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VOLUME I
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FOREWORD iii
PREFACE iv
Graduate Program Announcements Appendix A
ARTS AND HUMANITIES
1998
Family Farming: Landscape, Memory, and Identity
Amanda Feld and Robert Milt (Howard L. Sacks) 1
1999
Hagia Sophia: A Living Icon 5
Karen Webb (Carolyn Watson)
Ukiyo-E Woodblock Influence on Western Art: The Revolutionary Effect 10
on French Impressionism And Post Impressionism
Todd K. Newby (Anne Allen)
Reinterpreting Marija Gimbutas, Theory on Matrifocal Society in the 14
Early and Middle Minoan Periods
Danielle M. Snoddy (Carolyn Watson)
Chichen Itza: Maya Creation Rituals And the Cenote of Sacrifice 18
Carrie Nicole Johnson (Linnea H. Wren)
The Ideal Body as Symbol of the Nazi State: The Signifiance of 23
the Classical Male Nude in National Socialist Sculpture
Steven Ross Thain (Mary F. Francey)
MP3 Format and the Purchasing of Music 28
Derek J. Archambault (Kevin Bitde)
The Outlaw King, An Operetta 33
Hillary Herndon (Thomas Hahn)
The Changing Purpose and Performance Practices of Bach's Sonatas and 38
Partitas for Solo Violin
Kelly Harms (Patricia Kazarow)
Exploring Aspects of Clinical Depression Through Dance 43
Heather Clarke, Valerie Hensel, Tracey Jenkins, Kara Powers,
Nichelle Strzepek, and Nicole Wargo (Nola Nolen)
Perception and Signifiance: Images of Queen Emma-AElfgyva of Normandy 48
Christina A. Szoke (Janet S. Loengard)
Wrestling With History: The Debate Over the Enola Gay Exhibit at the 53
Smithsonian Air and Space Museum
Robert Phillip Socash (David Wrobel)
A Study of the Ideological Continuity of the Early Development of the 58
French Feminist Dialectic
Jon Dyen (Tom Cragin)
The Conscience of the King: A Comparative Study of English and 63
Burgundian Courtly Spectacle
Shawn Martin (Geoffrey Parker)
African American Expatriates: What Did They Find in France? 67
Nadyne G. Morgan (Mario Fenyo)
Characterization of African American Females as Welfare Recipients in 72
Maryland
Donna Maria Butler (Abdul Karim Bangura)
Huntington's Chorea in Lake Lillian The Destruction & Stigmatization 77
of a Founding Family
Jerome Michael Sundin (Nurith Zjnora)
Heavens Gate: Cult or Religion? 82
Benjamin Zeller (William Scott Green)
Heaven's Gate: New Age and the UFO Apocalypse 85
Amanda Loos (GlennCuomo, Cris Hassold, Jennifer Herdt)
William Shirley: Massachusetts Governor, 1741-1756: An American 90
Imperialist
Umber Gold (Paul Halliday)
Cholera, Class Conflict and the Church: Reinterpreting Class 95
Conflict During the Cholera Epidemic In France In 1832
Betsy Koustourlis (Thomas J. Cragin)
Kantian and Utilitarian Philosophic Perspectives on African 100
Americans' Calls for Reparation
Yvelt Occean (Frederick B. Mills)
Emotional Equilibrium: An Attack on Utilitarian Ethics 105
Mark V. Albert (Donald Viney)
The Mall for America 109
MarloUnderlee (Terence Morrow)
A Longitudinal Study of Actual Voting by Registered Democratic and 114
Republican Voters in Prince George's County from 1970-1997
Sean Thomas Hartnett (Abdul Karim Bangura)
The Urbanization of the Natural World 119
Mindy Stratmann (Kathleen Sydnor, John Britt, and Nora Burge)
The Soviet Quest for Olympic Gold, 1952-1988 122
Chris DeTurris (Mario Fenyo)
Reforming the Welfare System 127
Oreitha Perkins (Bruce Fuller)
Managing Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children 131
Without Drug Therapy
Hester M. Hughes (Ora Sterling-King)
Ten Ways Traditional African Societies Celebrate Death 136
Marico Bryant Howe (Zak A. Kondo)
The Myth of Livia: Historiographic Evidence and Modem 143
(Mis)Interpretation
Steven M. Noga (Edmund Cueva)
Spirituality Seeking in America: Why Generation X is Turning to 148
the East for Spiritual Guidance
Nathan Mattox (Jay McDaniel)
The Confessing Church in the Third Reich 153
David M. Fuhr (David Crowe)
Piety and Idiocy: The Ironic Contrast of Nicias and Alcibiades 158
Matthew A. Knittel (G. W.M. Harrison)
Aristotelian Thought in The Medieval Legal Discourse on the Rights of 162
Non-Christian Peoples
Vais A. Salikhov (Carolyn Johnston and Jim Goetsch)
On Creating the Old: Nietzsche, Confucius, and Creativity l66
Toby Prosky, (Ileana Grams)
Floating Tones in G 172
Mary Paster (David Odden)
On Earth as it is in Heaven: The Politics of Decadence in 177
D'Annunzio's II Piacere
Scott Millspaugh (Edward J. Katz)
Imitating the Real: DeLillo and the Simulacrum 182
Sherife Ayla Samli (Miriam Wallace)
Marguerite de Navarre: Writer and Reformist 186
April Abigail Rauscher (Olga Anna Dull)
To Protect and Preserve: Public Health and Medicine in Guatemala 191
Sonia K. Gonzalez (Melbourne Tapper)
Balzac and Alttamirano: Exploring Female Madness in Nineteenth Century 195
French and Latin American Literature
Goretti T. Gonzalez (Cesar Lopez and Marina Perez de Mendiola)
Existentialism and Max Frisch's Novel Homo Faber 200
Jeevan Sekhar (Robin Clouser)
A Touch of Grace 204
Heather Powell (Glenda Sweet)
C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien: Two Approaches to Christian Fantasy 208
Jeff Wren (Deborah Byrd and Laura Walls)
Escaping The Marrow of Tradition: Charles W. Chesnutt's Use of 212
Commentary to Battle Racism
Jeanette Adams (Jill Sessoms)
Two Approaches to the Theme of Balance in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One 216
Hundred Years of Solitude
Cory Ledoux (Ashby Bland Crowder)
Notes on the Annotated Wind in the Willows 1908 Text by 219
Kenneth Grahame
Annie Gauger (Mary Shaner)
Boys Will Be Boys: An Analysis of the Intricacies of Male 224
Friendships in "The Body" and Fallen Angels
Emily Killip (Elizabeth Peck)
How Can Fiction Be A Catalyst for Change? Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo 228
Michaela Chatman (Jana French)
Jan Kochanowski and Sir Philip Sidney: Humanism Through Personal Loss 232
