This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1998
The Effect of Diastema Closure on the Remediation of Lateral /S/: A Case Study, Reta Price (Thesis)
The Role of Educational Technology and Motivation in Increasing Flow and Time-On-Task to Enhance Learning, Michael Pullmann (Thesis)
Static Compaction of Test Sequences for Synchronous Sequential Circuits, Lijie Qi (Thesis)
Spira Mirabilis, Kim D. Ray (Thesis)
Coffee in Nicaragua : Regional Development and Change in the Nineteenth Century, Craig Stephen Revels (Thesis)
Paramagnetic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Studies on the Calcium Binding Site of [Alpha]-Lactalbumin, Thomas Kurt Ritter (Thesis)
The Relative Influence of Internal Resources, External Resources, and Social Support on Parenting Stress, Angela Cecelia Rodger (Thesis)
Illegal Drug Use During Pregnancy : The Effects of Defendant Race and Type of Defense on Juror Judgments of Guilt, Anita Rotondo (Thesis)
The Theory of Nothing, Adam Wieslaw Rupniewski (Thesis)
Gene Expression in Two Cyanobacteria, Freshwater Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942 and Oceanic Synechococcus sp. WH 7803, in response to ammonium, nitrate or iron, Abbas Sadeghi (Dissertation)
Information Content in American Television Advertising : A Replication and Update, Laura Kathleen Sandgren (Thesis)
Perception of English Passives by Japanese ESL Learners : Do Adversity Passives in L1 Transfer?, Koichi Sawasaki (Thesis)
Cultural Compromise of the Wasco and Wishram of the Middle Columbia River: The Effect of Euro-American Technologies and Cultural Values on the Native Americans of the Middle Columbia River, Linda Joyce Schreiner-Mahoney (Thesis)
The Female Adolescent Knee, Patti J. Seely (Thesis)
Increased Glutathione Metabolic Defense Capabilities in Cultured Alzheimer's Diseased Lymphoblast Cell Lines, Collin M. Shaw (Thesis)
Development and Validation of a Work Safety Compliance Measure, Tara L. Smecko (Thesis)
Tocqueville’s Civic Republicanism : The Balance Between Equality and Liberty in American Democracy, Clifford Brantley Smith (Thesis)
Negotiation and Reorganization of Peer Relationships During Adolescence: The Emergence of Romantic Relationships and Quality of Peer Relationships, Melanie Jo Zimmer-Gembeck (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Hiroshima mon amour and L'Annee derniere a Marienbad: Meaning Conveyed through Cinematic Organization, Ellen Leigh Agee (Thesis)
Measurement of the Focal Properties of a Magnetic Electron Lens Using the Shadowgraph Method, Luis Thomas Almaraz (Thesis)
Examination of Benefits of Binaural Auditory Stimulation for Children with a Cochlear Implant and a Hearing Aid in the Contralateral Ear, Evonne Nicol Altesleben (Thesis)
The Minimal Role of Legal Traditions at the International Court of Justice, Kalley Rae Aman (Thesis)
Ibsen's Peer Gynt: Explication and Reception, Caralee Kristine Angell (Thesis)
Declining Total Fertility Rates in Bangladesh and Indonesia From 1970 to 1996 : Causes, Implications, and Analysis, William Bruce Aronson (Thesis)
From the Printing Press to the Guillotine: Gracchus Babeuf and the Revolutionary Language of Thermidor, David Brian Audley (Thesis)
Virtue, Liberty, and the Good : A Critical Analysis of Civic Republicanism, Nathan Douglas Austin (Thesis)
Non-Literate Students in Adult Beginning English as a Second Language Classrooms - A Case Study, Sandra Lynn Banke (Thesis)
Potential for Coastal Flooding Due to Coseismic Subsidence in the Central Cascadia Margin, Elson T. Barnett (Thesis)
Perceptions of Stuttering Intervention Services Received at Portland State, Franklin Wayne Bender (Thesis)
Molecular Fluorescence at a Rough Surface: The Orientation Effects, William Lee Blacke (Thesis)
Collective Intervention in Internal Conflicts : An Examination of Why States Participate, Andrew L. Blum (Thesis)
Geochemical Characteristics and Correlations Within the Triassic-Jurassic Age Gabbs and Sunrise Formations of West Central Nevada, Karen Elizabeth Boelling (Thesis)
