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DISSERTATIONS FROM 2008 Matthew Michael Giampoala (2008) Calcium buffering in the chick cochlear hair cell active zone Catherine E Gleason (2008) Integration of growth factor and nutrient signaling in the regulation of cellular and organismal growth Alwyn E Goodloe (2008) A foundation for tunnel-complex protocols Evan M Goulet (2008) Biofunctionalization of carbon nanostructures through enzyme immobilization in colloidal silica Jered Brackston Haun (2008) Engineering nanoparticle adhesive properties for selective targeting of cardiovascular disease David Keleti (2008) Diversity in molecular recognition of phospholipids by PH domains: An examination of three unusual PH domain-phospholipid interactions Martin Kerin (2008) Biquotients with almost positive curvature Ekta Khurana (2008) Computational studies of natural and synthetic ion channels Jose Suarez-Lledo (2008) Essays on Monetary Theory and Policy DISSERTATIONS FROM 2007 Michael J Abrams (2007) "Jealousy agoraphobia": An evolutionary approach Salvatore J Agosta (2007) Evolutionary ecology of host plant use by an insect herbivore in a highly seasonal neotropical dry forest Theresa Alenghat (2007) Molecular and physiologic significance of the nuclear receptor corepressor-HDAC3 complex Mohamad Alkhayer (2007) Deployment of trussed structures generation of a deductive taxonomy of unfolding configurations Stephen Allred (2007) Fighting the war at home: A case study of faculty retention at UNC Prin X Amorapanth (2007) Where are they? The neural systems underlying the language of space Stanislav Plamenov Angelov (2007) Pattern discovery in biological data sets Philip Anglewicz (2007) Migration, risk perception, and HIV infection in Malawi Sudha Arunachalam (2007) Early verb representations Jatin Atul Atre (2007) Choice under conditions of abundance: The behavior of television audiences Daria V Babushok (2007) Role of LINE-1 retrotransposon in genome evolution: Mechanisms of L1 integration and L1-mediated creation of new genes Wendy J Bacon (2007) The dwarf motif in Classic Maya monumental iconography: A spatial analysis Anthony Bak (2007) Constructing bundles on abelian surface fibrations Karthik Balasubramaniam (2007) Product portfolio management and the industry lifecycle Katherine Bartley (2007) New migratory dynamics, north of the border, across the border, and below the border: Three essays examining internal and Mexico-United States migration Ellen Elizabeth Bell (2007) Early Classic ritual deposits within the Copan acropolis: The material foundations of political power at a Classic period Maya center Rajesh N Bellani (2007) Sophomore men: Their growth, relationships and search for life direction at Colgate University Jennifer Lyn Bellot (2007) A descriptive study of nursing home organizational culture, work environment and culture change from the perspectives of licensed nurses Douglas C Beshore (2007) Total syntheses of (+)-lyconadin A and (-)-lyconadin B Natalie A Bezman (2007) Regulation of immunoreceptor and integrin signaling by the adapter protein SLP-76 LeManuel Lee Bitsoi (2007) Native leaders in the new millenium: An examination of success factors of Native American males at Harvard College Maria del Rocio Bonet Loscertales (2007) Opening the black-box of individuals career advancement: The role of organizational factors Kelley E Borradaile (2007) Stick a fork in it: A psychometric evaluation of a food frequency questionnaire and an activity frequency questionnaire Mary Cary Bradley (2007) Mothers, children, and parenting: The role of age and a test of home visitor services as a strategy to improve parenting of adolescent mothers Howard Bregman (2007) The synthesis and evaluation of organoruthenium protein kinase inhibitors Randall J Brezski (2007) Membrane cholesterol content accounts for developmental differences in surface B cell receptor compartmentalization, actin reorganization and signaling Deirdre Brill (2007) La escuela cubana: Dance education and performance in revolutionary Cuba Mateusz B Bryning (2007) Carbon nanotube networks in epoxy composites and aerogels Sebastian Burckhardt (2007) Memory model sensitive analysis of concurrent data types Monica Buzzai (2007) The role of AMPK in modulating the metabolism and survival of cancer cells Zachary Ryan Calo (2007) "The ethical aspect of economic doctrine": The social thought of John A. Ryan and the making of American Catholic liberalism, 