in Sixteenth Century Europe
Andrea M. Wojtanowicz (Ty. F. Buckman)
Seeing to See: The Dash in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson 237
Sarah Messick (Kristine Santilli)
Poetry of Resentment: Thwarted Cultural Expectations in the Poetry of 242
Dickinson, Piatt, and Plath
Brandon Lussier (Mark Olson)
In Search of a Name: European Immigration From 1892-1924) 247
Margaret Sydnor Santee (Jill Sessoms)
Setting His Sights Higher: Vision and Hierarchy in Thomas 251
Hardy's Poetry
Shawn M. Knight (Annette Sisson and Mary Gavin)
"Now At Last I Know Why I Was Brought Here": Bertha's "Purpose" 255
and Jane Eyre's Failure as a Contemporary Feminist Text
Sarah J. Hahn (Lise Kildegaard)
The Abhorrence of Duality: Fear of the Shadow-Self in "Monos 259
and Daimonos"
Patrick J. Manley, Jr. (Daniel Robinson)
Zwigoff's Crumb: An Investigation of Viewer and Subject 262
Michael Christopherson (Phillip Voight)
"Beat, Bop, and Beyond: The Beat Writers' Movement" 265
Chad Cogdill (John Tapia and James Bugleivicz)
Sending Home the Revolution: Hemingway's Correspondence from Turkey 269
in 1922 and Spain in 1937
Nathan Lott and Adam Plant (Dennis Jones)
The Power of Formal Features: Watching College Students Watch "Sesame 274
Street"
Cherilyn Crowe (Dennis Jones)
Communicating with College Students at Small, Private Christian 279
Colleges
Jennifer Anne Calbert (Dennis Jones)
The Effects of Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa's Pursuit of 284
Baseball History on Culture
Matt Like (Joyce Chen)
The Role of Women in Computer Oriented Advertising 289
Kiera Beth Elfstrom (Patricia Palmerton)
Story Credibility Based on Gender and Source 295
Norma J. Bradley (Keith Terry)
Football and Domestic Violence: An Approach of Cultural Studies 300
Tramon Thomas (Joyce Chen)
Audience's Perception of News Anchors: A Cultural Approach 304
Jeremy Weber (Joyce Chen)
Internet and Traditional Advertising: A Comparative Study 309
Christian Charbonneaux (Joyce ('hen)
Restoring Antonio Canova: A Revised Understanding of his Restoration 314
Practices
Martha Clawson (Robert McVaugh)
The Problems of Subversion in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil 318
Britt Dunn (Chris Hassold)
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VOLUME II
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FOREWORD iii
PREFACE iv
Graduate Program Announcements Appendix A
SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
1998
Foraging Patterns of Lepidoptera: A Comparative Study of Butterflies 323
and Skippers
Cecil Powell (Duane Jackson)
1999
Bubble Sheets or Blank Lines? A Comparison of How We Evaluate 327
Teachers in Public and Independent Elementary, Middle, and High Schools
Nicole Ridenour (Patricia Cutspec)
Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Expectations of Incoming Post- 332
Secondary Students: A Two-Year Analysis of 1,473 Self-Reports
Timothy Inman and John King III (Patricia Cutspec)
Does Cupid's Arrow Hit the Mark? An Evaluation of ABC's "Cupid" 337
Rebecca Brevard, Eric Sizemore, Joshua Reep and Shaketra
Patterson (John Owens)
Learning Styles/Multiple Intelligences and Academic Achievement of High 342
School Students
Kimberly Bowman, Carla Booth, Shanna Hands, and Tennille
Hooks (Rebecca Finley Snyder)
The Effectiveness of Foster Care Legislation on the Lives 347
of Children in Maryland
Jois Nickson (Abdul Karim Bangura)
Africancentrism: Systematic Inquiry or Fad? 351
Bennie J. Barton (Abdul Karim Bangura)
The Images of the Middle East: An Analysis of a Survey Conducted at 357
Universities in Maryland, Washington, DC, and Virginia
Karim M. Gizabi (Abdul Karim Bangura)
The Politics of US-African Trade Relations: Creating the Best 362
of Friends or the Worst of Enemies in African Communities over
the Last Three Years?
D. Abiola 0. Heyliger (Abdul Karim Bangura)
A Multiple Time Series Regression Analysis of Homelessness in America 367
Janisa Lewis (Abdul Karim Bangura)
A Quantitative Study of the Overly Legal Contentiousness of Marylanders 371
from 1986-1997
Renee Angela Morgan (Abdul Karim Bangura)
Quantitative Correlates Between Congresswomen and Female Voters 374
Elizabeth A. Lee (Abdul Karim Bangura)
African American Retention at Predominantly White Institutions: 379
The Studentv Experience at North Carolina Universities
Cerise L. Glenn (Deborah James)
Characterization of Perceptions of Africa among Students in a 384
Historically Black University
Nnamdi Colin Richards (Abdul Karim Bangura)
The Employment Act of 1946 389
John Burns (Candy Young)
Synchrony Between a Mother-Calf Pair of Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops 392
truncatus)
Wendi Fellner (Gordon B. Bauer)
A Study of Black Male Adolescent Delinquency Using Autobiographical 397
Texts: A Proposal for Research
Yolanda M. Lynch (Lucia M. Disir)
The "Power" of Menstrual Blood: The Taming of the Uterine Brew 401
Melanie A. Yuracko (Philip K. Wilson)
A Comparison of Two Community Based Mental Health Treatment 405
Programs
Leah J. Olson and Victoria J. Adkins (Richard Ryberg)
Use of Alcohol, Illicit Drugs, and Tobacco by Undergraduates and Their 409
Knowledge of These Substances
Alecia Fuller (Stephen R. Pratt)
Hate Crimes and the Masculine Mystique: The Vilification and 414
Eroticization of Gays and Lesbians
Brook Bolen (Marcia Ghidina and Keith Bramlett)
Conceptualization of Sexual Identity Among Self-Identified Bisexuals 419
Charity Crabtree (Keith Bramlett and Marcia Ghidina)
The Coping Mechanisms of Professional Nurses Who are Caregivers of 424
Hospice Clients
Kristen Ambrosio, Kathleen Coleman, Maryellen Home, and
Carolyn Pettine (Patricia Bailey and Dona Rinaldi Carpenter)
Chronic Illness and College Students: The Lived Experiences of College 430
Students with Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus.
