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Submissions From 1998

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Enhancement of naturally occurring chemopreventive compounds in salad greens through environmental manipulation during crop growth, Usha Rani Palaniswamy

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Using the green fluorescence protein and an inducible expression system to study the dynamic changes of the actin cortex in Dictyostelium, Ka Ming Pang

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Cytokine modulation of mammary gland development and involution, Alexander George Pantschenko

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Factors related to college attendance and choice of college majors by high-ability Asian-American students, Sunghee Park

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Workpiece shape control in through-feed centerless grinding, George Celani Petrosky

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The influence of functional status and social support on dietary quality of elderly women, Michelle Bitzer Pierce

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Implications of alphabetical instruction on the development of phonological awareness, Ana Luiza Gomes Pinto-Navas

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Pathways underlying the alveolar absorption of macromolecules, Roderike Pohl

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The role of bromine in restoring superconductivity in YBa2Cu3Oy and weak link studies in YBa2Cu3Oy films, Daniel Mark Potrepka

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How adults develop computer skills: An extension of deliberate practice theory, Henriette Mary Pranger

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Object-oriented design methodology to facilitate reuse, Margaretha Widyayanti Price

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Isolation, characterization, mapping and expression analysis of the human neuralized gene, Panagiotis Prinos

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Truing and dressing of CBN/seeded gel hybrid wheels with emphasis on grinding process economics and quality, Zbigniew Prusak

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Purification and characterization of anandamide amidase and development of novel inhibitors, Ce Qin

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Studies on the effects of site-specifically located mitomycin C-DNA adducts in Escherichia coli, Leilani Agcaoili Ramos

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The neo-slave narratives of Hurston, Walker, and Morrison: Rewriting the black woman's slave narrative, Stephen Robert Rascher

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U.S. response to Third World revolution: The case of the Reagan administration and Nicaragua, Thomas Joseph Redden

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Politics of gender in John Marston's plays, Raymond Joseph Rice

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Perceived sources of stress among Connecticut superintendents: An exploratory study, Lystra Moore Richardson

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The therapeutic uses of rhetoric in contemporary American life-writing about disability and implications for a writing pedagogy, Jacqueline Blanche Rinaldi

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Classroom practices with high-achieving students: A national survey of middle school teachers, George James Robinson

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The production and distribution of elemental mercury in a coastal marine environment, Kristofer Robert Rolfhus

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Modulation spaces and nonlinear approximation, Salti Ali Ayed Samarah

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``A compleat gentleman'': The making of George Washington, 1732--1775, William Guthrie Sayen

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Transfer management interventions: Environmental influences and individual characteristics that affect implementation of staff development initiatives, Patricia Russell Saylor

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Elementary schools with mandated or voluntary school-site decision-making: A multiple case perspective, Roy Maynard Seitsinger

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Study of rare-earth iron compounds and related nitrides and hydrides, Naixiu Shen

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Performance based tuning strategies for model predictive controllers, Rahul Shridhar

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The Supreme Court and the spoils system: Political patronage in the aftermath of the Rutan case, Elizabeth Theiss Smith

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Grandmothers' reactions to having adopted grandchildren, Beryl Adeline Berger Soparkar

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An examination of the characteristics associated with at-risk African-American students experiencing success in high school mathematics, Blidi S Stemn

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Distortion product otoacoustic emissions in mouse models of early-onset and late-onset presbycusis, Xiao-Ming Sun

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Sedimentary geochemistry of 224Ra, Yin Sun

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The published songs of Jean Rivier (1896--1987), David Michael Tadlock

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Prediction of tennis ball landing location: A cognitive and ecological approach to visual perception, Stephen McCue Thuot

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From microporous to mesoporous manganese oxide crystalline phases: Syntheses, characterization, and applications, Zheng-Rong Tian

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Biophysical characterization of a designed TMV coat protein mutant, R46G, that elicits a hypersensitivity response in N. sylvestris, John Malcolm Toedt

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Approximate stresses in 2-D flat elastic contact fretting problems, Michael Rene Urban

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An investigation of the relationship of the utilization of enrollment management strategies to student recruitment and retention at member institutions of the Coalition for Christian Colleges and Universities, Brian Anthony Vander Schee

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Teachers' assessment decisions during literacy portfolio reviews: Four descriptive case studies, Karen Vandersloot-Richards

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Negotiating settlement: Colonialism, cultural exchange, and conflict in early colonial Atlantic North America, 1580--1660, Cynthia Jean Van Zandt

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Mechanisms by which pectin and psyllium reverse the hyperlipidemia induced by high fat/sucrose diets in guinea pigs, Marcela de Jesus Vergara-Jimenez

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The decomposition of the environmental pollutant, nitrogen trifluoride, and the synthesis of catalysts using microwave heating, Elizabeth Marie Vileno

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Copper complexes bearing pendant, protonatable noncoordinating groups: Synthesis, structural characterization and DNA cleavage activity, Nydia D Villanueva

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The role of prior experience in learning computer numerical control technology, Michael Conrad Vincenti

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Surface acoustic wave-induced birefringent multiple quantum well modulators for optical system applications, Hui Wang

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Oxidation and oxidative dehydrogenation of cyclohexane catalyzed by octahedral molecular sieve (OMS) and octahedral layer (OL) materials, Jin-Yun Wang

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Interface adhesion and abrasive wear study of polymeric dental composites, Weiping Wang

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Molecular mediators of odontogenesis at ectopic sites, Yu-Hsiung Wang

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Entrainment of estuarine cohesive sediments: Analysis of in situ measurements and numerical modeling, Yu-Huai Wang

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Insular cortex of the Syrian golden hamster: Architectonics and characterization of the nNOS-containing neurons, Richard George Wehby