1900--1940 Robert J Cannon (2007) Narrative in lecture: Portraiture of faculty experiences and perceptions in higher education Matt Carlson (2007) On the condition of anonymity: Unnamed sources and journalistic authority Mary Ellen Caro (2007) Higher education collaboration with industry: Three case studies of instruction based partnerships Andrew R Casper (2007) El Greco and Italy: Art, theory and the religious image of the late cinquecento Mary M Cavanaugh (2007) An exploration of the feasibility and utility of the Dialectical Psychoeducational Workshop (DPEW) as a preventative intervention for males at potential risk of intimate partner violence Fabiana Cecchini (2007) Immagini di donne tra auto-rappresentazione e cinegrafia: Sibilla Aleramo e Veronica Franco Cortney E Chaffin (2007) Strange creatures of Chu: Antlered tomb sculptures of the spring and Autumn and Warring States periods Rohitashya Chattopadhyay (2007) Cultural influences on Indian television commercials: A qualitative analysis Swarat Chaudhuri (2007) Logics and algorithms for software model checking Guang Chen (2007) Identifying transcriptional regulatory modules and networks by integrative approaches Ariel Chernin (2007) The relationship between children's knowledge of persuasive intent and persuasion: The case of televised food marketing Jinyoung Choi (2007) Free choice and negative polarity: A compositional analysis of Korean polarity sensitive items Carolyn E Clark (2007) The dynamics of immunosurveillance in pancreatic cancer from inception to invasion and metastasis Brittany Coats (2007) Mechanics of head impact in infants Alper Corlu (2007) Multi-spectral and fluorescence diffuse optical tomography of breast cancer Serafin M Coronel-Molina (2007) Language policy and planning, and language ideologies in Peru: The case of Cuzco's High Academy of the Quechua Language (Qheswa simi hamut' ana kuraq suntur) Scott Corry (2007) Arithmetic and geometry of the open p-adic disc Jennifer T Criss (2007) Japonisme and beyond in the art of Marie Bracquemond, Mary Cassatt, and Berthe Morisot, 1867--1895 Brigit Crowell (2007) The practice and significance of inlay in New Kingdom monuments as a reflection of royal ideology: The evidence from Malkata and Amarna Laila Dadvand (2007) The role of sleep in the recovery of deprived eye responses in developing visual cortex Calder Daenzer (2007) A groupoid approach to noncommutative T-duality Wasila M Dahdul (2007) Phylogenetics and diversification of the neotropical Serrasalminae (Ostariophysi: Characiformes) Lauren L Daniele (2007) Insights into cone function from the "all-cone" neural retina leucine zipper null mouse Jennifer Louise Dashnau (2007) Biological molecules as protectors against cellular damage caused by environmental extremes: The role of protectant-water interactions Jamaine Saydu C Davis (2007) Characterization of an alternate ribonucleotide reductase small subunit, NrdF1, from Mycobacterium tuberculosis William Josiah Edwards Davis (2007) Latin texts and Latin culture at Praeneste: 700 BC--14 AD Priscilla McNeil Dawson (2007) The road less traveled: A personal reflective journal of leadership practices that influenced learning in three school contexts William S Denney (2007) Simulated and experimental coagulation of human blood Ranjan Deepak Deshmukh (2007) Dispersion and self-assembly of nanospheres and nanorods in polymer nanocomposites Victoria Vaughan Dickson (2007) A mixed methods study investigating biobehavioral variables that influence self-care management in persons with heart failure Jennifer Kirchmyer Dobe (2007) Nature's amenability to the ideals of the human subject in the aesthetics of Kant and Schelling Taeyoung Doh (2007) Three essays in the estimation of dynamic macroeconomic models Charles Aiden Downey (2007) "You can't save them all": The moral economy of teacher work in a "failing" inner-city high school Jamie Mihoko Doyle (2007) The physical and mental health of multiracial adolescents in the United States Jennifer R Dunn (2007) Glorious or notorious? Personal reputations in the workplace Christine Joy Dupres (2007) "Learning what it means to be Indian": The role of performance and genre in cultural renewal within the Cowlitz Indian Tribe Marc J Egeth (2007) Representing metarepresentations: Is there a theory of mind module? Cory Dale Evans (2007) Total syntheses of (9R, 10S)-epi-ustiloxin analogues to probe the inhibition of tubulin polymerization and investigations toward ustiloxin