This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2006
From "Sit and Listen" of "Shake It Out Yourself" : Helping Urban Middle School Students to Bridge Personal Knowledge to Scientific Knowledge through a Collaborative Environmental Justice Curriculum, Shamu Fenyvesi Sadeh (Dissertation)
Job Insecurity and Work-family Conflict : the Organizational, Situational, and Individual Influences on the Job Strain Process, Khatera Sahibzada (Dissertation)
Interpersonal Sensitivity and Information Sharing During Layoffs : Implications for Job Seekers, Rainer Seitz (Dissertation)
Unfinished Journeys : Elder Learners in an Assisted Living Facility, Suzanne Renée Simon (Dissertation)
An Examination of Conflict Conversation in an Online Community: the Pie Fight at DailyKos.com, Samantha Isabella Soma (Thesis)
Redrawing the Color Line : a Case Study of the Alliance of Minority Chambers of Commerce in Portland, Oregon, Francisca Inez Trujillo-Dalbey (Dissertation)
Early Moral Sense : Behavioral Self-regulation, Temperament, and Prosocial Behavior in Young Children in Child-centered Classrooms, Elizabeth Alliene Vale (Dissertation)
The Challenges International Students Face in Adjusting to Their New Status as Graduate Students: An Exploratory Case Study, Vincent Womujuni (Dissertation)
Adolescent Mothers : Youth in Need of Developmentally Appropriate Services, Patricia Arlyne Zimmerman (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
A Decision Model for Technology Assessment to Reduce the Internal Digital Divide in Emerging Economies (case: Costa Rica), Audrey María Alvear Báez (Dissertation)
Mathematics, Meaning, and Identity : a Study of the Practice of Mathematics Education in a Rural High School, Rick Anderson (Dissertation)
Effects of Surrounding Land Use on Plant Species Composition in Urban Forest Fragments, Bruce Michael Barbarasch (Thesis)
The Role of Parent Coaching by Pediatric Physical Therapists: An Exploration of Current Practice, Nancy Ann Cicirello (Dissertation)
Community Benchmarks: An Analysis of Performance Measurements in Urban Planning Management, Susan Joan Daluddung (Dissertation)
Wavelet Based Feature Extraction and Dimension Reduction for the Classification of Human Cardiac Electrogram Depolarization Waveforms, Christopher S. De Voir (Thesis)
Female Inmates Perspectives on Incarceration and Correctional Education at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, Clara Guadalupe Ellis (Thesis)
Revisiting Invasion-Succession: Social Relations in a Gentrifying Neighborhood, Lynda Franks (Thesis)
Forest Resource Use, Land-Use, and Ecotourism in the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras, Christina Marie Friedle (Thesis)
The Friendship Group Motivational Systems: Naturally-Occurring Resources and Liabilities During the Transition to High School, Carrie Jeanne Furrer (Dissertation)
Reorganizing the Oregon Department of Human Services : an Exploratory Case Study of Organizational Change, Charles Anthony Gallia (Dissertation)
An Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change on the Upper Clackamas River Basin with a Distributed Hydrologic Model, David Graves (Thesis)
Open Source Software for Commercial Off-The-Shelf GPS Receivers, Andrew Greenberg (Thesis)
Development and Validation of the Sustainability Climate Survey, David Edward Hall (Thesis)
Visualizing Complexity : A Spatial Analysis of Decorative Geometric Pattern in the Islamic World, 900-1400 AD, Tracy Elizabeth Harrison (Thesis)
Does the "News" Come First? Social Responsibility, Infotainment, and Local Television Newscasts in Portland, Oregon: A Content Analysis, Carey Lynne Higgins (Thesis)
Actor and Partner Effects Among Marital Dyads in Retirement Adjustment and Well-being, Julie Guenette Howard (Dissertation)
First Season Effects of Managed Flooding on the Invasive Species Phalaris arundinacea L. And Shoreline Vegetation Communities in an Urban Wetland, Noah John Jenkins (Thesis)
Diversity of Methanogens and other Archaea in Permanently Cold, Anoxic Marine Sediments, Melissa Mary Kendell (Dissertation)
Fuel model development and fire simulation analysis in the wildland-urban interface : the case of Forest Park, Portland, Oregon, David Malcolm Kuhn (Thesis)
A Tale of Three Sisters: Reconstructing the Holocene glacial history and paleoclimate record at Three Sisters Volcanoes, Oregon, United States, Shaun Andrew Marcott (Thesis)
