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Dissertations from 1998
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
The Relationship Between Cooperating Teachers' and Student Teachers' Concerns, Dan A. Gerbens
A Study of Factors Affecting Responses in Electronic Mail Surveys, Kimberly Post Good
The Effects of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) on Self-Reported Test Anxiety in College Students, John C. Hampel
Domination in Digraphs, Lisa Hansen
Reconstruction of Wetland Hydrology Dynamics Using Tree Rings, Allan P. Hascall III
The Impact of Sex and Gender-Role Orientation on Student Evaluations of Professor Competence in Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology, Suzanne M. Hobson
Differential Effects of Individual and Group Pay Contingencies on Individual Performance, Judith A. Honeywell-Johnson
Underdevelopment as Meta-Axiological Dilemma: The Socioeconomic Implications of African Axiology for Rational Choice Determinants of Microeconomic Agency, Sundiata Keita Ibn-Hyman
The National German-American Alliance, 1901 -1918: Cultural Politics and Ethnicity in Peace and War, Charles Thomas Johnson
Mastodon, 80% Complete: Poems, Jonathan Johnson
Human Impulsivity: Effects of Reinforcement Procedure, Catherine A. Karas
A Portrait of Assessment in Reformed Mathematics Classrooms, James R. Kett
Leadership Roles of Native American Women in Education in the 1990s, Linda S. Keway
Study of Impurity Modes in Photonic Crystals and Study of Power GaAs MESFETS, Michael G. Khazhinsky
Affective Orientation, Alexithymia, and Multidimensional Empathy in Counselors-in-Training, Terrilyn J. Krueger
A Systems Approach to Performance Quality: An Application to Higher Education, Tobias LaFleur
Bandwidth, Edgesum and Profile of Graphs, Yung-Ling Lai
Groundwater-Kalamazoo River Interaction Near the Parchment City Wellfield, Parchment, Michigan, W. Richard Laton
Systematics of Stable Isotopes and Radionuclides in Precipitation at Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA, Madhav V. Machavaram
Theoretical and Conceptual Lacunae in Sociological Theories of Development: The Puerto Rican Anomaly, Dennis Malaret
Localization and Transport Effects in the Disordered Materials, Vladislav Malyshkin
Effects of Alternative Activities on Productivity under Different Percentages of Incentive Pay, Grainne A. Matthews
What’s Good for GM… : Deindustrialization, and Crime in Four Michigan Cities, 1975-1993, Rick Matthews
Programmed Instruction: Within-Subject Analysis of Four Types of Instructional Material, Matthew L. Miller
Decision Making and the Felony Offender: A Cognitive Approach, Marlene O’Hara
Caroline Bartlett Crane and Progressive Era Reform: A Socio-Historical Analysis of Ideology in Action, Linda J. Rynbrandt
A Robust Estimate for an Autoregressive Time Series, Jeffrey Terpstra
Effects of Linear and Non-Linear Incentive Pay Systems with Individual and Group Payouts on the Social Psychology Phenomenon of Social Loafing, Delores A. Tinley Smoot
An Assessment of Generalization Across Settings of a Parenting Strategies Program for ADHD Children, Barbara M. Todd-Nelson
The Efficacy of Pediatric Pain Management Techniques for Infants During Inoculation Procedures, Kimberly K. Wisdorf-Houtkooper
Outcomes Related to the Quality of Life of Oncology Patients Aged 65 and Older Following Initial Cancer Treatment, Rosemary Clare Zivic
Dissertations from 1996
The Relationship Between Principals' Length of Administrative Experience and Organizational Leadership Behavior in Elementary Schools in Saudi Arabia, Hamad Adbulaziz AlKherb
Hydrogeology and Stable Isotope Investigations of a Landfill Impacted Site in Southwest Michigan, Eliot Anong Atekwana
Training Nonconventional Autoclitic and Tact Relationships in Children, Ingolfur Bergsteinsson
An Account of Expert Phylogenetic Tree Construction from the Problem-Solving Research Tradition in Science Education, Steven D. Brewer
The Public Administrations as Civic Shaman: The Self-Reflective Integrator of Policy Frames of Reference and Social Character, Phillip A. Brown
The Status of Middle Level Schools in Berrien County, Michigan Following Michigan Public Act 25, Judith A. Burns
Lobbying in the Nonprofit Sector: A Study of Practice and Values, Larry A. Buzas
