This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Sons Providing Care at End-of-Life : Common Threads and nuances, Patricia Ebert (Dissertation)
First impressions : a Study of the Relationship Between Presenting Problems and Clinical Perception, Holly Elizabeth Fussell (Dissertation)
Scalable Load and Store Processing in latency tolerant processors, Amit Vasant Gandhi (Dissertation)
Ternary quantum logic, Normen Giesecke (Thesis)
Exploring Interethnic Dialogue Design, Stephen Hiroshi Gilchrist (Dissertation)
Expanding Responsibilities and Shifting Demands: An Analysis of the Effects of Migration and Employment on Immigrant Women's Negotiating Power in the Household, Kerry Greer (Thesis)
Lexical Choices in War Headlines: A Case Study, Jesse T. Harrington (Thesis)
Food Insecurity and Oregon Tanf Leavers, Kim A. Hoffman (Dissertation)
Gridfields: Model-Driven Data Transformation in the Physical Sciences, Bill Howe (Dissertation)
Efficient Support for Application-Specific Video Adaptation, Jie Huang (Dissertation)
Impact of Universal Health Coverage on Health in Late Life, Nathalie Huguet (Dissertation)
The Ends and Means of Public Art Making: A Case Study of “Public Art” and “Art in Public” in The Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Region, Svetlana Gennadyevna Karasyova (Dissertation)
Regeneration Patterns and Facilitation Following Blowdown in a Self- Replacing Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta) Stand in Central Oregon, Jennifer Michelle Karps (Thesis)
Nesting Like Birds, Teaching Like Spiders: Emerging Visions in U.S. Higher Education for Biocultural Sustainability and Ecological Literacy Education, Ariana Marta Francesca Kramer (Thesis)
A Mixed-Methods and Multi-Level Investigation of the Effects of a Crew Chief Intervention on Job Attitudes, Occupational Stress, and Organizational Commitment, Michael Charles Leo (Dissertation)
The Fisheries of the Lower Columbia River, 1792 to 1850, Based on Euroamerican Explorer and Fur Company Accounts, Michael A. Martin (Thesis)
Conceptualizing and Measuring the Self in Chronic Illness and its Relationship to Adjustment, Jessica Marie Morea (Thesis)
Analysis of Relay-based Cellular Systems, Ansuya Negi (Dissertation)
The Interactions between Carbon Regulation and Renewable Energy policies in the United Kingdom, Hal Thomas Nelson (Dissertation)
Oregon's Approach to Health Care Reform : an Analysis of the Role of the Business Community in the evolution of the Oregon Health Plan, Peter Chuka Olemgbe (Dissertation)
Children’s Perceptions of the Learning Environment and Aesthetic Qualities within Their Classroom, Sheryl Reinisch (Dissertation)
Once Upon the North Pole, Regina Anne Roselli (Thesis)
Social Regulatory Policy : A Challenge to Federalism, Kimberly Janet Russell (Thesis)
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)
Initial Institutionalization of Sustainable Production In State of Oregon Policy; An Exploration of Regime Politics During the Kitzhaber Administration, 1995-2002, Alex Welsch (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)
Public Opinion, the Media, and Environmental Policy: Agenda-Setting, Framing, and Maintaining the Status Quo, Jonela Rae Estes (Dissertation)
Opal Creek : The Framing of a Policy Controversy, James Floyd (Dissertation)
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 System: 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)
Interrelationships of Workplace Relocations, Residential Relocations and Commuting Patterns, Chansung Kim (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)
Beyond the Economic Catalyst Debate: Can Consumption Benefits Justify A Municipal Stadium Investment?, Charles Andrew Santo (Dissertation)
"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)
A Study of the Transformative Facilitation Process at the Hanford Advisory Board, David Black (Dissertation)
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)