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Dissertations from 1998
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
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