Laura Cunningham, Kristine Curran, Meghann McElroy and
Maureen McIntyre (Patricia Bailey and Dona Rinakli Carpenter)
The Expectant Family Scrapbook: An Online Source of 435
Prenatal Information
Joan Hunsaker, Jean Stelzer, and Amy Jones (Lesa McCartney and
Jane Davison)
The Effective Teacher: Managing the Classroom, A Qualitative Study 439
Kimberly Simpson, Jill Norris, Ryan Kaiser, Melissa Butler
(John Laut)
Habitual Face Touching Among Critical Care and Step-down Nurses 443
Jennifer J. Runquist (Sharon Ridgeway)
Gender Differences in Leadership Effectiveness 448
Lynda J. Bowers, and Rachel F. Enkey (Patricia L. Kaminski)
The Effects of Family Experience on Children's Gender Sterotyping 453
Jennifer A. Reading (Leslie Templeton)
What Puerto Rican Women Know About Their Bodies and Its Relation to 455
Sexuality
Enda Acosta-Pirez (Irma Serrano-Garcia)
Socialization of Children's Emotions: A Preliminary Investigation 460
Sadeka K Harris (Janet Kuebli and Karen Brakke)
Stress and Perceived Parental Drinking as Indicators of 464
Student Alcohol Consumption
Scherrie Prince (Marlene Setze)
Thirty Years of Children's Films: A Study of Portrayed Aggression and 469
Violence
Carol D. Roldan (Bryan E. Porter)
Social Skills, Disruptive Behaviors, and IQ: An Exploratory Study 474
Arlene E. Vazquez Fontazez (Jose J. Bauermeister)
The Psychological Effects on Children Whose Parents Fought 477
in the Persian Gulf War
LaShawn Nichole Kinloch (LaVonne Roberts-Jackson)
Militarism As A Purveyance of the Subculture of Violence 481
Christopher Suggs (Abdul Karim Bangura)
Schema Theory: Its Applicability to Understanding the Transmission of 485
Aggressive Behavior in Intimate Relationships
Tangela L. Williams (John H. Grych and Myra J. George)
The Relationships Among Religiosity, Locus of Control, and Coping 490
Dionne Chanele Jones (John D. Clausen)
Negative Priming and Learned Associations 495
Kristen E. Holderle (Penny L. Yee)
Investigative Findings on the Perceptions of Dreams 500
Memuna Bangura (Abdul Karim Bangura, Quentin Newhouse, Jr.)
Systematic and Heuristic Processes of Assumed Similarity: The High and 505
Low Effort Roads to Opinion Certainty
Tanja Holly Branch (Rolf Holtz)
The Role of Working Memory for Translation and Non-Translation Digit 508
Recall Tasks in Bilinguals
Jennifer M. Slanika (Greg Robinson-Riegler)
The Memory Effects of Script Complexity for Expert and Novice Actors 513
Caryn Reeder and Burt Bolt (Helga Noice)
The Mediation of Thought Suppression by Working Memory 518
Laura Yates (Natalie Oransky)
Voice Manipulation and the Effects on Perceived Personality 522
Characteristics
Erica L. Mellin (John Neuhoff)
Separating Verbal and Imaginal Proccesses in Memory: A Comparison of 526
Bizarreness and Concreteness Effects
Ashlee J. Thornton (Marcus Webster and Michael Livingston)
The Effects of Personal Motivation on Preceived Physical Attractiveness 531
John D. Bolden and Steven S. Spears (Ralph J. McKenna)
Vision Searches Combining Dimensionality and Number of Targets 535
Aaron Aiza (Lauren V. Scharff)
Attenuation of the Serial Position Effect: Word Frequency, Word Length, 540
and Word Similarity
Fadia M. Narchet (Lenore Szuchman)
Reasons for Vegetarianism, Gender Differences, and Corresponding 545
Personality Types
Laura J. Napieralski (Timothy Maxwell)
Interpretations of Appropriate Student and Instructor Actions 550
in College Classrooms: An Analysis of Formal and Emergent
Guidelines and Behaviors
April M. Walkup, Wendy Anders, Timothy A. Inman and
Nicole Ridenour (Patricia Cutspec)
The Relationship Between a Clinical Measure of Cognitive Function, as 555
Measured by the ACL-90, and Self-esteem, as Measured by the Coopersmith
Self-esteem Inventory
Laura Cantwell, Tara Carty, Karen Hennigan, Julia Homer, Kathleen
Murphy, Marueen Orr, Kristy Pucci (Neil H. Penny)
Affecting Multicultural Attitudes via Experiential 560
Education Programming
Linda Biggerstaff and Janet Funderburk (Jon McChesney)
Classroom Management: Beliefs of Preservice Teachers and Classroom 564
Teachers Concerning Classroom Management Styles
Lesley Fulton, John Niles, Lisa Pascal, Deborah Wardell
(John Lout)
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Are Video Gamers At Risk? 569
Laura L. Lockner (Blame F. Peden)
Need For an Application of Ergonomics with College Student 573
Computer Use
Julie Dulmage (Phyllis M. Ladrigan)
The Development of a Reactance Scale: Reactance as a 578
Individual Difference Variable
Kristina M. Morey and Laura A. Briancesco (James MacDougall)
An Autistic Child's Generalization of Target Words Across Settings, 583
Instructors, and Word Depictions
Mae Barker (Sherri Jackson)
Bilateral Lesions of External Cortex of the Inferior Colliculus 588
Reduse Seizure Severity
Mark M. Hall, W. David Hairston, and Phillip K. Spriggs
(Mark C. Zrull)
Superior Colliculus Lesions Affect Sound-Guided Navigation By Rats 593
Leigh Goodrich (Mark C. Zrull)
Complex Maze Learning in Rats Under Drugged and Nondrugged States 598
Montenia Q. Anderson (Karen Brakke, and Jeanne Stahl)
The Deciding Factor of Bowie State University Students' 601
Party Affiliation
Deidra C. Jones (Abdul Karim Bangura)
Do Television and Murder Correlate? A Simple Time Series Regression 607
Analysis
Twana N. Chase (Abdul Karim Bangura)
The End of Busing in Prince George's County 612
Renae Christine Lee (Abdul Karim Bangura)
A Quantitative Analysis of Affirmation Action of Africian American 617
Admission Rates at the University of Maryland School of
Law From 1988-1997
Shondell Harriston (Abdul Karim Bangura)
The Establishment of African Embassies in The United States: A Multiple 622
Time Series Regression Analysis
Adebimpe Karimot Dosunmu (Abdul Karim Bangura)
Explaining the "Crisis" of the Cuban Missile Crisis: A 628
Diachronic History
Jason Childs (Mario Fenyo)
The United States and The United Nations 633
Joseph Siewe (Abdul Karim Bangura)
Saudi Arabia's Military-Industrial Complex: Whose Benefit? 637
Fatmata B. Deen (Abdul Karim Bangura)
Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1998 641
Derek Battle (Abdul Karim Bangura)
International Travel as a Mediator of Racial Prejudice: 646
Testing the Contact Hypothesis
Joel V. Merkwan (Timothy B. Smith)
Challenging Hidden Diversity: The Success of One Program Designed to 651
Help Reticent Students Remain in College
Natasha Turner (Patricia Cutspec)
The Effects of Sexual Harassment and Racism on Heart Rate and Blood 656