A Kelley A Evans (2007) "I am not done yet": Literacy, identity work and narrative exploration in a women's drug treatment writing classroom Amy K Ewing (2007) An investigaton of the mechanisms underlying N-CoR-mediated transcriptional repression of nuclear receptor-regulated genes Catherine Anne Faler (2007) Synthesis and applications of cyclopropylamines and cyclopropanols from a titanium-mediated cyclopropanation Terry C Fang (2007) The role of Notch signaling in Th2 cell differentiation Yanshan Fang (2007) The role of protein phosphatase 1 in the Drosophila circadian clock Evan A Farkash (2007) Keeping L1s in line: Genomic defenses against retrotransposition Lucy F. H Faulconbridge (2007) Ghrelin and neuropeptide Y: Actions and interactions within the neuroanatomically distributed system for the control of feeding behavior Jeffrey Scott Fecher (2007) Gendered educational leadership: Perceptions, power, and paths Hania Ferrara (2007) Accreditation as a lever for institutional change: Focusing on student learning outcomes Jonathan A. N Fisher (2007) Linear and non-linear fluorescence imaging of neuronal activity Kimberly A Fitch (2007) Liquidating the public sector? Water privatization in France and Germany Alexine Fleck (2007) The low and the lost: Ethics, expertise and drug use memoirs Paul R Frail (2007) Synthesis, photophysical, electrochemical, and structural engineering of (porphinato)zinc(II) ethynylenes for electrical materials applications Mark Franek (2007) Friends first: The impact of meeting for worship on students at an urban Quaker school Tina Marie Franklin-Dumont (2007) Counting up off schedule: Investigating the timing of developmental transitions in the Drosophila testis Jennifer Maria Freeman (2007) The writing exam as index of policy, curriculum, and assessment: An academic literacies perspective on high stakes testing in an American university Feng Gao (2007) Single molecule study on lipid vesicles and proteins by confocal microscopy Long-Long Gao (2007) Explanatory analyses in randomized clinical trials Peng Gao (2007) Fluxes, holography and twistors: String theory paths to four dimensions David S Garbe (2007) Integration and regulation of attractive and repulsive axon guidance at the Drosophila midline Stacey Garrett (2007) Chromatin regulation of the inflammatory cytokines TNF-alpha and IL-23 in human monocytes James C Garvey (2007) Philadelphia University: The role of presidential leadership in market adaptation and evolution of mission Nadine M Garvin (2007) Teacher autonomy: Distinguishing perceptions by school cultural characteristics Fan Ge (2007) Phylogeny and evolution of prokaryotic genomes Ahu Gemici (2007) Family migration and labor market outcomes Tania Gentic (2007) Reading and its discontents: Nation and interpellation in the twentieth-century transatlantic cronica Joseph John Gerakos (2007) Essays on CEO pensions Michael Robert Gessner (2007) 3 essays on the economics of on line auctions: The posted price option puzzle and seller reputation Kartikeya Ghia (2007) Statistical applications for finance: Regression tree and distribution-based models for equity trading Mary Eckenrode Gibson (2007) From charity to an able body: The care and treatment of disabled children in Virginia, 1910--1935 Steven L Gibson (2007) Inhibition of colon tumor progression and angiogenesis by the Ink4a/Arf locus Karan Girotra (2007) Essays in operations management Robbie Glen (2007) Lines of affection: Dorothy Osborne and women's letterwriting in the seventeenth century Mina Glick (2007) H[dotbelow]erem in Biblical law and narrative Louis Michael Golden (2007) The impact of refurbished in-home computers and Internet access on student attitudes and achievement Adam John Graves (2007) Before the text: Phenomenology and revelation William John Gretzula (2007) An analysis of a pre-first grade program on academic, social and emotional achievement Roman Groger (2007) Development of physically based plastic flow rules for body-centered cubic metals with temperature and strain rate dependencies Michael D Gross (2007) Development of direct hydrocarbon solid oxide fuel cells with enhanced stability and performance Stefano Guerra (2007) Spectral cover construction for associated bundles Ratul Kumar Guha (2007) Resource sharing and allocation in wireless mesh networks Michael A Gyda (2007) Molecular and cellular mechanisms of axon guidance during visual system development in zebrafish Dexter Devanand Hadley (2007) Genome-scale annotation of genetic factors underlying neurotransmission & neuropsychiatric disease Thomas Haimowitz (2007) Studies towards the total synthesis of nakadomarin A Rachel Gail Handwerger (2007) Photolabile polyethylenimines for light-activated nucleic acid delivery Sheri L Hanna (2007) The contribution of West Nile virus envelope protein N-linked glycosylation on pathogenesis Boulos Harb (2007) Algorithms for linear and nonlinear approximation of large data Michele D Hassall (2007) Co-teaching partnerships in inclusion classrooms: Comparative case studies from a suburban comprehensive high school Shaman Hatley (2007) The Brahmayamalatantra and early Saiva cult of yoginis Jian He (2007) Nucleotide inhibitors of mammalian ribonucleotide reductase Laura Heffernan (2007) Bad form: Modernist criticism and the cultural life of the aesthetic, 1909--1929 Stephane Helleringer (2007) Sexual network structure, diffusion and prevention of HIV within populations: A case study using complete network data in Likoma Island (Malawi) Jennifer Higginbotham (2007) Fair maids and golden girls: Early modern girlhood and the production of femininity Frances A High (2007) Notch signaling in cardiac development Corey A Hoelscher (2007) Classification of cohomogeneity one manifolds in low dimensions Brenton D Hoffman (2007) Measuring, modelling, and dissecting the cellular mechanical response David Hokanson (2007) Myo1c binds to PIP2 with high affinity through a putative PH domain Arlene D Horvath (2007) Table furnishings and foodways, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1800--1860: Beyond the biological imperative Brandon Kay Howard (2007) Looking beyond the surface: Classification of inner-city adolescents by characteristics associated with sexual risk behaviors Robert D Hradsky (2007) The conversion of an upper-division university to a four-year institution: A study in organizational change Jonathan Horng Hsy (2007) Polyglot poetics: Merchants and literary production in London, 1300--1500 Francis M Hult (2007) Multilingual language policy and English language teaching in Sweden Ivar Niklas Hultin (2007) Legality, information, and the making of the public subject in Africa's human rights capital (The Gambia) Lee Humphreys (2007) Mobile sociality and spatial practice: A qualitative fieldstudy of new social networking technologies Patricia White Hunt (2007) Keeping the PROMISE? A study of West Virginia's merit-based scholarship program Marcin Imielinski (2007) In silico analysis of microbial biosynthetic capabilities at the genome-scale Andrew Michael Intlekofer (2007) The role of T-bet and eomesodermin in effector and memory CD8+ T cell differentiation Kara Jones Jackson (2007) Under construction: Learning mathematics across space and over time Johanna Micaela Jacobsen (2007) Boundary breaking and compliance: Will-Erich Peuckert and 20th century German Volkskunde Lela S Jacobsohn (2007) Explaining the boomerang effects of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign Michael A Janson (2007) A Christian century: Liberal Protestantism, the New Deal, and the origins of post-war American politics Pamela H Jardine (2007) Cultural change in the early years of the Blackfeet Reservation: The fieldwork of Charles H. Stephens in 1891 Baoming Ji (2007) Taxonomic and functional diversity of AM fungi in serpentine and prairie grasslands Yang Jin (2007) Extracting cancer genomics knowledge from biomedical literature Michael Johns (2007) Human behavior modeling within an integrative framework Daniel Ezra Johnson (2007) Stability and change along a dialect boundary: The low vowels of Southeastern New England David Cassels Johnson (2007) Language policy within and without the school district of Philadelphia Lea A Johnson (2007) The great comeback: A comparative analysis of disaster recovery actions in higher education Leanne M Johnson (2007) The role of IL-27/STAT1 signaling during Leishmania major-induced T helper cell polarization Yogesh V Joshi (2007) Optimal product line strategies for entry in new markets Kevin Jude (2007) Crystallography at ultrahigh and infralow resolution: Studies of carbonic anhydrase and ribonuclease P Suk-Won Jung (2007) Development of new fabrication methods for solid oxide fuel cell electrodes Colleen M Kane (2007) Helminth antigens modulate TLR-ligand induced dendritic cell activation Hyun-Sook Kang (2007) Negative evidence: Its positioning, explicitness and linguistic focus as factors in