An Historical Perspective of Oregon's and Portland's Political and Social Atmosphere in Relation to the Legal Justice System as it Pertained to Minorities: With Specific Reference to State Laws, City Ordinances, and Arrest and Court Records During the Period -- 1840-1895, Clarinèr Freeman Boston (Thesis)
Public Interest Group Politics and American Political Culture, Patrick Henry Brennan (Thesis)
The Juice Is Loose?: A Qualitative Study of Employees’ Perceptions of Informal and Formal Communication Channels, Warren Jerome Brown (Thesis)
Modeling Improvements for Water Supply Forecasting in the Columbia River Basin, Daniel Albert Buller (Thesis)
Public Transportation for the Elderly: A Neighborhood-Area Fixed-Route Alternative, Richard James Burke (Thesis)
New Approaches to Column Compatibility Checking and Column-Based Input/Output Encoding for Curtis Decompositions of Completely or Incompletely Specified Switching Functions, Michael A. Burns (Thesis)
Urban Sprawl, Media Monopoly, and Citizen Participation : A Longitudinal Case Study of Daily Newspapers in Portland, Oregon, Andrew David Butz (Thesis)
A Survey of Swallowing Symptoms Associated With the Premenstrual Cycle, Jill Gigi Calcagno (Thesis)
The Effectiveness of Planned Transitions Therapy in the Treatment of Three Children with Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia, Emily M. Campbell (Thesis)
The Summit Vegetation of Saddle Mountain, Oregon Coast Range, Charles Thomas Carlson (Thesis)
An Ethnographic Study of Chinese Adolescent Identity in Taipei, Taiwan : Franchise Hangouts, Jui-fang Ruby Chen (Thesis)
Simulating Migration of Contaminated Sediments in the Lower Columbia Slough System, Min Chen (Thesis)
Gross Estimation: A Study of the Clinical Validity for Measuring Intelligibility, Heather Gail Clarke (Thesis)
Tool Condition Monitoring: A Computational Approach, Anthony Clinch (Thesis)
Images of Women in Abdelhak Serhane's Le Soliel des Obscurs, Wendy Grace Cook (Thesis)
Early to Middle Pleistocene Catastrophic Flood Deposits, the Dalles, Oregon, David Irving Cordero (Thesis)
Abstract Art and Controversy: A Case Study of Louis Bunce’s Airport Mural and Other Portland Art Controversies, Michael P. Craven (Thesis)
Optimal Block Encoding and Optimal Entropy for Lossless Image Compression, Larry Ray Dennis (Thesis)
Settlements Due to Arid Collapsible Soils, Heather L. Devine (Thesis)
Structural and Successional Analysis of Woodland Vegetation in Tualatin Hills Nature Park, Christopher J. Dobson (Thesis)
Postwar vice crime and political corruption in Portland, Robert Christian Donnelly (Thesis)
A Case Study of Twelve Japanese ESL Students' Use of Interaction Modifications, Darin Dooley (Thesis)
Gender, Power and Identity in an African-American Church, Catherine Douillet (Thesis)
"Blame It on Intake” : A Critical Ethnography of the Negotiation of Access to Shelter Services in a Shelter for Homeless and Battered Women, Kathleen Marie Drew (Thesis)
Materialized View Algorithms, Yubo Fan (Thesis)
Geologic Evidence of Historic and Prehistoric Tsunami Inundation at Seaside, Oregon, Brooke K. Fiedorowicz (Thesis)
First Language and Gesture Acquisition in Children with Cerebral Palsy, Ann Christine Friel (Thesis)
The Language of Transformation in a "Conversation for Possibility": A Metaphor Analysis, Deborah Jean Gabbert (Thesis)
Lewis and Clark at Fort Clatsop: A winter of Environmental Discomfort and Cultural Misunderstandings, Kirk Alan Garrison (Thesis)
The Effect of Lymph Sac Pressure on Lymph Heart Pressure Development in the Toad Bufo marinus, Michael Georgitsis (Thesis)
Conflict Is Optional, Difference Is Not : Toward a Difference-Based Approach to Interpersonal Communication, James Arthur Gieseking Jr (Thesis)
Human Trampling in the Upper Rocky Intertidal: Trampling and Recovery in Barnacle Mediated Succession, Timothy Lawrence Grubba (Thesis)
Whole Body In Vitro Hydraulic Conductivity and Transcapillary Filtration in Two Amphibians, Bufo marinus and Rana catesbeiana, Thomas Vincent Hancock (Thesis)
Automatic Synthesis of VLSI Layout for CMOS Continuous-Time Filters, Wei Han (Thesis)
Pregnancy Outcomes: A Study Testing a Model for Predicting Health Outcomes in Pregnancy, Tamera Ann Hart-Johnson (Thesis)