Pressure in African American Females
Kimberly Young, Erica Mattison, Tamara Murry and Imani Price
(Vernessa R. Clark)
Coping Strategies Used By African-American Male College Students 659
Henry Smith IV, Lee Manuel Broughton. and Sean McGinnis
(Vernessa R. Clark)
African-American Males and Identity Formation 662
Antonnette Chinn (Judith Blati, Abdul Karim Bangura, and
Mary E. McManus)
Spiritual Identity and Racism 668
Joel Bobby, Renee Arnio, Joel Merkwan, Gordon Bender
(Timothy B. Smith)
Life or Death: A Psychosocial Analysis of Capital Murder Sentencing 671
James T. Wallace (Pamela Laughon)
Predictors of Women's Fear of Personal Crime 676
S. Kate Dellinger (Melissa J. Himelein)
The Systematic Basic of Egyptology 680
Brenda Brown (Abdul Karim Bangura)
White Grunt Marine Masculinity: The "Private Aftermath" as Recruits 686
Become Our Nation's Defenders
tiffany rosenfeld (Lamar Bland)
Barriers to Accessing Primary Health Care Services as Perceived By 691
Homeless Persons Residing in Northeast Florida Shelters
Beverly D. Addison and Tern L McGee (Joy McConnell, William
Puentes, Robert Hollister and Elizabeth Winstead)
Facial Immersion Bradycardia Among Collegiate Swimmers 696
Kimberly Miller, Theodore Mitchell, and Colleen Synan
(Daniel Drury)
Female Soccer Athletes, ACL Risk Factors and Perception of Success for 699
Surgical Techniques
Ashley Hart (Robert Yearout, John Bernhardt and Van Whitmire)
Religious Hospital Mergers: Implications for Reproductive Health Care 704
Services
Sarahmona Przybyla (Bruce Jacobs)
A Nod to the Ancestors: Innovation in Contemporary Pueblo Pottery 708
Kristin L. Dowell (Janet Berlo and Robert Foster)
You Can't Make New Old Friends: A Voluntary Association Study 712
Cecil Monterrosa (Anya Peterson Royce)
The Physical Anthropology and Demography of the Byzantine Sites of 718
Kastro and Abdera Greece
Konstantinos Harogiannis (Anagnostis Agelarakis)
Availability of Immigration Legal Aid: Today and at the Turn of the 722
Twentieth Century
Sarah M. Matze (Nurith Zmora)
Prostitution in St. Paul 1865-1920 727
Alyssa Vanstone (Nurith Zmora)
Taking the Law into Their Own Hands: The Causes and Consequences of 732
the Jerome Deportation
Kelly Roark (David Larson and Mark Schantz)
The Germ of Nineteenth Century Scottish Nationalism: A Perspective on 737
the Highland Clearances
W. Douglas Jones (W.M. Spellman)
The Meaning of Orthodoxy and the Thompson-Glasgow Controversy 742
Eric Tabor Millin (Grant Hardy)
Tobacco's Lost Culture: Post-War Mechanization and Cultural 747
Transformation
Robert W. Mitchell, Jr. (Dan Pierce)
An Examination of the Myers-Briggs Profiles of Accounting Alumni From 752
a Liberal Arts University As Compared to Earlier Studies of Accountants
Elisa Fellers (Linda Nelms, Gina Miller and Claudel McKenzie)
The Influence of Instructor Gender and Student Gender on Student Grades 757
Across the Accounting Curriculum
Cindy Tryba (D'Arcy Becker)
Attitudinal and Behavioral Study of Generation X Women and Advertising 761
and Marketing Strategies of the Cosmetics Industry
Stacy L. Kollasch (Michael Klassen)
Customer Satisfaction Measures in Monopolistic vs. Competitive Markets: 766
Does Scale Direction Make a Difference?
Jody Miller, Jason Fisher, Shelley Dingwerth, and Gretchen Garrelts
(Greg Broekemier, and Sri Seshadri)
The Effect of Aggregate Advertising on National Sales 771
Konstantin V. Stoyanov (Mary Jean Horney)
Assessing the Determinants of Safety in the Trucking Industry 775
Emily Williams (Kristen Monaco)
Measuring the Quality of Service in the Health Care Industry: A German 780
Case Study
Candace M. Credito (Michelle Patrick Linda Nelms, and
Henry Stern)
Foreign Direct Investment in Central Europe 785
Boryana Dimitrova (Mary-Jean Horney)
Illiteracy and Its Consequences in Society: A Content Analysis 789
of National Polls
Oladayo Oyeleye (La Vonne Roberts-Jackson)
How Shrimping Decreases Fish Populations: A Case Study of Carteret 793
County
Michelle Parker (Leah Greden Mathews)
Evidence for Endogenous Growth in Postwar USA 798
Andrey A. Gurov (David Gillette and Terry Olson)
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VOLUME III
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FOREWORD iii
PREFACE iv
Graduate Program Announcements Appendix A
MATHEMATICS AND ENGINEERING
1998
Resolvents of m-Accertive Operators in Banach Spaces 803
Soupy Alexander (David Kerr)
Visual-Aided Computer Cooperative Tool 808
Ugonna Ibeanusi (Andrea W. Lawrence)
1999
An Investigation of Student Performance and Classroom Seating Habits 811
Carrie Burdick (Prashant Sansgiry)
An Examination of Factors Influencing Lead Leaching in New York City 815
Drinking Water
William G. Matthews (Steve Patch)
Self-Organization of Independent Agents Into Multi-Agent Entities 820
Michael A. Kovacina (Daniel W. Palmer)
Parallel Computing With PVM: Is It Worth It? 825
Brian Guarraci (Mary Lou Malone)
Visualizing Three-Manifolds 829
Richard Peabody Kent IV (David Peifer)
On the Self-Similarity Properties of HTTP Traffic Time Series 834
Edwin Moulier Santiago, Samuel Rosario Torres
(Elio Ramos and Jose 0. Sotero Esteva)
Meta-Information For The World Wide Web 839
Jay Dhami (Michael Bieber)
Performance Evaluation of an Object Recognition System For A Particular 844
Application
Henry W. McCauley, Jr. (Randal Nelson and Chris Brown)
Genetic Seeding and Evolution: A New Approach To Structure The 849
Predisposition of an Intelligent Agent
Ming Chiu (Gerald Pitts)
Homogenous Networks 854
Scott Schaefer (Gerald Pitts)
XML Code Generator for Database Integration 858
Brian Ensink, Todd Schavey, Kim S. Haveman, and Mochan
Shrestha (Nenad Jukic)
Understanding Robot Navigation and Control 863
Latresa McLawhorn, Ugonna Ibeanusi, Valerie Lafond-Favieres
(Scott Anderson)
A Parallel Discrete-Event Simulation of a DynaMICs Snoopy Coprocessor 868
System
Lids G. Rauda and Michael E. Maxwell (Ann Q. Gates and Patricia
J. Teller)
Converting a Global Atmospheric Model to Platform Independence 873
Jeffrey P. Nichols (Hayden Porter)
Evaluation of Initial TSP Tours for the K-Opt Tour Improvement 878
Algorithm
Evan A. Gordon ( Chun Wai Liew)
Knowledge Representation for Algebra Word Problems 883
Azzari Caillier (R. Raymond Lang)
Natural Language Generation for Algebra Word Problems 888
DeAndra S. Hayes (P. Raymond Lang)
A Computer In Every Classroom: Are Schoolchildren at Risk for 892
Repetitive Stress Injuries (RSIs)?
