This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1997
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 Ferré'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)
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)
Groundwater Recharge of the Middle Deschutes Basin, Oregon, Thomas Gene Boyd (Thesis)
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)