This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1997
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)
Grandmothers Laughing: Intergenerational Transmission of Cultural Beliefs About Pregnancy and Childbirth Among Native American Women, Claudia Robin Long (Dissertation)
Le "devenir féminin" dans la sociéte moderne occidentale à travers les deux romans de Virginie Despentes, Nadia Louar (Thesis)
A Telescopic Approach to Modeling Leachate Dynamics and Migration at the St. Johns Landfill, Portland, Oregon, Thomas Stephen Lowry (Thesis)
The Influence of Cathar Philosophy, Thought and Everyday Life on the Works of Selected Troubadour Poets, Marilyn Ann Lucas (Thesis)
Teaching Culture in German: Standards, Perspectives, Resources, Alexander Lukanich (Thesis)
Ovarian Steroid Regulation of Tryptophan Hydroxylase Enzyme Level in the Midbrain Raphe in Ovariectomized Guinea Pigs, Zhidong Lu (Thesis)
A Lay Theory of Relational Satisfaction with Best Friends in Japan, Eriko Maeda (Thesis)
The Column Multiplicity Problem in Decomposition of Functions and Relations, Rahul Malvi (Thesis)
Enter-Action, Pencils, NanDei McAnally (Thesis)
Effects of Orofacial Clefts on Early Career Maturity, JeannieKay McCall (Thesis)
Rethinking Appropriateness: A look at Hegemonic Ideals as Related to Perceived Communication Competence In Women, Kristi L. Meade (Thesis)
GIS Applications to Glaciology: Construction of the Mount Rainier Glacier Database, Jeremy Laurence Mennis (Thesis)
Lincoln C. Andrews and the Enforcement of National Prohibition, 1925 to 1927, Philip Earle Metcalfe (Thesis)
Spiritual Nourishment: A Central Christian Metaphor, Susan Sleeth Mosedale (Thesis)
Comparison of Intelligibility Estimation and Orthographic Transcription Methods by Preprofessional Speech-Language Pathologists, Kristi M. Mowe (Thesis)
Developing a Language in Education Policy for Post-apartheid South Africa: A Case Study, Nancy Murray (Thesis)
Satellite remote sensing for measuring the urban forest of Portland, Oregon, A. Paul Newman (Thesis)
Effects of Lifestyle Change and Satisfaction with Voice on Psychosocial Adjustment of Laryngectomees, Susan M. Nicks (Thesis)
Video Self-Monitoring as an Alternative to Traditional Methods of Pronunciation Instruction, P. C. Noble (Thesis)
Drug Testing and Oregon Workers : Is Perceived Fairness of Corporate Drug Testing Moderated by Drug Use?, Leslie James Normandy (Thesis)
Ethnic Conflict in Southern Kyrgyzstan, Jennifer Jane O'Donnell (Thesis)
Robert Francis Kelley and the Eastern European Division of the State Department: 1917-1933, Agnes Eileen Olsen (Thesis)
Student Outcomes, Educational Technology, And Assessment In Large Classrooms: Effects On Planned Behavior, Tanya Leigh Ostrogorsky (Thesis)
The Generalization of Stridency from Treated to Untreated Misarticulated Phonemes, Kathleen Ann Ozanich (Thesis)
Training Strategies for Critic and Action Neural Networks in Dual Heuristic Programming Method, Christian Peter Paintz (Thesis)
Receptive Language and Cognitive Skills in Preschool-Aged Children with Cerebral Palsy, Susan Elizabeth Panton (Thesis)
Analysis of Rhetorical Organization and Style Patterns in Korean and American Business Fax Letters of Complaint in English, Mi Young Park (Thesis)
The Redemptive Role of Chivalry in Old French Arthurian Romance (12th and 13th Centuries), Nora Jane Peacock (Thesis)
The Adjunct Model of Content-based Instruction: A Comparative Study in Higher Education in Oregon, Georgann Sue Percival (Thesis)
Ethnic and Language Identity Among a Select Group of Vietnamese-Americans in Portland Oregon, Jay Owen Peterson (Thesis)
A Multi-Method Inquiry Into Managerial Coaching, Deborah J. Petricek (Thesis)
The Female Identity in Rosario Ferrâe’s Papeles de Pandora, Marcie Lynn Pratt (Thesis)
The Controversy Over the Portland Public Schools' African-American Baseline Essays, 1983-1992, Thomas Damian Rand-Luby (Thesis)
Promotion of Verbal Interaction through Structured Pair Activities, Vidya Rangachari (Thesis)
The Persistence of Elites and the Legacy of I.G. Farben, A.G., Robert Arthur Reinert (Thesis)
"Qui Vauroit Bon Vers Oïr": Voice, Text, and Social Insight in Aucassin et Nicolette, Lonnie Tristan Renteria (Thesis)
Real Ear to Coupler Differences in Children and The Effects of Hearing and Microphone Location, Cindy Richardson (Thesis)
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)
Orwellian Socialism and the Myth of the Working Class, Malcolm P. Ringo IV (Thesis)
Voice Measures and Listener Acceptance of Tracheoesophageal Speech, Heidii Ilona Roberts (Thesis)
The Impact of Theories of Dialogic Epistemology on Composition Theory and Pedagogy, Kandy Sue Robertson (Thesis)
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)
"Sin decidirlo me volví distinta": Gender, Deception and Development in Angeles Mastretta's Arráncame la vida, Luisa Samaniego (Thesis)
A Comparison of Listener and Speaker Perception of Stuttering Events, Anne Jocelyn Schagen (Thesis)
The First Publicly Funded, Government Sponsored Natural Medicine Clinic : A Descriptive Case Study, Jennifer Lynne Schneider (Thesis)
Law Enforcement Attitudes toward the 1989 Oregon Firearms Law and Gun Control, Andrew Schneiderman (Thesis)
Evaluating Modernization and Dependency Explanations of the Unequal Distribution of Income in Developing Countries, Paul Timothy Shattuck (Thesis)