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DISSERTATIONS & THESES FROM 2008 Danielle Bastien (2008) When Silence is Betrayal: Genocide and United States Foreign Policy James Blair (2008) RESIST, OCCUPY, and PRODUCE: The Evolution of Autonomous Struggle in Argentina Katy Elizabeth Bockstall (2008) Mutation-function analysis in vivo of the nuclear localization signals of L2 minor capsid proteins of high risk HPV16 and low risk HPV11 Anika Keys Boyce (2008) "What's Going On": Motown and the Civil Rights Movement Stacy Suzanne Brown (2008) Curanderismo: Teresa Urrea and the Legacy of Dissent Amanda Rose Buescher (2008) The Rise of Regionalism: The Challenge of Promoting Economic and Social Integration Julie Catherine Bulman (2008) L'Habit en Révolution: Mode et Vêtements dans la France d'Ancien Régime [Revolution in Style: Dress and Fashion in Pre-Revolutionary France] Katherine Cannella (2008) Return to the Gateway: Enshrining the Immigrant in 1980s America Kimberly Caserta (2008) Luxury Good Demand Lawrence Chang (2008) The Universal Sports Database Jennifer Close (2008) Agenda-Setting for Global Public Health: The Need for a Horizontal Perspective in the Public and Political Arenas Kevin M. Conroy (2008) Celtic initial consonant mutations – nghath and bhfuil? Bret Corrigan (2008) Public School Finance and its Effect on the Quality of Education Tracy L Danner (2008) The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment and Rule of Law on Economic Growth Amanda Del Balso (2008) Zapatista Women Warriors: Examining the Sociopolitical Implications of Female Participation in the EZLN Army Elizabeth Denham (2008) The Effects of Relocating the Ku-binding Stem-loop of Telomerase RNA on Telomere Healing Events Katherine M. Englund (2008) The Cultural Adjustment and Mental Health of African Refugees in the United States: The Case of the Kunama from Eritrea Kristyn P. Farahmand (2008) An Investigation into the Differences of Investment Decisions and Risk Aversion between Genders in the United States for 401(k) Accounts Jessica Fuller (2008) Estamos en este pais: Motivations for English Language Acquisition among Adult Latino ESOL Students Katherine Gleason (2008) Inhibition of Amyloid Fiber Formation by Peptide-Based Inhibitors Wen Gu (2008) Effects of the Same Traumatic Experience on Adolescents and Adults Margaret Katherine Henn (2008) The Cuban American National Foundation and Its Role as an Ethnic Interest Group Katherine C. Hill (2008) Creating Change: An Examination of the Impact of Crisis and Inter-Sectoral Cooperation on Corporate Behavior Colin John Huguenel (2008) Ciliated Sensory Neuron Defects in Caenorhabditis elegans Karen C. Kauffman (2008) Re-Inventing German Collective Memory: The Debate over the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe Brendan B. Kelleher (2008) The Maryland Hospital Regulation System and Its Effect on Hospital Pricing and Costs Katharine M Larsson (2008) Understanding the lived experience of patients who suffer from medically unexplained physical symptoms using a Rogerian perspective Kevin Lebo (2008) The Driving Forces of Peptide Aggregation: A Study of the Yeast Sup35 Prion Fragment GNNQQNY Amanda A. Mathews (2008) "A Government of Laws and Not of Men": John Adams, Attorney, and the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 Ashley McLaughlin (2008) Precarious Partnership or Incomplete Antagonism?: Cavour, Garibaldi & the State of Italy Christopher McLaughlin (2008) The Impact of Spirituality on the Attitudes and Success of HIV Patients: Voices of the Infected Michael Mulhall (2008) Encounters at the End of the World: A Collection of Essays on Werner Herzog Christopher Mattison Perry (2008) Selection Bias in the NBA Draft Theresa Pilz (2008) “Concealing little, giving much, finding most in their close communion one with another”: Erica Reisenwitz (2008) Transcendence Through Taste: The Relationship of the Preparation and Sharing of Meals to the Perfection of Human Nature as Evidenced by Literature Jonathan Scott Romiti (2008) Beyond Mood Congruence: Effects of Music on Memory in Film Christopher Paul Sawula (2008) "The Hidden Springs of Prejudice and Oppression": Slavery and Abolitionism in Connecticut Rebecca Sherwood (2008) The Effect of the Copy Number of the Telomerase RNA Gene on the Elongation of Telomeres in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Amelia Mari Shumeyko (2008) Gender Within Stream of Consciousness: To the Lighthouse and The Sound and the Fury Amanda Turner (2008) Across the Sea's Broad Back: Interpreting the Role of Homer's Women in Odysseus' Quest for Ithaka Patrick M. Twomey (2008) The New Free Rider