This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Every Good Tree, Laurel Danielle Smith Rogers (Thesis)
The American of Japanese Heritage: Nisei (Second-Generation Japanese Americans) and Their School Education in the Pacific Northwest Before World War II, Misako Sadahiro (Thesis)
Establishing the Inundation Distance and Overtopping Height of Paleotsunami from the Late-Holocene Geologic Record at Open-Coastal Wetland Sites, Central Cascadia Margin, Robert B. Schlichting (Thesis)
A Longitudinal Assessment of Temperament in Octopus bimaculoides, David Loyd Sinn (Thesis)
The English Exile Congregation in Emden: The Marian Exile Presses and English Protestant Culture, Michael Stephen Springer (Thesis)
An Evaluation of Recidivism Rates for Resolutions Northwest's Victim-Offender Mediation Program, Karin Jewel Stone (Thesis)
The Long Road Home, Chuck Sullivan (Thesis)
Way Points, Edward McLean Test (Thesis)
Tribal constructs and kinship realities : individual and family organization on the Grand Ronde Reservation from 1856, Aeron Teverbaugh (Thesis)
Factors Influencing Middle School Teachers to Change Classroom Practice in Response to Standards-Based Reform, Gayle Yvonne Thieman (Dissertation)
Lesbian Gender Identities: An Expansion of Bern's Sex-Role Inventory, Sheilagh Van Belthowing (Thesis)
Just for Money? : An Exploratory Study Into the Motivations of Nude Dancers, Elaine Vance (Thesis)
“Where Girls Will Be Boys and Boys Will Be Girls”: The Spatial Perceptions and Place-Bound Identity of the Drag Community in Portland, Oregon, Courtney Sullivan Villegas (Thesis)
Mediator Personality Type and Perceived Conflict Goals in Workplace Mediation: A Study of Shared Neutrals, Karin Alayne Waller (Thesis)
Dialectics of Control : the Origins and Evolution of Conflict in Portland's Neighborhood Association Program, Matthew Witt (Dissertation)
Portland Dialect Study - High Rising Terminal Contours (HRTs) in Portland Speech, Rebecca A. Wolff (Thesis)
Cooking in Eden: Inventing Regional Cuisine in the Pacific Northwest, Amy Jo Woodruff (Thesis)
A Determination of Parentage, Mating System, and Genetic Diversity in a Captive Population of the Straw-Colored Fruit Bat (Eidolon helvum), Jan Zinck (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Another Look at the Portrayal of Minorities and Women in Prime-Time Television, Tellisa Amos (Thesis)
Sticks and Vines, Kimberly Jennings Bellavia (Thesis)
The Effects of Urbanization and Human Disturbance Upon Plant Community Structure and Bird Species Richness, Diversity, and Abundance in a Natural Forested Area (Forest Park) in Portland, Oregon, Nancy Ellen Broshot (Dissertation)
Alien Land Laws : The Curtailing of Japanese Agricultural Pursuits in Oregon, Amy K. Buck (Thesis)
Engineering Geology and Relative Stability of the Southern Half of Newell Creek Canyon, Oregon City, Oregon, William J. Burns (Thesis)
The Value of Independence in Old Age, Paula C. Carder (Dissertation)
Hydrogeology and Paleohydrology in the Williamson River Basin, Klamath County, Oregon, Jeffrey Scott Conaway (Thesis)
Voices of our past: the rank and file movement in social work, 1931-1950, Richard William Hunter (Dissertation)
American Indian Elderly and Long-Term Care : Interorganizational Barriers to the Use of Oregon's Home and Community-Based Medicaid Waiver, Jo Lynn Isgrigg (Dissertation)
Measurement of the Cross-Sectional Area of the Nasal Passages of Nine Species of Modern Odontoceti with Implications for Comparative Physiology and the Paleophysiology of the Dinosauria, Eric Paul Katz (Thesis)
The Universal Nature of Hatred: Keith Stimely and the Culture of Holocaust Denial, Linda Maizels (Thesis)
A Comparison of African-American and White Caregivers of Elderly With Dementia ... More Alike Than Different?, Fred C. Miller (Thesis)
The Assessment of Children with Attachment Disorder: The Randolph Attachment Disorder Questionnaire, the Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale, and the Biopsychosocial Attachment Types Framework, Alice Myrth Ogilvie (Dissertation)
