Women' s Traditional Caregiving Roles on their Paid Labor Force Participation throughout their Lifecourse, Paulina X. Ruf
An Examination of Self-Efficacy in Master’s Level Counselor Trainees, Matthew G. Rushlau
Laterality of the Perception of Computer Presented Written Sexual Words by Right-handed Males and Females, Randall W. Stewart
The Comparison of Selection-Based and Topography-Based Verbal Behavior Across Populations, Carl T. Sundberg
Molecular Staging of Colorectal Cancer: K-ras Mutation Analysis of Lymph Nodes Upstages Dukes’ B2 Patients, Jennifer S. Thebo
An Analysis of Fecal Coliform Bacteria as a Water Quality Indicator, Janet Heyl Vail
The Relationship between Leadership/Followership in Staff Nurses and Employment Setting, Elaine S. VanDoren
Disruption of the Discriminative Stimulus Effects of (+)-3, 4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) by (± )-MDMA Neurotoxicity: Protection by Fluoxetine, Thomas B. Virden III
The Effects of Writing Assignments on Second-Semester Calculus Students' Understanding of the Limit Concept, Melanie A. Wahlberg
The Influence of Promise Keepers on Fathers’ Involvement with their Children, Michael J. Walcheski
Implications of Changing to 4 by 4 Semester Block Scheduling for Secondary Students with Learning Disabilities, Sandra Kay Wayne
Panther Stories: A Gendered Analysis of the Autobiographies of Former Black Panther Members, Monica Marie White
A Sense of Entitlement to Self in Relationships: An Elaboration of Attachment and Feminist Object Relations Theories, Suzanne Elaine Wolfe
Dissertations from 1997
Collision Spectroscopy of Low Energy Capture by Multiply Charged Ions from Atomic Targets, Kadir Akgungor
A Test of a Rapid Developer Model: Workplace Factors Associated with Learning and Development, James A. Alexander
Discrimination Against Female Graduate Teaching Assistants, Joanne Ardovini-Brooker
The Effect of Remedial Education Programs on Academic Achievement and Persistence at the Two-Year Community College, Lyn Ann Batzer
The Effect of Managers' Clarification of Business Linkage of Training on Trainees' Transfer of Training, Elizabeth J. Benanzer
The Clastogenic Effects of Cyclophosphamide and a Sixty Hertz Electronagnetic Field on Bone Marrow Cells of CD-I Mice, Kevin K. Block
Registration of Apprenticeship Programs and the Turnover of Skilled Trade Employees, Dennis J. Bona
The Effects of a Cooperative Learning Environment on Attitudes, Social Skills, and Processing of Baccalaureate Nursing Students, Mary J. Cairy
Differences in Perceptual and Subjective Body Image between Weight Cycling and Noncycling Graduate Students, Karen Casebeer
Do Reinforcer Surveys Enhance a Brief Parenting Skills Program for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disordered Children?, Maria A. Channell
Estimating IBNR Reserves with Robust Statistics, Daniel Cheung
Critical Thinking Attributes of Undergraduate Nursing Faculty, Julie A. Coon
The Use of Data in School-Based Decision Making, Walter J. DeBoer
An Analysis of Police Perceptions of Community Policing and Female Officers, Rhonda Kaye DeLong
The Military-Bureaucracy Relationship in Nigeria: A Study of Public Policy Making and Implementation, Robert Aziakpono Dibie
The Relationship Between Course Outcomes and the Factors of Retention as Determined by Webb’s Model of Student Persistence, Jan K. Fields
Perceived Support for Change and Implementation of Title I of the ADA in Michigan’s Public School Districts, Truman S. Forest