This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Government Policy and Private Organizational Forms: Analysis of Refuse Collection and Disposal in Three Metropolitan Cities, Thomas Wright (Dissertation)
NMR Study of Neurophysin Dimer Dissociation by Cosolvents, Jian Yao (Thesis)
Some Possible Sources of Oral Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) among Japanese Students in the United States, Sawako Yoshikawa (Thesis)
The Development and Evaluation of Aggregation Methods for Group Pairwise Comparison Judgments, Sida Zhou (Dissertation)
Alexander VI: Renaissance Pope, Jonathan P. Zorich (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
The Parser Converter Loader: An Implementation of the Computational Chemistry Output Language (CCOL), Donald Randall Abel (Thesis)
Analysis of Intermodulation Distortion for MESFET Small-signal Amplifiers, Imad Saleh Ahmad (Thesis)
Effects of Oral and Silent Reading on the Reading Comprehension Performance of Left Hemisphere-damaged Individuals, Paul K. Akers (Thesis)
The Distribution of Naturally Occurring Soil Radionuclides and Radon Potential of Northwest Oregon, Stuart Graham Ashbaugh (Thesis)
Shoot Structure of Boschniakia hookeri Walpers (Orobanchaceae), John Leland Babur (Thesis)
Validity and Efficiency of the Check-Slash Transcription Method for Measuring Intelligibility, Vicky Jo Bacon (Thesis)
Phytoplankton in Mt. St. Helens Lakes, Washington, Cynthia Fay Baker (Thesis)
Methods of Language Assessment: A Survey of Oregon Public School Speech-language Pathologists, Staci Lee Johnson Ball (Thesis)
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)
Perceived Fairness of a Child-care Subsidy in a Temporary Agency: An Equity Theory Approach, Pamela Bermudez (Thesis)
Botanical Variations, Anthony Bernert (Thesis)
A Comparison of High School Student and Adult Expectations of Leader Behavior, Charles Edward Beyer (Thesis)
The Predictive Validity of the Admission Criteria for the Counselor Education Program at Portland State University, Malachy Liam Bishop (Thesis)
A Hydrologic Analysis of Government Island, Oregon, Scott Gregory Bittinger (Thesis)
Through Women's Eyes: Contemporary Women's Fiction about the Old West, Anna Margarete Boettcher (Thesis)
Renal Responses to Differential Rates of Blood Volume Expansion in the Toad, Bufo marinus, Mark Edward Bolke (Thesis)
Der 35. Mai -- Ein Sozialkritisches Erwachsenenbuch für Kinder, Thomas Bosch (Thesis)
Gaining State Response on Global Environmental Problem-Solving: Developing A State-centric Approach, Heather MacGregor Bothwell (Thesis)
Synthesis and Characterization of a Porphyrin Dyad, Dale A. Braden (Thesis)
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)
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)
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)
Reliability and Validity of Pedometers in a Free-living Environment, Ernest Leroy Brown (Thesis)
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)
Student Attitudes Toward Word Processing and Writing in the English as a Second or Other Language Classroom, Greg Lynn Buchan (Thesis)
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)
The Effect of the Ideology of Motherhood on Women, Shari A. Burke (Thesis)
The Effects of a Realistic Job Preview on an Applicant's Ability to Self-select into Organizations, Melissa Lynn Burton (Thesis)
Economic Development and Income Inequality: The Taiwan Case, Ju-kuang Chang (Thesis)
Equivalent Relationship of Function-level Representation and Implementation of Unified Indexing of FFT Algorithms, Nee-Hua Cho (Thesis)
Spiritual Health: Association for the Advancement of Health Education Instructors' Attitudes, Practices and Training, Susanne Meyer Christopher (Dissertation)
Liberalism, Community, and the Context of Choice, Marta R. Colburn (Thesis)
The Effectiveness of the Phonological Cycling Approach in Treating an Unintelligible Child in the First Two Cycles of Intervention, Anne Cole (Thesis)
Redefining the Suburban Ideal: An Analysis of Single-family Residential Densities in Washington County, Oregon, David Morgan Coughlan (Thesis)
Dance of Dreams, Michael Creger (Thesis)
A Study Comparing Musical Abilities of Stutterers and Nonstutterers, Megan Creswell (Thesis)
The Role of Pulmocutaneous Baroreceptors in the Control of Lymphatic Heart Rate in the Toad Bufo Marinus, Dane Alan Crossley II (Thesis)
Improved Finite Analytic Methods for Solving Advection-dominated Transport Equation in Highly Variable Velocity Field, Wei Cuifeng (Thesis)
In Search of Roots: A Study of Camus' Autobiographical Le Premier Homme, Judy Ann Davis (Thesis)
A Correlational Study: the 1-Minute Measure of Homonymy and Intelligibility, Tamra Leanne Day (Thesis)
Bridging the Generation Gap in the Works of Gabrielle Roy, Camille G. Dean (Thesis)
Pretrial Release in Criminal Courts: a Study of Three Oregon Counties, Melvin Earl DeGraw (Dissertation)
Return to Unity: The Philosophy of Lo Ch'in-shun, Paul E. Devore (Thesis)
Being an Assistant Principal, Becoming an Administrator: an Organizational Socialization Study, Connie Dickman (Dissertation)
Medieval Christocentric Imagery in Selected Novels by Georges Bernanos, Catherine Ann Elia (Thesis)
Design of a Digital Compensation Filter, Nader Fakhry (Thesis)
Dialogue and Critical Thinking in Personal Action, Amanda Elizabeth Feller (Thesis)
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)