Problem: How States Compete Over Gambling Revenues Lindsay Williams (2008) "Their Mutuall Embracements": Discourses on Male-Female Connection in Early Modern England Lindsay Winget (2008) What Is America Reading?: The Phenomena of Book Clubs and Literary Awards in Contemporary America Ke-You Zhang (2008) Brain Signaling Mechanisms Through Which Dopamine Stimulates Maternal Behavior in Rats DISSERTATIONS & THESES FROM 2007 (2007) Firm friends: Examining functions and outcomes of workplace friendship among law firm associates (2007) Individual and relational dynamics of ambition in careers (2007) Quality evaluations and their impacts: The roles of legitimacy and significance (2007) Conceptualizing the sexualization of girlhood through online public discourse (2007) Effect of tectonic environment on the extent to which seismicity delineates zones where future large earthquakes tend to occur (2007) The Bush administration, debt forgiveness and development regime change (2007) Organic crisis and the discursive legitimation of imperial expansion: Examining the continuities of the periods 1872--1900 and 1975--2003 (2007) Tyranny and nobility Laura C Akullian (2007) Discovery and development of new catalysts for the enantioselective synthesis of alpha-chiral amines and tertiary beta-ketoalcohols Carolyn Alesbury (2007) The Poison Umbrella Effect Kinsley Hyland Alexander (2007) Beauty and the Pilgrim soul: A study of Le Pelerinage de la vie humaine as an allegory of Cistercian aesthetics Alka Arora (2007) Creating a TIMSS 2003 problem-solving scale and examining the problem-solving achievement of United States eighth-grade students in TIMSS 2003 Mark Audeh (2007) Characterization and expression of the Caenorhabditis elegans chemosensory gene dyf-6 Robin Lee Avila-Carey (2007) Analysis of internodal myelin structure in transgenic mice and zebrafish using X-ray diffraction William Christopher Bacic (2007) The American Disability Insurance Program Darrel S Barbato (2007) Essays in applied microeconometrics Jonathan Bathgate (2007) Elliptic Curves and their Applications to Cryptography Charbel Batour (2007) How can Lacan and Vasse inform a Christian understanding of desire? The signifier of the unconscious desire of the other as a new ground for the grace of the Holy Spirit Ingrid Kestrel Bengtson (2007) What's in a Name?: A thesis concerning the philosophical problems posed by proper names Camilla Beth Bosanquet (2007) Refining Just War theory Javier Boyas (2007) Social capital and well-being: Modeling a multigroup analysis of race and ethnicity Kathryn Marie Brady (2007) Organ Transplantation: The Ethos of Human Body Parts Heather L Braun (2007) Fatal forms: Disruption, decay, and the nineteenth-century femme fatale David Joseph Brennan (2007) HIV treatment optimism and sexual risk among HIV-positive gay and bisexual men Kerry Jane Brennan (2007) Is All FDI Created Equal?: An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Foreign Direct Investment and its Sectoral Destination on Income Inequality in Developing Countries Barbara Ann Brown (2007) Student perceptions regarding gender-related learning differences and their correlations to achievement outcomes Deirdre M Bryan (2007) A "peculiarly fitting" institute: The origins of Marie Martin's Medical Missionaries of Mary Richard J Cass (2007) Factors that influence novice special educators' identification of learning disabilities Michael R Castele (2007) Modeling sediment transport and quantifying channel morphology of the Sheepscot River, coastal Maine Lauren Kawehionalani Chang (2007) Fundamental Failings: Understanding the United Nations as an Organization and the Future of UN Peacekeeping Reform James W Cheng (2007) Of seeds and soils: The overall, relative, and differential impact of student involvement on postformal reason development Adam Chill (2007) Boundaries of Britishness: Boxing, minorities, and identity in late-Georgian Britain Hyun-ji Choi (2007) Renminbi Undervaluation and the U.S.