Laura Royster (Robert Yearout)
Architectural Applications of Rapid Prototyping 897
Golda Wier (Douglas Stahl and Robert Crockett)
Small Organic Light-Emitting Diodes 901
Suzanne Pieski (WA. Berger)
Interface Between a Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer and the Telemetry of a 907
Sounding Rocket
Andreas Lambis (Charles Croskey)
Multiple-Ring Structure in the Wake of a Corona Initiated 912
Surface Wave on an Oil Film
Thao Pham (T.S. Lee)
An Analysis of Two Methods for Modeling Nonlinearities in Microwave 916
Power Amplifiers
Ian A. Rippke (WD. Jemison)
Low Temperature Silicone-to-Silicon Wafer Bonding 921
Kristie M. Readinger (Janet K. Robertson)
Design of the Telerobotic Adventures Web-Controlled Rover for the 926
Dakota Science Center's Online Learning Environment
Melissa L. Kurtz. Allison D. Sawrey, Brian D. Pedersen,
Karla A. Vilandre, Krista L. Vilandre, Mark J. Bailey, and
Scott B. Wing (Richard P. Schultz, Steve Lindaas, Arnold F. Johnson,
George Bibel and Charles A. Wood)
Mixing Efficiency in an Unconventional Tank Configuration 931
David King and Shannon Phillips (Harvey J. Paltner)
Emotion Representation in Virtual Objects: A Component of the 935
Intelligent Agent
Andrew Chee (Gerald Pitts)
Highly Accurate Measurement of the Index of Refraction of Liquids. 939
John A. MacLochlan (K.D. Bennett)
Effects of Multipath Propagation in Mobile Cellular Telecommunications 944
YoekNam Kizor (William D. Jemison)
A Study of the Optical Properties of Vanadium Doped Bismuth Germanium 949
Oxide
Nolan M. Newkirk (Joel J. Martin)
Rapid Prototyping of Bones 954
Rebecca I. Zick (Lisa Milkowski, Robert Crockett, Brian Stemper)
Rapid Prototyping and Segmentation of MRI Images 959
Sarah Vickman (Lisa Milkowski, Robert Crockett, and Brian Stetnper)
Analog Circuit Fault Detection Using Neural Networks 963
Adam Gruenthal, Henry Linhart, and Evan Thrush (F. Amninian,
M. Aminian, H. W. Collins)
Fractrographic Analysis of Cathodically Charged Prestressed ASTM A648 967
Class Wire
Octavio Cervantes (Behzah Bavarian)
Determining Rock Drillability Using Indentation Tests 972
Bate Bate (Malgorzata Ziaja)
Conformal Cooling for Rapid Tooling 976
Steven E. Gerritsma (Vito Gervasi)
Torsional Behavior of Wide-Flange Steel Beams 980
Allen Parker and Kelly Strickler (Robert G. Driver)
A Case Study of the Reliability of Multi-Electrode Earth Resistivity 985
Testing for Geotechnical Investigations in Karst Terrains
Jennifer R. Mackey (Mary J.S. Roth, John E. Nyquist)
Arsenic Removal Using Inorganic and Organic Ion Exchange 990
Sorbents
Courtney Black, Arthur Kney, (Arup SenGutpa)
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VOLUME IV
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FOREWORD iii
PREFACE iv
Graduate Program Announcements Appendix A
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
The Effect of Differing Fixed Ratio Schedule Parameters for 955
Acquisition of Drug Discrimination Using Gamma Hydroxybutyrate
(GHB) and Ethanol In Rats
Abena Abayomi (Brian Metcalf, Karen Brakke, and Jeanne Stahl)
Schizachyrium scoparium Litter Decomposition: Testing the Effects of 998
Nutrient Loading and Moisture Levels on Decomposition Rate
Sarah T. Hamman and Kristen S. Strauss (Bryan Foster,
Johannes Knops and Timothy L. Lewis)
Conditional Expression of Selectable Markers in Transgenic Organisms 1002
Regina Davidson (Patrick Dunne and Jorge Piedrahita)
Functional Studies of Paxillin in the Development of Drosophila 1006
melanogaster
Erika L. Meyer (Susan Zusman)
The Characterization of Gene Fragments Differentially Expressed 1010
by Estrogen in the Mouse Uterus at Implantation
Angela Anthony-Stokes (Yvette Huet-Hudson)
The Effects of Phosphate Starvation on Protein Synthesis in 1014
Caulobacter Crescentus CB 15
Gina Marie Amoroso, Ellen Quardokus (Michael McGann,
Yves V. Brun)
Immunolocalization of Myosin Vila in the Retinal Pigment 1019
Epithelial Cells of Lepomis cyanellus
Paul Basciano and Sean Deacon (Christina King Smith)
Immunolocalizing AtXLGI Protein in Arabidopsis: Preliminary Results 1023
Caroline Shih-Yi Lee (Sarah M. Assmann)
The Effects of Calcium Antagonists on the Limb Regeneration of the Newt 1028
Notophthalmus viridescens
Chad V. Jordan (Diane Melroy)
Influence of Cultural Conditions on Acid Phosphatase Production in 1033
Candida pseudotropicalis
LoToia Marks, W. Wang and Stephanie Barnett (M. Gunasekaran)
Application of Plasma Sterilization of Pathogenic Microbes 1038
Shanthi Mogali (M. Gunaseka ran and E. Thomas, Jr.)