An Analysis of Oregon Department of Transportation Planned Highway Construction Projects for Selected Years from 1978 to 1992, Glen A. Fleming (Thesis)
English in the Workplace: Case Study of a Pilot Program, Kim Roth Franklin (Thesis)
People on the Edges of Dreams, Francesca B. French (Thesis)
Institutionalized Discrimination: Three Cases in the United States Military, Sarah H. Frost (Thesis)
Selling the Body: Representing the Prostitute in Maggie and Sister Carrie, Debra Zoe Gahlhoff (Thesis)
Sustainable Development in the Third World: A New Paradigm?, Terry A. Gentry (Thesis)
Effects of Receptive Language Deficits on Persisting Expressive Language Delays, Traci Lee Giacherro (Thesis)
Limiting Noise Exposure Associated with Hearing Aid Use, Alison Mary Gilbert (Thesis)
Communicative Action as Feminist Epistemology, Todd Nathaniel Gilman (Thesis)
Comparison of Prescribed Versus Actual Gain for Children with Profound Hearing Impairments, Kristin Rashelle Gilmer (Thesis)
The Effect of Psychological Gender and Self-monitoring on Leader Emergence and Leader Behavior, Janet Day Goldsmith (Thesis)
English-Speaking Three-Year-Olds in a Spanish Language Immersion Program, Alice Golstein (Thesis)
U.S. Military Intelligence in Mexico, 1917-1927: An Analysis, Corbett S. Gottfried (Thesis)
A study of two attempts by President Plutarco Elías Calles to establish a national church in Mexico, Roger David Gouran (Thesis)
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)
The Love Poems of John Clare and John Keats: A Comparative Study, Elizabeth Stafford Grodd (Thesis)
A Case Study of the Development of Oregon's 1985 Public Policy in Youth Substance Abuse, Sonja Carol Grove (Dissertation)
Treatment Approaches for Pathological Gambling: Review of Literature and Development of New Program, Karen Lee Hafner (Thesis)
Hardware for Fast Global Operations on Distributed Memory Multicomputers and Multiprocessors, Douglas V. Hall (Dissertation)
Monomeric and Polymeric Fluoroalkyl Sulfonyl Fluorides, Sulfonate Salts and Sulfonic Acids for Use as Electrolytes and Coatings, Nicolas Noel Hamel (Dissertation)
Functional Uses of Language in the Conversational Discourse of a Person with Alzheimer's Disease, Julie Anne Haun (Thesis)
The Effects of Positive Illusions on Perceived Racism, Miyako Jun-ko Hayashi (Thesis)
The Effects of Ear Canal Pressure Variation on Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions, Jodi L. Head (Thesis)
An Assessment of the Impact of Intimate Victim-Offender Relationship on Sentencing in Serious Assault Cases, Laura J. Hickman (Thesis)
Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Fluorine Containing Alkylsulfonyls and Sulfonates : Fluorinated Sulfonyl Methanes and Derivatives, Nelson R. Holcomb (Thesis)
The Leadership of John McLoughlin in Relation to the People and Events of Pacific Northwest History, 1824-1846, John David Holliday (Thesis)
The Effect of a Physician's Pronunciation on Nurses' Perceptions of the Physician's Medical Competency, Laura Anne Horani (Thesis)
The Use of the First Language (L1) and the Target Language (TL) in the Foreign Language Classroom, Jeanine L. Huber (Thesis)
The Affects of Vocal Fatigue on Fundamental Frequency and Frequency Range in Actresses as Opposed to Non-Actresses, Ruth Ann Jenkins (Thesis)
Water Quality Model for South Slough, Coos Bay, Oregon, Holly Kay Juza (Thesis)
O-Phthalaldehyde Modification of Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium Release, Steffen Koehler (Thesis)
American Students' Expectations of Teachers in the Japanese Language Classroom, Nariyo Kono (Thesis)
Electrolysis of Titanium in Heavy Water, Radovan Kopecek (Thesis)
Malt Drying Model Verification for Efficiency Improvement, John David Kribs (Thesis)
The Health Belief Model as a Predictor of Gynecological Exams: Does Sexual Orientation Matter?, Lynn Elizabeth Kunkel (Thesis)
Motion Picture Exhibition and the Development of a Middle-class Clientele: Portland, Oregon, 1894-1915, James Bruce Labosier (Thesis)
A Study of the Success of School College Partnerships Created to Improve Minority and Disadvantaged Student Enrollment and Success in Postsecondary Education, Armando Reinaldo Laguardia (Dissertation)
An Exploration of the Value of Future TESOL Teachers Reflecting on their Pasts as Language Learners, Sarah Elizabeth Lawrence (Thesis)
Seasonal Hidden Markov Models for Stochastic Time Series with Periodically Varying Characteristics, Arthur M. Lewis (Thesis)
Indigent v. Non-Indigent Sex Offenders: An Analysis of Sentencing in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties, Oregon, Dorelei Victoria Linder (Thesis)
Making the Transition from East to West: Evangelical Christian High School Students from the Former Soviet Union, Sharon Kay Link (Thesis)
Teaching English Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondences to Chinese Students, Li-ching Lin (Thesis)
An Investigation of the Relationship Between Turnover of Incumbent Board Members and Turnover of the District's Superintendent, Frederick James Loomis (Dissertation)
A Non-decision-reaching Decision-making process, Wei Wei Lou (Dissertation)
A Taxonomy of Types of Uncertainty, Byrne Elliot Lovell (Dissertation)
John Rawls, Feminism, and the Gendered Self, Lori Kinder MacArthur (Thesis)
A Swamp in the Desert: Theory, Water Policy, and Malheur Lake Basin, Cristin R. Mandaville (Thesis)