-China Bilateral Trade Balance Elise DiDenti Christiansen (2007) Adolescent Cape Verdean girls' experiences of violence, incarceration, and deportation: Developing resources through participatory community-based reflection-action groups Marisa Mendez Cochrane (2007) Free and Fair?: IEM and Internal Political Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa Rich Conklin (2007) Braucht mein Teddybaer auch Visum: The Implicit Cultural Demands of the German Nationality Act and the Heritage of Ethnocultural Ideology in German Immigration Policy Jennifer Lyn Cote (2007) "Nobody ever paid me for anything": Crafting a professional social work identity in Progressive-era Boston Damien Croteau-Chonka (2007) Quantifying Ascertainment Bias and Determining Proxy Ancestral Alleles in Human Genome-Wide Polymorphic Data for Use in the Determination of Human Demographic History Maria Teresa Davila (2007) A liberation ethic for the one-third world: The preferential option for the poor and challenges to middle-class Christianity in the United States Peter DelCioppo (2007) Parametric Study of Magnetic Pendulum Kyle D Dell (2007) 'A history unwritten': The impact of an environmental ethos in American environmental politics Douglas P Dias (2007) The effect of student-generated feedback on teacher reflective practice Michael S DiSiena (2007) The telomeric roles of Tel1 and Mec1 Patrick Michael Donovan (2007) The search for interior aromatic addition chemistry: Synthesis and study of planar polycyclic aromatics Wyatt James Dowling (2007) Science, "Robinson Crusoe", and judgment: A commentary on Book III of Rousseau's "Emile" Ronald L Dufresne (2007) Learning from critical incidents by ad hoc teams: The impacts of team debriefing leader behaviors and psychological safety Thomas Duncan (2007) Brownian Motion: A Study of Its Theory and Applications David E Engberg (2007) Developing and approving new international studies majors: A comparative analysis of three universities' experiences Sarah E Enterline (2007) Socio-cultural diversity in elementary classrooms: The relationship between structural and curricular diversity and motivation Eduardo Escallon Largacha (2007) El discurso narrativo historico: La comprension de la historia latinoamericana en "El arpa y la sombra" y "El otono del patriarca" Judith A Evans (2007) The impact of standards-based writing assessment and exemplars on teacher beliefs and instructional practices Lisa Famularo (2007) The effect of response format and test taking strategies on item difficulty: A comparison of stem-equivalent multiple-choice and constructed-response test items Carolyn Grim Fidelman (2007) Course evaluation surveys: In-class paper surveys versus voluntary online surveys Caitlin Anne Fitzgerald (2007) The Thorn Tree Brian Patrick Flanagan (2007) Communion, diversity and salvation: The contribution of Jean-Marie Tillard, O.P., to systematic ecclesiology Jayme F Flynn (2007) Study of essential genes in the cell division of Toxoplasma gondii: Identification of an ubiquitin conjugating enzyme E2 Michael Christopher Fournier (2007) Cicero, Seneca and Boethius on consolation Robert J Gerardi (2007) A study of the use of the Rhode Island state assessment data to improve instruction in middle schools Dennis Gregory Gillingham (2007) Metal-based asymmetric catalysis with N-heterocyclic carbene ligands, and, Lessons in asymmetric catalysis from a total synthesis of baconipyrone C Marissa Louise Ginn (2007) Three essays in applied macroeconomics Django Gold (2007) Hodge-Podge: A Collection of Literary Claptrap and Fictive Nonsensery Diana Gonzalez-Eastep (2007) Family support and help seeking behavior of Colombian immigrants Matthew Paul Gruber (2007) Using shallow seismic reflection to resolve the glacial history along the southern coast of Cape Cod, MA Colin Gunn-Graffy (2007) When in Rome, Beijing or Brussels: Cultural Considerations of International Business Communication Gail Harmon (2007) War in the Former Yugoslavia: Ethnic Conflict or Power Politics? Sarah J Harper (2007) Role-centered morality John C Harutunian (2007) The impact of a professional development program on teachers' work with English language learners Carolyn Hayek (2007) A Framework for Climate Change Policies in the United States Margaret Oot Hayes (2007) The lived experience of mothering after prison Randal R Hendrickson (2007) Montesquieu and the transformation of republicanism Kevin T Henze (2007) White racial identity schemas as mediators of the relationship between masculine gender norms and social dominance orientation (SDO) in a white male sample Afra Ahmed Hersi (2007) Between hope and hostility: Understanding the experiences of African immigrant students in an urban high school Stephen Michael Hess (2007) Navigating class on campus: The peer culture of working class undergraduates Thomas J Hill (2007) Progress toward the synthesis of a fullerene-hydrogen[6,6] nanotube end-cap utilizing a 1,3-shift of hydrogen in aryl radicals Deborah Ann Horan (2007) Teaching elementary writing: Teachers' practices and beliefs in the New England states Zhi Huang (2007) Relational identity and audiences Lauren Hurring (2007) Effectiveness of the Appalachian Regional Commission's Distressed Counties Program Eren Inci (2007) Public policy towards entrepreneurship and innovation Katie L. Jarvis (2007) Allez, Marchez Braves Citoyennes: A Study of the Popular Origins of, and the Politcal and Judicial Reactions to, the October Days of the French Revolution Richard S Kao (2007) Identification of git1 and elucidation of its role in the activation of adenylate cyclase in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe Brian Keady (2007) Analysis of the role of XGeF in early meiotic maturation and a requirement for MAPK in activation of CPEB Michelle Joy Keenan (2007) Public Law and Private Decisions: Birth Control in Connecticut from 1923 to 1965 Christopher Kenyon (2007) Newfound Nerve Joanne Kersh (2007) Understanding the relationship between siblings when one child has a developmental disability Halima Khan (2007) The Republican Thought of Abigail Adams Angela Kim (2007) Relate, Relative, Relationship Jennifer Kim (2007) The Human Element of Politics: the Modern Political History of Korea as Experienced by its People Rachel King (2007) Divine Constructions: A Comparison of the Great Mosque of Cordoba and Notre-Dame-du-Chartres Erin V. Klewin (2007) Living Happily Ever After? : The Reinforcement of Stereotypical Gender Roles on the Bachelor and the Bachelorette Melissa F. Koski (2007) The Representations of Race and Ethnicity on NYPD Blue and Law & Order: An Analysis of the Portrayal of New York City on Crime and Police Drama Ekaterina Kouznetsova (2007) The Euro as an International Currency: An Evaluation of the Challenge to the Dollar Based on Currency Reserves and the Exchange Rate Meaghan Lynne Krupa (2007) Clans and Democracy: A Mismatch? Chester S Labedz (2007) A simulation approach to evaluating unintended consequences emerging from reductions in employees' total rewards packages Amy M LaCombe (2007) Is first-generation status a predictor of 4-year graduation rate, grade point average, choice of major upon entry, and major upon graduation at a private, highly selective 4-year institution? Eric Lamm (2007) Perceived values congruence and employee support for organizational change Ayli Lapkoff (2007) A philosophical reflection on nature writing Rebecca Marie Villelli LaPlante (2007) The Philosophic Moment of Clarity Gilton Eun-Jun Lee (2007) College students' perception of and satisfaction with online learning community: A comparative study on American and Korean students Robert L Levine (2007) The effects of organizational democracy on organizational social capital Joanne G Lewis (2007) The impact on teacher practice when character education is integrated into curriculum Annie Lewis-O'Connor (2007) When push comes to shove: Screening mothers for intimate partner violence during a pediatric visit Delario A Lindsey (2007) Controlling the spectacular world city: A discursive analysis of inclusion and exclusion in the making of Giuliani's New York Aldona E Lingertat (2007) The role of communal life in ministerial formation programs: Structures and practices for lay ecclesial ministry formation David Joseph Lizotte-O'Connor (2007) Founding teacher cohorts: A study of a teacher education program graduates Stanley Wellington Lue (2007) Translational proofreading by a human mitochondrial aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase Xiaoyang Luo (2007) Structural analyses of human and zebrafish P0 cytoplasmic domains and molecular characterization of P0 from Xenopus laevis Molly Magill (2007) Cognitive-behavioral treatment with adult substance users: A meta-analysis Ross Joseph Markwort (2007) Geology of the Shrewsbury quadrangle, east-central Massachusetts Jeffrey J Marsden (2007) The effectiveness of job-embedded professional development: A study of six first grade teachers Elaina Matook (2007) A Look in the Mirror - Daring to Face the Truth about Malaria Kira Maye (2007) Artificiality in Mannerism: the Influence of Self-fashioning Lori Batista McEwen (2007) Seeds of change: The origins of early-career high-school teachers' change-mindedness Sharon P McKechnie (2007) Competing theories of media choice: Moving beyond the controversy to understand how and when they interact Garth J McKinney (2007) The impact of collaborative examination of reading data on classroom literacy instruction Bethany L Medeiros (2007) The social context of urban low-income families: Evaluating social capital as a potential resource for maternal and adolescent well-being Steven M Mennen (2007) I. Streamlined synthesis of an aziridinomitosene II. Investigations into acyl-anion equivalents for carbon-carbon bond forming reactions Victor Donald Mercurio (2007) A case study of the effect of the planning and development of a senior exhibition project on the leadership practice of a high school principal Xiaopeng