This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Combining the Historical and the Personal in Painting, Christopher A. Shotola-Hardt (Thesis)
The Role of the Hepatic Vagus in the Pathogenesis of Fever, Christopher Todd Simons (Thesis)
Efficient Implementation of Image Compression-Postprocessing Algorithm Using a Digital Signal Processor, Nadir Sinaceur (Thesis)
Preternatural Rhythm: A Vernacular Application of the Systemic Grid With Respect to the Influence of Organic Processes, Mark Richardson Smith (Thesis)
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)
Limitations of Methods for Determining the Position of The Center of Mass of a Human Subject Performing a Sit-up, Terrence Chadwick Smith (Thesis)
Comparison of Cardiovascular Disease Risk In Japanese Natives and Japanese Americans, Mayumi Takeda (Thesis)
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)
The Emergence of an Icon: The Frida Kahlo Cult, Teresa Neva Tate (Thesis)
The Reemergence of Kantian Ethics: Have We Adequately Responded to Hegel's Objections?, Gwen C. Thompson (Thesis)
Age Related Changes in the Activity and the Responsiveness of the Renin-angiotensin System in the 15 Month Old Rat, MIchele McKee Thompson (Thesis)
Habitats, Sydney Jean Thompson (Thesis)
Ethnography of Communication as on Organizational Communication Assessment Tool: A Test of the Method, Francisca Inez Trujillo-Dalbey (Thesis)
Teaching Phonetic-ideograph Rules to English Speaking Students of Chinese, Jillian Ji-fen Tsai (Thesis)
Ornamental Nationalism: Indigenous Images in Porfirian Mexico, 1876-1911, Seonaid Valiant (Thesis)
Achieving Cochannel Interference Objectives Over Selected Topologies in the Portland, Oregon Cellular Network, David A. Wand (Thesis)
Gangstas, Niggas, Bitches and Hos : A Narrative Analysis of Gangsta’ Rap Lyrics, Darnell A. Watson (Thesis)
The Importance of Time for Processing in Second Language Comprehension and Acquisition, Jennifer Lee Watson (Thesis)
Post-middle Miocene Geologic History of the Tualatin Basin, Oregon with Hydrogeologic Implications, Doyle Coley Wilson (Dissertation)
Unwilling Accents : Reading Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Julian and Maddalo, Melody Ann Wilson (Thesis)
Numerical Simulation of Contaminated Sediment Transport in the Upper Columbia Slough System, Binghong Wu (Thesis)
Urban Traffic Arterials and the Sale Price of Single Family Houses in Portland: A Hedonic Analysis of Impacts, Philip Wuest (Thesis)
The Relationship Between Self-Monitoring and Organizational Training Effectiveness and Satisfaction, Joanna Wulbert (Thesis)
Investigation of Transactivation of the Human C-Myc Gene by Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1, Xian Wu (Thesis)
The Interaction of Naphthoquinones With the Calcium Release Channel of Skeletal Muscle Sarcoplasmic Reticulum, Ruohong Xia (Thesis)
ERP Analysis Using Matched Filtering, Correlation Coefficient and Mann-Whitney Test, Yun Yan (Thesis)
Sexual Intercourse : A Feminist Reading of Strip Joint Discourse, Regina Marie Howard Yaroch (Thesis)
The Effects of Parental Involvement, Structure, and Autonomy Support on Children’s Help-Seeking and Problem-Solving Coping in School, Ronald Wayne Yoder (Thesis)
Measure 9: Oregon’s 1992 Anti-Gay Initiative, Patricia Jean Young (Thesis)
Expected and Existing Competencies of External Industry Trainers in the Human Resource Development Field, Julia M. Zachmann (Thesis)
The Poetics of John Keats in “The Fall of Hyperion, a Dream”, Amy A. Zenger (Thesis)
Routing, Driven Placement for ATMEL 6000 Architecture FPGAs, Songhua Zhang (Thesis)
Syntheses and Characterizations of Unsymmetrical Porphyrins as Photosensitizers for a Solid-State Solar Cell, Yinping Zhao (Thesis)