second language acquisition Yahui Kang (2007) The effects of smoking cues in anti-smoking public service announcements on smoking urge, message processing and intention to quit smoking Matthew Alan Katz (2007) Numerical competence and the format of mental representation Ann Rowley Kelly (2007) Development and application of oxidation methods for the synthesis of organic building blocks: Epoxy alcohols and heterocycles Bridget J Kelly (2007) Effects of benefit-target framing on intentions to engage in avian flu vaccination and other health behaviors William P Kiehl (2007) The influence of campus internationalization on local communities Dae-Shik Kim (2007) Part I. A general, convergent strategy for the construction of indolizidine alkaloids: Total syntheses of (-)-indolizidine 223AB and alkaloid (-)-205B. Part II. Progress towards the total synthesis of spirastrellolide A: Preparation of the southern hemisphere Onyoo Elizabeth Kim (2007) Canon three of the Fourth Lateran Council from 1215 to the Ordinary Gloss of 1241/66: Canonists' contributions to the delineation of crime and punishment for heresy Mehmet Akif Kirecci (2007) Decline discourse and self-Orientalization in the writings of Al-T[dotbelow]aht[dotbelow]awi, T[dotbelow]aha H[dotbelow]usayn and Ziya Gokalp: A comparative study of modernization in Egypt and Turkey Bradford Andrew Kirkegaard (2007) Emperors and cities: The transformation of sacred space in late antiquity Valerie Klein (2007) Making sense of financial education Mary Campo Kline (2007) Developing conceptions of teaching and learning within communities of practice Hideyo Konagaya (2007) Performing the Okinawan woman in taiko: Gender, folklore, and identity politics in modern Japan Robert Todd Krafty (2007) Penalized analysis of correlated functional data Jayanth Krishnan (2007) Empirical studies in supply chain management Sagar B Kudchodkar (2007) Dealing with stress: Human cytomegalovirus maintains translation in cells under adverse conditions Lisa R Kuhnle-Biagas (2007) Facing adversity: Leadership lessons from women presidents at prominent research universities Upal Kusari (2007) Ionic-liquid mediated olefin hydroboration and heteroatom insertion reactions, and the development of template routes to non-oxide ceramic nano- and micro-structures Ann Kutney Lee (2007) The effect of the patient care environment on the outcomes of surgical patients with comorbid serious mental illness Lisa Martinez Lajous (2007) Playing for profit: The legitimacy of gaming and the early modern theater Kelli E Lammie (2007) The (not-so) "powerless elite" celebrity endorsements of political candidates Joshua Willard Lampe (2007) Interfacial characteristics of a gas bubble immersed in a surfactant and protein laden fluid: Experimentation and modeling Alan Wai Lau (2007) Non-clathrin endocytosis: Mechanisms of regulating Arf6 and its endocytic pathway Julia G Lavenberg (2007) Effects of school-based cognitive-behavioral anger interventions: A meta-analysis Stacey Lavender (2007) Structural elucidation of antitrypsin chymotrypsin complexes: A time dependent FRET study Dongjoo Lee (2007) Total synthesis of (+)-tedanolide Jeong Hun Lee (2007) Engineering and characterization of influenza hemagglutinin properties in mammalian system Sungeun Lee (2007) Predictors of departure from supported housing among persons with severe mental illness Samuel M Lemon (2007) The construction of ethnoracial identity within situational contexts: A study of triracial family histories Benjamin R Lester (2007) Essays on liquidity and prices Joi Denise Lewis (2007) From mammies, maids and martyrs to agents, activists and authors: Lived experiences of black women in a transforming academy in the United States and South Africa Dongmei Li (2007) Financial constraints, R&D investment, and stock returns: Theory and evidence Hongmei Li (2007) I. Catalytic asymmetric addition of organozinc reagents to ketones. II. Novel 1-alkenyl-1,1-bimetallic reagents: Generation and synthetic applications Jingjing Li (2007) Theory of optical nanoantennas and arrays based on surface plasmon resonance of plasmonic nanoparticles Wenkai Li (2007) Structural and pharmacological studies on the abnormal aggregation and normal function of tau Zhan Li (2007) Media performance and global policy making: A comparative study of press coverage on global warming Juan Manuel Licari (2007) Essays on financial and monetary economics Douglas I Lin (2007) Interplay between SCF and CDK