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Dissertations from 2001
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
Visionary Leadership: The Importance in the Public Sector from the Perspective of City Managers, Nancy L. Quarles
Women and Combat: Impediments to the Total Integration of Women in the Military, Sylvia Marie Rafels
Counseling Clients with Physical Disabilities: Biased and Exemplary Practices, Deborah E. Renard
The Effects of Educational Development Plans Motivation to Learn, and Attitudes and Behaviors Toward Learning, Mary Alice Schultz-Krajenta
The Effects of Educational Development Plans Motivation to Learn, and Attitudes and Behaviors Toward Learning Among Eighth Graders, Mary Alice Schultz-Krajenta
Fay Weldon's Late Bloomers and Comedy and a Lawyer, a Vet, and a Couple of Dogs, One of Them Dead, Susan Rote Siferd
African-American Women’s Emotional Responses to Historical Racial Events as a Function of Socioeconomic Status, Melissa Ruth Stevenson
A Behavioral Systems Analysis of Textbook Quality Improvement, Elizabeth T. Suarez
An Analysis of the Impact of an Outlier on Correlation Coefficients Across Small Sample Data Where RHO is Non-Zero, Maria A. Suchowski
Correlates Of Life Satisfaction After Retirement, Richard A. Tackett
The Influence of Race on Ethical Decision-Making Regarding Nonsexual Dual Relationships, Beatrice Antly Tatem
Vortex-Defect Interactions in High-Temperature Superconductors, Valentina Tobos
The Sense of Nonsense: An Annotated Edition of Ring W. Lardner’s Short Plays, Scott A. Topping
Floating Holidays: A Novel, Christopher Joseph Torockio
Enhancing Commercial Aircraft Survivability via Active Venting, Roger L. Veldman
Transitioning and Adapting to College: A Case-Study Analysis of the Experience of University Students with Psychiatric Disabilities, Kenneth M. Werner
Empirical Spectral Analysis of Random Number Generators, David Zeitler
Dissertations from 2000
A Socio-Cultural Comparative Study of Freshmen of Mexican Descent Attending Western Michigan University, Diane M. Ariza
Teachers’ Perceptions of School Culture in Relation to Job Satisfaction and Commitment, Mayda Bahamonde-Gunnell
The Effects of Colonization on the Career Development and Occupational Choices of African Students Studying in the United States, Augustine E. Bessong
Saint Venus (With Critical Introduction), Allegra Shevahn Blake
A Comparison of African American Elderly Women Abstainers and Light to Moderate Consumers of Alcohol, Treva L. Bostic
Public Policy: Affirmative Action, Social Equity, and Employment Patterns in Michigan's Construction Industry 1966-1997, Henry Joseph Bowers
An Account of Novice Phylogenetic Tree Construction from the Problem-Solving Research Tradition, Terrance E. Brisbin
The Supplemental Effects of Feedback on Productivity Under Individual Incentives, Barbara R. Bucklin
An Investigation into Relationships between Alternative Assessment and Pre-Service Elementary Teachers’ Beliefs about Mathematics, David Charles Coffey
Practitioners’ Perspectives on Alternatives to the Paper-Based System for Preventing Welfare Fraud, Timothy Jerome Cole
The Effect of Presentation Media on Student Reading Comprehension, Jeffrey T. Conklin
Parental Involvement: Quantifying Parent Behavior and its Influence on a Child's Readiness to Learn, V. Yvonne Conner
Utah Jazz, A Novel, Dairen DeFrain
A Comparison of Cognitive Restructuring and Systematic Desensitization Techniques for Anger Reduction with an Inmate Population, Lori Ann Diaz
A Study of the Relationship Between Epistemic Style and Evaluation Practice, Deanna Draze
Rainbow Ramsey Numbers, Linda Eroh
The Victim Rights Movement: A Social Constructionist Examination, Angela Renee Evans
Can Principals’ Personality Traits Predict their Risk-Taking: Uncertainty and Success Orientation as they Relate to Risk Propensity, Bruce A. Evans
Environment, Cultures, and Social Change on the Great Plains: A History of Crow Creek Tribal School, Robert W. Galler Jr.