Humane education : the effects of animals in the classroom on children's empathy in Japanese elementary schools, Mika Maruyama (Thesis)
Ambivalent Landscapes: An Historical Geography of Recreation and Tourism on Mount Hood, Oregon, Ryan Franklin Mitchell (Thesis)
Progress and economy: the clash of values over Oregon's Trojan Nuclear Plant, Gregory Nipper (Thesis)
Teacher Learning: Documentation, Collaboration, and Reflection, William A. Parnell (Dissertation)
Self-help Support Groups: Choices in Participation Among Women Facing Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Maria A. Pfeifer (Thesis)
Re-imaging a neighborhood : the creation of the Alberta Arts District, Portland, Oregon, Meredith R. Rizzari (Thesis)
"Alberta Arts District" : boundaries and belonging among long-time residents in a culturally changing neighborhood, Sammy Shaw (Thesis)
Evaluating Deliberative Democracy : Comparing Habermas' Discourse Ethic and Evaluations of Consensus Process in Residential Cooperatives, Katheryn Sutter (Dissertation)
"We want smokestacks and not swamps" : filling in Portland's Guild's Lake, 1906-1925, Kathleen D. Tucker (Thesis)
“Judith” Shakespeare in Computer Programming : An Oral History Study of American Women Programmers in the Late Twentieth Century, Laura L. Zeigen (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
The Wilderness Problem: A Narrative of Contested Landscapes in San Juan County, Utah, David Banis (Thesis)
A nun's life : Barking Abbey in the late-medieval and early modern periods, Teresa L. Barnes (Thesis)
Socratic Pedagogy, Critical Thinking, Moral Reasoning and Inmate Education: An Exploratory Study, Peter Boghossian (Dissertation)
Adult and Juvenile Sexual Offenders: The Use of Violence and Fantasies, Megan N. Carter (Thesis)
Effects of Shift Work on Employee Retention: An Examination of Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, and Stress-Based Explanations, Kristin Elizabeth Charles (Thesis)
Fundamental Conditions for the Evolution of Altruism: Towards a Unification of Theories, Jeffrey Alan Fletcher (Dissertation)
Fur Trade Daughters of the Oregon Country: Students of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, 1850, Shawna Lea Gandy (Thesis)
A Dialect Study of Oregon NORMs, Lisa Wittenberg Hillyard (Thesis)
PPerfGrid: A Grid Services-Based Tool for the Exchange of Heterogeneous Parallel Performance Data, John Jared Hoffman (Thesis)
Technology Forecasting Using Data Envelopment Analysis, Oliver Lane Inman (Dissertation)
The Origin of Portland, Oregon's Waterfront Park: A Paradigm Shift in City Planning (1967-1978), Michael Anthony Jenner (Thesis)
The Relationship of Parenting with Adolescent Problem Behaviors and Healthy Development: An Application of a Motivational Model of Development, Sharon Ann Johnson (Dissertation)
TeaBag: A Debugger for Curry, Stephen Lee Johnson (Thesis)
Motivational processes involved in academic help seeking and help avoidance, Gwen Catherine Marchand (Thesis)
Comparing Twenty-Four Years of Forest Change in Two Communities of Mexico's Meseta Purépecha Using Multi-Spectral Satellite Imagery, Kevin Scott Martin (Thesis)
Infrastructure For Performance Tuning MPI Applications, Kathryn Marie Mohror (Thesis)
Risk Factors for Pre-Post Monsoon Cholera Epidemics in Bangladesh from 1992-1994, Rhonda Rae Robb (Thesis)
Nurturing the Development of Teacher Change Agents Within a Teacher Education Program, Barbara Ruben (Dissertation)
Successful Online Course Retention at Marylhurst University Constructing a Model for Online Course Retention Using Grounded Theory, Vincent Schreck (Dissertation)
Contested Visions of Place: People, Power, and Perception on the Columbia's North Shore, 1805-1913, Donna Lynn Sinclair (Thesis)
The Holocene History of Bison in the Intermountain West: A Synthesis of Archaeological and Paleontological Records from Eastern Oregon, Nicole Anne Stutte (Thesis)
Applying the Transtheoretical Model to Cigarette Smoking by Pregnant and Parenting Adolescent Females, Barbara Mary Sussex (Dissertation)
Environmental Gradients, Community Boundaries, and Disturbance the Darlingtonia Fens of Southwestern Oregon, Deborah A. Tolman (Dissertation)
Compositional and mineralogical relationships between mafic inclusions and host lavas as key to andesite petrogenesis at Mount Hood Volcano, Oregon, Melinda Michelle Woods (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
The Effects of Subsidized Childcare on Student Parents' Access to Higher Education at Portland State University, Elizabeth Dawn Creach (Thesis)
