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Dissertations from 2002
A Qualitative Investigation of How Adult Missionary Children Make Meaning of Their Past Transcultural Experiences, Robyn J. Geelhoed
What Have They Told Us About Gangs? A Content Analysis of Twentieth Century Texts on U.S. Gangs, Douglas Lee Gilbertson
Classroom Questioning Strategies as Indicators of Inquiry Based Science Instruction, Linda Hale Goossen
The Adjustment Problems of African Students at Western Michigan University, Apollos Bitrus Goyol
The Cultural Script of Special Needs Adoption, George Grant, Jr.
A Test of Factor Analysis as a Validation Procedure for Physician Certification Examinations, Jeffrey D. Greene
The Effects of Group Size on Incentive Effectiveness: A Meta-Analysis, Angelica C. Grindle
Examining the Experiences of Nontraditional Undergraduate Women: Pedagogy versus Andragogy, Beverly Ann Hair
Factors Affecting Superintendent Longevity in Michigan, Sally Hipp
Separable Preference Orders, Jonathan K. Hodge
Education, Social Security, and the Welfare State: Alternative Policy Choices in the United States and Germany, Karl G. Hokenmaier
Using Measures of Intervention Integrity, Intervention Acceptability, and Intervention Effectiveness to Evaluate a Toilet Training Program in a Preschool Classroom for Children with Special Needs, Katherine M. Holverstott-Cockrell
Factors Predicting Distress at Marital Therapy Onset, Joseph J.H. Horak
Demographic Factors Predictive of Medicaid Enrollment in Michigan Counties, Dale Kennedy Howe
A Study of the Leadership Preparedness of U.S. Public University Chief Business Officers, Daniel J. Hurley
Specifying The Psychomotor Domain of the Construct of Nursing Competence, Joni L. Jones
A Study of the Effects of Goal Conflict on Job Satisfaction in Auxiliary Enterprise Units within Higher Education, Stephen M. Keizer
Have Charter Schools Materialized Their Promise a Contrast Between Rhetoric and Reality, Mary Kay Kempker-VanDriel
Perceptions of a Prejudiced Campus: Institutional Antecedents and Personal Consequences for African-American Students, Brenda Taylor King
Load Balancing and Congestion Avoidance Routing, Konstantinos N. Kokkinos
A Foundation for Democratic Transition: The Evolution of Korean Civil Society 1972-1987, Sukhee Lee
Geochemical and Isotopic Characteristics Associated with High Conductivities in a Shallow Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Aquifier, Franklyn D. Legall
Numerical Studies of Transition for Flows around Multi-Element Airfoils, Fengjun Liu
Social Anxiety: Attentional Bias in Reaction to Emotional Faces before and after Participation in a College Level Public Speaking Course, Scott Walter Maieritsch
After Turning Points: Evidence of the Adoption of Middle School Reforms in the United States 1987-2000., Nancy Barnes Mansberger
Water Bearing Bodies, Beth M. Martinelli
Economic Development and Social Diversity: The Origin and Composition of a Systemic Growth Regime in Louisville, Kentucky, 1897-1933, John W. McTighe
Self-Control Training in Young Children, Laura Kay Murray
Career Planning Needs of Students, Carol Nowakowski
An Examination of the Effects of Fluency Training on Retention, Distractibility, and Generativity, Victoria Mary Pellettiere
The Relationship between Financial Aid and Freshman Persistance at a Midwestern Liberal Arts College, Jack Phillip Powell
Documenting Lines of Communication between School Personnel and Physicians for Medication Evaluation Purposes for Students with ADHD, Pamela M. Radford
Integration of Multiple Perspectives on Leadership: A Comparative Study of Experienced and Novice Leaders, Rigoberto J. Rincones-Gomez
Differences among Accredited Athletic Training Education Programs in Preparing Students for the National Certification Examination, Donna M. Ritenour
The Structure of the Leadership Construct: A Test of Factorial Invariance Using Structural Equation Modeling, Liliana Rodriguez-Campos
Resolvability in Graphs, Varaporn Saenpholphat
How Does It Mean? Literary Theory as Metacognitive Reading Strategy in the High School English Classroom, Lisa J. Schade
A Study of Expert Problem-Solving in Qualitative Organic Analysis Using a Computer Simulation, Keith A. Schramm
Ideology or Insanity? Media Presentation of Ted Kaczynski and Tim McVeigh, Matthew P. Sheptoski
Roles and Regulation of NF-xB in Platelet-Derived Growth Factor Transformed Cells, Takeshi Shimamura
Why Religious People Believe What They Shouldn't: Explaining Theological Incorrectness in South Asia and America, D. Jason Slone
Local Symmetries of Symmetrical Cayley Maps, Paula T. Smith
Lever-Press Acquisition by Rats: Effects of Some Historical Variables, Susan M. Snycerski
Inbreeding, Male Diploidy, and Complementary Sex Determination in the Solitary Wasp Euodynerus Foraminatus, Julie Kozaczka Stahlhut
A Study of the Counseling Practices of Wesleyan Pastors, Kurt A. Stevens
The Unlocking, Julie Stotz-Ghosh
Perspectives on Power: John F. Kennedy and U.S.-Middle East Relations, April R. Summitt
Women's Experiences with Coping after Late Pregnancy Loss: A Qualitative Study, Colleen A. Thebert-Wright
Teaching My Son to Be a Father: The Plight of Unmarried Adolescent African American Fathers, Michael George Till
A New Type of Particle Detector for Nuclear Scattering Experiments, Philip Ugorowski
Chemical, Isotopic, and Hydrogeologic Investigations of an Agriculturally Impacted Area, Nottawa Creek Watershed, Calhoun County, Michigan, Gerald A. Unterreiner
Family Structure and Attachment and Their Role in Reducing Delinquency in the African American Family, Kiesha Warren
Geoelectrical Response of an Aged LNAPL Plume: Implications for Monitoring Natural Attenuation, Douglas D. Werkema Jr.
