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Theses/Dissertations from 1997

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Student Outcomes, Educational Technology, And Assessment In Large Classrooms: Effects On Planned Behavior, Tanya Leigh Ostrogorsky (Thesis)

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The Generalization of Stridency from Treated to Untreated Misarticulated Phonemes, Kathleen Ann Ozanich (Thesis)

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Training Strategies for Critic and Action Neural Networks in Dual Heuristic Programming Method, Christian Peter Paintz (Thesis)

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Receptive Language and Cognitive Skills in Preschool-Aged Children with Cerebral Palsy, Susan Elizabeth Panton (Thesis)

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Analysis of Rhetorical Organization and Style Patterns in Korean and American Business Fax Letters of Complaint in English, Mi Young Park (Thesis)

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The Redemptive Role of Chivalry in Old French Arthurian Romance (12th and 13th Centuries), Nora Jane Peacock (Thesis)

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The Adjunct Model of Content-based Instruction: A Comparative Study in Higher Education in Oregon, Georgann Sue Percival (Thesis)

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Ethnic and Language Identity Among a Select Group of Vietnamese-Americans in Portland Oregon, Jay Owen Peterson (Thesis)

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A Multi-Method Inquiry Into Managerial Coaching, Deborah J. Petricek (Thesis)

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The Female Identity in Rosario Ferrâe’s Papeles de Pandora, Marcie Lynn Pratt (Thesis)

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The Controversy Over the Portland Public Schools' African-American Baseline Essays, 1983-1992, Thomas Damian Rand-Luby (Thesis)

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Promotion of Verbal Interaction through Structured Pair Activities, Vidya Rangachari (Thesis)

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The Persistence of Elites and the Legacy of I.G. Farben, A.G., Robert Arthur Reinert (Thesis)

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"Qui Vauroit Bon Vers Oïr": Voice, Text, and Social Insight in Aucassin et Nicolette, Lonnie Tristan Renteria (Thesis)

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Real Ear to Coupler Differences in Children and The Effects of Hearing and Microphone Location, Cindy Richardson (Thesis)

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A Comparison of Speech Onset Latencies Between Persons Who Stutter and Persons Who Do Not Stutter Across Varied Phonological Priming Conditions, Brian Joseff Riffel (Thesis)

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Orwellian Socialism and the Myth of the Working Class, Malcolm P. Ringo IV (Thesis)

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Voice Measures and Listener Acceptance of Tracheoesophageal Speech, Heidii Ilona Roberts (Thesis)

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The Impact of Theories of Dialogic Epistemology on Composition Theory and Pedagogy, Kandy Sue Robertson (Thesis)

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Peer Context Influences on School Motivation: A Naturalistic Observation of Peer and Teacher Contingencies Following On-and Off-Task Behavior in a Fifth Grade Classroom, Nicole Ann Sage (Thesis)

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"Sin decidirlo me volví distinta": Gender, Deception and Development in Angeles Mastretta's Arráncame la vida, Luisa Samaniego (Thesis)

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A Comparison of Listener and Speaker Perception of Stuttering Events, Anne Jocelyn Schagen (Thesis)

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The First Publicly Funded, Government Sponsored Natural Medicine Clinic : A Descriptive Case Study, Jennifer Lynne Schneider (Thesis)

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Law Enforcement Attitudes toward the 1989 Oregon Firearms Law and Gun Control, Andrew Schneiderman (Thesis)

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Evaluating Modernization and Dependency Explanations of the Unequal Distribution of Income in Developing Countries, Paul Timothy Shattuck (Thesis)

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Combining the Historical and the Personal in Painting, Christopher A. Shotola-Hardt (Thesis)

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The Role of the Hepatic Vagus in the Pathogenesis of Fever, Christopher Todd Simons (Thesis)

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Efficient Implementation of Image Compression-Postprocessing Algorithm Using a Digital Signal Processor, Nadir Sinaceur (Thesis)

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Preternatural Rhythm: A Vernacular Application of the Systemic Grid With Respect to the Influence of Organic Processes, Mark Richardson Smith (Thesis)

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Wedding Bands and Marriage Bans: A History of Oregon's Racial Intermarriage Statutes and the Impact on Indian Interracial Nuptials, Matthew Aeldun Charles Smith (Thesis)

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Limitations of Methods for Determining the Position of The Center of Mass of a Human Subject Performing a Sit-up, Terrence Chadwick Smith (Thesis)

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Comparison of Cardiovascular Disease Risk In Japanese Natives and Japanese Americans, Mayumi Takeda (Thesis)

