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Theses/Dissertations from 1996

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Fairy Tales and Children, Cornelia Marianne Seigneur (Thesis)

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Circuit Implementation of a High-speed Continuous-time Current-mode Field Programmable Analog Array (FPAA), Osama K. Shana'a (Thesis)

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Compiling Evaluable Functions in the Gödel Programming Language, David Shapiro (Thesis)

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Oregon's Oil: A Geographic View of Petroleum Distribution and Associated Risks, Paul M. Slyman (Thesis)

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Social Stratification within a Protohistoric Plankhouse of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Use-wear and Spatial Distribution Analysis of Chipped Lithic Artifacts, Cameron McPherson Smith (Thesis)

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Dramatic Conflict and Historical Reality in Carl Zuckmayer's Hauptmann von Kopenick, Craig O. Smith (Thesis)

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Relationship of Marital Types and Conflict Styles, Lynn Marie Stanek (Thesis)

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The Multiple Pool Migrating Worker Paradigm : A Distributed System Framework and Model, Cynthia Ann Stanley (Thesis)

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Jitter and Wander Reduction for a SONET DS3 Desynchronizer Using Predictive Fuzzy Control, Kevin Blythe Stanton (Dissertation)

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Ottilie: Expression of the Ideal of Romantic Childlikeness in Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften, Melodie Joy Steele (Thesis)

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Undergraduate Student Satisfaction with the Sociology Program at Portland State University, Katherine Sullivan (Thesis)

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Captive Environmental Influences on Behavior in Zoo Drills and Mandrills (Mandrillus), a Threatened Genus of Primate, Erik Terdal (Dissertation)

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A Cross-cultural Study of the Speech Act of Refusing in English and German, Charla Margaret Teufel (Thesis)

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"With a View Toward Their Civilization": Women and the Work of Indian Reform, Terri Christian Theisen (Thesis)

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The use of Hydrochemistry to Identify Potential Processes Operating in the Saddle Mountains Basalt Aquifer and the use of the Nitrate-nitrogen Isotope to Distinguish between Potential Sources of Nitrate to the Shallow Alluvial Aquifer in the Lower Umatilla Basin, Oregon, Margot Truini (Thesis)

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Justice Delayed: A Sixty Year Battle for Indian Fishing Sites, Roberta Ulrich (Thesis)

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Connection, Service and Community: an Examination of Factors that Contribute to Student and Staff Success, Robert Vieira (Dissertation)

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Understanding Pre-service Teachers' Conceptualizations of Diversity, Terrine Louise Borwn Vogt (Thesis)

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The Demographics, Motivations, and Role Conceptions of Student Nurses, Steven C. Von Flue (Thesis)

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A Pilot Study: Normative Data on the Intelligibility of 3 1/2 Year Old Children, Karen Mary Ware (Thesis)

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The Effectiveness of a Self-directed Inservice Program to Educate Teachers about the Classroom Needs of Students with Hearing Impairment, Teresa Michelle Whiteley (Thesis)

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An Integrated Approach to Theories of Loss and Adaptation to Disability, Marjorie Anne White (Thesis)

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Adolescents and Sex on the Soaps: A Content Analysis, Jenelle Gay Winter (Thesis)

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Distribution of Ionized and Neutral Halogenated Phenols in an Octanol-water Membrane Model System, Robert Word (Thesis)

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Nonlinearities in the Base Emitter Junction of Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors, Oliver Woywode (Thesis)

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Government Policy and Private Organizational Forms: Analysis of Refuse Collection and Disposal in Three Metropolitan Cities, Thomas Wright (Dissertation)

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NMR Study of Neurophysin Dimer Dissociation by Cosolvents, Jian Yao (Thesis)

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Some Possible Sources of Oral Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) among Japanese Students in the United States, Sawako Yoshikawa (Thesis)

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The Development and Evaluation of Aggregation Methods for Group Pairwise Comparison Judgments, Sida Zhou (Dissertation)

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Alexander VI: Renaissance Pope, Jonathan P. Zorich (Thesis)

Theses/Dissertations from 1995

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The Parser Converter Loader: An Implementation of the Computational Chemistry Output Language (CCOL), Donald Randall Abel (Thesis)

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Analysis of Intermodulation Distortion for MESFET Small-signal Amplifiers, Imad Saleh Ahmad (Thesis)

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Effects of Oral and Silent Reading on the Reading Comprehension Performance of Left Hemisphere-damaged Individuals, Paul K. Akers (Thesis)