Polyamine Metabolism in Candida guilliermondii 1043
Tova Burge and A. Ramesh (M. Gunasekaran)
Competitive Interactions of Three Steroid Hormone Receptors 1048
at an Enhancer Element in the Drosophila Adh distal promoter
Brian T. Nasipak (Cheeptip Benyajati)
An Isozyme Study of Senecio aureus and an Unknown Species of Senecio 1053
Using Cellulose
Richard Brooks (Laura K. Thompson)
Construction and Characterization of an ipgD-phoA Fusion 1058
Jodi Layton (Kelynne Reed)
Frequency Distribution of Double-Stranded RNA (DSRNA) in the Plant 1062
Pathogenic Fungus Rhizoctonia Solani
Helen Poynton (N. Bharathan)
Isolation and Characterization of Temperature Sensitive Mutants of 1067
Bdellovibrio Bacteriovorus 109J5
Krystyn Marie Blumber (Michael McCann)
The Effect of Betulin in the Formation of Cellular and Viral 1072
Proteins of Cells in Response to Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2
(HSV-2) Infections
Jonathon Edward Delf (M. Reza-ul Karim and Robert M. Carlson)
Effects of Extremely Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields on Gap 1077
Junctional Communication in Clone 9 Cells
Waleed F. Khalaf (Guy D. Griffin and M. Wendy Williams)
The Use of Mini-Biocells for the Bioremediation of Petroleum Under 1082
Laboratory Conditions
Samantha L. Cunningham (Robert C. Mans)
The Origin of Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating 1087
Polypeptide-Containing Fibers in the Mudpuppy Cardiac Ganglion
Linda K Schoenfeld (Jean C. Harwick)
Directional Patterns of Movement of the Cushion Sea Star Oreaster 1091
reticulatus
Andrea Temple and Emily Rogalski (Timothy L. Lewis)
Perturbation of TGF-B Superfamily Signaling Alters Sea Urchin 1095
Ectodermal Fates
Michael A. Arnold, Eric W. Howard. David 14'. Oleksyn, Zheng Wei
(Lynne M. Angerer and Robert C. Angerer)
Ecomorphology and the Patterns of Occurrence of the Fishes of the 1100
Bear Gulch Bay, Mississippian Period of Montana
Colleen Reardon (Richard Lund)
A Baseline Study of the Physicochemical Characteristics of Five 1105
Inland Blue Holes on Andros Island, Bahamas
Kathryn A. Gogolin (Horton H. Hobbs III)
Seasonal Population Dynamics and Righting Behavior of the 1110
Horseshoe Crab, Limulus polyhemus, in Sarasota Bay, Florida
Kimberly Heiman (Sandra Gilchrist)
Survey of Gram Negative Bacteria from Brodheads Creek in Pennsylvania 1115
Todd Myers (Jane Huffman)
Isozyme Polymorphisms in Four Taxa of Alyssum Hyperaccumulators 1119
Siobhan Maureen Carroll (Laura K Thompson)
FM 1-43 and Synaptic Plasticity at the Frog Neuromuscular Junction 1124
Joy Y. Sebe (Diana C. Linden)
Evaluation of Chromosome Damage to Uranium Mineworkers in Namibia 1129
for the Assessment of Health Risk
Elaine Gurgel do Amaral Valente (Joe N. Lucas and Wen Deng)
Nuclear Factor Kappa B (NFkB) is a Crucial Mediator of Anti-Apoptotic 1134
Mechanisms in Pancreatic Cancer and Can be Regulated Through the
Inhibition of a Proteasome
Ivan V. Litvinov (Shirish Barve, Larry K Gates)
Site-Directed Mutagenesis of Tyrosine 381 in the Human M1 Muscarinic 1139
Receptor: Effects on Agonist Binding and Receptor Activation
Mary Elizabeth Wroblewski (William S. Messer)
The Development of ELISA Methods for the Measurement of Oxidized LDL 1144
and Autoantibodies Against Oxidized LDL in Human Serum
Katherine Garvey (Amy Olson and Henry Jakubowski)
Development of A Linkage Map in Rhesus Monkeys 1149
Quyen Tran and Kathryn Mosman (William H. Stone)
Ethnicity and Other Risk Factors for Peripheral Disease (PAD) in a 1153
Free-Living, Ethnically Diverse Population
Diane M. Koppel and Veronica Vargas (M.H. Criqui)
Fluorescence Measurements of the Effects of Woodward's Reagent K (WRK) 1158
on the Affinity and Kinetics of Binding/Dissociation of an Oxonol
Dye to the Human Red Blood Cell Anion-Transport Protein (Band 3)
Marat Reyzelman (Philip A. Knauf)
Isolation of Retinochrome for a Readily Available Source of 1161
I 1-Cis Retinal
Leigh Spicer (Rosalie Crouch, John Bernhardt)
The Role of Apoptosis in Neonatal Rat Eye Blood Vessel Regression 1166
Jason Potosky, Zully Gieseken, Jennifer Louten, Jeremy Noyes,
Shawn Terkhorn, Yelena Usachenko, Kimberly Walker
(Irene. Evans)
Effects of Mineral Deficient Diets on the Infectivity of 1071
Echinostoma caproni in Swiss-Webster mice.