complexes in the control of cellular proliferation Gaoquan Liu (2007) Essays on contracts and organizational design Tao Liu (2007) Aspects of flux compactification Xin Liu (2007) Structural and functional studies on the retinoblastoma and p300/CBP tumor suppressor proteins and their regulation by viral oncoproteins Jing Long Hoelscher (2007) Galois extensions ramified at one prime Richard William Lucas (2007) Peeking into the black box: The structure and function of soil microbial communities in response to increasing nitrogen availability Alice Hsueh Luo (2007) Form and function of a suprachiasmatic nucleus-ventral tegmental area circuit Xiaojing Ma (2007) Essays on time inconsistency and market structures Tristan James Mabry (2007) Nationalism, language and Islam: A cross-regional comparative study of Muslim minority conflict Jody Lynee Madeira (2007) Ties out of bloodshed: Collective memory, cultural trauma, and the prosecution and execution of Timothy McVeigh Amy Maisterra (2007) Redefining student identity: Therapeutic intervention in the comprehensive high school Ameesh Makadia (2007) Robust correspondence-free algorithms for 3D motion recovery Karen D. K Marquiss (2007) The Exxon Valdez oil spill: Industry response and the evolution of environmental policy Sara E Mason (2007) Quantum mechanical studies of interactions in model catalytic surfaces Kathryn Alloway Matthews (2007) Cadmium in coral skeleton: Natural variability and in situ calibration Mary C Mazzola (2007) Internationalization of graduate and professional programs at the University of Pennsylvania: An opportunity and a challenge Joseph Robert Mazzulli (2007) Catechol oxidation and alpha-synuclein aggregation: Implications for selective dopaminergic neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease Susanna McFadden (2007) Courtly places and sacred spaces: The social and political significance of monumental wall painting in late antiquity Andrew McGregor (2007) Processing data streams Anjana Meel (2007) Dynamic risk assessment of inherently safer chemical processes: An accident precursor approach James A Melchor (2007) Faculty perceptions of, and participation in, a small school district's large-scale change Kimberly Meltzer (2007) Irreconcilable differences: An analysis of television's difficult marriage with journalism as seen through the role of its anchors, 1950--2006 Matthew Merlino (2007) Contemporary historical fiction and the unsettling of America Sherrell Dianne Mickens (2007) The effects of body mass index screening and reporting on students' self-esteem and body image Peter Justin Mikochik (2007) The application of diazoketones to the synthesis of natural and unnatural products Sadie M Mitchell (2007) Narratives of older Black women regarding medical treatment for hypertension Timothy Iwao Miyashiro (2007) Differential regulation in the autoregulated PhoQ-PhoP two-component system Shannon Monahan (2007) Emergent Numeracy and Cultural Orientations (ENCO) project: Examining approaches to meaningful and contextual mathematics instruction Nick Montfort (2007) Generating narrative variation in interactive fiction Erin Kristine Moodie (2007) Metatheater, pretense disruption, and social class in Greek and Roman comedy Jon Jungbien Moon (2007) Essays in empirical analysis of corporate strategy and corporate responsibility Rebecca A Moran (2007) Investigation of a nonlinear transformation to improve score linking for low- and high-performing groups of students Nancy J Morrison (2007) The meaning of place in an urban context for the under-represented minority student experience at NYU Nader Motee (2007) Optimal control of spatially distributed systems Brian Murphy (2007) Optimization and analysis of single-stranded oligonucleotide directed gene targeting in mouse embryonic stem cells Chang-Yong Nam (2007) Gallium nitride nanowires: Synthesis, resonant electromechanical properties, ion beam disorder effect on contact conduction, and heterojunction fabrication Wonhong Nam (2007) Synthesis and compositional verification using language learning Rebecca Nappa (2007) Attentional and intentional contributions to reference Olivia Ng (2007) View from the periphery: A hermeneutic approach to the archaeology of Holotunich (1865--1930), British Honduras Ronald Noble (2007) Judgments of quality of life improvements from depression treatment Alex James Novikoff (2007) Dialogue and disputation in medieval thought and society, 1050--1350 Charlotte N Nunez-Wolff (2007) A study of the relationship of external funding to medical school faculty success Erin M O'Brien (2007) Part I: Development of a diastereoselective, 1,8-diketone aldol cyclization total synthesis of hypocrellin A, and, Part II: Synthesis of a Wyeth opiate antagonist Michael Young-Suk Oh (2007) Expression of voices, identities, and faith: Oral histories of Korean Christians and their experiences with the Japanese R. Clinton Ohlers (2007) The end of miracles: Scientific naturalism in America, 1830--1934 Mika Okawa (2007) Experiences and interpretations of learning English language and culture by non-western European non-native speakers Uzoma Michelle Okorie (2007) Human blood coagulation on matrix protein microarrays under venous and arterial flow Marcelo Osvaldo Olivares Acuna (2007) Econometric analysis of inventory and capacity management Robyn T Oliver (2007) Distributed semantic representations of object shape and size Francis Obare Onyango (2007) Response to population-based voluntary counseling and testing for HIV in rural Malawi Alexander Ornatsky (2007) Numerical solutions to the Lagrangean relaxations of certain difficult mathematical programming problems involving integer variables Vanessa Ortiz Torres (2007) Soft matter systems simulated by molecular methods Keith R Pagnotto-Hammitt (2007) The administration of innovation: One high school's story Dongli Pan (2007) Fast kinetics studies of the dynamics oftRNA movement on the ribosome during bacterial translation elongation Ramin Pashaie (2007) Modeling and optoelectronic realization of an artificial cortex Sejal S Patel (2007) The eclipse of the community study: The Roseto study in historical context Hemal R Pathak (2007) Aberrant chloride regulation in dentate granule cells following status epilepticus Caroline Patten (2007) Signaling and structural requirements for coupling of the melanocortin type 4 receptor to p44/42 mitogen activated protein kinase and cAMP Evelyn Joy Diane Patterson (2007) A demography of incarceration: An analysis of measurement and mortality in United States' state correctional facilities, 1985--1998 Michele Drabant Perkins (2007) The dynamics of leadership and change at three small colleges Marlo A Perry (2007) A multivariate investigation of maternal risks and their relationship to low-income, preschool children's competencies Jeremiah Peterson (2007) A study of Sumerian faunal conception with a focus on the terms pertaining to the order Testudines Vlad Petric (2007) Reno: A rename-based instruction optimizer Joseph A Petrosino (2007) An analysis of the levels of trust between the vocational and special education teachers and the administrative team in a Central New Jersey vocational technical school Karen Beck Pooley (2007) Effective neighborhood revitalization strategies: The array and impacts of subsidized place-based investments in Philadelphia Benjamin W Porter (2007) The archaeology of community in Iron I Central Jordan Dahlia Porter (2007) "Knowledge broken": Empiricist method and the forms of Romanticism Barbara Elaine Kernis Posmontier (2007) Functional status and circadian motor activity in postpartum depression Brenda L Profit (2007) Ordinariness of racism, socialization and the glass ceiling: Demographics, school climate, and attitudes impacting the appointments of African American heads of independent schools Christopher Martin Puchalsky (2007) Use of bi-level optimization techniques for the problem of transit frequency determination: New formulation and solution techniques Julia Rabig (2007) Broken deal: Devolution, development, and civil society in Newark, New Jersey, 1960--1990 Vikranth Racherla (2007) Non-associated plastic flow and effects on macroscopic failure mechanisms Erinn Bruno Rankin (2007) The role of hypoxia inducible factor family members in the development of VHL disease Charles P Ratliff (2007) Toward a theory of the functional organization of the retina Riju Ray (2007) Effects of atomoxetine on nicotine abstinence symptoms Emily S Renschler (2007) An osteobiography of an African diasporic skeletal sample: Integrating skeletal and historical information Marie Rex (2007) The balloon-borne large aperture submillimeter telescope (BLAST) Michael Robert Reyda (2007) Biotin synthase and the iron-sulfur cluster assembly system Jennifer Riggan (2007) The teacher state: Remaking the nation amidst political instability and policy change in Eritrean secondary schools Barbara G Risser (2007) Faculty