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The Distribution of Naturally Occurring Soil Radionuclides and Radon Potential of Northwest Oregon, Stuart Graham Ashbaugh (Thesis)

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Shoot Structure of Boschniakia hookeri Walpers (Orobanchaceae), John Leland Babur (Thesis)

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Validity and Efficiency of the Check-Slash Transcription Method for Measuring Intelligibility, Vicky Jo Bacon (Thesis)

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Phytoplankton in Mt. St. Helens Lakes, Washington, Cynthia Fay Baker (Thesis)

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Methods of Language Assessment: A Survey of Oregon Public School Speech-language Pathologists, Staci Lee Johnson Ball (Thesis)

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Geochemistry of the Boring Lava along the West Side of the Tualatin Mountains and of Sediments from Drill Holes in the Portland and Tualatin Basins, Portland, Oregon, Michelle Lynn Barnes (Thesis)

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Perceived Fairness of a Child-care Subsidy in a Temporary Agency: An Equity Theory Approach, Pamela Bermudez (Thesis)

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Botanical Variations, Anthony Bernert (Thesis)

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A Comparison of High School Student and Adult Expectations of Leader Behavior, Charles Edward Beyer (Thesis)

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The Predictive Validity of the Admission Criteria for the Counselor Education Program at Portland State University, Malachy Liam Bishop (Thesis)

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A Hydrologic Analysis of Government Island, Oregon, Scott Gregory Bittinger (Thesis)

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Through Women's Eyes: Contemporary Women's Fiction about the Old West, Anna Margarete Boettcher (Thesis)

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Renal Responses to Differential Rates of Blood Volume Expansion in the Toad, Bufo marinus, Mark Edward Bolke (Thesis)

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Der 35. Mai -- Ein Sozialkritisches Erwachsenenbuch für Kinder, Thomas Bosch (Thesis)

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Gaining State Response on Global Environmental Problem-Solving: Developing A State-centric Approach, Heather MacGregor Bothwell (Thesis)

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Synthesis and Characterization of a Porphyrin Dyad, Dale A. Braden (Thesis)

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A Comparative Study of the Flathead, Cayuse and Nez Perce Tribes in Reference to the Pattern of Acceptance and Rejection to the Missionaries in the Mid-nineteenth Century, Mary Kathleen Branson (Thesis)

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The Interaction between a Thiol Specific Probe (OPA) and the Single Channel Characteristics of the Reconstituted Ca++ Release Protein from Skeletal Muscle Sarcoplasmic Reticulum, Alexander Braun (Thesis)

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Application of a Geographical Information System to Estimate the Magnitude and Frequency of Floods in the Sandy and Clackamas River Basins, Oregon, Dorie Lynn Brownell (Thesis)

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Reliability and Validity of Pedometers in a Free-living Environment, Ernest Leroy Brown (Thesis)

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Effect of Ototoxic Drugs on the Amphibian Auditory System: Injection of Gentamicin Sulfate into Anuran Otic Capsules and Recovery of Thresholds, Michael Patrick Brown (Thesis)

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Student Attitudes Toward Word Processing and Writing in the English as a Second or Other Language Classroom, Greg Lynn Buchan (Thesis)

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Authorizing the Reader: Narrative Construction in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs and Willa Cather's My Ántonia, Cheri Buck-Perry (Thesis)

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The Effect of the Ideology of Motherhood on Women, Shari A. Burke (Thesis)

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The Effects of a Realistic Job Preview on an Applicant's Ability to Self-select into Organizations, Melissa Lynn Burton (Thesis)

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Economic Development and Income Inequality: The Taiwan Case, Ju-kuang Chang (Thesis)

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Equivalent Relationship of Function-level Representation and Implementation of Unified Indexing of FFT Algorithms, Nee-Hua Cho (Thesis)

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Spiritual Health: Association for the Advancement of Health Education Instructors' Attitudes, Practices and Training, Susanne Meyer Christopher (Dissertation)

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Liberalism, Community, and the Context of Choice, Marta R. Colburn (Thesis)

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The Effectiveness of the Phonological Cycling Approach in Treating an Unintelligible Child in the First Two Cycles of Intervention, Anne Cole (Thesis)

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Redefining the Suburban Ideal: An Analysis of Single-family Residential Densities in Washington County, Oregon, David Morgan Coughlan (Thesis)

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Dance of Dreams, Michael Creger (Thesis)