Michael A. Cerino II (Jane E. Huffman)
The Effects of Unilateral Fimbria Fornix Lesions on Spatial 1076
Memory in Rats
Michelle Rogers (William D. Blaker
The Toxicity of Lyngbya wollei to Two Species of Daphnia 1180
Jennifer Chizinar (Dave Mason)
The Effect of Testosterone on Differential Brain Development in Chicken 1185
Embryos
Mark Henderson, Kristin Olson, and Carl Weitlauf (Michael Cullen)
The Detection of Antiviral Activity in Three African Plants 1189
Rashidah Abdul-Rashid (Gustave Mbuy)
Characterizing Auxotrophs of the Corn Smut Fungus 1192
Kim Pyle, Danielle Kusmaul, Joe Curry and Kevin Dougherty
(Karen Snetselaar and Michael McCann)
Effects of Soil Fertility on Rapid-Induced Resistance to White-marked 1196
Tussock and Gypsy Moth Herbivory in Populus nigra and Salix interior
Marie H. Egawa (Margaret Hodge and Daniel Herms)
Oxidative Damage to Bacillus Spores 1200
Jeffrey S. Reidmiller (Robert E. Marquis)
Enhancement of the Decision Aid for Prediciting Nitrogen 1204
Fertilizer Needs
Neil Mattson (Alan Olness and Dian Lopez)
Molecular Anlaysis of the msh5 Homolog from Coprinus cinereus 1209
Ann M. Menzie and Martina Celerin (Mariam E. Zolan)
Changes in Hatching and Permeability in Eggs of the Soybean 1214
Cyst Nematode
Colby Shirk and William Anderson (Paul M. Tefft)
Development of Amsinchia grandiflora Restoration Techniques 1219
Em Bissell (Tina Carlsen)
An Ant-Plant Mutualism in the Costa Rican Neotropical Rainforest: Its 1224
Significance for plantation forestry
Elliot Wilkinson (Elizabeth Braker)
Density and Distribution of Three Invasive Plants in Greene 1229
County, Ohio
Laura Anderson (Timothy Lewis)
A Study of the Pollination System of Monarda fistulosa on a Central 1234
Minnesota Prairie
Beth Holbrook (James Poff)
A Search for Zymomonas mobilis in an Apple Orchard 1238
Ken L. Berka and Crystal F. Hawes (Christina Eddy)
Identification of Sex Specific Markers Using RAPD-PCR in Desmognathus 1244
ochrophaeus
Kelly Gisselman, Christine Mitchell, Kathleen Ross and Timothy Thate
(Brian Masters)
Defensive Sprays of a Carabid Beetle (Stenolophus ochropezus) 1248
Shane Hill (T.G. Forrest)
Impact of Transgenic Sweet Corn on Beneficial Insect Populations 1253
Suzanne J. Wold and E. C. Burkness (W.D. Hutchison)
The Effect of Nutrient Manipulation on the Relative Growth Rate and 1258
Biomass Accumulation of Chaenactis alpina
Amy E. Johnson (Michael Kelrick)
Seasonal and Spatial Variation within the Microzooplankton Community 1263
of North Inlet Estuary, SC
Michael Wetz, Kenneth Hayes (Alan Lewitus and Eric Koepfler)
Characterization of Phosphatase Secreted by Sarracenia Purpurea 1268
Jennifer J. Medford (Diane Melroy)
The Effects of Biogenic Amines on the Visual Responses of Target- 1273
Selective Descending Interneurons in the Dragonfly
Lisa M. Stanek (Robert M. Olberg)
Modeling Honey Bee Flight Activity with an Artifical Neural Network 1276
Paul M. Lukacs (Garon C. Smith)
The Model of Medical Decision Making 1281
Carleton Maxwell (M.R. Karim, M. Gunasekaran)
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VOLUME V
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FOREWORD iii
PREFACE iv
Graduate Program Announcements Appendix A
PHYSICAL SCIENCES
The Determination of Circumstellar Material Around Stars Observed With 1285
The International Ultraviolet Explorer Satellite Using Asymmetries
in the Singly Ionized Magnesium h and k Lines
Brian R. Maricle (Jose L Mena-Werth)
Effects of Warm/Cold Southern Oscillation on the Formation of Atlantic 1289
Hurricanes
Jennifer Lee Ewald (Craig Gilman)
A Study of Vertical Motion and Associated Thunderstorm Activity Over 1294
the West Coast of Gulf of Mexico
Kantave Greene and Loll Hossain (Remata S. Reddy)
A Study on the Relationship Between Air-Sea Interactions Over the 1299
Gulf of Mexico and Hurricane Danny
Ronnie Guyton (Remata S. Reddy)
Non-Linearity in the Hadronic Response of the NuTeV Calorimeter 1304
Govind S. Krishnaswami (Arie Bodek)
The Making of a Paralympian 1309
Genie Beatty Boyd (Ray Nelson)
Paleodemography and Paleoenvironments: The Case of a Bronze Age 1312
Population In Central Thailand
Christina Colandro and Rebecca Brodeur (Anagnostis Agelarakis)
Measuring the Resistivity of Conductive Polymer Films: Polyaniline and 1315
Polymethylmethacrylate blends
Richard Hobson (Rexford Adelberger)
Modeling the Mechanical Resonance in Wood Speaker Enclosures 1320
J. Christopher Moore and Benjamin J. Redman (Rexford Adelberger)
Accelerator Based Therapy Source for Rheumatoid Arthritis 1324
Katherine C. Kennedy (Rajat J. Kudchadker, Chad C. Lee, and
Kara J. Keeter)
Eroded Monomode Optical Fiber For Use In The Excitation Of Whispering- 1328
Gallery Modes In Silica Microspheres
Anitra N. Novy (Albert T. Rosenberger)
Dynamics Of Granular Material: Impaction By Solids At Low Speeds 1331
Albert Kern (David Peak)
Self-Focusing Effects in Pr3+-doped Silicate Glass 1336
Stacee Harmon (George Dixon)
Rough Surfaces Formed By Sedimentary Particles 1340
DyLanne Duvigneaud (Kathleen McCloud, M. Levent Kurnaz)
Aggregation Rates of Emulsions with Surfactants 1344
LaShon Snyder (Kathleen McCloud)
Photometric Studies of Light Pollution in Connecticut 1348
Michael Sembos and Russell Foley (Dennis W. Dawson)
A Re-Evaluation of the Vaughan-Preston Gap Using Chromospheric 1351
Magnesium Emission
Stuart Dietz (Jose Mena-Werth)
Resistance Training in the Elderly: Effects on Neuromuscular 1356
Performance
Christopher T. Robertson (David M. Koceja)
Study of "N by Elastic Resonance Scattering in Inverse Kinematics 1360
Sarah Baxter (Michael Thoennessen)
Electrical Properties of GaN and AIGaN Epilayers Grown by Metalorganic 1364
Chemical Vapor Deposition
Jeffrey Scott Wolf (Jin-Joo Sing)
Phospholipid Bilayer Studies of Ion Channels Formed by Southern Bean 1369
Mosaic Virus
Peter A. Byler (Carl S. Helrich)
Grazing Angle X-ray Reflectivity for the Analysis of Crystal Structure 1373
Nathan M. Pletcher (John Ross Buschert)
Syngas Interaction On Cobalt Chromia Catalytsts Using Magnetization and 1378
FTIR Techniques
Nikki Laury and Caribee Collier (Murty A. Akundi, A.N. Murty)
Effect of Low Temperature Re-oxidation on the Thermally Oxidized 1383
Carbon Face of 6H-SiC
Scott B. Tucker (Mary Ellen Zvanut)
Characterization of Beam Produced by Pulsed Arc Cluster Ion Source 1388
Samantha A. Moore (Anne J. Cox)
Frequency Response Of The Cantilever In Non-Contact Mode Scanning 1392
Force Microscopy
Ram5n A. Rivera Ocasio and Juan C. Merced
(Fredy Zypman and Idalia Ramos)
A Model For Total Secondary Electron Yields From Non-Grazing Angle 1396
Collisions of Xeq+ Ions Upon a CuBe Surface
Brian Eastman (Rexford Adelberger and Martin Stockli)
Dissociative Electron Attachment to Excited States of Oxygen in 1401
a Pulsed Glow Discharge
Albert Sottile (Rexford Adelberger)
Investigation of Systematic Errors in the Estimation of Space 1406
Curvature Using Radio Interferometric Data
Lada L. Dimitrova (Steven S. Shapiro)
Modeling a High-Intensity Gamma-Ray Source for Nuclear Experiments 1411
Gary N. Hoggard (Kara J. Keeter)
Catalytic Character Analysis of Fe-Mo System By Mossbauer and FTIR 1416
Spectroscopy Techniques
Monique Gibbs and Shalarma Davis (Murty Akundi, Jian Zhang,
A.N. Murty, Naidu Seetala, and Fran Waller)
CHEMICAL SCIENCES
1998
Synthesis Of Hexahydrobenzodipyrans As Ring-Expanded Analogues Of 1421
Potent Serotonin 5-HT 2A/2C Receptor Probes
Michael S. Whiteside (Aaron P. Monte)
1999
Mitigation of Acidity in Laurel Bed Lake 1426
Nikolas J. Uhlir (Daniel M. Downey)
The Characteristic Lignin Signature of Aquatic Humic Substances 1431
Amber Degryse (Lucinda Sonnenberg)
Penetration of Factors I and VII into Phospholipid Monolayers on Water 1436
Kristi Williams (Alexa Serfis)
Electron Paramagnetic Resonance of Dichlorobis (triphenylphosphine 1441
oxide)manganese(II)
Katheryn M. Key (W. Bryan Lynch)
Hyperpolarizability Calculations for Polystyrene 1446
Kelli A. Francis (Beatriz H. Cardelino)
An Endophytic Fungus as a Source of an Antifungal Compound 1450
Lisa Jungbauer (Kate Graham)
Dispersed Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Formyl Fluoride 1455
Katie M. Horsman and Todd P. Chassee (William F. Polik)
Statistical Evaluation of Site-Specific Natural Isotope 1460
Fractionation - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (SNIF-NMR) in
the Analysis of Alcoholic Beverages
Jennifer A. Gibson and Jeffrey L Cross (Thomas N.