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Reading Neighborhood Character : A Semiotic Analysis of Three Portland, Oregon Neighborhoods, Jodi Hanson Tanner (Thesis)

The Emergence of an Icon: The Frida Kahlo Cult, Teresa Neva Tate (Thesis)

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The Emergence of an Icon: The Frida Kahlo Cult, Teresa Neva Tate (Thesis)

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The Reemergence of Kantian Ethics: Have We Adequately Responded to Hegel's Objections?, Gwen C. Thompson (Thesis)

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Age Related Changes in the Activity and the Responsiveness of the Renin-angiotensin System in the 15 Month Old Rat, MIchele McKee Thompson (Thesis)

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Habitats, Sydney Jean Thompson (Thesis)

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Ethnography of Communication as on Organizational Communication Assessment Tool: A Test of the Method, Francisca Inez Trujillo-Dalbey (Thesis)

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Teaching Phonetic-ideograph Rules to English Speaking Students of Chinese, Jillian Ji-fen Tsai (Thesis)

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Ornamental Nationalism: Indigenous Images in Porfirian Mexico, 1876-1911, Seonaid Valiant (Thesis)

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Achieving Cochannel Interference Objectives Over Selected Topologies in the Portland, Oregon Cellular Network, David A. Wand (Thesis)

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Gangstas, Niggas, Bitches and Hos : A Narrative Analysis of Gangsta’ Rap Lyrics, Darnell A. Watson (Thesis)

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The Importance of Time for Processing in Second Language Comprehension and Acquisition, Jennifer Lee Watson (Thesis)

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Post-middle Miocene Geologic History of the Tualatin Basin, Oregon with Hydrogeologic Implications, Doyle Coley Wilson (Dissertation)

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Unwilling Accents : Reading Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Julian and Maddalo, Melody Ann Wilson (Thesis)

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Numerical Simulation of Contaminated Sediment Transport in the Upper Columbia Slough System, Binghong Wu (Thesis)

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Urban Traffic Arterials and the Sale Price of Single Family Houses in Portland: A Hedonic Analysis of Impacts, Philip Wuest (Thesis)

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The Relationship Between Self-Monitoring and Organizational Training Effectiveness and Satisfaction, Joanna Wulbert (Thesis)

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Investigation of Transactivation of the Human C-Myc Gene by Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1, Xian Wu (Thesis)

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The Interaction of Naphthoquinones With the Calcium Release Channel of Skeletal Muscle Sarcoplasmic Reticulum, Ruohong Xia (Thesis)

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ERP Analysis Using Matched Filtering, Correlation Coefficient and Mann-Whitney Test, Yun Yan (Thesis)

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Sexual Intercourse : A Feminist Reading of Strip Joint Discourse, Regina Marie Howard Yaroch (Thesis)

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The Effects of Parental Involvement, Structure, and Autonomy Support on Children’s Help-Seeking and Problem-Solving Coping in School, Ronald Wayne Yoder (Thesis)

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Measure 9: Oregon’s 1992 Anti-Gay Initiative, Patricia Jean Young (Thesis)

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Expected and Existing Competencies of External Industry Trainers in the Human Resource Development Field, Julia M. Zachmann (Thesis)

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The Poetics of John Keats in “The Fall of Hyperion, a Dream”, Amy A. Zenger (Thesis)

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Routing, Driven Placement for ATMEL 6000 Architecture FPGAs, Songhua Zhang (Thesis)

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Syntheses and Characterizations of Unsymmetrical Porphyrins as Photosensitizers for a Solid-State Solar Cell, Yinping Zhao (Thesis)

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Purification and Characterization of Catalase From Enterococcus Faecalis, Zhenghong Zhu (Thesis)

Theses/Dissertations from 1996

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Children with Early Language Delay: A Group Case Study of Outcomes in Intermediate Grades, Tracey Abild-Lane (Thesis)

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Using a Computer Program about Pediatric Hearing Evaluations to help Educate Parents, Jeanne E. Aleskus (Thesis)

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Urgent Care Center Location: an Empirical Analysis of their Locations in Relation to Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Land Use Factors: a Case Study of Portland, Oregon, Abdullah Alfaiz (Dissertation)

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Hedonic Analysis of Housing Prices Near the Portland Urban Growth Boundary, 1978-1990, Abdullah Alkadi (Dissertation)

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Alpine Soil Geomorphology: The Development and Characterization of Soil in the Alpine-Subalpine Zone of the Wallowa Mountains, Oregon, Charles Edward Allen (Thesis)