The Effects of Mentoring on Work-parenting Gains and Strains in a Sample of Employed Predominately Female AFDC Recipients, Charlene Rhyne (Dissertation)
Counter Culture: The Social Construction of Beauty in a Cosmetic Department, Jodie Kollanda Ruggiero (Thesis)
Enhancements to the Scalable Coherent Interface Cache Protocol, Robert J. Safranek (Thesis)
Japan's War Memories: A Political Approach, Miyuki Sakuta (Thesis)
Virginia Woolf's Use of Microcosms in Her Novel To the Lighthouse and Her Essay "The Sun and the Fish", Linda C. Scheele (Thesis)
The Sculpture of Presence, Michael William Schmunk (Thesis)
Reproductive Biology of Melilotus Officinalis (L.) Lam (Fabaceae: Papilionoideae): Morphology, Seed/Ovule Ratios and Ovule Abortion Patterns, Susan Lee Schouten (Thesis)
Continuation-Passing Style Versus Direct Style: Choosing an Intermediate Representation For Higher-Order Applicative Languages, Paul Andrew Seale (Thesis)
The Effectiveness of an Accent Reduction Program on Foreign Speaker’s Oral English Proficiency and Understandability, Kara Elizabeth Sewell (Thesis)
Law and Order, Abuse of Power: A Study in Light and Shadow, Daniel J. Shea (Thesis)
This Cat's Meow: Individual Variation Among Domestic Cats in Maternal Response to an Unrelated Kitten, Theressa Joanne Silver (Thesis)
Chemical Communication of Estrous Cycle Status and Change in Social Behaviors With Reproductive State in Captive Female Asian Elephants, Elephas Maximus, Barbara Elaine Slade (Thesis)
Moorings, Nancy Jeanne Slavin (Thesis)
A Sociological Exploration of Schisms in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: 1830-1985, Krista Lynn Smith (Thesis)
Implementation and Performance of Error Correction Codes for High-Speed Computer Networks, Jochen Spengler (Thesis)
Harrowing Heroines and Communist Plots: Krest'ianka and Rural Policy, 1946-1949, Rachael Preiss Susman (Thesis)
How Did College of the Siskiyous Develop in a Politically Contested Climate in Siskiyou County?, Christopher Michael Tincher (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
An Approach to Exact Modeling of the PWM Switch, Anas N. Al-Rabadi (Thesis)
Passive Circuit Modeling Using IPA510, Hassan Hiwaidi Al-Sheikhly (Thesis)
High Desert Homesteader: Alice Day Pratt, A Single Woman in Post, Oregon, Cathleen Croghan Alzner (Thesis)
God, Union and Liberty: The Military as the Key Player in Costa Rica, 1820-1824, Aaron Arguedas (Thesis)
The Effectiveness of Hypermedia Training vs. Traditional Classroom Instruction in Stuttering, Micheal Dean Baran (Thesis)
The Bolinger Principle and Teaching the Gerunds and Infinitives, Anna Maria Baratta-Zborowski (Thesis)
Usability of Visual Basic for Parallel Programming on Windows NT, James Scott Barker (Thesis)
Ecology, Wilderness Selection, and the Salmonhuckleberry Roadless Area, Jason Scot Barker (Thesis)
The Effects of School-Mandated Community Service on Subsequent Intrinsic Motivation to Volunteer, Carol Berubee (Thesis)
What a saint am I! : The self-canonization of Madame Jeanne-Marie Guyon in the Quietist controversy of seventeenth-century France, Jennifer Marie Lior Blacke (Thesis)
Training for Volunteer Teachers in Church-Affiliated English Language Mission Programs, Janet Noreen Blackwood (Thesis)
Opus Caementicium: My Work in Concrete, Thomas J. Botkin (Thesis)
An Analysis of the Principal Arguments in Support of a Congressional Term Limit, Paul William Cadero-Smith (Thesis)
Patient-Guided Investigation of the Restoration of Health Following Traumatic Brain Injury, Nancy Ann Carney (Dissertation)
A Comprehensive Analysis of Teachers' Attributional Tendencies and Gender Bias Towards Failing Students with Learning Disabilities, Polly Chalette (Thesis)
The Design of Cube Calculus Machine Using Sram-Based Fpga Reconfigurable Hardware Dec’s Perle-1 Board, Qihong Chen (Thesis)
Speech Production Patterns Following Management of Velopharyngeal Inadequacy, Debra Lynn Childs (Thesis)
Portland’s Prostitution-Free Zone Ordinance : The Social Construction of Prostitution as a Social Problem, Kristin Aman Christophersen (Thesis)