Purification and Characterization of Catalase From Enterococcus Faecalis, Zhenghong Zhu (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Children with Early Language Delay: A Group Case Study of Outcomes in Intermediate Grades, Tracey Abild-Lane (Thesis)
Using a Computer Program about Pediatric Hearing Evaluations to help Educate Parents, Jeanne E. Aleskus (Thesis)
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)
Hedonic Analysis of Housing Prices Near the Portland Urban Growth Boundary, 1978-1990, Abdullah Alkadi (Dissertation)
Alpine Soil Geomorphology: The Development and Characterization of Soil in the Alpine-Subalpine Zone of the Wallowa Mountains, Oregon, Charles Edward Allen (Thesis)
Where the Extreme Right Took Root: A Comparison of Midwestern Counties in the 1980s, Joseph B. Allen (Thesis)
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)
Understanding Ki in the Daily Experience of Advanced Practitioners of Aikido: A Phenomenological Study, Steven C. Andress (Thesis)
Chemical Communication in House Mice (Mus musculus): Can They Recognize Gender from the Anogenital, Harderian Gland or Mouth/Nose Odor?, Dawn Michele Andrews (Thesis)
Humor Recognition: A Comparative Analysis, William T. Argent (Thesis)
Examining the Relationship between Three Speech Features and Intelligibility Ratings of Black English Preschoolers as Judged by Standard English Listeners, Britteny Sue Asher (Thesis)
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)
The Role and Perception of Risk in High-risk Sports Participants: A Grounded Theory Study of Rock Climbers, Ronald E. Baglien (Thesis)
Needed Narrowing as the Computational Strategy of Evaluable Functions in an Extension of Goedel, Bobbi J. Barry (Thesis)
Oregon's Carry Concealed Weapon Laws: A Historical Review of the Right to Personal Protection, Richard Meek Bash (Thesis)
Intervention History of Children with Slow Expressive Language Development, Kathleen Belfiore (Thesis)
La Perspectiva Indigenista y Neoindifenista de Huasipungo y Porque se Fueron las Garzas, Laura Bergman (Thesis)
The Constraints of a Typological Implicational Universal for Interrogatives on Second Language Acquisition, Dee Anne Bess (Thesis)
A Policy-Independent Secure X Server, Kirk Joseph Bittler (Thesis)
Characteristics of Administrators' Leadership Style in Quality Child Care Centers, Katherine Ann Bobula (Dissertation)
An Analysis of Spondee Recognition Thresholds in Auditory-only and Audio-visual Conditions, Brenene Marie Brady-Herbst (Thesis)
Anticlerical Sentiment in Castilian and Galician-Portuguese Medieval Literature, Kathryn L. Brooks (Thesis)
Mechanisms of pentachlorophenol induced charge transport in lipid membranes, William Charles Brown (Dissertation)
Layout Synthesis for Datapath Designs, Naveen Buddi (Thesis)
Liang Qichao, Hu Shi, and Democracy in China, Leslie Ann Burgoine (Thesis)
Family Coping and Adaptation to Traumatic Brain Injury, Richard Francis Burton (Thesis)
Positive Illusions and Winter Depression: Do Illusions Go the Way of the Summer Sun?, Shannon M. Carey (Thesis)
Influence of Articulation and Phonology Intervention on Children's Social and Emotional Characteristics, Tracy Lynn Carlisle (Thesis)
Design of a Second-order Filter Using the gm-C Technique, Girish Chandrasekaran (Thesis)
An Empirical Study on the Jump-diffusion Two-beta Asset Pricing Model, Hongqing Chen (Dissertation)
Creating Collaborative Learning Environments: A Curriculum Proposal for Instructors, Carol Rae Chislett (Thesis)
Wandering Man, Sean R. Cowne (Thesis)
Les passions d'Annie Ernaux : de la biographie a l'âecriture, Nathalie Cox (Thesis)
No Boat, No Bridge, Gregory K. Coyle (Thesis)
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)
