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Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Apparitions: Essays on Revisioning my Faith, My Mother, and Myself, Susan Murnan
Using an Effort Praise Intervention to Increase Achievement and Persistence in Reading, Karin Leak Mussman
Chess, Bible Clubs and the Public Schools: A Case Study of the Board of Education of Westside Community Schools v. Bridget Mergens., Brent C. Myers
Nineteen Eighty-four and the poetics of "orthodoxy-sniffing", Mark R. Myers
Perceptions of Respite Care Benefits and the Measures of Leisure Satisfaction and Life Satisfaction among Informal Caregivers, Natalie J. Nauman
A spatial analysis of the foreign-born population in Douglas Sarpy County, Nebraska – 2000, Leigh Anne L. Opitz
How Service-Learning Can Enhance the Pedagogy and Culture ofEngineering Programs at Institutions of Higher Education: A Review of the Literature, Jessica L. Paquin
The Reality of Computer-Mediated Communication: An Examination of an Online Dating Service, James W. Peoples III
The Asteraceae of Pico Zunil., Taylor Sultan Quedensley
The Impact of E-Government in Bridging the Privilege Gap: A Case Study of the City of Omaha, Nebraska, Sandra Denise Andralie Reade
The influence of feedlots on Epiphytic lichen species composition and cover in eastern Nebraska., Margaret K. Reed
An examination of wetland change in Douglas and Sarpy Counties, Nebraska from 1981 to 2003., Michelle Rerucha
The Relationships Among Body Mass Index, Daily Step Count, and Television Viewing Time in Children Ages 10 to 13, Scott M. Ronspies
Teachers' perceptions of the effectiveness of block scheduling in Nebraska high schools, Steven P. Shanahan
Bioenergetic Analysis of Female Volleyball, Christine Sjoberg
Bioenergetic analysis of female volleyball, Christine Sjoberg
Sustainability of a school reform program as measured by Title I students achievement, behavior, and attitudes, Sharra R. Smith
Sociopolitical Empowerment of Social Work Students, Lori Stearns
Home literacy environments and emergent literacy skills of English- and Spanish-speaking students., Megan M. Stroud
A Compact Blimp Remote Sensing System for Analysis of Environmental Change, JoAnn Sullivan
Acquisition and Forensic Analysis of Volatile Data Stores, Timothy Vidas
Gains in 8th Grade Student's Reading Skills in Group Within a Group and Large Group Guided Reading Instruction, Brian A. Wedemeyer
The political career of Robert B. Crosby, Nebraska governor, 1953-1955, Theodore J. Wehrbein
Income, Power, and Decision Making in Status-Reversal Marital Communication, Erica Weigel
A comparison of student achievement in economically different but academically equivalent Catholic school programs, Roseanne L. Williby
Qualifying the Definition of Dispositions, Brooke S. Wiseman Dowse
The effects of parent involvement on the reading achievement and reading engagement of students participating in a balanced reading curriculum, LeDonna M. York
The effect of values, conscientiousness, and self-efficacy on ethical decision-making, Marcy Young
"Their judgement torn, their reason torn, demented from the holy": Ritual (dis)memberment and staging Euripides' The Bakkhai., Ronald J. Zank
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
A case study of effective practices for the management of global software development projects, Mudita Agarwal
The Implementation of Reading Interventions in a Community Setting, Kimberly H. Bell
Alternative Methods for Identifying Groups of Neighborhoods to Support the Development of Alliances in Omaha, Nebraska, Heather L. Bloom
The Role of Culture, Ethics and Credibility in the Misuse of Anonymous Sources: Jayson Blair and The New York Times Scandal, Elizabeth Cajka
U.S. Foreign Direct Investment and Host Country Labour Market Competitiveness, Burcu Can
A Design & Evaluation Framework for Setting Up a Community of Practice, Anita Chakrapani
Nebraska public school superintendents' perceptions of Nebraska's assessment/accountability system's effect on high schools, Wanda M. Clark
I that am Lord of Lif: The Christ-knight figure of the Ancrene Riwle, Piers Plowman, and the Faerie Queene, Melissa Ann Conroy
A comparison of teachers' and parents' perceptions of the behaviors of effective Catholic elementary school principals, Diane M. Cronin
Eliza Orzeszkowa: Polish patriot, positivist writer, social critic and feminist., Aneta Maria Czarnik
Relationship Among Connected Classroom Climate and Teacher Verbal and Nonverbal Immediacy and Trait and State Communication Apprehension, Katherine J. Denker
DIBELS and CBM: Using these Measures to Promote Big Ideas in Beginning Reading in Kindergarten through First-Grade, Eva M. Denton
The Effect of a Dialogic Reading Intervention on the Emergent Literacy Skills of Preschool Students, Alicia M. Domack
Effectiveness of a Continuous Vs. Traditional Learning Calendar and the Impact on Reading for Students Receiving Special Education, Molly B. Dotson
Minority representation and cultural diversity on prime time television., Kenya E. Edwards
W is for Women: An Analysis of the Use of Feminine Style in the 2004 Democratic and Republican National Conventions, Michelle L. Gauchat
Differences in the Quality of Written Evaluation Recommendations of Master and Marginal Teachers, Michele L. Gehringer
Can a Community of Practice be established at Org X?, Kasturi Golla