Gallaher and James J. Leary)
The Uptake and Release of Organic Matter and Inorganic 1465
Nutrients by the American Oyster, Crassostrea virginica,
as a Function of Flow Velocity
Barbara Alayne Castellion (Richard Dame and David Bashek)
Spectroscopic Investigation of Reduction of Nitric Oxide On Modified 1470
and Untreated Surfaces
Darn S. DeGruson and Arwah Jaber (Dilip K Paul)
Biologically Interesting Pyrroles: Synthesizing Rigidin 1475
Anita J. Harrison (Keith Krumpe and John Gupton)
Analysis of hnRNP C1 Expression in Yeast 1480
Melissa Chenoweth and Rickie Felt (James G. McAfee)
Mossbauer Study of trans-Fe(CO)3(AsPh3)P(OEt)3 and Related Compounds 1485
Stephen Ballew (John Stevens and Airat Khasanov)
A Mossbauer Study of a Series of Ferrocene Derivative Compounds 1489
Robert Holcomb (John Stevens and Airat Khasanov)
Metal Coordination Polymer Thin Films prepared by Solution 1494
Self-Assembly
Charles E. Holloway, Jr. (Houston Byrd)
Development of the Embedded Atom Model Interaction Potential for 1498
Bismuth
Mark V. Albert (Brian B. Laird)
The Effects of Dialysis on the Osmolalities of Selected Iron 1503
(III)-based Complexes for Use in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Stacey Kerns (Julian A. Davies)
Spectroscopic Studies of Cyclopentadienyl Iron Compounds Containing 1508
Carbon Monoxide and Cyanide Ligands
Brian Stachowski (Kimberly Bagley)
Pyrolysis Analysis of Materials with Potential Interference of 1512
Fire Debris Analysis and Detection Of Accelerants
Anton Holets (Diana Malone)
Clearing The Smoke: A New Analysis of Aspirin & Acetylsalicylic Acid 1517
Decomposition
Nicoleigh Gamble (Charles A. Wight)
Pulsed-Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) Study of Ketone Photo- 1522
reduction in X-Zeolites
Daniel P. Cheswick (David C. Doetschman and David W. Dwyer)
Purification and Characterization of a Thermophilic NADH Oxidase From 1527
Sulfolobus Shibatac
Chantal Mayers (E.J. Crane)
Purification of Threonine Dehydrogenase Using Hydrophobic Interaction 1531
Chromatography
Mark J. Biscone (Paul A. Craig)
Low Temperature Adsorption of Nitric Oxide on Modified A1203-Supported 1536
Palladium: Influence of Surface Hydroxyl Groups and Lewis Acid Sites on
(NO)2 Dimer Formation and its Decomposition to N20
Brian P. Ray. Arwah Jaber, Darn DeGruson (D.K Paul)
Hypersensitive Response: Inducing Proteins from Clavibacter 1541
michiganensis subsp. Michiganensis
Cimona V. Hinton (Pearl Ford)
Nonlinear Optical Polarizabilities of Substituted Oligosaccharides 1544
Kimberly B. Thomas (Beatriz H. Cardelino)
Solubility of Sparingly Soluble Salts in Ethylamrnonium Nitrate, 1548
Propylamonium Nitrate, and Tributylammonium Nitrate
Kristen A. Corinchock (Donald E. Mencer, Jr.)
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
A Study of Trading Volume and Velocity and the Role of Brokers in the 1553
U.S. S02 Allowance Market
Luis Nieves-Ruiz (Carlos G. Ramos)
Environmental Awareness: A Comparative Study of Children and Their 1555
Guardians
Raysun Smith (Irene Rossell, Marcia Ghidina, and Steve Patch)
Influence of Roads on Movements of Marsh Rabbits 1560
Thea C. Vandervelde (Elizabeth Forys)
Proximity To and Use of Water Bodies by the Eastern Box Turtle 1564
Gretchen Brooks (Irene Rossell)
Predation Pressure by Introduced Snails on the Spring Rocky Intertidal 1569
Cordelia Ransom and Christine Whitcraft (James McKenna)
Phytoremediation of Arsenic Contaminated Soil 1574
Amy Cook and Gina Morse (Davinderjit K Bagga and
Robert F. McGuire)
Home Ranges of Nerita versicolor and Nerita peloronta in San Salvador, 1578
Bahamas
Jeneen S. Huffman (Timothy L. Lewis)
Patterns of Cottonwood Seedling Establishment Along the 1582
Yellowstone River, Montana.
Jeff A. Winkler (Jennifer Lyman)
Microhabitat Preferences of the Lake Huron Locust (Orthoptera: 1586
Acrididae), A Coastal Dune Species
Nathan Ewart Welch (Charles Drabek and Brian Scholtens)
The Use of GIS Model to Evaluate the Economic Potential for Biomass in 1590
Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Hilary Snyder (Dwayne S. Breger)
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