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Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Design and Evaluation of a Specialized Computer Architecture for Manipulating Binary Decision Diagrams, Robert K. Hatt (Thesis)
Learning, Motivation, and Self: A Diary Study of an ESL Teacher's Year in a Japanese Language Classroom, Laura Ruth Hawks (Thesis)
El Cuarto de Atrás: The Challenge of the Autobiographical Text, Linda Kathleen Helton (Thesis)
Effects of Three Training Components in an AAC Intervention for an Adult With Severe Broca’s Aphasia, Bradley Josef Hendershott (Thesis)
The Effects of Interracial Contact on Whites' Racial Attitudes Toward African Americans, Lindsay K. Hixson (Thesis)
A Model of Antecedents of Work-Family Conflict for Dual-Earner Couples in the Sandwiched Generation: A Longitudinal Study, Yueng-hsiang Emily Huang (Dissertation)
Predictors of Task and Contextual Performance: Frame-of-Reference Effects and Applicant Reaction Effects on Selection System Validity, John Hunthausen (Dissertation)
Discourse Analysis: Backchanneling Behavior of Advanced Speakers of English/Japanese as a Second/Foreign Language, Keiko Ikeda (Thesis)
A Test of the Mediating Effects of Coping Strategies on the Relationship Between Perceived Control in the Workplace and Work-Family Fit, Jeff S. Johnson (Thesis)
A Comparison of Developmental Sentence Scores and Ratings of Intelligibility, Julie O'Harrow Karnstein (Thesis)
“The Way of the Scientist Deepens Beauty by Increasing Understanding”: Teaching Physics as an Aesthetic Form, Claudine Indigo Kavanagh (Thesis)
Effects of Language Interpretation Services on Medical Visit Patterns of Patients With Limited English Proficiency, Anita Marie Kay (Thesis)
International Students' Experiences in Higher Education: A Case Study Examining Uncertainty Reduction Theory in Communication Classrooms, Susan Kuhn (Thesis)
Magmatic Processes Operating During the Middle to Late Pliocene and Pleistocene Along the Transition Zone Near 43º North, Christy L. Lee (Thesis)
Structured Web Databases, Shuang Li (Thesis)
Sol-Gel pH Sensors and Sol-Gel Metal-Removing Sorbents, Dong Liu (Thesis)
The Early Years in African American Education: A Life History Approach to Evaluating Control Theory, Beverly Diane Logan (Thesis)
DIY, Community, and Technology: The Impact of Technology on Community Cohesion in the Portland Indie Rock Production Culture, Jeffrey Ross London (Thesis)
Signs of Popular Ecology in the Ecotourism Landscape Near Tikal National Park, Guatemala, Michael Mooradian Lupro (Thesis)
Renaissance Courtesy and Book VI of the Faerie Queene, Matthew S. Martini (Thesis)
Sleight of Hand: A Mystery Unveiled, Claudia Mederos (Thesis)
Use of Cultural Topics in Electronic Dialogue Journals in the Foreign Language Classroom, Katya Elizabeth Monge Jacome (Thesis)
Structural Conflict Prevention: Examining Well-Being, Justice and Security in Northern Ireland, 1967-1973, Loreene N. O'Neill (Thesis)
Media Construction, Reality Engineering, and the Forest Park Murder Victims, Patrick O'Reilly (Thesis)
Effects of Adapted Storybooks on Vocabulary Acquisition of Children Who Have a Severe Speech Impairment (SSI), Wendy Ann Peterson (Thesis)
The Maximization of Organizational Resource Utilization, Erich Pfeifer (Thesis)
Untitled Drawing Series: Influenced by a Mother and Child Relationship, Elaine A. Powell-Ascroft (Thesis)
Integrated Floorplanning and Buffer Insertion for Bus-Based Microprocessor Designs, Faran Rafiq (Thesis)
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle: An Adaptation of the Young Adult Novel by Avi, Adriane Rainer (Thesis)
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)
Alcoholic Knowledge: An Interpretive Study, Daniel (Dance) Grant Taylor (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)
Frontiers, Naomi Kristine Ulsted (Thesis)
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)
Survey of Support for and Opposition to English Only Legislation in the Greater Portland Region, Leah Ann 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)
Anti-Blooming Nightvision: Extending Global Dynamic Range by Neural Network Image Fusion, Daniel L. Schuster (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)
An Ethnographic Study: Building an Identity Through the Stories of an Italian-American Family, Gloria Marie Tottten (Thesis)
“Wars of the Three Margarets”: Women in the Wars of the Roses, Barbara Jean Traver (Thesis)
Nativism in American Political Culture, Julie M. Wacker (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)