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Functional characterizations of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA replication enhancer, ABF1, Richard Steven Wiltshire

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A comparative study of childrearing values in the United States and China, Hong Xiao

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Fast numerical schemes for Fredholm integral equations of the second kind, Shiqin Xia

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A regional scale modeling study of atmospheric transport and transformation of mercury, Xiaohong Xu

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Ultra-violet and resonant laser ablation coupled with microwave-induced plasma atomic emission spectrometry and determination of tin in nickel-based alloys by electrothermal atomizer atomic absorption and laser-excited atomic fluorescence spectrometry, Xiaodong Yang

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Design of a vacuum-hydrostatic shoe for centerless grinding, Yanhua Yang

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The effect of international accounting diversity on the integration of capital markets, Danqing Xu Young

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Roles of ADAM family proteins and egg integrins in mouse sperm-egg plasma membrane adhesion and fusion, Ruiyong Yuan

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Functional characterization of UL15, an essential gene involved in DNA cleavage/packaging of herpes simplex virus type-1, Dong Yu

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Genetic tools for the study of {\it Thermotoga\/}, Jaesung Yu

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An alternative approach to critical point theory and its applications to Hamiltonian systems, Leiping Yu

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Generalization of the Hartree Fock approach to atomic collisions, Essaid Zerrad

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Bundle methods for power system scheduling with bidding strategies, Daoyuan Zhang

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Study of membrane electric property in N1E-115 neuroblastoma cells: Can voltage-gated sodium channels sense intramembrane dipole potential?, Jing Zhang

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Thermal modeling of advanced manufacturing technologies: Grinding, laser drilling, and solid freeform fabrication, Yuwen Zhang

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Nondestructive damage detection using structural dynamic properties, Jun Zhao

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Aggrecan synthesis and secretion: A paradigm for molecular and cellular coordination of multiglobular protein folding and intracellular trafficking, Jing Zheng

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Using genetic algorithms and artificial neural networks for multisource geospatial data modeling and classification, Jiang Zhou

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Electrochemistry of amphiphilic ferrocene alcohols and oxidative electro-enzymology with myoglobin and cytochrome P450, Xiaolin Zu

Submissions From 1997

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Towards a humanistic democracy: The balancing acts of Arthur Miller and August Wilson, Susan Claire Whitfield Abbotson

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Building the loom city: Rockville, Connecticut, 1821--1908, S. Ardis Abbott

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Reason and revelation: The educational philosophy of Dr. Timothy Dwight (1752--1817), Jay Walter Abramson

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Design enhancement of a solid ankle foot orthosis: Real-time contact pressures evaluation and finite element analysis, Khamis Sa'id Abu-Hasaballah

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Development of a hormone-defined cell system for studying GPCR agonist-activated growth control: Delta-opioid receptor and beta$\sb2$-adrenergic receptor cross-regulation alters agonist-activated cell proliferation and JNK/ERK activation patterns, Dianne Swinnerton Agarwal

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Forming protective coatings on aluminum using spontaneous and electro polymerization, Rajat Krishnan Agarwal

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The academic socialization of intercollegiate athletes: An examination of team subculture influences on academic achievement, Michael Sean Allen

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Inter-diagrammatic reasoning, Michael Edward Anderson

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Regional characterization of the seismic wave propagation of central Eurasia using deterministic crustal models, Thomas Scott Anderson

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How American core values influence public policy: Problem definitions in federal aid to small business, 1953--1993, Sandra Mary Anglund

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Investing in trust: Building cooperation and social capital in micro-credit borrowing groups, Denise Lynne Anthony

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Constrained choices: Contingent work among youth and young adults during the 1980s and early 1990s, Ruth Margaret Arnold

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Family-school collaboration: A systems approach and intervention for solving student problems, Aram Parker Aslanian

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Molecular evolution of histone genes within the {\it Sophophoran\/} radiation of {\it Drosophila\/}, Angela Marie Baldo

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Perception of the raison d'\cx etre of content information: The purpose and mechanisms of anchored instruction, Sasha Alexander Barab

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Dynamic models for conjunctive management of stream-aquifer systems of the glaciated Northeast, Paul Martin Barlow

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Working for peanuts: Children's market work in urban areas of Senegal, Loretta Elizabeth Bass

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Political culture and the consequences of revolutionary change: Workplace democracy and local politics in rural Portugal, Michael Alvin Baum

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Constructivism and the use of performance assessment in science: A comparative study of beliefs among preservice and inservice teachers, Marsha H Bednarski

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An operator approach to Gauss's law in Yang-Mills theory and quantum chromodynamics, Mario Joseph Belloni

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Resiliency of successful high-risk females in an alternative setting, Sandra Barbara Billings

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Delineation and weathering of gasoline contamination in three dimensions using multi-level soil and groundwater samples, Gordon Kenneth Binkhorst

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Processing and parameter setting in language acquisition: A computational approach, Carole Tenny Boster

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Studies on the effect of vesicular stomatitis virus infection and acetaminophen treatment on NF-$\kappa$B activation in mammalian cells, Abdel-Hamid Boulares

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Addressing behaviors that have been historically resistant to remediation: Self-modeling as an intervention for stuttering, Melissa Anne Bray

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Towards high levels of COL1A1 transgene expression, David Thomas Breault

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Community policing in Manchester, Connecticut: A case study, Michael David Breen

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The effects of a school-based sociomoral mentoring program on preadolescents' cognitive, emotional, and behavioral development, Jeffrey David Burke

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Impact of phosphate on the surficial properties of a ferric hydroxide matrix: Linkage between surface complexation and colloid stability, Michael Albert Butkus

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The mechanisms of fatigue crack growth at low growth rates, Hengfeng Cai