Miao (2007) Detection of prostate cancer-related gene fusions using nanowire electrodes Grant R Miller (2007) Engaging diverse learners in historical thinking Helena P Miranda (2007) Education research, measurement and evaluation predictors of technology use for elementary school teachers in Massachusetts: A multilevel SEM approach John James Moran (2007) How the implementation of grade-reporting software affects teachers' attitudes towards the transparency of grade-reporting Ryan P Murelli (2007) Divergent synthesis of rigidified (+)-cacospongionolide B analogues: Influence on sPLA2 inhibition, and, Development of ruthenium-catalyzed tandem metathesis/diazotransfer processes for the construction of vinyl cyclopropanes and dienoic esters Dalia T Nassar (2007) The ontology of presentation: The infinite and the finite in early German Romantic philosophy (1795--1802) Adam J Nocek (2007) Split subjectivity in the first mother-child relation: Interpreting Lacan's first two versions of the graph of desire Martin J O'Malley (2007) Catholic rights discourse in nineteenth-century Germany: Bishop Ketteler protected religious and social freedoms from the equal threats of secularizing liberalism and anti-Catholic absolutism Hosffman Ospino (2007) Teaching theology in culturally diverse contexts: Foundations for an intercultural model of theological education Marisa C Osswalt (2007) Identification of new Notch pathway members and preliminary characterization of CG2446 in Drosophila Bhaumik A Pandya (2007) Cyclobutenes in target oriented synthesis: 1. Synthesis of a 5-F(2)-isoprostane library. 2. Studies toward the synthesis of dolabellane natural products Daniel H. Park (2007) The Development of United States Property Rights Nisha L Perez (2007) Dissecting the enzymology of complex natural products: Main case study SgcA1, a thymidylyltransferase Melissa D Peterson (2007) Decreasing difficult behaviors in young children: Classroom implementation strategies for teacher to reduce special education referrals Gabriel J. Pleasants (2007) Bioethics and Human Rights: A Problem, a Proposal, and an Achievement Aleksandra Helena Plocha (2007) The Importance of Imaginative Play in Child Development Maria Teresa Punzi (2007) Essays on housing market and current account imbalances Allison Rabik (2007) United States Deportation Legislation as a Primary Factor Contributing to the Rise of Gang Violence in El Salvador Allison Ramirez (2007) Latino Identity and the Immigration Rights Movement of 2006: The Origins and Consequences of an Assimilationist Approach Aida M Ramos (2007) Overrepresentation of African American males in classrooms for emotionally disturbed students: Race discrimination or social expectation Andrea Rauch (2007) A study of the R296A mutant and other conserved residues of aspartate transcarbamoylase Gary S Reese (2007) Collaborative, professional learning groups that foster improved attitudes towards inclusion among regular and special education teachers Patricia Anne Reeve (2007) Cultural and legal representations of imperiled workers and their political significance, Massachusetts (1820--1910) Liz A Reisberg (2007) Coming to terms with quality at Argentine universities: Institutional self study at ground level Colm Renehan (2007) Peace activism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1975 to 2001: A case study Michael Reynolds (2007) The Long-Term Stability of the Euro Alexis Rife (2007) Social and Basking Behaviors in Juvenile, Captive-Raised Northern Diamondback Terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin terrapin) Zachary Scott Robbins (2007) African-American students' perceptions of racial socialization, racial identity, and their feelings of connectedness with their school Laura E Rumbley (2007) Internationalization in the universities of Spain: Opportunities, imperatives, and outcomes Margaret M Ryan (2007) Institutional effectiveness in promoting undergraduates' commitment to civic values: Catholic higher education and Latino/a students Margarita Sapozhnikov (2007) Three essays in applied microeconomics Anmol Satiani (2007) South Asian immigrant women's indigenous understandings and beliefs about suffering and healing: A narrative approach Elizabeth Susan Sattely (2007) Cyclic amines and amides through molybdenum-catalyzed asymmetric olefin metathesis: A total synthesis of quebrachamine Karyn M Saxon (2007) Integrating students with disabilities into the general education classroom: An ethnographic study on two service delivery models Holly S Schindler (2007) Becoming a father, father involvement, and father economic and psychological well-being Benjamin Adam Seigal (2007) New