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Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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WISC-III Performance Patterning Differences Between Native American and Caucasian Children, Teton W. Ducheneaux

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A BDI Agent Software Development Process, Jeffrey M. Einhorn

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Yolk steroid hormones in turtle and chicken eggs., Pamela Kay Elf

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Perception of GTAs About Their Graduate Teaching Experiences: The Effects of Pedagogical Support/Mentoring, Bruce Henry Emmel

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The relationships of hope, depression and vocational self-efficacy, Kay Ennis

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MSL: Michif Sign Language-The Noun Phrases, Jacqueline Foster Ferraro

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Experiences of Older Women Following the 1997 Flood in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Mary Jean Formati

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For Lima Has Taken the White Veil., Mark Hayden Foster

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Oroko orthography development: Linguistic and sociolinguistic factors, Dan T. Friesen

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Valence change and Oroko verb morphology (Mbonge dialect), Lisa Friesen

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A Dramaturigal Approach to Margaret Edson's Wit, Bethany Jean Froelich

Optimizing Wastewater Treatment, William Gefroh

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Optimizing Wastewater treatment, William Gefroh

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Development of the American Indian Biculturalism Inventory - Northern Plains, Jessica L. Gourneau

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Ossetian: Revisiting inflectional morphology, Bela G. Hettich

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Pre-Collegiate Factors Influencing Students' Success in their First University Mathematics Course: A Quantitative and Qualitative Study, Michele Iiams

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Attitudes and Beliefs About Obesity Among School Professionals Working with Adolescents, Kelli L. Jelsing

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Differences in Levels of Sports Team Identification and Sports Fan Motivation Among American Indian and Caucasian University of North Dakota Students, Tami Jollie-Trottier

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Time Matters: Temporally Enacted Frame-Works in Narrative Accounts of Mediation, Erling O. Jorgensen

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Teachers, Students, and technology: A college teaching and learning experience, Lynda G. Kenney

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Family Functioning, Parenting Practices, and Psychological Outcomes in Children With Diabetes as Compared to Children Without Diabetes, Lisa Leadbetter

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Transient fluid flow and heat transfer in petroleum production systems., Dongqing Lin

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Identification of the Interaction Between Gravin and {mu}-Opioid Receptors, Meifang Liu

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Writing Gojri: Linguistic and sociolinguistic constraints on a standardized orthography for the Gujars of South Asia, Wayne E. Losey

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INREAL (Inter-REActive Learning): Exploring the Use of Modified INREAL Strategies by Parents Through Five Case Studies, Bonnie Baker Lund

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The Relationship Between Career Paths, Institutional Types, Demographics and the Operational Frameworks of College and University Presidents, Mark M. Magnuson

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Perspective of Traditional Elders on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation, Serena Marsden-Koop

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A learning journey: Learner-centered spelling in a second grade classroom, Jessica M. Mattern

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Comparison Study of Electoral Mechanisms Between The US Constitution and Tribal Constitutions, Francine McDonald

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Depression and Help-Seeking Behavior of North Dakota Farmers: The Impact of the Farm Crisis, Wanda J. McSparron

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A Measurement Of Job Satisfaction Indicators Of North Dakota Long Term Health Care Givers, Deborah Moreno

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Impact of Corticosterone and Zinc Deprivation on Memory and Hippocampal Functioning, Patricia Lynn Moulton

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PBP 5: Characterization of an Escherichia coli morphogene., David Emmet Nelson

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Synthetic and Computational Studies on Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Derivatives, Nucleoside Analogs and Peptides, Felix Nyuangem Ngassa

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Basque Assimilation Across Four Generations: Experiences in a Rural Community, Megan L. Olson DeMontigny

Counselors' perceptions of violence ad treatment recommendations in response to gay, lesbian and heterosexual domestic violence scenarios, Patricia J. Pahl

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Counselors' perceptions of violence and treatment recommendations in response to gay, lesbian, and heterosexual domestic violence scenarios, Patricia J. Pahl

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Wellness Center Program Study, Sheri A. Pallen

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Gender Equity: Is there a Glass Ceiling in the State Governments of North Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana, Ellen Paul

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The Awara verbal system, Susan R. Quigley

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Distribution, Relative Abundance, and Reproductive Seasonality of Larval Fish in the Red River, Timothy James Resseguie

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Ambitious Beginnings: The Early Life and Political Career of William Langer, Eric Rogness

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Antioxidant defense in exercised skeletal muscle of the aging -delayed Ames dwarf mouse., Mark Andrew Romanick

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The Effects of Disclosing Childhood Sexual Abuse on an Adult Survivors' Sense of Self-Esteem, Personal Trauma, and Interpersonal Capabilities, Susan E. Rudolph

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Phenotypic changes in Escherichia coli mrcA (PBP 1a) and mrcA-yrfE-yrfF mutants., Frances Carol Sailer

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Perceptions of African American students regarding cultural diversity at Andrews University., Cheryl Eileen Roberts Saunders

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The Jury System in the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota: An Overview, Candace M. Schafer

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Social Capital and Adolescent Student At-Risk Behaviors, Jeffrey M. Schatz

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The relationship of nurse job satisfaction and patient satisfaction with nurses, Rosanne Schmidt

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Career Paths and Mobility Issues of Women Administrators in North Dakota Public Schools, Debra K. Schroeder Syvertson

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Personality Factors Associated with Success or Failure on the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 (USMLE Step 1), Carole Jean Sherva

The Disinhibition: An Experiment Using Chat Technology With Sixty Sixth Graders, Jeremy J. Sims