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A Study Comparing Musical Abilities of Stutterers and Nonstutterers, Megan Creswell (Thesis)

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The Role of Pulmocutaneous Baroreceptors in the Control of Lymphatic Heart Rate in the Toad Bufo Marinus, Dane Alan Crossley II (Thesis)

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Improved Finite Analytic Methods for Solving Advection-dominated Transport Equation in Highly Variable Velocity Field, Wei Cuifeng (Thesis)

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In Search of Roots: A Study of Camus' Autobiographical Le Premier Homme, Judy Ann Davis (Thesis)

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A Correlational Study: the 1-Minute Measure of Homonymy and Intelligibility, Tamra Leanne Day (Thesis)

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Bridging the Generation Gap in the Works of Gabrielle Roy, Camille G. Dean (Thesis)

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Pretrial Release in Criminal Courts: a Study of Three Oregon Counties, Melvin Earl DeGraw (Dissertation)

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Return to Unity: The Philosophy of Lo Ch'in-shun, Paul E. Devore (Thesis)

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Being an Assistant Principal, Becoming an Administrator: an Organizational Socialization Study, Connie Dickman (Dissertation)

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Medieval Christocentric Imagery in Selected Novels by Georges Bernanos, Catherine Ann Elia (Thesis)

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Design of a Digital Compensation Filter, Nader Fakhry (Thesis)

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Dialogue and Critical Thinking in Personal Action, Amanda Elizabeth Feller (Thesis)

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An Examination of the English Vocabulary Knowledge of Adult English-for-Academic-Purposes Students: Correlation with English Second-Language Proficiency and the Validity of Yes/No Vocabulary Tests, Robert Scott Fetter (Thesis)

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An Analysis of Oregon Department of Transportation Planned Highway Construction Projects for Selected Years from 1978 to 1992, Glen A. Fleming (Thesis)

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English in the Workplace: Case Study of a Pilot Program, Kim Roth Franklin (Thesis)

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People on the Edges of Dreams, Francesca B. French (Thesis)

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Institutionalized Discrimination: Three Cases in the United States Military, Sarah H. Frost (Thesis)

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Selling the Body: Representing the Prostitute in Maggie and Sister Carrie, Debra Zoe Gahlhoff (Thesis)

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Sustainable Development in the Third World: A New Paradigm?, Terry A. Gentry (Thesis)

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Effects of Receptive Language Deficits on Persisting Expressive Language Delays, Traci Lee Giacherro (Thesis)

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Limiting Noise Exposure Associated with Hearing Aid Use, Alison Mary Gilbert (Thesis)

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Communicative Action as Feminist Epistemology, Todd Nathaniel Gilman (Thesis)

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Comparison of Prescribed Versus Actual Gain for Children with Profound Hearing Impairments, Kristin Rashelle Gilmer (Thesis)

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The Effect of Psychological Gender and Self-monitoring on Leader Emergence and Leader Behavior, Janet Day Goldsmith (Thesis)

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English-Speaking Three-Year-Olds in a Spanish Language Immersion Program, Alice Golstein (Thesis)

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U.S. Military Intelligence in Mexico, 1917-1927: An Analysis, Corbett S. Gottfried (Thesis)

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A study of two attempts by President Plutarco Elías Calles to establish a national church in Mexico, Roger David Gouran (Thesis)

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Social Support in an Urban Moroccan Neighborhood: the Effects of Social Networks, Mediation and Patronage on the Physical Health and Psychological Adjustment of Women, Carla Ann Green (Dissertation)

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The Love Poems of John Clare and John Keats: A Comparative Study, Elizabeth Stafford Grodd (Thesis)

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A Case Study of the Development of Oregon's 1985 Public Policy in Youth Substance Abuse, Sonja Carol Grove (Dissertation)

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Treatment Approaches for Pathological Gambling: Review of Literature and Development of New Program, Karen Lee Hafner (Thesis)

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Hardware for Fast Global Operations on Distributed Memory Multicomputers and Multiprocessors, Douglas V. Hall (Dissertation)

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Monomeric and Polymeric Fluoroalkyl Sulfonyl Fluorides, Sulfonate Salts and Sulfonic Acids for Use as Electrolytes and Coatings, Nicolas Noel Hamel (Dissertation)

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Functional Uses of Language in the Conversational Discourse of a Person with Alzheimer's Disease, Julie Anne Haun (Thesis)

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The Effects of Positive Illusions on Perceived Racism, Miyako Jun-ko Hayashi (Thesis)