Becoming Ebony: Poems, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
The Effectiveness of Behavioral Activation Group Therapy: Treating Comorbid Depression on a Specialized Inpatient Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Unit for Combat Veterans, Theodore P. Wright
Systematic Methods for the Design of a Class of Fuzzy Logic Controllers, Saad Y. Yasin
Dissertations from 2001
The Effects of Reengineering on Hospital Performance Indicators, Linda Rutgers Albery
Learning to Construct Proofs in a First Course on Mathematical Proof, Peter R. Atwood
A Study of the Effect of Group Family Play on Family Relations for Families with Children Considered At-Risk for Educational Failure, Carmen Colleen Baldus
Effects of Software Use on the Preparation of the Individualized Education Programs (IEP’s), Nancy Ann Beukema
Aging Beauty: The Adaptive Reconstruction of the Aging Process in Women, Sheila Marie Bluhm
The Making of a Textbook on Behavior Analysis and Autism a Behavior Analytic Approach, Sebastien Bosch
The Politicization of Ethnicity as a Prelude to Ethnopolitical Conflict: Croatia and Serbia in Former Yugoslavia, Agneza Bozic-Roberson
Changing Mathematical Discourse: A Case Study of a Secondary Mathematics Teacher, Mary Lynn Breyfogle
The Truth Claims of Online Higher Education a Social Constructionist Analysis, Thomas Wells Brignall III
"How Should One Love?": Alternative Love Plots and Their Ethical Implications in the Victorian Novel, Jennifer J. Carpentier
The Romans Commentaries of William of St. Thierry and Peter Abelard: A Theological and Methodological Comparison, Steven R. Cartwright
Quantification Of Benzo[A]Pyrene-Guanine Adducts in In Vitro And in Vivo Tissue Samples By LC Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Po-Chang Chiang
Quality of Life Factors among Recovering Alcoholics, George Edwin Compton Jr.
Refugee Experiences of Trauma And PTSD Effects On Psychological, Physical, And Financial Well-Being, Karen J. Cusack
A Systems Approach to Designing an Internship Model that Benefits the Sponsoring Organization, Peter-Comelius Dams
Binge Drinking and Salutogenesis: Sense of Coherence, Stress, Religiousness and Spirituality, Jeanne C . DeBruyn
Analysis of Factors Involved in Ratings of Treatment Acceptability for Trichotillomania, Amy J. Elliott
Cost Domination in Graphs, David John Erwin
Self-Criticism as Experienced by Performing Artists a Phenomenological Study, Rosemary Hakes
Strange Blessing, Gabrielle A. Halko
A Comparison of Methods For Detection of Qualitative Interaction In Multicenter Trials, Boyd Jay Hanson
The Economic Cost of Depressive Disorders: Evidence from a Large Midwest Public University, Alketa Hysenbegasi
Utopia Park, Utopian Church: James K. Humphrey and the Emergence of the Sabbath-Day Adventists, Romauld C. Jones
Executive Coaching as an Individually Tailored Consultation Intervention: Does it Increase Leadership?, Sheila Kampa-Kokesch
New Teachers’ Perceptions of Discipline-Related School Problems and Teacher Satisfaction, Amy L. Kavanaugh
The Grandparent-Raising-Grandchildren Phenomenon in Michigan, Linda Gail Kimball
Understanding the Relationships among Counseling Self-Efficacy, Anxiety, Developmental Level, Coursework, Experience, and Counselor Performance, Catherine E. Kocarek
Comparison and Generalization of Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral One-Session Exposure Treatments for Small Animal Phobias, Ellen I. Koch
Study of Automotive Hydromount Mechanism, Min Lu
“In Our Own Words”: Exploring Female Psychosocial Student Development, Elizabeth Maier Marietta
The Relationship between Self-Esteem and Impostor Phenomenon of Female Teachers for Kindergarten through Grade 12, Sheila F. Matthews
State Regulations of Smoking in Public Places: Determinants and Implications on the Demand for Smoking and Consumers' Behavior, Ioana Raluca Mazare
A Study of Emergent Leadership Factors in a Total Ministry Model, David C. Meyers
The Impact of Values and Gender on Advising Satisfaction and Persistence of African Americans at Predominantly White Universities, Gregory A. Moorehead
Photoexcitation and Photoionization of Argon Atom and Chlorine Molecule Using the Advanced Light Source, Oleg Nayandin
Ben Jonson and The Mirror: Folly Knows No Gender, Sherry Broadwell Niewoonder
Promoting Healthy Behavior Change in Skin Cancer Risk Reduction Using the Transtheoretical Stages of Change Model, Sherry L. Pagoto
The Development and Use of the God Representation in Women, Herdley O. Paolini
Qualitative Inquiry of Biased and Exemplary Practices of White Supervisors in Multicultural Supervision, Brian D. Paul
Involvement of Females as Authors, Editors, and Participants in Journals Concerned with Mental Retardation and Related Topics, Cari L. Porter