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)
The Flor Metaphor of Pre-Conquest Nahuatl Literature, Victoria Louise Defferding (Thesis)
Determinants and Impacts of Demand-side Management Program Investment of Electric Utilities, Philipp Degens (Dissertation)
Efficient Buffer Allocation Scheme for Bursty Traffic in ATM Networks using Fast Reservation Protocol, Nikhil Mukund Deshpande (Thesis)
Beach Response to Subsidence Following a Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake Along the Washington-Oregon Coast, Debra Lee Doyle (Thesis)
A Comparison of Speech Intelligibility Measures Between Unsophisticated Listener Judgements and Orthographic Transcription, Carla J. Dukart (Thesis)
Creating Knowledge about the Literacy Needs of Juvenile Offenders: Reflections on a Qualitative Research Project, Regina Nadia Eastman (Thesis)
Contention-free Scheduling of Communication Induced by Array Operations on 2D Meshes, Andreas Bernhard Georg Eberhart (Thesis)
An Assessment of the Needs of International Students for Student Services at Southern Oregon State College, Molly K. Emmons (Thesis)
A Preliminary Comparison of Two ESL School Models for Newcomer Students, Elizabeth Carol Essex (Thesis)
Scenery as Policy: Public Involvement in Developing a Management Plan for the Scenic Resources of the Columbia River Gorge, Gordon Mathews Euler (Dissertation)
James Baldwin's Search for a Homosexual Identity in his Novels, Nadia Abdel Fattah (Thesis)
The Genetic Algorithm and Maximum Entropy Dice, Laura Suzanne Fellman (Thesis)
The relationship between a pre-departure training program and its participants' intercultural communication competence, Daniel Timothy Ferguson (Thesis)
Subject/Matter, Gilles J. L. Foisy (Thesis)
Effects of Posttraining Maintenance Sessions on Aphasic Subjects' Verbal Labeling, Connie Allene Freed (Thesis)
Student Perceptions of Riots and Boycotts in Secondary Schools in Kenya's Kirinyaga District, Margaret Wangeci Gatimu (Dissertation)
Investigating Vowel Duration as a Perceptual Cue to Voicing in the English of Native Spanish Speakers, Becky Jean George (Thesis)
Factors Occurring in Youth Suicide Behavior in Oregon, Kathy Goss (Dissertation)
The Leadership of African American Women Constructing Realities, Shifting Paradigms, Gloria Murphy Gostnell (Dissertation)
Adaptive Color Correlation of Knots in Wood Images and Weighted-value Product Selection Methods in a Machine Vision System, John Robert Goulding (Thesis)
An Examination of Factors Influencing Self Versus Supervisory Referrals to an Employee Assistance Program, Jeffrey M. Gray (Thesis)
Distribution of R-Banded Chromosome Variants in a Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops Truncatus) Population, Kristine Anne Gunter (Thesis)
Songs and Stories that Only You Know: Multiplicity, Meaning, & the Metaphorical Bridge, Matthew Haggett (Thesis)
Speech Understanding in Noise as a Function of Microphone Placement in Hearing Aids, Erin Marlene Flowers Hand (Thesis)
An Exploratory Evaluation of Language and Culture Contact by Japanese Sojourners in a Short-term US Academic Program, Elizabeth Anna Hartley (Thesis)
A Semiquantitative Analysis of PCB and P,P-DDE Residues in Stranded Marine Mammals Using High Performance Liquid Chromatography, David Lawrence Hayteas (Dissertation)
Value Measurement for New Product Category: a Conjoint Approach to Eliciting Value Structure, Roland Helmut Heger (Dissertation)
Distribution Coefficients of Ionized and Un-ionized Halogenated Phenols in an Octanol-water System and their Relationship to Molecular Structure, Sven Hensler (Thesis)
A Study of the Narrative Skills of 7-Year Olds with Normal, Impaired, and Late Developing Language, Rita F. Hernandez (Thesis)