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Where the Extreme Right Took Root: A Comparison of Midwestern Counties in the 1980s, Joseph B. Allen (Thesis)

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Parental Perceptions of the Efficacy of Clinical Intervention for Speech-Language Disorders at Portland State University's Speech and Language Clinic, Deborah Ellen Anderson (Thesis)

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Understanding Ki in the Daily Experience of Advanced Practitioners of Aikido: A Phenomenological Study, Steven C. Andress (Thesis)

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Chemical Communication in House Mice (Mus musculus): Can They Recognize Gender from the Anogenital, Harderian Gland or Mouth/Nose Odor?, Dawn Michele Andrews (Thesis)

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Humor Recognition: A Comparative Analysis, William T. Argent (Thesis)

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Examining the Relationship between Three Speech Features and Intelligibility Ratings of Black English Preschoolers as Judged by Standard English Listeners, Britteny Sue Asher (Thesis)

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Mutation Analysis of Fibrillin-2 (FBN2) and Microfibril Associated Protein-3 (MFAP-3): Two Genes Associated with Congenital Contractural Arachnodactyly (CCA), also known as Beal's Syndrome, Darcie Babcock (Thesis)

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The Role and Perception of Risk in High-risk Sports Participants: A Grounded Theory Study of Rock Climbers, Ronald E. Baglien (Thesis)

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Needed Narrowing as the Computational Strategy of Evaluable Functions in an Extension of Goedel, Bobbi J. Barry (Thesis)

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Oregon's Carry Concealed Weapon Laws: A Historical Review of the Right to Personal Protection, Richard Meek Bash (Thesis)

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Intervention History of Children with Slow Expressive Language Development, Kathleen Belfiore (Thesis)

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La Perspectiva Indigenista y Neoindifenista de Huasipungo y Porque se Fueron las Garzas, Laura Bergman (Thesis)

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The Constraints of a Typological Implicational Universal for Interrogatives on Second Language Acquisition, Dee Anne Bess (Thesis)

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A Policy-Independent Secure X Server, Kirk Joseph Bittler (Thesis)

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Characteristics of Administrators' Leadership Style in Quality Child Care Centers, Katherine Ann Bobula (Dissertation)

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An Analysis of Spondee Recognition Thresholds in Auditory-only and Audio-visual Conditions, Brenene Marie Brady-Herbst (Thesis)

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Anticlerical Sentiment in Castilian and Galician-Portuguese Medieval Literature, Kathryn L. Brooks (Thesis)

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Mechanisms of pentachlorophenol induced charge transport in lipid membranes, William Charles Brown (Dissertation)

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Layout Synthesis for Datapath Designs, Naveen Buddi (Thesis)

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Liang Qichao, Hu Shi, and Democracy in China, Leslie Ann Burgoine (Thesis)

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Family Coping and Adaptation to Traumatic Brain Injury, Richard Francis Burton (Thesis)

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Positive Illusions and Winter Depression: Do Illusions Go the Way of the Summer Sun?, Shannon M. Carey (Thesis)

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Influence of Articulation and Phonology Intervention on Children's Social and Emotional Characteristics, Tracy Lynn Carlisle (Thesis)

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Design of a Second-order Filter Using the gm-C Technique, Girish Chandrasekaran (Thesis)

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An Empirical Study on the Jump-diffusion Two-beta Asset Pricing Model, Hongqing Chen (Dissertation)

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Creating Collaborative Learning Environments: A Curriculum Proposal for Instructors, Carol Rae Chislett (Thesis)

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Wandering Man, Sean R. Cowne (Thesis)

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Les passions d'Annie Ernaux : de la biographie a l'âecriture, Nathalie Cox (Thesis)

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No Boat, No Bridge, Gregory K. Coyle (Thesis)

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Wapato for the People : An Ecological Approach to Understanding the Native American Use of Sagittaria Latifolia on the Lower Columbia River, Melissa Cole Darby (Thesis)

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An Analysis of the Literary Manifestations of the Cult of the Virgin Mary in Gonzalo de Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Senora, Elizabeth M. Deeter (Thesis)

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The Flor Metaphor of Pre-Conquest Nahuatl Literature, Victoria Louise Defferding (Thesis)

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Determinants and Impacts of Demand-side Management Program Investment of Electric Utilities, Philipp Degens (Dissertation)

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Efficient Buffer Allocation Scheme for Bursty Traffic in ATM Networks using Fast Reservation Protocol, Nikhil Mukund Deshpande (Thesis)

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Beach Response to Subsidence Following a Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake Along the Washington-Oregon Coast, Debra Lee Doyle (Thesis)