Striking A Balance: The Unionization of Portland State University’s Faculty, Amanda Taylor Ellertson (Thesis)
Transportation and Land Use Patterns: Monitoring Urban Change Using Aerial Photography, Portland, Oregon 1925-1945, Paul Hagen Fyfield (Thesis)
Portrayals of Disability in the Professional Preparation of Speech-language Pathologists, Jane Eric Sleeper Gravel (Dissertation)
The Courts and the Making of a Chinese Immigrant Community in Portland, Oregon, 1850-1910, Sarah Marie Griffith (Thesis)
The Acquisition of a Stage Dialect, Nathaniel George Halloran (Thesis)
High Frequency Pure Tone Audiometry and High Frequency Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions: A Correlational Analysis, Kimberly J. Lavoie (Thesis)
The Role of Temperature in Testing Deep Submicron CMOS ASICs, Ethan Schuyler Long (Thesis)
Self-perceptions of non-native English speaking teachers of English as a second language, Kathryn Ann Long (Thesis)
The Development of Language Choice in a German Immersion School, Miranda Kussmaul Novash (Thesis)
Women Adrift, Sporting Girls and the Unfortunate Poor: A Gendered History of Homelessness in Portland 1900-1929, Leanne Claire Serbulo (Thesis)
Not For the Faint of Heart: The Social Construction of Oregon Charter Schools, Anthony Dean Valley (Dissertation)
An Evaluation of Public Construction Contracting Methods for the Public Building Sector in Oregon using Data Envelopment Analysis, Gerald Herman Williams Jr. (Dissertation)
La chanson d'Yde et Olive: A Parable of a Medieval Self-Made Man, Noémie Young-Studer (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
The Response of Mice to Infection by the Parasitic Nematode Trichinella: A Comparison of Trichinella Spiralis and Trichinella Pseudospiralis, Barry Clayton Anderson (Dissertation)
In Situ Hydraulic Testing and Water Quality Sampling in the Hyporheic Zone of the Columbia River, Hanford Reach, Washington, Evan V. Arntzen (Thesis)
The response to left-wing radicalism in Portland, Oregon, from 1917 to 1941, Andrew Nils Bryans (Thesis)
Forest Landscape Change Detection in the Meseta Purépecha, Michoacán, México, John Malcolm Chase (Thesis)
Writing in the Contact Zone: Three Portraits of Reflexivity and Transformation, Laurene L. Christensen (Thesis)
Querying Geographically Dispersed, Heterogeneous Data Stores: The PPerfXchange Approach, Matthew Edward Colgrove (Thesis)
Public outreach and the "hows" of archaeology : archaeology as a model for education, Jon Darin Daehnke (Thesis)
Discrimination and Nepotism within Police Specialty Units, Robert Norvell Hollins III (Thesis)
Luminous Days, Mitchell S. Jackson (Thesis)
The Transformation of Civic Institutions and Practices in Portland, Oregon, 1960-1999, Steven Reed Johnson (Dissertation)
Content Aware Request Distribution for High Performance Web Service: A Performance Study, Robert M. Jones (Thesis)
Patterns in Glass : The Interpretation of European Glass Trade Beads From Two Protohistoric Sites in the Greater Lower Columbia Region, Gretchen Anne Kaehler (Thesis)
A Linguistic Evaluation of the Somali Women's Self Sufficiency Project, Ann Marie Kasper (Thesis)
A Performance Study of LAM and MPICH on an SMP Cluster, Brian Patrick Kearns (Thesis)
A Critical Review of Issues in Applying Restorative Justice Principles and Practices to Cases of Hate Crime, Terri Lee Kelly (Thesis)
Hydrogeologic Investigation of the Klamath Marsh, Klamath County, Oregon, Jason Michael Melady (Thesis)
Presidential Domain: An Exploratory Study of Prospect Theory and US Climate Policy Since 1998, Hal T. Nelson (Thesis)
Comprehensive School Reform Influence on Teacher Practice: Listening in the Classroom, an Examination of Powerful Learning Labs within the Accelerated Schools Project, Amy Daggett Petti (Dissertation)
The Effects of Parent Care and Child Care Role Quality on Work outcomes among dual-earner couples in the sandwiched generation, Angela Rickard (Dissertation)
Teaching Mathematical Problem Solving in the Context of Oregon's Educational Reform, Nicole R. Rigelman (Dissertation)
Comparison of Heat Output and Microchemical Changes of Palladium Cathodes under Electrolysis in Acidified Light and Heavy Water, Conrado Salas Cano (Thesis)
The Role of Trust, Leader-Member Exchange, and Organizational Justice in Employee Attitudes and Behaviors: A Laboratory and Field Investigation, Rudolph Joseph Sanchez (Dissertation)