A Comparison of Learning in Adult Accelerated and Non-Accelerated Courses, Donald J. Green
Affective Responses to Television Newscasts: Have You Heard the News?, Jessica Purtan Harrell
Social Factors Related to Recovery after Hip Fracture, Debra Lindstrom Hazel
A Study of Parental Characteristics and School Choice, Chia-Lin Hsieh
Mitigating the Defects of Pluralism: Interest Group Coalitions Before the Supreme Court, Jason Frederick Jagemann
African-American and White Female Homicide Offenders: Women who Kill Intimate Partners Versus Non-Intimate Partners in Chicago between 1980-1995, Shauntey James
Coping with Chronic Fatigue, Susan Lynne Jensen
An Exploratory Study of Michigan Grantmaker Attributes and Competencies, Lisa R. Wyatt Knowlton
Research into the Relationships among Multicultural Training, Racial and Gender Identity Attitudes and Multicultural Competencies for Counselors, Debbie Koettzow
Teacher Perceptions of Collaboration and Engagement in Five Twenty-First Century Restructuring Schools in Indiana, Cynthia L. Kujawski
Developmental, Psychosocial, and Economic Predictors of Healthy Newborns in Michigan’s Teenage Pregnancies, Cheryl Lauber
Counselor-Client Value Similarity and Dissimilarity, the Working Alliance, and Counseling Outcome, Lynn Nylund Lupini
Whatever Shines: Poems, Kathleen McGookey
Childcare and Experiential Knowledge: Expanding Definitions of Childcare, Lori L. McNeil
A Comparison of Beginning and Advanced Counselor Education Students on the Health Locus of Control Scale, Christina Minger
The Experience of Interpersonal Forgiveness: An Empirical-Phenomenological Investigation, Halimatun Halaliah Mokhtar
A Preliminary Investigation of The Acceptability and Effectiveness of Computer-Based Adjunctive Parent Training for Child Noncompliance, Dwayne M. Munneke
The Perceived Economic, Social, and Cultural Impacts of Gaming on a Michigan Indian Tribe, Maureen Elizabeth Myers
Emotional Expressiveness and Problematic Behaviors Among Male Juvenile Sexual Offenders, General Offenders, and Nonoffenders, Carin M. Ness
A Case Study of the Effects of the Strategic Planning Process on the Trust Level of Administrative Staff in a K - 12 School District, Michael F. Paskewicz
Molecular and Biological Characterization of a Tanapox Virus TNF-Binding Protein and the Complete Nucleotide Sequence of the PstI-J Genomic Fragment, Mini Paulose-Murphy
Supervisory Identity Development and its Relationship to Supervisory Experience, Counseling Experience, and Training in Supervision, Nadine Joy Pelling
The Effects of Radiation Damage on the Vortex Dynamics of High Temperature Superconductors, Andra Petrean
Issues of Factorial Invariance Inherent in Conceptual Change: Teachers’ Evolving Perceptions of Classroom Practice, Cynthia C. Phillips
Teachers’ Use of Instructional Alignment in Michigan Fifth Grade Classrooms and the Relationship of Use to Student MEAP Scores in Writing, John Rasmussen
The Organizational Culture in Community Foundations, Nanette Marie Reiser
Membership at Risk: Representation of Disability in Popular Counselor Education Textbooks, Nancy A. Rosenau
Journey to Self: The Experience of Inner Life of Helping Professionals, Candace W. Ross
The Federal Election Commission: An Analysis of Administrative Behavior, Maurice C. Sheppard
Dark Side of the Dream: The Social Gothic in Vietnam Era America, Greg Smith
An Examination of Voir Dire from an Interactionist Perspective, Peter R. Stevenson
The Gothic Wanderer: From Transgression to Redemption, Tyler R. Tichelaar
Capital Punishment: A New Perspective on Race and Ethnic Differences in Punishment and Death Sentence Outcomes, Martin G. Urbina
Attitudes and Perceptions of Michigan School Administrators toward Female Administrators, Dorothy J. VanderJagt
Identification and Classification of Coryneform Bacteria Isolated from Bovine Mammary Glands, Jeffrey L. Watts
Dissertations from 1999
Job Satisfaction among Governmental and Private Sector Employees in Qatar, Jassim Al-Nasr
Nonmigrainous Pediatric Headache Management: Thermal Biofeedback and Parent Guidelines, Richard E. Amdorfer