The relationship between rhetorical sensitivity, locus of control, and religiosity among college students, Paul J. Hartzell
The Relationships Between Secondary Language Teachers' Multiple Intelligence Preferences and Their Choice of MI-Inspired Teaching strategies in the Classroom, Wenmin (Mindy) Huang
Between theory and practice: Student teachers' espoused and observed dispositions, Kay A. Keiser
An Evaluation of the Douglas County Day Reporting Center, Dae-Young Kim
Elementary Cellular Automata, Fractal Dimensions and Mutual Information., Naomi Kochi
Physiological Profile of Olympic Style Tae Kwon Do Match, Georgios C. Korellis
Physiological profile of Olympic style Tae Kwon Do match, Georgios C. Korellis
Regional Economic Issues: Determinants of Recession Duration and Determinants of New Firm Formation, Angela M. Kuhlmann
An empirical study of high school principals' data -driven decision-making practices and their relationships to contextual variables, Mingchu (Neal) Luo
All about a line: The Sidney-Black Hills Trail's impact on the cultural landscape of western Nebraska and South Dakota, Abbey R. McNair
Play assessment: The effects of peer interaction on children's cognitive capabilities., Korrinda Mendez
The Impact of External Debt on Economic Growth in Highly Indebted Developing Countries, Asaad Najib
Bioenergetics and time-motion analysis of competitive basketball, Kenji Narazaki
Web Auction System, Praveen K. Narra
Private odyssey: Responsibilities, challenges, and needs of the beginning Catholic school principal, Dorothy A. Ostrowski
A genetic algorithm for simplifying the amino acid alphabet and predicting protein interactions., Matthew Palensky
All sports, all the time: Sports talk radio and its uses by listeners., Andrew W. Peacock
Exploring teachers' perceptions of their preparedness for culturally responsive teaching, Mary T. Brauch Petersen
Similarity and cluster analysis of time series data using R*-trees., Jiaxiong Pi
A new model for heat dissipation in a data center., Karthikeyan Ragunathan
The Confessions of the Madison Henderson Gang, Mark K. Reuter
What's Group Got To Do With It?: Debate, Group Discussion, and Voting Behavior: The 2004 Presidential Race, Leslie A. Rill
OPPD. WAUE: A benefit and cost analysis, Thomas James Sandoz
Apathy in Action: Baby Boomers' Attitudes towards Product Placements in the Mass Media, Nicole M. Schmoll
An evaluation of wetland no net loss and mitigation under section 404 of the Clean Water Act on the Santa Rosa Plain, Sonoma County, California., Teresa M. Silence
Elementary school principals' perceptions of their needs for professional development in instructional leadership, Michael N. Smith Jr.
An Interactive Online Tutoring System (lOTS) for Central Dogma of Molecular Biology, Zoe Xin Song
Solving nonlinear optimization problems that have a nondifferentiable objective function by using a pseudo gradient search., Marie Louise Spilde
Russia Shrinking : An Analysis of Russia's Population Decline: Causes, Effects and Solutions, Michael C. Sullivan
The relationship between observable teaching effectiveness behaviors and personality types in a sample of urban middle school teachers, Jeaneen Kaye Talbott
Implementation of Wireless Connection between Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and Relational Database., Wantit Tangrugsasut
The urban transportation decision-making process: A qualitative examination of Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area, Aleksandra Georgieva Tepedelenova
Citizens Contacting the Police: The Dynamics of Police-Citizen Interactions During Two Voluntary Contacts, Tracie L. Toscano
Spatial Implications of Urban Functional Classification: A Study of Small Urban Places in the North-Central United States, Tyler A. Van Meeteren
Acute Physiological Responses and Psychological Perceptions of Various Resistance Training Regimens, William J. Vincent
Acute Physiological Responses and Psychological Perceptions of Various Resistance Training Regimens, William J. Vincent
Noise reduction in time series data from dynamical systems., Richard Lyman Warr
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
A New QoS Renegotiation Mechanism for Multimedia Applications., Abdelnasser Abdelaal
The Agenda-Building Effects of US Presidents: A Close Look at US Presidents and Media Coverage of Palestine, Linda Absy
Latino Immigrant Perceptions about the U.S. Police: An Exploratory Study, Griselda Aldrete
Who could ask for anything more?: An analysis of rhythm and Dalcroze eurhythmics and their place in the communication arts of speech, forensics, and theater., Kenton Bruce Anderson
ebXML: Global Standard for Electronic Business, Sujatha Babu
Omaha business support for work -based learning, Keith E. Bigsby
Ideological Criticism of the Social Construction of Gay Advertising, Dawn M. Cripe
Instructional methods and efficacy of teachers trained in differentiated instruction, Patricia A. Crum
The effect of singing exercises on the tuning accuracy of middle school string students., Mindy Dauner
Corruption in the Former Soviet Union and the Problems It Represents to the Democratization Process, Eva V. Ertmane
Skin Conditions: The Black Black Woman in African American Literature, Helen L. Fountain
Si, se puede: Organizing Latino immigrant workers in south Omaha's meatpacking industry, Jacqulyn S. Gabriel
Factors that keep teachers with perceived leadership potential from seeking secondary principal and assistant principal positions, Wesley J. Galusha