governance at the entrepreneurial community college Christen Thomas Ritter (2007) Closing the gold window: Gold, dollars, and the making of Nixonian foreign economic policy Uzma Z Rizvi (2007) Configuring the space in between: Redefining the Ganeshwar Jodhpura Cultural Complex in Northeastern Rajasthan, India Alan D Robertson (2007) Measuring the impact of guaranteed tuition plans on enrollment at a minority serving public institution S. Anne Roderiguez (2007) Outrageous leadership: Three exemplary principals and the climate they create Joy Elizabeth Rohde (2007) 'The social scientists' war': Expertise in a Cold War nation Clayton S Rose (2007) Race at the top: Organizational response to institutional pressures and the racial composition of the corporate elite Amelia Rosenberg Weinreb (2007) Unsatisfied citizen-consumers in late socialist Cuba James Niels Rosenquist (2007) Understanding adolescent economic behavior: A novel empirical approach using genetic data Heather L Rouse (2007) What's behind being behind: A population-based investigation of multiple risks and school success Matt Ruben (2007) Neoliberal manifestations: Cultural, political, and spatial transformation in the late twentieth century United States Stephen I Rudnick (2007) Effects of structure on post-transcriptional gene silencing Helen M Rupp (2007) Factors predicting anger control and suppression in young African American males with histories of aggression Thomas J Ryan (2007) Federal policy implementation: A study of the implementation of the assessment provisions of IDEA 1997 and NCLB in state and local school districts Mari Sakudo (2007) Strategic interactions between parents and daughters: Co-residence, marriage and intergenerational transfers in Japan Jennifer Saltzstein (2007) Wandering voices: Refrain citation in thirteenth-century French music and poetry Usa Sammapun (2007) Monitoring and checking of real-time and probabilistic properties Susana Novais Santos (2007) Resolving sentence ambiguity with strategic planning and working memory resources: Behavioral, imaging and functional connectivity analyses Shannon Sauro (2007) A comparative study of recasts and metalinguistic feedback through computer mediated communication on the development of L2 knowledge and production accuracy Amy M Sawyer (2007) Adult perceptions of the diagnosis and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea: Sociocultural and ethnic influences on adherence outcomes Veronica Schanoes (2007) Re-visionary fantasies: Feminism, fairy tales, and myth Lumelle Adrienne Schneeweis (2007) Structural and functional analysis of osteoprotegerin and apolipoprotein E Kurt A Schreyer (2007) Period pieces: Remnants of mystery drama in Shakespeare Joshua Schuster (2007) Modernist biotopias: Organicism and vitalism in early twentieth-century American poetry Elizabeth Phyllis Schwarzbach (2007) Investigating the mechanisms underlying cognitive impairments and seizure susceptibility following traumatic brain injury Elinor M Scully (2007) Tonka trucks, Barbie dolls, and quotas: The social construction of masculinity in the sexuality education classroom Shamik Sen (2007) The interplay of cell tension, elasticity, and adhesion: From the simple red cell membrane to differentiation and signaling muscle cells Fei Sha (2007) Large margin training of acoustic models for speech recognition Amanda L Sheldon (2007) Mechanisms involved in regulated trafficking of the glutamate transporters, EAAC1 and GLT-1 Kenneth E Shirley (2007) Hidden Markov models for alcoholism treatment trial data Ekaterina Shishova (2007) Structure-function correlation in metalloenzymes: Aristolochene synthase and arginase I Rafael Silveira (2007) Entrepreneurial activity in markets with imperfections Lauren Justine Silver (2007) Navigating child welfare: Adolescent mothers and the politics of regulation Laura Silverberg (2007) The East German Sonderweg to modern music, 1956--1971 Michael Aaron Silverman (2007) SLP-76: Complex regulation of FcepsilonRI signaling in mast cells Sandile E Simelane (2007) Poverty in post-apartheid South Africa: Measurement, trends and the demography of the poor Joanna Sarah Slusky (2007) Sketching nature's energy function: Designing helices that target transmembrane proteins and creating software for further design Lennox H Small (2007) The quest for excellence: A case study of academically high-achieving black males in a suburban high 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