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The Disinhibition Effect: An Experiment Using Chat Technology with Sixty Sixth Graders, Jeremy J. Sims

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Social support as a moderator of depression among female survivors of Domestic VIolence, Kimberly D. Slocombe

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Developmentally appropriate experience in art with young children, Evangeline N. Smith

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“Education in the large”: The life and thought of Dean Joseph Kennedy of the University of North Dakota, 1858–1937., Kenneth Lansdale Smith

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Public Sector Collective Bargaining: The Possibilities of Participative Management Practices in North Dakota State Government, Lyle A. Snyder

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The Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Sentinel Butte Formation Around Beicegel Creek, McKenzie County, North Dakota, Joseph L. Stone

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The Effects of Multicultural Factors on the Supervision Working Alliance, Derya Suzen

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Factors Associated with Parenting Stress and Self-Competence in Parents of Preschool-Aged Children, Erin Tentis

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Psychotherapy Integration: Examination of Clinical Utilization, Gregory T. Tierney

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Gap junctional responses to increased cAMP levels in a mouse mammary tumor cell line., Nancy Lee Traiser

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Dual-Task Attentional Limitations in Anxiety: Examined with the Attentional Blink Paradigm and the Beck Anxiety Inventory, Heather B. Trangsrud

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Crossing the Gender Barrier - A History of Male Nurses in Manitoba, Canada, 1960-1980, Carolyn M. Van Mackelberg

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Perceptions of Persons with Mental Retardation Regarding Inclusion in Death and Dying Rituals, Paulette Marie Wagner

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Protein -protein interactions between aldolase, lactate dehydrogenase and the cytoskeleton using green fluorescent protein-labeled enzymes., Karl Alexander Wald

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Minimizing power systems distribution losses using direct load control., Ali M. Wehbe

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Evaluating the Appropriateness of Fast Forword Training for Hard of Hearing Children, Shari M. Weisz

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Genetic structure and isolation by distance in Napaea dioica L. (Malvaceae): An analysis of microsatellite DNA variation., Jonathan Paul Wenger

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Differences in Acoustic Measures of Vowels in Ventriloquial and Normal Speech, Corrie S. M. Wiesner

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Convergent and discriminate validity of acculturation and eating disorders measures in Northern Plains Native Americans, Mary J. Wilkie

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Borehole Stability in Shale, Christopher A. Wolfe

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Transport studies on iron, aluminum and nickel-doped praseodymium barium copper oxide., Xiaochu Yang

Theses/Dissertations from 2001

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Description and Genesis of the Western Cold Turkey Creek Field Anomaly, Williston Basin, Bowman County, North Dakota, Karyn A. Alme

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Health conditions associated with the greater Grand Forks 1997 flood disaster: Pre- to post-flood seasonal and trend analysis with age and gender effects., Julie Waxvik Anderson

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Toy or Tool: Student Perceptions of a Notebook Computer University, Rilla J. Anderson

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The Comprehensibility of Plain Language and Non Plain Language Minnesota Civil Jury Instructions, Kathryn J. Apostal

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Solid phase microextraction/thickness-shear mode resonator determinations of petroleum hydrocarbons in water., Michelle Applebee

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The Attitudes and Behaviors of Native American Patients with Diabetes and Their Relationship to Seeking Health Care, Madonna Azure

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An Examination of Hangover Effects on Pilot Performance, JoAnne W. Bates

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Flow through well screens as a function of pump intake location, Kristjan F. Bekker

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Socially Defined "PMS", Lora J. Bertelsen

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Am I the Leader? Resident Assistant's Assessment of Roles and Training, Renee J. Bourdeaux

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Examining Differences in Issues of Spirituality Between Couples with Children and Voluntarily Childless Couples, Cheryl L. Broneck

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Perceptions of coaches in small colleges regarding sport law and sport injury, Richard J. Cunningham

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In search of Benedictine values at a Catholic university: A historiography of the University of Mary., Janet Duppong Auer

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"Just As Good As They Are": Voices of Contemporary Women Involved in Farming and Ranching in North Dakota, Heidi L. Dyrstad

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Hindi-Urdu: Stress accent or non-stress accent?, Lars O. Dyrud

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The Effects of Perceived Competence and Autonomy Support on Exercise Adherence: A Test of Self-determination Theory, Dennis E. Eickhoff

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Faculty Perceptions of Competencies in the Nursing Profession, Debra A. Filer

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The reliability and validity of three new measures of male sexual preferences., George Gaither

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Elected Political Leadership Versus Hired Professional Management: An analysis of local Government Structure in 20th Century America, Bradley M. Gengler

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A Study of Native American GED Graduates at Four Tribal Community Colleges in North Dakota, Karen Starr Gillis

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A Role and Reference account of information structure in Somali, Jennifer Girard

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The Design and Analysis of a Wireless LAN Relayed Frame Protocol Extension, Jody A. Grassel

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The Effects of the Garrison Dam on the Community of Elbowoods, Melford MJ W. Gunderson

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A Review of the Benefits of Flax Supplementation, Samuel P. Held

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The Negative Halo Effect of Oppositional Defiant Behaviors on Teacher Ratings of ADHD: Impact of Child Gender, David A. Jackson

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Char Reaction Kinetics in a Transport Gasifier, Jason P. Jacobsen

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Synthesis, characterization and electrochemical studies of a new class of ligand for modeling the bioredox chemistry of copper: A novel sensor for organic contaminants in water., Richard Jon Jaeger