This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1997
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)
Effects of the Cardioprotective Drugs Dexrazoxane and ADR-925 on Doxorubicin Induced Ca2+-Release from the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum, Thomas Andreas Herzinger (Thesis)
The Japanese Approach to the End of the Pacific War, Atsuo Hirano (Thesis)
A PROLOG Lexical Phrase Computer Assisted Language Learning Module, Yuji Gene Hirayama (Thesis)
The Industrial Workers of the World and the Oregon Packing Company Strike of July 1913, Adam J. Hodges (Thesis)
An Organizational Profile: Members' Understanding of Discrimination, Debra Cay Hornibrook (Thesis)
Oregon Territorial Governor John Pollard Gaines: A Whig Appointee in a Democratic Territory, Katherine Louise Huit (Thesis)
Correlation of the Upper Ellensburg Formation with the Old Scab Mountain Eruptive Center, East-Central Cascade Range, Washington, Christopher Charles Humphrey (Thesis)
Analysis and Optimization of a Banyan Based ATM Switch by Simulations, Syed Sohel Hussain (Thesis)
Impact of the Medical Library Assistance Act of 1965 on Health Sciences Libraries in the Pacific Northwest: an Interorganizational Approach, Leonoor Swets Ingraham (Dissertation)
Abstract Index Interfaces, Muralidharan Janakiraman (Thesis)
Effective and Appropriate Use of Controlled Experimentation in Software Development Research, Mark Alan Johnson (Thesis)
Gender Differences in the Language Development of Late-talking Toddlers at Age 3, Nancy Ann Johnson (Thesis)
The Relationships among Coping, Control, and Adjustment to Cancer, Sharon Ann Johnson (Thesis)
Temperament Differences in Children with a History of Slow Expressive Language Development and Their Peers with Normal Language Development, Beth Ann Jones (Thesis)
Correction of Classroom Oral Errors: Preferences among University Students of English in Japan, Akemi Katayama (Thesis)
Temperament and Language Development in First Grade Children, Loretta Marcia Kellogg (Thesis)
Comparison of Two Phonological Treatment Procedures for a Child with Phonological Deviations, Katherine Vaughan Kemper (Thesis)
Organizational Responses to Educational Telecommunications Policy in Three States: Oregon, Colorado, and Utah, Kathi Arlene Ketcheson (Dissertation)
Evaluating the Effects of a Peer Training System on the Subsequent Performance of New Employees, Dariush Khaleghi (Thesis)
Equalization of a Non-linear Phase of a Low-pass Filter, Rabih Khodor (Thesis)
Study Abroad and Self-perceptions of Cross-Cultural Adaptability, Heidi C. King (Thesis)
A Comparative Study of Perceptions of High School Department Chairs and High School Teachers on the Role of the High School Academic Department Chair: the Voice of the Teacher-department Chair, Rachel Mae Korach (Dissertation)
A Comparative Study of Perceptions of Superintendents, High School Principals, and High School Department Chairs on the Role of the High School Academic Department Chair: the Voice of the Administrator, William Anthony Korach (Thesis)
Counting Vessels, M. Siri Amrit Kroesen (Thesis)
President Abelardo Rodriguez (1932-34): From Maximato to Cardenismo, Barbara Allen Kuzio (Thesis)
La Relevancia de la Competencia Lexico-cultural del Lector en La Casa de los Espiritus: Desde un Acercamiento Hermeneutico, Gregory D. Lagos-Montoya (Thesis)
Temporal Characteristics of Words Surrounding a Moment of Stuttering in Preschool-age Children, Gregory Keith Lilly (Thesis)
Demodulation of Narrowband Radio Frequency Signals by Aliasing Sampling, Chun-Ching Lin (Thesis)
Violent Youth Gangs in Portland: a Study of the City's Response, Debra Lynn Lindberg (Dissertation)
Administrative Reform in China: Its Impact on Economic Development After Mao, Meiru Liu (Closed Dissertation)
Neorealism and Environmental Cooperation: Towards a Structural Explanation of International Environmental Matters, Anthony David Lott (Thesis)
Heme Proton Resonance Assignments and Kinetics Study in High-spin and Mixed-spin Metmyoglobin Complexes by Chemical Exchange NMR Spectroscopy, Ying Luo (Thesis)