Ground Water Movement Through the Highly-Fractured Crystalline Core of a Large-Scale, Foreland Uplift, Roy Al Gorge Arch, South-Central Colorado, Timothy L. Clarey
Effects of Exercise and Psychosocial Stress on Blood Glucose in Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetics, Lisa Renae Clemensen
A Qualitative Exploration of Women Survivors’ Disclosure of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Joanne Dodgson
A Comparison of Gay and Lesbian Sensitivity Trainings On Student Counselors’ Attitudes Toward Same Gender Sexual Behavior, H. Dean Dorman
A Study of the Emotional Responses and Coping Strategies of Male and Female Athletes with Moderate and Severe Injuries, Donna S. Eaton
An Analysis of the Auditory-Verbal and Visual-Figural Learning and Memory Patterns of College Students with Learning Disabilities, Robert K. Eckert
Gender Discourse in Small Learning Groups of College-Level Developmental Mathematics Students, Allen W. Emerson
Elementary Teachers’ and Principals’ Perceptions of Principal Leadership Style and School Social Organization, Thomas Jack Evans
The Effects of an Information/Counseling Session and Partner Participation in Treadmill Testing on Sexual Functioning Following Myocardial Infarction, Betty J. Fisher
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Treatment of Communication Anxiety: A Closer Look, Teresa Foley
Worker Productivity as a Function of the Percentage of Monetary Incentives to Base Pay, Carol J. Frisch
A Graph Theoretic Study of the Similarity of Discrete Structures, Heather D. Gavlas
An Examination of Factors Contributing to Exemplary Schools in an Urban Public School District in the Midwest, Gordon D. Griffin
Behavior and Attitudes Related to the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Disease and Unplanned Pregnancy, J. Lee Hoover
Implementation of an "Early Return to Duty" Policy within the Michigan Civil Service: An Exploratory Study, James Patrick Hurren
Intergovernmental Cooperation in Metropolitan Grand Rapids, Michigan, James M. Kadlecek
Leader Attitudes and Leader Stress: Is There a Connection?, Earl B. Kaurala
The Effects of a Corporate Adventure Training Experience on Group Dynamics and Individual Self-Actualization of Middle-Management Professionals, Scott A. Kelly
Maranao Muslim Women Educational Administrators: An Initial Study of the Emerging Muslim Women Leaders in the Philippines, Carmelita S. Lacar
The Relationships among Expectancy, Hypnotizability, and Treatment Outcome Associated with Eye Movement Desensitization in the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Lisa Kimberly Largo-Marsh
Effects of d-Amphetamine on Free-Operant Response Acquisition with Immediate and Delayed Reinforcement, Mark G. LeSage
Cost Sharing Under Complex Federalism: Welfare Reform Cost Neutrality Calculations, Robert G. Lovell
The MMPI-A: A Diagnostic Tool for ADHD Adolescents, Harry J. Marshall
A Case Study of Academic Achievement of African American Males, Loistean Mason
Adolescent Students at Risk: The Roles of Stress, Distress, and Coping, Jennifer Massicotte
A Study of Students Involved in a Leadership Development Program, "Excellence in Leadership", at Grand Valley State University, Paul McKimmy
Culture-Specific HIV/STD Prevention Programming for Lesbian and Bisexual Women, Kathleen M. Morrow
The Effects of Wraparound Services on the Adjustment of Four Severely Emotionally Disturbed Youth: A Controlled Multiple Baseline Study, Michael J. Myaard
An Evaluation of Privatization, Taxes, and User Fees as Alternative Strategies for Municipal Trash Collection, James Neubecker
The Impact of the Patient Representative on Satisfaction, Diana L. Newman
The Measurement of Dental Disease in a Correctional Setting: The Importance to Functional Service Delivery, Walter S. Ormes
A Comparison of the Spontaneous Utterances of Students with Autism Across Two Educational Settings, Mary E. Peterson
Millage Election Outcomes in Michigan Public School Districts: A Test of the Rational Choice and Social Psychological Voting Models, Christopher Petras
Crises in the Regulation of Long-Term Care, Randall Earl Phillips
Comparison of Selection-Based vs. Topography-Based Verbal Behavior, William F. Potter
Measuring Changes in Spontaneous Play Behavior in Preschoolers with Autism Associated with a Receptive Language Intervention, Jori Reijonen