Wealth for Everybody - Semantics and Structure of the Capitalist Metanarrative, Sylvia Hendel (Thesis)
Vormärz of Germany and The Critique of Heinrich Heine, Andrew Dean Henley (Thesis)
Impedance spectroscopy of bilayer lipid membranes and TiO₂ based solar cells, Uwe Hermes (Thesis)
El Español en el Condado de Multnomah, la Interpretación Médica Contextual, y las Funciones del Intérprete Médico Profesional (The Spanish Language in Multnomah County, Contextual Medical Interpreting, and the Role of the Professional Interpreter), Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas (Thesis)
El Impacto Social del Alcoholismo en Chin Chin el Teporocho (The Social Impact of Alcoholism in Chin Chin el Teporocho), Juan Carlos Hernández (Thesis)
An Ethnography of Classroom Interaction in Hoshuko: A Case Study of the Japanese Supplementary School Classroom, Nobuko Higashi (Thesis)
Teaching Peace Education in ESL/EFL Classes: An International Perspective, Cheryl Lynn Hill (Thesis)
Whole Body i=In Vivo Vascular Compliance in Two Amphibians, Bufo Marinus and Rana Cate, Todd Micheal Hoagland (Thesis)
The Periphyton Community of a Second Order Subalpine Stream Following Salmon Carcass Decomposition, Jonathan Micheal Honea (Thesis)
A Simplified Approach to Reduce Blocking and Ringing Artifacts in Transform-Coded Images, Jianping Hu (Thesis)
Evaluation of Accelerated Plethysmography as a Measure of Health and Fitness, Angela Marie Humble (Thesis)
Managing Oregon’s Aquatic Resources : A Dynamic Segmentation Application, Keith Andrew Hupperts (Thesis)
Predictions of Intentions of College Students to Take an HIV Antibody Test and Their Preferences for a Testing Procedure, Hitoshi Ishimaru (Thesis)
The Home-School Connection: Parental Influences on a Child's ESL Acquisition, Catharine Jauhiainen (Thesis)
A Study of the Level of Knowledge of Adult Foster Care Home Providers in Multnomah County in the State of Oregon About Hearing Loss, Hearing Aids and Communication Strategies, Marsha Peters Johnson (Thesis)
Influence de la Presence et de l'absence de la Mere Sur l'education des Jeunes Filles au XVIIe Siecle a Travers des Pieces de Moliere, Morgane Jourdren (Thesis)
Distribution of Heavy Metals and Trace Elements in Soils of Southwest Oregon, Rafiqul Alam Khandoker (Thesis)
Opening Doors: Culture Learning and Conversational Narratives with First Generation Hmong Refugee Women, Lucy Vincent Kimbro (Thesis)
State Funding for Special Education in Oregon : Calculating Cost Differentials of special education for handicapped students in Oregon school districts, Kyung-Sup Kim (Dissertation)
Temporal Characteristics of Fluent Speech in the Stuttered Utterances of Children, Dixon Ira Kirsch (Thesis)
A Comparison of Two Second Language Acquisition Models for Culturally and Linguistically Different Students, Karen Dorothy Kuhn (Thesis)
Complete-Range Activity-Based RTL Power Estimation, Nur Kurt-Karsilayan (Thesis)
The Effects of Position Power and Personal Power on the Incidence of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, Eva Marie LaBonte (Thesis)
ESL CD-ROM Principles and their Application: A Software Evaluation, Stephanie Burgi LaMonica (Thesis)
Geochemistry, Stratigraphy and Provenance of the Portland Hills Silt in the Tualatin Mountains, Portland, Oregon, John L. Lawes (Thesis)
Symmetry, Symmetry Breaking, and the Current View of the Dirac Monopole, Erik Kristian Leder (Thesis)
Korean-American Elders in Independent Living Arrangements, Shinok Lee (Thesis)
A Pouplation Genetic Study of Wild Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Matagorda Bay, Texas, Joel Stephen Lenox (Thesis)
Japanese Intelligibility and Comprehensibility Assessments of Different English Accents, David Michael Levin (Thesis)
Patient Behaviors and Beliefs : Are Standardized Patients Different?, Colleen Shannon Lewy (Thesis)
High-performance Input/Output Circuit for CMOS Integrated Circuit Interface, Chee How Lim (Thesis)
Oregon Survey of Initial Nursing Care for Infants with Cleft Lip ± Palate, Kirsten Joy Lindaas (Thesis)
A Comparison of Parent Interview and Direct Assessment of Receptive Language in Preschool-aged Children with Cerebral Palsy, Susan Kathleen Livick (Thesis)