ruthenium-catalyzed tandem processes and novel cycloadditions involving iron tricarbonyl-cyclobutadiene Tanya Lorraine Sharpe (2007) Coping with family member homicide: The African American experience Karl D. Shehu (2007) America's Vulnerability: Presidential Succession and Inability Allison Skerrett (2007) Racial diversity and the secondary English curriculum in the United States and Canada: Messages from the melting pot and the mosaic Carla Spivack (2007) Dismembering Eliza: The backlash against female rule in early Jacobean England Shannon Spriggs (2007) Black student-athlete academic achievement: An exploration of the relationship between black student-athletes and academic support personnel Narve Strand (2007) Normative inquiry after Wittgenstein Misty Michele Stroud (2007) Temporal and directional constraints on a major shear zone in eastern Massachusetts: Monazite dating of the Assabet River fault zone Zhenhua Sun (2007) Utilization of modified nucleotides to probe DNA structure and function Jason Swergold (2007) U.S. Military Transformation and the Rise of China: Restructuring Regional Alliances Vivian H Swoboda (2007) Using job-embedded professional development and a school-based team to improve vocabulary instruction in an elementary school Joseph J Tanke (2007) Michel Foucault and visual culture: Toward a genealogy of modernity Hala D Taweel (2007) The academic profession in Palestine: A survey Karen Teel (2007) The role of the body in the image of God: Resources in womanist theologies Jennifer Thibault (2007) The Role of Art in Memory: Case Study of Joseph Beuys and Kara Walker Nikki Tyler (2007) The Effects of Fiscal Decentralization on Income Inequality Emmanuelle Anne Vanborre Martinvalet (2007) Through the lens of Blanchot: New readings of Malraux and Camus Jaime Vidaurrazaga (2007) Lifelong neophytes: Towards a baptismal understanding of Christian morality Samuel Sing Cho Wan (2007) Exploring Asian American racism-related stress as a predictor of racial identity status, Asian cultural values, and conformity to masculine norms in Asian American men Thomas L Wesner (2007) Another way of seeing: How comparing student evaluation and teacher self-evaluation in a high school leads to more reflective teacher practice Michael James Williams (2007) The development of new methods toward guaiane natural products Christopher Michael Wilson-Byrne (2007) The Presidential Scholars Program: An Examination of the Program's Mission and Its Fidelity to that Mission Jiarong Xia (2007) Studies of the structure and function of the allosteric enzyme aspartate transcarbamoylase Yingju Xu (2007) Syntheses of phosphatidylinositol-related compounds through peptide-catalyzed asymmetric phosphorylation Yoto Valentinov Yotov (2007) Labor market imperfections, political pressure, and trade patterns Jessica Mercer Young (2007) "Will you play with me?": The relation of early aspects of maternal parenting to the later school social competence of children with disabilities Dorothy Zirkle (2007) Arab Nationalism Versus Islamic Fundamentalism as a Unifying Factor in the Middle East DISSERTATIONS & THESES FROM 2006 Ilina Abadjieva (2006) Theosis re-considered. The dynamic nature of salvation: Gregory of Nyssa's "stages of mystical ascent" in the "Life of Macrina" re-visited through the biography of Machig Labdron and the Tibetan Vajrayana tradition of chod Laura E Abate (2006) Role of gangliosides in growth and angiogenesis in a malignant mouse astrocytoma Jamie Anderson (2006) The Looming Threat of an Avian Flu Pandemic: Concepts of Human Security Jeffrey Bacon (2006) Law and the relationship between philosophy and the city Scott J Bader (2006) Expanding our understanding of the thermal fragmentation of cyclobutane-containing compounds: An application towards the total synthesis of kalmanol Heather Baldwin (2006) Fighting to survive in Rwanda: War, agency and victimhood Debasish Banerjee (2006) Zinc oxide nanostructures and nanoengineering James G Barrett (2006) The ABC's of conduct: Teachers' perceptions of the socioemotional dimensions of classroom behavior Teresa Marie Behr (2006) A Study in Translation: Max's Frisch's Don Juan John J Bell (2006) The social and economic forces involved with child labor: A cross-national analysis Alison Mearns Benders (2006) A comparative study of self-awareness and self-transcendence: What do Lonergan and Sankara have to say to each other? Amrita Bhattacharyya (2006) Theoretical and empirical studies of advertising in specialized markets Meredith L Bledsoe (2006) Thin ideal internalization: An investigation of risk and protective factors Blair Floyd Bleiman (2006) Interleukin-4 mediate