The Stigma of Obesity : Beliefs About and Attitudes Toward Fat/Obese Persons, Sally Jean Clute (Thesis)
The Impact of Relative Gains on Interstate Cooperation in the Areas of Security and International Economy, Renato Corbetta (Thesis)
Enculturing Nature, William Lloyd Cornett (Thesis)
Bone Tool Technology : Measurements of Curation and the Spatial Distribution of Bone and Antler Artifacts From a Pacific Northwest Coast Plankhouse Site, Deborah Davis (Thesis)
šawaš IlI?i-šawaš wawa -- 'Indian country--Indian language' : A Participant Observation Case Study of Language Planning by the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, Gregry Michael Davis (Thesis)
Šawaš ılıˀ--šawaš wawa: A Participant Observation Case Study of Language Planning by the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, Gregry Michael Davis (Thesis)
Specification-Driven Optimization, Sheena Day (Thesis)
“Just a Drop in the Bucket” : An Analysis of Child Rescue Efforts on Behalf of Korean Children, 1951 to 1964, Sydne J. Didier (Thesis)
Intuition in the Undergraduate Nursing Curriculum: Faculty Attitudes, Practices and Preparation, Beverly Jean Epeneter (Dissertation)
The Persistence of African Religious Beliefs and Practices as Cultural Resistance to Slavery in Pre-emancipation Colonial Tobago, Okokon Okon Essiet (Thesis)
Reporting the Counterrevolution : The SED Perception of “Prague Spring” as Reported in Neues Deutschland January 1-August 21, 1968, Lee Allen Evans (Thesis)
Phonological Processing of Japanese Kanji Characters, Randy L. Evans (Thesis)
The Effects of Cohabitation on Subsequent Marital Satisfaction, Brenda Fague (Thesis)
Impact of Singing Intervention on Vocal Fatigue Effects: A Single Subject Study, Nancy Devine Ferguson (Thesis)
Speech Intelligibility of 4-Year-Old Children, M. Jane Firestone (Thesis)
It’s More Exciting Than Your Life, Jennifer L. Foster (Thesis)
Career Orientation Levels in Adolescents : A Comparison of Cleft and Noncleft Subgroups, Tara Darice Gaddis (Thesis)
Using a Realistic Job Preview to Communicate Organizational Culture, Johanna Glode (Thesis)
Divertir et Instruire Dans Les Livres Pour Enfants D’Henri Bosco, Laurence Karine Graire (Thesis)
The Antiquities Act of 1906: The Public Response to the Use of Presidential Power in Managing Public Lands, Barbara L. Grover (Thesis)
Communicating Conceptual Design of Mechatronic Systems, Muir Lee Harding (Thesis)
The Green Dyadic Formulation for Radiation Problems With Arbitrary Sources Embedded in Stratified Multi-Layer Structures : Application to Molecular Fluorescence Problems, Robert Lyle Hartman (Thesis)
Rudolf Steiner's Theory of Foreign Language Learning, Michaela Wolf Hashitani (Thesis)
High Resolution Seismic Reflection Interpretations of the Hood Canal-Discovery Bay Fault Zone, Puget Sound, Washington, Brian J. Haug (Thesis)
Soil Catenas on Glacial Moraines of the Central Oregon Cascades, Jason Erik Haugland (Thesis)
An Evaluation of a Staff Mentor Program for At-Risk Students in an Oregon High School: CAKE (Caring About Kids Effectively), Gail Lenore Hayes (Dissertation)
Technology-Enhanced Presentations in Large Classrooms : Effects on Adult Academic Achievement and Computer Attitudes, Pamela Rae Hilberg (Thesis)
Speech Parameters Affects on Social Acceptability Ratings of Adolescents With Repaired Cleft Lip And/or Palate, Sarah Telkins Hoff (Thesis)
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Physician Assistants, Roderick Stanton Hooker (Dissertation)
The Synthesis and Characterization of a Porphyrin Oligomer as a Potential Antenna for Light Harvesting Solar Cells, Tristan Timothy Jenkins (Thesis)
Abundance and Seasonal Distribution of the Marbled Murrelet in Puget Sound and Hood Canal in Fall and Winter, Richard Anthony Jensen Merizon (Thesis)
Free Trade, Regionalism, and the Democratic Peace Theory, Julia B. Johnson (Thesis)
Role of the Warrant in Presidential Debates : 1960, 1976, & 1996, Aaron Nicole Kaio (Thesis)
Xanthones as Antimalarial Agents: Binding Interactions Between Heme Analogues and Xanthones, Jane Xu Kelly (Thesis)