This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2004
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)
Risk Factors for Pre-Post Monsoon Cholera Epidemics in Bangladesh from 1992-1994, Rhonda Rae Robb (Thesis)
Woodland Amphibian Distribution in Parks and Greenspaces of the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area: A Multiple Scale Investigation, Laura A. Roberts (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)
Taking Root in the Silicon Forest: The Role of High Technology Firms as Surrogate Universities in Portland, Oregon, Heike Mayer (Dissertation)
Infrastructure For Performance Tuning MPI Applications, Kathryn Marie Mohror (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)
Enrichments and Isolations of Mesophilic and Thermophilic Iron-Reducing Microbes From Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents and the Deep Subsurface, Melissa Mary Kendall (Thesis)
Tolerance, Performance, and Aerobic Metabolism of Redband Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss ssp.) During Acute Exposure to Elevated Temperature, Karen Reed Lizars (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)
The Other Side of the Tracks: The Archaeology and History of a Virginia City, Nevada Neighborhood, Julie Marie Schablitsky (Dissertation)
The Resurrection of a River: The Umatilla and its Salmon, Christopher Ward Shelley (Thesis)
Gay Bars, Vice, and Reform in Portland, 1948-1965, Beka Smith (Thesis)
Identifying and Building on Strengths of Children With Serious Emotional Disturbances, Michael Orval Taylor (Dissertation)
A Qualitative Analysis for Sex Determination in Humans Utilizing Posterior and Medial Aspects of the Distal Humerus, Veronica L. Wanek (Thesis)
Interactions of Titanium With Hydrogen Isotopes, Jon S. Warner (Dissertation)
Multiple Convergence: Induced Travel Analysis in Metropolitan Areas, Jihong Zhang (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Water Rights as Contested Terrain: The Case of Tenmile Creek, Oregon, Marcie L. Allen (Thesis)
Everything Else is Real, Jay Ashkinos (Thesis)
Reading Techniques Employed by Mothers vs. Fathers During Storybook Reading Events With Their Child, Kameron Brief Beaulieu (Thesis)
The Growing Quiet on the Evening Train: Poems, Bill Bogart (Thesis)
Who's in the Pew? A Study of Religious Disengagement Among Young Adults, Jodi Brekhus (Thesis)
Factors Influencing Oviposition Among Pond-Breeding Amphibians: Exotic Vegetation, Oviposition Braces, and Cover, Catherine Mary Callison (Thesis)
Heartbeat and Other Stories, Amy Carmickle (Thesis)
Ecological Observations of Juvenile Head-Started Western Pond Turtles (Clemmys Marmorata Marmorata) in Their First Season in the Wild, Steven Lee Clark (Thesis)
Low-Income Homeownership in Portland's Albina Community: A Comparative Analysis of Housing Quality in Market-Rate and Subsidized Houses, Carolyn Emily Collopy (Thesis)
Boundary Waters, Michael Evan Cowger (Thesis)
Seventeen Days in the Cat Bird Seat, Meggin Crom (Thesis)
Traditional and Non-Traditional Dispute Settlement in the Federated States of Micronesia, Kris Tina Yurgin Cummings (Thesis)
Avian and Mammalian Use of Three Small Urban Wetlands Invaded by a Pest Species, Reed Canarygrass (Phalaris Arundinacea L.), Laurie Dizney (Thesis)
Four Square, James Raymond Echtle (Thesis)
Breadcrumbs: New and Selected Poems, Jonathan Kirk Ellis (Thesis)
Eyes of the Mirror, Margaret Jane Emerson (Thesis)
The Nature of Selection in a Cohort of Sixth Graders: Homogeneity of Children’s Friends and Peer Groups With Regard to School Motivation, Tanya L. Fantaski (Thesis)
Snags in Beaver Ponds and Indications of Use by Primary Cavity-Nesting Birds in the Western Oregon Cascades, Jacqueline I. Fern (Thesis)
An Analysis of the Changing Forces Behind Health Insurance Coverage of Homebirth, Christina Anne Gasbarro (Thesis)
An Analysis of Sex Trafficking in the Asian Region in an Era of Globalization, Corie J. Hammers (Thesis)
Hitting the Line Hard : the Height of the Social Hygiene Movement in Oregon, 1911-1918, Jodi Hammond (Thesis)
Towards Comparative Profiling of Parallel Applications with PPerfDB, Christian Leland Hansen (Thesis)
Special Focus Programs, Magnet Programs and Schools, and Early Childhood Education Centers: Equal Access in Portland Public School's Elementary Options, Nancy Seidule Hauth (Thesis)
Clerical Catechism in Gonzalo de Berceo’s Milagros de Nuestra Señora, Andrea L. Hesp (Thesis)
A Search for Peace, Kami Horton (Thesis)
Trends in Women's Sex-Role Attitudes Concerning Work and Familial Roles, 1977-1996, Andria F. Howell (Thesis)
The Impact of Fine Sediment on Stream Macroinvertebrates in Urban and Rural Oregon Streams, Raymond S. Hoy (Thesis)
An Evaluation of Families and Service Providers Participating in Participatory Action Research Related to Self-Determination in Young Children With Disabilities, Kristen L. Kozlowski (Thesis)
The Neoglacial History of Mt. Thielsen, Southern Oregon Cascades, Martin Dietrich Lafrenz (Thesis)
A Dissertation on African American Male Youth Violence: "Trying to Kill the Part of You that Isn’t Loved", Joy DeGruy Leary (Dissertation)